Contrast Painting Tutorial: Ultramarines / Primaris Space Marines 

This is an awesome tehnique for me, I used to draw and paint quite good a long time ago and now going into the hobby, I am lost like a little child, this tutorial is great for someone who is really interested in playing the tabletop game and enjoying the painting part of the hobby without any overpriced gear, airbrushes and whatnot. Thanks a lot.

This is an awesome tut. The result is a great looking model in not a lot of time. Highly recommeded. Thanks so much for putting this up!

Doing my next set of primaris intercessors with this technique. Quick but effective - I never thought to dry brush OVER a contrast paint! Many thanks.

Thanks for making this tutorial. I've always shyed away from drybrushing for some reason but you really make a good argument for using this technique. I've been having the conquest sprues piling up for months now and any way to get them battle ready faster is a plus in my book

love how they look, i'll follow your advices

I have seen quick / easy videos for marines before but none where they have looked that good !

love how they turned out. i'd like to see you do more ultramarines :)

I have to say looking forward to seeing more of these kinda simple contrasty tutorials! Honestly love the work on these quite simple yet effective videos. But yes more Fantasy and AOS gief ( Old High Elves would be interesting as they are very clean on their regular schemes, how could contrast work on them would be interesting watch or Lumineth)!

This looks really nice will try it out

The perfect Ultramarine in my opinion dude. Definitely coping this!

Would probably do a watered down wash of blue after the blue dry rushing to remove alot of the dust effect of dry rushing (without looking). But awesome job!!!

Dude your tutorials contrast paint are amazing. We need more

A very informative and well put together tutorial mate. Thank you! Liked, shared, and subscribed (:

Thank you! I'm going to use this method on my Betrayal at Calth box.

Looks really good, love your painting vids. =)

Great video man, hopefully it helps out some new hobbyists!

Great Job.. i pushed the like Button.. greetings from Vienna🇦🇹🇦🇹

Really nice tutorial

Please make more tutorials like this!

Really enjoying your painting tutorials. Loving how the contrast and ‘real’ paint draws it all together. I’ve had a go myself with a couple of models and getting really good results. Would love to see you have a go at a Dark Angel as that Dark Angels Green contrast is tricky to use.

hey man, i've just have a quick look through some videos, looking after things for me, and i think you making great job. i have two armies waiting for painting more than a year, maybe more than one other year too;], and just starting to repair that. you have stuff for both, althoug this blue little guy ain't my type. Let it be green then, mostly;). thanks for help man:)!

fantastic!

For only Contrast and dry brushing looks fantastic, I will use more dry brushing for my cadian shock troops but I'm not sure how it works -.- because layering cost much time and is not so easy it looks.

I'm am really bad at painting but ended up following your method and they're perfect!! The only thing I didn't follow was the purity seal (I did 2 coats of zandri dust and then a coat of adrax earthshade) thanks mate, perfect looks for a ultramarine!!

I used this exact tutorial for my ultramarines and they came out GREAT. What greens would you substitute for ultramarine blue contrast, alaitoc/calgar/lothern if you were doing salamanders?

Great work dude. Do you remember how long it took to do that one mini? Trying to gage how long for a full squad of 10. I would like to try this method of yours.

Love your painting tutorials, very useful for newbies like myself. Any chance of doing some for the larger AoS models in the same method you are doing now ?

Great vid! I was thinking what would happen if you do the primer, the drybrush and finish with Contrast blue? The contrast would draw it all together whilst still show the highlight I’d imagine?

Can you tell me what paints you used? I'm just starting to get into the hobby again with an Ultramarines army and this is by far the best tutorial I've seen. I am going to swap the Macragge blue out for Night Lords blue, I've noticed on the box art for the latest edition and from some of my earliest memories of the 13th, I remember them being a deeper, almost Royal Blue, which I guess fits with their image as the Warrior Kings of Macragge.

Great video! What would be good highlight colors for a Blood angel? I am torn between a lot of reds ;-)

Thanks, this is so helpful. As someone who is new to 40k, what "pack" is this exact space marine located in?

Would mephiston spray > flesh tearers red> khorne red > wazdakka red > evil sunz scarlet achieve this general effect for worldeaters?

Ty for this. I have a question regarding the battle damage. Would Mournfang brown or Bugmans glow work since I'm missing Rhinox hide?

Dude that turned out beautifully, instead of drybrushing you think I could highlight with airbrushing and then put the ultramarines blue contrast over top to tie it all back?

You make it look so easy, just one question, if i primed my ultramarines gray, do i have to paint them macragge blue before using the ultramarine blue contrast? or do i apply it over the primer?

Just one question, did you prime the model in black or white before applying the blue primer? Cheers

Please Paint some mantis warriors pleaseee

What kind of brush do you use for dry brushing?

What areas are considered the “raised areas” of the ultramarine?

The blues you dry brushed with, are they contrast paints or standard paint?

What kind of brushes did you use in this video?

What Matte varnish did you use?

Really nice marines! Would you do commissions?

Is that Godtear video still coming? 😁 Also, I think you like painting for than you let on 😉

Me again! If I was to mimic this technique for blood angles what lighter reds/pinks from citidel would you recommend for the dry brush of the armour over the contrast base layer?

when you drybrush i find it always comes out powder looking...how do you avoid that? Cant see that on the video

can you do a how to paint a tank aswell

Your contrast paint videos are fantastic. One gripe, your background music is short and very repetitive. This takes away from your voice over. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to more contrast paint vids.

Drybrush?? Ok 🧐

Not fully contrast. Not what I expected