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I hope this proves useful to someone else


First off, undercoat. I used Chaos Black spray.

The fatigues: (Pants, sleeves, etc)
1. Basecoat with straight Khemri Brown foundation paint. It should cover completely, if not apply another coat to completely cover up the undercoat.
2. Add Kommando Khaki and and Skull White to Khemri Brown to get a color just lighter than Kommando Khaki. The point of the Khemri Brown is to make the color a little thicker, since Kommando Khaki is normally quite a thin paint.Highlight the clothing, leaving the recesses with the Khemri Brown showing through.
3 (optional step) if you want them to look especially good, you can add more Skull White for highlights, focusing on areas that would be exposed to light.

Armor:
Step 1: Basecoat of Catachan green. A couple of coats may be necessary.
Step 2: Add Camo Green and Skull White to Catachan Green to get a rather pale green and highlight just the edges of the armor.

Guns:
Step 1: Basecoat of Catachan Green.
Step 2: Make a 70/30 mix of Codex Grey to Catachan Green and highlight the edges of the gun.
Step 3: (Metal parts of the gun) basecoat Boltgun Metal, wash Badab Black and re-highlight with Boltgun Metal.

Skin:
Step 1: Basecoat of Tallarn Flesh
Step 2: Wash with watered-down Dark Flesh.
Step 3: Re-highlight with Tallarn Flesh.
Step 4: Add skull white for highlights, on areas such as the nose and cheeks especially.
Step 5: (Optional) I added stubble to some of my Cadians, this was done with 2-3 VERY thin washes of Chaos Black.

Imperial aquilas on guns & helmets:
Basecoat of Codex Grey
Drybrush Skull White

Pouches, etc.
Basecoat of Scorched Brown
Add Skull White for highlights.

Ze finished rezults:














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Oh crap sorry...I thought I had put this in Painting Tips & Tricks or whatever it's called. Would a mod mind moving it?

These guys are sweet!

those look great.......I am going to try out the fatigue technique on some of my traitors this weekend.

thanks,
Rick

This is definitely not a blog...

Which is why I already asked to have it moved, before you pointed that out

Love the way the armor plates look! Thank you for this.

Thanks for the feedback everyone, it is much appreciated. I'm glad this is proving useful

They look great. I like the vox caster.

I want to see some close ups of the command squad

Great stuff!

Though it looks a lot like the standard 'Eavy Metal painting guide, but you've made enough alterations I guess

I am kind of jealous... I think yours look better than mine and they're in plain fatigues o.O

Perhaps camo patterns just look too simplistic compared to the shading that some nice, flat fatigues allow?

Great painting skills but like Henners91 said it looks a little standard