Death Master Snikch Stage by Stage

Deathmaster Snikch TutorialAs I was constructing the base for this figure I thought it would be a good idea to show thestages I go through and how I go about getting the results I do when painting figures for display.

Before I even start to put paint on a model I plan out what the colour scheme is going to be, ei-

ther on paper or in the back of my mind. In this case I chose to go with a colour scheme heavily

influenced by the promo pictures for Assassins Creed II as I wanted to do something different to

the traditional all black colour scheme. It is a nice warm palette to which I could contrast with a

cool palette on the building he’s standing on.

Inside of the cloak

Basecoat of Scab Red

Highlight up to Blood Red,

making sure to leave some

of the Scab Red visible in

the recesses.

Highlight of Blood red and

Blazing Orange mix, leav-

ing some of the previous

layer showing.

Highlight with Blazing Or-

ange mixed with Vomit

Brown and glaze medium.

Highlight with pure Blazing

Orange mixed with glaze

medium.

Highlight of the mix from

stage 3 with more Blazing

Orange added.

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Final line highlight of pure

Vomit Brown.

Shaded with Asurmen Blue

mixed with water and glaze

medium. This was painted

in to the recesses of the

cloak in thin layers. This al-

lowed me to build up the

shading with more control.

The whole inside of the

cloak was then glazed with

a mix of Baal Red and

Glaze Medium. This helped

both strengthen the red

colour and tie the layers to-

gether.

Black out the bits which

are going to be painted dif-

ferently later on. This

stage of the process is op-

tional but I like to do it as it

gives me an impression of

what the cloak looks like

finished and allows me to

see if I need to make any

last minute alterations.

In stage 8 I

used Asurman

Blue to shade

the red. To

some this

might seem a

bit of an odd

choice, why

not use a mix

of Scab Red

and Chaos

Black or

Scorched

Brown. The

reason for this

is because of

this colour

wheel.

I came across this while looking for colour wheels. To go into the

details will take too long but in short this “Real Color Wheel” is pri-

marily used in the printing process and as you can see the oppo-

site colour of red on this wheel is Cyan to which the closest I have

is the Asurman Blue. After numerous experiments using this

Wheel I found that it worked best when using glazes/washes to

shade and the more traditional colour wheel works better for the

mixing of paints. So for example I would use Leviathan Purple to

shade Greens, Baal Red to shade Turquoise and Thrakka Green

to shade Purples etc.

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Skin

Basecoat of Tallarn Flesh

Blend up with Tallarn Flesh

leaving some of the

Scorched Brown and Dark

Flesh showing.

A final highlight of The mix

from the stage 6 and Skull

White.

Black out round the skin.

Highlight the tallarn Flesh

with a mix of Tallarn Flesh,

Bleached Bone and

Fortress Grey.

Highlight with the mix from

the previous stage with

some added Bleached

Bone

Scorched Brown mixed

with Glaze Medium and

water painted in to the re-

cesses.

Wash of Dark Flesh mixed

with Glaze Medium and

water.

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Back of Cloak and Trousers

Basecoat of Scorched

Brown with a little Dark An-

gels Green mixed in.

Highlight with mix from

stage 3 and Kommando

Khaki.



Khaki.

Final highlight of Kom-

mando Khaki.



Khaki.



Khaki.



Khaki.

Highlight with Basecoat

mix and Kommando

Khaki.

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4 5 6

7 8

Shaded with Asurmen

Blue and Ogryn Flesh wa-

tered down with water and

glaze medium.

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Hood

Basecoat of Khemri

Brown.

Wash with watered down

Devlan Mud and Asurman

Blue in to the recesses.

Highlight with pure

Bleached Bone.

Final line highlight of

Bleached Bone and Skull

White mix.

Rehighlight with the mix

from Stage 2.


Stage 5 with Bleached

Bone.

Wash with Devlan Mud in

to the recesses.

Highlight with Khemri

Brown and Bleached Bone

mix leaving Khemri Brown

showing in the recesses.

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4 5 6

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Glaze the recesses with

the Glaze Medium added

to the mix from Stage 4.

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Powerbands

Basecoat of Shining Gold

and Scorched Brown mix.

Highlight this with Bur-

nished Gold.

Basecoat of

Boltgun Metal

and Scaly

Green mix.

Highlight this

more with

Chainmail, fur-

ther accentuat-

ing the

reflections on

the metal.

Glaze the

green areas of

the metal with

a mix of Badab

Black and

Thrakka Green,

boosting the

contrast.

Blend up to

Boltgun Metal,

leaving the

green tinted

metal showing

where the dark

areas of metal

would be.

Line highlight

with Mithril Sil-

ver, giving defi-

nition to the

shape of the

blades.

Highlight the Burnished

Gold by adding in a little

Mithril Silver.

Shade with a little Devlan

Mud and Leviation Purple

into the recesses

Highlight with Shining

Gold leaving the Shining

Gold and Scorched mix

showing in the recesses.

Wash with Devlan Mud.

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Poisioned Blades


The Finished Figure

Hope you liked this tutorial and that it has given you a bit of information and insperation that you

might otherwise have come across.

Thank You

Keith Robertson aka Durham_red

All Text, Images and Layout Copyright © Keith Robertson 2009.

Both the name Deathmaster Snikch and model Copyright © Games Workshop Limited2009 All rights reserved. Used without permission.

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