Undercoat your model with Chaos Black. Start off by painting the cloak Scorched Brown. Leave the interior of tattered tears and deep crevasses in the cape Chaos Black. Grab Boltgun Metal and a good brush. It's time for an important basecoat. Very carefully outline each armour plate so that Chaos Black is left in the centre of each plate. Outline means just that - paint a very thin line around the edges of the armour plates. Click the larger image icon above for a better idea as to what we mean. Continue using Boltgun Metal to pick out the shield insignia and paint the model's helmet. Clean your water before moving on to step two.

Water down Liche Purple and paint the shield. It may take a few coats to do this properly, so be patient. Heavily drybrush the shoulder fur with Shadow Grey. Water down some Dark Flesh and give the cloak another coat of paint. Keeping the same colour on your brush, paint the model's gloves, any strings, and belt. Leave some Chaos Black showing through in order to add some depth to these areas. Apply Dwarf Bronze to some of the model's decorative bits like chest skulls, the shoulder spike, and weapon hilts. As always, clean your water after you use metallics.

Start to highlight the cloak with a watered-down Tanned Flesh. Mostly apply this to the lower edges of the cape, with only a bit extending to the middle of the cape. Make a 2:1 mix of Shadow Grey to Space Wolves Grey and drybrush this mix onto the shoulder fur. Follow this with a very light drybrush of straight Space Wolves Grey onto just the tips of the fur. Mix a tiny drop of Chaos Black with Codex Grey and highlight the edges and folds of the boots with a few well placed thin brush strokes. Use Warlock Purple to edge the shield. Use the side of your brush to achieve this thin line around the shield. Very carefully drybrush the chainmail tabard with Dwarf Bronze. You'll see how this part of the model takes to drybrushing really well. This should be drilled into your head by now, but don't forget to change you water.

Now it's ink time. First, apply a bit of slightly watered-down Chestnut Ink to the outlined armour plates. Hit only the Boltgun Metal outlines, try to avoid the Chaos Black areas. This is meant to tinge the metal just slightly. So be careful. Paint the ink onto the areas you want it to go. Do not just slather the model with ink and hope it comes out okay! Be precise and sop up any excessive ink pooling. Heavily water down some Purple Ink and apply this to the model's helmet, weaponry, and shield insignia. It may take two coats of this watery ink to achieve the result. Be patient. Going back to Chestnut Ink, apply a heavily watered-down coat over the cape to give it a moist look. It's important to let all your inks dry completely before continuing further! So take a break or work on another Chaos Warrior while the ink dries.

Finish your model by going back over the metallic areas in order to clean the ink up. A very, very careful combination of light drybrushing and selective detail painting will do this effectively. You don't want to obscure the ink completely, just clean it up a bit. Finish up any niggling details like hanging teeth, necklaces, and final coats of colour on helmet horns at this point. A quick drybrush of Bestial Brown along the cape bottom will dirty it up nicely, but this is purely optional. There you have it, one elegant Slaanesh Chaos Warrior all set to cavort across the Old World in style.