it's saturday august 28th and kill team octarius has just released we here at eons
of battle inc were busy with other projects and had no time to devote to this new game
but jay as usual not allowing a little thing like reality and common sense get in his way
decided to go for it anyway what you will see in this video is a sweaty nerd building
painting and basing miniatures at breakneck speeds viewer discretion is advised
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle kill team octarius came out this weekend and me and
james workshop usually we're in constant communication and usually we try to build
a release schedule so that things don't come out when i am super swamped but unfortunately james he
got a little excited on this one and he released it a little bit earlier than i would have expected
and so it comes out this weekend but that's okay i think i can make it work now right now i am
super busy i'm trying to get my star wars legion team up to 800 points i'm working on my orcs i'm
working on my jeans dealer cults i might be doing some 3d printery sort of things you don't know so
uh i don't have a lot of time for kilty mac terrace i could either get it done
right now or in a few weeks i think i can get it done right now so this weekend i am going to get
the box i'm going to familiarize myself with rules so that i'm good enough to build a proper kill
team i'm going to have to build my krieg and then i'm going to have to paint them and i'm pretty
sure i have plenty of time to do all of this now i don't have the octarous kill team box in hand
james workshop again another kind of weird mix up but instead of sending the box to me directly he
sent it to the friendly local game store and so i have to go there and pick it up and pay full price
but it's an honest mistake i get it so the shop is opening at 10
o'clock so i should head out to pick up my box
this is a big box for 20 models and some terrain but ah
it looks pretty good i'm a sucker for orange let's crack this box open
oh there it goes wow that is pretty full terrain ah thank goodness
the uh the templates i can't wait to move triangle or square
i wasted a lot of time on packaging the box i thought i had all the time in the world
i was wrong i was so wrong although i had so much work to do i had a grand old time reading
the rules it was really interesting i'm super familiar with all things kill team one and i
was comparing and contrasting as i read i've just finished reading the kill team rules and
i'm a little disappointed um i think it kinda sucks
just kidding actually this looks really fun uh they've gotten rid of the morale phase which good
riddance and instead everything seems to have tons of wounds which is gonna be great because now
instead of either hitting or missing it looks like most of the time you're probably gonna hit and
just not do enough damage to fully kill something but you're gonna get to feel good because you
took off two or three wounds so good for that um i better get a move on though because it looks like
a imperial guard kill team is going to consist of all 10 models so uh i gotta get building
i prepared to build and with most modern 40k kits it is important to follow the instructions
i gave them a read and found the options i wanted and then i picked them out of the sprue
i used my hobby knife with a fresh blade to clean off the nubs and mold lines there were a few
it was meant to be my favorite weapon the good old plasma pistol was part number 69. that must be a
good omen i had my parts and they were pretty easy to assemble i used tamiya extrathin plastic glue
to assemble my parts look at that proud little guardsman so noble i prepared my favorite brand
of paint handles small cubes of wood with double stick tape i believe this product is still patent
pending but it is the only one i'll use these guys are so small that i found it helpful to
put them onto their paint handles first and then glue on the more fiddly bits like weapons after
one model done and it took a little while lots of little pieces but boy does it look good
now it's time to build nine more and i have plenty of time right
right building models is something i always underestimate in terms of time
it really is some work and although i enjoy it a lot i prefer to take my time
but this is a challenge i got the lead out and i put the pedal to the metal
well that was an absolute slog putting together my kriegsman but at the very end i was having tons of
fun because this kit came with lots of extra bits and pockets and pouches and i had a really really
lot of fun putting on all of the little details and backpacks and stuff really really fun but now
i have a few hours left before i have to stream by the way here at ian's battle we stream live
on youtube every night from 9 to 10 p.m central please show up and join us here live on youtube
but for now i'm going to prime these guys up and while that's drying i'm going to work
on the bases i prime the models using my airbrush and my favorite primer style res black
and priming is always nice because it's quick and you feel like you really accomplished something
for the bases i wanted to do something fun so i got out my sand and some popsicle sticks
and i broke out my vallejo earth texture paste and spread it all over the bases
and with the popsicle sticks i broke them to size then in half and then i spread them on the base
maybe these are the ruins of trenches as the guardsman's crossover no man's land i added a bit
more texture paste and then i sprinkled on some small pebbles and after that some sand letting
it stick itself down to the still wet putty i had to pause this project go stream but you know what
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some terrain stls and more with that said i ended the live stream and got right back to work alright
it is very late i am completely exhausted but i am determined to get a base coat on these krieg
so i'm going to dig deep and i'm going to get a little bit of paint on them before i go to bed i
sprayed a blue black mixture over all my guardsmen this will be my shadows then i sprayed them all
with a light blue from above alright there's paint on the krieg thank goodness i can go to bed now
second day of the cree weekend challenge i think i can do it i still have some of today although
today is sunday and on sundays nick and i and some friends play kill team one so i'm gonna
lose quite a few hours to that but maybe i can still get it done if i if i really hunkered down
and i put pedal to the metal i think i can do it before i left to go gaming i threw a wash mixture
over my krieg which was one part null oil one part lamy and medium and one part drakenhoff nightshade
this will give me some more subtle recess shading on the coats of the krieg i applied this to every
fella then i left to go game well i'm back from my game it was glorious i lost but now it's time
to finish these krieg i have about 10 hours oh god 10 hours 10 models that seems impossible
but i'm gonna do it and now i'm in a stage where i don't really know what to do i get the question
all the time how do you paint this how do you paint that how do you figure out a paint scheme
and i don't really know i feel like i approach every unit differently every project differently
and for these guys i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to paint one i'm going to figure it
out and then that one model will tell me what operations and steps i need to do to knock out
the rest of them i threw some colors i figured i would need on my wet palette some brown some blues
a black and a white a little bit of matte medium for mixing and some metallics painting this creek
was a lot of fun it was a time of discovery it was also a time during the project where i still had
hours ahead of me and the threat of failure was not looming so large yet this guy turned out
really nice it painted up really easy and quick which is good but i really like how he turned out
i maybe did mine a little bit sillier than the classic guard scheme with the bright red eyes but
i like silly and i feel like it really sells this as a future space soldier as opposed to a more
historical figure but i think having painted this i don't think it's gonna i'm gonna struggle that
bad getting the rest of them painted up before uh midnight hopefully so i'm going to batch paint
working step by step and i'm going to try to race through the other nine time to get to work
to paint my krieg i started by highlighting the coat with a slightly lighter shade of
blue than i airbrushed with i probably could have skipped this step but alas i am a perfectionist
after that i painted everything that ought to be metal with gunmetal i used games for shop lead
belcher this is game's workshop's best metallic paint by far then i washed all the metal parts
with null oil this will help give them some contrast once that was dry i dry brushed all
of these areas with silver it's good i painted that first creek because i did this last on him
but it makes much more sense to do it first i used my small army painter dry brush so i
wouldn't accidentally splash silver where i didn't want it then i painted all the leg wraps with the
tan paint and for all the boots and gloves i used a reddish brown to base coat these areas
i brought out another brown color and i painted all the belts and pouches with this new brown
so i have been painting for many many hours and i'm starting to suspect that batch painting is
not faster now i don't know if that's just because i am starting to get tired and annoyed about my
lack of progress or if it's true but my hunch is that uh picking up and putting down the models
is wasting time uh maybe i'm crazy but i would love to do run this experiment again and uh
paint them one at a time versus batch painting them like i'm doing now also i've had my
time-lapse camera going this whole time and i'm a crazy person and i need to know the camera's
operating so i have the beep turned on which means every five seconds the camera goes beep beep
beep and boy oh boy that wears a person down thank goodness it ran
out of battery so that i can have a break for a few hours but uh yeah i'm doing great
back to painting i threw a brown agrax wash over the shoes pants and backpacks
i love a wash it adds so much while being so easy to do i mix some white paint onto
my brown and use this new color mixture to highlight all the brown pouches and belts
then i started working on the armor it finally felt like they were coming together i used a 50
50 blue black mixture for this armor base coat then i highlighted by adding in more blue and
painting this on the top facing parts of the armor eventually after 4 layers it was back to pure blue
alright i'm very very close to reaching a minimum viable product on these krieg the only thing left
is the face and luckily i'm all tuckered out so now it's time to do the most fiddly most detailed
parts of the mini to paint the faces i started by painting the cheeks of the gas masks with a gray
then i painted the face of the gas mask with a white this took a couple of coats which was
nerve-racking as this is the most important thing to get right and i had to do it over and
over and over to finish the faces there's a nose on each gas mask that i painted with a gray line
this was a major pain in the butt but it was worth it to spend some quality time on the focal point
of the model then i painted the eyes the black base coat and then ever so carefully i painted the
eye lenses with red paint and then just a touch of bright red to really draw the eyes to the eyes
i was tiring my hands were a little shaking and i painted ten creek faces it was getting really late
well i just hit the minimum viable product that i'm willing to accept with my kriegers and it's
getting very late but uh i'm gonna put them onto the bases and then i'm gonna work on the bases and
i guess we'll just see how long i stay up tonight i popped these suckers off the paint handles and
attached them with plenty of super glue i could pin but i don't want to and i don't think i'll
need to either on models where there was not a great flat spot for a foot to stand i poured on
extra super glue and then used an icing bottle to squirt baking soda all over the glue bond
this will do two things the baking soda will make the glue dry instantly and it'll also create more
surface area between the feet and the bases next while i was at a friendly local game store i found
this stuff which really looks the part of barbed wire i cut off a length wrapped it around a brush
and this gave me exactly the look i was going for i bent the barbed wire in my hands and made it
more irregular then i placed it on the bases and where it touched the ground i super glued it down
then added another drop of super glue and used more baking soda to create an instant ground on
top of the wire to hold it down this was super fun but it would have been a lot more fun if it was
not so late or early i was so tired i put a bit of barbed wire on every base the bases are done being
built and i'm loving how the barbed wire looks this is army painter barbed wire and it is so
neat it's also not razor sharp it's very soft the way they figured out how to do it but i love how
it adds a ton to the base but speaking of those bases i am fading fast so i'm gonna throw a little
paints on there and then they will be technically done and then i think i'm gonna call it a night
ah it's getting late for the bases i wanted to experiment with some burnt umber ink i applied
this right over top of everything and it did a good job of tinting what was already there so
the different materials all showed up as different colors even though i didn't paint them separately
it looked all right at this point but i decided to throw some pigments on there too the bases
were still wet so the stuff stuck down nicely to the burnt umber ink the kriegsman are done
ish they are based they are painted there are plenty playable as they are right now there's i
would say they're about 90 done there's a million little things i'd like to do to them but i'd also
really like to go to bed i'd like to go to bed more than i'd like to continue working on these
guys so that is gonna be it i have a towel i have a towel right here and i'm throwing it in boom
good night
there they are the death corps of pre my forces for the brand new kill team and i just couldn't
resist putting on the decals my little kill team is basically kinda sort of done ish i shouldn't be
so disappointed i came so close i could have made things much easier on myself but i didn't want
to i don't like to compromise i like my models to be exactly how i want them to be and i came
really really darn close in terms of the models i love them they don't remind me so much of 40k
models they seem much more like necromunda models they're very very detailed and characterful even
though i suppose they are rank and file each one feels unique and heroic it's going to be
really painful to see them lost in battle well let me introduce you to my creed kill team
i mostly followed the instructions but towards the end i did do some kit bashing and converting
i built most of them properly but on the last three i decided i want them to be my own i built
my comms specialist as a normal krieg advancing with a last gun but i gave him the comms backpack
then for my zealot i decided to ditch the prayer book and cover him in purity seals
and lastly for my spotter guardsman i cut off most of his face and attached the goggles out of the
sniper scout kits they may not look as good as the games workshop sculpted and posed specialists but
they are mine and i love them did i achieve what i set out to do well clearly yes but actually no
i achieved exactly what i could have done in the time available so even though i did not achieve my
arguably unreasonable goal of 10 perfect kriegsmen in a weekend i did achieve a lot and now i am
primed and ready to try out kill team 2 which looks to be a really good game i'm very excited
for it so what do you guys think did you get octeris are you gonna build the orcs or the krieg
and what is your loadout or are you gonna build something from the compendium let me know in the
comments below what lists you're gonna bring to kill team 2 but now it's time for the real star
of the show this week's eob completes submissions we put out a challenge to our community to send
us before and after photos of their recently finished models to be immortalized in our videos
if you want to join in the fun you can submit a before and after photo of your painted mini
to our discord server which you can find in the description below or you can post it to instagram
with the hashtag eobcomplete without further ado let's look at and get inspired by what the folks
have finished this week a nurgle play crawler by oblivion ct a warhammer fantasy battles bone giant
by cerulean a chaos play champion by mrumpke an orc commandos kill team by duplicorn some
orc squiggs by wombat74 and adept as custody's captain by how does king crimson work a nurgle
pox maggot by barkinator a custom imperial guard commissar by co-pilot disaster a sister superior
by kennatooth a custom orc weird boy by the raging modeler some intercessor space marines by zataku
a death killer war trike by green axe a good old-fashioned ogre by gustavo s a necro knight by
alex ryder123 a custom cast sorcerer by greyscale a blood angel's phobos captain by gremlins eat two
an orc primerous intercessor by hobo toaster some necron krypto thralls by disco a primary librarian
in phobos armor by the tooch some tyranid warriors by ryagnox a grey knight by chip mercury some
intercessor space marines by pyrite a little gnome druid by meh nerd a necron tomb stalker
by lord prime and some nurgle plague champions by htl bobolicious congratulations to everyone for a
job well done it's no small feat to get paint on a minion you all should feel really proud
nothing gets the hobby juices flowing like finishing a project and we all thank you
for sharing your work motivating us and the hobby community to paint our plastic thanks for sharing