hmm what do i feel like painting today
some orcs i just painted some works space marines haven't painted enough space marines by now
now that's an idea but no i'm keeping that a secret
for now maybe i'm feeling like painting something a little chaotic
thanks dave
this is gonna be really cool
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle and i have some brand spanking new models to show you
these models are prototypes of miniatures that are coming out of a crowdfunding collaboration
between the fine folks of mini wargaming and lazy squire games these models are in the sci-fi
fantasy genre and are called the vale touched some spiky scary miniatures that dare i say
are quite chaotic i don't paint much chaos but that doesn't mean i don't like chaos what's not
to like they're the bad guys space marines and the bad guys always get the coolest stuff in fact when
i was getting into the hobby a buddy of mine went all in with chaos and i helped him paint a few
of his units including his helldrake flying fire turkey his dark vengeance screamer hell root and
his dinobot forged fiends i have been in quite the chaotic mood recently not too long ago i painted
up this chaos lord in terminator armor and since then i have been perusing the evil space marines
on the game's workshop web store so thank you to many wargaming and lazy squire games for putting
these cool new models into my hands now let's take a closer look at these actual bad boys they are 32
mm scale miniatures so they will fit in perfectly with models such as malifaux star wars legion and
fallout wasteland warfare and many others but they are not so big that they are incompatible
with 28 millimeter models they stand just a little bit taller than primary space marines from 40k
one thing i noticed taking a look at these models is they have lots and lots of details
fancy trim embossed artwork random spikes and sculpted bases and it makes me wonder are these
going to be really hard to paint sometimes when a model is just covered in things it can make the
painting process into a slog you spend lots and lots of time working hard on every single little
detail and it makes the whole process a chore but i won't know until i've given it a try and i'm
excited to give it a go i'm going to paint all five of these miniatures and i'm going to paint
each of them with a different chaotic color scheme to see how much variety i can get out of them
i have my five colors i have my five paint schemes i'm going to need lots and lots of colors
well it's time to throw some paint on these veil touched weirdos
i started off by priming with my favorite primer style res black airbrush primer but a rattle can
would have worked too next i gloved up and got my models onto some paint handles my preferred paint
handles are small cubes of wood with double stick tape i like priming with black as it takes care of
my darkest colors for me i much prefer adding on highlights than adding shadows while i'm painting
these chaotic fellows will make a very fun and unique painting project let's get to it
it's always very freeing to work on models that don't have a strict gaming importance
and so i think i'm gonna try every painting trick i know to get these
guys done up and be trying a few different color schemes starting off with the big guy
i got my palette ready with some dark brown paint earth paint gold paint and silver paints
then i prepared a dry brush i took a large short bristle dry brush and gave the entire
model a once over with dark brown this will make him look dirty next up a dry brushing of
earth this will highlight the brown and make a base coat for the eventual gold on all the trim
i chose a spade shaped brush with longer bristles so that there was more of a dragging action
this deposits more paints after the earth base coat i dry brushed on some gold most metallic
paints are pretty transparent so having a base coat helps a lot now the gold looks pretty but
i wanted old weathered gold so i took a silver on my paintbrush and lightly dusted the whole model
this will make the gold look more dull and will also further push the highlights toward white
then i added a little more weathering i took some silver paint on a sponge and sponged on
some chips and scratches all these layers will work together to create the look i'm going for
i've really liked where i've been able to get this model with just some simple dry brushing
and sponging but right now it kind of feels like a high end chess piece so now it's time to take
this and turn it into a proper miniature i went in with a black paint and touched up his armor i
filled in the areas that should be smooth black to help the trim look more like trim i watered down
my black paint so that it flowed and i didn't have to be crazy precise with my brushstrokes
then i put some red paint on the wrap of his axe handle and the dangly bits from his shoulder pads
then i washed the red with known oil to darken it after that i quickly finished off the base with
the leftover browns i had on my pallets this guy is just about done but i kinda wanna try something
i think i'm gonna douse him in a little bit of blood for the blood god
i'm a little nervous that i'll ruin it but you know what i got four more to paint
so might as well i took a small straw and sucked up the blood colored technical paints and then i
blew it onto the model this worked okay the drops were too big and some of them are way too big
i will have to figure out what this stuff is made of so that i can properly thin it down next time
i used a brush to clean up the red blood and push it around so that it looked like pool as
a blood and less like big water balloons full of blood i painted this guy up in aj sigmar
slaves to darkness color schemes with black armor gold tram and a little bit of red and i think he
turned out great i was a little nervous about the details but i was very pleasantly surprised
the details are very proud and that makes them really easy to pick out with a paintbrush and
i found painting a breeze he is super super scary looking i love the absolute girth of him
i love his giant axe and his back up akimbo chainsaws this guy came to party blood for
the blood god skulls for the skull throne milk for the corn flakes i wanted to paint the second chaos
war like a nightlords i gave him a spray of some dark blue and then a xenotholi spray of light blue
next i did some dry brushing of an earth color in preparation for gold trim after that first lawyer
i know that the details will be big enough that i don't have to worry about covering up the blue
then i applied the gold to the dry brushing and it looked really sharp on top of the dark blue then
i painted his axes black and once they were dry i gave them a dry brushing of some silver paints
these models are taking really really well to dry brushing sometimes you'll see on super
super detailed models that the details are kind of shallow and they're tricky to paint because
they don't stand very proud on the miniature but these are actually picking up the dry brushing
perfectly i painted all the cloth parts as flesh kind of a spooky thing the night
lords are known for i dabbed on some beige red then an orangey wash to finish them off
then i thought he was looking a little bit too power rangers-y so i applied a blue wash to his
armor this flowed well into the recesses and didn't darken the gold trim too much
then it was time for the signature detail of the nightlords lightning bolts i took some water down
white paint loaded it up onto a long bristle brush and carefully dragged it across the model
i painted these right over the details and i think it worked really well i was pleasantly surprised
then a little blood for the blood god here and there the night lords get themselves dirty from
time to time then for the base i went with a complimentary color yellow i put this through
the airbrush so that it got to the lower parts of his legs like this is a dusty cheesy environment i
dry brushed some white over the yellow to further highlight things then i applied a brown wash to
the yellow base i painted this guy up night lords and night lords the chapter i am very familiar
with i really enjoyed the black library novel soul hunter and i painted up a few night lords myself
i was a little skeptical that this guy would work well in nightlord's colors because it
doesn't have the smooth rounder shapes of the game's workshop models but i actually think
this worked out a little better than a game's workshop model it feels even more nightlordsy
the nightlords are very ramshackle and i think that it works really really well on this model
even the lightning bolts worked well moving across all of the different decorations and
shapes the nightlords chapter may not worship chaos but that does not make them any less
chaotic next up i decided to move away from dry brushing and try something new
i put some white paint into my airbrush and gave the model as xenothon highlights
on the banner guy i'm thinking i want to try some contrast paints i have them xenothaled up
and i think contrast is going to work great on a model of this detailed maybe a little nurgle green
i got out of white green and dark green contrast paints and i applied white to
the tops green to the body and dark green to the legs and blended it all together
i took an orange paint and highlighted some of the armor trim i didn't highlight at all
just the stuff that was with an easy reach of my brush i took some orange pigment powders
and added water to create a rust effect i put this on the model here and there letting it
flow into the recesses but i didn't go too much this could have quickly overpowered the green
once the pigments were dry i took a brush with water and i rubbed away a lot of the pigments
that were on the raised edges of the model leaving them in the recesses then i dry brush the armor
lightly with a silver paint to make it look like the paint has been weathered away here and there
i painted this guy up in the death guard colors and i think it turned out really well i got to try
some new things which was fun i used a three color contrast gradient and i think it turned out nice
i was not brave enough to freehand something on this banner the exaggerated creases and folds
would definitely have made that a challenge but perhaps i will rectify that in the future
overall i think it worked really really well i think the sculpt is not particularly good for
nurgle but perhaps this is a war band that are recent converts to nurgle or a warband that is
obsessed with cleanliness would be hilarious for a nurgle warband i think everything worked out great
the pigment powders did a great job of sticking down into the recesses and highlighting them
and i just like him papa nurgle is out for blood and his chaos warriors are gonna bring
it to him on this mini i went for an airbrushed base coat of magenta this is a color i love and
should make for a very evil marine then i sprayed pink from above in a xenothon kind of highlight
after that i took a purple wash and applied this to all his armor i really like the color pink for
chaos space marines just puts a smile on my face i love the idea of an uninitiated noob seeing a
pink cast-based marine army and then being like ooh what's that and then the player can say they
are evil treacherous space marines who've turned against humanity and now fight on the behalf of
evil gods and the color they decide to paint their indestructible armor is hello kitty pink
i went with my now tried and true gold trim recipe by giving the model a dry brushing of earth brown
and on this model i went heavier than i have gone on the others i want all the trim to really stand
out once the earth brown was on then it was time for some gold trim and the gold on this model
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now with that said let's paint this pink pink dude after that i took a black
paint and i painted all the cloth parts this stands out nicely against the pink
then on the base i painted it using a lime green again using a complementary
color i ran this through my airbrush so that it splashed up on the model's feet
i dry brushed the lime green base with some white paint to push the highlights further and then i
applied a green wash to the base to bring out all the lovely sculpted details then lastly some more
blood for the blood god just a little bit of gore here and there as a treat for the chaos warrior
i painted these guys up as emperor's children legion and the emperor's children are the pretty
legion devoted to perfection in all its forms and it worked really really well i think these
miniatures can work really well for grim dark and dirty paint jobs if that's how you paint them but
if you paint them cleanly and very neatly they look really really good they look regal and noble
with their more shape the armor i've also been very impressed with these sculpted bases sometimes
sculpted bases can kind of stink because they pigeonhole you into one idea but you know what
rocks and skulls works just fine for chaos and a simple base coat highlight and wash did
wonders i have now painted the emperor's children legion and now there is only one left to go the
angry red guys on this last model i couldn't possibly not do a red warrior so i began with
a base coat of dark red leaving plenty of black primer showing in the recesses and bottom then
i took a bright red and applied this from above after that i took some black wash and i washed the
entire model to add some nice contrast to all his details and armor once that was all dry i sprayed
bright red from above again just a little to bring back the hot rod red that i previously sprayed
i didn't want to go gold trim again so i instead went with silver starting with a base coat of blue
gray that i applied through dry brushing on all the trim then i dry brushed on the silver and
it looked great it really stood out from the red armor and i think gold trim would have blended in
a little bit and not looked as vibrant i painted his horns and cloth parts with dark brown the same
one i used on the chunky captain model i painted first then i dry brushed the brown areas with an
earth brown to add some detail back in this guy is looking pretty sharp literally i guess you could
consider this the sequel to game's workshop's corn berserkers from 1998. it is a bit of an
improvement in my opinion i took what was left of my blue gray and applied this to the base
using a brush this cold blue color looks really good against the hot red of the warrior's armor
i've dry brushed some white paint over the blue gray base to add in some highlights and show off
the details of the base i want those skulls to pop then i applied a blue wash to the base
but i wasn't done yet i decided to make some snow i broke out some army painted battlefield
snow and poured it into a cup then i added a few drops of gloss medium and mixed it all together
i scooped this up with an old paint brush and smooshed it onto the base it'll keep
whatever shape it is in so make sure that it is exactly how you want it before you let it dry
now the model is looking good but this is a corn model it needs lots of blood i applied
more blood for the blood got technical paint all over the weapons armor and base of this fella
i painted this guy up as a corn berserker and it might be my favorite of the bunch i really
like how the red looks with a silver trim and i probably could have gotten something even more
striking if i had mixed in just a little bit of blue with my silver paints the proud details make
dry brushing an absolute breeze and i had no problem getting paint right where i wanted it
that's usually how 32 millimeters are i found that slight size increase makes it just that
much easier to paint and i'm going to consider this the true successor to the corn berserker
as i consider this just a little bit better than games workshop's 25 year old plastic kits
one thing i was worried about is that these models are so intricate that they would be very hard or
impossible to paint but after a day of painting i am very pleasantly surprised i tried to recreate
some of the classic games workshop color schemes for chaos space marines but those are based on
the game's workshop sculpts which look a fair bit different from these guys but i found that
not only were these a pleasure to paint but that they may look even better than the game's workshop
versions we already know and love these models turned out to be easy to paint i was able to make
great use of simple techniques like dry brushing and contrast paints and they turned out fantastic
thanks again to mini war gaming and lazy squire games as of publishing this video the campaign
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