
GETTING STARTED WITH HORDES OF CHAOS
PAINTING CHAOS WARRIORS
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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. |
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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. |
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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! |
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Click on the icons below for each power of Chaos to see how
to paint the different warriors of the Dark Gods.
Tzeentch | Khorne
| Slaanesh | Nurgle
| Undivided
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