I painted a Warhammer 40k space marine - step by step progress and end result (Pic heavy)

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Warhammer 40k was always something I was into as a kid, I never really played the game that much but used to love the models and reading the white dwarf magazine. A little while ago I had a random urge to give painting a model a go again after all these years (i was probably 12 when i painted before and now im 37...)

Here is step by step photos of the progress and the end result!

I started with chaos black spray and then used Mephiston red spray - then I started painting some gold detail.

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Next I added some leadbeltcher silver to the gun and chains

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I then added some grey to the bones on the shoulder pad and painted some purple gemstones

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Next I added some bone colour to the purity seals, and painted the eyes green (hard!)

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More detailing added to his robe.

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Now i started with washes to bring out more detail and weather the robes

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Further shading ..

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Added highlights to all edges and added whits to the eyes, plus blended more on the gems.

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From the back.

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So there is is, thats the finished space marine, All in all it took me about 10 hours to do, I could have done it faster but i wanted to paint it to the very best standard i could achieve. I was actually pleasantly surprised with the end result and this an army of these guys would be awesome, In reality I dont have the patience to do that, but there is 10 more of these to go from a board game called "spacehulk" I will get round to doing another soon!

One last pic for scale of the model next to an SD card, the detail on these things is so minute in places I had to work with magnifying glasses!

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Bang, I did it again... I just rehived your post!
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Wow 😯

That’s so cool.
Power of creativity. It’s really an impressive work, really worth the time😊


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Thats reminds me about my toys gundam in my childhood, you have amazing creativity sir and i love how you can painting the mini toys with diffuculties detail when you're 12 y.o. Totally Cool !


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