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Hello!
Any tips on painting blood stains? I want to paint blood stains on a white coat (like in trench coat) and I have no idea where or how to start. I'm interested in both how to make line of blood drops (that spray you get after cutting someone) and in making end of sleeves and bottom of the coat drenched in blood.

Most tutorials I found was about putting blood effect on weapons and armours (coagulated or still fresh blood), but I found nothing on how to do it properly on clothes (blood soaked in cloth). I couldn't even find good pictures of blood stained clothes on google ^^'

Hello Azhday I'm not really a pro by any means but maybe I can help out with one of my own models.

To get the grimy edge at the base of his robes I first did a wash of Agrax earthshade selectively around the edges, make sure to make it inconsistent and "natural". Next I spotted on a wash of nuln oil to further make the edge look worn, be sure to target this within the areas you applied the first wash but don't fret if you go outside the lines here. Lastly is the blood, I simply applied Blood for the Blood god around the edge going for a "natural" feel to simulate the base of his robe dragging in the blood on the ground.

For the "splatter effect" I got some blood for the blood god on my brush and held it upside down, I then used a toothpick to pull the bristles back and then let them flick forward. This throws the paint at the model and gets you the splattered look. Experiment with how much paint you put on your brush and how you flick the toothpick on the brush to see what patterns you can get, I suggest practicing splattering the paint on some paper first to get a feel for this. This technique isn't clean by the way, you will get paint in places you didn't want it so be prepared to clean up some spots of your model.

Below is my Haemonculus that I sued these techniques on, hopefully this helps.

Thanks!

Citadel technical, Blood for the Blood god is what your looking for.

The problem is that at 40k scale it will be hard to distinguish blood stains from mud stain's. Blood dries to quite a dark murky brown after all.

You could a still follow the fresh blood spray modelling advice, just substitute brown for bright red.

Yeah...blood isn't red by the time it lands on your clothes. It very quickly becomes rusty brown.

Flinty and Elbows are right about how real blood quickly get darker and that on a model going for full realism likely won't work. Understanding the limitations of our medium however I think we can get away with bending reality a bit here especially given the setting of 40k. If you're painting for a more realistic TT game like a WW2 game or something then maybe bright red blood will seem out of place however.

Another idea I've experimented with is mixing some blood for the blood god in a tray with some fine sand and a tiny drop of black paint (really tiny). This darkens things up and gets you this clumpy gross mix and I've used that on certain areas of models where large amounts of blood would have pooled and dried up.