2 LOSERS? 10,000pts 40k Armies 1 Week PAINT Challenge! 

In defense of Nick, Orks are significantly more complex models than Necrons to paint.

Jay: I'm having THE best time. Nick: End my suffering.

I loved the contrast between the painting experience for both armies. I painted my entire 3k of Necrons in less time than it took me to paint one 30man squad of orks, they are so time consuming. You have to love da boyz to finish a full army.

the base choice on those Necron's really makes the paint job pop, and who said greenskins gotta have green skin they are mushrooms last time i check those things come in all kinds of wild colors.

Nick, the trick is to paint the hand that is doing the painting red. Red ones go fasta.

Orks are the hardest models to paint in batches since they have sooo many different colored things on them.

Legend has it, Nick is still base coating till this day.

For the irks the lore could be that, like frogs, there is a chance that the orks aren’t born with the yellow pigment in there skin making them blue

Well I struggle to get one model done in 10 hours so I think you guys did fine.

You both did really well, it’s puts my 11 models in a week to shame. Well done

I've been collecting my waaaargh for nearly 30yrs and, Nick, I feel your pain. A week of painting for 150pts on the table was always a killer and made for a slow growing army but now I need a small bucket to roll my 120+ attack dice. Plus I love the look on marine players faces when their 40 models line up against my 200. I have trukks kanz flyers etc but the green tide is where the Boyz excel. Keep painting and stay safe to everyone.

40ktion sounds a little bit odd, almost Slaaneshi... Probably the way it rolls off the tongue. Ok bad jokes aside, hats off to you guys. This kind of challenge would take all the fun of painting away from me, so I'll use this as a cautionary tale not to build up too many gray models XD

"The more you paint, the more you learn"....and painting is half the battle! -G.I. Spray probably

I really enjoyed this video; would love to see a follow up with completed armies.

I have 80 something models to paint an indomitus box, vanguard space marines and my captain master kayvaan shrike I’m not a good painter as you and I’m very slow but I do have about 2 weeks so I think I can but who knows.

Nice work! Would be fun to see a one week painting challenge where at the end of the week you have to play a game but only using the painted models. It could involve much more strategy when it comes to the planning, and I would love to see you two playing ^^

Great work! I love how you documented your journey. It's taken me three years to paint my Tyranid army, but I started this past December and I'm pushing through, trying to touch the hobby at least an hour a day. I find myself making time to do something. Paint the skin, paint the carapace, work on bases, anything that I can do in an hour pushes me closer to completion. But this....7 days straight? That's Herculean!

Goodness nothing felt more relatable then being in high school getting a codex and not letting go of it. I almost lost the exact same codex cause I was looking through it after a test.

That battle wagon is ferocious! Love the paint job, looks super detailed and weathered but not in an artificial way at all

I actually really like the blue orks!! Reminds me of the Nightkin from fallout new vegas. Gives me the idea for a stealth themed faction, could even use a similar reason for the blue skin!

Great stuff after this 7 days go for another 7 days for the rest of your armies, after this go for a batrep necrons vs orks for me the winner is Nick, he using more his brush :p give u a like + abo this challange was really cool

Remember, you can't have "paint" without "pain"... :)

You both did great and just think how much closer you are to being finished.

Loved it guys! You absolutely must make a tutorial for the necron scheme start to finish!

These paint challenge videos are my favorite. Great job guys 👍

No drilled barrels!!!!!!! WEEEEeeeeeeWOOOooo WEEEEeeeWOOOOooo!!!

Well done guys! Loving the paint schemes, white Necrons and Smurf-Orks look awesome.

You should both do an Update on this project , would be nice to see another last push video .

I keep thinking about the blue orks. What if actually, the ork boss is colorblind, and thinks blue is green? And with all the waaagh energy the orks on that planet became blue-skinned as a result

Amazing video and you turn your hobby into a production line that was never going to be "fun" great effort well done lads 👍

The real winner was the audience! Great job! We might need a tutorial for both schemes done on HQs of each army! I do have to complain as a die-hard fan of Bluecrons, you treated my bois dirty :P

The new Orange on the blue Necrons looks good. I also like the original blue. With a bump in the contrast, or maybe a slight color shift; that blue would have been an excellent base-coat. I personally like the Necrons in the colder spectrum just to give off that "Cold Machine" vibe; but that Orange looks fantastic with the new bases. They pop out very well. Excellent painting! Poor Nick... The man was growing a beard painting those orks. That's a lot of just basing... Hats off to that gentleman and scholar.

Dont know why but love see this 2 guys togheter... and no it is not a gay joke

Well done you two. As for other viewers (and Nick) who might strugle with their army because of the tons of infantry (yes I do suffer the same for my old army), I have a trick how to speed up such massive painting challenges: Split your armies into units and then take up a mix of units, instead of a big bunch of one unit. In the example of Nicks ork army I would say he takes 10 boys, 1 Bot/Can, 1 Vehicle. Start with them with priming and giving them their overall basecoat (blue for the boys), and then go step by step. If you have a mixed group, even thought you dont have to paint the same on the units, you are faster and get more satisfaction from it, since you get faster results. AND you dont get intimidated by the sheer number of left to paint models. Nick I can feel with you, because I made the same mistake in my past. Doing this "production line" painting is just in theory working. It burns you out fast, and that slows your progress. And since your progress slows down, so does your motivation. Until you hit the bottom line of "nope! I paint something different!"

I remember when you first posted the necron basing tutorials. I saw your posts on reddit and checked out the videos when you had like 100 subs. Those videos were terrible (and that funny theme music lol) compared to your recent stuff, glad the channel has grown so much!

You guys made great progress. Just work with the same process in short windows and you'll both be done soon

Ha ha you went to detention. I stopped going around grade 7. He said he would just keep doubling them. I told him to just keep counting haha. I love your video's thanks so much man.

Damn! I just started collecting again, and its taken me 4 hours to do the basic colors of a blood angel intercessor. Still need the shading and highlighting but im having fun. You guys are crazy!

Your creativeness is just mind blowing.

Jay definitely had diarrhoea.... I'd actually love to see Nick complete a Killa Khan.

I've also played since high school 30 now, gotta say i'm impressed at how many models y'all have painted

The undercoat on those ork vehicles is legit. 10/10

Man, I feel for Nick. That's the same feeling I have when I try to work on things for 3+ days

Simply go a squad of boys at a time, enjoy what you can... Even if its just doing one step among all of them... Like adding shadows to the ork skin, or highlights, or just adding the color to the guns. Any kind of progress is good progress

Loved this video. You guys tortured yourselves on a week long slog. Thanks for the video though I really enjoyed it guys!

Love the blue orcs

Buddy showed me your epic vid! Great work guys got yourself a new subscriber ..... SUBBED!

You guys need to do another week long challenge. I bet this is a lot of work to pull off but it is so much fun to watch. 👍

i know this video is year plus old..but one thing a group I was in used to do was give each other monthly painting challenges.. February - love bug (could be a VW bug or an actual bug), April FOOLS day, October was All Hallows Eve, it was either August or Sept (where we did a play on the D&D 4 major classes, December was winter themed .. we had a lot of fun with it!

Definitely doing this challenge this summer with my homebrew leigon

You can see how tickled these two nerd boys are with their weekend pun lol excellent

I think Nick's biggest mistake was not just taking two vehicles and 30 units and calling that his week. Technically, basing everything all at once is gonna be more efficient, but damn - that must've been such a shitty time.

I used to work at blue table painting. Painting everyday for 6 months was insane.... but increased Mt painting skills 10 fold😊

I would actually love to paint something and maybe even share the before and after pics. HOWEVER all of my spray primers stopped working. I think it's because they were old. But I'm already planning on buying some stuff online so new primers are definitely on the list.

blue orks work fine. There was someone who did some AOS Orks in an aqua/blue skin theme and it was amazing. Also, do you all have a "project" time limit where you start to lose interest and it becomes more chore than fun. For me it is about 4 weeks. If a project sits on my desk, even if I am not painting because of other daily issues, the clock still ticks. When I sit down in week 5, even if I have not touched them, the magic is gone and I have to force myself through the process.

I love your channel so much and especially when you guys paint or make bases

I still love the Lizardmen I got in 2010, painting them all is another story.

Video from painting flying croissant (doom scythe) in croissant style maybe?

lore accurate necrons, gone and forgotten

Your voices are so similar lol. Well done, I love those ridiculous challenges

Well, you got me into making a Necron army after my SM army is done. I hope you’re happy. Albeit, Nids are tied with Necrons for 2nd army, but your Necron design is crazy good

I see you forgot about this project. Would have loved to see a battle report on these two armys.

the necrons looked significantly easier

I believe blue for Orks is luck so the blue Orks being pirates hunting for riches works well

what you said, about the codex. My uncle gave me my first codex, and i use to take that to school every day

Hey just an idea but I think a dark Gary would look great on the necrons especially with that orange

Weekend challenge accepted!

Huuuu! You played necrons at first! My Brother!!!

Sick necrons

Blue means that orks are lucky

Paint Challange? I thought you wanted to play 10.000pts against each other.

Follow up video, what’s the status now? Fun video, I once took my Crimson fists with me to a month long school. I worked on them every night and finished them. Made me feel good!

da biggest boyz AUr the STRONGEST Boyz

This is good content

let's get an update on these two

Bro the old ones where about when the necrons where still flesh the oldest sort of living race

What an amazing journey! I loved it!

Tau, Orks and Necrons are my first and hopefully only 3 armies i am working on. Tau was first and i have the most of that, Orks is second and i have a patrol box and Ghazghkull Thraka, whos is my favorite model in all of 40K. And i haven;t started buying Necrons yet but i have a plan to get the patrol box and maybe 1 other thing that i like from my LGS.

Impressive considering the time constraints, well done.

oh lol nick uses the same glass bottle with a dropper for water as i do

Still unsure if Jay and Nick were in the same room at the start or if one was in a green screen.

Haha, the way Americans pronounce Nottingham is funny. From someone who lives in Nottinghamshire.

Nick looks like a very young Teller

I feel bad for Nick. Basecoating is literally whats keeping me from painting I'm 13 I have plenty of time I just don't want to spend hours painting thousand sons blue

Orks looks cool like Rouge Trooper Judge Dread dudes!

I'll call the Orks the "Death Smurfz"

I've heard it thrown around a lot, but what does HQ mean for certain models?

Honest question, why didn't Nick use drybrush for clothes and guns? This way he'd do far more

Oh yea I pumped out my army in 2 days *laughs in imperial knights*

I might just be able to join in on your end of video challenge thing over on Instagram as I am painting a commissar at the moment

Do you guys have any battle report videos? Or even better some actual play videos??

My local GW only has small orks any idea where to get the size orks nick used?

is there a second part ? would love to see the results

The Tobias Fünke of orks

They got that r6 reveal trailer dialogue lmfao you don't have to throw in some hamfisted fake conversations.

I thought you said fornication not 40k-tion lmfao

necrons are so much more enjoyable to paint than 120 boyz

Have you heard the song Cali40ktion?

Do you actually play or just more into the painting and modeling process?

A "fornication"???!!!