Speed Painting Blood Angels
December 8, 2011 by elromanozo
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Dammit Romain, you’re making me want to give a decade worth of half-assed ultramarines paint jobs a Dettol bath so I can re-do ’em like this.
Well not exactly like that -they’d be blue, but you get the idea…
My dastardly plan has come to fruition… MWA HA HA HA HA !
No, but seriously, I’m here to give you this sort of tips and tricks. I’m glad you learnt something !
BoW Romain
I honestly didn’t spend more than a few minutes putting the details on that Marine…
The only colours I used were black, grey and green. With a dab of green ink in the eyes and the centre of the chest, along with a light red in wash over the white primer.
Pretty much like the Necrons… only they had fewer colours.
You’re doing it wrong. When you spray paint miniatures you’re supposed to get your hands and arms covered in spray paint aswell.
Very simple Romain. I can imagine die hard tournament players everywhere grabing those spraycans 🙂
If only this method could have been aplied to Orks as wellXD
Either way: awesome!
Most orcish hordes have no real dominant color, so you’re better off simply pre-shading them…
Unless of course your dominant army color is yellow, grey or tan, in which case you can easily wash the flesh areas to turn them a proper orcish color.
However, if you happen to play savage orcs with lots of exposed flesh, green is your dominant color, so you’d do well to invest in a green spray can !
Beastmen and skaven can likewise be sprayed brown or flesh color, or both.
There may be tutorials in those as well…
BoW Romain
I forgot to put “Space” in front of “Orks” XD
And I just so happen to have chosen two main colors for my Space Orks, yellow and blue (time saving I ain’t) so it would probably be a waste to try this technique on them.
I will get around to trying your pre- shading technique eventualy though, so thanks either way!
This is a great time saver. I like that you can easily create the lighting with the spray technique. Perhaps if you highlighted with a yellow-tinted spray you could create a look whereby the marines appeared to almost glow with a fire effect. That would certainly catch the eye on a battlefield.
I think this technique would be very useful for other block-coloured armies such as the armoured Tau units.
Indeed, that is the intended purpose… It works well with most armies that have a dominant color. In fact, the Army Painter does a whole rage of sprays to facilitate that sort of thing.
You can also get Tamiya sprays, they’re not bad at all, and smaller sized, for smaller forces…
And there are other brands out there.
BoW Romain
@elromanozo Curse your amazing work sir, if you keep doing great tips like this to get a decent looking army easily what excuse will I have for mine being awful lol Looks like 3kpts of Blood Angels are about to get Dettoled
I fight the good fight !
Badly painted minis, unite in protest !
BoW Romain
Damn…they are good for something that happens in like…a minute?
nice job Romain!
i will try that technique the next time my girlfriend takes hours to put her makeup on!
I use this type of painting for most of my tanks.
Just wanted to thank you for the inspiration. I’m embarking on a 3500 point Tyranid Army, and now not dreading it so much because of your tutorials. Cheers!