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In painting my first army and I decided I would paint them as word bearers. Ive painted now a total of 3 models ( 1 champ, 1 CSM and my Landraider) and my colors arent coming out quite the way I was hoping.

My paint scheme so far has been:

Base layer of Mechrite Red, then a thin layer of scab red, and the trims and such in boltgun metal. I then wash it with devlan mud.

But the models are coming out too purplish and dark. I was trying to get the color they are shown in the codex.( page 70? i think). SO my question is if anyone can give me some direction to achieve this? And also how I should wash the models, I read on another post that washing with red and then a thinned down Devlan Mud is my best bet.


Thanks for the help.


ok here are the pics, had to take em off my phone but its just to give a general idda of how the color is turning out (also i failed at the wash on this one)

Hmmm.... what your doing sounds like it should be making a nice red but indeed, try giving it a red wash first and a slightly thinner mud wash. If this fails, you could use a black wash to just shade dark areas and make something close to but more gradual than black lining.

Hope they work out and post up some pics when you can, it'd be great to see them ^^