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Hey everyone

I have been trying to find out how the GW painted Midnight sorrow vehicles have a purple black look to them but I have found nothing.

I am referring to the standard GW Harlequins on their website. Sorry I can't insert a picture as I have no idea how to.

Any advice on how to achieve this effect is greatly appreciated.

Cheers.

This sort of paint job?

As for inserting pictures, you use the [ img ] and [ / img ] tags (remove the spaces between commands and square brackets) - and to get the link for the picture, right click it and "copy location". Put the copied link between those two tags and et voila, the image will appear.

I'm not sure they used one of their color straight out of a pot, especially since I can't remember an instance where they gave the exact recipe.
In the 7th ed. painting guide the recipe for weavers is: chaos black basecoat, screaming pink highlight, then a second highlight of slaanesh grey. Maybe that's what they actually used for the model on the shop's picture, but with many glazes of screaming pink over the black, which go far beyond the typical edge highlights.

Personally I use a mix of VMC Gory red and VMC night blue (1:2), then highlight with pink horror. It's far from a perfect match, but gives a deep purple with a somewhat similar vibe.