Step 1: Prime black

Step 2: basecoat p3 skorne red (blood red + black), menoth white (bleached bone), and boltgun metal

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Step 3: wash red w devlan, bone w/sepia, boltgun w/badab black. Generally I use 2 coats, and I mix it with water and matte medium which thins it and makes it cover better. Wash the areas you want gold (iron halo, head of crozius) w/sepia twice to get the gold effect

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Step 4: go back and clean up/highlight with the base colors. This works because they are all darker because of the washes now, so when you go back with the base color its now a highlight

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Step 5: highlight each color. Red gets mixed with elf flesh, 2:1. Use menoth white highlight to highlight bone (or bleached bone+white). Boltgun gets highlihgted w mithril

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Step 6: red gets one final highlight, which is skorne red+elf flesh+a touch of orange

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Step 7: time to work the black. Mix black w/ adeptus battlegrey, about 1:1. Use this to cover most of the black, leaving some in the darker areas, undersides of arms, etc. Then use a little badab black to blend the edge of this highlight so it transitions smoothly.

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Step 8: this is a thin, edge highlight of adeptus

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Step 9: final edge highlight, right on the tiniest highest points. Adeptus + menoth white highlight (or skull white).

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Step 10: basecoat gems/eye lenses/seals in dark angels green, basecoat purity seal papers in bestial brown (i used p3 equiv)

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Step 11: (blurry photo, sorry) apply iosan green (snot green) highlight to seals and gems/eyes. Wash seal papers with badab black

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Step 12: highlight green w/scorpion green, highlight seals with bestial, then bestial+bleached bone

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Step 13: finish gems with one more step of green, scorp+white. apply black dot to upper corners, place smaller white dot in that to finish gems. Drybrush base w/adeptus grey, then astro grey. Apply bone white static grass to base, clean up edges w/black. highlight gold areas with small mithril highlights. touch up any problem areas. This motherfucker is done!

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