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Night Lords

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    26 Mar 2026
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Undercoat

  1. Spray Chaos Black

Trim / Ammo / Icons

  1. Drybrush [ Retributor Armour or Dragon's Gold ]
  2. Drybrush less [ Liberator Gold or Glistening Gold ]
  3. Battle Ready
  4. Edge Highlight [ Canoptek Alloy or Platinum Crown ]
  5. Spot Highlight [ Stormhost Silver or Mythril Blade ]

Joints / Weapon Casing

  1. Base [ Corvus Black or Death Reaper ]
  2. Shade: Nuln Oil
  3. Battle Ready
  4. Edge Highlight [ Mechanicus Standard Grey or Dungeon Stone Grey ]
  5. Spot Highlight [ Administratum Grey or Carcharodon Grey ]

Armour

  1. Base [ Kantor Blue or Abyss Blue ]
  2. Bottom Third - (1:1:2) - [ Kantor Blue or Abyss Blue ] : Leviadon Blue : Contrast Medium
  3. Bottom Quarter - (1:1) - Leviadon Blue : Nuln Oil
  4. Bottom Recesses Nuln Oil
  5. Top third - (1:1) - [ Kantor Blue or Abyss Blue ] : [ Caledor Sky or Witching Hour Blue ]
  6. Top Quarter - (1:1) - [ Caledor Sky or Witching Hour Blue ] : [ Hoeth Blue or Leviathan Blue ]
  7. Battle Ready
  8. Edge Highlight [ Hoeth Blue or Leviathan Blue ]
  9. Spot Highlight - (1:1) - [ Hoeth Blue or Leviathan Blue ] : [ White Scar or White Star ]

Gun Barrels / Chains / Guns Inner Casing

  1. Base [ Leadbelcher or Sir Coates Silver ]
  2. Shade Nuln Oil
  3. Battle Ready
  4. Edge Highlight [ Stormhost Silver or Mythril Blade ]

Flayed Flesh / Wraps / Pouches / Belt

  1. Base [ Rakarth Flesh or Griffon Claw ]
  2. Shade (1:1) [ Reikland Fleshshade or Flesh Wash ] : Lahmian Medium
  3. Deepen Recesses (1:1) [ Reikland Fleshshade or Flesh Wash ] : Lahmian Medium
  4. Battle Ready
  5. Highlight Raised Areas & Edges (1:1) [ Rakarth Flesh or Griffon Claw ] : Flayed One Flesh
  6. Less Highlights Flayed One Flesh
  7. Spot Highlight [ Pallid Wych Flesh or Ivory Tusk ]

Ears / Cloak / Cables

  1. Base [ Khorne Red or Asmodeus Red ]
  2. Shade Nuln Oil
  3. Layer [ Khorne Red or Asmodeus Red ]
  4. Battle Ready
  5. Edge Highlight [ Evil Sunz Scarlet or Demon Red ]

Eye Lenses / Weapon Glow

  1. Base [ White Scar or White Star ]
  2. Shade Fluorescent Magenta
  3. Battle Ready
  4. Recess Shade [ White Scar or White Star ]
  5. Layer Fluorescent Magenta

Eyes

  1. Base [ White Scar or White Star ]
  2. Shade Black Templar

Bone / Facemask

  1. Base [ Ushabti Bone or Skeleton Legion ]
  2. Shade [ Agrax Earthshade or Battle Mud Wash ]
  3. Layer [ Screaming Skull or Vampire Fang ]
  4. Battle Ready
  5. Spot Highlight [ White Scar or White Star ]

Backpack Vents

  1. Base [ Leadbelcher or Sir Coates Silver ]
  2. Shade Nuln Oil
  3. Battle Ready
  4. Stipple [ Screamer Pink or Sword Hilt Burgundy ]
  5. Stipple Less [ Troll Slayer Orange or Fanatic Orange ]
  6. Highlight Most Grills [ Fire Dragon Bright or Orange Flare ]
  7. Highlight Middle Grills [ Yriel Yellow or Skulker Yellow ]
  8. Highlight Centre Grills [ White Scar or White Star ]

Lightning

  1. Zig Zags Calgar Blue
  2. Thinner Zig Zags [ Hoeth Blue or Leviathan Blue ]
  3. Half of Previous Zig Zags Ulthuan Grey
  4. A Few Zig Zags [ White Scar or White Star ]

Skin

  1. Base Grey Seer
  2. Shade (4:1) Targor Rageshade : Lahmian Medium
  3. Battle Ready
  4. Raised Parts Grey Seer
  5. Spot Highlight [ Pallid Wych Flesh or Ivory Tusk ]
  6. Scars Carroburg Crimson

Base

  1. Base Ground [ Dryad Bark or Scorched Earth ]
  2. Texture Some Ground Martian Ironearth
  3. Texture Remaining Ground Martian Ironcrust
  4. Base Rocks [ Tuskgor Fur or Fur Cloak ]
  5. Shade Rocks Carroburg Crimson
  6. Varnish All Stormshield
  7. Heavy Drybrush All Ryza Rust
  8. Lighter Drybrush All Flayed One Flesh
  9. Rim [ Abaddon Black or Doom Death Black

Other

Add Blood For The Blood God to taste

Citadel Painting System 44
Base 12
  • Abaddon Black
  • Caledor Sky
  • Corvus Black
  • Dryad Bark
  • Grey Seer
  • Kantor Blue
  • Khorne Red
  • Leadbelcher
  • Mechanicus Standard Grey
  • Rakarth Flesh
  • Retributor Armour
  • Screamer Pink
Shade 5
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Carroburg Crimson
  • Nuln Oil
  • Reikland Fleshshade
  • Targor Rageshade
Layer 17
  • Administratum Grey
  • Calgar Blue
  • Canoptek Alloy
  • Evil Sunz Scarlet
  • Fire Dragon Bright
  • Flayed One Flesh
  • Hoeth Blue
  • Liberator Gold
  • Pallid Wych Flesh
  • Screaming Skull
  • Stormhost Silver
  • Troll Slayer Orange
  • Tuskgor Fur
  • Ulthuan Grey
  • Ushabti Bone
  • White Scar
  • Yriel Yellow
Dry 1
  • Ryza Rust
Technical 4
  • Blood For The Blood God
  • Contrast Medium
  • Lahmian Medium
  • Stormshield
Texture 2
  • Martian Ironcrust
  • Martian Ironearth
Spray 1
  • Chaos Black
Contrast 2
  • Black Templar
  • Leviadon Blue
Two Thin Coats 27
Shade 5
  • Abyss Blue
  • Doom Death Black
  • Griffon Claw
  • Scorched Earth
  • Sir Coates Silver
Midtone 10
  • Asmodeus Red
  • Carcharodon Grey
  • Death Reaper
  • Dragon's Gold
  • Fanatic Orange
  • Ivory Tusk
  • Skeleton Legion
  • Skulker Yellow
  • Sword Hilt Burgundy
  • Witching Hour Blue
Highlight 9
  • Demon Red
  • Dungeon Stone Grey
  • Fur Cloak
  • Glistening Gold
  • Leviathan Blue
  • Mythril Blade
  • Orange Flare
  • Vampire Fang
  • White Star
Wash 2
  • Battle Mud Wash
  • Flesh Wash
Metallic 1
  • Platinum Crown
Vallejo Game Color
Fluo 1
  • 72.158 Fluorescent Magenta
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