Paint a Space Marine like it's 1988| Warhammer | Duncan Rhodes
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Because Warhammer 40,000 is celebrating its 35 year, we thought it would be fun to paint a classic, and we mean classic, Warhammer miniature in the same way that the 'Eavy Metal painters would have done back in the 80's! The miniature is a true legend, a Space Marine from the legendary RTB01 box set! Not only that, we open an old, unopened pot of Blood Angels Red (30 years old!) and paint the base in the style of the day so you know, an old pot of Goblin Green is coming out to play!
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you misspelled the website link :D
It would also be great to see hopw the old paint stack up to the more modern painting methods.
What music was used for this video? Especially at 5:34 ??
It is not in the video description.
hey man, good 80's style, loved the music. Regarding stories, I had my old beaky (AKA womble) marines out just 2 weeks ago for a game vs a friend. My dark angles army has a lot of VERY old models in it I bought as a child (Im in my 40's now). A bunch of old lead minis from back in the day, a couple of the original dreadnought models and leading it all was the original space marine captain model with big feathered head dress.
Random factoid for you - the blood angles paint scheme back in the day was teracotta base, build up with blood angels orange then highlight to bone as you have here - and it was actually cammo colours for their home world baal which is a red desert world. The red you have is not the first it used to be called blood angels orange.
Mate, seriously? You never had the original beakeys? Send me an address, I'll send you a regular and a weapons spru.
There's something extra funny about Duncan, of all people, scrubbing through four thick coats.
When I was a kid, my brother and I got the 2nd edition starter box. We painted all 40 gretchins in one night
They were not painted well, but they were painted
As long as they were "painted" then they were okay to use on the tables at GW on game night.
Duncan you look so much like my science teacher I get ptsd of bad grades when I look at you
🤣🤣🤣 As long as you learn sumptin' I guess...
@@DuncanRhodesDRPA Now recite the Periodic table!!
@@DuncanRhodesDRPA now you sound even more like a science teacher
What I like about those appalling paintjobs is that they did it. They painted them green, then red, then purple. That means that their owner had a green army and a red army and purple army and they must have used those to play the game. With three different armies. And that’s what counts.
A truly veteran Space Marine.
@@philhelm1318 My guy putting a dreadnought to shame
Yeah man played with those models for years, probably painted them repeatedly because the old coats started to wear out over the years.
Nostalgia aside, this is solid painting tips
I was one of the studio painters at the time from 1987-89 based at Low Pavement in Nottingham and we often used a lot of Rotring coloured and black inks with the paints to make things flow better and faster. Often the deadlines meant we had a day to get half a dozen or more miniatures painted ready for photographic schedules for White Dwarf. Everything was sprayed white often with car body primer and hair dryers were sometimes used to speed the drying process up and normally individual painters worked on individual sets of miniatures but sometimes when schedules were very hectic through new releases, we would all paint a few miniatures for the range. We worked on everything from Realms of Chaos, Titans, Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40 Thousand (the Rogue Trader name was never used by painters), Dark Future, Bloodbowl, Space Hulk and Marauder Miniatures. My favourite set which I painted over a long bank holiday weekend at home and not in the studio was the very first boxed set of Harlequins. They were good times and always a lot of good-natured banter in the studio. All the best Darren Matthews
@@johndoe-cv1gv and your evidence that Darren is lying? (which I know that he is not as I've seen his name credited). Fool.
@@johndoe-cv1gv Oh dear. oh dear, oh dear oh dear. Y'all talking to one of the legends right there.
@@dm51964 No one is hiding champ, it's the internet, we cannot possibly meet in person, so this is the closest we can get.
You have everything to prove. You made an outlandish claim, to which I called you out for being a weird, desperate loser who's seeking the strangest form of attention.
Ahh Black Lining. A method which never left the Historical miniature scene.
Amen Peter. Amen
I remember those Lord of the Rings magazines teaching that technique.
I still do it sometimes. There is a time & a place for every technique
Its beginning to disappear… but you still see armies where it’s been done, very striking.
First was layering. I remember it took a while to see the transition to black lines. Black under metal to be sure. But mike McVey was all about blends.
Loved seeing Blood Angels Red again, that smell is timeless. One helpful tip, for getting a smooth finish with thin paint like that, is to alternate the direction you are applying your paint from. It stops tiny ruts devloping in your finish
The only true Blood Angel is an Orange blood angel, it's kinda odd that GW have gone full circle back to round pots and sand/brown coloured bases, they just need to make Space Wolves grey, salamanders black and the ultra marines a second founding chapter again, with a half Eldar chief librarian!
@@MrTrilbe Also, ditch all that Geneseed and transhuman business. Let Space Marines go back to being just criminals and gangers, brainwashed and drugged and plopped in a suit of power armor and sent on their way.
@@bushcraftnorway no, the og 1980s blood angles were terracotta and blood angels orange and on a brown/sandy base
When I started mini painting in 1990 the Blood Angels colours were Terracota for the base and Blood Angels orange for highlights. Long since discontinued paints. Got them in the Space Marine Paint set. And the first mini I painted was an old metal Rogue Trader space marine. I’ve got that mini in front of me now - with a more recent paint job. Those were the days.
Yeah exactly mate. Terracota / Blood Angel Red. Those were the days for sure. 90s pre-internet was the peak of society I think.
Thanks for your dedication and service to the hobby Duncan. “Two thin coats” is the single greatest hit of advice I’ve ever been given with regards to miniature painting! Much love brother, ride well ✌️
Thanks 👍
I fell in love with Warhammer when i was 9, it was 1993. They had a display of High Elfs and Bretonnia at my local game store and were running games for people to watch and play. Fast forward to present day, i am 38; still painting miniatures and love the hobby more than ever i would say. Watching this for me was for sure a breath of bittersweet nostalgia. Like you Duncan, it reminds me of being a kid and that first feeling of awe i had for the wonderful world of Warhammer. Cheers sir. PS Blood Angels forever!
What a great story ☺
@@DuncanRhodesDRPA thanks brother. I hope one day I can shake your hand and talk warhammer. I really appreciate you.
Fuck yeah team Blood Angels!
Yeah!
Nostalgia for sure! I probably started collecting around the same time as you, give or take a year or two in age, and had Empire, Undead, Ultramarines and Orks, as well as Orks in Epic 40k. My dad even collected marines though he never played, he created his own chapter called the Bears (painted brown with purple highlights/secondaries), just for something to do whilst working away from home all week. He managed to find some incredible models that I've never seen elsewhere, like one of those mk6 beaky marines with dual power fists, or a helmetless dude with an eyepatch wielding an odd looking plasma cannon.
Being an old grognard, I was painting my blood angels using the set of paints one edition older that was actually called “Blood Angels Orange”. Round pot, white lid.
And the SM Painting Guide advised us to use Terracotta as the base coat and BA Orange for the highlight.
@@DanielEbeck it certainly did, tho I can't imagine how the would possibly have worked!
I've Still got a pot of that
I'm still using my pot of blood angels orange and wash ( black lid round bottle) as well as glistening green ( octangular bottle) 🤔 must check what others are still usable ( have a few casualties 😭 dried up after over 30 years of usage)
@@scumofsociety78 I have both in my paint kit right now!
3 LAYERS! - My dad used to paint the fence every summer to protect the wood. It's nice that someone did the same to these Minis so that we could enjoy them in 2022.
Duncan has a calm, reassuring voice. Even a basic contrast painting amateur like me can dream of painting a masterpiece listening to him
Wow, thanks for the kind words.
@@DuncanRhodesDRPA Its true. My gf bought me a resin mini of the Emperor for my birthday in a few weeks so I've been taking notes watching your custodes video! Thanks Duncan!
He's like the British Bob Ross, I've always said. This isn't a bad thing in the least.
Well think about it Duncan is much like us he started off… with a master piece of different sort but gradually got better and here he is today one of the most respected mini-painters around. So if he can get this good, so can you!
Yes, he is the Bob Ross of miniature painting.
I love the Oldhammer miniatures! They do remind you of the golden age of Games Workshop.
Agreed. I have a stack of old White Dwarf issues from the late 80s and 90s. They were incredible! I still flick through them now
The palette cam was something I never knew I needed
I would have loved to have seen him standing next to a modern Blood Angel you have painted to see how different they are!
If I remember correctly back in the very early 90's just before 2nd edition was released the colour was actually called Blood Angels Orange (in the round pot). When I got 2nd edition in late '93 the guy in the shop asked me what army I intended to paint, I told him the Blood Angels. His reply was that I was going to need a lot of Go Fasta Red then.
The paint stripping was very entertaining! Big fan of the retro Jawbreaker marine!
Man this takes me baaaaaack. Mid 90's, listening to Nirvana and Matchbox 20, painting my Blood Angels, not realizing that Red Wash was meant to be used for recess shading and not an all-over thing, wondering why my dudes were so glossy and patchy lol. Trying to use a filed down thumb tack to try and do eyes because I didn't have a small enough brush. Good times.👍🏻
That's what the hobby is all about
@@DuncanRhodesDRPA painting with a toothpick😡🤬
I have to say: That you could do that old style painting techniques is a testament to your adaptability. I don't think I could go that far "back to basics" today, even if I tried.
My basic paint series is actually that one from the early 90's. These old pots have a good seal, and they are in much better condition than the 96-2007ish paints that have all dried up.
Planned obsolescence. Thanks, capitalism 😒
Yeah all of my GW paints from 2001 to 2008 are dried up. I had the complete box of Foundation Paints, too. Part of that was because my family put them in storage poorly (they ruined my Windsor Newton student series brushes), part of it was because GW paint pots are garbage.
Same with mine - I've got some from 1990 that are still usable, whereas some of the ones from later eras dried up before I'd barely used them!
God I love your vids so much, you're basically the bob ross of miniature painting if that makes any sense? Like your vids are always chill and you make everything you paint seem like anyone can follow along, even beginners!
Thank you. We love teaching people how to paint and help them overcome any obstacles so they can be proud of whatever they paint ☺
Takes me back to building and painting my first boxset of imperial space marines in 1989
Fantastic! It was a lot of fun to do!
Yyep, I think they must have been rushing to get them out. My box had 2 extra sprues in there. Something like 45 marines in all.
A few minutes in and this video already has me with the "underneath this layer of [x] there's a whole layer of [y]."
When I was a kid I "invented" washes. I had a Space Marine without a helmet, who had this textured hair. Since I didn't have a lot of colors to play with I found it difficult to give him a hair style.
In the cover art most of the marines had grey hair. So I painted his hair white, then took some black paint on my brush, dipped it in water, and applied it.
I have no idea how it actually would hold up to scrutiny today, but 12 year old me thought he was miles ahead of his friends when it came to painting.
Amazing!
Crazy video suggestion: do a painting video with someone who was originally part of the old eavy metal team. Compare and contrast new and 'old' painting methods.
Okay, if he teams up with McVey then I'm subbing.
SQUAD MORALE RESTORED
Restored!
A lot of nostalgia here. I have recently started looking into painting Warhammer miniatures again at the age of 38, thinking of using it as a sort of mindfulness, meditative practice to help decompress from work and life. I discovered your channel and it's got me really excited to start painting again, such inspiring content.
Last time I was painting Warhammer was in the mid 90's so that space marine and especially the paint pot really take me back. I have very fond memories of paint bases Goblin Green! Thanks from a new subscriber and fan.
Awesome work! I got into 40k back in 1990, the rulebook of the day was the original Rogue Trader one and yep, you nailed it with how Blood Angels looked back then! Back in the day there was this neat little booklet on how to paint the more famous space marines, chapters covered were Ultramarines, Blood Angels, Space Wolves and the Salamanders (back when they had deep, dark green armor) plus any markings unique to those chapters and several years before any Codexs. Times have certainly changed!
Can't actually describe in words how happy this video made me. Those RTB01 Marines were my first miniatures from a Tabletop Wargame and at the time they were the best miniatures I'd ever seen! Obviously, by today's standards, they're pretty poor quality but believe me at the time they were just the best!
They sure were! So many fond memories for so many people ☺
@@DuncanRhodesDRPA Magical Time capsule!!
Fantastic job. Loved seeing you freehand the insignia. Took me back to the 4 squads of RTB01 Dark Angels I did back then, but I had to do it in the negative (paint the shoulderpad red, and then block in the black around it to match the model). Fun times. Still got em though; GW's first plastic kit was pretty awesome.
Awesome video! Do you think you might painting other marines in the box as other chapters from 1988?
Note: the black ink that's used in this video is an acrylic ink, which means that it will not reactivate if you get it wet later. In technical terms, inks consist of a dye in water and can thus be reactivated. But almost all modern inks actually consist of pigments in an acrylic medium, which gives them much greater lightfastness but also means they can't be reactivated.
Great video as always Duncan! Ever think about painting some 54mm Inquisitor minis on the channel?
Love the look of that goblin green base
Classic right!
@@DuncanRhodesDRPA can’t beat it
Back in the late 80s and early-mid 90s every miniature in White Dwarf had a Goblin Green base. Even Necromunda Miniatures, which made absolutely no sense whatsoever!
@@waylander1978 It makes more sense when you see the game mats GW was using in color. Most of the photos used for Necromunda, including the main rulebook, were black and white. All of their models were given Goblin Green bases to match their game mats, even Necromunda. The "Battles in the Underhive" book has a color photo on its back cover where you can see a Necromunda board with a green gaming mat.
@@nekrataali It was marketing to appeal to the majority of hobbyists at the time who had miniature trains, that's where the gaming mats came from. The idea was you could just use the railroad trees and buy GW buildings, and off you go.
I remember painting that scheme myself.
A box of 30! space marines was £10.
I also had some Land raiders and Rhino's.
Metal dreadnoughts and other stuff.
I still have and use many of the original colour Citadel paints which have lasted since 1987, amazing really.
I very much enjoyed your video, keep up the good work.
Thanks to you my first ever miniature (goff ork boy) looks good. Not something many other people can say about their first miniatures. I feel super motivated to paint (and buy) squads now :D Thanks for helping me to get into the hobby, you are instrumental for many people I'm sure.
Like the 2nd hand tyranid warriors i bought first layer redish tgen blue got what i could off then just primed black
Amazing video. Hopefully you paint more of the figures in this old schemes. Keep up the good work.
It’s gonna be a good one
He da first
@@forensik5393 indeed
This takes me back to my first ever box of RTB01 Miniatures bought back in 1992, just before the release of the 2nd Edition boxed set. Wonderful stuff.
The painting standards in those old evey metal articles seemed so unachievable to 13 year old me.
Great gravy this one brings back memories and all the feels! I remember building these old beakies and roughly seven or so coats later ( not even exaggerating guys) we'd have a smooth basecoat! Really stoked you had the opportunity to see what we were working with way back then! Oh and Goblin Green base rim for the win!! 😀
Thats a very expensive way to strip paint off a plastic mini, I would recommend Dettol. The antiseptic smell is a bonus.
No no no no no Duncan Rhodes
We had flock back then.
We flocked the base!
You apply the goblin green to the base then dip it in flock then clean off any excess around the rim of the base and paint on some Goblin green.
Then when thats dry you can highlight with some Sunburst yellow
Duncan, please teach us how to paint Black Templars 3rd edition style and Orks too. Reminiscent of Armageddon.
hahahaha oh my god. the part where you are cleaning the layers of caked paint off was hilarious. sorry for your misfortune...but it seems typical for old school minis like that. haha makes you wonder what process the painter or painters were doing while painting these.
Oh wow, I'm now about to get back into painting, haven't done it for 30 years and still got some og paints at my parents house, might have to bust that out n see if it's still alright 😅
I could send you some very old chaos marines if interested. RT era.
Don't tempt me Frodo
@@DuncanRhodesDRPA should I send you some pics of the options?
haha awesome video! duncan is the man
Weren't the hexagonal paint pots from the early 90s before that they were cylinderical and slightly tapered towards the top.
The beauty of this video is some of the stuff you might not notice if you're not paying attention.
"How does he strip old models?"
"How does he speed up his drying times?"
Joke is on you i still paint marines like its 1988, but thats just me being a bad painter and having terrible hand tremors
Hell yeah
Nothing like some smooth jazz to strip 5 layers of paint of an old model hahaha.
Retrohammer was brighthammer okay. I love those over the top flashy colours of old paint schemes.
BTW: if you wanna get old school with your painting but don't want to hunt down the ever shrinking supply of old paint pots then I recommend Coat D'Arms paints. They don't just make paints that are like the old ones, they are the old paints! Weak pigment and pot design included. (They can be a little hard to source however, they don't ship everywhere.)
It’s crazy to see the difference in colour palette and paint/pigment quality compared to modern times! Trip down memory lane 🥰
I love this old school so mutch!
that beaky was a full on matryoshka of paint and im terrified of the stories it could tell
Dude's sweating after having to scrub that piece for so long lol
Life Hack - use cheap Brake fluid for cleaning (dot4). Just put your miniature in that fluid for 20-30 minutes. Much better and easier. :)))
Very cool and a great trip down the nostalgia road , please do more of these for different species
I grew up poor, so Warhammer, though I was obsessed with it, was largely outside of my family's price range. I was a bit like a sort of Warhammer version of Charlie Bucket, standing outside of my local Games Workshop, shivering in the cold, peering through the window at all the other kids having fun and waging war. But, every now and again, I would be lucky enough to get an issue of White Dwarf, which I would pour over for hours. I vividly remember the Beasts of Chaos issue, because it was the first time I saw the chaos trolls, and they were the coolest thing I had ever seen. I swore that when I grew up and had enough money for Warhammer, I would definitely have them in my army.
The models only have three poses, three heads and three weapon options, and compared to the modern troggoths they look very shrimpy, but they're still, to my mind, the coolest trolls Games Workshop ever produced.
And I now have twenty-six of them! 😉
What a fantastic story! Thanks for sharing. Enjoy your 26 troggoths!
Cracking job mate!
For sand bases, I recommend putting on a second, heavily watered-down layer of PVA glue, once the first layer has dried. I've found that without that, a lot of the sand on top tends to flake off, but the second watery layer really gets into all the nooks and holds it together solidly.
Great idea
Awesome video I really love the new editing on these videos as well, keep up the good work!
now paint an old miniature with modern techniques.
I greatly appreciated this video! I liked the way that it opened and I enjoyed seeing the old piece being brought back to life. It is amazing to see how the models have changed over the years. 😊
painting like it's 1988 is about removing paint until you reach the layer of the space marine legion of your choice
Not a bad idea...mmmm 🤔
A useful video since I have the original Space Marine Paint Set which I intended to use to paint some of the new beakies in the old style, but I do have some RTB01 marines hanging around that have never been painted so maybe I'll paint them instead! Interestingly, the original painting guide that came with the boxed paint set has a basecoat of Terracotta for Blood Angels with Blood Angel Orange/Terracotta mix for the first highlight and then a Sunburst Yellow/Blood Angel Orange fine highlight.
Love it but you didn't use copydex glue and you weren't eating a Curly Wurly while painting.
I knew we forgot something lol
Shown my dad your clip, he wasnt impressed cause he paints like its still 1989.
😂😂😂
If we going down the retro route here, it would be awesome if you could do some of the old classic Epic stuff Dunc! (but with a modern painting style twist perhaps?)
Getting my two thin coats ready for winter.
The oldschool style of highlighting and shading looks so good!
It's different right?
I picked up a bunch of these little buggers off ebay recently, I had them as a kid and theres no price you can put on the feeling of nostalgia they bring to me, mine are gonna be honoured sons as thats the closest faction to the colours of the minis my cousin gifted me as a kid which I sadly gave away in my teens.
You should have drank the water at the end to absorb the power of over 30 years.
Beautiful. Every time I see classic models painted it makes me want to collect them for myself.
Shame there wasn't a copy of the "White dwarf presents: the citadel miniatures painting guide" with the red cover, a bottle of Terracotta and Blood Angels Orange in the cylindrical pots, back when Citadel was a separate company (With the Guitar logo), along with Marauder Miniatures and I think a third, since GW is bringing back Warhammer the old world, wonder if they'll bring back Man 'O War too
This is pure nostalgia Duncan. I never owned any RTB01 SM, but for my 13th birthday I got the Space Marine painting (along with a box of Squats). I remember going through the small painting guide included in the box trying to figure out how to achieve the same look on my minis. 3 years later I got into 2nd ed, happy to say that I finished painting the 80 minis from the box set (though I still have to paint my squats).
Ahhh this takes me right back!. Thank you Mr Rhodes 🙌🏻 so much epicness 👌🏻
What paint stripper did you use?
Please clean your toothbrush before using it tonight!!!!
Too late! 😁 But I'll wash it in the toilet first. That okay?
hello Duncan, my name is Mickael and I am the father of Kassimtv. I am a French GW player that I discovered in 1993 thanks to my big brother at the age of 10. after a few breaks in 2001 I started my own collection which is huge today. my painting was poor and I didn't like to paint too much. then I started to see your videos first at GW then on your channel. my paintings have changed thanks to you. all your advice, even your way of holding your figurines I caught it. so I'm not a painter like you but a big thank you you're a model. my figures are much more beautiful. you are a master at it. thank you very much.
I absolutely love the pose on the leftmost model at 1:05. It has this really cool, hunched gunfighter look that gives it so much character.
Here's an old model story of mine: My dad was never all that into Warhammer, but what he was really into was Dungeons and Dragons. So growing up, I saw a lot of different miniatures and loved (and still love) them to death. Fast forward to 2020 when I really started getting into Warhammer because of quarantine, I decided to rummage through the old tacklebox of minis my dad had handed down to me. Having this new knowledge of Warhammer and its models, I was delighted to find so many of the models I grew up just thinking were orc, goblin, and knight models, were actually really old fantasy models! My favorite, and ones I still have on my hobby desk, is a few old '90s chaos warriors painted up in silver and gold like a heavily armored paladins. When I learned they was actually chaos warriors, I laugh at the irony of it and made it my headcanon that they were redeemed warriors who had turned back away from chaos.
This was amazing, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow, that takes me back! Splendid work!
Great video. I love seeing a base rim painted Goblin Green! I've used that color for my Blood Bowl Skaven team and will for my AoS Skaven army. Hopefully I can get it painted with the little bit I have remaining.
I’ve just recently dug my childhood collection out of storage. A gold mine of 2nd edition and RT era minis. I’m slowly repainting them to a “slightly” better standard than 12 year old me could have ever done. Totes nostalgia
I didn't have the GW paints with the white lid but with a black hard plastic lid, those were great paints!!
Were they the late 90's ones? Scab Red, Bilious Green, Vomit Brown, Chainmail etc.
@@Solitary_Scribe55 They had a blue label and contained 12ml. instead of the old 17.5ml. I know it had Snakebite Leather as a actual paint before it became XV-88. Now Snakebite Leather is a Contrast paint.
@@MrTelecasterIV They were the early 2000's ones. The late 90's paint pots had parchment-coloured labels and screw lids. I think they had the same names though.
Now I wonder if useing the old way of painting would like good on a uptodate miniture
Worth a shot and something we've thought of ourselves!
I think it does. GW themselves did that in an article recently, I think it was Crimson Fists and Orks.
I actually think that the Blood Angels look better orange-red than their current color.
I first saw 40K (Rogue Trader) back in 88 when someone brought it into school. It was a big wow moment and by 89 I was hooked and had started to collect White Dwarf and I bought 2 boxes of the (30) RTB Space Marines and a pair of Land Raiders for £30! Back then GW didn't sell spray undercoat so we followed the painting guide by priming everything in thinned skull white paint. There was a washes paint set, as I bought one from GW but that might have been in 89 or 90. The original paints I remember were in round pots, with the hexagonal ones coming out in the early 90's. I ended up working for GW (retail) from 95-2000. During that time I had collected stuff for most GW games and had least played most things at least once or twice. I gave up 40K when 6th edition was out and things started to change too much for me, although I am enjoying the current Blood Bowl as well as historical games now. It was good to see an old Space Marine model painted up old school style
NOW DO A NEW HERESY MINI PAINTED LIKE THIS
2:09 Brother! Help me brother
I made a servitor with an skeleton from the Hero Quest Advanced set, a spare flammer arm (which is what gave me the idea, after the original skeleton arm with sword broke off). I glued the flamer arm on with PA glue and baking soda layers, to add some strength. I built up the body using layers and layers of cheap craft paint. Just for fun, and because I had them already mixed, I used the right colors for muscle, fat, etc. Once the body was done and looking rather alright if I say so myself, it was time to work on the head, add the fuel pack to the back. But it fell off my desk and broke at the legs over the feet. So now I have some rather good looking "blasted off his feet" feet glued to a base, with a bit of anatomically correct plastic bone poking over the flesh, fat, skin, and drab pant legs, with the paint tearing not unlike fabric.
Ahh the 80s!. In 1987, I was 10. I bought the RTB01 box of 30 Space Marines and the Rogue Trader rule book for £20 from a local gaming independent in Worthing, called 'The Crazy Dwarf'. Hot off the excitement of a friend introducing me to my first issue of White Dwarf, which happened to be issue 93, the release of 40k. Prior to that my involvement in the hobby was limited to owning the GW boardgame "Battlecars" (but never really understanding how to play it) and collecting the 'Fighting Fantasy' Choose-your-own-adventure books. Painting wise, us kids were trying to paint everything with nine paints (The Citadel Colour Paint Set). If we were lucky we might get the Creature or Monster Paint sets for more colours, for a Birthday, because no-one wanted to spend good miniature money on paint! and we'd use a Sable 0 or 00 paint brush from our local Art Supplies shop (It HAD to be Sable, White Dwarf said so). Anything metal was painted black and dry-brushed silver. Everything else was given a wash of diluted Chaos Black (even White panels.. ugh!) and then drybrushed in white. This left my carefully applied base colours looking both dull and powdery, but my Bolters always looked on-point! Inks, 'Highlighting' and 'Layering' seemed like advanced techniques that only the legends of the 'Eavy Metal studio could practice. We dreamt of owning a 6x4 piece of Chipboard, covered in railway hobby green felt, for a gaming table. Then we dreamt of actually having enough space anywhere to store one. The dining room table was as close as you would get. In those days, we spent more time building theoretical army lists and collecting new and interesting minis (and some of them were VERY interesting. See "Zoat" and "Ambull", "Furibundus Dreadnought", "Space Marine Vincent Black Shadow" and "Ork Battle Buggy"), than actually playing the game. Games Workshop stores were different too. Staffed by guys old enough to grow their hair without being expelled, and playing Metal music. Intimidating, but you wanted in! By '93, when I left school, it had all seemed to change. The staff were becoming more like salesmen, the 2nd edition of 40k had been reputed to have been "Dumbed down so younger kids could play it", and GW had moved away from that 2000AD punky style of the 40k Universe that had been so compelling, and thematically closer to the satire and violence of the Judge Dredd universe. The Beakie marines were replaced by the static pose MK7 Marines that looked like bland Toy Soldiers. Orks got pretty cool though! I am really looking forward to building and painting my first box of Horus Heresy Beakie Marines, in old RT colours and insignia. I am sure they have been a hit with my age group. Well played GW! (even if they do still look a bit like Primaris with different heads) .The Nostalgia will be strong. Crimson Fists will never die!
These videos are amazing, I hope you keep making them!
Using the Painting Guide from the Original Space Marine paint set Blood Angles were base coated Terracotta and highlighted in Terracotta /Blood Angel Orange Before going to a blood angle Orange/Sunburst Yellow mix ( then they wanted you to mix in white for the fine highlights!).
The only flaw with this plan was that the original Blood Angel Orange was soooooooo thin that it was basically just like glazing over the Terracotta at best. I never got anything approaching good, never mind like the pictures in the guide.
I'm 43...... Been painting Warhammer for years, and lucky enough to say i earn a living from it.
However, when it comes to miniatures of any kind, i wish the ship to ship star trek FASA tabletop game was still played.
You didn't even have to like star trek.
But the ships were so great too paint.
The Romulan Winged Defender, resembled an eagle, and painting up a fleet of those looked incredible, same with the Bird Of Prey.
Also the original 2000 A.D. Judge Dredd game, with the bikes! Oh the memories of those.
But i think the first thing i remember painting, overall was the Hero Quest game and Space Hulk, sat round the kitchen table with pals, paints, brushes, models and guides everywhere...... Great times, great times.