-How to paint The Ancient One-

this Tutorial shows how to paint The Ancient One, which are a focal individual of Hive-Fleet Xeno. the model was Converted from a hive tyrant, using rending claws but i took a extra pair of claws, cut them of from the lower arm and glued them onto the other claws,to create the Dual slashing claws. also, the "Age details" was made glueing sand on random places.

The colours of this model is the same as the rest of the fleet, exept a few things. but this gives a all-in-one tutorial how to paint the Xeno scheme. the main difference between Ancient one and the rest is that i layered only one layer of yellow on the other models, but i gave this one extra attention by having 3 layers of yellow. this extra atention was also made on Old One Eye.

oh yes, you might think i was lazy to only have one layer. but the fact is, this fleet is 6 years old. i had almost everything painted but randomly bad done models. i took the decision to repaint everything, same scheme of course. in a quite fast and easy way to not loose motivation (its a big army!). the result is now a over 2500pts  large army, repainted in just two weeks. the result is not as good as my best other models, but it's a huge improovement from the last attempt. and it looks really nice,especially in numbers!. so, now on to the Tutorial itself:

What do you need?
-good drybrush brush
-detailing thin brush
-Chaos black (spray recomended as basecoat)
-codex grey
-foretress grey
-Golden yellow
-Red gore
-Blood red
-Skull white
-Bestial brown
-Bleached bone
-matt varnish

Skin/Chitin

after base coating the model in Chaos black, carefully drybrush all none-carapace details with codex grey. you can highlight by hand if you wish, but a carefull drybrush is faster and can be as good.

Claws

paint all claws in codex grey. then, to do this effct. use Fortress grey and layer stripes from the claw's top and all the way to the claws end. make sure that the stripes are more thin at the point where they dade to the codex grey. this can be quite hard and i admit i havnt fully mastered it, but it's ok.

Yellow

this is a important stage of the model. as the Xeno fleet's major colours are Black and Yellow. paint all yellow markings with Golden yellow, and make sure it covers the black properly. then layer a mix of golden yellow and about 30% white mixed to it. finish of by highlighting the sharp edges with white, but about 25% golden yellow mixed to it.

Red

the red markings is just two simple steps. start by using red gore,and then layer blood red. but leave a thin edge of red gore visible. if you want a even better shade,do the first step using scab red. the eyes are painted in the same way as the carapace red.

Teeth

simply layer skull white on the teeth. if you wish a better shade you can layer stages of bone or grey first, but the skin drybrush of grey pretty much aoto-fixed that step.

Age Detailing

to paint this detailing, start with a coat of bestial brown. layer bleached bone on this. finish of with a thin highlight of skull white.

Finish of the model with matt varnish and paint the base how you wish.

The Result
Ancient one in all it's mighty glory!

so, this Tutorial can be usefull if you wish to paint a xeno army. or just want to know a good and easy way to paint old one eye!, or if you're just interested in this scheme in general.