Warhammer 40,000 · Chaos Knights
House Herpetrax (Chaos Knights) Paint List for Warhammer 40,000
Corrupted Nurgle green with rust, a Knight that is rotten down to the rivets. Textured paints here do most of the hard work for you.
The same approach as the Death Guard, but at Knight scale. Plenty of corruption and rust.
Recommended undercoat
white
— Several priority paints in this army converge on white.
Paint list
Sorted by priority🔴 Must-Have
Corrupted base
- Death Guard Green (Citadel) — Main armour · 2 coats
- Leadbelcher (Citadel) — Structure · 2 coats
- Retributor Armour (Citadel) — Chaos ornaments · 2 coats
- Nuln Oil (Citadel) — All the structure · Wash
🟠 Core
Corruption
- Agrax Earthshade (Citadel) — Gold + ornaments · Wash
- Runefang Steel (Citadel) — Metal (highlight) · Drybrush
- Rhinox Hide (Citadel) — Rusted areas · Irregular drybrush
- Jokaero Orange (Citadel) — Rust (orange) · Drybrush
🟡 Recommended
Chaos symbols
- Gal Vorbak Red (Citadel) — Corruption fissures · Brush fine
- Liberator Gold (Citadel) — Gold (highlight) · Drybrush
Painting order
Recommended steps
1
Step 1: Primer suited to the scheme
2
Step 2: Basecoat the main armour
3
Step 3: Chaos ornaments
4
Step 4: Structure Leadbelcher
5
Step 5: shading Nuln Oil + Agrax
6
Step 6: Rhinox rust + Jokaero Orange
7
Step 7: Runefang Steel drybrush
8
Step 8: Runes and mutations
Tips
Hints for this army
1
Be deliberately irregular — the corruption is not supposed to look clean.
2
Sponged rust (dabbed Rhinox Hide + Jokaero Orange) looks very realistic.
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