 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby-cheating video and today we're gonna take a look at some finished armies Let's get into it. The strict techno-mancer that is Vinci V Let us get to the technique and learn it Vinci V style. So it's no secret that I love painting armies I have 20 21 painted armies for Warhammer both, you know fantasy a sigma 40k so on and so forth. I just find it a really fun thing to do and I've been painting for years and years and I thought it'd be a neat thing to do to look back at some of these armies share some photos of some of my favorite units and pieces From those armies with you and talk about what they are and why I like them and that kind of thing Now obviously there's way too many to do in a single video. So I figured what we do is we'd break them up So this is gonna be the first three armies that I have that I thought I'd share And what's really great about this is a lot of these were done over years and distance and time So it'll be great to look back and see them all and what I was thinking at the time and hopefully inspire you For your own armies and work at home. So hey, let's take a look and let's get into some armies All right first up. We've got the iron jaws now. I love iron jaws a simple confession for the first Gosh almost 20 years of me playing Warhammer I really had no interest in green skins of any kind. In fact, everything that we would now call destruction was kind of uninteresting to me And when iron jaws came out, they just really really Hit for me Tom and I had sort of a cool list that was a pullback on old dogs of war units and We it just inspired me like nothing ever had and they've become one of my favorite armies Something that I play a lot and really have a great time with So I thought it'd be good to take a look at these maybe first up as they are not my favorite We'll get to that. That's for a later video, but they're one of my favorites. So first up. We have some brutes These guys are of course one of the cores the army. I love these brutes I really this is these this is the unit that sold the army for me They're big they're hulking the like sort of fist pounded armor that they wear really sells that and Brutes were some of the first things I painted for the army where I really kind of learned of the color scheme and what I wanted to do and Developed the all the different freehand patterns and and things like that that would eventually become the the staples of the army But the brutes to me still hold up. Just they're such a great silhouette and good-looking unit Just wish they were a little better in the game, but that's okay They're still rule next up. We have the our pigs and I'm actually gonna go through two different kinds of pigs So we'll start with the normal pigs These are our classic pig riders all out of my army here with the iron jaws has some very minimal conversions So you'll notice just a couple small changes here and there I didn't really feel the need to go too hard into the paint for most of the units This is what I would call a lightly maybe occasionally moderately customized army We'll look at that heavily customized thing later in iron jaws But I really think the pigs are super cool like they're so stocky and big one of the really funny things about pigs and sort of scale creep over time is that the pigs the Regular Gorgruntas are about the same size as the steam tank is from when I started playing back in the 90s In fact, it's they're bigger. So the pig the physical pig is bigger than what we used to use as a tank Which is hilarious to me On the more interesting conversions. I also wanted to have more than just pig riders So I stole some birds because we wanted the whole Breakfast palette we got to have our if we gotta if we're gonna have bacon. We got to have eggs and And so I stole some birds from Stormcast and and some of my Some of my gorgruntas are pig riders But I wanted the individual units to feel separate and interesting And different and so this is kind of how I went with that. These were really fun I actually really like these birds as models. I just don't particularly care for them in the Stormcast army So why not use them here? And it's just great because then I my pigs are easily set apart and yet still no one really has an issue Identifying what they are. It's one of those really fun proxies to me because no one's gonna confuse wait Who are the mounted orcs? There's only one mounted unit like that in the army. So it's very easy So those are my pigs and I really like the unit They've gone to lots of tournaments with me and are a lot of fun. All right, next up is the mega boss or mega boss is on foot This is the silhouette the staple of the army I love the mega boss on foot. I have multiples of them as you see here converted they are an incredible chance to just experiment and Change them around again. Every one of these has some minor conversions on them. They still very much look like the thing We're not often crazy town, but I really really love this guy doing the banner for this guy was Really a fun unique experiment because I painted it completely through stippling like all of that Was done solely through stippling to kind of make this star pattern of a piece of art I had seen in one of the books. I think it came out really cool And so it was just a chance to really experiment and their frame is so big. They're so hulking They absolutely feel like monstrous and heroic and orcish in a way that almost nothing else has And so I just I really really love these guys next up We have the newest addition to the army, which is big pig. Oh, yeah, big pig baby You got to love him. This is the model. We had all been screaming and hoping and gnashing our teeth for for years Obviously this guy went up on Warhammer community. He does also feature in a video which is linked up there and So if you want to see how I painted them or at least the main elements you can check that out The fun part about big pig was coming back to him about five years after I had painted the rest of the army and then trying to actually Replicate the original color scheme. I had some idea. I had recorded videos of it So I actually went back and watched my own videos as to what I had done win One of the helpful things about having a channel is that you can always go back and reference your old paint job So I guess that's useful, but this guy is so freaking cool. I love playing him I love the just immense size of this thing like it is so big being on that 120 mil Chariot base. It just has this weight. It's thick. It's solid It's got a chunk factor to it that I really really love so Again pretty minimal on the conversions on this one, but that opens the door to our real mega boss So last piece we're gonna take a look at here today is the full-on Mega boss on maw crusher. This guy is obviously the centerpiece of the army I only have one of these guys and I've painted more as you saw in videos with that I gave away to Tyler my co-host on Warhammer Weekly, but this guy is converted. He's part bird part maw crusher I gave him wings. He has the banner pole. He's just a million things going on This was just me taking a very expensive model and then a couple other very expensive models and Chopping them to pieces and putting them back together to see what I could do It really this is truly the most converted thing in the army And it's a great example of the fun you can have when you don't worry as much about the Sort of like oh, well, let's just take a chance. Let's just experiment Let's see what we can do and I just kept building and kept Modeling pieces and adding pieces and changing things around and green stuffing until I got to a place that I thought looked pretty cool and You know, he really stands apart He's big. He's different. He's unique. There really is nothing else like him I've ever seen at a tournament that I've gone to or you know, any kind of group setting so I enjoy the opportunity to make a Really unique model, especially as a centerpiece and I think that's where people should take the opportunity like if you're going to convert Honestly, your centerpieces or your characters like the things that stand out and are important are some of the most fun things to convert because They already stand apart from the army and are unique and so when you convert them It just elevates that I think it's hard for people to do that because I mean, you know This kid's like more than a hundred dollars or something base and then there's a lord of change in there as well Which is like a hundred dollar kit It's hard to like sit down and say I'm gonna just start taking a saw To this thing and there's you know, no going back like if I screw this up That's it. You know, I ruined the kit and I think that can be scary and reasonably so But what I'll say is the payoff on the other side is really worth it in having a fun unique Interesting model, so I would reckon speaking of heavy conversions. Let's get to the next army Which is my cities of sigmar tempest I army now Honestly, this thing's probably retired and I wanted to give it a good send-off because this army had a lot of love put into it I converted this for the basically right after the city's book in second edition came out and It's called whirlwind's edge. I made up a whole backstory for it I have like a book written about the stir the people who live there and that I actually made up a little role-playing setting for it as Well that I've used like in D&D So I mean, I'm pretty heavily invested I think in the the overall nerdy-ness and immersion of this and I was just fascinated by the ability to bring together Cities units KO units and stormcast units all under one banner And I thought that would make for a really cool mechanical force where everything could be converted Let me show you what I mean. Let's start with my outriders and pistol ears. These guys are obviously built off of the Motorcycle troops from 40k from the Jean steel occult and So just a lot of motorcycles and then you know nights and things that look a little more fantasy riding them with with the appropriate pistols and guns and They are really the only battle line I have what interested me in this army This is an army where I built basically like no battle line I have 15 of these guys and that's it. It's these riders or nothing and They just seemed really appropriate. They were like the one that worked. I wanted to be a very mechanized mobile force And so they the fact that they don't exist anymore means basically I have no battle line now This is actually the second quote-unquote empire cities Army I built but the first one I have is also full of troops that have all been retired So I have like two versions of this army that have been retired away. I'm still proud of this thing. I'm still proud of these guys Okay, I guess I do have one other battle line option still so that's alright and that's steam tanks now Here I'm showing you my whirlwinds edge steam tanks, which I have two of them One of them was originally built to be flying because at the time you could give the steam tank commander a thing that made him fly But of course that went away. I do have four regular Plastic and metal steam tanks as well from the older Empire models So all told I could I guess do a full army of of steam tank battle line So we're back in the mix But these guys are really fun so now we're getting into the part of the army that's like really heavily converted and All these steam tanks and everything you're gonna see from here is converted just out of a lot of terrain and Bits and plastic card and stuff like that I I just built all this stuff from scratch effectively most of these kits with the exception of one We're gonna look at doesn't actually have much underlying it. It's it's all just completely random stuff That I thought looked cool and then turned into ships and boats and planes and walkers and things like that So this is one where this is actually a terrain piece that's been converted over and has become the steam tank And I really like how they came out Speaking of weird conversions my Lumen arc and my Huracanum These are all so built off of some of the 40k walkers Out of ad mech and such But you know these obviously have a lot of other pieces on them I did give them the real I guess guns or a component that looks like the real component I suppose so they could be easily told apart when you're doing such heavy heavy proxies like these I think it is important to have some signifier of the real thing on your heavily converted proxy so for example a Lumen arc has the zippy-dippy multi-factor refractal magnifying glass laser beam cannon whatever and I wanted that there so that if people know the regular Lumen arc They still see that visual signifier and know okay the despite the fact it's a weird onage or walker or whatever The heck this real kid is it it's still gonna there and be able to easily pick it out of my force and know This is the Lumen arc. I really like these I joked off and then I was trying to make a Lumen arc and actually made like a flea from battle tech So I guess I did get to paint a giant mech. I did one that isn't tiny and ugly All right next up is One of my favorite pieces from this army again This was made from like a lot of plastic garden terrain and stuff like that as well as kit bits But this is my ironclad So technically this is a big KO unit, but again, you could just have KO units in your army at the time and I love this ironclad. I really like how this came out. It's big Like this is much bigger than the normal ironclad, but it still fits reasonably on the base And it's elevated enough that it doesn't cause problems This thing just feels like a gunship to me and that's what I wanted. I wanted this feeling of like this machine of war something like if you've ever watched the New Battlestar Galactica, there's a moment in the original pilot slash miniseries when the Galactica actually gets restocked with all its weapons and then floats up in the atmosphere to the base stars and Adama says like all all stations weapons free and just like every gun swings around every cannon and this thing just puts out like this wall of Fire that goes up and just start shredding the enemy base stars. That's what's in my head every time I pilot this thing around the table Where I can just like all these different guns. I just want to like boom boom boom boom boom There's everything sounding off and just creating this like fire that just shreds the enemies So I love this thing. It was so much fun to convert. I love doing vehicles the whole scale modeling challenge of it is really different and Vehicles really appealed to me and that was kind of the fun of this army a chance to use scale modeling tools techniques tricks weathering and all that stuff on AOS models was just a really really cool unique thing Which leads me to my last piece which is my general on Griffin as you can see here This is the SS Griffin and I used a stormcast body and turned it into like a more generic Empire hero Who's just kind of bigger and he's up on the the bow of the ship how exactly the ship is flying? I don't know. I assume it's just sent you in her magic lots of things in in AOS or just magical Vehicles that drive themselves around so why not a boat as well but this guy's sort of the leader of my army and I thought it was just always fun I was like to the general on Griffin as a model and I thought it was really funny to turn a frigate You know sort of frame and then modify it put wings on it and call it the SS Griffin So there you go. Alright now we go from heavily converted to not converted at all And that's one of the reasons I wanted to include this as the last army. This is my daughters of Cain Let's jump right in with the sisters of slaughter So I don't really like the witch elf and sisters type of units in this army That's not what got me interested. I got interested in daughters after the relaunch during AOS and That initial launch trailer is still maybe the greatest launch trailer for an army. They've ever done. They've never topped it and So it was like the snake ladies and the canary and all that that drew me in but you got to have a little bit of sisters So these are my sisters. They're they're pretty basic, but I'm happy enough with how they came out Now let's get to the real Exciting thing, which is the malusai. This is what sold me on the army the sort of Gorgon-esque snake ladies I Was here for this a thousand percent most of my army and most time when I play it my battle line is actually Snake ladies. I have a lot of these girls and I just think they're really beautiful models. The sculpts are so Elegant and yet deadly and dangerous looking. I've always loved the sort of Medusa Gorgon look. I just think it's a really cool Sort of piece of mythology and and I love how it translates over here and so these girls are really great they were really fun to paint and I like I just really enjoyed doing all these snake ladies I thought they were their time consuming, but I had a legitimate great time painting them Next up is canary And these were really fun again. These are things that actually got a lot of love put into them I took one of my units of canary to golden demon one year and actually one of my golden demons I won with these canary. So that's pretty cool It's cool to have like a golden demon unit in your army. That's fun very proud of that and what we are what I accomplished that year and The canary again just I love them because they're different It's sort of the fly my pretty fly type of thing Love the look of the wings very proud of how they came out and and what what I managed to Accomplish with them Let's talk heroes that means it's time for our slaughter queen on cauldron now This has never really been the best unit most people always ran hag queens on cauldron But I think the slaughter queen is so awesome I always loved the slaughter queen just like as a look as a model I just think it's super cool the concept behind the thing And so this usually shows up in my army no matter how good daughters have always been on the table I've always played a less than optimal version of the army because it's what I like to play and It's the units that I really liked Again, these were really interesting and fun to paint because the cauldron is such a unique frame and interesting Sort of shape and all these like sharp edges to lots of edge highlighting You know added like the freehand runes and stuff crawling up the side because I wanted some amount of visual interest and to push the Pink out over the rest of the surface To make sure that there was sort of the color triangles of the girls were well represented no matter what angle you were looking at and So I'm really happy with how how this one came out I just think it's a fun quasi centerpiece for the army I say quasi centerpiece because the real centerpiece and the last thing that we're looking at no longer So shall she be denied? That's right. It's Marathi This model. I really love Marathi. I mean this has got to be like one of the all-time Greatest figures that they've ever sculpted. I don't know who was the sculptor responsible for this whoever you are Hey I'll buy a drink next time. I'm over there This is one of my favorite models of all time I would easily say it's one of my top 10 models that has ever been produced by Games Workshop. I think it is incredible. I loved painting and creating the impression of the ridges down her belly like the sort of Using contouring to create the impression of rising and falling in the overall texture of her belly I loved like the the her musculature is so well-defined the wings were really fun to paint Her face is very expressive and clean feminine and yet Like absolutely terrifying. It's just a masterpiece from top to bottom I hope I did it service with my paint job I really tried looking back on it now and in fact looking back on most of these things There's a lot more. I feel like I could do or I could do better But I'm still happy with what I accomplished at the time There you go. That's the three armies. I wanted to share with you today. I hope you found this little Journey through some of my armies interesting if you want to see more of this Hey, give me a comment down below. I like I said, I have 20 armies And I do hope to share more with you over time if you've got questions about any of the forces that I shared here Or my conversions or anything like that feel free to drop that down in the comments But tell me what you thought of this and if you liked it give it a like Subscribe for more hobby cheating. We'll be back next Saturday with a more traditional video But we have new videos here every week if you want to support the channel There's lots of ways you can do so you can share these videos with your friends. 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