How much you paint Steel compared to how much you leave Black Grey is up to you, but I find this steel color a fantastic way to brake up the monotone of the armor. A delta of less than 3 (green blocks) represent a very close match, nearly visually indistinguishable. This is a fantastic color that I can’t recommend highly enough. Citadel Vallejo Model Vallejo Game P3 Formula Army Painter The number at the end of the description of every matched color is the delta (the mathematical distance between the colors). Barrel, Pipes, Rivets- Vallejo Metal Color: Steel.from personal experience and other painters’ input. Use about two thin layers of Khorne Red on the armor and ribbons hanging from the shoulders or armor plates, and be sure to cover the spherical part of the gems with a smooth layer. Originally produced by the Maddison (USA) FoW group in 2008: The Game Color equivalents are exact, while the Model Colors are approximated.
Pauldrons, Ribbons, Gems – Citadel: Khorne Red.It’s good enough that you might even be able to skip the previous Charred Brown step. It goes on smooth and coats like a dream.
If you have access to this paint, it’s fantastic. VMC is better, more pigment for example, much more colors, seem more matt VAC finer pigments, the metals here are the best I've seen until now. VGC is about the same, sometimes even worse than the Citadel colors. Because of this, I switched over to Scale75’s Dwarven Gold. But I love the bottles for them, much more than any flip-tops. Retributor Armor doesn’t quite cover as well as it should, and it sort of tears as you apply it. However, when using that paint for this Allarus Custodian I again had the same problems as I had previously. In the long, long ago when painting Custodes I used Citadel’s Retributor Armor. This might look like a “draw the rest of the owl” picture, but trust me it’s not really that much. Citadel Chaos Black rattle can spray, Badger Stynylrez, Rustolerum Black Primer (not the Paint+Primer), it’s all good. I happened to use Vallejo: Black Primer through my airbrush, but use your favorite. These are the paints I used when painting this Allarus Custodian, roughly in the order in which they are first used. Cloth: Drybrush Evil Sunz Scarlet and Wild Rider Red.And keep varying the combinations of paints you use: no two people have exactly the same hair colour (unless it has come out of a packet). Usually, I start with a black basecoat, drybrush up with two successively lighter coats of a grey-brown mix, and then tome down the worst of it with a black wash.īut try different methods to see what works for you.
If I try for really black, the trick is how to do the highlighting without making it look like the figure is going grey. Sometimes I fudge it and do very dark brown (basecoat Citadel scorched brown, wash black ink, highlight Citadel bestial brown). Strawberry blond(e): basecoat Vallejo orange brown wash mix of Citadel chestnut and brown inks highlight Vallejo beige red, with a little yellow added. Mousey brown: basecoat Citadel graveyard earth or Vallejo US Tan wash Citadel brown ink highlight Vallejo Iraqi sand īrown: basecoat Citadel bestial brown wash black ink highlight Vallejo US Tan Īuburn: basecoat Citadel dark flesh wash mix of Citadel black, red and chestnut inks highlight Vallejo red leather This last is especially useful for women's hair: it makes it look a bit better kept.īlond (or blonde): basecoat Citadel bleached bone wash Citadel flesh ink highlight Vallejo ivory My basic technique: basecoat, wash, drybrush with highlight colour, add some very thin lines of pure highlight colour with a fine brush. I do still use washes, but you have to be careful to match the wash to the base colour.