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What would you guys do for a paint scheme of the sanguinary guard?

Do you want to personalize your scheme or want a original gold-plate color scheme?

Umm. I think more the normal gamesworkshop look would be good I know the weapons they're carrying with the lightning won't be easy and I know I got the sanguinor coming too so I thought maybe their schemes would match? But I have NO idea where to begin with them.

The gw site has an blog post on how to easily get nice sanguinary guards with pics, i'll upload the pics and text here.*




Frode Rage Olsen painted his Sanguinary Guard differently to how you might expect. Rather than start with a gold basecoat, Frode painted his miniatures with Mithril Silver. He then washed them three times with Gryphonne Sepia, leaving Mithril Silver showing on the very extremes of the model - sort of like reverse highlighting. What a great way to get a deep gold with very little effort.


^ thats the one i'd try, it's the easiest to try and looks a lot better than the one below imo *



Dave Williams painted the gold armour on his miniatures using a basecoat of Burnished Gold and a wash of Devlan Mud. He then drybrushed them with Shining Gold. I really like the effect Dave's achieved - although less crisp than Frode's, the drybrushing adds texture to the armour and makes it look battle worn and more real.




*All credit goes to:

Games Workshop
Frode Rage Olsen
Dave Williams

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I definitely agree the first one looks better! Wonder if the sanguinor's paint scheme is around the same idea...

Ofcourse! they wear the same type of armour

hmmm I hope my wings come out that good lol that's the scariest part of this model atm >.>

If you dont like the gold wings or prefer the white wings and want really realistic wings check this out:

Basecoat bleached bone
Wash devlan mud
go back and re-paint the edges of the feathers skull white and highlight the edge of the wings themselfs skull white