Cadian Blooded Traitor Guard

Cadian Blooded Traitor Guard

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    22 Dec 2024
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    22 Dec 2024
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Blooded Kill Team traitor guard from a corrupted Cadian force

  1. Prime with grey or neutral colour

Basecoats

  1. Uniforms and bone/skulls/horns with Zandri Dust
  2. Boots, gloves, and tubing with Corvus Black
  3. Armour with Castellan Green (bandanas with a 50/50 mix using Straken Green )
  4. Belts, leather, wooden shafts with Dryad Bark
  5. Wraps, bandages and inside of fur with Corax White
  6. Cloaks, rags, bags, fur with Mechanicus Standard Grey
  7. Camo cloak: add sharp-angled shapes of Corvus Black and Dawnstone together
  8. Weapons with Caliban Green
  9. Metals with Leadbelcher
  10. Gold bits with Retributor Armour
  11. Skin with Rakarth Flesh
  12. Weapon handles and chaos symbol on shield with Khorne Red
  13. Commissar's coat with Abaddon Black and Khorne Red
  14. Ogryn claw with Mephiston Red , wet-blending into arm with Rakarth Flesh and Abaddon Black ("teeth")
  15. Paint in shadowed eyes with Rhinox Hide
  16. Texture paste base with Agrellan Badland

Shades

  1. Wash skin with Reikland Fleshshade
  2. Weapon casings and bone with Nuln Oil
  3. Insides of fur with thin layers of Carroburg Crimson
  4. Scars and skin growths with thinned Carroburg Crimson
  5. Ogryn claw: wash with Druchii Violet to Carroburg Crimson front to back, blending at transition. Feather Carroburg Crimson from the claw to arm.
  6. Everything else with Agrax Earthshade (thinned 50/50 for bandages and wraps)
  7. Redo everything but weapon casings, and whites with original basecoats, avoid recesses

Highlights

  1. Uniforms and bone with Ushabti Bone
  2. Boots, gloves, and tubing, and ogryn claw "teeth" with Mechanicus Standard Grey
  3. Armour with Straken Green (bandanas with Ogryn Camo )
  4. Leather and wood with Gorthor Brown
  5. Wraps and bandages with Corax White
  6. Cloaks, rags, and fur with Dawnstone
  7. Weapons with Warpstone Glow
  8. Metals with Stormhost Silver
  9. Golds with Auric Armour Gold
  10. Skin with Pallid Wych Flesh
  11. Commissar cloak with Eshin Grey and Evil Sunz Scarlet
  12. Ogryn claw and weapon handles and chaos symbol on shield with Evil Sunz Scarlet
  13. Drybrush base with Tyrant Skull

Misc

  1. Glowing chaos symbols: Base with Corax White , layer over Fire Dragon Bright , layer further out with Troll Slayer Orange , rough outline with thinned Jokaero Orange
  2. Power weapons finished off with Talassar Blue thinned 1:2 with Contrast Medium
  3. Lenses: Stormhost Silver , then Soulstone Blue
  4. Flamer muzzle: Warplock Bronze , wash Agrax Earthshade , :layer Brass Scorpion , Runelord Brass . Multiple layers of Nuln Oil , Drakenhof Nightshade , Druchii Violet , Seraphim Sepia front to back for burn effect
  5. Plasma glow: Basecoat coils with White Scar , Glaze coils with 1:1 mix of White Scar : Baharroth Blue , then not as far with Baharroth Blue , then even higher up with Ahriman Blue , and finally Stegadon Scale Green .
  6. Plasma glow continued: Glaze multiple coats of Stegadon Scale Green on weapon casing ~1mm around, edge highlight around coils with Ahriman Blue , fine edge highlight with Baharroth Blue , and finally recess shade bottom of coils where they meet the weapon casing with White Scar heavily thinned with Lahmian Medium
  7. Rim painted with Abaddon Black

Surface Finish

  1. Varnish everything with 3:1 (varnish losing potency) mix of Contrast Medium : Ultra Matte Varnish
  2. Varnish lenses and power weapons with 3:1 mix of Glossy Varnish : Ultra Matte Varnish

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Varnish 2
  • AK183 Ultra Matte Varnish
  • AK192 Glossy Varnish
Citadel Painting System 48
Base 17
  • Abaddon Black
  • Caliban Green
  • Castellan Green
  • Corax White
  • Corvus Black
  • Dryad Bark
  • Jokaero Orange
  • Khorne Red
  • Leadbelcher
  • Mechanicus Standard Grey
  • Mephiston Red
  • Rakarth Flesh
  • Retributor Armour
  • Rhinox Hide
  • Stegadon Scale Green
  • Warplock Bronze
  • Zandri Dust
Shade 7
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Carroburg Crimson
  • Drakenhof Nightshade
  • Druchii Violet
  • Nuln Oil
  • Reikland Fleshshade
  • Seraphim Sepia
Layer 18
  • Ahriman Blue
  • Auric Armour Gold
  • Baharroth Blue
  • Brass Scorpion
  • Dawnstone
  • Eshin Grey
  • Evil Sunz Scarlet
  • Fire Dragon Bright
  • Gorthor Brown
  • Ogryn Camo
  • Pallid Wych Flesh
  • Runelord Brass
  • Stormhost Silver
  • Straken Green
  • Troll Slayer Orange
  • Ushabti Bone
  • Warpstone Glow
  • White Scar
Dry 1
  • Tyrant Skull
Technical 3
  • Contrast Medium
  • Lahmian Medium
  • Soulstone Blue
Texture 1
  • Agrellan Badland
Contrast 1
  • Talassar Blue
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