Squidmar is back with another how to paint Space Marine video tutorial. Check out how he does his yellows for things like Imperial Fists!
Squidmar has been rising in popularity lately and for good reason; he is a great painter and is always trying new techniques to grow. This time around he’s taking a different approach as he tried to paint Imperial Fists.
Right away we get a taste of how unique his approach will be based on his base coat. He bases it with Army Painter Red Spray and then goes over it with a magenta highlight and tiny bit of a white highlight. You also want to brush on some basic white highlights in specific areas like edges and high points.
For the next step, we can start with yellow. You want to be careful here and use a really light or watery yellow slowly adding up. If you don’t, you may cover up all the work before and end up having to patch it up. Luckily if you do, Squidmar did too, so he shows us how to fix it with some browns and yellows to fix the shading.
After we get the armor shading just right, we can start the metallics with a matte black base coat and the helmet with a red base.
After the base you want to add highlights. This is done with a mix of grey, a dark blue-grey, and white. You can also add a small amount of flow improver. This part is a little tricky. Try to take your time and refer to images or the video as you go, since we are manually painting the metals.
With the model pretty much done, we can start on the base. Squidmar uses a piece of pine bark and coconut fiber then gives it a solid black matte base coat.
Follow that up with a pale flesh dry brush and stipple some dry wraith. After that dries, wash it with Seraphim Sepia. He also uses some Vallejo red pigment and stipples it on before the wash dries to help bind it and blend some of it. Lastly, for the base he adds a simple bush.
Finally, we can add our model to the base and stipple some of that red pigment to the bottom of our model, and it’s done!
Squidmar Miniatures is a great place to learn all kinds of painting techniques! Be sure to subscribe to Squidmar Miniatures YouTube channel for more tutorials.
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