SPEED PAINTING TYRANIDS | GRIMDARK | WARHAMMER 40k | LEVIATHAN | Army Painting

hi everyone it's Henry here and in this video we're going to do something a little bit different now recently we added a new member to the cult Ken and he is Ben our commission's chief his longtime gaming hobbying life partner Frenemy whatever you want to call it and I tasked them both with in a week of their spare time so outside of work they had to try and paint up as much of the New Leviathan box that Games Workshop centers through for review as they possibly could and Ken already had this huge tear in its Army and he had his scheme down he's like I'll take them and about two days later got a message saying yeah all done where do you want to send the photos to I was like beg your pardon um so get these photos the awesome Grim dark gnarly looking nids right up my street and pop the photos up on social and a lot of you seem to really dig what he'd done as well so I asked King can you write me up a simple guide of how you've done them I think people would really dig it so he sent them through a super cool I really fancy having a go at it so here's me trying out someone else's recipe less pain [Applause] before any paintwork Ken does a few modifications to the Miniatures themselves so he takes a mix of plastic glue and putty now he said he likes to use the Tamiya gray putty I haven't got the Tammy gray putty I've got this 8K one but any of these plastic putties will work well and you're going to mix them with the plastic glue to create this sort of goop and then you're going to splodge that over the carapace parts of the miniature and this is just going to texture them up and once that's done he also adds a little bit of crackle paint on there which is what that Martian iron Earth is and now you can mix these things up separately in a little dish if you want to or I'm just gonna mix them up on the model themselves and smush them together but essentially it's yeah you're you're melting plastic to create different types of texture on the model this is a very common thing you'll see in people who tend to go down that more uh you might have heard it called blanch Jitsu or Grim dark different styles of that that more stylistic takes on paint jobs for Miniatures and tank texturing them up a bit is a really cool way of doing it before you get the paint on you'll see some people will stick grass toughs and all sorts all over it and it really helps to to take the aesthetic that step away from just painting on the plastic miniature so once all that's dry we Prime the little black and then he gives the whole thing a coat of a GW iron rack skin this can be a lot of airbrush work on this if you haven't got an airbrush I don't think you're particularly going to be able to follow the scheme um but you never know there might be a few cool bits and Bobs in here there's definitely some things here that aren't airbrushed that you might be able to apply to your own thing but when it comes to speed painting which is what this is this isn't just Army painting here this is speed painting an army tools such as airbrushes dry brushes washes things like that become absolutely essential um for getting things done for full transparency I thought I had iron rack and when I came to film it I didn't um so this is a little mix I've made up that I think is very very close to the scheme itself so once we've got that iron rack skin all over we're going to take Celia greenshade which is a wash like acrylic wash by Games Workshop I think all the paints Games Workshop only that Ken's used for this so nice and readily available and he sprays this into base the tail back of the head and into the joint areas on the model he said on the tail he goes sort of roughly twice the distance cover by the little holes on the tail depending on what the um the creature is and not diluted at all I'm spraying at nearly 30 PSI on all of this you're going to need to adjust depending on your situation that you're painting but I'm using a 0.4 needle and nozzle and a harder and steambeck infinity this is our signature series one so once the Green's on we're then going to take another wash this is Caribou crimson and we're going to apply this to the claws to the Hooves to the front of the face the mouth and then a little bit of the tail as well and I love this little mix of the red and the green um it's already bringing a bunch of life um to the model but also we know that that combination of colors can work very very well together and it doesn't always need to look Christmassy as I'm I certainly don't think this is very festive uh they're still gripply right now once we've achieved that we then move on to Black now uh Ken suggested I used contrast paint black Templar so it's a nice strong black but it's very thin paint which again we just dropped straight into the airbrush so we haven't had to do any thinning for the last three colors so the Celia green shade the Caribou crimson and the black so again nice and quick the fewer steps there are the quicker this is getting done once that's all done we then give the model a dry brush with the iron rack skin all over just to pick out those details models like the nids in particular they take dry brushing fantastically well all those little details really really easy um to pick them out with the dry brush and already it was like oh this is really cool and we're talking like minutes here if that on the job so far um Ben was doing some of the painting with him he said it was it was just ludicrous how quick he was firing um some of these things out then for the little recessed ribbed bits um that are all over the nid models he uses a contrast paint now he's using this neat so straight from the pot no thinning or anything straight into all those little recesses and into the joints as well again products like contrast paints just like washes and stuff very very useful for when we're trying to get a paint job done as quickly as possible still looking really really cool then something you've done that I he does that I thought was quite interesting is he uses the contrast paint a little bit like an oil paint in certain areas as well so by splotching it on sort of around the the holes in the base of the skull he then uses some water so whilst it's still wet on the model he uses clean brush with water on to just feather it out and blend it into the paint around it um really nice idea I've used contrasts in a similar way to oils in the past they don't work exactly the same but basically what you have is a slightly extended working time over just a normal acrylic paint certainly a much friendlier way of doing it you can absolutely do this um toothbrush blending you might see it called it's not quite wet blending but it is doable with acrylic paints but contrast paints do make it a little bit easier because of that work time and then it's a simple case of painting the carapace black but that's plenty of that don't see any more of that now we're going to pick out that texture that we applied um before we painted the model with that plastic glue and plastic putty thing so this is just iron rack mixed in with the black to give us a gray quick dry brush over the carapace don't worry if you get a tiny bit of uh sort of not over spray but over brush I guess if you will um doesn't hurt just adds to that grimy look then it's moving on to powders and I found this really old weathering powder I had you can see by Chrome like I'm no idea if it's still available but it's just a dark brown a dark ready Brown I thought that would be cool now Ken simply said in the instructions smash this into the carapace so I did I think I used far too much it's not hard to remove you just sort of keep brushing at it and remove it um but this is I think interesting like you especially when you're following instructions that are maybe simply written or when it's just written with photos there's always that interpretation um isn't there so I think this is something what you'll see in the end photos I definitely ended up with more powder on mine uh than Ken did I don't dislike it um but yeah I think it's worth maybe worth doing a test model particularly if you're going to be doing a whole Army see what you like just wanted to take a second to say thank you ever so much to all of you that support us over on patreon you're allowing myself and Andy to create videos each week over here and on there all sorts of projects stuff that we think is cool that we're enjoying doing but also stuff that we think you might find enjoyable and help you with your own painting whether that's Army painting display painting whatever we massively appreciate the support you're giving us likes and subscribe on here help us a ton too so thanks for that as well then at the same time Ken says he does the bass and he uses a dark brown and orange and a light brown powder this is a little bit different to how I do the bases even though I use powders and we've got that video up we've had for for ages but once that's done it says spray the whole model with a matte varnish and exactly what I thought was going to happen happened and I blew most of the powders off the base with this um I could turn the pressure down that would probably have helped I could consider using some sort of thick stiff on the powders or in my case I just reapplied them afterwards because they're very matte anyway right now we start to get to the really grimy horrible bits that are really going to bring the model to life so this is a 60 40 mix of blood for the blood God that's a 60 part and a 40 part is seraphim sepia which is an acrylic wash mix that together with one drop of black ink I didn't really know one drop compared to how many drops of of the others I didn't know um but basically a dark disgusting ready brown color don't stress out about specific things with this like absolute perfect some Tire Flock of Seagulls just flown over there that's helpful um and yeah don't stress out about getting this perfectly right between all your models like you're just looking for some grimy organic Ming and you'll be absolutely fine and then one of my favorite things is using Yoo-hoo glue to create sort of uh drool and blood effects in this I've actually done a whole video on this so if you want some ideas of what you can do go for it but Ken suggests applying this to the mouth of the gun between the gun and the mouth of the the monster itself or the creature itself and for the larger monsters like the screamer killer that I keep flashing up in between um he's done it in the joints the large joints of where the the arms and the claws and things are I'll put some more photos up in a bit you can see he's done that on the Von Ryan's leapers as well um really really effective but just just pushing that idea that these are terribly horrifying organic you know entities and I think things like this using lots of different textures lots of different finishes so a very matte finish and then a very glossy finish and things like that they're very very effective for getting an army that looks cool on the table because there's lots of contrast to textures and colors and all of this just catches your eye and then he says he goes in with blood for the blood God just over the bits that are anywhere but the mouse basically so it leaves the mouth the clear Yoo-hoo glue sort of nice and truly I guess and then the rest uh is done with blood for the bug God and then the last step is to paint in the eyes um I might have done this before the Dual step of modest but it's not my scheme so we just paint the eyes white and then using Tesseract glow which is basically a neon green ink or a fluorescent green ink we just dot that into the eyes really really effective um lovely little pop of color um and that's it now here's my finished version of him on this little turntable but that's not really really the way that this paint job or this model is designed to be viewed so I'm going to share some pictures with you now the rest of uh Ken's Force so you can see hopefully the the impact that it has on the table and you can see that that group of terminals just looks awesome and when they're all together it's just got this I'm a big fan of the eye of the whole grimdark aesthetic I really enjoy Miniatures that are painted realistically for want of a better term but I also really enjoy Miniatures that are painted in a grim dark style um it just ticks all my my boxes for when I think of of why I'm a 40K and as I said at the start of the video the the speed with which he was able to to get this out was just outstanding and a lot of you I imagine that have bought the Leviathan box might be unsure what to do with your tyranids so if you can put aside a couple of evenings uh maybe one weekend you know maybe a day you can get a whole side done just like this it looks awesome on the table and there you go you've got a ready-made sort of opponent Army maybe you've got something that you can expand out as well so I hope you've enjoyed this different type of video I felt it was really important because whilst I do a lot of videos that I call Army painting on here they're not speed painting and I definitely think a difference between the two and I think you have to have a different approach between the two um you know for instance I did those Von Ryan's leapers last video and I would consider Army painting but if I was doing them I'd really only be considering getting maybe a unit or two of something done in a week if I had a fair bit of hobby time whereas with this approach that Kenneth took with this you know you'd be looking at getting an army done in the same amount of time um so I think you know do do what do the right job for what you're trying to get done the right approach for what you're trying to get done and Ken and Ben as I say they love gaming against each other uh Ben took a very similar approach to painting the space horse that he did and it's just meant that they've been able to get playing the game and enjoying themselves and throwing some dice as soon as they possibly could with two really cool looking little forces now if you are interested in getting your Leviathan stuff painted or killed teams better I'm not guilty is what they call combat patrols painted up and stuff like and do consider hitting up Ben at our commission studio um we've got a lot booked in at the minute and we've got plenty of painters uh raring to go um to help you out if you haven't got the time um to get everything done so thanks ever so much for watching if you'd like to see me tackle different people's recipes you know from the team let me know I know loads of you been asked about Ben's Imperial Guard infantry he just doesn't have time to get it done at the minute maybe I do so I could always ask him for that recipe and maybe we could work throughout together on here as well thanks ever so much for your support hit like if you've enjoyed the video subscribe if you're not already and I'll see you next time if you've liked any of the models in this video and you fancy having an army of them yourself but perhaps you don't have the time or wherewithal to get it done consider dropping us an email at commissions Cult of pain.com and maybe Ben can sort you out

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Published: Thu Jun 29 2023