I absolutely love Space Marines - they are what got me into the hobby myself years ago! Which is your favourite chapter? I have Imperial Fists and Ravenguard! Which Space Marine Tutorials would you like to see?
Still watching this 2 years later. Absolutely spot on tutorial that doesn’t waste time trying to explain advanced techniques but instead nailing the basics. Love it.
What a great tutorial on Space Marines. It is actually very helpful and encouraging to us new painters to see that even experts do make mistakes from time to time and you can just go back and fix them. Thank you!
Absolutely wonderful guide! THIS is how paining guides need to be done. Well explained, the paint being used is always right in the corner so I don't have to skip around to find it, and the finished model is just gorgeous. Well done.
I’ve only got into this hobby of painting miniatures recently and a few people have told me that I need to black line my Space Marines. As I don’t have a steady hand I have been finding it hard to do. Now that I’ve just seen your method using the contrast paint and medium, I can’t wait to try you way. It looks a lot easier. Thank you for explaining it in easy terms as well. For a beginner like me, it helps a lot. Take care and happy crafting!
The Painting Coach , I’m a total beginner, I’ll have tons of questions 😁. I’ll be sure to message you at some point. Thanks for the help and the brilliant videos!! Happy crafting! 🤘🏻😁🤘🏻
A good recommendation when doing edge highlighting - or any detail painting really: Keep a clean, damp brush on hand and if you make a mistake, you can usually wipe it away before it dries. Also if you lay a line on too thick you can use the "oops brush" as I call it to feather the line and restore the highlight.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the feedback! I've done a fair few videos for space marines haha but I'm sure there will be an opportunity for more!
Just started painting, finished my first ever miniature, and used this guide. I ended up with a monstrosity haha, but I learned a lot and it was a lot of fun. I have 10 marines in the set, so I have 9 more to practice on :) Hopefully they'll end up looking as good as yours some day !
11:00 A ridiculous Tron-looking Space Marine lolol! Seen that many a time when friends have over highlighted their Blood Angels. Damned things look luminous PC, I have just subbed to your channel now after the last one I watched on painting Salamanders. Your videos and painting techniques are simple, effective, and skillful. No OTT shading, no OTT airbrushing, none of that other stuff I see in other videos and tutorials on how to blend excessively to the point the model looks like a Bob Ross painting. You're straight to the point, and use time-tested successful methods, and you do them perfectly and with dialogue that's easy to follow and understand... and that's why I'm loving the tutorials so far. Good job man. I'm probably gonna be watching your other videos for the rest of the weekend tbh :D Edit: Also like the way you put the name of the current paint at the top corner too. Makes it easier to take notes. Thumbs up :)
Fantastic video, just subscribed! Maybe someone will see this comment, any tips for painting the gold inside edge of the pauldron (where the McCragge meets the retributor gold on the shoulder pad)?
Thanks! And I appreciate the sub! The best thing is use a brush with a good and use little pressure so it doesn't spill. Macragge Blue covers really well so use this to tidy up any mistakes
Iron Hands and White Scars for me...I like making 30k marines. I like mixing in primaris parts to make my own special characters. Nothing like having a squad of Breachers, and of the line Marines is massively tall even for an astartes!
They gloss shades are just so that the wash flows better, they are better for getting the wash into the areas where it should be. When its dry, just paint some lahmian medium or matt varnish over it. I don't like gloss models, but the gloss washes are great! =)
@@ThePaintingCoach np, i am watching a lot of your videos. Eventhough i have been painting models for 26 years now, i am still learning new things from watching your videos! so keep it up, and please paint some more space wolves, i just love watching others paint. Its like having someone give my brain a massage =)
Cheers Brian - haha I do the same watching others, always learning and trying to put my own spin on things, or deciphering the eavy metal style into something simpler haha
So which black and which white for this undercoating? I think this step matters because when I base coated my ultra marine with Abaddon black then added the Mccrage blue, the minature ends up being very dark! Plz correct me if I am wrong. Thank you! Great video!
Thank you! While there are several tutorials to paint Ultramarines, most of them used either a mixture of paints (too incosistent imo), looked great but not like Ultramarines (mostly the ones using Airbrushes), were not neat enough or way beyond any decent mix of high standard and practicability (a very good eavy metal tutorial). Your tutorial seems to finaly be what i was looking for: A very nice looking, high standard paintjob and yet someone wouldnt spend a months entire sparetime on a single line infantry miniature. So again thank you and with all the other videaos you realy earned yourself a sub 🙂
@@ThePaintingCoach I wonder if you could make a Blood Raven paint tutorial this way some day. I think it is one of the most interesting chapters lorewise, but the color scemes seem to be a bit inconsistent. GWs Index Astartes for example conflicts with the games and artwork. I would have loved to bring my DoW2 force commander and his 4th company to the tabletop, but refering to the Index Astartes the would use green company markings (which is the most ugliest of all and not in line with the game) and so far i haven't really seen a fitting paintjob using the supposed Khorne Red as base color. All these inconsistencies have kept me away from my big project so far: Recreating the entire fourth company according to the lore as i think my force commander would have rebuild it as its captain after th third aurelian crusade (meaning most of them would be Primaris marines, having a Land Raider, a venerable Dreadnought, several ingame characters etc.)
Do you ever sculpt with green stuff? Id like to see you do a Guardians of the Covenant tutorial. Painting up a few troops, but also showing the many different ways you can craft tunics, capes, hoods, taberds, etc to individualize a squad. Im wanting to start a Guardians army bad but never tried my hand at sculpting. Beginners anxiety stopping me more than anything. I connect with your teaching style tho. If you could walk me through a couple of decent sculpts i know it will probably be the needed push.
Afraid I don't sculpt outside of a bit of gap filling - it's not something I have the time to dit down and learn at the moment. Glad you enjoyed the video though
Hi, great vid again. Quick question-would it be useful to put a gloss wash over the macragge blue before the Laviadon shadowing to aid flow? Or is that technique best left to oils? Cheers.
Thanks for the comment - I appreciate it! I do try and make things simple - if you're struggling you could try an alternative which I think I actually prefer. Paint the eye white, then pop a contrast paint (red/green/blue etc) over it and then dot the white where the paint is thinnest - this gives a really nice and easy glow effect
Fantastic job! This has inspired me to get back into the hobby - just ordered a box of intercessors! Do you have any tips on getting kitted-out for painting minis (any decent brush/paint/tools sets you would recommend)? And I agree with Hansol: best Ultramarine tutorial on RUclips.
Hi Adam - thanks for leaving a comment - that means a lot! Welcome back to the hobby! Feel free to ask any questions you may have! I have to say i prefer citadel paint (even though dropper bottles are better!) If you're in the UK you can get them from Goblin Gaming for a discount here: www.goblingaming.co.uk/?tap_a=18935-5a6765&tap_s=596898-754250 I use Winsor and Newton Series 7 brushes, size 00, 0 and 1 - you can get them here: amzn.to/30iL1G7 Although you might want to start with some cheaper synthetic brushes to get back into it! Full disclaimer if you buy anything off those links then i get a dmall kickback - it doesn't cost you anything but helps support the channel!
@@ThePaintingCoach Done! Just ordered a bunch of paints (more or less exactly the same ones you used here, but the Vallejo equivalent as I prefer the dropper bottles), a few synthetic Army Painter brushes, some glue and a few tools. Can't wait to have a go!
Hi Jonathan - not sure what part of the world you are in but here is a link for the UK www.cassart.co.uk/painting/brushes-2/watercolour-brushes/winsor-newton-series-7-kolinsky-sable-watercolour-brush.htm This is the name and model of brush - I use a size 1 and 0
Is there anyway to paint ultramarines with far less paint - but still achieve a decent standard? (New to hobby and dont want to spend loads initially on a massive paintset)
I tried drakenhof for recess shading, doesn't work with macragge blue in my opinion, the contrast is not stark enough, the base color is relatively dark already
I know this video is somewhat old but I have a question for you. Instead of Macragge Blue, do you think using Kantor blue which is darker I believe would work as well?
Kantor blue is a fair bit darker and will give you a much darker result - by way of comparison, check my Crimson Fist video which uses Kantor Blue as the base coat 👍🏻
Thank you for this vidéo ! You have make a good job on this figurine of Space Marine ! And excuse me ! Could you give me a type of brushes do you use on this vidéo ? Please thank you very Much !
This is the best Ultramarines tutorial and this is how I want to paint my marines after getting back into the hobby. I do have a question for you bit of a strange one but your Macragge Blue seems a lot lighter than mine. I've tried different base coats i.e. lighter and darker and it's still coming out the same, have you added anything to your paint to lighten it? Or is it anything to do with the lighting you use to film please help because it's driving me mad :)
Hi Lee - thanks for your kind words! I really appreciate you taking the time to comment! To answer your question- the blue comes straight out of the pot - so it could be the lights that are making it look lighter
Just like in the video really - make sure you have a good tip on your brush - in some of my newer videos I show how to thin paint/get that tip on your brush
@@ThePaintingCoach I invested in the Windsor and newton brushes. My brushes weren’t pointy enough in the tip. also leviadon blue as a shade. 10/10. I also use altdorf guard blue as a highlight before calgar blue. Yes I STILL come back to this video.
Loving this vid - the tip about using contrast paint for shade is inspired. However, I've not been able to get the lines as clean as yours on first pass. Did you use a wet palette to hold the paint and medium mix? I'm wondering if by doing that I've watered it down too much and made it too runny.
Hi James - thanks for the comment - I'm glad your enjoying it! Off the top of my head, i used the comtrast paint neat - using a brush with a good point on it
@@ThePaintingCoach thanks for the info. Vid said 50/50 with medium, but appreciate it was a while ago! Will have a play about with mixture and palette choice then :)
@@ThePaintingCoach Awesome thank you. I do not want to paint in sub assembly and I plan on following your videos when I paint for the first time! Great videos :)
This is a great tutorial. I will defiantly be following along. - Do you water down every main colour as well i.e when you first painted the helm? Sorry I'm returning after about 20 years. Awesome job!
im new to painting . when your doing your highlights how do you keep your brush tip wet all the time . im finding i have to much paint on the brush or it goes the other way and i get a dry tip . im using the same brush as you
Welcome to the hobby! Try tapping your brush on a paper towel/kitchen roll between taking paint off the palette and putting it on the mini. Also a good tip is the twist and pull your brush towards you when you load it with paint to get a nice sharp tip - hope that helps
@@ThePaintingCoach I'm a novice and I only have the macragge blue base paint and I don't know if I have to paint the entire miniature including weapons and belt or just paint the armor and sorry i used the translator to can do the question XD my English is sow bad
Do you know of any non-GW paints that can closely resemble the GW paints that you used in this video, either mixed with another paint or on its own? I want to get into 40k, and I don't have enough money right now to afford GW's expensive paint.
Hi David - thanks for the comment! Here's a link to a colour conversion chart www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Paint_Range_Compatibility_Chart I think vallejo are a bit cheaper than GW
Thanks for the comment Jacob! In general all Sergeants have red helmets with a skull icon on them (this is modelled on) Some may also have a white stripe down the middle - these are veteran sergeants. These are known as 'codex compliant' chapters - if you can get hold of the space marines codex as this explains it in more depth (although there will be a new one coming out after July)
Thanks for the comment Luke - off the top of my head, paints like macragge blue, mephiston red, leadbelcher, abaddon black and screamer pink are - generally the first paint I put down tends to be the base paint
That’s great thank you! Looking forward to trying out your shading method as I’ve always found that the trickiest to get right. One other quick question: do you always tend to paint your models assembled? And if so, any tricks for getting into the difficult areas
No problem! If you can get hold of some Macragge Blue spray, that will probably help speed things up! I try to leave weapons off if they cover the chest, and leave bare heads off as I tend to prime them a different colour. I build as muxh as the model as I can, until I feel it will be difficult to reach some parts - I hope that helps!
Just primed and hit my 5 starter set marines with a blue and a blue armor wash. Then did a light drybrush on edges. Nervous about moving on as they look ok so far 😂
I’m going to try to paint my first Space Marine figure, and I was wondering where most of the paints you used were from. I know that some of them are from the Citadel Essentials set, but I can’t find where you got the other paints from. Also, like the other comments, this is one of the best painting tutorials for the Ultramarines I’ve seen if not the best.
Hi Matthew - thank you for your support and the kind words! All the paints I use are citadel, apart from the chrome, which is from the Vallejo model air range - I hope that helps!
The Painting Coach - Thank you! In hindsight, I probably could have looked up the names of the paints that weren’t in the essentials set, but that’s on me. That leads me to my next two questions: Is there a way to buy the paints in bulk, or do you have to buy each paint individually outside of the essentials set? Is there a set of paint brushes that you recommend (asking since you may have changed your mind since making this video)?
That's no problem! I'm not aware of a way to buy in bulk - sometimes GW does collections - where they pull all the paint for an ultramarine into a pack and around christmas time they do the mega paintset which has every colour in it! You may also be able to find something on amazon As for brushes, I use Winsor & Newton series 7 - size 00, 0 and 1. They are great brushes and I highly recommend them - when looking there are 2 versions - avoid the version called 'miniature' they aren't bad at all but hold a lot less paint and so are less efficient
The Painting Coach - Thank you so much for all the help! You’ve really made the process of getting into the tabletop aspect of Warhammer so much easier.
The Painting Coach - Sorry for not asking this sooner (I’ve been busy cleaning up the pieces of my Primaris Lieutenant), but what primer do you use. I know I’m being a bit of a stickler, but I just want to recreate your results as best as I can. And once again, I can’t thank you enough for the great videos and help you’ve given me down here in the comments.
The Painting Coach yes I did and the macragge blue is just normal out of the pot of course I thinned it down and such but I still get that dark rich blue like you get from the spray
That's strange - sounds like I did exactly the same - I don't know the answer I'm afraid - I would say check using another pot but don't want to encourage spending extra!
as a new player seeing this... 25 paints, $5,00 each, I know this is an expensive hobby, but a $125,00 investment just for paints, just for marines, not counting brushes, kits, books... yikes, it really seems steep
Cracking video mate! Can you put the link to those brushes? So neat! Also what do you use to prime them? I went straight into Mac Blue but the white makes it look super clean
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I absolutely love Space Marines - they are what got me into the hobby myself years ago! Which is your favourite chapter? I have Imperial Fists and Ravenguard! Which Space Marine Tutorials would you like to see?
I'd love to see you do a Raven Guard when you have time :)
Will do soon!
I have very bad experience painting imperial fist due to the yellow paint
I definitely have imperial fists on the list!
Another vote for imperial fists, as I also struggle the most with a smooth yellow consistency.
Still watching this 2 years later. Absolutely spot on tutorial that doesn’t waste time trying to explain advanced techniques but instead nailing the basics. Love it.
Thanks! I appreciate the support!
What a great tutorial on Space Marines. It is actually very helpful and encouraging to us new painters to see that even experts do make mistakes from time to time and you can just go back and fix them. Thank you!
Thanks Phil - I really appreciate your comments! Glad the video was useful!
Absolutely wonderful guide! THIS is how paining guides need to be done. Well explained, the paint being used is always right in the corner so I don't have to skip around to find it, and the finished model is just gorgeous. Well done.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it and found the video useful!
I’ve only got into this hobby of painting miniatures recently and a few people have told me that I need to black line my Space Marines. As I don’t have a steady hand I have been finding it hard to do. Now that I’ve just seen your method using the contrast paint and medium, I can’t wait to try you way. It looks a lot easier. Thank you for explaining it in easy terms as well. For a beginner like me, it helps a lot.
Take care and happy crafting!
Hi Chris - thanks a lot I really do appreciate the post! Good luck with my method - shout if you have any questions!
The Painting Coach , I’m a total beginner, I’ll have tons of questions 😁. I’ll be sure to message you at some point. Thanks for the help and the brilliant videos!! Happy crafting! 🤘🏻😁🤘🏻
A good recommendation when doing edge highlighting - or any detail painting really: Keep a clean, damp brush on hand and if you make a mistake, you can usually wipe it away before it dries. Also if you lay a line on too thick you can use the "oops brush" as I call it to feather the line and restore the highlight.
Thanks for sharing!
This is dope, thanks man.
Also I love that you actually make and show your mistakes... it makes it much more aproachable as a beginner.
Thanks - I appreciate the comment!
Such a therapeutic watch this one.. would love to see more space marine videos mate. 10/10
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the feedback! I've done a fair few videos for space marines haha but I'm sure there will be an opportunity for more!
Definitely the best tutorial I've watched. Certainly going to be following it at my painting desk.
Awesome I'm glad you enjoyed it - yout feedback means a lot!
Phenomenal! I found the perfect scheme and tutorial. Thank you! I will March for Macragge finally!
Enjoy!
Again, you inspire me to better myself at this fella! All best from up the road🏴👍🏻
Thanks!
Just started painting, finished my first ever miniature, and used this guide. I ended up with a monstrosity haha, but I learned a lot and it was a lot of fun. I have 10 marines in the set, so I have 9 more to practice on :) Hopefully they'll end up looking as good as yours some day !
Awesome - welcome to the hobby! Practice makes perfect!
nice job! Just started getting into Warhammer, I dont play the game but I love painting the miniatures :)
Welcome to the hobby! I'm exactly the same :)
A fellow Welshman!! 🏴
Great tutorial man!
Diolch!
I won’t be playing ultramarines anytime soon. Your guides are awesome so this gets an upvote to help it get seen by someone who needs it.
Thank you I appreciate it!
Amazing guide. keep up the great work bro you're doing amazing
Cheers
Hello from Spain, your tutorials are awesome! Lot of thanks
Thanks a lot for taking the time to comment! Gracias!
11:00 A ridiculous Tron-looking Space Marine lolol!
Seen that many a time when friends have over highlighted their Blood Angels. Damned things look luminous
PC, I have just subbed to your channel now after the last one I watched on painting Salamanders.
Your videos and painting techniques are simple, effective, and skillful.
No OTT shading, no OTT airbrushing, none of that other stuff I see in other videos and tutorials on how to blend excessively to the point the model looks like a Bob Ross painting.
You're straight to the point, and use time-tested successful methods, and you do them perfectly and with dialogue that's easy to follow and understand... and that's why I'm loving the tutorials so far.
Good job man.
I'm probably gonna be watching your other videos for the rest of the weekend tbh :D
Edit: Also like the way you put the name of the current paint at the top corner too. Makes it easier to take notes. Thumbs up :)
Thanks Douglas - that means a lot! And is exacrly what I'm going for with the videos! Thank you also for the sub!
really amazing video, i'm just starting off myself and im using this to help me.
Awesome - welcome to the hobby!
Superb work mate.
Thanks!
thank you so much for this:) best video I've seen
Cheers 👍🏻
Very nice one, Coach! Thanks for showing the mistakes and fixes too. Btw, space marines point in quite a strange way.
Thanks for commenting! And of course I will always continue to show mistakes and fixes - if I make them Haha! Yes this marine has an odd point!
Fantastic video, just subscribed! Maybe someone will see this comment, any tips for painting the gold inside edge of the pauldron (where the McCragge meets the retributor gold on the shoulder pad)?
Thanks! And I appreciate the sub! The best thing is use a brush with a good and use little pressure so it doesn't spill.
Macragge Blue covers really well so use this to tidy up any mistakes
Iron Hands and White Scars for me...I like making 30k marines. I like mixing in primaris parts to make my own special characters. Nothing like having a squad of Breachers, and of the line Marines is massively tall even for an astartes!
Lovely work. Really like your channel. New sub
Thanks for your comment - and i appreciate the sub!
They gloss shades are just so that the wash flows better, they are better for getting the wash into the areas where it should be. When its dry, just paint some lahmian medium or matt varnish over it. I don't like gloss models, but the gloss washes are great! =)
Cheers for the tip Brian!
@@ThePaintingCoach np, i am watching a lot of your videos. Eventhough i have been painting models for 26 years now, i am still learning new things from watching your videos! so keep it up, and please paint some more space wolves, i just love watching others paint. Its like having someone give my brain a massage =)
Cheers Brian - haha I do the same watching others, always learning and trying to put my own spin on things, or deciphering the eavy metal style into something simpler haha
Thank you for this, soooo very helpful!
Thanks glad you liked it!
So which black and which white for this undercoating? I think this step matters because when I base coated my ultra marine with Abaddon black then added the Mccrage blue, the minature ends up being very dark! Plz correct me if I am wrong. Thank you! Great video!
Thanks Adam - this is chaos black with corax white sprayed from above 👍🏻
Thank you! While there are several tutorials to paint Ultramarines, most of them used either a mixture of paints (too incosistent imo), looked great but not like Ultramarines (mostly the ones using Airbrushes), were not neat enough or way beyond any decent mix of high standard and practicability (a very good eavy metal tutorial). Your tutorial seems to finaly be what i was looking for: A very nice looking, high standard paintjob and yet someone wouldnt spend a months entire sparetime on a single line infantry miniature. So again thank you and with all the other videaos you realy earned yourself a sub 🙂
Thanks! I appreciate it! And glad you found the video useful!
@@ThePaintingCoach I wonder if you could make a Blood Raven paint tutorial this way some day. I think it is one of the most interesting chapters lorewise, but the color scemes seem to be a bit inconsistent. GWs Index Astartes for example conflicts with the games and artwork. I would have loved to bring my DoW2 force commander and his 4th company to the tabletop, but refering to the Index Astartes the would use green company markings (which is the most ugliest of all and not in line with the game) and so far i haven't really seen a fitting paintjob using the supposed Khorne Red as base color. All these inconsistencies have kept me away from my big project so far: Recreating the entire fourth company according to the lore as i think my force commander would have rebuild it as its captain after th third aurelian crusade (meaning most of them would be Primaris marines, having a Land Raider, a venerable Dreadnought, several ingame characters etc.)
Do you ever sculpt with green stuff?
Id like to see you do a Guardians of the Covenant tutorial. Painting up a few troops, but also showing the many different ways you can craft tunics, capes, hoods, taberds, etc to individualize a squad.
Im wanting to start a Guardians army bad but never tried my hand at sculpting. Beginners anxiety stopping me more than anything. I connect with your teaching style tho. If you could walk me through a couple of decent sculpts i know it will probably be the needed push.
Afraid I don't sculpt outside of a bit of gap filling - it's not something I have the time to dit down and learn at the moment. Glad you enjoyed the video though
I want to get into painting the 40k minis but they are sooo small.
I can't even undestand the patience for this level of detail.
Try some primaris marines - they are fairly plain to get started - and come in a paint starter set - I started painting to help me relax!
@@ThePaintingCoach i will look into it thanks!
HI wat size WN brush do u use for the highlite,s THX(your good stuff VERY NEAT)yer good stuff THX.
Thanks for the comment - I use size 1 and size 0 - although it's more aboit the quality of point you can get rather than the size!
Hi mate great vid what size Windsor and Newton are you using if you don’t mind me asking
Cheers - size 0 and 1
wow, that is one space marine
Hi, great vid again. Quick question-would it be useful to put a gloss wash over the macragge blue before the Laviadon shadowing to aid flow? Or is that technique best left to oils? Cheers.
Cheers David - you can - although the Leviadon Blue doesn't have the same capillary action as the oil paint would
Would macragge blue primer work equally well? Or better to use the chaos black then some white primer ?
Yes perfect - will save you a lot of time too!
@@ThePaintingCoach awesome! Anything else you would recommend with the primer? Like chaos black first then blue? Or just blue straight away :)
You can go straight with blue, although with chaos black first you can create some shadow - just make sure to use thin layers!
@@ThePaintingCoach cool, thanks. 😁 any chance you will make a guide on the eliminators or maybe suppressors btw? From the vanguard SC kit 🙃
No problem - i probably won't - maybe I will do one on the cloaks in the future
Fantastic!!!
Thanks 👍🏻
Seems I'll have a nice tutorial to paint my 10 tactical marines.
Glad you enjoyed it!
How do you do your zenithal priming? Do you use Citadel sprays or a airbrush? Is it possible with spray cans?
Thanks for leaving a comment! I do both - the key to using spray cans is to use short sharp bursts until you get the effect you want
you makes the eye lenses look so easy. I just cannot get the hang of it
Thanks for the comment - I appreciate it! I do try and make things simple - if you're struggling you could try an alternative which I think I actually prefer.
Paint the eye white, then pop a contrast paint (red/green/blue etc) over it and then dot the white where the paint is thinnest - this gives a really nice and easy glow effect
Fantastic job! This has inspired me to get back into the hobby - just ordered a box of intercessors! Do you have any tips on getting kitted-out for painting minis (any decent brush/paint/tools sets you would recommend)? And I agree with Hansol: best Ultramarine tutorial on RUclips.
Hi Adam - thanks for leaving a comment - that means a lot! Welcome back to the hobby! Feel free to ask any questions you may have!
I have to say i prefer citadel paint (even though dropper bottles are better!) If you're in the UK you can get them from Goblin Gaming for a discount here:
www.goblingaming.co.uk/?tap_a=18935-5a6765&tap_s=596898-754250
I use Winsor and Newton Series 7 brushes, size 00, 0 and 1 - you can get them here:
amzn.to/30iL1G7
Although you might want to start with some cheaper synthetic brushes to get back into it!
Full disclaimer if you buy anything off those links then i get a dmall kickback - it doesn't cost you anything but helps support the channel!
@@ThePaintingCoach Thanks very much for your response! I'll be sure to purchase via the links - happy to support you :-) Keep up the great work!
Awesome thank you!
@@ThePaintingCoach Done! Just ordered a bunch of paints (more or less exactly the same ones you used here, but the Vallejo equivalent as I prefer the dropper bottles), a few synthetic Army Painter brushes, some glue and a few tools. Can't wait to have a go!
Thanks Adam - I really appreciate it! Pleas let me know if you've got any questions! Dropper bottles are the best haha
Hi you mentioned the brush you used for this can you link it for me pleas as it looks like a good one to go for. Thanks
Hi Jonathan - not sure what part of the world you are in but here is a link for the UK
www.cassart.co.uk/painting/brushes-2/watercolour-brushes/winsor-newton-series-7-kolinsky-sable-watercolour-brush.htm
This is the name and model of brush - I use a size 1 and 0
@@ThePaintingCoach thanks I'm in the UK too will look to get this brush it looks great
No problem!
Hey coach what brushes are the best you've used ? Awesome job on this guy
Winsor & Newton Series 7
Is there anyway to paint ultramarines with far less paint - but still achieve a decent standard? (New to hobby and dont want to spend loads initially on a massive paintset)
Check my latest tutorial where I speed paint them - I use a lot less
@@ThePaintingCoach Will do - thanks for the fast reply
For airbrush users, would airbrushing the mcrage blue on all of the mode be bad? I don’t personally think so but I figured I’d ask
That would work fine 👍🏻
I tried drakenhof for recess shading, doesn't work with macragge blue in my opinion, the contrast is not stark enough, the base color is relatively dark already
If it's not dark enough for you, you could try nuln oil or some thinned Black Templar :)
@@ThePaintingCoach yeah I usually use nuln oil because of that, gotta try the black templar, I got a pot but never tried using it for recess shading
Thin it a little and make sure you have a brush with a good point on the tip
I know this video is somewhat old but I have a question for you. Instead of Macragge Blue, do you think using Kantor blue which is darker I believe would work as well?
Kantor blue is a fair bit darker and will give you a much darker result - by way of comparison, check my Crimson Fist video which uses Kantor Blue as the base coat 👍🏻
Thank you for this vidéo ! You have make a good job on this figurine of Space Marine ! And excuse me ! Could you give me a type of brushes do you use on this vidéo ? Please thank you very Much !
Thank you for the comment! I use Winsor and Newton Series 7 size 1, 0 and 00
You can get them here amzn.to/30iL1G7
Merci Thank you so Much for the Quick answer
No problem!
This is the best Ultramarines tutorial and this is how I want to paint my marines after getting back into the hobby. I do have a question for you bit of a strange one but your Macragge Blue seems a lot lighter than mine. I've tried different base coats i.e. lighter and darker and it's still coming out the same, have you added anything to your paint to lighten it? Or is it anything to do with the lighting you use to film please help because it's driving me mad :)
Hi Lee - thanks for your kind words! I really appreciate you taking the time to comment! To answer your question- the blue comes straight out of the pot - so it could be the lights that are making it look lighter
Hey, how do your highlights come out so crisp? Yours look sharp
Mine come out looking diluted and too thick.
Just like in the video really - make sure you have a good tip on your brush - in some of my newer videos I show how to thin paint/get that tip on your brush
@@ThePaintingCoach thank you for the comment. I’ve had this video favourited and I come back to it from time to time.
No problem - happy to help
@@ThePaintingCoach I invested in the Windsor and newton brushes. My brushes weren’t pointy enough in the tip.
also leviadon blue as a shade. 10/10.
I also use altdorf guard blue as a highlight before calgar blue.
Yes I STILL come back to this video.
Aweosme 👍🏻
Loving this vid - the tip about using contrast paint for shade is inspired. However, I've not been able to get the lines as clean as yours on first pass. Did you use a wet palette to hold the paint and medium mix? I'm wondering if by doing that I've watered it down too much and made it too runny.
Hi James - thanks for the comment - I'm glad your enjoying it! Off the top of my head, i used the comtrast paint neat - using a brush with a good point on it
@@ThePaintingCoach thanks for the info. Vid said 50/50 with medium, but appreciate it was a while ago! Will have a play about with mixture and palette choice then :)
It was a while ago - my apologies! I would have mixed it on a hard palette - like a tile or artists plastic palette
@@ThePaintingCoach no worries. Thanks for taking the time.to reply
My pleasure - look forward to seeing the completed models!
Did you have a coat underneath the spray? What did you use for both that and the spray?
Thanks for the comment - I sprayed chaos black first then corax white over the top from a 45 degree angle
I just don’t know ho to get that metal on the helmet while it’s on the model. It’s skipped in the video. Any tips?
All I can say is to be careful when you apply it - and I would paint the metal first, then paint over any areas you spill
@@ThePaintingCoach Awesome thank you. I do not want to paint in sub assembly and I plan on following your videos when I paint for the first time! Great videos :)
@@ThePaintingCoach Did you paint them all after fully building them?
Good luck!
Mad lad used a bottle of Citadel Colour to hold the model
This is a great tutorial. I will defiantly be following along.
- Do you water down every main colour as well i.e when you first painted the helm?
Sorry I'm returning after about 20 years.
Awesome job!
Thanks! Yes I do - if you catch some of my later videos I show my palette and I also have a video on paint thinning 👍🏻
@@ThePaintingCoach wasn’t sure I’d get a reply on an older video. Thank you. I’ve subbed so ill look out for that one.
Really appreciate it - any questions just ask!
im new to painting . when your doing your highlights how do you keep your brush tip wet all the time . im finding i have to much paint on the brush or it goes the other way and i get a dry tip . im using the same brush as you
Welcome to the hobby! Try tapping your brush on a paper towel/kitchen roll between taking paint off the palette and putting it on the mini.
Also a good tip is the twist and pull your brush towards you when you load it with paint to get a nice sharp tip - hope that helps
@@ThePaintingCoach ok thank you for your help il give this a try tomorrow . great videos btw
No problem 👍🏻
can it be painted with primer and leaving only the weapons and belt unpainted?
How do you mean
@@ThePaintingCoach I have painted the miniature of a marine and I have painted only the armor with the base paint of the issue
I'm sorry I still don't understand 🤔 do you mean you want to leave the weapon and belt the same as the primer?
@@ThePaintingCoach I'm a novice and I only have the macragge blue base paint and I don't know if I have to paint the entire miniature including weapons and belt or just paint the armor and sorry i used the translator to can do the question XD my English is sow bad
No problem - now I understand - just the armour 👍🏻
Do you know of any non-GW paints that can closely resemble the GW paints that you used in this video, either mixed with another paint or on its own? I want to get into 40k, and I don't have enough money right now to afford GW's expensive paint.
Hi David - thanks for the comment! Here's a link to a colour conversion chart
www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Paint_Range_Compatibility_Chart
I think vallejo are a bit cheaper than GW
@@ThePaintingCoach Thank you!
No problem :)
I am completely new to Warhammer. Why are some painted with red helmets and such and some aren't? Do all "Sergeants" have red helmets?
Thanks for the comment Jacob! In general all Sergeants have red helmets with a skull icon on them (this is modelled on)
Some may also have a white stripe down the middle - these are veteran sergeants.
These are known as 'codex compliant' chapters - if you can get hold of the space marines codex as this explains it in more depth (although there will be a new one coming out after July)
Hi, thanks for the video. Are all the paints listed layer paints or are any of them base like the blue and black?
Thanks for the comment Luke - off the top of my head, paints like macragge blue, mephiston red, leadbelcher, abaddon black and screamer pink are - generally the first paint I put down tends to be the base paint
That’s great thank you! Looking forward to trying out your shading method as I’ve always found that the trickiest to get right. One other quick question: do you always tend to paint your models assembled? And if so, any tricks for getting into the difficult areas
No problem! If you can get hold of some Macragge Blue spray, that will probably help speed things up!
I try to leave weapons off if they cover the chest, and leave bare heads off as I tend to prime them a different colour. I build as muxh as the model as I can, until I feel it will be difficult to reach some parts - I hope that helps!
Can't seem to find some of these colors .
Which ones are you missing? They are all citadel (apart from chrome) so should be avaliable from GW if nowhere else
Echt Nice 👍👍👍
Glad you liked it!
Just primed and hit my 5 starter set marines with a blue and a blue armor wash. Then did a light drybrush on edges. Nervous about moving on as they look ok so far 😂
Sounds like a solid start - just take your time and enjoy it!
Wasnt best results on 1st one. Hopefully a few washes will hide my mistakes. Also finding paint dries really fast even on wet pallete
Keep at it - make sure ypur sponge is really saturated and you have some excess water in the tray too
@@ThePaintingCoach i am almost finished with one and after a bit of tidy up i am happy for a first try in 23 years. Will sub. Thanks for Replys
Thanks - welcome back to the hobby!
32:16 what does 2:1 mix ratio mean? Sorry, I’m new to the hobby lol
Welcome to the hobby - it just means 2 brushfulls of a paint and 1 brushfull of another - hope that helps!
The Painting Coach ohh so you dip your brush into paint 2 times and 1 time into another to mix it?
Yep spot on!
The Painting Coach thanks mate :)
No problem :)
I’m going to try to paint my first Space Marine figure, and I was wondering where most of the paints you used were from. I know that some of them are from the Citadel Essentials set, but I can’t find where you got the other paints from. Also, like the other comments, this is one of the best painting tutorials for the Ultramarines I’ve seen if not the best.
Hi Matthew - thank you for your support and the kind words! All the paints I use are citadel, apart from the chrome, which is from the Vallejo model air range - I hope that helps!
The Painting Coach - Thank you! In hindsight, I probably could have looked up the names of the paints that weren’t in the essentials set, but that’s on me. That leads me to my next two questions: Is there a way to buy the paints in bulk, or do you have to buy each paint individually outside of the essentials set? Is there a set of paint brushes that you recommend (asking since you may have changed your mind since making this video)?
That's no problem! I'm not aware of a way to buy in bulk - sometimes GW does collections - where they pull all the paint for an ultramarine into a pack and around christmas time they do the mega paintset which has every colour in it! You may also be able to find something on amazon
As for brushes, I use Winsor & Newton series 7 - size 00, 0 and 1. They are great brushes and I highly recommend them - when looking there are 2 versions - avoid the version called 'miniature' they aren't bad at all but hold a lot less paint and so are less efficient
The Painting Coach - Thank you so much for all the help! You’ve really made the process of getting into the tabletop aspect of Warhammer so much easier.
The Painting Coach - Sorry for not asking this sooner (I’ve been busy cleaning up the pieces of my Primaris Lieutenant), but what primer do you use. I know I’m being a bit of a stickler, but I just want to recreate your results as best as I can. And once again, I can’t thank you enough for the great videos and help you’ve given me down here in the comments.
Dude, do Black Templars
Hey thanks for the comment - you could try the Iron Hands video for black armour 😉 while I'm working my way round the chapters :)
My macragge blue seems to be much darker than yours?
Hmm - did you put it over a zenithal prime? There may also be some variation between batches 🤔
The Painting Coach yes I did and the macragge blue is just normal out of the pot of course I thinned it down and such but I still get that dark rich blue like you get from the spray
That's strange - sounds like I did exactly the same - I don't know the answer I'm afraid - I would say check using another pot but don't want to encourage spending extra!
The Painting Coach it might just be your lights and I probably put it on too thickly
Could be the lights - i use a daylight lamp
I swear these figures are getting bigger...
I think they are gradually!
I know gold means his a veteran what's Red helmet meas
Red is for a Sergeant - red with a white stripe is veteran sergeant
Veterans tend to wear white helmets ans honour guard have the gold
@@ThePaintingCoach thanks I'm more familiar with the Black Templars I don't know anything about the ultramarines
No problem 👍🏻
tidy
Cheers
as a new player seeing this... 25 paints, $5,00 each, I know this is an expensive hobby, but a $125,00 investment just for paints, just for marines, not counting brushes, kits, books... yikes, it really seems steep
Try the 40K starter paint set - it will have all the basic colours you need to get started, and then you can gradually add more later :)
Too broke to even buy the codex, nice
Cracking video mate! Can you put the link to those brushes? So neat!
Also what do you use to prime them? I went straight into Mac Blue but the white makes it look super clean
Cheers! Here you go for brushes
I prime Chaos Black and then Corax White over the top - but Macragge blue is fine!
@@ThePaintingCoach couldn't see the link for the brush dude, sorry!
Nice, its top notch stuff man. Really helping out
No worries at all!
Glad it helps!