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Gold 4 steps The basecoat, wash, highlight sequence most metal is built on. Ultramarine Armour 4 steps The same idea with an edge highlight, which is what makes armour read as armour. Rust 3 steps Stippling and drybrushing, and hard to get wrong. Ork Flesh 9 steps The whole ladder: a basecoat, two layers, a highlight, then glazes to blend it together.

Every miniature I have painted, with the paints and the steps to paint it again.

Paint Schemes

How I painted each model: the exact paints, the order they went on, and the finish they gave.

Before you start, and what the technique words mean
Thin your paint
Almost everything here goes on thinner than it comes out of the pot. Neat paint dries thick and fills in the detail you paid for. Add water a drop at a time on a palette until it runs somewhere between milk and heavy cream, depending on the brand, then build the colour up in two or three coats rather than one.
Start on a primed model
Unless a step says otherwise, every recipe here begins on a model that has already been primed - paint will not sit properly on bare plastic. Black unless the scheme says otherwise, which is what most of these were painted over.
The same words mean two things
Wash, shade and layer are both things you do and names Citadel puts on pots. The badge on a step is the action. The Type column in the paint list is which range the pot came from. A step badged "layer" is often painted with a Base paint, and that is not a mistake.
basecoat
The first solid colour over primer. Two thin coats beat one thick one.
highlight
A lighter colour on the parts that would catch the light.
layer
A slightly lighter colour over part of the coat below, leaving its edges showing.
wash
Thin, watery paint that runs into the recesses and shades the whole area at once.
edge
A highlight along a sharp edge only, painted with the side of the brush.
shade
Darker paint placed deliberately in the shadows rather than left to flow.
glaze
Heavily thinned paint over dry paint, to tint it and soften the join between two colours.
stipple
Dabbed on with the tip of the brush for a broken, rough, mottled surface.
drybrush
Almost-dry paint dragged across raised texture so it catches only the high points.
blend
Two colours worked into each other while both are wet, so there is no visible line.
special
Anything that is not one of the above. The step note says what it is.

Saturnine Praetor

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Iron Warriors30k / HHAugust 2026
FinishHeavy industrial, worn
PrimaryDarkened metallics
ContrastBright hazard stripes
TechniqueGlazing, edge wear, pigment weathering
BASE (Armour)
BaseLeadbelcher
ARMOUR (Tone Down)
GlazeWyldwood + medium
ShadeBlack Templar (recesses)
WEAR / EDGES
HighlightBright Silver (chips, scratches)
OIL TINT
GlazeShyish Purple (light)
Re-establishSilver where needed
RUST / CORROSION
RecessRhinox Hide
VariationDoombull Brown / Mournfang Brown
TRIM
BaseRunelord Brass
WashAgrax Earthshade
CAPE
BaseBurnt Red
ShadowBurnt Red + Coal Black 9:1
HighlightBurnt Red + Ice Yellow 7:1
HAMMER GRIP
BaseKhorne Red
WashNuln Oil
HighlightMephiston Red
PLASMA GUN
Follow Plasma Glow Reipe
BLACK ELEMENTS
BaseMatte black finish (clean, non-reflective)
EdgeEshinStandard Grey
HAZARD STRIPES
RecipeIron Warrior Hazard Stripes
RecipeIron Warrior Armour
  1. 1
    basecoatLeadbelcherCitadel
    Base all armour·Golden Maple WC32 Arrow Point 2
  2. 2
    glazeWyldwoodCitadel
    Thinned and concentrated to base of plates·Golden Maple WC32 Arrow Point 2
  3. 3
    shadeShyish PurpleCitadel
    In the deepest recesses for that oily look·Artis Opus Series S 1
  4. 4
    shadeDoombull BrownCitadel
    Dirty up some deep recesses·Artis Opus Series S 1
  5. 5
    basecoatRunelord BrassCitadel
    Base all trim·Artis Opus Series S 1
  6. 6
    washAgrax EarthshadeCitadel
    Wash all brass·Artis Opus Series S 1
  7. 7
    highlightMechanicus Standard GreyCitadel
    Inside all black plates·Artis Opus Series S 1
  8. 8
    shadeDoombull BrownCitadel
    Run into armour seems·Artis Opus Series S 00
  9. 9
    specialNihilakh OxideCitadel
    Few oxide spots on brass·Artis Opus Series S 00
RecipeIron Warrior Hazard Stripes
  1. 1
    basecoatSC00 (Matte Black)Scale75
    Base plate·Artis Opus Series S 3
  2. 2
    basecoatDeck Tan (70.986)Vallejo
    Freehand in stripes·Artis Opus Series S 1
  3. 3
    shadeImperial FistCitadel
    Use as a wash over Deck Tan·Artis Opus Series S 1
  4. 4
    layerSC00 (Matte Black)Scale75
    Touch up if necessary, weather into yellow·Artis Opus Series S 00
  5. 5
    edgeIce Yellow (70.858)Vallejo
    Edge all stripes, around weathering too·Artis Opus Series S 00
  6. 6
    washFuegan OrangeCitadel
    Mix with medium, fade up to middle from bottom of stripe·Artis Opus Series S 1
RecipePlasma Glow
  1. 1
    basecoatBold Titanium WhitePro Acryl
    Base weapon area·Artis Opus Series S 1
  2. 2
    drybrushBaharroth BlueCitadel
    Brush top of glow - spreading onto metal·Artis Opus Series D Small
  3. 3
    drybrushTemple Guard BlueCitadel
    Very light, very top·Artis Opus Series D Small
  4. 4
    highlightBold Titanium WhitePro Acryl
    Reestablish highlight glow·Artis Opus Series S 00
Other Paints
Khorne RedCitadel⇆Burnt RedPro Acryl⇆Bold Pyrrole RedPro Acryl⇆Coal BlackPro Acryl⇆Retributor ArmourCitadel⇆Reikland FleshshadeCitadel⇆Mephiston RedCitadel⇆Evil Sunz ScarletCitadel⇆Burnt OrangePro Acryl⇆Wild Rider RedCitadel⇆Nuln OilCitadel⇆Eshin GreyCitadel⇆

Recipes

Methods I reuse across models - skin, metal, armour, cloth and the rest. Each step is one named paint, one technique and a note. Unless a step says otherwise, every recipe here starts on a primed model - the scheme that uses it usually says which colour.

Before you start, and what the technique words mean
Thin your paint
Almost everything here goes on thinner than it comes out of the pot. Neat paint dries thick and fills in the detail you paid for. Add water a drop at a time on a palette until it runs somewhere between milk and heavy cream, depending on the brand, then build the colour up in two or three coats rather than one.
Start on a primed model
Unless a step says otherwise, every recipe here begins on a model that has already been primed - paint will not sit properly on bare plastic. Black unless the scheme says otherwise, which is what most of these were painted over.
The same words mean two things
Wash, shade and layer are both things you do and names Citadel puts on pots. The badge on a step is the action. The Type column in the paint list is which range the pot came from. A step badged "layer" is often painted with a Base paint, and that is not a mistake.
basecoat
The first solid colour over primer. Two thin coats beat one thick one.
highlight
A lighter colour on the parts that would catch the light.
layer
A slightly lighter colour over part of the coat below, leaving its edges showing.
wash
Thin, watery paint that runs into the recesses and shades the whole area at once.
edge
A highlight along a sharp edge only, painted with the side of the brush.
shade
Darker paint placed deliberately in the shadows rather than left to flow.
glaze
Heavily thinned paint over dry paint, to tint it and soften the join between two colours.
stipple
Dabbed on with the tip of the brush for a broken, rough, mottled surface.
drybrush
Almost-dry paint dragged across raised texture so it catches only the high points.
blend
Two colours worked into each other while both are wet, so there is no visible line.
special
Anything that is not one of the above. The step note says what it is.

Paint Inventory

The paints I actually own - every pot on my shelf, not a catalogue of what exists. This is what the schemes and recipes are painted with.

PaintBrandTypeHueUsed in

Paint Conversion Chart

Citadel colours matched to their closest Vallejo, Pro Acryl and Two Thin Coats equivalents, by eye, over time. Nothing here is a measured colour match - the dots say how close each one really is.

Still filling this in: 8 of the 108 colours used in the recipes here have no row yet. Mostly Vallejo. A blank means not mapped, not that no equivalent exists.

How close the match is: near identical usable avoid

CitadelVallejoPro AcrylTwo Thin Coats