Painting Notes

Badly overdue. I pulled a Paul Murphy.

Grey Power Armor

• Base: Mechanicum Standard Grey 
• Layer: Dawnstone 
• Highlight: Administratum Grey 
• Corner highlight: Ulthalan Grey
  

Grey Power Armor, Air variation

• Vallejo Air 71.052 Anthracite
• AK Air AK11885 Aggressor
• Vallejo Air 71.050 Light Grey

Blue Power Armor (Pauldrons)

• Base: Kantor Blue
• Recess Wash: Agrax
• Layer: None
• Highlight: Hoeth Blue

Aquilla

• Base: Averland Sunset
• Highlight: Yriel Yellow
• Wash Agrax Gloss

Bolter Metallics

• Base: Leadbelcher
• Wash: Nuln Oil
• Highlight: Necron Compound

Blue-Black (Bolter Casings etc)

• Base: Abaddon Black
• Highlight: Dark Reaper
• Corner Highlight: Thunderhawk Blue

Purity Seal Parchment

• Base: Baneblade Brown
• Layer: Karak Stone
• Wash: Agrax
• Dry: Terminatus Stone

Squad Marking / Chapter Insignia Trim (Center is chapter colors)

• Rakarth Flesh
• Abaddon Black (recessed areas)
• Agrax Earthshade
• Screaming Skull
• Praexti White OR Highlight: Ulthuan Grey

6th company Pauldron Rim/Knee Upper Plate

• Castellax Bronze
• Highlight Canoptek Alloy

Tabards

• Zandri Dust
• Agrax
• Karak Stone
• Thar Brown (Scale75)
• Mojave White (Scale75) edge highlight

Pouches

• Base: Thonida Brown (was Dryad Bark)
• Highlight: Gothor Brown
• Wash: Agrax Gloss

Skin

• Bugman's Glow
• Kislev Flesh
• Rakarth Flesh
• Reikland Fleshshade

Skulls

• Rakarth Flesh
• Screaming Skull
• Highlight: Ulthuan Grey

Accent Reds (Aggressor weapon feed, purity seal wax)

• Mephiston Red
• Evil Sunz Scarlet
• Agrax

Accent Copper

• Retributor Armor
• Nuln Oil
• Sigmarite or Necron Compound

Accent Dull Gold

• Decayed Metal
• Viking Gold
• Wash Reikland Fleshshade
• Re-Highlight Viking Gold

Cloaks

• VMC Dark Red
• Mephiston Red
• Carroburg Crimson
• Evil Sunz Scarlet

Plasma Coils & Power Weapons

• Incubi Darkness
• Warpstone Glow
• Moot Green
• Ceramite White
• No wash

Ruins

•  Prime with Zandri Dust spray. Drybrush with Ushabti Bone. Wash with Agrax Earthshade. Light drybrush with Screaming Skull.

Hard Soil Bases

• Rhinox Hide
• Doombull Brown
• Baneblade Brown
• Karak Stone or Terminatus Stone if you're feeling saucy

Asphalt/Concrete

• Base: Corvus Black
• Drybrush: Stormvermin Fur
• Dry: Baneblade Brown
• Spot wash with Nuln Oil, Agrax, Coelia Greenshade

Apothecary White

• Prime white
• 71.338 Russian AF Grey base spray
• 71.119 White Grey midtone spray

Finishing Touches

1. Gloss Varnish
2. Transfers
3. Chipping
4. Re-seal Gloss
5. Oil wash
6. Matte Varnish (Vallejo Mecha Ultra Matte)