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Bladeguard veteran (ultramarines)
★
3
Written by
Ultramewers
Published
18 Sep 2025
Shareable URL
https://paintpad.app/r/4TZ
Ultramarine
Warhammer 40,000
Method
Paints
Armour
Undercoat in any black spray such as
Chaos Black
Drybrush heavily on the armour using
Teclis Blue
Use either
Fenrisian Grey
or
Stormfang
to do a light drybrush mainly on the edges of the model
Cover the entire area with
Drakenhof Nightshade
giving the armour a darker look
Black undersuit
Use any black colour but I used
Black
Put
Nuln Oil
on where the undersuit parts are
Robes
Use
Zandri Dust
for the base
use
Reikland Fleshshade
to recess shade the robe
Highlight the raised parts of the robe with
Bone White
Gold
Use
Retributor Armour
on any of the gold parts
Then put
Reikland Fleshshade
on the gold parts
Do a first highlight on the gold with
Auric Armour Gold
Then do a fine highlight of
Runefang Steel
on the gold
Silver
Use
Leadbelcher
on any silver parts
Put
Nuln Oil
on the silver
Highlight the silver using
Runefang Steel
Other Black details
Use any black or in this case
Black
on any other black details such as the gun casings
leather/brown
Use
Rhinox Hide
on the leather/brown areas
put
Nuln Oil
on the leather
Power effects
Use
Frostheart
on either the sword but with the plasma guns base the coil area with
Corax White
then put the frost heart
Do a very light drybrush on the sword with
Baharroth Blue
or highlight for the plasma coil
highlight Using
White Scar
on the top corners of the plasma coils and the edges of the power sword
Sergeant helmet
Base the helmet with
Khorne Red
Use
Corax White
for the stripe
put
Nuln Oil
on the entire head
Highlight the edges of the red parts of the helmet with
Dwarf Skin
Paint the little skull with
Retributor Armour
then put
Reikland Fleshshade
on the skull
Use
Warpstone Glow
for the eye lenses
Highlight the bottom part of the lense with
Moot Green
on the back corner of his paint a small dot using
White Scar
Normal Bladeguard Veteran helmet (white)
base the whole head using
Corax White
recess shade with
Fenrisian Grey
highlight the edges of the helmet using
White Scar
use
White Scar
on the lenses
put
Blood Red
on the lenses
put a small dot if
White Scar
on the back corner of its lenses
Shield
use
Corax White
for the white parts of the shield
Put
Nuln Oil
on the white parts of the shield
Use
Retributor Armour
for the gold parts
Then drybrush or edge highlight using
Runefang Steel
on the gold
Ultramewers
Citadel Painting System
20
Base
6
Corax White
Khorne Red
Leadbelcher
Retributor Armour
Rhinox Hide
Zandri Dust
Shade
3
Drakenhof Nightshade
Nuln Oil
Reikland Fleshshade
Layer
8
Auric Armour Gold
Baharroth Blue
Fenrisian Grey
Moot Green
Runefang Steel
Teclis Blue
Warpstone Glow
White Scar
Dry
1
Stormfang
Spray
1
Chaos Black
Contrast
1
Frostheart
The Army Painter Speedpaint 2.0
Speedpaint
1
Blood Red
Vallejo Game Color
Base
2
72.034
Bone White
72.041
Dwarf Skin
Vallejo Model Color
Base
1
70.950
Black
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