Cloth color

Table of contents

• Pinks
  • Burgundy cloth
  • Dark pink
• Reds
  • Red cloth (traditional)
  • Very dark red (traditional)
  • Dark red
  • Very dark red
  • Faded red
  • Bright red (traditional)
  • Bright red
  • Coral (traditional)
• Blacks
  • Black (traditional)
  • Black (simplified for smaller surfaces)
  • Black
  • Black (simplified)
• Whites
  • Warm white
  • Cold (blue) white
  • Filthy cloth
• Purples
  • Neutral purple
  • Desaturated dark purple
• Yellows
  • Cold Yellow
  • Dark yellow
  • Reddish dark yellow
• Greens
  • Pale green
  • Saturated green cloth
  • Dark green
  • Very dark green
• Brown
  • Light reddish brown
• Blue
  • Saturated blue
  • Light bluish grey
  • Saturated dark blue
• Turqoise
  • Light turqoise
  • Turqoise

Pinks

Burgundy cloth

Basecoat Sigvald Burgundy.

Coat Druchii Violet.

Highlight Warlord Purple + Bonewhite.

Superhighlight Elf Skintone.

Dark pink

Basecoat Sigvald Burgundy.

Coat Shyish Purple.

Highlight Warlord Purple.

Optional superhighlight by mixing in Bonewhite.

Reds

Red cloth (traditional)

Basecoat in gore red.

Mix gore with black (2:1), paint it in the recesses, then use a second damp brush to feather it out towards the ridges.

Mix gore with blood red (1:1), paint it on the ridges, then use a second damp brush to feather it out towards the recesses.

Blood red edge highlight.

Very dark red (traditional)

Basecoat with Charred Brown.

Layer with 1:1 mix of Charred Brown and Dark Fleshtone.

Add Scarlet Red to the mix for a 3rd layer. 

Then highlight the tops of the folds with pure Scarlet Red.

Sharp highlights with Bloody Red.

Dark red

Basecoat Baal Red over Wraithbone.

Coat Flesh Tearers Red.

Coat Carroburg Crimson.

Highlight Bloody Red.

Superhighlight Heavy Skintone.

Very dark red

Basecoat with a 1:1 mix of Flesh Tearers Red and Shyish Purple.

Highlight Heavy Red.

Superhighlight Bloody Red.

Dot Orange Fire.

Faded red

Basecoat Flesh Tearers Red.

Wash Agrax Earthshade.

Edge highlight Reaper Bloody Red.

Bright red (traditional)

Basecoat Heavy Red.

Mix Heavy Red with Charred Brown and water it down to use as a wash in the recesses.

Mix in more Charred Brown and draw the deepest recesses.

Layer the folds Gory Red.

Edge highlight Bloody Red.

Bright red 

Basecoat Blood Angels Red.

Wash Reikland Fleshshade.

Highlight Bloody Red.

Superhighlight Orange Fire.

Coral (traditional)

Basecoat Heavy Orange.

Coat Reikland Fleshshade.

Highlight Heavy Orange.

Superhighlight Bonewhite.

Blacks

Black (traditional)

Prime black. Then basecoat in black.

Mix black with bonewhite. Start off with just a bit of bonewhite, and paint all the raised surfaces. Then add more and more bonewhite to the mix, and paint less and less of the cloak.

By the time its easily noticeable, you should only paint a small part around the hem.

The final layer is basically an edge highlight.

Black (simplified for smaller surfaces)

Start with a clean Black basecoat.

Broad Heavy Charcoal highlights.

Cold Grey highlights.

Stonewall Grey superhighlights: edges, corners.

Black

Prime Wraithbone.

Paint Black Templar, then Basilicanum Grey.

Highlight with a mix of 2:1 Cold Grey and Black.

Superhighlight Cold Grey.

Black (simplified)

Basecoat Black Legion, use one thick coat.

Highlight the black cloth with a 1:1 mix of Black and Cold Grey, then Cold Grey.

Whites

Warm white

Basecoat Off White or Wraithbone. For larger cloaks, do this as a layer on Bonewhite.

Wash Seraphim Sepia. Dilute with Lahmian Medium for a lighter fabric.

Highlight with the same color as the basecoat.

Highlight the tops of the folds with pure white.

Cold (blue) white

Paint Apothecary White.

Paint the recesses Gryph Charger Grey. Feather out.

Layer/thick edge Ghost Grey.

Edge highlight Dead White.

Filthy cloth

Basecoat Wraithbone.

Apothecary White.

Agrax Earthshade.

Edge highlight Wraithbone.

Purples

Neutral purple

Basecoat two layers of Luxion Purple. Lowlight Shyish Purple.

Highlight with a 1:1 mix of Heavy Violet and Dead White.

Desaturated dark purple (dark, regular, reddish)

Start with a basecoat of Shyish Purple 2:1 diluted with Lahmian Medium.

Try either with a second layer...

...or Targor Rageshade...

...or Carroburg Crimson.

Recess shade Black Templar.

Highlight the dark variant Heavy Violet + Cold Grey.

Highlight the regular or reddish variant Slaanesh Grey = 2:1 Stonewall Grey + Heavy Violet.

Yellows

Cold Yellow

Basecoat Ironjaws.

Coat Agrax Earthshade.

Highlight Moon Yellow.

Dark yellow

Basecoat in 2:1 mix of Snakebite Leather and Nazdreg Yellow.

Use Desert Yellow for neatening out any Contrast-caused pools and splodges. 

Bonewhite makes for a fine highlight.

Reddish dark yellow

Basecoat Nazdreg Yellow.

Shade Reikland Fleshshade.

Highlight Elf Skintone.

Superhighlight 1:1 Elf Skintone + Pale Flesh.

Greens

Pale green

Prime white. Coat diluted Nihilakh Oxide (originally Briar Queen Chill).

Coat Biel-Tan Green.

Highlight Ghost Grey.

Saturated green cloth

Basecoat two layers of Ork Flesh.

Line the folds Dark Angels Green.

Highlight Scorpion Green.

Dark green

Basecoat 3:1 diluted Dark Angels Green.

Coat Biel-Tan Green.

Highlight Sick Green.

Superhighlight Scorpion Green.

Very dark green

Prime white. Basecoat Ork Flesh.

Coat Black Templar.

Highlight Scorpy Green.

Brown

Light reddish brown

Basecoat Wyldwood.

Edge/highlight Wraithbone.

Coat Gore Grunta Fur.

Blue

Saturated blue

Basecoat Talassar Blue.

Coat Ultramarines Blue.

And finally Tyran Blue.

Highlight Ultramarine Blue, then a second round with Electric Blue mixed in.

Superhighlight Electric Blue.

Super super highlight Wolf Grey.

Light bluish grey

Two coats of Gryph Charger Grey.

Shade Tyran Blue.

Highlight Grey Seer.

Superhighlight Ghost Grey.

Saturated dark blue

Basecoat 2 layers of Ultramarines Blue.

Deepen the shadows using Leviadon Blue.

Highlight Ultramarine Blue.

Superhighlight Electric Blue. The wet palette helps diluting here, so it doesn't look too stark.

Turqoise

Light turqoise

Prime white. Basecoat Aeldari Emerald.

Coat Terradon Turqoise.

Highlight Sybarite Green = Jade + Bonewhite, then Gauss Blaster Green = 2:1:1 Bonewhite + Jade + Dead Flesh.

Turqoise

Basecoat 3:1 diluted Dark Angels Green.

Coat Terradon Turqoise.

Highlight Jade.

Superhighlight Jade + Livery Green.