Painting Armour: Imperial Armour Styling

THE SHORT VERSION

Paul shares the simple metallic sequence that helped him adapt from 40K surfaces to Empire armour. Brass underpainting, successive silver drybrushes and a thinned brown ink wash build a worn finish, with a bright final detail layer restoring the edges and sword after shading.

AT THE PAINTING DESK

Paints in this article

Every named colour below is searchable across the archive.

Brazen Brass↗Boltgun Metal↗Chainmail↗Brown Ink↗Mithril Silver↗

Only explicitly named paints used in the feature are indexed.

Back to the original

Find this article in White Dwarf 301, p. 44.

This is an original summary. Refer to your magazine for the complete article, rules, images and painting steps.