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I thought it might be useful to build an article listing all the paint stages needed for commonly occurring items. Please feel free to add your step by step colours for anything you think is common enough to justify sharing the scheme, but be sure to add a picture of one of your models painted in that style to show the effect and to make your colour list more useful.

Some common things that would be useful to have good step by step recipes would include:
Bones (desert bleached, exposed zombie style, etc)
Paper/Parchment (of various ages)
Flesh (all different types of skin tones)
Metallics (with various types of rust or effects)
Armour weathering
Hair and fur
Common armour colours (Ultramarine armour, black armour, etc)
Common cloth colours (white, red, etc)

Please, only use the citadel range of colours so that we can keep some standardisation in the thread. People can then at least use the paint range comparison chart to convert to other major ranges.

So to summarise, if you have a good stage by stage colour scheme that you think other people would benefit from knowing, post it in this thread. Eventually I'll compile it all into a big painting article so make sure you provide a picture and dont mind that the picture will be rehosted here on dakka if it is not already.

edit: removing sticky for the time being, until I can dig out some examples to get it started properly...