Bone Armour
- I would recommend priming with Wraithbone or any other light and slightly warm colour. This will make getting a nice tone to the armour easier.
- Basecoat armour with Ushabti Bone.
- Either zenethal highlight with thinned Screaming Skull from a downward 45 degree angle or glaze in where the light would hit. Since there isn't tones of armour on these boys, you could easily skip this step.
- Recess shade with Skeleton Horde thinned with Contrast Medium 1:1. Don't be too neat, the contrast should pull towards the recess and give something like a transition. Now is also a good time to paint the under-suit/tubing by your preferred method.
- Recess shade everything again, this time being careful, and using Agrax Earthshade. I used is straight out of the pot, but you could mix in a little contrast if you wanted to make life a little easier. Alternatively, thinned Rhinox Hide works well for this and is easier to control.
- Add a chunky highlights of Screaming Skull to all edges and where relevent on panels.
- Edge highlight everything again with fine lines of Pallid Wych Flesh.
- Selectively edge highlight the most exposed curved edges and corners where highlights meet with a pure white of your choice, like White Scar.
Optional: Battle Damage
- Add small patches of Mournfang Brown using dots with a fine brush. Try to stick to edges and corners where damage would occur, mostly towards the front of the Space Marine.
- Underline the damage from the last step with fine lines of Pallid Wych Flesh.
White Cloth Sleeves
- Basecoat with Corax White.
- Wash the cloth with Apothecary White, thinned with an equal amount of Contrast Medium.
- Shade recess shade with Thunderhawk Blue or Dark Reaper, depending on the depth of the recesses and definition needed.
- Edhe highlight folds with Ulthuan Grey.
- Define points and particularly raised edges with a pure white (like White Scar).
Grey Trousers
- Basecoat with Mechanicus Standard Grey.
- Wash with Nuln Oil thinned with the same amount of Lahmian Medium.
- Darken deep recesses with very thin Abaddon Black.
- Mix Mechanicus Standard Grey 1:1 with Dawnstone and do a round of general highlighting of the cloth. I try and do it in scratchy lines moving the brush in the same direction if possible, to create a little texture.
- Add chunky highlights of pure Dawnstone.
- Add fine highlights of Administratum Grey.
- Mix some pure white into the Administratum Grey and pick out points, folds and prominent areas with selective highlights.
- Add final specular dot highlights of pure white (I like Vallejo Dead White) to points and where lines meet.
Black Leather
- Basecaot with Abaddon Black.
- Mix Eshin Grey into the Abaddon Black and pick out prominent areas that would catch light.
- Add chunky highlights of Eshin Grey.
- Add fine highlights of Dawnstone.
- Now selectively highlight prominent areas with Administratum Grey.
- Mix some pure white into the Administratum Grey and add specular highlights to knuckles, and in the centre of previous highlights on the top of the boot etc.