How I painted my IG Infantry figures

Ok, so how I painted my infantry figures was pretty simple and took very little time. The first to colors that I used was Bleached Bone and Catachan Green.

The Bleached Bone color was used for cloth portion (legs, arms, some areas under the chest armor, and the neck area on the back of the figure) of the figures surface area. The Catachan Green was used for the armor areas (the chest, shoulders, boots gloves, and helmet) of the figures. For the first squad, I put the figures together (based and glued) completely whereas for the second squad I actually painted them on the sprue. If I were to recommend how to paint to a newbie, I would suggest painting them on the sprue and then touching them up before putting them together. The gun I just used Chaos Black with a liberal dry brushing of Chainmail or Boltgun Metal.

The biggest hint I can give a new painter at this point is within reason, do not try too hard to detail paint your figure. While I did make sure that a majority of the areas were painted with my correct colors, if there were small areas of crossover (such as the Bleached Bone accidently getting painted a little on the Catachan Green) I would not worry about it that much.

After that all dried, I gave my figures a washing with Devlan Mud in the areas that had the Bleached Bone to give it the desert camo look that current camouflage.

To paint the faces (I have not done detail painting yet) all I did was paint the faces with Tallarn Flesh.

Eventually (by the end of this month) I will buy another unit of guards so that I can make another command squad with the bits that I have left over from the original command squad I purchased (about 5 figures) and then use the remaining figures for special weapons for veteran squads.