i never really collected warhammer epic back in the day,
i was more interested in GW's fantasy games but i always loved the scale of epic
because it reminds me of some of my other childhood passions like micro machines and
mighty max, there's just something truly wonderful about this tiny scale i mean miniatures are great
but miniature miniatures i mean come on! amazing and today on the hobby grotto i'm going to show
you how i painted an ork battle wagon and a space marine rhino in this adorable scale!
the first thing i'm going to do with this little wagon is a good old dry brush over the whole model
with a mix of silver and brown and this is going to give a bit more of a dirty grimy looking metal
reminiscent of the old tin bits paint and i have to say the ork miniatures are perhaps my favorite
in the whole epic range i mean orks are just awesome to begin with but their vehicles are
so wacky i just want to collect them all and you can have way more of them in this scale than in
regular 40k so that's great. i'm coming back with a lighter dry brush of leadbelcher to catch some
more of the detail and when you're painting your own models you can decide how clean or
dirty you want your ork vehicles to be just by the amount of pure silver you dry brush at this stage
don't forget we're also going to be adding some nuln oil later so that will darken it further.
now bad moons are my favorite ork clan because i think yellow works so nicely with grimy beaten
metal so i'm basing all the yellow parts firstly with some xv-88 so the yellow isn't
just going straight over black, this can be very handy for bright colors like yellow, and it's a
tough call deciding how much color to put on these minis because the old school orks where like the
entire miniature was yellow looks so awesome but i'm going a bit more sparing in what you could
call a slightly more modern ork approach with a nice contrast between the yellow and metal bits.
i really wanted to paint a vehicle with one of these awesome pointy wizard roofs
because i don't know something about that is iconic epic ork to me.
averland sunset is our yellow and it's a great yellow i highly recommend this paint you know it
does have good coverage but coming in over a nice yellowy brown like xv-88 really fills out its tone.
i couldn't help myself painting all these roof tiles individually but this could also easily
be achieved with a wash. i'm painting this model as a single mini so if you're painting a bunch
of vehicles nothing wrong with speeding up the process but i really wanted that black and yellow
contrast here with the tiles because it's kind of the focal point of the mini if you think about it.
a final detail before the wash is some black on those tyres
even though they did look kind of cool as metal wheels.
now i know i'm putting a black wash over the yellow but nuln oil is going to work so
well with the rest of the model and orks are grimy anyway so i think it's fine for yellow
we don't want to be mucking around with different washes on a model this small
and i'm going to be bringing back the vibrancy of the yellow with highlights anyway.
time to come back and brighten up that yellow and i'm going to be moving through a few different
colors here firstly with averland and then onto further highlights with yriel yellow
because i want it nice and bright but these are small models you know
and if you're painting to a tabletop standard everything after the wash is pretty optional
it's up to you how far you want to take these kinds of models. now if you're enjoying this
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some final highlights are being added with a mix of yriel yellow and white just to get a
bit more definition on some of the key areas and i'm really liking how this yellow is turning out
it's got that nice golden hue that comes from working up through xv-88 and averland sunset
the bad moons would be proud! i did even think about adding some blue in there on some parts
of the vehicle but i like the simplicity of keeping the color count minimal here.
before i finish the tyres looked a bit plain so i'm giving them
a little highlight with eshin grey. this is a problem you get with black
sometimes it looks a little unfinished but a nice dark grey can sort that out.
what a fun mini to paint i might come back later and add some ork glyphs and freehand
but i'm happy with this standard for now let's crack on with the rhino!
i'm starting with a nice solid base coat of khorne red because i'm painting this in the color
of the blood angels and i actually had a real hard time choosing which chapter to paint this because
honestly they all look great on these little rhinos but back in the day one of my favorite
black library things was blood quest, i don't know how many of you remember that one, but i felt like
the blood angels would be fitting opponents of the orcs when i eventually paint more of these armies
and i'm keeping this nice and watered down so we don't clog up any detail
as well as giving it two coats to get it nice and consistent. after that i'm hitting
the model with a dry brush of mephiston red and it doesn't matter about getting paint on
the non-red parts here because i'm going to be repainting those bits black in the next step.
this is an old school rhino so i'm taking a lot of my inspiration here from that historic look
for marines and i'm going to be brightening up this paint job further after the wash.
you don't necessarily need to come back and re-undercoat these details black but i think
it looks a bit nicer and builds more contrast and the models are so small i mean it's quick to do.
any silver is going to work for these details you can go quite bright and clean with marines or also
go you know with a darker silver for more contrast with your colors, both leadbelcher and ironbreaker
are two great mid-range silvers that i use a lot for this kind of stuff and for miniatures this
small, true metallic metals are perfect you know you don't even need to do any highlighting later .
also i need to paint those headlights yellow this mini doesn't have too many
details that aren't red so you're going to make the most of the opportunity.
a wash like nuln oil is not only a shading time saver it's also going to tie in all the
colors on a given model and as i mentioned with the battle wagon keeping it simple is the way
to go when painting in small scales like this, and nuln oil is one of the best general washes
you can use i reckon because it just darkens everything as opposed to introducing new tones.
the downside to nuln oil when you paint it over the whole model as opposed to just the
cracks and crevices though is that it does bring down the saturation and i want this rhino to have
a brighter red so i'm coming back and highlighting everything with mephiston
red to bring back that color. this is also a great way to start building
up those highlights with a couple of layers and i'm also going to add a few
edge highlights with a mix of red and yellow to get some more defined points on the model.
i've seen some awesome 3d printed space marine armies for epic with the newer design for armor
and vehicles but i do still really appreciate this old-school rhino design it's just classic you know.
i like it so much that i think i really want to paint some of the other chapters now too,
oh geez i tell you i've definitely got the bug for epic after paying these minis
so let me know in the comments if you want to see more stuff like this because i'd be happy to paint it!
finally a touch more yellow on the lights to brighten them up and we're good to go.
you know as i mentioned at the start of the video these minis really do remind me of things like
micro machines and are just such a blast to paint because you really do look at them in a different
way to large-scale stuff. thanks for watching and we'll see you next time on the Hobby Grotto :)