Aeon Trespass: Odyssey (base game, expansion and godform miniatures)

Titan X and Executioner

Doing both at the same time, because they share paint recipes. Titan X came out great in my opinion. Love the model of the miniature as well. I know that this isnt a titan you can play with but it is a titan you will face off against like the primordials. Cool concept.

Like the model of the executioner as well, but not as much as Titan X. Still cool titan and model. Really love the poses all the miniatures in this game have. It sets the mood and make all the models stand out.

Ocean floor (base)
• Base: AK Strong Dark Blue + Black (5/1)
• Heavy drybrush: GW Dark Reaper
• Light drybrush: GW Thunderhawk Blue

Shark (base)
• Base (upper half): GW Administratum Grey
• Base (lower half): GW Corax White
• Wash: GW Soulblight Grey + GW Nuln Oil (50/50)

Armor + helmet
• Base: GW Iron Breaker
• Highlight: GW Stormhost Silver
• Wash: GW Nuln Oil
• Highlight: GW Stormhost Silver
• Highlight: GW Stormhost Silver + AK Aluminum (50/50)

Top helmet + deadlocks
• Base: GW Iron Warriors + black (50/50)
• Highlight: GW Ironbreaker

X on helmet
• Base: GW Administratum Grey
• Layer: GW Corax White
• Highlight: white

Hair
• Base: AK Pale Grey + GW Dawnstone (1/2)
• Drybrush: AK Pale Grey
• Drybrush: GW Corax White

Leather Armor
• Base: AK Grim Brown + black (50/50)
• Layer: AK Grim Brown + GW Steel Legion Drab (50/50)
• Highlight: AK Grim Brown + GW Steel Legion Drab (1/3)

Black cloth
• Base: black
• Layer: black + GW Screaming Skull (50/50)
• Highlight: black + GW Screaming Skull (1/3)

Green cloth
• Base: AK Extra Dark Green
• Layer: AK Extra Dark Green + AK Gunship Green (50/50)
• Wash: GW Nuln Oil + GW Coelia Greenshade (50/50)
• Highlight: AK Extra Dark Green + AK Gunship Green (50/50)

Sword
• Blend: AK Basalt Grey with GW Corax White
• Highlight: green + white (3/1)

Ur-Fleece

Painting Aeon Trespass was a learning experience. One way to learn is to set certain challenges. With the Icarian Harpy for example I set the challenge to only use GW paints to see  if I could get something that I would be pleased with when limiting my paint options. This also required mixing some colors to get the colors I wanted.

Another example of a challenge is this miniature, where I set myself the challenge to not drybrush. Now drybrush is a great technique to get decent effects with minimal effort. However, it doesnt always look as good compared to doing everything by hand so to speak. So thats what I did with Ur-Fleece. I wanted to combine everything I had learned into painting this miniature, namely blending, layering, highlighting, etc. I also did a lot of mixing of colors to get the colors I wanted. And to be completely honest, this is one of my best painted miniatures. In my opinion it shows how far I have gotten. As such, the paint recipes for this one will be a bit complex, but it was well worth it.

Ocean floor (base)
• Base: AK Strong Dark Blue + Black (5/1)
• Heavy drybrush: GW Dark Reaper
• Light drybrush: GW Thunderhawk Blue

Ship (base)
• Base: GW Dryad Bark
• Drybrush: AK Dark Brown
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade
• Drybrush: GW Baneblade Brown

Fish
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Black Green (3/1)
• Layer (top half): AK Russian Green + AK Deep Green (2/1)
• Layer (bottom half): GW Ogryn Camo + GW Elysian Green (50/50)
• Drybrush: GW Elysian Green+ GW Ogryn Camo + AK Deep Green (1/1/1)

Head (face)
• Base: AK Ducat Blue
• Layer: AK Deep Sky Blue + AK Snow Blue (2/1)
• Blend: GW Straken Green + AK Reflective Green (2/1)
• Highlight: GW Ogryn Camo + white (2/1)

Head (eyes)
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Black Green (3/1)
• Pupils: GW Celestra Grey

Head (crown)
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Black Green (3/1)
• Layer: AK Reflective Green + GW Straken Green (1/2)
• Highlight: GW Elysian Green + GW Ogryn Camo (50/50)

Body (blended base layers in different combinations)
• Base: AK Black Green (darkest areas)
• Base: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (2/1) blend with previous color in darkest areas
• Highlight: AK Deep Green + AK Black Green + GW Ogryn Camo (1/1/1)
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Deep Green (1/2) midtone
• Highlight: GW Elysian Green + AK Deep Green + GW Ogryn Camo (1/1/1)
• Base: GW Elysian Green + AK Reflective Green (50/50) light areas
• Highlight: GW Ogryn Camo + GW Elysian Green (50/50)
• Base: AK Deep Green + AK Black Green + AK Dark Green Grey (1/2/2) hands and area around the sword
• Highlight: AK Deep Green + AK Black Green + AK Dark Green Grey + GW Screaming Skull (1/2/2/2)

Collar
• Base: AK Black Green (darkest areas)
• Base: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (2/1) blend with previous color in darkest areas
• Highlight: AK Deep Green + AK Black Green + GW Ogryn Camo (1/1/1)
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Deep Green (1/2) midtone
• Highlight: GW Elysian Green + AK Deep Green + GW Ogryn Camo (1/1/1)
• Base: AK Deep Green + AK Black Green + AK Dark Green Grey (1/2/2)
• Highlight: AK Deep Green + AK Black Green + AK Dark Green Grey + GW Screaming Skull (1/2/2/2)

Chest (ball)
• Base: VAL Leather Brown + AK Japanese Brown (50/50)
• Highlight: GW Screaming Skull + VAL Leather Brown + AK Japanese Brown (2/2/1)

Chest (metal disks)
• Base: GW Leadbelcher
• Wash: GW Biel-Tan Green
• Wash: GW Coelia Greenshade
• Wash: GW Nuln Oil

Tentacles
• Base: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (3/1)
• Highlight: GW Ogryn Camo + GW Elysian Green+ AK Deep Green (1/1/1)

Sword
• Base: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green AK Dark Green Grey + GW Screaming Skull (2/1/2/2)
• Highlight: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green AK Dark Green Grey + GW Screaming Skull + white (2/1/2/2/2)

Meduketos

I like the art of this game, but not for painting. For painting the art sucks. The colors are desaturated, a lot of shadow is used and sometimes parts of the body are covered by text or is absent from the picture because of the pose of the titan or primordial. Someone of the ITU discord helped with providing a good picture of this primordial which helped. Pretty happy how this one turned out. Should have pushed the bulbs on the head with some lighter blue tones. Might still do that later.

Ocean floor (base)
• Base: AK Strong Dark Blue + Black (5/1)
• Heavy drybrush: GW Dark Reaper
• Light drybrush: GW Thunderhawk Blue

Ship (base)
• Base: GW Dryad Bark
• Drybrush: AK Dark Brown
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade
• Drybrush: GW Baneblade Brown

Head
• Base: AK Ducat Blue + AK Dark Blue (50/50)
• Wash: GW Tyran Blue
• Layer: AK Ducat blue
• Layer: AK Deep Sky Blue

Eyes
• Base: AK Russian Green + black (3/1)
• Highlight: AK Reflective Green

Mouth
• Base: AK Dirty Red
• Wash: GW Berserker Bloodshade
• Layer: AK Dirty Red
• Layer: AK Deep Red

Body
• Base: AK Purple + GW Daemonette Hide + black (3/3/1)
• Drybrush: AK Purple
• Drybrush: AK Purple + AK Pastel Violet (1/2)
• Highlight: GW Daemonette Hide + AK Deep Sky Blue (1/4)
• Drybrush: AK Emerald + AK Blue Green (6/1) – Drybrush under the head and at the sides of the head
• Highlight: AK Russian Green + black (4/1) – spot on the body

Body (hair backside)
• Base: AK Emerald + AK Blue Green (6/1)
• Highlight: AK Emerald + AK Blue Green (6/1/4)

Body (middle sides)
• Base: GW Rhinox Hide – blend with purple base of the body
• Drybrush: AK Russian Green + AK Deep Green (1/2)
• Highlight: GW Elysian Green + AK Deep Green + GW Ogryn Camo (1/1/1)

Body (middle)
• Base: GW Rhinox Hide
• Base: GW Rhinox Hide + VAL Leather Brown (1/3) – blend with previous color
• Drybrush: GW Jokaero Orange
• Drybrush: AK Ochre

Claws
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Black Green (3/1) – blend with purple base of the body
• Drybrush: AK Purple – blend where the claws start from the body
• Drybrush: AK Emerald + GW Straken Green + GW Elysian Green (3/1/2)
• Highlight: AK Blue Green
• Highlight: GW Daemonette Hide + AK Deep Sky Blue (1/4)

Tentacles
• Base: GW Dark Reaper
• Highlight: GW Thunderhawk Blue
• Highlight: GW Thunderhawk Blue + AK Snow Blue (4/1)

Tentacle feathers (?)
• Base: AK Russian Green + AK Black Green (3/1)
• Drybrush: AK Russian Green + AK Deep Green (2/1)
• Highlight: AK Russian Green + AK Deep Green (50/50)

Bulbs
• Base: GW Daemonette Hide
• Layer: AK Purple + AK Sky Blue (1/8)
• Layer: AK Buff + AK Ivory (1/2)
• Drybrush: AK Buff
• Highlight: AK Purple + AK Sky Blue (1/8)

Dragon of Phobos

Not my best work to be honest. The art had some OSL and I tried to recreate it without searching for techniques on how to do OSL. I didnt care enough and it shows. Not my best work, but it still doesnt look to bad in my opinion.

Ocean floor (base)
• Base: AK Strong Dark Blue + Black (5/1)
• Heavy drybrush: GW Dark Reaper
• Light drybrush: GW Thunderhawk Blue

Skin (body and beginning of tentacles)
• Base: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (2/1)
• Drybrush (lighter green parts): AK Alga Green + AK Reflective Green (50/50)
• Drybrush (darker green parts): AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (1/4)
• Blend (blue parts): GW Lothern Blue
• Drybrush (blue parts): AK Sky Blue
• Drybrush (blue parts): AK Snow Blue

Tentacles (mid part)
• Base: AK Dark Prussian Blue + GW Lothern Blue (2/1)
• Drybrush: GW Lothern Blue

Tentacles (glowing part)
• Base: AK Deep Sky blue + AK Ducat Blue (50/50)
• Layer 1: AK Sky Blue
• Layer 2: AK Snow Blue
• Layer 3: white

Claws and tusks
• Base: skin color recipe
• Highlight: AK Ochre Orange

Head (different combinations of layers and highlights)
• Layer 1.1: AK Black Green + AK Russian Green (2/1)
• Layer 1.2: AK Russian Green + AK Reflective Green (2/1)
• Layer 1.3: AK Alga Green + AK Reflective Green (50/50)
• Layer 2.1: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (2/1)
• Drybrush 2.2: AK Black Green + AK Deep Green (1/4)

Mouth
• Flesh: GW Screamer Pink
• Tongue: AK Purple + AK Pastel Violet (25/75)
• Teeth: GW Screaming Skull

Lunarlander

This titan was pretty fun to paint and it also looks awesome in my opinion. Also like how the gloss varnish looks on the ichor parts of its body.

Base (sand)
• Base: VAL Desert Yellow
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade + GW Seraphim Sepia + water (2/4/3)
• Drybrush: VAL Desert Yellow
• Drybrush: GW Wraithbone
• Pinpoint drybrush: AK Sand Yellow
• Pinpoint wash (on rocky areas): GW Agrax Earthshade + water (1/2)

Sphinx (base)
• Base: AK Grey Brown + AK Warm Grey (50/50)
• Wash: AP Noble Skin + AP Speedpaint Medium (1/2)
• Drybrush: AK Grey Brown + AK Warm Grey (50/50)

Ichor body + sword
• Base: black + GW Screaming Skull (2/1)
• Layer: black + GW Screaming Skull (50/50)
• Highlight: black + GW Screaming Skull (1/2)
• Varnish: GW Ardcoat (2x thin layer)

Stone
• Base: black
• Drybrush: GW Dawnstone
• Highlight: GW Dawnstone + AK Silver Grey (2/1)

Armor + helmet
• Base: GW Iron Warriors + black (50/50)
• Highlight: GW Retributor Armor + AK Gold (1/2)
• Pin-point drybrush: GW Leadbelcher
• Wash: GW Nuln Oil (thin coat)
• Pin-point drybrush: GW Leadbelcher

Wishender

This one was a bit trickier to paint for me, because I found out that this titan has a glass armor. You wouldnt say that if you looked at the art of this titan, because it looks more like metal, but the item cards show that its armor is made of glass. Never painted glass before. So what I did was choose colors that came close to the art and put on a thin layer of gloss varnish. Really happy with how this one turned out.

Base (sand)
• Base: VAL Desert Yellow
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade + GW Seraphim Sepia + water (2/4/3)
• Drybrush: VAL Desert Yellow
• Drybrush: GW Wraithbone
• Pinpoint drybrush: AK Sand Yellow
• Pinpoint wash (on rocky areas): GW Agrax Earthshade + water (1/2)

Stone structure (base)
• Base: AK Grey Brown + AK Warm Grey (50/50)
• Wash: AP Noble Skin + AP Speedpaint Medium (1/2)
• Drybrush: AK Grey Brown + AK Warm Grey (50/50)
• Highlight (gold parts): AK Gold + AK Old Gold (1/2)

Skin
• Base: GW Catachan Skin + AK Grim Brown (50/50)
• Layer: GW Catachan Skin + AK Grim Brown (4/1)
• Wash: AP Noble Skin + AP Speedpaint Medium (1/5) x2

Swords and lamps
• Base: AK Ochre
• Base: AK Gold + AK Old Gold (2/1)
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade + GW Nuln Oil (3/2)
• Highlight: AK Gold

Glass sword
• Base: AK Basalt Grey + AK Intermediate Blue (2/1)
• Layer 1: AK Intermediate Blue
• Layer 2: GW Celestra Grey
• Layer 3: GW Celestra Grey + GW Ulthuan Grey (50/50)
• Highlight (outline): AK Silver Grey
• Varnish: GW Ardcoat (1x thin layer)

Glass armor
• Base: black + GW Screaming Skull (2/1)
• Layer: black + GW Screaming Skull (50/50)
• Highlight: black + GW Screaming Skull (1/2)
• Varnish: GW Ardcoat (1x thin layer)

Wooden contraption
• Base: GW Dryad Bark
• Drybrush: AK Dark Brown
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade
• Drybrush: GW Baneblade Brown

Hair
• Base: black
• Highlight: black + GW Screaming Skull (50/50)

Cloth
• Base: GW Abaddon Black
• Drybrush: AK Strong Dark Blue
• Light drybrush: GW Dark Reaper

Helmet
• Base: GW Iron Warriors + black (50/50)
• Wash: GW Nuln Oil
• Drybrush: GW Leadbelcher
• Highlight: AK Gold + AK Old Gold (2/1)

Immortal Truthbearer

Not my favorite one to paint and the pose of this titan exactly looks like the Truthbearer titan of the main game. On the plus side I could use some of the paint recipes I used for the truthbearer saving me some time.

Base (sand)
• Base: VAL Desert Yellow
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade + GW Seraphim Sepia + water (2/4/3)
• Drybrush: VAL Desert Yellow
• Drybrush: GW Wraithbone
• Pinpoint drybrush: AK Sand Yellow
• Pinpoint wash (on rocky areas): GW Agrax Earthshade + water (1/2)

Stone (base)
• Base: AK Grey Brown + AK Warm Grey (50/50)
• Wash: AP Noble Skin + AP Speedpaint Medium (1/2)
• Drybrush: AK Grey Brown + AK Warm Grey (50/50)

Skin
• Base: AK Grim Brown + GW Catachan Skin (50/50)
• Wash: AP Noble Skin + AP Speedpaint Medium (1/3)
• Layer: AK Grim Brown + GW Catachan Skin (1/3)
• Wash: AP Noble Skin + AP Speedpaint Medium (1/6) x1

Armor
• Base: AK Rusty Brass
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade + GW Nuln Oil (3/2)
• Drybrush: AK Rusty Brass

Cloth
• Base AK Russian Green + GW Deathguard Green + black (2/2/1)
• Wash: GW Athonian Camoshade + GW Nuln Oil (50/50)
• Highlight: AK Russian Green + GW Deathguard Green (50/50)
• Wash: GW Athonian Camoshade + GW Nuln Oil (50/50)

Shoes
• Base: AK Grim Brown
• Highlight: GW Gorthor Brown
• Highlight: AK Rusty Brass
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade

Weapon (stone ball)
• Base: AK Grey Brown + AK Warm Grey (50/50)
• Wash: AP Noble Skin + AP Speedpaint Medium (1/2)
• Drybrush: AK Grey Brown + AK Warm Grey (50/50)

Shadowdancer

Came around to post again and this time it is about the titans of cycle 4. This one took a bit more time than the others, because I had to come up with a layering pattern for both the cloth and the hair. Came out nice if you ask me. The purple cloth has a bit of shine to it and I think it is because of the ink. I might go over it with some matt varnish as per Lawnors advice. Have to do that later.

Base (sand)
• Base: VAL Desert Yellow
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade + GW Seraphim Sepia + water (2/4/3)
• Drybrush: VAL Desert Yellow
• Drybrush: GW Wraithbone
• Pinpoint drybrush: AK Sand Yellow
• Pinpoint wash (on rocky areas): GW Agrax Earthshade + water (1/2)

Skin
• Base: GW Kislev Flesh
• Wash: GW Guilliman Flesh + water (1/2)
• Layer: GW Flayed Fleshed One
• Wash: GW Guilliman Flesh + water (1/5) x 2

Brown cloth
• Base: GW Steel Legion Drab + black (50/50)
• Layer: GW Zandri Dust + GW Steel Legion Drab (1/4)
• Layer: GW Zandri Dust + GW Morghast Bone (50/50)

Purple Cloth
• Base: AK Purple + black (1/2)
• Wash: VAL Violet Ink + AK Carbon Ink + water (2/4/1)
• Highlight: GW Daemonette Hide + black (2/1)

Red cloth
• Base: AK Black Red
• Wash: GW Carroburg Crimson

Mask
• Base: AK Grimbrown
• Highlight: GW Baneblade Brown
• Eyes: black

Feather
• Base: AK Warm Grey
• Layer: AK Silver Grey
• Highlight: AK Offwhite

Blades
• Base: GW Ironbreaker
• Highlight: AK Dark Aluminum
• Wash: GW Nuln Oil
• Hilt: VAL Brass + GW Nuln Oil wash

Cloudsoarer

The titans of cycle 4 including this one came out great in my opinion but painting all the little details took a loooooong time. Couldnt help myself though as Im a bit of a perfectionist. Had to paint them and Im happy how it turned out. For the sword I used the same paint recipes as Midascore. Seems like it was made of its parts.

Base (sand)
• Base: VAL Desert Yellow
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade + GW Seraphim Sepia + water (2/4/3)
• Drybrush: VAL Desert Yellow
• Drybrush: GW Wraithbone
• Pinpoint drybrush: AK Sand Yellow
• Pinpoint wash (on rocky areas): GW Agrax Earthshade + water (1/2)

Camel (base)
• Base: AK Dark Sand
• Layer: VAL Green Ochre
• Layer: AK (Chocolate) Chipping
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade

Cloth (armor)
• Base: GW Abaddon Black
• Drybrush: AK Strong Dark Blue
• Light drybrush: GW Dark Reaper

Armor pieces, mask + face statue (base)
• Base: GW Retributor Armor + AK Old Gold (2/1)
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade + GW Nuln Oil (50/50)
• Highlight: GW Liberator Gold + AK Old Gold (50/50)

Hair
• Base: AK Warm Grey + AK Grey Brown (1/2)
• Drybrush: previous mix + GW Screaming Skull (1/4)

Skin
• Base: GW Catachan Skin + AK Grim Brown (2/1)
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade + water (50/50)
• Layer: GW Gorthor Brown
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade + water (50/50) x2

Sword
• Base (metal part): GW Retributor Armor + AK Old Gold (2/1)
• Wash (metal part): GW Agrax Earthshade + GW Nuln Oil (50/50
• Base (Midascore part wing): GW Rhinox Hide
• Base (Midascore part membrane): GW Zamesi Desert
• Wash (Midascore part membrane): AP Noble Skin + AP Speedpaint Medium (1/3)
• Drybrush (Midascore part membrane): AK Ochre
• Drybrush (Midascore part membrane): AK Ochre + AK Buff (50/50)

I have finished painting all the titans of the expansion box. The pictures and paint recipes will be added next week. In the meantime I am replacing and adding some new pictures with better lighting. Lawnor (a user on this site that has inspired me to make this guide) has graced me with his wisdom! He commented on this project and gave two points of advice one of which was to up the lighting on the pictures to make the highlights more visible. I took that advice to heart and took some new pictures. I am not going to replace the images in which all sides are displayed as that takes too much time. However, I can add some new front facing pictures with better lighting. The miniatures I havent posted yet will have the images uploaded from all sides as I still had to take those pictures.

Thank you Lawnor for your advice and you really made my day commenting on this project! More posts will be coming soon.

Babelian Lunacy
This one took a lot longer than I wanted. First, I had to try multiple times to get the base coat right. Might have taken like 5 attempts. So that took longer than I thought. Second, I had to paint every recess and raised areas by hand. Drybrushing doesnt work here, or at least not entirely, to catch all the elements to save time. Even though it took longer than I wanted it came out great and I am happy with it.

One more note here is that I did something strange with the ichor vines. I applied black, gloss varnish and dry brushed green over it. Most of the time you apply the paint first before applying a varnish. Varnish is almost always the last step. I really like the final result.

Grey stone (base)
• Base: AK Grey Brown + AK Warm Grey (50/50)
• Wash: AP Noble Skin + AP Speedpaint Medium (1/2)
• Heavy drybrush: AK Grey Brown + AK Warm Grey (50/50)
• Light drybrush: AK Warm Grey

Stone (body)
• Base (only in the recesses): GW Rhinox Hide
• Base (outside the recesses): GW XV-88 + GW Rhinox Hide (3/1)
• Highlight: GW Karak Stone

Eye
• Base: AK Purple + black (50/50)
• Blend: AK Purple + AK Magenta (2/1)
• Light drybrush: GW Wraithbone (very dry drybrush along the edges from the front)
• Iris (layer 1): AK Buff + AK Ochre (1/3)
• Iris (layer 2): AK Buff
• Pupil + crack: GW Abaddon Black

Ichor vines
• Base: GW Abaddon Black
• Varnish: GW Ardcoat
• Heavy drybrush: AK Dark Russian Green
• Light drybrush: AK Reflective Green
• Selective drybrush: GW Elysian Green (only where the light hits)

Ichor
• Base: GW Abaddon Black
• Highlight 1: GW Mechanicus Standard Grey
• Highlight 2: GW Mechanicus Standard Grey + GW Dawnstone (1/2)
• Varnish: GW Ardcoat

Midascore
This miniature also took a while to paint. Was kinda struggling with how I wanted the wings and how to paint the gold parts without actually using metallic paints. Using a metallic gold to paint the golden claws for example felt off to me. So I opted to using golden brown colors and work my way from there. Painting the body was not that difficult, because it had quite some texture that made it possible to drybrush the highlights. That saved some time, but the wings and the golden parts had to be done by hand. That took the most time here.

Base (sand)
• Base: VAL Desert Yellow
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade + GW Seraphim Sepia + water (2/4/3)
• Drybrush: VAL Desert Yellow
• Drybrush: GW Wraithbone
• Pinpoint drybrush: AK Sand Yellow
• Pinpoint wash (on rocky areas): GW Agrax Earthshade + water (1/2)

Base (stone)
• Base: AK Grey Brown + AK Warm Grey (50/50)
• Wash: AP Noble Skin + AP Speedpaint Medium (1/2)
• Drybrush: AK Grey Brown + AK Warm Grey (50/50)

Skin/fur/scales (keep scales darker)
• Base: GW Rhinox Hide
• Base and drybrush (pinpoint): GW Rhinox Hide + GW Rakath Flesh (50/50)
• Heavy drybrush: GW Rhinox Hide + AK Rocky Grey (1/5)
• Light drybrush: AK Rocky Grey

Wings
• Base (skin parts): GW Rhinox Hide
• Drybrush (skin parts): GW Rhinox Hide + GW Rakath Flesh (50/50)
• Base (membrane): GW Zamesi Desert
• Wash (membrane): AP Noble Skin + AP Speedpaint Medium (1/3)
• Heavy drybrush (membrane): AK Golden Brown
• Drybrush: GW Zamesi Desert
• Light drybrush (membrane): AK Ochre + AK Buff (50/50)

Horns + claws
• Base: GW Rhinox Hide + GW Zamesi Desert (50/50)
• Highlight: GW Zamesi Desert
• Highlight: AK Ochre
• Highlight: AK Ochre + AK Buff (50/50)

Been quiet for a while, but I am back. I have been painting all the primordials of the expansion. Here are the pictures and paint recipes for Dahaka and Demidjinn.

Demidjinn
This one was pretty easy. The miniature doesnt have a lot of elements to paint. Combined with the fact that I already had paint recipes for some of the elements painting this miniature didnt take a lot of time. However, getting the desert base right took some time, but I got there in the end.

Base
• Base: VAL Desert Yellow
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade + GW Seraphim Sepia + water (2/4/3)
• Drybrush: VAL Desert Yellow
• Drybrush: GW Wraithbone
• Pinpoint drybrush: AK Sand Yellow
• Pinpoint wash (on rocky areas): GW Agrax Earthshade + water (1/2)

Skin
• Base: GW Abaddon Black
• Drybrush: AK Grey Brown + AK Warm Grey (50/50)
• Drybrush: AK Silver Grey + AK Warm Grey (50/50)
• Drybrush: GW Mechanicus Standard Grey + black (50/50)

Metal
• Base: GW Iron Warriors + black (50/50)
• Wash: GW Nuln Oil
• Drybrush: GW Iron Warriors + GW Leadbelcher (50/50)

Gold
• Base: GW Retributor Armor
• Drybrush: GW Skullcrusher Brass
• Wash: GW Seraphim Sepia

Weapon
• Base: AK Gun Metal
• Base: GW Leadbelcher
• Base: GW Iron Warriors
• Wash: GW Nuln Oil
• Straps: AK Grim Brown (base) + GW Gorthor Brown (drybrush)

Dahaka
This miniature was even easier to paint than the previous one. However, the problem with this miniature is that it is some kind of ghostly creature portrayed without a lot of color. The danger painting this miniature was that it would become boring as there wasnt a lot of color or variation in color. It is a mostly black creature with different shades of green. So I had to think about this one a bit and push the greens as much as I could while also staying true to the art of this miniature. I have posted a picture of the art so you can see how it turned out. Really happy with this one and it didnt take a lot of time either.

Base
• Base: VAL Desert Yellow
• Wash: GW Agrax Earthshade + GW Seraphim Sepia + water (2/4/3)
• Drybrush: VAL Desert Yellow
• Drybrush: GW Wraithbone
• Pinpoint drybrush: AK Sand Yellow
• Pinpoint wash (on rocky areas): GW Agrax Earthshade + water (1/2)

Skin
• Base: black
• Drybrush (base): AK Russian Green + black (2/1)
• Drybrush (base): AK Russian Green
• Drybrush (highlight): AK Black Green + AK Grey Green (50/50)
• Drybrush (highlight): AK Dark Green Grey
• Drybrush (highlight): AK Dark Green Grey + white (50/50)

With the Icarian Harpy, this is also one of the last primordials I have painted. Like the Icarian Harpy, one of the best painted in my opinion. Now I understand that it might become a bit old that I am saying that with almost every miniature that I am posting, but I can really see the progression in my painting skills. I am not a pro by any means, but my paintjobs have become much better in my opinion.

With the Hypertime Oracle I wanted to mimic what Lawnor did with his, because his looked great. I especially liked how he dirtied up the cloth. So I tried to mimic it without ever having done a gradient wash like that. Even though I had never done such a wash before I did succeed beyond my own expectations.

I also mimiced the way Lawnor painted the wings but gave it my own twist by highlighting the feathers the same way I did with the Icarian Harpy. It came out great in my opinion, but it took a looooooooong time to paint those hightlights. Dont think I will ever do it like that again, but I am a perfectionist so I might just do it again in the future even though I dont want to. XD

Marble
• Base: GW Screaming Skull
• Wash: AP Pallid Bone + AP Speedpaint Medium (50/50)
• Drybrush: GW Wraithbone

Ground (base)
• Base: AK Dark Brown
• Stipple 1: GW Loren Forest
• Stipple 2: AK Golden Olive (alternative GW Moot Green)

Stones (base)
• Base: GW Mechanicus Standard Grey
• Layer: GW Dawnstone
• Drybrush: GW Grey Seer

People (base)
• Base: GW Cadian Skintone
• Wash: GW Guilliman Flesh
• Cloth: AK Archaic Turquoise

Wings, chest and head (black)
• Base: GW Mechanicus Standard Grey
• Wash: AK Carbon Black Ink + GW Lahmian Medium (1/3) x 2

Wings, chest and head (turquoise)
• Base: GW Mechanicus Standard Grey
• Wash: AK Carbon Black Ink + GW Lahmian Medium (1/3)
• Drybrush: GW Mechanicus Standard Grey
• Wash: VAL Dark Turquoise
• Highlight: AK Archaic Turquoise + White (1/5)

Wings, chest and head (violet)
• Base: GW Mechanicus Standard Grey
• Wash: AK Carbon Black Ink + GW Lahmian Medium (1/3)
• Drybrush: GW Mechanicus Standard Grey
• Wash: VAL Violet
• Highlight: AK Purple + White (1/5)

Cloth (with texture)
• Base: GW Administratum Grey
• Drybrush: White
• Wash: VAL Sepia Ink + AK Burnt Umber Ink + GW Lahmian Medium (2/3/5)
• Wash: GW Carroburg Crimson
• Method: Wash the bottom with 2 layers of Carroburg Crimson. Keep the top 1/3 clean. Wash the in between area with the sepia wash. Rinse of your brush until its damp and thin down the bottom half of the sepia wash on the model with your brush so you get a gradient in the wash from top (light) to dark (bottom). Also apply some sepia wash on the Carroburg Crimson part.

Cloth (without texture – top part)
• Base: GW Administratum Grey
• Blend: White

Metal parts
• Base: GW Iron Warriors + GW Black Legion (2/1)
• Drybrush: GW Iron Breaker
• Wash: GW Nuln Oil