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vie got myself a few boxes of sm ready built and prined in black, looking for a quick methord of painting them, ie base colour, wash and highlight. i dont want to be mixing up colours and was looking for straight from the pot scheme, so i just apply base colour, possibly the wash and a highlight and even one of the edge highlights. trouble is im stuck on whitch colurs to use, im not realy botherd by whitch chapter, indeed i will quite happily take someonelses and use it. any help and pics would be grestly recived

Check out this link here:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/paintChart.jsp?catId=cat820002a&rootCatGameStyle=paints-tools

Space Marines (ultramarines) are right at the top gives you all the straight from the pot colours you need. Pretty straight forward: Maccrage blue, Nightshad wash, layer up again in guard blue-calgar blue, highlights in Etherium blue and then a solid gulliman blue glaze. You can make it more or less layers depending on how nice you want them to look.

ive looked at the gw gides, they are siimply put pants. the guides in wd are so childlike its unbelivable. im looking for something beter, idealy using someone on the forums who has done a nice job on theres

jonny5 wrote:
ive looked at the gw gides, they are siimply put pants. the guides in wd are so childlike its unbelivable. im looking for something beter, idealy using someone on the forums who has done a nice job on theres

Honestly, it is all you need really. You are asking for a from the pot guide, GW do them.

A quick google search gives you a decent UM guide:

http://taleofpainters.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/tutorial-how-to-paint-ultramarines-as.html

You ask for a really simple to do scheme, then complain that gw's is too simple? Sheesh.

Doom Legion

Go black, test your skills. Black Templar (black and grey) or Iron Hands (black and silver). If you can pull it off, you immedately qualify for pro status.

think i will try and do imp fists, a good yellow force should be striking

What about some iron hands? Just some grey edging and you are almost done. Add silver to the hands, a splash of wash and they are finished...i don't know how good the new gw paints cover the black, but you'll have to layer several layers to get a nice and smooth finish. In my opinion, yellow is one of the most difficult colours to paint. Check out the tuts on awesomepaintjob.com or buypainted on youtube. They are pretty cool and have some good tips.