These are my first few Skaven nightrunners. I intend these to represent clan scouts, rather than Eshin mercenaries. All my nightrunners/scouts will have studded leather armour and left-hand daggers.

I painted my nightrunners using the same techniques as my clanrats. I needed to add some detergent to the green-brown ink mixture to get it to flow properly, and by the looks of it I needed to take more care with my final varnish.

By using a specially prepared backdrop, consisting of a cardboard box and a sheet of printer paper, I was able to get a sufficiently solid background that I was able to remove on computer and replace with a gradient.

Warhammer Skaven Clanrats. Obviously I need more practice at photography, but I don’t think that this was too bad for my first, aha, shot.

How I painted these models follows:

1. Glue sand to the base. Undercoat the model with Chaos Black.
2. Paint eyes with Blood Red.
3. Pant wood and bone with Bubonic Brown.
4. Paint all metal areas with Tin Bitz.
5. Paint leathers with Snakebite Leather.
6. Paint cloth with a mix of Vomit Brown and Chaos Black.
7. Paint fur with Vermin Brown, Bestial Brown, Terracotta or a mix of the above.
8. Paint skin with Tanned Flesh.
9. Paint teeth and claws with Bleached Bone.
10. Highlight decorative metals with Dwarf Bronze, leaving the basecoat only in the recesses.
11. Highlight other metals with Mithril Silver, first with a light drybrush around the edges and raised areas, and then with small painted highlights and scratches.
12. Wash the entire model with Chestnut Ink.
13. Drybush wood and bone areas with Bubonic Brown, then more lightly with Bleached Bone.
14. Highlight decorative metals with Dwarf Bronze, then with a mix of Dwarf Bronze and Mithril Silver.
15. Highlight other metals with Mithril Silver, first with a light drybrush around the edges and raised areas, and then with small painted highlights and scratches. Leave some of the chestnut-tainted highlights showing.
16. Highlight leathers with Snakebite Leather, then with a mix of Snakebite Leather and Bubonic Brown.
17. Highlight cloth with a mix of Vomit Brown and Chaos Black, then the same mix with Skull White added.
18. Highlight skin with Tanned Flesh, then with a mix of Tanned Flesh and Rotting Flesh.
19. Highlight teeth and claws with Bleached Bone.
20. Wash the wood, bone and all the metal areas with a slightly watered mix of brown and green inks. Vary the proportions of the mix from model to model.
21. Drybrush the wood and bone areas with Bleached Bone until quite pale.
22. Paint the sand with Scorched Brown.
23. Drybrush the sand with Graveyard Earth. Don’t mind if some gets on the lower parts of the model.
24. Flood any bald patches on the base with Green Ink.
25. Paint the edges of the base with Scorched Earth.
26. Give the model a coat of Purity Seal (Satin Varnish).