 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we're going to do part two of the ongoing series of Well me sharing my armies with you and telling you some stories about them. Let's get into it The strict techno man sir that is Vinci V Let us get to the technique and learn it Vinci V So today we're going to cover three more armies and the theme of this week is big Everything this week is big when I say big. I mean Now so what three armies are we going to cover? Well, we're going to cover Sons of Bahamut some of the biggest models in AOS We're going to cover Ogres known the world over for being big and then we're also going to cover Imperial Knights That's right. We're going to do a 40k army because that's the thing too so Let's go ahead and take a look at some of these armies up first is the Sons of Bahamut and Really, this is one of my more favorite armies. I've done this army was incredibly fun to paint Basic idea here was it they are all sort of Frankensteinian monsters They have been taken and captured and converted and scaled up or not scaled up Sorry. Um, yeah, I guess evolved improved upgraded. There we go. That's the right word So I wanted to integrate a lot of machine parts and wires and infections and things like that So let's take a look at them. We're going to start with the baby Giants These I have two three packs of these There you have sort of thematic elements as you'll see these first ones are very weird I just I really went off the tracks with these you can see all the different elements This was me getting out 40k bits and terrain bits and anything I could imagine and just Stapling it on to these guys One of the things I love about the Giants is they're so big There's so much skin showing so most of their skin was done with oil paints I actually have a few videos from back then where I kind of cover how I did these but it gives a really nice look I love doing the skin in oils because it's so easy to do these big sweeping smooth transitions at the same time You'll notice some of them have things like Black black and veins and things where there's clearly like some kind of infection traveling out out where this foreign Element has attached to their body and now it is infected The second three pack of babies are all wearing these sort of the skull masks from nights Which I really like thought those worked. Well as well I did many areas of sort of stitched together skin So all of that is just freehand stitched together skin and I alternated some of the tones of the skin color Not only being different sort of ethnicities of skin But also being in different stages of rot or things like that One thing you'll notice throughout all of the Giants is they all have tiny little Antennae in their head because I see them as being Radio-controlled I guess like there is a master controller. There is a Frankenstein behind this Who has done this work and is now controlling each of these With the little babies done let's take a look at the bigs the biggie bigs The mega gargants as it were so there are four of these we're going to look at We will start with the war stomper and one of the ways things I did here to keep them sort of identifiable was keep a sort of Major element the same that way they would always know So the war stomper You know basically has the weapon that would be appropriate for him So easy to see most everything else on these guys has been changed on the big guys I have smokestacks and stuff like that because I figure most of their inner guts have been replaced By some kind of engine or something that needs to vent and exhaust They all have lots of different 40k bits worked into them again from terrain or from knights. You'll see Imperial knight feet Or legs or arms. You'll see some like crane arms and stuff like that from From various 40k terrain pieces Again, all of this skin was done with oils And this was really a great chance to play with things like Infected red areas of the skin to really show All of that wonderful beautiful texture and to include all these great sweeping colors going down into the the bright magenta's and purples and the different tan colors that should show in skin of this size Next up We're going to take a look at the gate breaker This guy I kept the helmet the head that I don't want to call it the head piece I guess but you'll notice instead of like a face. He has horrible cool Mechanical tentacles coming out sort of a dark mechanic. I'm a look there And you might notice in the pictures that he has two tiny blue spots as eyes Um, that was one of the more complicated things I ever had to figure out how to do with a model Because I realized after I had put the head on So I'd already attached the head And everything here who was like built up with with glue and stuff And I'd already put in the tentacles and then I realized his eyes were just empty black voids Because there's no actual head under there that that that mask is sitting on And I was like, well, that looks horrible So then I figured out what I could do is take a paper clip flatten it out Make it really long So I could then stick it in glue it to the back of the head like the back of the mask So a tiny drop of glue on the back of the paper clip push it inside And then basically once the glue had set cut it With with clippers right inside the eye hole So like taking the clippers and snapping right inside the eye hole Once that was done It was just like a touch of bright blue paint on each little tip Just bop bop to make it look like he has these blue tiny glowing eyes In the middle of this otherwise black void. I really love how it came out It was quite a like crazy problem to solve and I actually like how it how it sort of all worked. So there you go That's the gate breaker. Of course, I have a video about his sword That's another fun addition at the time I built him you could actually give him a giant flaming sword. So I did Now of course, that's not an option, but that's okay. I just use that It's his big giant flail and that's fine. It's close enough Next up is the kraken eater This guy I wanted to give sort of the weird nose too. So he felt more. I don't know something about it seemed right I used a helmet with the weird nose piece on it. He still has the kraken eater's weapon And kind of some other signifying elements from that dude You know, this guy was pretty simple. You'll notice here that all of these dudes have basing from the idoneth ships I wanted them to be kind of coastal and to have that feeling that they had that they all were collecting treasure So I bought, you know a single sort of idoneth boat like one big idoneth boat and then just chopped it up into pieces to use As basing for all of them. It works really well. Like I still have some of that boat left to this day It's amazing how much boat you get when you're just breaking it up into basing And it was a really interesting visual element to put on their giant base to really break up what's otherwise Just like way too much flat neutral space. I then piled around treasure crates, you know piles of gold Sacks of food all the stuff. I would imagine them sort of stealing and hoarding because that's part of their whole Thing is there, you know, they're they're sort of hoarders, right? Lastly is the uh, the last edition I guess whatever the final edition chronologically to the army, which was the uh, which is king broad and king broad is Uh, converted by really like a lot of crazy conversions are on here, including some I think 40k dark elf bits for his Uh, his one hand his grippy hand and stuff like that Uh, this guy I built the crown out of some different pieces. So he has kind of that ceremonial headdress and stuff like that Um, but again using a lot of those night pieces and stuff like that everywhere I could Uh, to really like make this guy feel Both special and unique. He's up higher than any of the others. So he like stands more Visibly tall on the table by an inch or so an inch and a half two inch or something like that Then the rest of them I wanted to communicate that like he's the boss and you just get that through everything on him Um, again, all these guys were fun and I really really really love this army to this day It's one of the most fun projects I worked on because every single model was a huge conversion project that I just got to Dump out bits on the desk and then start literally chopping up this these giant models And gluing stuff back together and zappa gapping and green stuffing until it all just worked So one of my most favorite army projects I've I've ever done and just a just a tremendous amount of fun army number two ogres This one we won't go quite as deep into I'm going to run pictures of all the various units here as I'm talking But the stories are all the same Uh, so with the ogres I have this was a speed painting project So rather than talk about any of the individual units there are fun conversions and stuff like that on there Within this but when it comes to things like the ogres I obviously did I tried my best to make things like the butcher And the slaughter master look interesting. I didn't like him carrying around the big pot Mine to pay master. He's got a big pile of gold. He's dragging around He you know chucks money at people to get him to do stuff. That was always a thing in the ogres as well They're very um, you know greedy for lots of different things obviously their big guy rode around on a giant pile of treasure uh back in the old world and so uh, I I wanted to sort of convert these guys clean them up as best I could but I painted the whole army in a week So for things like the and this is a pure gut busters army. I don't have any Uh No monster trucks at all. No mournfang riders. Um, I've got a buddy who has a bc army So we kind of just put our troops together and then we have one really really big army But I have you know lots of hunters and cats Um, and those guys were were fun like those are the original metal cats So much of this army is still metal the old tyrant Uh is still metal as well as I use the other new guy from cursed city is one of my tyrants So I just really like that ogre. I think he looks awesome. It's it's an example of how cool they could be in the new sculpt Um, but I just have lots and lots of the basic troops And the fun part about doing these guys as a speed paint project over a week Was things like doing the tattoos and stuff like that you think well, it's a speed paint Why would you do that kind of thing because they're so big and so simple? I was able to do a lot of work with the airbrush And because I was able to do so much work with the airbrush It honestly saved me a lot of time to go in and add some extra spicy elements to them Like the tattoos or blood spatters or you know, just interesting things like that that kept them visually compelling Even though there wasn't a huge amount of time invested overall this this army probably was 40 or 50 hours of work But when you figure that, you know, you look at like the um the different man-eaters or The gluttons I have I think Uh, what did I have but I do 20 some gluttons. I don't know exactly the number, but it's somewhere in the 20s range That's a lot of gluttons. Um, and then you know some iron guts and of course, uh, some some, uh The guys with cannons as well lead belchers. There you go. I knew we'd get there So all in all these guys were were fun I think it's a good example of like the right army the right models Really do lend themselves to speed painting well Uh, so, you know for these guys Something like an ogre army They're simple in construction. It's a lot of flesh and then they're wearing pants There's not a huge amount of detail or weird fiddly gribbly bits that take a lot of extra time So you can use more advanced tools. And by the way, it doesn't necessarily mean an airbrush I could have done the same thing very fast probably with like oil paints And then just let them dry over the course of the week and then come back in with details Uh, or I could have done the same thing with like really You know sort of dry brushing of various kinds and contrast things Uh, but in this case it just meant that you can add those extra really fun elements like the tattoos Like those little things freehand elements because you've got to spare time And so you get to do something that elevates the army and just makes it more fun as a project All right last army The last army is going to be my imperial knights. This is an army. I am very very proud of All these knights were done individually over the course of basically three years They're each probably 150 hour projects. It may be more Each one of them is a very much a labor of love Now there are many videos on this channel that feature some of the things from these knights So for example doing detailed freehand you're going to see one of these knights coming up But they're the I even though I I I these guys won lots of awards and stuff like that at various painting competitions I took them to golden demon, but they would never win anything there because they're out of IP The theme of these imperial knights was a sisters of battle inquisition knight force And that doesn't really work in the lore, but I don't care I loved sisters of battle. I started these guys before sisters of battle had returned Like before that was really a thing You know that there was no new plastic sisters. And so this was my take of how I wanted to do that army Let's start with the little ones So I have two of your little baby knights And these two are just sort of my little inquisition bots. I added on the extra face plates for them The freehand on them is relatively simple. Everything the carapace to me is just a wonderful opportunity To do tons of freehand. These are meant to have the sisters of battle iconography the inquisition iconography the ecclesiarchy's Iconography things like that. I just drew from you know, sort of across that entire space to to build up the patterns here using things like roses and vines and in position symbols and the flurgely And all of those kinds of things in a mix in my story in my head in my 40k universe. It works just fine. So But the little ones aren't anything that special They were both really relatively simple projects. They certainly weren't 150 hours The little ones were just there to kind of round out the army, but now let's get to the real Let's get to the actual action here So first up is the most simple knight basically built quite directly. One thing is I didn't use any of the Sort of like top mounted missile launchers on the two normal ones because I wanted maximum space to do freehand art And every armor panel on these guys is just Luxuriated with freehand and each time I would just take every armor panel individually and think what cool thing do I want to do here? Uh, so with this one it was a big giant piece of saint a big giant piece of art of st. Celestine Uh, and I thought this was just a really cool piece of art that I really loved and so I love angels Celestine's basically like an angel Um for the sisters of battle So it was perfect and so I just you know spent a lot of time doing that onto the carapace And then again with different freehand images traced all over the thing Sometimes keeping a very simple just simple floor to leave or patterns or things like that or the roses And then sometimes getting way more complicated Um with what might be over there as far as like skulls with flaming eyes and stuff like that This was the first one I did not the first night I ever painted But the first one I did specifically for this purpose And I just all of these have a very special place in my heart Um, there are things that I think I I still look at to this day and cherish knight number two Was a bit of a different construction project When they released the first sort of resin sister the one based off of the john blanchard One of my favorite pieces of art of all time from the old codex Uh, I thought what a cool idea to take a knight Put her on the front um as though she was like a repentia Sister who needed to be strapped into you know their big robots for for penance or whatever But instead of being a punishment. This was a reward like she got this knight for for service in battle basically So she still has her armor Kind of like how the gray knights have that little their little boys strapped into the little baby carrier And so you'll notice she is like standing in a position on her little on her thing That's holding her up there and there's like tubes and wires and little foot mount things for her She's in a certain position and her knight is matching her in the same position Like she's holding her gun up in the air to her right the knight is holding its machine gun up in the air to the right She's holding her sword down at an angle the knight is holding its chain sword down I also modified the chain sword to be actually held. It's not on the arm The knight has a full hand and fist like it has the sort of shock gauntlet But then that gauntlet is wrapped around a handle that is a chain sword So I took the chain sword and actually made it into a literal held Sword In the thing's hand this thing had so much conversion work done on it and it was Just a lot of fun to do to like replace her in there and you know draw like the tubes and reshape the thing And I really love this model like I know it's a completely goofball idea and has no basis in the lore whatsoever But like isn't this why you play war games to make a model like this? Like I could just picture her walking around the battlefield and as she's like pointing and shooting The big knight then matches her shots and as she swings it swings right like sort of Mimicking what's happening and in my head. That's just so awesome Uh, I can't explain why I just I love robits and I love the sisters of battle and this combined the two of them I guess the final night in This in my in my sister's night army The last one was one of the last one they did. This is obviously one of the bigger knights the dominus frame or whatever and This one was just like really an experiment in doing like Super advanced sort of freehand over all the things Another fun and like you can see all the panels on this there was it's a more interesting sort of space to work with It's wider but more shallow. So hence the Aquila was kind of the the right choice here because it kind of spread out nicely in the space I think by this point I had really like refined a lot of my Work on doing flaming skulls and stuff like that. So you'll notice a lot more of those elements There's also a lot of small touches to the individual freehand and things like that The fun part about this one is the sort of missile that's launching out I wanted to actually do a missile launching and so I Took the missile and drilled in a big paper clip and then ran that back into the the launch pod like into the actual bay And then like built the smoke out of the smoke is actually Tree flock like model railroad trees Just plucked a bunch of it off of the trees and then prime like stuck it all around the paper clip Primed it painted it and then you know put in the heat effects and stuff like that near the launch So that was just a really fun cool idea for like a missile launch I think I could do that again. I don't think it looks bad. I think it actually looks kind of fun It's still close by. I think you get the nice smoke effect. So all in all, I thought it came together pretty cool So there you go. There's my three armies. 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