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Heyho!

I painted these a while ago in order to test a rather quick way (for me at least, as I'm a very slow painter) of painting Space Marines and to test a different kind of basing. I don't even play Ultramarines.



Cheers!

Really nice for a quick method

Very solid work. If that’s the “quick” way, I’d like to see your time intensive one. Because there is nothing to be ashamed about with those Ultras.

They look really good. Especially for a quick method. Can we get a breakdown of your method.

Thanks guys!

@ShadowCaptainMathius: Sure! I will only detail into the "time saving" steps:

I airbrushed everything in Macragge Blue and highlighted the blue parts with Calgar Blue. Simply by airbrushing the basecolours, I already saved a huge amount of time!
For battle damage I simply applied black here and there and highlighted it with Calgar Blue. All "leather" parts were also painted in black, therefore there was no need to wash them at all and black is (no surprise) especially well covering, so you won't need many layers.
Another big time saver was, that I didn't use Nuln oil to wash the recesses, because, even if applied carefully, you have to tidy up the basecolour or the highlighting of the miniature afterwards a bit and it takes quite a lot of time to carefully wash only the recesses (and washing the whole mini just to apply another basecoat is even more tedious). I used a so called "Panel Liner" from AK Interactive. It's an oil based paint which means you just have to load a bit onto your brush, touch a recess, and it will simply flow into the recess and all adjoining ones. Wonderfully simple and fast. If you should get paint where you don't want it to be, simply wipe it away with a bit of white spirit. The oilpaint will vanish and the acrylic paint will be left untouched. The only downside with the oilbased paint is, that you can't paint over it with acrylic paint afterwards (unless you seal it first with a varnish). Therefore I use the oil paint last, when everything else is finished.