The Blue Man Group

Hi, what's up,

Bjørnar here, and I've painted more Ultramarines!

The first squad of 10 is nearing completion, sans weathering and some minor details. I'm looking at having two squads of ten in rhinos as my troops choices for this army, that will end up around 2500 points. The sergeants get power swords, melta bombs and artificier armour, of course. I had some spare Mk3 torsos left over from the death guard, so I just used those.

As I wrote earlier, I based the blue armor on the Painting Buddah tutorial form YouTube that I linked in my first post. I mention bastardizing the scheme, and by that I mean that I used mostly the same colors but skipped a lot of the time consuming glazing. I don't use an airbrush, but I whipped out a wet-palette for this project. I'll break it down.

BAD ASS ULTRAMARINE POWER ARMOUR:

From a black undercoat, I basecoat the armour with Kantor Blue from Games Workshop. After a line-shading of Nuln Oil, I tidied the model back up with a new pass of Kantor blue.

Then I mixed in a little Teclis Blue and glazed on the highlights where I figured light would catch the armour. Much like you would get if you airbrushed it with zenithal-ish highlighting (which I don't) from above and to the left of the model.
Highlights were then slapped on with a few passes of so thinned down Teclis blue that Duncan Rhodes would totally high five me if we were in the same room. I mixed in Vallejo Model Air light Sea blue for the final highlights. So. just a few colors, but several thin layers and some glazing where the transitions were too stark.      

For weathering, I'll probably go with just some painted on chips and some glazes on the lower part of the legs, much like Painting Buddah's tutorial. If you take a look at the dude at the left in second row, you'll see that I've started a little with the chips. They are pretty fast to do, you just put down a little line or chip-shaped blob of the highlight colour (for me this is Vallejo model air light sea blue) and mix some black with dark brown (rinox hide for me) for the actual chip, leaving just a little of the highlight color where the light would catch it. Dont overthink it, and don't overdo it.

I call this look "Blue Steel"

When he is not pursuing his modelling career, Sergeant Killfucker enjoys curbstomping xenos and traitor marines alike, flaunting his ridiculously good looks. Again, the face is painted with just a few colours, but it's a couple of thin layers that makes it look good (if I can say so myself. And I just did).I basecoated it with Ratskin Flesh, did a wash of Reikland Flesh, before going back with the basecolor, mixing in more and more Pallid Wytch Flesh for highlights. I wanted a bit more contrast in the face, so I painted a little Agrax Earthshade in the deepest recesses.

For the stubble I did a few glazes of Ratskin Flesh, mixed with a little Mechanicus Standard Grey .
Again, the awesome Dunchan Rhodes did a great little tutorial in the Warhammer TV YouTube advent calendar.  

I did try to paint his sword following another advent tutorial for Grey Knights nemesis force weapons, but I could not pull it off due to a funky groove that runs down the middle of this particular sword. In the end, I used mostly the same colors as Duncan, but kinda wet-blended/glazed it up from darker to lighter. A little homage to 90's 'Eavy Metal swords if you would.

So, I'm waiting for some Dreadnought close combat arms and a Leviathan from Forge World (The order has been pending since the 18th, I'm guessing they have their hands full theses days). In the meantime I'll get cracking at a Fulmentarus Terminator Squad. Yeah, that's right. 5 of the baddest of asses, ALL sporting frikking Cylcone Missile launchers! You heard me. Cyclone Missile launchers.

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"What Perturabo, you mad brah?"

I got ten of these bad boys from Spellcrow Miniatures. Fits the Cataphractii Terminators like a frikking glove. Comes highly recommended. Great casts, quick delivery. Pretty cheap as well.

Ok, peeps, I'll get back to you when I've painted the whole squad. Then it's on to either a Contemptor or a Primaris Lightning Strike Fighter. Can you say "Kraken Penetrator Missiles"? BOOOOOM!