Dark Angels Airbrush

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    23 Nov 2024
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    23 Dec 2024
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  1. Prime Black Airbrush Molotow One4All

Green Armour

  1. Airbrush Base coat on 95% (leaving black in the recesses) Dark Green (takes about 3 passes to get good coverage, so do about 5 models at a time)
  2. Airbrush zenithal (top right) Highlight 60% Warpstone Glow
  3. Airbrush zenithal highlight 20% Moot Green
  4. Airbrush zenithal highlight 5% Eau De Nil Duck Egg Green

Bone Amor (Infantry)

  1. Airbrush Base coat on 95% (leaving black in the recesses) Zandri Dust (takes about 3 passes to get good coverage, so do about 5 models at a time)
  2. Airbrush zenithal (top right) Highlight 70% Ushabti Bone
  3. Airbrush zenithal highlight 20% Screaming Skull
  4. Airbrush zenithal highlight 5% liquitex white ink

Bone Armor (Vehicle)

  1. Airbrush Base coat on 95% (leaving black in the recesses) Zandri Dust (takes about 3 passes to get good coverage, so do about 5 models at a time)
  2. Airbrush along all top edges 20% Ushabti Bone , for all panel joins, select one side to be dark and one to be light, airbrushing the light half of the panel.

    Repeat with Screaming Skull but half the width.

For All Models

  1. Add decals, and base coat things you don’t mind getting chipped in the brighter color of the armor.
  2. Chip the brighter color of the armor. If Greenwing: Moot Green sponge chipping
  3. You can stop batch painting here without much loss of time.
    Add Rhinox Hide and then Dawnstone sponge chipping
  4. Color block everything with midtones Doombull Brown (leathers) Mephiston Red (weapons) Rakarth Flesh (parchment, eyes, glowing objects) Retributor Armour (decorative elements) Wazdakka Red (wax)

    If Greenwing: Gunmetal Metallic (weapons, buttons, head bits, backpack jets) Ushabti Bone (Aquila, bone bits) Celestra Grey (shoulder wings, tubes)

    If Deathwing: Bronze (Everything Metal, except weapons which will have some Gunmetal Metallic Warpstone Glow (Aquila, bone bits) Celestra Grey (tubes) Mephiston Red (shoulder wings)
  5. Add wear and tear: Tuskgor Fur (leather) Dawnstone (Weapons, Armor) Silver (Weapons, Armor)
  6. Add free hand to weapon
  7. Gloss Varnish 4:1
  8. If Greenwing:

    Oil wash with Abteilung 502 Smoke and spirits. Wait 15 minutes and wipe away light exposed sections (be careful with black in cracks). Play with it.

    If Deathwing:

    Oil wash with Streaking Grime by AK interactive.
  9. Basing:
    Add cork pieces, cork board, and a skull once in a while.
    Paint thick layers of cracking paint like Martian Ironcrust in some flat places
    Paint textured paint everywhere else that isnt a pretending to be a lone rock or skull
    Base coat with Doombull Brown
    Add splotches of Reikland Fleshshade to create color variation
    Add recess shading with Agrax Earthshade
    Dry brush heavy with Tuskgor Fur
    Dry brush lightly with Ushabti Bone
    Paint skulls Ushabti Bone
    Shade skulls with Seraphim Sepia
    Highlight skulls with Screaming Skull
    Add dead tufts
  10. Add touches of Aluminum Metallic highlights to green armor to create information where needed
  11. Fix model to base and then add rust pigment to base sparingly to create some color variation, dirty the bushes, skull and boots of the model, paint rim Abaddon Black
  12. Paint eyes Rakarth Flesh making sure to leave dark contour.
    Highlight middle of eye with Corax White .
    Cover eye and a bit past below (not above) with Orange Fluorescent
  13. Swear your oath of moment and then
    Highlight purity wax with Screamer Pink , wash with Druchii Violet .
    Use a Pigma Micron 1 to write script on the parchment.
    Highlight parchment with Pallid Wych Flesh
  14. Paint AK Ultra Matte varnish onto anything shiny
Citadel Painting System 23
Base 9
  • Abaddon Black
  • Celestra Grey
  • Corax White
  • Mephiston Red
  • Rakarth Flesh
  • Retributor Armour
  • Rhinox Hide
  • Screamer Pink
  • Zandri Dust
Shade 4
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Druchii Violet
  • Reikland Fleshshade
  • Seraphim Sepia
Layer 9
  • Dawnstone
  • Doombull Brown
  • Moot Green
  • Pallid Wych Flesh
  • Screaming Skull
  • Tuskgor Fur
  • Ushabti Bone
  • Warpstone Glow
  • Wazdakka Red
Texture 1
  • Martian Ironcrust
Vallejo Game Color
Base 1
  • 72.028 Dark Green
Vallejo Model Air
Base 3
  • 71.009 Eau De Nil Duck Egg Green
  • 71.062 Aluminum Metallic
  • 71.072 Gunmetal Metallic
Vallejo Model Color 3
Metallic 2
  • 70.997 Silver
  • 70.998 Bronze
Fluorescent 1
  • 70.733 Orange Fluorescent
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