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Brush Tips: Hobgrots

December 2025·p. 61

THE SHORT VERSION

The Hobgrot recipes deliberately depart from the clean, opulent Helsmiths. Dirty rags, sackcloth and muted skin mark out an exploited workforce, with burgundy collars supplying the only real link to their masters’ purple. Two skin recipes and guides for leather, orange and brown cloth, and worn armour give painters a varied but coherent set of colours for the mob.

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Hobgrot HideDeepkin FleshSkrag BrownDoombull BrownIonrach SkinCatachan FleshtoneWraithboneUshabti BoneBarak-Nar BurgundyBloodreaver FleshAbaddon BlackKnight-Questor FleshRakarth FleshKhorne RedRatskin FleshBestigor FleshFlayed One FleshXV-88Zandri DustRhinox HideKarak StoneIron WarriorsNuln OilAethermatic BlueIronbreakerStormhost Silver

Only paints explicitly named in the article or its recipe tables are indexed; mixtures are indexed by their constituent named paints.

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