Once you prime your models with Chaos Black Spray
Primer, painting can begin. Below, you will find a simple-but-effective
colour scheme using only 7 colours. Follow the detailed instructions
and check out the stage-by-stage images for reference as you paint
your models. Don't fret if the model doesn't come out picture perfect
in the end; painting takes time and practice to master. Just do
the best you can each time and be open to learning new techniques
from others. Before you know it, you'll be quite an accomplished
painter with models you'll be proud to game with!
WE
USED THE FOLLOWING CITADEL PAINTS:
Chaos
Black
Scorch.
Brown
Dark
Flesh
Bestial
Brown
Blood
Red
Scab
Red
Kmdo.
Khaki
Dwarf
Bronze
Boltgun
Metal
Brown
Ink
Chst.
Ink
1
Undercoat
your model with Chaos Black. Start off by painting
the metal components of the model. Use Boltgun
Metal to neatly paint each armour plate, the
shield, weaponry, the helmet, and chainmail tabard.
Clean your water before moving to step two.
2
Apply
Scorched Brown to the model's cape, shoulder
fur, boots, gloves, belt, weapon haft, and handle
wrapping. Next, paint Dwarf Bronze onto a few
of the model's details like the knee cap and
horn tips. Once again, clean out your water.
3
Heavily drybrush the model's
cape and shoulder fur with Dark Flesh. Water
down the same colour and highlight the boots,
gloves, belt, weapon haft, and handle wrapping.
Use carefully placed thin lines to achieve
this effect. Water down Scab Red and pick
out the Chaos star on the model's shield.
A few coats will do the trick, so be patient.
At this point, your model is perfectly acceptable
for tabletop gaming! The final steps below
will take the model from being good to great.
4
Now it's ink time. First, apply
a bit of slightly watered-down Brown Ink
to all the Boltgun Metal areas. Paint the
ink onto the areas you want it to go. Do
not just slather the model with ink and hope
it comes out okay! Be precise and sop up
any excessive ink pooling. Heavily water
down the Brown Ink and apply this to the
model's cape to give it a deeper leathery
look. Now, use watered-down Chestnut Ink
and apply it to the Dwarf Bronze areas. Water
this down a bit further and apply a second
coat to the model's shield and weaponry to
create a sort of two-tone crud wash. It's
important to let all your inks dry completely
before continuing further! So take a break
or work on another Chaos Warrior while the
ink dries.
5
Finish
your model by going back over the metallic areas
in order to clean the ink up. A very, very careful
combination of light drybrushing or stippling
and selective detail painting will do this effectively.
You don't want to obscure the ink completely,
just clean it up a bit. Build up the Chaos star
on the shield by mixing Scab Red with Blood Red
in even amounts. Then go back and highlight the
tips of the star with watered-down Blood Red.
Lightly drybrush the shoulder fur with Bestial
Brown. Finish up any niggling details like hanging
teeth, skulls, necklaces, and final coats of
colour on helmet horns at this point. Your Undivided
Chaos Warrior may not be as pretty to look upon
as a Slaanesh Chaos Warrior, but he certainly
means business. After all, it's all about swords
and axes, not silk capes and intricate embroidery!
