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Does anyone have GW's painting guide for Crimson Fists? GW has long since removed it from their website. I just wanted to use it as a basic guideline to figure out the paint scheme for them. I can't seem to find any guides online that agree with me. I actually like how GW paints their CF's, and also like how they're done on Tale of Painters, but they unfortunately do not have any tutorials or paint guides. I've seen Les Burley's how to on youtube - it's nice but not the style I'm looking for. I've googled and searched for quite some time trying to find something I like but have failed. All the guides I have found seem to be either super top-notch quality painting by professionals that would be too time consuming, or beginners who seem to have just started painting last week.

What style of CFs are you looking for? The dark kind of the cartoony ones from 3ed?

I would say I'm most interested in how the GW studio Crimson Fists are painted. Not necessarily looking for a cartoony scheme or anything that's over simplified.

Studio CFs were ultramarine blue and blood red. Which I find a little cartoony. I prefer regal blue with scab red myself. Wash purple then black and re-highlight for CFs. If you want a grittier look necron abyss highlighted with shadow grey works really well.
With the current range of citadel paints you're pretty much on your own to convert the colors; sorry.