 Hello everybody and welcome to the adept a con at home army review So this is very exciting as obviously this is the first time that we're that I've done something like this and Basically, we have the one the only AOS coach to thank for this so on AOS coaches website, which I've got here up on my screen and You will be able to see it In the description down below as well, there's a full schedule for all the events going on even though we're at the end of Friday, there's obviously a bunch of events Tomorrow and Sunday basically the whole weekend that would have been adept con So do check that out. I'll link it down below. Obviously tomorrow morning We'll be back for the reaction show to the preview event tomorrow morning So so I'll see you in about 12 hours, but either way what we're going to do right now Is we're going to get into the various armies that were submitted here I've got them all downloaded and we're going to look at them all in turn. I'm just going to go through them kind of Literally give you my thoughts. This will be Probably an insight into how I generally look at armies and evaluate them as a judge. So normally I'm the paint judge for adept con and for Nova and other events and This gives me a chance to share with everybody how I do this I'm always very transparent with my judging and offer a lot of feedback to everyone So I have no problem with you know when when I talked to coach and said, yeah, I'd love to do this Now one thing I will warn you on and hadn't contemplated in advance is that I didn't describe the exact format of How people should submit pictures? Like how many pictures what should they be of what format should they be in? These are things that didn't occur to me when because this is all very on-the-fly as we were trying to hustle this all together and coach Did so much work getting everybody together And and just really hustling all of us into this schedule So all thanks to coach it just did not occur to me that that's a sort of that I would need to put rails Around that so I apologize in advance some people have lots of photos Some people have a few have whole army shots don't you know, it's it's kind of all over the shop and And that's just fine. That's we're gonna roll with it people If if we ever have to do this again, I will be prepared Let's hope that we don't have to do this again Because we hope we don't have to ever cancel an event Now that being said I actually one of the things that this has sort of brought to my attention as I was reviewing these armies And as I saw some people even chatting in the comments That there's a lot of people who work on their armies and never really get to go to events And obviously I do a lot of monthly reviews on the PMP on my Facebook group So I do the monthly reviews there, but um This honestly seems like a pretty cool thing. So You know, there's a lot of discussion right now about how we all connect and how we share and how what we're gonna learn And what we're gonna keep from this ordeal that we're all going through and so one of the things I'd like to say is I would love to do this again I think this is going to be a lot of fun. I think this will be a great chance for folks who don't normally Have a chance to go to big events and share their armies with folks to share their armies So let's consider this the beta test For something like this and a great chance for for other people to share their army And we will Next time next time put some guardrails around it and we'll do it for fun not because an event was canceled or For any negative reason, but just because what a fun way to celebrate everybody's hard work To celebrate all the hours and the passion and the love that people put into their army I think this would be a great show. So I'm not sure how regular I'll do it, but we're definitely gonna do this again So there you go. Like I said down below check out the schedule. There'll be a link to AOS coaches Page there you will be able to find the full schedule for everything coming tomorrow and Sunday And there is a whole lot of stuff So with that out of the way, how about we get into it folks So these are just kind of in pseudo alphabetical order because I Folderized people who had multiple armies except for the very last one. There's somewhat of a method to my madness There are two videos. I can't play because I don't have the Codec for those So I get we got to talk about the H E I F format or whatever and why we don't use that It's it's mp4s and jpegs and PNGs people come on now At any rate, let's get into it So we'll start with Adam Trunzo So mr. Trunzo Well-known lover of Skaven and he's been working on a new display board here So I'm gonna make this as big as I can and in fact I'm gonna go ahead and shrink my own Picture down here. I'll get real small. There we go That way we can see that and I'll zoom in and zoom around and stuff like that So Adam has been working on his big display board, which he shared with us here with his his miniatures So we can take a look around it. We can see the big Vermenlord war bringer up there and some storm fiends And obviously we've got the wonderful infinite effect The little infinite cheat there. That's a cool effect You can do figure out how to like repeat an image make it look like it's an infinite effect going back there Even though there's actually not that doesn't go back there forever You can see the hole cut in here. You'll see how this goes. We go through some more pictures. There's the whole sweep of this thing Yes, this is truly massive the size of this Skaven invasion of a Dwarven city is pretty amazing So let's go ahead and zoom in you can see all the lattice work and stairs coming up the hole cracked through the floor All this great stuff down here So really really impressive display board as always Here we go you can see some more some more imagery down here, obviously lots of conversions going on with the different models that are roaming around in here and See all the lattice work. All this is obviously custom built like, you know, Adam just built scratch built all of this Trunzo is amazing for the various display boards. He he has put together We even see some little hidden space here on the side with a little gnaw hole where they've warped in or now burrowing out So really really cool stuff all around and there's a nice overall shot of the thing You can see that little glowing crystals and like I said the the infinite effect hallway up there and lots and lots of great and glorious rats So this is really awesome. Now. I think trunzo still honestly work in progress on this So I mean, you know, if I'll speak a bit how I tend to evaluate armies at Events When I do formal evaluation of armies at events, there are three categories. I evaluate you on So and that is painting technical quality and overall sort of display Painting is an evaluation of just literally how things are painted the army itself specifically, okay technical as I'm looking for things like joints still showing and mold lines and Paint that is in like that is messy. What's incorrectly placed and stuff like that where things are Just you know with your brush and didn't go back and clean it up stuff like that. That's technical, right and Then display is the overall quality of the display board the image the narrative all that kind of stuff kind of the big picture impact and Each of these has a weight. So they're weighted at 50 percent 30 percent and 20 percent for the three items and You get a score from one to ten in each those scores are then factored by the multiplier and You and then that results in your total score And so that everything matters but some stuff matters more than anything else like that is a painting matters the most than the technical Then the overall right So everything matters and everything can can help or hurt you depending on how it goes Now I don't really have the abilities to look at these models as close up So it's not as easy to apply my standard rubric here because you know I do need to be in person to evaluate things using that kind of standard Method because it's much harder in pictures to I can't pick up a model and turn it around and see it from different angles And really understand it in the lighting and stuff like that And I it's harder for me to like see mold lines or things like that So instead I went through beforehand and just kind of judged all of these on on basic stuff So I'll tell you some of my thoughts as we go along So obviously from a display perspective, this is quite amazing work. It's a beautiful construction it's still work in progress obviously and I'm sure Adam's gonna do more with it because you know my feedback. Let's say this showed up exactly as it is right now But my feedback on it right now when it comes to things like the display board would be the stone is just way too gray with no color variation there's no tonal variation anywhere in the in the In the stonework or in the dirt or in the wood, right? It's still just the kind of standard balsa that it was built out of So I'd want to see a lot more color and stuff like that in there pigments and You know washes and all sorts of things splashed around there But the actual sort of construction of the thing is quite gorgeous the narrative is very clear and and obviously that's it's It's very well crafted now as to the The army itself, so let's go back to one of these earlier pictures Where we can see some of these close-up as to these guys themselves. I like the the basic Color pattern and stuff like that on them, but the painting doesn't stand out as much Obviously the we're missing a lot of tonal variation contrast and highlights on the armor When you look at something like the another note, especially on armies is that I'll tend to more harshly evaluate Characters and larger models and centerpieces that is to say like if you had to paint a hundred of a thing I'm okay with them. Not generally being as perfect now if you get there It's better That is to say like when oh, I'm not frozen to me somebody said told me I'm frozen but I'm still streaming fine on my on my like I'm watching myself over here Hold on. Yeah, still good Haven't dropped any frames or anything So hopefully it's still fine at any rate But I will I will tend to if you have a character model, you know, I want to see that you put the time in on that right So centerpieces and things like that if you've got 80 models a hundred models, I'm not gonna beach up for for Not pushing those to as high of a level. I Certainly still would recommend you do that Like if you're trying to take down best painted at an event with a hundred armies, then you better put in the time So that's just you know thoughts But here like for example, what I would want to see is More detail picked out like you look at the vermin Lord He has this ornate intricate armor that has all these sections and plates on it I would want to see those elements picked out when you look at his skin. I like the pale skin That's cool But I want to see more shades of reds and purples and stuff like that in there same on the bodies of Storm fiends or even the regular clan rats The fur is, you know, again, I'd like to see more variation there you look at something like the horns and I would want to see more, you know more transition from a darker color out to a lighter, right? so That's sort of what I would see when I see this when I when I see this army, okay? There are lots of other elements that we could probably touch on Things like when you're using true metals. I want to see the complete variation on the true metals I want to see you work with those just like you do normal colors Things like that. So there you go. That's like I said, I'm gonna be transparent here This is the thoughts because this is the same thing I would say to anybody who walked up at me at a tournament So all these people who submitted now get to get to go through the ringer here I took the to a bit but what I'll say is Adam has a great army on his hands here I mean, this is really impressive Skaven are always hard because there's so many of them you have to paint this display board is truly beyond amazing And I can't wait to see it completely finished when I know he's still I know when you know he's still working on it and is going to be adding so much more to what is already just an Absolute stunner of a display board. Okay cool All right next up Andrew Tolstette Whose army I have seen in person. I actually got to judge or I actually got to see this I didn't judge this event. This is when that I was participating in But I actually did get to see this army in person recently And it's quite nice. So let's all take a look So Andrew has a zinchi and host So here we see a bunch of his bubblegum boys He used lots of colors for his horrors This is obviously his lord of change And you'll see some more beauty shots of this guy Andrew did do a great job of making sure that The centerpiece model really did get a lot more love and attention as you'll see here So interestingly he he halved that guy. So let's let's zoom in there so we can all see exactly what's going on There's a he has a realm gate on its side on the base and then he has the lord of change coming up out of the The the fallen realm gate. I think he has some more shots of this. So we'll go we'll go take a look at more In a moment here, we've got some more of his horrors So again Just a lot more he used a lot of interesting colors on his horrors, which I didn't ate At all. I quite like that as a matter of fact, I think it makes them interesting. They are chaotic creatures Here we've got the flamers, which are horrific when you paint them in normal flesh tones Obviously our Our gaunt summoner and again, I like how he carried through the multicolored hues on the on the feathers Some blue scribes Another shot on those here's kind of a big shot of the you know various pinkies and blues and brimstones There we go So just lots of fun shots of The army lots of different interesting little characters. He spent a lot of time really nicely working all these guys Here we go Here's a nice shot of the lord of change coming up out of the goop of the realm gate There we can see him from head-on so you can see how he actually like Bissected the figure and has him coming up out of the top. What's interesting is it's not like that stuff's all extra by the by That you know, he had to still he just has like some lord of change legs now Which I guess those are those are just you know, he'll do something with those I guess But uh, yeah, it's a really cool thing, especially with sort of using the oily inky black gloss I like that is actually a standout to The color of the bird because he had obviously the bird has lots of different colors worked into it And so he could have gone for sort of traditional portal magical color But then it would have actually drawn attention away from the multi-hued prismatic bird that's coming out of it So I actually think the inky black oil was was a really good choice because then It makes sure that the thing that's getting attention in this giant model is the the is big word here And then we have just a few more horrors close up So again, uh, Andrew didn't give me like a total army shot. So I apologize everyone um Andrew did a great job here of really putting a lot of work into the lord of change into, you know His centerpiece model when we look at a shot like this You can see things like how the veining on the neck is picked out all little feathers the transitions When we look back here on the feathers and the wings You can see how he's gone in and actually hashed them all individually Adding a lot of texture that's not there like that texture isn't doesn't exist. He had to paint that in Um, I like all of the different colors. He's worked into the staff. I think that looks really nice So just detail wise he did a great job of um Of you know really putting in the time on this model And I think that looks nice, especially in an army where the rest of his people are are basically bubblegum boys You know And are easy to kind of that is to say that's not an insult to him I just mean like that's kind of one of the challenges of painting his each demon army Is that the rest of your models are just kind of clumps? Right, so he really put in the time there and I think it worked out well On the normal horrors. I think they're really nice There are some mold lines and gaps and stuff in here that I had noticed in looking through them that I would That I would want to pay attention to I like the gaunt summoner I think this looks really nice that being said with uh when you go with the all skin head the eyeless head I I enjoy that I would love to see a little more blending and shading around the head to make it more colorful Things like that smoothing out the blend here on this part Uh, but yeah overall this is a really strong army Uh, it has a lot of life a lot of color to it And he added a lot of uh a lot of tonal variation throughout all the horrors, which I appreciate on the The standard models Okay So great stuff Okay Next up christian lewis. Yeah christian only gave me two shots and they're kind of from far out, but we'll take a look So christian has a uh corn army, obviously as you can tell from the Truly obsequious amount of blood Uh So let's go to the second shot because we get a little more of a zoomed in here at a low level So what I would say with with an army like this where uh, first of all, I would you know, just in general when we're doing photos Don't put everybody so close together and in a giant spot like this that I uh That I can't see the individual models. That's gonna necessarily make a challenge for me Now that all being said, um You know The the core concept here is cool rivers of blood running down Great, you know awesome corn people playing in it in in the in the blood lake Uh You know my piece of advice for you is as a couple things here christian First off be careful when you go like this with blood effects like That thing there in doesn't so much look like blood as it looks kind of like cherry frosting Right because it's just the color and tone of it like blood has a very specific crimson tone And you know, we didn't quite hit it there Um, I would also say that when it comes to basing I I get it that you want them all in this blood pool But things like blood effects are are highly more impactful When they're used in a sparing fashion So if instead they were on rocks and and there was other Elements within the blood pool and then you use the blood pool around it like I'm not trying to steer you away from blood pool I get it. You want blood pool? I'm fine with that But like if you had other elements mixed in with the bases and then that was sort of risen out of the pool Someone were standing on skulls that were poking up out of there or you know, whatever you can look You can do a lot of different stuff like that. I think in the end that makes the the overall effect a lot more impactful All right, uh, because then there's a contrast of texture Uh, and that's just as important with color and tone and everything as it is with texture When everybody's just floating around in all blood. No one is, you know, that kind of a thing Uh, as far as the actual models go themselves The yellow is certainly an interesting choice to be the the dominant color My best piece of advice for you would be um, and it's going to be ironic given what we're, um Uh, what we're, you know, what we're on about here with sort of blood spatter But it's to make sure that your paint job is is clean and then to do this over top So there were some things when i'm looking and you know when I sort of zoom in here Uh Into the the areas there's places where I wish some of these were a little cleaner a little more separated With some more dark colors Against the yellow like right now from a distance everything kind of fades into one big yellowish glob And part of that is because what you would want to see is darker elements separating that so again The yellow will show better when there are darker elements separating it a few of your guys do have that And it looks nice. So for example, if we look at the slaughter priest up front The most readable part of him is the the lower part where he's got black Pants on right and so that separates out and makes the yellow much more Uh Much more impactful against that darker color So if you had gone with like other black parts up here in their armor in their head and around the edges or something like that The yellow would stand out a lot more Think of something like the you know imperial fists in 40k where they have yellow But then they have a lot of black elements always separating those things and then red as the spot color highlight, right? So the yellow becomes impactful because it has all these dark colors. It's standing against um, so more of like a contrast More more of thinking about contrast in terms of the actual Uh composition as opposed to say any individual one color Okay But I mean, hey, uh boy. Oh boy. I mean corn would certainly be pleased. That is a lot of blood Like my goodness Alrighty So let's see. Oops don't want to close that Next up is uh, christine williams with the imperian guard or a storm cast army Or christian. Sorry that christian probably christian. I don't know It's this person I probably should have I don't know how to pronounce everybody's names and they're on a good day So here we have a storm cast army Uh, so let's go ahead and uh and and take a look Uh Through it Uh, because we do have some individual shots here So here we've got our storm cast uh our our grift charger hero Individual feet people with their fiery weapons So very cool stuff overall lots of different storm cast Okay, I'm gonna say the first thing that jumps out at me about this army Overall, I really like it's a good color scheme purple and gold always looks well together. So uh So, you know Great good stuff there Uh, I have no problem with that as a color scheme purple golden white. Yeah, I'm in like that's that's fantastic um The first thing that bothers me so deeply though to my soul about this is the multi-hued base rims but why Why would we ever use purple or yellow or blue around the rim of a base like or white? Like no it makes them look like game pieces from sorry Okay, we don't we don't want that like this image would be so much better if those were just black rimmed bases For the love of all that is holy Please black rim your bases. Okay, if you're if you must use a different color, I will accept a very dark brown black But please do not use lots of fancy colors like this. It's not helping. It doesn't do anything positive It only detracts because it's such a bright color. It literally it's drawing my eyes away from the models because and Many of these models the brightest color hue on the model is the base rim That's a problem. Like that is actively Diminishing your overall army on something that literally shouldn't even factor into the equation Okay And and like I would dock for this Okay If if I'm not gonna if your whole army was in dark brown or brown or something like that I'm not gonna dock you for it but but going to something like this It is actively working against your army I don't know what else to tell you Okay, now let's talk about the actual painting of the units So Uh, overall I like a lot of the stuff you've done and that's the the real Shame of it all The uh The I like your execution on the storm cast gold looks good. Um, you've added some nice shading to them Uh, I like the the execution of the purple needs to be smoothed some Um, I like what you were going for with the bases, but a lot of the paint on the basis feels rough Some of the basing elements feel soft. I have the distinct. I have the impression that you made these bases yourself Uh, which is cool. Good good effort there. Um, but some of them just like it It's weird sort of some of the colors you chose and they don't feel sharp and finished So be careful with stuff like that like if you're gonna craft It's easy to make homemade bases when you're working in nature Right Like the easiest thing to do is to make natural bases because that's mud and dirt and rocks and trees and and nature is random And so you don't really need to like have, uh um A whole bunch of different elements Uh on there that are that need to be precision But when you start doing something that's civilization Then my recommendation would be either a Use bases that are already pre-made be use elements that are already pre-made like, you know Go buy bricks if you want bricks On your bases or something like that or or make molds or whatever or be spend a lot of time getting them clean and precision Uh precision accurate. Okay Um, so that's kind of what I would say there Uh As to the purple, uh, I feel like some of it could use a little more contrast a few of these Are good, but we could use a little more contrast on Some of this purple we don't want it to go too high or it'll clash with the gold But uh, it does need to go a little farther and as always with purple That means then coming back in with glazes at the end because some of our blends are uh, are a little rough Uh, and you want to make sure that that's that's nice and smoothed out When it comes to things like the fiery weapons, I I like the idea but again same thing So like when we when we're looking at a weapon like this back here, you know Sorry, when we're looking at a weapon like this back here, I would want to see I don't have a problem with the fiery weapon It's cool concept. Nothing wrong with that at all. I love a good fire weapon Uh, just make sure that these blends are smooth and that if you're going to do a white line like this It shouldn't look like that Like that's white paint that's been sort of thickly applied. We need to get some ink in there You get some flow improver in there. We need like a razor sharp line I would have gone yellow white on this because there's no hard white edge if the sword's made of fire and uh And the um And then after you're done, it's okay if you fudge the line We all fudge line sometimes you got to go back in and clean it up and sharpen the lineup Okay All right, but uh overall cool army, you know, I dig it. Um storm cast always look great You know the lower model count means you can do some really nice stuff So I dig making all your own custom bases and and things like that Uh, I think that's a cool concept Just make sure that when you do that, they're like, I like the designs and the patterns you've done I think those are all really creative and awesome Um, just make sure that they have the precision and the sharpness that you would want And make sure when you're painting them you take them up to a nice High quality like again if you're going to do mosaic tiles Then those need to either look very naturalistic like stone where they're Where they've been outside and they're kind of weathered and there's that kind of thing on them Or if they're inside then they need to look quite pristine And you know the paint needs to be nice solid layers Like you can see here a lot on this white Where it's quite uh chalky and you know, sorry where it's quite chalky and Unfinished right like we didn't put enough layers on of the color there. That's just I can see very very very visible Brush strokes and paint lines and stuff like that. We don't want that right Okay So cool concept love it. We just got to get that execution up Alrighty So Next up Chuck Moore strength hammer himself So, uh Chuck with his slanesh army, which obviously thumbs up. I approve more slanesh Okay, so, um Chuck obviously went for a very pale scheme He had some art that he was uh, he was looking at to to replicate on this So he wanted everything to be quite pale So let's take a look through this army So here we see some of those one Diaz daemonettes because chuck loves metal models I he's a he's a sick man. He has a problem in his head Uh, but we love him anyways. No the one Diaz daemonettes are great They're they're they're one of the few worthwhile metal models I'm just making a joke for chuck there because he has like, uh 200 metal witches. So, you know, that's the kind of way chuck rolls Uh, yeah, so overall, um, I mean the the color is is it's a nice idea of a scheme of doing something very pale So there's two big elements that would that would draw me down here Okay, and This is a nice army shot because we can just talk about it here on this shot And thank you for including a full army shot. This is great. Nice display board nice looking imagery You know, it's a it's a good army Uh, my basic challenge here is is twofold So one on on the first hand, right? Um The bases are just straight up boring Like straight up you just did nothing except stick down a pink tough Like we got a doomcore than that man Uh, so, you know, that's disappointing like Come on, there's somewhere. I don't know where they are right now Uh, there's somewhere that's very dark with some pink tuffs stuck to it Uh, so that's number one big thing Uh, the other element is how we tackle contrast in an army like this Chuck wanted it to be it to be a haishan army and he had I had seen the art he used originally And it was a very faded You know, like an image lacking much contrast because it's overblown, right? Like it's it's an overexposed image almost, right? The challenge with that when it comes into actual models is that Contrast is the name of the game in miniature painting because that's what lets our eyes actually read things and not let them appear as pure white, right? Um So this presents a real challenge Uh here for chuck because he wants everything to be this faded and very light color Um, but at the same time he wants to also have this overblown very bright thing I think where I don't have a problem with it with the skin. I think I like that quite a bit I think where we had the opportunity here to increase the contrast Is in things like the metal So let's walk through the natural sort of the natural situation of what's occurring here If if we're being hit by a bunch of overexposed light Then very bright light creates very strong shadows, right? That's just the nature of the thing Uh, if you're outside on a bright sunny day, you generally will see a very well defined shadow on the Uh ground beneath you whereas if you're walking around in your house under a soft luminescent bulb overhead You don't generally see a shadow above you, right? They're sorry a shadow below you I hope you don't see a shadow above you. Otherwise your house is haunted get out. What are you doing? Uh, no, so so I think where we had the opportunity here Was to really take some deep contrast Into the things like the metals which would naturally have ultra high reflections But then also have really deep shadows in them If you've ever flashed a piece of metal against something That's really bright Then it's going to create a really dark shadow on the part of metal that's facing away From the light source on the similar side with things that aren't the skin where you want it to be real pale and overexposed So things like the blue, uh, sort of that navy blue, which I'm not sure about that powder blue that sort of acid wash jeans blue, but Compositially there's nothing clashing about it. I'm just not sure about it. So I'll leave that to the side But at any rate, I would have pushed the contrast on that A lot, right like really brought the shadows on that think down beneath the musculature tucked in here under The keeper's legs, right here on the undersides of the the canary where they have those the deep The deep hidden folds Really shadow those right Then those extreme darks would make the lights pop a lot more So that's my thought there overall Uh Cool, but yeah, love it And I'm always happy to see more slanesh in the world. Nothing wrong with that at all I I never want to take my slanesh to a tournament ever again Because they summon too much stuff. It's annoying Uh, now let us play the smallest violin ever Okay, so next up. We've got Darcy Bono And we've got the hellbriars. So we've got a nice beasts of chaos army All right, so this is a very fun army Lots of gray tones and sort of ashy complexion in the skin of the Beasts, uh, which is really cool Lots of great freehand work throughout this army Uh, I certainly don't have a checklist of things that I'm looking for when I'm You know judging like there are generally the events will have paint checklists And a checklist a checklist that's to determine your score for painting for overall when I do my judging I don't use that checklist. I use like the checklist determines who's in the top cut and then I go in and do what I do and there's nothing in my in my Sort of examination of an army that says you have to have freehand or you have to have non-metallic metal or not have non-metallic metal or have osl. None of those things matter What I'm looking for is execution, right? So if You're going to use freehand then cool execute it well Uh, if you're going to use osl execute it well Um, and and do something interesting with it that makes the army stand out As I always say the the thing that I want to see most in an army is the 10 1 1 rule be satisfied, right? I want you to get my interest at 10 feet So the image that the army should read well from that kind of distance I want you to have my attention At uh at one foot where I go. Oh, okay. This looks really good now that I'm up close Let me get even closer and I want you to have amaze me at one inch when I go in and find the small details That's how you you know, that's you want to take best painted. That's Follow that now on everything you do and effectively you'll get there So, uh, a lot of great stuff here like the freehand and stuff like the banner. Let's jump forward and we'll see some stuff uh, so Uh, here. We've got our big doom bull Really nice overall. You can see the sort of, uh, scorchmark fire tattoo type things on a lot of them our old, uh Uh, gosh Uh, whatever he was the standard bearer. He had a specific name back, but I can't remember what it is But this is a great model obviously Uh, a wonderful freehand on the uh on the banner there Fits right in Uh, here we've got our beast lord beast lord some more, uh some more minotars Good stuff Nice tattoos good choice in the red fur Big ol cygor like I like the how he's you know, uh, carrying the the heat, uh throughout That is to say like you look at the the Marks in the rock. I think that looks really nice Uh, the glow in the rock and stuff like that Of course the big gorgon So again, really good nice transition there on that Here we've got some of our gore And our our our Nice little sacrificial altar the herd stone ready to burn up some ungore Little brashaman Our ungore who are undoubtedly ready for the pyre even though they don't know it again good freehand on stuff like the banner On the shield there. It looks really nice Yeah, so overall, uh, my uh My thoughts on this army are a lot of this is executed to a really high level and I like it Um, this is uh, this is a really nice army. Um, it's really well thought out I love the fiery colors set against the Set against the grays and blacks and very neutral tones So I think that works well We're very much in a warm palette with the the fire and the leather and things like that And in a cold palette with the cold blue ashy sort of skin, which I think looks really nice My basic feedback would be I would love to see a little more TLC spent on some of these models some of their like again, they lack some So like when I look at it comes out the most when I look at things like the gorgon and this guy Uh, you know, this is a really big model. There's a lot going on I'd love to see more color worked in here Like have some subtle tones in the transitions higher highlights up on the top There's not really that much of a highlight difference between What's here on the top of the gorgon's shoulders and what's here on the top of his tucked away abdomen These would have very different amounts of light Right, um, it comes out in stuff like the uh, like the leather strappy straps here So you'll see that on the cygor. Let's go back to the cygor Um, you know, the the leather strappy straps around the arm. These are a nice chance to to flex Because this is the kind of thing I look to discover at an inch When I come in and I see like, you know, never miss an opportunity to flex with especially with a model I'm definitely going to spend a lot of time looking at because it's huge Your cygor your gorgon. These are two centerpieces of your army So flex for me show me what you got right and having the leather have light edges and texture Uh and stuff like that where the edge looks worn and there's texture across the leather That would do a lot of work for me. Uh, I would I oh, okay Boom, you know, you you did something there, right? You really caught my attention Um working more colors into the subtle shadows So like you've told me you have this cold blue skin Right and you've got cold highlights. Cool. Show me some purple in the shadows Maybe pick out the veins a little in a little more pronounced fashion Right do a little more work with the teeth and the tongue and the gums like he has this big giant pronounced mouth And it's not really too much color variants in there. It's kind of boring Right, so it's that kind of stuff. I'd I'd want to see that would that would really, you know, push me over the edge um with things like the the Uh With things like the minotaurs here You know what I think my my biggest issue with them is I'd love to see a little more pop out on some of the fur A little more pop out on some of their skin again. So it's just contrast contrast contrast, right? It's pushing those values more and giving me a lot more visual interest Where I see the the way that's traveling Another thing you've gotten opportunity with is things like fur and hair where um Where they can um Uh where they can you know They can vary in color more. That's what I'll say, right like that's very uniform all of that fur So uh, but overall this is a really great force Um, it really is a wonderful army. It does do some amazing things. The freehand work looks fantastic The composition is is wonderful The basing looks really good lots of good variants there carries through that themes This is a very well done army and and this would certainly be You know in in in like a world of something like a depth gone I have to imagine an army like this would absolutely make the cut and be up amongst the the top contenders. So I think that's Uh, I think that's absolutely a a a great accomplishment Uh Jaeger bomb in the comments real quick asked are they only showing off the age of sigmar items right now? Yeah Um, this was a aos coach organized this and so all the armies was I only judged the aos event And so all the armies we submitted in were for aos armies Um, that is a good idea in the future when I do these again And we just do kind of like a armies on review parade I'll give you feedback and we'll pick some winners and stuff like that and whatever However, we decide to organize this going forward because as I said at the beginning for those of you who might not have joined yet at that point in time Um, I think this is really cool I love that everybody submitted these armies and wants to share them with everybody I I want to do this again under happier circumstances Where we're not doing it simply because Uh, an event got canceled and we're all stuck in our homes Uh, I want to do it because uh I want to do it because um Because it's fun and because there's lots of people who put tons of hours into their army and love and passion and blood and sweat and tears And then never go to an event and it'll give them a chance to show off all their their hard work Um, so right now i'm going through this as though I was judging it at adepticon I probably won't do that when we do this in the future. I don't know. I'll figure out exactly what Uh, people are comfortable with because I don't ever want to make anybody feel bad Uh, that's never the goal of this my my like I'm pretty straightforward I'm I don't want to ever be mean so please if you're one of the people who submit an army Please don't ever take it that way. I only mean all this with love and And the best charity I can you're you're awesome human beings for this and your armies are all amazing um But we're we're going to do this again under happier circumstances and we'll format like What are the types of pictures I have to have and what format they have to be in and Where you get to do and then we'll share them we'll do a video like this a hangout and we'll look at everybody's army I think this sounds like a super fun thing to do. I would have never thought of this Had adept con not been canceled and had we not and had aos coach not come to me with this this fantastic idea So big thanks to coach As I mentioned at the beginning you can find all the rest of the events for the adept con at home weekend Down in the description after this video goes live. There's a full schedule of everybody who's streaming across the channels And uh, and we'll go from there Okay, so, uh, if you didn't get your army in this time we're to do more in the future and you'll have a chance to submit your finished army and Uh, and there you go. Yeah, so it'll be a great chance for people who never go to events to do that Uh, somebody asked who was this this is Darcy bono, uh math Alrighty next up david griffin, uh bringing us a really unique project. He only had four pictures, but trust me You're gonna love them. So this is his Army his cities of sigmar army, obviously So we start out here with our night zeros and obviously some Some bow boys some castigators or judicators or whatever he's going for here. I don't know exactly but obviously some of those dudes and And uh, so I love the way these are colored Really nice the the blue and gray and then the bright yellow all looks really nice together But the big, you know, good head swaps great stuff there really nice bases of the sort of cityscape that I think tell a good story But now we're getting into the exciting stuff. So we have our our huracanum with being pulled by the big Uh, drakoth as it were, uh, his sorcerer is the old, um, rtonian damsel and then his Uh His shadow warriors are all sneaky sneaky halflings, which you've got to appreciate There's is one real elf in the mix. I assume he's just telling the rest of the halflings what to do Which makes sense You know the rest of the halflings halflings are known for being very quiet very stealthy I said that's a thing So they can certainly follow that shadow warrior right along And uh, and then of course Boom all the pistol ears. That's right. It's halflings with guns So he has all these wonderful halflings that he collected Uh, and then mounted them up on griff hounds, which is truly an amazing conversion um It's is a heck of an army Uh, what and then of course the general on griff in there in the center Uh What a wonderfully fun unit, right? Uh, just absolutely Uh, absolutely great very eye catching very unique Uh, and and very clean well executed paint on these guys Um, I like the color variation on the griff hounds and uh on you know the the bird itself there Obviously looking like a straight up, you know bald eagle, uh the griff in there in the center or whatever so Good stuff Uh, what one of the things I will say about this here you go. We got we'll move to the whole army shot There we go, and then I can kind of talk about it overall So I think david what I would uh challenge you with in the future with armies like this Is still much the same. Uh, we could push the contrast here a little farther Uh, one thing you want to be careful with david is you use the yellow and I like the yellow in this context But it needs to be a little more diffuse So you're using yellow as a pop color, but you're not actively spreading it far enough So like the wings for example of your knight of zeros or the magic on the bridge or In some of the griff hounds I would love to see you have a little bit more of that yellow Spread around throughout the army as your pop color A few more gems a few more Freehand symbols a few more, you know just little things to sneak it in there Patterns and dots on some of the griff hounds. Maybe some of the other griff hounds have yellow stripes Right, um things like that to make it feel consistent in color uh, because right now it's it's Very eye catching and there's not enough of it to balance it out like your eyes get locked onto particular figures And uh, and that's challenging The other thing I would say is I'd love to see a little more contrast on stuff like the griff hounds They look really good. I think you did a good job with them I mean, I know David's been painting this with uh, a brand new like seventh month old baby that I'm sure he's spending a lot of time with Uh, so, you know, it's not like David doesn't have a full life. But uh, yeah, you know, David's a great painter I know he can put in there. So that that's what I would say a little more contrast on things like the the griff hounds especially their feathered parts where those should be quite varied and things like the gray armor On the storm cast again some deeper shadows even if they're soft shadows They need a little bit more of a deeper color in there But uh, overall this is a really really glorious vision for an army, uh, brought to life. So I I absolutely love it And that's a it's a lot of halfling pistoliers. I support that okay Next up Jen Martin Uh, Jen is gonna bring us a whole lot of squigs So I'm just gonna cycle through and and kind of talk as I as I cycle through these because there is a lot of Of squigs here a lot of squig photos. We start with our world star uh, squig photo here Uh, and then we'll go. So here's the full army shot as you can see lots and lots of squiggies squiggies everywhere Good stuff. I'm just gonna cycle through And and kind of talk Uh, so overall what I'll say about this is I love the this is a riot of colors like It is a color riot. It is a zoot suit riot Um, but I don't think that's too overtly problematic in an army like this uh, that is to say it it's uh These kinds of armies can often be bright and somewhat crazy and I think that's all right The photos are overexposed. That's one of the things that's making it hard on our eyes right now Uh, is that there's way too much white light in the photos and so that's making it kind of hard to to Take in. Um, I don't think that's actually a problem with the colors on the army Um, I think it's just a challenge with the uh with the the photos. So putting that to the side Uh, lots of fun little conversions with the the nerglings here also joining in the fun becoming honorary goblins Uh My biggest pushback on this one is going to be kind of much the same of what I said before Uh, with a little bit of a twist. So we do have a lot of opportunities here for more contrast Especially on the big models like the manglers And and stuff like that when you look at a shot like this the manglers are just very Red and they don't have a lot of deep tones or high tones, right? They're They're very much just like one solid color bang and you're using a lot of bright primary colors Which again, I don't have a problem with necessarily we can use bright intense saturated colors. There's nothing wrong with that But we do need to still have some kind of shadows and highlights and with reds It's it's a great color to use to be very saturated Because you can use your shadows can go into purple or brown or black or whatever And then your highlights can just be really really really bright intensely saturated red And that's fine The other thing I would say is again, I mentioned it earlier. It never pass up an opportunity to Uh to do something amazing, especially on big centerpiece models I love the conversion of little nurgling with the wings almost looking like, um Like the little servitors that the sisters of battle use Which I don't know if those are the wings from the servitor or not if they are a great call holding very holding on very tightly to the uh to the the mangler And you know, you can see all the nurglings by the way here throughout replacing all the goblins, which is just really such a fun thing Um, you'll notice a bunch of them. You started hitting throughout here. Obviously, there's still a few normal goblins hiding out in say Squigs mouths and stuff, but most of the goblins have become nurglings, which I do think works real well Uh But you know when it comes to the big manglers are regular squigs uh I think you know having things like demon dots or stripes or patterns of any kind on there would really be amazing Uh, so, you know, don't miss an opportunity like that to do that fun stuff Especially when you've already put so much amazing effort into bright colors and really eye catching stuff going on in conversions with all your All your nurglings. I mean, this is a really really beautiful. Whoops accomplishment Because all these nurglings just hiding out as honorary goblins, right? Uh, which they do look very much like little goblins Uh, I think it's just such a wonderful conversion idea I've I've never really seen anybody go that far before And I think it's you know Honestly a really cool concept Uh, you you have gone super deep into color Uh And uh, I think that uh, yeah, I mean it's it's cool Just we could go that next step especially on the big models So there's my thoughts Hope you enjoy gentlemen Uh, so thank you again Uh to Jen. This is a really really fantastic force Okay, next up, uh, jimbo of mitzi and jimbo bring us an army Uh, so we're gonna go I'll have to come back I think two of these photos because two of them. It's not gonna let me show so I have to open them Actually, hold on. Let me open with It's not gonna let me do it. Okay, that's fine I'll open those in a second with something different that I know I can okay, so, uh Here we have the converted a cellist in prime Made out of what's his name the primark guy whose name eludes me that they released recently Oh, oops Uh here we've got our E uh our our kitty caters We're just gonna kind of spin through them all Obviously, uh jimbo went for a all non-metallic force So really leaning into the non-metallic gold In a big big way Uh and then again golden purple we talked about that before it's a great color combo I like the pop color of green here I think that works really nicely I think that's an excellent addition that sort of neon fluorescent green with the purple. I think is really nice Oops, let's uh, let's stop on the whole army shot here so we can just all take that in for a moment So really really great army, you know lots of uh really catchy for the eye Really really high contrast Thank you sanguinius. Yes. Thank you very much people I appreciate that somebody clarified what the primark was Uh Here's our our griff charger boys or whatever they are And then just some action shots on the beautiful display board he made Okay So, you know general with the with of course the the much uh the much needed comet in there So let's go back to a few of these guys and there's a shot in here That's really gonna sort of talk about I'll I'll use this shot to give feedback on the general army Um because I think this is where I would uh Where I would uh where I would talk I don't have a problem with non-metallic metal being used on an army I think it's perfectly fine says just two people in here who did that it can look good Great good stuff. Um, I think this is well executed. I would love to see more mid-tone in your non-metallic A lot of your gold is very brown You're missing the ochre tone being as strong as it could be You have one three four five in this gold. You're missing a two Okay Uh, now here's where we come to the big challenge of contrast and here's one of the only times I've ever had to say this Jimbo you have too much contrast in your Uh in your cloth this may be the first time I've ever had to actually say this to someone Um, but the cloth comes up to pure white and goes down to almost black The the cloth at this like looking at her really exemplifies this The the purple cloth which I'm going to assume is satin or silk or something highly reflective Is portrayed here on equal levels of reflection of bright polished gold Now I've seen some real silky silky reflective satins Right, but they don't get that reflective. They're not polished gold like my ring reflective, right? And so the challenge is we actually over highlighted this Uh So you've got to be careful where you set your highlights by taking the purple up to pure white Uh, you you made the the cloth as reflective as the metal and it's not right Um, so even just a very thin glaze over that like super thin like a filter even To knock the white out of the cloth Would help so much and take you right back into line like you'd be perfect If if that instead if if if instead of going to white in the cloth, we just went to ultra bright purple We'd be perfect. We'd have silk right So, uh, that would be that's kind of something I noticed here when when this when I was looking at this It's almost hard to read some of these guys Because you have so much like this is another good shot to see it like you can really see what I'm talking about here Like all of the purple appears just as metallic as the metal Because you're running the reflections way up into, uh Uh into the same level right So like if we took that down even with just a filter of purple over top We'd snap back into place snap back to reality. Oh, there goes gravity. So, uh, the other thing I would say is I don't know that I love the gold swords um Yeah, I in fact, I don't love the gold swords like I understand these guys have a lot of gold Uh, apparently these dudes are all the bad guy from awesome powers 3 Uh, they love gold, but I would I would argue that like when it comes to something like that You've got to be careful of what people's expectations are And like we expect a sword blade to be made of a different material than the hilt it's sitting in We just have a subconscious bias about that, right? It would be like if you painted all of the cloth gold Well, yeah, that's possible Right, like you can wear gold lame, like that's a thing that exists. You can have gold cloth But if you have gold cloth next to gold armor, we're going to be like, wait, what that doesn't look right, you know something something seems wrong there, right? and Uh, so I would love to see those in just honestly those should have just been the same green Energy effects as you've used in lots of other places here Like you you did some of the weapons in the green the sword blade should just be that same green So there you go But overall cool stuff, man. I mean, this is a it's a beautiful army. You must have spent a outrageous amount of time on it So I do want to give you mad props for finishing the army your light reflections and your light usage looks really nice Work on glazing in more midtones More reds and yellows In there that way we add a little bit more color and hue back in and get out of too much of just the browns There you go Yeah, so there you go But awesome work jimbo. I dig it All right, jordan duncan Bringing us a pretty cool display of some idaneth deepkin So he's actually got some uh leds here in his display board And by the way, this is what I was talking about earlier when like if you're going to do something fabricated it needs to be Very precision right like if it's not just wild and here I think jordan certainly accomplishes that I do like the little glowing led lights hidden around the thing like the Carving and lines and stuff in this display board. I think look really good So well done there I like the Volturnus, I know this isn't volturnus, but I like it's I like this model seahorse guy Up on top of the rock. Although it does kind of look like he His seahorse got real attracted to that crystal And he is trying his best to get him to go back to fighting, but we'll leave that to the side Um So there's a great, uh total shot of the army Uh all in all that I think this is really nice. I like the display. I like the the glowing lights I love the fact that the centerpiece character actually has a like a glowing led in him. I think it's pretty awesome. Um The turtle is balancing oh so precariously which I love Like look at how he has this turtle up here. It's amazing That's great. That feels like it's flying like that is a wonderful minimal contact balance Um So this is really good. The paintwork is super duper clean Uh, which I think is great Uh, I like everything here looks really nice. This is just Solid work What I think I would say to you, Jordan, uh is This is great. I would I would love to see you push it just a little more with Especially some of your big models. So let's let's I'll make this real for you, Jordan Let's uh, let's go into the individual photos here and I'll talk for a second and kind of individually So when it comes to these guys right here, you know, they're fine. They're well executed. They're clean Good variation I'd love to see maybe a little bit of more on the on the weapons than kind of The cream with just edge highlighting, but it works. It works overall the new marty Thumbs up. No, I have no issues there It'd be great if I could see some tattoos or something on the side of their head like again You want to you want to amaze me when I get to an inch? Show me some tattoos on the side of their head. All right. They have these great big bald heads Always begging for a tat Or is the turtle mr. Turtle. I like turtles. Here we go Okay, the turtle is a great chance where I felt like we could have gone farther He's got lots of scales lots of space. I like the dude jumping. I like his positioning But He's kind of flat All right, we got a big red shell We don't have a way like we don't have any Turtle shells are so cool. We can do lots of really cool patterns You have something kind of minimal there, but doesn't really stand out We could have really popped that shell Same with the how-to on the back A little bit more into that same with the turtle skin, right? Like I like the general transition But then we don't have anything on like the edges of the individual scales They don't have any variation across the edge of all the little scales. All right that kind of thing So and then finally on the boss. Where's he at? There he is I like the few individual darker scales But again like something that transitioned on his tail in some way into a different color having his main be a different color than the Than the body of the thing itself, right? Having maybe a couple rows of different color scales Like either in an actual pattern like maybe a diamond pattern of different Sincelating scales of that teal or something like that little things like that go a really long way To making the army stand out, but overall this is really really fantastic. Like it's great. It's clean. It's well executed It's a good vision. It's a beautiful display board. So yeah Well done, Jordan Okay Next up shoe mark shoemaker shoe from re-rolling ones Okay, so he's bringing us a whole lot of pehenix guard. I think that's how you pronounce that, right? All right so Uh, here we go. Obviously we can see some conversions like in the sorceress there Uh, so we're just going to flip through some images here and take a look Uh nice Color choices overall You know really, you know good execution very bright phoenix So yeah, good stuff. Obviously good phoenix temple army Uh, good anointed and and stuff like that So here's my overall feedback for you shoe. Um, one thing first thing Throw these gw metal paints you're using in the garbage. So you stop getting pitting like this and texture like this, uh it's I'm just going to use this as an opportunity as always to say vilejo metal color. It's what you should be using Uh, uh, but at any rate When I come to the where's my big shot of the phoenix? There we go. Okay, these guys. This is the shot I wanted So this is really nice and cleanly executed. Um, it looks good. I do have some challenges here of like Elements that feel like they could be doing more This army has a lot of metal on it, right? And Metal as just steel and gold is boring, right? And so what I would encourage you to do is When I see stuff like this, I want to see more contrast on the metal Work with inks and shades and edge highlighting and stuff like that to treat The true metallic metal in a non-metallic metal style Where I would see more shading and highlighting across the thing like her helmet up here her face mask That should have like a light point here And then treated like a sphere that it gets darker And then be a light line down the center and then have some reflective lights here and be in shadow And all that should be captured with you know various inks and stuff like that Uh, same with like if we look at Things like their weapons and their helms, right? What we want to would see around these phoenix helms is like a deeper shadow and you don't want to do this with washes You don't want to wash metal that just kills your metal You want to do it with controlled mixes of the color of metal paint and dark ink And you really want to work that down there and make sure there's a nice Dark line and then have a silver edge To each of them where the light is catching in the same way that when I hold my ring Up to the light which is made of gold like that looks like a white silver Reflection right where it's catching the bright light above me. Okay Uh so And same with the weapons right like the weapons are just silver. They're just big flat hunks of silver You know, I would love again like treat that like a non-metallic surface Where you're running a shadow up to one side highlight or whatever, you know at minimum And then light at the other end and then opposing light and shadow That's the simplest form of that, but you can go a lot farther obviously, right? So just in general seeing that contrast really Pop out there on metals. It's Metals look brighter when you add more darkness to them Okay, but overall man, that's a good looking force Uh, I think you did a great job. Well overall the phoenix looks really nice. I thought that came out really well um Like the phoenix itself I would like to see maybe a little more orange in there. We have a bit too much yellow saturation and not enough orange So like assuming you're trying to actually look like fire Fire doesn't have this much yellow fire is much more orange. The transition to your red black is really good You didn't you know, it's not ferrari red or something like that. So, uh That would be that's a plus. Uh, I just would love to see a little more orange tones deep orange tones throughout there Uh, okay Uh, yeah, oh people asking what I meant by the metal. Sorry. I'm just I'm trying to occasionally look at the comments here so Do you see this like oops? Do you see this core surface? This is called Bad metal pigment. This is what gw metals are right where they they the pigment is not ground fine enough And so you can see texture in it Uh, that's what i'm talking about you want, you know the various error things But especially the lejo metal color you won't have that happen So there you go Okie-dokie But great great job shoe cool army Uh, oh righty Where are we at? There we go. Martin Orlando. All right Martin, uh The uh He did a big converted death army here. So we're just gonna kind of scroll through Uh, and we'll we'll take a look at what he's got as we can see it all on the display board Did a nice display board. So I'm build it up on twitter over time Here we've got his uh blood knights, which he obviously all these are you know, real heavily converted. So Good stuff there. Uh, because who wants the real blood knights? That's No, that's gonna be a hard pass for me. Plus he wanted more of the viking Sort of uh themed to all this. So I think that's clearly captured well here Here's his vampire lord on uh zombie dragon, which is the magma dragon Which I've never liked and think is a very very Silly looking figure, but I'm not gonna hold that against martin I would never take my own my own personal how much I think a figure looks silly is never factors into my decisions But I mean, you know, let's be honest. This magma dragon looks silly Uh, but nonetheless martin did a great job with the conversion of the big vampire lord there out of the Blightkang body and stuff like that There he is a little tighter up Here's his vampire lord with uh with wings again out of a Uh Wrathmonger or whatever skull reaper whichever one The chaos sorceress or whatever showing up as the necromancer Because you want it to be more like a living thing, you know, sort of dark viking theme, which I get Then old arc on the black Zoom in on the blood knights and Uh Yep Got our graveyard Our ghosty boys here. We got to have some spooky chain rasps and there we go So, um, yes, even martin just said in the comments. Yes, it is a silly dragon Uh, glad you agree martin He does kind of look like toothless. That's just somebody said he looks like toothless. He does Uh, so overall martin, this is a good force. There's a couple things though However, that I would I would challenge you on throughout this force I know you've moved on and I know you're excited for your lumineath. So A plus I can't wait to see what you do with the lumineath, buddy Um things I noted. Okay Uh one I'm just gonna I'm just gonna hit you with some rapid fire. We're gonna go back to the beginning here. Oops not that far First big old magma dragon. You have this big giant dragon. He's a zombie dragon Theoretically, that's fine. He looks very like you your your eyes in the color feel like when they when the The night king or whatever resed one of the dragons in game of thrones like that probably is what you're going for I assume um And which one was it who knows who cares? It doesn't matter. He later got involved in a video game boss fight So it wasn't that fun. Um the uh, my biggest challenge here is like This guy is boring like the dragon itself is boring You've got all this space like look out here on this arm out here And it's just that color That's it right Same with like around his muzzle in his mouth Uh, all of this is just kind of that color What I would love to see there is more Variation like give me some different tones up here in between the skin like if you look at my hand There's all sorts of different tones in there, right? There's reds And blues where you can see veins and arteries and stuff like that Right. It's the same thing there for that especially on a big centerpiece like this The last thing you ever want is for a main piece like this to be boring Right. So again could be dots could be a pattern. He could change color going toward his hands We could you could take a pin vice at the beginning and you could start Drilling stuff out of it to create holes and dead spaces and do muscle and texture underneath you could put Tattoos and runes that show how he's magically animated. You could do a hundred things. I don't care what they are Just do something right Especially on what is supposed to be the model I care about the most Uh, same within his mouth like it's very It's not a lot going on in there. It's kind of like yep That's a big magenta thing and it's got some a little bit of color on the edge of the tongue and muscles underneath Like that's a chance to do some spit go in between the two of them to have maybe a little bit of deeper colors in there Show me some more purples show me some dots on the tongue. It's big enough. He might have visible taste buds Ah Right like tongues How long huh? You know catch that that tongue is like six feet long Right So that kind of thing Uh, similarly on Where's it at? Here we go on these guys like Their shields are so boring man. What happened there? They're just purple It's like They're just purple I don't I don't get it Everything else has so much great contrast and then the shields are just like a flat color And I I don't know why So that kind of mystified me. I didn't get it like These need a free hand or a something Patterns rust streaks all of the above would really be what I would prefer to see Right You know and same thing by the way here on stuff like this banner like okay, cool Good good freehand little Celtic thing. I that's cool But then like there's basically no tonal variation up and down the thing It doesn't get that much brighter down here where it would be thinner where it would be frayed Show me texture. Show me where the cloth is worn Big banners like this drag on the ground all the time right because he'll he'll be lowering it as he's writing So show me worn thread and texture and stuff like that, right? Um with the graveyard these guys the same thing like these are dead skeletons You've portrayed them as very old through the weathering and the oxidation And yet their red down here has no dirt. These guys have been walking on pristine floors for The whole time they've been wearing these clothes, which I would assume is their entire Undead existence, right? Why don't I have like pigment and dirt and weathering down at the bottom, right? Same with their feet like they're that kind of stuff like you you there's dirt clearly you've shown me down here There's living things So like there should be pigment and dirt and dust on their feet that kind of stuff Uh, I think the chain rasps are are good. I think they're they're a nice unit I'd love to see some of those blends smoothed out a little bit So we still got to work on the glazes like some of the places where we go into the bright white I can still see that being quite stark Uh, so yeah overall, but I mean, you know, it's a great looking army Like I know you put a lot of effort into the conversions. I like them all Uh, and uh, yeah, I think you did a nice job Okay Mitzi the other half of mitzi and jimbo Okay, so I'm just going to scroll through again and I'll talk because it's going to be um Very similar to some other things that I've said here Uh, so overall, you know, I'm always a fan of a good iron jaws army I do love how mitzi was unafraid to use bright colors again like Heck yeah, borers can be blue Uh So that's cool bright blue bright yellow Wonderful stuff. I I have no issue with any of that again. We have some overexposed photos here. So say la vie That's just the way it goes. Um but The uh, my my basic challenge with this mitzi Is largely in the tonal variation area So when I look at like the mega boss, he's so blue And like That's it. He's just blue abadi abadi like why do I not have purples and deeper colors and Shadows and highlights on the edge of the scales and more patterns. Like you've got a little bit of stripey striping in there, but like Why never leave the one of the things that I would always recommend against is like any large area that's just one solid color is Generally not going to be um Is generally not going to be great Uh, you want to have tonal variation, right? So again create some transitions in there where his hands have purples and reds or there's or anything You could you do lots of different tricks again. He could have was symbols literally war painted on him He could put war paint over it, right? Like the the the Uh mega boss walks out there and like put some war paint on this bad boy beforehand and that could look really cool Uh, so there's you know, there's lots of different ways you can go with it. Just Don't do Nothing that's what I would say Um when it comes to like the armor, I understand you wanted it to be kind of old rusted armor But what you have to avoid there is it being kind of flat boring armor? Which is is what we get to in general a lot of the armor is Kind of flat. It just doesn't have the variation. I would want to see yes I get it. It's black sort of black and burnt punched iron We can still do stuff with that Then in which case pop up the weathering show me some really brown rusty spots with some good orangey orange You know rust creeping across it hitting on the edges stuff like that like Do something with that space same with the work skin. It needs more deeper greens more pinks Things of that nature to really pop out and grab me Uh, somebody asked who did the non-metallic metal slanesh army at Uh at can con I uh, oh jeez. You'll have to I'll I'll ask uh if you if you ask Uh Clint On twitter, he'll be able to tell you So that would be my advice. I I I know his name and I just can't think of it right now. Sorry Okay All right So that that's my basic advice for you mitzi is you know big more variation Also, when you put stuff like grass on a base still paint it Like you don't have to paint it completely but like drop some wash in there stuff like that Just makes it look more aligned Otherwise it becomes too flat of a single color All right So we've got two from oscar lars because he did he gave me both the army that he was going to use for his team As well as for the gt. So his 1k army and his 2k army So i'm just going to kind of roll through all of it and uh, and we'll we'll take a look. Okay So first off, um Archeon uh with Uh, obviously new archeon archeon Archeon archeon whatever big boy the grand marshal of the apocalypse The lord of the end times So really nice force. I like the cast warriors Uh, I enjoy the the flamey flames on the banner. I think those look cool Uh, so I think that looks really nice Yeah, overall these guys are great. Um, obviously it's it's funny to have a 1k force that's like three units Starchy on two units cast warriors Thousand points jobs are good and two battle line on a leader. What more do you need? Uh, yeah, I mean overall I think this is is good oscar Um, it's nice. It's really high end work um, it doesn't It doesn't blow me away that is to say like, uh I feel like there's real opportunities here, especially with things like the cloaks To have more texture on there more variation in it A lot of the armor is Carey like the edge highlights are doing a lot those like big thick edge highlights are doing a lot of work in a lot of cases um I'd love to see more white light lines get caught Uh light catches and stuff like that. I think you did a good job of still making it seem black um, some of the edges look really big and sort of ostentatious So I would shrink some of those back down And some of the blends need to be smoothed out All right, especially on on some of like the forward facing legs uh But you know, I mean overall this is a very cool force the Uh, the archion looks really good. Uh, I think it's it's a it's a very solid force Uh, yeah good stuff Now let's take a look at his 2k force Uh, which is mind boggling Um, the 2k force is is quite fantastic Uh So this is obviously a nergal force. So we'll zoom in here so we can see all the detail Um, lots of rusting and weathering and uh, lots of tonal variation Great tones and colors in the skin can see all the like pinks and greens and purple and the boobos and the welts and warts and stuff like that Uh, that is really really looking good. Um good fully rusted out weapons um Stuff like that Uh Great use of oxidation and hidden in your shadows So, uh, if you look at a lot of his copper tones and stuff like that He's got the nilik and the turquoise colors hidden down in the shadows acting as an almost reflective color as a trick to the eye Which I think really helps to sell them Things like the bell and stuff their reflections are caught really really well done on obviously all of this is non-metallic metal So like none of this is actual metal paint So it's well captured, uh, which does lead to my one piece of feedback I actually had seen this army in person at nova last year. It is a fantastic looking army um, and The thing I will say is, uh, I don't love the white edges around the completely rusted out weapons Especially not as a full edge that doesn't work Like the whole weapon rusted through to complete orange, but then the edge of it is so bright It's reflecting silver light That doesn't work right like that's not how rusted things work So in the case of some of the weapons where you would have had Like the edges should just be really bright orange against then moving into the brown Like that's how you should be doing it if you want to catch those edges Now on the cutting edge if you want to show scrapes away and have a couple of bits of white and then go into a dull gray silver Beneath that where I had like scraped deep and then went up and out So we can imagine it going deep in and then cutting away Then uh, that I would absolutely I would dig on but things like the the white all the way around that axe. It just doesn't work Um So There you go. Um It's literally the one piece of feedback I had for this army Uh, other than that, it's I mean it's a stunner um So we'll just keep looking at That's what we're gonna do because it's a great looking army and I want to share with everybody um You know, you can look at all the variation He's got here. You look at things like the horns. You again like look at this Body here how where it's rotten away in this case. It goes into black this horrendous horrendous black Dead flesh like Pete's but then in other places. He'll use red and purple So let me see if I can re-explain the white on the blade because somebody had said I like the edge on the blade I don't mind it here on this edge because that makes sense. This is where it cuts so it would push away rust It doesn't make sense completely surrounding the blade. This part of the blade hasn't cut anything It's against the hilt where he holds it with his hand It wouldn't be white So that's the explanation is what I'm going for here, right? I'm okay with rust being cleaned away to reveal polished metal Where it makes sense that the weapon would come in contact with other things There you go, uh at any rate going back to the army Great conversions all over the place like the goo effects the blood effects on the base just tons of dead bodies and stuff like that in the bases I think these are might be the secret weapon bases. I don't know Uh, there's a whole nice shot, uh of the army. You can see he has all sorts of this. Oops. He has all sorts of wonderful things in there Uh, including a beautifully converted, um Uh, herald back here Uh, somehow we we all keep going because I think we haven't gotten to him yet this wonderful wonderful wonderful Uh, great unclean one made out of the forge rolled great unclean one Here are his trees which again are converted with the big insane googly eyes and tentacles coming out of them This is a nightmare thing Uh, this is truly a thing from a nightmare And like the goo in the mouth around the teeth This is the kind of stuff that I'm talking about people when I say give me something that amazes me when I get to an inch away This army is full of it everything Every fig I found something right like notice that he converted the tree He gave it this weird face Then he did these beautiful eyes and then he has this nergal's rock goo being the uh Vitrious humors of the eyes Right like that's lunacy Okay That's what I say when I mean amaze me at an inch Okay Uh, yeah, here we go. So here's the great unclean one big old forge rolled guy Looking really nice that that rotten meat flesh showing through Definitely looks like that It's you know, yep, that's Pretty hideous Pretty pretty hideous In all the best ways. Oh, here we go. Here's the the actual guy here This is uh herald or whatever Yeah, so all in all this is a really really gorgeous army Obviously lots of love and care. Oh, yeah, I can't forget about the glock and how could we forget about big pop a glut Who's done in a different color scheme? Like he's out in the purple whereas a lot of them are in more of the green skin He's more like a big giant human to separate him from the great unclean one Uh, which I truly do like I think it sets him apart. Well Lots of little touches all the nerglings playing in the blood down there and splashing around and up on him Uh great goop in the in the mouth and things like that. It's just you know, this is This is a true, uh Masterpiece of an army from From oscar. So there you go Okay Next up, uh pat carol pat carol brings us some iedunath deepkin Uh, so really fun stuff here. I'm just gonna cycle through Uh really nice, uh execution on these guys paint looks really clean well applied good bright colors and contrasts Uh really looking like sea creatures Yeah, it's really nice So my biggest advice for you would be much what I've said sort of many times first off the bases are really boring Uh, it's kind of that you know gw like mud and two tufts Like it's not doing much for me Especially not when this is supposedly like an underwater army that comes with a whole bunch of stuff to just glue on your bases Like fishies and things like that. So, you know do something with the bases Secondly what I would say is again when it comes to things like the eels You know, you've got a chance for patterns. They have these big long boring bodies You did a nice color. I like the contrast But then of like the that is say the color contrast of the orange and the blue But like give me some more there. Give me some patterns. Give me some stuff, you know on the side, right? Show me something interesting there. Uh, uh, sea creatures are so varied and amazing just google like underwater eels and sharks and fish and just you'll see these incredible patterns and colors And you know, just everything amazing Uh, that can that you can find and just grab that and put that onto your models, right? Like in any way that you can and uh, and and that's Uh, that's really going to do So much to make your army stand apart. So that would be my my main piece of advice for you But overall, this is a a great army That I think looks really nice Okay, uh next up stewart Gately, yes With his maw tribes. So let's bring these boys up So, uh stewart has a lot of doggos and some big many big monster trucks and then some some Huskards or whatever or some uh Mournfang there we go. Jeez. I having to remember every unit in aos off the top of my head is uh, is certainly fun um So, yeah, I mean, well, I'll kind of cycle through and then I'll talk about it I do like the uh ogre cheerleader being replaced. I think that's a it's a great conversion there She's a lot of fun. I was going through a random boxer today and found the old Uh metal dwarven blood bowl cheerleaders. I had in a box. They're still pristine And I actually was like, that's really funny. I might want to paint those someday. I'll remember I have them So, uh, but anyways back to this a couple thoughts again, my normal stuff would apply here The paint's nice. I like the little additions of stuff like the stormcast bits. It tells a nice narrative. That's very fun Um when it comes to things like, uh, you know pistols and and those kinds of additions Uh, do make sure that you're uh drilling those barrels out. I'm always going to notice it and I will Uh, I I will be upset if you don't drill barrels out It's not often we have barrels that need drilled out in aos, but I'm going to notice it Uh second, I would say again just more tonal variation throughout the thing, right? Like the ogres need more highlights more shadow on their flesh Again, same thing on the base is they're fairly boring here. We have just like some mud and a little bit of grass Uh, so You know, just you want to go a little farther there, right? And uh, and that'll really help as far as Uh making these things more visually compelling But uh overall I like some of the conversions you had in here. I think it's very creative Uh, I think that looks really nice. So I think that's a good instinct. Uh, it's helping to make your army unique Uh, I think what you want to push now is your your tonal variation and stuff in your contrast Okay Uh, let's see next up travis winter. Uh, I had the opportunity to not only see this army in person But to play against travis So travis has grass rack here because he's got the forces of nergal. Uh, he's got some some nergal cast So as we flip through here, you'll see what I mean where he's integrated a lot of storm cast bits Into his his various nergal components. It's also got some good old skull cannons and things like that in there As uh as allies for him so you can see how he's integrated in the The the storm cast bits Even the old vermin lord lots of options So having seen this in person I can say that uh, you know my my basic advice for travis remains much the same Uh, what you ultimately want to make sure you have is your conversions are top notch travis did a great job of Bringing all the various elements of chaos together here into the nergalized force Whether it's the the learest the the harpist from slanesh who's now has the the big um, you know blow fly wings the the uh, bring in the storm cast bits in all that kind of stuff I think is uh Yeah, bad that he says having a shot every time you say tonal variation is making for a very decent afternoon Careful it could lead to alcohol poisoning. Uh, so I you know, yes Those kind of drinking games are a good way to to accidentally pass it get past or pass out Uh, at any rate the the same rule does apply here Uh, I would love to see more tonal variation on things like their skin. You know when we look back at What I saw there in oscars force, right? Where you saw the reds the purples the greens the blacks all of this stuff being used in the skin tones especially bruised diseased bloated gross rotting skin like the sky is the limit You can throw any color in the rainbow at that and it works literally yellow. Yep red. Yep Sure, that's just skin, right green. I'm good with that purple. Yep blue. Yep violet. Yep Literally the rainbow will work on this kind of skin Okay, and so don't hold back Uh In that regard is what I would say Uh, and then as well some variation across things like the metal, uh, you know push that contrast further take control of that Uh Wow knowing about my the diet burners we punish people with that's that is a deep cut Uh, right there to know that yes at my rpg table diet burners is the tpk punishment. Uh, when people um When people die they have to drink a diet burners at our table at our dnd table Because it is the worst tasting beverage in the history of beverages, but at any rate, uh, great army travis I think it looks really cool. I I do very much enjoy it Okay So, uh, a couple other shots that are just basically I was given some full army shots So I don't have as much to say because I I don't have any individuals, but again, I kind of take that Uh As my own folks we didn't really structure this since this is the first time so Um, but bradley garrison nice enough to include his name in here, which I enjoy Uh, great stuff. Good scaven force. Uh, again, I don't have a lot of detail shots But from what I can see very same rule applies, you know more detail. I I love the fact that he's got like four screaming bells That's amazing or sorry three screaming bells and a and a plague furnace. I apologize. I that's amazing That's so many bell rings a turn. I love that. I really really love that Um, no, it's okay. Keith diet burners is the worst thing in history Uh, pretty much of anything. No, it's it's if you like ginger ale. It's not good ginger ale either Uh, I just can't stop lighting into it at any rate, uh more again more tonal variation across the the stuff Like I look at the fur on the vermin lords and things like that. It's very static Again, same colors on the little plague monkeys, you know, they have green and red I don't mind the Christmas colors, but they need to be more varied. Uh, I need more deep shadows more high highlights stuff like that But cool force I I dig to I like I would have loved to watch this thing go on the table With all these freaking screaming bells and vermin lords and stuff. That's nuts. It's so wonderful Uh, okay, uh, josh arden with his first army Uh, so this is the first army josh put together again scaven. Uh, I love seeing all these scaven forces by the way Let's zoom a little bit again. Got the big screaming bell back there and the plague furnace up front Uh, this is actually his shot from holy wars where he was judged as you can see in holy war six Uh, very nice force Um, again, I actually like the basing here. You got some good Variation across that There are some places where we could go farther things like the the vermin lord this dude up here Uh, it doesn't quite have enough Uh, stuff going on but cool display board for this being your first army I think this is an absolute Absolute triumph like this is wonderful. You went and did freehand on the banners And stuff like that like you didn't hold back, you know, look at the book over here, right that has freehand on it Um, this is a great first army. You really came out swinging in a big way And I want to personally say I am so proud of you amazed by the quality of this Um, obviously, this is a a long journey to go on scaven is a rough first army To get to this point takes a great amount of concerted effort and work and I am Uh, I am thrilled and amazed at not only the quality of the the paint but also of the display board and everything else So well well done josh Okay, uh, louis With some disciples of zinch. So again here we see some zinch demons Uh, nice stuff again. I can't see too much. I can zoom in a little so we can see better Uh, the biggest thing that jumps out to me louis is some things I've mentioned already a few times which is one Basing is kind of boring and two more visual interests, especially across the demons Having more variation in the pinkies and in the blue boys With things like the screamers, you know, they've got all these wonderful texture and dots and stuff Use that paint those different colors. Have those be varied in some way, right? Like they're crazy chaos demons and zinches like the excuse to just go nuts with color just have a have a Absolute uh Have an absolute party have a just just go nuts, right? And so this this is the chance. So that's what I would say to you Okay Our final army we're going to look at here is from, um Uh, Gabriel winter, uh, who was in a young blood. So this is obviously this is from the um, he was uh participating in the In the kids in the young bloods uh tournament, but he sent in his army I don't know how old Gabriel is, but I know he had to be under a certain age So I think it's less than 13 or younger. I think or what it was for young bloods So, um, if young Gabriel can get his army painted however old he is Then there's no excuse for you sitting at home right now to not have your army painted So well done Gabriel. Uh, I think it's great that you got all your stuff painted Uh, and that you worked through it I also like the box of holding there at the side. That's very cool Uh, so well done man something to be very proud of I'm sorry that you couldn't go to adept con and actually show everyone your army and uh and get a game in But hopefully in the future you will be able to and uh, I can't wait to see Gabriel What's your paint next so all the uh, all the all the love in the world for the the young bloods For our for our young next generation of painters out there working building up their skills keep it up. So, uh, good stuff Okay, so, uh That brings us to Uh, basically the the end of all the reviews, but guess what? Uh, there's actually prizes for this That's real, uh, we're actually going to have prizes. So how about that right? um the, uh What we're gonna have here is We're gonna have three prizes. Uh, these are all from Uh, dark fantastic mills. I think that's right. That should be right I always get their name wrong I think that's right Uh, and yes dark fantastic mills. Thank you. I always just you say dfm But obviously they have uh some rewards that they're offering for folks uh, and so They were nice enough to contribute for this, which is great. Thank you to dark fantastic mills. Please do look them up I will link them down below. They are amazing and Make truly truly truly wonderful wonderful wonderful Uh scenery and 3d printed stuff and so on and so forth for your your tables and everything So please do check them out Uh, and so what we're gonna do Is we're gonna have uh a first place Uh a runner-up and a coolest army just something that I thought was really cool the vinces choice award Right. Um, all three of them are going to get the same amount. So everybody gets the same Prize and coach will facilitate that going out Uh, because ultimately this is more about fun. Uh, and so Yeah, so uh, there you go Uh, I think most of these Dave asked would would these have been entries? And yes, I believe most I Most of these people I know we're going to be at adept gun I don't know if everybody was so uh, but in the future when we do this kind of thing We're just going to have it be hey, you finished an army. I can't promise by the way actual prizes for that This was a nice thing that dark fantastic mills. Uh, was nice enough to donate. So please do patronize them Uh, they're down below Um, but uh, I can't promise when I do this in the future I'll have cool prizes that I can do Awards or something that you can just have cool points for Where I think, you know, you can I'll I'll send you an email that says way to go. I guess that that'll that can be something uh, so, uh, let's let's do it like this, uh, our our, uh, runner up, uh, for this Overall in armies was, uh, Jordan Duncan with the Uh, Eyedineth Deepkin. I thought he presented a nice army overall. The paint was really clean. It was well executed. The board looks nice Uh, color wise variance cleanliness. There's opportunity here to go farther Uh, but I think this was really good really creative the integration of everything here comes together really sharply The cleanliness of the painting he has lots of good highlights on stuff It just didn't have that extra nudge But I there were things that I I didn't mention before That really did catch my attention like you see how he's got the striping on the eels he did he integrated things like natural patterning and the uh, The patterning in the marble little touches like the broken edge here stuff like that Uh, I I Jordan absolutely was the runner up in my book So this is our our second place because I thought this was such a a great army Um, so Jordan, I hope you take the advice I had given you that's how you go from really good to great Uh, back with that Uh, our first place winner, uh, that has to go, uh, to oscar and the nergal army Um, hands down. This is one of the best armies. I've ever seen painted in my life And I've seen a lot of armies um This is truly a unique and amazing Truly truly fantastic creation something that is proud of you should be proud of for years and years to come so, uh Just everything about this is horrific on a deep soul Crushing level and that's exactly why uh, you've got first place there Uh, next up the coolest Uh, and the coolest award was a little tough because there were multiple armies here that were really cool But ultimately I had to pick one that I thought was the absolute coolest And cool is just however I evaluated. This is my my version of fan favorite with a voting of one And that has to go to david griffin wonderful conversions, uh, the halflings You know joining up with the shadow warriors All the different, you know, the pistoliers riding griffins or griff hounds. Sorry The drakoth pulling the the converted hurricane So much of this I think is just a really really great concept And uh, I hope to see so much more. I hope david just keeps adding to this army forever And uh, and just makes it a thing where there's truly a massive halfling force So, um, congratulations to uh, david to uh, to oscar Uh And uh to jordan Uh, I don't know how we'll get in touch with you, but I'm sure since you send it into coach I'll tell coach what those that these were and I'm sure that somehow we'll figure out how to get those Those little gift gifts from dark fantastic mills out to you Um The there are some definite and and thank you to everybody else What I want to say here is all of these people did amazing everybody who submitted here I mean submitting your army to be reviewed online at a big show Like as part of a show that a lot of people are going to watch. It's not a big show Whatever it's not what I mean, but that a lot of people are going to watch takes a lot of guts And I want to say thank you To everyone who did there were so many armies here that were really really beautiful and I thought really amazing Um, you know, I do want to give shout outs to everybody who who who submitted All of you should feel really proud the work you did was wonderful Finishing an army is something to be proud of submitting it here getting it ready to go taking these pictures of it It's just absolutely glorious. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Really. I mean this for letting me look at all of these Uh to take part to enjoy these armies Um, I'm honored to be able to to judge them to look at them to evaluate them And I'm deeply deeply honored to be able to share them with all of you So, uh, thank you so much to everybody who's watching. Um hit like down there if you haven't already Uh, I really I hope this was valuable to the folks both who submitted armies But maybe if you're thinking of finishing an army or submitting it for uh, you know an event Hopefully this will help guide you in your own creation Hitting like helps other people find this Uh, if we are going to make this a thing I want to make sure we've got lots of armies, uh, submitted for me to take a look at now that I know kind of how long this is going to take Uh to do a show like this. So thank you very much. I hope you all got inspiration for your own forces for your own painting I I love the silver lining that we're going to do this again. Uh, watch my twitter Uh, watch obviously the our weekly show, uh, and I'll you know all announce when I have no idea when it'll be Probably maybe once or twice a year is when we'll do it. I think that sounds like the right answer because armies obviously take a long time to finish And uh, so thank you very much everybody. Do remember tomorrow morning right after the, uh, gw reveal show Tom and I will be doing our review reaction show So I think that'll be at 11 a.m. Eastern because I think the gw reveal show goes from 9 45 to 11 It'll probably be like an hour or something like that whenever that show ends is when ours will begin like a few minutes later So, uh, check that out. But as always, thank you so much for watching this everybody. Thank you doubly so to everybody who submitted Can't wait to do this again. Uh, but as always, I hope everybody is staying safe I hope everybody is having fun and getting lots of models painted and staying positive We have so much to celebrate every day in this community. Let's keep doing that Let's keep being happy. Let's keep celebrating each other's hobby. So thank you all very much And uh, I'll see you tomorrow