Studios Painting Tutorial Sons of MedusaDon’t forget to listen along to the audio accompanyment of this tutorial! Not sure how? Leave a comment and we'll help you out! standard trooper miniature. Standard Grey spray can primer. Hi, this is Rich and today | will be showing you a full colour scheme for the Sons of Medusa Space Marine chapter using a Clean and assemble the miniature. I'm going to paint the gun arm separately, making the body easier to paint. Make sure to dry-fit any sub-assemblies then use Blu-tac to mask off the contact points. Finally, attach the assemblies to suitable painting handles. The first step is to undercoat the entire miniature using Mechanicus Nuln Oi Wild Rider Red | © Citadel) © (Citadel) , Lahmian Medium Fire Dragon Bright (Citadel) e (Citadel) eebabariess Retributor Gold @ citadel) © Citadel) eeicry Bloodletter Glaze © Citadel @ Citadel) Corax White Armageddon Dust \ (Citadel) e (Citadel) Betncresn Pet © citadel) O (Citadel) Mephiston Red eee @ Citadel) @ Citadel) Khorne Red Bone Dust Weathering @ Citadel) @ powder (Forge World) Model Color Park Green | @ Fiat 70.569 (Vallejo) © Model Cole ee Yelow 70.858 (Vallejo) Model Color Black g @ 70.950 (Vallejo) | Game Color Verdigris © 72.096 (Vallejo) =», Game Color Wolf Grey © 72.047 (Vallejo) Game Color Dead White J 72.001 (Vallejo) Metallic Air Gunmetal © 71.072 (vallejo) Metallic Air Steel \ 71.065 (Vallejo)Model Color Park Green STE P 1 © Fic: 70.969 (vallejo) Using an airbrush, apply a base coat of Park Green Flat over the whole miniature. Thin your paint and apply as many coats as required for an even solid finish, in this case 3 coats were sufficient.Celestra Grey Model Color Black Incubi Darkness STE P 2 © Ciade') © 75.550 (vallejo) —- @ (Citadel Retributor Gold Metallic Air Gunmetal Khorne Red © citadel) @ 71.072 (vallejo) @ (citadel) Block in all the details using the following colours: + Helmet: Celestra Grey + Bolter Casing, Chest Aquila, Shoulder Pad Trim, Belts and Pouches: 50/50 Black & Incubi Darkness + Metal Details: Gunmetal + Bolter Aquila: Retributor Gold + Eye Lenses: Khorne Red Use a wet palette to help you keep the paint thin and do as many coats as required for a smooth finish. At this point, make sure that you tidy up any mistakes so that it all looks neat, ready for the washes to be applied.Nuln Oil + Lahmian Medium @ (Citadel) (Citadel) Make a 50/50 mix of Nuln Oil and Lahmian Medium and apply this to the recesses of the helmet and eye lenses.STEP4 lees einen een Make a 50/50 mix of Biel-tan Green and Lahmian Medium and apply this to the green armour. Apply this all over the armour. As you go along, using a damp brush, remove any excess wash from the upper most parts of any flat areas of the armour. This will make goings a little easier when we start to highlight the armour. Apply a wash of Agrax Earthshade to the Aquila on the bolter casing.@ (LPLDarkness Gq Same Color Wo Grey (Citadel) © 72.047 Wallejo) Add some Wolf Grey to Incubi Darkness (approx. 30/70) and start to layer highlight the black armour trim, bolter casing and the belts and pouches.STEP 6 Nuln Oil © (citadel) Apply a wash of Nuln Oil all over the black and metal areas. Use a wet palette to thin the wash slightly and when the first pass is dry, if you feel any of the recesses need further shading, apply a second coat.STEP 7 lets" ensrs Reapply the Park Green Flat to the armour. This does two things: it knocks back the wash colour, re-emphasizing the main colour that we want the areas to be and acts as our first highlight, leaving the washes in the recesses. As | was going along reapplying the Park Green Flat, | felt the armour needed further shading so | applied some thinned down Incubi Darkness to the recesses. | did all the edge highlighting in this tutorial with an Artis Opus Series S 000 brush., Verdigris 72.096 Park Green Flat Black STE P 8 © wale) @ r0:569 (Vallejo) @ 55.950 (Vallejo) Make a 75/25 mix of Park Green Flat and Verdigris and start to build up the highlights on the armour by layering this mix on top of the highlights from the previous stage. Using the wet palette to keep the paint thin will help you to keep the transitions between the layer highlights subtle. Apply to the raised areas that you feel would naturally catch the light according to the direction of your imagined light source. Apply a couple of coats to get a solid highlight, making sure to leave room to add further highlights on top. Finally for this stage, | added further definition to the metal armour joint/piping recesses with some watered down Vallejo Black. oe\ Verdigris 72.096 STEP (ovis Using pure Verdigris add final edge highlights to the armour., Celestra Grey ‘Mephiston Red Black STE P 10 © Citadel e (Citadel) @ 55.950 (Vallejo) Reset the highlights on the Black areas using the mix from step 5. Start to highlight the helmet by reapplying the Celestra Grey basecoat. Add definition to the top of the eye lenses with some watered down Vallejo Black. Start to highlight the bottom of the lenses with Mephiston Red., Corax White e Wild Rider Red e Incubi Darkness L (Citadel) (Citadel) (Citadel) Game Color Wolf Grey © 72.047 (vallejo) Continue to highlight the helmet with Corax White. Continue to highlight the lenses with Wild Rider Red. Add further highlights to the black areas with a 40/60 mix of Incubi Darkness and Wolf Grey.\ Dead White @ {its Dragon Bright Wolf Grey 72.047 \ 72.001 (Vallejo) (Citadel) © (vallejo) Retributor Gold e Metallic Air Steel © Citadel) 71.065 (Vallejo) Add final highlights to the helmet with Dead White. Continue to highlight the bottom of the lenses with Fire Dragon Bright. Add final highlights to the black areas with small dots of Wolf Grey. Start to highlight the bolter casing aquila with a 50/50 mix of Retributor Gold and Steel.e Armageddon Dust Steel Ice Yellow (Citadel) © 71.065 (vallejo) 70.858 (Vallejo) Edge highlight all the metal area with Vallejo Steel. Continue to highlight the bottom of the lenses with Ice Yellow. Apply a coat of Armageddon Dust to the base.Bloodletter Glaze Zandri Dust Model Color Black @ Ciede') © (Citadel) © 70.950 (vallejo) Model Color Park Green @ F131 70.969 (valle) Apply a glaze of Bloodletter to the eye lenses. Apply a glaze of Zandri Dust to the boots. This is optional but a little weathering is a nice touch. To freehand the tactical squad marking on the right shoulder pad | firstly sketched out the shape | was looking to make on a piece of paper — a large triangle sat on top of a smaller rectangle. Find the centre point of the shoulder pad and paint the outline on using thinned down Vallejo Black. When doing freehand it is important to think very carefully about the marks you are making before doing them. This helps minimise mistakes which can be very difficult to correct. In this case any mistakes with your outline can be corrected with some thinned down Park Green Flat. When you have your outline how you want it, simply fill in the shape with more of the thinned down Vallejo Black. rTDead White Ice Yellow Bone Dust QO 72.001 (Vallejo) © 70.858 (Vallejo) © (Forge World) Finish the lenses with dots of Dead White and Ice Yellow applied to the top and bottom corners respectively. Apply any relevant transfers. We are going to turn the transfer applied to the left shoulder pad into the Chapter symbol by free handing eight spikes around the edge of the transfer. Again, sketch out on a piece of paper the design you are looking to achieve. When you are ready paint on the North, South, East and West spikes. These will now act as a guide for the placement of the remaining spikes. Finally, thin down some of the Forge World Bone Dust weathering powder and wash this over the base. When it dries you should have an attractive parched earth look to the base.Matte Varnish \ ‘Ardcoat \ 27.651 (Vallejo) (Citadel) Attach the weapon arm and apply two coats of matte vanish over the whole miniature. When dry gloss varnish the eye lenses with ‘ard coat and apply a litle static grass to the base — your marine is now finished! | hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and gained some inspiration and tips for painting your Sons of Medusa Space Marines to a high quality level. Thanks for reading and see you in the next tutorial.