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How to paint Dark Elves

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

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Dark Elves colour palette

The paints a Dark Elves 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 Elves signature colours

Beginner · 4 areas

Void-purple armour over skin bleached paler than any sun ever touches it, a cruelty worn as a colour scheme.

Void-dark armour

Pale corsair skin

Cruel steel blades

Poisoned blade sheen

Units

Dark Elf Dreadlord Characters Dark Elf Master Characters Supreme Sorceress Characters Sorceress Characters High Beastmaster Characters Death Hag Characters Khainite Assassin Characters Dark Elf Warriors Core Black Ark Corsairs Core Black Guard Of Naggarond Special Har Ganeth Executioners Special Dark Elf Shades Special Harpies Special Cold One Knights Special Dark Riders Core Doomfire Warlocks Rare Scourgerunner Chariots Special Cold One Chariots Special Bloodwrack Shrine Rare War Hydra Rare Bloodwrack Medusa Rare Kharibdyss Rare Reaper Bolt Thrower Rare Dark Elf Crossbowmen Core Sisters of Slaughter Rare Witch Elves Special Badlands Ogre Bulls Mercenaries

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