Painting Deathwing Space Hulk style

[Deadman Wade]

Hello my fellow Unforgiven! After a long break from Warhammer I finally decided to paint my "pile of shame" of unfinished miniatures. And more specifically, my Deathwing terminators as I'm really excited with new 10th edition rules.

I've always painted my terminators with "official" Ushabti bone+Seraphim sepia/Reikland Fleshshade and Screaming skull highlights. But this time I want to try and make them look like Space Hulk Deathwing video game models, which I find Incredible.

So far I had zero success with finding the right color, it's either too yellow-ish or too bright white (I generally suck at painting and even more so at improvising color schemes). So I hope that someone would help me with this.

I would appreciate any advice:)

 

Edited May 18, 2023 by Deadman Wade

[Interrogator Stobz]

Hey Brother,

 

Welcome back to the Rock. Just in time for some awesome changes.

 

Have you tried Base/layer pure White with a watered down Agrax wash blend on top?

 

That's my simple recipe and it's pretty close. I too love that old school SH look. 

 

These are probably a bit white, easily fixed with a tad more agrax in the mix or a second wash of it:

Edited May 18, 2023 by Interrogator Stobz

[Grotsmasha]

Rakarath Flesh looks like a pretty to match to start from.

[Deadman Wade]

8 hours ago, Interrogator Stobz said:

Hey Brother,

 

Welcome back to the Rock. Just in time for some awesome changes.

 

Have you tried Base/layer pure White with a watered down Agrax wash blend on top?

 

That's my simple recipe and it's pretty close. I too love that old school SH look. 

 

These are probably a bit white, easily fixed with a tad more agrax in the mix or a second wash of it:

Fantastic looking models! And pretty much exactly what I'm looking for. Love how metal looks with white armor.

Is it White Scar base layer?

[bevulf]

8 hours ago, Grotsmasha said:

Rakarath Flesh looks like a pretty to match to start from.

 

Exactly. I would also add drops of black to further shade the colour. For highlights use pallid wych flesh instead of ushabti bone to match the colour from the game. 

[Interrogator Stobz]

On 5/19/2023 at 6:28 PM, Deadman Wade said:

Fantastic looking models! And pretty much exactly what I'm looking for. Love how metal looks with white armor.

Is it White Scar base layer?

Yep, but any purish cold white will do for my scheme, a warmer white or even a place off white would also be great. Pallid Wych Flesh layer with thinned Agrax wash and white highlights would be awesome. 

 

Edited May 20, 2023 by Interrogator Stobz

[Wrath of Bruinen]

I'd echo Grotsmasha's comment that rakarth flesh is a great starting point. I do mine with a base rakarth, wash brown and purple, redo the rakarth mid-tone and then highlight with increasing amounts of white