Speed painting Ultramarines

Paint your Ultramarine infantry in less than an hour per model with this easy to follow, time saving guide.

Music by Midwinter Minis and Sebastian Kling

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STEPS:
00:00 Intro
00:52 Base texture
01:11 Priming
01:41 Blue armour, 2 very thin coats
02:28 Blue/black wash mix
03:00 Blue sponging
03:25 Light blue drybrush
03:37 Gold trim
04:16 Dark grey underarmour and weapon
04:30 Brown and red accents
04:55 Bone on parchment
05:05 Gunmetal on weapons and vents
05:25 Fix mistakes on armour with blue
06:36 Shade brown, red, bone, and gold parts with brown wash
06:51 Black wash on all grey, black, and silver parts
07:03 Apply transfers
07:28 Highlight gold with mix of gold and silver
07:59 Highlight silver
08:08 Highlight brown, red, and bone areas
08:41 Apply battle damage with blue
09:00 Edge highlight with light blue
09:36 Highlight eye lenses orange
09:52 Battle damage with light blue
10:10 Drybrush base khaki
10:48 Panel lining with black wash

PAINTS:

Black
Vallejo Black / Citadel Abaddon Black / Army Painter Matte Black

White
Vallejo White / Citadel White Scar

Medium grey
Citadel Mechanicus Standard Grey or Dawnstone / Vallejo Heavy Grey or Cold Grey

Rich red
Vallejo Red / Citadel Mephiston Red / Army Painter Vampire Red

Mid-brown
Vallejo Saddle Brown / Citadel XV-88 / Army Painter Leather Brown

Bright yellow
Citadel Flash Gitz Yellow / Vallejo Flat Yellow / Army Painter Demonic Yellow

Khaki
Citadel Zandri Dust / Vallejo Khaki

Medium blue
Vallejo Medium Blue / Citadel Calgar Blue / Army Painter Ultramarine Blue

Gunmetal silver
Vallejo Gunmetal / Army Painter Machinegun Metal / Citadel Leadbelcher

Deep gold
Citadel Gehenna's Gold / Vallejo Polished Gold / Army Painter Greedy Gold

Black shade wash
Citadel Nuln Oil / Vallejo Black Wash / Army Painter Dark Tone Ink

Brown shade wash
Citadel Agrax Earthshade / Vallejo Umber Shade Wash / Army Painter Strong Tone Wash

#ultramarines #spacemarines #paintingwarhammer

[Xamo]

As someone who is just getting started with this hobby, your videos are really helpful and fun to watch

[MagnitudeUK]

"These cute little participation medals." Yep, A Xenos player.

[SneezyIsGaming]

i really struggle at painting but holy cow. i followed this step by step and my marines look insane now. I am so incredible happy with how they turned out. Thanks for the vid.

[lolsovs]

>Cute participation awards...<

"Yes, m'lord Inquisitor, that man over there..."

[superspeckyeyes]

The fact you get to a decently painted model in about 20 minutes, I find actually incredible. It takes me about that long to get my paints out.

[arnowinchester]

Quick 'n' Dirty speedpaint still looks better than what I can paint within 24 hours. Damn.

[ZorrroUK]

That idea about watering down the dust colour into the leg armour is exactly what I needed to finish off my own marines, cheers Guy!

[maciejszczesnik]

Hey Guy! I'm a game designer/developer and 3D art enthusiast. I think all 3d game artists should watch your videos. One can learn a lot about painting virtual 3d models from your tutorials. Also... I was a huge tabletop and paper RPG games fan in high school (some 20 years ago...) and I miss these "physical models" that you can actually touch. Your videos kinda fulfill this need for me :). Thanks for it!

[anonymoose]

"Boring old cobalt blue"

Watch your heresy, sir.

[SquidmarMiniatures]

Heeey, get off my lawn! :D glad to see you paint marines!

[chrisrainey]

Guy are being held hostage and being forced to paint space marines

[thomaschavez]

I just bought my first set! The Recruit Edition. It looked really daunting but your videos really put me at ease and I made the leap of faith! Thank you!

[_.alex.-]

I absolutely love how you YOLO your paints into whatever suits. Very easy as a 'new' painter to watch endless videos on painting schemes, when I just really need to sit back and think about how I used to manage with about 20 paints total as a 12 year old, and had ZERO problems - but I'm back after 25 years out the loop, and need to remember that Youtube should be for reference and not get in the way of progress :D love your content Guy, you are a super cool dude xoxo

[jonesdan]

About time we saw an Ultramarine that looks like he's fighting rather than resplendent on the parade ground. Killed it again Guy.

[DeathByPollaxe]

This is my favourite Ultramarine painting tutorial that I've seen. It's actually inspired me to get back into the hobby after nearly a 10 year break.

[commonboigames]

Best painting tutorial for space marines I’ve seen. They look relatively perfect at each step that you can stop at and the final form isn’t tacky or cartoonish

[benweinberg]

I know It's almost a year old at this point, but I kept having trouble referring back to the recipe provided with my own marines trying to match the color. I think Caledor Sky is the GW blue equivalent you would want rather than Calgar Blue--hope this saves new painters some headache!

[Therealblacktux]

Something sounds off about guy here...

HE REALLY *IS* AT GUNPOINT!

[mobster]

Space Marines: Our Purity seals bless us in battle, grant us strength, and show that the God Emperor watches over us
Guy: Awww Look at this cute little participation award

[wolodja]

this is not only some smart speed painting, but I actually prefer the look how it turned out to many of the more "perfectly" painted models. I genuinely learned a lot here.