Games Workshop - Citadel Colour Layer: Sycorax Bronze (12ml) Paint

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This dude is probably the most straightforward of the bunch; he’s basically all robes, wood, and bone, which you should get used to painting with this set.

Raven Guard: The Raven Guard is a faction of the Warhammer 40K universe known for their stealth and covert operations. Their armor is often adorned with intricate and ornate details, and their machinery and equipment are often made of advanced and corrupted materials. Sycorax Bronze is an excellent choice for painting the bronze elements of the Raven Guard’s armies, as it gives them a sense of ancient and weathered metal, which perfectly fits the image of the stealth and covert nature of the Raven Guard. Add in a little more Mephiston Red and layer up again, concentrating on raised areas where light would hit The Warhammer 40K universe is full of diverse factions and armies, each with their own unique aesthetic and color scheme. When it comes to painting with Sycorax Bronze, there are a few Space Marine armies that particularly stand out as a great fit. Context: I'm a relatively beginner painter of about a year and I have a Necron army that I have to paint. I don't paint every day but I try to make it a consistent thing I do multiple times a week. I've binged watched a shit ton of tutorial and fundamentals videos from Vince, Squidmar, Ninjon, Duncan, there's too many to name (but Vince is king, let's be real). I have this fire to get up to competition level painting and I also hate myself so I managed to convince myself that every model is a chance to test higher-level skills and if I mess up well at least it was on some goon model and I don't have to fix it. That means relatively a lot of time spent per model instead of doing some slap-chop method. But that's cool cuz practice is how I get better right? Lenz, Carolyn et al. The Woman's Part. Urbana: University of Illinois P, 1983. pg. 30. ISBN 0-252-01016-7Kott, Jan. The Bottom Translation. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1987. p. 71. ISBN 0-8101-0738-4

If you don’t have a wet palette or just don’t feel like blending up highlights on your rank and files, you could just get away with the base color, recess wash, and Evil Sunz Scarlet and Wild Rider Red highlights. Plumes also are often pretty small so you could just take that same edge highlight approach on them. The scratches are also optional, I just wanted to tie in the worn, beaten look. With that, you should be ready to hit the field with your high fantasy Spartan-adjacent stormzaddies. As for the animals, mounts, and other attendant critters, I usually go for naturalistic schemes drawn from wildlife. I can’t say I’ve really written these down since I didn’t standardize them, but browns and tans will get you where you need to go. I’m real excited to get to grips with the dragons soon and paint them up like Stellagama or Ground Agama lizards.Disclaimer** I will be eventually basing all of my Cursed City on 3D printed bases so the current bases are “temporary”… but if anyone asks, it’s snowing in the decaying city of Ulfenkarn.

To more specifically answer your question, that statue looks like Balthasar gold shaded with Agrax then highlighted with . . . not sure. It's definitely one of their more coppery/bronzy layer paints like Sycorax Bronze, and it could even just be balthasar gold again.

Skails’ Method

Now I’ll just map out my previous techniques onto the parts of the model which repeat textures found earlier in my tutorials: