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How To Paint Black Space Marines Armour Plates

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This month – as I painted a lot of Ravenwing miniatures and will move on to painting Raven Guard Space Marines next week (!) – I decided to share my recipe for painting the black armour plates on a Ravenwing Land Speeder! Of course, this works for any black armour.

I hope you like it.

This painting tutorial is a guest article by Tom from Mini Brush Studio.

For painting the Ravenwing Landspeeder, I used the following Citadel paints:

  1. Abaddon Black (Base)
  2. Dawnstone (Layer)
  3. Administratum Grey (Layer)

 Step 1 – Base Layer

Ravenwing Land Speeder Basecoated

I first primed the model with Chaos Black Spray, followed by a base coat of Abaddon Black.

You may ask: why cover model primed black with a black paint?

Well, the Chaos Black Spray does not always comes out as pure black, so I go over all black areas of the model a second time with Abaddon Black. This ensures that the final result will always look crisp, without any discolourations.

Step 2 – First Line Highlight

Ravenwing Landspeeder Second Hightlight

In the second step, I carefully highlight all the edges with Dawnstone.

Step 3 – Second Line Highlight

How To Paint Ravenwing Space Marines

I finish by adding extreme highlights using Administratum Grey.

Showcase – Ravenwing Landspeeder

Ravenwing Land Speeder
Finally a shot of the completed Ravenwing Landspeeder. Let me know what you think!

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Mini Brush Studio is a miniature painting studio doing commission painting. We are based in the heart of United Kingdom in a lovely little town known as Warwick.
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  • Matt

    Looks great! I like the way the M.melta is hanging temporarily stowed while the gunners using his pistol, never thought of doing that! I normally use administratum grey for the first highlight and then dawnstone for the final, as i didn’t want to go too extreme. But your method doesn’t look too bright, may have to give it a try!

    • Matt

      Whoops, meant mechanicus standard grey not administratum! Still not got used to all the new paint names.

  • Ruska

    While I’ve never been much of a fan of line highlighting, this method is clean, easily reproducible, and looks good on the tabletop. It kind of reminds me of a studio army, imho it could use a little dirtying up :)

  • Azrell

    Eshin grey works the best. Being that i play a Dark Angel successor that is basically back with a single red line, iv got lost of experience painting like this.