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Planning to use a bone coloured armour on my new dark eldar with red gore cloth and details.

Any tips on how to paint/highlight/wash these colours?

I'm familiar with painting being an artist by trade and have painted two armies before this one. Just not familiar with bone and dark red in concern with Citadel Paints (I plan to use this range of paint).

Well, I always found it best to paint bone in layers. I start with a layer of scorched brown and let it dry, I then do a layer of of Bleach Bone leaving the deep areas such as eye sockets the scorched brown, then when that dries I high light the edges and rims with skull white.


This is from the Gamesworkshop website article on painting Dark Angel's Deathwing army, so all credit goes to them.

1) For the bone-colored Deathwing armor, start out with an undercoat of Skull White Spray Paint. Then, basecoat the model with Graveyard Earth. Once the Graveyard Earth is dry, wash the model with some watered-down Brown Ink and make sure the wash gets in all the crevices.

2) Next, for the second basecoat, apply a 2:1 mix of Bleached Bone to Graveyard Earth. Leave the crevices unpainted so that the darker color shows through.

3) Now, edge the corners of the armor with straight Bleached Bone. Make sure you water down your paints to achieve a more subtle transition between basecoat and highlight.

4) For the final highlight, paint the very corners and edges with an even mix of Bleached Bone and Skull White. Before you paint the highlight, sometimes its helpful to see where the light is hitting the model and paint your highlights accordingly.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat440176a&pageMode=multi&categoryId=900004§ion=&pIndex=3&aId=2600021&start=4


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For Painting Red, which is a big part of playing Blood Angels, I suggest doing a base coat of Mechrite Red, then do a mix of 1:1 Blood Red:Mechrite Red and that will give you a very nice bright red, but for a darker gorey red, I suggest using the layer of Mechrite Red and then instead of a Blood Red: Mechrite Mix, do a Blood Red: Chaos Black Mix.

I do my bone just like Corbulo stated but I follow up with a Gryphonne Sepia wash (or two!)

For darker red trim/loincloths etc etc, I base coast bestial brown, layer red gore leaving deep recesses brown, highlight blood red, then do a fairly heavy wash of either devlan mud or gryphonne sepia. Keeps it dark and brooding.

I'm no expert, but heres a sample of how my bone/reds look:

(Back of my Typhus model)

Thanks people! I'm going to try both techniques on trial models and pick which one I feel works the best.

BTW, killer deathguard man! Awesome stuff. My brother plays with plague marines and they're tough as nails to take down.