Great tutorial I also make a lot of tabards for my space Marines and use a very similar technique but instead of using the flat glass I put the lump of green stuff in between some parchment paper and roll it out
Wow just found this video. Such a great technique. I really want to emulate this in my Space Marine army. Where are the gold transfers from? They look so good!
I really like your approach, it's clear you're an excellent painter who can paint to a high standard but your channel focuses on recreating the classic schemes in a beginner friendly / fast method. I just want my models to look roughly like the gw schemes but actually have a finished army - thanks for the help!
Thank you! I'm painting my world eaters with a red and white color scheme, and have a bunch of terminators to paint! I can't wait to try this technique out. Tysm!❤
When you base coat with the gal vorbak red, how many layers do you do? It's probably just from me learning to paint, but it just took me 4.5 hours to simply do the dry brushing and gal vorbak red while trying to batch paint 4 Von Ryans Leapers Definitely has me worried if I will finish this army in my lifetime haha.
It probably shouldn’t take your that long. The drybrushing would depend on the type of brush you are using, I’ve never personally been able to drybrush with any brush other than the Artis Opus ones. As for the basing, for 4 Avon Ryan’s I wouldn’t expect it to take more than 3 coats to get a solid layer. Would probably take me somewhere between 30-60 mins batch painting them. That said base coating is always the longest step and you’ll get faster the more you do it.
I started an army with my own take on this pattern, but for the Exocrine, would you paint the weapon in the same colour you do the Termagant weapons or would you go more fleshy, just wondering...
I probably would, yes. Alternatively you could paint it similar to the head/neck, with details in pink and a transition from blue to white as you get to the end of the gun
Probably a daft comment but with making gradients with your airbrush, how do you avoid mistakes when blocking out shapes with black? If/when you do make mistakes, is it a case of just glazing back over them? Love the scheme, keep up the good work!
You just have to do your best to be careful. If I do end up making mistakes i'll cover them up with damage and weathering. If its a really bad mistake ill do my best try and colour match it with brush paints and weathering.
I don’t think I use fenrisian here, I go The Fang then Russ Grey. You could use fenrisian as a further highlight if you wanted. For the brain I would avoid green since we already have yellow, blue and red on the model. We also don’t want to overpower the red, in my opinion the GW have for Zoanthrope brains on their yt channel is perfect for this scheme since it have a blue glow to it.
This is amazing scheme, will definitely try it out for my "Ice scars" :p The chest/shoulder/knee symbol is a bone scheme or NMM gold ? How would you emphasize blue on intercessor without the cloth ? Thanks :)
Thanks! Those are actually gold but the Matt varnish makes the look more brown/bone colour. The exact paints I used at listed on my insta somewhere, I think on one of the bladeguard posts. I cheat! I sculpt tabards on most of models. I considered doing blue shoulder pads for those without tabards but decided to have fewer colours for some models.
If I remember right I used the same colours I used for the skin in this video but since I used less saturated purples for that skin it made the chimneys stand out more.
I'm a big fan of this scheme, would love to paint my army in it, but I'm not sure how to apply it to bigger critters (Norn emissary in particular). I'm kind of afraid it'd look boring/kill any contrast from the brains.
@@PaintedLegion thanks!!! I've been struggling to find a scheme that tickles my "visually pleasing" bone while still being fast/easy for almost a year. Really hoping I can pull this off!
Probably in January, maybe sooner. I’m pretty sure this will be how I do my Nids so I need to hurry up and paint them so I can actually play the game 😁
It’s not a problem really, I spend quite a bit of time on my personal models. But I think if you went to the extreme of the ‘eavy metal style with an entire army you’d just never end up finishing it.
I have 1000 points of tyranids. 41 models is only 225 points. That means my army would take approx 170 x 24 hour days (at 24 hours per model) accounting for monsters, unitsnof fewer models and a 2k army. For a unending swarm detachment army, it would be double that. Some people, like me, would much rather find the most efficient way to have an attractive looking army for their sense of achievement, as that also allows maximise time to enjoy them on the table :)
Nice, I’ve always liked this way of painting jeans thieves and it really fits them so I’ll be saving this video for later :) One question if you don’t mind, one that I’m fairly sure that no one cares about other then maybe me. Isn’t this, for a lack of a better word, the “default” genestealer colors that were established before there was a tyranid codex? So not necessarily hivefleet Hydra genestealers. I think they were this color even I the old Space Hulk board game.
I think you’re right, this is the og genestealer scheme. I’m not much of a lore master but if I remember right, this is the default skin for all Tyranids and when Nids of other hives die they turn back into these colours. But this just happens to have been named Hydra by whatever imperial bureaucrat saw them first
Great painting! Just found your channel and really enjoy your videos! I really liked in one of your videos how you sketched where the highlights go on the carapace. I haven’t seen that on any other channel. Thought it was incredibly helpful and would like to see more of that (just a suggestion 😊).
Absolutely, I started doing it the video after this one and will keep adding them where it makes sense. Thanks for you comment, glad you like the content 🙂
