Forgeworld Iron Hands paint scheme

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**Mr Nobody**

Lately I have been admiring how they have painted the IH on the FW website. The shades of green, brown and black is much more interesting than plain black. It feels like they're coated in engine oil. But for the life of me, I can't tell how they achieved this look.

I'm curious if anyone has any insight into the best way to replicate this. Maybe it's just a clever colour palette and some good blending skills?

**beast_gts**

This is the scheme allegedly used when FW started doing HH:

IRON HANDS COLOUR SCHEME
1. Undercoat the model with GW black undercoat spray
2. Drybrush layers of Rub and Buff Pewter to blend up from black to silver. with the silver parts being the most raised areas.
3. A small amount of Tamiya Clear Yellow was added to Tamaiya Smoke and this was airbrushed over the whole model and the model was then left to dry.
4. GW Druchi Violet was then airbrushed over the model in random patches.
5. Tamaiya Clear Green was then airbrushed in patches over the previous two colours.
6. The whole model was airbrushed with a layer of thinned down Tamaiya Smoke and the model was then left to dry.
7. The model was then protected with a coating of GW Purity Seal.