Urien Rakarth - Dark Eldar - Painting guide

The painting guide I followed was from a fellow blog, even though I altered it a bit to fit to my colourcode in regards to Dark Eldar flesh.

Which Colour did I use:

Boltgun Metal (Vallejo)
Abbadon Black (Games Workshop)
Flatbrown (Vallejo)
Calthan Brown (Games Workshop)
Khaki (Vallejo)
Rose brown (Vallejo)
Agrax EarthShade (Games Workshop)
Nuiln Oil (Games Workshop)
Sky Grey (Vallejo)
Mithril Silver (Games Workshop)
Knarloc Green (Games Workshop)
Warpstone Green (Games Workshop)
Fluo Green (Vallejo)
Mechrite Red (Games Workshop)
Vermillion (Vallejo)
Evil Sunz Scarlet (Games Workshop)
Deep Green (Vallejo)
Intense Blue (Vallejo)
Liche Purple (Games Workshop)
Royal Purple (Vallejo)
Genestalker Purple (Games Workshop)

1. Basecoat the flesh and bone with Rose brown, the weapons with Boltgun Metal and the leather with Abbadon Black. Highlight the leather with Caltan Brown.
2. Apply a heavy wash of Nuiln Oil to the skin. Edge highlight the leather Khaki. Wash the metal Nuiln Oil.
3. Drybrush Sky grey onto the skin. Edge highlight the leather Kommando Khaki and the metal Mithril Silver.
4. Apply a fine highlight of Skull White to the flesh and bone, and wash the leather with Agrax Earthshade.

The gauntlet and further appendages. You can also find green vials and tubes that are present on Urien. The steps being as follows:

1. First block out the glass vial/tubes with Abbadon Black
2. Apply a basecoat of Knarloc Green to the whole area
3. Highlight the upper area of the vial Warpstone Green
4. Apply a highlight of Flue Green. Finally highlight with Skull White and wash with Nuiln Oil.

The steps I followed for the tentacles that support the model were:

1. Basecoat the tentacles in Mechrite Red, with the ends of them (the pincer areas) painted Abbadon Black.
2. Highlight tentacles with Vermillion
3. Wash the tentacles with Nuil Oil followed by Abrax Earthshade.
4. Add Mithril Silver to the pincers on the end of the tentacles and highlight the tentacles with Evil Sunz Scarlet

Starting with the armour, I decided to go along the same route as that of my upcoming Kabalite armour and used the process on both his body/arm armour and the models hair. The tutorial is as follows:

1. Basecoat all required areas with Abbadon Black.
2. An edge highlight (a thin line brushed onto all edges) was applied using a 1:1 mix of Deep Green and Intense Blue.
3. Then build up the edge highlights using a mix from the last step and adding Fluo Green.
4. A final highlight of pure Fluo Green was then applied to the most prominent edges.

The final part of this guide will look at the painting of the tabbard that Urien Rakarth is wearing.

1. Basecoat the tabbard with Lichen Purple.
2. Shade the area with a 1:1 mix of Abrax Earthshade and Liche Purple that is thinned down and painted into the recesses.
3. The tabbard was then given an initial highlight using 1:1 Royal Purple with Genestalker Purple.
4. Further highlight layers were applied by using Mechrite Red and Vermillion.