Bolt Action Great Britain Paint Scheme

A full Bolt Action Great Britain paint scheme, generated and ready to test: the armour ramp from basecoat to edge highlight plus metals, skin, lenses and basing — every colour matched to real paints from Citadel, Vallejo, Army Painter and 35+ more ranges, with live prices. Use it as a planner, tweak any colour, or take it into the full generator.

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How the scheme reads on a model

Armour — base to highlight

Base coat
Shade
Layer
Highlight
Edge highlight

Additional details

Trim
Weapons
Leather
Skin
Lenses
Basing
Blancoed webbing
Boots & leather
Desert drill (8th Army)
1

Base coat

Lay the foundation colour down over primer, slightly darker than the final tone.

2

Shade

Wash the recesses to add depth and separate the details.

3

Layer

Rebuild the main colour on the raised areas, leaving the shade in the cracks.

Details & accent colours

Everything else on the model - metals, skin, leather, lenses, basing and this faction's signature accents.

Leather & pouches

Straps, holsters and bare wood. Mid brown, shaded, then drybrushed a lighter tan.

Skin & flesh

Faces and hands. Basecoat, a flesh wash into the recesses, then build the highlights back up.

Eyes & lenses

Lenses, eyes and energy. A bright spot colour that pops against the armour - dot it on and add a white glint.

Basing — earth

Groundwork. Earth basecoat, drybrushed bone, finished with your choice of grass, sand or snow.

Blancoed webbing

37-pattern webbing is LIGHTER than the battledress, not darker - blanco pale green-khaki, or the pouches vanish into the uniform.

Boots & leather

Boots, slings and jerkins in dark brown - the only strong dark on a low-contrast figure, so it does the work of an outline.

Desert drill (8th Army)

For the 8th Army swap the serge for pale sand drill and take the webbing near-white. Same models; the two-shade change is the whole theatre.

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14 paints in this scheme

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    Vallejo

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    Green Stuff World

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  • Prairie Ochre

    Army Painter

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  • German Splinter Tan Light

    Foundry

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  • Skeleton Horde

    Citadel (Warhammer Paints)

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  • Grey Knights Steel

    Citadel (Warhammer Paints)

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  • Iron Wolf

    Army Painter

  • Owlbear Brown

    Army Painter

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  • Bestigor Flesh

    Citadel (Warhammer Paints)

    No price tracked yet
  • Ultramarine

    Vallejo

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  • Graveyard Earth

    Citadel (Warhammer Paints)

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  • Ushabti Bone

    Citadel (Warhammer Paints)

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  • Olive Brown

    Vallejo

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  • Morghast Bone

    Citadel (Warhammer Paints)

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