How to paint terracotta warriors:

stage 1: Black primer. I use rustoleum black flat spray paint with a spray trigger handle.

stage 2: Heavy Drybrush with a dark brown. Two options I have used are in the picture.

Stage 3: Medium Drybrush a 2:1 mix of Vallejo Cork Brown and Vallejo Grunge Brown.

Stage 4: Light Drybrush of Vallejo bone white sweeping downwards from the tallest points of the miniature.

stage 5: basecoat weapons, arrows, scabbards as wood or other hard wearing materials. In my case I reused a dark brown from earlier.

stage 6: Basecoat eyes, potentially a small area around the eyes, with vallejo dead white or an equivalent.

Stage 7: Glaze or otherwise apply vallejo fluorescent green (or an equivalent accent color you like) over the areas you picked out in white.

Stage 8: layer with a 2:1 mix of Vallejo brass with vallejo chainmail or another muted silver tone metallic. This creates a facsimile of bronze.

stage 9: Pick out strapping on the weapon, fletching on arrows, and tassels on spears, with a tertiary color. I chose vallejo Gory Red. I also sponged gory red onto any shield panels before the stage 4 drybrush.

Stage 10: Paint your base. In my case, I went with a 2:1 mix of Vallejo Beige WWII with Vallejo bone white and followed up with a wash of Army painter Strong Tone.

How to paint Terracotta warriors