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Adepta Sororitas - Ebon Chalice

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    21 Jul 2025
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Inspired by https://www.goonhammer.com/how-to-paint-everything-sisters-of-battle/

Assembly

  1. Minifig assembly are sub assembled:
    - Body with base
    - Weapon (when they hide the breastplate)
    - Simulacrum imperialis (If using the multi piece one)
    - Keep all heads separately

Priming

  1. Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch Flat Black Primer:
    - Canoness
    - Battle Sisters
    - Dominions
    - Celestian Sacresants

    Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch Flat White Primer:
    - Acro-Flagellants

Canoness / Battle Sisters / Dominion / Celestial Sacresants

  1. Paint the undercloak Red (about 3 coat)
  2. Paint the overcloak and sleeves in 2 thin coats of Sky Grey
    Shade with 1:1 mix of Sky Grey and Black
    Highlight with 1:1 mix of White and Sky Grey
  3. Shade the red undercloak with Red
    Highlight with a layer of Red
    And re-highlight with a layer of Vermilion
  4. Highlight the armor with German Grey (TBD: mix 1:1 with Black ?)
  5. Re-highlight the armor with a 1:1 mix of German Grey and Sombre Grey
  6. Paint gold armor ornaments with Old Gold
  7. Shade the gold parts with a 1:1 mix of Beige Brown and Tan Earth
  8. Paint the armor rivets with Silver

Weapons

  1. Paint the weapon metal parts with Gunmetal Grey
  2. Shade the metal parts with Black
  3. Glue the weapons & arms to the body

Head

  1. Paint the helmet visor in 2 thin coats of Sky Grey
    Shade with 1:1 mix of Sky Grey and Black
    Highlight with 1:1 mix of White and Sky Grey
  2. Paint the armor eye lenses with Dark Vermilion
  3. TBD (Paint the head...)
  4. Glue the head to the body

Finished model

Canoness

Vallejo Game Color 4
Base 1
  • 72.048 Sombre Grey
Metallic 1
  • 72.052 Silver
Wash 2
  • 73.201 Black
  • 73.206 Red
Vallejo Metal Color
Base 1
  • 77.720 Gunmetal Grey
Vallejo Model Color 10
Base 9
  • 70.874 Tan Earth
  • 70.875 Beige Brown
  • 70.909 Vermilion
  • 70.926 Red
  • 70.947 Dark Vermilion
  • 70.950 Black
  • 70.951 White
  • 70.989 Sky Grey
  • 70.995 German Grey
Metallic 1
  • 70.878 Old Gold
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