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Not only am I not an expert with paint but I'm also not an expert with photoshop!

The above is only a rough mock-up so temper it with the following:


Armour - bronze with metallic paints (yeah it looks more like leather in the photo). Also used on edge armour for some decorations such as the skull on the helmet above.
Base bone - the default colour scheme that GW has gone - might also swap for bone-white.
Inner to bones - orange/fire. It doesn't show as well on a small warrior like this, but on constructs all the internal skulls would be burning as well to give them an inner fire effect. Not sure how well this can be achieved on a smaller model and for smaller gaps
Edge bone of armour - black (probably darker and with a bit less highlighting than it on show above)
Cloth - leather, might experiment with some white "wear" to the edges
Eyes - glowing purple. I wanted to highlight the eyes and have them different to the blazing fire concept for the rest of the bodies. I feel this makes them stand out rather than get lost in the background internal fire aspect
Jewels - red
Glint decoration - Gold
Sword metals - silver. Not as happy with this one and REALLY not sure what to do with "soul" weapons esp things that have a half of souls. I feel like it needs a coloured tint edge to the blade which can then form the "ghost" colour for the faction (I've no idea what ghost colour to use for the above scheme)


Any thoughts on methods that can be used to achive "inner fire" effects would be great, esp on very small areas like in the model above. In addition I've really no idea if this scheme "works" nor what "ghost" colour would suit such an army. Of course inner fire might suggest burning blazing ghosts in reds and oranges


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Found this example
http://www.coolminiornot.com/366114

and also Duncan's guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnS1CmgB7ko

Though whilst Dunan's method would work it seems that the example above has gone a stage further and used a darker shade ontop of the last layer of red to give the skulls an impression of burn black.
The ghosts also carry a great burning effect.

Anyone got an idea how to achieve that? The guy's listed his blog but has no tutorial for this model up.

No idea, but gotta say that scheme is nice!

Spray Wraithbone.
Apply Retributor Armor Gold or Sycorax Bronze(depends on how you want to go for this) for the metal. Highly suggest applying Rhinox Hide first though to give it a 'bite'. Wash with Seraphim Sepia or Reikland Fleshshade. Experiment a bit on a garbage model for this, as if you find one you like for both the bone and metal? Bonus!

The fire is actually an easy one. Gryph-Hound Orange Contrast paint will match what you want, and it's extremely bright. Wash it with Fuegan Orange and apply a few spot colors of black/yellow to show the flame for profit.

Purple, I'd suggest Eidolon Clear(Air). Same goes for whatever color you're wanting to do the silver for the swords.