I used warpaints dark tone ink nuln oil to shade the wood and metal.
Citadel charadon granite.
Located between the stone summit hotbeds tasca s demise and spearhead peak the granite citadel is a grand fortress held by the deldrimor dwarves a safe harbor in a deadly ocean of hostility the outpost here sells relief to weary adventurers.
Bastion grey anthartic.
The wooden parts got a basecoat of old charadon granite skavenblight dinge is close.
While the thornwood green is a shade lighter than the granite it is darker than the stormvermin fur.
The middle is the old chardon granite and the far right is the new stormvermin fur.
The paints were a smash hit charadon granite is.
As a final touch i later mixed some vallejo white in with the citadel charadon granite and very lightly dry brushed this.
Then i applied a wash of tap dark tone ink nuln oil.
I also do something similar with citadel charadon granite but this is darker closer to a base layer shade and really just needs progressive lightening for the mid and highlight.
It was then simply dry brushed using more charadon granite.
Click here to find a paint conversion chart for old citadel charadon granite.
I basecoated the wood with old citadel charadon granite skavenblight dinge is the closest though it s a lot less brownish.
Heavy charcoal 155 german grey 995 iv 02 pure black 9103 2.
The far left is p3 thornwood green.
So i scooped one up to see just how close.
Here is the ultimate painting matrix comparing the games workshop citadel paints with every known equivalent.
The effigy was initially undercoated using two coats of the old citadel layer paint charadon granite and subsequently heavily washed with nuln oil.
I drybrushed the wood with formula p3 bastion grey stormfiend grey is closest then added a brush highlight of bastion grey where needed.
Please note hex codes are all approximate double check before you get a batch of paint made up to match that colour.
This website has model paint conversation charts for paints from different model hobby paints manufacturers for any scale models or miniatures.
You can recognise a miniature from this time by the liberal use of the colour and more likely than not a bright green base.
Citadel actually have a bunch of great new greys that i am just experimenting with now.
In the bottle it looks super close to the old charadon granite.
