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UltraHawk wrote:I suspect the 'eavy metal team doesn't limit themselfs to GW colours. Just like food companies don't use real food to make they're comercials

This.

Working on my first Space Marine, I've been going mad trying to figure out how the GW guys got the look they did, going through tutorial after tutorial and learning as much as I can to figure out their process.

At the end of the day, you just have to appreciate that they're selling a product and presenting it in the best possible (if unachievable) light they can. It's the same reason I don't return a Big Mac at McDonalds because it doesn't look like this:

Ramshackle_Curtis wrote:I would say that Ultramarines are painted ultramarine. Its a colour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine

Thank God you pointed this out, the OP clearly has never heard of the Ultramarines' complimenting GW color...