I think we might have to rename the Tale of the Mega Painters to Tale of the Ultramarine Painters. In a weird coincidence, Stahly is painting Ultramarine Bikers and I’ve started painting my Ultramarines from the second edition box I reviewed recently. I only have metals, highlighting black and all the white freehand icons left to paint. I’m not going to give these guys green bases. I’m going to match them in with the desert bases of my existing Ultramarine collection. I really want to paint the next five straight away but I should really start painting my Forgefiend. I also need to start thinking what Necron unit I want to paint next.
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Your shading is absolutely gorgeous. I love how bright they are. I see way too many dark, airbrushed models around at the moment, this is totally refreshing.
I use to be an airbrush-shortcut guy, but I've gone full circle recently and tend to blend by brush. I find the blends by airbrush are duller and flatter. I'm getting far more vibrancy and control by doing it by hand. The downside is it takes a lot longer but I've said before, these are luxury products that cost a lot of money, I enjoy taking my time on them.
They look fantastic, what colour are you using in the recesses? Looking forward to the tutorial later in the year, I'll have to pick up a tactical squad of these marines and follow along.
Macragge Blue in the recesses.
Sorry, Kantor blue I mean.
Thanks 🙂
These are great! Can we expect a tutorial on these in the future? 😀
There will be a tutorial. For reasons I can not disclose, it won't be until October.
Looking good and loving the retro ultramarine scheme – really does lift the somewhat static poses of those early models. Apart from the obvious answer (manufacturing cost!) I do wonder why GW reverted to the single part models for SM rather than re-working the original multi-pose boxed set.
NMM looks really good
Erm, I haven't done any NMM? Or are you telling me it looks good in general and I should apply it to these?
Old Skool awesomesauce there Garfy. I have some of those models kicking around somewhere too. I don't ever recall buying that boxed set, I missed 2nd ed entirely while at Uni, so great to see these given a modern lease of life
Nicely painted models, brings back memories – although mine are of green and yellow shoulder pads lol.
Mad painting and blending skills. Will you paint some of them in a contemporary blue/gold/black Ultramarines paint scheme as well?
No, my whole second company will be in this scheme. It will look quite different to my 4th company which is golds and blacks.
I can't quite get over feeling like those amazing freehand skills are… slightly wasted on these old identical bolter bros. Really nice work, though. Those flames look terrific.
Never wasted. Always need the practice. These models are the start of my new battle company. I have already painted the 4th, 1st and half the 10th.
Thanks for the compliment. I'm planning on some white checks and skulls freehands as well as the Us and Tactical symbols.
Solid Old!
Thanks Zab. There is a something weird about painting old models. Even though the models are poor by todays standards they're really fun to paint.
Impressive painting of some good old classics!!
I really like the way you kept the old look with your nice technique.
Thanks Grajo, it's really strange but as I'm painting these I feel myself thinking back to 20 years ago when I was struggling to paint. I remember feeling frustrated and annoyed that I couldn't paint them exactly the same as in the magazines. Now that I'm painting these so neat and tidy I feel like I've laid a demon to rest in my head. If I can complete the entire box then that would be a huge achievement.