Hiya. Russ from Ian's Tale of Four Gamer's videos here. I am just about to post my second 5th edition fantasy battle report later today, and the next one will feature my Executioners against Orks in a 9th edition 40k battle report. I have a LOT of Secessionist marines, so I am hoping to persuade Ian to do some Badab battle reports at some point. He can teach me how to do the visuals better!
Wow okay you kinda changed my perspective here. I am fairly new to the hobby and so far I have mostly painted single models very...very slowly :D The painting techniques you are describing seem and look very simple to do, yet your army looks absolutely phenomenal. It really shows how a great paint scheme, awesome choice of models, clever kitbashing, and smart use of painting styles and paint properties can yield outstanding results very quickly. This is very inspiring!
Yeah when you look online a lot of the stuff tends to be painted for close up camera shots. That's also the stuff that gets upvoted and so on. But IRL fully painted beats half painted any day and a good colour scheme does a lot of work from tabletop distance.
I'm just getting back into the hobby after about 30 years, and it's really, really daunting watching expert painter level videos where people show all the complex, finnicky techniques they've used in a mini, but present them as straightforward and the sort of thing everyone knows how to do. I like Ian's take on painting- keep it simple, stupid! I'm particularly fond of the "wash, then remove wash" approach as a way of avoiding having to attempt edge highlights, as I don't have much confidence or a particularly steady hand. Going to combine that with Pete the wargamer's vid on speedpainting cadians, where he just undercoats everything in grey, dry brushes, and then just adds a bit of detail in black or red. Hopefully will end up with something that looks cool (at a distance) but doesn't stress me out!
LOVE this. I'm just starting a similar 'use up some bits' project. I've been working on several different chaos warbands (one for each god, so far) based on lesser known 'The Judged' chapters from the abyssal crusade, and have a pile of firstborn imperial stuff left over that I've decided to turn into a small Vorpal Swords army (the only chapter that survived the crusade). Same theory - build to the parts I have and the theme, not too worried about tactical value. Keep up the great work, man.
Awesome work! Absolutely love the Guilliman conversion. And tbh I like how battered the tanks look - other people spend ages trying to sculpt those kind of scars :)
Great seeing one of the more obscure Space Marine chapters get some attention, as well as the inventive conversions improvised from leftover bits that still fit the theme of the army. I'm already starting to love your channel.
That's a great looking force with some wonderful conversions. Those old school Rhinos and Predators take me right back to my childhood too. This screams Crusade play.
Had to go and look Adolforc , what a bizarre product , and why a bust of all things ? So many questions haha The army looks awesome though , seeing other peoples “quick and dirty” armies really enthuses me to keep going even with projects I loose drive with . Top work as per !
Lol 3:59 the combat armor nipples! Love em. I also like how your batch speed painted models look better individually than when I've spend a whole night on just 1 model.
Just got into Badab stuff because of this channel! Really see the seeds of HH right here. If there can be a good show about any narrative it should be the Badab War.
A fine looking army, and quality conversions to boot. You make the Marines Errant proud. It's a shame the chapter had much of its geneseed nicked by the Red Corsairs during the Night Lords novel trilogy. Potentially condemning the Marines Errant to a slow death. Assuming they don't get an infusion of fresh geneseed, probably from the Ultramarines and big daddy Guillaman. Or else go on a big mission to reclaim what was stolen. That, in itself, could make for a great campaign. A grudge match between the Marines Errant and the Red Corsairs, for the preservation of the chapter and to settle old scores.
I love armies like this, just really personal with a great theme. I'm really digging the idea of just getting the models bashed out on the table in a quick and effective scheme. This army looks brilliant! I spend way too long on each figure and from 3 feet away it's just wasted time.
Honestly I just really like a nice, basic paint job. The company veterans look great. I love the storm shields. Marvelous table-ready paint job. And the kitbashing bits were great as well.
I took all the marines I had in my bits box, assembled about 90-man strong army from them (including 15 Assault on Black Reach terminators and 13 Space Marine bikers because why not), primed them with rattlecan, then zenitaled with rattlecan and gave them a coat of yellow with an airbrush, coat of gloss varnish and an enamel wash. Strange, I thought, as they didn't look as good as the test squad I made earlier. Then I started giving them other colours and found out that the models were hydrophobic. With thick layers I could make the paint stay on, but they would chip away really easily. Only when I started painting a librarian that only had the rattlecan did I realised it was because of the zenital rattlecan because only the white parts hated water and paint. Now I don't know what to do with the...
Love the video you put out, finally a channel that scratches my 40k interest. Love the lore videos and your calm voice and way of explaining things even makes your paint explanations interesting. Sorry for the maybe stupid question, I´m a complete 40k noob, but why is the tech marine almost completely red color and not the same silver-blue scheme of the army?
Thanks! So yeah, as per the Codex Astartes that chapter follow to a greater or lesser extent, Techmariens are always red (cos Mars), Librarians are always blue and Apothecaries are always white. Their chapter shoulder pad is the same colour as the rest of the chapter though.
Fantastic army and video. I'm really enjoying the community's move from 'look at my pile of shame' to 'look how I'm getting stuff done and not needing by buy more stuff to enjoy the hobby'. Need to paint those base rims black though my man! 😅
I'd love to see more badab chapters, please make the space sharks, RU-vidr Majorkill has a great model for Tyberous on his website which is more lore accurate than his official forge world model, great job on this!
I'd love to play a game along your Marines Errant with my Minotaurs against a big force of Lugft Hurons Astral Claws! Maybe sprinkle some Lamenters in with the Astral Claws to represent them arriving midfight and joining the wrong forces xD
I mean, those were lovely too. And anything is better than the current ones. But those single piece metals win I think, followed closely by the 2ed metal Wolfy Scouts!
Not to be that guy, but - isn’t the color scheme “halved” and not “quartered”? Also, your Librarian is one of the two generic Epistolary librarians from 2nd Ed - Tigurius had his own model and afaik the generic librarians were never sold as named characters. Nitpicks aside, beautiful army!! How are those bases? None of your shots really show them direct on, and I’ve heard the detailing is a bit “soft” compared to the Mechanicus or Necromunda base ranges.
@@fin4889 if your making money scheme is based on one of the most despicable humans of the last century, maybe you just don't look hard enough at interesting ideas for models.
@@Remcowilders it's an orc though. An orc in the style of the 40k orks who I absolutely don't mind being equated to Nazis do their overall lore and love for violence
Nah. They were blue and white before, then blue and silver in Badab, and now blue and white again in the latest books. I'm just deciding that the white is just Very Pale Silver
