hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle today i am painting probably the most shameful
project in my pile of shame let me set the stage way back a year ago i was playing a
lot of kill team 2018 with me right and we decided to give each other a challenge we
both wanted to try some new factions and they thought it'd be fun to secretly buy and paint
kill teams then unveil them to each other it was going to be exciting it was going to be a whole
thing but then we got busy and eventually kill team 18 ended so these armies have sat
around your army was thousand sons rubic marines blue and gold chaos space marines
and my army was the heretic astartes night lords which are blue and gold chaos space marines again
this was secret completely separate from each other we both picked basically the exact same
thing and then gave up so i think it's been long enough the time has come we will both finish nope
well i'm gonna finish my night lords
i don't often play as the bad guys when i play rpg video games i always choose the good options
and i play the rebels in star wars legion and this is even trickled into 40k i know everyone in 40k
is the bad guys but most factions can at least be argued that they're living their lives and
doing what they do but the chaos based marines are just here to burn it all down i picked the
nightlords because i like their colors and i got like 60 of the way through painting them in the
classic games workshop style with some awesome aftermarket vampire heads i found from puppetor
luckily for me i was dumb enough to build these models in sub-assemblies so the arms aren't glued
on and i can give them the appropriate options for kill team 2021 sub-assemblies aren't dumb but i
don't like them they just slow me down by turning one model into two or more if i can't reach it
with a brush i usually just leave it unpainted now the only problem in converting this kill team18
team into modern kill team is i only have five and i need a sixth member of the team and i had
an idea the new thing of this edition is i can take a psycher and psychers are super powerful
people i don't necessarily need an astartes all i need is some kind of a magician proxy
i need a chaos vampire sorcerer and i think adepticon is the perfect place to find that mini
this is kind of the perfect storm thank goodness it's taken me a year to finish these guys because
now i have the opportunity to find my sixth member of the team i scoured the vendor hall looking at
all the lovely models to find my vampire and i ran across a lot of good options but only
one that made me pull the trigger this box of newborn strigoi from carnival by tt combat this
vampire lady should be the perfect candidate to become my heretical witch i don't think the chaos
basements care much about rules and regulation if she's powerful enough to hang with the super boys
they say welcome aboard let's go [ __ ] [ __ ] up i sliced into the clam pack cutting towards
myself as always these models really butter my biscuits hopefully down the road i can find uses
for the other two vampires the punky vampire and the cowboy vampire i needed to recreate my bases
so i marked out the base topper of cork and then i tore it off with my thingies then i super glued
it down to the base using tons of glue cork is porous so you need a lot to keep it stuck down
then i marked out where i wanted my babe and drew marks where her foot goes then i started gouging
out material i tore off cork like a kid tears the wrapping paper off his christmas presents
carefully and with a hobby clipper this analogy works then i pin my model in place you don't
always have to pin but one little foot attached to soft cork a pin is definitely needed here
then i wanted to give her some spells to cast so i took some skulls and some green stuff and
smooshed it onto the dome then i shaped it into a cone head and then took a hobby knife and made
lots of little vertical cuts to turn this green goo into crackling fire i let that dry and i put
some floral wire into her wrist to hold up the skulls this was tricky to do but it gave me that
look i was after i glued the spells into place and my vampire witch was coming along nicely then
i spread some texture paste all over not really to hide the cork but to build up surface then i
spread on some crackle medium this stuff is great because it makes something cool happen without me
needing to do a whole bunch of work after about four hours i had lovely cracks all over my base
then i spread on some wood glue my preferred sand holder downer and sprinkled on some pebbles
then a dousing of fine grained sand and now i have an interesting base with a very interesting chaos
nightlord vampire witch this model is going to make the perfect bale fire acolyte i was a little
nervous walking around the convention floor that i was going to find the perfect model that fit
all of my parameters a chaos sorcerer vampire but this model definitely does it especially with the
two little skulls and this model is really going to save my biscuits because i have five space
marines basically finished painted and this model is gonna save me from having to paint a sixth
and speaking of painting now you might have noticed that this babe is the odd
one out but i wanted to fit in and the way i'm gonna do that is by painting her blue
now you might be thinking yourself jay if her skin is gonna be blue and her hair isn't gonna be blue
and the skulls aren't gonna be blue and her legs aren't gonna be blue and the base is gonna be blue
why would you paint it all blue well i know but this is a blue army and you'll see a blue base
coat will enhance all those other colors not take away from them the xenothon will
help the blue pop where it needs to and i gave it two thin coats this is the same blue i used
in the dudes so it should make her feel like a proud member of the blue team i'm blue dabba
now i've heard that it can help with osl object source lighting to start with it rather than doing
it at the end so i sprayed my warp fire skulls with some bright green to see what happens then it
was time to prepare a wet palette i kept it simple red beige gray black and white i want this paint
job to be quick so i'm going to water down my colors with some paint medium and then i went to
town base coating with big wet coats of paint this will add color but it's not a traditional two thin
coats i want the blue underneath to show through and i want the paint to flow and pool where it
wants to the physics of paint is a lot smarter than me and if i just let the paint do what it
wants to it'll probably end up better than if i tried to force it myself and it'll save me tons
of time as i don't need to build up layer after layer to get a perfect coverage just so that i can
add more paint on top with my watery base coats on i did the same steps again making myself dark
versions of my original colors with mixing paint and then watering them down and putting them over
my previous layers now i have some good shading and highlighting and it was all really quick
my colors were looking pretty good but lacking a little highlighting because my original blue was
so dark i did a little dry brushing to bring these colors up i'm a little less than an hour and i've
been glazing and dry brushing easy techniques that i don't want to be too careful with and the model
is about 70 percent done and now it's right where i want it to be i get to do some highlighting some
edge highlighting some free handing my favorite parts of the model because they're all final brush
strokes everything i do now is a finishing touch i mixed the colors on my palette with white and then
glazed these over top of my previous work letting the og blue xenothon be my guide to where these
should go i used the highlights to bring attention to the places i wanted her face hair and arms
and i didn't do much of anything to her flowing dress as my previous washes shaded in nicely
then i had to break out the micro brushes to get her fangs and eyes just right very spooky
so one model done and it might be my favorite i may not be able to play this model at events
at warhammer world but it'll be a great count as for my bail fire acolytes now the only other thing
i'm missing for a proper nakmond legionary kill team is a reaper chain cannon totem heavy gunner
and i don't want to buy a box of havocs for 60 bucks just to get one little bit so i
scribbled out a little something and i'm going to ask nick to make me one i mean i can do this
it'll be 59 bucks a drawing is always a good starting point but to fit into the game's
workshop ks based marines aesthetic i'll have to put some references together for inspiration
warhammer guns are always way too big in proportion to the models this is for ease
of painting and it accentuates the importance of the weapons the only dimension jay gave me
was that the wrist is four millimeters because we don't know exactly how big the gun should
be i'm going to make a basic version similar to the sketch and print it out to see if the
size is right i'm using vectorworks to make this because i can model quickly and non-destructively
just in case i need to adjust proportions later after making it too big i got it just right and
now i'm free to detail as i please looking at the reference images to create this ornate trim and of
course the exposed bullets that look like hot dogs and plastic wrap this gun was a nice quick project
and will add to the uniqueness of jay's nightlords team and because you're all so nice i'll make this
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oh yeah that's the good stuff right there these little guns are great they printed well and
after a coat of primer there are no layer lines whatsoever these two little chain guns together
will give the same effect that one big old gun has he's really double fisting if you know what i mean
i base coated the double reaper chain guns with blue on the arms earth brown on the trim and
gray on the guns then wash them with blue and black this is some simple non-metallic metal
and it's how i like to start true metallic metals i simply dry brush a little silver
on top to get that metallic glisten this is my favorite way to do true metallic medals now but
a year ago when i was painting up the gold on these guys i did classic games workshop
true metallic metal and i guess i gotta keep going that way to keep everything consistent
better clear my schedule because this is gonna take a while so first two coats of gold because
gold paint covers like butts then two coats of riceland flesh shade to get some contrast then
a selective wash of karabog crimson now there is contrast but the gold is dull so i highlighted
back with the original gold then an edge highlight of silver everywhere and boom just like that
in like 10 long tedious difficult steps the gold is done on one guy four more to go
so that takes care of my chaos gunner the only other model i don't have built is the chaos
anointed that's the space marine who's been touched by the warp and he's about two days
away from either being a chaos spawn or a chaos possessed and the problem is i don't have a lot of
chaos bits but what i do have is some wolfen arms and an old school jeans dealer so see what i can
do with these i took the wolfen arms don't ask why i have these and i used some green stuff to fill
them up and give them some connection points these gave them some fun monster arms and speaking of
monster arms i cut the hands off the old school tyranid and then i stuck them down to the arms
this makes for quite the look i base coated mr tickle monster's arms blue then gave them a wash
then i made a dark beige from the leftover colors from my witch and then glazed these onto the arms
until i had some pink spots i used some blue paint to soften these areas and now painted up it looks
way less ridiculous now with all these bad boys and gals painted it was time to finish those bases
just a little brown paint and orange pigment powder and these puffers were ready for battle
i liked what i was seeing but i could do more i prefer when basing to have a little accent
to break up the monotony of colored dirt so i'll use some debris from a company called
epic basing i painted these little metal chunks of silver and then glued them down to my bases
it's the little things that add so much to finish these bad boys and girls off i used
orange pigment powder to bring it all together i love how this team turned out i have moved away
from the game's workshop style of painting but it was an interesting experiment to be forced into it
i don't know how much heavy metal painting i'll be doing moving forward but i can't
argue with the results so now for the moment you've all been waiting for the grand reveal
of how i painted the witch's cleavage cleavage is a very common thing to find amongst miniatures i
think just about every painter is going to come across it in their painting career and i have a
few tips and tricks to share because i think there is a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it
i highlighted her face all the way up to white so that it really pops and draws attention but
i don't want to highlight her cleavage up to white because it'll compete with her face for attention
it'll naturally draw the eye so i don't need to focus on it as much i made a dark version
of the beige and then put this over a bust that way i'm working up from a darker tone so that i
have the same amount of contrast but i can end up with beige and not work all the way up to white
i applied my highlights transitioning from dark to light dark and then ending up at a more mid-tone
color and there her bosom has been given the highlights it deserves while keeping the face the
focal point of the model i'm a loyal space marine guy but it's hard to argue that these chaos space
marines don't look way cooler i may have caught a touch of the warp after this project this has
become by far my favorite kill team i've made it's not just cool but it brings me such a personal
satisfaction the history of the secret kill team project the proxy model i bought at adepticon
the custom guns nick designed and printed for me and the dumb brute arms i kid bashed
it all comes together to make the greatest fire team i have ever assembled
my 15th kill team finished i'm very excited to get these guys in the game and i am very
proud to be the first person ever to have finished their neck mund legionary kill team
macbeth's been out for like a month everybody's already finished painting their legionaries
well i'm excited to have finished my legionary kill team thanks for watching