space marines as we have known them are over
search your feelings you know this to be true the classic mark 7 space marine is coming to an end
space marines are changing luckily wargamers are a bunch who are very receptive to change
space marines are taller now
yeah i can be mad about that
hey guys jay here welcome to ends of battle i like space marines they were my second warhammer army
my first was my necrons ah my necrons and just like everybody's first army they were painted
but i wanted better not to repaint my necrons but i liked the paint just enough not to start over
so i want to do better on something new and that was space marines and they were painted better i
learned a lot i watched every bi-painted video 10 times over and even though i could not replicate
what he did i got better for trying and i'm now kind of in a similar boat with my primaris
marines they look so much better than my og marines but i still like my og marines just
enough not to want to repaint them and speaking of space marines i got a box in the mail inside
this package is in my opinion the last great metal space marines so let's take a look inside
just kidding i already opened it these bad boys came to me from ebay painted but a little acetone
bath quickly fixed that up with the paint stripped off these shiny boys were ready to get based
i did my patented trick of clipping the slotted base peg in such a way to create some pins that
i can use to give these models some extra security on their new bases and for those bases i'm going
to be using some milliput as my elevation they need it these guys are tiny i mixed together
the two parts of epoxy and squished them down onto the bases making them random and uneven
then i stuck down my marines with plenty of super glue and i prepared to attach my bits
scrap metal piles concrete piles and debris from a company called epic basing i stuck these down
to the soft miller putt with super glue and i was able to sculpt the miller put around these bits
to make them look more natural i put as many as i could fit onto each base then i filled in all the
in-between spots with some wood glue then sprinkle down some small pebbles and find grain sand
these are stern guard veterans from warhammer 40k's 5th edition the matt ward period of space
marines and these are such wonderful character scopes really standing out from the standard
tactical marines of the time that personified the og marine bolt her a little down bolt her a little
bit up bolt her a little to the left bolt it a little to the right missile launcher it's stuff
like this that gave this arab space marines a million nicknames plain jane space marines
original space marines squatty space marines old school space marines little lovable space marines
i can't believe it's not space marines baby boy space marines vanilla space marines space marines
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these metal marines are cool and i'm glad i have them however i am not going to paint them up for
my black templar army it just doesn't feel right i want to really experience these models from the
time period they were from so they came to me as ultramarines and ultramarines they shall be
i took these boys threw them up on paint handles and primed them black so a classic ultramarine's
color scheme what is my base coat going to be you might think it's going to be ultramarine's blue
but you'd be wrong it's actually going to be red i sprayed my blue boys the red base coat
letting it get all over the bases too the red gave them a really nice blood angels look but
that is not what i'm going for here i now gave the models a white xenophobe letting a lot of
the red show through this is my i can't believe it's not blood angel's ultramarine color scheme
so i now have some red ultramarines and why would i have red ultramarines well let me try to explain
myself right now the classic way to paint an ultramarine or any space marine for that matter
is to break it down into sections and paint those sections of color blue for the armor gray for the
undersuit yellow for the decorations wait for the helmet and then maybe maybe if you feel frisky you
can go in and add some highlights but the bulk of the work is done but that's not very interesting
what i want to do on these guys is use some color theory blue and red makes purple and
that'll give me some more interesting shadows i want to throw the paint around not be confined
to cells but to get a painterly model base where colors overlap and complement each other
it might take a little longer but it'll be a way more enjoyable experience compared to the paint
by number style of space marines and it'll give me a way better final product let's see if it works
i made myself up a transparent blue glaze and then sprayed this onto my minis now they are
blue with some purple and subtle red hints i put some orange in my airbrush and sprayed this
onto the details on the base and now in just a few steps my space marines were looking like something
it's looking good but it's a little bit subtle and subtle is okay for the display shelf but it's not
great for gaming but that's okay because painting is an additive process it's very hard to ruin a
paint job because you can always just add more paints and the paint i'm gonna be adding to try
to bring it up a little bit more is a little bit of transparent red ink i squirted the ink here and
there to accentuate the red base coat i think this looks far more interesting than just dark blue
blue light blue then i sprayed their heads and guns with some white paint if i get a little
spillage that's okay i can clean it up later only an hour in and my marines were looking practically
done i d-gloved and prepared for painting i threw some blending medium into my palette and some
light blue paint and then i began to paint these models in a very uncharacteristic way i used small
brush strokes and stippling putting the paint where it needed to be but not worrying about being
perfect or doing nice blends my mind told me to do perfect two brush blends but i wanted to emulate
some of the frenetic interesting paint jobs i see from artists like collective sg and dana howell
where it's more about color choice and highlights and less about smoothness it just looks like a
more fun way to paint and i want to add as much fun to painting as possible even though my paint
was less than perfect the overall impression was really really good i don't think i lost anything
once my highlights were on i made a very thin down blue wash and i applied this all over the marines
then i took some red brown and khaki colors and used this on all the purity seals and gold bits
with these parts base coated it was time for a little highlight and that highlight will be
gold i don't have to be too precise just touching it here and there and letting the brown underneath
show through and then there's the weapons they might look just kind of gray now but with just
a few swipes of silver paint on a dry brush and they transform into cold hard steel and you know
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we also have merch link in the description i'm having a lot of fun painting these space
brains and that's kind of what i was counting on switching up my painting style for space
marines because often space marines can feel very paint by numbers the shoulder pads white
body blue head white with a stripe it's it does not it doesn't lend itself to very much fun
painting but switching it up and treating these like i would any other mini just adding value
and contrast here and there not being super super precise with my colors it makes them kind of just
a fun paint job and i actually kind of want to paint a lot more space marines like this which is
definitely saying something because i am a little burnt out on space marines after painting 10 000
points of black templar space marines i wonder what color i'm going to undercoat black armor
baby magenta for the eyes i started by painting a line of white in the middle of each lens making
sure that there was still a dark outline then i mixed a very very watery brush load of red
and splashed this around the eyes it's super subtle now but once i've layered on three or
four coats one on top of another it should make for some very aggressive looking glow
and lastly i reapplied my white stripe going a little smaller this time
these guys are cool facing time i dry brushed some yellow to bring out the details of the bricks and
debris and then i smooshed on some yellow pigment powder i really like pigment powder because it
helps with scale it gives the look of incredibly fine sand and dirt and it's a nice easy step a lot
like a wash paint i get asked a lot how how does the pigment powder stay attached what keeps it on
and if i put anything on top of it keep the pigment powder stuck down but really
it sticks on by itself it's a lot like makeup makeup doesn't just fall off you need to wipe
it off so as long as you don't run your minis under the sink the pigment powders should stick
on just fine they stay attached to all tiny little micro scratches and nooks and crannies on the base
with my minis done the only thing left to do is to paint the rim of the base
brown ah i think these are the best space marines i have ever painted they are so cool but before i
show them off let me explain why i'm okay with models like these being replaced by primary
space marines remember earlier when i talked about always taking on new projects when my
skills improved well that is why primaries didn't hurt me when they came out in fact
i think they're great i'm not talking about primaries lore it's good and if your only
experience with primary solar is what someone told you read these and get back to me i have
my old space marines they're part of my hobby history and still completely playable on the
tabletop but now i get to try again and my new primary models rock compared to my old marines
my troop choices had a total glow up my new banner guy is night and day compared to the old one
and my new flying marines are some of my favorite models i own that's kind of the nature of this
hobby to always be expanding the collection how many of you show of hands finish your army
and are done no more kits no more painting you just play those models again and again forever
no one right primaris is just an opportunity to try again to try new things new techniques that i
didn't know about five years ago and again i have my old models and i'll continue to play with them
but i'll also continue to expand the crusade and speaking of expanding the crusade let's
take a look at these blueberries these are what arrived at my door a week ago not bad but look at
them now ultramarines are kind of cool when you try really hard to paint them and it was really
fun painting space marines in a new way really focusing on highlights and not being stuck in the
heavy metal paint by number style space marines these models will sit on the shelf a reminder
of where my painting is in 2022 and i wonder what my space range will look like five years from now
i love these guys i might just have to pick up another squad for my black templar
maybe make it a 10 man squad and mix these metal dudes in with the modern plastics
they just look so cool and are a fun little piece of space marine history thanks for watching