Horus Heresy (30K) · Traitor Legions
Death Guard (XIV) (Traitor Legions) Paint List for Horus Heresy (30K)
Dulled, worn off-white armour with sickly green panels and red lenses. The XIV Legion lets the weathering pile up until a campaign is over — a Barbarus tradition.
Prime grey or beige. The off-white comes from Rakarth Flesh, which is much warmer and dirtier than Corax White. Loren Forest is a desaturated military green, not a bright one.
Recommended undercoat
black
— Several priority paints in this army converge on black.
Paint list
Sorted by priority🔴 Must-Have
Bases — the fundamental colours without which the scheme is impossible
- Rakarth Flesh (Citadel) — Main armour · Base
- Mephiston Red (Citadel) — Helmet lenses · Base
- Loren Forest (Citadel) — Green armour (shoulder pads, details) · Base
- Leadbelcher (Citadel) — Metal · Base
- Abaddon Black (Citadel) — Black undersuit, weapon casing (base) / helmet lenses (deep shade) · Base / Deep shade
🟠 Core
Main shades and highlights — the official Simplified Scheme
- Rhinox Hide (Citadel) — Main armour / green armour · Deep shade
- Pallid Wych Flesh (Citadel) — Main armour · Highlight (with chips)
- Steel Legion Drab (Citadel) — Main armour · Dot inside chips
- Evil Sunz Scarlet (Citadel) — Helmet lenses · Chunky highlight
- Fire Dragon Bright (Citadel) — Helmet lenses · Highlight
- Death Guard Green (Citadel) — Green armour · Chunky highlight
- Ogryn Camo (Citadel) — Green armour · Highlight
- Nuln Oil (Citadel) — Metal · Shade
- Stormhost Silver (Citadel) — Metal · Highlight
- Dawnstone (Citadel) — Black undersuit, weapon casing · Highlight
🟡 Recommended
Soft shading and extra highlights
- Hobgrot Hide (Citadel) — Main armour · Soft shade
- Khorne Red (Citadel) — Helmet lenses · Soft shade
- Castellan Green (Citadel) — Green armour · Soft shade
- Eshin Grey (Citadel) — Black undersuit, weapon casing · Chunky highlight
🟢 Optional
Dot highlights for a result showcase
- Ungor Flesh (Citadel) — Helmet lenses · Dot highlights
- Nurgling Green (Citadel) — Green armour · Dot highlights
Painting order
Recommended steps
1
Prime grey or light beige
2
Basecoat the whole armour with Rakarth Flesh
3
Soft shade the recesses with Hobgrot Hide
4
Deep shade Rhinox Hide into deep recesses
5
Highlight the edges with Pallid Wych Flesh — leave the chips broad
6
Dot inside the chips with Steel Legion Drab
7
Green armour: base Loren Forest, soft shade Castellan Green, deep shade Rhinox Hide, chunky highlight Death Guard Green, highlight Ogryn Camo
8
Lenses: base Mephiston Red, soft shade Khorne Red, deep shade Abaddon Black, chunky highlight Evil Sunz Scarlet, highlight Fire Dragon Bright
9
Base Leadbelcher, shade Nuln Oil, highlight Stormhost Silver
10
Undersuit: base Abaddon Black, chunky highlight Eshin Grey, highlight Dawnstone
11
Dot highlights of Nurgling Green on the green armour and Ungor Flesh on the lenses
Tips
Hints for this army
1
Steel Legion Drab dabbed inside the Pallid Wych Flesh chips is a Death Guard signature. It reads as rusted metal showing through the enamel.
2
Loren Forest keeps the green military and desaturated. Death Guard Green runs lighter as a chunky highlight but stays in the same earthy range.
3
In the lore their weathering is sloppy on purpose, so do not tidy up the shade pooling in the recesses of the main armour.
4
Rhinox Hide does deep shade duty on the main armour and the green alike. That shared shadow is what ties the two surfaces together.
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