Painting Your Warhammer Army In TWO HOURS A NIGHT

hey vince so you've painted like 400 armies right yeah i don't know not that many but i've painted several armies what's up man all right hit me with the wisdom how do i paint my army super fast there's a couple really important things you have to do i make sure you're writing these down are you ready for them there's three of them first make sure you pick the right force i cannot emphasize this enough make sure it's something simple something that you can easily paint don't by any stretch pick anything that has like i don't know a lot of brocaded armor around the edge or something like that second make sure you use every time saving tool you can so really lean heavily on the airbrush or oil paints or things like that so you can get quick blends and really make the army look good fast oh yeah yeah that makes total sense for sure third be reasonable don't go crazy don't get too nuts don't paint a whole stack of boxes just because you feel like it pick a simple 2 000 point army and go oh yeah yeah these are delicious nuggets of wisdom fence of course man always happy to help brother good luck hey there hobby friends it's good to have you back you know having a fully painted army that you're proud of for your game of choice is one of the most awesome feelings in our hobby unfortunately it's also one of the most overwhelming tasks to try to complete so what i did was make a quick list of all the excuses and reasons that we have for not getting our armies painted and i'm going to try to address them all in one fell swoop as i try to complete my night lord's army the first one is time look we've all got a hundred other things going on in our lives but i think we can commit to two hours a night for one week so that's what i'm gonna do monday through friday only two hours to paint each night and then when i get to saturday and sunday i think i'm gonna up it to around four hours i think that's doable on a weekend so in one week i can complete this army the second is the amount of detail we're gonna put in the army yes you could just spray paint the colors from above so they look like they're made of stone or made of ghostly material but that's not how most of us want our armies painted so what i'm going to do is take an army that has a ridiculous amount of detail in my ks space marines here every little bit of trim and speaking of airbrush number three is no airbrush at least for the majority of the army all the basics of the army will be all done without an airbrush and at the end i'm going to show a couple of cool tricks where i use the airbrush but also explain how they can be done without and the final reason for not getting your army painted that we're going to address today in this army paint is skill nothing that we do today requires a high level of skill and miniature painting to pull off so if i can do it so can you all right it's sunday night tomorrow i start the army and i need to get everything primed yet tonight so tomorrow after work i can get my two hours in and start cranking out hopefully between now and then i can also come up with what my plan and scheme is so i can just knock those stops out one after another instead of weighing it because otherwise this is going to be interesting i'm a big believer of getting your army all ready to go so when you want to get started painting everything is done and for me that meant that i got to put on some of these awesome little stones that i got from spellcrow miniatures on all the bases and then i just slapped on some watered down pva glue and some dried dirt from my yard and bam my basing is done right off the bat let's get to our base coat application for me the main color is night lords blue and instead of grabbing an airbrush i'm gonna actually grab my artist opus dry brush set and i'm going to stipple on all of my base colors now this isn't just a poor man's version of creating base coats with an airbrush it's actually better for what i'm trying to achieve not only do i not have this vast amount of overspray that an airbrush will give us but it actually allows me to stipple on textures from the very beginning i'm going for a more realistic gritty look by the time this army is done and this will allow me to do that and yes using these means that i can avoid hitting areas that i want to keep black for later but that doesn't mean that i'm being super careful in my application i am really just kind of stabbing at the model to create this base color without making the entire model look like it's dark blue by the time i'm done today's video is brought to us by fart quest an epic new book series by best-selling and award-winning author aaron reynolds now fart quest is geared towards upper elementary and middle school readers and i'm going to be perfectly honest with you here my daughter and i are having a ton of fun reading through the first book together growing a child's confidence in reading and building up a healthy imagination is so important 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back to the painting once the base coat is all complete i'm going to stick with my dry brushes and continue to stipple this time with kalgar blue i'm just going to focus on those areas that are upturned and would catch light naturally a couple of important tips while using this stippling technique first just like any time you use a dry brush you want to wipe off most of the paint from the brush on a paper towel or a piece of cardboard before you hit the model and second you want to make sure that your dry brush for this technique is nice and firm there are some great makeup dry brushes out there you can get for cheap but they're pretty floppy they do have their great uses and other things but for this we want a nice firm dry brush oh and make sure you don't highlight too much in this step we want to keep some interesting contrast and that means showing a lot of the dark as well as the light i think i'm actually only hitting maybe 30 percent of the model with this first highlight of calgar blue okay recap of day one two hours and ten minutes i spent painting tonight and uh went a little bit over because i want to make sure i got all of the first highlight stippling done before the end of the night and i thought i was going to get through the second highlight of stippling i still feel like i'm going to need that tomorrow but i may need to reevaluate my total number of steps um because i'm already feeling behind the eight ball hopefully day two goes a little bit better and then my final step of highlighting i make sure i go down to a small brush and i stipple on a bright desaturated gray blue i'm not want to go too bright blue for this final highlight because i can't have my night lords being mistaken for ultramarines here we just paint a smaller section inside of that first highlight of kelgar blue one thing you want to be doing when you're painting a large group of models is not to be thinking whenever possible here i'm just painting within the lines of that first highlight making it smaller this time and creating more interest especially around the head and shoulders [Music] i've got a couple of different units in the army that don't have blue as their main color like our cultists here i'm just gonna go with a standard dark brown up to a cream color trench coat for them and later on i've got my chaos spawn proxies that i'm going to be doing a different color as well but i feel like i'm going to get burnt out painting all this trim later so i'm going to for a change of pace keep those chaos spawn ready to do at that point all right it's time to settle in and crank out all of this detail work now when i'm painting an army the most important thing that i look for in a paint when i'm doing detail work is paint that can go on in one nice opaque layer that is bright and doesn't need multiple coats but when it comes to metallics especially gold that kind of paint can be very tough to find luckily my buddy vincy v recently told me about these green stuff world pure metal pigments and they are so bright and cover so well it's alarming i've never used them before this project and while you do have to mix them yourself with a little bit of metal medium they do create a beautiful beautiful one coat gold that really pops against our blue armor whenever i'm doing detail work on an army i want one brush that can do both the big things and the little things and for me that's my monument hobbies size 4 synthetic whether i'm doing a small detail or a large flat surface this one brush will be able to do the job easily if you want to check out the brushes i use or any of the other tools that i feature in my videos just check the links in the video description and oftentimes we can even get you a nice discount after painting a few of these gold trimmed bastards i realize that there are a ton of areas of trim that are very very hard to reach and most of them you can't even see unless you have the model turned upside down at a very odd angle so i did what any logical person would do and i quit painting those sections yeah i said it didn't paint them you'll never know there's two reasons why i did this and why i think you should do it too first if i'm holding a model three inches from my face and i have to squint for two minutes to find the areas that i don't think that i painted it's not worth my time to paint them in the first place and number two we're gonna make these night lords gritty and grimy later anyway so they're just going to be covered over with a different layer of paint which is going to look like shadow instead of the bright gold that would naturally hit light well this is going terribly um two hours in tonight and i'm only maybe if i'm lucky halfway done with all this stupid gold trim whoever decided to do chaos space marines with their tiny filigree around every bit of armor they have is a don't ever do this this is bad i'm gonna have to figure out if there are other certain details i am going to have to cut from my paint process and i can't even tell if this thing's going to look good yet or not so mistakes were made to prevent making mistakes while i'm working on things like trim on models i try to keep my brush pressure pretty light meaning i'm just barely touching the brush to the model just enough so the paint flows off the brush but i'm not squishing it into the model and losing control over where the paint goes and if you do make a mistake and it's going to happen quickly assess how big of a mistake it is if it's minor i just leave it if it's a big one i quickly rinse my brush then take that clean wet brush and wipe it over the mistake while the paint is still wet i repeat this a couple of times with the rinsing and the wiping and the mistake should just disappear alright well it is a wednesday night uh two hours and ten minutes tonight to finish up not all of the gold i still have one more stupid turkey to paint now that all the stupid gold is done i feel a sense of relief get out of here it is finally beyond what i think to be the biggest hurdle of the project and i've got a new sense of energy so let's get at it let's assess all the other details that we're going to need to paint by brush first of all we want to keep this number of colors minimal the less colors that we have on the model the more we're going to have our attention focused on the main colors so for us here it's the gold trim and the blue armor oh and the more colors you add the more time you are committing for very little payoff these extra colors aren't here to actually improve the final army look they're just here to make sure it looks like you didn't forget to paint something on the models and quite frankly you can leave some of these things black and it will still look great later on i got through all of the silver today in one evening that felt good i didn't think there was that much silver i was wrong um it took a long time but i have the end in sight of all my detail work in terms of other colors unfortunately i think i picked too many extra colors to paint all this stuff so i might have to cut this down tomorrow but my goal is to have most if not all of the detail work done tomorrow night please let that happen i did want to use a bright red for the army as an accent color because that is the color of the night lord's insignia i also picked up some awesome custom heads and shoulder pads from puppets of war and i wanted to make sure that those were highlighted so my army felt unique i grabbed a bone color that i know covers really well and i hit every horn insignia and skull because this is warhammer and there's gotta be seven thousand skulls oh and it's friday a little bit over two hours tonight and i'm feeling energized i got through quite a bit of stuff with reds with bones with little bits of browns and such and just have the skin colors to do tomorrow and then i'm ready for the fun part which is weathering and all those details at the end that hopefully we'll pull this all together and the last detail that i'm working up my brush is the actual skin tone for all of my duders that don't have their helmets on i'm also going to use this same color for my chaos spawn because i want them to feel cohesive with the rest of the army so i'm going to go back and paint those start to finish and i'm going to start with a nice deep reddish crimson color for the base color for them so they can feel like they've got more depth and interest as undead vampire spawn monster guys i go right back to my big dry brushes and use the same approach that i used earlier to knock these out quickly going from one color and then up and then up here i decided to have more highlights at each level because i wanted the skin to be a nice pale final color i decided i want a little bit more areas of interest on these chaos spawn models so i decided to add some contrast paint to the webbing in the wings where the orange met the black i just kind of swished them together and made a real quick and easy blend contrast works well for this because it dries particularly slow and it's not hard to blend two colors together sunday morning and i forgot to record last night uh to give you the update on saturday and we had a little monkey wrench saturday was a busy day around our household and i also had my regular d d session so i got in less than two hours of work yesterday on saturday when i had planned to do around four hours to help finish this up now that's life now let's get on to the fun part night lords like to scavenge anything from the battlefield that they may be able to use whether it be armor or weapons or other fancy gear or like a capri sun granola bars stuff like that and so there's no reason why they should be bright and clean and shiny anytime we paint a large number of models it's important that we still define each section with some form of a wash but for these guys i'm going to bust out the good old streaking grime one thing that's great about these enamels is you can use them right out of the bottle you don't have to worry about how much to thin them like you do in making your own oil wash they also work awesome whether you apply them with a brush or an airbrush now like i said i'm keeping airbrushing in this project to a bare minimum and you did not need an airbrush for this step i was a little bit nervous on being able to finish this army by the end of the weekend which is why i went with the airbrush here but honestly it probably only saved me like 10 or 15 minutes across the whole army using the airbrush over a paintbrush and no matter how you apply an enamel or even an oil wash the more important detail is how you remove it so what i'm gonna do is take these nice little makeup sponges and i'm gonna first focus on all the time that we spent highlighting up the armor and we're gonna remove all of that enamel from those areas from there i hit all the up turn facing surfaces and i'm gonna allow the enamels to still stay in the cracks and crevices to create some nice definition across the model and overall give us a broken down dirty look now at this point our army is looking great and you should have no problem taking them straight to the table for a game tomorrow but based on how much time we have left i'm gonna take all of my final little tricks to try to ramp up the army to look as cool as i can before my weekend is done first things first sheila here which i kit bash in a previous video right there she needs a lot more rustiness going on because she's got a lot of metal on her and for that i love to use another enamel product called rust streaks i just slosh this all over the place you can dab it off if there's areas that you want to make sure are staying silver but for me i just didn't paint everything with this coat next we need a nice bright vibrant pop of color somewhere on these models so when we're 10 15 20 feet away at a tournament they still can show even with the dark grimy look and for that i'm gonna have a nice glowing red eye and other things i want glowing and for that i'm gonna use the brightest red i know imaginable and that is the red by camara to start i'm going to paint everything i want glowing with a full thick opaque white paint this way anything we paint on top will even show brighter and it will look as if it's the source of the red glow now just like with the enamel wash you don't need to use an airbrush for this step what you do instead is just thin down your red quite a bit on your palette and then with the brush you're going to create many layers of building up that red over time and don't be afraid of like swiping it over areas around the glowing eyes so it looks like it's coming from them so the final thing we're going to paint on our night lords are their notorious lightning bolts i just paint some jagged lines how i envision lightning bolts look in my head and i have them fork here and there i do want to avoid the darkest areas of the armor and i also want to avoid the brightest highlights that we've already painted i don't want the lightning bolts to take away from the work we've already done [Music] underneath [Music] and then just grab that brown that i already used for my cultists robes and i do a quick dry brush over all the bases so it has a nice neutral tone and you can start to pick up some of the texture created by our dirt and sand and from there i grab old rust a vallejo pigment color and i kind of mash that into the bases and a couple of different points and this creates a nice interest it makes your base look like it's got something special going on it doesn't cost you hardly any time oh and this reminds me people often ask if they need to varnish their model in between the enamel steps and going back to acrylics they'll also ask if they need to varnish the model after they apply their pigment powders so first with enamels and oils no as long as they are dried and cured you can go right over the top of them enamels actually dry quite a bit faster than oils which is nice for a speed painting project but either one of them once they're dried and cured are quite a bit stronger than acrylic paints anyway and as far as the pigment powders if you varnish over top of them you kill the color by quite a bit you also kill that really interesting variation in finish pigment powders are really dry and matte looking and if you varnish over them it's just going to pull it all together and it's not going to have much of an impact if you're worried about it spreading everywhere you can sure do that but honestly i've never had any problem putting pigment powders on my bases and having them just stay there and here we are the finished night lords army and even as i second guessed how this whole project was going to turn out because i didn't do a test model and i was trying a lot of these things in an army like this for the very first time once it was all together and you see them you will be proud of what you've created and it can be a tough thing to keep in mind because we paint an army one model at a time and not until the very end do we see how they all look like together but oh baby it's worth it so now that we've finished painting this army and checked every excuses box what say you did i miss a different reason why you haven't got your army painted is that something that i should keep in mind put that down in the comments below also i mentioned that i didn't quite get this army to where i'd like it do you think there's value in me coming back and cranking this army up to 11 in a later video if you think that's a good idea let me know in the comments below on that one as well thank you for hanging out and painting an army with me today i hope you had a good time i know that i did and i can't wait to see these night lords on the gaming table if you like what i do and you want to support me in making more videos the main way that you can do that is consider joining my patreon campaign i've got a link to that in the video description not only do you help me keep doing this kind of stuff but you also get a bunch of fun rewards as well like access to my private discord server we can hang out and talk about night lords every day of the week and you get access to my weekly vlog videos thanks once again for hanging out now get out of here go slay the gray [Music]

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Keywords: warhammer, warhammer 40k, warhammer 40000, painting warhammer, painting 40k, painting age of sigmar, painting warhammer 40k, miniature painting, mini painting, space marines, painting space marines, painting chaos marines, miniac, squidmar, midwinter minis, painting miniatures, ninjon, beginner mini painting, mini painting 101, mini painting basics, warhammer army painting, speed painting, 40k army

Id: tIB6ZMxBnbs

Length: 23min 40sec (1420 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 09 2021

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You've probably seen it but mezgike has a nice nightlord mini and painting video