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Picked up some secondhand skitarii today! I've always liked these little dudes and their hoods and big old sad wet cat eyes (eye l3nses but who's counting). But it's Warhammer, so people are always being weird about it including Women™, and as such I wanted to make one of the alphas more obviously a lady than skitarii augmetics usually allows. So I took a spare bald (from the radiation) sister of battle head, gave her a single eye lens and a hood (down) with greenstuff. Plus a clipped hose and a little number plate from arco-flagellant bitz.

Somewhere or another I've got a tech-priest that I converted into a tech-priestess just by gluing a lady stormcast face mask to her instead of the usual mask, so once I dig her out she can get a paint job to match these dudes.

Thinking about painting them with dark blue robes, hot orange glows and lenses, and the usual grotty metal for most of the rest of it to represent Forge World Konor and go with my other Ultramar-based Imperial armies. Maybe a dirty off-white spot color. Red rust sand bases of course, Mars-style. Blue and orange should look interesting together. Decades of low-effort movie posters have taught me that, if little else.

[jakey-beefed-it]

First batch of skitarii from forge world Konor. No transfers, dust, or basing yet (I gotta pick up some Martian Ironearth soon) but the highlights are done anyway.

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Forge World Konor Admech Painting Guide

Leaving this here so I can look it up later. Also if anyone looks at my robot dudes and goes 'i wanna do that'.

Unless otherwise noted, paints are Citadel because that's what I have mostly. VMC = Vallejo Model Color, AP = Army Painter, RPR = Reaper

This is a deliberately streamlined process to crank through scads of skitarii; characters should get more shades and highlights in suitable colors, but the below will give you a skitarius or kataphron breacher or kastellan robot or whatever.

Prime Black

Outer Robes

Base: Night Lords Blue (2 coats)

Wash: Drakenhof Nightshade (all over)

Layer: RPR Ultramarine Blue

Highlight: RPR Ultramarine Blue (less tho)

Inner Robes

Base: Rakarth Flesh (2 coats)

Layer: Wraithbone (2 coats)

Pants

Base: VMC Black Grey

Wash: Ratling Grime Contrast

Layer: Mechanicus Std Grey

Steel

Base: AP Gun Metal

Wash: Agrax Earthshade (all over)

Layer: AP Shining Silver (sketchy)

Brass

Base: Balthasar Gold

Wash: Agrax Earthshade (all over)

Highlight: Runelord Brass (sketchy)

Leather

Base: Rhinox Hide

Wash: Agrax Earthshade (all over)

Layer: Doombull Brown (2 coats)

Wood/Gun Stocks

Base: Rhinox Hide

Wash: Agrax Earthshade (all over)

Layer: VMC Saddle Brown (2 coats)

Hoses & Wires

Base: AP Gun Metal or VMC Black Grey

Wash: Ratling Grime Contrast

Optional Colors: Khorne Red or Averland Sunset, never next to each other

Cog Mechanicus

Base: Corvus Black

White: Corax White

Wash: Tamiya Panel Liner or Nuln Oil

Glowy Shit

Base: Corax White (2 coats)

Layer: AP Matt White

Wash: Magmadroth Flame Contrast

Highlight: Fire Dragon Bright

Purity Seal Wax

Base: Screamer Pink

Wash: Druchii Violet

Highlight: Pink Horror

Purity Seal Parchment

Base: Rakarth Flesh (2 coats)

Wash: Agrax Earthshade

Highlight: Karak Stone

Basing

Base: Rhinox Hide (2 coats)

Rocks: Doombull Brown (2 coats)

Skulls: Drybrush Karak Stone, then Drybrush Screaming Skull

Layer: ‘Ardcoat (for more crackle)

Texture: Martian Ironearth but not the rocks or skulls

Wash: Agrax Earthshade

Drybrush: [TBD: insert rusty ochre color here]

Vehicle Armor

Base: AP Gun Metal (or Leadbelcher spray)

Wash: Ratling Grime Contrast

Layer: VMC Gunmetal Blue

Highlight: AP Shining Silver (sketchy)

Vehicle Armor Accent

Base: Rakarth Flesh

Wash: Agrax Earthshade

Layer: Wraithbone

Highlight: AP Matt White