How to Paint Skaven Clanrats - Contrast Paint Mode
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Let’s paint some of the New AoS Skaven Clanrats as efficiently yet effectively as possible, using Contrast Paints. It doesn’t get much easier than this ;)
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Grey Seer Primer (and base paint)
Black Templar
Mantis Warrior Green
Black Legion
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This is the best looking Skaven I’ve seen on my constant search of Skaven paint schemes. Fantastic work dude!
Thank you 😃
Honestly this has been the tutorial I have waited since 1993 for. Granted no special paints then but I have a huge old school collection of rats and now I'm excited to actually paint them! Thank you!
Your clanrats are great and you can't imagine how helpful it is to list all paints used multiple times like you did. Great job !
It never occured to me that mixing Contrast like any other paint was a thing. I'll die a little less dumb.
Great video!
great Video, really helped me build up the courage to finally start painting miniatures, really excited for my Skaven, yes-yes!
@@kurojima Glad to hear it! Hope you have a fun time :)
@@DarcyBonoCreations just finished my first pack of 20 clanrats in your scheme, really learned a lot but happy with the outcome! looking forward to more of your content!
I can’t believe his clothing was done with one application of contrast paint! My mind is blown! Looks like I’m spending some money soon 😊
Just got a fresh set of army painter speedpaints for my skaventide boxset,thanks for the video.
Incredible guide and commentary! Thank you so much for making this!
Mantis Warrior Green + Black Templar = AMAZING! Makes me want to paint up some grungy cloth.
this is such an awesome tutorial. like even if i dont paint skaven, theres some tricks i really wanna take over to other armies! thank you!
So many great artists and painters on RUclips and your another one of them. I love your gritty style and as I get back into painting hope to learn a lot from your videos.
AMAZING video. I love your style and delivery, and it’s just the right amount of tips and tricks as you go. You’ve really hit your stride! Nice job and thank you for making and sharing this!
I always walk away from these videos learning something I didn't expect when I clicked on it. Thanks for the tip for birch wood!😊
So very excited! Thank you for sharing your technique. I am just about to crack open the Skaventide box and can't wait to get cracking. Great work!
I absolutely love this scheme - normally I hate using indentical schemes to anyone I watch, but I'm definitely going to be taking heavy inspiration from this scheme for my rats!
Only recently starting watching your videos and I really, really enjoy them. You have a great cadence as you convey a large amount of information and knowledge without it being overwhelming.
Well thank you! I'm very happy and relieved to hear it as I often feel like I'm rambling 😆
A nice, straightforward painting guide! Great looking models!
I'm so glad I saw your banner videos just before I commited to my paint scheme. I'll be using the skin & fur from this!
Wow, great video and really appreciate the attention to detail. I like how you explain the thought process behind your painting.
Thanks for giving me the inspiration to finally delve into the Skaventide box. Brilliant tutorial!
Wow ! Best i have seen so far ! Thanks for sharing your art.
Thanks
Thank YOU! Really appreciate the support :)
I love how this clanrat could easily fit in with my plague monks. Coincidentally I'm building the skaven side so this tutorial inspires me.
I really appreciated you breaking down your logic for the skin tone mix. I always worry about being “stuck with” standard Speedpaint skin colors, so this is helpful as a starting point for mixing my own.
Love the video - I have to paint like 50+ of these for a new AoS army and this really helped out!
Bought a bottle of the Antimatter Black paint. You did not lie, works beautifully. Thanks for the great tip!
Very glad to hear it! 🙂
I'm always worried that I'm just easily amused haha
I saw this and loved the colour scheme, so I went all in on following the guide. I'm now at 15 clanrats painted, averaging about 45 mins per rat and am really pleased with how they look. The only change I made is using the flesh mix on most of the faces to help them stand out more at a distance.
Awesome, I just assembled all the Skaven from my new box and was thinking "how the hell am I going to paint all these clanrats?" well, now I know.
Lots of tips with this video, thanks for the informative and well explained tutorial. Squeak-squeak! 🤩🐀🌠
Unrelated to the painting other than you mentioned beavers but one of my favorite facts in nature is about beaver teeth. The reason why they look so reddish brown is not because they are dirty. Instead they get that color because of the very high iron content in the teeth. That is also why they are so strong. Anyway! Great video! Really like this scheme for clan rats!
I actually used to want to be a zoologist so I LOVE random animal facts! So thank you 😄
@@DarcyBonoCreations Random animal facts are the best!
I'm gonna use this to bring my allready paintedskaven models up a notch!
Paint everything you want. Your enthusiasm will shine through and you will never know who you help.
Looking forward to giving this a go once I finish assembly!
I love your videos. Thanks for not having a schtick. Keep up the good work!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Actually, while we're on the topic...what would you consider a schtick? I only ask because I'm often solicited by companies to make videos specifically on their products. I immediately turn down the ones that have nothing to do with hobbying, but I'm considering make videos on hobby products like airbrushes.
Great video Darcy! Very very helpful.
Never was into rats but watched how you transposed Grey Seer to the dull effective colouration of the Skaven Rat with a morbid interest.
Thank you! I really appreciate hearing that because I'm never quite sure if I should do faction specific tutorials or just stick with certain effects.
Thanks so much for the ideas on contrast method
Great helpful tutorial!
Excellent! Freakin love contrast paints. Just recently started using them with a gloomspite spearhead box and theyre really excellent to have in the kit
Great video! Jam packed with useful tips
Great video! I'm waiting for more skaven vids ^.^
and I finally found a suitable paint scheme for my plague zombies.
Thanks a lot
Like the way you are honest about no game plan. Do that myself, then stop painting for a few months and wonder why I cant match colours!!!
Eeyep! That happens with me too. After all these years I've finally started writing down things in a Google Doc 😄.
@@DarcyBonoCreations I did that for a while, wrote things down. Lost the book.
This goes lovely with Pestilens sllignes Clanrats
very nice colors
Ooooh the green mix you did looks way better than Plaguebearer Flesh!
Great work!❤
Thanks for the video
love it! I hope you will do some of the characters from the tide box like that one riding the large rat or the rattling gun
I was really excited for my rat army to get started, but I was worried about painting them honestly. Thanks so much for this video, it gave me the confidence to approach my skaven with pure excitement instead of a little dread. I have two questions if you don't mind answering:
1) Do you have any tips on how to enhance a paintjob like this on more important models like the clawlord? Besides the obvious answer of doing manual volumetric highlights with say a glaze of a base paint of the appropriate color in the right places.
2) Do you have any yellow contrast/speedpaint recommendations for a color with similar texture to your green cloak, but of course with a yellow color?
Thanks a ton!
Video thank you 😊
amazing work, I have only just started working on a colour scheme for some Flesheater Ghouls, and in the first 5 seconds I wanted to switch to Skaven XD
Aw well thank you! I do have a video on FEC if you're interested 🙂.
Great stuff
Thank you for recording this tutorial. I’m just getting into playing Skaven in the Old World setting, so this showed up at an opportune time. That being said, do you have any plans to record tutorials for people who are interested in using oil paints instead of acrylics?
Glad to hear it! And I've honestly never used oils before, BUT my husband is a historical scale model hobbyist and he uses oils regularly...so there's a chance I can get him to show his stuff on the channel.
@ That would be so cool if your husband was willing to showcase his stuff!
Love the green on the banner! I would have like to see the buil up on it. :)
@@hangarbay8895 Here ya go: ruclips.net/video/jeZV3fNEo-M/видео.html
@@DarcyBonoCreations Thx! 😁
Snakebite leather is a very nice paint for wood, its the closest ive found to the box art.
Thank you for doing the darkest color first. So many or these tutorials go the other way around and I keep thinking that could cause more of an issue if you make mistakes
Also, thanks for not doing hairless rat style so many other Skaven tutorials do. Despise that look...
J’adore ❤
I love this scheme. Was wondering what other colours would you use for the skin fur to add more variety
I've used Ratling Grime (a greyish brown) Basilicanum Grey (a brownish Grey) and if you want a cooler Grey, mix in a little Apothrcary White into the Basilicanum Grey. You can also thin them to varying degrees for variety as the my transparent they are, the lighter they'll look. Finally you can try putting them over light grey or ivory base coats for even more variation as the former will make the subsequent layers darker and the latter will make them warmer (the browns will be more brown).
Perfect. Just what I needed combined with your banner video. I don't suppose you are going to do something similar for the rat ogres?
Great video, could you please share what brushes are you using in this tutorial?
YES YES more inspiration need ;]
These are brilliant! Great video, been holding off painting mine until now. So many Clans 😅 what Clan is this?
Thanks! No particular clan, just a color scheme I made up. I think it could work well for Pestilens or Enshin though.
I would love to see how you did the banner guys, banner. It looks awesome would love to know how you did the transition from the black the the green. It looks almost splattered on it.
Boop: ruclips.net/video/jeZV3fNEo-M/видео.html
Yes-yes!!
This is great can't wait for my skaven box now. Do you have any recommendations for other colours to use instead of mantis green to add variation to the ravening horde? Looking at a contrast paint chart I was thinking Arkhelian green or Aeldari Emerald for some blues. I really like your banner rat! That beige looks great and makes the banner pop. What mix did you use for this? Thanks. Great guides.
@Squapin-ROR
Thank you! I'm mainly sticking with warm greens for mine so I'd probably do Militarum Green and mainly adding variation with color placement. But that being said Stahly has a chart of all the speed paints on the market that I use all the time for color selection. You have to purchase it, but for the price I've found it very helpful www.patreon.com/stahlytaleofpainters/shop/4-in-1-contrast-speedpaint-one-coat-154304?source=storefront
And the beige banner is a mix of Skeleton Horde & Ratling Grime & Lahmian Medium mixed in an even ratio over a drybrush undershaded surface (video tutorial:ruclips.net/video/jeZV3fNEo-M/видео.html)
Christ they look fking mint.
This came out awesome! New to the channel and wanted to ask, (apologies if it’s been answered before), what brush do you use with contrast/speedpaint?
Great video! Are all the paints on your “paint list” contrast (except the primer)?
Thanks! All but the last three paints in the list (the metallics and the white).
Love this vid..how did you do the white color on the middle model's shoulders/arms darcy?
@zm0rc Thanks! It's the same as I used on the moldy banner video just less grungy. Skeleton Horde + Ratling Grime + Lahmian Medium over a drybrush undershaded surface (Video: ruclips.net/video/jeZV3fNEo-M/видео.html)
Hello Darcy, thx you for greats tutos! Could you give the ref of your brushes plz?
Thank you! They're just synthetics I buy at Michaels. I use size 1s and 2s for smaller stuff and size 4 for larger portions: www.michaels.com/product/golden-taklon-short-handle-round-brush-by-artists-loft-vienna--10013283?
Awesome vid! What color/recipe would you use for the metal helmets/top armor for those certain clanrats? Having trouble figuring out what would match- not sure if I should match it to the recipe used for the trim for the shield
I plan on doing a dark bronze (thinned Wyldwood Brown over Leadbelcher, sparingly edge highlighted w/ Runelord Brass). If you're painting the fur black or dark grey like this, I'd stick with warmer colors like brass and bronze since you've already got a lot of neutral tones between the grungy fabric, black fabric and dark fur.
Fantastic tutorial! I'm thinking of doing something very similar for the fur and black, but swapping the green for an orange. Do you have any tips for making sure the other details of the model stand out from the orange?
Oooo nice! I'd go with Gor Grunta Fur for a burnt orange or possibly mix in a little of that into Gryph Hound Orange for a bit more vibrant orange. To make the other details stand out, just avoid warm saturated colors like browns. So for the fur, black and charcoal. For the metal pale browns are fine, like Ratling Grime over silver would work.
I love these models, I wanted to ask, on the middle guy, err rat sorry 😂 😢
What did you use to do the grey cloth ?
Thanks and subbed your videos are very informative!
@dodge7729 Hey thanks so much for the sub! So the grey fabric is just the same as the filthy fabric in the banner at the end of the video (just without all the grunge). It's Skeleton Horde & Ratling Grime (mixed in about a 2:1 over a grey undershaded surface). It's in the following video under the filthy banner section: ruclips.net/video/jeZV3fNEo-M/видео.html
@@DarcyBonoCreationsperfect thanks for the reply, look forward to future videos!
is contrast medium just another paint or is it something specific? you mention adding contrast medium to the black templar paint, what would you add to it if you needed to? thanks for the vid!
Here's a concise video from the GW team that explains mediums: ruclips.net/video/2w-WFgemGlw/видео.htmlsi=Z02UhBERFkIfchC9
It's just the solution that the pigment of the paint floats. By adding more of it to the paint, you make it more transparent and it flows more easily. Also, I'm sorry but I don't understand your second question. "What would I add to it if you needed to?" If I needed to what?
@@DarcyBonoCreations thank you! you said in the beginning of the video that one could add "contrast medium" to the black templar paint if needed, but that you didn't in the video. but now that i understand what contrast medium is, i see that my question can be a bit confusing. i thought contrast medium was something entirely separate from the contrast paint, but i know now that it's just the solution that is mixed in together with the contrast paint. idk if i'm making sense lol
This is brilliant. Just out of interest, how did you get the effect on the shield of the middle skaven?
how on earth did you get your grey seer spray to go on so nicely 😭 i tried it and even after shaking the can for 5 minutes i got super textured speckle
models
Both humidity, wind and distance from the model can cause speckles. I'll generally prime with the garage door up so a breeze isn't drying the primer before it reaches the model but I'm not spraying inside. Same goes for if you're spraying too far away; the paint droplets dry before reaching the model. Check out the Citadel Colour app, it's free and they have a quick video on a few best practices for spray priming.
I used grey seer primer and the black templar straight from the pot, but the robes look a lot darker than yours, which have that slightly gray/blue tint. I thought I was being fairly conservative with it though. Any tips there?
You can try applying a splotch and then immediately rinsing your brush, and smoothing the paint with your damp brush. That way paint isn't continually be deposited onto the model, you're just spreading out, making a thinner/more transparent layer. But in all honesty, just being even more conservative applying the Black Templar, you should notice it become lighter. The thinner the layer of paint, the more the light under layer will show through and the lighter the black will look.
@@DarcyBonoCreations thanks! I'll try smoothing it out on the rim of the container a bit more and see if that gives better results.
Dammit...so many awesome ideas for my clanrats, how am I to choose?!
Roll a D20 😉
I have painted 5 minis so far in this style and I love the colour scheme but I can't seem to get the black to look similar. I have been base painting them with the grey seer rather than coating them with a spray? Is that method such a big difference for the painting? I am very new to this.
Just to clarify, are you priming your miniatures first? Or are you just base coating Grey Seer over bare plastic? That can make a difference, but to better answer the question I'll need to know how your black looks differently?
@@DarcyBonoCreations I have been giving it multiple coats of base paint which was shown in a tutorial video of warhammer painting. It looks either very thick black or shows grey through the paint. But I can almost guess it has to do with the priming, if I understand correctly the priming is to use a spray first?
Saurus warrior please!!!
When I first got into painting regularly I bought a set of the 1.0 speedpaints and have been fighting with them ever since. Because of this I’ve mostly written of speed/contrast paints but your stuff makes me want to invest in some Contrast paints and give it anuvva go.
Very glad to hear it! Honestly I did not like the first version of Speed Paints at all. I found them way too runny and uncontrollable (plus the reactivation issue). The new ones are better as far as those issues though.
Aaaaahh I'd kill to learn how ye might paint albino clanrats
14:50 how will be efect comper to use baltazar gold? [ i just hav that piant] not shure if make sens have 2 gold paint at start
Balthasar Gold is kinda a dark copper and you need to work with light colored paints when working with Contrast Paints. If you're using Balthasar Gold you could shade it with something like Ratling Grime, but I'd probably edge highlight it back up again because it's already pretty dark. Basically it won't look similar to the color in the video.
Is there another option for the antimatter black? I can’t get that in Canada? Black Templar?
Any acrylic black paint will work (i.e Abaddon Black), you just want a fully black surface. Don't use Black Templar though; it's a semi transparent so isn't going to give a fully black surface without multiple coats.
@@DarcyBonoCreations ok ty very much :) You are awesome yes yes :)
Would this paint scheme also work with zenithal highlight slapchop? Or would it ruin some of the colors?
Yes this will work with slapchop, it just won't be as vibrant due to the initial darker underlayer.
@@DarcyBonoCreationsso black would ruin the vibrant colors, but how about a brown and grey slapchop?
Brown is gonna make your greens look more olive in the shadows and grey is gonna give you slightly lighter shadows than with black. Honestly as long as you heavily drybrush the white over top, your under shade won't really ruin anything unless you're painting something like Yellow over a black under shade.
Do you have any experience with vallejo glaze medium instead of lanhmian medium?
Yep! Now this was before they reformulated this past year, but I found it to be closer to Contrast Medium. It didn't feel like it flows as much.
@ they reformulated lahmian medium? So you would stick to lahmian still right?
Sorry, I was referring to the Vallejo Glaze medium. Vallejo did a refresh on all of their paints (game, model and mecha) so I haven't tried the new version of the glaze yet. As a rule glaze mediums tend not to flow as much as thinner mediums so I would recommend Lahmian Medium since you're trying to get the paint to spread out.
How do you mix 1drop with 2drops with Citadels stupid pots?
By dumping them into dropper bottles like these (www.amazon.com/Adecco-LLC-Plastic-Squeezable-Childproof/dp/B01F73QCJM/). You also don't HAVE to be exact, the ratios are just there as a guide. You can take a dollop of paint on your brush, put it on the palette and then mix 2 dollops of a different paint and still achieve a similar color.
@@DarcyBonoCreationssmart! Thank you
I dont care. I still want a Catl faction. "We are the Children of beauty and cruelty!! Run! Run! As we catch! Catch! Please struggle!! Holy Basstiz! She who conquered long ago...shall again!!"
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
But seriously I have been dying for a Cat faction since WFB 😄. Something like a more sinister Ajani from MTG or the Khajit would be awesone.
@@DarcyBonoCreations thanks. I've a good few stories (horror, science fiction etc) on a few YT channels (the frantic frank and the perpetual motion machine, would perhaps appeal). I might actually just..write one. I've already had alexander the great fight the deep ones.
@@DarcyBonoCreations I had to look up what a Wendy's is. Hopefully my first book next year is not.
It's daunting looking at painting 20 of them? There's 40 of the little fuckers in this box!!
Yep I know, I was referring to unit size 😄. Hope the recipe helps crank through all 40 faster.
Would you be willing to do a bad moons Ork tutorial? I've watched your yellow armor tutorials and ork tutorials but seeing it together and seeing if you have a different recipe for BM ork armor would be super cool.
@SilversongNox Actually the yellow in my Ironjawz video (ruclips.net/video/u4kjFZ-R3Ok/видео.htmlsi=apZiN0kQm0p5a0gt)
is exactly how I paint my Bad Moons armor (x.com/Darcy_Bono/status/1424790192594907139?t=9ir0PDYdzV6sfuHtBGFn3Q&s=19). Their skin is also the one from the following video (ruclips.net/video/bw0lmE_kkAg/видео.htmlsi=0ACLitsJmFvbdmhy). So I really don't have much more to cover for them.
@@DarcyBonoCreations Oh Awesome! Thank you!
C🐭🐭L
I thought clan rats had brown fur.
? Skaven have all different coloration of fur
Nope, they're rat men; they come in a variety of colors. In the old Skaven Heraldry book from WFB, there are many examples this. Also, as I mentioned in the video, I'm already going to be painting my metallics in bronze and didn't want the two browns to blend in.
In whfb black fur skavens were specifically stormvermins but this is aos now. Also, depending where they hang, dirty brown fur will look black :)
Yeah.. paint however you want, hehe. I was just curious
I seen an albino skaven army with red eyes! Looked amazing!