How to paint space marines

[Santawraith]

So in dying to help I have some how to paint guides for vampire related stuff. So why not space marines and other other races of 40k.

In these how to threads I shall share my tutorials and I hope each of you shall share yours.

 

[Santawraith]

Today is a crimson fist tutorial so I can get the motivation to finish said army.

Starting off I would normally primer them black so it is easier to start a dark blue theme.

Next I basecoat them Kantor blue.

Next is a drybrush of ultramarine blue or altdorf blue as it is now known.

Next is a wash of drakenhof nightshade

Onto the red hands which is a fun subject. Veterans have two red hands the battle brothers have one. Paint the hand Mephiston red

Up next is Cold steel metallic accents like the Aquila and skulls

Next I do the Abbandon black on the armor joints hoses and weapon casings.

Now to the silver on the weapons again cold steel of course bolt gun works too. Then a wash of black.

Sword hilt is done p3 blighted gold

Now for the eyes I use ruby red a reaper paint. One could also use the screaming bell gw color. I also added the shoulder iconography which was all that was left.

 

[Santawraith]

’ve been asked to do a lightning tutorial. Lightning is easy to do and stunning when finished.


I’ll be using a sword blade, but lightning can be done on anything.


Start by painting the area you want the lightning black.

Paint thick jagged lines in regal blue, now known as kantor blue.

When painting lightning it helps to keep the form of actual lightning in mind. I like to have a reference picture to refer to.

Follow the regal blue lines with a thinner line of shadow grey, now known as the Fang.

Next, follow the lines of shadow grey with finer lines of space wolves grey, also called fenrisian grey.

One more thing to make the lightning more realistic. In some joints, use the space wolves grey to draw thin connecting lines. See the picture for what I mean.

There you have it. Believable realistic looking lightning.

 

[Santawraith]

Alright here is my librarian paint scheme also ultramarine paint scheme too.

Base coat of altdorf guard blue

Give it a wash of drakenhof nightshade

Follow that with a drybrush of altdorf guard blue

From here it’s details and the extra work that makes him unique to his chapter

 

[Count Darvaleth]

Thanks for the tutorials! Having a picture of real lightning like that for reference is a great idea, and if I ever start Crimson Fists (and you never know, I think they're a great chapter so it's possible), I know where to come!

How would you deal with rust effects on tank-tracks and the like if you also want to have mud? I've ended up just having orangey-looking mud smeared all over it.

 

[Santawraith]

I will do a tutorial on it, basically I do my tracks then rust effect them then wash them black then do my mud, so you have steal color rust effct then do you mud. make sure things dry. The black wash would give it a greased effect like the tracks were maintained.

 

[Santawraith]

Alright here Is how I do my blood angel space marine armor.

First using dragon red primer from army painter we base coat it.

Next is a drybrush of Squig orange

Next we wash it Carroburg crimson

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This is fallows by another drybrush of Khador red base

After this the trim and details. Hope this helps those who asked about it.

 

[Corien Sumatris]

Great tutorial here buddy! I think the biggest thing about space marines is brush control. They have a lot of drastic changes in color and quite a few flat areas on the models themselves (Knees, Sholder pads, shins) and brush control is what will make the model look awesome. I mean having this great red base for the armor can easily give you headaches when you go to do some nice bright gold accents to the armor if you don't have your brush under control and it goes crazy! no one likes a brush that longs to murder and wear skin masks and eat people and stuff.

 

[Santawraith]

from here gloss it, makes the paint whip off easier during oops momments

 

[Count Darvaleth]

Ok, thanks for the advice Santa! The grease-effect is very clever, makes sense when you think about it.

 

[Santawraith]

I work around some heavy equipment greasing the tracks of the dozer sucks

 

[Santawraith]

Space wolves try outs

Base oat of Russ grey

Base coat of codex grey

I bet a few are asking why two separate colors well that’s easy preheresy baby

Easy to achieve we added a earth shade wash. This is how his armor looked.

Now for the modern space wolf

Our goal

Then a drybrush of etherium blue

Then a light dusting or light dry brush of Russ grey again

 

[The Sun King]

You really need a new camera Santa

 

[Santawraith]

I'm sorry

 

[Santawraith]

Basecoat the space wolf marine The Fang.

Layer it totally with a slightly thinned Russ Grey.

Using a fine detail brush wash the recesses with agrax earthshade very carefully.

Using a fine detail brush edge the armor edges with a thinned fenrisian grey

Done as a blood maw

 

[Santawraith]

Basecoat the wolf dryad bark

Paint from the muzzle to the tail with zandri dust

Drybrush Rakarth flesh over the zandri dust

Add a streak of black down the back

Add a wash of agrax earthshade

After that you just do individual markings and finish up the details like this all these three were started like above.







Group shot

 

[Santawraith]

Basecoat the ice ax with ice blue (the irony)

Layer the ax with blue horror edge paint

The heart of ice is a dark color so to simulate that I used a glaze of blue on the center, on either side of the handle

Layer the edges where an ax would be sharp with ceramite white, leaving the blue showing in the recesses

Finally give the ice a layer of 'ardcoat.

 

[Santawraith]

I plan to do my Runes like a ulfberht sword.Basecoat the blade with leadbelcher

Wash the blade with nuln oil.

Drybrush the sword with ironbreaker. You can give te runes an extra highlight of ironbreaker around them but it isn't necessary

Putting it all together