I recently started laying in the black on my fists before the yellow too and it's been a game changer for me. I prime pink, zenithal wraithbone, then do the black, block in the yellow, and then drybrush the whole model with an ivory which highlights the black and yellow together and looks great!
That's something I appreciate about your videos - they are "how I paint things"- not "how TO paint things." Your techniques are very good, and I often find them helpful, but like with anything else, they go into the big hopper of things I learn - some I use all the time, and others that are available as alternatives. Like someone once told me, you're going to get a lot more from "A history of" something " vs. "THE history of" (that topic.)
Glad you like them! I'm very conscious of the fact that I've essentially scuppered myself by insisting on "How *I* Paint Things" in the video titles rather than "How To," but I take a similar view; these are methods and techniques which can work, and whether or not you like the end result is a matter of taste and style. There's no one way of painting a miniature!
I also really like Corax White. It does clump up in the pot very easily, but once it's mixed properly and thinned down on the palette, it's got great coverage.
My advice is to thin it in the pot - not just with medium, but with a few drops of flow improver. Drop in an agitator or two. Shake it _every day_ , even if you're not using it. Shake it like it owes you money. In return, you'll get a wonderful white paint. If you forget and let it settle... well, then it's time to give it a good stirring with a toothpick or such, to break up the clumps before shaking the hell out of it again.
Very neat. I've found I prefer a 3:1 mix of Imperial Fist Yellow with Skeleton Horde for my Lamenters, purely because I want to recreate a similar yellow to early WW2 German tank tropical schemes. Painting in the black first is a great tip - Cheers!
It's quite clever to paint the black first. I think that never occurred to me before because, whenever I laid down basecoats on marines, I wanted to just brush it on as fast as possible without worrying about painting over any previously painted areas. Anyway, this Sternguard Veteran turned out great, such a simple painting method yet the end result is such a high quality!
Mostly that's the excess of Lahmian Medium in there - the shading's dark, but it doesn't really collect anywhere except the very recesses. Even straight over white, it does the job!
Huh! I'd never thought of using something like that, but I can imagine it'd really work a miracle on paints that have been sitting on a shelf for a while.
You have to be careful, though, as its very function is not just to stir, but to introduce air bubbles into the fluid. You don't want that in your paint, lest you get some of those little air bubbles in the coat of paint.
@@HeadHunterSix I cut the wire that froths the milk from its holder, leaving just a ring of wire. It works very well, I also add some medium to thin it down slightly.
I play deathwatch and this would be helpful in painting the chapter symbols. This looks real nice and almost tempts me to paint some of my marines yellow. Also marine juice recipe is saved for future use.
Your Imperial Fists turn out so well that it's almost making me regret not going with them for my Marines. Almost. I'll definitely have to pick up a pot of Corax White and see if it works out for me as good as it looks on this fella though, as the white that I picked up has been going chalky on me and frustrating me to no end. Excellent video as always!
Corax White really *can* be a bugger, but with just a little medium and a couple agitators I've had a pot running smooth and crisp for almost a year, now. I don't tend to use it often since I don't paint a lot of sharp white details, really, but it pulls its weight when I need it!
Do you already have a video where you compare the different varnishes? Would love to see matte and satin varnishes side-by-side in a video --- just to see how matte photo's better.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Oh absolutely. I usually just avoid GW because I don't like their game mechanics. But I followed your Stormcast tutorial for painting up a black-red-gold stormcast army. I'm just burnt out by painting 150+ fantasy miniatures for a song of ice and fire over the last six months. So I was in dire need for some power armor goodness. 😀 And your tutorials are just great for someone with limited skills like me who wants to paint lots of minis in rather short time frames.
this video is everything ive been looking for in a how to imperial fist video. thank you soooo much!!!! was thinking about doing the Aquila a burgundy or also black for the HH look. any recommendations for what contrast top use for the burgundy Aquila??
Any chance you’ll do some tyranids; your tutorials are the best. Followed your raptors vid and soon going to be doing Imperial Fists once my leviathan box arrives.
I'm finally taking the dive and painting my Space Marines with this method, but I just have one question about Marine Juice: How do you recommend actually mixing it? I have a bottle each of Reikland Fleshshade, Dark Tone and Lahmian Medium, do I now just dump them all into one container? Or is it better to dole it out bit by bit?
Remember that Reikland Fleshshade and Dark Tone both have the same amount in their bottles, where Lahmian Medium is a bigger bottle. Best to dump the first two into a much larger bottle or container, then pour the Lahmian Medium into the old Reikland pot to measure it out, give it a good shake, and add that to your big container. Or, honestly, you could dump all three in to one pot without measuring them separately - the extra Lahmian Medium will thin it out ever so slightly more, but you might like that finish. Try it without using all the medium, and if the juice still seems too dark, just add the remainder of the bottle into your main container and shake it up again.
Use dropper bottles and measure it out by drops, or get a big container and empty a bottle of Reikland and Dark Tone into it, then use the empty Reikland bottle to measure out the Lahmian Medium from the larger bottle.
Hello Sonic I've been following your guides and first of all say that I love them! and secondly I'm starting my raven guard army and I don't have much time to paint do you have any tutorial to paint black armor I didn't find any ;(
UA-cam doesn't ordinarily like links in comments, so it'll need a little digging: If you go to the search bar and type "how i paint things" with the quotation marks, + black, you'll get plenty of black armour guides. ;D Pick one you like the look of for Raven Guard and go nuts!
Isn't it just the Terminators that are in bone armour? Either way, I actually wouldn't change my original method for that; Seraphim Sepia remains the easiest way for getting a clean bone armour.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio The Bladeguard Veterans (and Eradicators, not sure) can be in the Deathwing. Why not a Stermguard? I don't know if the rules forbid Stermguard from being on the Deathwing. In the ninth edition they could not. In this tenth I don't know.
If you put "how i paint things space wolves" into the search bar, you might get an answer quicker than a comment. 😅 UA-cam doesn't like links in comments so I can't just link directly, but I've already done Space Wolves a couple of times on the channel.
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I recently started laying in the black on my fists before the yellow too and it's been a game changer for me. I prime pink, zenithal wraithbone, then do the black, block in the yellow, and then drybrush the whole model with an ivory which highlights the black and yellow together and looks great!
A marine juice video would be rad, even if it's a compilation of how it goes on different colors and different models.
That's something I appreciate about your videos - they are "how I paint things"- not "how TO paint things." Your techniques are very good, and I often find them helpful, but like with anything else, they go into the big hopper of things I learn - some I use all the time, and others that are available as alternatives.
Like someone once told me, you're going to get a lot more from "A history of" something " vs. "THE history of" (that topic.)
Glad you like them! I'm very conscious of the fact that I've essentially scuppered myself by insisting on "How *I* Paint Things" in the video titles rather than "How To," but I take a similar view; these are methods and techniques which can work, and whether or not you like the end result is a matter of taste and style. There's no one way of painting a miniature!
I also really like Corax White. It does clump up in the pot very easily, but once it's mixed properly and thinned down on the palette, it's got great coverage.
My advice is to thin it in the pot - not just with medium, but with a few drops of flow improver. Drop in an agitator or two. Shake it _every day_ , even if you're not using it. Shake it like it owes you money. In return, you'll get a wonderful white paint.
If you forget and let it settle... well, then it's time to give it a good stirring with a toothpick or such, to break up the clumps before shaking the hell out of it again.
What I like about this method is it means you do less cleanup. Thanks for sharing this!
Thank you , Troy .
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Another well dressed hammer for the tabletop! I'll definitely be keeping this yellow combo in mind when the time comes due to paint my Veer-Myn!
Well I just completed Tor Garadon for fun, now I ready to adjust the color thanks to this video. Perfect timing Sonic
I like to be a bother! 😜
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio a big brother if you will. 😜
I am glad you did this my friend
Very neat. I've found I prefer a 3:1 mix of Imperial Fist Yellow with Skeleton Horde for my Lamenters, purely because I want to recreate a similar yellow to early WW2 German tank tropical schemes. Painting in the black first is a great tip - Cheers!
It's quite clever to paint the black first. I think that never occurred to me before because, whenever I laid down basecoats on marines, I wanted to just brush it on as fast as possible without worrying about painting over any previously painted areas. Anyway, this Sternguard Veteran turned out great, such a simple painting method yet the end result is such a high quality!
I’d like to see a video on marine juice and all the other mixtures that you also use. What they work best on, what they don’t work on, etc.
I am always amazed at how well that Marine Juice works on light colors.
Mostly that's the excess of Lahmian Medium in there - the shading's dark, but it doesn't really collect anywhere except the very recesses. Even straight over white, it does the job!
Honestly the little tidbits were more useful than usual with your experiments
Glade im not the only one who does black before yellow on my imperial fist. Most of the time i paint the dark colors first moving to lighter colors
I need to try and not forget to paint the correct company colour identifier this time around
Bugger it, I'm going imperial fists this time around, this tutorial is too good to pass up the opportunity with the new contrast paint.
For GW paints I bought a battery powered ' milk frother ' which I use to agitate them for the first time.
Huh! I'd never thought of using something like that, but I can imagine it'd really work a miracle on paints that have been sitting on a shelf for a while.
You have to be careful, though, as its very function is not just to stir, but to introduce air bubbles into the fluid. You don't want that in your paint, lest you get some of those little air bubbles in the coat of paint.
@@HeadHunterSix I cut the wire that froths the milk from its holder, leaving just a ring of wire. It works very well, I also add some medium to thin it down slightly.
@@NSYresearch thanks! Yes, Corax White is wonderful but definitely high maintenance.
Great video, Will definitely be much braver now and paint some yellow :)
I play deathwatch and this would be helpful in painting the chapter symbols. This looks real nice and almost tempts me to paint some of my marines yellow.
Also marine juice recipe is saved for future use.
good work ,looks nice , thx for video👌
Well done, very helpful video. I was hoping for something "very special" though...
Black legion is my favorite black I've ever used
What precisely is the difference between it and Black Templar?
@@HeadHunterSix it's way more opaque but acts like a contrast.
Your Imperial Fists turn out so well that it's almost making me regret not going with them for my Marines. Almost.
I'll definitely have to pick up a pot of Corax White and see if it works out for me as good as it looks on this fella though, as the white that I picked up has been going chalky on me and frustrating me to no end.
Excellent video as always!
Corax White really *can* be a bugger, but with just a little medium and a couple agitators I've had a pot running smooth and crisp for almost a year, now. I don't tend to use it often since I don't paint a lot of sharp white details, really, but it pulls its weight when I need it!
Do you already have a video where you compare the different varnishes? Would love to see matte and satin varnishes side-by-side in a video --- just to see how matte photo's better.
Something I'll definitely have to tackle at some point, yeah!
Looks great
I just spent 350€ over the last days on Imperial Fist miniatures because your last two videos got me so hyped.
AND I DON'T EVEN PLAY 40K!!!! 🙃
There's plenty of great games you can play with the miniatures, anyway - it doesn't have to be all grimdark, all the time!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Oh absolutely. I usually just avoid GW because I don't like their game mechanics. But I followed your Stormcast tutorial for painting up a black-red-gold stormcast army.
I'm just burnt out by painting 150+ fantasy miniatures for a song of ice and fire over the last six months. So I was in dire need for some power armor goodness. 😀 And your tutorials are just great for someone with limited skills like me who wants to paint lots of minis in rather short time frames.
this video is everything ive been looking for in a how to imperial fist video. thank you soooo much!!!! was thinking about doing the Aquila a burgundy or also black for the HH look. any recommendations for what contrast top use for the burgundy Aquila??
Sigvald Burgundy, maybe? Or even Flesh Tearers Red might work - it's not really burgundy but it's a really deep red. Up to you, really!
I'm guessing the reikland shade is the old formula? I still have my hands on the older shades....
Any chance you’ll do some tyranids; your tutorials are the best. Followed your raptors vid and soon going to be doing Imperial Fists once my leviathan box arrives.
Short answer is, "Yeah, eventually!" They're all out of stock at my local places, even the old boxes. 😅
I'm finally taking the dive and painting my Space Marines with this method, but I just have one question about Marine Juice: How do you recommend actually mixing it? I have a bottle each of Reikland Fleshshade, Dark Tone and Lahmian Medium, do I now just dump them all into one container? Or is it better to dole it out bit by bit?
Remember that Reikland Fleshshade and Dark Tone both have the same amount in their bottles, where Lahmian Medium is a bigger bottle. Best to dump the first two into a much larger bottle or container, then pour the Lahmian Medium into the old Reikland pot to measure it out, give it a good shake, and add that to your big container. Or, honestly, you could dump all three in to one pot without measuring them separately - the extra Lahmian Medium will thin it out ever so slightly more, but you might like that finish. Try it without using all the medium, and if the juice still seems too dark, just add the remainder of the bottle into your main container and shake it up again.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Is there any particular kind of bottle you recommend storing the mixture in?
I would be very interested in that.ow do you measure the 1/3 ratios for the Marine Juice? I would be very interested in that.
Use dropper bottles and measure it out by drops, or get a big container and empty a bottle of Reikland and Dark Tone into it, then use the empty Reikland bottle to measure out the Lahmian Medium from the larger bottle.
Note to self: Make Marine Juice.
Hello Sonic I've been following your guides and first of all say that I love them! and secondly I'm starting my raven guard army and I don't have much time to paint do you have any tutorial to paint black armor I didn't find any ;(
UA-cam doesn't ordinarily like links in comments, so it'll need a little digging: If you go to the search bar and type "how i paint things" with the quotation marks, + black, you'll get plenty of black armour guides. ;D Pick one you like the look of for Raven Guard and go nuts!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio thanks!
is there a replacement for the medium in the marine juice?
I’d love to see this scheme on a vehicle!
I actually think the streaking looks the business. I dont think armor should look perfect.
Do a dark angel with the new recipies. A Stemguard, of the Deathwing , please.
Isn't it just the Terminators that are in bone armour? Either way, I actually wouldn't change my original method for that; Seraphim Sepia remains the easiest way for getting a clean bone armour.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio The Bladeguard Veterans (and Eradicators, not sure) can be in the Deathwing. Why not a Stermguard? I don't know if the rules forbid Stermguard from being on the Deathwing. In the ninth edition they could not. In this tenth I don't know.
Brilliant, thanks for sharing 👍 but could I suggest rather than say Rob other painter's ideas? What about "borrowing with pride"?
I need your help for a Space Wolves marine, please. Now that Leviathan has come out.
If you put "how i paint things space wolves" into the search bar, you might get an answer quicker than a comment. 😅 UA-cam doesn't like links in comments so I can't just link directly, but I've already done Space Wolves a couple of times on the channel.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio thank you!
today is apparently not very special :(
I promise it's still special, even if it doesn't sound like it!
Looks great