This video is a quick overview of how I paint a Warhammer Thousand Sons Mark III Space Marine Armor from the Horus Heresy. It includes a green glowing eyes tutorial and how I painted the Gemstones of the Void Dart. For the whole mini including the base the process took 3.0 hours.
This video is a quick overview of how I paint a Warhammer White Scars Kit bashed Mark VI Vigilator Space Marine from the Horus Heresy. It includes a blue glowing eyes tutorial. For the whole mini including the base the process took 4 hours.
This video is a quick overview of how I paint a Warhammer Emperor’s Children Mark III Space Marine Armor from the Horus Heresy. It includes a green glowing eyes tutorial and how I painted the glowing power sword. For the whole mini including the base the process took 3.5 hours.
This video is a quick overview how i paint a Warhammer Blood Angels MK VI Space Marine Armor from the Horus Heresy. This Video also includes the steps for armor chipping and battle damage
This video is a quick overview how i paint a Warhammer Ultramarine MK VI Space Marine Armor from the Horus Heresy. This Video also includes the steps for armor chipping and battle damage
The Base paint job i show in this tutorial needs around 2.5h. For the whole mini including basing it took 3h.
This video is a quick overview how i paint a Warhammer Ultramarine MK VI Space Marine Armor from the Horus Heresy. This Video also includes the steps for armor chipping and battle damage
The Base paint job i show in this tutorial needs around 2.5h. For the whole mini including basing it took 3.5h.
This video is a quick overview how i paint a Warhammer Word Bearers MK III Space Marine Armor from the Horus Heresy. The Base paint job i show in this tutorial needs around 2h. For the whole mini including OPTIONAL highlights and basing it took 3h.
This video is a quick tutorial where I show you how i painted the details on my Legio Custodes Armor. This is part 2 of 2 and covers the whole process of painting Shoulder pads, Ropes, Leather and Gemstones.
This video is a quick tutorial where I show you how I painted my true metallic metal Warhammer 40k Adeptus Custodes armor. This video is part 1 of 2 parts and covers the whole process of painting gold armor. The second part will cover the leather, gems and ropes.
Another Quick painting guide, how I painted a Grimdark Salamanders Horus Heresy MK VI Space Marine. The Video also includes a guide how you can easily paint freehand flames on shoulder pads.
The base process of painting the armor I show in this video takes around 2h of painting time.
Here a quick Video how i create my simple buts still epic Mars Bases.
I used this Bases on several Projects. The biggest one was my Armies on Parade 2023 Sons of Horus entry.
I also use them on the ongoing Time vs. Result category where i started to paint every Horus Heresy Legion by mixing multiple speed painting techniques.
A couple of weeks ago i went to my local Warhammer store and viewed because of a rainy day a starter game from the 10th Edition of Warhammer 40k. As i saw that the new combat Patrol system is a easy stating point for the 10th edition and also realized that the Space Marine Combat Patrol only includes 12 models i decided to start a quick combat patrol painting project.
Also one of my loved local Warhammer store workers who is a big Alpha Legion fan announced that he will leave the GW family for a new carrer. And an Idea was born…
So i wanted to paint all the Combat Patrol units in a Alpha Legion theme to honor my local Warhammer store worker called “Mark”.
As a Start Point and schedule i decided to almost use “speed painting patterns”. So i gave myself around 3-4h for every unit model and about 10h for each of the character models.
Half on the way to the goal i ran into a post of a Alpha Legion Member that decloaks and i was addicted to the idea that at least the Captain needs this awesome effect painted on.
Here are the final results of the combat patrol painting:
With the upcoming Hexfire release i decided to paint some Grey Knights. I also thought this is maybe a good time to figure out some prejudice with metallic colors the community has in mind.
Most miniature painters say that GW metallic colors are bad for painting becuase of there small proportion to metallic pigments and the thickness.
With my ongoing research to what colors i will bench against each other i also find out that there are diffrent primers that will have impact on the result of painting metallic metal. So i decided also to bench the results of a regular primer and a metallic primer. The research also showed up that most of the pro painters that using true metallic metal colors using vallejo or GW colors to paint there models.
This is why i came up to paint 4 models at the end of the day. I needed to paint 2 diffrent color types with 2 diffrent primers.
I marked all the modells at the bottom with a series of letters to define how they will get painted.
Definition of marks
VM GW – vallejo matt primer, Games Workshop colors
VG GW – vallejo gloss primer, Games Workshop colors
VM V – vallejo matt primer, vallejo colors
VG V – vallejo gloss primer, vallejo colors
But before we start to paint lets take a lookon all the colors i used for the comparsion.
Start with 2-3 layers of a slight Base Coat of “vallejo – Black (70.950)”. Try to paint these layers as thin as you can. Its important that you dont loose any details. If you have a airbrush, paint the black Base Coat with the airbrush.
Make sure that the whole model is covered after the black layers with a deep true black color environment.
Step #2 – Red layer
For the red layer take a brush in size 3+ and dip it half with the belly right into the color “Citadel (Layer) – Evil Sunz Scarlet”.
Dont thin the color with water. This is important becasue we want the color still moist, if we bring on the next layer to get a smooth transition between the colors. This technique is also called wet blending
For the later transition between the “Citadel (Technical) – Mordant Earth” and the armor color” vallejo – Black (70.950)” its important that you always have a small edge of black arround the parts painted red.
Step #3 – Orange layer
The ornage layer is basicly the same procedure as the red layer. The onyl differnce is that the are you paint with “Citadel (Layer) – Fire Dragon Bright” is inside the red area you painted in the second step.
Make also sure that you get some streaks between the red and the orange layer by wet blending these colors.
This gives the armor in the final result a more realistic ember effect.
Try to have a moist color when you get over to the next step.
Step #4 – Yellow layer
The “Citadel (Layer) – Flash Gitz Yellow” layer is the last color layer. Try to thin the color a littebit down and get it mixed with the moist parts of the layer from the previos step. Its also important for the end result of the effect that you have some more potent yellow spots.
If youre done wait until the whole layers are dry before you get to the next step.
Step #5 – Mordant Earth layer
Now its time to bring up the armor effect ba applying the “Citadel (Technical) – Mordant Earth” over the parts we painted red/orange/yellow.
For this step use a old brush. The technical color will mostly ruin your brush if youre not fast enough by cleaning it up.
Try to have an unconsitent structure by applying thick laysers to some parts and thin layers to some other parts.
Its important to know that thick layers will result in large cracks and thin layers will result smaller cracks. If your layer is to thin this will result in no cracks at all.
After you covered all areas with Citadel (Technical) – Mordant Earth wait 2-3 hours for the final result. Or speedup the process with a blow dryer.
Step #6 – Finish your model for a awesome result
To achiev a real awesome look and feel with the armor effect it is still important to finish your model in the regular way. Like edge highlighting and painting a small amount of details.
As you can see in the picture above. I finished the models by edge highlighting with “Citadel (Layer) – Eshin Grey ” and “Citadel (Layer) – Dawnstone”.
The bases got finished in the same way as the cracks of the armor.
I also added a the nice green plasma osl effect to give the models a more intressting environment.
