[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"faction-/factions/house-goliath":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":334,"description":335,"extension":336,"faction":337,"heroImage":338,"hex":339,"intro":340,"lastUpdated":334,"meta":341,"navigation":342,"path":343,"seo":344,"stem":345,"system":346,"__hash__":347},"factions/factions/house-goliath.md","How to Paint House Goliath",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":324},"minimark",[9,13,16,21,24,28,31,75,94,111,115,131,141,145,148,184,213,227,231,234,273,287,291],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Goliaths are mostly skin. On a typical ganger, bare flesh covers more surface than anything else on the model - chest, arms, shoulders, half the legs - so the flesh recipe is not a detail step you do at the end, it is the paint job. Get that right and the rest is trim.",[10,14,15],{},"That is good news for a new painter, because those muscle slabs are large, smooth and heavily sculpted. Every bicep and pectoral has a clear high point and a clear crease, which means a wash and one layer does most of the work that would take blending on a flat surface.",[17,18,20],"h2",{"id":19},"the-signature-look","The signature look",[10,22,23],{},"Pale, cold, slightly grey-pink flesh - vat-grown rather than sunburnt - on enormous exaggerated musculature. Against that sits burnt orange: trousers, aprons, straps and leathers in a rusty, low-saturation orange rather than a traffic-cone one. Metal is dark, heavy and abused. The whole gang should look industrial, like something forged in the same foundry as their weapons.",[17,25,27],{"id":26},"the-flesh","The flesh",[10,29,30],{},"Undercoat grey or white. A black undercoat fights you on pale skin.",[32,33,34,43,54,61,68],"ol",{},[35,36,37,38,42],"li",{},"Basecoat ",[39,40,41],"strong",{},"Rakarth Flesh",", two thin coats. Thin them properly - flesh is the largest area on the model and brush marks will show.",[35,44,45,46,49,50,53],{},"Shade with ",[39,47,48],{},"Reikland Fleshshade",". If you want the colder, more corpse-like studio look, use ",[39,51,52],{},"Agrax Earthshade"," instead; it kills the pink and reads as grime.",[35,55,56,57,60],{},"Layer ",[39,58,59],{},"Pallid Wych Flesh"," across the raised muscle, leaving the shade in every crease and under every overhang.",[35,62,63,64,67],{},"Highlight ",[39,65,66],{},"Screaming Skull"," on the very top of the shoulders, the brow, the collarbones and the knuckles. Keep it to the top third of each muscle.",[35,69,70,71,74],{},"Optional but worth it: a thin glaze of ",[39,72,73],{},"Bugman's Glow"," into the elbows, knees, nose and ears. A little blood flush at the joints stops the whole figure looking like grey plastic.",[10,76,77,78,81,82,85,86,89,90,93],{},"Vallejo Game Color runs the same ramp as ",[39,79,80],{},"Pale Flesh"," into ",[39,83,84],{},"Elfic Flesh",", and Army Painter Fanatic as ",[39,87,88],{},"Barbarian Flesh"," shaded and layered up with ",[39,91,92],{},"Necrotic Flesh"," for the sicklier fighters.",[10,95,96,99,100,103,104,107,108,110],{},[39,97,98],{},"The fast route:"," undercoat ",[39,101,102],{},"Wraithbone",", one coat of ",[39,105,106],{},"Darkoath Flesh"," contrast, then re-highlight the top of each muscle with ",[39,109,59],{},". Two steps, and on musculature this pronounced the contrast paint pools exactly where you would have shaded anyway.",[17,112,114],{"id":113},"tattoos-and-chem-scars","Tattoos and chem scars",[10,116,117,118,121,122,125,126,130],{},"Goliath skin is a canvas. Thin ",[39,119,120],{},"Kantor Blue"," or ",[39,123,124],{},"Incubi Darkness"," heavily with medium and paint simple block shapes - bars, skulls, house sigils - onto the shoulders and forearms, then glaze once more over the top with your flesh highlight so the tattoo sits ",[127,128,129],"em",{},"in"," the skin rather than on it. Keep the designs crude; these are prison tattoos, not fine art.",[10,132,133,134,121,137,140],{},"Chem-tanks and injector rigs take ",[39,135,136],{},"Waystone Green",[39,138,139],{},"Tesseract Glow"," over a light base for a lurid, obviously-not-medical fluid.",[17,142,144],{"id":143},"orange-trousers-and-leathers","Orange trousers and leathers",[10,146,147],{},"Orange pigments are transparent, so the base underneath matters more than usual.",[32,149,150,156,162,172,178],{},[35,151,37,152,155],{},[39,153,154],{},"Averland Sunset"," over the primer. This does the covering so the orange does not have to.",[35,157,37,158,161],{},[39,159,160],{},"Jokaero Orange"," over that, one or two thin coats.",[35,163,164,165,167,168,171],{},"Shade ",[39,166,52],{}," for a dirty, worn orange, or ",[39,169,170],{},"Fuegan Orange"," if you want it hotter and cleaner.",[35,173,56,174,177],{},[39,175,176],{},"Troll Slayer Orange"," on the raised folds and the tops of the thighs.",[35,179,63,180,183],{},[39,181,182],{},"Fire Dragon Bright"," on the top edges of the folds and the leading edge of any apron or plate.",[10,185,186,187,190,191,193,194,197,198,81,201,204,205,208,209,212],{},"Contrast route: ",[39,188,189],{},"Gryph-hound Orange"," over ",[39,192,102],{}," gives a duller, more leathery orange; ",[39,195,196],{},"Magmadroth Flame"," gives a brighter one. Vallejo painters can use ",[39,199,200],{},"Orange Fire",[39,202,203],{},"Hot Orange","; Army Painter ",[39,206,207],{},"Lava Orange",", or ",[39,210,211],{},"Fire Giant Orange"," speedpaint for the one-coat version.",[10,214,215,216,81,219,222,223,226],{},"Where the leather is meant to read as brown rather than orange, ",[39,217,218],{},"Rhinox Hide",[39,220,221],{},"Mournfang Brown"," with a ",[39,224,225],{},"Skrag Brown"," edge keeps it in the same warm family.",[17,228,230],{"id":229},"metal-and-weathering","Metal and weathering",[10,232,233],{},"Everything a Goliath carries has been hit against something.",[32,235,236,242,248,259,266],{},[35,237,238,241],{},[39,239,240],{},"Leadbelcher"," basecoat on blades, plating, chains and gun bodies.",[35,243,244,247],{},[39,245,246],{},"Nuln Oil"," over all of it, generously.",[35,249,250,251,254,255,258],{},"Edge with ",[39,252,253],{},"Ironbreaker",", then ",[39,256,257],{},"Runefang Steel"," on the blade edges and hammer faces only.",[35,260,261,262,265],{},"Stipple ",[39,263,264],{},"Typhus Corrosion"," around rivets, seams and the bottom edges of plates.",[35,267,268,269,272],{},"Drybrush ",[39,270,271],{},"Ryza Rust"," lightly over the corrosion, then scrub most of it off with a clean brush. Rust wants to look like it grew there, not like it was painted on.",[10,274,275,276,279,280,282,283,286],{},"Brass and bronze details - buckles, forge marks, chem-tank fittings - go ",[39,277,278],{},"Warplock Bronze",", shade ",[39,281,52],{},", edge ",[39,284,285],{},"Sycorax Bronze",". That warm metal against the orange keeps the palette coherent.",[17,288,290],{"id":289},"tips-and-common-mistakes","Tips and common mistakes",[292,293,294,300,306,312,318],"ul",{},[35,295,296,299],{},[39,297,298],{},"Thin the flesh basecoat."," It is the single biggest area on the model and the one place thick paint is unmissable.",[35,301,302,305],{},[39,303,304],{},"Do not highlight the whole muscle."," Highlight the top surface only. Muscles read as volume because the underside stays dark.",[35,307,308,311],{},[39,309,310],{},"Keep the orange muted."," A pure, saturated orange next to pale flesh looks like sportswear. Shade it hard and let the brown come through.",[35,313,314,317],{},[39,315,316],{},"Weather from the ground up."," Boots and lower legs dirtiest, chest and shoulders cleanest. Uniform grime everywhere reads as a mistake rather than a choice.",[35,319,320,323],{},[39,321,322],{},"Bare metal, not gold."," Goliaths make their own gear in a forge. Bright gold trim belongs to another house entirely.",{"title":325,"searchDepth":326,"depth":326,"links":327},"",2,[328,329,330,331,332,333],{"id":19,"depth":326,"text":20},{"id":26,"depth":326,"text":27},{"id":113,"depth":326,"text":114},{"id":143,"depth":326,"text":144},{"id":229,"depth":326,"text":230},{"id":289,"depth":326,"text":290},"2026-09-03","How to paint House Goliath for Necromunda - a pale grey-pink flesh recipe for all that bare muscle, burnt-orange trousers and leathers, battered dark metal and chem-tank details.","md","House Goliath",null,"#D9611F","Slabs of bare muscle, burnt-orange leathers and battered iron",{},true,"/factions/house-goliath",{"title":5,"description":335},"factions/house-goliath","necromunda","ydcBbNSzfO4ME5ATOT3YvhO8dsJwirKCL-2yY07ahM0"]