i hate painting vehicles i didn't know this about myself until recently but i have painted hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of minis and about 10 of them are vehicles
i don't know why i thought i thought vehicles are cool but i just never painted any until today
guys jay here welcome to eons of battle and the time has come for me to tackle a project i've been
sitting on for like two years my black templar centerpiece the magnum opus the rolling cathedral
my land raider crusader this sexy beast of a model is my biggest vehicle it's a big old box and it's
also my biggest kit bash i added a building from the age of sigmar sigmarite mausoleum kit it fits
like a glove after i did a bunch of plastic hard work and then i added crucified skeletons
then purity seals then black templar icons and little by little i had bejeweled basically
every inch of this thing not to mention i have magnetized everything on this sucker
this is a really pricey kit and i wanted to make sure i only needed one so i magnetized
every door every sponson every turret so that if i wanted i could run it in any configuration
i even magnetized this mausoleum this is more for transportation it's much easier to transport with
the thing off than with it attached but why don't i paint vehicles well i think for me the little
guy who drives the tank is more interesting than the tank one of my favorite things about these war
games is the elements of role playing and whenever i'm painting up a little guy i'm always thinking
about who he is what's his purpose in life what's his story and how he's gonna fare in combat
i've been able to extend this love of role playing to dreadnought because they're just a normal
guy in a robot suit but i haven't been able to stretch it into vehicles it also maybe feels like
vehicle cost a little bit more for a little bit less a squad of 10 guys is going to give me a lot
more physically to build and paint than a single tank and for me i'm all about that paint time
painting vehicles particularly large vehicles is fundamentally different from painting infantry the
little tricks and techniques do transfer but they don't do the same work on big models they do on
the single guys wash contrast blending not really a thing with such large surfaces this thing has
been sitting in my pile of shame for too long it is time to nike just do it and i'm always wanting
to experiment and try new things so i'm going to be taking a big departure from my usual tricks
no airbrush now i will be doing this for two reasons number one i want to prove that you do not
need an airbrush to paint big models airbrushes are awesome but they are not a barrier point for
painting vehicles and i want to try out tons and tons of tricks and ideas i have for how to paint
large models with a brush and this model should be the perfect excuse to give those things a try now
this is one of my all-time favorite units and can i speak directly to games workshop for a moment
let's have a conversation about primaris now i love primaris i think they look super cool and i
really like them in the lore i've really enjoyed books like apocalypse and call the great work
but for the love of sigismund let primaris get into first-born transports it is crazy
that certain names of space marines are forbidden from entering certain vehicles
centurion war suits can get inside of a land raider but not primaris
dreadnoughts can fit in drop pods but not primaris can we put an end to this primaries gatekeeping
let my boys get inside my toys but whatever i'm sure my cries will go unanswered but i have a
vehicle to paint and it's probably gonna take me a long time she's big now it's time to get to work
it's time to start paying my land raider and i have it set up in an
exploded view i have everything separated and this is going to help me with painting
if i was using an airbrush i'd probably be able to glue most of it together because the airbrush
is pretty small and can get inside every nook and cranny but since i'm sticking with rattle cans i
need everything separated so that the paint can reach every single surface and another good reason
not to wait on projects is because i had to dust off this model there was even dust in the baggy i
think it's from all the parts of rubbing around but it wasted a lot of time if you get a kit
build it paint it first things first i protected all the parts i did not want to get painted i
used some painters tape for the long pins and some small balls of silly putty to keep my holes nice
and clean this is the mighty land raider i wanted perfect i prepared some pallets to help me spray
paint i put some painters tape sticky side up onto cardboard so that my 80 tiny plastic pieces would
become four pallets it was time to paint not with an airbrush but good old-fashioned canned paint i
sprayed everything with a coat of matte primer as you can see holding up a palette to paint is much
quicker than trying to paint every piece separates and i strategically primed the inside parts with
an off-whites i will start with these parts i did a quick and dirty wash with some brown wash paints
i globbed this on and then dabbed up the excess with a paper towel then i put a bit of metallic
paint on my palette i took this and dry brushed all the inside to make it look like the cream
colored interior was well worn then i added a little sponging of brown on the floor space
marine's big old feet track in a lot of dirt then it was time to stick it together i used some good
old-fashioned super glue and i made sure to keep the apparatus functioning even though this kit is
old it has some impressive playability that would put lego to shame it's together and boy oh boy do
i have quite the project in front of me i prepared my many shades of black somewhere between 3 and
50. i began by sponging on a healthy dose of black paint with just a hint of gray i covered about 90
of the tank only leaving the primer in the most hard to reach recesses then i moved up to black
paint with a little bit of gray i sponged this on to only the top of the tank and the bottom half of
the side panels this layering will recreate the gradient effect an airbrush would make
next black paint with some gray i applied a little less of this than the previous layers
then a little less than a 5050 mix of gray and black again applying less than the previous layers
it might not look like much but compare this to the original primer looks pretty good it's
definitely a lot more labor intensive than the airbrush but it does provide a different
look it's kind of cool it's like a gritty texture and it gives you something to look at even on a
flat surface i definitely think this is a solid way to paint vehicles i know a lot of people will
use like a brush like this a spade shaped brush but i say no i say get yourself a piece of foam
this is a piece of charcoal foam you find this a lot in like packaging and shipping stuff but
it's a really really cheap open cell foam i cannot stress enough sponging do it to all your vehicles
i love how it looks on my land raider and i can only imagine how awesome it would work with colors
you could even do color gradients like a blue to purple or a yellow to orange with my black
templars properly black i moved on to the metal bits nodded the base coat i just dry brushed my
gun metal all over and then did a lighter dry brushing of bright silver this will make for
some really nice metal this wasn't too bad there were only like two parts that needed to be painted
metal maybe three or four or a dozen and there she is a proper black templar tank and you know what
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week some terrain stls and more with that said it's time to paint all the other stuff i loaded up
my palette with some yellow some tan and some red paint the colors of the eternal crusade i painted
the accent panels with tan i don't know why but cream colored paint next to black makes me think
of oreos i stippled on a little bit of brown to make the edges look dirty and to make them truly
grim a little bit more brown right on the corners next i came in with some watery tan to bring back
my original color and to blend the brown and tan seamlessly on the last canon barrels i wanted to
add a little retro detail so i base coated the cap's yellow and then some free-handing hot rod
flames i don't know why but it is the way of retro warhammer and it does make the guns pop
with a little color on there it's really coming to life and even though it is dressed to the nines
and completely coated in decorations i have something that'll make it even more special
these are stencils provided by home hobby and hyperspace these are vinyl stickers that
work perfectly to take the free out of free handing these stencils work perfectly for
your sci-fi models and you can use both the positive and negative parts of the stencil
to get the look you want and you can make more complex shapes by layering them up they work
with airbrushing and as you'll see in the tutorial they work well with sponging too
shop with the code eob21 for 10 off your order and if you're an eob patreon supporter you can get 20
off of orders of 50 these stencils are clear which is nice and help you get them where you
want them i took this chain stencil and stuck it down to the top of my land raider i pressed
it down and added a little bit of painters tape just so that i don't have to worry about getting
paint where i don't want it then i sponged on some red making sure that my paint was nice and sticky
not watery and then for the grand reveal boom chain i did another one and i was loving how
easy it was to put templar symbols everywhere on all the guns and i used this sword template
to layer on a sword through the templar symbol i could have free handed these but i don't want to
with my stencils applied and my base color is on it was time to finish off every tiny little thing
yeah this tank is covered in stuff and i had to paint every last bit and bob
but it'll be worth it to have a giant block of a centerpiece i had to do something on this roof
so i tried making a texture by taking a brush loaded with gray and making many small stripes
it looks a little bit silly but it'll be a good base for me to work with
then i coated them with dark red thinned with matte medium so that it was see-through without
being watery this did a great job of tinting what was there on the bottom half of each roof
i continued to use dark red to make a gradient so that the colors got stronger on the bottom edge
and then i mixed up a light red and matte medium mixture and did the same on the top
now my textures look much more subtle and good well it's getting pretty darn close but
there's about a zillion things left to do so it's time for a rapid fire small detail speed paint
i did a dry brushing of white on these spooky skeletons with my army painters small dry brushes
then i took my fine detail brush and did some free handing on the parchment i used thin black paint
to get it done in one pass then i applied some decals to my space marine gunner decals templates
stencils i don't ever freehand the symbol when i can help it i painted all the lenses with a base
coat of dark green a highlight of green and then a further highlight of light green and then some
white dots one in each center and two on the top left to act as reflections i took a dark red and a
light red and made a gray in on all the templar symbols to add a little visual interest then i
took some tan paint and highlighted the raised parts of every purity seal on these flags i did
a red and tan checker doing a quick free handing i highlighted with a pure red and then a wash with
some brown wash and red wash if you can believe it all this work only took a really really really
long time this is the longest amount of time i have spent on a model in a while possibly ever
i think i'm done
behold the mighty land raider the main battle tank of the adeptus astartes its gleaming hull provides
many weapon hardpoints to allow modularity in its loadout so that you can fulfill any role
requirements not only does it have many fearsome offensive weapons but the true power comes in the
transport capacity inside its belly waits a squad of the emperor's finest if a threat can weather
the storm of its deadly armaments it'll quickly be dispatched by the space marines carried inside
this thing is big and holy moly did it take a long time to paint but it's done it was sitting
in several different boxes for too long now it's built it is painted and it is ready to bring the
might of the emperor to the xenos the heretic and the traitor i bought an extra sprue when games
workshop sold the crusader and redeemer spruce separately and i wish i had picked up a second
spare so that i could have everything but really i imagine i will take the land raider phobos or
god hammer most often because my army has almost zero anti-armor and as cool as two assault cannons
and two hurricane bolters are my army has way more than enough infantry killing potential
but i can't not take the crusader it's in my dna i really like these stencils from home
hobby and hyperspace this one sheet should get me through my entire black templar motor pool
i really like freehanding on models i think it adds a ton and it makes me feel special because
my model has a detail that no other model has and these stencils let me do just that
easily with sponging or airbrushing this is one of the biggest models i have ever painted
and i did it all without the airbrush and how did that go well it went good
but from now on i will always always always be using the airbrush because this took so long to
paint it turned out really really well it took a long time but i think this model actually turned
out better because i didn't use the airbrush i tried out some things that i probably wouldn't
have normally i think the sponging worked out phenomenally well it adds a lot of visual interest
to otherwise flat panels and i'll definitely be taking sponging and stenciling on with me to other
projects but i don't know if i'm gonna be painting more gigantic models without use of the airbrush
experimenting is always a good thing it's the only way to learn i still don't think painting vehicles
is my favorite i like doing regular troops and characters more but i think there is a magic to it
and i am excited to take what i've learned on this tank and apply it to the shamefully gray vehicles
that make up the rest of my black templar fleets so what do you guys think is an airbrush worth it
or can you always get just as good if not better results with a proper brush let me know in the
comments below airbrush yay or nay but now it's time for the real star of the show this week's eob
complete 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 chaos hell brute by brett s a custom sloppy bile piper by idiot an illuminator cesares by kct
creeper a death core of krieg sergeant by jordan blythe a death corps of creed kill team by orange
a kit bashed astropath by just make stuff a crag nose by the gaming bubble
a lehman rust battle tank by kai reed and orc commando knob by disco samskitari by boba fett
ig 88 a dewback rider by the happy heretic an old school grot by the radio a nice fella by
c iguana a rain in hell cabal by cactus crow an orc knob on smasher squig by karstein a castellan
robot by ano 2122 a fairy garden diorama by pipboy 1701 some chaos reinforcements by mr french a
sister of battle by a bearer boy some eradicator space marines by chago a primaris apothecary by
ryan y a primary space marine by brood lapin an orc deaf dread by hyperspace a primary master
of the forge by huntron and a squirtback lord by black lung raider congratulations to everyone for
a job well done it's no small feat to get paint on minis and 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