I was busy reordering, discarding and deleting pictures from my wargame project table. I found the silent witnesses of a crime. Pictures I took when speedpainting a Space Marine. The whole figure was painted in less than ten minutes. Blasphemy, some painters/gamers/collectors might think. A capital crime. These miniatures are so special that only delicate painting might to justice to these works of art.
But I’m not an artist. I’m a workhorse working on big historical battle armies in 15mm and 6mm. I tried this small experiment to see if non-GW-Army Painter techniques give a ‘good enough’- result on 28mm Space Marines. I share it with my fellow club gamers who might not want a ‘best painted miniatures’-award but like to have a tabletop quality on their table. Here’s the how to.
1) Black spray 
2) Grey spray from above 
3) Spray can red, from above. 
Dark grey, followed by gold and silver highlights. Figure finished within ten minutes.
Ready for the crime
I learned my Space Marine how to swim. He’s a Marine, after all. He almost drowned. I took him out before he suffocated.
24 hours drying and an extra matt varnish. Here’s the result.
Probably not as good as the Contrast Paint-ed Space Marines below. But I don’t ask you: is it good? My question is: would the miniature above be good enough?
