I painted these Deathmark miniatures for my Hierotek Circle Kill team, but this exact set of recipes can be used for painting the full Warhammer 40,000 unit. I hope you will find it useful.

Living Metal

1. Basecoat the model with Gunmetal Grey .
2. With an airbrush, spray an all over zenethal highlight of Duraluminum downwards at a 45 degree angle.
3. Spray White Aluminum almost straight downward, from the top of the model. Be selective only catching the very top, face and shoulders.
4. Now we do an oil wash on all of the Necron and the weapon coil. I poured out the amount odourless Artists' White Spirits I felt I needed for the wash and added paint to it, until I was happy with the consistency. I used 3 parts Ivory Black, with 1.5 parts Burnt Sienna and 1 part Cobalt Violet Hue, all from the Winton range of oil paints.
5. After giving the oil paint at least an hour to dry, wipe paint from the exposed areas and avoid recesses. I like to use makeup sponges or those little sponges on stick for applying makeup. If you want to remove the paint extra thoroughly in an area, add a very small amount of white odourless Artists' White Spirits to the sponge.
6. Selectively highlight exposed edges and places where the light would hit with Silver RLM01 Metallic .

Black Armour

1. Basecoat with Black .
2. Chunky highlights of Incubi Darkness .
3. Fine edge highlights of Sons of Horus Green .
4. Selective highlights of 1:1 Sons of Horus Green and Sybarite Green .
5. Add some White to the previous mix, and add specular highlights.

White Armour

1. Basecoat with a 1:1 mix of Grey Seer and White .
2. Glaze/shade with Grey Seer . Be quite generous with the area you shade.
3. Add additional shading with Dawnstone . Make this stage more selective.
4. In areas where you want a clear division, shade with very thin lines of Skavenblight Dinge .
5. Add edge highlights with White .

Light Green Energy

1. Basecoat with White .
2. Wash with Tesseract Glow .
3. Shade with thin Warpstone Glow .
4. Shade the deepest areas with Caliban Green .
5. Towards the centre, mix your Tesseract Glow with some White and lighten a small area, leaving space to get brighter.
6. Finish with a small amount of White in the very centre.

Dark Metal Barrel

1. Basecoat with a 1:1 mix of Leadbelcher and Abaddon Black .
2. Flood the recesses with a 1:1 mix of Waaagh! Flesh and Moot Green .
3. More precisely run some Moot Green into recesses.
4. Mix your Moot Green with Ice Yellow and run it into a small area, where the light would be coming from.
5. Repeat AGAIN, but even smaller and using Ice Yellow .
6. If you have a lot of area to play with, you might want to add a specular highlight of White .
7. Finish this detail by edge highlighting the metallic area with Silver RLM01 Metallic

Black Weapon Casing

1. Basecoat with Black .
2. Add chunky highlights of Dark Reaper .
3. Fine highlights withal mix of Dark Reaper and Administratum Grey .
4. Selectively highlight with Administratum Grey .

Green tubing

1. Basecoat with Caliban Green .
2. Glaze everything but the recessed parts with Warpstone Glow , pulling your brush towards where you are planning to build your highlights.
3. Apply highlights with 1:1 Warpstone Glow and Moot Green .
4. Selectively highlight with Moot Green .
5. Mix some Ice Yellow into your Moot Green and add very small highlights where needed.

These tubes draw quite a lot of attention, so don't be afraid to spend a little extra time on them. If at any point you are unhappy with the smoothness of a transition, just glaze it with the colour again or knock it back with a glaze of the previous colour. Many of the paint used here offer quite a lot of translucency, making them great for this.