Colors of Arikania is an irregular series of articles designed to help you get your Wrath Of Kings miniatures painted quickly and well and boost the look of your forces on the tabletop. We’ll start to covering the three key colors associated with each Faction.

House Nasier – Ashman Swordsman & Pelegarth Bloodmask – painted by Dave Taylor

For House Nasier, we determined that the three main colors for our basic force would be:

• Black – primarily for the clothing/boots of the Ashmen/Pelegarths.
• Deep Red – the Nasier all wear their ritual demon masks, and most of those are a deep red.
• Purple/Grey Flesh – the warriors of House Nasier have flesh that is as hard as stone, in a purplish grey.

To help understand where the highlights and shadows would fall on the models, I first primed them all over with a black primer. Once that was dry, I sprayed the Pelegarth with a white primer from a raised angle (about 30 degrees) to create shaded areas on the model. As the Ashmen are primarily black or metal, I left this model primed black.

Throughout this article we’ll refer to various paint colors from both the Vallejo and Army Painter ranges. These are typically available from your FLGS, or through our webstore. You’ll be able to recognize these by the prefix we use: VMC – Vallejo Model Color, VGC – Vallejo Game Color, VMA – Vallejo Model Air, AP – Army Painter.

Ashman Cloth

Step One – Highlight the black areas with VMC German Grey
Step Two – Highlight with a 1:1 mix of VMC German Grey and VMC Basalt Grey
Step Three – Highlight with VMC Basalt Grey
Step Four – In order the soften the highlights and give the highlights a slightly brown appearance, shade with a thinned wash of AP Strong Tone

Nasier Masks

Step One – Basecoat the mask with VMC Hull Red
Step Two – Highlight with a 1:1 mix of VMC Hull Red and VGC Bloody Red
Step Three – Highlight with VGC Bloody Red

Pelegarth Purple Flesh

Step One – Basecoat the flesh with a thinned VGC Hexed Lichen
Step Two – Highlight with a 2:1 mix of VGC Hexed Lichen and VMC Light Grey
Step Three – Highlight with a 1:2 mix of VGC Hexed Lichen and VMC Light Grey
Step Four – Highlight with VMC Light Grey

Completing the Nasier Infantry

All that remained was to finish off the details (gold, wrappings, weapon hafts, etc) and complete the base of the models. For these bases I simply used PVA glue and sand to fill the base, then added a couple of small rocks and some tufts of grass from The Army Painter.