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Barons' War: Peasant Levy (1100-1350)

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    14 May 2025
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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

  1. Basecoat with Castellan Green .
  2. Take some Caliban Green and thin it with a little Lahmian Medium . use this paint toadd soft shading in the recesses.
  3. Pick out all of the edges with Loren Forest .
  4. Finish by selectively highlighting with Nurgling Green .

Tansy (Flowers) & Iron

  1. 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

  1. Basecoat with 4:1 Abaddon Black and Kantor Blue .
  2. Mix the base colour 1:1 with Administratum Grey , then highlight the cloth.
  3. Increase the amount of Administratum Grey to 1:2 within the mix and highlight more selectively.
  4. Finish with a few specular Grey Seer highlights.

Madder, Iron & Woad

  1. Basecoat with 1:1 Dark Reaper and Skavenblight Dinge .
  2. 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.
  3. Take your Dark Reaper and Skavenblight Dinge base colour and mix it 1:1 with Administratum Grey . Now pick out edges and folds.
  4. Increase the amount of Administratum Grey in the mix to roughly 1:2, then more selectively highlight.
  5. Finish with a few small highlights of pure Administratum Grey .

Woad (Urine Vat)

  1. Basecoat with Dark Reaper and Administratum Grey mixed 1:3.
  2. 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.
  3. Take your Dark Reaper and Administratum Grey base colour and mix it 1:1 with White . Now pick out edges and folds.
  4. Increase the amount of White in the mix to roughly 1:2, then more selectively highlight.
  5. 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

  1. Basecoat with Khorne Red .
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Mix your Wazdakka Red 1:1 with Karak Stone , then more selectively highlight.
  5. 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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Citadel Painting System 14
Base 6
  • Abaddon Black
  • Caliban Green
  • Castellan Green
  • Grey Seer
  • Kantor Blue
  • Khorne Red
Layer 7
  • Administratum Grey
  • Dark Reaper
  • Karak Stone
  • Loren Forest
  • Nurgling Green
  • Skavenblight Dinge
  • Wazdakka Red
Technical 1
  • Lahmian Medium
Vallejo Model Color
Base 1
  • 70.951 White
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