Base Armor

Base and layers: Wraithbone Screaming Skull Castellan Green Leadbelcher Balthasar Gold Corvus Black Dryad Bark Kislev Flesh

Shades and contrasts: Agrax Earthshade Guilliman Flesh Magos Purple Contrast Medium Carroburg Crimson

Highlights: Loren Forest Flayed One Flesh Sycorax Bronze Stormhost Silver Eshin Grey Gorthor Brown White

1. Follow Duncan's awesome tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImGHTaS3wNw)
2. Additionally wash all white armor with 50% Seraphim Sepia and Contrast Medium mix to darken it down

Daemon shoulder pads

1. Base with Castellan Green
2. Shade with Agrax Earthshade
3. Broad highlight with Loren Forest
4. Closer to face, highlight with Elysian Green
5. Point highlight with Nurgling Green in center of face

Bile or slime drops

1. Base with Warpstone Glow
2. Shade with Coelia Greenshade
3. Broad highlight with Moot Green
4. Highlight points with Flash Gitz Yellow
5. Coat with Ardcoat

Insect eyes

1. Layer with Flash Gitz Yellow
2. Shade with Athonian Camoshade
3. Repeat shade with Athonian Camoshade

Skulls

1. Base with Zandri Dust
2. Wash with Agrax Earthshade
3. Highlight with Ushabti Bone
4. Further highlight facial features with Screaming Skull

Shrink heads

Based on B&B (https://brushandboltgun.com/2017/10/18/death-guard-painting-techniques-part-2/)

1. Base skin with Rakarth Flesh , wounds with Mephiston Red , boils with Averland Sunset
2. Wash skin and boils with Seraphim Sepia , wounds with Carroburg Crimson
3. Brighten up skin with Rakarth Flesh
4. Paint the sewed up pieces Corvus Black or Leadbelcher

Plasma glow

There are two approaches to building a plasma gradient: i) from light to dark and ii) from dark to light. I chose i) as it conveys the idea of the coil cooling the more it is exposed to cold air. For this purpose, we start with a bright yellow close to the casing and center of the coil and work our way to darker colors to the middle/top of the coil.

1. Base plasma coil with Yriel Yellow
2. Dry brush larger oval area with Fire Dragon Bright
3. Dry brush slightly smaller oval area with Troll Slayer Orange
4. Over-dry brush with Troll Slayer Orange onto the casing for a small OSL effect.
5. Dry brush even smaller oval area with Mephiston Red

Cloth and capes

1. Base with Screamer Pink
2. Wash with Basilicanum Grey
3. Highlight with Screamer Pink

Daemon mouths

1. Based on a great tutorial from B&B (https://brushandboltgun.com/2017/10/15/death-guard-painting-techniques/)
2. Paint flesh as above with Kislev Flesh , inside of mouths with Mephiston Red
3. Wash flesh with 50% Guilliman Flesh Contrast Medium mix, wash mouth with Druchii Violet
4. Layer teeth with Rakarth Flesh
5. Wash teeth with Seraphim Sepia 2x, (one layer all over, the second to darken the base of the tooth)
6. Broad highlight of teeth with Rakarth Flesh
7. Treat tongues like tentacles above (see Base Armor) and fade from Guilliman Flesh to Magos Purple mix to the tip of the tongues.

Fly wings

1. Layer with Lothern Blue
2. Edge highlight top of wing with Baharroth Blue :
3. Edge highlight bottom of wing with Teclis Blue

Smoke

1. Base with Celestra Grey , wash with Nihilakh Oxide
2. Heavy drybrush with Ulthuan Grey , then manually strengthen some of the ridges. Highlight sharpest edges and tips with White

Basing

Marsian/red planet desert builds a good contrast against the models base colors and the brown elements tie the mini together. The steps below are based off of another great tutorial from Duncan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8hFQjwiUmQ).

1. Glue rocks onto base
2. Layer with Doombull Brown
3. Thinner initial layer with Martian Ironearth , then thicker layers where earth needs to break with thickest blobs of paint randomly on the base. Leave out rocks.
4. Wash with Reikland Fleshshade
5. Dry brush ground with Tuskgor Fur
6. Dry brush rocks and sharp objects with Karak Stone
7. Add grass and painted skulls (see above)

Horns

1. Base with Zandri Dust
2. Wash completely with Seraphim Sepia
3. Glaze outer 50% with Agrax Earthshade
4. Additionally, glaze outer 25% with Agrax Earthshade again