Let’s learn how to paint battle-ready Howling Griffons with this effective painting tutorial from Hellfire Hobbies- check it out!
If you plan on going with this chapter, you better get good at painting quartered minis! This painting tutorial will help you tackle the steps without much hassle. Just keep in mind this is for a battle-ready standard, so not the highest quality ever, but if you want to field a painted army fast, this is a great tutorial.
Let’s see how to do it.
How to Paint Howling Griffons Space Marines: Hellfire Hobbies Tutorial
To start, he’s going with Alien Purple, this seems strange, but it works perfectly with both the red and yellow as an undercoat. This is a quartered model, meaning each quarter of the model will be a different color. So, you want to start with the easier color to paint and then do the harder color. So, we’ll start with red and then do the yellow.
Step 1:
Since you’re doing the Mephiston Red first, you can paint more than half the model red but try to stay within the lines here. Then, he highlights the red with Evil Suns Scarlett, mainly on the top parts of the miniature. You really don’t want to leave too much purple here.
Step 2:
Since you have the red, you don’t want to overspray on that, so he’s actually going to mask off all the red with Tamiya tape like above. He then goes back and sprays all the areas that got hit with red with the initial purple color.
Go slow with the yellow and build it up in layers and just spray over the entire model. Then, you need to take the tape off and fix up any errors with your brush.
Step 3:
Next, he goes back and highlights the red with the Evil Suns Scarlett and does some small edge highlights. You don’t need to do too much here, as the red and yellow stand out enough on their own. Next, he does a sepia tone wash on all the yellow; if you do it on the red, it will tone it down too much. He basecoats the whole thing with silver for the gun and some parts of the backpack. He uses Rhinox Hide as a basecoat for all the brown, like the one part of the gun and the packs, and then highlights them with Skrag Brown.
Step 4:
The next step is one where you have to be very careful. He’s painting all the vents and splits in the armor black; try your very best not to get any of this on the yellow, as it will take a lot of coats to cover up. To highlight the black, he uses Stegadon Scale Green, which has a lot of blue hues in it. He’s also not going to paint the griffon free-hand on the shoulder pads, and he suggests you don’t do it either, as it’s insanely hard to get it right. He just paints on some squad markings. The final thing he does is glue it down on a new base he made for this mini!
Finished Model
There you have it, a great-looking marine without spending too much time.
Be sure to watch the video below for all the insights!
That does it for this one! If you want to see more, check out Hellfire Hobbies’ own tutorial by clicking this link.
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About the Author: Travis Pasch
Travis Pasch
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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!
