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1490 Doom: Fighter

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    15 Feb 2025
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    22 Feb 2025
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Red Cloak

  1. Basecoat with a 1:2 mix of Wazdakka Red & Screamer Pink
  2. Add shading to recesses with a mix of Khorne Red & Barak-Nar Burgundy .
  3. Add some Abaddon Black to your Khorne Red & Barak-Nar Burgundy mix, then shade more selectively.
  4. Make scratchy highlights around the edge of the cloth with 1:1 Wazdakka Red & Morghast Bone .
  5. Now highlight again, this time with thinner highlights. I used the previous Wazdakka Red & Morghast Bone mix, with an equal amount of Ushabti Bone added to it.
  6. Selectively highlight with pure Ushabti Bone .
  7. Finially, mix some White into your Ushabti Bone (roughly 1:1, and add very small/specular highlights.

Steel

  1. Basecoat with Leadbelcher .
  2. Wash with Nuln Oil .
  3. Glaze some Agrax Earthshade where you want metal to look dirtier.
  4. Mix some Silver RLM01 Metallic into your Leadbelcher , then highlight close to the tip (on the flat sides) and edge highlight the rest.
  5. With pure Silver RLM01 Metallic , edge highlight the tip and place a few specular highlights on corners.

Glass Visor

  1. Basecoat with Thunderhawk Blue .
  2. Shade the bottom part of the vizor with Naggaroth Night
  3. Shade the recess where the visor meets with cloth with a thin line of Rhinox Hide to separate the two clearly.
  4. Glaze/highlight with 1:1 Thunderhawk Blue and Fenrisian Grey .
  5. Apply fine highlights with pure Fenrisian Grey .
  6. Selectively highlight with Ulthuan Grey , focusing them on upward facing edges.
  7. Finish with a few dots of White .

Teal Cloth

  1. Basecoat with a 1:1 mix of Dark Reaper & Lupercal Green .
  2. Add shading with by adding some black into the base colour, then running it into recesses.
  3. Mix a portion of the base colour 1:1 with Sons of Horus Green , then add general highlights to the cloth.
  4. Apply fine highlights with pure Sons of Horus Green .
  5. With the Sons of Horus Green mixed 1:1 Ionrach Skin , selectively highlight corners and curves.
  6. Finish with specular Deepkin Flesh highlights.

Cream Cloth

  1. Basecoat with Karak Stone .
  2. Thin some Zandri Dust and generously shade the cloth, almost like you would a wash.
  3. Shade the recesses further, but more precisely, with Steel Legion Drab .
  4. Mix some Rhinox Hide into your Steel Legion Drab then use small amount to shade where the cloth meets other details, harsh folds and in holes.
  5. Mix Karak Stone and Screaming Skull 1:1, then add fine highlights to folds and raised details.
  6. mix some White into the paint from the previous stage and selectively highlight.
  7. Finish with specular highlights of pure White (where needed).

Bandages

  1. Basecoat with Steel Legion Drab .
  2. Shade between the wrapping with thinned Rhinox Hide and a thin brush.
  3. Glaze raised areas with Karak Stone , dragging your brush upwards.
  4. Edge highlight wrappings with Ushabti Bone .
  5. More selectively highlight with Screaming Skull .
  6. Mix some :white into your Screaming Skull and highlight a little smaller.

Grey Cloth

  1. Basecoat with Stormvermin Fur .
  2. Wash with Nuln Oil .
  3. Edge highlight with a 1:1 mix of Stormvermin Fur and Administratum Grey .
  4. Finish with selective highlights of Administratum Grey and a little White .

Skin

  1. Basecoat with Cadian Fleshtone .
  2. Wash with 2:1 Reikland Fleshshade and Contrast Medium .
  3. Selectively highlight with Kislev Flesh .
  4. Finish with specular highlights of Pallid Wych Flesh .

Dark Brown Leather

  1. Basecoat with Rhinox Hide .
  2. Take some thinned Mournfang Brown and apply a heavy glaze over the tube. Work in rough lines, always pulling your brush towards the apex of the tube.
  3. Now with Skrag Brown , apply a chunky highlight down the most exposed part of the tube, covering less area that the previous stage.
  4. Mix 1:1 Skrag Brown and Ushabti Bone and repeat the above, but make it a finer highlight.
  5. Selectively highlight with Ushabti Bone .
  6. Add a little White to the Ushabti Bone and add a couple of specular highlights, where needed.

Breathing Tube

  1. Basecoat as Karak Stone .
  2. Shade with Baneblade Brown .
  3. Deep shade with Dryad Bark . The jump between the initial stage and this is quite big, consider a 1:1 mix of the two to bridge the gap.
  4. Apply a chunky highlight of Ushabti Bone . This is best applied as a heavy glaze.
  5. Apply smaller highlights with Screaming Skull .
  6. I finished of the tubes by mixing a little White into your Screaming Skull and applying a few specular highlights.

Leather Air Pouch

  1. basecoat with 2 parts XV-88 , 2 parts Zandri Dust and 1 part Doombull Brown .
  2. Soft shade with some 1:1 XV-88 and Doombull Brown , thinned with whatever medium you prefer.
  3. Shade the very deepest parts with 1:1 XV-88 and Rhinox Hide .
  4. Apply chunky highlights of 1:1 Karak Stone and Zandri Dust .
  5. Now highlight everything with fine lines of Karak Stone .
  6. Selectively highlight with 2:1 Wraithbone and Rakarth Flesh .
  7. Add a little White to the above mix, and add specular highlights.

Black Leather

  1. Basecoat with Black .
  2. Add chunky highlights of Stegadon Scale Green .
  3. Now highlight with finer lines of Thunderhawk Blue .
  4. Selectively highlight with Fenrisian Grey .
  5. Finish with specular highlights of Blue Horror .

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Citadel Painting System 41
Base 18
  • Abaddon Black
  • Barak-Nar Burgundy
  • Dryad Bark
  • Ionrach Skin
  • Khorne Red
  • Leadbelcher
  • Lupercal Green
  • Morghast Bone
  • Mournfang Brown
  • Naggaroth Night
  • Rakarth Flesh
  • Rhinox Hide
  • Screamer Pink
  • Steel Legion Drab
  • Stegadon Scale Green
  • Wraithbone
  • XV-88
  • Zandri Dust
Shade 3
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Nuln Oil
  • Reikland Fleshshade
Layer 19
  • Administratum Grey
  • Baneblade Brown
  • Blue Horror
  • Cadian Fleshtone
  • Dark Reaper
  • Deepkin Flesh
  • Doombull Brown
  • Fenrisian Grey
  • Karak Stone
  • Kislev Flesh
  • Pallid Wych Flesh
  • Screaming Skull
  • Skrag Brown
  • Sons of Horus Green
  • Stormvermin Fur
  • Thunderhawk Blue
  • Ulthuan Grey
  • Ushabti Bone
  • Wazdakka Red
Technical 1
  • Contrast Medium
Vallejo Model Air
Base 1
  • 71.063 Silver RLM01 Metallic
Vallejo Model Color
Base 2
  • 70.950 Black
  • 70.951 White
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