Armour
- Basecoat with Exhaust Manifold .
- Glaze in shading with Gryph-charger Grey .
Red Cloth/Shield
- Basecoat with 1:1 Mephiston Red and Evil Sunz Scarlet .
- Glaze shading with Khorne Red , with a llittle Abaddon Black mixed in. Feel free to increase the amount of Abaddon Black in the mix and do a second pass, covering a smaller area. This is a good colour to pick out the sculpted scratches too.
- Apply chunky highlights of Evil Sunz Scarlet .
- Add fine highlights of Troll Slayer Orange .
- Selectively highlight with Tau Light Ochre .
- Finish with a few specular highlights of Tau Light Ochre and White .
Cream Shield
- Basecoat with Screaming Skull .
- Glaze shading in with 1:1 XV-88 and Screaming Skull .
- Enhance the shading with selective glazes of XV-88 . This is a good colour to pick out scratches on the section that is still pure Screaming Skull too.
- Pick out deep scratches on the shades section with 1:1 Mournfang Brown and Rhinox Hide .
- Highlight with 1:1 Screaming Skull and White .
- Finish with a few small highlights of White .
Gambeson
- Basecoat with Karak Stone .
- Add general shading with some thinned Steel Legion Drab .
- Shade deep recesses with thin lines of Rhinox Hide .
- Highlight with 1:1 Karak Stone and White .
- Finish with a few very small/specular highlights of White .
Skin
- Basecoat with a 1:1 mix of Kislev Flesh and Cadian Fleshtone .
- Mix some Doombull Brown into the basecoat and glaze in some shading.
- Increase the amount of Doombull Brown in the mix and shade the deepest recesses.
- Mix some White into the base colour and highlight the skin.
- Increase the amount of White in the mix for further highlights, pushing them as far as you need.
Wood
- Basecoat with 1:1 Dryad Bark & Mournfang Brown .
- Run some thin Dryad Bark into deep recesses.
- Apply chunky highlights with a 1:1 mix of the base colour & Karak Stone .
- Now apply fine highlights with Karak Stone .
- Finish with selective highlights of 1:1 Karak Stone & Wraithbone .
For the cloth wrapped near the head, I picked them out with an overbrush of Steel Legion Drab , then more selectively with Ushabti Bone , mixing in a little White for the highlights.
Leather Straps
- Basecoat with Rhinox Hide .
- Highlight with Doombull Brown .
- Selectively highlight with XV-88 .
- Finish with specular Ushabti Bone highlights.
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