Ogre Skin
- Basecoat with 1:1 Cadian Fleshtone and Mournfang Brown .
- Shade the underside of muscles with thinned Mournfang Brown . Make this shading pretty general.
- With a fine brush, shade more selectively in the deepest parts with 1:1 Mournfang Brown and Rhinox Hide .
- Glaze: Step 1 Mix increasing amounts of Ushabti Bone into your Cadian Fleshtone and Mournfang Brown base mix and highlight up. For these stages I used rations of roughly 3:1, 1:1 and 1:3.e
- Finally I mixed Pallid Wych Flesh 1:1 with the final highlight colour and very selectively picked out details.
- Finish with select dots of Pallid Wych Flesh .
Human Skin
- Basecoat with pure Cadian Fleshtone .
- Add general shading with a thin mix of :2:1 Cadian Fleshtone and Bloodreaver Flesh .
- Mix the leftover paint 1:1 with Doombull Brown and shade deep recesses more selectively.
- Finish off the shading with small amounts of Doombull Brown only in the deepest/most shaded parts.
- Re-establish the basecoat Cadian Fleshtone on raised/exposed areas, in preparation for highlights.
- Gradually add Wraithbone to the mix, highlighting smaller and smaller areas. I this in three stages, doing chunky, fine and small selective highlights.
- Add specular highlights of Wraithbone in select places.
Halfling Skin
- Basecoat with an equal parts mix of Cadian Fleshtone , Kislev Flesh &
- Use Reikland Fleshshade to glaze and recess shade. I'd recommend popping some on your wet palette and use a thin brush, to make it easier to control.
- Selectivly shade the most shaded parts with Doombull Brown and a thin brush.
- Now gradually increase the amount of White in the mix and add some highlights. Like with the human shin, I did this in roughly three stages.
- Finish off with specular highlights of White , in a few select places.
Dark Brown Hair
- Basecoat with Rhinox Hide .
- Mix Rhinox Hide and Gorthor Brown 1:1 and, pick out hairs by overbrushing.
- Add increasing amounts of Wraithbone into your Rhinox Hide and Gorthor Brown mix, then pick out smaller and smaller highlights.
Brown Hair
- Basecoat with Mournfang Brown .
- Wash with Agrax Earthshade .
- Mix increasing amounts of Lugganath Orange into your Mournfang Brown , then pick out smaller and smaller highlights.
Black Hair
- Basecoat with Abaddon Black .
- Pick out hair strands by overbrushing with Stegadon Scale Green .
- Mix increasing amounts of Fenrisian Grey into your Stegadon Scale Green , then pick out smaller and smaller highlights.
Eyes
- Add a little Thunderhawk Blue to your base skin colour, then glaze it under the eye.
- Now, add a little Black to the above mix and paint around the eye. This is easier if the paint is thin.
- Pick out the eyeball with Ulthuan Grey .
- Do a small dot with Black for the pupil.
Teeth
- Pick out teeth with Zandri Dust .
- Shade the teeth, either using thinned Rhinox Hide on large teeth or wash with a mix of Seraphim Sepia and Agrax Earthshade .
- Highlight teeth with Screaming Skull .
- Selectively highight with Wraithbone .
- Add very small/specular highlights with White .
Lips
Once the rest of the face is done, mix a little Khorne Red into one of your highlight colours, preferably one close to Cadian Fleshtone . Glaze the bottom lip with this colour, then re-highlight with the final stage again.
Blue Shorts
- Basecoat with Stegadon Scale Green .
- Shade the recesses with 1:1 Stegadon Scale Green and Black .
- Apply chunky highlights of 1:1 Stegadon Scale Green and Thunderhawk Blue .
- Now highlight everything with fine lines of Thunderhawk Blue .
- Selectively highlight with 1:1 Thunderhawk Blue and Fenrisian Grey .
- Add specular/very small highlights of Fenrisian Grey .
White Cloth
- Basecoat with 1:1 Celestra Grey and White .
- Soft shade with Fenrisian Grey .
- Shade more selectively, in the deeper parts of the folds with Dark Reaper .
- Add chunky highlights of Celestra Grey and White , mixed roughly 1:3.
- Finish off with selective highlights of White .
Dark Brown Leather Gloves
- Basecoat the leather area with Rhinox Hide .
- Shace recesses with 1:1 Rhinox Hide and Black .
- Glaze most of the leather with thinned Mournfang Brown . Use quite a small brush and drag towards edges in rough lines. This should create some extra texture.
- Add a chunky edge highlight of Skrag Brown to all edges.
- Highlight everything again, this time with a fine line of Skrag Brown and Ushabti Bone mixed 1:1. This is a good mix to throw in occasional fine lines as scratches too.
- With pure Ushabti Bone , selectively highlight corners and exposed edges of the leather. Put a dot of this colour where the additional scratched above meet edges too.
- Add a little pure white (like Dead White ) to your Ushabti Bone and add dot highlights to corners.
Black Leather Boots
- Basecoat with Abaddon Black .
- Glaze chunky highlights of Stegadon Scale Green .
- Add fine highlights of Thunderhawk Blue .
- Selectively highlight with Fenrisian Grey .
- Specular highlights of Fenrisian Grey , with a little White mixed in.
Steel
- Basecoat with Leadbelcher .
- Wash with Nuln Oil .
- Pick out highlights with Silver RLM01 Metallic .
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