PRISON PLANET: Speed painting Penal Guard

foreign Manpower is the imperium's greatest resource and in the brutal dark future of Warhammer 40 000 it is a currency readily spent the forces of the Astra militarum are so numerous that not even the departmental minotaurum knows how many soldiers are in uniform across the Galaxy regiments form up and Rise From The Trenches taking their place at the head of a battlefield that stretches across one million planets however not all of Mankind's Defenders are dauntless and well trained among the countless billions of the Imperial Guard are scores of conscripts and penal Legions civilians gangas and criminals forced to take up arms for the emperor not in the name of Valor but in the name of fear meet for the grinder in the gears of an endless war foreign guy here you're watching midwinter Minis and in this video I'm going to show you a quick and easy way to paint up a legion of Prison Planet conscripts to flesh out your Imperial Guard Army in a striking orange and gray color scheme I'm going to be painting up all of the Infantry from this start collecting astrom militar and box set they're gonna go head to head with these slan-ash demons in my next Deathmatch battle report so I need to get them painted up Pronto it's a strange little box featuring a commissar wielding a plasma pistol and a Power sword Acadian shock troop Squad a single heavy weapon team and they usually come in teams of three but these guys are going solo and I've built them as a mortar Squad to give them the benefit of blind firing from behind the walls of the Deathmatch Arena there's also a Lehman rust battle tank which is probably one of the strongest things in the death match tournament so far but we'll paint this up in another video These are obviously the decades-old Canadian models with the big heads and giant arms not the newer slightly sleeker looking models but the core principles of painting them are all the same they all have skin helmets armor plates fatigues boots and guns and that's the kind of simple approach we're taking here for ease of painting I'm going to paint the models separately from their bases just a DOT of super glue will hold them nice and tight on these little plastic cups and they'll snap off easily when we need them to for the bases I use some Vallejo texture paste added a few chunks of cork and sprinkled with a bit of sand for now let's get everything primed white we want to paint the fatigues orange and orange as a notoriously tricky color to paint easily so we're going to start with white to give ourselves the best shot at success now with traditional model acrylic paints oranges tend to be ridiculously transparent and require three four sometimes even five thin coats to get decent opaque coverage even over white so instead I'm going to try out the new Army painter speed paint range this is the version 2 release and I'll see how they perform now this is really important this isn't sponsored content Army painter don't know I'm using their Paints in this video no paint company pays me I don't have any vested interest in any killer brand and as you've seen in my videos I use a mix of Citadel Vallejo cooked arms AK Army painter green stuff world and even TT combat everything has its positives and negatives and I'm going to give you my absolute 100 honest opinion on speed Paints in this video from the good to the uh not so good just FYI Army painter speed paints work in a similar way to citadel's contrast paint line so instead of going on like a uniform coat they have a different consistency more viscous slightly gel like and the idea is that you can slap them on over a light base coat and they not only stain the surface of whatever you've painted but also pull themselves into the recesses and texture to create a darker color in the shadows it also pulls away from especially sharp edges giving the illusion of basic highlights too so with that knowledge freshen your minds let's see how they perform on the bases for some quick reference I chose a few Earth Tones and applied them ocher clay brownish Decay Warrior skin Gunner camo bony Mata that one's quite nice Satchel Brown Noble skin burnt Moss desolate Brown Ashen Stone and cool green why not okay I think having a mix of bony Mata and Warrior skin on the actual Earth and then painting the rocks with Ash and stone would work pretty well I quickly re-primed the bases and did exactly that letting the two earthy colors mix a bit on the surface and I'm not thinning the speed paints at all here the set does come with a bottle of speed paint medium to thin things down and make colors less intense while still retaining the recess hugging properties and maybe we'll use some later anyway yeah they look really nice mostly very matte too only in the deepest recesses where it pulled most thickly is where any hint of a slightly satin shine comes through there's a nice variant of color intensity and contrast here but to give the Sandy texture a bit of a lift I added a quick dry brush of vallejo's pale sand this is totally optional obviously but I think it makes a worthwhile difference for the extra minute it'll take you now because these speed paints really need a light preferably white color under them I base coated the rocks and stones again with AK white and once that was dry I applied Ash and stone to them while I left those to dry let's see what oranges this range has to offer I picked out a few that looked like they could do something interesting aged hide peachy flesh nuclear sunrise and fire Drake and painted a few of the boots on the models to see what they look like I think nuclear Sunrise is definitely my favorite but the Highlight areas where the speed paint is pulled away look a little bit pale and desaturated so I wonder if it look better if we maybe gave things a coat of yellow first and then orange or maybe even red over the top before we do that can I just take a minute to acknowledge the fact that Cadian shock troops are definitely wearing Uggs [Music] now this version 2 set has two pretty decent yellows Maize yellow is nice and vibrant and ancient honey has a slightly warmer richer tone I was having a pretty good time with these paints up until this point and then disasters track yes that's a whole bottle spilled on my palate how did this happen aren't they in dropper bottles well yes they are and dropper bottles are almost impossible to spill but to help shake up and mix your paint in the bottle Army painter kindly put in little metal mixing bowls to agitate as you shake however if you like me hold your droppers upside down to squeeze out the paint the ball can get stuck in the nozzle you squeeze a bit too hard and the nozzle pops off and all the paint explodes everywhere so here's a useful tip if you're using these paints don't hold it upside down to get the paint out tilt them to the side so the ball doesn't block the nozzle I'm guy you're watching midwinter Minis and I'll make all the mistakes so you don't have to anyway that mess sorted out kind of I realized that nuclear Sunrise actually has really tiny dark spots in the paint and yeah you can see it where I painted the boots now it's totally dry too so maybe I won't use this particular color after experimenting with the yellow undercoats and different oranges and reds I felt the undercoating with ancient honey and then layering bright red over the top of it when it was dry gave it the best super saturated almost day glow looking orange effect so I repainted all the boots white again to start painting properly I gave all of the models fatigues a coat of ancient honey and then I thinned down that bright red with an equal quantity of the speed paint Medium as I said earlier this should make the color less intense without changing the properties of the paint too much yeah it's going on nicely the key here is to not overwork the paint when you're painting over a previous color because all paints like this even citadel's contrast paint will reactivate when wet so you don't want to agitate them too much with a brush just a quick coat and move on and let the paint do its thing don't push it around too much once the red dried over the yellow I re-baste the armor panels weapons hands and faces with white ready for the next color I quite like the look of the color a cultist cloak for the armor plates and Boots so quite carefully apply this to the models because it'll be a real pain to rebase with white and double layer or yellow and a red to fix any mistakes on the orange I was particularly careful around the border of the fatigues I mean it looks good speed paints and contrast paints tend to not perform that well on Armor panels and smooth surfaces leaving blotchy marks behind but considering the speed of application the results aren't terrible I fixed a few details with white again like the aquilas on the helmets and their faces ready for the next steps now one of the most interesting things about the second wave of speed paints is that they have metallics too a gold a bronze and a silver so I'll try out all three in this project so you can see how they perform broadsword silver goes on just like the others really and looks like a pretty serviceable metallic once it's done not super shiny quite muted maybe gunmetal would have been a better name than broadsword silver and that might also set the right expectation too but yeah it's definitely darker in the recesses and a bit lighter on the sharp edges so pretty decent the only annoying thing is it's tonally very similar to the armor which I wasn't really expecting given the Swatch on the bottle so we might have to do something about that later to make these separate elements stand out from one another let's give hoplite gold The Bash that goes on just like a normal gold paint to be honest in fact it doesn't really have a similar Behavior to the other paints here it doesn't seem to go much darker in the recesses or have lighter highlights it's just a pretty good useful gold paint nice and Rich and covers well over light and dark base coats a bit of an odd one for this set I suppose Talos bronze is yeah it's pretty decent it behaves like the silver and the other speed paints rather than the gold it dries with a slightly desaturated look over a white base coat though but it makes it visually distinct from the gold so that's a plus onto the skin now and one of the most useful applications of this kind of one step paint is that it works really well on small amounts of skin which ordinarily would require a base layer a shade and maybe one or two highlights to get looking decent with these you can just grab a few different skin tones and boom instant natural variety with very little effort I also gave the Sergeant's hair an extra coat of peachy flesh to give him a brownie gingery Mark I used Grim black on the the flame as fuel pipe and I liked it so much it got a bit too cocky and thought it might work well for more precise details on the Soldier's faces but no it makes them look like disfigured mutants let's just repaint that face entirely and pretend it didn't happen I did however thin that black down a little and use it to glaze over the belts and harnesses and also carve out a little bit more contrast by adding a fine line to the crease of the flaps on the tunics okay let's snap them off stick them to the bases and see what they look like a couple of quick coats of Steel Legion grab on the rims you do need a traditional paint for rims really for the uniform opacity and yeah here they are some penile Legion conscripts painted up in no time at all using pretty much exclusively the second wave of army painter speed Paints the only exceptions here are the white for the base coating a bit of pale sand to add texture to the bases and a mid Brown for the rims and they look fine very serviceable especially the fatigues as I expected the areas that let the look down are the flat armor panels but if you just wanted to get some guard painted up fast and ready for the table these paints are up to the task I want these to look great in my battle report video though so I'm going to add a few simple extra steps to make them a bit more visually striking I mixed in a bit of Citadel Esh in Gray into Vallejo neutral gray to get a similar gray to the armor but different enough to not blend in with the gunmetal paint and smoothed out the blotchy looking plates on the pauldrons and helmets the speed paint has done iron share of the work for us already we're just fixing a few easy to reach areas next I'll use citadel's fire dragon bright which is ordinarily a very difficult color to work with but I'm just going to use it to add a few select highlights on the fatigues it doesn't really matter that it's a very transparent paint because again the majority of the work has been done by the speed paints we're just adding a Finishing Touch the Canadian shock troop transfer set that's quite hard to say has some barcodes on them which will be perfect for adding to the pauldrons of these penal Troopers Chop Chop soak soak stick stick and once they're all dry and in place I added a thin coat of matte varnish to knock off the shine I also added it to the other pauldron even though there's nothing on it to make sure that both armor plates have a similar finish a thin some Satchel Brown speed paint with the speed paint medium and used it to much more carefully this time add some depth to the eye creases and the mouths of the faces and also to add some Darkness into the recesses of the Gold Elements as I said the gold just seems like a regular gold paint so this will help add some contrast now as guns are 100 too small and fiddly to drill the barrels out in my opinion but that grenade launcher looks a bit weird with a flat tip so I use my wow stick to give it a wide grenade width Barrel not too deep though and a dab of the Grim black paint should make it read as a deep dark hole a few random Tufts stuck onto the bases smushed and crunched with the tweezers and snipped into less uniform shapes should make them look much more polished then yeah a much more photogenic bunch of shock troopers letting the speed paints do their thing adding color with quick shading all in one go but then going in and adding a few finishing touches with traditional acrylic paints is a pretty effective method for Army painting I'm still not going to give up my tried and true speed painting techniques using regular model acrylics I've shown you in all my videos so far but it's certainly been a fun challenge whoa there guy didn't you say you were going to paint all the Infantry from this box yes yes I did let's grab this cool commissar and see how good we can get it to look just using this speed paint set and only their regular white for base coating before we launch into that a tribute to the most recent new signups on patreon these kind folk have gone above and beyond to support the channel and help us make hobby tips and tricks videos like this as an actual job so I think a quick shout out is only fair special thanks to Emerick Walmart vijali Eric calroto cyrawan taihanzo will Psy ebb Damien 4 Lord Jake M Josh Lawrence destroy the Lich King forgery forgery Matthew Craig the Obamacare MB Douglas Pogue Jarvis Robert Crichton great uncle Escobar Walker hustlust hope Pastor boy donnie78 Cameron Atwell Tony McDade Michael Pabst Nick Ridley will Carrington stevel Knievel Rick freeze demolition Nicholas David Bailey arsenic Andre bookians Lord aryakan Chris Bolton major waffle ardnail th Lorenz Florian McLeod Philip Brown John trajan valoris and Matthew Cole right then commissar let's go to give this model its best shot of looking awesome I'm gonna do some pre-shading using the new formula of citadel's nullmoil it stains less and darkens the recesses more so is actually pretty useful for instantly defining the separate areas of the model and adding depth to the Shadows now let's pimp him out good and proper and give him a purple trench coat and Crimson trousers I tested out few of the purples and reds on the palette and decided to use Slaughter red for the trousers and swarm purple for the coat the shirt got a coat of murder scene and while I waited for all that to dry I gave the Rocks he's standing on a coat of Ash and stone to match the penal Troopers chain and the hilt of the Power sword got a coat of hop like gold and the blade of The Sword and the main section of the Plasma Pistol were painted with Broad Sword silver hemp coat time I tidied up any accidentally colored bits with white and then painted the coat with swarm purple yeah that's a really nice color I mixed peachy flesh and bony Mata together to make a more complex color for his face and then now everything on the midriff is definitely dry I touched up the cumberbund scarfy thing with white again purple and green are a classic eye-popping combo so I grabbed algae green to paint his midriff as well as the tassels of his epaulettes some Grim black on his shiny shiny shiny boots of leather as well as his gloved sword hand and prosthetic mechanical pistol hand the plasma coils of the gun were re-based with white as well as all of the other Trinkets and details on the model random aquilas and skulls and metals stuff like that the metallic bits were given a careful coat with that bronze speed paint and also added a touch of bronze to the trim of his shirt and coat too to add some color to the plasma coils I used Caribbean Ocean which is a lovely color I also painted this onto the flat of the blade of the handle in a kind of vague lightning pattern and yeah it looks rubbish right now but watch this by adding white to that Caribbean Ocean we can create a highlight color to make it look like there's electric blue Sparks in the center of those slightly blue areas on the blade a tiny bit more white mixed into the strongest areas closest to the handle and that looks pretty decent all of a sudden a tiny dot of bright red onto the bionic eye and the random light on his backpack I mixed in a bit of white paint to the Grim black to create a mid-tone gray and use this to manually pick out some of the highlights on his gloves and boots now being honest because of the viscous quality of these speed paints it's sometimes difficult to get clean edges as the paints want to spread out and find all the nooks and crannies to hide in so at this point I'm just going to go around the model with all the base colors again but with a bit of white added for extra opacity and fix all of these sloppy bits after that was done I carried on adding progressively brighter highlights just by adding that white AK acrylic into whatever speed paint I was using to get the initial color until I was satisfied with each area I thinned some Gunner camo with the speed paint medium probably about four parts medium to one part paint and added some five o'clock shadow to the commissar's grizzle chops a little touch up of the green and yeah you know what I reckon that's looking pretty cool let's stick him on his base and see what he looks like as part of the army nice I messed up the placement a bit when I first stuck them down and there's some shiny super glue residue ruining the matte finish of the base so I added a quick coat of matte varnish to dull it down again and yeah we're done it looks pretty awesome and he really stands out from the motley crew of criminals he's leading in very inverted commas if you don't know who commissar is in the lore of Warhammer 40K are very trigger happy when it comes to using force on their own troops to keep them in line so what do you reckon how do you think version 2 of these speed paints holds up as I said I can definitely see some of them having uses obviously there are some really great paints and some not so great paints but overall I think they're pretty good they do reactivate a little bit when you get them wet with extra paint and agitate them too much with a brush but if you're using them like this to get quick base coats down and then build up from them it shouldn't cause you too much of a problem the metallics are pretty decent even if the gold is just a good gold paint and doesn't really have darker recesses now I know what you're thinking guy you still have that lemon raster paint and paint like speed paints and Contour paints look awful on big flat panels well my friend I'm gonna give it my best shot and hopefully show you how to not just get okay results but good results using this kind of paint on vehicles tune in next time to see how it's done and don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already hit the like button so YouTube will hopefully shine its big golden algorithm smile down on us and share this video with a friend if you think they'll find it useful if you want to paint Canadian shock troops in a more traditional way using regular acrylic model paints we've made a video a couple of years ago on how to do exactly that I'll link that in the video description that's it for this episode thank you so much for watching and I'll catch you next time bye for now [Music] [Music] thank you [Music]

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Published: Thu Mar 09 2023