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    Anon's Shitty Guide To Colourful Plaguebearers: Because You Asked For It, I'm Not Even A Particularly Good Painter

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    This document provides a 5-step guide to painting colourful plaguebearers in a quick and easy style: 1. Prime and base coat the miniatures with light blue, pink, yellow or grey. Drybrush with white and highlight as needed. 2. Wash the entire miniature with multiple colors like Seraphim Sepia and Guilliman Blue to create variation across the models. 3. Shade recesses with a dark blue wash like Drakenhof Nightshade. 4. Use thin layers of Casandora Yellow to paint areas meant to look bruised or diseased. 5. Repeat step 4 with Carroburg Crimson to add red areas, blending the edges to

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    This document provides a 5-step guide to painting colourful plaguebearers in a quick and easy style: 1. Prime and base coat the miniatures with light blue, pink, yellow or grey. Drybrush with white and highlight as needed. 2. Wash the entire miniature with multiple colors like Seraphim Sepia and Guilliman Blue to create variation across the models. 3. Shade recesses with a dark blue wash like Drakenhof Nightshade. 4. Use thin layers of Casandora Yellow to paint areas meant to look bruised or diseased. 5. Repeat step 4 with Carroburg Crimson to add red areas, blending the edges to

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    This document provides a 5-step guide to painting colourful plaguebearers in a quick and easy style: 1. Prime and base coat the miniatures with light blue, pink, yellow or grey. Drybrush with white and highlight as needed. 2. Wash the entire miniature with multiple colors like Seraphim Sepia and Guilliman Blue to create variation across the models. 3. Shade recesses with a dark blue wash like Drakenhof Nightshade. 4. Use thin layers of Casandora Yellow to paint areas meant to look bruised or diseased. 5. Repeat step 4 with Carroburg Crimson to add red areas, blending the edges to

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    Anon's Shitty Guide To Colourful Plaguebearers: Because You Asked For It, I'm Not Even A Particularly Good Painter

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    This document provides a 5-step guide to painting colourful plaguebearers in a quick and easy style: 1. Prime and base coat the miniatures with light blue, pink, yellow or grey. Drybrush with white and highlight as needed. 2. Wash the entire miniature with multiple colors like Seraphim Sepia and Guilliman Blue to create variation across the models. 3. Shade recesses with a dark blue wash like Drakenhof Nightshade. 4. Use thin layers of Casandora Yellow to paint areas meant to look bruised or diseased. 5. Repeat step 4 with Carroburg Crimson to add red areas, blending the edges to

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    Anons Shitty Guide to Colourful Plaguebearers

    Because you asked for it, Im not even a particularly good painter.
    Step 1: Prep and base coat

    1. Wash sprues, assemble minis, greenstuff the gaps because they are huge.
    2. Prime light grey or white.
    3. Base coat light blue (vallejo sky blue), light pink (emperors children), yellow (yriel) and white/light grey.
    4. Drybrush white, go back and highlight any bits that need it. A rough finish to the highlight is fine, it adds texture. Vary the
    amount of white from model to model.
    Step 2: Wash

    Wash the entire miniature in one go, ensuring no areas are left unwashed
    Colours used (left to right):
    as this will leave tide marks.

    1, 2 & 3 (Grey/white base): Seraphim sepia and water then guilliman


    When washing get the entire mini covered with your main colour quickly,
    blue.
    using water to vary the intensity of the wash, then dab in secondary
    4 (Pink base): Heavy guilliman blue then small amounts of sepia.
    colours while this is still wet to create variation. You will see how the
    5 (Pink base): Seraphin sepia and water then guilliman blue.
    washes interact with one another - when you introduce a second colour it
    6 (Blue base): Beil Tan Green and water then casandora yellow and
    will displace the main colour, you can leave this as it is or you can mix
    small amounts of vallejo transparent green.
    them together on the model. They will tend to blend together and look
    7 (Blue base): Seraphim sepia and water then guilliman blue.
    softer as they dry.
    8 (Blue base): Seraphim sepia and water then casandora yellow and
    small amounts of vallejo transparent green.
    As you add more colours you will end up with too much liquid on the 9 (Yellow base): Seraphim sepia and water then guilliman blue.
    model. Use an empty brush to siphon off some of the excess. You can 10 (Yellow base): Seraphim sepia and water then guilliman blue and
    keep adding more colour after this if needed. Keep playing until you are small amounts of bloodletter glaze.
    happy.
    Picking colours:

    Use the CMYK subtractive colour wheel to get


    where you want and figure out which colours to
    use on which base coats. This is the reason I use
    colours close to cyan, yellow and magenta as my
    base colours, it makes it easier to get to any other
    colour while keeping the unit looking balanced.

    Some colours like vallejo transparent green are


    opaque enough and bright enough to kind of
    ignore the darkening effect of washes but mostly
    washes will make the model darker, which is why I
    try and stick to one main wash to get the main
    colour of the mini.
    Step 3: Shading

    Use a dark blue wash (I use drakenhoff nightshade) to shade between their legs and under their arms and neck. Make sure to
    blend out the edges with a damp brush to avoid tide marks. You could skip this I guess but I think it adds a lot of depth. If it
    begins to look too blue use some agrax, red wash or green wash to move it in the direction you want. Shadows should be more
    neutral than the areas around them.
    Step 4: Yellow

    Paint casandora yellow around all the areas you want to be discoloured bruised looking, including boils, spines, wounds.

    You can either use very thin layers to build up the colour or you can blob it on and use a damp brush to blend it out, either way
    try and avoid tide marks. The aim is soft transitions. Its pretty easy with casandora yellow, it is a 10/10 paint.
    Step 5: Red n ting

    Repeat step 4 but with carroburg crimson. This paint loves to make tide marks so be careful to make sure the edges are
    blended out, I prefer multiple very thin layers to glaze it on for this. Vary the amount of layers you do on each guy so that the
    colours are more varied. Takes a while but looks good.
    Step 6:
    Highlight
    I hardly do any of this on
    plaguebearers and
    nurglings, only where it
    really needs it, but on more
    important stuff like this
    herald Ive done a lot to
    define the features of the
    model. I like to glaze on
    mostly layers of bone to
    build a translucent skin-like
    texture. I also use red, green
    and blue for variation. Give
    some thought to where really
    needs it, dont just splodge it
    on, it will look shite.
    Pink bits and teeth: Base with screamer pink, highlight with pink horror and emperors children. Paint the
    Details: teeth with a bone colour, I use pallid witch flesh.

    Eyes: Nuln oil then white eyes. The black outline helps the miniature a lot.
    Swords: Silver. Sponge on Vallejo burnt umber, saddle brown and transparent orange, wash sepia and fine
    Details: line highlight with silver.

    Boils: Yriel yellow highlighted with bone.

    Horns: Black lol

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