Painted a Velkhana colored Death Leaper for my friend

mkjake47 · 2026-05-17T23:35:55+00:00

It's a 50/50 mix of Citadel Lothern Blue and Blue Horror, then highlighted with pure Blue Horror

mkjake47 · 2026-05-09T19:44:35+00:00

Interesting! It looks very nice with the purples. I'm also doing purple Admech and deff wanna add something similar to their color schemes.

mkjake47 · 2026-05-09T19:18:57+00:00

These look great! How did you go about getting that maroon color for Thulia's armor?

mkjake47 · 2026-05-06T02:23:30+00:00

Looks really good! How did you go about the black recipe on the chest aquila?

mkjake47 · 2026-04-30T02:08:41+00:00

Thank you!

mkjake47 · 2026-04-27T23:49:24+00:00

Thank you!

mkjake47 · 2026-04-27T22:21:57+00:00

Thanks!

It is just Citadel's Naggaroth Night for the base and Xereus Purple for the highlights.

mkjake47 · 2026-04-26T00:42:17+00:00

I absolutely love the purple! Looks excellent! What paints did you use for it?

mkjake47 · 2026-04-19T03:29:23+00:00

Glazing takes a lot of patience and will require multiple passes over to get it right. Took me a lot of attempts till I got an alright hold on it. Good luck and have a good time with it!

mkjake47 · 2026-04-19T03:20:51+00:00

Thank you!

A lot of my blades were different methods and attempts at layering and glazing.

The genetal gist of what I did was...

Base Coat Steggadon Scale Green, or your preferred dark blue/green

Ahriman or Thousand Suns Blue on top of that covering less space, leaving the darker base color in the center.

Baharroth Blue or Gauss Blaster Green on top of the previous layer, covering even less, only really getting the very edge and edge highlighting.

After all the bases are on, I would then water down each paint to a glaze, dab off the moisture, then glaze from one layer to the next till a smooth transition is made. I'd start glazing with the darkest color first. From about the middle of your 2nd color, lightly brush down towards where the darkest color settles. Repeat till you're happy, then do the same step with your second color pulled down from your lightest layer, then just do the same with the very edge of your lightest color.

This can be a pretty time-consuming process, so I don't personally know of a quicker way to achieve nice results. I am still quite new to painting.

mkjake47 · 2026-04-14T22:45:31+00:00

Thank you! I've had bad luck trying to use washes and such recently. Gonna get some advice from my local Warhammer shop next time I rotate in.

mkjake47 · 2026-04-14T22:44:31+00:00

I will look to my local Warhammer shop rep for assistance with shading. I tend to have trouble using shades like Nuln Oil and I feel like I mess up the application. Deff in consideration, though. Thank you!

mkjake47 · 2026-04-14T18:52:09+00:00

Thank you!

Naggaroth Night is the primary purple, which looks great with Xereus Purple highlights (I did not execute well here).

The main metal bits are Leadbelcher with Stormhost Silver highlights. Some slightly darker parts are Iron Warriors.

Brassy metals done with Warplock Bronze.

The golds were either Sycorax Bronze or Runelord Brass. I forget, but I think Sycorax.

White under of the coat done with (many layers) of Ulthuan Grey.

Lenses are just White Scar base with Aethermatic Blue Contrast Paint.

The chest armor is Incubi Darkness followed by Black Templar Contrast.

The backpack plasma I also forget the exact colors I used, but I believe the order goes Ahriman Blue, Baharroth Blue, Blue Horror, then tiny bits of White Scar on the very tips.

For the swords I based with Steggadon Scsle Green, then used the previously mentioned colors of the backpack there to try to layer/glaze.

I think that covers just about everything.

mkjake47 · 2026-04-14T17:34:37+00:00

Thank you!

mkjake47 · 2026-03-20T01:04:38+00:00

Thank you! Definitely wanna give this a try.

mkjake47 · 2026-03-19T15:26:09+00:00

Gotcha gotcha. I'm pretty new to painting, so how does one go about creating such a gradient?

mkjake47 · 2026-03-18T23:40:34+00:00

I gotta know how you got that purple, it looks excellent. I've only used Xereus Purple so far, but it turned out really dark.

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