I recently started laying in the black on my fists before the yellow too and it's been a game changer for me. I prime pink, zenithal wraithbone, then do the black, block in the yellow, and then drybrush the whole model with an ivory which highlights the black and yellow together and looks great!
That's something I appreciate about your videos - they are "how I paint things"- not "how TO paint things." Your techniques are very good, and I often find them helpful, but like with anything else, they go into the big hopper of things I learn - some I use all the time, and others that are available as alternatives. Like someone once told me, you're going to get a lot more from "A history of" something " vs. "THE history of" (that topic.)
Glad you like them! I'm very conscious of the fact that I've essentially scuppered myself by insisting on "How *I* Paint Things" in the video titles rather than "How To," but I take a similar view; these are methods and techniques which can work, and whether or not you like the end result is a matter of taste and style. There's no one way of painting a miniature!
I also really like Corax White. It does clump up in the pot very easily, but once it's mixed properly and thinned down on the palette, it's got great coverage.
My advice is to thin it in the pot - not just with medium, but with a few drops of flow improver. Drop in an agitator or two. Shake it _every day_ , even if you're not using it. Shake it like it owes you money. In return, you'll get a wonderful white paint. If you forget and let it settle... well, then it's time to give it a good stirring with a toothpick or such, to break up the clumps before shaking the hell out of it again.
Very neat. I've found I prefer a 3:1 mix of Imperial Fist Yellow with Skeleton Horde for my Lamenters, purely because I want to recreate a similar yellow to early WW2 German tank tropical schemes. Painting in the black first is a great tip - Cheers!
It's quite clever to paint the black first. I think that never occurred to me before because, whenever I laid down basecoats on marines, I wanted to just brush it on as fast as possible without worrying about painting over any previously painted areas. Anyway, this Sternguard Veteran turned out great, such a simple painting method yet the end result is such a high quality!
Mostly that's the excess of Lahmian Medium in there - the shading's dark, but it doesn't really collect anywhere except the very recesses. Even straight over white, it does the job!
Huh! I'd never thought of using something like that, but I can imagine it'd really work a miracle on paints that have been sitting on a shelf for a while.
You have to be careful, though, as its very function is not just to stir, but to introduce air bubbles into the fluid. You don't want that in your paint, lest you get some of those little air bubbles in the coat of paint.
@@HeadHunterSix I cut the wire that froths the milk from its holder, leaving just a ring of wire. It works very well, I also add some medium to thin it down slightly.
I play deathwatch and this would be helpful in painting the chapter symbols. This looks real nice and almost tempts me to paint some of my marines yellow. Also marine juice recipe is saved for future use.
Your Imperial Fists turn out so well that it's almost making me regret not going with them for my Marines. Almost. I'll definitely have to pick up a pot of Corax White and see if it works out for me as good as it looks on this fella though, as the white that I picked up has been going chalky on me and frustrating me to no end. Excellent video as always!
Corax White really *can* be a bugger, but with just a little medium and a couple agitators I've had a pot running smooth and crisp for almost a year, now. I don't tend to use it often since I don't paint a lot of sharp white details, really, but it pulls its weight when I need it!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Oh absolutely. I usually just avoid GW because I don't like their game mechanics. But I followed your Stormcast tutorial for painting up a black-red-gold stormcast army. I'm just burnt out by painting 150+ fantasy miniatures for a song of ice and fire over the last six months. So I was in dire need for some power armor goodness. 😀 And your tutorials are just great for someone with limited skills like me who wants to paint lots of minis in rather short time frames.
Do you already have a video where you compare the different varnishes? Would love to see matte and satin varnishes side-by-side in a video --- just to see how matte photo's better.
Any chance you’ll do some tyranids; your tutorials are the best. Followed your raptors vid and soon going to be doing Imperial Fists once my leviathan box arrives.
this video is everything ive been looking for in a how to imperial fist video. thank you soooo much!!!! was thinking about doing the Aquila a burgundy or also black for the HH look. any recommendations for what contrast top use for the burgundy Aquila??
Hello Sonic I've been following your guides and first of all say that I love them! and secondly I'm starting my raven guard army and I don't have much time to paint do you have any tutorial to paint black armor I didn't find any ;(
RU-vid doesn't ordinarily like links in comments, so it'll need a little digging: If you go to the search bar and type "how i paint things" with the quotation marks, + black, you'll get plenty of black armour guides. ;D Pick one you like the look of for Raven Guard and go nuts!
I'm finally taking the dive and painting my Space Marines with this method, but I just have one question about Marine Juice: How do you recommend actually mixing it? I have a bottle each of Reikland Fleshshade, Dark Tone and Lahmian Medium, do I now just dump them all into one container? Or is it better to dole it out bit by bit?
Remember that Reikland Fleshshade and Dark Tone both have the same amount in their bottles, where Lahmian Medium is a bigger bottle. Best to dump the first two into a much larger bottle or container, then pour the Lahmian Medium into the old Reikland pot to measure it out, give it a good shake, and add that to your big container. Or, honestly, you could dump all three in to one pot without measuring them separately - the extra Lahmian Medium will thin it out ever so slightly more, but you might like that finish. Try it without using all the medium, and if the juice still seems too dark, just add the remainder of the bottle into your main container and shake it up again.
Use dropper bottles and measure it out by drops, or get a big container and empty a bottle of Reikland and Dark Tone into it, then use the empty Reikland bottle to measure out the Lahmian Medium from the larger bottle.
Isn't it just the Terminators that are in bone armour? Either way, I actually wouldn't change my original method for that; Seraphim Sepia remains the easiest way for getting a clean bone armour.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio The Bladeguard Veterans (and Eradicators, not sure) can be in the Deathwing. Why not a Stermguard? I don't know if the rules forbid Stermguard from being on the Deathwing. In the ninth edition they could not. In this tenth I don't know.
If you put "how i paint things space wolves" into the search bar, you might get an answer quicker than a comment. 😅 RU-vid doesn't like links in comments so I can't just link directly, but I've already done Space Wolves a couple of times on the channel.
