As someone who thanked you for your Speed Painting White Scars video because I was painting 30K World Eaters, I thank you again because I'm still painting them! 😅
I really like the dynamic the Legion has with Angron. Other Legions are reunited with their Primarchs, who are warriors, or leaders of their worlds. Angron is a gladiator slave, with brain implants. During a failed slave revolt, he was going to die along with his fellow slaves, but the Emperor saves him, while Angron has to watch his only friends perish without him. So the Warhounds get this broken man as their father, many getting the same "Butcher's Nails" implants so they can be closer to him. But Angron is already a broken man, and his Legion willingly lets themselves become like him out of love. So like you said, Shakespearean.
That's a really gorgeous paint job, just enough gore marring the clean colours to be evocative without being over the top. I love the Heresy World Eaters, there's something painfully tragic about them....they COULD have been noble, but they never really had a chance to be...and their own Gene Father hated the lot of them... I think my favourite bit from the Heresy stuff is the story of the Battle Of Skalathrax....where one character turns to another and says "It's okay, Kharn is leading them....he'll make sure things don't get out of hand..." Hilarity.
Yes!!! I love the pre- Heresy World Eaters. One of the saddest legions in my opinion. Wanted to be accepted so much, that they killed themselves and gave away their humanity to do so. Kharn was an insane character, tragedy for sure.
Rereading the novels myself, and I love in book three when Angron shuts down Eidolon with the line, "Do not mistake our directness for stupidity" They were seen as brutes, but as Kharn himself says, they're the Legion who understands their purpose best. They were designed, bred, and trained to kill. The World Eaters don't pretend to be anything other than killers.
I'm now working on a Custodes army (all 28 of them!) and wondered if I had the parts to make Marine Juice. Turns out I have them on my desk, now. Guess the Emperor's Best are getting a bit of grime over their gold armor...
As an aside, I've already added a few drops of Marine Juice here and there onto my Custodes and it really makes a world of difference. It really makes the armor look 10,000 years old...
Ever since I’ve started painting up some 40k era world eaters I’ve added a hazard stripe to my weapons, I’ll have to try out a HH era model with it too now
Small detail but I gotta admit, while I'm not normally a huge fan of pure Blood for the Blood God (I prefer to use it as an accent built up over matte browns and red-browns of dried blood), it looks **fantastic** on this mini. Creates a really nice bold contrast.
It's not always one I like to use since it's ordinarily very stark, but I think we're on the same page here. With such a bright backdrop, it looks all the darker and more rich just splattered straight on to the armour here. :D
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Aye! And I suspect using varying layers of brown and browny-red would risk making it look less "blood" and more "dirty", due to the main colour being white tinted with brown - vs. if the wash had been put over another colour. That or I'm going crazy. Both are options lol
Brilliant, can't beat a bit of Blood for the Blood God. I'm also loving the way the thumbnail looks like a pale sky blue. I now know how I'm gonna paint my McFarlane giant space marine. 😁
World Eaters, the poor bastards that just never get a break. The blood stains look great on the white armor, really stands out like that. This one turned out beautiful and I'd love to see you tackle more Heresy color schemes!
I finally beat painters block and painted up the start of World Eaters force. Thank you for the great tutorial. However somewhere along the way I missed a crucial step - the varnishing, they turned out rather muddy looking, presumbaly because I didnt varnish and/or used too much juice on each mini. This being said they still turned out great in my opinion, and as I will be running them as allies to Iron Warriors, their get up is if anything more fitting than a purer white would look. So thanks again for this, and all of your videos, it made painting them very simple (although painting white isnt fun and I opted for a different white), the steps easy to follow and give great results! Edit: I must have watched this video in preparation just shy of a dozen times, and didnt pick up the lines about the varnish being a be all and end all at that stage. Ooops!
I did my red butchers this way and I loved it. Your paint process made me decide to make a 1000 point world eaters army. I play alpha legion BUT I got 4 dead claw drop pods a leviathan a dreadnought drop pod , angron I will buy 3 apothecaries etc. Gonna make a drop pod rush army
Thank you for doing this video, I really wanted to do world eaters for heresy but the colour scheme really Intimidated me, and tonight I've finished my first one following your tutorial 🙂
hmmm, the juice does seem simple, though I've liked the effects on my DG (looking at this cause 'go chop stuff to pieces' isn't really a DG strong suit so thinking Allied Detachment) of oil pin washes...
Wonderful work, ill make sure to follow this guide in the near future. one question though, why does the world eater marine look light blue in the thumbnail?
Colour balance in the thumbnail is a little off, unfortunately. I thought I was being clever photographing him on a more interesting coloured background (since white on white is a pain to edit) but instead this made him look a little weird!
Loved this. I haven't ever done any 30k and I'm looking forward to the rumored Horus Heresy plastic box set. *crosses fingers*. By the way, I hope everything is going better--sorry to hear you were going through a rough time.
I got to say, that most of my 4k Night Lords Army is from GW-Platic Kits. Apart from Legion specific things like Shoulderguards or Helmets, you can build many things like your infantry or characters from the plastic boxes (Tacticals, Support Squads, Rhinos, Land Raider, ...)
Great video. Marine juice is so versatile, thanks for telling us about it. I have most of the paints you mentioned but no gloss varnish. Do you think we can get a similar result with skipping the gloss varnish and doing another white highlight?
I've heard others having good results without it, and I've taken to skipping the varnish stage as well. It seems to work more or less much the same, which is probably the amount of Medium that's in there. If you're having trouble with the new bottles of Shade having different consistency, stick to 1:1:1 with the amounts, but add a few drops of Army Painter Dark Tone into the bottle to darken the shade. Just a little at a time, and try it over a few primed spare parts for comparison until you're happy with it.
This video has motivated me to start a World Eaters army. But I am having an issue getting hold of the right bitz affordably. May I ask what parts you used for the bolt pistol and chainaxe on this mini. Many thanks! Great content.
I’m wondering why the armor looks light blue in the pics but is very clearly white in the video? It looks great overall. The trim has a new penny look to it thanks to the copper.
It used to be just equal amounts of each, so one pot. Now that the shade pots are slightly smaller than the Lahmian Medium you might want to adjust, buuut I'm pretty sure that given the thicker consistency of the new shade line, it probably wouldn't hurt to try going with one pot of each still.
Arr the marine juice, i replaced the medium with contrast medium and feels it pulls the pigment better into the crevices than lahmian medium, it is glossy but i always varnish my mini so it doesn't matter to me
Great video, the paint job looks fantastic, and is very easy to achieve... I wonder how easy it is to make some of that Marine juice with Army Painter paints. Have you tried doing the white spray on top of a black undercoat, if so, how did it come out?
Where did pinch his chainaxe from? Edit: sorry for another two question, they just look too fantastic not to replicate. After using the primers (I forget the names of the colours), do you ever touch the white (side from fixing tiny mistakes)? also is the varnishing necessary? I'm new to painting so I'm a little unsure how that works.
It's good practice to varnish your miniatures for handling and gaming, though not *strictly* necessary it's still something I'd suggest as being a good idea. As for touching up the primer, not really - with this particular style a few missing patches and some grimy shadows work really well.
I know this is an old video but have you played around with the new washes in the same way to make marine juice? I tried a 5ml nuln 5ml fleshshade and 7ml medium mix for my mkvi world eaters and didnt even varnish the model and it seemed to flow almost too well. The recesses seem more subtle. Wanted to know if you have tried it and tweaked the ratios at all or if you still have plenty of the old stuff stockpiled up.
My shades were getting a white residue on top of them and the bloke from GW said to not add water. Seems very hit and miss because I know a lot of people thin their shades with water does anyone else have this issue?
From what I've heard, they had a bad batch of shades. Add some Lahmian Medium - or your medium of choice - and shake the hell out of it. It should help.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I've tested without varnishing and really he only thing changes is that is necessary to go back with base color ( I use corax white) on all the flat panels since without the varnish they get really dark. It adds like 3 minutes per mini more so not really a problem :)
How well does the effect of Blood for the Blood God work after varnishing? Does it still work under a matte coat? I'm considering a World Eater's Kill Team in my future, with a lot of Blood splatters on White, so thanks a lot for this tutorial.
It'll look the same, but it will be matt. Not much difference except that. That's why I applied it after the matt varnish in this case; as a final step it'll keep the gloss, and it's not likely your miniatures are going to see such rough handling that you'll knock the red off. At least I'd hope not!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Makes sense. I played around with the Army Painter Blood Effects and after a matte varnish, it looked more like a Bruise effect. Thanks.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio swell, imperium magazine meant I had a pot of each just had to get the lahmian medium today. All sorted, now need some good weather to start priming and painting
Bear in mind that sometimes the pots from the magazine are smaller, so you'll want to make sure it's equal parts of each shade and the medium - the full-size bottle of medium will be way too much if they aren't all equal amounts.
Gloss varnish is great to shade over since it has a very smooth surface; you'll find shades run into the recesses and settle away from flat panels even more than usual. Once they're dry, it's back to the matt varnish!
The gloss has a very different surface which is far smoother than a matt varnish will give you. In theory you could try this without using the gloss at all, which would probably work better than trying to apply the shade over a matt, but it does make a difference.
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