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  Of all the Powers of Chaos, the daemons of Nurgle have always been my favourite. There's something captivating about their grotesque, despair-inducing appearance contrasted with their gregarious, almost jovial personalities. I've been collecting a Nurgle daemon army for many years, amassing a large force of Plaguebearers along the way. The classic green and brown palette has been a staple of my collection, reflecting the decay and corruption at the heart of the Plague god's followers. Despite their foul nature, I've always found a strange charm in these embodiments of entropy. Paints Used: Chaos Black Spray Zandri Dust Cassandora Yellow Reikland Fleshshade Ushabti Bone Lahmian Medium Athonian Camoshade Biel-Tan Green Druchii Violet Ogryn Camo Screamer Pink Pink Horror Blood Angels Red Red Wash (Army Painter) Averland Sunset Yriel Yellow Abaddon Black Agrax EarthShade Karak Stone Screaming Skull Pallid Wych Flesh Leadbelcher Nuln Oil Skrag Brown Trollslayer Orange Fire...

The Idoneth are the Sea Aelves of Age of Sigmar. This made me want to paint these Aelves with a range of blue colours.  More of my  How to paint... articles  can be found here. Undercoat with Chaos Black Akhelian Flesh Basecoat with a 1:1:1 mix of Cadian Fleshtone, Kislev Flesh and White Scar. This will need a few thin coats to get a smooth finish. Shade the recesses with thinned (with Lahmian Medium) Reikland Fleshshade. Further shade the deeper recesses with Reikland Fleshshade. Highlight the flesh with :1:1 mix of Cadian Fleshtone, Kislev Flesh and White Scar. Further highlights with the previous mix with additional White Scar.  Namarti Flesh Basecoat with Ionrach Skin. The paint should be thinned with water and applied in several coats to get a nice smooth finish. Recess shade with a mix of Ionrach Skin and Dark Reaper. Add further Dark Reaper for deeper recesses. Tidy up with Ionrach Flesh. Highlight with Deepkin Flesh. Subtle highlights with Deepkin Flesh mixe...

As I continue to work through the various Warhammer Underworlds warbands, I finally reached Skittershank's Clawpack. The Clawpack are a group of Clan Eshin Skaven. I decided to paint them in classic scheme of brown fur and black robes. Here is my guide.  More of my  How to paint... articles  can be found here. Undercoats The miniature was undercoated with Chaos Black spray . I then gave the whole miniature a basecoat of Mournfang Brown thinned, with water. Once the basecoat was dry, I gave the fur a very light drybrush with Karak Stone .  This may look a little harsh but the washes will fix this in a later stage. Basecoats The next main step, was to block in all the basecoats on the miniature. I began with the flesh on the nose, ears, hands and feet. This was painted with a 1:1 mix of Bugman's Glow and Cadian Fleshtone . I made sure to feather the edges between the fur and flesh on the hands and feet. The eyes were painted in with Mephiston Red.  The tail was p...

The Flesh Hounds of Khorne are crimson hued half-canine, half-reptilian hunting beasts. Their blank-white eyes are hooded beneath hooded brows and their slavering mouths are full of razor sharp fangs. They have blood matted hair running down their backs and across their shoulders and around their necks are great brazen collars, forged at Khorne's feet.  This is the description of the Flesh hounds, I wanted to achieve in my painting. More of my  How to paint... articles  can be found here. Including Bloodletters of Khorne and Daemonettes of Slaanesh. Paints Required: Chaos Black spray Khorne Red Wazdakka Red Nuln Oil Rhinox Hide Cadian Fleshtone Druchii Violet Carroburg Crimson Warplock Bronze Brass Scorpion Runelord Brass Agrax Earthshade Warpfiend Grey Ulthuan Grey Mechanicum Standard Grey Ushabti Bone Dawnstone Administratum Grey Screamer Pink Undercoat with Chaos Black spray. To begin with basecoat all of the flesh of the miniature with Khorne Red . A little water was...

I have really enjoyed painting the Azyrite Ruins and other terrain features for Warcry and the Age of Sigmar. I am beginning to amass a good range of pieces.  Having finished the stonework on these structures, the next next large sections to paint were the wooden planks that make up the broken floors and of course the bell tower. I wanted the wood to be a different colour from the stone but equally to appear as though it did belong in the ruins. I intended to basecoat the 'wood' with grey before shifting its hue with browns and then finishing it off with greens. I recently did an update of this method. I did not like the glossy look of the contrast paint. So I have experimented a little to change the paints I have used. The update is in blue . More of my  How to paint... articles  can be found here.  Paints required: Skavenblight Dinge Wyldwood Agrax Earthshade Rakarth Flesh Deathworld Forest Elysian Green Seraphim Sepia Chaos Black Spray I undercoated the wood ...

When I was painting the Timeworn Ruins, the sheer number of skulls on these pieces really annoyed me. So, I decided to cover them. Then, while out walking, I noticed lots of stone walls covered in moss. I had my idea, now ' how to do it? '.  More of my  How to paint... articles  can be found here.  Materials and paints required: Flock PVA Glue Castellan Green Athonian Camoshade Agrax Earthshade Elysian Green Ogryn Camo Lamenters Yellow Waywatchers Green Biel-tan Green Spatula to apply the 'Moss'. Medium sized round-ended brush Wash brush The 'Moss' is applied to the miniature after everything else is painted. First of all I mix up the Flock and PVA Glue to make a paste. To this add enough Castellan Green and Athonian Camoshade to colour the paste. The paste will dry darker as the white glue becomes transparent. The paste should be runny enough to not crumble when it is applied and but stiff enough to retain its shape when you apply it. If it is too runny, add...

Over the years, one of my favourite aspects of playing Warhammer has been sending my fully painted army across a board with great terrain.  The really nice feature of terrain is that can be painted easily and quickly with just a few basic techniques, and still look amazing on the table top, no matter how much experience you have. For this tutorial, I am using the Azyrite Ruins. More of my  How to paint... articles  can be found here.  Paints required: Mechanicum Standard Grey Dawnstone Administratum Grey Athonian Camoshade Elysian Green Karak Stone Screaming Skull Agrax Earthshade (optional) Seraphim Sepia (optional) Nuln Oil (optional) Grey Seer (optional) The terrain was first undercoated with Chaos Black. This was then followed by a drybrush with Mechanicum Standard Grey.  I like to use a fairly large, round-ended brush (I have a make-up brush) when I drybrush terrain. When drybrushing, I move the brush around in a circular motion, focusing on raised areas an...

I am a big fan of Aelves in Warhammer Underworlds. I also like to paint with a classic palette of colours for each race. So far, I have painted my Lumineth in Blue & White and my Kurnothi in Green & Brown. The Daughters of Khaine are effectively a death cult. As such, I wanted to represent this in their paint scheme. My Witch Aelves from Morgwaeth's Blade Coven are going to be painted in Red and Black, which will then be a counter point to my Lumineth.  I was really pleased to have my Blade Coven shown on Warhammer Hobby Round Up back in November of 2020.  More of my  How to paint... articles  can be found here. Paints Required: Wraithbone spray Chaos Black spray Rakarth Flesh Reikland Fleshwash Abaddon Black Mephiston Red Leadbelcher Black Templar Carroburg Crimson Nuln Oil Gloss Ushabti Bone Lahmian Medium  Pallid Wych Flesh Evil Suns Scarlet Wild Rider Red Ironbreaker Stormhost Silver Screaming Bell Reikland Fleshwash Gloss Hashut Copper Sycorax Bronz...