Thursday, February 26, 2009

How To Paint Crimson Fist Space Marines

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I found a better way (at least for me that is) to paint my Crimson Fist models. The previous way involved me mixing colors. Something, I CANNOT stand doing for a variety of reasons, least of which is laziness. I used the steps below on a test model and I was pretty happy with the result. I found this on the internet and the site name escapes me, but I thank whoever it was and that came up with this simple process. I invite whoever that is to step and accept a hearty 'Kudos' from the Hammer.

Preparation

1 - Clean and assemble models.
2 - Glue sand to the tops of the bases.
3 - Spray with Krylon Flat Black Primer. Dries in 15 minutes and it’s about $6 cheaper than GW stuff.

Blue (armour)
1 - Start with a basecoat of Necron Abyss.
2 - Then liberally highlight with Regal Blue. Be sure to cover all edges while doing this. I covered abut a third of the blue armour in this stage.
3 - Carefully pick out all the edges with Ultramarines Blue.
4 - Pick out the most pronounced edges with Space Wolves Grey.
5 - Wash all over the blue areas with Asurmen Blue.

Crimson (armour, purity seals, lenses, squad/chapter markings)
1 - Start with a basecoat of Mechrite Red.
2 - Carefully pick out the edges with Blood Red.
3 - Wash with Gryphonne Sepia

Khaki (cloth, leather, parchment)
1 - Basecoat with Khemri Brown.
2 - Highlight with Kommando Khaki, leaving the previous colour only in the recesses.
3 - Make small highlights with Bleached bone.
4 - Wash with Delvan Mud.

Black (weapon casings, hair)
1 - Basecoat with Chaos Black.
2 - Liberally highlight with Adeptus Battlegrey.
3 - Carefully pick out the edges with Codex Grey.
4 - Pick out raised edges with Fortress Grey.
5 - Wash with Badab Black.

Metal (weapons, chest eagle, decorative elements)
1 - Basecoat with Boltgun Metal.
2 - Liberally highlight with Chainmail
3 - Pick out raised edges and wing tips with Mithral Silver
4 - Wash with Badab Black.
5 - Lightly Drybrush blades with Mithral Silver

Flesh

1 - Basecoat with Dark Flesh
2 - Highlight with Tarllan Flesh, leaving the previous colour only visible in the recesses.
3 - Make small highlights with Elf Flesh, focusing on nose, eyebrow ridges etc.
4 - Make tiny highlights with Bleached Bone.
5 - Wash with Ogryn Flesh.

10 comments:

  1. I love when a painting list is that simple! I did the same (create a list) when I started to paint my Crimson Fists and I found it so relaxing to follow the list!

    In fact, when I didn't have the list handy cause I was too lazy to find it, I found that it really slowed down my painting! I had to go back, find the paints, try to remember etc.

    I can't wait to see your next model painted with this method! I think my Crimson Fists tend to be on the lighter-side since I went with a Mordian Blue basecoat/Ultramarine Highlight on the edges (so no extreme highlight). I recently finished up my Terminator Captain and I'm pretty happy with him.

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  2. Did you try the Asurmen Blue wash to darken it? The GW washes - best paint product they've produced in a long time. Did you post the Termie captain?

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  3. Where are the pics?
    I demand to see pictures of this masterpiece!

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  4. I can safely say, you'll never see a masterpiece out of me.

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  5. Hammer,
    Yah. My termie captain is on page 4 or 5 of that forum link in my profile. Also includes my Sternguard Veteran w/ Powerfist that I'm using as a Sgt in Tac Squad 3. And 2 Rhinos (Rhinoes? Rhini?)

    I didn't try the Asurman Blue wash...I thought it looked lighter than my paintjob. I'll have to give a try on a test model! I used the washes on Faces and Cloths though and they rock!

    I think you've inspired me to start my own blog...this way we can exchange pictures for encouragement! I've shifted to a LRC and I'm working on terrain for my table now!

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  6. I saw the Termie - looks awesome! And I saw the Sternguard model. That one's my favorite out of the bunch. Good luck on the LRC, I'm going to pick one of those up when I expand the list. Thank God they're plastic now.

    Let me know when the blog's up.

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  7. Gods. I have an old metal one I picked up on ebay at a massive discount ages ago. The two metal hurricane bolter sets were total nightmares.

    Thanks for compliments and checking my pics out. I'll let you know when the blog goes up.

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  8. I'd love to see pics also, but it looks like a winning formula. Thanks to the person who came up with it and thanks to you Hammer for posting it.

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  9. Thanks for this, it's going to make getting back into painting after a long long break a lot easier.

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  10. because of the new paints range, necron abyss and regal blue have the same colour conversion, what colour would you recommend instead of regal blue?

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