Funnily enough, a few of the colors and techniques here are nearly identical to those in my Primaris scheme. I’ll reproduce them here anyway. Step 1. Basecoat I use yellow often with my heraldry and weapon casings, so if you want to follow my lead I’ll tell you how. Hell, you could even go for a retro-inspired scheme and use this for trim and details in place of gold, it’d probably look lovely. Emma: Gutrippa Flesh is terrific and will save a lot of time when painting Kruleboyz or Gretchin as it gives an excellent base colour and shade that suits these boyz down to the ground. It’s really great for camo cloth too! In our How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at how to paint well, everything, with a look at different methods from different artists. In this article we’re looking at what is perhaps the most famous of space marine chapters and the face of Warhammer 40,000: The Ultramarines. Color Space Conversions Decimal 4354744 Binary 01000010, 01110010, 10111000 Hexadecimal #4272b8 LRV ≈ 16.7% Closest short hex #47b ΔE = 1.975 RGB rgb(66, 114, 184) RGBA rgba(66, 114, 184, 1.0) rg chromaticity r: 0.181, g: 0.313, b: 0.505 RYB red: 25.882%, yellow: 39.263%, blue: 72.157% Android / android.graphics.Color -12422472 / 0xff4272b8 HSL hsl(216, 47%, 49%) HSLA hsla(216, 47%, 49%, 1.0) HSV / HSB hue: 216° (215.593), saturation: 64% (0.641), value: 72% (0.722) HSP hue: 215.593, saturation: 64.130%, perceived brightness: 44.351% HSL uv (HUSL) H: 252.305, S: 74.459, L: 47.818 Cubehelix H: -147.137, S: 0.703, L: 0.421 TSL T: -1.924, S: 0.206, L: 0.422 CMYK cyan: 64% (0.641), magenta: 38% (0.380), yellow: 0% (0.000), key: 28% (0.278) CMY cyan: 74% (0.741), magenta: 55% (0.553), yellow: 28% (0.278) XYZ X: 16.913, Y: 16.652, Z: 47.661 xyY x: 0.208, y: 0.205, Y: 16.652 CIELab L: 47.818, a: 6.150, b: -41.824 CIELuv L: 47.818, u: -20.332, v: -63.728 CIELCH / LCHab L: 47.818, C: 42.274, H: 278.366 CIELUV / LCHuv L: 47.818, C: 66.893, H: 252.305 Hunter-Lab L: 40.807, a: 2.569, b: -40.684 CIECAM02 J: 36.459, C: 50.147, h: 252.677, Q: 118.964, M: 43.852, s: 60.714, H: 307.341 OSA-UCS lightness: -10.355, jaune: -7.340, green: 2.092 LMS L: 11.807, M: 16.658, S: 47.147 YCbCr Y: 108.450, Cb: 165.834, Cr: 101.958 YCoCg Y: 119.500, Cg: -5.500, Co: -13.000 YDbDr Y: 107.628, Db: 114.910, Dr: 79.174 YPbPr Y: 108.816, Pb: 40.520, Pr: -27.220 xvYCC Y: 109.454, Cb: 163.594, Cr: 104.089 YIQ Y: 107.628, I: -51.083, Q: 11.630 YUV Y: 107.628, U: 37.583, V: -36.521 Okhsl h: 257.831, s: 0.638, l: 0.480 Okhsv h: 257.831. s: 0.678, v: 0.735 Okhwb h: 257.831, w: 0.237, b: 0.265 Oklab l: 0.552, a: -0.026, b: -0.119 Oklch l: 0.552, c: 0.122, h: 257.831 Munsell Color System 7.5PB 4/12 ΔE = 4.141 Brand Color Intel ΔE = 3.130 Random Colors

Desert: Base coat is Wraithbone, camo elements are XV-88 > Seraphim Sepia > Ushabti Bone > Screaming SkullWe’re going to start with a basecoat of Skull White spray, although any white spray primer will do. I then spray with Army Painter Crystal Blue. It has a tendency to rub off; especially on metal models, so you’ll likely want that white layer first. This is also more saturated than the Oldhammer look, but I had some grog in the Oldhammer group on Facebook cuss me out for not drybrushing the bases yellow and using too coarse basing grit. He’s probably dead now. Step 2. Blue Armor The decision to list these armies is based on the similarity of their main color scheme and the specific shade of Calgar Blue.

The MAD-3R Marauder is my all-time favorite ‘Mech, and I painted it green as an homage to the cover of my all-time favorite Technical Manual, 3025. For the blue armor, I went way off the reservation and used a Reaper Master Series Triad called… Ultramarine Blues. Crazy, right? As you can (hopefully) see, the darkest color in the triad has some nice purple tones and overall the triad is quite vibrant and blue. Emma: Such a rich, vibrant teal colour! It’s perfect for Seraphon and many other models – I have even thinned it down to make a spooky verdigris for Grand Alliance Death models. These factions are known in the Warhammer 40k universe for their blue armor and machinery, and Calgar Blue is a perfect match to paint these miniatures. This shade of blue is deeper and richer than Lothern Blue, which can create a more striking and vibrant look for the miniatures. Calgar Blue Colour Schemes & CombinationsA. Subassemblies: These are important for a couple reasons. 1) If you fully assembly a model you’re often going to find that you aren’t going to get 100% coverage with your basecoat if you’re using a rattle can (in this case Maccrage Blue Spray). Not fully assembling the model will allow the paint to hit those areas you might otherwise have trouble hitting and keep that undercoat consistent model-wide. 2) Keeping your model broken up will also allow you to get to details with your brush that might be harder to reach on a fully painted model. How many times have you been trying to paint the aquila on the chest of a marine only to get gold on his boltgun that he is clutching tightly to his bosom?

Unless otherwise noted, layers are edge highlights. The top layer is applied much more sparingly, only to the high points and edges.Self-deprecating introduction aside, JD paints some fantastic-looking Ultramarines that look like they popped off the ‘Eavy Metal box art. With this in-depth breakdown, you too can have an ‘Eavy Metal Ultramarine army!* Emma: This colour is all about punch, it’s so bright and powerful. Doomfire Magenta straight out of the pot gives you a vivid pink for cloth or magic spells. It also suits Daughters of Khaine or Escher Gangers if you want some cool pink hair colours. For this step thin some Russ Grey and do some thin lines around the prominent edges. They’ll look quite stark against the Macragge Blue, but the even starker inner highlight later will actually make it look less overpowering (as counter-intuitive as that sounds). Step 3: Adding a bit of Contrast I’ll outline two techniques here – one for general red lenses, and one for green lenses whenever you have a lens appearing up against something red, such as the sergeant’s helmet. These will both usually be on eyes, but also any targeters, monocles, or what have you. I paint the eye the base color, then paint progressively brighter half moons towards the inside edge of the eye, then dot the outside, darker edge with a pure white. As the Thirteenth Legion of Space Marines, they were second only to the Luna Wolves in conquests during the Great Crusade and were the biggest Legion by far. They were notable for the mini-Imperium established by their Primarch, Roboute Guilliman, known as the 500 Worlds of Ultramar. Unlike most of the grimdark bullshit of 40K, Ultramar is actually a cool place to live by most standards, where people can live out relatively happy lives and enjoy some semblance of peace and prosperity. Guilliman did not see Space Marines as Eternal Warriors but instead believed that developing peace-time skills like statesmanship was just as important as warfare. The fluff often makes note of Space Marines’ superhuman minds and ability to process data far more efficiently than baseline humans, but Ultramarines are one of the only chapters that actually leverage this capability for something other than war. So that automatically makes them pretty cool.