Tome Keepers: Penguin Space Marine

Tome Keepers: Penguin Space Marine

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    16 Jun 2026
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He's silly, heretical and I love him dearly. I came across this sculpt from "Found Family Adventurecrafts" at UKGE and knew he had to be mine.

Bone Coloured Armour

  1. Basecoat armour with Ushabti Bone .
  2. Drybrush with Screaming Skull . Hitting allof the hard edges and build up some more general highlights on exposed areas.
  3. Recess shade with Skeleton Horde thinned with Contrast Medium 1:1. Don't be too neat, the contrast should pull towards the recess and give something like a transition. Now is also a good time to paint the under-suit/tubing by your preferred method.
  4. Recess shade the deepest recesses and seperations in panels with Agrax Earthshade .
  5. Edge highlight everything with fine lines of Pallid Wych Flesh .
  6. Selectively edge highlight the most exposed curved edges and corners where highlights meet with White .

Battle Damage

  1. Add small patches of Mournfang Brown using dots with a fine brush. Try to stick to edges and corners where damage would occur, mostly towards the front of the Space Marine.
  2. Underline the damage from the last step with fine lines of Pallid Wych Flesh .

Penguin Feathers

  1. Basecoat the main colours with Black , Averland Sunset and Corax White . I blended the transition between the last two paints with a 1:1 mix of the two, also.
  2. Highlight the Black portion with Skavenblight Dinge , then Stormvermin Fur and then Karak Stone . Each time you get brighter, cover a smaller area. In you feel you have pushed it too far, I would recommend a glaze of :black, to make it look more subtle and highlight again as needed.
  3. Glaze :Citadel/TrollSlayerOrange and then Wild Rider Red toward the top curve in the Averland Sunset markings.
  4. On the Corax White section, glaze a little Averland Sunset towards the centre of the small bit of exposed chest, then a smaller area with Troll Slayer Orange .

Penguin Eyes

  1. Basecoat with Black .
  2. Add a small dot of White to add a glint on the top coner closest to the beak.
  3. Leave a small area around the white "glint", but glaze the rest of the eye with Dark Reaper , pulling your brush towards the opposite corner.
  4. Highlight Thunderhawk Blue within the previous stage, focusing agin on this opposite side of the eye.
  5. Apply a more selective highlight of Fenrisian Grey within the previous stage/
  6. Finish with a very small Blue Horror highlight.

Beak

For the beak, I used the recipe for the "Weapon Casing" later in the guide. For the small pink portion, I basecoated it with Squig Orange , then mixed in some Pallid Wych Flesh for a very small highlight.

Dark Grey Undersuit

  1. Basecoat with Mechanicus Standard Grey .
  2. Wash with Nuln Oil .
  3. Highlight most of the raised tubing with Dawnstone .
  4. Highlight a smaller portion of the tubing with Administratum Grey .
  5. Mix some White into the Administratum Grey and finish with some very small highlights.

Dark Red Chest Device

  1. Basecoat with Khorne Red .
  2. Pop a little thinned Agrax Earthshade into deep recesses, to darken them.
  3. Highlight with Wazdakka Red .
  4. Selectively edge highlight curved edges and corners with Squig Orange .
  5. Add dot highlights of Lugganath Orange , where it seems appropriate.

Black Armour Trim

  1. Basecoat with Abaddon Black .
  2. Highlight everything with Eshin Grey .
  3. Edge highlight most of the edges again with Dawnstone .
  4. Selectively edge highlight curved edges and corners with Administratum Grey .
  5. Add dot highlights of White Scar to points corners and more exposed edges that were highlighted in the last step.

Weapon Casing

  1. Basecoat with Black .
  2. Apply highlights of Dark Reaper .
  3. Add fine edge highlights of Thunderhawk Blue .
  4. Selectively highlight with Fenrisian Grey .
  5. Finish with very small/specular highlights of Blue Horror .

Steel

  1. Basecoat with Leadbelcher .
  2. Wash with Nuln Oil .
  3. Highlight with Ironbreaker .
  4. Finish with selective highlights of Silver RLM01 Metallic .

Gold Details

  1. Basecoat with Retributor Armour .
  2. Wash with Reikland Fleshshade .
  3. Mix a little Silver RLM01 Metallic into the Retributor Armour and highlight.
  4. Finish with some small Silver RLM01 Metallic highlights.

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Citadel Painting System 33
Base 8
  • Abaddon Black
  • Averland Sunset
  • Corax White
  • Khorne Red
  • Leadbelcher
  • Mechanicus Standard Grey
  • Mournfang Brown
  • Retributor Armour
Shade 3
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Nuln Oil
  • Reikland Fleshshade
Layer 20
  • Administratum Grey
  • Blue Horror
  • Dark Reaper
  • Dawnstone
  • Eshin Grey
  • Fenrisian Grey
  • Ironbreaker
  • Karak Stone
  • Lugganath Orange
  • Pallid Wych Flesh
  • Screaming Skull
  • Skavenblight Dinge
  • Squig Orange
  • Stormvermin Fur
  • Thunderhawk Blue
  • Troll Slayer Orange
  • Ushabti Bone
  • Wazdakka Red
  • White Scar
  • Wild Rider Red
Technical 1
  • Contrast Medium
Contrast 1
  • Skeleton Horde
Vallejo Model Air
Base 1
  • 71.063 Silver RLM01 Metallic
Vallejo Model Color
Base 2
  • 70.950 Black
  • 70.951 White
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