How to Steal, sorry, Paint Blood Ravens | Terminators | Warhammer 40,000 | Duncan Rhodes

A fan favourite! In this tutorial, we show you how to paint Blood Ravens Space Marines in Terminator Armour for Warhammer 40,000 by Games Workshop. The Blood Ravens are a popular Space Marine Chapter and have an amazing colour scheme that looks incredible on the tabletop. Even though we painted a Terminator you can apply these techniques as well as the colour palette, to all manner of Blood Raven miniatures from Intercessors to Repulsor Tanks!
Have a fantastic weekend everyone.
Cheers
Dunc & Rog
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Paint List:
Standard Grey Spray (Colour Forge)
Khorne Red (Citadel)
Death Reaper (TTC)
Sir Coates Silver (TTC)
Spartan Bronze (TTC)
Oblivion Black Wash (TTC)
Skeleton Legion (TTC)
Sword Hilt Burgundy (TTC)
Dragon Fang (TTC)
Dungeon Stone Grey (TTC)
Battle Mud Wash (TTC)
Vampire Fang (TTC)
Evil Sunz Scarlet (Citadel)
Fanatic Orange (TTC)
Trooper White (TTC)
Mythril Blade (TTC)
Carcharadon Grey (TTC)
Glistening Gums (TTC)
Cuirass Leather (TTC)
White Star (TTC)
Warpstone Glow (Citadel)
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[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Quick! Like, Subscribe and Leave a Comment before the Blood Angels and the Chaos fueled Algorithm steal our views! Have a great weekend! Cheers Dunc & Rog

[@mfu3415]

Blood Angels? By Sanguinius! 🩸

[@thanasisgeronimos9124]

just saw a painting guide back in the day for Age of Sigmar Khorgorath ...now after all those years and having the contrast line from many companies, how would you tackle that paint job?? i have the model primed in red but i think i will do it a re-prime with black / grey/ white and have your guide of the colors but with contrast..

[@Dracobyte]

Thank you gor another painting tutotial!

[@oliverpedder-platt9629]

To keep it thematically, I don’t paint Blood Raven. I wait for someone else to, then I steal them.

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Touche

[@David_R434]

🤣🤣

[@TitusVarus]

It's been ages since I painted one. To keep him thematically accurate I armed him with a Space Wolf rune blade and a bolter nicked off a Blood Angel.

[@killerkriegsman85]

I think that might have been me

[@agentmaho]

All my Astartes based Kill Teams are Blood Ravens. My last holdout on Citadel paints is Khorne Red

[@superanimeniac]

I have a blood ravens army. I used khorne red double washed down then brightened up. I also made sure to dot in some colours from other chapters, to show the gifted relics

[@TitusVarus]

Ah yes, the gifted relics. The last Blood Raven I painted bore weapons gifted by both the Space Wolves and Blood Angels.

[@superanimeniac]

@@TitusVarus right now I have melts gifted by the salamanders, a bike from the dark Angels and raven guard, a dreadnought chassis from the Imperial fists, and another bike from the white scars.

[@artycharr]

"knowledge is power, guard it well" Thanks for sharing this tutorial!

[@Ilmyrn]

Dawn of War was my real introduction to 40K, so I'll always love the Blood Ravens. I'm slowly stripping and repainting my Blood Ravens army as Ultramarines, but I may keep the Terminators I painted - I used the mirrored Honor Guard color scheme from DoW2 for them, and it looked great.

[@Pandabratti]

Painting Blood Ravens to the old guides back when I first started the hobby. Proper relics of nostalgia. ❤

[@Medved725]

I'm a Guard player, but I always say that if I ever get space marines, even if just for the sake of having some, they'd be a squad of Blood Raven Terminators. So this is just the perfect video for me!

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Awesome!

[@papazoulou9326]

I remember that White Dwarf number where a member of the GW team had a huuuuge BR army painted for Medusa V. Very impressive.

[@BOOMSHOTKPOW]

Do you know the WD number? I remember that campaign in the White Dwarfs but cannot find the one with the Blood Raven army for the life of me

[@papazoulou9326]

@@BOOMSHOTKPOW WD 351 march 2009, with a stompa in the front cover, all about Apocalypse. It is Rik Turner's army at page 18.

[@BOOMSHOTKPOW]

@@papazoulou9326 Thank you!

[@HellstormWargaming]

I’d recommend starting with Reliquary Red spray tbh 👁️👁️

[@Fulgrim2]

They nicked my brushes!

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Hahahaha...mine too!

[@mikemihalopoulos3645]

I actually recently bought one of those JoyToy Blood Angels Intercessor figures, specifically to repaint the pauldrons into bone white with black rims. He's currently on my shelf, carrying a TV nicked from a bunch of diorama furniture I had on hand. Great tutorial, also, thank you for the tip on the transfers, I'd lose it if I tried freehanding their insignia.

[@chrisk5983]

Great painting method. Im gonna take it

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Steal away...

[@MrSJPowell]

Great idea. After all good artists borrow, great artists steal.

[@armin8306]

Blood ravens always have been an awesome scheme. I'm definitely gonna revisit their scheme. I painted a squad as them more than a decade ago.

[@XerrolAvengerII]

zandri dust + baal red is also a great alternative base coat that makes the bone accents really easy to layer on

[@kaon8460]

"THERE IS NO TIME TO BE LOST" **3 minute speech** -Indrick Boreale

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

😂😂😂

[@Freeman12349]

I love Blood Ravens so much. They are my main (display-)army. Even after a small excursion to the Dark Angels, I still love my bloody magpies the most. Such an incredibly satisfying and beautiful colour scheme. I feel like no one can really agree what red to actually use for the armor though. After looking at a lot of stuff, I think Pro Acryl Burnt Red fits the most, at least for me. But be careful! If you use a wet palette, you barely have to thin it if at all!

[@joegkushner]

I appreciate the recap at the end. Good idea to provide that final reminder.

[@Kerath]

Emperor's Finest Magpies

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Look! Over there! Something shiny!

[@Dracobyte]

Yeah!

[@nicolaspetiot]

I've got a certain number of thousands points of Blood Raven, and they are the perfect excuse to add any chapters-specific units to your army: "- No Brother, we're not stealing relics, we're securing them. And yes, we also have secured these Deathwing Knights, Castellan, Wulfen and Lord Regent Guilliman. We just painted them in Blood Raven to, you know, extra secure them. Oh, that is some pretty Sanguinary Guard you've got here, it'd be a shame is someone were to... secure them..."

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Love me some relics....

[@cordial001]

This brought back memories of Dawn of War. One of my all time favorite game opening cinematics ever

[@Calibretto9]

Absolutely superb. Have a soft spot for the Ravens.

[@Kieran_P100]

I’ve just tired my first few paints from your two thin coats range and honestly all I can say is bravo 👏 they’re absolutely excellent and I’ve loved using them, I’ve started to really enjoying painting again and I’ve been hammering out my models this week, definitely going to phase out my citadel collection and start replacing them with two thin coats!

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Oh wow, that's great to hear. We are so happy you enjoy using them. Thank you for the kind words.

[@Smilomaniac]

Just remembered something when you painted those shell casings. I've actually found a use for that awful Citadel 'liberator gold' - It looks like brass and works well for casings, visually. Still applies worse than wood glue.

[@YT-Sash]

Been waiting a loooong time for this! Thanks Duncan!

[@yopitalla]

This is pretty cool, it is also the 20th anniversary of dawn of war! Thank you for sharing it Duncan.

[@AnonymousMontanan]

Transfer turned out awesome, nice and flat! Looks like it was painted on!

[@Pork-Pie-Pete81]

I love this paint scheme. I'm going to use the red to paint some Flesh Tearers. I particularly appreciate that you kept the purity seal red rather than green. Great video Duncan.

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

You are so welcome!

[@nickelmypickle]

Finally found the Bob Ross of Warhammer 40k this is brilliant

[@MrCrystalwarrior1]

Have to admit, I'm not exactly a fan of the Blood Angels or their successor chapters, but any tutorial showing how to paint either red or bone white armour gets my vote every time. I have painted so many red Space Marines I've lost count, but still love to see different ways to achieve either darker or lighter shades of red. I also love the new terminator minis, so seeing how you paint one just makes me want to break out my paints and paint some just for fun, myself 🙂

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Go for it!

[@Flight_of_Icarus]

Blood Ravens are unknown successors.

[@RustyEy3]

Thank you Duncan for painting kleptomaniacs ravens!

[@austibon]

Sweet video! Can't wait to do mine like this, I am still in the course of getting them all battle ready first

[@plasticbudgie]

Thank you for this, i dont care much for lore i like colour schemes and this scheme is ny favourite.

[@joeycuriel]

Got turned on to this channel watching Slimehouse. Excited to learn about how to paint properly. I’m an absolute newbie. Howdy from Texas.

[@gravewalker8723]

This is realy good for my exorcists, learned a few new techniques from this , great learning content as always .

[@MadsTrier]

Finally you did it ❤ thank you!

[@CrimsonKMR]

I have over 10,000 points of Blood Ravens, so I've gotten VERY good at painting them - always nice to see more being 'acquired' ;) I use Flesh Tearers Red instead of Khorne, doing the panel by panel contrast trick (except for vehicles, contrast don't work on vehicles lol)

[@w11328]

Thank you brother. Now I can paint my sto- I mean, brought armor properly!

[@macklee6837]

So cool! Love it

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Nicholas1994]

I'm doing a blood ravens captain for someone at the moment and was getting a bit stuck trying to think of how to make it pop a bit more. This video couldn't've been better timed.

[@Retrolord1]

Awesome work! Thank you very much for this tutorial!

[@KelRiever]

Great and smooth as always! It looks like you wanted this to be a straightforward tutorial accessable to beginners. However, for one up for freehand, or extra decal work, the powerfist has a huge, broad and smooth surface. GW's studio has gone on and decorated that with checks, aquilas, skulls or what have you. I think it would improve the look and personalize mister terminator just a bit more. Excellent work, nonetheless.

[@Auriorium]

I will be putting this into my memory folder, for when I need to paint my Blood Angel's terminators from Space Hulk. But for now I have an entire army of Dweghome from Conquest to paint.

[@emil-ni8wn]

Love blood ravens!

[@thomasblunt3404]

hey this is great, i was planning on painting a squad of these this weekend

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Awesome!

[@BertramMoranda]

Hey that's my chapter. Thanks Duncan, lots of little things i'll incorporate into my little plastic guys.

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Awesome!

[@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen]

Love a good Blood Magpie!

[@seanfitzy2256]

Masterclass. Cheers

[@insanescotsman1]

I have just started painting some blood raven tactical marines 😎

[@alphaleigpyne]

I'm getting that Dawn of War vibe from watching this new Terminator model painted in the Blood Ravens colour scheme.

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Time to play that classic game again... Coolest intro yet: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXPKiXttmt6FpZY&rco=1

[@alphaleigpyne]

Everytime I start that game! ⚔️

[@bluedotdinosaur]

To this day Khorne Red is the best red paint for layering. It’s just so easy, effortless.

[@TheNethIafin]

Nice to see you painting some Loyalist Thousand Sons armies 😅

[@josephlau8476]

Wow! So cool.

[@gamerman782]

Deep striking

[@Streetsam]

So great!

[@WarhammerWings]

Is this the video where you tried swatting a fly buzzing around in your face, Duncan, and Roger losing his s**t laughing so hard? 😆

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

That's the one!

[@WarhammerWings]

Booyah!!!! ​@@DuncanRhodesDRPA

[@WarhammerWings]

​@DuncanRhodesDRPA "FLY?!" "You're still going on about the fly aren't you? *laughs* Cmon,man I've still gotta put a transfer on this thing!!!"

[@scriv_paints]

The best of all chapters

[@LifeofSquidMann]

Would love to see a vid for Relic's other OC army, the 412th Cadians from Winter Assault

[@alexanderstumm3972]

Thank you for this video, I've been trying for many years to find a tip or video about painting Blood Ravens, but I haven't really liked any of them. The colors were either too light or too dark for my taste, but I really like your Terminator. Nevertheless, it is also interesting how many variants of the color for the Blood Ravens exist. I'm looking forward to more Blood Raven videos, maybe a vehicle or a hero. But thank you again for this video, it makes my weekend.

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Its our pleasure.

[@J.Buffer]

I had a bunch of spare bits from different chapters, so of course, i HAD to start a Blood Ravens Kill Team.

[@InternetSupervillain]

I'm thinking of getting into tabletop, and I would want to play Blood Ravens...but what's the point? They have no hero units. I might as well just go for my other favourite chapter Ultramarines for Calgar.

[@dazmaulwargaming]

They don't steal.... they make good use of the things that they find, space wombles if you will Great vid by the way

[@Zankoran]

Find... In a locked vault... On another chapter's battle barge.

[@sweawm]

I used the exact same 'bloody bird' decals from Etsy for my own Blood Ravens, only to find ForgottenChapters have now delisted them in favour of a new decal sheet with an entirely different symbol. Not sure if they had to modify the design as GW probably has copyright on the actual Blood Raven symbol. I'm not out of decals yet, but hopefully if I need a restock, they'll be agreeable to printing a few 'custom' sheets.

[@MrGusta650]

BROTHER I AM PAINTED HERE

[@mriamjt]

Could have done with this guide last month! Done a 1k army of the thieving buggers, and hand painted the chapter symbol on all of em

[@pizzalord3n]

It is human nature to seek culpability in a time of tragedy. It is a sign of strength to cry out against fate, rather than to bow one’s head and succumb. Inevitably many shall fault the hands upon the sword which fell Typhon, the Ordo Malleus. But the Inquisition merely performs the duty of its office. To further fear them is redundant, to hate them, heretical. Those more sensible will place responsibility with those who forced the hands of the Inquisition. With some fortune, they may foster this hatred into purpose, and further rule their own fate by coming to the Emperor’s service. But ultimately, it was I who set these events into motion, with a single blow from my hammer, God-Splitter.

[@muliensito]

Love this red 🤩

[@sandhiwistara9128]

"And here we have a complete Blood Raven Terminator ready to LOOT the battle with the force of Chaos" 25:30

[@OverlordMagos]

Blood Ravens have been my Space Marines since day one. A shame GW no longer supports them.

[@LifeofSquidMann]

Still astounds me those 8e rules came after DoW3 fumbled the bag the way it did

[@adambayer7639]

I have a full company of blood ravens and to keep with the theme I bought them all second hand having already been painted as other chapters.

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Nice 👍

[@adambayer7639]

@@DuncanRhodesDRPA Duncan, I got into painting minis because of your videos with GW. It is an awesome feeling to know you think my big project was nice.

[@Xyklonikus]

I would love if you can put out the brand of paints you use. Or is that Citadel exclusively?

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , DRPA . 🐺Loupis Canis .

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Thank you Loupis Canis 🐺🐺🐺🐺

[@christianschroder4694]

Nice work. Love IT! Please paint the glottkin 😅

[@damianolandi5003]

THANK YOU DUNCAN!!! As I will paint my BR in line with the first DOW quadrilogy, do you think that a a brown wash instead of a black one will help obtaining that shade of red?

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

I normally recommend if you want a clean finish use a black wash or a more dirty finish, a brown. IF you layer back up afterwards you'll maintain the red but depending on the wash, a slightly different overall 'feel' to the miniature

[@damianolandi5003]

@@DuncanRhodesDRPA THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!

[@winterweasel425]

Hey Duncan, I got a question as a noobish painter. In a lot of your videos, after the wash, you'll go back with the main colour and "Brighten it back up" while avoiding the recesses. But, well, when I try to do that, I have a hard time knowing where to stop, and I generally end up with kind of an ugly line where the wash and base paint meet. You say to go over te flat surfaces, but like for something like a pauldron which is just one big flat surface, do I re-cover the whole thing? And if so, why shade it in the first place? Thanks for all the tutorials and video's, they're really nice.

[@UnderTheSkin13]

I'm not Duncan but I can tell you that you should apply a thinner version of the original colour mostly where the light would shine on your model. If there's no general light theme, focus on the upper area. If you shade a pauldron the wash should naturally pool slightly darker on the bottom (don't use too much) and when it's dry you take the original colour, thin it a bit more, wipe most of it off on a paper towel and gently reapply the colour from top to about the middle of the pauldron to get a nice gentle gradient.

[@TheMad78]

Not Duncan here but I would recommend you make sure you properly water down your paints. Base paints are always quite strong so its easy to go over board when reapplying. Also try and reapply using a "dabbing" motion. That way you'll get a cluster of dots that you can slowly build up to where you want it and you can start in the center and move out. What you can also do is water down your wash after you've over-brightened up and use that to bring it back down a little bit. Just keep practicing my friend. the more you work on it the more you'll get a feel for how much you need to add back. Hope this helped =)

[@malefic5254]

I use the first dawn of war as a reference. Black aquilas, gold for captains. Just like Davian Cool.

[@sweatilaa5325]

Strike from the sky, brothers! Wonder if it's Avistus or Tarkus under that terminator armor? Got a nice little Blood Ravens army myself, they're a lot of fun to paint and if you look at the two games you got a bit of freedom for how to customize your squad leders and their armor to make them stand out a bit so you don't have to paint every single marine the exact same, AND you get to steal bits from other chapter specific kits and call them "relics" :) Though the coincidence of this video going up today and me reinstalling Dawn of War II yesterday is a bit uncanny 😅

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Its a fun trait to 'borrow' right? As a collector, it gives you a fantastic opportunity to kitbash your army!

[@Zankoran]

Always liked their color scheme. Makes me think of the pre-heresy Thousand Sons. I guess they even stole their color scheme... Hang on Blood Ravens have lots of librarians and the Thousand Sons are famous for being nerds too...

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Shhhhh......🤫

[@sisterkatherine3409]

Hey Duncan, what wet palette did you use? I've been struggling with mine as it's either drying out too quickly or it's just too wet. Any advice/help would be appreciated.

[@PrzybyszzMatplanety]

It looks like he's using Redgrass. I had Army Painter one before and couldn't attain proper level of water, it was too dry or too moist. Redgrass worked perfectly from the start.

[@sisterkatherine3409]

@@PrzybyszzMatplanety thank you so much!

[@CupCakeUnleashed]

Emperors first and finest

[@Dracobyte]

Dawn of War is a great duology!

[@jaanikaapa6925]

Duncan, wouldn't a silver or a chrome base work better for the eye base. Then add the lens colour with a speed or contrast?

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Thats an intresting idea and worth a go.

[@jaanikaapa6925]

@@DuncanRhodesDRPA Thanks.. It should work like a reflector on car models. Shouldn't act like a candy paint, since using more inky type medium that likes to pool more in the crevices.

[@FishySwordfish]

Could you tell me what tool you're using to keep hold of the base of the miniature while you're painting please?

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Surcan. Its a Citadel Painting Handle :-)

[@FishySwordfish]

@@DuncanRhodesDRPA Thank you!

[@tirepo]

Make sure to lock the Rhino doors and keep moving when driving through Blood Raven territory. Stop at your own peril, only to find yourself sitting on a pile of bricks without a Rhino.

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Been there!

[@RevanR]

OOT : 1:18 So about brush TLC, about brush that already is bushy state is there any extensive caring need or just reuse it for rough use?

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Reuse for rough work.

[@seidon_]

good video, think ill borrow it

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

As a relic?

[@seidon_]

@@DuncanRhodesDRPA sure, lets go with that :D

[@j3ffr0ck24]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!

[@ericjohnson1289]

What kind of palette are you using?

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Red Grass 👍

[@flaviomonteiro1414]

The dislikes are from the hive mind and Eliphas 😂😂😂

[@bradyinman6588]

You can hear that base coat brush screaming for help!

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

It has now been retired but it does come out every now and then.

[@CristianoCostantini]

...no mention of Dawn of War and Relic Entertainment for creating the Blood Ravens? 😛

[@lieutenantartus]

My boys

[@sodinc]

The state of that first brush was a bit painful to observe 😅 (i got one in the same condition just in front of me)

[@Jamiedee1888]

Could you do a non metallic metal tutorial

[@Alkatraz2135]

That first medium base brush has seen the grim dark…😂

[@sjd83]

Can someone please point me in the direction of where it was established that the Blood Ravens regularly pilfer the equipment off other chapters. I only know the chapter from the Dawn of War games and I don't recall it being a thing there.

[@CrimsonKMR]

Never was official, but in Dawn of War 2, a *lot* of their equipment you can give to your characters is relics from other chapters...

[@Zankoran]

And a lot of the descriptions say that the chapter the relics were gifted from don't recall gifting it to them.

[@LifeofSquidMann]

Play DoW2 and pay close attention to the names of the wargear you pick up

[@RussNewton]

Blood Ravens don’t steal, we’re just bad at returning things we find laying around.

[@Zankoran]

So Vulkan will return when the Salamanders find her s lost artifacts. Has anyone considered turning the Blood Ravens upside down and shaking them vigorously?

[@aoofmg6684]

Point 1, lock up your brushes and paints you don't need, 2 lock every escape for 2 inch models out of the room - just in case something is misding

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Yes! Agree 100%

[@HotelCharliHill]

i'm shocked... i figured you'd be using 2 thin coats line exclusively...

[@justususalplayer1329]

More corpses!

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

...and which Chaos God do you 'support'? Or did they 'borrow' something? ☺

[@Cairanmac1]

The previous manager at my local GW vehemently hated Blood Ravens, as well as video games in general. Was always eager to trash talk the 40k games, and insisted Blood Ravens weren't canon. The number of people with Blood Raven models randomly rose.

[@DuncanRhodesDRPA]

Funny that...

[@greyt00th]

or use reliquary red

[@HellstormWargaming]

True