I started to paint the first three guys of my shotgun armed Scout squad. Notice the alternate heads which are drawn from various Space Marine sprues. Left to do is skin, hair, the black areas, silver areas and the occasional detail. The painting so far was quite straightforward and fun and even though the details of the plastic Scouts aren’t as sharp as the kits GW puts out nowadays they will turn out quite neat.
Stahly
The mysterious masked Stahly is the founder and mastermind of Tale of Painters. Hailing from Craftworld Germany, he has been walking the Path of the Warhammer Collector since childhood. Over the decades, he has painted multiple armies and countless warbands and miniatures. When he's not painting miniatures or working on his library of hand-painted colour swatches, he's testing the latest paints, tools and model kits with German precision and a no non-sense attitude.
@Warhammer39999
You can look up all the colours I used for my Marines in this post: http://stahlyspaintstation.blogspot.com/2010/04/ultramarines-tutorial-and-colour.html Basecoat is Mordian Blue, it's a great blue, not too dark nor to light and it's not too bright as well.
@Joe Gekko
Here is a comparison: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PH1CD61Ox3k/S9yCXernGdI/AAAAAAAAAMI/6S93ojCohUQ/s1600/CIMG7974.JPG Scout models are meant to be abit smaller than PA Marines.
I'm waiting to see how your scouts look once they've been painted before I start on my own… I'm no huge fan of the scout heads, but the 'regular' heads seem to be a slightly smaller scale. I'm hoping that it's just an illusion!
Looking good.
Is that Ultramarines blue as a basecoat? It looks purplish…