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Great video. Simple method and awesome results. Been painting unit of 20 plague monks and I painted their foetid blades extra crusty🤌🏻 Gonna try out something like this for my stormvermin to give them slightly cleaner armor👍🏻
I managed to pick a set of this up for £15 & I'm just painting them, but as dark angels. I've still picked up some tips on how I'm gonna do certain parts, so thanks for the vid mate. 👍👍
you should have throw another coat of that deepkin flesh to make a more solid coat on the face..its was a bit transparent from that black underneath...other than that, that is a very good , awesome paintjob
Wow! That looks very nice. I'm sure, in person, it looks even better! The camera zoom plus big monitors really shows a lot more than what your eyes will see and blend together in person. TL;DR; Questions: 1) Ever prime/paint miniatures on the sprue? Or always fully assembled? 2) Ever used Speed Paints? 3) What's good to protect the final paint, similar to cars having clear coat layers over the colored undercoat? I just picked up Cursed City. I know I'm late to the WHQ party, in general. It's my first WHQ game or Warhammer miniatures in general. It only took a few hours to assemble all the miniatures, but halfway through, I wondered if I should've primed or painted any of it before gluing them together. So, that's one of my questions, do you ever prime or paint any Warhammer miniatures on the sprues? Or do you prefer to paint them after assembly, since the primer/paint can mess with the glues? And my other question is if you've ever used Army Painter Speed Paints? I'm a novice at painting miniatures and I think my #1 issue is feeling like I'll never have enough time to paint them with multiple layers, like you did in this video. Thus, I have been painting other board game miniatures with Speed Paints, but each miniature, just putting on 5-8 different colors takes me an hour or more. Also, I'm getting older, so must use a magnifier on a headband with light and my neck is so sore after 3 or 4 minis. Any tips besides taking more breaks? :)
You know, I totally get you about the sore neck and eyesight! I’ve found sitting back in my chair properly and propping my arms up so the miniature is in front of me rather than being hunched over has helped a lot. I still hunch over eventually, but I try and stay upright when possible/when I remember 🤣🙌 I try and undercoat on the sprues with spray. Works a treat - I did used to paint some minis on the sprue, but realised in doing that I couldn’t game with them for aaaaaaages. Now I paint them pre built, and ignore the bits I can’t reach with the brush. 9/10 you can’t see those bits unless you look hard at them :) I’ve used GW contrasts and they’re superb - head good things about the speed paints but never tried them myself. For getting an army ready quickly you can’t go wrong. Did a poxwalker vid with contrasts and it came out fab. :)
The number on the shoulder isn't the squad number its the company number which goes there. So you made a 6th company Salamander but listed it in 1st company and both shoulders in 5th and 6th are red. Salamanders don't number what squad they're in but some people use the knee pad for that.
Every day's a learning day. They're a chapter I've not painted before so easy to get the shoulders wrong. The squad number can be done on the flame though, that's from the Heraldry and Markings page in the codex under Battlefield Roles and Squads (check the 40k Wiki). Black shoulderpad should defo be red though! :) Thanks for watching. :)
Don't get put off by it Dave, paint the shoulder white and use a sharp pencil to faintly mark out the shapes, then just fill in the blanks. You'll get better and better with every one. :)
@@BrushandBoltgun i bought a drafters pencil a couple days ago to have lead fine enough to draw the shoulder markings. We're taking the plunge today! Thx for the support :)
Just a quick quest about brightening up after the shading process. When you say cover about 50% of each previous colour are you working towards the centre of the Armor or on the upper half of the body? Thank you for your time.
I go with the upper surface of the armour, so it it's the left shoulder/pauldron, it'd all be mephiston red, shade with druchii violet, then I'd do the upper half of the shoulder pad with mephiston red, then the upper half of that with Wild Rider Red, and then a little highlight of Wildrider red :-) Thanks for watching Engarde! :)
Hey man! I haven't seen any new video tutorials from you in a while. I hope you're doing well. Your series on the Black Legion Chaos Marines really helped me out a lot and I really appreciated that. These Terminators look great. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦!
Cheers Jredhayjay, very much appreciated! :) Not had the time for it for a while sadly, working, writing and family are absorbing a lot of time. Hoping to get some more vids out at some point though. :) Love the Black Legion, still have some to paint up - they're next on the list when the Knights of the Chalice are sorted. :)
If I'm honest, I just loved the hat and the pose with the spear! haha! :) the other one's magnetised (and yet unpainted) so I can swap them out as necessary. :-) Thanks for watching! :)