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Emperor's Children Tormentor

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    11 Sep 2025
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Simple paint scheme for Emperor's Children, specifically a Tormentor miniature, but the paints can work for any Emperor's Children miniature.

Pink Armor

  1. Base: Screamer Pink
  2. Layer: Emperor's Children
  3. Shading: Druchii Violet or Carroburg Crimson
  4. Highlight: Fulgrim Pink or Pink Horror

Grey/Black Armour

You can also mix in a small amount of Abaddon Black to darken the armour

  1. Base: Eshin Grey
  2. Layer: Dark Reaper
  3. Shade: Nuln Oil
  4. Highlight: Thunderhawk Blue or Fenrisian Grey

Armour Trim & Spikes

  1. Base: Retributor Armour
  2. Layer: Liberator Gold or Sycorax Bronze
  3. Shade: Reikland Fleshshade or Agrax Earthshade
  4. Highlight: Stormhost Silver

Daemon Flesh/Organic Growths

  1. Base: Bugman's Glow or Rakarth Flesh
  2. Layer: Cadian Fleshtone or Pallid Wych Flesh
  3. Shade: Carroburg Crimson or Druchii Violet
  4. Highlight: Kislev Flesh or Flayed One Flesh

Mechanical Components

  1. Base: Leadbelcher
  2. Layer: Ironbreaker
  3. Shade: Nuln Oil
  4. Highlight: Runefang Steel or Stormhost Silver

Leather Straps/Pouches

  1. Base: Rhinox Hide
  2. Layer: Dark Reaper or Gorthor Brown
  3. Shade: Agrax Earthshade
  4. Highlight: Baneblade Brown or Karak Stone

Hair

  1. Base: Caliban Green
  2. Layer: Warpstone Glow
  3. Shade: Biel-Tan Green
  4. Highlight: Moot Green or Gauss Blaster Green

Cloth

  1. Base: Naggaroth Night
  2. Layer: Mix Xereus Purple with a small amount of Eshin Grey tone down the purple.
  3. Shade: Druchii Violet
  4. Highlight: Genestealer Purple
  5. Optional: Sparingly add Dechala Lilac on the most raised folds.

Bottles

  1. Base: Caliban Green
  2. Layer: Warpstone Glow
  3. Shade: Biel-Tan Green or Coelia Greenshade
  4. Highlight: Moot Green or White Scar
  5. Optional: Add a drop of Tesseract Glow for a glowing plasma/toxin effect inside the bottle.

Plasma Weapon

  1. Base: Leadbelcher
  2. Layer: Ironbreaker
  3. Shade: Nuln Oil or Agrax Earthshade
  4. Highlight: Stormhost Silver

Blue Plasma Coils

  1. Base: Kantor Blue or Stegadon Scale Green
  2. Layer: Teclis Blue
  3. Shade: Drakenhof Nightshade
  4. Highlight: Lothern Blue or White Scar
  5. Optional: Glaze with Aethermatic Blue for a subtle plasma glow.

Glowing Eyes, Vents, or Runes

  1. Base: Kabalite Green or Warpstone Glow
  2. Layer: Moot Green
  3. Shade: Biel-Tan Green
  4. Highlight: Gauss Blaster Green or White Scar

Rocks

  1. Base: Incubi Darkness
  2. Layer: Thunderhawk Blue
  3. Shade Drakenhof Nightshade
  4. Highlight Blue Horror
Citadel Painting System 52
Base 12
  • Abaddon Black
  • Bugman's Glow
  • Caliban Green
  • Incubi Darkness
  • Kantor Blue
  • Leadbelcher
  • Naggaroth Night
  • Rakarth Flesh
  • Retributor Armour
  • Rhinox Hide
  • Screamer Pink
  • Stegadon Scale Green
Shade 8
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Biel-Tan Green
  • Carroburg Crimson
  • Coelia Greenshade
  • Drakenhof Nightshade
  • Druchii Violet
  • Nuln Oil
  • Reikland Fleshshade
Layer 30
  • Baneblade Brown
  • Blue Horror
  • Cadian Fleshtone
  • Dark Reaper
  • Dechala Lilac
  • Emperor's Children
  • Eshin Grey
  • Fenrisian Grey
  • Flayed One Flesh
  • Fulgrim Pink
  • Gauss Blaster Green
  • Genestealer Purple
  • Gorthor Brown
  • Ironbreaker
  • Kabalite Green
  • Karak Stone
  • Kislev Flesh
  • Liberator Gold
  • Lothern Blue
  • Moot Green
  • Pallid Wych Flesh
  • Pink Horror
  • Runefang Steel
  • Stormhost Silver
  • Sycorax Bronze
  • Teclis Blue
  • Thunderhawk Blue
  • Warpstone Glow
  • White Scar
  • Xereus Purple
Technical 1
  • Tesseract Glow
Contrast 1
  • Aethermatic Blue
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