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Plague Marines

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    24 Feb 2026
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Prime

  1. Prime with Chaos Black

Basecoat

  1. Armor: Death Guard Green
    Armor Joints and Tubing: Eshin Grey
    Armor Panels Hashut Copper
    Metals: Leadbelcher
    Cloth: Screamer Pink

    Bone: Screaming Skull
    Lenses: Mephiston Red
  2. Flesh parts: Paint with Contrast Medium Magos Purple and Guilliman Flesh

Shading

  1. Wash all over: Agrax Earthshade
    Tidy up Death Guard Green

Weathering

  1. Mix 1:5 Wyldwood and Contrast Medium
    Go under Armor Plates and flick down to archieve a greasy/grimey look
  2. Thin to a wash Doombull Brown and apply to cracks (optional)
  3. Edge Highlight the Armor: Ogryn Camo
  4. Mix 1:1 Skeleton Horde and Contrast Medium and apply as a wash on skull parts
    Edge Highlight with Screaming Skull

Details

  1. Pusteln Basecoat with Screaming Skull
    over that: Nazdreg Yellow mixed with Contrast Medium 1:4
  2. Heavely thinned down Troll Slayer Orange on all Metal parts to archieve a rust effect
    Can also use Nihilakh Oxide mixed with Lahmian Medium on Brass parts
    Edge Highlight Metal and brass with Leadbelcher
  3. Nurglings: Rakarth Flesh Shade with Carroburg Crimson
Citadel Painting System 22
Base 5
  • Death Guard Green
  • Leadbelcher
  • Mephiston Red
  • Rakarth Flesh
  • Screamer Pink
Shade 2
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Carroburg Crimson
Layer 6
  • Doombull Brown
  • Eshin Grey
  • Hashut Copper
  • Ogryn Camo
  • Screaming Skull
  • Troll Slayer Orange
Technical 3
  • Contrast Medium
  • Lahmian Medium
  • Nihilakh Oxide
Spray 1
  • Chaos Black
Contrast 5
  • Guilliman Flesh
  • Magos Purple
  • Nazdreg Yellow
  • Skeleton Horde
  • Wyldwood
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