[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"faction-/factions/trench-crusade-new-antioch":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":120,"description":121,"extension":122,"faction":123,"heroImage":124,"hex":125,"intro":126,"lastUpdated":120,"meta":127,"navigation":128,"path":129,"seo":130,"stem":131,"system":132,"__hash__":133},"factions/factions/trench-crusade-new-antioch.md","How to Paint New Antioch (Trench Crusade)",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":111},"minimark",[9,13,18,21,25,47,51,54,58,71,75,103],[10,11,12],"p",{},"New Antioch stands for the faithful side of Trench Crusade's endless war - massed regiments of soldiers holding the line against hell itself. Visually they are the most \"historical\" warband in the game: khaki and olive drab, steel helmets, webbing and puttees, with their faith worn as stark off-white crosses and field markings. That makes them a superb first Trench Crusade project, because the core scheme is essentially a WW1 uniform done well, then weathered hard.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"the-signature-look","The signature look",[10,19,20],{},"The base colour is a muted khaki drab - the recipe above builds the ramp for it. Against that you want three things: dark leather and webbing to give structure, cool gunmetal for weapons and helmets, and the heraldry - off-white crosses and unit markings that identify the faithful at a glance. The heraldry is the focal point, so it earns the most careful brushwork on the model.",[14,22,24],{"id":23},"painting-the-uniforms","Painting the uniforms",[26,27,28,38,41,44],"ol",{},[29,30,31,32,37],"li",{},"Basecoat the cloth khaki and shade it with a brown wash - ",[33,34,36],"a",{"href":35},"/guides/washes-and-shades","washes and shades"," do most of the work on folds and creases.",[29,39,40],{},"Layer the raised folds back up with the base khaki, then a lightened khaki on the top edges. Keep it desaturated; parade-ground brightness is wrong here.",[29,42,43],{},"Paint webbing, pouches and boots in dark earth browns, and helmets in either drab or dark gunmetal.",[29,45,46],{},"Keep faces simple - flat flesh, a wash, one highlight. The mud will do the rest of the character work.",[14,48,50],{"id":49},"the-faith-heraldry","The faith heraldry",[10,52,53],{},"Paint crosses and field markings in a warm off-white rather than pure white - basecoat a pale bone-grey, then highlight towards white only at the centre. Freehand a cross with two strokes of a fine brush, tidy the edges with the surrounding khaki, and then - crucially - weather it back. A thin earth-tone glaze over the lower half of a cross, or a few chips picked out in the uniform colour, stops the marking floating on top of the model. Faith endures; paintwork does not.",[14,55,57],{"id":56},"weathering","Weathering",[10,59,60,61,65,66,70],{},"New Antioch should look like it has been in the line for months. Work up from the base: drybrush dusty earth over boots and puttees, stipple darker mud on shins and coat hems, and drag thinned brown streaks down from pouches and buckles. A little rust - orange-brown stippled at rivets and around the edges of helmets and shovels - finishes the metal. ",[33,62,64],{"href":63},"/guides/drybrushing","Drybrushing"," covers the fast way to do most of this, and a churned-mud base from the ",[33,67,69],{"href":68},"/guides/basing-miniatures","basing guide"," ties the warband together.",[14,72,74],{"id":73},"tips-and-common-mistakes","Tips and common mistakes",[76,77,78,85,91,97],"ul",{},[29,79,80,84],{},[81,82,83],"strong",{},"Vary the khaki."," Mix a touch of green or brown into the basecoat between models - a slightly mismatched warband reads as real soldiers, not toy soldiers.",[29,86,87,90],{},[81,88,89],{},"Off-white, not white."," Pure white heraldry glows unnaturally against drab; bone-white weathered back looks earned.",[29,92,93,96],{},[81,94,95],{},"Cool metal, warm cloth."," The contrast between grey steel and warm khaki is what keeps the muted scheme from going muddy.",[29,98,99,102],{},[81,100,101],{},"Save one clean thing."," A banner, a medic's markings or an officer's sash kept relatively clean gives the eye a rest point among the filth.",[10,104,105,106,110],{},"When you are happy with the palette, ",[33,107,109],{"href":108},"/tools/scheme-generator?color=7a6f52","open this scheme in the generator"," to swap paints between brands, nudge the mood or add a secondary colour.",{"title":112,"searchDepth":113,"depth":113,"links":114},"",2,[115,116,117,118,119],{"id":16,"depth":113,"text":17},{"id":23,"depth":113,"text":24},{"id":49,"depth":113,"text":50},{"id":56,"depth":113,"text":57},{"id":73,"depth":113,"text":74},"2026-07-04","A guide to painting New Antioch for Trench Crusade - khaki drab uniforms, off-white faith heraldry and battlefield weathering for the defenders of the faithful.","md","New Antioch",null,"#7a6f52","Khaki drab, white crosses and honest Great War grime",{},true,"/factions/trench-crusade-new-antioch",{"title":5,"description":121},"factions/trench-crusade-new-antioch","trench-crusade","MP5FSv_rcw7VNPoVv6u_4N5rD0yIsgNKCVDngQsAbk0"]