you ever have that army sitting in a drawer that you don't think about much
you had an initial explosive relationship painting building gaming
but that excitement that hit hard fades away fast and so that army goes into the drawer
half finished you still have all the stuff you still have every intention of working on it but
the mood never seems to strike again hi i'm jay and i have a gene stealer cult army
welcome to eons of battle this video is all about how i plan to bring a little love back
to an army that is languished in obscurity for me i am constantly working on my black templar
i occasionally paint an orc but i never ever seem to be in the mood to work on my genestealer cult
the cult of the four armed emperor i think i need to work on that and stay tuned all the way till
the end of this video to see a montage of pain and minis courtesy of the eob complete community
i remember when the jean sealers were new and shiny it all started for me when it started for
many eugene stiller cult players with this box death watch overkill suffer not the alien to live
this was a very exciting time to be in 40k two brand new fractions dropping simultaneously in a
50 mini box and this thing was a steal i actually got two of these boxes to start my cult off rights
also please leave a comment if you have ever played the game or have seen someone else play
this game i have a suspicion that no one on this earth has ever played it we all bought this box
strictly for the minis i had seen glimpses of genesis cults in the past from photos of old
models like these ancient metal models from back in the disney and from fantastic artwork like this
which made the cult look like an army of gross pigmen and who could forget the lovable couch
potato the original gene steeler patriarch i have to get me one of these one day i don't know where
my love of the cult went there is nothing wrong with the cultists i think a combination of a large
amount of small difficult to paint minis and the rules being terrible in 8th edition led to this
army getting shelved my aberrants were and are one of my favorite models but i can't say the same
about the paint job it was good when i painted it many many years ago but now it's looking a little
bit plain when i was painting my jeans cult i was in the final days of learning the game's workshop
painting style and it's a very good style for getting things done but i have since grown past
it nowadays when i'm painting a mini instead of the classic base coat wash highlight method
i do a lot more abstract things with light and texture and i think i can bring a lot of it to
my jeans cult army i think i can demonstrate this perfectly with my two patriarch models yes i know
one's a brood lord shush they're the same thing this model i painted in 2017 and i think at the
time it was probably the best miniature i had ever painted but i think my priorities were a little
mixed up i tried to paint it exactly like the box art and i did a pretty good job but i think that
those priorities kind of led me down the wrong rabbit hole my darks and highlights are pretty
close together and so when you start to look at the model not in perfect lighting and from very
very close up a lot of the details tend to get lost a little bit and even from across the table
instead of looking like perfectly crisp lines it kind of just looks blue on this model that i just
painted this year i really pushed the contrast between my lightest lights and my darkest arcs
and i really think the model shines for it also since it's natural flesh i used a lot of modeled
colors and i really tried to be a little bit more random with the patterns and with the highlights
and i think it really does help the overall look a lot and i really really pushed the contrast
almost to pure white on the hands and the head and i really think that makes them really look vibrant
i think that this style is definitely where i want to take my jean sealer cult now so i have
a lot of jean sealer cult models and i think the perfect subject to focus on would be my aberrants
i have the models and they're not bad but they could be better when i look at my jean cellar
cult army i want to feel inspired so what do i do do i strip the paint off and try again
no that would be silly we don't strip paint that we can fix sitting in front of the sink with
a bottle of simple green and a toothbrush does not sound like my idea of a good time i want to
rekindle my love of this army and i want to have fun doing it and i think laying on some more paint
on top of the paint that's already there is going to be a lot more fun there is plenty of good paint
here already i just want to take what i got and make it better my strategy is going to be number
one use the current paint job as my base coat and brighten everything up with highlights especially
the skin i want these models to look less like purple hulks and more like alien abominations
number two i want to make the weapon stand out just plain lead belcher was okay at the time
but i can do much better now i want to push the highlights even further and i want to try
out some technical paints like texture paste and pigment powders and number three i want to
fix up the base the brown sand is fine but it kind of blends in i want a base that has some
striking color and will complement the model's paint job it's time to get to work here we go
i'm really excited for this paint job because it's a little bit like getting to eat dessert first
it's just the highlights the base coating is already done for me but the first thing i want
to do is i want to change up the decorations on these bases i might put them back on later
but for right now i'm going to take them all off i don't know if bright blue gems is really
the look i want to go for what else could i use i put down a drop of jean steeler purple
and then some tan pink and then some white paint i mixed these colors together to get my highlights a
50 50 a purple and tan and then a 50 50 of tan and white i kept the original colors on my palettes
too just in case i need them for some touch-ups now to give these guys a little bit of color to
their skin i'm gonna be layering up different shades of tan and i'm not particularly good at
this feathering getting a nice blend in between the colors but i can fake it with one easy trick
matte medium you mix in plenty of this and it's going to make your paint a little bit see-through
and that is going to help a lot to fake that blend just mix a little bit of this into the paint and a
little bit of a lot of it into the paint and it's off to the races i took my purpley tan mixture and
began putting this on top of all the bulging muscles already i can see that this is helping
it looks really really creepy these aberrants are basically a human and a jeans dealer in the same
body it's basically cronenberg's the fly because of the matte medium the paint doesn't cover well
but that's okay because you can see so much of the base through i can just apply it in layers a
little smaller every time and it'll look like the perfect creamy blend for the face i tried a little
harder to really bring out his winning smile a vaguely human face on a gross puffy body with just
a little bit of pink thrown on there the model has transformed i am really really digging it it is
completely moved away from these older models that are just purple it really looks like it has
a little bit more life to it it is super super cool and that's just the first highlight this
isn't even its final form i started highlighting with the tan white mixture and making sure to
apply this sparingly i don't want his skin to look too chalky just on the topmost muscles in his face
this is a really interesting exercise because if i had tried to paint these new today i probably
would have airbrushed on the tan and tried to brush on the purple but actually i think the tan
looks really good on top of the purple i think it looks much better happy accidents i was loving my
now fleshy abrams but i thought they were a little too uniform so i painted three of them with brown
skin i did the same thing using my matte medium i mixed up paint and applied it in layers on the
muscle i really liked how this looked and the different skin tones looked really good together
after the brown i mixed in a little bit of pink tan to bring up the color and i did my highlights
the skin is now done and it's looking pretty good it really brightened up the miniatures a lot and
so now i think my works cut out for me on fixing up the weapons because before i thought the whole
model looked very even but now that bright skin is really helping everything pop out and so i'm
really excited to work on these weapons before we finish touching up these abrams you know what is
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with that out of the way let's fix the minis on the weapons i did a little trick
i watered down some black paint and applied this to those areas it won't change the colors
but it will make them 50 darker it's like looking at the weapons through sunglasses
it'll give a much more grim dark base to work off of and i don't have to repaint anything
i did the same trick on all the pants and skirts i don't know why i did a spider-man red and blue
all those years ago i probably would do brown today but with a darkening it should look fine
look at that ass games workshop always seems to do a good job sculpting the rear if you know what
i mean with my weapons now dark a dry brushing of silver should look amazing if you want your metal
to pop you need some contrast bright silver over almost black metal will really show off
the metallic paints for small stuff like this i actually like dry brushing with longer bristles
i like how it's more random some spots are going to get bigger longer streaks than others
short bristles give a very uniform coverage i'm going to put a little bit of rust on the weapons
and i could do this just by dry brushing a little bit of bright orange paint but i
really kind of do like games workshops rise rhizo rust it's like a halfway it's a technical paint
it's halfway in between like a dry and a wet paints but it's nice and bright and it's chunky
while still being pretty opaque because you don't want it to overpower
you don't really want orange you just want that orange tinge to be your rust and i actually really
like this stuff i just stippled this all over the weapons being very subtle with it i don't want to
cover up any of the painting i've done then it was time for my secret weapon pigments i poured
some isopropyl alcohol into a cup and scooped some orange pigment powder i apply this to the areas i
wanted rusty and remember that the alcohol will make the paint soft so don't get too aggressive
with the brushing soft strokes this will pool in a very natural way and give the look of old dry rust
finally a last dry brushing again with a silver this shows off the areas of heavy use
the weapons really do look slick and the trick to interesting weathering is layers it's a watered
down coat of black paints and then a dry brush of silver a dry brushing of some orange rust and then
some rust pigments and then a final dry brushing of silver when you stack on all of the effects
that's when you really start to get a really interesting looking bit of weathering where
all of the different elements are working together to really kind of make it stand out
and now it's onto the base i always like it when a special effect can do the work for me
and i have not been painting the feet because i want to make them muddy
i took some texture paste and slapped it all over the feet it's like a reverse pedicure
i put down some brown pigments over the base and this looked great it really showed off the
texture of the sand more than the paint and i think that's good the base is just a color so
that the eyes are drawn to the paint job on the feet i used two brushes one to wet the feet and
legs and another to put on the pigments this will stick down to the water then i decided i
liked the tufts but they were a bit too big i cut each one into many smaller tops with a hobby knife
at this point the self-sticking glue was worn out so i used a drop of super glue to attach each one
now that i cut up the tufts instead of every other base getting a tuft every base can now have two
or three check out these abrams i really had a fun time painting them i know whenever i finish
a model i have a little bit of a glow and that miniature has a tendency to follow me around the
house just so that i can look at it a little bit longer when these guys were just purple sitting
in a drawer they did not spark joy but now i'm excited to work on this army which is good thing
because these are the models that really sold me on the gene sealer cult they're different from
the tyranids tyranids are scary like the xenomorph monstrous and perfect the abrants are scary like
the thing or chud lumpy and deformed still clearly deadly but with a healthy dose of body horror
i am really excited and that's a good thing i have 10 more average where they came from
i might have a problem looking over the rules for these models they're very interesting they might
become my anti-vehicle units my cult does not have much heavy hitting high damage weapons so these
guys cult ambushing or being dumped out of goliath rock grinder might do the trick nicely they have
two flavors the pick and the hammer the hammer is the sure thing two attacks each with a hammer
at strength 10 ap minus 3 damage 3 but they're worse at swinging only landing 50 of their punches
a little less than half probably will get the job done but it's risky
the power picks on the other hand are a lot more interesting to me they give
up the monstrous strength ten for strength five ap minus two damage d3 but they hit on
threes and you get two extra rending punches which have a chance of going ap minus four
now we're talking 14 hits on three ups and the white dice have a chance to rend on the wound
the picks are probably what i would go with the extra punches could get them out of trouble if
some chap infantry tried to tarpit them so my mission was to repaint a single unit and see if
it could rekindle my love of this army and did it work yes yes it did this was really fun i
want to play with these minis and i want to lean into the horror elements of the jean sealer cult
i want to paint more minis and watch more horror movies a complete success
that's it for this video do you guys ever have it where you fall out of love for a model or army
let me know in the comments and you ever go back to your old minis and just try again
when is a model finished if ever these cultists have given me a new standard to bring all my gene
stealer cult up to and i'm very excited to see it happen 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 a tech priest by greyscale a cad bane from legion by disco some x-wing miniatures by pippo a
red white and blue griffin by opera ghost 21 jesse a little goblin by decimation a fetid bloat drone
by tweepler a phase spider by frog some soros warriors by joe dracos some hell blasters by
pyrite a nurgle demon by dwarven in iron warriors chaos-based brain by hesnet an laat transport ship
from legion by a wolf pack some blade guard veterans by mukel a terminator chaplain by
kozer a gaggle of pox walkers by david spitzer a custom base by orange a laserback tank by berry
and a quillon terminator by jimmy cottle some grey knight terminators by ceo of eating suns and
emperor's children space brain by irelia the ura a primaris aggressor by cdr keller 21 a horde's
minion fell gast by lex kilcannon and a grey knight kill team by lord noir congratulations to
everyone for a job well done it's no small feat to get paint on a mini and you all should feel really
proud nothing against the hobby juice has flown 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