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Hey guys just wondering what paints i need to use on my legion of the damned to make them look amazing. I would really appreciate the help.

Black, White, Orange, Red and Yellow.... Personally I think the shades of each of those are up to your discretion, have fun with them, don't try and live up to an expectation of what you see from 'Eavy Metal.

Bleached Bone.

Black armor is notoriously hard to paint, and there's two ways to go about shading it. (three actually)Greys or Blues. Greys tend to give you a duller appearance, where Blues will give you a more faux shiny appearance like 'comic book' type black armor. Best done with zenithal airbrush shading.... But I digress. The third way is not to shade it, but to gloss coat the black parts of the armor so light will bounce off wherever it's coming from. Actually, it's a pretty good look.

The good news is, because of the amount of bones, flames and other detail, you can get away with almost not shading the black parts at all. Get good at blending for the flames and they'll look spectacular. One of the best LotD armies I have seen, the guy did a great job on the bones, metal and all his dudes looked like they were standing in flames. For the black parts, he just hit them with glossy 'ArdCoat at the end.

Thanks guys but i was hoping for like a list of citadel paints that i could use as i want to use them for a competition. If you can find a list of that paints that are needed or know someone who does can you tell me. Also could you guys put it in the order that i paint in. Thanks a lot

I made my SM's as a LotD army...I'm at work now, so going off the top of my head and these are the older paints but they were...

Chaos Black
Skull White
Boltgun Metal
Codex Grey
Burnished Gold
Bleached Bone
Gore Red
Blood red
Blazing Orange
Sunburst Yellow
Golden Yellow
Gryphonne Sepia Wash
Badab Black Wash

Thank you very much i appreciate it. Your army looks amazing btw you did a great job on them.

Very nice. I love the lava bases. But see what I mean? There's so much contrasting color details with the bone bits and flames you don't need to go hog wild trying to get the black parts to look "realistic" like you would on a mostly-black armored model like say Black Templars. Personally, I like minimal shading on the black and hitting it with gloss varnish at the very end, but in the case of Legion of the Damned shiny black might not be a good look. Know what I mean? Dull black suggests it's "charred" from the flames and a better route to go might be some selective chipping showing metal underneath to make it look battle worn.