How to paint: Horus Heresy Death Guard

by Paintalist 11:35

Greetings folks and welcome to my Death Guard painting tutorial.
Please forgive me the light problems I have had during the filming session, but I am not very experienced with filming. Anyway, I hope you can enjoy and if you have any questions feel free to ask me.

Cheers

*Why did I do this video?*
Well, there are many tutorials out there about painting Deathguard, but it costs a lot of time if you just use layering as the only technique. So I created a color scheme that uses different sorts of paints (like enamel and oil) to achieve both a decent result and save some time.

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VGA = Vallejo Game Air
VGC = Vallejo Game Color
VMA = Vallejo Model Air
VMC = Vallejo Model Color
VPA = Vallejo Panzer Aces
AK = AK Interactive
GW = Games Workshop/Citadel
AP = Army Painter
The paints in [square] brackets are equivalents with a similar color but from a different company.

- Vallejo Surface Primer Grey (70.601)
- Vallejo Surface Primer Black (70.602) [GW Chaos Black Spray]
- VMA Aged White (71.132) [GW Screaming Skull]
- VMC German Grey (70.995) [GW Skavenblight Dinge]
- VPA Dark Rust (70.302) [GW Rhinox Hide]
- VGC Hammered Copper (72.059) [GW Balthasar Gold]
- VGC Glorious Gold (72.056) [GW Gehenna's Gold]
- VGC Dead White (72.001) [GW White Scar]

- GW Elysian Green [no matching equivalent yet]
- GW Leadbelcher [VGA Chainmail Silver 72.753]
- GW Abaddon Black [VGC Black 72.051]
- GW Mournfang Brown [VGC Beasty Brown 72.043]
- GW Dawnstone [VGC Cold Grey 72.050]
- GW Bloodletter [no matching equivalent yet]
- GW 'Ardcoat [any gloss varnish]
- GW Nurgle's Rot [no matching equivalent yet]

- AP Strong Tone [GW Agrax Earthshade]

- AK046 Light Rust Wash
- AK081 Dark Earth pigments
- AK141 Vietnam Earth pigments
- AK044 Light Rust pigments
- AK043 Medium Rust pigments
- AK018 Pigment Fixer

- Winsor & Newton Burt Umber oil paint

- White Spirit (Terpentin Ersatz, Acqua ragia minerale)
- Micro SOL Decal Setting Solution
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Brushes
- Da Vinci Kolinsky-Rotmader size 3/0
- Da Vinci Kolinsky-Rotmader size 1
- Army Painter Small Drybrush
- Big bristle brush (no brand)

Airbrush settings
- around 30psi/2bar

Music
"Deep Haze" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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"Armageddon" Soundmopi
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"Justice Sword" by Louis Viallet

References

CompanyGames Workshop
Game / CollectionWarhammer 40k
SetDeath Guard Paint Set