Regal Emperor's Children

Regal Emperor's Children

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    13 Jul 2026
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Heresy era inspired EC

Airbrush Base Coat

* Full coat of Warlock Magenta over black primer
* 45° highlight coat of Spellbound Fuchia
* 90° zenithal of Enchanted Pink

Detail Base Coat

  1. Black Templar on under suit regions, hooves, foot bottoms, and ribbed tubes
  2. Trooper White for shoulder pads, noise marine weapon heads and bodies
  3. Mournfang Brown leather straps, holsters, and pouches
  4. Ghoul Green for tassles, loin cloths, eye lenses, whammy bar handle
  5. Wyvern Green smooth tubing, belt hanging cords

Vials of Drugs

  1. Wyvern Green for base coat on vials
  2. Orc Hide for vial liquid
  3. Leafy Green for highlight and bubbles in vial liquid, with central dots of Orc Hide in the bubbles
  4. Matt Black above liquid line but not covering whole vial
  5. Mecha Gloss Varnish on vials to add shine

Metallics Base Coat

  1. Iron Warriors for non gold metals like some body elements of noise marine weapons, ports on armor, studs
  2. Retributor Armour chaos trim be like

Glow

  1. Paint grilles with Retributor Armour
  2. Base Coat intended glowing areas with the inks by AK immaculate white
  3. Do several 2-3 thin coats of Data System Glow over the ink

Highlights

  1. Highlight sharp armor edges with Enchanted Pink
  2. Highlight smooth tubing with Orc Hide
  3. Bright highlight on tubing with Leafy Green
  4. Highlight cloth, tassles, and eye lenses with Forest Faun
  5. Sharp eye lens highlights with Bold Titanium White
  6. Bold Titanium White highlights on sonic blaster bodies; shoulder pads
  7. Dust Bowl highlights on leather

Shading

  1. 1:3 Warp Lightning to Warpaints Stabilizer for recess shading on head of sonic blaster
  2. 1:1 Druchii Violet to Warpaints Stabilizer shade across all of the model other than sonic blaster head

Gemstones

  1. Gemstones based with Death Reaper
  2. Wyvern Green blob in lower 2/3rds of gemstones
  3. Jade Green smaller blob within the Wyvern Green blob
  4. Bold Titanium White pinpoint highlights in previous areas and top 3rd
  5. Full coat of Warp Lightning over gemstones

Marble Bases

  1. Wet sand base top smooth (240, 320, 400, 800 grit in that order)
  2. Prime with Black
  3. Add some splotches of Death Reaper
  4. Smaller portions of Gal Vorbak Red in the previous spots
  5. Even smaller spots of Warlock Magenta
  6. Fulgrim Pink for brightest parts
  7. Stretch out a wet wipe until it looks like picture. These can be fragile so take it slow until it has this webbing look
  8. 1:1 mixture of Fulgrim Pink and Bold Titanium White for top coat
  9. Etch some tile lines with etching tool
  10. Paint base rim in Matt Black
  11. Finish with gloss varnish for shine
  12. Paint etched lines with Retributor Armour
  13. Paint any tactical rocks as if they were pieces of the marble (mainly Fulgrim Pink and Bold Titanium White mix, with veins of Gal Vorbak Red , Death Reaper , Warlock Magenta as desired.

Starred by andypearson

Citadel Painting System 8
Base 4
  • Gal Vorbak Red
  • Iron Warriors
  • Mournfang Brown
  • Retributor Armour
Shade 1
  • Druchii Violet
Layer 1
  • Fulgrim Pink
Contrast 2
  • Black Templar
  • Warp Lightning
Monument Hobbies Pro Acryl
Base 1
  • 001 Bold Titanium White
The Army Painter Warpaints Fanatic 8
Acrylic 6
  • Enchanted Pink
  • Forest Faun
  • Leafy Green
  • Matt Black
  • Spellbound Fuchia
  • Warlock Magenta
Effect 2
  • Data System Glow
  • Warpaints Stabilizer
Two Thin Coats 7
Shade 3
  • Dust Bowl
  • Orc Hide
  • Wyvern Green
Midtone 2
  • Death Reaper
  • Jade Green
Highlight 2
  • Ghoul Green
  • Trooper White
Vallejo Mecha Color
Base 1
  • 69.701 Mecha Gloss Varnish
Vallejo Surface Primer
Base 1
  • 70.602 Black
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