Plague Marines

Plague Marines

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    18 May 2026
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Base Coats

  1. Prime with Chaos Black
  2. Base armor with Death Guard Green , I used an air brush for this step.
  3. Base trim and details with Balthasar Gold
  4. Base flesh with Rakarth Flesh
  5. Base weapons and other details with Leadbelcher
  6. Base clothes and robes with Phoenician Purple
  7. Base maggots, bone, and horns with Ushabti Bone
  8. Base gun cases and blade handles with Abaddon Black
  9. Base boils with Averland Sunset
  10. Base glowing areas (eyes, plasma, ect.) with White Scar

  11. Base tentacles and tongues with Screamer Pink
  12. Base wood with Steel Legion Drab

Contrast and Dry Brushing

  1. Paint Agrax Earthshade over Phoenician Purple , Balthasar Gold , Leadbelcher , Death Guard Green , and Abaddon Black
  2. Paint Typhus Corrosion over select Leadbelcher areas, then dry brush Ryza Rust after it has dried to make a rust effect
  3. Paint Iyanden Yellow over boils and maggots ( Averland Sunset and Ushabti Bone )
  4. Paint Skeleton Horde over skulls and bones ( Ushabti Bone )
  5. Paint Seraphim Sepia over horns ( Ushabti Bone )
  6. Paint Luxion Purple over glowing lens', plasma, and other glowing parts ( White Scar )
  7. Paint Guilliman Flesh , then before it dries, paint Magos Purple , and Volupus Pink the same over Rakarth Flesh
  8. Paint Nihilakh Oxide over Balthasar Gold

Basing

  1. Paint base Dryad Bark
  2. Use Stirland Battlemire to cover the ground, making small areas to add a puddle
  3. Dry brush Tyrant Skull over the Stirland Battlemire
  4. Add Nurgles Rot (at this time, paint slime on the model with Nurgles Rot as well)
  5. Paint the base trim with Steel Legion Drab
Citadel Painting System 27
Base 10
  • Abaddon Black
  • Averland Sunset
  • Balthasar Gold
  • Death Guard Green
  • Dryad Bark
  • Leadbelcher
  • Phoenician Purple
  • Rakarth Flesh
  • Screamer Pink
  • Steel Legion Drab
Shade 2
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Seraphim Sepia
Layer 2
  • Ushabti Bone
  • White Scar
Dry 2
  • Ryza Rust
  • Tyrant Skull
Technical 3
  • Nihilakh Oxide
  • Nurgles Rot
  • Typhus Corrosion
Texture 1
  • Stirland Battlemire
Spray 1
  • Chaos Black
Contrast 6
  • Guilliman Flesh
  • Iyanden Yellow
  • Luxion Purple
  • Magos Purple
  • Skeleton Horde
  • Volupus Pink
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