[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"faction-/factions/flesh-eater-courts":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":276,"description":277,"extension":278,"faction":279,"heroImage":280,"hex":281,"intro":282,"lastUpdated":276,"meta":283,"navigation":284,"path":285,"seo":286,"stem":287,"system":288,"__hash__":289},"factions/factions/flesh-eater-courts.md","How to Paint Flesh-eater Courts",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":266},"minimark",[9,13,18,21,25,28,65,80,103,107,136,154,158,161,220,224,227,231,257],[10,11,12],"p",{},"The Flesh-eater Courts believe they are a noble order of knights. Everyone else sees starving ghouls in rags. The whole army is built on that gap, and your painting should sell both readings at once: gaunt, unhealthy flesh, and just enough tarnished heraldry to suggest a court that fell apart centuries ago.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"the-signature-look","The signature look",[10,19,20],{},"Pale, sickly flesh with a violet cast in the hollows. Rusted iron scraps worn as though they were plate. Faded crimson and dulled gold heraldry on banners and the Abhorrants. And blood - around mouths, on hands, dried into fur. Nothing should look new, and nothing should look clean.",[14,22,24],{"id":23},"painting-ghoul-flesh","Painting ghoul flesh",[10,26,27],{},"Skin is nearly the whole model, so it is worth getting right and worth getting fast.",[29,30,31,40,51,58],"ol",{},[32,33,34,35,39],"li",{},"Basecoat ",[36,37,38],"strong",{},"Rakarth Flesh"," over a grey or white undercoat.",[32,41,42,43,46,47,50],{},"Shade with thinned ",[36,44,45],{},"Druchii Violet"," in the deepest recesses and ",[36,48,49],{},"Agrax Earthshade"," around fingers, joints and the belly, so the shadows are not all one colour.",[32,52,53,54,57],{},"Layer ",[36,55,56],{},"Pallid Wych Flesh"," across ribs, shoulders and the stretched skin of the face.",[32,59,60,61,64],{},"Highlight the sharpest points - cheekbones, knuckles, spine - with ",[36,62,63],{},"Screaming Skull",".",[10,66,67,68,71,72,75,76,79],{},"The one-pass version is ",[36,69,70],{},"Apothecary White"," contrast over ",[36,73,74],{},"Wraithbone",", which shades that bony anatomy beautifully and leaves you free to spend the time on faces. Push a warmer, more diseased tone with ",[36,77,78],{},"Guilliman Flesh"," instead if you want ghouls that look feverish rather than drowned.",[10,81,82,83,86,87,90,91,94,95,98,99,102],{},"Hair and fur go ",[36,84,85],{},"Rhinox Hide",", drybrushed ",[36,88,89],{},"Skrag Brown",". Nails, teeth and horns take ",[36,92,93],{},"Zandri Dust"," with a ",[36,96,97],{},"Seraphim Sepia"," wash and ",[36,100,101],{},"Ushabti Bone"," tips.",[14,104,106],{"id":105},"rust-rags-and-heraldry","Rust, rags and heraldry",[10,108,109,110,113,114,117,118,121,122,125,126,128,129,131,132,135],{},"The kit is scavenged, so treat metal badly. ",[36,111,112],{},"Leadbelcher"," basecoat, a stipple of ",[36,115,116],{},"Typhus Corrosion",", then ",[36,119,120],{},"Ryza Rust"," dabbed on with a torn sponge and a ",[36,123,124],{},"Nuln Oil"," wash to knock it back. Rags take ",[36,127,93],{}," and ",[36,130,49],{},", or ",[36,133,134],{},"Snakebite Leather"," contrast for speed.",[10,137,138,139,142,143,145,146,149,150,153],{},"Heraldry is the one place to use colour. Keep it to banners, shields and the courtiers: ",[36,140,141],{},"Mephiston Red"," shaded with ",[36,144,49],{}," rather than a clean red, and ",[36,147,148],{},"Balthasar Gold"," left dull under a heavy wash. Finish with ",[36,151,152],{},"Blood For The Blood God"," at the mouths, on the last third of the blades, and nowhere else.",[14,155,157],{"id":156},"court-palettes","Court palettes",[10,159,160],{},"The great courts each pull the scheme in a different direction, and all of them work on the same models:",[162,163,164,182,195,210],"ul",{},[32,165,166,169,170,173,174,177,178,181],{},[36,167,168],{},"Blisterskin"," - sunburnt and blistered. ",[36,171,172],{},"Cadian Fleshtone"," over ",[36,175,176],{},"Bugman's Glow",", with ",[36,179,180],{},"Carroburg Crimson"," flushing the shoulders and face.",[32,183,184,187,188,191,192,194],{},[36,185,186],{},"Morgaunt"," - crimson-liveried. Push ",[36,189,190],{},"Khorne Red"," into ",[36,193,141],{}," on every rag and banner.",[32,196,197,200,201,203,204,177,206,209],{},[36,198,199],{},"Hollowmourne"," - bone and gold. ",[36,202,101],{}," kit over ",[36,205,93],{},[36,207,208],{},"Retributor Armour"," on the courtiers.",[32,211,212,215,216,219],{},[36,213,214],{},"Gristlegore"," - feral and green-tinged. Add a thinned glaze of ",[36,217,218],{},"Athonian Camoshade"," over finished skin.",[14,221,223],{"id":222},"speed-and-scale","Speed and scale",[10,225,226],{},"Crypt Ghouls arrive in blocks and Cryptguard are not far behind, so this is a batch army. The good news is that the flesh recipe covers most of every model, there is very little edge highlighting to do, and rust is forgiving by design. A twenty-strong unit gets to a solid tabletop standard in a couple of sittings, which is not true of most horde armies.",[14,228,230],{"id":229},"tips-and-common-mistakes","Tips and common mistakes",[162,232,233,239,245,251],{},[32,234,235,238],{},[36,236,237],{},"Vary the shade colours."," Violet in the deep hollows and brown at the joints stops the skin looking like grey plastic.",[32,240,241,244],{},[36,242,243],{},"Do not clean up the rust."," Uneven, patchy corrosion is more convincing than a tidy pattern.",[32,246,247,250],{},[36,248,249],{},"Faces first."," They carry the model; everything else is fur and scrap.",[32,252,253,256],{},[36,254,255],{},"Blood at the mouth only."," It reads as feeding rather than combat, which is the point of the army.",[10,258,259,260,265],{},"Test a court palette against your ghoul tone in the ",[261,262,264],"a",{"href":263},"/tools/scheme-generator?color=a3907f","scheme generator"," before you commit the whole horde.",{"title":267,"searchDepth":268,"depth":268,"links":269},"",2,[270,271,272,273,274,275],{"id":16,"depth":268,"text":17},{"id":23,"depth":268,"text":24},{"id":105,"depth":268,"text":106},{"id":156,"depth":268,"text":157},{"id":222,"depth":268,"text":223},{"id":229,"depth":268,"text":230},"2026-08-19","How to paint Flesh-eater Courts - pale ghoul flesh, rusted scraps mistaken for knightly plate and tattered heraldry, with court palettes and a fast route for blocks of Crypt Ghouls.","md","Flesh-eater Courts",null,"#a3907f","Pale ghoul flesh, rust and delusions of chivalry",{},true,"/factions/flesh-eater-courts",{"title":5,"description":277},"factions/flesh-eater-courts","aos","Iy0jyzZlYIUOp-Fu_rRTZuRkJc5blikkDMAJTb9I76k"]