How to paint the entire 'Brutally Devious Shadow Mania' team for Rumbleslam. I stuck pretty close to the box art for this one.

Purple Smoke

1. First I primed with Colour Forge Matt Black . then basecoat with a thin layer of Black to ensure a uniform colour.
2. Drybrush the smoke with Naggaroth Night , stopping short of the tips of the smoke tendrils.
3. Drybrush the same area, but lighter, using Genestealer Purple . The aim is to just hit the edges.
4. Selectively highlight edges with 2:1 Genestealer Purple and White .
5. Enhance the previous steps highlights with a smaller amount of 1:2 Genestealer Purple and White .

Ethereal Skin, Hair and Smoke

1. If the Black basecoat needs tidying up, do this now, bit hopefully you have managed to avoid it.
2. Drybrush the skin, hair and the tips of the smoke using Stegadon Scale Green
3. Now drybrush the same area, but a little lighter, using Sotek Green .
4. Highlight with 2:1 Sotek Green and Ice Yellow . In areas that you want to be brighter, consider making them chunkier or glazing in the highlights.
5. Highlight more selectively with 1:2 Sotek Green and Ice Yellow .
6. Now apply very small/specular highlights of pure Ice Yellow .
7. Place a few specular highlights of White , where needed. I kept these to the points, the brightest point of the face and the hood.

Dark Elf Skin

1. Basecoat with an equal parts mix of Daemonette Hide , Rakarth Flesh , Kislev Flesh and White .
2. Soft shade recesses with Bugman's Glow .
3. Enhance recesses with Dryad Bark where needed.
4. Mix your base colour 2:1 with White , then add some highlights to the skin.
5. Increase the amount of White to 2:1, then highlight more selectively.
6. Finish with a few specular highlights of pure White in areas that need it. I would recommend concentrating these highlights around the face, finger tips and areas that really need it.

Pale Dark Elf Skin

1. Basecoat with an equal parts mix of Rakarth Flesh , Ushabti Bone and White .
2. Soft shade recesses with Rakarth Flesh .
3. Enhance recesses with Baneblade Brown .
4. Where more division is needed, considerer ANOTHER recess shade using 1:1 Gorthor Brown and Dryad Bark .
5. Mix your base colour 2:1 with White , then add some highlights to the skin.
6. Increase the amount of White to 2:1, then highlight more selectively.
7. Finish with a few specular highlights of pure White in areas that need it. I would recommend concentrating these highlights around the face, finger tips and areas that really need it.

Black Leather

1. Basecoat with Black .
2. Apply chunky highlights and glazes with Stegadon Scale Green .
3. Now highlight again, with Thunderhawk Blue .
4. Selectively highlight with Fenrisian Grey .
5. Finish with very small/specular highlights of Blue Horror . In select places, a specular highlight of White works well too, but don't do it all over.

White Trim

1. Basecoat with a 1:1 mix of Celestra Grey and White .
2. If needed, shade with some thin Administratum Grey .
3. Enhance the shading with Dawnstone in very select places.
4. Highlight with White .

Purple Cloth

1. Basecoat with a 1:1 mix of Naggaroth Night and Screamer Pink .
2. Shade with thinned Abaddon Black where needed.
3. AppApply chunky highlights and glazes with pure Screamer Pink .
4. Highlight with 2:1 Screamer Pink and Ushabti Bone .
5. Highlight more selectively with 1:2 Screamer Pink and Ushabti Bone .
6. Finish with specular highlights using Screaming Skull .

Purple Hair

1. Basecoat with 1:1 Naggaroth Night and Screamer Pink .
2. Wash with very thin Abaddon Black .
3. Overbrush with Screamer Pink .
4. Pick out curves with 2:1 Screamer Pink and Ushabti Bone .
5. More selectively highlight curves with 1:2 Screamer Pink and Ushabti Bone .
6. Finish with specular highlights of Screaming Skull where the light would catch.

Green Hair

1. Basecoat with Stegadon Scale Green .
2. Overbrush with Sotek Green .
3. Pick out curves with 2:1 Sotek Green and Ushabti Bone .
4. More selectively highlight curves with 1:2 Sotek Green and Ushabti Bone .
5. Finish with specular highlights of Screaming Skull where the light would catch.

Steel

1. Basecoat with Leadbelcher .
2. Wash with Nuln Oil .
3. If you washed the metals all over, you may want to highlight at this point, to bring back some brightness. For this I just added a little Silver RLM01 Metallic . to my Leadbelcher .
4. Pick out highlights with Silver RLM01 Metallic .

Gold

1. Basecoat with Retributor Armour /.
2. Wash with Agrax Earthshade .
3. Mix a little Silver RLM01 Metallic into your Retributor Armour and highlight.
4. Finish with a few pure Silver RLM01 Metallic specular highlights.

Blue Skin

1. Basecoat with Russ Grey .
2. Soft shade with 2:1 Russ Grey and Abaddon Black .
3. Enhance the shading with 1:2 Russ Grey and Abaddon Black .
4. Glaze highlight with 2:1 Russ Grey and Ushabti Bone .
5. Add fine hihlights of :1:2 Russ Grey and Ushabti Bone ..
6. Finish with very small/specular highlights of Flayed One Flesh .

Dark Blue Scales

1. Basecoat with Night Lords Blue .
2. Shade recesses with thin lines of Abaddon Black .
3. Add chunky highlights with 2:1 Night Lords Blue and Ushabti Bone .
4. Add fine highlights with 1:2 Night Lords Blue and Ushabti Bone .
5. Finish with very small/specular highlights of Screaming Skull .

Wing Membranes

1. Basecoat with Screamer Pink .
2. Shade the recess where the membrane meets the blue shin with thin Naggaroth Night .
3. With a 1:1 mix of Screamer Pink and Pink Horror cover most of the skin with a thick glaze. Pulling paint towards the centre, covering most of the basecoat.
4. With a 1:1 mix of Pink Horror and Kislev Flesh , pick out lines running down the membrane.
5. With pure Kislev Flesh paint thinner lines within the last stage, getting a little thicker where the light would hit and on the ragged bits of skin.
6. Finish with very small Flayed One Flesh highlights.

Getting this skin to look natural on the first attempt can be tricky. If you are unsatisfied at any point, consider thinning a previous colour, glaze the skin down, then re-highlight.

Black Claws

1. Basecoat with Black .
2. Edge highlight with :Citadel/StormverminFur.
3. Mix your Stormvermin Fur 1:1 with Ushabti Bone and highlight towards the tip.
4. Finish with a specular Screaming Skull highlight on the tip.

Purple Skin

1. Basecoat with 3:1 Warpfiend Grey and Genestealer Purple .
2. Shade recesses using Druchii Violet . Rather than doing an all over wash, use a thin brush and run it into recesses, or shade via glazing.
3. Apply general highlights with Warpfiend Grey . This is very similar to the basecoat, so be quite generous.
4. Apply fine highlights with Slaanesh Grey .
5. Mix your Slaanesh Grey 1:1 with White . use this mix to selectively highlight corners and curves.
6. Finish with specular White highlights, where appropriate.

Fleshy Tentacles

1. Basecoat with Screamer Pink .
2. Wash the tentacle with Druchii Violet . Don't let it pool too much.
3. With a 1:1 mix of Screamer Pink and Pink Horror Horror cover most of the flesh with a thick glaze. Pulling paint towards the centre always. Paint everything just outside of recesses where the dried shade has dried.
4. Paint a smaller area with pure Pink Horror . Use the same technique as above to ensure a smooth transition. This time go over around two thirds of the area, painting higher to simulate where light would hit and adding the illusion of depth below.
5. With a 1:1 mix of Pink Horror and Kislev Flesh flesh paint an even smaller area, pulling even closer to the centre and higher.
6. With pure Kislev Flesh paint a very small area. For some tentacles I add this highlight as multiple small lines to add texture.
7. Optionally, add dot highlights of Flayed One Flesh to the points of tentacles and the centre of the previous steps highlights.