scale is an interesting thing i should push myself to experiment more with it you know what
i want to put out a challenge if this video gets 2 000 likes i will paint a mcfarland space marine
i don't want to i won't be happy about it but i'll do it for science who knows maybe
it'll make me a better space marine painter well you heard me looks like i gotta paint it
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle and the time has come to paint up this big old space
marine it feels like a million years ago i put out this challenge after painting this dwarf
this dwarf this big old model i had tons of fun painting him up
and it was such a unique and rewarding experience to work on a model this big
that it made me it put me in the mood to paint more things like it let's get this sucker open
i like to keep the boxes nice
all right step one little twisty ties though mama didn't raise the quitter i did not have
huge hopes for this guy um i'm not much of an action figure person
i think i got it there ah he's all right i think there's definitely room for improvements
and i will be making those improvements i'm also gonna have to figure out a way to get rid
of the blood angel stuff some of it's gonna be really easy like just the painted on stuff but
these little blood drips gotta get rid of those somehow i think i can manage he's not
the greatest action figure ever made he's a little his joints are a little gummy his
hands are a little loose they remind me a little bit of the old star wars canter claw
but he's alright i think there's definitely definitely something i can do with him
and his giant giant plasma primaris rifle now i bet this is going to take a lot longer to paint
than a normal space marine because he is so much bigger than a normal space marine i have
the perfect thing to compare him to right here uh you know i think the little one is actually better
i don't know my big complaint with these big figures is they didn't try that hard
to upgrade them i mean they're this guy is exactly as detailed as this guy which is silly because
this guy is as detailed as he is because of the scale he's in if this guy were in a higher scale
he should have a lot more detail but he kind of doesn't he just has the normal
space marine level of detail but i think i can do plenty of repair work with my paint job
but what chapter will i paint him in well i wasn't super sure i think black templars
would be the obvious choice i'm a big old black templar player but i have collected and painted so
much black armor over the years i really didn't feel like painting some more i really didn't feel
like making a decision so i dodged it and i left it up to my patrons over on patreon i gave them a
selection of options and they did not disappoint by an incredibly slim margin lamenters won
and that's really cool i don't think i would have picked lamenters they're a cool chapter but yellow
is not a color i reach for very often i keep all my paints in drawers now sorted by color well it's
pretty slim pickings for yellows i have about a tenth of a pot of cygnus yellow my preferred
yellow i have one dead pot of games workshop aberland sunset from about eight years ago
so it looks like some army painter demonic yellow is gonna have to pull all the weight in this video
i was kind of hoping that i wouldn't have any yellows and then i'd have to
pick something else but no putting it off any longer it's time to paint up this space marine
well i can't do much of anything until i fix this
yeah milliput time i got out of cutting mat and prepared my goo milliput is good stuff
it's a two-part epoxy and it dries rock hard and more importantly it's sandable i put some super
glue into the hole i wanted to fill and then i squished in small balls until it was all filled up
then i let it dry and started sanding i used my dremel to get it started and finished off with a
good old-fashioned nail file boom looks perfect right now it's time to paint i got out a rattle
can of matte black primer and sprayed it right on so easy it looks like magic now you're probably
thinking yourself j why oh why would you prime a model it's going to be predominantly yellow
black that makes absolutely no sense and to that i would say it absolutely does make sense because
if i had primed him a white or a gray i would have to paint 100 of them to cover up all that primer
but because he's primed black i'm gonna have to paint 95 of him but the last five percent
is gonna be really annoying stuff like his under armour underneath his shoulder pads underneath his
little armor pieces and so that last five percent is gonna be super annoying and i can just leave it
black but it is going to take a lot of paint to cover the sky and let's get to it i sprayed some
white primer from above a bit like a xenothon the black is helping make the shadows darker it
does make sense to do it this way that looks loads better holy cow just a little a little highlight
and shadow and all of a sudden this thing actually looks pretty cool i pulled off his left shoulder i
want that to stay white then i began step one yellow no purple i promise this will all make
sense in the end i poured it into my airbrush and mixed it up i sprayed it from underneath
this will help create my shadows yellow is a tricky color there isn't really a dark yellow but
yellow over purple makes a nice brown transition so i made him look like a hawklord's marine in
preparation to make him a lamenter marine now it's time for yellow i put a few drops of army
painter yellow into my airbrush please don't be ugly please don't be ugly please don't be ugly
yeah i sprayed on my yellow and my purple did its job it made some areas darker in shade this yellow
i'm spraying is very watery i made sure to cover all of the purple well that worked out pretty good
the yellow actually covered a lot better than i was expecting or hoping for but you can still see
the purple showing through a little bit underneath as more of a gray yellow but i feel like he's too
yellow and so i think i'm going to try to add in a little bit of orange with some orange ink the
orange ink was absolutely necessary it worked so good ink through the airbrush is always nice
and it adds a lovely warmth to the yellow there he is he's a good-looking lamenter the lamenter
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let's get some more paint on this big guy it was finally time to break out a brush i painted his
wings white and any exposed metal bits got a coat of good old-fashioned games workshop lead belcher
i threw a null oil wash over the wings to give them some definition next it was time to
tackle the big ole shoulder pads i started out by sketching my designs with a pencil easy to do when
the shoulder pad is the size of a dreadnought the lamenters must have the most complicated
and intricate shoulder pad design possible but i'm very lucky because i get to paint it on a
shoulder pad this big as opposed to a shoulder pad that is this big so shouldn't be too bad
right i took some black paint and started laying it down it was not as nerve-wracking
as free-handing often is because i could follow my pencil lines and i have so much room the lamenter
symbol is crazy but not if you're painting it this big it's just some squares a circle and a heart no
big deal at all when you're not painting with a micro brush i made my checkers smaller than
i wanted the finished product as i can easily go bigger but it'll take cleaning up with white to
make them smaller and towards the top i had to make the checkers pinched and stretched because
of the shape of the shoulder pads it was a very novel experience painting big small shoulders
at this point i was feeling pretty confident and i yolo the heart and drip i painted them dark
red and used light red to add a little bit of a gradient ah look at that look at that it's so cool
ah there's no way i could pull that off on a teeny tiny tiny shoulder pad but it looks pretty sweet
on a big one i did the same layering of red on the other drops i did one on his eyes on his knee
and on his chest on his helmet i decided to do a classic heavy metal space marine lens but doing it
really really big felt trippy it's all the same steps all the same colors but it feels really
different all right i'm really starting to dig this thing it's actually really really cool i have
it just about perfect now which is good because now i have to unperfect it i'm going to weather
the bejeezes out of this guy i put a little black paint on a paper towel and sponged on some bottle
damage don't go too heavy i'll be altering it later just add it on like you're putting
some pepper on your potatoes then i took a brush and filled in some of my sponging to make proper
paint chips this is easy to do with a stippling motion instead of a classic paint stroke then
i took out some silver paint and i stippled this over every black paint chip leaving just a little
bit of the old layer showing around the edges this is a pretty laborious step but it sure does look
nice when it's done but i was very tempted to give up and leave him with only weathered pants
he is getting so close ah the scratches look dope but he's looking a little bit clean dirty
his armor's all scuffed but there's not a bit of dirt on him and i gotta fix that with a little mud
i put a little brown into my airbrush and lots of water i turned my psi way down so that the paint
was coming out spitty i tried it out on a piece of paper and it was okay but i ended up turning the
psi lower still to get the optimum splatter i spray this all over and especially on his
legs it'll look pretty scary going on but if it's watery enough it'll mostly disappear once it's dry
so the marines done and the only thing left to do is to paint up his plasma pistol
and you know it's kind of a fun little thing
it got hot
yay thank you thank you yes i know it's a good joke i'll be here all week i didn't even bother
priming the gun it's okay as is but a couple of quick steps will perfect it i took some
gunmetal and dry brushed it onto the black parts finishing off with a lighter drybrushing of silver
and then on the handle i squished black paint all over and then i took a rag and wiped it off
this'll be like a mega wash now i could stop there but green glow would look pretty cool i put
a little green into my airbrush and sprayed that on for a quick and dirty object source lighting
once the plasma coils were greened i mixed in a watery dark green and let that soak
into the recesses and then a little green white mixture dry brushed on top of the plasma coils
and just like that the gun is done the marine is done i'm done
you might think this marine's armor is too damaged or too dirty it's undignified for
a servant of the emperor to allow his armor to become so disheveled but you don't know how hard
the lamenter's habits although they are just as loyal just as courageous and just as noble as the
best of the space marines the universe conspires against them at every turn they are met with
tragedy and misfortune through no fault of their own the lamenters cannot seem to catch a break
is it the product of warp shenanigans or just good old-fashioned bad luck
i was not looking forward to this but this guy really won me over when i saw it on the shelf
i thought it looked tacky when i got it out of the box i thought it felt plasticky and cheap
and then started the frustrating process of no paint wanting to stick to the rubbery material
but in the end it was pretty fun it's a big space marine i have painted hundreds of space marines
and it's pretty cool to do the same old operations but big and heavy metal space marine lenses are a
treat to paint on eyes that are about as big as regular space marine helmets he really glowed
up i mean before he looked like this and now he looks like this a fun day of painting although
i do feel a little twinge of sadness usually after so many hours i have an entire squad done but in
the immortal words of gimli that still only counts as one now i don't know if i recommend you go out
and buy one of these it's still a cheap plastic toy under there it's not particularly posable and
it could be easily mistaken for buzz lightyear but it was still a pretty cool project and it's
gonna look great on the shelf now while i was out buying warhammer adjacent toys i did find these
which i actually really like war hammer chibis these are cute they are fun and the paint's not
awful but there's definitely some easy touch-ups that would make them perfect if you want to see
me do that give this video a like and if you get to 3 000 likes i'll get right on it so what do
you guys think of these space marine toys are they cool do they suck is it proof that games workshop
is moving away from grim dark let me know in the comments below 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 some custom necron immortals by gremlins e2 a tyranid maliceptor by
its tabby time a mandalorian by commander cadre a tactical marine sergeant by jason a necron cryptek
by black long raider some tyranid terrain by basho a storm cast eternal by death arsenal a
ghost bear kodiak by the polar burrito some tao fire warriors by emil 33 a conflict 47 mech by
lenk some primaries outriders by aotl a stormcast eternal by a benj 7730 a deathrattle skeleton by
chinham an orc commando knob by mezareg a necron destroyer lord by the brush breaker a human wizard
by battery man a plasma generator by set to throat some custom corn berserkers by takamuto
and eight death watch crabs a chaos champion by erigo some xangors for aegis sigmar by goblin
a plague marine sergeant by silva born a wolf lord by miniature justin a chaos forge fiend by
turolf 212 and some space marine infiltrators by darkdrake5481 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 to hobby juices loan 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