Learn how to speed paint your Imperial Navy Breachers with this painting tutorial from Peachy and the Painting Phase!
Peachy has recently joined the Painting Phase and has started making awesome painting tutorials on YouTube! They also have a Patreon, so if you want to show some extra support and get great rewards, go check that out here!
If you’re looking for an easy way to paint your new breachers but don’t want to spend too much time on them, this tutorial will help you tackle the steps without much hassle!
Starting off this painting tutorial, Peachy primed these Imperial Navy Breachers with Grey Seer! Just keep in mind this is for painting fast, so not for the highest quality!
Before we get into all the steps, let’s check out the paints used in this video!
- Grey Seer – Undercoat
- Seraphim Sepia
- Baal Red
- Stormfiend
- Black legion
- Kislev Flesh/Rakarth flesh/Blood Reaver Flesh – skin
- Retributor Armour
- Guilliman Flesh
- Balthasar Gold
- Iron Hands Steel
- Baslicanum Grey
- Averland Sunset
Step 1:
He starts by blocking in the red coats with Baal Red, this is just a basecoat, so don’t worry too much about painting over some other areas. Then, he goes with the Stormfiend for the pants and Black Legion for the gloves, and in other areas, he wants black.
Step 2:
He continues with the basecoats and paints all the gold details with Retributor Armour and the weapons with Balthasar Gold. We’re still on basecoats here, so it’s all about getting good coverage but not taking too long. Moving onto the silver, he coats all the silver areas with Iron Hands Steel. Lastly, here, he picks out some of the details on the coat and the badge on the left-hand side with Averland sunset.
Step 3:
Now onto the faces and hair (at least the basecoats). You can use whatever skin tone you wish, but he’s using Catachan Flesh, Blood Reaver Flesh, and Cadian Fleshtone to get a good mixture throughout the unit. For the hair, mouth, and eyes, he uses Black Legion and just fills out the details.
If you did get any extra brush strokes on the white parts of the armor, he goes back with Grey Seer and cleans it up. Once dry, he goes back with Nuln Oil and does a coat over the entire miniature to tie it together.
Step 4:
Once that’s dry, he applies Seraphim Sepia to the white armor sections to give it a warmer feel, then a quick hit of Baal Red to the visors.
Step 5:
Now it’s time to move onto the bases. He starts with Iron Warriors and bases all of them with this. Then, he does a quick Nuln Oil Shade over this. Once that is dry, he moves onto Gryph-Hound Orange and does random spottings of this to make it look like rust.
Don’t be too uniform here, or it won’t look right. For an oil spill effect, he then takes Ratling Grime and dots a few more random areas of the base. Lastly, paint the edges of the base black.
Painting the Accessories:
He starts by painting them silver, does a quick Nuln Oil Wash, and then some Gryph-Hound Orange into the recesses to make them look rusty. Then a quick drybrush with silver over the whole model. Lastly, he picks out the lens with Baal Red.
He starts off by painting the whole thing silver again and basecoats the skull with Screaming Skull, the gold with Balthasar Gold, the cables with Baal Red and Averland Sunset, and finally, the last cable with black. Lastly, he does a Nuln Oil Wash and rusts it up a bit with Gryph-Hound Orange.
Final Highlights:
To make it pop a little, he starts with a quick highlight of Wild Rider Red for the cloak, Averland Sunset for the edges of the cloak, then Screaming Skull for the brightest highlights. For the blue, he highlights with Altdorf Guard Blue and, finally, Screaming Skull for the white armor!
If you want, you can also go back and highlight the skin tones with either the same basecoat color or a slightly lighter color.
Finished Models:
There you have it, a super fast way to get great-looking minis on the tabletop in under 25 minutes a model, not too shabby! Be sure to check out the full video below for all the tips, or you can check out the links below for more content!
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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!
