Citadel Miniatures Painting Guide: Part One

April 2012·pp. 42–49

THE SHORT VERSION

A two-page matrix maps basecoats, washes, layers, drybrushing and glazes onto a wide selection of colours and materials, from blue armour and green flesh to bone, metals and textured bases. Eighteen illustrated model examples then show selected sequences in practice, including pale skin, red Daemons, white cloth and several metallic finishes. The guide encourages treating the combinations as a starting point for experimentation rather than a compulsory formula for every miniature.

AT THE PAINTING DESK

Paints in this article

Every named colour below is searchable across the archive.

Caledor Sky Macragge Blue Kantor Blue Daemonette Hide Naggaroth Night Screamer Pink Khorne Red Mephiston Red Jokaero Orange Averland Sunset Drakenhof Nightshade Druchii Violet Carroburg Crimson Reikland Fleshshade Casandora Yellow Teclis Blue Altdorf Guard Blue Alaitoc Blue Warpfiend Grey Xereus Purple Pink Horror Wazdakka Red Evil Sunz Scarlet Troll Slayer Orange Yriel Yellow Lothern Blue Calgar Blue Hoeth Blue Slaanesh Grey Genestealer Purple Emperor’s Children Squig Orange Wild Rider Red Fire Dragon Bright Flash Gitz Yellow Etherium Blue Praxeti White Lucius Lilac Changeling Pink Kindleflame Hexos Palesun Guilliman Blue Bloodletter Lamenters Yellow Steel Legion Drab Zandri Dust Deathworld Forest Castellan Green Waaagh! Flesh Caliban Green Incubi Darkness Stegadon Scale Green The Fang Seraphim Sepia Athonian Camoshade Biel-Tan Green Coelia Greenshade Nuln Oil Tallarn Sand Ushabti Bone Elysian Green Straken Green Loren Forest Warboss Green Warpstone Glow Kabalite Green Sotek Green Russ Grey Karak Stone Screaming Skull Ogryn Camo Nurgling Green Skarsnik Green Moot Green Sybarite Green Temple Guard Blue Fenrisian Grey Terminatus Stone Underhive Ash Hellion Green Skink Blue Waywatcher Green Abaddon Black Mechanicus Standard Grey Dryad Bark Rhinox Hide XV-88 Mournfang Brown Ratskin Flesh Bugman’s Glow Agrax Earthshade Dark Reaper Eshin Grey Dawnstone Gorthor Brown Doombull Brown Balor Brown Tau Light Ochre Skrag Brown Bestigor Flesh Cadian Fleshtone Thunderhawk Blue Administratum Grey Baneblade Brown Tuskgor Fur Zamesi Desert Ungor Flesh Deathclaw Brown Kislev Flesh Longbeard Grey Tyrant Skull Eldar Flesh Warplock Bronze Screaming Bell Balthasar Gold Leadbelcher Rakarth Flesh Celestra Grey Brass Scorpion Hashut Copper Gehenna’s Gold Ironbreaker Pallid Wych Flesh Ulthuan Grey Skavenblight Dinge Runelord Brass Sycorax Bronze Auric Armour Gold Runefang Steel White Scar Stormvermin Fur Golden Griffon Necron Compound Armageddon Dust Astrogranite Lustrian Undergrowth Blackfire Earth Mourn Mountain Snow Stirland Mud

Only explicitly named paints and recipe ingredients are indexed. Source prints Death World Forest; indexed under the canonical paint label Deathworld Forest.

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Find this article in White Dwarf 388, pp. 42–49.

Contents describes24 stage guides, while the introduction says18; pages44–49 contain18 illustrated examples, alongside the larger colour matrix on42–43.

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

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