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Blood Angels

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    18 Nov 2025
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Everything is shaded with tamyi panel liner or an oil/enemal wash of your choice(gold optionally so)

Prime With Vallejo Primers Black

Red Armor

  1. Basecoat Mephiston Red
  2. Soft Shade Khorne Red
  3. All-Over Highlight Evil Sunz Scarlet
  4. Selective Highlight Wild Rider Red
  5. Dot Highlight Fire Dragon Bright

Weapons Casing

  1. Basecoat Black
  2. All-Over Highlight Dark Reaper
  3. Selective-Dot Highlight Dawnstone

Functional Metal

  1. Basecoat Dark Silver
  2. Highlight Gunmetal Grey
  3. Selective-Dot Higglight Silver

Gold Details

  1. Basecoat Retributor Armour
  2. Shade 1-1 Guilliman Flesh and Lahmian Medium
  3. Rebuild Retributor Armour
  4. Highlight Liberator Gold
  5. Dot Highlight Silver :

Lenses

  1. Basecoat Warpstone Glow
  2. Soft Shade Caliban Green (if applicable)
  3. Highlight 1:1 Warpstone Glow and Moot Green
  4. Highlight Moot Green

Hilts and Handles

  1. Basecoat Word Bearers Red (reuild/ highlight after shading)

Gems

  1. Basecoat Khorne Red
  2. Highlight Wazdakka Red

Black

  1. Basecoat Black
  2. All-Over Highlight Dark Warm Grey or Eshin Grey
  3. Selective Highlight Mechanicus Standard Grey
  4. Dot Highlight Dawnstone

Purity Seals and Parchment

  1. Wax Seal Basecoat Screamer Pink
  2. Highlight Pink Horror
  3. Dot Highlight Emperor's Children
  4. Parchment Basecoat Pale Sand
  5. Soft Shade Desert Tan
  6. Highlight Off White
  7. Words Rhinox Hide

Leather

  1. Basecoat Thondia Brown
  2. Highlight Steel Legion Drab
  3. Dot Highlight Baneblade Brown

Heads

  1. Base Light Neutral Grey
  2. Skin Guilliman Flesh
  3. Shade Reikland Fleshshade
  4. Blonde Skeleton Horde
  5. Red Gore-grunta Fur
  6. Dirty Brown Garaghak's Sewer
  7. Dark Brown Cygor Brown
  8. Sleak Black Black Templar
  9. Black Black Legion
  10. Eyes White
  11. Pupils Black

Blue

  1. Basecoat Kantor Blue
  2. Shade Night Lords Blue
  3. Highlight Altdorf Guard Blue
  4. Highlight 1:1 Altdorf Guard Blue and Fenrisian Grey
  5. Dot Highlight Fenrisian Grey

Melta

  1. Basecoat Runelord Brass
  2. Soft Shade/Burn Effect Gore-grunta Fur
  3. Deep Shade/Burn Effect Wyldwood
  4. Rebuild Runelord Brass
  5. Highlight Canoptek Alloy

Power Swords and Plasma

  1. Basecoat Incubi Darkness
  2. Highlight Sotek Green
  3. Highlight Temple Guard Blue
  4. Dot Highlight Baharroth Blue
  5. Blend as needed and add Cold White White: as needed

Varnish with Vallejo Mecha Color Matt Varnish

Add Blood For The Blood God to chain swords as desired

Basing

  1. Apply texture paint (Vallejo Diorama FX Desert Sand)
  2. Add sand while the paint is wet for volume
  3. Apply a thinned amount of texture paint to help secure sand and give a fuller look
  4. Paint with same paints as purity seams with Desert tan as a base coat and highlight via dry brushing from there
  5. Glue on army painter battlefield rocks (Cork Bits) as desires (Leave unpainted or apply before painting if you desire to paint them)
  6. Apply Vallejo Wild Tuft - DRY (6 mm)
  7. Add pigment powder to feat of model after varnish else the pigment powder will turn liquid (Vallejo Pigment FX Desert Dust)
Citadel Painting System 44
Base 12
  • Caliban Green
  • Incubi Darkness
  • Kantor Blue
  • Khorne Red
  • Mechanicus Standard Grey
  • Mephiston Red
  • Night Lords Blue
  • Retributor Armour
  • Rhinox Hide
  • Screamer Pink
  • Steel Legion Drab
  • Thondia Brown
Shade 1
  • Reikland Fleshshade
Layer 21
  • Altdorf Guard Blue
  • Baharroth Blue
  • Baneblade Brown
  • Canoptek Alloy
  • Dark Reaper
  • Dawnstone
  • Emperor's Children
  • Eshin Grey
  • Evil Sunz Scarlet
  • Fenrisian Grey
  • Fire Dragon Bright
  • Liberator Gold
  • Moot Green
  • Pink Horror
  • Runelord Brass
  • Sotek Green
  • Temple Guard Blue
  • Warpstone Glow
  • Wazdakka Red
  • Wild Rider Red
  • Word Bearers Red
Technical 2
  • Blood For The Blood God
  • Lahmian Medium
Contrast 8
  • Black Legion
  • Black Templar
  • Cygor Brown
  • Garaghak's Sewer
  • Gore-grunta Fur
  • Guilliman Flesh
  • Skeleton Horde
  • Wyldwood
Monument Hobbies Pro Acryl 4
Base 2
  • 016 Dark Warm Grey
  • 045 Light Neutral Grey
Metallic 2
  • 025 Silver
  • 030 Dark Silver
Vallejo Model Color 7
Base 6
  • 70.765 Desert Tan
  • 70.820 Off White
  • 70.837 Pale Sand
  • 70.919 Cold White
  • 70.950 Black
  • 70.951 White
Metallic 1
  • 70.863 Gunmetal Grey
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