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Hello, as the title says I am trying to get my Marines painted for a GT I have coming up next month. All in all I have about three weeks to finish up ~40 Marines with a pretty even split on Deathwatch and Flesh-Tearers.

I have found numerous guides on how to paint both Chapters but they're pretty detailed. I'm not the best painter around and also don't have a lot of time to paint with other things going on. With that in mind I'm hoping for a simpler scheme that will still look good on the tabletop but won't take forever. Any advice on getting that done would be greatly appreciated!

Well best way to knock out a lot of stuff is to plan it out and do only the most important parts.

id say sub assembly, (torso arms and legs)
get everything mounted onto masking tape or blue tack

prime all black first, touch up any areas you missed
Dark red base coat thinned down a bit. might need two coats

Dry brush slightly lighter red

wash brown

blacks dry brush a very dark grey

then after that depending on your colors do the chests guns and pouches.

assemble and finish for now. you can always go back later if you really want to add more highlights or details on the gribbles.

Unfortunately they're all already assembled as I bought them used. My plan was to prime black, do the gun/chainswords with a metal and do the legs/chest in a red. Leave everything else black except maybe some chest detail, then wash. Then like you said if I have time I can go back and touch up some details and varnish.

Not sure what to do for the Deathwatch, I guess pretty much the same except one silver shoulder and one randomly colored shoulder? My army is pretty heavily converted so I might just do both shoulders silver. Seem super lazy but I guess they'd look like Deathwatch.

Spray cans may be your friend. To speed up base coats.

 The Prince of Excess wrote:
Not sure what to do for the Deathwatch, I guess pretty much the same except one silver shoulder and one randomly colored shoulder? My army is pretty heavily converted so I might just do both shoulders silver. Seem super lazy but I guess they'd look like Deathwatch.

Entire left arm of Deathwatch is Silver not just the shoulder pad/pauldron. That said, drybrushing those left arms can make things go a lot faster and make those arms really shine.

SG