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Cosmic's Ultramarine Recipe


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Right well hello everybody and welcome to my first Tutorial, hope it goes ok!

 

This is to show my process for painting my Ultramarines that can be found here

 

People in the WIP thread asked me to do a Green marine or a Red Marine, however due to the fact that the WIP is about my Ultramarines I'm going to stick to the Blue colourscheme

 

So...first things first...we need a Marine, here is mine...

 

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/Cosmic_Castaway2157/Ultramarines/Photo1397.jpg

 

and on to the painting!

 

1) Basecoat the mini with chaos black, I have used the Chaos Black Spray paint but I'm sure just the potted paint will work just as well :)

 

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/Cosmic_Castaway2157/Ultramarines/Photo1397.jpg

 

2) With a medium sized brush drybrush the Marine with chainmail, this is a fairly liberal brushing as you can see

 

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/Cosmic_Castaway2157/Ultramarines/Photo1398.jpg

 

3) Apply the first wash of Asurmen Blue, once this is dry apply a second

 

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/Cosmic_Castaway2157/Ultramarines/Photo1402.jpg

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/Cosmic_Castaway2157/Ultramarines/Photo1404.jpg

 

4) Paint on a very slightly watered down layer of Enchanted Blue, being careful to leave the previous washed layers showing in the recesses

 

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/Cosmic_Castaway2157/Ultramarines/Photo1408.jpg

 

5) Add a highlight layer of pure Space Wolves Grey, this is painted onto the top edges of the marine such as the top of the greaves and the tops of the elbow guards

 

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/Cosmic_Castaway2157/Ultramarines/Photo1411.jpg

 

6) Apply a final wash of Asurmen Blue over the armour, this darkens the blue and the highlights

 

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/Cosmic_Castaway2157/Ultramarines/Photo1421.jpg

 

And then just do the finishing touches :)

 

You can of course your own techiques for these details or if you like mine here's a quick breakdown...

 

Purity Seals- Bleached Bone- Gryphonne Sepia- Bleached Bone- Skull White highlight

Purity Seal Wax- Blood Red- Baal Red wash- 1:1 Blood Red and Bleached Bone highlight- Bleached Bone final highlight

 

Gold Trim- Shining Gold- Burnished Gold- Chainmail highlight- Mithril Silver final highlight

 

 

Annnnddd I think thats it, the eyes on this mini were completely rushed as I was concentrating on the Armour, so thats why they're a bit :P

 

For the Red Marine....

 

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/Cosmic_Castaway2157/Ultramarines/STP66193.jpg

 

Its the same process, but with of course different paints:

 

Enchanted Blue= Blood Red

Space Wolves Grey= Golden Yellow

Asurmen Blue= Baal Red

 

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/Cosmic_Castaway2157/Ultramarines/Photo1427.jpg

 

Hope this helps :)

 

Daniel

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Really nice, however when I tried doing red, it turned out really pinkish..?

 

mine did too...i tried again with the Blood Red layer a bit thicker and now it looks the same as my other models (without the chainmail drybrushing)

 

 

After the drybrush of chainmail, and the 2 red washes. For some reason its pinkish. Also, when layering on the blood red, theres no difference to my other models :<

 

welcome to the club tgtony :)

Well sorry guys I have no clue then :) , if they turn out the same as your other red marines then just stick to that, this was intended for Ultramarines and my red marine was just picked up on in the WIP section.

 

Thanks for looking though and giving it a go :P

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Always fun to see someone rethink the basics, this technique seems to work a treat judging by your pics.

Any idea how this would work with purple (roughly an Emperor's Children shade)? I'm separated from my paints til X-Mas so I can't fiddle with it myself.

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Blimey I had completely forgotten about this tutorial, came as a shock when I just saw it again!

 

@peetvanpeebles: Sorry for the late reply. They look really nice :D and I don't think you've put too much on the final wash, they look perfect as they are ;)

 

@roooooot: Glad I could help :)

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Just going to revive it again. Have you tried this on vehicles, and if so how did this turn out (if you have pics :D).

 

i'm asking since i'm now just starting to paint my UM army, and it seems like a nice technique.

 

CHeers

 

Hi Hellrender,

 

I never tried it on a vehicle I'm afraid so you'll have to find out for yourself, might be worth testing it on something similar to a Tanks if you have anything lying about.

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