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Helsmiths

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    27 Sep 2025
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Adapted from Warhipster's recipe

  1. Prime Grey Seer
  2. Cloth Phoenician Purple
  3. Black cloth Black Legion
  4. Dark Metal Castellax Bronze
  5. Dark metal tint - 2:1 Cygor Brown / Lahmian Medium
  6. Silver Metal Leadbelcher
  7. Gold details Retributor Armour
  8. Flesh Agrax Earthshade
  9. Hilts / Hafts / Shafts Sigvald Burgundy

Shades

  1. Silver and Black Cloth Targor Rageshade
  2. Shade silver on weapons and black shirts Nuln Oil
  3. Flesh Reikland Fleshshade
  4. Gold Guilliman Flesh

Highlights

  1. Purple Cloth Genestealer Purple
  2. All black details Dawnstone
  3. Eyes Evil Sunz Scarlet
  4. Flesh Flayed One Flesh
  5. Tusks :Screaming Skull
  6. "Grenades" Karandras Green
  7. Silver metals Ironbreaker
  8. Dark brown armor Runelord Brass
  9. Gold - raised areas and highlights Liberator Gold
  10. Raised gold areas redone with Liberator Gold Canoptek Alloy
  11. Orby Weapon things - Recess Bold Titanium White and then Tesseract Glow when dry
  12. Gems Blood Angels Red

Hobgrots

  1. Follow established colors for other elements (metals, leather, etc)
  2. Flesh 2:1:1 Nazdreg Yellow | Snakebite Leather | Lahmian Medium
Citadel Painting System 27
Base 5
  • Grey Seer
  • Leadbelcher
  • Phoenician Purple
  • Retributor Armour
  • Runelord Brass
Shade 4
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Nuln Oil
  • Reikland Fleshshade
  • Targor Rageshade
Layer 8
  • Canoptek Alloy
  • Castellax Bronze
  • Dawnstone
  • Evil Sunz Scarlet
  • Flayed One Flesh
  • Genestealer Purple
  • Ironbreaker
  • Liberator Gold
Technical 2
  • Lahmian Medium
  • Tesseract Glow
Contrast 8
  • Black Legion
  • Blood Angels Red
  • Cygor Brown
  • Guilliman Flesh
  • Karandras Green
  • Nazdreg Yellow
  • Sigvald Burgundy
  • Snakebite Leather
Monument Hobbies Pro Acryl
Base 1
  • 001 Bold Titanium White
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