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I screwed up a space marine and started stressfully carving scars and and bullet holes in his armour, I liked the effect and decided that, if I could make him bleed I would Keep him. Besides I believe such a tutorial would help people who have no painting skill (Like myself).

Base the scratch with a brightish red, like red gore, then mix a little scab red with pvp glue and carefully paint into the bleeding areas. If want you can tease out a little of the mix to look like it's oozing down, but only do that in a few of the deepest damaged areas or you'll overwhelm it.

For blood (on my ogres), I used to use a great mix of red ink and gloss varnish. Sadly, they don't make red ink any more and the current wash isn't red enough. I suppose you could try with another company's red ink, or really watered down blood red. This mixture was pretty good, because I could trickle it down models to make it look like they were actually bleeding. However, this would probably be a bit hard on space marines as they are small.

But try blood red and gloss varnish (maybe with a bit of red gore or something to make it less bright. This was easier with red ink). Don't put too much on. Here's something that I did with only blood red and gloss.

I tried both of them and they look great for bullet holes and cuts. What about bloody stumps? Does that work on those to?

When it comes to blood, remember that less is more, and that real bloodstains are often brownish or nearly black. Overdoing it and going too bright red just makes it look like a Japanese splatter movie.