In looking at color schemes of the Primaris, I felt that GW often tends to paint their studio stuff too "clean". Particularly their space marines. The blue is always perfectly clean. No sign of wear or age on any of the armor suits or plating.
In addition it was daunting to think of doing all of that edge-painting on all the marine's armor as well as on the dreadnoughts and tanks. I would never get a 40k Primaris force painted if I did it in the GW way.
So I got the idea using all the same Citadel colors on the Primaris as GW does, but rather than doing edge-painting I would try drybrushing those colors over the models to give them kind of a field-worn weathered look that would tone down the Macragge blue.
I was really pleased with the results.
I did a base coat of Citadel Macragge Blue spray, I
then drybrushed Citadel Calgar Blue followed by another drybrush of Fenrisian Grey.
I think the final look is pretty amazing! Drybrushing over the blue gives the models a really nice, edged, grayed, dusty look. Reminds me of if the Primaris were on a planet with a very dusty, gritty environment, like a planet with a very dry climate, or a ruined city or base where there's lots of ash and dust from debris.
What I like about the tone is that a lot of the blue shows through the drybrushing and you get a kind of luminous, translucent purplish-gray tone.
It worked especially well on the Repulsor tank.
This really has me psyched because I feel like I found an effective way to paint a Primaris force quickly and do it in a way where it doesn't look terrible. Once all the drybrushing is done over the blue then it's just a matter of taking the time to actually paint in details of weapons, eye lenses, and finally decals, etc.
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Primaris Marines:
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Primaris Repulsor tank:
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Redemptor Dreadnoughts:
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finishes basing up his barbarian reinforcements.
Like much of GW/FW, I "cherry pick" … 