Muller Miniatures

<p>This tutorial shows you how to paint a fast and easy 30k Thousand Sons Space Marine or like Lennart loves to call them Beaky Boy. Good luck.</p>

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Thousand Sons Space Marines MK6 armor

For the Red metallic red armor of the 1k sons I used a black primer.




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Citadel Chaos Black Spray

The I used a heavy silver zenithal over that to create a dark silver undercoat for the following steps, I prefer to do this with a airbrush but this doesn’t mather if you use a spray can.


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Citadel Leadbelcher

To make the recesses more visible I’ve made a black oil wash and slapped that over the entire model, left it to dry for a few minutes and cleaned it up the highest points with a Q-tip and some odorless spirits.


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Abteilung 502 Black Modeling Oil Color

After the Oil wash had fully dried up over night, I sprayed a thin coat of blood angels red contrast paint over the entire model.


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Citadel Contrast Blood Angels Red

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To get a better coverage on the other details I used a black as a basecoat.


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Citadel Abaddon Black

Following by blocking in the silver and copper for the all details bits on the chest and shoulder pad.




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Citadel Hashut Copper

Citadel Runefang Steel

I gave the 1K son a popping green lenses using Lenny Craft-it lens tutorial and an easy grey with metallic Bolter.




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Citadel Caliban Green

Citadel Warboss Green

Citadel Moot Green

Citadel Flash Gitz Yellow

Citadel Dorn Yellow

Citadel White Scar

Also did a simple freehand on his shoulder pad off a scrab what we will teach the basics of in a future tutorial.


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Citadel Administratum Grey

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Tutorial

Thousand Sons Space Marines MK6 armor

Tutorial steps archived

End of tutorial