This excellent paint makes the perfect foundation for your skin tones, hair and bones. After it dries hit all the flesh, hair and even the bones on the trophy rack with Celestra Grey.

You dont want any of that stuff getting on the skin tones.

First step is hit the crew (and the rest of the Venom) with Nuln Oil on their armor/body suits. So I just painted them on the vehicle itself.

A lot of people would do sub-assembly here, but I prefer not to monkey around with glue on my painted models, especially my delicate Drukhari. This was the part I was really excited for. I like to do this early just to make sure I’ve got the right balance of red to gold, as I dont want this thing to look to blinged out. Next I hit all the areas I wanted gold with the excellent Retributor Gold. Even at this early stage I was very pleased with the results. To that end I decided to model up this Venom with Grisly Trophies and even include a few members of the Warrior squad on the transport deck. Yet as of late I’ve found that everything felt a little too stripped down and that I needed a bit more grim dark in my life. My older transports were a bit stripped down, as I wanted them to feel more like Corsairs than true Drukhari. To begin with I primed it Chaos Black and then airbrushed it Khorne Red. I had a brief interim in my commission work as my next project was being mailed to me, so I went crazy to bang this model out. I had enough Warriors right off the bat, but I did need some additional Venoms to get them around, especially since I play them as Flayed Skull. Yet with the brilliant addition of the Obsessions and Stratagems they truly fit my playstyle now so I found myself wanting to increase the number of core units like Warriors and Venoms to battalion strength. In previous editions they were only a very small allied force with a nice spread of their iconic units like Incubi, Reavers, Wyches and Warriors. The Drukhari have forced their way into heavy rotation in my army lists of late.

This time I’m going to break down how I tackled a Drukhari Venom that I just added to my collection. Hey guys Cavalier here, commission painter for Frontline Gaming and co-host of Splintermind the Dark Eldar Podcast here with another in-depth painting tutorial.

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