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How to paint Skaven

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

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Skaven colour palette

The paints a Skaven 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.

Skaven signature colours

Beginner · 4 areas

Ragged brown fur marked with a single clan's dye rather than the sickly green every other Skaven army reaches for first.

Ragged fur

Clan sigil dye

Warpstone glow eyes

Rusted blade and tail-spike

Sub-factions

Skaven - Renegades v2.0 (0)

Units

Skaven Warlord Characters Skaven Chieftain Characters Grey Seer Characters Warlock Engineer Characters Master Assassin Characters Plague Priest Characters Stormvermin Core Clanrats Core Warplock Jezzails Special Poisoned Wind Globadiers Special Rat Swarms Core Rat Ogres Special Giant Rats Core Night Runners Core Gutter Runners Special Plague Monks Special Plague Censer Bearers Rare Doomwheel Rare Hell Pit Abomination Rare Warp Lightning Cannon Rare Plagueclaw Catapult Rare Badlands Ogre Bulls Mercenaries

From Skaven sub-factions

Clanrats Core Doomwheel Rare Giant Rats Core Grey Seer Characters Gutter Runners Special Hell Pit Abomination Rare Master Assassin Characters Night Runners Core Plague Censer Bearers Rare Plague Monks Special Plague Priest Characters Plagueclaw Catapult Rare Rat Ogres Special Skaven Chieftain Characters Skaven Dregs Core Skaven Warlord Characters Stormvermin Special Warlock Engineer Characters Warp Lightning Cannon Rare Rat Swarms Core

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