Royal Decapitator

Royal Decapitator

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    03 Dec 2025
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Skin

  1. Basecoat with 2:1 Deepkin Flesh and Stormvermin Fur .
  2. Soft shade with 1:2 Deepkin Flesh and Stormvermin Fur .
  3. Further define recesses with some thin Corvus Black .
  4. Glaze highlight with Deepkin Flesh .
  5. Add fine highlights with 1:1 Deepkin Flesh and Pallid Wych Flesh ,
  6. Finish with selective highlights of Pallid Wych Flesh .

To a little warmth to areas, like the under eye-lids, apply glazes of Kislev Flesh . You can re-highlight with Pallid Wych Flesh , where needed too.

Eyes

  1. Pick out eyeballs with Blue Horror .
  2. Finish with a specular highlight of White in the centre.

Teeth

  1. Pick out teeth with Wraithbone .
  2. Finish with specular highlights of White on the points.

Tongue

  1. Basecoat with 1:1 Black and Screamer Pink .
  2. Glaze Screamer Pink towards the tip, on the top surface. Repeat as needed.
  3. Add chunky highlights of 1:1 Screamer Pink and Pink Horror .
  4. Add an edge highlight of Pink Horror .
  5. Selectively highlight the tip with 1:1 Pink Horror and Kislev Flesh .
  6. Finish with a specular highlight of Kislev Flesh on the tip.

Claws

  1. Basecoat with Black .
  2. Add highlights of Incubi Darkness .
  3. Mix the Incubi Darkness 1:1 with Sybarite Green then run a line down the claws towards the tip.
  4. Mix the above paint 1:1 with Wraithbone and selectively highlight.
  5. Finish with specular Wraithbone highlights.

Fur

  1. Basecoat with Black .
  2. Pick out edges with Stormvermin Fur .
  3. Selectively highlight with 1:1 Stormvermin Fur and Ushabti Bone .
  4. Finish with specular highlights of Ushabti Bone .

Brown Leather

  1. Basecoat with 1:1 Rhinox Hide and Mournfang Brown .
  2. Mix the base colour 1:1 with Black , and use this colour to shade.
  3. Add chunky highlights with a 1:1 mix of the original base colour and Gorthor Brown .
  4. Apply finehighlights with pure Gorthor Brown .
  5. Selectively highlight with Baneblade Brown ,
  6. Finish with very small and specular highlights of 1:1 Gorthor Brown and Wraithbone .

Wrappings

  1. Basecoat with Karak Stone .
  2. Shade between bandages with thinned Steel Legion Drab .
  3. Highlight with 1:1 Karak Stone and White .
  4. Selectively highlight with 1:2 Karak Stone and White .

Bones (and Rope)

  1. Basecoat with Ushabti Bone .
  2. Wash with Skeleton Horde . You can probaly leave the ropes at this point, and just focus on the bones for the highlights.

Wood

  1. Basecoat with Thondia Brown .
  2. Run some thin Rhinox Hide into deep recesseswhere the wood meets other materials.
  3. overbrush selectively with 2:1 with Thondia Brown and Steel Legion Drab . This is just to pick out the raised edges of the woodgrain, roughly.
  4. Mix the previous paint 1:1 Administratum Grey and pick out where the recesses meet.

Canvas Bag

  1. Basecoat with Baneblade Brown .
  2. Add general shading with Steel Legion Drab .
  3. Shade more selectively with 1:1 Steel Legion Drab and Rhinox Hide .
  4. Add scratchy and chunky highlights of Karak Stone .
  5. Repeat with fine highlights of Ushabti Bone .
  6. Mix a little White into your Ushabti Bone and selectively highlight.

Rusty Steel

  1. Basecoat with an equal parts mix of Black , Rhinox Hide and Abaddon Black
  2. Stiple Typhus Corrosion on the part of the blade you want to be rusted.
  3. Now thin down some Rhinox Hide , Mournfang Brown and Skrag Brown . Run this over the rusted area in patches, not being afraid of letting the paints mix. When this dries, it should give you a ice varied surface.
  4. I then applied patches of Dirty Down Rust, using a damp brush. AGin, sticking to the rusted area.
  5. Edge highlight the blade with Leadbelcher , making the highlights nice and chunky of the sharp edge of the blade.
  6. Mix some Silver RLM01 Metallic into your Leadbelcher and edge highlight more selectively.
  7. Finish with a few very small Silver RLM01 Metallic highlights.

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Citadel Painting System 25
Base 10
  • Abaddon Black
  • Corvus Black
  • Incubi Darkness
  • Leadbelcher
  • Mournfang Brown
  • Rhinox Hide
  • Screamer Pink
  • Steel Legion Drab
  • Thondia Brown
  • Wraithbone
Layer 13
  • Administratum Grey
  • Baneblade Brown
  • Blue Horror
  • Deepkin Flesh
  • Gorthor Brown
  • Karak Stone
  • Kislev Flesh
  • Pallid Wych Flesh
  • Pink Horror
  • Skrag Brown
  • Stormvermin Fur
  • Sybarite Green
  • Ushabti Bone
Technical 1
  • Typhus Corrosion
Contrast 1
  • Skeleton Horde
Vallejo Model Air
Base 1
  • 71.063 Silver RLM01 Metallic
Vallejo Model Color
Base 2
  • 70.950 Black
  • 70.951 White
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