Purple Armour: The distinctive purple armour begins with Vallejo, Royal Purple mixed 3:1 with Vallejo, Dark Sea Grey. This is painted over a black undercoat. For this army I painted the models as if the light was striking the right side of the model so the highlights are placed on this side and shadows on the left. The highlights were created by adding Citadel, Lothern Blue to the base coat mix in gradually increasing amount. This usually took 2-3 stages of highlights with more blue added each time. The final highlight included white being added to the mix for extreme highlights and edge highlighting. The shadows were created by mixing Royal Purple and black in a 1:1 ratio. This is thinned to a glaze consistency then painted into the shadows of the model, us multiple coats to achieve even darker shading in some areas. The battle damage was made using Citadel Rhinox Hide for the dark chips and scratches and the final highlight colour from the previous stage for the light scratches and to paint the underside of the damage to give the impression of 3D marks. The images below show the difference between the light and dark sides of the model.