Painting HeroQuest: Episode 7 - The Rogue Heir of Elethorn

Steps

1. 1 Base coat the female rogue's skin with Brown Rose and the male rogue's skin with Cadian Fleshtone.
2. 2 Base coat the upper (green) part of the pants with Algae Green speed paint, and the rest of the pants with Noble Skin speed paint.
3. 3 Base coat the boots, belts, straps, and bracers with Dryad Bark, and the fur around the neck with Ashen Stone speed paint.
4. 4 Base coat the shirt with Iraqi Sand for a warmer white, and the overcoat with Steel Legion Drab.
5. 5 Base coat the hilts and crossguards of the knives and daggers with Glorious Gold, the rest of the metal with Leadbelcher, and the shirt/coat trim with Khaki; paint the lapels with Baneblade Brown.
6. 6 Undercoat the raised areas of the hair with pure white, then wash the whole head with Seraphim Sepia and paint the eye whites with Ivory.
7. 7 Base coat the boot trim with Khaki, then highlight the shirt by layering Ivory into the Iraqi Sand base, and dot in the eye pupils with a Micron pen.
8. 8 Highlight all the leather by layering Baneblade Brown into the Dryad Bark, and highlight the shirt/coat trim by mixing Ivory into the Khaki, focusing on upward-facing edges.
9. 9 Paint the boot emblem and trim, touch up the bracer stitching with Iraqi Sand, then highlight the overcoat by layering Karak Stone into the Steel Legion Drab over several passes.
10. 10 Highlight the lapels with a Baneblade Brown and Ivory mix, overbrush the neck fur with Ulthuan Grey, and add an Ivory highlight to the crown of the hair.
11. 11 Use Agrax Earthshade to dark-line between material transitions and shade the leather, then paint the exposed weapon handles with Grim Black speed paint.
12. 12 Reapply Ivory to the raised hair areas, then apply three layers of Ancient Honey glaze over the hair for a warm highlight, interspersed with more Ivory highlighting.
13. 13 Glaze thinned Payne's Grey ink onto one side of each blade for a dark transition, then glaze a Runefang Steel and Leadbelcher mix onto the opposite side for the light transition, and edge-highlight the blades and center seams with pure Runefang Steel.
14. 14 Wash all the skin on both miniatures with Reikland Fleshshade, then paint the base rim with Hull Red.
15. 15 Highlight the female rogue's skin by reapplying Brown Rose, then building up layers of Flayed One Flesh mixed in on the fingers, ears, nose, cheekbones, forehead, and chin; add thin Hull Red lines around the eyes and lips, and thin German Camo Black Brown eyebrows.
16. 16 Highlight the male rogue's skin the same way, mixing Kislev Flesh into the Cadian Fleshtone base instead, skipping the Hull Red lip lines.
17. 17 Highlight the gold areas on the weapons and outfit with Vallejo Gold, then thin German Camo Black Brown to an ink and dark-line between transitions across both miniatures for extra pop.

Paints used

• Agrax Earthshade (Citadel)

  Dark-lined between material transitions and used to shade all the leather

• Algae Green (Army Painter, Speedpaint 2.0)

  Base coat for the upper (green) part of the pants

• Ancient Honey (Army Painter, Speedpaint 2.0)

  Three glaze layers built up over the pure white hair undercoat for a warm blonde highlight

• Ashen Stone (Army Painter, Speedpaint 2.0)

  Base coat for the fur around the neck

• Baneblade Brown (Citadel)

  Mixed into Dryad Bark to highlight the leather, used to paint the lapels, and mixed with Ivory for a lapel highlight

• Brown Rose (Vallejo, Model Color)

  Base coat for the female rogue's skin; reapplied and highlighted with Flayed One Flesh mixed in

• Cadian Fleshtone (Citadel)

  Base coat for the male rogue's skin; highlighted with Kislev Flesh mixed in

• Dryad Bark (Citadel)

  Base coat for the boots, belts, straps, and bracers; highlighted with Baneblade Brown mixed in

• Flayed One Flesh (Citadel)

  Mixed into Brown Rose to highlight the female rogue's fingers, ears, nose, cheekbones, forehead, and chin

• German Camo Black Brown (Vallejo, Model Color)

  Thin eyebrow lines on both rogues, and thinned to an ink for final dark-lining between transitions

• Glorious Gold (Vallejo, Game Color)

  Base coat for the hilts and crossguards of the knives and daggers, and the gold highlights on the shirt

• Gold (Vallejo, Model Color)

  Highlight on the gold areas of the weapons and outfit, over the Glorious Gold base

• Grim Black (Army Painter, Speedpaint 2.0)

  Base coat for the weapon handles that were left unpainted

• Hull Red (Vallejo, Model Color)

  Base rim; also thin lines around the female rogue's eyes and lips

• Iraqi Sand (Vallejo, Model Color)

  Base coat for the shirt, for a warmer white; also touches up bracer stitching and is highlighted with Ivory

• Ivory (Vallejo, Model Color)

  Eye whites; layered into Iraqi Sand for shirt highlights, into Khaki for trim highlights, and applied to the hair crown and lapels

• Karak Stone (Citadel)

  Highlight on the overcoat, layered into the Steel Legion Drab base

• Khaki (Vallejo, Model Color)

  Base coat for the shirt/coat trim and the boot trim; highlighted with Ivory mixed in

• Kislev Flesh (Citadel)

  Mixed into Cadian Fleshtone to highlight the male rogue's skin

• Leadbelcher (Citadel)

  Base coat for the rest of the metal; mixed with Runefang Steel to glaze the light side of the blades

• Noble Skin (Army Painter, Speedpaint 2.0)

  Base coat for the rest of the pants

• Payne's Grey (Daler-Rowney, FW Acrylic Ink)

  Thinned and glazed onto one side of each blade for a dark non-metallic-metal-style transition

• Reikland Fleshshade (Citadel)

  Wash over all the skin on both miniatures

• Runefang Steel (Citadel)

  Mixed with Leadbelcher to glaze the light side of the blades, then used pure to edge-highlight the blade edges and center seams

• Seraphim Sepia (Citadel)

  Wash over the whole head to bring out shadows in the hair

• Steel Legion Drab (Citadel)

  Base coat for the overcoat

• Ulthuan Grey (Citadel)

  Overbrushed onto the neck fur to brighten it