I know I'm a bit behind the times (due to illness and surgery) but I'm enjoying these as I work my way back through them. They make an extended recuperation much more bearable. Keep going!
This is a perfect use of kit bashing. By adding the different head you did two things: 1. You added a dynamic flair to the head area. Although it was fine before, the new additions are simply outrageous! That is definitely more in style with the character. 2. By introducing a groomed braided moustashe you introduced a vain intelligence to the figure - something that was lacking before. This makes the creature even more terrifying! Brilliant! Thanks to Blake to let Casey to demonstrate his talent and imagination. You've convinced me to subscribe! Cheers!
I don't want to take away anything from Casey and his really good skills and experience but damn, in the last five-ten years the materials have really come a lot farther than when I started. I left the hobby years ago (no time and money) but it looks really easy to get nice results with minimum effort nowadays. I am not even that old, still I remember doing washes with citadel inks, that left a shiny haze and you needed to mix them with a tiny bit of dish soap to avoid them pooling in nasty ways. It looks to me that with a decent basecoat + wash + highlight now you can get an almost finished model that's way better than what I could do with a lot more steps with the materials I had at the time. And this also mean that if you have some skill and "good hand" as we say in my country, results are not just good, but really spectacular... as for example in this case!
Thanks for the comment! It is amazing how far the materials have come since even the late 90s. The painting systems out there like citadel and army painter make it very easy to follow a few steps and get a pretty good result. Now with the new Contrast paints I feel like it’s getting easier and easier to have decently painted models on the table in no time! It’s a very good time in the hobby right now, so many good looking models out there :)
I appreciate the compliment! I struggled for a long time, it’s just about practice and repetition. It can definitely be frustrating, I still get frustrated at a lot of things about painting, it can be hard but you know, with every mini I can feel the growth, just keep going and you’ll get to where you want to be!
I voted for this as I know it would be fantastic wit your magic touch. I was NOT dissapointed. You really are a Master Painter. Thanks to Blake for sending this in. What a treat to witness
Know I'm a bit behind - have an extended recuperation from illness and surgery and enjoying your videos (working my way back through them). Keep going!
Thanks, that means a lot! I’m very glad you are enjoying the content even though you don’t paint, pretty cool to have outside perspective on the hobby :)
Wow! Amazing work! I love the way you combine techniques for dramatic effect. Truly inspiring. I rescued a Khorgorath myself last year and was pleased with the results but you take it to another level altogether! You have given me a lot to consider as I have an airbrush I know I should use in my figure painting. I just loathe cleaning the dammed thing! Thanks to Blake for providing the patient needing rescue!
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed the video :) If you want to make cleaning your airbrush easier then get a sonic jewelry cleaner, real down the parts and toss them in. Works great for breaking up small paint particles :)
@@eBayMiniatureRescues That is a brilliant idea! I was just looking on ebay the other day at sonic cleaners with the idea of stripping paint from older miniatures.... didn't think about cleaning the air brush. 👍
@@eBayMiniatureRescues Well, that makes two of us. I really want to get a second one. It seems to me that it is a great model to practice my airbrush skills. I haven't even got it working yet.
Dude had to stop at 2:33. Are you kidding me! As soon as you said change stuff head swap? I'm thinking oh no! But you have just made the best khorgorath I have ever seen. It genuinely looks better than the original by far. I love you style. I love you work. You already have my subscription and I try to remember to like every video I see of yours you just keep getting better keep Rollin brother cheers.
The spotting you're getting is from the airbrush itself, not the paint over black. I bet you're using a Master's brush. It's notorious for splattering. You could thin your paint a bit, or increase the air pressure a bit to avoid spattering, nice model man! Great rescue. Also for everyone, the mephiston red he used was a layer not a glaze. A glaze should be so faint that you can't even really see the paint, but a tint to the base colour. He's layering here in true fashion.
Thanks! It takes a little bit of practice, but if you have a pretty easy to see color separation on the model then as long as you stick to those areas and blend lightly where they meet, you should end up with a pretty nice blend overall.
The mini looks great and far better than I could have ever done. I love the hair bits that were added to it. What exactly were the “official” bits that you used?
I’m glad you like it man, thank you again for sending it in! I used parts from a Skaven verminlord kit. The mustache wraps are I think sideburn wraps and the hair was part of one of the helmets. Had to do some greenstuff for the hair to blend it, I also added more strands of hair around the bottom and down the center to hide the large gap. Turned out though :)
Love what you've done here. The head swap is perfect. Any chance you could detail your gap filling techniques? Those were nasty but you have them invisible now.
I plan on making a quick tip style video about it, but I use milliput for mostly all the gap filling and greenstuff for anything else :) Milliput is water soluble so you can put some on a gap and with some water on your finger or sculpting pen, smooth it out nicely. It’s also inexpensive!
Thanks! I used a bunch of cork, small rocks, and some green stuff tentacles. Then covered it in some texture paint, washed it, dry brushed it with greys and whites, and then finished off some of the details with some purple for the tentacles and dark green for some of the vines.
Great work. I've been trying to decide how to paint up some black armor on some Space Marines for Kill Team. I've been watching videos trying to get ideas. I'd love to hear or see what you'd do with them.
You've not changed my opinion of the Khorgorath as a miniature, but I like your color scheme for it. I don't understand why GW always does that "skulls embedded in flesh" thing for their big chaos beasts. Makes them look like demonic currant buns.
Korgorath sure spends a lot of time at the gym, hairstylist and playing with body paint/makeup before battle. I am sure he has tons of tips, should probably become a life coach as alternative career, much less hazardous than wargaming.
I use premiere pro’s ducking feature, it’s 80% accurate, still have to adjust a few parts, but it’s a huge time saver!! Btw, love your channel man, I’m subbed on my regular account, just subbed on this one :) I’m also adjusting the volume of each song to only hit -29 dB on ducking, -19 on full volume, vocals around -9 while the music is ducked, seems to be the sweet spot for me, I’ve had issues in the past lol.
eBay Miniature Rescues cool, thank you (and thanks for the kind words!). I haven't tried using ducking but I may take a stab at it. It works great in your videos.
wish i was 1/10th as good with paint as u are -.- i love miniatures, i built and posed almost a full Spacemarine army and severa groups of Chaos and Ork groups to have baddies for my "panorama" i had planed out in my head, but the painting.. im just not able to get into it sadly =(
I think it just depends on what your goals are for the hobby. I barely play games these days, I paint 98% of the time. But if you play more I totally get how it would be hard to get into painting on a deeper level.
im not playing at all, i just want them as figurines, i love the 40k universe and have read countless of the books and played several games. but my plan on making 40k panoramas just wont work out, as much as i enjoy build my miniatures and converting them and all, i just cant get into painting due to being misserably bad with the brush -.-
It depends. I do commissions, so if someone is going that route then I send it back. Most of the models on the channel are either ones I have found on eBay or have been kindly donated to the cause :)
Do you keep the rescued minis? That’s pretty cool if you do. People sending you free minis to paint is very nice of them. If you don’t keep them, how much do you charge?
eBay Miniature Rescues that’s cool and you are very talented. I recently got into Star Wars armada and didn’t realize that the squadrons that are in the game aren’t painted. It just looked like something I had to fix when I set them beside the awesomely pre-painted capital ships. I decided I was going to paint them and channels like yours really helped me learn how to do an at least ok job. Do you work on models that small? I found it pretty challenging
Yeah, the hair is verminlord, I wanted to use the head too, but it was a bit much, the mustache was from the same kit, part of some hair piece that hangs down. Good eye :)
eBay Miniature Rescues i got the idea they are coming from but still. Once i seen it i just left it. I like all the models in AoS starter but this one was just nope for me.
