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The Shadow of Chaos
GETTING STARTED WITH HORDES OF CHAOS
PAINTING CHAOS WARRIORS


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Chaos Warrior

Undivided Chaos Warriors may not be super flashy or colourful, but that just means that they don't mess around with funny colour schemes and insignia, which means that they are bit easier to paint. Sticking mainly to leather and dinged up armour, they are also the most realistic looking.

Follow the detailed instructions and check out the stage-by-stage images for reference as you paint your models. Don't fret if the model doesn't come out picture perfect in the end; painting takes time and practice to master. Just do the best you can each time and be open to learning new techniques from others. Before you know it, you'll be quite an accomplished painter with models you'll be proud to game with!

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Undercoat your model with Chaos Black. Start off by painting the metal components of the model. Use Boltgun Metal to neatly paint each armour plate, the shield, weaponry, the helmet, and chainmail tabard. Clean your water before moving to step two.

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Apply Scorched Brown to the model's cape, shoulder fur, boots, gloves, belt, weapon haft, and handle wrapping. Next, paint Dwarf Bronze onto a few of the model's details like the knee cap and horn tips. Once again, clean out your water.


3

Heavily drybrush the model's cape and shoulder fur with Dark Flesh. Water down the same colour and highlight the boots, gloves, belt, weapon haft, and handle wrapping. Use carefully placed thin lines to achieve this effect. Water down Scab Red and pick out the Chaos star on the model's shield. A few coats will do the trick, so be patient. At this point, your model is perfectly acceptable for tabletop gaming! The final steps below will take the model from being good to great.



4

Now it's ink time. First, apply a bit of slightly watered-down Brown Ink to all the Boltgun Metal areas. 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 the Brown Ink and apply this to the model's cape to give it a deeper leathery look. Now, use watered-down Chestnut Ink and apply it to the Dwarf Bronze areas. Water this down a bit further and apply a second coat to the model's shield and weaponry to create a sort of two-tone crud wash. 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.

 
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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 or stippling and selective detail painting will do this effectively. You don't want to obscure the ink completely, just clean it up a bit. Build up the Chaos star on the shield by mixing Scab Red with Blood Red in even amounts. Then go back and highlight the tips of the star with watered-down Blood Red. Lightly drybrush the shoulder fur with Bestial Brown. Finish up any niggling details like hanging teeth, skulls, necklaces, and final coats of colour on helmet horns at this point. Your Undivided Chaos Warrior may not be as pretty to look upon as a Slaanesh Chaos Warrior, but he certainly means business. After all, it's all about swords and axes, not silk capes and intricate embroidery!

 

Click on the icons below for each power of Chaos to see how to paint the different warriors of the Dark Gods.

The Colours of Chaos Tzeentch Khorne Slaanesh Nurgle
Tzeentch | Khorne | Slaanesh | Nurgle | Undivided

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