[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"faction-/factions/house-delaque":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":272,"description":273,"extension":274,"faction":275,"heroImage":276,"hex":277,"intro":278,"lastUpdated":272,"meta":279,"navigation":280,"path":281,"seo":282,"stem":283,"system":284,"__hash__":285},"factions/factions/house-delaque.md","How to Paint House Delaque",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":262},"minimark",[9,13,18,21,24,28,36,79,110,114,127,134,138,152,178,182,185,203,216,220,253],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Delaque are a gang of about ten models, which changes how you should paint them. There is no batch-painting argument here and no reason to compromise: you can afford to spend an evening on one fighter. The scheme rewards that, because it is built almost entirely on value - a pale coat, a black underlayer, and a bloodless face - with almost no colour to hide behind.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"the-signature-look","The signature look",[10,19,20],{},"A long, pale grey trenchcoat over a matt black bodyglove, worn by a completely hairless figure with grey-white skin and blank, staring eyes. The coat should read as light and slightly cold, not white; the bodyglove should read as genuinely dark, not grey. That separation between the two is the whole scheme. Everything else - a knife, a pistol, a respirator - is small metal detail.",[10,22,23],{},"Resist the temptation to warm anything up. Delaque live in the deep levels where nothing has seen a sun lamp in decades.",[14,25,27],{"id":26},"the-pale-grey-coat","The pale grey coat",[10,29,30,31,35],{},"Undercoat black, then zenithal a light grey or ",[32,33,34],"strong",{},"Grey Seer"," from above. That undercoat does half the shading for you on a garment this large and this flat.",[37,38,39,47,58,65,72],"ol",{},[40,41,42,43,46],"li",{},"Basecoat ",[32,44,45],{},"Dawnstone",", two thin coats. Straight from the pot it looks too dark for the finished coat - it should, because you are building upwards from here.",[40,48,49,50,53,54,57],{},"Shade the folds with thinned ",[32,51,52],{},"Nuln Oil",", keeping it in the recesses. If you want the shadows to stay cool rather than sooty, use ",[32,55,56],{},"Drakenhof Nightshade"," instead; it suits Delaque better than it suits almost anything else.",[40,59,60,61,64],{},"Layer ",[32,62,63],{},"Administratum Grey"," over the raised cloth, leaving the shade colour in the creases and along the hem.",[40,66,67,68,71],{},"Highlight the top edges and fold peaks with ",[32,69,70],{},"Ulthuan Grey",".",[40,73,74,75,78],{},"On the sharpest points only - collar corners, shoulder ridges, the front edge of the coat - a fine line of ",[32,76,77],{},"White Scar",". Two or three per model, no more.",[10,80,81,82,85,86,85,89,85,92,95,96,99,100,85,103,95,106,109],{},"Vallejo painters can run the same ramp as ",[32,83,84],{},"German Grey",", ",[32,87,88],{},"Cold Grey",[32,90,91],{},"Stonewall Grey",[32,93,94],{},"Ghost Grey"," and ",[32,97,98],{},"Dead White",". Army Painter Fanatic gives you ",[32,101,102],{},"Uniform Grey",[32,104,105],{},"Castle Grey",[32,107,108],{},"Ash Grey"," for the middle of it.",[14,111,113],{"id":112},"the-fast-route","The fast route",[10,115,116,117,119,120,123,124,126],{},"Undercoat ",[32,118,34],{},", then glaze ",[32,121,122],{},"Basilicanum Grey"," into the recesses of the coat only - not over the whole panel. Wipe the brush and pull the contrast down into the folds so the raised cloth keeps the pale undercoat. One highlight of ",[32,125,70],{}," on top and the coat is finished in about ten minutes.",[10,128,129,130,133],{},"For a cooler, more blue-grey coat, ",[32,131,132],{},"Space Wolves Grey"," does the same job in one coat and looks striking against black. This is also the sensible route if you are painting a second gang or a pile of hangers-on.",[14,135,137],{"id":136},"bodygloves-leather-and-metal","Bodygloves, leather and metal",[10,139,140,141,144,145,148,149,151],{},"The bodyglove has to stay dark or the coat stops reading as pale. Basecoat ",[32,142,143],{},"Abaddon Black",", then edge-highlight with ",[32,146,147],{},"Eshin Grey"," and stop there. If you want a hint of sheen on the tighter panels, add a very thin ",[32,150,45],{}," catch on the knees and shoulders. Do not drybrush the bodyglove - the coat is the light source in this scheme.",[10,153,154,155,158,159,162,163,166,167,170,171,173,174,177],{},"Straps, holsters and boots: ",[32,156,157],{},"Rhinox Hide"," shaded ",[32,160,161],{},"Agrax Earthshade"," and edged ",[32,164,165],{},"Mournfang Brown",". Blades and pistols in ",[32,168,169],{},"Leadbelcher",", shaded ",[32,172,52],{},", with a ",[32,175,176],{},"Runefang Steel"," edge on the cutting surface. Delaque weapons are silenced, exotic and usually small, so keep the metals dark and cool rather than bright.",[14,179,181],{"id":180},"heads-eyes-and-skin","Heads, eyes and skin",[10,183,184],{},"The bald pallid head is what makes a Delaque model unmistakable, and it takes five minutes.",[10,186,42,187,190,191,194,195,198,199,202],{},[32,188,189],{},"Rakarth Flesh",", shade with ",[32,192,193],{},"Druchii Violet"," rather than a brown wash - the purple keeps the skin looking bloodless and sunless. Layer ",[32,196,197],{},"Pallid Wych Flesh"," across the crown, cheekbones and nose, then a final touch of ",[32,200,201],{},"Screaming Skull"," on the brow and the top of the skull.",[10,204,205,206,208,209,212,213,215],{},"The eyes are the trick. Delaque eyes read as blank white discs, not as normal pupilled eyes. Fill the whole socket with ",[32,207,143],{},", then paint a solid oval of ",[32,210,211],{},"Corax White"," or ",[32,214,77],{}," over it, leaving a thin black border all round. No pupil, no iris. Getting both eyes the same size matters far more than getting them small.",[14,217,219],{"id":218},"tips-and-common-mistakes","Tips and common mistakes",[221,222,223,229,235,241,247],"ul",{},[40,224,225,228],{},[32,226,227],{},"Do not paint the coat white."," The finished garment should sit around a mid-to-light grey with white only on the sharpest edges. A white coat loses every fold.",[40,230,231,234],{},[32,232,233],{},"Keep the shadows cool."," Brown or sepia anywhere on the cloth immediately makes Delaque look like scruffy Van Saar.",[40,236,237,240],{},[32,238,239],{},"Black stays black."," The commonest failure is highlighting the bodyglove until it is the same value as the coat, at which point the silhouette collapses.",[40,242,243,246],{},[32,244,245],{},"One warm accent, deliberately placed."," A red lens, a brass buckle or a single ganger's rust-brown glove gives the eye somewhere to land on an otherwise monochrome model.",[40,248,249,252],{},[32,250,251],{},"Thin your greys hard."," Pale greys are chalky and streaky at pot consistency, and streaks show badly across a coat this large.",[10,254,255,256,261],{},"When the palette is where you want it, ",[257,258,260],"a",{"href":259},"/tools/scheme-generator?color=8A93A0","open this scheme in the generator"," to swap paints between brands or push the coat cooler.",{"title":263,"searchDepth":264,"depth":264,"links":265},"",2,[266,267,268,269,270,271],{"id":16,"depth":264,"text":17},{"id":26,"depth":264,"text":27},{"id":112,"depth":264,"text":113},{"id":136,"depth":264,"text":137},{"id":180,"depth":264,"text":181},{"id":218,"depth":264,"text":219},"2026-09-03","How to paint House Delaque for Necromunda - the pale grey trenchcoat recipe from basecoat to edge highlight, black bodygloves, bald pallid heads and blank white eyes.","md","House Delaque",null,"#8A93A0","Pale grey coats, black bodygloves and hairless, hollow-eyed informants",{},true,"/factions/house-delaque",{"title":5,"description":273},"factions/house-delaque","necromunda","91XUE-gniUo7vU5fNVxFf6EKn0FK50mXv8ix8SmV9tw"]