Interesting - seeing them next to the marines made the space marines look strangely tiny to me. In my mind the scale of the marine should be bigger, maybe another 2 or 3 millimeters?
@@TheBraveExalted was just looking at them next to each other on my desk, both in roughly the same walking pose. If you wanted to properly true scale them then another 2-3 would be good but I think they work well as they are.
I cant be the only ones who loves Henry's ENTIRE vibe for painting but cannot get over the look of his oil tubes, Squeezing from the middle is bad enough but can, i guess, be excused but all the schmoo around the caps is, eehm, Not How I'd Do That...
Really glad to hear both you and Andy are able to do this full-time! Looking forward to your paint range knowing you guys will produce something excellent.
I love that you did a slight twist on the codex's schemes. I especially love the lord marshal's own. That guy is sharp. I have 2 ideas, maybe I'll make a loyalist and traitor force. One is a slight skyrim Norse theme of brown, blue, and steel with some green stuff fur. The other is burgundy with iron and bronze.
Awesome paintjobs as always, as a long time auxilia collector and painter i'm so glad they went plastic,as i always broke the little tube in their arms,and was an absolute pain resculpting the bit in every 20th member.This said,sad they lost their padded arms.With the new pre-order box i'm going to try introducing some 40k regiments colour schemes with some tweaks to try give them some colour and camouflage variations. Will you be painting some auxilia in your traitor legiones imperialis scheme?
Would love to see a penal colony scheme, not sure if there are (m)any official ones, but for my Legions Imperialis project I was thinking a pale green or even teal for the armour plates and orange for the overalls, with white details. For tanks and such I’d go with the same colours as the plating, with a white vertical line on the sides, with a thicker orange line through the center. Dark green/black with orange/salmon might also be striking
Henry, great vid and probably the one that has solved more of my problems than any other, and it's not a Solar Auxilia issue, it's Necrons. Got to paint a Necron army for my son without losing my mind or will to live, that means the colour scheme has to help me three different ways and can't be all metal, I was thinking deep red enamelled armour panels and brass I saw you paint the tarnished armour on the Agathon and I knew I had my beautifully stippled brass I saw you paint the shoulder pads on the Cthonian with the gloss varnish and I knew I had a mucky dark build up for those armour panels that showed a deep glossy red wherever the muck has worn/wiped off. So now I have a newly awakened tomb vault that's disgorging hordes, fresh from the racks that literally haven't even had time for a wipe over, never mind a polish. A lot of stippling that always looks good and a gloss red vs matt umber muck contrast on the armour panels, maybe even a bit of Typhon corrosion on the canoptek units that have been labouring for millions of years of maintenance. Can't wait to get started tomorrow, you're a star.
Excellent video that I have been waiting for since the battlegroup was announced. A quick question (and demonstration if you think it could work?), do you think it is viable to to mask off the armour panels with humbrol etc? So I could airbrush all the metals, and then mask and airbrush the fatigues?
I think what they are wearing under their armor is supposed to be a cross between one of the old brass helmeted diving suits, and something like the Russian space suit. For that red contrast over metal scheme would it have worked to due a green metallic with a silver highlight and then used the red contrast to get a chromatic black metal?
I'm excited to do up some Calth High Guard since their scheme is essentially the same as the Tyrant's Legion from Badab and I've wanted an army of them for ages. Going to have to try out oil washes for the army, I think.
Please just keep putting out the content you enjoy making. If UA-cam still showed downvotes the airbush hater trolls would be shown up for what they are
Love the solar auxilia aesthetic, keep these coming! I’m so tempted to kitbash these with the cities of sigmar guys to lean into that feudal world look even more
Absolutely lovely. Hands down my favorite formation and am stoked they are bringing it to plastic. My dream army is about to happen as I got 3 boxes preordered and confirmed. Would love to see as many of them as you can do!
I would love to see a black and white scheme. With an example of black fatigue and white armor and vice versa. Would also like to see an approach with is basically airbrushed fatigues and when metal armor painted. I feel like this is the faster way to do a full army. But could be wrong. As a lot of us are looking at 100+ infantry but don’t want it looking awful.
I’m happy that this kit is like an actual model kit and doesn’t have fused legs and torsos. Modern GW stuff is obnoxious with the tooling on their other sprues.
Brilliant video, all 3 cohorts are superb. I'm definitely swayed to Agathon, "Lord Marshalls own" suits me to a T. Can I ask though will that clear green metalic look work on the bigger vehicals? Or would it need dulling down?
I love them. Always liked them, and wanted them as inquisitorial henchmen, and they fit well to the void breachers kill team. So going for blue/black and red scheme abit like your last scheme (haven't seen that part yet) but more red. nicely painted, to lazy to set up my airbrush my self. Got any points on the army painter Fanatic paints coming?
Im so excited for these, the Solar Auxilia look so cool I've been interested since I first found out about them very exisited to have them in plastic If possible do you think you could paint one up in the colors for Auxilia associated with specific legions? I'm sure it would be a lot of work but I'm sure ir would be cool or the Arkadian Janissary they were close to the Emperor's Children and I'd love to see your take on them
1:58 Wandering if this method would also be beneficial when it comes to gluing the arms on the new mark III and VI marines? When I follow the build guide (arms first, then the bolter), I have noticed some gaps at the wrists that need filling. Assuming no sub assembly for the bolter off course.
Hey cult I have a question, I’m painting the headhunters with no airbrush using you’re guid 😄, sprayed them chaos black than the grey the bright red I used iron hands steel and baal red it’s works in a way than the armour work to, but I’m stuck at te part of the brown wash at the end can u use a shade to get the same effect or what can I use best ? Great video and keep it up!
love solar aux, would be cool to see some ultramar pattern solar aux represented, those boys deserve some representation after what happened to them on calth
Great work! Even more excited for these. I don't remember the name of them but I want to go for the ones in the black armour and white helmets, will definitely try the black method you used on the Headhunter.
2:30 stealing this trick as well. I tend to clip of small bits before I clean of the mold lines, but the tinier they are, the more difficult that gets.
The design of the solar is an absolute blast. You ve honored them so well. This clear red from AMMO is interesting, especially because it seems to stay red with matt varnish on it (you confirm ?), the tamiya clear red turn litteraly orange when you matt it.
I've not had that issue with the Tamiya red. Ive done projects where i leave it glossy, or sometimes a satin coat. I don't think I would use the clear red if I was going to do a very matte finish.
This is great inspiration. My one will fight alongside the dkok in 40k and i am still searching for the final paintscheme. Yoursnare a great imspiration!
@@cultofpaint i hope so. Especialy if i add pouches, shovels and more to them. The thing is my dkok paintsheme is rather grimdark. Grey coats black armor and the only eyecathers are the brown leather parts. I am not sure what paintsheme the solar auxilia should have to accomontade it. They might end up too dull.
Even if it’s (your) “army standard”, it’s an absolutely amazing work, as always. Can’t get over the fact that the green you used for agathon cohort is the same green from SoH artworks in Liber Hereticus
@@cultofpaint my bad - I meant size in the lore to the size / scale of the minis. For instance if Astartes are 8ft tall on average then how accurate is the sizing of the Solar Auxilia soldier next to them? They seem huge and larger than they should be lore wise. Maybe in my mind a space marine is just much larger than they really are, or these solar auxilia are all 7ft tall 😅
Having experimented with Contrast paints through the airbrush, I've found that mixing in gloss medium or varnish while spraying really helps give you a finish closer to a candy finish if that's what you're looking for! You still need to use the right contrast paint, a lot of them will still be opaque no matter what you do due to the pigments in there.
Great video as usual. I love Tamiya clears too. A very good non-solvent option is Badger's Ghost Tint paints. They are the only water based clears I've found that give comparible results to Tamiya in my opinion. Looking forward to the tanks!
For what it's worth, they've recently had to reformulate at least *some* of the ghost tints due to an unavailability of the dyes. I use their Plasma Fluid as the main color for my Alpha Legion and recently had a bottle of the new formulation; it looks like a completely different color, so I've had to scramble to source some older bottles from various places.
@@cultofpaintI'm a Brit ex-pat living in Japan, so got them from Amazon USA. It's a bit frustrating, as many of the hobby paints/products common in Europe and the USA are really hard to find here. On the plus side, Tamiya and Mr Hobby are much cheaper here than in the UK.
I really like how these kits look, I was interested in a plastic Solar Aux range (especially that leman Russ for my Krieg in 40k) but the sheer amount of trim on a horde army among other horde armies, so I really appreciate that these are a little simpler than the resin version. Or at least my sanity appreciates it.
Had the Kharadron Underworlds warband sitting in a box for ages and that green and brass scheme might just be what they need :) Excellent work as always!
Well it's a good thing you released this so long after the launch box! I managed to resist buying them, having watched this video i'm not sure i still could if it came out tomorrow.
Love seeing them next to the marines, perfect scale. Golden age, boys.
Interesting - seeing them next to the marines made the space marines look strangely tiny to me. In my mind the scale of the marine should be bigger, maybe another 2 or 3 millimeters?
@@TheBraveExalted was just looking at them next to each other on my desk, both in roughly the same walking pose. If you wanted to properly true scale them then another 2-3 would be good but I think they work well as they are.
I cant be the only ones who loves Henry's ENTIRE vibe for painting but cannot get over the look of his oil tubes, Squeezing from the middle is bad enough but can, i guess, be excused but all the schmoo around the caps is, eehm, Not How I'd Do That...
Tip of the filthy iceberg.
Last year I saw my sister use oil paint and she cut the tube open with a paring knife. After seeing that I can excuse Henry's actions
@bagel_guy9495 good Lord she's an animal!
Really glad to hear both you and Andy are able to do this full-time! Looking forward to your paint range knowing you guys will produce something excellent.
Love the videos like always personally hope for the Deathless Cohort
Nice choice
Always have been a fan of the channel. Planning a Solar or Admech army so I'm watching to take notes
Liked and Subscribed!!
I'd love to see a Saturnyn Ram painting guide, I don't think I've seen any yet
I'd love to see a version of the scheme you used for the Legions Imperialis vehicles done on infantry at this scale
It's coming!
The Mananchean Bulls looks so good without the yellow arms, thanks for this cool color scheme, you just convinced me to buy a box.
i hope we get padded sleeves on some minis soon, i'd like to have a go at the yellow and see whther it can be toned down a bit!
Great video, thanks.
I've just bought the boxset and was scratching my head a little as to what to do.👍
I love that you did a slight twist on the codex's schemes. I especially love the lord marshal's own. That guy is sharp. I have 2 ideas, maybe I'll make a loyalist and traitor force. One is a slight skyrim Norse theme of brown, blue, and steel with some green stuff fur. The other is burgundy with iron and bronze.
Man, that Decayed metal > Victorian brass armour is awesome!
I might do my Hearthkyn kill team in something similar when I get round to them.
Super bright gold metal plates would also be an awesome scheme.
Some lovely colour schemes and brilliant paintjobs you did there 👍🏼
Thanks v much
Awesome paintjobs as always, as a long time auxilia collector and painter i'm so glad they went plastic,as i always broke the little tube in their arms,and was an absolute pain resculpting the bit in every 20th member.This said,sad they lost their padded arms.With the new pre-order box i'm going to try introducing some 40k regiments colour schemes with some tweaks to try give them some colour and camouflage variations. Will you be painting some auxilia in your traitor legiones imperialis scheme?
Yeah I'll be doing the traitor scheme on a tank. And I'm hoping maybe they bring back the padding on one of the veletaris units
While there's no official art for them, I'd LOVE to see your take on the Prospero Spireguard
I love them! Let's see if I find the time and continue painting my 40k army.😃
Would love to see a penal colony scheme, not sure if there are (m)any official ones, but for my Legions Imperialis project I was thinking a pale green or even teal for the armour plates and orange for the overalls, with white details. For tanks and such I’d go with the same colours as the plating, with a white vertical line on the sides, with a thicker orange line through the center.
Dark green/black with orange/salmon might also be striking
Amazing as always!! I am personally hoping for a Rite of War that lets you take MOSTLY sentinels. I dream of an OOOPS All Sentinels list.
Yes!
awesome
Love to see the Calth High Guard.
Yeah I was hoping to see a scheme for those guys! Would have loved to have seen Henry’s take on them.
Henry, great vid and probably the one that has solved more of my problems than any other, and it's not a Solar Auxilia issue, it's Necrons.
Got to paint a Necron army for my son without losing my mind or will to live, that means the colour scheme has to help me three different ways and can't be all metal, I was thinking deep red enamelled armour panels and brass
I saw you paint the tarnished armour on the Agathon and I knew I had my beautifully stippled brass
I saw you paint the shoulder pads on the Cthonian with the gloss varnish and I knew I had a mucky dark build up for those armour panels that showed a deep glossy red wherever the muck has worn/wiped off.
So now I have a newly awakened tomb vault that's disgorging hordes, fresh from the racks that literally haven't even had time for a wipe over, never mind a polish.
A lot of stippling that always looks good and a gloss red vs matt umber muck contrast on the armour panels, maybe even a bit of Typhon corrosion on the canoptek units that have been labouring for millions of years of maintenance. Can't wait to get started tomorrow, you're a star.
Sounds like a plan!
Another great vid! Looking forward to the next Black Templar one. Does anyone know where the metal mixing pots can be bought?
just search "metal mixing dish for paint". Loads of places will do them
absolutely love these, please do all solar auxiliary models lol
Deal!
Excellent video that I have been waiting for since the battlegroup was announced. A quick question (and demonstration if you think it could work?), do you think it is viable to to mask off the armour panels with humbrol etc? So I could airbrush all the metals, and then mask and airbrush the fatigues?
Yes absolutely.
Wasn't sure about the new kits at first but as usual it was just the paint job they presented them in. These look fantastic!
Thanks, I really like the kit. It has huge potential as well as being nice as is.
I think what they are wearing under their armor is supposed to be a cross between one of the old brass helmeted diving suits, and something like the Russian space suit. For that red contrast over metal scheme would it have worked to due a green metallic with a silver highlight and then used the red contrast to get a chromatic black metal?
Yes. Although I think possible more effort than it's worth at this size. I've done it on knights before and it worked well.
I'm excited to do up some Calth High Guard since their scheme is essentially the same as the Tyrant's Legion from Badab and I've wanted an army of them for ages. Going to have to try out oil washes for the army, I think.
absolutely give them a go
Please just keep putting out the content you enjoy making. If UA-cam still showed downvotes the airbush hater trolls would be shown up for what they are
Love the solar auxilia aesthetic, keep these coming! I’m so tempted to kitbash these with the cities of sigmar guys to lean into that feudal world look even more
Yes, yes, yes
I'd be interested to see what you do with Saturnyne Rams. The banner in the book is a desaturated purple iirc?
Bizarre we don't have more info on them isn't it
Big Bad Beetleborgs vibes
Absolutely lovely. Hands down my favorite formation and am stoked they are bringing it to plastic. My dream army is about to happen as I got 3 boxes preordered and confirmed. Would love to see as many of them as you can do!
I would love to see a black and white scheme. With an example of black fatigue and white armor and vice versa.
Would also like to see an approach with is basically airbrushed fatigues and when metal armor painted. I feel like this is the faster way to do a full army. But could be wrong. As a lot of us are looking at 100+ infantry but don’t want it looking awful.
I’m happy that this kit is like an actual model kit and doesn’t have fused legs and torsos. Modern GW stuff is obnoxious with the tooling on their other sprues.
I just got the solar box with vehicles, I am in love with this look for the faction, just want more volkite weapons like the resin sets had.
I really want some auxilia but I'm restraining my spending right now 😭
Those look really great! Can't wait to see Ogryn when they drop :D They're going to have real Big Daddy vibe :D
Hope we get them
Great video Henry! I’d really like to see more solar auxilia, seeing how you’d do the leman russ would be a great watch
Russ or malcador?
Both strong choices but the siege of vraks fan in me votes Malcador
S***, how close are you from Maine?
Can you do a metallic calth high guard scheme ?
Fantastic videos, really enjoying the solar auxilia content. How about some Barbaran Ambaxtoi ???
@@jonl3331 I will definitely do another solar video like this focusing on a few more cohorts
Brilliant video, all 3 cohorts are superb. I'm definitely swayed to Agathon, "Lord Marshalls own" suits me to a T. Can I ask though will that clear green metalic look work on the bigger vehicals? Or would it need dulling down?
It will work great.
The blue scheme is my favorite
I love them. Always liked them, and wanted them as inquisitorial henchmen, and they fit well to the void breachers kill team. So going for blue/black and red scheme abit like your last scheme (haven't seen that part yet) but more red. nicely painted, to lazy to set up my airbrush my self. Got any points on the army painter Fanatic paints coming?
I think they'd be great for henchman. As for Fanatic, we are'nt fans and won't be using them.
Such a relaxing voice.
Im so excited for these, the Solar Auxilia look so cool I've been interested since I first found out about them very exisited to have them in plastic
If possible do you think you could paint one up in the colors for Auxilia associated with specific legions? I'm sure it would be a lot of work but I'm sure ir would be cool or the
Arkadian Janissary they were close to the Emperor's Children and I'd love to see your take on them
sounds like i might need to do another batch!
1:58 Wandering if this method would also be beneficial when it comes to gluing the arms on the new mark III and VI marines? When I follow the build guide (arms first, then the bolter), I have noticed some gaps at the wrists that need filling. Assuming no sub assembly for the bolter off course.
It will. You also have the little notches on those kits to help.
These models look great. Would love to see some Prospero Spire Guard. thinking of adding a force to ally my Thousand sons.
they could be fun to kitbash a bit
Hey cult I have a question, I’m painting the headhunters with no airbrush using you’re guid 😄, sprayed them chaos black than the grey the bright red I used iron hands steel and baal red it’s works in a way than the armour work to, but I’m stuck at te part of the brown wash at the end can u use a shade to get the same effect or what can I use best ?
Great video and keep it up!
@@g.leeten1611 check out the imperial fists drednought video I did. I cover using acrylics instead of oils to get a similar result.
The more legions the better!
I love thew schemes, will you do more schemes?
I would love to paint the Inwit Phalangite Honour Livery but I am quite lost on how to do them.
I will, probably end of next month
What color scheme would you recommend for some Auxilia that are allied with the Emperors Children?
Gold? White? Purple?
I love the steam/deiselpunk aesthetic of this range, and it was just begging to be gritty and grimy. I can't wait to see how you tackle the armour!
Aw ye let’s go! Gonna be tricky to pick my scheme, guess they should somewhat look good next to my world eaters
I love these guys and I don’t even play HH but I’ll probably pick up the box .
Even as a stand alone painting project that box is great.
Would love to see you take on a Blood Bowl team. Maybe the upcoming gnome team or the recent vampire team.
love solar aux, would be cool to see some ultramar pattern solar aux represented, those boys deserve some representation after what happened to them on calth
getting a few requests for those lads
Great work! Even more excited for these. I don't remember the name of them but I want to go for the ones in the black armour and white helmets, will definitely try the black method you used on the Headhunter.
it would be very cool to see an acrylics weathering recipe on smaller infantry models compared to the vehicle you did in your last video!
Lovely! Ratling grime through the airbrush has become a go to for me, for terrain.
2:30 stealing this trick as well. I tend to clip of small bits before I clean of the mold lines, but the tinier they are, the more difficult that gets.
do you hit models afterwards with a varnish?
I didnt on these
question, are the torsos sculpted into the legs?
No. Flat join at waist
What is that weird metal gear thing over their right shoulders?
I think it's the air recycling unit. Their suits are meant to be void hardened and capable of operating in extremes
The design of the solar is an absolute blast. You ve honored them so well.
This clear red from AMMO is interesting, especially because it seems to stay red with matt varnish on it (you confirm ?), the tamiya clear red turn litteraly orange when you matt it.
I've not had that issue with the Tamiya red. Ive done projects where i leave it glossy, or sometimes a satin coat. I don't think I would use the clear red if I was going to do a very matte finish.
@@cultofpaint What would you use ? I really like the finish of a very matt but very deeply red metallic.
i already have two future armies planned and now solar auxilia is tempting me...... these lovely schemes arent helping ;)
This is great inspiration. My one will fight alongside the dkok in 40k and i am still searching for the final paintscheme. Yoursnare a great imspiration!
painted up like Krieg they could look amazing
@@cultofpaint i hope so. Especialy if i add pouches, shovels and more to them.
The thing is my dkok paintsheme is rather grimdark. Grey coats black armor and the only eyecathers are the brown leather parts. I am not sure what paintsheme the solar auxilia should have to accomontade it. They might end up too dull.
I can't wait to get this box set for Horus Heresy 😊
Even if it’s (your) “army standard”, it’s an absolutely amazing work, as always. Can’t get over the fact that the green you used for agathon cohort is the same green from SoH artworks in Liber Hereticus
thanks mate. for what it's worth I never use the term army painting in a derogatory way.
What is the actual scale of the solar auxilia to an Astartes? Feels like the Space Marines are very small next to one.
There's a side by side rotating shot of them next to marines in the video.
@@cultofpaint my bad - I meant size in the lore to the size / scale of the minis. For instance if Astartes are 8ft tall on average then how accurate is the sizing of the Solar Auxilia soldier next to them? They seem huge and larger than they should be lore wise.
Maybe in my mind a space marine is just much larger than they really are, or these solar auxilia are all 7ft tall 😅
Having experimented with Contrast paints through the airbrush, I've found that mixing in gloss medium or varnish while spraying really helps give you a finish closer to a candy finish if that's what you're looking for! You still need to use the right contrast paint, a lot of them will still be opaque no matter what you do due to the pigments in there.
Yeah, or gloss over the top.
Great video as usual. I love Tamiya clears too. A very good non-solvent option is Badger's Ghost Tint paints. They are the only water based clears I've found that give comparible results to Tamiya in my opinion. Looking forward to the tanks!
Thanks. Yeah I like the ghost tints. Don't tend to use much badger stuff as it's not widely available over here.
For what it's worth, they've recently had to reformulate at least *some* of the ghost tints due to an unavailability of the dyes. I use their Plasma Fluid as the main color for my Alpha Legion and recently had a bottle of the new formulation; it looks like a completely different color, so I've had to scramble to source some older bottles from various places.
@@cultofpaintI'm a Brit ex-pat living in Japan, so got them from Amazon USA. It's a bit frustrating, as many of the hobby paints/products common in Europe and the USA are really hard to find here. On the plus side, Tamiya and Mr Hobby are much cheaper here than in the UK.
@@tinyfishhobby3138Thanks for the heads up.
Love all three schemes. Would love to see more!!
I really like how these kits look, I was interested in a plastic Solar Aux range (especially that leman Russ for my Krieg in 40k) but the sheer amount of trim on a horde army among other horde armies, so I really appreciate that these are a little simpler than the resin version. Or at least my sanity appreciates it.
Worth noting the 30k Leman Russ Variant doesn't have Sponson Heavy bolters like it does in 40k version
Had the Kharadron Underworlds warband sitting in a box for ages and that green and brass scheme might just be what they need :) Excellent work as always!
I thought exactly the same as I was painting it!
Well it's a good thing you released this so long after the launch box! I managed to resist buying them, having watched this video i'm not sure i still could if it came out tomorrow.
no boxes left, i ordered them all.
I’ve really been tempted by this video to do a bit of a force. Feels like it’s a very labour intensive army though and very fiddly.
I don't think those factors are as big as you think, and certainly shouldn't put you off. I'll report back in a month once I've done a load!
Cool as always. 👍
Amazing as alaways!
lovely!
Any chance we will see any conversions?
Some kitbashes maybe
Great video!
Thanks!
Airbrush seriusly ?/ If you use it and do not wtite it in title its a crime againt all painters and clickbait.
😂