Painting Night Lords

I have been asked by a few people how I paint my Night Lords so i have spent this morning making a quick tutorial explaining how I paint the main armour panels on each miniature.

Stage 1:

Starting with a basecoat of black primer and then painting in all the armour panels with Abaddon Black.

Stage 2:

I painted in armour all the edges of the armour with a 1/1 mix of Abaddon Black and Kantor Blue (Regal Blue is the old colour)

Stage 3:

This time I painted Kantor Blue over the areas leaving the previous colour showing towards the centre of each panel.

Stage 4:

I then washed the armour on the model with Drakenhof Nightshade (old colour is Asurman Blue). My pot is fairly old so seems to give a slight gloss effect when dry which I don't mind at all.

Stage 5:

This time I painted a 1/1 mix of Kantor Blue and Caledor sky (old colour is Enchanted Blue) over the areas as an edge highlight.

Stage 6:

This time I added Fenrisian Grey (old colour is Space Wolves Grey) as a very thin edge highlight and not letting it go to the darker parts of the model such as the inside of the legs. You can also repeat stages 5 and 6 for the lightning patterns, just adding in pure Fenrisian Grey at the points where the lightning arches and splits.

Painting Word Bearers

So the first step is to base the model in your choice of primer. I chose Army Painter's Pure Red because I think it makes the base colour stand out a lot more.

Step 2: Paint the armour with Khorne Red

Step 3: Paint all the metal areas using Leadbelcher

Step 4: Wash all the metal areas with Nuln Oil and also apply to the recesses

Step 5: Highlight all metal areas using Runefang Steel

Step 6: Apply the first highlight of Mephiston Red

Step 7: Apply a highlight of Evil Sunz Scarlet making sure to leave the Mephiston Red showing towards the edges

Step 8: Finally paint Troll Slayer Orange over the previous highlights, again leaving the previous two highlights showing towards the edges

And that's it. Hope this helps someone to paint Word Bearers. Of course you can do it however you wish and don'd have to use the Troll Slayer Orange if you want a darker looking army. All that is left for this model is the arms (obviously) and the battle damage.