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Cadian Infantry

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    14 Jul 2026
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  1. Spray Basecoat Zandri Dust

Step 1- Armor, Steel & Fabric Base

  1. Armor Base Castellan Green
  2. Steel Base Leadbelcher
  3. Fabric Base Zandri Dust

Step 2- Wash

  1. Armor, Steel & Fabric Wash 1/1 Agrax Earthshade Lahmian Medium

Step 3- Highlighting Armor, Steel & Fabric

  1. Armor Chunky Highlight Loren Forest
  2. Armor Fine Highlight Nurgling Green
  3. Steel Highlight Ironbreaker
  4. Fabric Chunky Highlight Zandri Dust
  5. Fabric Fine Highlight Screaming Skull

Step 4- Leather

  1. Leather Base Rhinox Hide
  2. Leather Chunky Highlight Skrag Brown
  3. Leather Wash Seraphim Sepia
  4. Leather Fine Highlight Ushabti Bone :

Step 5- Skin

  1. Skin Base
    Option A: Catachan Fleshtone
    Option B: Cadian Fleshtone
  2. Skin Wash Reikland Fleshshade
  3. Skin Chunky Highlight
    Option A: Bloodreaver Flesh :
    Option B Kislev Flesh
  4. Skin Fine Highlight
    Option A: Knight-questor Flesh :
    Option B: Screaming Skull :

Gold

  1. Gold Base Retributor Armour
  2. Gold Wash Reikland Fleshshade

Visors

  1. Visor Base Stegadon Scale Green
  2. Visor Reflection. Single straight line along the top of the visor 1/1 Stegadon Scale Green Ulthuan Grey

Boots & Weapons Casing

  1. Base Abaddon Black
  2. Black area wash Agrax Earthshade
  3. Chunky highlight Dark Reaper
  4. Thin highlight Thunderhawk Blue
  5. Fine highlight with Fenrisian Grey selectively highlight upward facing edges, corners and prominent edges. Stick primarily to edges where the light would hit and always drag your brush towards the brightest point.

Muzzle Burn & Flamer

  1. Paint flamer end Retributor Armour
  2. Wash 2/3rds of the weapon end in Agrax Earthshade
  3. Wash 1/3rd of the weapon end in Nuln Oil
  4. Paint Plasma Weapon Leadbelcher
  5. Wash 1/3rd of the weapon end in Druchii Violet
  6. Wash 1/3rd of the weapon end, following the previous paint, in Drakenhof Nightshade

Gun

  1. Base Caliban Green
  2. Highlight Straken Green
Citadel Painting System 32
Base 9
  • Abaddon Black
  • Caliban Green
  • Castellan Green
  • Catachan Fleshtone
  • Leadbelcher
  • Retributor Armour
  • Rhinox Hide
  • Stegadon Scale Green
  • Zandri Dust
Shade 6
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Drakenhof Nightshade
  • Druchii Violet
  • Nuln Oil
  • Reikland Fleshshade
  • Seraphim Sepia
Layer 15
  • Bloodreaver Flesh
  • Cadian Fleshtone
  • Dark Reaper
  • Fenrisian Grey
  • Ironbreaker
  • Kislev Flesh
  • Knight-questor Flesh
  • Loren Forest
  • Nurgling Green
  • Screaming Skull
  • Skrag Brown
  • Straken Green
  • Thunderhawk Blue
  • Ulthuan Grey
  • Ushabti Bone
Technical 1
  • Lahmian Medium
Spray 1
  • Zandri Dust
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