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Thousand Sons (Chaos Space Marines) Paint List for Warhammer 40,000

intermediate Chaos Space Marines

Blue sorcier deep with or Tzeentch. A of schemes the more élégants of the Chaos.

The Thousand Sons Blue is leur colour exclusive — More dark and more saturé that the Macragge of Ultramarines. The or is omniprésent and must be very soigné.

Recommended undercoat white — Several priority paints in this army converge on white.
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Paint list

Sorted by priority

🔴 Must-Have

Blue tzeentch and gold ostentatoire

🟠 Core

Highlights and gold shading.

🟡 Recommended

Finitions magiques and details

🟢 Optional

Effects magiques and sorcellerie

Painting order

Recommended steps
1 Basecoat the main surfaces with Thousand Sons Blue, Abaddon Black, and Retributor Armour.
2 Apply Altdorf Guard Blue and Agrax Earthshade to the secondary details and support areas.
3 Use Hoeth Blue and Runefang Steel to sharpen highlights and final contrast.
4 Keep the strongest accent colours for the focal zones so the scheme stays readable across the army.

Tips

Hints for this army
1 The Thousand Sons ont more gold that importe quel autre chapters — Prévoyez a lot more of Retributor Armour that d'habitude.
2 The Drakenhof Nightshade (shade blue) is essentiel — It creuse the blue without the griser like the ferait Nuln Oil.
3 For the yeux magiques blue : petite touche of Corax White, then Aethermatic Blue Contrast dessus — Rendu spectacular en 2 minutes.

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