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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.

Imperial Knights - Knight Questoris

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Free BladeOtherAugust 2026
FinishAncient veteran, battle worn
PrimaryMuted greys and oils
ContrastGreen armour highlights
TechniqueGlazing, edge wear, pigment weathering
BASE
PrimeMatte Black
METAL BODY
BaseGunmetal
Wash 1Nuln oil
Wash 2Agrax (lower half)
Wash 3Shylish Purple (joints)
GREY ARMOUR
BaseDark Warm Grey
Edge warm Grey
Edge 2Bright Warm Grey
Oil WashBurnt Umber
GREEN PANEL ARMOUR
BaseFaded Green
Oil WashBurnt Umber
BLACK TRIM
BaseCoal Black
Edge 1Dark Warm Grey
Edge 1Warm Grey
WEATHERING
Rust BaseDryad Bark
Rust LayerTyphus Corrosion
Rust HighlightsRyza Rust - uber light touch
GLOWY BUTTONS AND EYES
BaseEvil Sunz or Orange Red or Warpstone Green
HighlightOrange Red
DotWhite
RecipeBlack Armour
  1. 1
    basecoatCoal BlackPro Acryl
    Base all that jazz·Harder & Steenbeck Airbrush ULTRA 2024 Medium
  2. 2
    stippleIce Yellow (70.858)Vallejo + Coal BlackPro Acryl (1:2)
    Stipple with torn sponge·Beaky Make-up Sponge Medium
  3. 3
    edgeIce Yellow (70.858)Vallejo + Coal BlackPro Acryl (1:1)
    Add more yellow to the black for scratches and chipped in edges·Artis Opus Series S 1
  4. 4
    highlightIce Yellow (70.858)Vallejo + Coal BlackPro Acryl (2:1)
    If you want to dot highlight the corners (optional)·Artis Opus Series S 1
RecipeBlack Weapons
  1. 1
    basecoatCoal BlackPro Acryl
    Base weapon·Artis Opus Series S 3
  2. 2
    edgeMechanicus Standard GreyCitadel
    Edge all panels·Artis Opus Series S 1
  3. 3
    highlightWolf Grey (72.047)Vallejo
    Dot highlights·Artis Opus Series S 1
  4. 4
    basecoatLeadbelcherCitadel
    Barrels, clips·Vallejo Detail 2
  5. 5
    washNuln OilCitadel
    Barrels, clips·Vallejo Detail 2
RecipeRust
  1. 1
    basecoatDark UmberPro Acryl
    Artis Opus Series S 3
  2. 2
    stippleTyphus CorrosionCitadel
    Vallejo Detail 2
  3. 3
    drybrushRyza RustCitadel
    As light as possible·Artis Opus Series D Small
Other Paints
Agrax EarthshadeCitadel⇆Warm GreyPro Acryl⇆Dark Warm GreyPro Acryl⇆Bright Warm GreyPro AcrylRunelord BrassCitadel⇆Faded GreenPro AcrylKhorne RedCitadel⇆Evil Sunz ScarletCitadel⇆Bold Pyrrole RedPro Acryl⇆Warpstone GlowCitadel⇆GunmetalVallejoShyish PurpleCitadel⇆Orange RedPro Acryl⇆Bold Titanium WhitePro Acryl⇆Dryad BarkCitadel⇆

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