Cult of Paint is a collaboration between experienced painting tutors Henry Steele and Andy Wardle.
We enjoy painting for competitions as well as wargaming and aim to provide tuition applicable to both styles on this channel.
We run classes, produce miniatures ranges and work on projects with industry leaders to try and support and drive forward the miniatures painting community.
Nice. As a Skaven player, I tend to prefer more furry models. However, I like a lot of the new models too. It's diverse. I like the AoS Plague monks better than the older ones, on the other hand, the Stormvermins are definitely the prettiest of the 6th edition (fantasy battle).
Love this conversion and paint job. Very tastefully done. The new terminator kit is just superb - all we need is a Mk7 kit for heresy now or dare I say it, w first born range refresh 😮
I've started my skaven army a years ago and still haven't painted a thousands points 🤣 I love painting them so much that i spend 10hours per clanrats. I definitely feel you there (and I've enjoyed warcry and underworld as a mean to play them)
Really enjoyed this Henry, and your ‘half arsed’ paint jobs are obviously also fantastic. I do understand the conflict with standard, when to stop and how a stylised approach is a more comfortable way of solving the problem. I’m about to start my own summer project of Skaven, and I’ll definitely be cutting a few corners, but will also find myself doing way more that perhaps I should for that many rank and file models. Though I’m also sure my ‘nice army standard’ is likely no better than your ‘half arsed’ version. I’ve got quite a lot of the Island of Blood era, but I’ll be mixing in the new bits as well (when my Skaven half of Skaventide arrives). Finally, I really enjoyed the personal history introduction, and you should definitely not apologise for it. Now that may be because I have the tendency to do similar things are the start of my videos 😂, but seeing you do it here makes me feel a whole lot better about doing so in my little videos.
I had the exact same experience waiting for the old world to restart my skaven army, was really disappointed with old world but I've pre ordered the new box and can't wait to get back into aos
@@cultofpaint Thank you for the quick reply! I'm going to have to try it again. I had difficulty with the acrylic beading up on the oil paint. I may have needed to wait longer for the oil paint to dry. Have a great weekend!
I love how your Skaven turned out. Disappointed you won’t be doing the new Skaventide box - maybe you’ll change your mind 😃. When you put Contrast after the oil wash, did you need to apply a varnish in between?
Shame you didn’t get the army joy you were hoping for. The models look amazing so I’m sure you’ll have a blast with them, even if it doesn’t involve 40+ clan rats! Would like to see some content of you just getting stuck in and enjoying things like the ogres though, doesn’t have to be for army painting to be great content, you guys are awesome regardless of the style!
I really empathize with your final point about why you weren’t enjoying yourself. I don’t like doing less than I like on army painting just to get things done.
I won't be able to buy a Skaventide box until after Thanksgiving and grad school tuition :( If they're still available, I plan to 3D print some sampan hats at work to finally make an Eshin army I've wanted since 7th edition WHFB.
It's always sad to see the huge gap of design's quality between the new minis and the old metal model, which are so so much better in any way.. face, clothes, shapes,.. the new ones are ok-tier, but miles away from the old.
I applaud your sense of self-awareness here. Mordheim warbands are the perfect size force to indulge in thepainting, collecting and gaming hobby-triad. I look forwards to seeing your rats take shape.
So when I was first taught about zenithal primes what I was shown was prime black and then do a 45 degree coat of a mid tone grey from above, followed by a quick dusting of white from directly above. I'm curious if you ever do that or if you only ever do a two tone zenithal? I also really like how those thinned down dry brush metallic came out, they still have that metal look of TMM paints without being so shinny that you couldn't put an actual highlight on them, I'm not sure how much of that was the thinning of those paints and how much was the dulling down of the dry oils but I really wonder how a NNM TMM hybrid would look with those as the base and then maybe some shinier TMM paints as the highlights(maybe not even brighter colors just shinier finesses all in one color)
Finding this more and more unfortunately, hard to reach areas etc. some of the cities models and the Thunderkyn, most of which you can’t do sub assemblies 🤷♂️ hopefully GW address this.
Henry, don’t feel so pressured to put a video out that you don’t enjoy painting. We are here for a with you. We will enjoy whatever you put out, even if it’s late or slow. Just paint what and how it makes you happy.
Happy to hear my favorite podcast will be back in full force. When will you be sharing more on the paint range? Also: controversial opinion but the French are currently dominating the crisp game... and this is coming from a Belgian. check out a company called Brett's!
Struggling with this with my space wolves in 40k, im 3 minis from 100pts, but 2k is another milestone...to get there i decided to consciously do in stages, sso my first stage is just built and basecoated. no plastic showing, just the right colors on all the pieces. so it doesnt feel like ive half-assed it as its clear theres a certain stage. once i get a force fully basecoated, im going to allow myself to go back and do individual minis to completion it means yea, there will be a difference in visual fidelity across the army for a long time, but it also will be clear that its "in progress" and personally thats enough to keep me happy and willing to put them on the table. painting is my passion when it comes to the minis but i enjoy playing, so im meeting myself halfway
I felt the same way with my current 40k CSM army. I love them so much, but there's really not much to do when I'm painting black legion. Oddly if I paint with a gold basecoat insteda of black I have a lot more fun, but I dislike using the (admittedly amazing) black legion contrasts paint. I think the idea I would have is goign for more monster focused armies, as that way I won't have to batch paint 50 odd infantry and can really dig into the details on the big boys.
amazing work! 2 quick questions: 1. would basecoating white not have been easier for initial coverage? 2. do you think airbrush is essential here to make it look good or would simple layering (so harder to get seamless transition) could also give similar results?
Awsome video! Its the best one for the Skaven I actually saw.-Thank you so much. You used an airbrush, you used oilwashes, all for beeing fast and effektive having the best possible results, I miss that on all the other videos. And you used not only GW products. Please could you make an indeepth video how you did the sand on the base and pose the miniature on this. Now knowing that it is better to paint the miniature without the base is so important for me. I would very happy look more videos about Skaven painting by you, because you work slow, clean and will have a very nice army at the end.
I love that you are coming out with some AoS stuff now that 4th is coming. And I agree you should slow paint them, also for content. I really enjoy the long videos.
'Caucasian Rats' was an early workshopped name for the Skaven, I think? I overheard Jes Goodwin saying it in Ye Olde Trip over a pint of Doom Bar last Sunday.
Awesome to see a Skaven video. I would absolutely love to see you do a video on higher level painting for the more important and awesome models like the new mounted lord and the Rat Ogres (or Storm fiends or the Verminlord for example)
I'm the same mate, I want to paint faster but painting armies faster generally means painting to a lower standard and I generally don't like to do that. So I just persevere and be happy to only paint as much as I do. But the LI stuff did help with that as I was certainly happy just to pump stuff out for that without doing heaps of detail.
I can relate to the feeling of "half assing it" if I don't really buckle down on a miniature and give it all the time in the world. But your rats look great regardless!
Great video. I've been excited to see your take on these skaven models since they were first announced, and you doing a slower paintjob for mordheim suits me even better. I'm glad you mentioned burrows and badgers because that was my first thought when seeing that old skaven model. That era is before my time but anything Jes Goodwin has had his hands in is always incredible. Man, I haven't been this excited for a model release in years.
