 Hello everybody, welcome! We're doing an update on my Warhammer addiction, I think that's what we can call it. So about seven months ago, according to this, I put up a video called, This is getting slightly out of hand. Um, this was kind of... Well, it was in a few months into quarantine lockdown here in the UK. And I discovered a new hobby. And that was Warhammer. It was something that... If you haven't seen the video, click it. Is it there? It's there. Oh, I don't like when it flies in like that. In that video, I talked about how I began. Let's start with the Dark Souls board game, and then slowly, but surely, being turned towards the dark side that is Warhammer. And of course, an empty wallet. I think that just goes hand-in-hand with Warhammer, really. So, because we're coming up to the one-year anniversary of lockdown in the UK, Hey! I'm pretty much the one-year anniversary of, uh, of me painting Warhammer. I thought I would go over what I've done, what I've painted, what a whole year of painting Warhammer or collecting kind of looks like in the hobby. Yeah, my god. I have, like, two glass cabinets, uh, filled with Warhammer. Well, one's filled with Warhammer, the other one's filled with miscellaneous stuff, and some armies that I bought. I bought them when I didn't really have too many models, and then I ended up buying too many. And now, I don't think anybody has... I don't think anybody has a need for a hundred Necron warriors. So, last time we left off, I had just finished the Ghost Ark, which was a lovely, huge project that I had done in sub-assemblies, and that means, you know, I'd built separate bits and then painted them, and then, at the end, put them all together. And a very satisfying experience it was. I really enjoyed that. Whee! About this time, the Indomitas box came out. So, me and my friend went half-as on it. Um, and there was also some models in there that I thought maybe I would want two of. So, in secret, I bought another box. It was a very stupid thing to do, because a lot of it is basically going assembled and still in the box. So, I could probably sell it, I suppose. And because Necrons, or I'd been painting Necrons for such a long time, it was easy, man. So, I just, like, spray-painted them all black, and then just got, like, a cheap makeup brush, a leadbelcher, and just drybrushed all of them. That kind of gave, you know, the recesses wouldn't catch the metal and stuff. So, I ended up painting a lot of... I did everything. I think I've completely finished a batch of warriors. Um, I think they were all the Gorse Reaper, I think it is, which is the shorter shotgun version, which I think gives, like, minus two AP, but at a shorter range. And I don't know if I've ever seen them in, like, actual lists that work, because they're so short-range and Necron were as well. I will see. They probably are. I'm probably just making stuff up, aren't I? Yes. So, basically, before, to get the glowy effect on the weapons, you'd have to build up from different layers of greens, and then finally getting the yellow to give this almost, like, luminescent look to their weapons. But, Games Workshop ended up coming out with this thing called Tesseract Glow, which, as long as it's shook up correctly and enough, you can just put on a white, and it will do it for you. You know, the lightest bit, or as long as your dry brush, kind of, like, black or gray to white, and you slop this on, you'll get a really cool effect. I ended up doing this to some Immortals with Gorse Flayers, or not Gorse Flayers, the Gorse Cannons or something, I can't remember what they're called. And I was getting, I was getting better with color blending, because I did that for their blades on their weapons, which I'm probably showcasing now. Ooh, look at that, so pretty. And I did, like, 20 of those, so I was heavily going into Necrons. I think at this point as well, I had a few battle reports, and the Tesla Carbines that the Immortals had, sorry. I don't know if they're called Immortals. That's what I meant, Immortals. The Tesla Carbines, although give good, you know, output, if you didn't have the right sort of stratagems and stuff, they didn't do too much to, like, something with high armor. So that's why I wanted to go for something that just could do some AP, which is what those glowy guns do in the Necron army. Also, I started looking into older models, and I saw the Catan, and the Catan all of these, like, God beings that the Necrons imprisoned. They, I mean, if you know about the lore, I'm not gonna bore you with that, and it's not really boring. If you like, like, lore mythos, look it up, it's so cool. Anyway, I love the look of the deceiver, his golden look, so I wanted to replicate that. If I've got to be honest, it wasn't that hard to do. I don't know what paints I used. It was a lot of mixture of different golds and silvers and stuff. A lot of dry brushing, and just to get, like, in the crevices, I think I watered down some red, mixed it with some purple, and then just sort of, like, very carefully just pin washed into the crevices, and that sort of gave the look that I was kind of looking for. The only bit that kind of looks weird is down at the base, when his, like, white sheet kind of goes into the orange, the Mars aesthetic that I was giving it. And so I spent loads of time on that one, and then the next day I remember I was gonna do a battle with my maid, and I was gonna use the deceiver, not the deceiver, the Nightbringer, that's the one, the one who looks like death, Edgelord himself. Now when I spent, like, two seconds on, I was just like, ah, black, dry brush, whatever it was, so I just did it super quick. So that's a model I kind of want to spend a bit more time on. He's not the best looking, but I definitely didn't spend the most time on him, and I will admit that. And then I watched a battle report, I can't remember who it was, but they had to destroy a lord, and this thing seemed super cool, or super tough, had a lot of damage output, and it has, like, some cool abilities you can put out, you can regain D3 wound, sorry, on the star bit's turn. So what I ended up doing was I made my own. I kit bashed, because I had loads of, I had a spare overlord, and I took a destroyer set and an overlord set, and I just put them together, kit bashing, that's what it is, when you take two sets of them together, and I gave him the sort of war scythe that the overlord had, and I put, like, the little D3 wound generator on its back, which is the little glowy orb thing, and I didn't want to make him green. I was like, he's like a destroyer lord, I gotta make him look different, so instead of silver, I painted his parts gold, or at least in the engine bits, and instead of green, I thought, why not, let's do blue, let's go crazy! And that was loads of fun, I was really happy with the way he turned out. Again, I hadn't really mastered color blending, but I was definitely getting more of an understanding. At that time I was like, okay, if you water it down, and then you swipe towards a thing, and that is the basic principles. He looked good, I was very happy with him, and then with the rest of the Necron stuff, like the Scorpic destroyers, and the Scorpic Lord, the new overlord that comes with the techion arrow, and the regenerator thing, I can't even remember what, that thing's called the big tripod thing. Everything just sort of stayed in its various forms of completion, and they are still that way. They're actually sat just over there, looking at me, waiting, they've been waiting there for months at this point, and what I'd done, because I'd started, I thought, I've got a good army here with Necrons, and I can basically just switch out whatever I wanted. There's also some other models on the army I bought that I could just interchange with the command barge and stuff, if I just wanted to put an overlord on that, which I ended up using. Then I ended up looking into my next army, and when I was a kid, I'd got Tyranids, and I was like, yeah, definitely not touching Tyranids. I'm okay. My next army is gonna be the tower, so I ended up buying. Oh my god. I basically have a game's workshop box. I have a store, and the game's workshop store in a box. You can open that thing, and there is just so much. There's probably like hundreds and hundreds of pounds worth of warhammer. It's completely unopened, because I went on like, you know, I was going through eBay or whatever, probably on there. I think it was Element Games, not sponsored, but Element Games. I just got those, those, those. I was just like a kid in the carnage shop. I was like, ooh, they look cool. I thought, ooh, there's three of those. Yes, yes, yes. I'm not ashamed to say I did that. I am ashamed to say a lot of them aren't painted. So I was like, okay, the tower's gonna be my next army. They all came. And then something happened. As much as I liked the tower, I ended up spray painting some Pathfinder squad. I ended up using some slate for the base and stuff, and it looked really cool. And then I started painting the areas black, and then painting the, you know, where the armor was white. And I was like, hmm, I don't know if I have the Skittles to paint them, because I was going for the Veloura. I think it's called Veloura. That kind of paint scheme where it's white. And if you've ever painted with white acrylics, they are a absolute nightmare to paint with. Anyone who could probably vouch for me, acrylics are white or yellow or anything like that, those paints are horrible. If they're too thin down, they go grainy. They're just not nice. And I wasn't using a medium. I was using just water to mix around the pallet and stuff. So I kind of left them like orcas. They were black and white. And I was like, yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to paint these, because their skill level's way beyond me. So I was on YouTube, and I was watching at Midwinter Minis for some easy painting guides. And he did some Terranids. He did some Jean Steelers painting them up different color schemes. And one of them that he did was like the Xenomorph from Alien. And I looked at it. I was like, oh, how cool would it be to have like these huge monsters? But they look like, you know, alien or they have the color scheme of alien. And there was something so alluring about that. I was like, wow, I could paint them so quick, so easy. I think I'm gonna get some Terranids. So I bought one box. I was like, because I only had a mountain of Tao. I bought one box of Jean Steelers. And I had some spares from when I was a kid. And I painted them up like the, you know, the ones that Midwinter Minis painted. And I wanted the bases to be as if, you know, because Terranids, they liquefy everything into a goo. So I wanted to make like as if they're running through this, you know, like the planet was just a thin layer of goop. And everything was pink and red and bony. And, you know, like they, it was in the final stages of this world being completely stripped of all its life force or life, whatever. But it didn't go too well. I wasn't too happy with the way they turned out. I remember having them on the stick and seeing them all like spray paint. I was like, yeah, these look sweet. And then when I painted them and it was finished with them, I was like, ah, I don't like these. Sod this. Sod doing an easy paint scheme. I want to do a paint scheme that is a little bit, you know, it takes a little bit of effort and skill. But at the same time, I could easy batch out like an army if I wanted to, just like, you know, assembly line, just do all that one and then move on to the other one, do that, another one. So I don't know what the hell did I end up painting first? Yes, I think it was homogons. I bought a box of homogons because back in the day, you could buy like homogons and termogons. I bought like one box of each. And what I did was the same thing I'd done for the guns of the Necrons, you know, building up from different greens to the yellows. I was just going to do that on the tournates. And I painted their carapace or shells black. And I wanted them to be running through like a city or maybe an abandoned city. So there's a little bit of grass there. It wasn't completely like freshly destroyed. They turned out really good. I was really happy with them. I felt like this kind of paint scheme was pushing me more than the Necrons was. Because the Necrons, I mean, the Necrons. Necrons are quite easy to paint. And I think they were great foray into my first-ever endeavors when it came to painting Warhammer. You know, a little confidence builder. And that's why I chose them. Because I didn't want to choose someone like the Tau and paint something that would look awful in comparison to my expectations and they never touch anything again. That's why I started with Necrons. But I went on to paint the termogons, the ones with the guns. And I think I did loads of flesh borers. A couple of devourers. Because I was like, yeah, I might as well do some devourers. Why not? They're the ones with the ice cream cone looking things. And fire maggots. And then I did the Jean Steelers. And this time I'd looked into Strudge, like an actual list. And I was like, OK, I just want them with rending clothes. They're cheaper. And if you roll a six, you get a minus four AP. And this led to one battle I did with my friend. They just, in first turn, because I was running cracking, so you know, you can move, move, and then advance. Oh, sorry. You can move, advance, advance, and then charge. Add some more movements. But in the first turn, I went first straight into him. It was great. It was one side of the ball. I went wham! Straight over to him. And he was really surprised. I think we ended up tying that game. The unfortunate thing is the Jean Steelers went up in cost when 9th Edition came out. So they're kind of unused now. But from there, I ended up painting my first proper army with those Jean Steelers. Xenothropes. Sorry. These are the big brain bugs. They look so cool. Because the front of them kind of looks like aliens, because they have no eyes, and they've kind of got the shell right there. And I'm sure that's the inspiration for them, definitely, as xenomorphs. So that was, the main part of my army was, like, two squads of Xoathropes and one Eurythrope in the middle. I think I proxy my Catan jugs. I didn't have it at the time. And just, like, firing off smites. And then after that, I painted some Hiveguard. I finished those ones. And another, I think I put Hiveguard, and I put, what are those things called? Biovores. That's it. I really like the idea that Biovores could clog up the board, just by firing. Like, deliberately missing. So you move them a little bit in fire. And then if they missed, you'd be able to place a spore mine, and you could block the enemy off. So I ended up, stupidly, buying a bunch of Biovores. Probably too many. And some extra spore mines, which if you buy, like, six or seven Biovores, you do not need to buy spore mines. Really do not. So I painted a bunch of those spore mines. And I never finished the Biovores. I got close, but I never put the finishing touches on them. But I mean, they looked okay. I was happy with them. Then I was still playing, you know, some battles with Terranes, some battles with Necrons. And so I don't know what it was called, but there's something in the Necron army, and I'll actually have a look at it. That's it. They're either Tombstalkers, or Tomb Sentinels. I think the only difference is one has, like, better guns. And they're only Forge World kits. And Forge World kits are okay. So they're red-hidden mists with the resin, because sometimes their casting can be a bit awful. And the fact is you have to use superglue instead of, like, plastic cement glue, which means that the bond doesn't stick as fast. There's more chance of it kind of breaking off. I ended up looking up a YouTube video on how to just make a a conoptic Tombstalker by keep bashing some Wraiths, conoptic Wraiths. So I ended up making these two, and they look really good. I put some, like, terrain in there to make them look like they were, you know, climbing over stuff. I even magnetized them so I could put guns, or, you know, there's something else you could put on them as, like, a war gear to make them better. I don't remember back in the day, but not now. I haven't played Necrons in a long time. Spoilers. And so I kept on going with Terranes. And from there, I ended up painting Hive Tyrant. No, it is Hive Tyrant. I painted a Hive Tyrant. I gave it wings. I was like, heck, yeah, that looks badass. I'm going to give it wings. I painted all the different weapons for them as well. So, like, monstrous sides, and magnetized his arms. So I was like, you know, I'm not going to really... I do have another one in that box. But, you know, I might not want to. And it's just easy. They were easy to switch out. Like, their arms were always different. So a lot of times, when it comes to Warhammer, they only give you, like, one piece. You know, like, maybe it's like, the base is a gun, but then you can put other guns on top of it. So you can only make one, really. And so I was like, ah, well, these ones I can actually make. And then I can just magnetize. Bought some Lictors, because Lictors, as far as, like, playing the actual game are really good. They can easily get, like, deploy scanners. I think it is. I think that's what it's called. Can't remember. Hive Tyrant was kind of, like, the biggest thing. I can't remember what it's called. It was the biggest thing I'd made, but I wanted to make something bigger. And because I had, like, a stock collecting box in there as a Tyragon, or Trigon, sorry. And I, so I spent quite some time on this. And then I got some ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh glue. But basically, you use this glue to make saliva, because it's very tacky. And it takes ages to dry, and it'll just stick and leave these strands. And it's a horrible glue to actually glue with. I remember that as a kid. But this, this, I put, I put some Blood for the Blood God into it, mixed it up. You put it on his teeth and stuff and just made him look like he just devoured something. And I was really happy. The only problem with ooh-ooh glue, you know, if it's a display piece, it's perfect, because you're never really going to touch it. But if you're playing with these pieces, then kind of another story, because you accidentally, like, pick it up a different way. Snapped. And there you go. You lost your saliva strand. So it's, there's a little bit of a shame in that, that it's not strong. But I mean, unless it's made of spider web, you know, you know, and even then, it's not going to really ever be as strong as a plastic bit. You'll notice from here on out, in the last video, everything that I talked about, I'd finished and moved on to something else. Whereas here, this is when, like, the proper addiction started, when I was moving from one army to another. Anyone who plays Warhammer will attest to this. You know, you've got disinterested with something part way and then they're creative, sparking another project and they start doing that. So you're going to see, like with the necrons, multiple unfinished things that got so far. But don't worry, last thing, for this video, I made sure to finish off last night. So yeah, the Jean Steeler Lord or whatever he's called. Brood Lord, that's it. He's a boob lord. The brood lord. Painting him in the same kind of color scheme, but I never finished him. I think a lot of times were, I got as close as I could to the battle of using him. And then once I had the battle rapport and whatnot, then I was like, ah, I'm not going to use him again. So I'll just move on to the next things. They're going to be the next battle. At least for future, he's almost done. He's almost there. So when I come back to him, oh yeah, I've finished that. You know, at least then I'm not forcing myself to paint something that I'm disinterested in. And I can come back to him and be like, oh, I've got this idea. I'll paint this better. Or, you know, I'll come back to him in the future when I have improved. And speaking of unfinished models, you thought the necrons were bad. Oh yeah, I painted like 16-territed warriors. And they were basically just chaff, putting on some monstrous sides or just whatever they come with, super cheap, super furry. You know, they have like four wounds or three wounds, something ridiculous, super cheap. And they were just to clog up the board in the middle. So I have all of these warriors that have no arms. But then I have a bunch of arms downstairs or somewhere. And they're all just like, because they're all magnetized. They're all put together in a big clump. They look good, but at least the bodies are there. I think some of them were kind of off the bases because I had only lightly glued them on because I knew I wanted to take them off the bases to do the bases. One that I almost, one squad I almost got finished with two exocrines. With the Hypeguard, with most of the tyrannids I'd sort of painted like stripes on their carapaces as if like they're running forward and it's kind of like, it's almost like gives them a speed look to them. Hypeguard, sorry. I wanted those ones too because they kind of sit still, they hide out where they don't get any line of sight, but they just fire and kill things. And I was very heavily inspired by the coconut crab. I think if anybody isn't a warhammer or tyrannids has seen this video these tyrannids like a coconut crab look and they look so freaking good. So I was like, they look awesome. I want to take that and put that on my color skin. So that's why the Hypeguard are the way they are. But I also, because the exocrine is kind of like this big thing that just sits at the back and fires, I wanted to have the same thing there. I don't think it worked as well. I'm not exactly sure what I did wrong, but I wasn't really happy with the result and their backs on their shells. But the skin, I was really happy with the heads. I was really happy with. And the bio-canon was a mixture of purple wash, but I put loads of coats on it so it's very shiny. So I can't wait to get some matte varnish to just dull that down. It's really shiny at the moment. And then I put some Nurgle Rot around the front of the cannon and to finally finish it off to just give it that like goopiness. I will put some ooohoo glue once I've finished. But I put some Tesseract Glow. The stuff that I do with the Necrons weapons that recently came out and when that dried the greens sort of really went in the things and the yellow. Oh, just look, gorgeous. So I have two of those. They're almost finished. Almost. I haven't done their bases or anything either. So I've got some plans for those bases. But at the moment they're very low on the list to do because, you know, I could put them just on a base, quickly just glue it down and they're basically done. They're tournament ready. They've got more than three colors on them. And at this point I still had not won a game of Warhammer. Not with the Necrons, not with the Terranids. The closest I got to winning was time. And I would always be faced with my friend who did Imperial Fist and it just seemed like he would lay down a hell of a ton of firepower on to me. And I've got to admit 80 out of, you know, 80% of the time he would go first and it was incredibly crucial to allow my stratagems to go first, especially with Terranids. I feel like you get to go first. It's doing like the one time when I went first and my jeans still went up the board. I tied. That was the closest I got to winning. So what an army that had, like, you know, good firepower, good everything. And I could make and, you know, wouldn't take too long. So this is when I looked into Custodians, which are the bigger golden boys of Warhammer. Basically, the Space Wiens worship the Emperor, the Emperor saved them, but the Custodians are better than Space Wiens. You think Space Wiens are good, Custodians are way better. Their armor saves on a two plus. You're only failing on one. And their ballistic skills are two plus. Again, you're only failing on one. The paint scheme, if you just want to go for them regular, it's just gold. You could just paint them gold, do a few little highlights and you're all good. And the fact is, they're so expensive that you only need, like, five squads of something and you've got a full, like, a thousand to two thousand point list. So I, what I did is I bought, I bought one of those, what are they called? The bikes. I bought a set of bikes. One of them is still broken because it fell off. But it painted those guys and I had so much fun painting those. It was so, so good. Again, everything's done with the brush at this point. I drybrushed, you know, the gold. Then I, I watched a tutorial where you had to spray on some, some gloss to make sure that the, the wash, right on flash or whatever it was that you put over the top would, you know, fall into all the crevices and then do drybrushing of golden griffin. And then, you know, do a lot, you know, then paint the, the plume on the head red, do the boots brown, put any gems on the thing. And with the bike side, you know, I put some extra details on the screens and buttons and stuff. I also painted up some, they're like terminators, but they have, they have, they have Flamer and some claws. They were forgewild kits. They weren't too bad actually to put together. I haven't done the bases on those guys. But at this point, when it came, it came to blending colors, mastered it, mastered it. I was like, yeah, I can easy do this. And it kind of really helped me because I would, on the wet palette, I would just put, as I went. So, you know, when it, when it originally, I would just have three colors and I would just water down and work towards each one. So a lot of the times, there would be a stark contrast between part of the color. But when I did it this way, I could easily say, okay, so in between that color is a little bit harsh. So I got my wet palette, find about, about where it was, get that bit of paint and then work it in. So there was very little, like, you know, slowly very watered down paints. It was literally just, no, no, that's that. Okay. And then that little bit of paint. Way faster color blends. And for me, ah, it felt good. It felt good just to make something look that good. I was very happy with those guys. I also bought some, some God and they had these axes and I wanted to just paint those axes a bit like power weapons and there was lightning going through them. And also I want them to be a bit like the Terranids. I want, like, you know, have a theme going through the Terranids and the Custodians. Maybe they're fighting each other. So they're both in these destroyed cities and I've tried some bubbles in like a liquid goo. Maybe there was some leak of something, maybe pollution in this area. So I had a little bit of a play around with that. At this point, I had so much Warhammer and I hadn't even touched the stuff, all of that Tau stuff. Felt like, you know, this was nine months in. This was really foreign. I've been painting Warhammer for about nine months and I'd gone from, you know, tentatively painting one Necron warrior. Like, oh God, this is going to work. To, you know, easy dry brushing, you know, the Terranid F, like skin color, or, you know, color blending for the power weapons and the Custodians. And I felt like I'd gotten so far with it. I looked at my Tau Pathfinders and thought, if I'm going to paint an army of Tau, I do not want to be brushing white ever. Don't want to be doing it. Don't, because it dries up really quickly on a brush. It can ruin brushes really quick. You know, you paint for a little bit and it will wash it off in the water and it's already dried. So you're going to have to spend a while just getting out of the brush. So, I decided to invest in a airbrush. And when it comes to, I know, calm down, he's got overboard. I had a little bit, oh God, I will admit, I didn't really look too much into airbrushes. On YouTube I went best airbrushes. And I found Broad Sword Gaming and I've been watching some of his stuff in the past and he was using a Sparmax. Now, when it comes to airbrushes, wetter are supposed to be the best places to go to, the best one to go to for airbrushes. But the Sparmax, I saw what he did with it. I saw him clean it or, you know, wash it and everything and how to mix stuff and I was like, you know what? I'm going to go with this. So I had a quick look on this and I found one and it came with its compressor. It came with a cleaning pot. It came with a sort of moisture buildup valve that you could get rid of. So I was like, okay, here we go. We're going to airbrush. We're going to do it. But before I decided to airbrush anything, I decided to paint or finish off my Pathfinder team, the best that I could. And, you know, with the tools that I had and I saw I use some watered-down reclon flesh or agric-sertate trying to get into the crevices of the towers armor, you know, but if you know the game's workshop washes, Citadel washes, they, as soon as they go on, they stain. So there's no moving about with them and, you know, and they can kind of go wherever they want and I did a tester with one of the Pathfinders. I was like, you know what? I saw it. Let's just see what happens if I just coat the entire thing in nul oil. Let's give that a shot and try and rub it off. It was awful. It was awful. As soon as it went on, I still got that to this day. I'm never going to paint this model because I want this to be a reminder of a change in my mind. At this point, I was like, okay, I just put a base coat, then a wash and then a highlight or whatever and we're done. And that's what this tower ended up look like. That was my old mindset, even though my squad is now one man down, but hey-ho. So I, you know, I did the best of my abilities with I could with these towers. And then I was like, okay, and then I found this video paint on a plastics by Lincoln Wright, who's a dude who he's like paints a lot of Gundams and stuff. But he did a tutorial on how to paint a ghost keel, a tau ghost keel. And I've seen some of his stuff and it looks great. So I watched his videos intently and, you know, I've dabbled in using a sponge to get some rust effects and stuff, but I watched his videos and the level of polish that he was doing on these models was amazing. But I took a few of the sponge steps and I put those onto the tau pathfinders and it just instantly, as soon as I started dabbing that brush, that sponge onto those models, it gave them an age, it gave them a weight, it gave them a story. My story behind these pathfinders is they're the expendables, you know? So a lot of the armor they wear have seen multiple tau, you know, like, and they've died in those suits. And they don't, they can't be bothered to really, you know, spend more on making more pathfinders. So they just pass it to the next one that they will inevitably die. You know what? I was really happy with those. But I knew going forward, I needed a better paint scheme. So I looked at more of this, more videos by Lincoln Wright and I followed intently this ghost keel and he was using some paints that I'd never heard before because most, you know, I used the Vallejo army paint or war paints. I sort of used some of those, but it's mainly Vallejo and Citadel war paint that I've been using. Let's talk about Citadel paints or war paint for a second. They're awful. The paint pots suck. Oh my God. I mean, if you're working from the pot, fine. But most of the time, I'm working from a wet palette and you just want to put one dollop on. Or even with an airbrush. Oh my God. If you've got an airbrush and you're working with Citadel paints on the pot, do yourself a favour. Just put them into the squirty bowls. Oh my God. So I bought a bunch of those bowls ready to do it. But anyway, he'd been using these MIG ones and they're like Vallejo, but they come with an automatic shaker inside. And the paints themselves aren't expensive either. I was like, what? This is next level. Or like I'd bought some ball bearings to put in my Citadel paints. But most of the time, they just sit at the bottom and you can barely move them around. So to help with this, I actually bought this. It's just like a vibrating thing. But it's supposed to shake. It's for lab equipment. It's supposed to shake up. I don't know what it's supposed to shake up. But it's supposed to shake up. And I'd seen that Midwinter Minis and some other painters had bought this thing. And it is so good. It's expensive. Don't get me wrong. It's very expensive. But especially with Citadel paints that you know with the paint pot doesn't set. Like if you've used a paint pot multiple times, you get paint around the rim and you can't close it properly. Nah. This thing is way better. Anyway, so back to this. Here Amel by MIG has the ball bearings inside that you can shake up. And he'd also worked with enamel paints. This enamel wash and some oil paints. And I was just watching these videos of him with these oil paints thinking to myself, wow, like he's getting really good results and a lot of working time. He would slop it on, which if you do with any wash, you know Warhammer, you put that on, your working time is very limited and it will stain. You know, it goes on anything. You're very unlikely to be able to wash off with water or anything. But this thing, he was going around the model, blocking on this enamel wash and then getting some thinner and then just moving it around. I was like, this is too easy. This can't be real. So I ended up buying the enamel modern wash. I was like, okay, I've got this. I've got my airbrush and there was one model based coated black and that was a storm surge. It had been sat for maybe eight to nine months. When I first started and I bought my Pathwiners and I'd spray paint them. It also painted, I got some bits of a slate for the base and stuff and I painted this storm surge which is this Lord of War for the towel because I thought that was cool. It's a big mech thing. And I was like, you know what? I'm not going to bother cutting out a new model or whatever. I've got this and the storm surge, by the way, costs like a hundred quid. It's super expensive. So I wasn't going to waste it. I was like, you know what? I'm going to do it. I've got my airbrush. Let's go. So I started, I airbrushed in white, originally gray from the underside and stuff and then started to spray some white from the top to give it like a, you know, when all the layers start going on it's got a subtle color change throughout. That's what I thought I'd base it with. And then I, you know, I'd base coat any grays that I wanted on there. Use the ammo by MIG black which isn't the best. I've got to admit it's kind of watery and especially on a wet palette it doesn't last two seconds before it starts to separate. So you don't need to water it down or anything which is good, but it does separate and it's kind of runny especially if you water it especially if you water it down. And I've got to admit it's not like a badden black by Warhammer. Like that black is black whereas the black by MIG is like a brown. It's a very, very, very, very, very dark brown. And under a certain light it doesn't look black but it is basically black. It's just it's not as black as a badden black. Anyway, so I done all the base coats and then it was onto the washing and I actually tried a bit with the Pathfinder and I was like, why is this so easy? You put it on and it instantly goes to all the crevices. Oh, it looks gorgeous. Don't even get me started on that. Like you think, oh no, that's dried. Put that thinner on. Bam, it's gone. Disappeared. And then, you know, you just move it around and it'll just settle in all the crevices everywhere. And, you know, I'd start sponging on the rust and stuff. And then on the gray I watched another tutorial by him on the gray to the white to put the white on it and then in bits where the white was a very big splodge you put some more brown with a brush, you know, to make it look like not only has it chipped the paint but it's chipped to the metal and the metal's also rusted. So part way through doing this big storm search I ended up painting some drones and they were the most satisfying thing I've ever painted so far. They looked so good when finished. They only took about two days to do, you know, and the color blending that I had perfected I just put on the lenses. Going from black and then doing the rim and the white and stuff and ah, gorgeous. Those were my favorite things to do and they fit perfectly on a toothpick. Just snip off the top and put them on a toothpick and then spray you're all ready to go. So from there like that I'd built my confidence even more to stop painting the storm surge further. And now it was on to something they hadn't done before with the airbrush and that was painting spraying onto an already painted model. It's fine, you know, airbrush putting the primer on. Ah, you can be as sloppy as you want. But I wanted to put on the giant gun. I don't know what this thing is what it's called but it's a big one. That's why I wanted it. It has like a cavity underneath where it's shot basically it's shot plasma charge or whatever and it's cooling down like it's vents and I wanted to to spray blue onto that like a blue glow. I was very nerve wracking I made sure like, you know, I was spraying making sure I was getting I was moving from my hand to where it would be so with the air just blowing so I could get my accuracy right the crag blue or whatever to a lighter blue and then eventually finish with mixing some white in there and the end result I was very happy with I was nervous because you know you mess up here you know I've already airbrushed the white on you know to get the kind of like gradient effect if I spray over that I can't recreate that that's what it is but you know that's what it is paint bravely in this hobby you've just got to take risks you don't get anywhere without pushing yourself and in the end after you know painting that painting the dudes because it's all sub-assemblies I did the chest piece separate I did the little pilot separately but I was very happy actually painting the you know with the Pathfinder Commander head or whatever he was the Sasui or whatever he's called you know there was no air brushing on his head sorry dry brushing it was just all going from lighter colours and the recesses you know from the recesses to the light colours to the highlights especially doing his little eye he's got the tattiest bit of black like eeee it's just like you can't get pens actually they get like perfect you can perfectly you know put a dot on but I was like no I will do this and all of the in Scripture all of the red sort of tau lettering and stuff I painted on the storm surge by hand there was no transfers neither on the Pathfinders and I because I had a nice brush and I was like you know what I'm going to learn to do this I want to get like a steady nose all just hand painted no transfers and then eventually like two days ago now I suppose I finished the storm surge and I you know for the base I did some PVA glue and different grasses that I just stuck down and I was so happy with it so happy I mean there's definitely parts that can be improved especially with the gunnies I think I could probably just put some over spray of blue onto the actual body of the storm surge itself to make it look like something right there rather than it glowing and then just not having any over spray onto the thing like no area of effects or glow for my first time properly making a model using an airbrush you know doing a glow of effect with an airbrush doing weathering and properly doing rusting and stuff I'm very happy with it I could definitely there's definitely areas I would improve but this thing took me like two weeks and you know I had a place and I wasn't at a desk painting all of this I was just in the front room sat side like on the side or maybe you know on the arm of the chair with a table right there just painting right with a wet palette just you know so I could socialize while I was painting I don't want to be upstairs closed to me room all day which I am now you know comparing that from my first model in a year it's you know that's the thing when you do stuff you don't realize how much you're progressing until you look back and you realize whoa I thought that was good and eventually you know at some point in the future I will look at this storm surge and I'll be like I could do way better than that what's why did I put the rust effect there it could have been running down that way you know it's a very rewarding hobby I've come such a long way I think you know to my own horn but I think it's important that you celebrate your successes going from you know like I say my first Necrons and my Dark Souls figures I even still think the Winged Knight is one of the first probably big things I ever painted and I had no idea about color blending I think it was just a happy accident I got all that looking good but that you know the storm surge was the epitome of if I started with that storm surge on day one my first thing I painted I would have stopped I would never have touched it would have turned out horrible and I think I would have been very defeated I feel I would have been very defeated but you know it's took me a whole year to get I don't know if I'll be making another war hammer I just felt like you've been a year I feel like you know you've seen my journey so far I made a first video on it and I felt like I needed to complete that saga that saga needed an ending and I wanted to make sure that I finished this storm surge to get the thumbnail looking good you know day one day three six four five but anyway guys hope you've enjoyed the video I know it's not dinosaur-related we'll get back to that eventually don't worry but I just wanted to get this out done I'm refreshing my brain I was super excited to so I'll bring you and show you what sort of progress I've made and you know just generally share a passion with you I think that's what YouTube is you're just sharing your hobbies and passions with the rest of the world that's how we come into it isn't it when our friend groups don't like it and then we come and find other people who are like yeah I like that new day whatever guys if you enjoyed this video I'll leave a like and until next time