This week Goobertown is painting Salamanders Space Marines for his local store in an awesome green color, perfect for Salamanders or custom Chapters.
Goobertown Hobbies is a great content creator who has interesting takes on the hobby. Whether it’s a collaboration with other hobby YouTubers or a challenge for himself, he has a broad range of topics he covers. This week he walks us through how to get your Indomits Marines on the table and how important it is to support your local game store. Let’s check it out!
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Painting Salamanders Space Marines: Gobbertown Hobbies
Here’s the end result he is going for. He got the color scheme based on his favorite local game store, CrossRoad Games, and is going to give these away to them for their display case. If you are looking for a different chapter color, check out his other tutorials here!
Priming and Airbrushing
After a black primer, he gives the minis a top-down highlight with Zenithal Liquitex White. He also did some black to white transitions to set up his later stages of painting.
Next, he does a green layer of Emerald Green Acrylic ink over the entire mini using the airbrush (Minus the sword). It really looks nice with the black and white from the previous step. He does a few passes and slowly adds some yellow to the mix as he goes forward. Next, he hits the sword with a flame-red ink. He also did the same trick with the yellow and added a little bit more with each pass.
When the mix gets yellowy enough he hit some of the recesses on the mini to give it some more depth. To seal it all in he does a varnish to finish this step up.
He does the shields separately and hits them with a light beige followed with a second coat of slightly lighter beige mixed with white.
Base Coating
He starts off by hitting the cloth with a beige color and then hits all the tubing with a dark gray. Then does the seals in red and white. He then hits all the metal with a dark silver. These minis are a gift that he’s doing for Cross Road Games as a thank you for all the years of gaming and their 21st bday! To finish up the base coats he does cross-hatching all over the loincloth. Once it’s all dry he seals it all in with a gloss varnish through the airbrush.
Decals
He made special decals for the store, but you can put whatever decals you want on the shoulder pads!
Highlighting
He starts by hitting a blackline edge highlight all over the mini where there are distinct edges of the armor. Then he hits a quick orange highlight on the sword and paints the eyes the same color. Lastly, he attaches the shield at this stage.
He does another layer of matt Varnish before doing the final highlighting. Once that was dry he did edge highlights with a Scorpion Green on all the armor and some medium gray on the shields.
Basing the Minis
He takes the bases they came with and lays down some hot glue on them and then puts down a layer of wire mesh. He then throws some cork on top of that. Lastly before painting, he cuts away the excess mesh and adds a tiny bit of sand to a few random spots.
He primes them black and adds some yellow lines to make them look like roads and paints the mesh wire with a dark silver. To dirty the road up a bit more he adds brown and black wash splotches randomly on the base. To finish it off he does some rust color on parts of the metal. As a note, he uses some paper clips to attach the minis considering the cork is squishy and doesn’t take too well to glue.
That does it for these awesome minis! They look great and it really wasn’t too complicated. These were for his local game store and he really wants people to support their local game store! It’s nice to be able to go somewhere where you know the staff and have a place to play. Without the local stores, the hobby would be far less fun! Be sure to show your support during this hard time for stores!
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About the Author: Travis Pasch
Travis Pasch
Job Title: Head Writer & Editor
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About Travis Pasch: Travis has been a Warhammer 40k hobbyist since the 1990s, playing the game since Third Edition. Through extensive traveling, he’s seen a lot of the miniatures hobby from across the world, giving him a unique perspective on the latest gaming topics and trends.
Travis’s brother even owns a commission painting studio, where he’s picked up a lot of good advice and techniques for painting Warhammer and tabletop miniatures over the years, as well. Travis joined the Spikey Bits team in 2019 and has been the lead writer since 2020.
Currently, he’s working on converting all his 40k Adeptus Mechanicus models and becoming a true tech enjoyer, complete with both sad and happy robot noises!
