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Does anyone have any advice on the best paints to use to get that beat up white/grey color they have going on? I'm not very good at painting and don't want to hurt my head trying to figure this out. lol. Any advice would be great!

The way I do it is to stick firmly to the brown side of white, rather than the grey side (I do this to keep my World Eaters and Death Guard looks distinct). So for DG, I'll start with a mix of brown and a cream/ivory colour, and layer my way up to pure ivory, then wash with Agrax Earthshade in the recesses to get the dirty look.

The only pic I have to hand is this deceased DG on Angron's base, but it gets the point across:



As you can see, the 'grey' is actually a very light brown, or a 'warm gray' really, as opposed to the 'cold' grey that comes from working with blues/light greys.

Hope that's of some use. If not, I'm currently working on Mortarion in a similar manner, so if you haven't got an answer in a day or two I'll pop back with some examples from that.

Forge world has a PDF up on their website for painting the Betrayel book legiions using GW paints.

 sing your life wrote:
Forge world has a PDF up on their website for painting the Betrayel book legiions using GW paints.

This pdf is perfect, exactly what I was looking for lol. Thanks!


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 Paradigm wrote:
The way I do it is to stick firmly to the brown side of white, rather than the grey side (I do this to keep my World Eaters and Death Guard looks distinct). So for DG, I'll start with a mix of brown and a cream/ivory colour, and layer my way up to pure ivory, then wash with Agrax Earthshade in the recesses to get the dirty look.

The only pic I have to hand is this deceased DG on Angron's base, but it gets the point across:



As you can see, the 'grey' is actually a very light brown, or a 'warm gray' really, as opposed to the 'cold' grey that comes from working with blues/light greys.

Hope that's of some use. If not, I'm currently working on Mortarion in a similar manner, so if you haven't got an answer in a day or two I'll pop back with some examples from that.

Next poster said FW has a guide for it and it looks good. thanks for the advice though, I'd love to see pics of Mortarion anyway if you put them up!

Also check out this guy's stuff:
http://www.adpublishing.de/html/death_guard.html