For the cloth, I lifted/adapted a bunch of paint recipes from Eavy-Archive.com and tried my best to match them to a list of medieval dyes. I found the PDF linked from Andy Hobday's excellent "Painting the Past: Uniforms in the High Medieval Period" post on his site, if you wanted to see the original images.
My aim is to post a recipe for every colour mentioned in the PDF, eventually. This guide is an ongoing project, so if there is just a name listed below, I haven't got to it yet.
Elderberry (Leaves) & Iron
- Basecoat with Castellan Green .
- Take some Caliban Green and thin it with a little Lahmian Medium . use this paint toadd soft shading in the recesses.
- Pick out all of the edges with Loren Forest .
- Finish by selectively highlighting with Nurgling Green .
Tansy (Flowers) & Iron
- Basecoat: Doombull
Soft Shade: Khorne Red
Shade: Khorne Red / Black 1:1
Highlight: Doombull / Zamesi 1:1
Highlight: Zamesi
Highlight: (if needed) Zamesi / White 1:1
Tansy (Leaves)
Broom & Iron
Tansy (Young Leaves)
Elderberry (Unripe Berries)
Weld & Iron
Woad & Weld
Gallnuts & Iron
- Basecoat with 4:1 Abaddon Black and Kantor Blue .
- Mix the base colour 1:1 with Administratum Grey , then highlight the cloth.
- Increase the amount of Administratum Grey to 1:2 within the mix and highlight more selectively.
- Finish with a few specular Grey Seer highlights.
Madder, Iron & Woad
- Basecoat with 1:1 Dark Reaper and Skavenblight Dinge .
- With a 1:1 mix of Dark Reaper and Abaddon Black , shade the recesses of the cloth. I like to thin this paint with Lahmian Medium to soften the shading, then do a second pass for particularly deep parts.
- Take your Dark Reaper and Skavenblight Dinge base colour and mix it 1:1 with Administratum Grey . Now pick out edges and folds.
- Increase the amount of Administratum Grey in the mix to roughly 1:2, then more selectively highlight.
- Finish with a few small highlights of pure Administratum Grey .
Woad (Urine Vat)
- Basecoat with Dark Reaper and Administratum Grey mixed 1:3.
- Shade the recesses of the cloth with Dark Reaper . I like to thin this paint with Lahmian Medium to soften the shading, then do a second pass for particularly deep parts.
- Take your Dark Reaper and Administratum Grey base colour and mix it 1:1 with White . Now pick out edges and folds.
- Increase the amount of White in the mix to roughly 1:2, then more selectively highlight.
- Finish with a few small highlights of pure White .
Woad
Gallnuts
Wallnuts (Green Husks)
Wallnuts (Green Husks)
Wallnuts (Green Husks)
Buckthorn (Bark) & Alkali
Oak (Bark)
Buckthorn (Bark)
Madder & Iron
Madder
Madder, Apples & Alkali
Madder & Copper
Madder (Fermented)
Madder & Apples
Madder, Iron & Woad
- Basecoat with Khorne Red .
- With a 1:1 mix of Khorne Red and Abaddon Black , shade the recesses of the cloth. I like to thin this paint with Lahmian Medium to soften the shading, then do a second pass for particularly deep parts.
- With Wazdakka Red pick out all edges, corners and folds. You may even want to add a few scrathes on open areas, to add a little visual interest.
- Mix your Wazdakka Red 1:1 with Karak Stone , then more selectively highlight.
- Finish with a few small highlights of pure Karak Stone .
Weld
Celandine & Copper
Alder (Pines)
Tansy (Flowers)
Lady's Bedstraw (Flowerrs)
Broom
Gorse
Yarrow
Broom & Alkali
Madder, Iron & Alkali
Madder & Wood
Madder, Apples, Iron & Alkali
Oregano (Flowers), Malt & Apple (Leaves)
Madder & Alkali
Tormentil (Rhizomes) Fermented
Madder & Alkali
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