Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I saw this pic a hundreds times but given that I don't really dig the Grimaldus model I apparently never looked close enough. Some weeks ago I finally recognised that the loinclothe (or better said the fabric on the banner of the second from right) and skin (quite grey) of the Cenobites are exactly the tones that I wish my Black Templars to paint in (of course only the loinclothe and the skin ). Now I'm not an expert in colour determination and due to a longer abstinence on the Hobby I have no clue about the new colour line of GW. So I really would appreciate it if you Paintmasters could give me your evaluation on which colour and in which way have been used by the Eavy Metal Team to paint these parts of the models.

Greets

The skin, I'm not going to lie. Not sure. 'Eavy Metal gives pretty decent instructions on how to do the rest of the colors they utilize in various "how to paint" articles in White Dwarves and the ones you can pay for on iTunes, though.

For parchment, they use Rakarth Flesh washed with Agrax Earthshade, then highlight with a new layer of rakarth flesh and topped off with Pallid Wych Flesh and maybe possibly a thin line or two of white here and there.

With the skin it looks like they would have started off with a rich brown mixed with pale flesh colour, adding slightly more of that pale colour as you build up to highlights.

Wouldn't know the GW paints, but I've achieved a similar effect using Reaper Master Series' Dark Skin and Fair Skin.

No more suggestions on the skin anyone??