Nice! I do subassemblies too, but I attach his legs to the base, so I can paint the inside of the robes and then stick him to the legs with Blu Tack to get a hold of the model to finish painting. Then take him back off his legs to do the base at the end! I also leave the backpacks separate to make life easier, they are all unique enough to match them up at the end using the instructions :) Praise the Omnissiah!
You know, the funny thing is that despite having just done a video on subassemblies, it'd not even occurred to me to just leave him off his legs to paint the inside of the coat! It's funny how many ways there are of getting around the same problem. :D Glory to the Omnissiah, and may your calculations ever be without recurring decimals.
Irrational numbers are a heretical mote in the eye of our glorious Omnissiah! Tom's comment was exactly the way I did it. Still trying to decide if that means I'm not crazy or if crazy is so commonplace it replicates.
The Skitarii are a lot of fun once you get into them. The miniatures can be kinda daunting since there's a ton of weird detail, but just going step by step lets you work through and by the time you realise it, that Agrax Earthshade is drying... :D
Great. This video put me into a painting spree. I have already painted 10 Vanguard since I watched it. I really like how you show me how to archive great results with simple techniques
There's a lot happening on the Skitarii miniatures, but you can use the fact that they're very busy to your advantage if you're willing to skip a few details! It doesn't hurt the overall effect, I think, and the techniques used are easy to replicate. Just a little water and some paint and you're done!
This might help! ;D You can swap out the colours for Hive Fleet Kraken fairly easily by substituting Mephiston Red and a couple of highlights, but take a look! ua-cam.com/video/l2HUWLBlyXU/v-deo.html
As always another amazingly helpful video since I started watching you my painting has improved so much and I feel more confident to take on more complex projects. Sincerely thank you so much.
I do these guys a different way that really seems to help me out. I assemble everything on the upper torso and leave it separate. Then, I attach the legs to the base, do all my basing, and do all of the priming, painting and detail on the trousers and base. Moving on to the torso, I do the inside of the robe, then attach the upper torso to the completed legs and base. The only thing I have to worry with then is the exterior of the upper torso and it really helps me avoid having to do extensive clean up.
It's funny that everyone seems to have a different way of doing it - just goes to show there's no 'right' way of approaching any of this, as long as it works for you! :D Might try your method in the future, to be honest, since it'd probably be a little cleaner overall than having to glue him to the base later.
Thanks, Nick! There's a lot of Kill Team fans finding this stuff lately, which is good news - it's a cracking boxed set, and both the Kill Team choices in there are really cool. :D You might find this more recent video even more handy if you're looking to save a little time overall: ua-cam.com/video/cpghNyxWVAI/v-deo.html I tackle the Skitarii again, but with a few shortcuts along the way that might prove useful.
Good clear explanation for painting Skitarii. Took me 5 months of trial and error to get the process of painting my first miniature squad down to an art form., which happen to be Skitarii. In the end I went for painting each piece separate . Legs stuck on the base, build the base textures and details around the feet. Only once every part was painted, I would assemble them and then do the shading, highlighting and finer details.
Im finally pulling the trigger and getting into admech. ive got a ton of space marines just sitting on spru and no desire to work on them. Admech models are what attracted me to 40k and i need to follow my heart. I think i wanna go green with the robes death guard green in particular
If you're planning on going with Death Guard Green, there's a video rendering at the moment you might find useful when I can finally upload it. :D Good choice on all counts, though! The Mechanicus are one of those uniquely weird 40k factions that just look amazing.
I've watched 4 or 5 painting tutorial videos and consulted with the GW painting app. Everyone has a slightly different painting scheme for painting Mars Skitarii, but the end result all end up looking very similar. Makes no sense to me that Duncan Rhodes based with Chaos Black, seems silver is the biggest time saver. Of course I based all 36 of my Rangers/ Vanguard and Infiltrators prior to watching this video :-(
i'm having a huge issue finding where to buy paint, i wish they would sell them in sets, it's insane to spend $114 on paints, that is more then the damn start collecting set of skitaris >.
I know this seems like a lot, but I seriously recommend a basic set of acrylics from Reeves, etc. I paint with a combo of GW shades & Vellajo/Reeves acrylics and I can paint almost anything for a fraction of the cost. Plus it helped me to learn colour mixing and what matches what, etc.
This is 2 years late, however if somebody reads this with the same issues, you really only need a handful of paints to make every colour. Just get normal white and black and the 3 primary colours red, yellow and blue. With those 5 you can make any colours you want. Outside of that you can wash them down yourself for washes and the only thing I can think of that doesn't work are metallic paints like metal colours, gold, silver etc. I recommend Valejo, great dropper bottles that are less pricey than citadel and will last you longer. Also don't buy citadel white paint, they dry up way to fast.
Don't tell Duncan! I think a big part of the difference in style is down to how much time I've got to do these things, versus poor Duncan and Peachy getting chained to the desk each day. ;)
I mostly end up doing these as one-offs, since I need to prioritize my time away from the camera to paint as well! In the case of the Skitarii, though, I'll be doing a couple of units of them to support my Mars-aligned Imperial Knight. Nothing huge, but enough to slot nicely on to a larger Imperial force. :)
Awesome. Thanks. I just decided to build a Mechanicus force. I’m brushing up on Mechanicus videos/ painting tutorials Your tutorial is excellent as usual. Thanks & enjoy your weekend
Rather than not gluing him to his base, I just glue his legs to the base, and leave his torso/jacket/head assembly separate, then glue that to my 'coatrack assembly' (which is a spare base that I've created a sort of spire of sprue out of ) which acts as an easy spraying platform as well as something to stick into my painting handle. Then it's as easy as cutting him off the coat rack, using a scraper on the paint that is where the glue will go, and gluing him together!
It turns out everybody seems to have a different method of getting to the back of that jacket, and I'm really interested seeing how people tackle it differently. I think yours might be a better idea than mine, since gluing plastic to plastic's a safer bond overall. Time to make a coat rack out of spare sprue, I guess! :D
I use that same stalk of sprue for a lot of stuff actually. I recently had sanguinary guard jump packs tacked onto it so i could get into the fiddly bits, and sometimes stick an odd head on top of it when it's gonna get primed a different way, etc.
Painting these models can be tough, because most videos you see on how to paint them involve citadel paints. I only own a couple of these paints, mainly washes, so it takes some color matching to get the colors as close as possible.
Can always look at other paints, this is a nice chart of colour matches. Not sure how close they all are but i have bought a few different makes of paints using this chart and they are pretty close, or atleast close enough to not matter. www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Paint_Range_Compatibility_Chart
I like to use nuln oil for the shade, and I'm liberal with it. Gives them such a dark and gritty look. I don't like the clean clothing look. They're frontline battle fighters, and it's grim dark, make'em dirty!
Any advice for getting them off of the screw? I did the dollap of superglue on the screwhead, but I'm worried about snapping my Skitarii's leg off when trying to twist them off.
Try and lever the foot from near the contact point rather than twisting up higher on the leg. Otherwise you can slip a knife under there, but be careful. I've started using double-sided tape on a bit of cork recently - much easier to deal with!
Hey Sonic, love your tutorial and I'm going to use the body part of it on mine skitarii. But i'm going to paint black robes. How would you paint inner side of them? Black too, or some warmer color, maybe gray?
Good question! If you're looking for them to be black, I'd probably stick to a dark grey colour on the inside - something like Eshin Grey, perhaps. Then pick something sharp for contrast elsewhere, like a red trim on the corner of the jackets or something? I'd be curious to see what you decide!
Gladly, but it will take A while. Right now I'm building ork army, just finished converting two blood bowl teams into ard boyz (i know they're gone in codex, but not in my heart).
I may have missed it, but what color did you use to prime/undercoat? I was originally planning on using Chaos black, but it looks like you just used a metallic color as the undercoat. Which color did you use?
I usually start from Leadbelcher spray. You could just as easily start from a grey or black primer and paint that on, though! The bonus of Leadbelcher is that it's a fairly good mid-tone itself, so all the colours you'll use will cover over it pretty well.
This one's primed with Leadbelcher, though you can use just about any mid-tone silver metallic. Try Platemail from Army Painter for a slightly lighter finish!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thank you very much for your reply! Do you think "Plate mail metal" from Vallejo would be ok ? (I have few miniatures to paint and looks like vallejo is the only one selling small flacons) Thanks in advance!
Yup! With spray varnish you'll want to do it outside, same as with any primer can. This was varnished with Munitorum Varnish from GW, but any satin or matt will work perfectly well.
These are the Sector Mechanicus bases straight from GW. I tend to like these ones since they're plastic rather than resin, and miniatures bond with them a little more strongly.
With these guys, I tend to stick to the Citadel stuff since it's easier to find and works pretty well in most climates. Anything silver would work pretty well, though!
Good question! Honestly, I have no idea. It's possible the Mechanicus simply saw a marksman's rifle that had a wooden body and thought, "This is it. This is what a sharpshooter carries. Let's never deviate from this and always use wood."
Not especially? The head and cap are all one piece. It might seem a little fiddly to get to the very back of it for one coat of paint, but versus the time saved in assembling in different parts, painting the heads on a little spike or something... naaah, just knock it on there and be careful when you're painting for literally twenty seconds. ;) It's about saving effort overall.
It's a bit of a bugger with plastic glue, really; that join's pretty fearsome if it's glued in place properly. I usually end up destroying one part or the other. It's just a case of picking which bit I want to save more, unfortunately!
Peninsula Painting Projects With plastic glue, you're pretty much screwed, as plastic glue melts the two pieces and makes them one like welding. If you're using super glue (I use Gorilla Glue myself), pop it in the freezer for a hour or two. The little bit of moisture in the glue will expand as it freezes, making the bond brittle, so you can (normally, not all the time) just pop the piece off.
I'm sure there's a 'proper' pronunciation for it! I've never heard it pronounced with the E-I sound at the end, though, but even Rome: Total War can't decide between Hastatii (Has-ta-tee) and Triarii (Tree-ar-ee-i) with its own actors. You might well be right, but for the time being I'll stick to what I've heard. :)
$250 for that Retributer Armor? Must be made with real gold.
That trick with the screw was really helpful
Nice! I do subassemblies too, but I attach his legs to the base, so I can paint the inside of the robes and then stick him to the legs with Blu Tack to get a hold of the model to finish painting. Then take him back off his legs to do the base at the end! I also leave the backpacks separate to make life easier, they are all unique enough to match them up at the end using the instructions :) Praise the Omnissiah!
You know, the funny thing is that despite having just done a video on subassemblies, it'd not even occurred to me to just leave him off his legs to paint the inside of the coat! It's funny how many ways there are of getting around the same problem. :D Glory to the Omnissiah, and may your calculations ever be without recurring decimals.
Irrational numbers are a heretical mote in the eye of our glorious Omnissiah! Tom's comment was exactly the way I did it. Still trying to decide if that means I'm not crazy or if crazy is so commonplace it replicates.
Yup, I do the same.
I never get tired of watching your tutorials. I always learn so much! This one is really great looking.
The Skitarii are a lot of fun once you get into them. The miniatures can be kinda daunting since there's a ton of weird detail, but just going step by step lets you work through and by the time you realise it, that Agrax Earthshade is drying... :D
I bought the new kill team game the other week, they look daunting to paint. I finished building them today, & stuck them to the bases.
This is fantastic. Thank you. Especially going over all the paints needed at the beginning of the video. I appreciate your work.
Great. This video put me into a painting spree. I have already painted 10 Vanguard since I watched it.
I really like how you show me how to archive great results with simple techniques
There's a lot happening on the Skitarii miniatures, but you can use the fact that they're very busy to your advantage if you're willing to skip a few details! It doesn't hurt the overall effect, I think, and the techniques used are easy to replicate. Just a little water and some paint and you're done!
Sonic Sledgehammer Studio Absolutely. Do you plan to do some tutorials for tyranids.
Mabey a how to speedpaint them
This might help! ;D You can swap out the colours for Hive Fleet Kraken fairly easily by substituting Mephiston Red and a couple of highlights, but take a look! ua-cam.com/video/l2HUWLBlyXU/v-deo.html
Sonic Sledgehammer Studio Thanks. I have a ton of armies and none painted jet.
As always another amazingly helpful video since I started watching you my painting has improved so much and I feel more confident to take on more complex projects. Sincerely thank you so much.
I do these guys a different way that really seems to help me out. I assemble everything on the upper torso and leave it separate. Then, I attach the legs to the base, do all my basing, and do all of the priming, painting and detail on the trousers and base. Moving on to the torso, I do the inside of the robe, then attach the upper torso to the completed legs and base. The only thing I have to worry with then is the exterior of the upper torso and it really helps me avoid having to do extensive clean up.
It's funny that everyone seems to have a different way of doing it - just goes to show there's no 'right' way of approaching any of this, as long as it works for you! :D Might try your method in the future, to be honest, since it'd probably be a little cleaner overall than having to glue him to the base later.
Excellent. Love the timbre of your voice. I’ll be following this to the letter for my kids killteam starter set.
Thanks, Nick! There's a lot of Kill Team fans finding this stuff lately, which is good news - it's a cracking boxed set, and both the Kill Team choices in there are really cool. :D You might find this more recent video even more handy if you're looking to save a little time overall: ua-cam.com/video/cpghNyxWVAI/v-deo.html I tackle the Skitarii again, but with a few shortcuts along the way that might prove useful.
Good clear explanation for painting Skitarii. Took me 5 months of trial and error to get the process of painting my first miniature squad down to an art form., which happen to be Skitarii. In the end I went for painting each piece separate . Legs stuck on the base, build the base textures and details around the feet. Only once every part was painted, I would assemble them and then do the shading, highlighting and finer details.
Oh, man! You're braver than I am! I'm far too lazy for that kind of commitment. :D I bet they look cracking once they're done, though!
PLEASE do a DeathKorps of Krieg one!! Subscribed!
You might want to put Death Korps into the search bar! Way ahead of you there. ;D
Im finally pulling the trigger and getting into admech. ive got a ton of space marines just sitting on spru and no desire to work on them. Admech models are what attracted me to 40k and i need to follow my heart. I think i wanna go green with the robes death guard green in particular
If you're planning on going with Death Guard Green, there's a video rendering at the moment you might find useful when I can finally upload it. :D Good choice on all counts, though! The Mechanicus are one of those uniquely weird 40k factions that just look amazing.
ITS SO GOOD!
It'll do the job! ;D Just breaking the miniature down into steps makes it pretty simple to tackle.
Nice job buddy
I've watched 4 or 5 painting tutorial videos and consulted with the GW painting app. Everyone has a slightly different painting scheme for painting Mars Skitarii, but the end result all end up looking very similar. Makes no sense to me that Duncan Rhodes based with Chaos Black, seems silver is the biggest time saver. Of course I based all 36 of my Rangers/ Vanguard and Infiltrators prior to watching this video :-(
Awesome stuff ill be copiying this tutorial when i buy some skitari
They're great miniatures! A lot of fun to paint if you've got some other colour schemes in mind, too, and they're loaded with detail.
Thank you for you videos. :)
cheers mate, your guides really help me out. nice one bud.
i'm having a huge issue finding where to buy paint, i wish they would sell them in sets, it's insane to spend $114 on paints, that is more then the damn start collecting set of skitaris >.
I know this seems like a lot, but I seriously recommend a basic set of acrylics from Reeves, etc. I paint with a combo of GW shades & Vellajo/Reeves acrylics and I can paint almost anything for a fraction of the cost.
Plus it helped me to learn colour mixing and what matches what, etc.
This is 2 years late, however if somebody reads this with the same issues, you really only need a handful of paints to make every colour. Just get normal white and black and the 3 primary colours red, yellow and blue. With those 5 you can make any colours you want. Outside of that you can wash them down yourself for washes and the only thing I can think of that doesn't work are metallic paints like metal colours, gold, silver etc.
I recommend Valejo, great dropper bottles that are less pricey than citadel and will last you longer. Also don't buy citadel white paint, they dry up way to fast.
Again a great tutorial, love the way you present it all, goodby warhammer world and welcome Mr.Sonic :] ;]
Don't tell Duncan! I think a big part of the difference in style is down to how much time I've got to do these things, versus poor Duncan and Peachy getting chained to the desk each day. ;)
Another great tutorial on what are quite intimidating models to paint. Nice one Sonic! Are you painting full units of these or just one offs?
I mostly end up doing these as one-offs, since I need to prioritize my time away from the camera to paint as well! In the case of the Skitarii, though, I'll be doing a couple of units of them to support my Mars-aligned Imperial Knight. Nothing huge, but enough to slot nicely on to a larger Imperial force. :)
I just do a orange cloak, deep blue pants, grey pipes, and Metallics everywhere else.
Awesome. Thanks. I just decided to build a Mechanicus force. I’m brushing up on Mechanicus videos/ painting tutorials
Your tutorial is excellent as usual. Thanks & enjoy your weekend
Great tutorial. These models look challenging to paint.
You have nailed it in this video! hehe get, it Nailed it!
Actually, this time around, I completely screwed it! :D Thanks!
Rather than not gluing him to his base, I just glue his legs to the base, and leave his torso/jacket/head assembly separate, then glue that to my 'coatrack assembly' (which is a spare base that I've created a sort of spire of sprue out of ) which acts as an easy spraying platform as well as something to stick into my painting handle. Then it's as easy as cutting him off the coat rack, using a scraper on the paint that is where the glue will go, and gluing him together!
It turns out everybody seems to have a different method of getting to the back of that jacket, and I'm really interested seeing how people tackle it differently. I think yours might be a better idea than mine, since gluing plastic to plastic's a safer bond overall. Time to make a coat rack out of spare sprue, I guess! :D
I use that same stalk of sprue for a lot of stuff actually. I recently had sanguinary guard jump packs tacked onto it so i could get into the fiddly bits, and sometimes stick an odd head on top of it when it's gonna get primed a different way, etc.
another quality video, do you think you could show us how to paint the viewports on chimeras? like the little window things above the lasgun array?
That's a really good question. I'll try and cover lenses, gems and screens in a video soon!
Painting these models can be tough, because most videos you see on how to paint them involve citadel paints. I only own a couple of these paints, mainly washes, so it takes some color matching to get the colors as close as possible.
Can always look at other paints, this is a nice chart of colour matches.
Not sure how close they all are but i have bought a few different makes of paints using this chart and they are pretty close, or atleast close enough to not matter.
www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Paint_Range_Compatibility_Chart
@@Medic6666 holy cow, thank you so much. This will make the process a lot easier.
I like to use nuln oil for the shade, and I'm liberal with it. Gives them such a dark and gritty look. I don't like the clean clothing look. They're frontline battle fighters, and it's grim dark, make'em dirty!
That's one pricey pot of goooold
You should see the Leprechaun I had to fight for it, too!
Any advice for getting them off of the screw? I did the dollap of superglue on the screwhead, but I'm worried about snapping my Skitarii's leg off when trying to twist them off.
Try and lever the foot from near the contact point rather than twisting up higher on the leg. Otherwise you can slip a knife under there, but be careful. I've started using double-sided tape on a bit of cork recently - much easier to deal with!
Hey Sonic, love your tutorial and I'm going to use the body part of it on mine skitarii. But i'm going to paint black robes. How would you paint inner side of them? Black too, or some warmer color, maybe gray?
Good question! If you're looking for them to be black, I'd probably stick to a dark grey colour on the inside - something like Eshin Grey, perhaps. Then pick something sharp for contrast elsewhere, like a red trim on the corner of the jackets or something? I'd be curious to see what you decide!
Gladly, but it will take A while. Right now I'm building ork army, just finished converting two blood bowl teams into ard boyz (i know they're gone in codex, but not in my heart).
I may have missed it, but what color did you use to prime/undercoat? I was originally planning on using Chaos black, but it looks like you just used a metallic color as the undercoat. Which color did you use?
I usually start from Leadbelcher spray. You could just as easily start from a grey or black primer and paint that on, though! The bonus of Leadbelcher is that it's a fairly good mid-tone itself, so all the colours you'll use will cover over it pretty well.
Hey Great video ! which colour of primer did you use, and do you have one to recommend ?
This one's primed with Leadbelcher, though you can use just about any mid-tone silver metallic. Try Platemail from Army Painter for a slightly lighter finish!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thank you very much for your reply! Do you think "Plate mail metal" from Vallejo would be ok ? (I have few miniatures to paint and looks like vallejo is the only one selling small flacons) Thanks in advance!
I’m confused on what you did with the varnish. Did you take the piece out and lightly spray from a distance?
What varnish do you use?
Yup! With spray varnish you'll want to do it outside, same as with any primer can. This was varnished with Munitorum Varnish from GW, but any satin or matt will work perfectly well.
so... where to find these base you use for skitari? =) or did you build them ? =)
These are the Necromunda bases you can pick up from GW. This chap's on a 28mm version.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio thanks!
What varnish did you use here? Awesome tutorial! And what primer?
Where did you acquire your bases from?
These are the Sector Mechanicus bases straight from GW. I tend to like these ones since they're plastic rather than resin, and miniatures bond with them a little more strongly.
im just getting into this myself with kill team. what primer did you use? a specific brand you found works best?
With these guys, I tend to stick to the Citadel stuff since it's easier to find and works pretty well in most climates. Anything silver would work pretty well, though!
Awesome thanks
Why do they use wood for the stock of their guns?
Good question! Honestly, I have no idea. It's possible the Mechanicus simply saw a marksman's rifle that had a wooden body and thought, "This is it. This is what a sharpshooter carries. Let's never deviate from this and always use wood."
I was wondering, doesn't it make more sense to paint the cap before gluing it onto the model?
Not especially? The head and cap are all one piece. It might seem a little fiddly to get to the very back of it for one coat of paint, but versus the time saved in assembling in different parts, painting the heads on a little spike or something... naaah, just knock it on there and be careful when you're painting for literally twenty seconds. ;) It's about saving effort overall.
What brushes do you use?
How do you remove him from the nail?
It's ok you snapped him off
Yeah, just a bit of brute force violence! Nothing fancy from me! :D
Sonic haha I love it. You got any tips on removing parts of pre assembled plastic minis?
It's a bit of a bugger with plastic glue, really; that join's pretty fearsome if it's glued in place properly. I usually end up destroying one part or the other. It's just a case of picking which bit I want to save more, unfortunately!
Peninsula Painting Projects With plastic glue, you're pretty much screwed, as plastic glue melts the two pieces and makes them one like welding. If you're using super glue (I use Gorilla Glue myself), pop it in the freezer for a hour or two. The little bit of moisture in the glue will expand as it freezes, making the bond brittle, so you can (normally, not all the time) just pop the piece off.
$250 for paint?!
You gotta use the good stuff! ;D Though honestly, I forget what the sticker originally came off of.
Skitarii,....the double ii should, I think, be pronounced ee i. SKITAREEI
I'm sure there's a 'proper' pronunciation for it! I've never heard it pronounced with the E-I sound at the end, though, but even Rome: Total War can't decide between Hastatii (Has-ta-tee) and Triarii (Tree-ar-ee-i) with its own actors. You might well be right, but for the time being I'll stick to what I've heard. :)