i have many 40k armies but let me introduce you to one of my favorite ones my mad max orc army
my favorite models in this army include my boys these have all been kit-bashed with spellcrow
heads and posed arms my hqs and their bodyguards my kit bash take on the infamous pirate captain
bad rock flanked by some brutal orc knobs and of course the reason i have this army my
bikes these are my favorite arc models all kit bashed so that every one of them is truly unique
and now it's time to add a few more units to this army and i am conflicted because this new unit is
not quite gonna fit and i have to decide just how committed am i to this mad max fury road orc theme
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle and the models i want to add to my arc army are
these samurai orcs from a company called puppets war more on them in a bits they are so cool but
they're so different to what i've been doing with my orc army and i worry that they just
will not fit now the typical progression of a warhammer army is to find that faction that
speaks to you the most and then you decide on a theme this can be something found while
on pinterest google or wherever photos are found online perusing through the artwork and paint and
model section of your codex or watching your favorite movie but once you have found it you
stick with it for box after box after box after box until it becomes an extension of yourself
until you become the guy with the mad max orc army and i have done that with my army i
picked out a scheme and i'm sticking with it but darn it i just want to paint some samurai orcs
i am a simple man i like simple things and katana wielding green skins is one of those but alas i
don't have a ninja inspired orc army i have a mad max fury road inspired orc army so i guess i don't
get to do the cool thing because i made a decision back in 2015 and i have to stick with it and now i
am sad can any of you guys relate to this on one hand you have the integrity of your scheme but
on the other hand you have a really cool idea but rules are rules and you can't cross the stream
or can you this hobby is a creative outlet and that means overcoming artistic challenges and
just like i use my creativity to come up with this mad max scheme i can now use my creativity again
to figure out how to work these samurai into the theme the 40k universe is a big one where
basically anything is possible gene sealer called santera humans working with the tau
female space marines with enough imagination anything is possible i should not be looking
at these samurai orcs as something untouchable but a new hobby challenge now mad max fury road
is the best movie ever made so i know everyone has seen it already so i'll just refresh your memory
in mad max fury road there are different factions out there in the deserts
the bullet farmer who covers himself head to toe in bullets and weapons and the people eater who
considers himself a very dapper fella who wears old world suits and i am sure that somewhere out
there in the sandy wastelands a post-apocalyptic australia there are many more gangs and tribes
perhaps if they had driven just 100 miles north they would have come across a camp that is made
up of nothing but weebs who love japan and melee weapons and that is how i'll incorporate these new
orcs into my army and speaking of where these orcs came from these models were created by puppets war
puppetor.eu is a longtime seller in the miniature space on their webster you will find tons of
finely detailed resin cast matures that fit perfectly into the sci-fi fantasy aesthetic
and they have just about anything you could want to fulfill your kit-bashing needs with tons of
unique weapons equipments head accessories and big ol vehicles some of my favorites are these
bar geist predator monsters and nosferatu helmets perfect for nightlords and now they
have a patreon where they will be coming out with new awesome sculpt monthly these samurai
bad boys were featured in their december release and in the month of january they are releasing
their prime riders of the norse and powerful orc gunners one of the things that sets puppets war
apart from other sellers is their commitment to customizability and cross-compatibility
within their skulls head on over to puppet tour patreon to get on board for monthly sci
fantasy modular miniatures so i have my models and i have my story it's now time to paint
when i'm working on a model i've never painted before i like to start small
i think i'm going to paint one of these guys that way when i make mistakes
they will happen faster and i can correct them faster instead of losing an entire
hour of work because i don't like the green i used on any other bodies instead i can
just prepare one and then i can take what i learn on one and apply it to the rest of them
first things first this orc needs a good prime job i poured some of my favorite primer steinel res
black primer through my airbrush and then got to work i like a black primer because it takes care
of my shadows for me i much prefer highlighting to shading so a black primer makes sense for me
for my base coat i applied a dark red this is a purply dark red and should make a great base
for my next highlights and that highlight is a bright bright red i want this to be an
absolutely silly bright red because the weathering i will do later it'll be dulled down a lot and
if it was not so bright to begin with the final product would end up too dark i always love the
look of a model once it's been primed and airbrush highlighted because it looks so clean and crispy
now i think it's time to finish all of the armor and then once that's done i'll move on to the skin
the first step to nice weathered samurai armor is a generous splash of agrax earthshade a brown wash
this will bring out all the lovely details in the prints and agrax is my favorite brown wash
because it dries quick and matte that will make the next step much easier i've prepared some gray
paint for dry brushing i am using my army painters small dry brush wiping away most of the paint and
then swiping the bristles across the model's armor plates to give them an edge highlight
this along with the wash will really give these pieces a nice outline and make them look sharp you
don't want to over dry brush because if too much gray sticks to the surface of the armor they will
not look as red and you want that red finish less is more work slow with dry brushing after that dry
brushing it was time for some bright silver paint i took a piece of foam and tore myself a small
ball and held that with tweezers then i picked up some silver paint and began sponging this onto
the armor this will create random large chips and doing this before the skin clothing and rope will
mean that i don't have to be careful any chips and places that there should not be chips will
just get corrected later when i paint those areas recently i've rediscovered my love of metallics
i really don't enjoy painting with metallics because they're just so tricky they don't behave
like a normal acrylic paints because they're not they're kind of like a glitter paints they
don't behave like regular acrylics and so i always found it difficult to get them to do
the things i wanted them to do but i have recently unlocked a secret and that is to use lots of grays
and regular acrylics in place of metallics and then use metallics as just a finishing touch i
dry brushed some light gray all over this model and then i sponged on the silver and that kind of
tricks your eye into thinking that that nice gray edge highlight is the same silver paint
as the big old chips but the chips are big enough that your eye can see the reflections
in the metallics and the metallics look good but the metallics would not have looked good
as the edge highlight on all the armor it's kind of it's kind of replicating perspective that you'd
see in real life in real life things that shiny things that you are right up next to your eyes
look really really shiny but from 10 feet away they don't look shiny they just look like a color
and that's kind of how we have to replicate on models because technically even though this model
is four inches from my eyes in reality i'm trying to replicate the look of something that would be
10-15 feet away and so using regular acrylics like grays for silver and browns and oranges for gold
is super super useful tool to getting metallics to do what i want them to do and i'm so jazzed about
metallics that i think i'm going to put a pause on his skin because i want to work on those thor's
i made myself a dark gray paint out of the light gray that was already on my palette and then i
spread this all over the swords then i took a black wash paint and spread this over the sword
to capture all the little dings and scratches that were sculpted into the prince then i grabbed my
light gray and just like i did on the red armor i dry brushed this over the sword to edge highlight
them and i dry brushed a lot so that more of the dark gray was covered and the light gray over dark
will appear as dings and scratches and now that i've painted on the details i want on the sword
i gave it a sponging of bright silver so that it'll have a nice shiny glisten then i grabbed
some black paint and a sharp bristle brush and i painted in all the crazy nicks in the sword
because i think that these are really funny and i want to make sure that they are visible these
orcs clearly don't take care of their blades and speaking of dry brushing and battle damage this
would be a great technique to use on some terrain and you know where you can find terrain that's
right our patreon over there we have lots of high quality terrain stls available and it is the best
way to support us making videos in addition to the grim dark terrain you will also get access to some
behind the scenes voting on models i paint live here on youtube a live hobby hangout every week
and more with that said it's time to get back to the samurai works so now it's finally time
for the orcs skin and for my orcs i like to do a thing where i create a new recipe for every single
orc that way they look really really unique and a crowd of them looks really really good when they
all have a slightly different tinge to their skin and so for this guy it looks like it's going to be
base coat of p3 worm green and
brown highlights vallejo sick green i put some white paint on my palette and
then prepared my greens i left lots of room so that i can mix these with other colors
because of my random selection my light green has to become a dark green so i mixed it with black
paints i think it's good to give yourself little challenges like this it helps to learn your paints
and to turn my darker green into a light green i added some white paints then i mixed my two
colors together to get my middle color that'll blend the two colors together on the orcs again
and now it was time to paint that orc i applied my base color it took about two thin coats to cover
up the hot rod red base coat then i began with my first highlights the muscles on this orc are very
proud and that makes them very easy to paint i put this highlight on 90 of the skin leaving
the darker base colors only in the recesses now for my next highlight i used my previous
highlights as a guide and only painted this color on 50 of what i painted on the first highlights
so now there are three colors creating steps between the lightest greens and darkest
finally my last highlight this is by far the lightest color and i am applying a lot less of
this than previous layers i am painting this color only using small brush strokes and painting it
only on the tops of the muscles then to add more definition and outline to the recesses i used a
little green wash this darkened up the cracks and added more contrast which is always a good move
that color combination makes for a really winter green spearminty colored orc kind of fun
but the skin's done the armor's done this guy is pretty darn close to being finished just a few
more details to pick out and then it'll be time to knock out the rest of the squad i painted the
handguards of the sword with a yellow brown and i also used this color to paint all the ropes
that hold the orc samurai armor together then i watered down some black paint and used this
on the cloth parts of his outfit then the mouth i painted the teeth and mouth of the beige and then
i picked out the teeth with the same light gray that i've been using for all the armor
then i picked out the teeth with white paint would orcs teeth really be this well kept probably not
but it does look striking and then a big old brown wash over the whole mouth and boom just like that
one orc down and now that i have completed it i know what i am doing and it should be really
easy to take what i have learned and apply it to the other four i once again gloved up and primed
these new knobs i probably could have primed them all at the same time but you know what i didn't
think of it back then i really liked working this way having already painted the one i now have the
hang of painting these fellas and i can get right into the painting zone with the rest of the squad
i have my recipes my order of operations i plugged in my taste weight and went to town on them
you should never feel trapped by your color scheme 40k is creative outlets and you should not let
your creativity be stifled and what is stopping you nothing that's what let me spin you a yarn
let me tell you about another recent time where i thought i could not do something and then decided
to do it anyway i have a black templar army it's nearly 10 000 points and i have been working on
it for years and years and years and i love it but i am really getting tired of painting black armor
anyone would and so when it came time to paint these space marine suppressors i thought here
we go again but i really didn't want to and i was kind of feeling doomed to paint black armor again
and again forever so i was starting to resent my own army and that is a recipe for burnout
but then i thought about it and i decided that i can do whatever i wanted i decided to go with
white and now i love these models they are one of my favorite units and they look so good alongside
their dark armored brothers these orcs are exactly the same and work as an orc no need for them all
to be identical in fact it's more fun when they are not and now i have a full squad they look sick
my orcs are painted and it is now time to work on their bases as you can see my orcs are pinned
to my wooden blocks instead of my normal tape and that is because i've already decided what
bases i want for them i decided i'm going to recreate my road rage scenic highway bases
and in a martha stewart moment i already have them pre-made
i primed my road rage base and did some dry brushing with my dark gray and then a light gray
i used the same colors that were already on my palette from my works then to create my road
lines i masked them up using some painters tape these are going to be what really sells
these little discs of cork as holes punched out of a well-worn desert road i stippled on some
yellow paint mixed with get filler to give it a more texture than your average acrylic paints
and then the best part of any project d masking always super fun and these turned out
great it's a good idea to do this when the paint is still wet so it doesn't want to chip or peel
i threw an earth brown into my airbrush and blasted my bases these are mad max roads they need
to be apocalyptically dusty and destroyed i did a final dry brushing with some tan paint to bring
out some of the details of my cork and sand and then it was time to attach my knobs my ninja knobs
i figured out where i wanted my orchestra stand and then drilled a hole the same diameter as my
paper clip and then attached my orcs with super glue it is looking snazzy but he's not done yet
i've pressed some yellow pigment powders into the base and this is going to give me that golden
sand of mad max fury road this was looking good and dry but it covered
up my road surface just a little too much so i wiped away a bit of it with a damp brush
thanks again to puppets for sponsoring this video and putting these lovely orcs into my hands
now let's take a look at how they turned out i'm glad i decided to let myself branch out it
was definitely worth it not only did i get to experience something new with painting but my
orc army looks better for it the mad max world isn't just about dust and car parts but it is
about the weird and wacky characters who survive in the harsh deserts of the not-so-distant future
in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war and that is exactly how the orcs like it