hey guys jay here welcome to ions of battle for a while now i've had some ideas for
unorthodox paint strategies rattling around in my head and i think it's time i tried them out
and stick around to the end to see what the eob complete community has been up
to
sometimes i get a little sick of the old base coat wash highlight method of mini painting it works
it's efficient and it's a fail-safe strategy to attack any model with i recently did a whole week
of this to bring my high school necron army up to snuff and when i paint here on youtube every night
from 9 to 10 pm central i push this to the max to paint to my highest ability but sometimes i wonder
if there isn't something more out there sometimes i just want to say to hell with tradition and try
out some crazy ideas i want to get a little experimental i have three ideas for painting
hacks and if they work should make for some simple and awesome paint schemes but before i can put
these ideas onto minis i have to find the perfect test subjects now to be a great mini painter it's
important to abt always be testing and don't be that guy who's too scared to mess up a mini so you
test stuff on green army men or worse yet spoons you're not going to try that hard on an army man
because you don't have an attachment to that many you will grow so much faster as a painter
if you just try things out on your precious minis painting new minis especially weird stuff that
puts you outside of your comfort zone will make you better it worked for me while i looked through
my pile of shame i found the perfect minis for this project an age of sigmar stormcast eternal
from the steelhearts champion box an easy to build warhammer 40k space marine intercessor
and an aegis sigmar easy to build nighthaunt glade wraith stalker these three should provide
fun test subjects for my experiments my first idea is to use speckles to paint a mini this
is where you use a toothbrush or an airbrush to throw hundreds of tiny dots of paint onto a mini
my second idea is to use sponging to create an easy and effective camouflage on a model
and last i want to hijack the classic xenothal prime to get a really dramatic two-tone look i'm
really excited to give these ideas a try with my models picked out it's time to get painting
i love the look of these aegis sigmar nighthaunt glabrate stalkers
the first thing i did was i gave it a prime with some style res black primer through my airbrush
but you could also do this with a rattle can then it was time to get spattering i watered down some
games workshop eschen gray and took a toothbrush and began to fling some paint dots onto the mini
remember that the watered-down paint will dry a little darker than it looks wet after the gray
i spattered on a little bit of vallejo sick green then i switched to the airbrush so i had a little
more control and i started to spatter on some watered-down vallejo stonewall grey the color of
kings i kept this to the highest parts of the mini i was liking what i was seeing but it lacked color
so i spattered on some more of the green onto the cloak then i used some washes to further
tint the two halves of his spooky cloak i used army painter green tone for the undercloak and
for the upper cloak i used some army painter light tone which is an orangey yellow wash these washes
were a nice touch because they're transparent and let my speckles shine through really well
it tinted more than shade of the model i was happy with my cloak so i decided i wanted something nice
and bright for the base so i applied some p3 sanguine highlight which is a darker red to
the base this contrasts nicely with the green cloak i also use this on the handle of a spear
the fewer paints i add to my palette the fewer colors are fighting for attention on the mini
for the top of his spear i applied some classic games workshop lead belcher the
one and done gunmetal for all occasions now onto his flesh or lack thereof i applied
some games workshop sotek blue which stands out proudly against the other colors on the model
and i even used it on the weapon to add some vertigreeds the bones popped but did not have
enough contrast so i applied a highlight of games workshop lothorn blue by then the base coat on the
base had dried so i gave it a dry brushing with some p3 carnal pink this worked amazing because
there's so much lovely texture sculpted into the base already that the dry brush brought it
out beautifully but once again i could use a little more contrast so i gave the whole base
a wash with some games workshop red wash cara bra crimson now the face and hands could use a little
bit more pop so i applied a 50 50 mix of lothorn blue and white and did some further highlights
at this point the model was finished and the only thing left was to paint the rim of the base black
this model took a while before it started to look like anything this is sometimes referred
to as the ass phase of the model that time where you're second guessing your paint scheme yourself
your ability to paint and your place in the universe once it was done i was feeling a
little bummed out but when i walked away i noticed that it was actually looking good from a distance
which is surprising typically even a great paint job will look like much the further you view the
model but the simplicity of the paint job and the brightness of the colors make this model pop even
from across the table it pulled me out of my self-doubt and made me feel a bit vindicated
i'm a 40k fanboy and a space marine player so i was most looking forward to painting this model
the first thing i did was you guessed it primed it black with my airbrush and some style res black
primer you could also use a rattle can to get the job done as well then i prepared my instrument
a tweezer with a piece of foam in it and to avoid hand fatigue i rubber banded it shut i dipped my
foam into some vallejo model color reflective green and began sponging this onto the model
about halfway through i switched to some vallejo model color chocolate brown because this will be
a camouflage and i wanted it to look the part so now he's half brown and half green i sponged some
brown onto his green bits and some green onto his brown bits making sure to leave a little
bit of the undercolor showing then it was time to add some lighter colors first i used some vallejo
model color green brown and did some much lighter sponging on this so that the patches were smaller
and didn't cover too much of my undercoats then it was time for some vallejo sick green and this was
the final color to bring the camouflage together i did the same thing as with the light brown keeping
the sponging smaller at this point i thought this was looking good not great it needed a little bit
of panel lining for this i could have used a wash or carefully thinned down a black paint
and used a really fine brush but i decided to try out a gray tone pen with a brush tip
this worked flawlessly it goes on strong but it gets a little lighter when it's dry and it made
quick work of adding some darkness to the lines of his armor and because it's a pen i didn't have
to refresh a paintbrush every few strokes now my armor is done and i have a new tool for my arsenal
it's time for his weapons so i painted his bolt gun and under armour not sponsored with the some
games workshop lead belcher then i used some games workshop death guard green for his decorations
and this color is surprisingly awful for a base paint it took lots of coats to get good coverage
two thin coats yeah right it did make for a nice accent color and it made the weapons
and accessories pop while still making sense for a tactical camouflage marine
finally i dotted his eyes with some lothorn blue and i also used this on the purity seal
because i'm a rebel the blue also went on the screen of his ospex scanner as well
i washed the metal bits with some army painter strong tone and then the model was finished it was
time for its base i gave it a coat of chocolate brown and after that was dry i gave it a nice dry
brushing with some vallejo green brown the only thing left was to paint the rim of the base black
i have in the past very carefully painted a classic camouflage pattern and i thought it
looked pretty decent but i had an inkling that sponging could give me a great effect
with very little effort and this model proves my hypothesis correct the sponging worked great and
gave me some basic highlights and shading to boot because the sponge favors the rage
edges and couldn't reach the recesses i used green and brown and dark green and dark brown
to achieve this look but i bet i can mix it up to get lots of different camos like desert or arctic
and right before i paint this third model it's time for a pp break a patreon plug if
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some people say these guys are just space marines but i think they look different enough
i broke from the norm and gave this model a prime with some light gray from vallejo
you could also prime with a rattle can now to get crazy i'm spraying some game's workshop mephiston
red as a base coat and then from above i sprayed some p3 cygnus yellow i'm spraying with my trusty
airbrush but you could probably pull off a very similar effect with a yellow and red rattle can
but if you want the super fine control the airbrush is king
with my base coat applied i quickly gave it a matte varnish to protect the delicate airbrush
layers then i began selectively adding a red wash specifically army painter red tone to
key areas of the model i wanted to add more contrast to like the rivets and folds of his
shoulders and the creases in his chiseled physique of his suit of armor then to pick
out his weapons i base coated them with some vallejo magic blue which is about as bright
a blue as exists on planet earth this contrasts nicely with the yellow and red making them both
pop more the great thing about these easy to build figures is it can make sub-assemblies unnecessary
just remove stuff to get underneath it i wanted the cloth parts to be a little less vibrant than
his hammer so i used some vallejo ultramarine blue which is a little bit darker then i applied
more red shade to the accents of his weapons and banner and then some blue shade to all the
blue parts of the model it took two coats to get as dark as i wanted it now the model is finished
and super eye-wateringly vibrant so i decided to go very dull on the base i glooped on some vallejo
chocolate brown and while that was wet i worked in some vallejo beastie brown into areas to give
a more natural mottled look then i broke out the sponge again and applied some vallejo green brown
after that i sponged on some vallejo model color reflective green and at this point i still thought
the base was too bright so i gave it a black wash the only thing left to do was say it with me now
paint the rim of the base black for this paint job i wanted to hijack the classic technique
of a xenothal highlight which is when you spray white from directly above on a black primed model
to create a basic simulation of light replacing the black with red and the white with yellow made
for a super striking and fast paint job and the emphasis is definitely on fast this technique
is positively speedy if you want to speed paint an army this is a solid way to do it especially
armies that are mostly one color like necrons storm cast eternals and maybe even tyranids
well i'm pretty happy with this experiment but i would love a second pair of eyes on these models
what are we doing all right so here are the three models there you go
yeah oh my god this guy i really love him is there any standouts between the three um i
mean the blue and the orange that's that's really really striking any thoughts on the glaive wraith
i mean i like that i like the texturing on his uh his little cloak
looks nice all right so if you had to bang mary or k and kill one of these models ooh
mary kill i mean i'm gonna bang him i'm gonna bang orange uh sigma stormcast stormcast
i think i'll uh marry primaris marine and uh i think i'm gonna kill the glaive race
well i guess it makes sense to kill the bad guy or is the space marine the bad guy
um so what do you all think which paint job was your favorite and what's your bang merry
kill of the three paint jobs let me know in the comments below but now it's time for eob complete
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complete without further ado let's look at and get inspired by what the folks have finished
this week a custom demon prince of nurgle by karsf some kit bash d d leshy by pat a vintage vampire
lord by uggjamani a primaris outrider by art of blake a gun toten dreadnought by ferrio von surfio
some orc war bikers by ryoganox some chaos marines by orange a chaotic icon bearer by dark castle
miniatures a necron overlord by tristan 175 a squad of primaris eliminators by just make stuff
and abaddon the spoiler by brett s some smelly pox walkers by ikelos homework volume 101
a primaris redemptor dreadnought by coravon a tau xp-88 broadside battle suit by thunder knight
a luke skywalker by pirate junk and a necron royal warden by spock's clock
congratulations to everyone for a job well done it's no small feat to get paint on a mini and all
of you 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 all right is that yeah was that good enough or i don't know