Rumbleslam: Human Brawler & Grappler

Rumbleslam: Human Brawler & Grappler

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    02 Aug 2025
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How I painted these human wrestlers from "The Heavy Pounders" team for Rumbleslam. Be sure to check out my guide for the full team, if you want to see the other members.

Human Skin

  1. Basecoat with pure Cadian Fleshtone .
  2. Add general shading with a thin mix of :2:1 Cadian Fleshtone and Bloodreaver Flesh .
  3. Mix the leftover paint 1:1 with Doombull Brown and shade deep recesses more selectively.
  4. Finish off the shading with small amounts of Doombull Brown only in the deepest/most shaded parts.
  5. Re-establish the basecoat Cadian Fleshtone on raised/exposed areas, in preparation for highlights.
  6. Gradually add Wraithbone to the mix, highlighting smaller and smaller areas. I this in three stages, doing chunky, fine and small selective highlights.
  7. Add specular highlights of Wraithbone in select places.

Don't forget to pick out teeth with Screaming Skull too.

Dark Brown Hair

  1. Basecoat with Rhinox Hide .
  2. Mix Rhinox Hide and Gorthor Brown 1:1 and, pick out hairs by overbrushing.
  3. Add increasing amounts of Wraithbone into your Rhinox Hide and Gorthor Brown mix, then pick out smaller and smaller highlights.

Eyes

  1. Add a little Thunderhawk Blue to your base skin colour, then glaze it under the eye.
  2. Now, add a little Black to the above mix and paint around the eye. This is easier if the paint is thin.
  3. Pick out the eyeball with Ulthuan Grey .
  4. Do a small dot with Black for the pupil.

Blue Cloth

  1. Basecoat with Stegadon Scale Green .
  2. Shade the recesses with 1:1 Stegadon Scale Green and Black .
  3. Apply chunky highlights of 1:1 Stegadon Scale Green and Thunderhawk Blue .
  4. Now highlight everything with fine lines of Thunderhawk Blue .
  5. Selectively highlight with 1:1 Thunderhawk Blue and Fenrisian Grey .
  6. Add specular/very small highlights of Fenrisian Grey .

White Cloth

  1. Basecoat with 1:1 Celestra Grey and White .
  2. Soft shade with Fenrisian Grey .
  3. Shade more selectively, in the deeper parts of the folds with Dark Reaper .
  4. Add chunky highlights of Celestra Grey and White , mixed roughly 1:3.
  5. Finish off with selective highlights of White .

Dark Brown Leather Gloves

  1. Basecoat the leather area with Rhinox Hide .
  2. Shace recesses with 1:1 Rhinox Hide and Black .
  3. Glaze most of the leather with thinned Mournfang Brown . Use quite a small brush and drag towards edges in rough lines. This should create some extra texture.
  4. Add a chunky edge highlight of Skrag Brown to all edges.
  5. Highlight everything again, this time with a fine line of Skrag Brown and Ushabti Bone mixed 1:1. This is a good mix to throw in occasional fine lines as scratches too.
  6. With pure Ushabti Bone , selectively highlight corners and exposed edges of the leather. Put a dot of this colour where the additional scratched above meet edges too.
  7. Add a little pure white (like Dead White ) to your Ushabti Bone and add dot highlights to corners.

Black Leather Boots

  1. Basecoat with Abaddon Black .
  2. Glaze chunky highlights of Stegadon Scale Green .
  3. Add fine highlights of Thunderhawk Blue .
  4. Selectively highlight with Fenrisian Grey .
  5. Specular highlights of Fenrisian Grey , with a little White mixed in.

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Citadel Painting System 17
Base 6
  • Abaddon Black
  • Celestra Grey
  • Mournfang Brown
  • Rhinox Hide
  • Stegadon Scale Green
  • Wraithbone
Layer 11
  • Bloodreaver Flesh
  • Cadian Fleshtone
  • Dark Reaper
  • Doombull Brown
  • Fenrisian Grey
  • Gorthor Brown
  • Screaming Skull
  • Skrag Brown
  • Thunderhawk Blue
  • Ulthuan Grey
  • Ushabti Bone
Vallejo Game Color
Base 1
  • 72.001 Dead White
Vallejo Model Color
Base 2
  • 70.950 Black
  • 70.951 White
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