For anyone who wants to do this but is unsure about doing really fine edge highlighting with a brush; Get a colored pencil like white or lightblue and run that along your edges. Or normal grey pencil for putting edges on metallic stuff. Works like a charm and is very easy to control or correct if you mess up.
I have just started painting and edge highlights are incredibly difficult for me. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough paint on the brush, sometimes too much. Despite all the resources, there's a lot of common knowledge stuff that isn't common for beginners.
Thank you for the tip! I will for sure try it. I found using a super soft, very fine-pored sponge, like a make-up blending sponge, with dry paint, works great with highlights too vs a brush.
It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this, I can’t tell you how much I love the technique and the result, especially the ultramarine scheme. I just need the courage to try it on my strike force Justian models!
I just love that the finish given by Grimdark makes the model feel so much more alive and in the midst of battle. It's brilliant and you execute it with a level of care that makes any painting style so much more enthralling.
I would really love to see the Dark Angels for the next video in the series, either the basic green armor or the bright tan/bone of the deathwing. I’ve had a really hard time finding references and tutorials for them that I really love and I would love to see your take on them
This is the exact technique I was looking for. Iv always felt that 40k models were painted too cleanly and this is the perfect amount of ware and grime to capture the grim darkness
This ultra realistic style has inspired me in painting several of my minis. I’m currently doing a Legion of the Damned Marine. Thanks for the inspiration 👍
How good are your follower's results? AWESOME! You're teaching and helping so many painters, Trov. Love it. You hit a HUGE nail by stating that you needed to define your own methods of weathering on the smaller scale. Doing it all with acrylics also helps the younger crowd. Not everyone has access to oils and enamels. You can do so much with a basic acrylic starter set by getting creative.
Looks wicked. As a filthy dark angels player I'd like to see you tackle the first! I'd be interested to see how you'd deal with the already dark green ^_^
Hey Trovarion your content lately I think has been getting better and better; your techniques and tips were always good but I think you have really stepped it up a notch and I just wanted to say I feel like I noticed some growth and I love it. Thanks for being a pioneer, pushing for new territory, and sharing the journey.
Now that looks like a proper 40k marine. The showroom finish is technically brilliant but despite being ‘Sci-fi’ looks unrealistic. This oozes atmosphere and places the miniature on a battlefield.
I used this method back when your video came out for my Primaris Chaplain and it's still one of my most interesting paint jobs years later. Taught me a lot about taking advantage of the actual properties of paint and pigment. Love this style.
Hey Trovarion, apologies in advance for getting a little mushy here, but I wanted to thank you again for this video. I came to your channel for the techniques and painting tips, but the thing that always makes me pumped to come back for your next video is that I just freakin adore you. I identify a lot with things you express about your personality in this video and others, and not only does it feel great to feel like I've got a lot of common ground with someone I look up to, but your openness and honesty about your struggles and challenges and how you cope with them--like constantly needing to evolve new styles in order to not get bored, etc.; I feel like that stuff gives me a lot of insight into how to cope with my own struggles as an artist, and I think that stuff is at least as valuable as the techniques and lessons about painting itself, and I just can't thank you enough for being you, sharing yourself and your art journey, and for the years of great content and lessons. You rule, man.
absolutely love using grimdark style for space marines. i actually am in the middle of my first commission of Ultramarines and i'm doing them all grimdark. glad to see channels showing it some love still
Simply fkn awesome. Pure Gigachad Trovarion: Sees the "chop", slaps it in the dirt by creating his own style, refuses to elaborate and leaves. It truely is a joy to see your journey on RUclips over the last years. The quality is getting insane. Proud to be a Patreon Member!
Echoing a few comments here, I'd love to see a Dark Angel in this technique. Getting that rich green that's still dark enough for purpose yet has enough contrast is always hard
"Making it feel fun, not a chore" Love that take in the beginning on finding what is fun for you. Sometimes it's fun for me to put in the tedious work to get a really high level or improve my skill. Others it's quick and fun. There is room for both.
I’m infatuated with this series. I have such a petty but intense sense of revulsion to the constant “parade march” style of painting I see everywhere, as if everyone is fresh off the factory. Completely opposite to the lore and atmosphere of the 40k universe. Your work is a breath of fresh air in a stagnant basement. I am both inspired and will look forward to each release eagerly.
When I first started doing minis, I got some flaks around me because I would paint my space marines as dirty looking rather than all clean. I do get the satisfaction of having a nice and clean paintjob, especially when you are learning the basics, but I got brushed off for the ideas of doing Space marines that looks battleworn as just me hiding how bad I actually was at painting rather than me truely liking my paintjob. Sure I did and I still suck, but your minis and your paintjob warms my heart that yes, you can get a very awesome looking space marine that looks like he is on an actual campaign rather than a military parade, and the paintjob would still look rad.
uuu... really cool! i cant wait to try it! i propose dark angels chapter, since is really overloked. For me is one of the "grim darkest" chapters but it only gets that moot green-neon treatement
Gnarly.. this is top tier brother, hats off. Suggestion for next model, Dark Angels Assault Intercessor, Ravenwing themed with some green and red eyes 😎
I'm preparing to start painting my first set of minis. Super excited to try this out on a few of my units to highlight the troops that are more seasoned rather than fresh recruits.
I love this style and technique. I just got myself some Dark Angels, hope to see your take on them at some point in this style btw. I however tried out different schemes and colours for them over two weeks before I came across your Blood Angel video and I just love the final look of them! I still need some time to get the sponging right and get paitient enough in generell to paint in quite thin layers but I prefer this way FAR over slapchop!
I did a custom chapter in this style following the blood angles video. It took 2 or 3 hours and is one of my favourite models. The investment of time vs. result really is excellent. It's also a very easy and relatively stress free way to paint compared to the hyper focused each pixel counts approach.
This style is absolutely astounding. I love how You painted Blood Angels and I need to finally show it to my father, because He collects them. Personnaly I would like to see White Scars or any chapter in white armor, because I plan to paint World Eaters in pre-heresy colors for Gladiator Cadre 331 or Salamanders, my absolutely favourite legion/chapter and I think that style would be suiteble for them.
Although i opt for a more clean style when painting my miniatures. i love watching these videos and seeing the results. It looks really striking and very much like you expect to see a war torn marine. One thing that would be awesome is to see this approach on a darker color scheme like dark angels. I always struggle to weather darker base tones, as a lot weathering is is dark grimy colors which don't always have the impact, compared to doing it on a yellow or blue.
Haven't painted a single mini in ages, but watching your videos truly gives me inspiration to star again, I'd love to see this method applied to the space wolves armor 😁 Great work as always! 😀
It's fantastic! As an Ultramarines player it's something that I have a strong urge to do as I think it would simplify the painting process for me (I'm not very good!), however I think for now I'll stick to a more 'standard' method to try and improve my basic painting skills, even if it takes me longer. Definitely going to try this approach on a future army. Would be really interesting to see how you'd apply it to a metallic armour colour - thinking something like Minotaurs etc.
I love the weathering, it gives tons of realism to any mini. I always imagine that after five minutes of battle all space marines are totally chipped and dirty.
I honestly don't know where that idea comes from. Maybe because I am massively uncomfortable in front of the camera and I have gotten slightly more used to it? I never had an ego about my painting ever...so this impression I give really confuses me...haha.
I've been doing something like this on vehicles for a while, and it looks good at making the space marine armour look less like "armour" and more like "power armour" than other methods, I like it a lot.
That's why my preferred style of painting is grimdark. Even when painting fantasy or animail miniatures, technics used in here makes more believable piece. Grimdark tales a story about life, and life is not always pretty. Thank you for preaching Grimdark!
You got a fantastic result. What you have done here, is demonstrated a woefully underutilized painting aesthetic and technique for models - stipple shading and stipple texturing. The funny part is that this technique produces top-tier results - but is not nearly as laborious or time consuming as what is currently thought of as "traditional" layering techniques.
Something i tried recently for a customer who wanted a seriously battered "crusade" look to her Space Wolves/Dark Angels force was to tear a piece of the foam packaging from the insert of a figure tray up into VERY small pieces, dab them into some lightly thinned paint, wipe/dab the excess off on a paper towel, then lightly dab the armour. This left me with a very nice chipped/worn/Grimdark mottling over a black primer base paint, and then I did the same with smaller pieces of foam, using different steel to silver mixed with greys of various shades. I'd already applied the decals for her squads, so they got the mottled effect, too. By the time I'd finished the figures, they looked like they'd spent centuries in constant battle, world-weary and almost beyond repair, but also looked pretty awesome, too :-) She was delighted with them, as they were exactly how she wanted her crusade force to look, and she's now commissioned her entire force (Vehicles and all) to be done the same way. LOVE how you do the figure in this video, and I'll try it out on some of my own Kill Team Phobos Marines soon :-)
I really love your take on grimdark, I have tried to paint three space marines in this style, and just like you I really enjoyed it. It's so satisfying to see the colours come together. I would like to see either a grimdark Space Wolf or Dark Angel. Thanks again for keeping up the good work.
Like a dekade ago, this is how I painted rust effects. Just using various brown and orange tones and at the end either highlighted or just drybrushed with a silver metal colour and it was done.
This is video belongs in the proverbial minipainting RUclipss hall of fame. I’ve watched a statistically significant sample size of videos to make that claim with a 99% confidence interval. Beyond the obvious (I like the results one can achieve with this sort of thing in a stepwise fashion)…it’s 1, adaptable, and 2, a damn fun way to paint. It’s an especially enjoyable way for me to paint Space Marines, which are - despite getting a lion’s share of GW’s effort as a company and thus range from very good to stunning sculpts - kind of a bore to paint. Big open curves and lots of empty space begs for the stippling. I don’t even really go for what I think of as some kind of obvious grimdark look. They just look weathered to me. The adaptability comes in here. I go fast and over-highlight a lot up to a desaturated highest highlight, then hit it with easy glazes. Both to bring the saturation back up top and to bring my shadows back in line. Blackline and then some additional easy weathering (scratches, stipple in glazes for stains, etc). Boom. A really good looking Marine quite quickly because I’m very rarely being that careful (I do have pretty good brush control these days though…which this exercise has made me more aware of).
Just wanted to add: big open curves and negative space are not in and of themselves why I don’t like painting space marines (those are things I love in other contexts). Space Marines being boring to paint has more to do with them all being the same basic set of curves and negative space and everyone, collectively, having painted literally what has to be tens of millions of them at this point.
So a brown primer would work and then start the blue show. Im doing a dark angel army. With their new codex coming I would REALLY love a guide to a grim dark painting scheme :)
I love what you do, how you film it, edit it, and I steel your process and some Richard Gray stuff and damn….I am happy. You do you so I can continue to learn how to do me!! Thanks so much!!
Really enjoying this content. Your delivery and production make new processes and techniques understandable, relatable and most importantly applicable. Feeling very inspired. Already subscribed - rung the bell for all notifications going forwards.
Don't usually comment on these vids but watching this i felt like I needed to say - the way you use seemingly simple techniques to such great effect, and in ways I never would have thought to, is truly impressive. I've seen your vids with more advanced techniques and the result is always incredible. But i feel the demonstration of a true master of an art form is to use simple techniques to incredible effect as you have in this one.
just got back into warhammer again after my 15 years or so away, my wife brought me blackstone fortress box game. This guide is how I imagine a space marine to look, I completely love this style, I have always found normal painting they look too nice. This makes it look like u mentioned the armour looks like it has been in as long campaign, I find it a more realistic looking model.
When it come to a slapchop paint job style. I used a familiar method for the Ironwarrior, Word Bearer ,Black legion and Night Lords models. As to give them grim dark look while looking clean enough look for some one who do regular maintence to their war gear. For me i find acrylique paint and Vehelio paint with some shading work for a grim look. Also to make some of my models look like their gear have a grim dark look that the gear seen better days i like to use a scapel blade and damage the mode for where damage done by a melee blade or a bullet make sense for a mark left on the armor still from a previous fight.
I was planning on painting up some space marines using slap chop method, but after seeing this video, think I am gonna give this a shot. It looks amazing!!
This is the way ! and this is what a model should look like when coming from a grim dark future... Having done 1/35 tanks model with all the weathering / realistic effect for so long, I could not believe that most people painted their 40k models with that pristine almost plastic look...
This is exactly what I was looking for. I really wanted to do my ultramarines in a worn and battle tested look and this seems to be a great way of doing so.
I love this dirty, weathered grim dark paint style. Its really the first method I've seen that gives me that same feeling i have when thinking about the 40k universe; drab, hopeless, dark, and utterly fantastic. Huge props 👍 Going to try my homebrew order of flame inspired sororitas like this!
A chapter that I think would be very interesting to paint that way would be the Salamander, especially if you paint their legs with their usual bright orange flame motifs. Their deep green and bright orange will be very interesting to weather heavily.
As someone who absolutely detests doing Edge Highlights (or the typical 'Eavy Metal style) this video is a godesend. Looks so much more enjoyable than painting edges for hours and hours.
Nailed it! When I finally get down how to do it with my raptors (basing in dark olive drab) I'll share it with ya so you can see your influence! Bad ass stuff man. Keep it going!
Would love to see your interpretation of Dark Angels! I feel like a lot of art for them skews into Salamanders, so would be very keen to see how you do them!
I'd love to see this style on a death guard mini!! Change it up with some chaos, and I'd be interested to see how you paint and bring interest into all the different textures in a grimdark way
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We would love to see you paint grim dark Plague Marines ! Thanks so much for sharing man.
@Andrew Sullivan thanks for lmk!
Paint salamanders! You could try a cool burnt paint effect, like it’s peeling or something different like that
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Can you do a video on brushes plz
For anyone who wants to do this but is unsure about doing really fine edge highlighting with a brush; Get a colored pencil like white or lightblue and run that along your edges. Or normal grey pencil for putting edges on metallic stuff. Works like a charm and is very easy to control or correct if you mess up.
I have just started painting and edge highlights are incredibly difficult for me. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough paint on the brush, sometimes too much.
Despite all the resources, there's a lot of common knowledge stuff that isn't common for beginners.
i chose suffering 😂😂
Thank you for the tip! I will for sure try it. I found using a super soft, very fine-pored sponge, like a make-up blending sponge, with dry paint, works great with highlights too vs a brush.
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It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this, I can’t tell you how much I love the technique and the result, especially the ultramarine scheme. I just need the courage to try it on my strike force Justian models!
I just love that the finish given by Grimdark makes the model feel so much more alive and in the midst of battle. It's brilliant and you execute it with a level of care that makes any painting style so much more enthralling.
I would really love to see the Dark Angels for the next video in the series, either the basic green armor or the bright tan/bone of the deathwing. I’ve had a really hard time finding references and tutorials for them that I really love and I would love to see your take on them
second this!
This style of painting makes the finished mini in the photos look like it is 54mm rather than 30mm; great work.
This is the exact technique I was looking for. Iv always felt that 40k models were painted too cleanly and this is the perfect amount of ware and grime to capture the grim darkness
This ultra realistic style has inspired me in painting several of my minis. I’m currently doing a Legion of the Damned Marine. Thanks for the inspiration 👍
Your grimdark series is just so refreshing. The models look so much more alive than the traditional box art. Thank you!
This is masterwork. I can't believe some people don't like this. Love all your work!
How good are your follower's results? AWESOME! You're teaching and helping so many painters, Trov. Love it.
You hit a HUGE nail by stating that you needed to define your own methods of weathering on the smaller scale. Doing it all with acrylics also helps the younger crowd. Not everyone has access to oils and enamels. You can do so much with a basic acrylic starter set by getting creative.
Looks wicked. As a filthy dark angels player I'd like to see you tackle the first! I'd be interested to see how you'd deal with the already dark green ^_^
As a new Dark Angels player i'd love to see a new way of painting them!
I like it, is probably one of the best takes on the dark and grim style I have seen.
Hey Trovarion your content lately I think has been getting better and better; your techniques and tips were always good but I think you have really stepped it up a notch and I just wanted to say I feel like I noticed some growth and I love it. Thanks for being a pioneer, pushing for new territory, and sharing the journey.
It really looks bad-ass. Dark Angels next? I have an entire army of unpainted Dark Angels, and am in desperate need of inspiration.
Now that looks like a proper 40k marine. The showroom finish is technically brilliant but despite being ‘Sci-fi’ looks unrealistic. This oozes atmosphere and places the miniature on a battlefield.
I used this method back when your video came out for my Primaris Chaplain and it's still one of my most interesting paint jobs years later. Taught me a lot about taking advantage of the actual properties of paint and pigment. Love this style.
Hey Trovarion, apologies in advance for getting a little mushy here, but I wanted to thank you again for this video. I came to your channel for the techniques and painting tips, but the thing that always makes me pumped to come back for your next video is that I just freakin adore you. I identify a lot with things you express about your personality in this video and others, and not only does it feel great to feel like I've got a lot of common ground with someone I look up to, but your openness and honesty about your struggles and challenges and how you cope with them--like constantly needing to evolve new styles in order to not get bored, etc.; I feel like that stuff gives me a lot of insight into how to cope with my own struggles as an artist, and I think that stuff is at least as valuable as the techniques and lessons about painting itself, and I just can't thank you enough for being you, sharing yourself and your art journey, and for the years of great content and lessons. You rule, man.
I love this method. Ive been using it for my Dark Angels and while they're not as awesome as yours. I like em. Cheers Trovarion
absolutely love using grimdark style for space marines. i actually am in the middle of my first commission of Ultramarines and i'm doing them all grimdark. glad to see channels showing it some love still
Simply fkn awesome. Pure Gigachad Trovarion: Sees the "chop", slaps it in the dirt by creating his own style, refuses to elaborate and leaves.
It truely is a joy to see your journey on RUclips over the last years. The quality is getting insane. Proud to be a Patreon Member!
Echoing a few comments here, I'd love to see a Dark Angel in this technique. Getting that rich green that's still dark enough for purpose yet has enough contrast is always hard
That was one of the smoothest transitions to a sponsor ad I've ever seen.
I've watched a lot of videos recently about painting and this style is by far the most realistic I have personally come across!
"Making it feel fun, not a chore" Love that take in the beginning on finding what is fun for you. Sometimes it's fun for me to put in the tedious work to get a really high level or improve my skill. Others it's quick and fun. There is room for both.
Exactly!
I’m infatuated with this series. I have such a petty but intense sense of revulsion to the constant “parade march” style of painting I see everywhere, as if everyone is fresh off the factory. Completely opposite to the lore and atmosphere of the 40k universe.
Your work is a breath of fresh air in a stagnant basement. I am both inspired and will look forward to each release eagerly.
When I first started doing minis, I got some flaks around me because I would paint my space marines as dirty looking rather than all clean. I do get the satisfaction of having a nice and clean paintjob, especially when you are learning the basics, but I got brushed off for the ideas of doing Space marines that looks battleworn as just me hiding how bad I actually was at painting rather than me truely liking my paintjob.
Sure I did and I still suck, but your minis and your paintjob warms my heart that yes, you can get a very awesome looking space marine that looks like he is on an actual campaign rather than a military parade, and the paintjob would still look rad.
I love each version of these videos as they come out. I find this style matches really nicely when for making an old battered imperial knight
That tip about the contrast paint over white is genius.
I love this method, it’s genuinely great to watch. You see things really tighten up as each pass is applied.
uuu... really cool! i cant wait to try it!
i propose dark angels chapter, since is really overloked. For me is one of the "grim darkest" chapters but it only gets that moot green-neon treatement
Gnarly.. this is top tier brother, hats off.
Suggestion for next model, Dark Angels Assault Intercessor, Ravenwing themed with some green and red eyes 😎
I'm preparing to start painting my first set of minis. Super excited to try this out on a few of my units to highlight the troops that are more seasoned rather than fresh recruits.
I’d enjoy you trying this on Dark Angels. I’d be curious to see what choices you make. As always, great video.
I’ve used your method for so many things now, to include my Ork Trukk, Deffkopta, and Deff Dread. STUPID SIMPLE AND AWESOME
I used your grim dark technique on my horus heresy space marines love how they look
I love this style and technique. I just got myself some Dark Angels, hope to see your take on them at some point in this style btw. I however tried out different schemes and colours for them over two weeks before I came across your Blood Angel video and I just love the final look of them! I still need some time to get the sponging right and get paitient enough in generell to paint in quite thin layers but I prefer this way FAR over slapchop!
I did a custom chapter in this style following the blood angles video. It took 2 or 3 hours and is one of my favourite models. The investment of time vs. result really is excellent. It's also a very easy and relatively stress free way to paint compared to the hyper focused each pixel counts approach.
I'd love to see Salamanders next up. Absolutely love this technique. Looking forward to trying it out soon 😊
I love grim battered marines :) . It's the bright shiny ones I struggle with . Excellent work . Keep it up :)
i'd love to see the Dark Angels with this scheme, it looks amazing!
This style is absolutely astounding. I love how You painted Blood Angels and I need to finally show it to my father, because He collects them. Personnaly I would like to see White Scars or any chapter in white armor, because I plan to paint World Eaters in pre-heresy colors for Gladiator Cadre 331 or Salamanders, my absolutely favourite legion/chapter and I think that style would be suiteble for them.
Hi, I’ve painted a few in white armour in Grimdark style. Feel free to view some of my uploads 👍
Although i opt for a more clean style when painting my miniatures. i love watching these videos and seeing the results. It looks really striking and very much like you expect to see a war torn marine. One thing that would be awesome is to see this approach on a darker color scheme like dark angels. I always struggle to weather darker base tones, as a lot weathering is is dark grimy colors which don't always have the impact, compared to doing it on a yellow or blue.
Working on the painting my Marines right now. This vid is one of my best inspirations. Thanks.
Haven't painted a single mini in ages, but watching your videos truly gives me inspiration to star again, I'd love to see this method applied to the space wolves armor 😁
Great work as always! 😀
Started to watch to hear Trovarion say 'sponge'. Stayed for the awesome paint job. Both did not disappoint.
It's fantastic! As an Ultramarines player it's something that I have a strong urge to do as I think it would simplify the painting process for me (I'm not very good!), however I think for now I'll stick to a more 'standard' method to try and improve my basic painting skills, even if it takes me longer. Definitely going to try this approach on a future army. Would be really interesting to see how you'd apply it to a metallic armour colour - thinking something like Minotaurs etc.
I love the weathering, it gives tons of realism to any mini. I always imagine that after five minutes of battle all space marines are totally chipped and dirty.
you feel much more humble and welcoming in this video than in some of your old ones. I really like that!
I honestly don't know where that idea comes from. Maybe because I am massively uncomfortable in front of the camera and I have gotten slightly more used to it? I never had an ego about my painting ever...so this impression I give really confuses me...haha.
I've been doing something like this on vehicles for a while, and it looks good at making the space marine armour look less like "armour" and more like "power armour" than other methods, I like it a lot.
I also must say that I love your style here. It's what I'm always going for, and sometimes getting to.
That's why my preferred style of painting is grimdark. Even when painting fantasy or animail miniatures, technics used in here makes more believable piece. Grimdark tales a story about life, and life is not always pretty. Thank you for preaching Grimdark!
You got a fantastic result. What you have done here, is demonstrated a woefully underutilized painting aesthetic and technique for models - stipple shading and stipple texturing. The funny part is that this technique produces top-tier results - but is not nearly as laborious or time consuming as what is currently thought of as "traditional" layering techniques.
Something i tried recently for a customer who wanted a seriously battered "crusade" look to her Space Wolves/Dark Angels force was to tear a piece of the foam packaging from the insert of a figure tray up into VERY small pieces, dab them into some lightly thinned paint, wipe/dab the excess off on a paper towel, then lightly dab the armour. This left me with a very nice chipped/worn/Grimdark mottling over a black primer base paint, and then I did the same with smaller pieces of foam, using different steel to silver mixed with greys of various shades. I'd already applied the decals for her squads, so they got the mottled effect, too. By the time I'd finished the figures, they looked like they'd spent centuries in constant battle, world-weary and almost beyond repair, but also looked pretty awesome, too :-) She was delighted with them, as they were exactly how she wanted her crusade force to look, and she's now commissioned her entire force (Vehicles and all) to be done the same way. LOVE how you do the figure in this video, and I'll try it out on some of my own Kill Team Phobos Marines soon :-)
This is absolutely insane. You’re incredibly talented, brother.
Your video is very clear, dense, go straight to the point. Very interesting.
Looks amazing. Love the way this one turned out. The white weapons were a great choice.
I really love your take on grimdark, I have tried to paint three space marines in this style, and just like you I really enjoyed it. It's so satisfying to see the colours come together. I would like to see either a grimdark Space Wolf or Dark Angel. Thanks again for keeping up the good work.
Do Dark Angels next! I would love to see a really weathered Deathwing Terminator or Bladeguard Veteran!
Really great look, love how grounded the model looks all over! Would be keen to see how you'd tackle a split pattern like the Angels of Redemption
sorry but i have a question, for the first layer, he applied separetly maccrage blue and kantor blue or did he mix them?
Like a dekade ago, this is how I painted rust effects. Just using various brown and orange tones and at the end either highlighted or just drybrushed with a silver metal colour and it was done.
We didnt get a Dark Sngel tuturiel for this kind of godsend way if painting
This is video belongs in the proverbial minipainting RUclipss hall of fame. I’ve watched a statistically significant sample size of videos to make that claim with a 99% confidence interval.
Beyond the obvious (I like the results one can achieve with this sort of thing in a stepwise fashion)…it’s 1, adaptable, and 2, a damn fun way to paint. It’s an especially enjoyable way for me to paint Space Marines, which are - despite getting a lion’s share of GW’s effort as a company and thus range from very good to stunning sculpts - kind of a bore to paint. Big open curves and lots of empty space begs for the stippling.
I don’t even really go for what I think of as some kind of obvious grimdark look. They just look weathered to me. The adaptability comes in here. I go fast and over-highlight a lot up to a desaturated highest highlight, then hit it with easy glazes. Both to bring the saturation back up top and to bring my shadows back in line. Blackline and then some additional easy weathering (scratches, stipple in glazes for stains, etc). Boom. A really good looking Marine quite quickly because I’m very rarely being that careful (I do have pretty good brush control these days though…which this exercise has made me more aware of).
Just wanted to add: big open curves and negative space are not in and of themselves why I don’t like painting space marines (those are things I love in other contexts). Space Marines being boring to paint has more to do with them all being the same basic set of curves and negative space and everyone, collectively, having painted literally what has to be tens of millions of them at this point.
So a brown primer would work and then start the blue show.
Im doing a dark angel army. With their new codex coming I would REALLY love a guide to a grim dark painting scheme :)
I love what you do, how you film it, edit it, and I steel your process and some Richard Gray stuff and damn….I am happy. You do you so I can continue to learn how to do me!! Thanks so much!!
This technique led to my first space marines I was truly proud of, thanks dude!
Really enjoying this content. Your delivery and production make new processes and techniques understandable, relatable and most importantly applicable. Feeling very inspired.
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Don't usually comment on these vids but watching this i felt like I needed to say - the way you use seemingly simple techniques to such great effect, and in ways I never would have thought to, is truly impressive. I've seen your vids with more advanced techniques and the result is always incredible. But i feel the demonstration of a true master of an art form is to use simple techniques to incredible effect as you have in this one.
just got back into warhammer again after my 15 years or so away, my wife brought me blackstone fortress box game. This guide is how I imagine a space marine to look, I completely love this style, I have always found normal painting they look too nice. This makes it look like u mentioned the armour looks like it has been in as long campaign, I find it a more realistic looking model.
When it come to a slapchop paint job style. I used a familiar method for the Ironwarrior, Word Bearer ,Black legion and Night Lords models. As to give them grim dark look while looking clean enough look for some one who do regular maintence to their war gear. For me i find acrylique paint and Vehelio paint with some shading work for a grim look. Also to make some of my models look like their gear have a grim dark look that the gear seen better days i like to use a scapel blade and damage the mode for where damage done by a melee blade or a bullet make sense for a mark left on the armor still from a previous fight.
Wow this is truly the grimmest and darkest of the Space Marines.
I was planning on painting up some space marines using slap chop method, but after seeing this video, think I am gonna give this a shot. It looks amazing!!
This is the way ! and this is what a model should look like when coming from a grim dark future... Having done 1/35 tanks model with all the weathering / realistic effect for so long, I could not believe that most people painted their 40k models with that pristine almost plastic look...
Absolutely love this style, so quick with such a great grimdark effect.
Excellent work! Excited to give this a shot myself. Would love to see a green marine in this style (Dark angel/Salamander)
This is the best looking Marine. Hands down. Bought a lot of intercessors to practice this.
Looks really cool. Grey knights would be interesting to see.
I f*cking love this style of yours! It just seems so... appropriate.
This is exactly what I was looking for. I really wanted to do my ultramarines in a worn and battle tested look and this seems to be a great way of doing so.
dude!!! u just helped me with battling my macfarlane space marine (converted spacewolf) so huuuge!! huge ty!!!
I love this dirty, weathered grim dark paint style. Its really the first method I've seen that gives me that same feeling i have when thinking about the 40k universe; drab, hopeless, dark, and utterly fantastic. Huge props 👍 Going to try my homebrew order of flame inspired sororitas like this!
Looks great! I‘d love to see an Alpha Legion Loyalist with their metallic green blueish armor in this style
Love your Grimdark videos. As a newbie this style has clicked with me!!!
Great video! The intensity of the eye lenses really sell the model as an animated living thing
A chapter that I think would be very interesting to paint that way would be the Salamander, especially if you paint their legs with their usual bright orange flame motifs.
Their deep green and bright orange will be very interesting to weather heavily.
As someone who absolutely detests doing Edge Highlights (or the typical 'Eavy Metal style) this video is a godesend. Looks so much more enjoyable than painting edges for hours and hours.
Nailed it! When I finally get down how to do it with my raptors (basing in dark olive drab) I'll share it with ya so you can see your influence! Bad ass stuff man. Keep it going!
So good @Trovarion Miniatures! Please do Dark Angels Deathwing some day!
That chainsword looks unreal, incredible work.
I absolutely LOVE the pattern on the weapons
Would love to see your interpretation of Dark Angels! I feel like a lot of art for them skews into Salamanders, so would be very keen to see how you do them!
+1 for dark angels. It’d be very timely for the RUclips algorithm
I would love to see dark angels to see how you'd do the cloth in that style.
I'm in love with the hazard stripe scheme for the weapons. Overall, great result
This is the style I want to use. That looks amazing! More please, just more!
This paint job is so rad....!I want to give this a shot...now
Might be my favorite way to do ultramarines. Looks incredible!
I really like this approach. I'll have to play with it myself!
I'd love to see this style on a death guard mini!! Change it up with some chaos, and I'd be interested to see how you paint and bring interest into all the different textures in a grimdark way
That's one of the best Ultramarines I've seen, but I don't think I could manage a whole army painted in that style, a kill team yes definitely.
Will love to see a Space Wolf painted in your Grim Dark style. Anyway, thanks for your lessons.