Pilgrim

Pilgrim

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Skin

  1. Basecoat with an equal parts mix of Cadian Fleshtone , Ushabti Bone and White .
  2. Mix a portion of your basecoat 1:1 with Doombull Brown and shade the skin.
  3. Add more selective shading of pure Doombull Brown around eye sockets and other deep recesses.
  4. Gradually mix White into the basecolour, then pick out raised details. Each time you mix in more White , highlight more selectively, until you are defining details like the point of the nose and knuckles with almost pure White .

Hair

  1. Basecoat with Mournfang Brown .
  2. Shade carefully with Agrax Earthshade or Rhinox Hide .
  3. Mix some Cadian Fleshtone into your Mournfang Brown for initial highlights.
  4. Now add some Ushabti Bone to the above mix and highlight more selectively.

Brown Cloth

  1. Basecoat with Baneblade Brown .
  2. Shade with some thinned Steel Legion Drab .
  3. Mix your Steel Legion Drab 1:1 with Rhinox Hide and further define deep recesses.
  4. Highlight with Karak Stone .
  5. Highlight selectively with Ushabti Bone .
  6. Mix a little White into your Ushabti Bone and finish with some very small highlights.

Dark Brown Cloth

  1. Basecoat with Rhinox Hide .
  2. Shade with a thin 1:1 mix of Rhinox Hide and Abaddon Black .
  3. Now mix your Rhinox Hide 1:1 with Gorthor Brown and highlight folds.
  4. Add fine highlights of pure Gorthor Brown to recesses.
  5. Highlight curver and corners more selectively with Baneblade Brown .
  6. Finish with a few very small/specular Karak Stone highlights.

Black Cloth

  1. Basecoat with Black .
  2. Gradually mix Ice Yellow into the Black , then pick out folds and edges. Each time you mix in more Ice Yellow , highlight more selectively, until you are defining sharp corners and folds with a small amount of almost pure Ice Yellow .
  3. Finish with a few specular Ice Yellow in prominent places.

White Cloth

  1. Basecoat with a 1:1 mix of Celestra Grey and White .
  2. Gradually mix Dark Reaper into the basecolour and shade the folds, using Lahmian Medium to keep it thin. Each time you mix in more Dark Reaper , shade the recesses more selectively, until you are shading the deepest parts with small amount of almost pure Dark Reaper .
  3. Pick out edges with White .

Black Leather

  1. Basecoat with Black .
  2. Highlight with Dark Reaper . Make these highlights quite chunky and extra thick on corners and curves.
  3. Apply finer highlights of Thunderhawk Blue within the previous stages highlights.
  4. Selectively edge highlight with Fenrisian Grey on corners and curves.
  5. Finish with very small White highlights on corners and curves.

Book

  1. Basecoat with Word Bearers Red .
  2. Mix some Rhinox Hide into your Word Bearers Red , then shade.
  3. Add a little Black to the above mix, then shade the very deepest recesses.
  4. Highlight with Evil Sunz Scarlet .
  5. Finish with small highlights of Ungor Flesh .

Final Steps

Pick out buttons etc with dot of Silver RLM01 Metallic . For the buckle, I basecoated with Retributor Armour , then gradually mixed in Silver for the highlights.

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Citadel Painting System 20
Base 6
  • Abaddon Black
  • Celestra Grey
  • Mournfang Brown
  • Retributor Armour
  • Rhinox Hide
  • Steel Legion Drab
Shade 1
  • Agrax Earthshade
Layer 12
  • Baneblade Brown
  • Cadian Fleshtone
  • Dark Reaper
  • Doombull Brown
  • Evil Sunz Scarlet
  • Fenrisian Grey
  • Gorthor Brown
  • Karak Stone
  • Thunderhawk Blue
  • Ungor Flesh
  • Ushabti Bone
  • Word Bearers Red
Technical 1
  • Lahmian Medium
Vallejo Model Air
Base 1
  • 71.063 Silver RLM01 Metallic
Vallejo Model Color 4
Base 3
  • 70.858 Ice Yellow
  • 70.950 Black
  • 70.951 White
Metallic 1
  • 70.997 Silver
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