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How to paint Dark Mechanicum

Every Dark Mechanicum unit, and the colour schemes and paint lists other painters have published for them.

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Dark Mechanicum colour palette

The paints a Dark Mechanicum force is built from, by area and by role — base, shade, layer and highlight. A starting point for every unit below.

Every paint below links to its equivalents in other brands.

Dark Mechanicum signature colours

Intermediate · 3 areas

Black armoured war-engines with dull red lenses and corroded brass, streaked with warp-tainted rust; the traitor tech-priest look.

Black armour

Corvus Black Citadel Base
Nuln Oil Citadel Shade
Eshin Grey Citadel Layer
Dawnstone Citadel Highlight

Corroded brass

Warplock Bronze Citadel Base
Agrax Earthshade Citadel Shade
Runelord Brass Citadel Highlight

Red lenses

Khorne Red Citadel Base
Wild Rider Red Citadel Highlight

Units

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