Paint a Space Marine like it's 1988| Warhammer | Duncan Rhodes 

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There's something extra funny about Duncan, of all people, scrubbing through four thick coats.

When I was a kid, my brother and I got the 2nd edition starter box. We painted all 40 gretchins in one night They were not painted well, but they were painted

What I like about those appalling paintjobs is that they did it. They painted them green, then red, then purple. That means that their owner had a green army and a red army and purple army and they must have used those to play the game. With three different armies. And that’s what counts.

I was one of the studio painters at the time from 1987-89 based at Low Pavement in Nottingham and we often used a lot of Rotring coloured and black inks with the paints to make things flow better and faster. Often the deadlines meant we had a day to get half a dozen or more miniatures painted ready for photographic schedules for White Dwarf. Everything was sprayed white often with car body primer and hair dryers were sometimes used to speed the drying process up and normally individual painters worked on individual sets of miniatures but sometimes when schedules were very hectic through new releases, we would all paint a few miniatures for the range. We worked on everything from Realms of Chaos, Titans, Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40 Thousand (the Rogue Trader name was never used by painters), Dark Future, Bloodbowl, Space Hulk and Marauder Miniatures. My favourite set which I painted over a long bank holiday weekend at home and not in the studio was the very first boxed set of Harlequins. They were good times and always a lot of good-natured banter in the studio. All the best Darren Matthews

3 LAYERS! - My dad used to paint the fence every summer to protect the wood. It's nice that someone did the same to these Minis so that we could enjoy them in 2022.

When I started mini painting in 1990 the Blood Angels colours were Terracota for the base and Blood Angels orange for highlights. Long since discontinued paints. Got them in the Space Marine Paint set. And the first mini I painted was an old metal Rogue Trader space marine. I’ve got that mini in front of me now - with a more recent paint job. Those were the days.

Duncan you look so much like my science teacher I get ptsd of bad grades when I look at you

Being an old grognard, I was painting my blood angels using the set of paints one edition older that was actually called “Blood Angels Orange”. Round pot, white lid.

The paint stripping was very entertaining! Big fan of the retro Jawbreaker marine!

Duncan has a calm, reassuring voice. Even a basic contrast painting amateur like me can dream of painting a masterpiece listening to him

I love the Oldhammer miniatures! They do remind you of the golden age of Games Workshop.

The palette cam was something I never knew I needed

Nostalgia aside, this is solid painting tips

I have to say: That you could do that old style painting techniques is a testament to your adaptability. I don't think I could go that far "back to basics" today, even if I tried.

Ahh Black Lining. A method which never left the Historical miniature scene.

Thanks for your dedication and service to the hobby Duncan. “Two thin coats” is the single greatest hit of advice I’ve ever been given with regards to miniature painting! Much love brother, ride well ✌️

Loved seeing Blood Angels Red again, that smell is timeless. One helpful tip, for getting a smooth finish with thin paint like that, is to alternate the direction you are applying your paint from. It stops tiny ruts devloping in your finish

I fell in love with Warhammer when i was 9, it was 1993. They had a display of High Elfs and Bretonnia at my local game store and were running games for people to watch and play. Fast forward to present day, i am 38; still painting miniatures and love the hobby more than ever i would say. Watching this for me was for sure a breath of bittersweet nostalgia. Like you Duncan, it reminds me of being a kid and that first feeling of awe i had for the wonderful world of Warhammer. Cheers sir. PS Blood Angels forever!

I would have loved to have seen him standing next to a modern Blood Angel you have painted to see how different they are!

A lot of nostalgia here. I have recently started looking into painting Warhammer miniatures again at the age of 38, thinking of using it as a sort of mindfulness, meditative practice to help decompress from work and life. I discovered your channel and it's got me really excited to start painting again, such inspiring content. Last time I was painting Warhammer was in the mid 90's so that space marine and especially the paint pot really take me back. I have very fond memories of paint bases Goblin Green! Thanks from a new subscriber and fan.

If I remember correctly back in the very early 90's just before 2nd edition was released the colour was actually called Blood Angels Orange (in the round pot). When I got 2nd edition in late '93 the guy in the shop asked me what army I intended to paint, I told him the Blood Angels. His reply was that I was going to need a lot of Go Fasta Red then.

Man this takes me baaaaaack. Mid 90's, listening to Nirvana and Matchbox 20, painting my Blood Angels, not realizing that Red Wash was meant to be used for recess shading and not an all-over thing, wondering why my dudes were so glossy and patchy lol. Trying to use a filed down thumb tack to try and do eyes because I didn't have a small enough brush. Good times.👍🏻

My basic paint series is actually that one from the early 90's. These old pots have a good seal, and they are in much better condition than the 96-2007ish paints that have all dried up.

Takes me back to building and painting my first boxset of imperial space marines in 1989

I remember painting that scheme myself. A box of 30! space marines was £10. I also had some Land raiders and Rhino's. Metal dreadnoughts and other stuff. I still have and use many of the original colour Citadel paints which have lasted since 1987, amazing really. I very much enjoyed your video, keep up the good work.

Crazy video suggestion: do a painting video with someone who was originally part of the old eavy metal team. Compare and contrast new and 'old' painting methods.

This taps a deep well of nostalgia, of minis caked in citadel paint and bright green tables we'd bicker rules over endlessly. A nice little pick me up, thank you.

God I love your vids so much, you're basically the bob ross of miniature painting if that makes any sense? Like your vids are always chill and you make everything you paint seem like anyone can follow along, even beginners!

This brought back memories......of two hours ago. I still have an abundance of those old paints. Good stuff!

You wouldn't catch me painting these Marine models today, but hearing the names of the paints like Boltgun Metal, Bleached Bone, Goblin Green, Blood Angels Red TOOK ME BACK! to when I started out in 1998 and I think of others from that time like Shadow Grey, Ultramarine Blue, etc. Time flies!

The beauty of this video is some of the stuff you might not notice if you're not paying attention. "How does he strip old models?" "How does he speed up his drying times?"

I thank you for the memories taking me back to when the plastic Space Marines first came out. If I had time to return to the hobby I would still paint like that (probably).

When I was a kid I "invented" washes. I had a Space Marine without a helmet, who had this textured hair. Since I didn't have a lot of colors to play with I found it difficult to give him a hair style. In the cover art most of the marines had grey hair. So I painted his hair white, then took some black paint on my brush, dipped it in water, and applied it. I have no idea how it actually would hold up to scrutiny today, but 12 year old me thought he was miles ahead of his friends when it came to painting.

I first started the hobby in the 80's. That plastic space marine set is still the best value for money set they ever did. You got 30 marines in the box. All were fully posable and customable.

Good oldschool beaky space marine. Takes me back a long time in history. Thank you...

I started painting back in middle school when I was around 13 and the first box that I bought was a bunch of necrons. I took a long break from the hobby during my bachelor years and fell in love with it again now during my PhD. During this time I moved to the Netherlands and got some of my old things from Greece with me that my parents wanted moved out of their house to free up space. As I moved into my new apartment and started opening the boxes, there was apparently one box where my mom had put my old models and left over sprues inside and as I start emptying things...... a little plastic translucent green tube rolled out of the box :') It almost made me tear up just staring at it and gave me very nostalgic memories of building and painting my first necrons, gunking the paint on them and their poor little scarabs like there was no tomorrow. I know the green plastic tubes look very goofy compared to the amazing things you can do now by painting the green energy effect on plastic but I kept my necrons with the goofy plastic tubes on my shelf next to my office as a reminder of where it all started.

Beautiful. Every time I see classic models painted it makes me want to collect them for myself.

Yeah old skool baby! Was loving the 80’s visuals in the opening scenes!

This takes me back to my first ever box of RTB01 Miniatures bought back in 1992, just before the release of the 2nd Edition boxed set. Wonderful stuff. The painting standards in those old evey metal articles seemed so unachievable to 13 year old me.

A few minutes in and this video already has me with the "underneath this layer of [x] there's a whole layer of [y]."

Awesome work! I got into 40k back in 1990, the rulebook of the day was the original Rogue Trader one and yep, you nailed it with how Blood Angels looked back then! Back in the day there was this neat little booklet on how to paint the more famous space marines, chapters covered were Ultramarines, Blood Angels, Space Wolves and the Salamanders (back when they had deep, dark green armor) plus any markings unique to those chapters and several years before any Codexs. Times have certainly changed!

Great gravy this one brings back memories and all the feels! I remember building these old beakies and roughly seven or so coats later ( not even exaggerating guys) we'd have a smooth basecoat! Really stoked you had the opportunity to see what we were working with way back then! Oh and Goblin Green base rim for the win!! 😀

Love the look of that goblin green base

I could smell the paint when you opened it. memories....many many memories.

Note: the black ink that's used in this video is an acrylic ink, which means that it will not reactivate if you get it wet later. In technical terms, inks consist of a dye in water and can thus be reactivated. But almost all modern inks actually consist of pigments in an acrylic medium, which gives them much greater lightfastness but also means they can't be reactivated.

The oldschool style of highlighting and shading looks so good!

What fond memories that brings back. Can't wait to see the whole army when you've finished it Duncan!

I have this exact figure painted as a Salamander I found it whilst having a clear out. That and your video has bought back some really fond memories of me and my 2 mates spending our teenage years painting warhammer 40k. I can almost smell that paint!!!

I started my collection in the mid-late 90s and a lot of the models were still the same gen as the really old models. I think they were transitioning at the time. I had both the model with the bar between the feet that fit into the base, and the preset gun that fit into two small round holes where the hands would be - and also the more modular build them yourself where you got some legs and a body and fit the back pack, choose a head, and mount the arms and shoulder pads separately. So fun and nostalgic to watch!

My first introduction to the hobby was during 2nd edition when my older brother would paint space marines and read White Dwarf. I remember being fascinated with the miniatures and the painting. I started my own journey into the hobby when the Battles In Middle Earth magazine came out, I subscribed with my pocket money at the time (I think I was 12/13 then) and would use the little tubs of paint they would include. I had no idea what I was doing and didn’t understand that paints had to be thinned 🤣 I recently got back into 40K during the covid lockdowns in the UK, and since then you have been an inspiration Duncan, and these sort of ‘old hammer’ videos take me back to a good time. I would love if a classic LOTR miniature painting video based on the old magazines one day! Keep up the great work.

Giving Oldhammer a shout-out Duncan, a King among men!

Amazing video. Hopefully you paint more of the figures in this old schemes. Keep up the good work.

I'm 43...... Been painting Warhammer for years, and lucky enough to say i earn a living from it. However, when it comes to miniatures of any kind, i wish the ship to ship star trek FASA tabletop game was still played. You didn't even have to like star trek. But the ships were so great too paint. The Romulan Winged Defender, resembled an eagle, and painting up a fleet of those looked incredible, same with the Bird Of Prey. Also the original 2000 A.D. Judge Dredd game, with the bikes! Oh the memories of those. But i think the first thing i remember painting, overall was the Hero Quest game and Space Hulk, sat round the kitchen table with pals, paints, brushes, models and guides everywhere...... Great times, great times.

I absolutely love the pose on the leftmost model at 1:05. It has this really cool, hunched gunfighter look that gives it so much character. Here's an old model story of mine: My dad was never all that into Warhammer, but what he was really into was Dungeons and Dragons. So growing up, I saw a lot of different miniatures and loved (and still love) them to death. Fast forward to 2020 when I really started getting into Warhammer because of quarantine, I decided to rummage through the old tacklebox of minis my dad had handed down to me. Having this new knowledge of Warhammer and its models, I was delighted to find so many of the models I grew up just thinking were orc, goblin, and knight models, were actually really old fantasy models! My favorite, and ones I still have on my hobby desk, is a few old '90s chaos warriors painted up in silver and gold like a heavily armored paladins. When I learned they was actually chaos warriors, I laugh at the irony of it and made it my headcanon that they were redeemed warriors who had turned back away from chaos.

I’ve just recently dug my childhood collection out of storage. A gold mine of 2nd edition and RT era minis. I’m slowly repainting them to a “slightly” better standard than 12 year old me could have ever done. Totes nostalgia

I love this old school so mutch!

Fantastic job. Loved seeing you freehand the insignia. Took me back to the 4 squads of RTB01 Dark Angels I did back then, but I had to do it in the negative (paint the shoulderpad red, and then block in the black around it to match the model). Fun times. Still got em though; GW's first plastic kit was pretty awesome.

I just came back to the hobby after a while and had some unopened paints from the current citadel range about 10 years old. I had to throw away almost all of them and Duncan casually opens a 30 yo paint and it looks like he bought it yesterday :D

I always love seeing these type of retro painting videos

Brilliant. :-) Blood Angels Beakies were my first Space Marines, back in 1988 or so. Plastics and metals. I've got such a love for them. Thanks for this video!

For sand bases, I recommend putting on a second, heavily watered-down layer of PVA glue, once the first layer has dried. I've found that without that, a lot of the sand on top tends to flake off, but the second watery layer really gets into all the nooks and holds it together solidly.

Duncan worried about the paint. "just a few things coats" PERFECTION

I greatly appreciated this video! I liked the way that it opened and I enjoyed seeing the old piece being brought back to life. It is amazing to see how the models have changed over the years. 😊

It’s crazy to see the difference in colour palette and paint/pigment quality compared to modern times! Trip down memory lane 🥰

I still have that bottle of Blood Angels red! Love your channel Duncan, you are by far my favorite to watch.

that beaky was a full on matryoshka of paint and im terrified of the stories it could tell

Very cool and a great trip down the nostalgia road , please do more of these for different species

hello Duncan, my name is Mickael and I am the father of Kassimtv. I am a French GW player that I discovered in 1993 thanks to my big brother at the age of 10. after a few breaks in 2001 I started my own collection which is huge today. my painting was poor and I didn't like to paint too much. then I started to see your videos first at GW then on your channel. my paintings have changed thanks to you. all your advice, even your way of holding your figurines I caught it. so I'm not a painter like you but a big thank you you're a model. my figures are much more beautiful. you are a master at it. thank you very much.

This was a great watch, love history and this was a lovely glance into the past of warhammer!

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Very 80’s indeed! Red back in the day was so tricky, could easily go pink! Lost all my plastic marines still got a whole bunch of 80’s metal ones.

Now there’s some nostalgia…! Reminds me of painting my RTB01 and metal Space Orcs (with a C not a K)… I was runner up in a WD competition and got money off vouchers for the 2 box sets and the Rogue Trader book (which I still have 35 years later). Happy days!

This brings back memories. I had these Marines in 88/89. Was terrible at painting but it was really fun. I have an unopened Predator tank someplace in the garage.

Almost a decade newer, but I still keep a sealed Necron Raiders box on my display shelving. Haven't had much time for painting in recent years, but I've got a full late-90s Necron army on the backburner. I remember being fascinated with the 'chunky' necrons as a kid and am glad I've finally been able to amass a reasonable amount. Going for a period-accurate paint scheme, of course... When I can get to it

Ahh that takes me back to when I started RTB01 goodness.. What a blast from the past, when you talked about that aroma, I could remember that smell as if it was yesterday. :)

The 80s intro and music in this video is incredible

I still have a few of my original plastic marines and quite a bunch of metal ones as well. Including 3 Dreadnaughts, a robot, 2 techmarines on bike, 2 mole motars. Now I'm thinking of stripping them and redo them more cleanly. Thanks Duncan for putting these ideas in my head.

Love seeing the classic painting style demonstrated in detail. I've been slowly rebuilding and repainting my 4th-5th Edition High Elves from the "Herohammer" era. Goblin Green bases and hyper saturated bright colors everywhere

haha awesome video! duncan is the man

I picked up a bunch of these little buggers off ebay recently, I had them as a kid and theres no price you can put on the feeling of nostalgia they bring to me, mine are gonna be honoured sons as thats the closest faction to the colours of the minis my cousin gifted me as a kid which I sadly gave away in my teens.

Ahhh this takes me right back!. Thank you Mr Rhodes 🙌🏻 so much epicness 👌🏻

I started Warhammer back in late 1996, started out in Space Marines in 40k and Lizardmen in fantasy, later switched to Imperial Guard for 40k when the Cadian redesign came, but stayed with Lizardmen to the very end. I never thought I'd see one of those old style paint containers ever again, and yeah surprised it still works. Still miss that little scoop on the lid.

I love black lining but not in every recess, just between two different colours, it's very pleasing to the eye

Really brought back the memories with this one

I had a massive box of these. I remember staying up until 4am as a kid, quietly cutting out and assembling them all, absolutely living the dream but knowing that I was walking the razor's edge re: getting a massive bollocking if I was discovered by my parents.

Cracking job mate!

It’s gonna be a good one

Blimey, that old Marine bounced around four different chapters during his long career, before eventually settling on Blood Angels. I'm sure the veteran appreciates being given a good wash and a new paint job.

What a great video. I started playing 40k in the 3rd ed and still got my friends old csm army, with 2nd and 3rd ed miniatures.

Finally, a proper space marine paint scheme video

Oh my. The music during the painting montage was ace

My uncle loved painting minis. He started back in the late 80s a couple years before I was born. He lived just down the street so his basement was practically a second bedroom for me in the 90s (obviously a lot of look but don't touch as far as his minis were concerned. Ten bookshelves PACKED with space marines and imp guards). That Blood Angels Red bottle brings back a lot of good memories.

This looked really good, and then the base happened. As a kid in the early 90's, I remember hating goblin green bases, and actually did black-rimmed bases with grey stone (big hat chaos dwarfs).

As soon as those black and metallic coats went on that miniature came alive! What a great retro throwback. Cheers Dunc!

Wow, that takes me back! Splendid work!

This is pure nostalgia Duncan. I never owned any RTB01 SM, but for my 13th birthday I got the Space Marine painting (along with a box of Squats). I remember going through the small painting guide included in the box trying to figure out how to achieve the same look on my minis. 3 years later I got into 2nd ed, happy to say that I finished painting the 80 minis from the box set (though I still have to paint my squats).

Those models bring so much memories, mainly my grandma that bought me my first set 😢

Those Beakies bring back some memories!!! I've got a huge batch I inherited from a friend that I need to clean up and repaint, they're all painted in in the '80's with Testor's enamals so its going to be some work. But it'll be worth the effort.

What a wonderful job. Well done. Jogs so many memories of youth, modeling, painting and flipping through white dwarf magazines! Cheers