MCP – Gambit & Rogue Painting Guide

Welcome to my latest painting guide! Two of my all-time favourite X-Men hit the painting table.


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Prep: Fully build both models. Undercoat black.

Before you begin…

For this guide I’ve switched over to a non metallic metal(NMM) technique. The paints used are within the guide, but take a look at the thinned layers mini-guide for a better understanding.

Gambit

Stage 1

Incubi Darkness: Apply a basecoat to the bodysuit and gloves.

Thondia Brown: Apply a basecoat to the jacket and hair.

Phoenician Purple: Apply a basecoat to the chest and kinetic charge.

Karak Stone: Apply a basecoat to the cards.

Bugman’s Glow: Apply a basecoat to the skin.

Dark Reaper: Apply a basecoat to the boots, lining and staff.

Stage 2

Thunderhawk Blue: Apply a layer to the bodysuit and gloves.

Mournfang Brown: Apply a layer to the jacket.

Doombull Brown: Apply a layer to the hair.

Genestealer Purple: Apply a thinned layer to the chest.

Screamer Pink: Apply a layer to the kinetic charge.

Pallid Wych Flesh: Apply a layer to the cards.

Russ Grey: Apply a line highlight and a thinned layer to the boots, suit lining and staff.

Cadian Fleshtone: Apply a layer to the skin.

Stage 3

Russ Grey: Apply a line highlight to the bodysuit and gloves.

Steel Legion Drab: Apply a thinned layer to the jacket and hair.

Kakophoni Purple: Apply a line highlight to the chest.

Emperor’s Children: Apply a thinned layer to the kinetic charge.

White Scar: Apply a thinned layer to the cards.

Blue Horror: Apply a line highlight and thinned layer to the boots, suit lining and staff.

Basic Skin Tone 70.815: Apply a thinned layer to the skin.

Stage 4

Fenrisian Grey: Apply a spot highlight to the bodysuit and gloves.

Karak Stone: Apply a spot highlight to the jacket and hair.

Fulgrim Pink: Apply a aspot highlight to the kinetic charge.

Abaddon Black/Mephiston Red: carefully apply the symbols to the cards.

White Scar: Apply a spot highlight to the boots, suit lining and staff.

Light Flesh 70.928: Apply a spot highlight to the skin.

Finish by painting the base with the Base Painting guide.

Rogue

Stage 1

Tau Light Ochre: Apply a basecoat to the centre of the bodysuit, boots and gloves.

Warpstone Glow: Apply a basecoat to the sides and legs of the bodysuit.

Rhinox Hide: Apply a basecoat to the jacket and hair.

Celestra Grey: Apply a basecoat to the front patch of hair.

Dark Reaper: Apply a basecoat to the core, base edge and debris.

Khorne Red: Apply a basecoat to the core lens, and inside the x symbols.

Bugman’s Glow: Apply a basecoat to the skin.

Stage 2

Averland Sunset: Apply a layer to the bodysuit, boots, and gloves.

Moot Green: Apply a layer to the sides and legs of the bodysuit.

Doombull Brown: Apply a layer to the hair.

Mournfang Brown: Apply a layer to the jacket.

Ulthuan Grey: Apply a layer to the front patch of hair.

Russ Grey: Apply a line highlight and a thinned layer to the core, base edge and debris.

Mephiston Red: Apply a layer to the core lens and inside of the x symbols.

Cadian Fleshtone: Apply a layer to the skin.

Stage 3

Flash Gitz Yellow: Apply a line highlight to the bodysuit, boots and gloves.

Skarsnik Green: Apply a line highlight to the sides and legs of the bodysuit.

Skrag Brown: Apply a line highlight to the hair.

Steel Legion Drab: Apply a line highlight to the jacket.

White Scar: Apply a layer to the front patch of hair.

Blue Horror: Apply a line highlight and thinned layer to the core, base edge and debris.

Evil Sunz Scarlet: Apply a spot highlight to the core lens and  inside of the x symbols.

Basic Skin Tone 70.815: Apply a thinned layer to the skin.

Stage 4

Dorn Yellow: Apply a spot highlight to the bodysuit, boots and gloves.

Gauss Blaster Green: Apply a spot highlight to the sides osides and legs of the bodysuit.

Deathclaw Brown: Apply a spot highlight to the hair.

Karak Stone: Apply a spot highlight to the jacket.

White Scar: Apply a spot highlight to the core, base edges and debris.

Light Flesh 70.928: Apply a spot highlight to the skin.

Finish by painting the explosion with the Explosion painting guide.

Update – Getting Back in the Saddle

Hello everyone! It’s good to be back and posting an update…finally. I want to start by saying thank you to everyone for your views, comments and donations. They are a superb and welcome boost. So a thousand thank yous to everybody.

Why the gap?

My mental health has been suffering for a while and the pandemic made things much worse. Painting offers an almost meditative calm for me, so that has continued for the most part, but when I’m at my worst I struggle with communication and unfortunately that includes online too. I’m sorry if I have not replied to your messages or emails. That’s something I will catch up on in the next few days.

I’m working through my issues and I’m still a long way off but I’m going to start posting a couple of times a week again to hopefully jump start things again.

What have I been painting

I’d been feeling a fair amount of burnout with MCP and as a result ended up jumping in the deep end with Star Wars Legion instead. Over the last few months I’ve managed to paint up an Empire army and a wee Shadow Collective force(although that was for an article). I’m a Star Wars nerd so I think I had a lot of pent up energy ready for a project like this.

I’ve also still been working on articles for Tabletop Gaming magazine each month, with more on the way. This always gives me an opportunity to tackle a huge variety of different minis.

Your support has always kept MCP and my painting guides at the back of my mind but I wasn’t really feeling the want to paint what I had. It was the announcement of the Sentinels that brought my attention fully back.

This also means I’ll have a few new guides up in the next couple of days…

What’s Next?

Well aside from the guides mentioned above I have a few MCP figures ready and waiting to be painted. More specifically the following…

Juggernaut

Blade & Moon Knight

X-23 & Honey Badger

Spider-Man Vs. Doc. Ock

I’ve no plans on an order I’ll be doing these as yet, you’ll have to wait and see what takes my fancy.

I’d love to hear from all of you, what guides would you like to see next?