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Adeptus Mechanicus

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    02 Jan 2026
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Personal recipe for my forge world, wich is basicaly just the same as Mars with white instead of the bone color.

Preparation

The model is usually primed Grey Seer and tidied up with Grey Seer .

Working metal

Used for the arms, mechadendrites, prothesis, etc.

  1. Basecoat a 1:1 mix of Iron Warriors and Gunmetal Grey .
  2. Wash Nuln Oil .
  3. Light drybrush Ironbreaker .

Decorative steel

Used for armor plates.

  1. Basecoat a 1:1 mix of Leadbelcher and Dark Aluminum .
  2. Wash Nuln Oil .

Sharp metal

Used for blades.

  1. Basecoat Dark Aluminum .
  2. Wash Nuln Oil .

Decorative brass

Used for brass trim on decorative steel armor panels.

  1. Basecoat Runelord Brass .
  2. Wash Agrax Earthshade .

Brass details

Used for power core, antennas, etc.

  1. Basecoat Castellax Bronze .
  2. Wash Agrax Earthshade .

Red details

Used for weapon casing and armor on some models, like the Onager Dunecrawler.

  1. Basecoat Khorne Red .
  2. Wash Nuln Oil .
  3. Drybrush Mephiston Red .
  4. Light drybrush Wild Rider Red .

Red fabric

  1. Used for the external side of the robe, hoods and any red fabric.
  2. On a clean Grey Seer surface, wash a 1:1:1 mix of Blood Angels Red , Flesh Tearers Red and Contrast Medium .

White Fabric

  1. Used for the internal side of the robe and any white fabric.
  2. Basecoat Corax White .
  3. Todo

Grey details

Used for tubes, grey fabric, some weapon casing, masks, etc.

  1. Basecoat Eshin Grey .
  2. Wash Nuln Oil .
  3. Light drybrush Dawnstone .

Blue lights

Used for lenses, arc and plasma coils, etc.

  1. Basecoat Corax White .
  2. Todo
Citadel Painting System 18
Base 7
  • Corax White
  • Grey Seer
  • Iron Warriors
  • Khorne Red
  • Leadbelcher
  • Mephiston Red
  • Runelord Brass
Shade 2
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Nuln Oil
Layer 5
  • Castellax Bronze
  • Dawnstone
  • Eshin Grey
  • Ironbreaker
  • Wild Rider Red
Technical 1
  • Contrast Medium
Spray 1
  • Grey Seer
Contrast 2
  • Blood Angels Red
  • Flesh Tearers Red
Vallejo Metal Color
Base 2
  • 77.703 Dark Aluminum
  • 77.720 Gunmetal Grey
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