Lenny Craft-it

Hi there, The most classic marine of all time, the Ultramarine. In this full step by step tutorial I will show you how to paint a basic Ultramarine. If your are painting a army and want to do less steps then focus on the armor and the eyes. Spend less time on the details on the gun and the belt. Good luck and Happy Crafting!

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Primaris Ultramarine

Base Coat the hole model with Mechanical Standard Grey.


Citadel Mechanicus Standard Grey

Paint all the armor with Altdorf Guard Blue.


Citadel  Altdorf Guard Blue

Shade the armor with Drakenhof Nightshade.


Citadel Drakenhof Nightshade

Paint a highlight with a 50/50 mix of Altdorf Guard Blue and Fenrisian Grey.


Citadel Fenrisian Grey

Highlight the highest parts of the armor with Fenrisian Grey. So about 50% of the lines.




Make a dot highlight on all the corners of the armor plates with Blue Horror.


Citadel Blue Horror

Base coat the the bolter with Abaddon Black. Then paint the grip with Mechanicus Standard Grey. Paint al the metal parts with Leadbelcher (I forgot the aimer).




Citadel Abaddon Black

Citadel Leadbelcher

Shade the metal and the grip with with Nuln Oil. Base coat the icon with Balthasar Gold.


Citadel Nuln Oil

Citadel Balthasar Gold

Highlight the black plates and the grip with Mechanicus Standard Grey. Shade the icon with Reikland Fleshshade.




Citadel Reikland Fleshshade

Highlight the black plates and the grip with Dawn Stone, but don\`t highlight everything must 70%. Leaving the middle parts and painting the corners of the plates.




Citadel Dawnstone

Highlight the black plates and the grip with Administratum Grey, but don't highlight everything just 30%. Leaving most of the middle parts and painting only the corners of the plates.




Citadel Administratum Grey

Highlight al the metal with Leadbelcher. Some parts of the metal panels I paint almost full, take a good look at the picture. Also paint the screws with Leadbelcher.


Highlight all the metal with Iron Breaker.


Citadel Ironbreaker

Highlight the icon with Gehenna\`s Gold.


Citadel Gehenna`s Gold

Dot highlight metal and the icon with Runefang Steel. Paint away all the mistakes with Abaddon Black.




Citadel Runefang Steel

Paint all the Rubber with Eshin Grey and shade it with Nuln Oil.




Citadel Eshin Grey

Highlight the rubber with Eshin Grey and make a finer highlight with Dawnstone.


Base coat all the leather pouches Rhinox Hide and the pistol with Abaddon Black.




Citadel Rhinox Hide

Highlight the belt with Eshin Grey and make a finer highlight with Dawnstone




Highlight the the leather pouches with a mix of Rhinox Hide and Karak Stone 50/50.Paint some scratch damage on the leather with the same 50/50 mix.




Citadel Karak Stone

Highlight the leather pouches with Karak Stone. Paint the pistol with Leadbelcher.




Shade the leather pouches and the pistol Agrax Earthshade. Paint the buttons and the pistol with with Ironbreaker.




Citadel  Agrax Earthshade

Base Coat the back pack with Mechanical Standard Grey. Paint the back pack with Altdorf Guard Blue.


Shade the backpack with Drakenhof Nightshade. Then paint the grids with Abaddon Black and then layer the black with Leadbelcher.




Shade the metal with Nuln Oil. Then paint a highlight with a 50/50 mix of Altdorf Guard Blue and Fenrisian Grey.




Make a dot highlight on all the corners of the armor plates with Blue Horror. Highlight the metal parts with Iron Breaker, don't forget the screws. Also make a fine highlight with Runefang Steel.




Paint away your mistakes with Altdorf Guard Blue.




Base coat the lenses with Khorne red and the tubes and the chest symbols with Abaddon Black.




Citadel Khorne Red

Paint the tubes with leadbelcher. Paint the chest symbol with Balthasar Gold. We are going to paint a gradient from the back to the front of the lenses. Keeping the back dark and the front light. Paint 75% of the lenses with Wazdakka Red.




Citadel Wazdakka Red

Then paint 50% of the lenses with Evil Sunz Scarlet. Paint 25% of the lenses with Wild Rider Red.




Citadel Evil Sunz Scarlet

Citadel Wild Rider Red

Then paint 10% of the lenses with Troll Slayer Orange. Paint 5% of the lenses with Yriel Yellow.




Citadel Troll Slayer Orange

Citadel Yriel Yellow

Paint a white dot in the dark area of the lens with White Scar. Also paint a small black line at the bottom.




Citadel White Scar

Paint the chest symbol with Gehenna's Gold and highlight with Runefang Steel.




Base coat the shoulder pads with Mechanical Standard Grey. Then layer the pads with Altdorf Guard Blue and paint the edges with Abaddon Black.




Base coat the edge of the pads with Balthasar Gold. Then shade the edges with Drakenhof Nightshade. Make a 50/50 mix of Altdorf Guard Blue and Fenrisian Grey and paint a highlight in the corner of the shoulder panel.




Paint a gradient of gold with Gehenna\`s Gold and Auric Armour Gold. Leaving the corners dark and the bot and top center light. Paint the highlight on the panel with Fenrisian Grey.




Citadel  Auric Armour Gold

Highlight the edges of the edge with Runefang Steel.


Cut out the transfers use scissors or a modeling knife. Then cut come lines in the Ultramarine symbol to help it smooth out better on the pads.




Clean the area where you going to stick the transfer with Micro Set. You can buy this ad most hobby shops or just online.




Put the transfer on your mini with your brush. Make sure your brush is wet. When the transfer is dry it probably still looks pretty bad.




Put a layer of Microset over the transfer, wait a few minutes and push the transfer with a tissue on the surface. Repeat step 43 until your happy and that means that the transfer should look nice and smooth.




Now the transfer will still be shiny and to remove this we paint the whole surface with Lahmian Medium. I like to do this twice.




Citadel Lahmian Medium

Glue some small gravel with a few bigger gravel on the base with PVA glue.




Citadel Corvus Black

Pain the bigger gravel with Eshin Grey. Then drybrush the whole base with Eshin Grey.


Drybrush the whole base with Dawnstone.




Paint a fine dry brush over the whole base with Administratum Grey. Then paint a fine dry brush just on the bigger gravel with Pallid Wych Flesh




Citadel Pallid Wych Flesh

Glue some grass on the base, make sure that they are small.




Paint the edges of the base with Corvus Black.


Tutorial

Primaris Ultramarine

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