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Brush Tips: Helsmiths of Hashut

December 2025·pp. 56–58

THE SHORT VERSION

Max and Connor explain how tyranny, vanity, industry and perfectionism shaped the Helsmiths’ official colour scheme. Purple cloth and warm metallic trim communicate status, but the armour remains dark and industrial, its purple tint suggesting extraordinary metalworking rather than ordinary enamel. Sinister green daemonfire and cool, unnatural skin distinguish the army from other duardin and the major Chaos Gods.

Detailed recipes provide the core armour, weapons, several cloth colours, leather, skin tones and beards. The painters describe thin glazing as the means of connecting successive colours rather than treating every swatch as a hard boundary, while the daemonfire recipe uses unnatural hues to reinforce the faction’s diabolical character.

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Warplock BronzeSigvald BurgundyAbaddon BlackCastellax BronzeStormhost SilverDarkoath FleshWord Bearers RedIron WarriorsTargor RageshadeIronbreakerBlack LegionLupercal GreenSkeleton HordeCygor BrownStegadon Scale GreenGal Vorbak RedBlue HorrorAdministratum GreyScreamer PinkGenestealer PurpleSotek GreenDoomfire MagentaEmperor’s ChildrenScreaming SkullBarak-Nar BurgundyUshabti BoneWhite ScarEshin GreyDryad BarkStormvermin FurDeepkin FleshKnight-Questor FleshRhinox HideRakarth FleshSons of Horus GreenCadian FleshtoneDeath Korps DrabWraithboneBaneblade BrownIonrach SkinGorthor BrownStraken GreenCastellan GreenKarak StoneDawnstoneSkavenblight DingeCorax WhiteStriking Scorpion GreenGauss Blaster GreenIncubi DarknessLuxion Purple

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