 Are you legends? Welcome back to the long-awaited update to me painting Warhammer. So I made a video on Warhammer about a year ago documenting the process of from going for my first miniature to you know a year later and what I could paint and the difference. This video is going to be documenting from the last miniature I penned which I think was the giant Tao Storm Surge if I remember correctly to you know what another year in the hobby looks like and just how bad an addiction could really get. So sit back and relax as I show you all of the minis I've been painting. Yeah don't have to grab your popcorn and enjoy. Once I finished that storm surge I was pretty confident with my skills at painting the town or at least in this kind of colour scheme. The white being you know something that's really hard to kind of pull off well but since I had an airbrush and I was getting used to like the new enamel washes and not games, workshops, acrylics, earthshade and all those that basically stain everything as soon as they touch it. So from there I was like okay bye let's make an army because all I had was a giant storm surge you can't really make an army with that. So one thing that Tao had a lot in eighth edition which is when I made this was drones and because I painted a few of them already I was like well this is super easy and I've bought loads of uh like Tao at the moment. I didn't know I just made all of them I had like shield drones, gun drones, marker drones all the kind of drones you could think of and then I also wanted to start with troops because you actually need troops to make an army list. I wanted to make uh I think the fire warriors basically just the pew pew guns regular foot soldiers that if you're actually making a Tao army don't normally do anything you try to avoid bringing them if you can. So yeah I made those they turned out really good as well but the tactic I'd seen a lot of people use in Warhammer with the Tao especially was to put all your troops in a devilfish and march that up the board because it's super cheap it has a pretty high toughness and you know worst case scenario it dies and then you might lose one fire warrior but at least they're up and you can get objectives. So I thought let's make a devilfish to start painting that that turned out really good I think. At one point it was really clean before I put all of the the weathering on and stuff and I don't know whether I prefer it with the weathering or not weathering both look really good but you know I was going for the sort of war torn look it's got a story to tell either way I was pretty happy with how that turned out and then it was about time to start on some elites I think they are and I think these were the stealth suits so I made a whole batch of those things I think I only made two with the fusion blaster whatever it is and the rest were just with the gatling gun kind of things whatever you want to call them. I tried to mimic light glowing on their faces I probably could have done a lot better with it but at the time I was like yeah this looks okay and I was pretty happy with that and then I needed some HQs and one of the best ones to do when you're bringing fire warriors is to bring a cadre fire blade and then this is like like a do to basically just make sure dudes shoot an extra shot and that's basically what I want. I mean Tau are good at gun lines right so I like the idea of marching up loads of those fire warriors and just shooting loads and having the cadre fire blade or cadre fire blade there made more sense I was like oh that's gonna be so cool they're gonna do loads of shots so I was wanting to do something a bit different from the actual model that the cadre fire blade comes as as well as an ethereal which is like a mind control thing whatever but I wanted them both to look a bit different to how they actually come in the box so now that I was pretty far into this warhammer malarkey I went online and found I think it was either Etsy or some other third party shop online and I got like a different head for them so I made a female ethereal I think it was a different burst and a different head and for the cadre fire blade I just gave him like a regular fire warrior head and then made him hold up like an actual sword because I think the other one just holds up something that's already seathed or whatever you want to call it and it's basically like a sword in a holster which doesn't look as cool as a samurai sword so and we made those and then there was the heavy support slot I think it was at the time and I decided to make a broadside because right then broadsides were amazing with just putting a shed ton of missiles on them so I think it was just like two lots of homing missile things and then rocket loads I don't know it was a lot of missiles and that one didn't turn out too bad as well I think that was the first time that I actually put it on like a cork base to paint it and then it was onto the inaugural battle and instead of doing like a legit one we had another friend who wanted to play with us so we just made like a free for all which didn't really turn out too great it lasted forever because one of us didn't know the rules and to be honest all of us didn't really know the rules very well but it was like blood angels against death guard and then I was down and basically I just stayed in my side try to shoot things things eventually came to me and at one point I think I was literally left with just the storm surge and some drones trying to really protect it from being whacked too hard by an axe you know when you spend ages painting all these things and then they just instantly die it's like oh sweet cool so what I did next was basically scrap the storm surge because I realized it was actually rubbish so that's a lot of points that I could have saved and found out that the crisis suits which are these little nimble things you can really switch out the loadouts to were really good so I started making a bunch of those but I wanted to make them a bit different so I went online I think it was deadly print studios where I found loads of extra stuff that you can put on them so instead of just having missiles that look like they hadn't launched or anything they had them part way shooting so they had the the smoke stream coming from the back of them I thought that was such a really cool idea that just really breathe an extra little bit of life into these miniatures and making them like painting those wasn't it wasn't too hard it was just a bunch of like wet blending and maybe some dry brushing not only did I want to breathe more story into the the models but I wanted to bring more story into the tau itself because in the narrative or in the law they sort of bring loads of other races under one wing for the greater good there has been instances in the past where human worlds have turned to the tau and I thought what better thing to do than having fire warriors you know instead of having all the fire warriors as you know the tau said whatever how about have them as humans they have a special name I can't remember what it's called now so what I did was I bought some astromilitarum and I think I found like a youtube tutorial basically decapitate the astromilitarum troops scrape off the aquila and then stick on like a fire warrior head onto the back of it and the rest I think with the boots you had to chop a little bit of and the hands as well because otherwise they only have three fingers instead of four you're all those sort of alien nonsense fish people yeah horse whatever god knows and another thing my friend who got me into warhammer thank you uh mclure um he had been you know he's been collecting warhammer for ages and he had fantasy models of course I have my channels all about dinosaurs and stuff and I was thinking you know how about different races what about so they found like a lizard men planet or something like that um so instead of having more tau or more humans I decided to convert these lizard men into tau sept one of the tutorials that I had seen from gubertown hobbies who's another youtuber who does a lot of painting tutorials like secret to making the perfect yellow which is basically undercoating um or white to pink and then a purple and then once you get this certain ink to spray over the top it's like an orange yellow but because inks are very opaque it'll show what's underneath and for some reason pink and yellow have a really good synergy now I was still having some teething issues because once I started painting over the top of it um I realized that the ink would just rub away so then I would need to spray a layer of gloss over the top of the ink to protect it and then I could paint over the top of that and put the wash on uh but yeah I took I took a few tries and some of them have like some pink showing through because I was still learning but they I was pretty happy with those I was starting to get like a tau army that had some humans some lizard men some actual tau um and I was pretty happy with the way it was coming together and then I had another match against death god and he brought morterium and I died like really quick there was like literally nothing I could do I think I'd made another devil fish as well and I'd I'd painted like the tau and numbers on the side of it to say 72 because my friend has a fear of the the number 72 uh but that didn't help uh morterium pretty much tore through everything he went from one squad to the another squad and then destroyed that vehicle and yeah it was just not a good time and at this point I was feeling pretty defeated I you know had spent so much time painting all this tau to have them lose twice and pretty badly at that so it was at this point that I decided I'm actually going to study warhammer and find like good techniques and stuff because I've always been a fan of rts games and strategies and stuff but for some of the reason everything I was doing was rubbish probably because I was spending more time painting than I was strategizing so I decided to turn back to the only army that I had the most units of and the most knowledge of and that was necrons and at this point in ninth edition had dropped and necrons apart from space marines were the only new armies to get codixes which basically meant that everything else you were playing up against was using their old rules which didn't include a lot of cool stuff at that point I was like right let's do necrons um and bring back the night bring it the the cool model with the scythe and everything so we had one battle with that um I also brought like two doom stalker things I didn't manage to get them painted for the day but you know they stood there and they tried to shoot things they didn't do it very well in fact they were very swingy and I don't think they killed anything but the friggin night bringer oh my god he was amazing he managed to like fly all the way across the map uh destroy a whole plague marine squad which was very surprising for my friend and managed to survive with like one health on it or something like that and I actually managed to win my first ever game uh so to celebrate the occasion I was just super excited about and decided to repaint my katana night bringer model but this time I wanted to spend a little bit more time and effort with it and I you know apply some of the more new nuance painting techniques that I've learned and because it killed a lot of things I thought let's bring it to life so it was all green and it's at this point that me McClure decided to start going to the warhammer shop to play you know every week and to do this I would kind of need to have magnets on my things so I so I started the painstaking process of putting magnets on literally everything I had this included the destroyers which had plastic bases so I couldn't even put the regular ones on them I just had to get some magnetic stuff and cut around it with a craft knife and it's at this point I decided to revisit some of the models that I had made in the endometres box now I hadn't finished painting these one of the units was the score pick destroyers and oh my god these things were so OP there's three different types you can get two of them in the same and one has a giant like blade that can cut through anything I think I put like one squad in a battle or something like that and they were just so good so I decided to um I don't even know I think I've got 12 of them now I have so many score picks destroys because they're just so good because you put three then by the time you get to the enemy they're not going to really be many of them left you put a squad of six in I normally find that they can get up to the enemy and do some slicing well you know of course the reanimation protocols means that some of them might come back I sort of copied the box art for the reed blades and stuff they had but for one of the sets I decided to do something a little bit different I think I cut up the arms a little bit to give them a little bit of different poses because they look monotonous when there's 12 of them and because there's only three different model variants you're gonna have four of each of the same type which is bad looking on the tabletop so I had one that had its head like its blade above its head and stuff and they also wanted to give the illusion that they were almost strobing like these weapons weren't just always glowing the same sort of color and shape I also revisited the overlord that came with it with the tachyon arrow and gave his blade like a cool little look to it the plasmanser that also came with it I wanted to give his gem a little bit of a different look rather than everything being green and of course the score pick destroy lord or scorepeck lord destroy whatever you want to call it that thing I've used him a couple times he seems very like a glass cannon as most scorepecks are but we can do some damage you will but I was pretty happy with that instead of making his like rending claws just metal I thought well why don't we just keep going with this hyper phase blade look so I decided to do them and say do royal warden that's it I couldn't remember this guy's name for the life of me here's a cool little technique where things can fall back and shoot but I thought you know he's a cheap HQ maybe I might need him in something so I thought I'd paint him up as well and because I was going back and looking at some other things that I hadn't really finished conoptic sentinels I think they're conoptic sentinels I think there's two variants they're pretty much the same just one has a gun or something just had to paint up the one that I like the pose of the most because these things took forever it took so long to sort of do the the blending onto the black to the green for the shell or the carapace and then to do a highlight on that and oh it took so long but finally even for the legs but it did it and it didn't look too bad and I actually managed to use it in a battle it did a pretty good damage to something I think it actually managed to survive and win me the game oh yeah also I was actually winning a lot of the games that I was having at warhammer and I don't know why that was I think it was just because I think necrons are pretty good a lot of armies were slowly rolling out their codexes at this point so they were getting better and they also finally painted and made I should say the conoptic spider which in the new edition allowed you to like spawn things and it had this cool like ability and stuff however every time I've used it in a battle because it's such a big target and people know that it can just make more scarabs they blow it up instantly I can't blame them but it does mean that made this really nice thing that lasts on the tabletop for two seconds it looks really good on the first round because I was so in love with the scorpic destroyers I just wanted to make a whole destroyer army because I had the locust destroyers and the scorpic destroyers but there was one destroyer that I was kind of missing and that was the aphidian destroyers and the reason why I had so many scorpic destroyers was because me and my friends had split three indomitable boxes two of them were wanting space marines so I had three boxes worth of scorpic destroyers however the aphidian destroyers are in their own separate box and basically each one costs a tenet which actually if I compare it to how much money I've spent in Dressa World alive is nothing so I don't know why I even put up so much of a fight but this is before I did all that with Dressa World Live anyway so I thought I'd buy one box and sort of paint them up and with two of them accidentally left out part of their spine so I've got two midget ones and really one really dull one if only I'd forgotten the third one and then I decided to go back and kind of sort of fix up the two conoptic doomstalkers when I'd first painted them they weren't really done at all but then this time I'd sort of you know had more fun with doing the the green I'd sort of learn how to do the white and then sort of do the tesseract glow and then some other sort of wash on top of it to really give a deeper sort of I don't know realistic look to the glows um I think I almost finished one um but then the other one I just left white uh because I didn't have enough time to do it for the battle but you know they were getting closer and then I decided to just try something completely new you know not go back to something and finish the pile of shame which I probably should have done but we decided to start on a really cool project only someone that I thought was really cool which is the katanshad of the void dragon uh this is really complicated looking because there's a lot of like fiddly spindly parts and it was a bit of a bother to put together but in the end it turned out really good and on it's inaugural like debut when I uh what did I do I had a game against deathguard um it killed two of the bloat drones straight away because it's basically designed to kill vehicles and he was in its first turn it killed two of them and the guy was like uh that's something wrong here shouldn't have been able to do that but if it's any consolation to him he ended up winning the match because he had death shroud terminate that's it and stupidly enough I decided to turn around with some necron warriors and shoot at them and I then I died I should have just kept on running but you know you learn that I know now no longer to go towards death shroud with anything so at this point I was not buying anything new I was like okay I've got as much as I want and I'm good I've got loads still in that whole box of shame that I bought ages ago and one of the things I bought loads of was the box sets for the praetorians and the lich guard however I've never used lich guard and apparently they're supposed to be really good at release they were in eighth they were like an auto included because their shields and bodyguards and stuff so I decided to make some of them um I think one of them didn't have a head I think it fell off because I did it with glue instead of actual uh plastic cement but again with this I wanted their shields to sort of have a glow like not everything is uniform I think the swords I was pretty happy with I was like they can be all the same but I wanted the the shield to look different so this is where I was really just messing about putting on the color in different locations on the shield and then just worrying about the wet blending later so what I realized after doing battles with friends and people at the warhammer workshop was that I didn't have anything that was anti tank I mean I had the two giant doom stalkers they were too swingy and even if you did hit anything there's a chance you would get a one instead of six so it's like you're gonna do nothing even if you do hit but what I realized was there's the new heavy uh locust destroyer and if you put it with the new gun it has like one shot and it's like a 3d3 which is max nine damage which is gonna do a lot of damage to a tank and I made three of those because I could put them in a squad of three or I could just attach them on to a regular locust destroyer squad and these things became like something I'd always take like you you have to take at least one or two just to make sure that you've got something to take on like a big dreadnought or a tank from something else so tau and tiranids at this point were very low on my like to play or even pain list but I've been playing a lot of necrons and my friend who has got deathguard I've been playing a lot against and it always felt like deathguard was super hard to shift or do anything with kind of wanted to start an army of deathguard but at the same time I didn't want to spend loads of time painting I just want to have something that was quick and easy and this is where I discovered this technical thing called rust I don't know who it's by but basically I'd seen some videos on Instagram and YouTube pop up where you basically just paint this thing on and it just gives this really good look like I like something that you know you have to take layers and you know time to make and I thought to myself why don't I just have a whole army of deathguard so I bought some of the the heroes I think they're like little mystery boxes and they give you one like space marine each and I put the rust on and it looked really good and then I decided to just dry brush some metal on and that looked so good I was so happy I couldn't believe my look that I'd found something that was super quick and I felt like I could tune out an army with this I was so happy and then I decided okay let's just do a little bit of a glow on the weapons and that's when I realized that the rust is water soluble it didn't even matter if I put a layer of varnish over the top of it when I came to painting extra details on top everything just turned into this horrible discolored mess that was traumatic so yeah um I ended up having to try to make realistic rust by myself and at this point I was like right okay so I'm just gonna try one model we're not gonna do batching methods we're just gonna try one model and build it up so I watched another tutorial I think with some orc boogies this guy had and I just decided to put that onto a deathguard vehicle and actually it turned out really good it took a very long time and it's still not finished but I was really happy with it and instead of doing like a sort of fleshy skin tone like purples or pinks for the bulges that come out of it I thought why not we have it like it's radioactive the inspiration I used was gears war three when you had the lambant and they were all glowy I thought we'd do the same for these guys then I decided okay right if I can't do everything rusty at least I'll do the vehicles rusty and then I can do the regular space marines in a different color scheme and this is where I decided to go for one of the most complicated paint schemes I think that is in the warhammer universe probably well for me anyway which is the deathguard pallet hand now most deathguard are green and it can look really good but they have another one called the pallet hand which is like a creamy color and I just love it I love when it looks weathered and I see these amazing artists have made it look awesome just ended up following two thin coats guy Duncan he put like a tutorial on how to do pallet hand and I followed that to the T I did a few bits where I you know I experimented a little bit and I tried it on one of the space marines but in the end I was so happy with it it was by far the most complicated mini I'd ever painted but it looked really good I was so happy but by the end I saw doing an army and that man spending all the time painting everything I'd ever done so far and then doing another army in this paint scheme now I'm good I'm just glad I at least tried it so then I did another one I painted one more space because I just wanted to see if I could do it again and this time not following the tutorial and just remember like from memory and doing a little bit extra and then doing a little bit of plasma good probably should have done a different color than yellow on something that's primarily like a cream slash yellow color but you know you gotta you gotta make these mistakes to learn from them so just when I'm happy with the necrons and I've experimented with deathguard tyrannids get their new ninth edition codex released and it is brutal they are so good and it kind of gets me interested in tyrannids again so what do you think we do do you think we go back and finish some of the models we do or do we build new models and you know paint them well actually what we do is we buy new models and then make a whole new paint scheme for them rendering my old paint scheme redundant yay so basically with this one I took what I'd done with the lizard men and that pink tutorial about spraying you know everything pink and then the underbelly a bit darker the top lighter and then spraying the ink over the top of it and I only ended up doing two models for this and I think it was one that I didn't have so at least I can sort of mix and match if I do want to use my own models and that was a carnifex and I think it was the new screamer carnifex or something which basically loads of attack and I thought it turned out really good as well as I think I did the neurothrope which is something again a model I didn't have so you know at least I'm trying not to make more work for myself they did a battle another tyrannid guy and he was really helpful I think tyrannids was the only thing he ever played so he helped me out with a lot of that stuff E1 which is fine because I barely ever played tyrannids and even with the new codex but I did learn a lot which I was more grateful for I'd rather lose and learn than win and not know how I did it and that takes us up to about March 2022 just before I moved to Japan so the question is what army did I bring with me to Japan and the answer is none I didn't bring any of them they're all in storage unfortunately I didn't have enough room to bring them with me and even then I was like well how am I gonna play it and transport and everything really logistics weren't the issue it was just I just didn't have the space for it otherwise I probably would have taken my 12 scoping destroyers and just a regular sort of 2000 army with them in it would have been easy I mean I still have a passion for warhammer but at the moment I'm just now instead of filling my spare time with painting warhammer it's just other things so my passion is still there I just haven't played in a while but you know it is what it is sometimes life gets in the way and sometimes you've got to opportunities the amazing thing about warhammer is that I will have these minis for as long as they're still in one piece I'll probably be dead and these minis will still exist which is a lot more than I can say about microtransactions in app games which is horrendous but anyway guys that is now a two-year journey of painting warhammer going from Dark Souls the board game all the way up to like making almost four armies painting something putting a wash on and that being it to now you know using inks airbrushes enamel paints and washes it's so diverse and challenging there's so many different models the pain there's so many different things to try I honestly love the hobby and I can't wait to you know eventually get back to it so if you've enjoyed this video guys hope you've enjoyed this update I know you've waited long enough for it and I keep seeing comments every now and again about it but hopefully I filled you in and until next time I'll see you duties later oh bye bye