When one of my mates that I served with passed on tour. One thing that helped with the grieving process was making an Imp guard model after him.He’s now accompanying me everywhere I play. I’m the vet nerd community we loved the small piece you did.
❤️❤️❤️ I’m truly sorry to hear about the loss of your mate, I can’t begin to imagine how to deal with that. but it’s lovely to hear you have a something that both helps you deal with the loss, and remember him by. Thanks for sharing 😍
Ventrilian noble medic: good lord man, take your filthy self away from me, you're splattering mud, blood and guts over my white pants. Dying soldier: really? I'm dying here Ventrilian Noble medic: that's no excuse to make my uniform filthy.
The soldier is another low noble. The company commander might be a baron but most of the line is going to be third sons and below. You are still from the highborn world.
ELMORE That Dragon Lance painting is by Larry Elmore. Goes with a really fun short story. Clyde Caldwell is great too (and they did share a studio at the time) but credit where it’s due.
Well bloomin heck! I was adamant it was Caldwell, but your right just checked my art book…..thanks for calling that out. I’ll add it to the description
I was thinking the same! I loved the kitbash photos from the 9th edition codex, and even after watching his painting tutorial for it I didn’t put 2 and 2 together! Super cool!
40k Sharpe and his chosen men, priceless. This has been one of those vids I was hoping for and more, I'd hoped you'd tell us about your beautiful armies, the rabbit hole of lore and how your creations came to be was great. Thank you.
The Daughters of Khaine segment was legitimately the best and most intriguing video on Age of Sigmar I've seen yet, and that includes the episode of Hammer & Bolter with the Daughters of Khaine in it. I want to build a Hagg Valkyr Warcry warband now!
Choice advice Peachy - Love seeing the journey that brought your armies to life. Love what you did with Hallowguild, you did for Azyr the same as I did for Hysh (Nothing really existed, so kitbash and build lore and story)
Thanks for putting the narrative forward in one of your videos, Peachy! Inventing lore for my little toy soldiers is definitely my favourite part of the hobby and your approach to it always inspired me! All the best
@@PeachyTips It's been a while indeed, sorry I didn't give any news! Life has been somewhat crazy but I'm finally settling down which hopefully means more hobby and more time to watch PeachyTips haha!
Lore / narrative crafting is my favorite part of the hobby. It's actually become a problem, because I'll think of a cool concept for an army, and then have to follow through. So now I have eight armies, and just came up with an idea for a ninth. I even create the lore for my friends' armies as well, because they're not as interested in that aspect.
I completely sympathise with this, that’s why I love skirmish games, I can make great lore and narrative and only need to paint a handful of minis, means I can have my cake and eat it
Mechanically, you can get the sort of doctrines or kit they got down from what environment they hail from and what kind of wars they fight. Like constant raids from feral orks, big artillery duels across mountains with elite spotters, light infantry urban skirmishes, underground tunnel clearing with so much flamers they burn out all oxygen. Only War gave you a points buy system. Your regiment becomes the basic template for all PCs.
Loved this! More waxing lyrical and showcases Peachy! I'd never seen the campaign board before though, that was absolutely amazing. And I've said it before but I'll say it again, hype for the 40k Napoleonic plan!
I remember watching a podcast where you showed off your keeper of secrets statue and talked about your temple it inspired me to make a chaos temple I now have 4 Greater Deamon statues to use as terrain
Oh wow! That’s awesome to hear, I remember the podcast, I think it was the one with Wade. Chuffed to hear others creating cool boards and narratives for their games too
Loved the backstory on how the Ventrillian Nobles came to life. Thank you for telling us a bit about how you think when you create lore and how things came to be with your armies. I love making up lore for all of my armies both for 40K and AoS (Even the ones I barely started painting). When you were at The Paining Phase you guys actually gave me the name for my Cities of Sigmar army. It was something you talked about and said that there was no place named Grumphagen, so I had to create the City of Grumphaagen and the regular army (built with the new Cities of Sigmar stuff) and my militia (based on the old Cities of Sigmar stuff that basicially is Empire I believe and some Bretonnian characters and some Dwarfs). I got a lot of the sets for the old Cities of Sigmar army deciding I would make it my New Year New Army thing, but then life got in the way and everything stopped and when I got to start up again then the new range was out and looked very different so I had to make a militia and a regular army.
Love it! I always like to come up with a story for all my armies. I had Guard in 2nd ed and came up with a whole scheme and story for them - Mostly the old metal Cadian models though they weren't Cadians (though my ratlings were painted as 95th rifles - it's the law!) and made up my own city that my Tomb Kings came from with a royal dynasty, adn its always fun to research heraldry and interesting people for commanders in medieval games. I also loved reading up on my 42nd stuff for Napoleonics (they later became the Black Watch of course). Obviously everyone has their own level but whether simple or going all out on it, I find a little bit of a story and narrative always adds to the fun!
It’s interesting you mentioned the 42nd highlanders as I had intentions of doing something with them for my ventrillians, I mention in the video about the plume colours and about adding in red plumes for more elite stuff, well that’s the plume colour of the black watch, and well it’s still on the cards
@@PeachyTips That would be awesome! I had a go at doing their tartan (only dead basic, not trying to replicate it in too fine detail) but made the cardinal mistake of not going a little brighter with the colours than the actual real life thing as it looks a bit too dark. Some Ventrillian blackwatch would be ace though - can't wait to see them if yuo do get round to it.
I've been thinking of that battle report (Last Stand at Glazer's Creek) every now and then for 25 years. I couldn't/didn't remember the name and then you mentioned it in the video!! Thank you! I loved that battle report!!!
For me it’s my most favourite battle report, I loved loads of batreps during that era but this one was always the stand out, and getting the opportunity to relive that was once in a life time 😍👍
@@PeachyTips I'll be reading your sequel battle report from the 40k vault or if it's not on there I'll find an old White Dwarf on ebay. I'm looking forward to it! Thanks again!!!
Fab video. Lots to think about. Not over complicated either. I have Space Marine chapter inspired by the British soldiers who fought at Rourke's Drift.
Your best video yet of the new channel! Also, your interview on the Paint Perspective Podcast was great. I find them continually referencing that interview, you made a big impression on those guys. Cheers!
One of your basing tutorials from back in your Workshop days helped inspire the lore for my admech army! It started with a jungle base making me think of Raiders of the lost arc, and snowballed into all their war machines being powered by Mk1 ford fiesta engines!
Loved this episode! Helped me recapture my feel for my own Space Marine Chapter: Knights Raptoris. An embattled fleet based chapter who had to flee the destruction of their homeworld on the birth of the Cicatrix Maeladictum to save the chapter. But in saving the chapters strength they loose their fortress monetary, become fleet based & stuck on the wrong side of the great rift. Dooming them to a slow and inevitable death as a fighting force. Nothing special, The Knights Raptoris will ultimately die. That’s their limitation, they raid and gather resources as a fleet based chapter. I’m using their limitations to define the details of their story and history. How does a Space Marine Chapter function with no homeworld or base of operations? How close do they have to come to piracy for the betterment of defending the Imperium? What technology/units have they lost & won’t be able to replace? All these questions and more coke off the back of this, so thank you for this awesome video & helping me define these doomed heroes of the imperium.
Love this, headcanon is my biggest motivator to build and paint. When I came back to the hobby in 9th edition (after seeing Primaris in a video game and thinking wtf are those?!) I couldn't decide on what chapter to go with, so I made a custom Primaris chapter whose backstory is that they're not particularly great at anything, but they are effective when being lead by existing chapters in command- so that way I can lore-justify playing them as any chapter I want, and just paint up unique characters in their proper colours who can "lead" my custom chapter. I then built a whole backstory about them being trapped on the other side of the galaxy so needing to use old kit they can salvage- eg Horus Heresy models. Every time I want to buy something I try to figure out some fun new story angle to introduce them.
I adore this long form content! Also, that map you put together for the Hallowguild campaign is freakin' amazing - i would love some kind of video delving into how it was made and how we mere mortals could craft something akin to it.
I’m a big Halo fan, so my Ultima Founding chapter has a lot of nods to the Spartans from halo. My kitbashed leviathan lieutenant is Noble 6 (the player character from Halo Reach) and his bolter is a stalker bolt rifle combiPlasma and I got bits of Tau battle suits littered about his base. The color scheme is inspired by the awesome Silver Templars color scheme, though it’s flat gray (mechanicus standard grey body) with a bright green pads, helmets and backpacks, teal colored eyes (I love teal), with the Sargent colors being a red-orange. I didn’t want to go metallic because my Greyknights are metallic. I’d come really close to making them Crimson Fists (the best Fist related chapter and best Blue chapter imo), but at the time couldn’t have a captain with just a bolt pistol and a power fist (now you can :/), to be Primaris Captain Cortez. In any case, the Warhawks’ lore was that they fought as Unnumbered Sons, and were white scar successors, and were fighting along the bloodlines of other legions in mixed squads, and for many conflicts they were led by a Firstborn Wolfguard Battle Leader Angus Kraken-Rend. Angus died in battle, and the man who would become chapter master avenged him in combat, and returned his body to Fenris (well, as close as they’d allow Non Space Wolves to come). They traveled to Chogoris to ask permission to name themselves Warhawks. While not as wild as Chogorians, the Warhawks possessed an insatiable wanderlust and desire to venture into the unknown, reflecting what the V Legion had been like before Jaghati Khan had reunited them. They were given leave to take the Primarchs title as their own, and Lord Guilliman dispatched them and several other chapters to Imperium Nihilus to report to Commander Dante. The chapter master immediately called for companies to be restructured to all battle companies, each responsible for recruitment and their own veteran corps. I specifically collect the 8th Company. They are Pathfinding the eastern expanse of Imperium Nihilus and have had repeated contact with an aggressive Tau faction splintered from the Farsight Enclaves.
Honestly, i loved the ventrillian nobles, and i was tied between them and the preatorian guard. I've since made a preatorian guard army, and now I've been working on a subfaction called the Voltraxan Seige lords. Originally a army used for an only war campaign spread to a community army. The Voltrax guard are a stubborn regiment of a rich industrial sector, whom pride themselves in their ancestral history during the heresy. They say they proudly marched in the lions aid, but in reality they were drafted as most of their well trained troops were sent to terra and had a 85 percent casualty rate. All of their proud history is a exaggeration of the truth and they are known for their flamboyant head dresses and sargeant trophies. They wear gas masked, leather boots, (metal if you are high enough on the food chain) long coats and a helmet decoration. They are a constant wip but it is absolutely fun to do a creative and narrative decoration. They are on a crusade against a ork big mek warboss whos version of time travel is violently beating a clock into submission.
@PeachyTips thanks , krieg are the bases but occasionally some parts from the tempestus scions, hopefully some solar auxilia as relic vets. Then the lord general of them is based on Zapp Branigan using the new lord solar model. I got inspiration from the Futurama episode where they invade the ball planet. Now I kinda want to make a combat patrol based on the soldiers from that episode.
My homebrew Aeldari that are still very much a work in progress are originally based upon a single line mentioning a single character who's never mentioned again in one of the old codices, who I have as their founding hero essentially. Though they've had a lot of other sources of inspiration since then.
Personalities in the army are fun, from obvious ones like officers and the company psyker. Or ones who develop in play like sergeant Irma who beat down three or nobs. Story that develops out of stuff happening on the table is the best.
One of my paint schemes is based on a pun. The Japanese word for crab is “kani”, so I painted my “kani-fex” nice and orange. I ran with it and used various crab species for the rest of my Tyranids. I wanted my space marines to be blue but not be ultramarines, so they became The (Adopted) Sons of Guilliman. They call him “Uncle Rob” much to his chagrin. Because I put a bunch of silliness in their story, I call them the Grey Embers as a reference to “the dying of the light.” I am working on the new Kroot now. I’m using the shoebill stork as an inspiration for their color scheme.
Exactly what I intend to do for my world building, find/build/paint miniatures that fit the themes of what I'm going for. There is a species I came up with called "Supersauropteryx" (roughly meaning 'Super Winged Lizard') who are basically DnD Dragonborn so literally ANY humanoid dragon minis will fit, it's super fun to do :D
Such a great video Peachy! I've never had the ability to create my own faction / lore - tend to stick to established factions and chapters and make my own 'edits' to suit what I like. But I've started dabbling with Old World Bretonnians with the Knights on Foot, with my own scheme and lore based on House Baratheon and my own scottish heritage, for a fiefdom. Not got a name, or a leader's name, but the leader with be 'Thane' and 'The Lord of the Stag', with a yellow cloth and white/black stag motif on the army, and polished silver armour and ornate. So this video has been amazing to help with that mind block on the next steps! Thanks!
Awesome video as always Peachy! You've made my mind up for me in basing an Astra Militarum force on a historical theme; Victorian military theme based around the Sudan / Nile Expedition & Battle of Khartoum. Like Praetorians further up the history ladder. Khaki Praetorians with sepoy allies!
Fantastic stuff mate! The Ventrillian schemes and lore are truly enjoyable to dive into. This has reignited my desire for lore-creation and re-imaginings. As one Baldy to another, I raise my cuppa Yorkshire to you sir!
It's funny how sometime even a ten minute video can seem to drag on and on and yet Peachy talking for forty minutes is over in a blink!! A true hobby video, not just painting, not just modelling and not just lore, but everything combined, not something I see very often. Loving the channel Peachy, great stuff :D
This video really puts the creative part of my brain in gear! Also, I’d love a video on how you make capes with masking tape, like you mentioned on the Paint Perspective podcast. Keep up the good work!
Awesoem video Peachy! Lots of inspiration for our local warcry / AOS campaign, we have a similar digital version of your map we are planning. The terrain you made was sick, any chance of a video covering how you guys at GW or yourself have tackled terrain? It's something I'd love to get into.
I certainly have a terrain video in my plans, and it’s gonna be Warcry heavy, not sure yet the exact content, but definitely a cheeky way of getting more scenery done for my games 😂
As another old fellow I appreciate the chat - some great ideas in there. And of course the figures are brilliant as always. Plus a bonus Sharpe! Cheers!
Narrative play is so much fun and adds so much to the hobby. And you’re right! Sometimes it just takes a name on a map. I was struggling to find some momentum for my Kruleboyz, then I peeped at a map of Ghyran and saw the marshes of Quogmia. Then the story wrote it itself!
I came into the vid expecting some tips for creating some homebrew and ended up learning how your kitbash became official lore! Really interesting stuff. I think you had a clickbait title in there somewhere with something like 'How my kitbashed army became official GW lore'. Great stuff as always Peachy :)
Great Vid Peachy! Properly inspiring with how you forge a narrative, and great to see your passion. Perhaps old, perhaps bald but definitely not full of mold. Keep it fresh!
Narrative is how I choose my forces, the rules are secondary. I am currently doing an Elysian drop troop force based on Vietnam era Air Cavalry. Almost certainly useless on the table and I am limiting myself by not choosing units that don't fit the theme. But, pop ride of the valkyries on and your opponent will just enjoy the ride
Your kitbashing is amazing. I caught a glimpse of what looked like sisters of battle with swords. Would they be a sisters of sigmar kitbash? Please tell me you have plans for a conversion/kitbash tutorial in the near future? I loved the narrative for your Daughters of Kaine, I also liked that you fleshed out a narrative for a location in the mortal realms for them to fight in. Thanks again Peachy.
Thank you 😍🙏😍 Well observed they’re certainly sisters of Sigmar, I used the Novitiates from kill team as a basis, and I’ll certainly look at doing some form of content with them. Cheers again
Always love coming up with a good narrative for my armies! My dark elf CoS is located in the jungles of Ghyran, sitting on and mining a rich vein of what most of them think is realmstone, but that the coven of sorceresses who rule the city know is in reality warpstone. Trinkets carved from warpstone are common throughout the soldiery, thought to be protective talismans. The colour scheme initially comes from the red skinned dark elves of a video game from the late 90s, Might & Magic VIII. My Slaves to Darkness army is the elite force of a noble house that rules a castle and the surrounding lands in Ulgu. The castle used to be known as the Shining Citadel, but they were a thorn in Be'lakor's side so he infiltrated the castle and found out how to make them fall. He then returned disguised as a traveller, presenting the lord of the citadel with a black chalice, as a gift. The chalice was of course cursed, anyone who drinks from it gets visions of depravity, but it became a ceremonial thing to have first all the commanders, then knights and eventually everyone sworn to the lord drink from it, spreading the taint of Slaanesh through the whole army, all as Be'lakor planned. Their knights turned to raiding nearby lands, , and soon the Shining Citadel became known as the Tenebrous Citadel. The colour scheme is shining silver armour with bronze trim, spotless white cloaks, purple as a spot colour on things like tassels and banners, which have a freehand chalice symbol. I'm really stuck for my Ossiarch Bonereapers though, they seem kind of limited in what you can do with them narratively.
I thoroughly enjoyed doing that small narrative campaign, and really wanted to do more with it with battle reports that felt more DnD like, but alas it never came to be, but I’ve heard so many folks ask for something similar so I may need to look into revamping this as a fun stream or video series
Great video, I’ve enjoyed them all, but this one I loved. I’m a narrative army player myself. My growing WHFB army includes the men from the Norscan town of Mjodborg, a mead-making bee-deity worshiping group with a levied force of part timers, led by the Lord of the town (who is more recently having his strings pulled by Byflugnar, a re-materialised daemon prince Ive converted who is essentially a bee centaur)
It was nice learning about DoKs Chaos roots from Fantasy. It gives them a lot of flavor to see the development from Dark Elves. I think itd be a cool idea to incorporate some timeless Khornate Elves that travels the warp.
Your videos are amazing! Love the lore, the advice and the jokes are hilarious too. Peachy's Tip just got me XD I only have a squad but they are a loyalist but condemned Ad Mec splinter from Metalica. The most emotionless of forge worlds have a counter culture who actively pump hymns and enable emotional responses going so far as to induce them in warriors. I like the idea that some converts have initial discomfort as their long dormant tear ducts attempt to produce tears and often it's a combination of oil and water. They like innovation and Cawl and as such are hated by many and therefore roam trying to help. Their emotional responses allow them to overcommit and go for glory, it's fine for leaders as they back up their consciousness but it can be wasteful.
I feel that art thing so much. I was browsing pinterest years ago and stumbled on a sketch of a ghoul eating a goat. Fast forward several years and I just randomly remembered it, now I'm working on a Mordheim warband based on some nasty looking ghouls. Also, your baldness is not a flaw! You're beautiful as is Peach.
Theme has always been no.1 priority to me. Currently looking at a penal colony regiment of Astra Militarum. They all have orange jumpsuit fatigues, and bare metal armour (saves money on paint). All the vehicles will have little "loyalty" explosives on the outside that the excessive amount of commissars have little controllers to detonate Based the idea on Catch-22 by Joseph Heller as it's my favourite books. They have to fight in battles to earn their freedom but the number keeps rising.
Fun, I watched a Midwinter Minis video about a similar idea for AM that inspired me to make a custom penal colony GSC scheme (with the chance to incorporate AM later). Orange jumpsuits are fun to paint, give it a go!
@@PeachyTips 100% mate, it’s long overdue! Defo need to catch up at some point. Im in the process of expanding the range with the Cities of Sigmar minis, Amberfall phase 2 🙌🏼
I do love that lore can feed into a paintjob and that the paintjob can feed the lore. My initial army scheme came from the latter. I love the Tron films and did my Tau up dark with light recesses, but that didn't quite fit with the more pragmatic approach the Tau have with painting their armour. At the time i was reading a book (can't remember what it was called) that was set on a rogue planet, and all the flora and fauna had evolved to have bio-luminescent. So i had my army come from something similar and had adapted their armour to blend in. Next issue was how the planet became separated from its parent star. my initial thought was the tau had accidentally blown it up (they originally hailed from the engineering sept of Borkan and had found a good system to test out new toys), but that would have been way too fast for anything to evolve, so the planet had been rogue for milenia. Which left an issue of how did the Tau find it in the first place. most stellar navigation in reality or fiction revolves around locking onto the star (either visually or gravitationally), but this didn't have it. So it was back to other sources for lore ideas. Which led me to the fourth sphere of expansion, where the tau tested their own warp drive.....very poorly. What if my tau were part of that expedition, and as things went wrong, rather than being destroyed or end up with the rest of the fleet, they were just spat out of the warp somewhere in the interstellar void and just got incredibly lucky to have the rogue planet within sensor range. So from a simple "i like them to look like this" and following a simple series of logical questions, i got where they came from, how they got there, when they were set up and why they look the way they do.
Honestly loved this video and was great to see more talk of narrative in miniatures collecting. I have to have narrative for anything I collect, there needs to be a story for who they are, why they fight etc. There are so many models I love, but if I can not give them a story then the inspiration would not be there. Some story I come up with I would love to actually write stories up for them to really get in to their backgrounds and I do get so much more inspiration from Age of Sigmar miniatures than I do anything else.
What I’ve done is print out Necrons with the Ouroboros on their heads and bodies for my custom Necron Dynasty: the Ourobos Dynasty. Originally a dynasty that specialized in medicine and herbs in the time of flesh, they now specialize in a twisted breeding program to create anti-psyker species and are making it their goal to change species like humans into majority blanks. They’ve also got improved self/repair protocols due to trade and deals, They’re mostly outside the usual Dynasty squabbles but are still often dragged/involved in conflicts due to the need for more anti-warp devices and their labyrinthine chains of deals and pacts.
It was very interesting and informative! Also, very inspiring too... Which make me thought about your Daughter's of Khaine background, maybe they got red skin because in the beginning of their creation the first Daughter's Mother, who will become the first Daughter's Mother of the bloodline, was actually fertilized by the blood of the Blood god him self, with the intention to create his personal line of witch warrior aelfs. But slowly after years and years passing their path changed it course to serve another destiny, a destiny of their own! :) ...It could be! Right? (lol)
Truly amazing and inspiring video. I think this is a bit of an unmined seam which is about the hobby journey. Would love more. You're passion really comes across in the video and is super engaging. The time watching/listening just flew by.... also, the end.. I laughed out loud. Well played sir.
22:00 - This is how I've organised my custom chapter, regiments, warbands, etc. I created a subsector of about 15 systems, each of which has either a point of interest or a role (Subsector Command world, Chapter homeworld, secret Necron tomb world, etc.) and used that to inform the look of the individual factions. One other thing I have done is have a few colours tie the entire subsector together, so the main 'Sea Green' colour that makes up my Eldar Craftworld is also an accent colour for the AdMech Skitarii, and the tabard colour for my Sororitas. The red trim of my Naval Boarding Team is also the Imperial colour used by the Knights, and so on. My Chapter are Egyptian ninjas IN SPAAAACCEEE!! because I wanted to use the gorgeous Thousand Sons models and love Middle Kingdom Egyptian history. My DKOK were painted to be close to the 95th Rifles (even led by one Colonel Reinhardt Scharfe), and play like Catachan, but their senior officers (including one Lord-General Heinrich Simersen) see them as bodies to be thrown into attrition wars, so troop turnover is high and morale low.
Valuable advice. A lot of this chimes with me and inspires. Have always loved the Ventrillian Nobles. My Guard regiment has a colour scheme planned, and a rough backstory... now I just need to start painting!
@@PeachyTips I am hoping so. The Velikan XIII Infantry are taking a bit of writong as a backstory, but its fun. Like your idea of giving them a 'baddie' to fight, too. Really helps to ground them.
Warlord games bolt action sprues are great for this. Lots of assorted pouches and other miscellaneous accessories like entrenching tools to make your guard more utilitarian, or even SM
I was contemplating such ideas mentioned here when thinking of Imperial Knights cannon fo- I mean zone control. Might go for scions body armor or AoS plate to look like real medieval house militia. Cool to know that a lot can be done with just some minute additions or subtractions.
@@PeachyTips Freeguild seems to have had a significant facelift. Maybe replacing the heads with skitarii vanguards could make them look like futuristic knights as void armsmen replacement.
Your Ventrillian Nobles reminded me of this quote from Pharos: ‘My lord,’ Sergeant Arkus said, saluting. He was carrying his company’s standard. ‘At ease, Arkus,’ Guilliman told the Ultramarine. Arkus’s armour glinted in the sunlight. ‘You’re trying too hard,’ he added. ‘My lord?’ ‘When I arrived last night, your armour was in perfectly respectable condition, as was the plate of the other battle-brothers in your company. I remember these things. This morning, you’ve buffed your plate to the point of insanity.’ ‘My primarch is here,’ Arkus said, offended. ‘A surprise inspection of this post. What else would I do?’ Guilliman got up and faced him. ‘I’m sorry, Arkus. My remark was petty and uncalled for. Your armour code is perfect.’ Arkus nodded, and rested the base of the standard on the ground. ‘My lord,’ he said. ‘I am an Ultramarine. Trying too hard is the entire point of us, isn’t it?’ Guilliman smiled and saluted Arkus. --- Anyway, I am wanting and putting together an Ultramar PDF / regiment. I've seen only one piece of art and that was from HH. I fell in love with the idea reading the Ventris novel Black Sun or whatever it was called... When they go to challenge Honsou. I'm sort of leaning towards them to be on the line of the Solars or the what're the special forces called... But all those sort of modernised towards the Halo ODST look. Most likely have to 3D sculpt and print my own.
That’s a cool idea, I remember in the Derby store we painted up some ultramarine PDF, grey fatigues and ultramarine blue armour, using the plastic Cadians, if I was to do it again I reckon I’d use Roman heads, maybe warlord or victrix as a possibility.
@@PeachyTips I like that. That'd be a great parade uniform. A while ago when the new Cadians came out Duncan did quite a few different camos for them and one was great for the Ultramar regiment. Blue, grey and black with a little white, if I remember correctly. An urban camo style. For the vehicles a digital camo would be great, bluish grey with lighter grey, darker grey. All on the cold spectrum, of course. I sort of see that regiment as the ones that'd be great against the heretic legions. One of the best equipped and trained regiments (along with Cadians and Solars/Scions) due to them training with and against the Ultramarines and so do not have the transhuman terror in them. Also great at working with other chapters. Biggest flaw is that they're from Ultramar. A planet bogged down in war hears they're getting reinforcements from Ultramar? They stop listening at Ultramar, because the only known force from that real are the Ultramarines. People keep thinking that they're getting the Emperor's Angels of Death and then these guys rock up with thick broomhandles up their butts. So they always have to be showing how good they are. They're measured against the Astartes. There's nothing you can do to win.
Fantastic video Peachy! I also love gryph-hounds but went down the route of adding them to a Tzeentch force by bastardising the iconography on the armour by painting eyeballs on it. I always found it suspicious that the Empire had a lot of mythical creatures with beaks at their beck and call. All of the guys in this force are on Khorne themed bases as if encroaching on a mission only the Changer of Ways could understand. No name yet though sadly, need a mate like yours!
Came here for the Ventrillian Nobles, stayed for the Peachy Tips! Ace video mate!
Aww cheers dude, always a highlight getting a comment from you beauties
VENTRILLIA FOREVER!
When one of my mates that I served with passed on tour. One thing that helped with the grieving process was making an Imp guard model after him.He’s now accompanying me everywhere I play. I’m the vet nerd community we loved the small piece you did.
❤️❤️❤️ I’m truly sorry to hear about the loss of your mate, I can’t begin to imagine how to deal with that. but it’s lovely to hear you have a something that both helps you deal with the loss, and remember him by. Thanks for sharing 😍
May your brother rest in peace. I have lost a few friends I served with as well. Think it's cool that you made a gaurd in memory of your friend.
Adding plumage to improve the pomp of a soldier…. Now that’s soldiering!
Hahaha! Keep comments like this coming lol
Ventrilian noble medic: good lord man, take your filthy self away from me, you're splattering mud, blood and guts over my white pants.
Dying soldier: really? I'm dying here
Ventrilian Noble medic: that's no excuse to make my uniform filthy.
Hahaha! ☝️this guy gets it ☝️
The soldier is another low noble. The company commander might be a baron but most of the line is going to be third sons and below. You are still from the highborn world.
A more immersive wargame experience through an engaging narrative, now thats soldiering.
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Skaven heads on Skitarii troops turned into a whole Dark Mechanicus (Ratticus Mechanicus) army!
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That Dragon Lance painting is by Larry Elmore. Goes with a really fun short story.
Clyde Caldwell is great too (and they did share a studio at the time) but credit where it’s due.
Well bloomin heck! I was adamant it was Caldwell, but your right just checked my art book…..thanks for calling that out. I’ll add it to the description
This just reminded me that when I was a kid I attempted to paint up my Chaos Dwarf blunderbuss unit in the style of Sharpe
Well that sounds bloomin awesome!
Chaos dorfs are good lads. Most important, how did you do their hats?
Peachy + Guard x narrative = hobby perfection
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How did I not know that you essentially created my favourite guard regiment? It makes so much sense in hindsight
Is it the strong Sharpe vibes lol! Thanks for commenting too 😍😍😍
I was thinking the same! I loved the kitbash photos from the 9th edition codex, and even after watching his painting tutorial for it I didn’t put 2 and 2 together! Super cool!
40k Sharpe and his chosen men, priceless. This has been one of those vids I was hoping for and more, I'd hoped you'd tell us about your beautiful armies, the rabbit hole of lore and how your creations came to be was great. Thank you.
Thanks and hopefully plenty more to come! 😍👍
I thoroughly enjoyed the background of the Ventrilian Nobles!
Aah sweet! Thanks bud
I like videos where people just ramble on about their own head canon. so good
Ha! I’m certain that will feature a fair bit on this channel lol
@@PeachyTips look forward to it
The Daughters of Khaine segment was legitimately the best and most intriguing video on Age of Sigmar I've seen yet, and that includes the episode of Hammer & Bolter with the Daughters of Khaine in it. I want to build a Hagg Valkyr Warcry warband now!
🙌🙌🙌 thanks for that, I’m chuffed you approve, and Hagg Valkyr for the win
Choice advice Peachy - Love seeing the journey that brought your armies to life. Love what you did with Hallowguild, you did for Azyr the same as I did for Hysh (Nothing really existed, so kitbash and build lore and story)
Oh nice! I need to see this army, world building is the best!
Thanks for putting the narrative forward in one of your videos, Peachy! Inventing lore for my little toy soldiers is definitely my favourite part of the hobby and your approach to it always inspired me! All the best
Hey bud! Long time no speak, thanks for commenting, I’m chuffed to enjoyed the vid too 😍👍
@@PeachyTips It's been a while indeed, sorry I didn't give any news! Life has been somewhat crazy but I'm finally settling down which hopefully means more hobby and more time to watch PeachyTips haha!
The Daughters vs Slaanesh sets are absolutely incredible.
Lore / narrative crafting is my favorite part of the hobby. It's actually become a problem, because I'll think of a cool concept for an army, and then have to follow through. So now I have eight armies, and just came up with an idea for a ninth. I even create the lore for my friends' armies as well, because they're not as interested in that aspect.
I completely sympathise with this, that’s why I love skirmish games, I can make great lore and narrative and only need to paint a handful of minis, means I can have my cake and eat it
Mechanically, you can get the sort of doctrines or kit they got down from what environment they hail from and what kind of wars they fight. Like constant raids from feral orks, big artillery duels across mountains with elite spotters, light infantry urban skirmishes, underground tunnel clearing with so much flamers they burn out all oxygen.
Only War gave you a points buy system. Your regiment becomes the basic template for all PCs.
Loved this! More waxing lyrical and showcases Peachy!
I'd never seen the campaign board before though, that was absolutely amazing. And I've said it before but I'll say it again, hype for the 40k Napoleonic plan!
Cheers bud! I’m currently building up a few regiments in preparation, but I will do some build and paint guides on these too
Necromunda, Kill Team and Warcry (and other skirmish games) are perfect for this kind of work which gets easier with practice.
I love that the red skin is inspired by a mountain range, not the “Blood Lake Basin” next door
I remember watching a podcast where you showed off your keeper of secrets statue and talked about your temple it inspired me to make a chaos temple I now have 4 Greater Deamon statues to use as terrain
Oh wow! That’s awesome to hear, I remember the podcast, I think it was the one with Wade.
Chuffed to hear others creating cool boards and narratives for their games too
Loved the backstory on how the Ventrillian Nobles came to life. Thank you for telling us a bit about how you think when you create lore and how things came to be with your armies. I love making up lore for all of my armies both for 40K and AoS (Even the ones I barely started painting). When you were at The Paining Phase you guys actually gave me the name for my Cities of Sigmar army. It was something you talked about and said that there was no place named Grumphagen, so I had to create the City of Grumphaagen and the regular army (built with the new Cities of Sigmar stuff) and my militia (based on the old Cities of Sigmar stuff that basicially is Empire I believe and some Bretonnian characters and some Dwarfs). I got a lot of the sets for the old Cities of Sigmar army deciding I would make it my New Year New Army thing, but then life got in the way and everything stopped and when I got to start up again then the new range was out and looked very different so I had to make a militia and a regular army.
Love it! I always like to come up with a story for all my armies. I had Guard in 2nd ed and came up with a whole scheme and story for them - Mostly the old metal Cadian models though they weren't Cadians (though my ratlings were painted as 95th rifles - it's the law!) and made up my own city that my Tomb Kings came from with a royal dynasty, adn its always fun to research heraldry and interesting people for commanders in medieval games. I also loved reading up on my 42nd stuff for Napoleonics (they later became the Black Watch of course). Obviously everyone has their own level but whether simple or going all out on it, I find a little bit of a story and narrative always adds to the fun!
It’s interesting you mentioned the 42nd highlanders as I had intentions of doing something with them for my ventrillians, I mention in the video about the plume colours and about adding in red plumes for more elite stuff, well that’s the plume colour of the black watch, and well it’s still on the cards
@@PeachyTips That would be awesome! I had a go at doing their tartan (only dead basic, not trying to replicate it in too fine detail) but made the cardinal mistake of not going a little brighter with the colours than the actual real life thing as it looks a bit too dark.
Some Ventrillian blackwatch would be ace though - can't wait to see them if yuo do get round to it.
I've been thinking of that battle report (Last Stand at Glazer's Creek) every now and then for 25 years. I couldn't/didn't remember the name and then you mentioned it in the video!! Thank you! I loved that battle report!!!
For me it’s my most favourite battle report, I loved loads of batreps during that era but this one was always the stand out, and getting the opportunity to relive that was once in a life time 😍👍
@@PeachyTips I'll be reading your sequel battle report from the 40k vault or if it's not on there I'll find an old White Dwarf on ebay. I'm looking forward to it!
Thanks again!!!
Excellent stuff. Would love to hear you waffle on endlessly!😄👍
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Fab video. Lots to think about. Not over complicated either. I have Space Marine chapter inspired by the British soldiers who fought at Rourke's Drift.
That’s cool! Do they have a chapter name yet? And are all the marines called Jones?
Your best video yet of the new channel! Also, your interview on the Paint Perspective Podcast was great. I find them continually referencing that interview, you made a big impression on those guys. Cheers!
Aww that’s nice to hear, I had a great time with those guys, proper talented and lovely folks.
One of your basing tutorials from back in your Workshop days helped inspire the lore for my admech army! It started with a jungle base making me think of Raiders of the lost arc, and snowballed into all their war machines being powered by Mk1 ford fiesta engines!
Hahaha! That’s insane and amazing in equal measure…..what a transition.
@@PeachyTips I'm just as confused about it as you are if I'm honest. But thank you for giving me that spark of inspiration!
Loved this episode! Helped me recapture my feel for my own Space Marine Chapter: Knights Raptoris.
An embattled fleet based chapter who had to flee the destruction of their homeworld on the birth of the Cicatrix Maeladictum to save the chapter. But in saving the chapters strength they loose their fortress monetary, become fleet based & stuck on the wrong side of the great rift. Dooming them to a slow and inevitable death as a fighting force.
Nothing special, The Knights Raptoris will ultimately die. That’s their limitation, they raid and gather resources as a fleet based chapter. I’m using their limitations to define the details of their story and history.
How does a Space Marine Chapter function with no homeworld or base of operations? How close do they have to come to piracy for the betterment of defending the Imperium? What technology/units have they lost & won’t be able to replace?
All these questions and more coke off the back of this, so thank you for this awesome video & helping me define these doomed heroes of the imperium.
Also keep up the wonderful work! I am glad you are doing your own thing!
Keep up your work, hope to see more narartive creations .
This is a gem of a video. Appreciate you taking the time and going through your process.
Thanks, I’m pleased you enjoyed it, I need to do more along this vein
Was a really good listen to while I was painting, and it's given me a lot of ideas for my Dragon Knights space marines.
Oooh awesome! Dragon knights is a mighty name for marines too
Love this, headcanon is my biggest motivator to build and paint. When I came back to the hobby in 9th edition (after seeing Primaris in a video game and thinking wtf are those?!) I couldn't decide on what chapter to go with, so I made a custom Primaris chapter whose backstory is that they're not particularly great at anything, but they are effective when being lead by existing chapters in command- so that way I can lore-justify playing them as any chapter I want, and just paint up unique characters in their proper colours who can "lead" my custom chapter. I then built a whole backstory about them being trapped on the other side of the galaxy so needing to use old kit they can salvage- eg Horus Heresy models. Every time I want to buy something I try to figure out some fun new story angle to introduce them.
This is great! A perfect way to look at adding stuff into your collection, and having fun all at the same time
I adore this long form content! Also, that map you put together for the Hallowguild campaign is freakin' amazing - i would love some kind of video delving into how it was made and how we mere mortals could craft something akin to it.
Unfortunately that map is long lost…..a shame I know, but there’s no reason I can’t make something similar
Lots of great tips in this video. You have fantastic armies. Thanks for sharing how you came up with them
Thank you, I’m chuffed you enjoyed it and found useful tips
Definitely given me some food for thought regarding my SM chapter - The Star Tyrants
I’m a big Halo fan, so my Ultima Founding chapter has a lot of nods to the Spartans from halo.
My kitbashed leviathan lieutenant is Noble 6 (the player character from Halo Reach) and his bolter is a stalker bolt rifle combiPlasma and I got bits of Tau battle suits littered about his base.
The color scheme is inspired by the awesome Silver Templars color scheme, though it’s flat gray (mechanicus standard grey body) with a bright green pads, helmets and backpacks, teal colored eyes (I love teal), with the Sargent colors being a red-orange.
I didn’t want to go metallic because my Greyknights are metallic.
I’d come really close to making them Crimson Fists (the best Fist related chapter and best Blue chapter imo), but at the time couldn’t have a captain with just a bolt pistol and a power fist (now you can :/), to be Primaris Captain Cortez.
In any case, the Warhawks’ lore was that they fought as Unnumbered Sons, and were white scar successors, and were fighting along the bloodlines of other legions in mixed squads, and for many conflicts they were led by a Firstborn Wolfguard Battle Leader Angus Kraken-Rend.
Angus died in battle, and the man who would become chapter master avenged him in combat, and returned his body to Fenris (well, as close as they’d allow Non Space Wolves to come).
They traveled to Chogoris to ask permission to name themselves Warhawks.
While not as wild as Chogorians, the Warhawks possessed an insatiable wanderlust and desire to venture into the unknown, reflecting what the V Legion had been like before Jaghati Khan had reunited them.
They were given leave to take the Primarchs title as their own, and Lord Guilliman dispatched them and several other chapters to Imperium Nihilus to report to Commander Dante.
The chapter master immediately called for companies to be restructured to all battle companies, each responsible for recruitment and their own veteran corps.
I specifically collect the 8th Company. They are Pathfinding the eastern expanse of Imperium Nihilus and have had repeated contact with an aggressive Tau faction splintered from the Farsight Enclaves.
Fantastic video, Peachy. Loved the lore and scheme of the Ventrillion Nobles - really inspiring! Keep up the great work.
Honestly, i loved the ventrillian nobles, and i was tied between them and the preatorian guard. I've since made a preatorian guard army, and now I've been working on a subfaction called the Voltraxan Seige lords. Originally a army used for an only war campaign spread to a community army.
The Voltrax guard are a stubborn regiment of a rich industrial sector, whom pride themselves in their ancestral history during the heresy. They say they proudly marched in the lions aid, but in reality they were drafted as most of their well trained troops were sent to terra and had a 85 percent casualty rate. All of their proud history is a exaggeration of the truth and they are known for their flamboyant head dresses and sargeant trophies. They wear gas masked, leather boots, (metal if you are high enough on the food chain) long coats and a helmet decoration.
They are a constant wip but it is absolutely fun to do a creative and narrative decoration.
They are on a crusade against a ork big mek warboss whos version of time travel is violently beating a clock into submission.
Ooh thats cool! They sound great and would work well alongside the arrogant Ventrillians lol
@PeachyTips thanks , krieg are the bases but occasionally some parts from the tempestus scions, hopefully some solar auxilia as relic vets. Then the lord general of them is based on Zapp Branigan using the new lord solar model. I got inspiration from the Futurama episode where they invade the ball planet. Now I kinda want to make a combat patrol based on the soldiers from that episode.
Also can't forget any helmet decoration, only the fresh soldiers/conscripts don't have them because they haven't earned their fancy hats yet.
My homebrew Aeldari that are still very much a work in progress are originally based upon a single line mentioning a single character who's never mentioned again in one of the old codices, who I have as their founding hero essentially. Though they've had a lot of other sources of inspiration since then.
Fantastic video. Really got my cogs turning. Thanks 👍🏼
Personalities in the army are fun, from obvious ones like officers and the company psyker. Or ones who develop in play like sergeant Irma who beat down three or nobs. Story that develops out of stuff happening on the table is the best.
oh you know, that green-skinned alternate scheme for the Daughters of Khaine could look extremely good on some Idoneth Deepkin as well.
Absolutely, anything really I was just playing with colour.
One of my paint schemes is based on a pun. The Japanese word for crab is “kani”, so I painted my “kani-fex” nice and orange. I ran with it and used various crab species for the rest of my Tyranids.
I wanted my space marines to be blue but not be ultramarines, so they became The (Adopted) Sons of Guilliman. They call him “Uncle Rob” much to his chagrin. Because I put a bunch of silliness in their story, I call them the Grey Embers as a reference to “the dying of the light.”
I am working on the new Kroot now. I’m using the shoebill stork as an inspiration for their color scheme.
Haha! This is both mad and genius I love it.
Exactly what I intend to do for my world building, find/build/paint miniatures that fit the themes of what I'm going for. There is a species I came up with called "Supersauropteryx" (roughly meaning 'Super Winged Lizard') who are basically DnD Dragonborn so literally ANY humanoid dragon minis will fit, it's super fun to do :D
Oh nice! I love hearing about stuff like this…..mostly so I can steal it mwhahaha! 😂
@@PeachyTips Not if I steal my own idea first! Nerrr! :P
Such a great video Peachy! I've never had the ability to create my own faction / lore - tend to stick to established factions and chapters and make my own 'edits' to suit what I like. But I've started dabbling with Old World Bretonnians with the Knights on Foot, with my own scheme and lore based on House Baratheon and my own scottish heritage, for a fiefdom. Not got a name, or a leader's name, but the leader with be 'Thane' and 'The Lord of the Stag', with a yellow cloth and white/black stag motif on the army, and polished silver armour and ornate. So this video has been amazing to help with that mind block on the next steps! Thanks!
Awesome! Honestly that sounds like a great idea and concept too.
Take a shot everytime Peachy says "Napoleonics"
Teehee….Napoleonics!….Napoleonics!…Napoleonics!….Napoleonics!….Napoleonics!…..Napoleonics!….Napoleonics! 🍺🍻🥴
I saw your Hallowguild army at Warhammer World a few years ago. Looked absolutely stunning.
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Awesome video as always Peachy! You've made my mind up for me in basing an Astra Militarum force on a historical theme; Victorian military theme based around the Sudan / Nile Expedition & Battle of Khartoum. Like Praetorians further up the history ladder. Khaki Praetorians with sepoy allies!
Oooh that’s a cool idea, glad I could be of assistance
Great insights on a subject that’s not talked much online!
Cheers I’m chuffed you enjoyed it 😍
Fantastic stuff mate! The Ventrillian schemes and lore are truly enjoyable to dive into. This has reignited my desire for lore-creation and re-imaginings. As one Baldy to another, I raise my cuppa Yorkshire to you sir!
🫖🫖🫖 cheers sir! baldies United 🧑🦲🧑🦲
It's funny how sometime even a ten minute video can seem to drag on and on and yet Peachy talking for forty minutes is over in a blink!! A true hobby video, not just painting, not just modelling and not just lore, but everything combined, not something I see very often. Loving the channel Peachy, great stuff :D
Aww thanks for this, I’m chuffed you enjoyed it 😍😍😍
Ace video - always loved your kitbashes, great to learn more about them
Cheers 😍😍😍
I love the Ventrillian nobles. They're such a cool concept. I've got a squad built and primed
AMAZING!!! I’d love to see them if your on socials like Instagram or Twitter 🥰
This video really puts the creative part of my brain in gear!
Also, I’d love a video on how you make capes with masking tape, like you mentioned on the Paint Perspective podcast. Keep up the good work!
Cheers, and I’ll absolutely be looking at doing a video related to masking tape 👍
Awesoem video Peachy! Lots of inspiration for our local warcry / AOS campaign, we have a similar digital version of your map we are planning. The terrain you made was sick, any chance of a video covering how you guys at GW or yourself have tackled terrain? It's something I'd love to get into.
I certainly have a terrain video in my plans, and it’s gonna be Warcry heavy, not sure yet the exact content, but definitely a cheeky way of getting more scenery done for my games 😂
As another old fellow I appreciate the chat - some great ideas in there. And of course the figures are brilliant as always. Plus a bonus Sharpe! Cheers!
Thank you kindly, nothing beats a bonus Sharpe 😂👍
Narrative play is so much fun and adds so much to the hobby.
And you’re right! Sometimes it just takes a name on a map. I was struggling to find some momentum for my Kruleboyz, then I peeped at a map of Ghyran and saw the marshes of Quogmia. Then the story wrote it itself!
Perfection 👌 as the great scholar Hannibal would ‘I love it when a plan comes together’ 😂👍
@@PeachyTips I thought that was Chaucer…
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I came into the vid expecting some tips for creating some homebrew and ended up learning how your kitbash became official lore! Really interesting stuff. I think you had a clickbait title in there somewhere with something like 'How my kitbashed army became official GW lore'.
Great stuff as always Peachy :)
Honestly I did struggle with the title on this one, yours is a great suggestion though 🙌
Thoroughly enjoyed this vid. Great example of the type of content that makes you stand out. More please.
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Just the tip, "the peachy tip". great video, keep them coming please.
Great Vid Peachy! Properly inspiring with how you forge a narrative, and great to see your passion. Perhaps old, perhaps bald but definitely not full of mold. Keep it fresh!
Hahaha! Thanks Mike, glad you enjoyed it, I’ll try to keep it fresh lol
Narrative is how I choose my forces, the rules are secondary. I am currently doing an Elysian drop troop force based on Vietnam era Air Cavalry. Almost certainly useless on the table and I am limiting myself by not choosing units that don't fit the theme. But, pop ride of the valkyries on and your opponent will just enjoy the ride
This was so inspiring! Can wait to see your silver bayonet team ❤
Your kitbashing is amazing. I caught a glimpse of what looked like sisters of battle with swords. Would they be a sisters of sigmar kitbash? Please tell me you have plans for a conversion/kitbash tutorial in the near future? I loved the narrative for your Daughters of Kaine, I also liked that you fleshed out a narrative for a location in the mortal realms for them to fight in. Thanks again Peachy.
Thank you 😍🙏😍
Well observed they’re certainly sisters of Sigmar, I used the Novitiates from kill team as a basis, and I’ll certainly look at doing some form of content with them. Cheers again
Helping hobbyists the world over? Now THAT'S Ventrillian soldiering!
Hahaha! Nicely done sir
Always love coming up with a good narrative for my armies!
My dark elf CoS is located in the jungles of Ghyran, sitting on and mining a rich vein of what most of them think is realmstone, but that the coven of sorceresses who rule the city know is in reality warpstone. Trinkets carved from warpstone are common throughout the soldiery, thought to be protective talismans. The colour scheme initially comes from the red skinned dark elves of a video game from the late 90s, Might & Magic VIII.
My Slaves to Darkness army is the elite force of a noble house that rules a castle and the surrounding lands in Ulgu. The castle used to be known as the Shining Citadel, but they were a thorn in Be'lakor's side so he infiltrated the castle and found out how to make them fall. He then returned disguised as a traveller, presenting the lord of the citadel with a black chalice, as a gift. The chalice was of course cursed, anyone who drinks from it gets visions of depravity, but it became a ceremonial thing to have first all the commanders, then knights and eventually everyone sworn to the lord drink from it, spreading the taint of Slaanesh through the whole army, all as Be'lakor planned. Their knights turned to raiding nearby lands, , and soon the Shining Citadel became known as the Tenebrous Citadel. The colour scheme is shining silver armour with bronze trim, spotless white cloaks, purple as a spot colour on things like tassels and banners, which have a freehand chalice symbol.
I'm really stuck for my Ossiarch Bonereapers though, they seem kind of limited in what you can do with them narratively.
Your narrative warcry stuff is my favourite stuff GW put out during covid
I thoroughly enjoyed doing that small narrative campaign, and really wanted to do more with it with battle reports that felt more DnD like, but alas it never came to be, but I’ve heard so many folks ask for something similar so I may need to look into revamping this as a fun stream or video series
Great video, I’ve enjoyed them all, but this one I loved.
I’m a narrative army player myself. My growing WHFB army includes the men from the Norscan town of Mjodborg, a mead-making bee-deity worshiping group with a levied force of part timers, led by the Lord of the town (who is more recently having his strings pulled by Byflugnar, a re-materialised daemon prince Ive converted who is essentially a bee centaur)
This is great! What a cool theme 🤌
Thank you, means a lot from you
It was nice learning about DoKs Chaos roots from Fantasy. It gives them a lot of flavor to see the development from Dark Elves.
I think itd be a cool idea to incorporate some timeless Khornate Elves that travels the warp.
Ooh I do like the Khorne hook, I did think to make a cult of Khaine worshippers that accidentally worship Khorne lol
@@PeachyTips or still do ;) Khaine cares not where the blood flows, just that it does.
Your videos are amazing! Love the lore, the advice and the jokes are hilarious too. Peachy's Tip just got me XD
I only have a squad but they are a loyalist but condemned Ad Mec splinter from Metalica. The most emotionless of forge worlds have a counter culture who actively pump hymns and enable emotional responses going so far as to induce them in warriors. I like the idea that some converts have initial discomfort as their long dormant tear ducts attempt to produce tears and often it's a combination of oil and water. They like innovation and Cawl and as such are hated by many and therefore roam trying to help. Their emotional responses allow them to overcommit and go for glory, it's fine for leaders as they back up their consciousness but it can be wasteful.
Thank for the lovely words, and the cool lore too 😍
I hope, Peachy, that you are GMing a Soulbound RPG. What you have created scenery-wise, Hagg Valkyr, would be an awesome set up for some gaming!
My Sisters of Battle paint scheme and theme come from a simple scene in Shakespeare's MacBeth.
Awesome video - best representation of what hobby means to me.
I feel that art thing so much. I was browsing pinterest years ago and stumbled on a sketch of a ghoul eating a goat. Fast forward several years and I just randomly remembered it, now I'm working on a Mordheim warband based on some nasty looking ghouls.
Also, your baldness is not a flaw! You're beautiful as is Peach.
That’s awesome! Would love to see that warband when it’s done….and thank you for calling me a beautiful bald Peach, Nectarine works well too 🤣
Theme has always been no.1 priority to me. Currently looking at a penal colony regiment of Astra Militarum. They all have orange jumpsuit fatigues, and bare metal armour (saves money on paint). All the vehicles will have little "loyalty" explosives on the outside that the excessive amount of commissars have little controllers to detonate
Based the idea on Catch-22 by Joseph Heller as it's my favourite books. They have to fight in battles to earn their freedom but the number keeps rising.
Fun, I watched a Midwinter Minis video about a similar idea for AM that inspired me to make a custom penal colony GSC scheme (with the chance to incorporate AM later). Orange jumpsuits are fun to paint, give it a go!
Would love to see a vid on how to paint the Khainties of hagg valkyr. its a nice, striking style!
The map is incredible! Such a great idea.
Cheers, I had a lot of fun making that, will have to create a new one soon
@@PeachyTips I’m now having thoughts of a solar system style assembly for 40K. As if I don’t have enough projects to get through!
Fantastic video mate. A man of my heart with this content 🙏🏼 such a good way to build your armies
Thanks bud! At some point we need to catch up and talk narrative, bloomin love Amberfall 😍🙌
@@PeachyTips 100% mate, it’s long overdue! Defo need to catch up at some point. Im in the process of expanding the range with the Cities of Sigmar minis, Amberfall phase 2 🙌🏼
I do love that lore can feed into a paintjob and that the paintjob can feed the lore.
My initial army scheme came from the latter.
I love the Tron films and did my Tau up dark with light recesses, but that didn't quite fit with the more pragmatic approach the Tau have with painting their armour.
At the time i was reading a book (can't remember what it was called) that was set on a rogue planet, and all the flora and fauna had evolved to have bio-luminescent. So i had my army come from something similar and had adapted their armour to blend in.
Next issue was how the planet became separated from its parent star. my initial thought was the tau had accidentally blown it up (they originally hailed from the engineering sept of Borkan and had found a good system to test out new toys), but that would have been way too fast for anything to evolve, so the planet had been rogue for milenia.
Which left an issue of how did the Tau find it in the first place. most stellar navigation in reality or fiction revolves around locking onto the star (either visually or gravitationally), but this didn't have it. So it was back to other sources for lore ideas. Which led me to the fourth sphere of expansion, where the tau tested their own warp drive.....very poorly. What if my tau were part of that expedition, and as things went wrong, rather than being destroyed or end up with the rest of the fleet, they were just spat out of the warp somewhere in the interstellar void and just got incredibly lucky to have the rogue planet within sensor range.
So from a simple "i like them to look like this" and following a simple series of logical questions, i got where they came from, how they got there, when they were set up and why they look the way they do.
Honestly loved this video and was great to see more talk of narrative in miniatures collecting. I have to have narrative for anything I collect, there needs to be a story for who they are, why they fight etc. There are so many models I love, but if I can not give them a story then the inspiration would not be there. Some story I come up with I would love to actually write stories up for them to really get in to their backgrounds and I do get so much more inspiration from Age of Sigmar miniatures than I do anything else.
Fantastic video, Peach. You have found your groove, brother!!
Aww cheers Landon, I enjoyed this one, there’s lots of stuff I’d like to discuss on other ‘official’ armies I worked on , among other things
What I’ve done is print out Necrons with the Ouroboros on their heads and bodies for my custom Necron Dynasty: the Ourobos Dynasty.
Originally a dynasty that specialized in medicine and herbs in the time of flesh, they now specialize in a twisted breeding program to create anti-psyker species and are making it their goal to change species like humans into majority blanks. They’ve also got improved self/repair protocols due to trade and deals, They’re mostly outside the usual Dynasty squabbles but are still often dragged/involved in conflicts due to the need for more anti-warp devices and their labyrinthine chains of deals and pacts.
It was very interesting and informative! Also, very inspiring too... Which make me thought about your Daughter's of Khaine background, maybe they got red skin because in the beginning of their creation the first Daughter's Mother, who will become the first Daughter's Mother of the bloodline, was actually fertilized by the blood of the Blood god him self, with the intention to create his personal line of witch warrior aelfs. But slowly after years and years passing their path changed it course to serve another destiny, a destiny of their own! :) ...It could be! Right? (lol)
Truly amazing and inspiring video. I think this is a bit of an unmined seam which is about the hobby journey. Would love more. You're passion really comes across in the video and is super engaging. The time watching/listening just flew by.... also, the end.. I laughed out loud. Well played sir.
22:00 - This is how I've organised my custom chapter, regiments, warbands, etc. I created a subsector of about 15 systems, each of which has either a point of interest or a role (Subsector Command world, Chapter homeworld, secret Necron tomb world, etc.) and used that to inform the look of the individual factions.
One other thing I have done is have a few colours tie the entire subsector together, so the main 'Sea Green' colour that makes up my Eldar Craftworld is also an accent colour for the AdMech Skitarii, and the tabard colour for my Sororitas. The red trim of my Naval Boarding Team is also the Imperial colour used by the Knights, and so on.
My Chapter are Egyptian ninjas IN SPAAAACCEEE!! because I wanted to use the gorgeous Thousand Sons models and love Middle Kingdom Egyptian history.
My DKOK were painted to be close to the 95th Rifles (even led by one Colonel Reinhardt Scharfe), and play like Catachan, but their senior officers (including one Lord-General Heinrich Simersen) see them as bodies to be thrown into attrition wars, so troop turnover is high and morale low.
Valuable advice. A lot of this chimes with me and inspires. Have always loved the Ventrillian Nobles. My Guard regiment has a colour scheme planned, and a rough backstory... now I just need to start painting!
Awesome! Often you’ll find one influences the other and vice versa, and before you know it you’ll have reams of backstory lol
@@PeachyTips I am hoping so. The Velikan XIII Infantry are taking a bit of writong as a backstory, but its fun. Like your idea of giving them a 'baddie' to fight, too. Really helps to ground them.
Warlord games bolt action sprues are great for this. Lots of assorted pouches and other miscellaneous accessories like entrenching tools to make your guard more utilitarian, or even SM
I was contemplating such ideas mentioned here when thinking of Imperial Knights cannon fo- I mean zone control. Might go for scions body armor or AoS plate to look like real medieval house militia. Cool to know that a lot can be done with just some minute additions or subtractions.
Yeah the possibilities are endless, have you considered the new cities of sigmar warriors, they look very Knight ‘Household Guard’ like
@@PeachyTips Freeguild seems to have had a significant facelift. Maybe replacing the heads with skitarii vanguards could make them look like futuristic knights as void armsmen replacement.
Ooh nice!
Your Ventrillian Nobles reminded me of this quote from Pharos:
‘My lord,’ Sergeant Arkus said, saluting. He was carrying his company’s standard.
‘At ease, Arkus,’ Guilliman told the Ultramarine. Arkus’s armour glinted in the sunlight. ‘You’re trying too hard,’ he added.
‘My lord?’
‘When I arrived last night, your armour was in perfectly respectable condition, as was the plate of the other battle-brothers in your company. I remember these things. This morning, you’ve buffed your plate to the point of insanity.’
‘My primarch is here,’ Arkus said, offended. ‘A surprise inspection of this post. What else would I do?’
Guilliman got up and faced him. ‘I’m sorry, Arkus. My remark was petty and uncalled for. Your armour code is perfect.’
Arkus nodded, and rested the base of the standard on the ground. ‘My lord,’ he said. ‘I am an Ultramarine. Trying too hard is the entire point of us, isn’t it?’
Guilliman smiled and saluted Arkus.
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Anyway, I am wanting and putting together an Ultramar PDF / regiment. I've seen only one piece of art and that was from HH. I fell in love with the idea reading the Ventris novel Black Sun or whatever it was called... When they go to challenge Honsou. I'm sort of leaning towards them to be on the line of the Solars or the what're the special forces called... But all those sort of modernised towards the Halo ODST look. Most likely have to 3D sculpt and print my own.
That’s a cool idea, I remember in the Derby store we painted up some ultramarine PDF, grey fatigues and ultramarine blue armour, using the plastic Cadians, if I was to do it again I reckon I’d use Roman heads, maybe warlord or victrix as a possibility.
@@PeachyTips I like that. That'd be a great parade uniform. A while ago when the new Cadians came out Duncan did quite a few different camos for them and one was great for the Ultramar regiment. Blue, grey and black with a little white, if I remember correctly. An urban camo style.
For the vehicles a digital camo would be great, bluish grey with lighter grey, darker grey. All on the cold spectrum, of course.
I sort of see that regiment as the ones that'd be great against the heretic legions. One of the best equipped and trained regiments (along with Cadians and Solars/Scions) due to them training with and against the Ultramarines and so do not have the transhuman terror in them. Also great at working with other chapters.
Biggest flaw is that they're from Ultramar. A planet bogged down in war hears they're getting reinforcements from Ultramar? They stop listening at Ultramar, because the only known force from that real are the Ultramarines. People keep thinking that they're getting the Emperor's Angels of Death and then these guys rock up with thick broomhandles up their butts.
So they always have to be showing how good they are. They're measured against the Astartes. There's nothing you can do to win.
sweet some Guard Regiment Content. love when seeing Guard get their love. and the other cool stuff
Love the glossiness on the Daughter's of Khaine!!
Fantastic video Peachy! I also love gryph-hounds but went down the route of adding them to a Tzeentch force by bastardising the iconography on the armour by painting eyeballs on it. I always found it suspicious that the Empire had a lot of mythical creatures with beaks at their beck and call. All of the guys in this force are on Khorne themed bases as if encroaching on a mission only the Changer of Ways could understand. No name yet though sadly, need a mate like yours!
😂👍 that’s a cool idea too for the Gryph hounds 🙌
Really cool episode of Peachy's tip!
Keep it up man!
that red skin looks so good, makes me want to collect daughters of khaine
Thanks, as soon as I tried it, I loved the look.
I love this video format. Especially going into lore details for your Hagg Valkyr warband! Really got my brain going and want to get to work asap.
Sweet! I’m chuffed you found the video helpful to your inspirations 🙌
I make up the lore as I'm building and painting. Games add dynamic lore that I include. Loved the video Peachy!
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Don't ever change Peachy, you're a treasure.
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