Carnevale: Vagaan Dru

Carnevale: Vagaan Dru

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    30 Aug 2026
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Black Skin

  1. Basecoat with 3:1 Gorthor Brown and Wild Rider Red .
  2. Add general shading with Doombull Brown .
  3. More carefully shade deep recesses with 1:1 Doombull Brown and Abaddon Black .
  4. Add some highlights with 2:1 mix of the basecoat and Ushabti Bone .
  5. Highlight more selectively. For this, increase the amount of Ushabti Bone in the mix, so there is more of it than the base colour. Roughly 1:2 now.
  6. Finish with a few very small highlights with pure Ushabti Bone .

For the scars, I applied thin lines of Kislev Flesh and then added a few dots of Pallid Wych Flesh for texture.

Grey Dreadlocks

  1. Basecoat with Corvus Black .
  2. Pick out the strands with a highlight of 1:1 Corvus Black and Dawnstone .
  3. Stipple highlights of Dawnstone down the length of the strands, going heavier where the light would hit more.
  4. Repeat using Administratum Grey , but highlight a smaller area within the :heavier" patches from earlier.

Green Cape

  1. Basecoat with Castellan Green .
  2. Shade with a thin 1:1 mix of Castellan Green and Abaddon Black .
  3. Apply generous highlights of Straken Green in scrathy lines on all exposed areas. I did a couple of passes of this to build up taxture and changed the direction of my lines to make it look natural.
  4. With a 2:1 mix of Straken Green and Screaming Skull repeat, but cover a slightly smaller area. This stage is a good opportunity to get a crispy edge highlight along hard edges too.
  5. Increase the amount of Screaming Skull in the mix, so it is now roughly 1:2 Straken Green and Screaming Skull . use this coulour to highlight even more selectively, plus apply a few smaller edge highlights of point and curves.
  6. Finish with very small/specular highlight with pure Screaming Skull .

Black Leather

  1. Basecoat with Black .
  2. Highlight with Dark Reaper .
  3. Highlight more selectively with a 2:1 mix of Dark Reaper and Deepkin Flesh .
  4. Increase the amount of Deepkin Flesh in the mix, so it is now roughly 1:2 Dark Reaper and Deepkin Flesh . Apply selevtige highlights.
  5. Finish with a few specular highlights of Deepkin Flesh where needed.

Grey Cloth

  1. Basecoat with Skavenblight Dinge .
  2. Shade recesses with Nuln Oil . I would receommend applying selectively, rather than an all over wash.
  3. Highlight with Stormvermin Fur .
  4. Gradually mix Ivory into your Stormvermin Fur and highlight the cloth. Do this in multiple passes until you are finishing them with specular highlights of almost pure Ivory .

Arm Wraps

  1. Basecoat with Steel Legion Drab .
  2. Highlight with Karak Stone .
  3. Add fine highlights of 1:1 Karak Stone and White .
  4. Finish with specular White highlights.

Dark Brown Leather

  1. Basecoat with Rhinox Hide .
  2. Shade the recesses with some thin Abaddon Black .
  3. Add chunky highlights of Doombull Brown .
  4. Add fine highlights of Mournfang Brown .
  5. Selectively highlight with XV-88 .
  6. Mix some White into the XV-88 and finish with specular highlights.

Wood Handles

  1. Basecoat with 1:1 Dryad Bark & Mournfang Brown .
  2. Run some thin Dryad Bark into deep recesses.
  3. Apply chunky highlights with a 1:1 mix of the base colour & Karak Stone .
  4. Now apply fine highlights with Karak Stone .
  5. Finish with selective highlights of 1:1 Karak Stone & Wraithbone .

Stakes

  1. Basecoat with Mournfang Brown .
  2. Run some thin 1:1 Agrax Earthshade and Rhinox Hide into deep recesses.
  3. Apply chunky highlights with XV-88 .
  4. Now apply fine highlights with Balor Brown .
  5. Finish with selective highlights of Screaming Skull .

Pink/Purple Flame

  1. Basecoat with Genestealer Purple .
  2. Mix some Emperor's Children into the Genestealer Purple and start running it into recesses, pulling the pigment towards the blade. Repeat as necessary until you are coverrring a smaller area close to the blade with pure Emperor's Children .
  3. Mix 1:1 Emperor's Children and white and run a small amount into recesses closest to the source of the flame.
  4. Finish with small/specular highlights of White where it is almost touching ther blade.
  5. Overbrush with Xereus Purple , pulling your brush towards the tip of the flames. Glaze with this colour as you move away from the "heat" too.
  6. Repeat the above step, but use Naggaroth Night and cover a smaller area.
  7. Mix some Black into the naggaroth night and pick of the very tips of long toungues of flame.
  8. Now mix a litt;e White into the above paint, untill you have an interesting light grey. Then add a dot to the very tips.

My flames looked a little bland at this point, so I added glazes of Magenta Fluorescent in recesses at the mid-point and Doomfire Magenta closer to the tip.

Steel

  1. Basecoat with Leadbelcher .
  2. Wash with Nuln Oil . Adding glazes of Agrax Earthshade towards deep recesses, and where more interest is needed.
  3. Highlight with mix some Silver RLM01 Metallic into the Leadbelcher and highlight.
  4. Finish with some small Silver RLM01 Metallic highlights.

Gold

  1. Basecoat with Retributor Armour .
  2. Shade with glazes of Reikland Fleshshade . Enchance with small amount of Doombull Brown , where needed.
  3. Gradually mix Silver RLM01 Metallic into your Retributor Armour and highlight.
  4. Finish with specular Silver RLM01 Metallic highlights.

Cobblestone Base

  1. Basecoat with Dawnstone .
  2. Drybrush heaving with Administratum Grey .
  3. Glaze/wash with Agrax Earthshade .
  4. Lightly drybrush with 1:1 Karak Stone & White .
  5. Finish with small White highlights.

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Citadel Painting System 35
Base 12
  • Abaddon Black
  • Castellan Green
  • Corvus Black
  • Dryad Bark
  • Leadbelcher
  • Mournfang Brown
  • Naggaroth Night
  • Retributor Armour
  • Rhinox Hide
  • Steel Legion Drab
  • Wraithbone
  • XV-88
Shade 3
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Nuln Oil
  • Reikland Fleshshade
Layer 19
  • Administratum Grey
  • Balor Brown
  • Dark Reaper
  • Dawnstone
  • Deepkin Flesh
  • Doombull Brown
  • Emperor's Children
  • Genestealer Purple
  • Gorthor Brown
  • Karak Stone
  • Kislev Flesh
  • Pallid Wych Flesh
  • Screaming Skull
  • Skavenblight Dinge
  • Stormvermin Fur
  • Straken Green
  • Ushabti Bone
  • Wild Rider Red
  • Xereus Purple
Contrast 1
  • Doomfire Magenta
Vallejo Model Air
Base 1
  • 71.063 Silver RLM01 Metallic
Vallejo Model Color 4
Base 3
  • 70.918 Ivory
  • 70.950 Black
  • 70.951 White
Fluorescent 1
  • 70.735 Magenta Fluorescent
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