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1. Start by giving the blade three thin coats of Temple Guard Blue. It's imperative at this stage that the THOR commented on SHOWCASE IRONSKULLS
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2. This stage really shows the subtlety of the layering. You can see the paint in the pot looks different to
the Teclis Blue on the blade. That's because I've added 3 parts Lahmian Medium to 1 part Teclis Blue and Segui
mixed it together on a palette (shiny white wall tiles are the best) to create a glaze. The idea with a glaze is
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3. For this step we need to create a Alaitoc Blue glaze using Lahmian Medium. Ratio is the same as above
(3 parts medium to 1 part paint). Now use the glaze to build up a couple more coats over the top of the
previous Teclis Blue layer. Be sure to leave some Teclis Blue showing (hence why I said plan ahead and
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7. Finally, and probably the scariest part of this process is to paint the thinnest lines of Ceramite White you
possible can. The outer edges are easy, for those all you have to do is load your brush up with slightly
watered down Ceramite White, wipe some off on a tissue twisting the brush as you do so to ensure your
brush has a good point and then using the side of the brush held at a 45º angle run it along the edge of
the blade.  This side of the brush edging technique only works on outer edges, the edge running down the
middle of the blade will require a freehand line painted. Place the model on your desk so there is zero
movement. Then starting at the top with watered down white paint steadily pull the brush towards you. If
you have the consistency of your paint right the paint should ow freely with minimal pressure or dragging
from you. If you're using thick sticky paint you really have to drag the bristles over the area and you're just
going to get thick wobbly lumpy lines.

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15 COMMENTS:
ALEX MOLE 20/4/13 12:54 pm

Wow, thanks.
Can't wait to try this out.

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MUTEKI 20/4/13 2:21 pm

Great guide thanks

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ZAB 20/4/13 2:27 pm

Wonderful walk through. I think you broke down a very simple looking, but hard to execute
technique very well.

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MINITROL 20/4/13 10:24 pm

Very impressive shows that those with multi million pound companies can and should do better
with their tutorials. I really enjoyed this good read.

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THIRDEYENUKE 20/4/13 11:45 pm

Very well written out and informative. Excellent stuff.

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A SENT ONE 21/4/13 8:55 am

Awesome job, Garfy!

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FERAL 22/4/13 5:16 pm

Fantastic tutorial!

Whilst the basics are already known and tried by me, I completely blanked mixing in Lahmiun
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Whilst the basics are already known and tried by me, I completely blanked mixing in Lahmiun
Medium so that's something learnt. :)

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ELDRITCH 23/4/13 8:02 am

Thanks a lot for this tutorial! :D

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MICHAL 23/4/13 9:41 pm

Garfy, what do you think about doing a "New Citadel Range - a year after" follow-up review of the
new paint range? Your original review at the release was very good and I'd be interested to read
another one now that you've been using them for a year.

I have only played around with a few of them and think they're quite good.

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GARFY 24/4/13 1:02 am

Interesting idea for a blog post. Stahly's original review was really in depth and he
used examples of how the paints work (useful because none of us knew what dry
compounds and technical paints were). I'm not sure how useful a recap would be. It
would literally be me just saying I pretty much just use GW paints now because I nd
them better then Vallejo. GW metallic aren't great, vallejo are better.

MICHAL 24/4/13 6:27 pm

fair enough :)

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LAWRENCE BOWYER 12/5/13 1:43 pm

Can u suggest a variation for this using greens? i.e. GW paints? many thanks

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SIPH_HORRIDUS 30/9/17 5:47 pm

I'll bookmark this Guys and use for my Grey Knight blades, thanks!

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ALLISTAIR JENSEN 1/10/17 3:00 pm

These look great, and I wish I could do them. Tried this great tutorial and failed miserably. Think I
might need a face to face session.

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ROCKETPIG GAMES 9/10/17 7:33 pm

Thank you for this tutorial and this really cool site! I just found it today while looking for tutorials
on how to paint my Stout Hearted Heroes miniatures. I'm great at creating minis but not so great
at painting them, lol. I was hoping to paint some up for our Kickstarter (over 200 stylized fantasy
miniatures and creatures) but I don't think I can get good enough to make it for this project. With
you help, I'll slay the next ;)

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