General scheme for Iron Warriors, updated to be brighter and read better from a distance (no more formless blobs of dark metal)
Basecoats
- Prime with Leadbelcher
- Base model with Leadbelcher in any parts missed
- Base armor joints, gun casings, and shoulderpad flats in Black Legion
- Base trim in Retributor Armour
- Base cloth and "real" horns in Steel Legion Drab
- Base soft daemon parts and tassels in Daemonette Hide
- Base hard daemon parts in Stegadon Scale Green
- Base fur in Mechanicus Standard Grey
- Base leather belts and holsters with Dryad Bark
- Base skulls with Zandri Dust
Shades
- Shade armor in Targor Rageshade and deepest recesses with Nuln Oil
- Shade bones, "real horns", cloth, leather belts/holsters, and fur with Agrax Earthshade
- Shade metal weapon bits with Agrax Earthshade
- Shade daemon flesh with Druchii Violet
- Shade tassels with Luxion Purple
Layer
- Layer cloth and "real horns" with Steel Legion Drab leaving deepest recesses
- Layer areas to be done in hazard stripes with Averland Sunset then layer stripes with Abaddon Black
- Layer skulls, bones, and small cloth strips with Ushabti Bone
- Layer hard daemon parts with Sotek Green then 50/50 Sotek Green and Temple Guard Blue then straight Temple Guard Blue
- Layer eye lenses in Temple Guard Blue
Highlight
- Highlight soft daemon parts with Warpfiend Grey and then Slaanesh Grey
- Highlight hard daemon parts with Baharroth Blue
- Highlight fur with Stormvermin Fur and then Administratum Grey
- Highlight tassels with Genestealer Purple
- Highlight metal parts with Leadbelcher then Stormhost Silver
- Highlight gold trim with Liberator Gold
- Highlight cloth with Baneblade Brown
- Highlight skulls and bones with Screaming Skull
- Highlight "real horns" with Baneblade Brown then Screaming Skull
- Highlight hazard stripes with Ushabti Bone on yellow and Thunderhawk Blue on black
- Highlight gun casing with Thunderhawk Blue
- Highlight leather and holsters with Gorthor Brown
- Pick out little details like eyes in parts in either Averland Sunset and Abaddon Black for pupil, or else pure Temple Guard Blue