Teal and blue armour

1. Spray Prime assembled models from below with Tempest Blue rattle can primer
2. Zenithal prime with Matt White spray primer. Ensure an even and bright coat and only leave the Tempest Blue in shadows.
3. Airbrush Sybarite Green over the bottom 2/3 of the model, tapering off at the upper chest, upper arms and shoulders of the model.
4. Airbrush Temple Guard Blue from above, hitting the areas in the top 1/3 of the model, namely shoulders, upper arms and upper chest.
5. Add a few drops of Baharroth Blue into the previous paint and hit the very tops of the blue areas to provide a highlight.
6. Optional step: Airbrush Gloss Polyurethane Varnish over the entire model
7. Mix up a diluted oil wash using thinner and Midnight Blue and pin wash the deeper recesses of the model. Alternatively, pinwash with 3:1 Lahmian Medium and Coelia Greenshade .
8. If necessary clean up green areas using a make up sponge and Sybarite Green and blue areas with Temple Guard Blue .
9. Edge highlight blue areas with Baharroth Blue , focusing on the light catching hard edges

Weapons and items

1. Paint weapons and items with a 1:1 mix of Matt Black and Black Legion
2. Chip highlight edges of weapons using Grey Castle
3. Oil wash with Shadow Brown

Gemstones

1. Basecoat gem with Hexed Violet
2. Apply Shyish Purple to the top right 1/4 of the gem to darken this area
3. Highlight the remaining 3/4 of the lower left of the gem with Purple , with the band of highlight being thickest in the bottom left corner.
4. Provide a focused highlight in the bottom left corner using Warlock Magenta
5. Using the tip of a skewer or toothpick, place a white dot in the top right corner of the gem using Matt White or other white paint
6. Paint the whole gem with Ardcoat gloss varnish

Pale caucasian skin tone

1. Prime faces seperately using Grey Seer
2. Apply a 1:1 mix of Lahmian Medium and Guilliman Flesh over the skin areas.
3. Once dry, progessively mix Ice Yellow in with Guilliman Flesh and layer up highlights on face, focusing on brows, cheek bones, nose and lips.
4. If needed, add depth with Guilliman Flesh to shadow or recesses, ie around mouth and in cheek hollows.
5. Paint white elements of face mask with Matt White
6. Paint black elements with a 1:1 mix of Matt Black and Black Legion .
7. Paint hair using contrast paints of your choice.