Purple Robes/Tabards/Cloth

Bloodhound · Apr 7, 2009

Please do not get turned off by any one stage. Please look at the end result before deciding.

You will need Liche purple or equivelant, Warlock purple or eq., and Purple Ink and Chaos Black.

Give your model 2 thin coats of Lieche Purple to give it a nice even colour.

Now get a mix of Liche Purple 1:1 Warlock Purple and run that over the whole model but for the DEEPEST crevacess. If its not deep paint over it.\

Mix some LP 1:3 WP and paint the cloak leaving the deep crevacess showing as Liche or the previous mix.

Now make a Chaos Black wash (very runny. DONT USE BLACK INK) and paint into the very deepest crevacess. Then paint WP leaving even more of the previous colour showing. It doesn't matter if it looks crappy now. It'll smooth over later.

Now give the whole cloak a coat of 1:1 Water

urple Ink.

Leave it to dry completely because wet ink and paint dont like eachother.
When it is dry, lightly drybrush some WP over the whole cloak.

Now highlight each single raise in the cloak with WP and let it dry.

Now give it a heavy drybrush of WP to smooth the highlight over. Make sure there is little paint on the brush. Heavy Drybrushing can be light brushstrokes with lots of paint and the opposite.

Now make a LP wash (because its not shiny) and coat the whole cloak in it.

Very carefully highlight the topmost edges of the cloak in WP and then give it a drybrush (Heavy) of WP to smoot out the highlights.

That is a finished dark purple cloak. If you need, reply to this with a request to do a brighter purple or even pink. Here are some pics of my whole veteran squad. I paint the limbs seperately to make it a lot easier.

Bloodhound

o0bweekes0o · Oct 7, 2009

thankyou!!! iv just thought of starting a new chapter and was thinking of going with purple power armour....was just going to highlight by watering down liche purple and adding small amounts of white but this is definately better

funnily i am also starting with the same dark angels veterans for my new chapter. going with red robes, purple power armour and the white ultra veteran mk4 heads

should be good il have pics posted when iv done it. again thankyou

FATHER NURGLE · Oct 10, 2009

LooKs Really Good mate , Job Well Done & Thanks For the TuT .

Tar . :biggrin:

Master WootWoot · Nov 16, 2010

Useful, but i'll rather stick to my own method, since mine is more like... Hormagaunt purple

Battousai1184 · Dec 30, 2010

Thank you so much for this. I started a purple cloak but never finished it because I didn't know how to make it look like what I wanted. Now I think I will give it a go.

Good post. +rep

Pride365 · May 12, 2012

How would you do this with the new colors?

DoctorNecrosis · Jun 18, 2012

Looks good, I was thinking of giving my Lord Comissar a purple cloak and found that very useful.

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