In this ToP Tip series, I’m sharing some of my favourite paint recipes. Find out how I painted the dingy red of my Gallowdark Space Hulk corridors with these three visual painting guides.
1. Red-tinted Space Hulk walls
Here is how I painted the red walls of my Gallowdark terrain. It’s super fast and doesn’t require an airbrush as you can just use red spray paint.
Colours used – and their closest matches from the Citadel Colour range in [brackets]:
- AK Fine Primer Black [or Chaos Black spray]
- Colour Forge Sanguine Red spray [or Mephiston Red spray]
- Citadel Word Bearers Red
- Two Thin Coats Rust Orange [or Squig Orange]
- Vallejo Game Color Black [or Abaddon Black]
- Vallejo Model Air Steel [or Stormhost Silver]
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2. Yellow ammo crates
Inspired by the hazard stripes on the Gallowfall and Soulshackle boards I decided to paint the ammo crates in a rich yellow.
Colours used – and their closest matches from the Citadel Colour range in [brackets]:
- Colour Forge Hyrax Brown spray [or Rhinox Hide basecoat]
- Warpaints Air Molten Orange [or Squig Orange]
- Warpaints Air Gold Yellow [or Yriel Yellow]
- Citadel Seraphim Sepia
- Citadel Fuegan Orange
- AK 3rd Gen Golden Yellow [or Yriel Yellow / Dorn Yellow mix]
- Citadel Rhinox Hide
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3. Corroded Gallowdark steel doors
For the steel parts I wanted to have a lot of rust. I started by spraying the doors silver and then washed selected recesses with multiple coats of thinned paint to build up a rich rust colour.
Colours used – and their closest matches from the Citadel Colour range in [brackets]:
- AK Fine Primer Black [or Chaos Black spray]
- Vallejo Mecha Color Dark Steel [or Leadbelcher]
- Green Stuff World Liquid Pigments Medium Rust [or thinned Doombull Brown]
- Green Stuff World Liquid Pigments Light Rust Rust [or thinned Doombull Brown / Skragg Brown mix]
- Two Thin Coats Iron Oxide [or thinned Trollslayer Orange]
- Vallejo Mecha Color Steel [or Iron Hands Steel]
- Vallejo Model Air Steel [or Stormhost Silver]
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The complete paint recipes for my Gallowdark scheme can be found in this post:
And for more pictures check out this post.
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