Painting Legion Tactical Squads: Imperial Fists 

thank you. i appreciate that. Im trying to keep things as simple as possible. I got a lot more coming.

@@heresyeraI love you video sooo much 😭

Im a DG player too. I say not to over weather the IF because over weather is a Deathguard vibe - Im being protective.

thank you

seriously appreciate it - i want to keep things as simple and repeatable as possible and help people finish armies where many painting videos just show you how to paint a single model -

Absolutely man. Ive been painting warhammer since 95' and switched to Heresy in 2015 when Betrayal at Calth came out. While I do miss some of the Xenos armies of 40k, I don't even recognize what the space marines have become. The fiction too is all over the place. What Heresy Legions are you considering?

I have some terminators in the line up

Thank you - !

I appreciate the support - it really motivates me to keep making high quality videos. They take a lot of effort to paint, film and edit.

two armies i love

thank you!

I really want to do some EC after the Cthonia Campaign. I actually went on a work trip and took a little bag of paints and like 50 bolters. Painted all of them EC. So my tac squads should be able to get done really fast when i finally get to them.

Appreciate it. Making a RU-vid was long over due. Have a lot more coming.

Part 2 is a few weeks out. Terrain is being built now. Its the Sons of Horus initial drop.

seriously thank you

Thank you

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1,000 Models?! you are insane. How far along are you? Do you have pics in IG?

@@heresyera It's still early days bit I'm hoping to get around half built this year. I recently finished the assembling of my entirely Firstborn Imperial Fists which are about 340 models.

@@heresyera No social media I'm afraid. The closer I get to anything like that is youtube

@@mlpsh6995 I feel you man. I deleted my personal IG. I just have the Heresy Era one and only follow heresy and 40k content. With a project that ambitious, you might wanna make a page for your IF. Lot of good hobby content on there.

@@heresyera Thanks, I'll think about it.

Thank you. I will eventually rotate back to NL and do want to do some Contekars's.

Thank you. HH is the best.

i have a large first edition Iron Warriors army here. I really want to re do them in the new plastics.

Thank you. I paint massive armies so efficiency is key, Not only from a time perspective, but for an enthusiasm perspective. Enthusiasm is really the fuel to my hobby. Keeping things streamlined and as enjoyable as possible, keeps the enthusiasm going longer.

@@heresyera Your stuff looks awesome. I have painted entire armies before, but the projects have taken me years to complete. I need to take a leaf out of your book, and steal some of your techniques to get things completed in a more timely manner.

thank you. never a better time to start heresy than now.

Thank you. I highly recommend Heresy

Thank you. There will be a DG painting guide for a DG Typhon Siege tank.

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its a really easy recipe - let me know if you have any questions when you start. Still a few more imperial fists videos and then im shifting to some of the other factions at the Siege of Cthonia.

I haven't done the first legion yet, but likely will do a guide sooner than later on them. I need a squad or two for filming purposes for the closing part of the Siege of Cthonia Campaign. Are there any units in particular you would want to see painted?

@@heresyerawell, since you’re doing the Siege of Cthonia, how about Dreadwing units? I’m not gonna say go get some Interemptors, but their color scheme on some MkIII heavy support squads would be nice

@@CMTechnica thats a great suggestion. I should do Dreadwing.

wolves and NL are a ways out still but I do want to get to them.

I love solar aux. I have a decent sized Cthonian Headhunter army with the old resins. i have a few boxes of unbuilt new plastics here. Trying to decide on a loyalist cohort.

@@heresyera Personnaly I did a custom one on military green but I understand you would go for a known one for your videos. Why not do the one allied to the Imperial Fists?

@@nicolaslegrand2159 was thinking the beta garmon deathless

its pretty straight forward. Black under coat, Vallejo Game Air Bone White, Then Vallejo Air White. Then i wash the models with GW seraphim Sepia, Sponge weather Dryad bark, and then the rest is pretty similar to the IF. Ill have a DG painting guide up in the next few weeks. Its for a Typhon but I can add a tac marine in as an infantry example.

painting guide on SOh is coming

any brush slips when doing the black trim, i touch up with Ushabti bone. I later do a sponge weather with ushabti bone, which will visually absorb those touch ups.

Awesome, thank you

Thats a good question. You might have to do a test with it. Im not sure how the shades react with contrast -

absolutely. I use wraithbone which is actually a creamy off white. It makes my yellows warmer. You can use straight white, but you will have a colder yellow.

SOH and NL are two of my favorite armies. Hopefully some of my guides can help you get them done. I have some SOH painting guides coming down the pipeline.

​@@heresyeraI also want to do a loyalists Thousand Sons where they went back to the old legion symbol and colors with Inductii. I did buy some cool bits for marines and armor to do it off of cults. We'll see lol.

@@ReverendPONT i want to do some too. I need to illustrate the M symbol and transfers made with it

The GW paints are pretty low pressure. Some of the other black primers i use on scenery would blow them right off the tray.

I have used the reds in this video on mechanicum and BA in the past. I do plan on doing some new BA, but I want to experiment with a new recipe.

Thank you. I love vallejo paint. I use GW mostly out of habit and due to its availability. Vallejo Air and their metallics are excellent. Them being in droppers also makes your paint last soooo much longer. I dont Oil my infantry, just my tanks. You can see them being used in the Painting tanks video i dropped last week - if you havent seen it already.

i touch up with wraithbone - it blends into the wraithbone sponge weather. you can also do wraithbone then use sun yellow over it too-

I do loose pigments. When you varnish them a lot gets knocked off, but the remaining mixing with the varnish and makes more of a brown tint.

@heresyera Ah right. Think I'll have to give that a go then. Thank you for the reply!

I use ZapaGap super glue. Never had issues.

I paint and write the videos and pipe my script through a AI VO. I don't use my voice on the painting guides because its a ton of work to paint, write, film, and edit already and adding on VO recording, mixing and the complexity of performance, it would slow down my release cadence tremendously. I want to drop at least 1x painting guide a week and eliminating using my own VO is the path to that. In the battle reports, we obviously will be using our voices as that is live action.

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i usually do a layer front and back with them standing upright - then after that dries, i lay the model down with the face up and spray the undersides , then repeat for the backside - if u have a tiny amount of grey on the undersides you’ll be Ok - but closer to full coverage the better

@@heresyera thanks for the help, I think I'll be alright based on what you're saying. I was sweating over each little nook and cranny

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After I get all of the arms glued on the marines, I can then mix the weapons up. A few of them are very easy to identify which arms they go on, and the others can easily be identified by dry fitting them. I dry fit them all after painting and match the weapons up to the correct marines. I make sure to dry fit the entire squad and pair all weapons before I do any gluing.

@@heresyera cool. I'm hoping to magnetize mine at the right shoulder like I used to on first born marines. It was easy to keep the arms of first born separate cause the detail was different from each arm set to another. But I'm still learning these kits. It's a challenge to keep anything straight after I clipped 100 marines for mold line cleanup

yeah man. you just got to keep everything organized when building or you will be pulling your hair out trying to match it all up.

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Im going to eventually do all the legions. Right now I am starting with the Siege of Cthonia associated legions and then will branch out further after that campaign. So its Imperial Fists, Thousand Sons, Sisters of Silence, Raven Guard, Iron Hands, Alpha legion and Word Bearers on the slate. You can paint imperial fists! yellow isnt as hard as people make it out to be.

i use basic GW brushes. Nothing fancy.

@@heresyera Same. I know some people look down on GW's stuff but they are easily available for me. Nice to see others using them.

It is a robo voice

can both be true?

Thank you. I'm not much of a voice actor and the added time of recording, re writing, re recording, mixing etc would greatly stretch out my video release schedule. I'm a one man shop and doing all of the painting, writing, filming and editing myself. I don't think using my own voice on the painting guides would add much value - My voice is a lot flatter than the AI. That being said, the battle reports are live action and will have actual voices in them.

Its for sure different. I dont mind the new one but I do wonder why they didnt just shrink down the older boxier style one. Seems the Umbra bolters had less changes. Curious what the Tigurius bolters will look like if they give them a refresh.

I do - IG: Heresy_Era

@@heresyera Nice!! I'll be sure to give you a follow here and on RU-vid