How to Paint SERAPHON | ALBINO Skin | Aggradon | AGE of SIGMAR | Lizardmen

hi everyone it's Henry here and in this video I want to follow on from our last seraphon one by looking at another recipe for skin that might be cool for some of the characters and particularly how I would go about painting the amounts if I was going to do an army of these lizards I'll go through the recipes and processes but also my reasoning for choosing those particular colors and whatnot and hopefully between the two videos you'll be able to get started on an awesome looking gaming Army via lizardmen now let's paint [Applause] as you'll have seen from the thumbnail the scheme I've gone for for the scarf out on top of the agrodon is a sort of albino one and very much with this I find it's an easier place if we have a light starting point so I've gone for a gray primer and then I'm airbrushing on The Wraith bone paint from Games Workshop I could have just rattle canned him well with The Wraith bone primer but I can't find it since I did the last Lizard Man video um so I've just airbrushed it on it gives us the same starting point and much like before over that coat of race bone we're going to airbrush just the first layer of contrast paint now it doesn't act like contrast paint when we put it through the airbrush but it gives us a little just an I think a nicer place to work from I think the paint adheres better I just think it looks nicer and the starting point I'm going for is a 50 50 mix of magos purple and Dreadful Visage and I've thinned this with a little bit of airbrush thinner in my airbrush I'm spraying about 25 psi using a 0.4 millimeter needle and nozzle and this is our Signature Series harder and steam making if you haven't got airbrush don't worry doesn't matter just brush paint it on and the first brush coat that I'm going to put on is exactly the same mix in fact I just dipped my brush into the pot of the airbrush because there was still some in there and I'm going to paint this over the scales now I wanted to go for albino and I looked at a lot of pictures of albino lizards albino reptiles and I was a bit worried it might end up being a bit pink um and then another part of me was like well it doesn't matter like Pink's cool too um but there's these things called leopard geckos and when they're albino they've still got a little bit of their sort of other colored markings in them which are cool so that gave me an idea with with where I could possibly go with this guy and you're seeing these two clips I've just been applying that mix um repeatedly over the scales and each time focusing it either towards the spine or towards the center of the area of those scales just so we get this lovely transition of the light really almost just off-white through to this darker pinky gray color and the reason I put the Dreadful Visage in there is because it's this sort of gray purple so it will darken the pink down but it will also desaturate it a bit so hopefully take us away from it looking too pink um so I guess I've probably got four or five layers on there by this point on the scales now I've gone in with the pure magos purple now these are on my palette and I've got a big blob of the contrast medium that I'm constantly thinning them with I'm not putting them on neat by any means and this one's very very heavily thinned and I'm just wanting to go in the sort of the knuckles the the creases between the toes areas like that where I just want to add a little bit more of that sort of Pinky flesh to him now for the spines I'm giving a base coat of reddish gray by AK this is because I kind of want them to be pretty dark and if I try to get there with contrast paint on its own it'd take forever and you get that weird blotchy finish so I found a color I liked that was a normal acrylic paint I'm just applying that here one thing I really enjoyed with the previous lizard Mania and I really did and the response was wonderful and so lovely at why my first people come up and talk about it it's got me proper pumped I'm not gonna lie um I'd never painted lizards before that either so it's a really fun one to do um but one thing it's forcing me to do particularly this style that we're using is to be accurate and that's going to have a knock-on effect for the rest of my painting which is great and it's just nice to paint in a in a different way and then over the top of that gray I'm just giving it a coat of the Dreadful Visage just to blend it together a bit now like I said about those leopard geckos still having some of their sort of colored markings on them admittedly they're sort of orange and pink those ones but if I was painting a lizard's Army I think I'd be going with green as my dominant color so I was like oh how would I tie this albino dude into the rest of it so I've taken Creed camo which is this nice dark green contrast paint and that's what I would use for the spine color if I was going to do some Soros and I'm just doing little dots um along the the spine area to give him a mottled effect and the reason I've used contrast for this is because of that little bit of pooling it does um when you touch it on there and what that means is it just sort of dissipates out slightly um and I think gives a nice sort of irregular sort of freckled look um without too much work the key here really is just not to have too much on the brush and just to be ever so gentle um when you're dotting it onto the model and most of the dots you're going to need to go over two or three times but you know it's a couple of minutes if that to do it I wouldn't be doing this on all the Soros by any means but I think on the on the leader I think it's pretty cool and then once they're on there just gonna glaze over them again with that Dreadful Visage just to help tie them into the the scales underneath and just further darken per spine of the character and much like the previous Soros video for the majority of this I'm just using that lovely great big brush and you can see I've mixed in a tiny bit of that Creed camo um into the Dreadful Visage just to give it that slight green tint as well for the face Parts I've just gone in with the magos purple again on its own I've made sure to leave the face area um clean um so I could just go in and do a bunch of this things like the teeth the tongue um the cordage all that sort of thing I'm doing exactly the same way as it did on the previous video now all I've done here is I was finding it quite hard to look at the model because it was also white so I've just gone in and quickly blacked out the areas of armor just to make it easier for me to to read the model and that's the only purpose for that it just help me see if there's any errors I'd missed and there were a few that I completely missed um just because it was it was also white so close to it and then one thing I like to do over the contrast is just go in and give a little bit of an edge highlight here and there sort of in the focal area so around the face around the head and all I've done is taken an off-white color in this case for Leo model color ivory but any sort of off-white you know will do and I'm mixing in the various contrast paints that I've used on different stages so for instance I'll have mixed in a tiny bit of magos purple here to do the edge highlighting around the lightest scales then I might mix in a little bit of the brown or reddish gray rather to highlight those spines but I say everything else on him I've just done exactly the same as the othersaurus video now quite a few of you have asked about the how would I paint mounts and how would I go about it for me if I was gonna do an army I'd want my lizards to be really colorful and then I'd try and have my mounts be much more dull much less interesting uh from a point of sort of brightness and saturation point of view So to that end I've base coated him in brown gray very boring color I basically want to make him red if my lizards are going to be green I've decided I'm going to go red it's a nice uh contrast and We Know It Works we look at the color wheel it's a really obvious one and people say all red and green it's Christmasy I think you're fine so all I'm going to do is play with different tones of green and different tones of red and for the Reds as it were on this I'm going to go very very desaturated so which has brown gray as the base then I'm airbrushing on a dark rust here so sort of an orange color orange brown I am using the airbrush because it's a much larger surface now we're using um or we've got with the mounts and the airbrush I find is just going to make it easier if you haven't got one doesn't matter just follow the exact same process as you've done with your lizards also wanted to say huge thank you to those of you that support us over on patreon we hit a massive Milestone this month um you're all incredible um me and Andy are so appreciative for the support it just makes us want to create more and more content for you so you're getting content here getting content over on patreon we've got the other channel going now as well the podcast and it's all because of the support you're all giving us so thank you ever so much likes and subscribes really help on here too though so you know cheers for them too and then to darken up the spine I've taken a whole red which is a dark red color dark red Brown and say I'm just aiming towards the center of the spine so exactly the same approach as I've done on the lizards you know that light belly I can't think well the name for that is now something I've done quite a lot of reading on reptiles because these videos have been quite good fun but there's something to do with animals that have a lighter color belly and then it gets darker but anyway um so yeah light darker and then darkest along the spine but quite dull which is exactly what I'm after so we'll get that nice color contrast but we'll also get that contrast between a really vibrant saturated green lizard and the desaturated mount I wanted to make it a little bit more interesting and I want to bring Greens in wherever possible in my Army so I would bring in lots of different tones of green so I've got incubai Darkness here which is sort of dark turquoise color and I'm going to start airbrushing this onto the extremities so I'm going to do his little uh Claws and his feet and I love doing this I did this on a my brute trogloth a year or two ago um might be longer than that now when the last edition of AOS came out and I really really love the effect I did it on the hob growth as well and I've been waiting for something else to do it on and this just seemed like a good idea there's so many amazing sort of color plates for another better term you can go and look at for dinosaurs for reptiles for Birds just so many cool ideas for markings and doing on them and then I wanted to use that ink by Darkness right down the spine as well so nice and tight um this is just airbrush control really there's no trick to it I haven't changed my settings at all I've thinned the ink by Darkness probably slightly more thinner than paint um I'm still praying it's spraying at 25 psi um you know there's there's no trick to it there's no magic recipe or anything it's just sort of a bit of a bit of airbrush control but say this is a nice big needle a nozzle this is a 0.4 and I'm able to be as accurate as as I need to be and that's that's just going to come through a bit of practice so if you're nervous about doing it just do it the brush be absolutely fine just take you slightly longer [Music] and there we go that's all the airbrushing that I want to do on him but it's just allowed me to get to this stage nice and quickly um and I think he looks awesome um I'm I'm not gonna lie like I'm Loving Painting these lizards it's they're they're amazing they're just amazing um now to make it a little bit weirder um and not necessarily markings that I've seen um in the in the room oh you can hear that's my furry lizard uh in the background but yeah just want to paint in some weird little squiggles here with the incubus Darkness as well as you can see once they're all completed um I think he's looking pretty cool here pretty sort of Fantastical enough but also still nice and muted now really important prep for the next stage we're going to give this a very heavy gloss varnish finish or gloss finish with a with a varnish really want him looking like a boiled sweet here so use a rattle can I use an airbrush whatever you like to get your gloss varnish on with um will do the job but just good and shiny and we're gonna give him a wash using contrast paint so using uh rattling Grime here now you'll often if you've seen any of the other videos in here you'll often see me use oils or enamels for this sort of thing you can also use normal washes or contrast paints like this the gloss surface is going to make that paint run into the recesses really easily and it's also going to make it very easy to clean off the raised areas so all I'm doing here is very very gently just with a wet Q-tip just wiping that over the surface it's just going to pick any of that contrast that might be a SAT where we don't want it and I'm going to work around the model in sections so I don't get too much of it drying or pooling in one area so I don't miss it that is one of the downsides to using the acrylics for this is that they do dry quicker than the oils say but you know if you take you know so take care consider what you're doing work in work in sections you won't find an issue and the reason I didn't want to use oil for this is I just didn't want that that finish the oils give me all that effect the oils give me for this you can see there I've missed a little bit where the contrast was pulled on the flat area and this is a few minutes later and all I've done is taken a Q-tip here just dipped it in water touch the excess off and then very very gently just wiping it over the surface waiting for the paint to reactivate then you can remove it if you rub too hard you'll go through and you'll wipe the paint off but that's the only thing that will cause that so if you're gentle you're not going to have any issues and once I was happy with it and it had fully dried I just gave the whole thing a coat of satin varnish and I'll probably give it another coat of satin varnish or matte varnish towards the end before I do the metals um but the main reason for doing sat at this point was one to see what the Finish was like if it was satin but also it's very hard to paint over the top of gloss and it doesn't the paint doesn't stick to it very well so just giving it this satin finish now um just to see where where everything's at and I'm really really happy that extra definition the rattling Grime has brought in has been great and you know it was quite nice using the acrylic not having any of the the solvents to use um the drying time as I say being very quick that was pretty cool now the highlights just like I've done on the rider just like we did on thesaurus in the video before I'm using the one color so Ivory in this case and just mixing it in with the paints that were we're going over to create the highlight color so everything by Darkness we mix in ink by Darkness for the brown we mix in the Browns the dark rusts all of that it's just really efficient way of creating those highlight colors and getting them on without having tons of different pots of paint and to that end to paint the stone saddle Throne thing he was in I've just taken the black on my palette and then just mixed in the various Grays and Browns that I have on there already to create different Grays and then as you can see here we sort of give it a base coat and then lighten it up a little lots of little scratches mix in another slightly lighter one do some more scratches I just think it gives you a really nice natural looking stone color and then because I had some Creed camo on there as well I've watered that down even further I'm just going to wash that into a few of the areas just to give it that that look when you get a bit of the it's not algae is it but you know what I mean when you get a little bit of that sort of moss type stuff on Stone I think looks really cool and the celestite bits of the model so the spear and this little happy chap up here I'm going to use exactly the same technique but I'll just use some different colors so I've got incuba Darkness here so again riffing off those greens um hey it's you there's an awful lot of greens and you know you shift into Blues as well don't you sometimes with them and I think it's going to provide you with loads of variety over an army without ever really getting sort of bored um without it looking too monotone as well and so yeah that's my reasoning for using the greens and then yeah exactly the same technique lots of tons of little scratches so I've mixed in a bit of Ivory and then just loads of scratches and I'll do more of the lighter scratches from a light source so top left as we look at that just to reinforce the idea that it's sort of a curved bit of stone and then the only different thing here is I've got quite a thin wash of Dark Angels green contrast paint over the top of that just again to change the tone of it feathers there's a lot of the monolithic's models they're an amazing opportunity to get some ridiculous colors uh onto the model and particularly when I've got something like this dull agridon and we can use these few little spot areas of super bright colors and again contrast paints to your friend here you can create some very very simple Blends which work particularly well on these small areas like these smaller feathers so we put brush on the yellow contrast now these are the newer Ranger contrast paints they're a lot more powerful than the original range they're a lot more like inks so they're great for this sort of this sort of colors and jobs we're doing here basically I'm working through yellow through green through a darker green into a turquoise and you can see each time I'm just painting them on slightly further down each feather generally pulling from the lighter area towards the darker area and if you get any areas of those transitions that look a little shonky go back to the previous color thin it down and just repeat the process and you'll very very quickly get a lovely blend um through into the colors it's something it's blending via glazing is something you'll see us do in most of our videos but again here I am just Edge highlighting over the top of it putting a few dashes in to represent the little feathers on there I think this kind of thing really benefits contrast paints I think it it it takes them up to that next level of you haven't just swapped the contrast paint over um which is kind of what we're wanting to do right take it take it up a little Notch so that when people are looking at these armies they're really impressed on the table but when they pick them up and look at each individual model they can see that you know the care that we've taken and how cool they kind of look and there we go that was it as I say everything else is covered in the othersaurus video so the bass um the base I will link up in the top now it's from previous seraphim video and the metals and the rope and all that let's say in that previous Soros video I kind of went all in on the gold on this guy I was like he's already looks pretty ridiculous it's this Pink Lizard riding a dinosaur um why not why Let's Pretend the skinks are dressed him all in Gold because he's some badass Lizard King um and I really like how he's come out I kind of wish I had a green saurus to pop on top to see how that would work um so if I wanted to do more aggron's I guess I could do this other box of agrions here it's worth saying Games Workshop did send us this model and the Agri done so yeah maybe if you'd like to see that let me know um My Hope Is that with this in the last video it's going to give you a ton of starting points with with getting you know getting going on your lizards um My Hope also is that we get a Vanguard box which if we look historically seems to have been often what the Army launch boxes were with maybe one or two little tweaks so I'm hoping a ton of skinks and a Frog and maybe a monster um so my hope is when that comes out we can do that as a series on here and I can add it in to the Sora stuff and by then we'll have the full range of the lizard models um to see how we can do them but in the meantime I hope you enjoyed the video I hope if you've picked any of these seraphim models up you're going to enjoy painting them I know I certainly have um it's been so different to what I normally paint um I'm gushing about them a bit really but I haven't had a range like this for a long time where it's been something completely new to me and I've enjoyed painting it quite so much and what I've the two things I would say I've enjoyed the most is approaching it in this different way so starting very light and then working the colors down blah actually using contrast paints but also having to be accurate there's no or I can just weather that out I can create a scratch create a bit of battle damage or whatever that'll be great it'd be fine if I get metal or brown or something on that albino skin I'm gonna have to go right back and redo that whole area of the skin which sucks so it's definitely sort of improving me as a painter I can feel it already and I just hope you guys have enjoyed watching it I hope that the enthusiasm has come across so if you fancy something a little different little palette cleanser I can highly recommend picking up uh one of these awesome lizard models so as ever if you've got any questions pop them down in the comments I will get back to you as soon as I'm able if you've liked the video hit the Thumbs Up Hit subscribe if you're not already take care and I'll see you next time if you've liked any of the models in this video 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Published: Thu Jun 01 2023