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I'll be honest, and this may be a hot take. I'm happy if I go up against an army that is painted at all. I don't even care if its badly painted at all, just shows to me that someone's time and energy was put into the army, and that they were willing to let that creative process be seen by all.
As someone who started with this kind of army in my teens and exactly those nice people at my FLGS I really want to thank you and the guys from 'The Attic' at around 2012, best way to cling to the hobby 😊
As long as the other person is having fun and isnt trying to feed their ego by stomping casual players with competition lists im down to play with anyone
Here's the thing man. The image at @4:07 may look like a jumbled mess to you, but to me, this looks like a cohesive army. The main theme is black with splashes of color, but together, it fits. That's the thing about army painting, it's about the spectacle of the army, not the fine details. As painters it's hard to resist getting drawn into every little rivet or edge highlight, but as a whole, those details get pushed to the back by our eyes and we just see the main 2 or 3 colors. Spectacular work on this army!
Spite is half the reason I started my Fallen army. At the time, Fallen were barely legal as an army. Existing in this limbo state of technically having rules, but not having enough legal units to fill out a 2000 pt list. So when I saw some old Dark Vengeance marines for cheap on the secondary market, I figured "I'm going to paint them as Fallen, since GW seems to hate them".
One thought for the Outriders is to paint the bikes as if they were horses, with horse spots and marking and all that. Not sure what to do with the marines, but the idea of painting bike cavalry as horse cavalry is a fun one imo.
i think it would be really cool if the bladeguard has really bright shields so it would "confuse' the enemy while looking at them so it would kinda function like blitz from rainbow six siege. Also love the vids keep it up :)
Look up razzle dazzle camo ( used on ships in ww1, interbellum and early WW2) would be really cool to file all details off /give em flat shields and ' edge highlight' the shit out of everything but the actual edges. 😂❤. When your Op thinks he sees an opening and strikes!.... Still your shield. 🎉😂
F-zero and Pokémon got me hooked on gaming back in the early 200’s when I got my first gameboy. You mentioning that game I used to play for countless hours in the back seat of my mums car got me strangely deep in my feels thanks for unearthing that distant memory!
Thank you! I don’t care if my army is only 1/4 done. It’s taken me 8 months to paint what I currently have done, I have put in plenty and enough work in to be proud of my paint jobs. Yes I spent two weeks working on one Terminator Lord, no I am not a lazy newb who doesn’t like half the hobby. I LOVE painting and building far more than rolling dice and tracking monthly balance changes and a garbage meta. I love the Screaming Ravens
with resin you need to first give them a scrub with warm soapy water and a toothbrush because there is a substance on the resin to let it be released from the molds more easily put paint and primer don't stick to it very well.
@@PaulIsBadAtStuff well that’s a shame because I use primarily resin. I wash the pieces after they’re 3-D printed and then I prime them with a quality primer and never have chipping issues.
That tech marine looks really cool! Great job on that. Jokes aside your kitbashing is very ambitious for your first time, but I think you pulled it off wonderfully. The colourful jump packs look very cool.
You know for me personally the fact you painted your entire army makes a world of difference. When I'm playing against someone with a painted army, be it painted like a master or a monkey, it shows to me they put at least a modicum of effort into making their miniatures more than just game pieces. Once you start applying paint to plastic they become _your_ little dudes, be it homebrewed ideas or schemes from the box, no two Marines, Orks, Stormcast, or Tomb Kings look alike (even if it's the same scheme on the same model by the nature of painting) and that makes it special.
Honestly, if you're getting Blade guard, you've got a great option for splashes of color. Their gauntlets all have a detail on them that can bear a colored metallic shade very nicely, and any model with a crotch tabard is perfect for adding color while keeping your scheme the same. So Sternguard, Blade guard make for great models to have alternating colors on. Plus all the blade guard have iron Halo's as well, so there's opportunity there too!
It's taken me nearly 7 months to paint a standard color 1k army and I've spent WAY too much time learning and practicing 'glowy metal' techniques. I think 3 years is a pretty decent amount of time spent on a custom army. The F-Zero X inspiration is really cool and I like the motto 'If everything is loud, then nothing is'. Cheers and have a Merry Christmas! Will look forward to your 2025 showcase of running up the board too much!
I think that this is the best custom chapter The style The message it sends It's just amazing And the scheme is really great Some might say that the various range of colours doesn't fit the overall aesthetic of a classic type space marine But man the colours make those units look crispy And they're black And that's the thing to makes them interesting Because I don't say it's bad how most of the black space marines are painted But what makes black armor stands out? The other colours that make it look more vibrant more eyes catching than just plain
I just like the creativity of the army. In fact creativity is one of my favorite parts of the hobby and I always enjoy see what people come up with. When I try to get people into the hobby its one of my selling points, that you can mold these models in any way you want. Personally I'm always trying to come with unique schemes for each of my armies. Do they turn out perfect all the time? No but their my little pieces of art.
I like your idea of stealth. It kinda reminds me of this version of stealth I have. I call it heavy stealth. No one can say that they saw because there are no witnesses.
I just painted my first ever model yesterday and im super happy to see that the mistakes i made are pretty common lol Definitely nice seeing other people still struggle with the same ofdities. Your inverted colors idea tho was the coolest in my opinion since the result actually came out like you imagined it! Paul is creative at stuff
Neat tip, if you have a leaf shaped metal sculpting tool you can use it in place of a drill to easily create a barrel. It doesn't make it particularly deep but some black paint sorts that out and it works really quickly for batches.
I really like the OSL for that Thunder Hammer. Also I almost never bothered to drill gun barrels when I had my CSM, so I understand the lack of desire to do that.
I think you should do for the people with bikes is they have bikes just so they can get to the area faster without wasting the jet packs and they have like Mayway weapons in range, but they have jet packs so like when they are close enough, they jump off the bikes and it goes into like a tank and then they just and then they just jump into infantry
Hey, I really enjoyed this video. I hope that they continue as you finish units. I really like the idea of you going over your work and it helps me learn as well. Valuable content.
the "im not your mum" big was so fucking funny dude, i was watching at lunch break at work and was not expecting it at all. love your videos man, these are so inspirational and i have loved seeing the Screaming Ravens evolve and come to be
It's really interesting to see the thought processes that go into another person's model/unit choices and paint scheme. It cherainly helps me think of what i can do to improve. If you're looking for kitbash ideas, I've seen some cool ones with Grey Knight Terminator Spears on Bladeguard. And maybe a weapon from the old Sanguinary Guard kit for the Judiciar, if not another polearm? They've always seemed pretty sick looking, especially that twin headed axe. Just my two cents.
What a great video to cap off the year! I'm happy to see another of these "hobby vlog" style videos again. Since I always loved the older vids you made chronicling your hobby journey, reflecting on lessons learned through your models and what you hope to do going forward. Great stuff! My favorite bit had to be the "Procrastination Void", because it really got me not just from the comedy, but also because I've been in such hobby slumps before and am currently in the midst of the worst hobby slump I've ever experienced so far in my hobby lifetime. . . On a different note, I agree with most of your points here about mistakes and places to improve with your painting. ESPECIALLY thinning that white on your Lieutenant. If youre going to paint Knights Excelsior thinning out your whites and off-greys properly is *essentail* to making them look good. However, one point I'd pushback on is painting Resin. Because when it comes to regular resin minis, you NEED to wash them in a basin of war, soapy water before you can prime/paint them, otherwise they will chip due to the residue of a chemical agent let on the model that helps free their parts from the mould. Now Ive never painted a 3D printed resin model before, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. If you don't need to scrub them down, thats fine, but I have a suspicion that might be why they're chipping. Either that, or because need to be varnished and your hand oils are just eroding the paint more quickly on these than your others. Which is also possible. Now, as for themes for the next batch of Screaming Ravens models. I REALLY want to see you theme the Outriders after the main trio of Kamen Rider Gotchard. This would be a deeo cut reference, but, the number 3 is a consistent, important theme in that show, and I think that you could do some *very* cool and interesting paintjobs or kitbashes themed around its core cast of characters and their suits. If not, any 3 Kamen Rider suit designs you just like the look of or think are cool would work as well. Since every main character of this franchise has a uniqe motorbike that they ride. For the Judiciar amd Bladeguard, I'm pretty sure I left an idea for it either on a prior video or community post, but instead of finding it and doing a copypasta, I'm going to come up with a new idea. For the Judiciar, I have an idea, it's a bit out there and would require a TON of kitbashing effort, but it would add SO much texture to the lore of your Chapter. So, for regular Marines, a Judiciar is sworn to silence until they become a formal Chaplain. What if, the Screaming Ravens' take that idea a step further? Their Judiciars are forebidden from using their unique sign language until they are made Chaplain, and to ensire that they don't break this solemn vow, the Judiciars have Tech-Priests remove their hands and replace them with basic clamps, or holders for their weapons, and only once they become Chaplain do they get bionic hands from the Mechanicus that they can use to communicate with the Chapter's Sign Language once again. If that's a bit too far out there, I'd understand. An alternative idea could be that you make the Judiciar a reference to the Heroe's Shade from Twilight Princess, but maybe that's something to save for a "real" Chaplain. As for the Bladeguard, you could go for the main trio of Gotchard if you don't do that for the Outriders. But that's too obvious. So, here's another crazy kitbashing idea, make the faces of their shields into screens that flash crazy, seizure-inducing colors at their enemies, while the armor of the Veterans themselves is just in the Chapter's basic colors. Or maybe paint them with a sort of reflective chrome paint and turn then into literal MIRROR shields, to confuse the enemy or force the filthy Heretics to look at the monsters they have become. For the Jump-Pack Intercessors, make the main 4 themed in some way after tha cardinal directions of a compass, then have the unit Sargent be the metaphorical "needle" of the compass, pointing the other memebers in the direction they need to strike. That one is a bit open-ended, but that I think is the beauty of it, you can interpret how you theme each model after a unique direction according to your own artistic vision, instead of having to capture the look of a thing that already exists. That all being said however. How DARE you try to rewrite History and leave the Desolation Squad out of your inspiration for this Chapter Paul?!?!?!?!?!???? It was part of the very first video you made that mentioned the Screaming Ravens! This injustice will not stand! In all seriousness, great job! Here's to bigger and better things in 2025 for all of our armies. I can't wait to see what you come up with next!😁👍
The lack of hands ideas is a really cool idea. I dunno if I'd go as far as to remove the hands but not allowing sign language makes sense in some way (hands chained to weapon?) Or do the opposite because we like to do things right in front of the codex Astartes - Judiciars have to be constantly making noise lmao
@PaulIsBadAtStuff Hands chained to the weapon is a good idea. But it's also a Black Templar thing. Maybe I mentioned that already though. Although I love the idea of them having to ALWAYS make noise, so they have the equivalent of a One Man Band setup with drums and horns and other instruments covering their body. That'd be hilarious ngl.
Starting with a cool model is actually in my opinion the best way to pick an army in particular, then focusing on it. I entered 40k knowing I wanted to play Space Marines but not knowing which chapter. The first box I ever bought was Hellblasters on recommendation from the shop owner when I asked for a model whose shooting profile was "good at everything", this was back in 9th when Hellblasters were bad. I soon became attracted to the Dark Angels absurd quantities of plasma and the rest is history, since starting 3 years ago I now have 8000 pts of Dark Angels.
This is the first video of yours I've come across, and I really like the overall effect of your armies "cohesive incohesion". The various splashes of color looks good on the base black and silver. The as combined effect the whole things remind me of those big shot of Power Rangers/Super Sentai season crossovers where you get to see all the teams pose together in all their glory. Only thing it's missing is an inexplicable pyrotechnics explosion in the background.
I do have an idea for your bladeguard vets. make them Jedi/Sith they already look super cool and your army scheme really opens up options to make their "Lightsabers" pop. For your outriders (forever my beloved) maybe go with a Hells angels/biker gang style. Also I HIGHLY reccomend the bike chaplain as he makes the outriders go from good to low tier gods. Hope you like these ideas as I am a big fan of your stuff and I hope things get better for you next year!
I can totally imagine some cabalite warriors wanders through a dark and silent forest, one stops, thinking they heard something, after a long moment they sigh and move on right as everything explodes! There's screeching from every direction, the sound and heat of a melta bomb vaporising your friends in front of you, the roar and rip of chainswords around you harmonizing with the hammering of bolt fire in your head. Your senses are completely overwhelmed to the point where you can't distinguish anything in your surroundings. the fight is every where and its moving to fast for you to pick out any targets. When you focus your mind and draw your sidearm, you noticing the warriors that snuck up on you, not nimble live warriors with small quick daggers, but behemoths of metal and death that have snuck up to you. You look down upon the massive gun slung underneath one of it's arms, two barrel half a foot wide point directly at you. Your last though; "These barrels ain't even drilled!"
If you want a squad idea for those Jump pack intercessors, since there's 5 of them, you can look to any number of 5 man squads from across media. What about each of their jump packs being coloured after the 5 Voltron lions? Your stuff looks badass as always.
I love the whole idea of, If everything is loud nothing is. for the bladeguard I suggest painting the helmet, pauldrons and the outline of the shield the same colour. I did that with my blood angel bladeguard (gold) and it looked really cool in my opinion.
For your jump pack unit(s?), consider the Horus heresy box. It's 10 guys instead of 5 and they're cool beaky marines! 😊 Unless you prefer the primaris ones ofc. Go with what looks cooler to you. 👍 ( I play alpha legion, depending on mood I run the marine or the csm codex, and for me the Horus heresy jump pack assault marines work great as either intercessors or raptors. 😅😊🎉) Also, agreed kayvaan shrike/ alpharius cosplaying as him, is a great& fun character. And I LOVE his phobos keyword, fantastic in the vanguard detachment.
hey paul as someone who does a lot of dry brushing i can highly recomand a makup brush yes just a makeup brush becuase the brislles are very soft that paint applys very lightly to the model giving a very uttly beatiful effect if you want i can send you some pics on discord of what im talking about!!
dide i think this is amazing, my personal favorite is the inverted colors guy that is so SICK!! i love that and the idea is so unique and really well done in my opinion
the paint job is good. for your upcoming models I would suggest flames for the outriders but in a more blue and purple style instead of red and yellow. Idk about the other models. I think you faction theme is cool and has a lot more freedom than mine(i went with Iron Ravens which is also successor raven guard). As for your comment on gun barrels, I prefer to drill mine but I dont care what others do to their models so yeah. nice vid
Well,about “cohesion”… Horus heresy Death Guard player here,I have almost 3k points of an army and every marine,vehicle are different shades of bone color and green because I often switch my colors recipe. And they also walk on different bases bc I forgot how to make specific shade of crimson that I used. Fixed this problem by just applying different company markings on every unit,like:I have my older marines with old recipe attached to the 6 company and new ones to the 8 company. And all is left to do is to paint up a mini that mush both bases schemes together,so its looks like my army walking true cool double-colored location. Just wanted to share this Idea if you ever gonna have trouble with cohesion like I do
Don't worry about the colors. All my Tyranid models have a unique paint job down to the spore mine. It looks like someone barfed Skittles on the table, but I never get bored painting.
I like the vibe of this chapter I am painting my guys in official colors (Salamanders for SM and THA for leagues of votann). but this seems like a very cool way of doing it ngl lol As for the ideas, throwing some stuff into the ether: - For bladeguard, how about giving every bladeguard a different weapon? Technically what they use is "Master-crafted power weapon". It uses to be "power sword" in 9e, but now it's "power weapon". Could give every bladeguard vet a different weapon. Claws if you have spare from previous boxes, maybe some weapons from upgrade sprues? Salamander's have power hammer, dark angel has some nice looking runic sword, blood angels have some simpler power swords. - for bikes, maybe sonic characters? You know gotta go fast. Blue for sonic, red for knuckles, orange for tails, pink-red for Amy, black-red-white for shadow and red black yellow for eggman? Or take the emeralds colors? White, red, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple? Tho that's just giving them one colors I guess lol. Tho I guess bikes could be painted in the color of an emerald and the marine in a colors of sonic characters
Love this army, especially the cohesive incohesion. More people should consider this. Hopefully I'll get the opportunity to be put down by some Screaming Ravens at the event in February. Have a good Christmas, can't wait to see what comes next year!
My space marine armies are specific chapters, imperial fists blood angels and a small force of space wolves. But I agree even in that I don’t go with speed painting techniques with contrast and the like. It’s a process to buy a kit, build and paint it and slowly add to a force. The speed of contrast paint is good for beginners but I would see the tournament players GW is trying to aim toward as being the ones that will hammer out units just to play. This missing the best part of taking time getting a unit done and seeing it on the board looking good. Granted using the older method I can finish a unit in a week or two, depending on work and life schedule. The only shortcut I use is washes aka shades, they are good ole quick and dirty tricks to make models look good. Liquid talent as it was always called lol.
For some squad / model ideas: Maybe you could take some inspiration from bionicle for the outriders? For example basing them on the Toa Mata and dividing the squads into the ones representing Gali, Lewa and Kopaka (squad Wairuha) and Tahu, Pohatu and Onua (squad Akamai) named after the combination models of the sets. The jump pack intercessors could be based on the main mobile suits from gundam wing maybe replacing the backpacks with some conversion parts. And maybe since Judiciars are sworn to silence give him a giant boombox?
Great Video, love your content! (Also: I think your Kayvaan Shrike is way cooler than the Techmarine by the Steve the Smug...) Paint scheme idea: For the outriders you could do the legendary birds with 3 different small free-hands (one flames, one snowflakes, one lightning)!
As someone who began model building/painting NASCAR and IMSA race cars, I find It kind of funny when warhammer guys say “I hate transfer sheets” but they can free hand chapter logos. Decals/transfers are so much easier lol. That’s all I use to do was decals. 100s per car. And I found them to be the easiest part of the whole build.
Yo, you can do either the shields or the blades on the blade guard as different metals. Different forms of power swords. One with eh crystal pattern, one more magma 'y and one traditional with the lightning effect and stuff.
That inverted Lieutenant is really wild. Wish I could do the same for my T'au, but my army is a drab green over gray (with red, silver and gold accents) and inverting an image of one just turns it white. Maybe I just need a better camera...
13:40 It may be me under the ''I REGRET my Custom Space Marine Paint Scheme'', But I do believe that a lot of people may have made similar comments on youtube or discord
You should try some custom poses for the outriders! Maybe one popping a wheelie, another doing a very original nod to akira perhaps, or whatever other ideas could work. Maybe one is standing on the bike instead or riding it normally
To me, the Judiciar model has always had a menacing, final boss aura to it. I'd recommend having the parts that are homages reflect that. Like maybe Gannon from Ocarina of Time, or may be even Dracula from Castlevania if you can find a good head swap
Noble team as a theme or the home nation colours of the UK! (Maybe even include Eire as its the only country we share a border with, excluding overseas territories)
For the jump intercessors, I like the idea of a Super Mario theme in honour of the great Jumpman himself. Focussing the colours on the boots and helmets?
For the Judiciar it would be pretty cool if you replaced the time glass thing, with like a soda or something. Can you imagine an emo space marine with a skull helmet carrying around a massive jug of Mountain Dew, that would be rather peak imo.
See if you can find some cool flags/banners for the back of the outrider bikes - if you wanted to really n64 it up you could do something to represent mario cart racers on each banner, even if its just colours
16:14 get 30k MKVI assult squad instead, u get beaky helmets, aaand the kit is 10minis for the price of 5 40k assults. they still have the same shaped veapons. probably fit in better with your Screaming ravens imo :)
My successor chapter is the void ravens, black and dark purple with bright purple highlights and dark sulver trim. Purple eyes. My chapter master rides on a giant raven, wish i could show it
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Merry End of 2024! This is the last video of the year, and I just wanted to say thanks for all the support! Hope you have a great holiday season and happy new year. See you in 2025!
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Hey Paul you should do a squad of persona users
Dude, great job getting it done
Your army looks amazing.
wow, that techmarine
Definitely the only good miniature in the lot 😉
We can feel the Steve's smug smirks.
Just a reminder that Devastator Centurions exist
I'll be honest, and this may be a hot take. I'm happy if I go up against an army that is painted at all. I don't even care if its badly painted at all, just shows to me that someone's time and energy was put into the army, and that they were willing to let that creative process be seen by all.
How is that a hot take? Those are genuinely kind words you just spoke
Because I am said person with the poorly painted army. You'll certainly notice it, but to call it appealing is...something else entirdly.
As someone who started with this kind of army in my teens and exactly those nice people at my FLGS I really want to thank you and the guys from 'The Attic' at around 2012, best way to cling to the hobby 😊
Badly painted miniatures are ok to me because my friend is new to painting miniatures I am used to seeing that
As long as the other person is having fun and isnt trying to feed their ego by stomping casual players with competition lists im down to play with anyone
Man I love that original Screaming Raven model. Glad it inspired a whole army
Devastator Centurions exist and are better than any of the units you like.
Did you know that Centurion Devastators exist?
Hello ? Excuse me ? Yes, you ! Have you ever heard of Devastator Centurions ?
I’ve been summoned to remind you of the devastator centurions
@@PaulIsBadAtStuff I prefer Allarus Terminators.
Here's the thing man. The image at @4:07 may look like a jumbled mess to you, but to me, this looks like a cohesive army. The main theme is black with splashes of color, but together, it fits. That's the thing about army painting, it's about the spectacle of the army, not the fine details. As painters it's hard to resist getting drawn into every little rivet or edge highlight, but as a whole, those details get pushed to the back by our eyes and we just see the main 2 or 3 colors. Spectacular work on this army!
Spite is a powerful motivator, "I'll show them" great for getting something done
Spite is half the reason I started my Fallen army. At the time, Fallen were barely legal as an army. Existing in this limbo state of technically having rules, but not having enough legal units to fill out a 2000 pt list. So when I saw some old Dark Vengeance marines for cheap on the secondary market, I figured "I'm going to paint them as Fallen, since GW seems to hate them".
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
I'm stealing this. If nothing else, you have made me possibly a little but happier.
Another good is: never compare yourself to anyone else, you'll only end up envious or vain.
One thought for the Outriders is to paint the bikes as if they were horses, with horse spots and marking and all that. Not sure what to do with the marines, but the idea of painting bike cavalry as horse cavalry is a fun one imo.
i think it would be really cool if the bladeguard has really bright shields so it would "confuse' the enemy while looking at them so it would kinda function like blitz from rainbow six siege. Also love the vids keep it up :)
Maybe kitbash some spotlights or strobes to the front of the shield? That’d be cool!
Look up razzle dazzle camo ( used on ships in ww1, interbellum and early WW2) would be really cool to file all details off /give em flat shields and ' edge highlight' the shit out of everything but the actual edges. 😂❤. When your Op thinks he sees an opening and strikes!.... Still your shield. 🎉😂
F-zero and Pokémon got me hooked on gaming back in the early 200’s when I got my first gameboy. You mentioning that game I used to play for countless hours in the back seat of my mums car got me strangely deep in my feels thanks for unearthing that distant memory!
Thank you! I don’t care if my army is only 1/4 done. It’s taken me 8 months to paint what I currently have done, I have put in plenty and enough work in to be proud of my paint jobs. Yes I spent two weeks working on one Terminator Lord, no I am not a lazy newb who doesn’t like half the hobby. I LOVE painting and building far more than rolling dice and tracking monthly balance changes and a garbage meta. I love the Screaming Ravens
with resin you need to first give them a scrub with warm soapy water and a toothbrush because there is a substance on the resin to let it be released from the molds more easily put paint and primer don't stick to it very well.
Thanks. Yeah I've learned that for the future, but I've not used any resin since 👍
@@PaulIsBadAtStuff well that’s a shame because I use primarily resin. I wash the pieces after they’re 3-D printed and then I prime them with a quality primer and never have chipping issues.
@@Rex73777i get it tho its just so much more brittle that gw's plastic
That tech marine looks really cool!
Great job on that.
Jokes aside your kitbashing is very ambitious for your first time, but I think you pulled it off wonderfully. The colourful jump packs look very cool.
11:04 that is genuinely one of the cooler paint scheme concepts I've seen
You know for me personally the fact you painted your entire army makes a world of difference. When I'm playing against someone with a painted army, be it painted like a master or a monkey, it shows to me they put at least a modicum of effort into making their miniatures more than just game pieces. Once you start applying paint to plastic they become _your_ little dudes, be it homebrewed ideas or schemes from the box, no two Marines, Orks, Stormcast, or Tomb Kings look alike (even if it's the same scheme on the same model by the nature of painting) and that makes it special.
More centrions needed
Honestly, if you're getting Blade guard, you've got a great option for splashes of color. Their gauntlets all have a detail on them that can bear a colored metallic shade very nicely, and any model with a crotch tabard is perfect for adding color while keeping your scheme the same. So Sternguard, Blade guard make for great models to have alternating colors on. Plus all the blade guard have iron Halo's as well, so there's opportunity there too!
It's taken me nearly 7 months to paint a standard color 1k army and I've spent WAY too much time learning and practicing 'glowy metal' techniques. I think 3 years is a pretty decent amount of time spent on a custom army. The F-Zero X inspiration is really cool and I like the motto 'If everything is loud, then nothing is'.
Cheers and have a Merry Christmas! Will look forward to your 2025 showcase of running up the board too much!
I think that this is the best custom chapter
The style
The message it sends
It's just amazing
And the scheme is really great
Some might say that the various range of colours doesn't fit the overall aesthetic of a classic type space marine
But man the colours make those units look crispy
And they're black
And that's the thing to makes them interesting
Because I don't say it's bad how most of the black space marines are painted
But what makes black armor stands out?
The other colours that make it look more vibrant more eyes catching than just plain
I just like the creativity of the army. In fact creativity is one of my favorite parts of the hobby and I always enjoy see what people come up with. When I try to get people into the hobby its one of my selling points, that you can mold these models in any way you want. Personally I'm always trying to come with unique schemes for each of my armies. Do they turn out perfect all the time? No but their my little pieces of art.
I like your idea of stealth. It kinda reminds me of this version of stealth I have. I call it heavy stealth. No one can say that they saw because there are no witnesses.
Congrats!
I still haven’t finished my 2000 pts space marine army in over 3 years so it is nice seeing a fully painting army.
YAY, screaming ravens video. woooooo
I just painted my first ever model yesterday and im super happy to see that the mistakes i made are pretty common lol Definitely nice seeing other people still struggle with the same ofdities. Your inverted colors idea tho was the coolest in my opinion since the result actually came out like you imagined it! Paul is creative at stuff
@16:30 😅 I spent a few hours drilling storm bolters (...and assault cannons) on 30 terminators last night.
I spent a few hours drilling ur m- (my lawyers have told me not to continue this joke)
Drilling gun barrels does look cool but I'm very lazy
Neat tip, if you have a leaf shaped metal sculpting tool you can use it in place of a drill to easily create a barrel. It doesn't make it particularly deep but some black paint sorts that out and it works really quickly for batches.
I really like the OSL for that Thunder Hammer. Also I almost never bothered to drill gun barrels when I had my CSM, so I understand the lack of desire to do that.
I like your little dudes Paul. I enjoy watching people talk about their armies and inspirations so this has been very enjoyable. Thank you.
I think you should do for the people with bikes is they have bikes just so they can get to the area faster without wasting the jet packs and they have like Mayway weapons in range, but they have jet packs so like when they are close enough, they jump off the bikes and it goes into like a tank and then they just and then they just jump into infantry
Its so cool, congratulations on completing this project !
Hey,
I really enjoyed this video. I hope that they continue as you finish units. I really like the idea of you going over your work and it helps me learn as well.
Valuable content.
the "im not your mum" big was so fucking funny dude, i was watching at lunch break at work and was not expecting it at all.
love your videos man, these are so inspirational and i have loved seeing the Screaming Ravens evolve and come to be
It's really interesting to see the thought processes that go into another person's model/unit choices and paint scheme. It cherainly helps me think of what i can do to improve.
If you're looking for kitbash ideas, I've seen some cool ones with Grey Knight Terminator Spears on Bladeguard. And maybe a weapon from the old Sanguinary Guard kit for the Judiciar, if not another polearm? They've always seemed pretty sick looking, especially that twin headed axe. Just my two cents.
What a great video to cap off the year! I'm happy to see another of these "hobby vlog" style videos again. Since I always loved the older vids you made chronicling your hobby journey, reflecting on lessons learned through your models and what you hope to do going forward. Great stuff! My favorite bit had to be the "Procrastination Void", because it really got me not just from the comedy, but also because I've been in such hobby slumps before and am currently in the midst of the worst hobby slump I've ever experienced so far in my hobby lifetime. . .
On a different note, I agree with most of your points here about mistakes and places to improve with your painting. ESPECIALLY thinning that white on your Lieutenant. If youre going to paint Knights Excelsior thinning out your whites and off-greys properly is *essentail* to making them look good. However, one point I'd pushback on is painting Resin. Because when it comes to regular resin minis, you NEED to wash them in a basin of war, soapy water before you can prime/paint them, otherwise they will chip due to the residue of a chemical agent let on the model that helps free their parts from the mould. Now Ive never painted a 3D printed resin model before, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. If you don't need to scrub them down, thats fine, but I have a suspicion that might be why they're chipping. Either that, or because need to be varnished and your hand oils are just eroding the paint more quickly on these than your others. Which is also possible.
Now, as for themes for the next batch of Screaming Ravens models. I REALLY want to see you theme the Outriders after the main trio of Kamen Rider Gotchard. This would be a deeo cut reference, but, the number 3 is a consistent, important theme in that show, and I think that you could do some *very* cool and interesting paintjobs or kitbashes themed around its core cast of characters and their suits. If not, any 3 Kamen Rider suit designs you just like the look of or think are cool would work as well. Since every main character of this franchise has a uniqe motorbike that they ride.
For the Judiciar amd Bladeguard, I'm pretty sure I left an idea for it either on a prior video or community post, but instead of finding it and doing a copypasta, I'm going to come up with a new idea. For the Judiciar, I have an idea, it's a bit out there and would require a TON of kitbashing effort, but it would add SO much texture to the lore of your Chapter. So, for regular Marines, a Judiciar is sworn to silence until they become a formal Chaplain. What if, the Screaming Ravens' take that idea a step further? Their Judiciars are forebidden from using their unique sign language until they are made Chaplain, and to ensire that they don't break this solemn vow, the Judiciars have Tech-Priests remove their hands and replace them with basic clamps, or holders for their weapons, and only once they become Chaplain do they get bionic hands from the Mechanicus that they can use to communicate with the Chapter's Sign Language once again. If that's a bit too far out there, I'd understand. An alternative idea could be that you make the Judiciar a reference to the Heroe's Shade from Twilight Princess, but maybe that's something to save for a "real" Chaplain. As for the Bladeguard, you could go for the main trio of Gotchard if you don't do that for the Outriders. But that's too obvious. So, here's another crazy kitbashing idea, make the faces of their shields into screens that flash crazy, seizure-inducing colors at their enemies, while the armor of the Veterans themselves is just in the Chapter's basic colors. Or maybe paint them with a sort of reflective chrome paint and turn then into literal MIRROR shields, to confuse the enemy or force the filthy Heretics to look at the monsters they have become.
For the Jump-Pack Intercessors, make the main 4 themed in some way after tha cardinal directions of a compass, then have the unit Sargent be the metaphorical "needle" of the compass, pointing the other memebers in the direction they need to strike. That one is a bit open-ended, but that I think is the beauty of it, you can interpret how you theme each model after a unique direction according to your own artistic vision, instead of having to capture the look of a thing that already exists.
That all being said however. How DARE you try to rewrite History and leave the Desolation Squad out of your inspiration for this Chapter Paul?!?!?!?!?!???? It was part of the very first video you made that mentioned the Screaming Ravens! This injustice will not stand!
In all seriousness, great job! Here's to bigger and better things in 2025 for all of our armies. I can't wait to see what you come up with next!😁👍
The lack of hands ideas is a really cool idea. I dunno if I'd go as far as to remove the hands but not allowing sign language makes sense in some way (hands chained to weapon?)
Or do the opposite because we like to do things right in front of the codex Astartes - Judiciars have to be constantly making noise lmao
@PaulIsBadAtStuff Hands chained to the weapon is a good idea. But it's also a Black Templar thing. Maybe I mentioned that already though. Although I love the idea of them having to ALWAYS make noise, so they have the equivalent of a One Man Band setup with drums and horns and other instruments covering their body. That'd be hilarious ngl.
the idea of the inverse raven is so cool! :3
Nice Techmarine!
Starting with a cool model is actually in my opinion the best way to pick an army in particular, then focusing on it.
I entered 40k knowing I wanted to play Space Marines but not knowing which chapter. The first box I ever bought was Hellblasters on recommendation from the shop owner when I asked for a model whose shooting profile was "good at everything", this was back in 9th when Hellblasters were bad. I soon became attracted to the Dark Angels absurd quantities of plasma and the rest is history, since starting 3 years ago I now have 8000 pts of Dark Angels.
That outrider kit is a nightmare brought from hell to assemble correctly be carefiul paul
This is the first video of yours I've come across, and I really like the overall effect of your armies "cohesive incohesion". The various splashes of color looks good on the base black and silver.
The as combined effect the whole things remind me of those big shot of Power Rangers/Super Sentai season crossovers where you get to see all the teams pose together in all their glory. Only thing it's missing is an inexplicable pyrotechnics explosion in the background.
I do have an idea for your bladeguard vets. make them Jedi/Sith they already look super cool and your army scheme really opens up options to make their "Lightsabers" pop.
For your outriders (forever my beloved) maybe go with a Hells angels/biker gang style. Also I HIGHLY reccomend the bike chaplain as he makes the outriders go from good to low tier gods.
Hope you like these ideas as I am a big fan of your stuff and I hope things get better for you next year!
I can totally imagine some cabalite warriors wanders through a dark and silent forest, one stops, thinking they heard something, after a long moment they sigh and move on right as everything explodes! There's screeching from every direction, the sound and heat of a melta bomb vaporising your friends in front of you, the roar and rip of chainswords around you harmonizing with the hammering of bolt fire in your head. Your senses are completely overwhelmed to the point where you can't distinguish anything in your surroundings. the fight is every where and its moving to fast for you to pick out any targets. When you focus your mind and draw your sidearm, you noticing the warriors that snuck up on you, not nimble live warriors with small quick daggers, but behemoths of metal and death that have snuck up to you. You look down upon the massive gun slung underneath one of it's arms, two barrel half a foot wide point directly at you. Your last though; "These barrels ain't even drilled!"
Really beautiful work! This is such a fun color scheme. It's a real joy to look at. Also, the color inverted leftenant is bad ass
No notes, Conggratulations on your finished army!!!!! I got 4 models short to finish mine this year TT
If you want a squad idea for those Jump pack intercessors, since there's 5 of them, you can look to any number of 5 man squads from across media. What about each of their jump packs being coloured after the 5 Voltron lions?
Your stuff looks badass as always.
you should put giant speakers on the dreadnoughts to go with if everything is loud then nothin is theme
I love the whole idea of, If everything is loud nothing is. for the bladeguard I suggest painting the helmet, pauldrons and the outline of the shield the same colour. I did that with my blood angel bladeguard (gold) and it looked really cool in my opinion.
I am very thankful for you leaving a playlist of the music you used!
For your jump pack unit(s?), consider the Horus heresy box. It's 10 guys instead of 5 and they're cool beaky marines! 😊 Unless you prefer the primaris ones ofc. Go with what looks cooler to you. 👍
( I play alpha legion, depending on mood I run the marine or the csm codex, and for me the Horus heresy jump pack assault marines work great as either intercessors or raptors. 😅😊🎉)
Also, agreed kayvaan shrike/ alpharius cosplaying as him, is a great& fun character.
And I LOVE his phobos keyword, fantastic in the vanguard detachment.
They look great, mate. You ought to feel proud.
hey paul as someone who does a lot of dry brushing i can highly recomand a makup brush yes just a makeup brush becuase the brislles are very soft that paint applys very lightly to the model giving a very uttly beatiful effect if you want i can send you some pics on discord of what im talking about!!
dide i think this is amazing, my personal favorite is the inverted colors guy that is so SICK!! i love that and the idea is so unique and really well done in my opinion
Paul is good at communicating his enthusiasm for things.
Ey' that was me! Good show!
Congratulations on slaying the grey! Very noice!
gorgeous - merry christmas paul
the paint job is good. for your upcoming models I would suggest flames for the outriders but in a more blue and purple style instead of red and yellow. Idk about the other models. I think you faction theme is cool and has a lot more freedom than mine(i went with Iron Ravens which is also successor raven guard). As for your comment on gun barrels, I prefer to drill mine but I dont care what others do to their models so yeah. nice vid
Your music choices are stellar. Haven't heard Jet Force Gemini in years.
Well,about “cohesion”…
Horus heresy Death Guard player here,I have almost 3k points of an army and every marine,vehicle are different shades of bone color and green because I often switch my colors recipe. And they also walk on different bases bc I forgot how to make specific shade of crimson that I used. Fixed this problem by just applying different company markings on every unit,like:I have my older marines with old recipe attached to the 6 company and new ones to the 8 company. And all is left to do is to paint up a mini that mush both bases schemes together,so its looks like my army walking true cool double-colored location.
Just wanted to share this Idea if you ever gonna have trouble with cohesion like I do
Don't worry about the colors. All my Tyranid models have a unique paint job down to the spore mine. It looks like someone barfed Skittles on the table, but I never get bored painting.
I like the vibe of this chapter
I am painting my guys in official colors (Salamanders for SM and THA for leagues of votann). but this seems like a very cool way of doing it ngl lol
As for the ideas, throwing some stuff into the ether:
- For bladeguard, how about giving every bladeguard a different weapon? Technically what they use is "Master-crafted power weapon". It uses to be "power sword" in 9e, but now it's "power weapon". Could give every bladeguard vet a different weapon. Claws if you have spare from previous boxes, maybe some weapons from upgrade sprues? Salamander's have power hammer, dark angel has some nice looking runic sword, blood angels have some simpler power swords.
- for bikes, maybe sonic characters? You know gotta go fast. Blue for sonic, red for knuckles, orange for tails, pink-red for Amy, black-red-white for shadow and red black yellow for eggman? Or take the emeralds colors? White, red, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple? Tho that's just giving them one colors I guess lol. Tho I guess bikes could be painted in the color of an emerald and the marine in a colors of sonic characters
Love this army, especially the cohesive incohesion. More people should consider this. Hopefully I'll get the opportunity to be put down by some Screaming Ravens at the event in February. Have a good Christmas, can't wait to see what comes next year!
I love how colorful it is
Cool army dude love the theme, a Russel Crow themed captain wouldn't go a miss
Should do Reivers inspired by Mystical Ninja characters.
I absolutely love this vid I love seeing into peoples armies and what and how and why they did it
Ghost Rider for the Outriders would be... hot.
you should do a squad of 5 with a mmrp theme like the 6 devastator centurions
0:04 TOP DOLLAR!!
My space marine armies are specific chapters, imperial fists blood angels and a small force of space wolves.
But I agree even in that I don’t go with speed painting techniques with contrast and the like. It’s a process to buy a kit, build and paint it and slowly add to a force.
The speed of contrast paint is good for beginners but I would see the tournament players GW is trying to aim toward as being the ones that will hammer out units just to play.
This missing the best part of taking time getting a unit done and seeing it on the board looking good. Granted using the older method I can finish a unit in a week or two, depending on work and life schedule. The only shortcut I use is washes aka shades, they are good ole quick and dirty tricks to make models look good. Liquid talent as it was always called lol.
Love the paintjob of the techmarine!
That's a wonderfully painted techmarine.
For some squad / model ideas:
Maybe you could take some inspiration from bionicle for the outriders? For example basing them on the Toa Mata and dividing the squads into the ones representing Gali, Lewa and Kopaka (squad Wairuha) and Tahu, Pohatu and Onua (squad Akamai) named after the combination models of the sets.
The jump pack intercessors could be based on the main mobile suits from gundam wing maybe replacing the backpacks with some conversion parts.
And maybe since Judiciars are sworn to silence give him a giant boombox?
Great Video, love your content! (Also: I think your Kayvaan Shrike is way cooler than the Techmarine by the Steve the Smug...)
Paint scheme idea: For the outriders you could do the legendary birds with 3 different small free-hands (one flames, one snowflakes, one lightning)!
As someone who began model building/painting NASCAR and IMSA race cars, I find It kind of funny when warhammer guys say “I hate transfer sheets” but they can free hand chapter logos. Decals/transfers are so much easier lol. That’s all I use to do was decals. 100s per car. And I found them to be the easiest part of the whole build.
The inverse Lieutenant is actually such a cool idea and came out really nice
Yo, you can do either the shields or the blades on the blade guard as different metals. Different forms of power swords. One with eh crystal pattern, one more magma 'y and one traditional with the lightning effect and stuff.
I love how your models look 😍
15:09 dude u should paint moreones like that techmarine! :DDD
did you wash the resin before you painted them there could be mold reease on them wich is why the paint isnt sticking
That inverted Lieutenant is really wild. Wish I could do the same for my T'au, but my army is a drab green over gray (with red, silver and gold accents) and inverting an image of one just turns it white. Maybe I just need a better camera...
2:03 damn had to do this to us 😂
I really dig these. The f zero theme is dope as hell.
13:40 It may be me under the ''I REGRET my Custom Space Marine Paint Scheme'', But I do believe that a lot of people may have made similar comments on youtube or discord
You should try some custom poses for the outriders! Maybe one popping a wheelie, another doing a very original nod to akira perhaps, or whatever other ideas could work. Maybe one is standing on the bike instead or riding it normally
To me, the Judiciar model has always had a menacing, final boss aura to it. I'd recommend having the parts that are homages reflect that. Like maybe Gannon from Ocarina of Time, or may be even Dracula from Castlevania if you can find a good head swap
Noble team as a theme or the home nation colours of the UK! (Maybe even include Eire as its the only country we share a border with, excluding overseas territories)
For the jump intercessors, I like the idea of a Super Mario theme in honour of the great Jumpman himself.
Focussing the colours on the boots and helmets?
Nice tech marine, also like the white one kinda look like fire and ice
With all of the video game references, the Judiciar having a Final Fantasy inspire would work.
I think the army is really well-painted. Certainly better than my Raven Guard.
for the blade guard you could base them off templar orders or English nobles
Looks great dude! Now you have your Dark Eldar 😅
Impossible! a non grey army… I thought they were just a myth a legend
For the Judiciar it would be pretty cool if you replaced the time glass thing, with like a soda or something. Can you imagine an emo space marine with a skull helmet carrying around a massive jug of Mountain Dew, that would be rather peak imo.
See if you can find some cool flags/banners for the back of the outrider bikes - if you wanted to really n64 it up you could do something to represent mario cart racers on each banner, even if its just colours
16:14 get 30k MKVI assult squad instead, u get beaky helmets, aaand the kit is 10minis for the price of 5 40k assults. they still have the same shaped veapons. probably fit in better with your Screaming ravens imo :)
Link tunic Blade guard? Red, Green, blue with hints to the different swords and shields
Very nice army, love vibrant color accents
Depending on how many bladeguard veterans you have, you could style them after the different coloured Links from Triforce Heroes.
My successor chapter is the void ravens, black and dark purple with bright purple highlights and dark sulver trim. Purple eyes.
My chapter master rides on a giant raven, wish i could show it
You could paint a squad in the colours of characters from Mario Party?
Paint a character as Banjo Kazooie.
Diddy Kong racers for the bikes.