GAMES WORKSHOP Citadel Pot de Peinture - Shade Casandora Yellow (24ml)

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Lizzie: What a name! Perfect on Daemonettes and other Daemons of Slaanesh – you can apply this over a light skin tone to create gaunt and sunken flesh. It’s also fun to use over metallics to create a really unique tone. To fix uneven open surfaces, I take a regular model paint with a similar yellow color as my base coat paint and prepare to dry brush. In this case, the closest color to the base coat Iyanden Yellow is Citadel Yriel Yellow. Of course, first you need to have an airbrush and know how to use it. My current airbrush set for working with miniatures of all kinds. Top to bottom: Iwata HP-BH, Sotar 20/20, and my trusty (and crusty) Badger Patriot 105.

For myself, even if I’m aiming for a tabletop ready paint job, I need some semblance of completion in the form of a few details.

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The spak provides the body to our base, allowing the texture paint, ink and dry brushing to do more effective work. My gut feeling was one of red, green, or possibly even a sandy brown for their skin. For the armor I started from the perspective that it would have to be the traditional gold, as that is so iconic for the Lizards. And then I was left with some cloth pieces that would need to be a color that worked with both the skin and armor. In June, we invited Warhammer TV painting presenter Emma Robinson to talk about her favourite colours and some inspired uses for them. Today we’ve got her co-host, Lizzie Ward, to talk about her 10 favourite paints from the new range and how she has been using them. Astra Militarum, also known as the Imperial Guard, is the primary fighting force of the Imperium of Man. Their uniforms are typically a khaki colour, with yellow accents and rank insignia. Using Casandora Yellow on these models can help to create a more realistic and worn look, as well as highlighting the details of their guns, tanks, and infantry.

This will be called something different in other places. Go to your hardware store and show them a few photos from this article and you’ll be fine. If you want to push your highlights to a brighter value, you can add brighter paints to mix with your yellow. I’m not a big basing guy. I prefer to make things as simple as possible so I can move on to the next model. Therefore, Games Workshop’s Texture Paints are a real life-saver for me. When you dry brush, this an opportunity to highlight surfaces. By adding more yellow on top of those raised surfaces, you are adding contrast. The recesses remain dark with a good dry brush. This dichotomy between light and dark adds to the overall “pop” of the model. When I’m painting miniatures, I tend to take pauses to make sure my progress is going in the direction I originally planned.

Verdict: Dry compounds do what they say. But are they really needed? As mentioned above, I’ve rather had more bright layer paints for more flexibility. The tones of the dry compounds are all very light, so I recommend drybrushing them over a dark basecoat first and add a wash or shade second, which not only tints those bright highlights but also helps to conceal the typical cloudy effect drybrushing creates. Textures That sounds like a bunch of steps, but really it’s very easy or a hobby idiot like me couldn’t do it. The sheer number of new additions to the range has totally spoiled us, and we can’t wait for you all to try them out! It’s amazing to see so many vibrant and punchy new colours, alongside some awesome subtle ones. The applications for these paints are endless.