Heresy era inspired EC

Airbrush Base Coat

V1:
* Full coat of Warlock Magenta over black primer
* 45° highlight coat of Spellbound Fuchia
* 90° zenithal of Enchanted Pink

V2 (Improved contrast):
* Full coat of Warlock Magenta over black primer
* 30° from vertical midtone of Impish Rouge
* 90° zenithal of Fulgrim Pink , including highlights on areas like legs and arms.

Detail Base Coat

1. Black Templar on under suit regions, hooves, foot bottoms, gun handles and magazines, and ribbed tubes
2. Trooper White for shoulder pads, noise marine weapon heads and bodies, decorative panels on guns
3. Ghoul Green for tassles, loin cloths, eye lenses, whammy bar handle
4. Wyvern Green smooth tubing, belt hanging cords
5. Mournfang Brown leather straps, holsters, pouches, and obsessionist whips
6. Skeleton Legion for any corks on bottles
7. Data System Glow in weapon engravings

Vials of Drugs

1. Wyvern Green for base coat on vials
2. Orc Hide for vial liquid
3. Leafy Green for highlight and bubbles in vial liquid, with central dots of Orc Hide in the bubbles
4. Matt Black above liquid line but not covering whole vial
5. Mecha Gloss Varnish on vials to add shine

Flayed Flesh

1. Flayed One Flesh base coat
2. Sharp highlights with Pale Sand
3. 2:1 mix of Reikland Fleshshade and Doomfire Magenta wash
4. Iron Warriors on studs

Metallics Base Coat

1. Iron Warriors for non gold metals like some body elements of noise marine weapons, ports on armor, studs, blades
2. Retributor Armour chaos trim be like (include guards and ornamentation on blades)
3. Paint squiggles on blade with Mithril to mimic pattern of Damascus Steel
4. Highlight sharp edges of blade with Mithril

Noise Marine Glow

1. Paint grilles with Retributor Armour
2. Base Coat intended glowing areas with the inks by AK immaculate white
3. Do several 2-3 thin coats of Data System Glow over the ink

Plasma Glow

1. Base coat coils with Bold Titanium White
2. Coat all but the deepest parts with Leafy Green
3. Coat highest parts with Guardian Green

Highlights

1. Highlight sharp armor edges with Fulgrim Pink
2. Highlight smooth tubing with Orc Hide
3. Bright highlight on tubing with Leafy Green
4. Highlight cloth, tassles, and eye lenses with Forest Faun
5. Sharp eye lens highlights with Bold Titanium White
6. Bold Titanium White highlights on weapond, shoulder pads
7. Dust Bowl highlights on leather
8. Gloss Varnish on syringes and other fluid containers that haven't already been treated like the vials

Shading

1. 1:5 Warp Lightning to Warpaints Stabilizer for recess shading on head of sonic blaster
2. 1:1 Druchii Violet to Warpaints Stabilizer shade across all of the model other than sonic blaster head and vials

Gemstones

1. Death Reaper base coat
2. Wyvern Green blob in lower 1/3-1/2 of stone
3. Jade Green smaller blob within Wyvern Green area
4. Bold Titanium White point highlights in top of gem and lower colored area
5. Warp Lightning shade over the gemstone
6. Gloss Varnish over the gems to add extra shine

Tactical Rocks

1. Paint veins of Death Reaper , Gal Vorbak Red , Warlock Magenta , and Fulgrim Pink . These veins should be close to/touching each other
2. Glaze with 1:1 mix of Fulgrim Pink and Bold Titanium White to allow veins to show through while matching marble color from bases.

Marble Bases

1. Wet sand base top smooth (240, 320, 400, 800 grit in that order)
2. Black prime
3. Death Reaper splotches
4. Smaller Gal Vorbak Red splotches within Death Reaper areas
5. Even smaller Warlock Magenta splotches in previous areas, Fulgrim Pink for brightest areas
6. Stretch out a wet wipe until it looks like picture. These can be fragile so take it slow until it has this webbing look
7. 1:1 mixture of Fulgrim Pink and Bold Titanium White for top coat, through wet wipe webbing. Paint the base rim Matt Black
8. Etch lines into marble for tile gaps. Can use a straight edge and a hobby knife, but I've had good success with a Tamiya plastic scriber
9. Gloss Varnish over the base to make it look smooth and reflective
10. Retributor Armour in the tile lines