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Sohei Warrior Monks

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    01 Jan 2026
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Skin

  1. Basecoat with 2:1 Cadian Fleshtone and Mournfang Brown .
  2. Increase the amount of Mournfang Brown in the above mix and shade the skin.
  3. Mix the base colour 2:1 with Ushabti Bone and add chunky highlights.
  4. Increase the amount of Ushabti Bone in the above mix, so it is about 1:2 now. use this for finer highlights.
  5. Mix in a little White and selectively highlight.
  6. Increase the amount of White in the mix, until it is a subtle off-white. Now pick out a few specular highlights.

When it came to the shaved portion in the centre of his head, I highlighted as normal, then mixed a little Dawnstone into the initial highlight colour. With this mix, glaze the section then highlight if needed. This should add a subtle grey.

Yellow Cloth

  1. Basecoat with Balor Brown .
  2. Mix Balor Brown 1:1 with Mournfang Brown and use this to shade folds.
  3. With pure Mournfang Brown , further define highlights. try to stick to fine lines and use this to separate sleeves from the body, plus where the cloth meets other materials.
  4. Add chunky highlights of Averland Sunset .
  5. Apply fine highlights using a 1:1 mix of Averland Sunset and Ice Yellow .
  6. Selectively highlight with pue Ice Yellow .
  7. Finish with specular White highlights.

Orange Cloth

  1. Basecoat with 2:1 Jokaero Orange and Deep Orange (or Troll Slayer Orange ).
  2. Mix the base colour 1:1 with Khorne Red and add shading to folds.
  3. Now, mix the above colour 1:1 with Black and further shade the recesses. At this point, I find it best to stick to the very deep folds and where the cloth meets other materials.
  4. Apply chunky highlights of Fire Dragon Bright to the cloth. With the crispness of the details on this sculpt, I first applied a standard edge highlight, before thickening the highlights with a series of downward facing lines.
  5. Using a 1:1 mix of Fire Dragon Bright and Ice Yellow , as fine edge highlights to the cloth.
  6. Mix a little White into the above colour and more selectively highlight edges, focussing on upward facing curves.
  7. Add even more White to the above paint, until it is an off-white colour. Now enhance your highlighting with a few very small/specular highlights.

White Cloth

  1. Basecoat with 1:1 Celestra Grey and White .
  2. Glaze some shading in with Fenrisian Grey . be quite generous here, the result will be quite suble, so use it to bring out texture.
  3. With a 1:1 mix of Fenrisian Grey and Dark Reaper , shade the cloth more selectively.
  4. Carefully shade the very deepest recesses (and where the cloth meets other material ) with pure Dark Reaper . Be very selective here and keep your lines thin.
  5. Mix the basecoat 1:1 with White and pick out edges.
  6. Selectively highlight with pure White .

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AK Interactive 3rd Generation Acrylics
Intense 1
  • AK11080 Deep Orange
Citadel Painting System 13
Base 5
  • Averland Sunset
  • Celestra Grey
  • Jokaero Orange
  • Khorne Red
  • Mournfang Brown
Layer 8
  • Balor Brown
  • Cadian Fleshtone
  • Dark Reaper
  • Dawnstone
  • Fenrisian Grey
  • Fire Dragon Bright
  • Troll Slayer Orange
  • Ushabti Bone
Vallejo Model Color
Base 3
  • 70.858 Ice Yellow
  • 70.950 Black
  • 70.951 White
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