- Khador Red Start with a solid basecoat of Khador Red Base. Apply this in a few layers to get the desired opacity with no patchiness. Avoid the temptation to speed things along by painting with thick paint straight from the bottle, since you’ll lose some detail and possibly cause problems later. Instead, be patient and apply even coats of slightly thinned paint; three to four coats should be about right.
- Sanguine Use Sanguine Base for the first layer of shading. Apply the paint thin and blend it into the recesses and shadows.
- Sanguine Exile Blue For the second layer of shading, mix Sanguine Base with Exile Blue and apply as deep shading. The color should be quite dark and more blue than red. Don’t worry if the shade seems intense; since we will be glazing later, we need exaggerated shading and highlighting for the desired effect.
- Khador Red Khador Red Highlight To highlight your red, add one or two small dots of Khador Red Base to Khador Red Highlight. Apply this mixture to the top portions of the armor and blend the highlights. You may want to apply a second highlight of just Khador Red Highlight to ease the transition to the next highlight stage, but it’s not absolutely necessary.
- Khador Red Highlight Menoth White Highlight For the final highlights use a mixture of Khador Red Highlight and Menoth White Highlight. This will yield a peachy color that may look wrong when you’re applying it, but remember that the highlights need to be exaggerated since we’ll be using glazing to unify the layers.
- Red Ink The final step uses glaze layers of Red Ink to tint the surface and unify the previous layers. Mix Red Ink with a large portion of clean water at a ratio of about 15:1 water to ink. Apply the glaze in super-smooth, even coats. It’s important that you allow absolutely no pooling, as this will cause rings to form. You can use a blow dryer to speed drying between coats if you prefer. At first the glaze effect will be barely noticeable, but it will become apparent as
