Paints used: Akhelian Green Iyanden Yellow Volupus Pink Shyish Purple Skeleton Horde Black Templar Cygor Brown Apothecary White Warp Lightning Aethermatic Blue Blood Angels Red Ultramarines Blue Basilicanum Grey Leviadon Blue Magos Purple Darkoath Flesh Terradon Turquoise Gryph Charger Grey Wyldwood Runelord Brass Liberator Gold Iron Hands Steel Temple Guard Blue Fenrisian Grey Phalanx Yellow Canoptek Alloy Stormhost Silver Corax White Dawnstone Mournfang Brown Pink Horror Cadian Fleshtone Screaming Skull Gauss Blaster Green Fire Dragon Bright Yriel Yellow Sotek Green Baharroth Blue Mordant Earth Lahmian Medium Contrast Medium Grey Seer Primer
Just started a few months ago, I got some Chaos bois and made them Emperors children, then did a bunch of death guard, now i am working through the thousand sons hexfire, and an extra pack of Scarab Occults, some Rubrics and of course Ahriman. So far, the Thousand sons are my favorite. Them Terminators look CLEAN when they get painted up. so i suspect an entire army is going to look great. never feel like you HAVE to paint friend, and if you slump, look into easy wins, my goto for that is a batch of poxwalkers done in contrast...10 models in 3ish hours makes you feel great and the next week of painting tends to be VERY productive. Slay the grey my friend
Woo-hoo! Another sound sons, and of course it is amazingly done! Thank you, once more for this (The Ahriman was the video that had me find your channel, so it is great to see this one)
I'll admit, didn't think you could get such an eavy metal look with contrast paints, but this looks so good that I'm questioning whether I should switch to save myself time. Excellent work!
It certainly worth adding them to your arsenal even if you don't totally switch over! They can seriously speed up many aspects of painting such as faces and flames and psychic trickery nonsense on similar models to the Infernal Master!
hey man this looks absolutely amazing! if i had one piece of criticism, it would be to make the fire look a little more realistic and less black, but other than that this looks straight out of a GW magazine! nice work
Certainly could! Give it a little recess shade with something like Drakenhof Nightshade or Nuln Oil, Then use some Thousand Sons Blue to tidy up some errors if you have them, follow that up with similar highlights to the video!
That intro music !!! Hit me ! What’s it called need to know. On a side note, you always have spot on music and your channel is meditation for me. Do you have a shareable playlist on Spotify perhaps? 🥰🙌🏻🎨🎨
It's one of my favourite parts of putting the videos together! The song is called City Lights, City Dreams by Forever Sunset. Unfortunately I don't have a playlist but you can get all the music I use from www.epidemicsound.com it's a subscription service for royalty free music so it's wonderful for me as a creator!
Annnnnnnnd i just re-primed to do My Infernal master in Contrast. Good, I was tired of glazing up my layers over Black for this model. I hope mine (and the liberties i take with some color options) looks half as nice as yours. thank you for this great video.
@@Warhipster I have much to learn, I failed absolutely miserably to replicate that Thousand sons shade with Akhelian Green. I started dabbling with Pro-Acryl's Transparents recently, and so far I am very impressed. I truly only like a few of the Citadel Contrasts. if you dont shake them for 45 minutes you get some pretty inconsistent results (could also be my low level of experence working with them though) regardless I bought them and have 50 rubrics to practice on lol Again, absolutely amazing work!
@Warhipster Started binge-watching your videos recently and they're awesome: inspired me to start my own Thousand Sons! When can we expect the terminator video? Any thoughts on Rubrics...?
The brushes I use most consistently are Small and Medium Layer brushes from Citadel and then for the majority of my fine detail work I use an Artis Opus Series M size 00 brush.
Love this! Just curious, what made you go for runelord brass over retributor armor? Still in the Starting steps of painting so I’m trying to understand the thought process😅
Back in the day when this video was made it was before the new Shades that act more like contrast paints. The old Shades applied a flat tone over everything so ultimately would destroy any vibrancy or variation in colour that contrast paints provided. They would ultimately result in you having to relayer a base or a layer over the top to restore any semblance of colour and at that point there wasn’t any point using a contrast paint. Nowadays the shades are much better and I use them to accentuate colour and add depth where it’s needed which is what I did with diluted contrast paints before. They can be about adding darkness to recesses but they’re now also a really good for tinting, reinforcing, saturating and enhancing the base colour.
Just about to start a Thousand Sons army and this is the video I was looking for! Almost half-way through is a great spot to stop for Battle Ready or keep going to give them that extra shine. I love also you used contrast paints and DIDN'T start with Retributor Armour primer, I hate that stuff, it ruined my Custodes when I started. Awesome video! Will need to get me some Grey Seer and some contrast paints.
I'm a viewer who's really impressed with your work. I am a beginner who has never painted before, but I would like to try Thousand Sons Contrast Painting after watching your video. When I saw your Ahriman painting video, I felt that the color of talassar blue was really good, but the color of akhelian green looks good, too. What color do you recommend? Can a beginner paint like this video?
Just an FYI and not to discourage you, it might be impossible to paint an entire army using this method, even though looks great on HQs like the Infernal Master. It would simply take far too long and you would get burnt out after only a few models. The gold trim on the Infernal master isn't too bad, but it is very excessive on rubric marines and the terminators and very very tedious to paint. So yeah painting 50+ models with this method would probably take a beginner like 1000 hours or more to do, completely out of the question to finish an army in a reasonable amount of time.
