Khorne Demon/ Skarbrand Steps

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    06 Apr 2025
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Prime and Undercoating

  1. Prime with 1:1 Grey + Black
  2. Zenithal spray with Liquitex White Ink
  3. Spray from underneath Dark Prussian Blue
  4. At a 90 degree angle, spray Violet
  5. At a 45 degree angle, spray Flat Red
  6. Zenithal and selective spray of features with Light Yellow

Skin

  1. Spray Troll Slayer Orange onto the skin in the direction you want the highlight. Try to isolate muscle volumes
  2. Redefine the shadows and recesses on the skin with Violet thinned down to a wash consistency
  3. Edge highlight scars and bumps on the skin with Troll Slayer Orange . If the scars/bumps are in previously highlighted areas, mix 1:1 Light Yellow & Troll Slayer Orange and edge highlight with that mixture instead
  4. Bulging veins can be highlighted with 2:1 mix of Ahriman Blue & Violet , layer consistency

Wing Bones

  1. Recess shade joints and crevices with Violet in a Wash consistency
  2. Highlight edges and volumes with Troll Slayer Orange , then Troll Slayer Orange + Light Yellow as the subject gets closer to the light source

Rough Metal (Chains etc)

  1. Base coat with Black Grey
  2. Mix Black Grey + London Grey 1:1 and continue progression
  3. Continue progression with London Grey
  4. Continue progression with mix 1:1 London Grey + White
  5. Continue progression with White
  6. Glaze highlights with Light Yellow
  7. Glaze floor reflections with Dark Prussian Blue
  8. Glaze Skin reflections with Flat Red
  9. Edge highlight with White

Wing Membrane

  1. Base coat with Heavy Charcoal
  2. Wash with Black Templar
  3. Highlight volumes with Heavy Charcoal
  4. Further volume highlight with Mechanicus Standard Grey
  5. Edge highlight with 3:1 mix of Mechanicus Standard Grey + White

Brass

  1. Base coat with Violet
  2. Start your progression with a 1:1 mix of Black + Red Leather
  3. Continue the progression with Red Leather
  4. Continue the progression with 1:1 mix of Red Leather + Plague Brown
  5. Continue the progression with Plague Brown
  6. Continue the progression with 1:2 mix of Plague Brown + White (ratio may vary, we're aiming for a colour half way between the mixers)
  7. Continue the progression with White
  8. Thin down 2:1 Water + Gryph-hound Orange and glaze all over the Brass (we're trying to tint, not wash/flood the area.)
  9. Scratchy edge highlight with White along light facing edges
  10. Glaze Dark Prussian Blue for contrast in at the shadows or parts of surfaces that would be 'black'

Talons/Claws

  1. Base coat with 2:1 mix of Dryad Bark + Black
  2. Highlight volumes with Dryad Bark
  3. Continue volume highlight with 2:1 mix of Gold Brown + Dryad Bark
  4. Edge highlight with mix of 3:1 Gold Brown + Dryad Bark
  5. Glaze in shadows with Dark Prussian Blue

Skulls & Bones

  1. Basecoat in Violet
  2. Mix 1:1 XV-88 + Screaming Skull and layer the bone, avoiding recesses and parts in shadow
  3. Layer highlights with Screaming Skull
  4. If needed, recess shade any cracks, eye holes, teeth, etc with a thin wash of 2:1 Water and Violet
  5. In the deepest shadows, layer Dark Prussian Blue
  6. Apply Light Yellow in a thin glaze on the very tops of the bone

Horns

  1. Basecoat w/ mix 1:1:3 of Black : XV-88 : Screaming Skull
  2. Wet blend mix of 2:1:3 of Black : XV-88 : Screaming Skull with basecoat, new mix at tips of horns.
  3. Very, very, very thin wash of Seraphim Sepia in recesses of horns, prioritising base of horns
  4. Thin wash of Nuln Oil on darker tips of horns
  5. Very, very, very thin recess shade of horns using Violet
  6. Edge highlight with Screaming Skull

Black Armour

  1. Undercoat in Dark Prussian Blue
  2. Basecoat with Heavy Charcoal
  3. Mix 1:1 Heavy Charcoal + London Grey and glaze highlights
  4. Edge highlight with London Grey
  5. Glaze shadows with Dark Prussian Blue
Citadel Painting System 10
Base 3
  • Dryad Bark
  • Mechanicus Standard Grey
  • XV-88
Shade 2
  • Nuln Oil
  • Seraphim Sepia
Layer 3
  • Ahriman Blue
  • Screaming Skull
  • Troll Slayer Orange
Contrast 2
  • Black Templar
  • Gryph-hound Orange
Vallejo Game Color 2
Base 1
  • 72.039 Plague Brown
Extra opaque 1
  • 72.155 Heavy Charcoal
Vallejo Model Color
Base 10
  • 70.818 Red Leather
  • 70.836 London Grey
  • 70.862 Black Grey
  • 70.877 Gold Brown
  • 70.899 Dark Prussian Blue
  • 70.949 Light Yellow
  • 70.950 Black
  • 70.951 White
  • 70.957 Flat Red
  • 70.960 Violet
Vallejo Surface Primer
Base 1
  • 70.601 Grey
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