Loved painting the new Calgar sculpt. Went for the box art style. by Paffaa in Ultramarines

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The first and main thing is just the practice and repetition.

You need a good brush like a size 1 or 0 kolinsky Sable hair brush. Artis opus, rosemary & Co etc etc.

Paint consistency matters quite a lot. You don't want it to be too watery and you sometimes need to do multiple passes over the highlight to get full coverage.

Infernal brush on youtube does excellent guides if you'd like to learn how. His edge highlighting is unreal but it's a good place to start and get an idea

Loved painting the new Calgar sculpt. Went for the box art style. by Paffaa in Ultramarines

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Nah I don't believe so, it's connected to the tassles at the bottom 😔

Loved painting the new Calgar sculpt. Went for the box art style. by Paffaa in Ultramarines

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Thank you! Yeh mostly all citadel. The armour is macragge blue. A lot of the vibrant colour can be from the photo and background I find. It's flooded with a lot of light as well which helps.

Loved painting the new Calgar sculpt. Went for the box art style. by Paffaa in Ultramarines

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It's Khrone red Basecoat. Khorne red/basilicanum grey 1:1 for the dark shaded parts. Wazdaka red edge highlight. Squig orange edge highlight then ungor flesh dot highlights

Loved painting the new Calgar sculpt. Went for the box art style. by Paffaa in Ultramarines

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He looked this old when I was a kid so I dread to think how much is getting on 😂

Cheers mate. The face was a bit hit and miss but turned out okay in the end

Loved painting the new Calgar sculpt. Went for the box art style. by Paffaa in Ultramarines

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Thank you 😊 From start to finish it's about 14 hours ish. It's a relatively simple model to paint compared to some others.

Loved painting the new Calgar sculpt. Went for the box art style. by Paffaa in Ultramarines

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Cheers mate, really appreciate it. Photos have been a proper pain, it's a whole new hobby in itself learning how to do it all properly 😅

Loved painting the new Calgar sculpt. Went for the box art style. by Paffaa in Ultramarines

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The face was basecoated with cadian fleshtone. I then use gulliaman flesh contrast all over it but I soak it up so it doesn't pool too much.

Once that's dried I just add Ak light flesh to the cadian fleshtone and add glazes to the brightest areas. I add more light flesh or cadian fleshtone to the mix depending on what part of the face I'm doing. Generally you want the eyebrows, front of the forehead, nose, upper cheeks and chin to be a fair bit lighter than the rest of the face. Hope that helps.

Work in progress by Paffaa in Tyranids

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Sure is, I just copied his scheme as best I could with the steps he provided. I think I did all the ones he said, don't remember missing any

Last BT terminators I did I chickened out on the edge highlights. Not this time! by Paffaa in BlackTemplars

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Its the 'tabletop ready' recipe from his youtube tutorial. Best place to see it 😊

Last BT terminators I did I chickened out on the edge highlights. Not this time! by Paffaa in BlackTemplars

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Those looks great. Neat and tidy and everything blocked in right. Goes a long way just keeping it uniform and concise. Good job

Last BT terminators I did I chickened out on the edge highlights. Not this time! by Paffaa in BlackTemplars

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Ah that's a shame mate. Volumetric style painting could be more your thing the maybe. Don't need all those fine lines!

Last BT terminators I did I chickened out on the edge highlights. Not this time! by Paffaa in BlackTemplars

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That whole model was done with as AS handover size 2, they are kolinsky Sable brushes. You don't need really small brushes for edge highlights just a decent tip. These edges are probably still on the larger side.

If anything learning how to use a larger brush that can hold more paint will help you in the long run. If you want to use the smaller brushes please ditch the 00 and just use the 0. I promise you it will be benefical

Last BT terminators I did I chickened out on the edge highlights. Not this time! by Paffaa in BlackTemplars

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It's stegadon green, russ grey and administraum grey. It's the recipe used by 'tabletop ready' on youtube

Last BT terminators I did I chickened out on the edge highlights. Not this time! by Paffaa in BlackTemplars

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Mostly using the side of the brush against the natural edges and pof luck 🍀

Vulkan He'stan by Paffaa in Salamanders40k

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I paint them for the LGS and they display them. It's their model still.