Reference photos, colour schemes with the exact paints for every area, and finished models from other painters — everything you need to start Foetid Bloat-drone for your Death Guard force.

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What the Death Guard range looks like

Shows the Death Guard range rather than Foetid Bloat-drone in particular — the same picture stands for 2 units of this army.

Colour schemes

Death Guard — Foetid Bloat-drone

Intermediate · 4 areas

A vehicle-scale surface with a bloated organic hull. The armour recipe holds; the difference is that the panel work and the flesh meet on the same model.

Plague armour

Basecoat the armour Basecoat — Death Guard Green over black. Uneven coverage is a feature here — it reads as grime.
Shade the whole plate All-over shade — Athonian Camoshade across everything. Unlike a clean marine, Death Guard wants the wash on the flats too.
Edge highlight sparingly Edge highlight — Nurgling Green on the plate edges, broken and interrupted rather than a continuous line.

Rusted metal

Leadbelcher Citadel
Typhus Corrosion Citadel
Ryza Rust Citadel

Basecoat the metal Basecoat
Corrode it Stipple — Typhus Corrosion stippled on unevenly — this is the single step that makes the army look like Death Guard.
Rust bloom Drybrush — Ryza Rust over the wet-looking Typhus Corrosion, concentrated at bolts and joins.

Distended hull flesh

Basecoat the swollen sections Basecoat — Rakarth Flesh over the gut and the exposed sacs.
Bruise the stretched skin Glaze — Druchii Violet where the flesh is most stretched, Reikland Fleshshade everywhere else.
Highlight and gloss the splits Layer — Pallid Wych Flesh on the taut areas, then Nurgle's Rot in the open wounds.

Blighted base

Stirland Mud Citadel
Nurgle's Rot Citadel
Abaddon Black Citadel

Mud the base Texture — Stirland Mud thickly around the feet, thinner at the rim.
Pool the slime Detail — Nurgle's Rot in the low spots only — it is a gloss, so a little reads as standing filth and a lot reads as varnish.
Rim the base Detail

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