For anyone who wants to do this but is unsure about doing really fine edge highlighting with a brush; Get a colored pencil like white or lightblue and run that along your edges. Or normal grey pencil for putting edges on metallic stuff. Works like a charm and is very easy to control or correct if you mess up.
I have just started painting and edge highlights are incredibly difficult for me. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough paint on the brush, sometimes too much. Despite all the resources, there's a lot of common knowledge stuff that isn't common for beginners.
Thank you for the tip! I will for sure try it. I found using a super soft, very fine-pored sponge, like a make-up blending sponge, with dry paint, works great with highlights too vs a brush.
It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this, I can’t tell you how much I love the technique and the result, especially the ultramarine scheme. I just need the courage to try it on my strike force Justian models!
I just love that the finish given by Grimdark makes the model feel so much more alive and in the midst of battle. It's brilliant and you execute it with a level of care that makes any painting style so much more enthralling.
I would really love to see the Dark Angels for the next video in the series, either the basic green armor or the bright tan/bone of the deathwing. I’ve had a really hard time finding references and tutorials for them that I really love and I would love to see your take on them
This ultra realistic style has inspired me in painting several of my minis. I’m currently doing a Legion of the Damned Marine. Thanks for the inspiration 👍
How good are your follower's results? AWESOME! You're teaching and helping so many painters, Trov. Love it. You hit a HUGE nail by stating that you needed to define your own methods of weathering on the smaller scale. Doing it all with acrylics also helps the younger crowd. Not everyone has access to oils and enamels. You can do so much with a basic acrylic starter set by getting creative.
Hey Trovarion your content lately I think has been getting better and better; your techniques and tips were always good but I think you have really stepped it up a notch and I just wanted to say I feel like I noticed some growth and I love it. Thanks for being a pioneer, pushing for new territory, and sharing the journey.
Hey Trovarion, apologies in advance for getting a little mushy here, but I wanted to thank you again for this video. I came to your channel for the techniques and painting tips, but the thing that always makes me pumped to come back for your next video is that I just freakin adore you. I identify a lot with things you express about your personality in this video and others, and not only does it feel great to feel like I've got a lot of common ground with someone I look up to, but your openness and honesty about your struggles and challenges and how you cope with them--like constantly needing to evolve new styles in order to not get bored, etc.; I feel like that stuff gives me a lot of insight into how to cope with my own struggles as an artist, and I think that stuff is at least as valuable as the techniques and lessons about painting itself, and I just can't thank you enough for being you, sharing yourself and your art journey, and for the years of great content and lessons. You rule, man.
I used this method back when your video came out for my Primaris Chaplain and it's still one of my most interesting paint jobs years later. Taught me a lot about taking advantage of the actual properties of paint and pigment. Love this style.
Simply fkn awesome. Pure Gigachad Trovarion: Sees the "chop", slaps it in the dirt by creating his own style, refuses to elaborate and leaves. It truely is a joy to see your journey on UA-cam over the last years. The quality is getting insane. Proud to be a Patreon Member!
Splendide! The thickness of a Space marine’s armour is perfectly given . The Ultramarine’s style is there with a string personal interpretation. Thank you for your encouragements as you are a real Master
As someone who absolutely detests doing Edge Highlights (or the typical 'Eavy Metal style) this video is a godesend. Looks so much more enjoyable than painting edges for hours and hours.
Haven't painted a single mini in ages, but watching your videos truly gives me inspiration to star again, I'd love to see this method applied to the space wolves armor 😁 Great work as always! 😀
absolutely love using grimdark style for space marines. i actually am in the middle of my first commission of Ultramarines and i'm doing them all grimdark. glad to see channels showing it some love still
This is the exact technique I was looking for. Iv always felt that 40k models were painted too cleanly and this is the perfect amount of ware and grime to capture the grim darkness
I love what you do, how you film it, edit it, and I steel your process and some Richard Gray stuff and damn….I am happy. You do you so I can continue to learn how to do me!! Thanks so much!!
When I first started doing minis, I got some flaks around me because I would paint my space marines as dirty looking rather than all clean. I do get the satisfaction of having a nice and clean paintjob, especially when you are learning the basics, but I got brushed off for the ideas of doing Space marines that looks battleworn as just me hiding how bad I actually was at painting rather than me truely liking my paintjob. Sure I did and I still suck, but your minis and your paintjob warms my heart that yes, you can get a very awesome looking space marine that looks like he is on an actual campaign rather than a military parade, and the paintjob would still look rad.
I honestly don't know where that idea comes from. Maybe because I am massively uncomfortable in front of the camera and I have gotten slightly more used to it? I never had an ego about my painting ever...so this impression I give really confuses me...haha.
Nailed it! When I finally get down how to do it with my raptors (basing in dark olive drab) I'll share it with ya so you can see your influence! Bad ass stuff man. Keep it going!
Looks wicked. As a filthy dark angels player I'd like to see you tackle the first! I'd be interested to see how you'd deal with the already dark green ^_^
This style is absolutely astounding. I love how You painted Blood Angels and I need to finally show it to my father, because He collects them. Personnaly I would like to see White Scars or any chapter in white armor, because I plan to paint World Eaters in pre-heresy colors for Gladiator Cadre 331 or Salamanders, my absolutely favourite legion/chapter and I think that style would be suiteble for them.
You got a fantastic result. What you have done here, is demonstrated a woefully underutilized painting aesthetic and technique for models - stipple shading and stipple texturing. The funny part is that this technique produces top-tier results - but is not nearly as laborious or time consuming as what is currently thought of as "traditional" layering techniques.
Really enjoying this content. Your delivery and production make new processes and techniques understandable, relatable and most importantly applicable. Feeling very inspired. Already subscribed - rung the bell for all notifications going forwards.
I love this dirty, weathered grim dark paint style. Its really the first method I've seen that gives me that same feeling i have when thinking about the 40k universe; drab, hopeless, dark, and utterly fantastic. Huge props 👍 Going to try my homebrew order of flame inspired sororitas like this!
Gnarly.. this is top tier brother, hats off. Suggestion for next model, Dark Angels Assault Intercessor, Ravenwing themed with some green and red eyes 😎
This is video belongs in the proverbial minipainting UA-cams hall of fame. I’ve watched a statistically significant sample size of videos to make that claim with a 99% confidence interval. Beyond the obvious (I like the results one can achieve with this sort of thing in a stepwise fashion)…it’s 1, adaptable, and 2, a damn fun way to paint. It’s an especially enjoyable way for me to paint Space Marines, which are - despite getting a lion’s share of GW’s effort as a company and thus range from very good to stunning sculpts - kind of a bore to paint. Big open curves and lots of empty space begs for the stippling. I don’t even really go for what I think of as some kind of obvious grimdark look. They just look weathered to me. The adaptability comes in here. I go fast and over-highlight a lot up to a desaturated highest highlight, then hit it with easy glazes. Both to bring the saturation back up top and to bring my shadows back in line. Blackline and then some additional easy weathering (scratches, stipple in glazes for stains, etc). Boom. A really good looking Marine quite quickly because I’m very rarely being that careful (I do have pretty good brush control these days though…which this exercise has made me more aware of).
Just wanted to add: big open curves and negative space are not in and of themselves why I don’t like painting space marines (those are things I love in other contexts). Space Marines being boring to paint has more to do with them all being the same basic set of curves and negative space and everyone, collectively, having painted literally what has to be tens of millions of them at this point.
uuu... really cool! i cant wait to try it! i propose dark angels chapter, since is really overloked. For me is one of the "grim darkest" chapters but it only gets that moot green-neon treatement
Something i tried recently for a customer who wanted a seriously battered "crusade" look to her Space Wolves/Dark Angels force was to tear a piece of the foam packaging from the insert of a figure tray up into VERY small pieces, dab them into some lightly thinned paint, wipe/dab the excess off on a paper towel, then lightly dab the armour. This left me with a very nice chipped/worn/Grimdark mottling over a black primer base paint, and then I did the same with smaller pieces of foam, using different steel to silver mixed with greys of various shades. I'd already applied the decals for her squads, so they got the mottled effect, too. By the time I'd finished the figures, they looked like they'd spent centuries in constant battle, world-weary and almost beyond repair, but also looked pretty awesome, too :-) She was delighted with them, as they were exactly how she wanted her crusade force to look, and she's now commissioned her entire force (Vehicles and all) to be done the same way. LOVE how you do the figure in this video, and I'll try it out on some of my own Kill Team Phobos Marines soon :-)
Ich bewundere Deine Fertigkeiten 😍 - nicht nur die gemalten Effekte, sondern auch das future design der Waffenlackierung. Als Nächstes wünsche ich mir einen Salamander mit selbstgeschmiedeten Verzierungen, bspw. flammende Feingoldeinlagen auf der Aquila und dem Hammerkopf! Grim Dark, durch das Handwerkskunst und Schönheit zart durchscheinen. Vielleicht ein goldener Damast-Effekt? So viele Möglichkeiten 🤩
I was planning on painting up some space marines using slap chop method, but after seeing this video, think I am gonna give this a shot. It looks amazing!!
"Making it feel fun, not a chore" Love that take in the beginning on finding what is fun for you. Sometimes it's fun for me to put in the tedious work to get a really high level or improve my skill. Others it's quick and fun. There is room for both.
The Ultramarine in the thumbnail is absolutely gorgeous. I'm not an ultramarine fan really, more of a Salamanders fanboy. But damn. Gonna be watching this video multiple times. Great job mate!
Although i opt for a more clean style when painting my miniatures. i love watching these videos and seeing the results. It looks really striking and very much like you expect to see a war torn marine. One thing that would be awesome is to see this approach on a darker color scheme like dark angels. I always struggle to weather darker base tones, as a lot weathering is is dark grimy colors which don't always have the impact, compared to doing it on a yellow or blue.
I'm preparing to start painting my first set of minis. Super excited to try this out on a few of my units to highlight the troops that are more seasoned rather than fresh recruits.
Nice explanation of the technique! In many ways it reminds me of Lincoln Wright's Ma. K work on his Paint on Plastic channel. He calls it "poke through".
It's fantastic! As an Ultramarines player it's something that I have a strong urge to do as I think it would simplify the painting process for me (I'm not very good!), however I think for now I'll stick to a more 'standard' method to try and improve my basic painting skills, even if it takes me longer. Definitely going to try this approach on a future army. Would be really interesting to see how you'd apply it to a metallic armour colour - thinking something like Minotaurs etc.
1 I was looking for the metal posters and they sponsored this video yay lol, loved the work you did on the marine, I just need a box for my to do stash thanks for this video, keep them coming.
When it come to a slapchop paint job style. I used a familiar method for the Ironwarrior, Word Bearer ,Black legion and Night Lords models. As to give them grim dark look while looking clean enough look for some one who do regular maintence to their war gear. For me i find acrylique paint and Vehelio paint with some shading work for a grim look. Also to make some of my models look like their gear have a grim dark look that the gear seen better days i like to use a scapel blade and damage the mode for where damage done by a melee blade or a bullet make sense for a mark left on the armor still from a previous fight.
This style is not for me, but whether I do or do like this style, I can still appreciate talent. You have terrific skill and it shows in your results. Great work! This is the beauty of WH4K, you do what makes you happy and enjoy. Anyone that dings you because they do not personally like this style are missing the point of the hobby in the first place.
I really love your take on grimdark, I have tried to paint three space marines in this style, and just like you I really enjoyed it. It's so satisfying to see the colours come together. I would like to see either a grimdark Space Wolf or Dark Angel. Thanks again for keeping up the good work.
This is amazing! I am going to try this technique with the Leviathan box. I'm planning to pay the marines as Salamanders and have been looking for different technique to use. This is going to be the one I use, it's so good.
Don't usually comment on these vids but watching this i felt like I needed to say - the way you use seemingly simple techniques to such great effect, and in ways I never would have thought to, is truly impressive. I've seen your vids with more advanced techniques and the result is always incredible. But i feel the demonstration of a true master of an art form is to use simple techniques to incredible effect as you have in this one.
I've been going down this road for a bit with my models now. And I see as you are growing in it, so am I. Altering things in different ways. This method is extremely enjoyable to me with a grand outcome. I hope to see you progress is this similar style. May I our models be grim -Mjar
Like a dekade ago, this is how I painted rust effects. Just using various brown and orange tones and at the end either highlighted or just drybrushed with a silver metal colour and it was done.
just got back into warhammer again after my 15 years or so away, my wife brought me blackstone fortress box game. This guide is how I imagine a space marine to look, I completely love this style, I have always found normal painting they look too nice. This makes it look like u mentioned the armour looks like it has been in as long campaign, I find it a more realistic looking model.
I love this style and technique. I just got myself some Dark Angels, hope to see your take on them at some point in this style btw. I however tried out different schemes and colours for them over two weeks before I came across your Blood Angel video and I just love the final look of them! I still need some time to get the sponging right and get paitient enough in generell to paint in quite thin layers but I prefer this way FAR over slapchop!
This is the way ! and this is what a model should look like when coming from a grim dark future... Having done 1/35 tanks model with all the weathering / realistic effect for so long, I could not believe that most people painted their 40k models with that pristine almost plastic look...
I’m infatuated with this series. I have such a petty but intense sense of revulsion to the constant “parade march” style of painting I see everywhere, as if everyone is fresh off the factory. Completely opposite to the lore and atmosphere of the 40k universe. Your work is a breath of fresh air in a stagnant basement. I am both inspired and will look forward to each release eagerly.
genuinely one of the most real to mind space marines i have ever seen painted, epic. Bravo! i really want to see you smash a Deathwing terminator for us ! 😎
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We would love to see you paint grim dark Plague Marines ! Thanks so much for sharing man.
@Andrew Sullivan thanks for lmk!
Paint salamanders! You could try a cool burnt paint effect, like it’s peeling or something different like that
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Can you do a video on brushes plz
For anyone who wants to do this but is unsure about doing really fine edge highlighting with a brush; Get a colored pencil like white or lightblue and run that along your edges. Or normal grey pencil for putting edges on metallic stuff. Works like a charm and is very easy to control or correct if you mess up.
I have just started painting and edge highlights are incredibly difficult for me. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough paint on the brush, sometimes too much.
Despite all the resources, there's a lot of common knowledge stuff that isn't common for beginners.
i chose suffering 😂😂
Thank you for the tip! I will for sure try it. I found using a super soft, very fine-pored sponge, like a make-up blending sponge, with dry paint, works great with highlights too vs a brush.
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It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this, I can’t tell you how much I love the technique and the result, especially the ultramarine scheme. I just need the courage to try it on my strike force Justian models!
I just love that the finish given by Grimdark makes the model feel so much more alive and in the midst of battle. It's brilliant and you execute it with a level of care that makes any painting style so much more enthralling.
I would really love to see the Dark Angels for the next video in the series, either the basic green armor or the bright tan/bone of the deathwing. I’ve had a really hard time finding references and tutorials for them that I really love and I would love to see your take on them
second this!
This style of painting makes the finished mini in the photos look like it is 54mm rather than 30mm; great work.
This ultra realistic style has inspired me in painting several of my minis. I’m currently doing a Legion of the Damned Marine. Thanks for the inspiration 👍
How good are your follower's results? AWESOME! You're teaching and helping so many painters, Trov. Love it.
You hit a HUGE nail by stating that you needed to define your own methods of weathering on the smaller scale. Doing it all with acrylics also helps the younger crowd. Not everyone has access to oils and enamels. You can do so much with a basic acrylic starter set by getting creative.
Your grimdark series is just so refreshing. The models look so much more alive than the traditional box art. Thank you!
Hey Trovarion your content lately I think has been getting better and better; your techniques and tips were always good but I think you have really stepped it up a notch and I just wanted to say I feel like I noticed some growth and I love it. Thanks for being a pioneer, pushing for new territory, and sharing the journey.
This is masterwork. I can't believe some people don't like this. Love all your work!
Hey Trovarion, apologies in advance for getting a little mushy here, but I wanted to thank you again for this video. I came to your channel for the techniques and painting tips, but the thing that always makes me pumped to come back for your next video is that I just freakin adore you. I identify a lot with things you express about your personality in this video and others, and not only does it feel great to feel like I've got a lot of common ground with someone I look up to, but your openness and honesty about your struggles and challenges and how you cope with them--like constantly needing to evolve new styles in order to not get bored, etc.; I feel like that stuff gives me a lot of insight into how to cope with my own struggles as an artist, and I think that stuff is at least as valuable as the techniques and lessons about painting itself, and I just can't thank you enough for being you, sharing yourself and your art journey, and for the years of great content and lessons. You rule, man.
I like it, is probably one of the best takes on the dark and grim style I have seen.
I used this method back when your video came out for my Primaris Chaplain and it's still one of my most interesting paint jobs years later. Taught me a lot about taking advantage of the actual properties of paint and pigment. Love this style.
Simply fkn awesome. Pure Gigachad Trovarion: Sees the "chop", slaps it in the dirt by creating his own style, refuses to elaborate and leaves.
It truely is a joy to see your journey on UA-cam over the last years. The quality is getting insane. Proud to be a Patreon Member!
Splendide! The thickness of a Space marine’s armour is perfectly given . The Ultramarine’s style is there with a string personal interpretation. Thank you for your encouragements as you are a real Master
As someone who absolutely detests doing Edge Highlights (or the typical 'Eavy Metal style) this video is a godesend. Looks so much more enjoyable than painting edges for hours and hours.
Haven't painted a single mini in ages, but watching your videos truly gives me inspiration to star again, I'd love to see this method applied to the space wolves armor 😁
Great work as always! 😀
Really great look, love how grounded the model looks all over! Would be keen to see how you'd tackle a split pattern like the Angels of Redemption
absolutely love using grimdark style for space marines. i actually am in the middle of my first commission of Ultramarines and i'm doing them all grimdark. glad to see channels showing it some love still
This is the exact technique I was looking for. Iv always felt that 40k models were painted too cleanly and this is the perfect amount of ware and grime to capture the grim darkness
I've watched a lot of videos recently about painting and this style is by far the most realistic I have personally come across!
I love what you do, how you film it, edit it, and I steel your process and some Richard Gray stuff and damn….I am happy. You do you so I can continue to learn how to do me!! Thanks so much!!
When I first started doing minis, I got some flaks around me because I would paint my space marines as dirty looking rather than all clean. I do get the satisfaction of having a nice and clean paintjob, especially when you are learning the basics, but I got brushed off for the ideas of doing Space marines that looks battleworn as just me hiding how bad I actually was at painting rather than me truely liking my paintjob.
Sure I did and I still suck, but your minis and your paintjob warms my heart that yes, you can get a very awesome looking space marine that looks like he is on an actual campaign rather than a military parade, and the paintjob would still look rad.
I really like this approach. I'll have to play with it myself!
you feel much more humble and welcoming in this video than in some of your old ones. I really like that!
I honestly don't know where that idea comes from. Maybe because I am massively uncomfortable in front of the camera and I have gotten slightly more used to it? I never had an ego about my painting ever...so this impression I give really confuses me...haha.
I love this method. Ive been using it for my Dark Angels and while they're not as awesome as yours. I like em. Cheers Trovarion
Nailed it! When I finally get down how to do it with my raptors (basing in dark olive drab) I'll share it with ya so you can see your influence! Bad ass stuff man. Keep it going!
Working on the painting my Marines right now. This vid is one of my best inspirations. Thanks.
Looks wicked. As a filthy dark angels player I'd like to see you tackle the first! I'd be interested to see how you'd deal with the already dark green ^_^
As a new Dark Angels player i'd love to see a new way of painting them!
I love this method, it’s genuinely great to watch. You see things really tighten up as each pass is applied.
I love grim battered marines :) . It's the bright shiny ones I struggle with . Excellent work . Keep it up :)
This style is absolutely astounding. I love how You painted Blood Angels and I need to finally show it to my father, because He collects them. Personnaly I would like to see White Scars or any chapter in white armor, because I plan to paint World Eaters in pre-heresy colors for Gladiator Cadre 331 or Salamanders, my absolutely favourite legion/chapter and I think that style would be suiteble for them.
Hi, I’ve painted a few in white armour in Grimdark style. Feel free to view some of my uploads 👍
I’d enjoy you trying this on Dark Angels. I’d be curious to see what choices you make. As always, great video.
Your video is very clear, dense, go straight to the point. Very interesting.
I also must say that I love your style here. It's what I'm always going for, and sometimes getting to.
You got a fantastic result. What you have done here, is demonstrated a woefully underutilized painting aesthetic and technique for models - stipple shading and stipple texturing. The funny part is that this technique produces top-tier results - but is not nearly as laborious or time consuming as what is currently thought of as "traditional" layering techniques.
Love your Grimdark videos. As a newbie this style has clicked with me!!!
Started to watch to hear Trovarion say 'sponge'. Stayed for the awesome paint job. Both did not disappoint.
Really enjoying this content. Your delivery and production make new processes and techniques understandable, relatable and most importantly applicable. Feeling very inspired.
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I love this dirty, weathered grim dark paint style. Its really the first method I've seen that gives me that same feeling i have when thinking about the 40k universe; drab, hopeless, dark, and utterly fantastic. Huge props 👍 Going to try my homebrew order of flame inspired sororitas like this!
I’ve used your method for so many things now, to include my Ork Trukk, Deffkopta, and Deff Dread. STUPID SIMPLE AND AWESOME
Gnarly.. this is top tier brother, hats off.
Suggestion for next model, Dark Angels Assault Intercessor, Ravenwing themed with some green and red eyes 😎
This is absolutely insane. You’re incredibly talented, brother.
That was one of the smoothest transitions to a sponsor ad I've ever seen.
This is video belongs in the proverbial minipainting UA-cams hall of fame. I’ve watched a statistically significant sample size of videos to make that claim with a 99% confidence interval.
Beyond the obvious (I like the results one can achieve with this sort of thing in a stepwise fashion)…it’s 1, adaptable, and 2, a damn fun way to paint. It’s an especially enjoyable way for me to paint Space Marines, which are - despite getting a lion’s share of GW’s effort as a company and thus range from very good to stunning sculpts - kind of a bore to paint. Big open curves and lots of empty space begs for the stippling.
I don’t even really go for what I think of as some kind of obvious grimdark look. They just look weathered to me. The adaptability comes in here. I go fast and over-highlight a lot up to a desaturated highest highlight, then hit it with easy glazes. Both to bring the saturation back up top and to bring my shadows back in line. Blackline and then some additional easy weathering (scratches, stipple in glazes for stains, etc). Boom. A really good looking Marine quite quickly because I’m very rarely being that careful (I do have pretty good brush control these days though…which this exercise has made me more aware of).
Just wanted to add: big open curves and negative space are not in and of themselves why I don’t like painting space marines (those are things I love in other contexts). Space Marines being boring to paint has more to do with them all being the same basic set of curves and negative space and everyone, collectively, having painted literally what has to be tens of millions of them at this point.
uuu... really cool! i cant wait to try it!
i propose dark angels chapter, since is really overloked. For me is one of the "grim darkest" chapters but it only gets that moot green-neon treatement
Something i tried recently for a customer who wanted a seriously battered "crusade" look to her Space Wolves/Dark Angels force was to tear a piece of the foam packaging from the insert of a figure tray up into VERY small pieces, dab them into some lightly thinned paint, wipe/dab the excess off on a paper towel, then lightly dab the armour. This left me with a very nice chipped/worn/Grimdark mottling over a black primer base paint, and then I did the same with smaller pieces of foam, using different steel to silver mixed with greys of various shades. I'd already applied the decals for her squads, so they got the mottled effect, too. By the time I'd finished the figures, they looked like they'd spent centuries in constant battle, world-weary and almost beyond repair, but also looked pretty awesome, too :-) She was delighted with them, as they were exactly how she wanted her crusade force to look, and she's now commissioned her entire force (Vehicles and all) to be done the same way. LOVE how you do the figure in this video, and I'll try it out on some of my own Kill Team Phobos Marines soon :-)
It really looks bad-ass. Dark Angels next? I have an entire army of unpainted Dark Angels, and am in desperate need of inspiration.
Ich bewundere Deine Fertigkeiten 😍
- nicht nur die gemalten Effekte, sondern auch das future design der Waffenlackierung.
Als Nächstes wünsche ich mir einen Salamander mit selbstgeschmiedeten Verzierungen, bspw. flammende Feingoldeinlagen auf der Aquila und dem Hammerkopf! Grim Dark, durch das Handwerkskunst und Schönheit zart durchscheinen. Vielleicht ein goldener Damast-Effekt? So viele Möglichkeiten 🤩
I was planning on painting up some space marines using slap chop method, but after seeing this video, think I am gonna give this a shot. It looks amazing!!
Looks amazing. Love the way this one turned out. The white weapons were a great choice.
"Making it feel fun, not a chore" Love that take in the beginning on finding what is fun for you. Sometimes it's fun for me to put in the tedious work to get a really high level or improve my skill. Others it's quick and fun. There is room for both.
Exactly!
The Ultramarine in the thumbnail is absolutely gorgeous. I'm not an ultramarine fan really, more of a Salamanders fanboy. But damn. Gonna be watching this video multiple times. Great job mate!
Although i opt for a more clean style when painting my miniatures. i love watching these videos and seeing the results. It looks really striking and very much like you expect to see a war torn marine. One thing that would be awesome is to see this approach on a darker color scheme like dark angels. I always struggle to weather darker base tones, as a lot weathering is is dark grimy colors which don't always have the impact, compared to doing it on a yellow or blue.
I'm preparing to start painting my first set of minis. Super excited to try this out on a few of my units to highlight the troops that are more seasoned rather than fresh recruits.
Nice explanation of the technique! In many ways it reminds me of Lincoln Wright's Ma. K work on his Paint on Plastic channel. He calls it "poke through".
I love each version of these videos as they come out. I find this style matches really nicely when for making an old battered imperial knight
dude!!! u just helped me with battling my macfarlane space marine (converted spacewolf) so huuuge!! huge ty!!!
It's fantastic! As an Ultramarines player it's something that I have a strong urge to do as I think it would simplify the painting process for me (I'm not very good!), however I think for now I'll stick to a more 'standard' method to try and improve my basic painting skills, even if it takes me longer. Definitely going to try this approach on a future army. Would be really interesting to see how you'd apply it to a metallic armour colour - thinking something like Minotaurs etc.
Absolutely love this style, so quick with such a great grimdark effect.
1 I was looking for the metal posters and they sponsored this video yay lol, loved the work you did on the marine, I just need a box for my to do stash thanks for this video, keep them coming.
Most inspiring - I loved your take on BA's and have used your technique - this also, is superb!
This technique led to my first space marines I was truly proud of, thanks dude!
That chainsword looks unreal, incredible work.
I would love to see the Tau or Necrons brought to life like this, you're a great painter!!
When it come to a slapchop paint job style. I used a familiar method for the Ironwarrior, Word Bearer ,Black legion and Night Lords models. As to give them grim dark look while looking clean enough look for some one who do regular maintence to their war gear. For me i find acrylique paint and Vehelio paint with some shading work for a grim look. Also to make some of my models look like their gear have a grim dark look that the gear seen better days i like to use a scapel blade and damage the mode for where damage done by a melee blade or a bullet make sense for a mark left on the armor still from a previous fight.
I would love to see your White Armour version of this technique, Trov - you the man! Thanks for your art and effort! 😀
This style is not for me, but whether I do or do like this style, I can still appreciate talent. You have terrific skill and it shows in your results. Great work! This is the beauty of WH4K, you do what makes you happy and enjoy. Anyone that dings you because they do not personally like this style are missing the point of the hobby in the first place.
I really love your take on grimdark, I have tried to paint three space marines in this style, and just like you I really enjoyed it. It's so satisfying to see the colours come together. I would like to see either a grimdark Space Wolf or Dark Angel. Thanks again for keeping up the good work.
I f*cking love this style of yours! It just seems so... appropriate.
Great video! The intensity of the eye lenses really sell the model as an animated living thing
This is amazing! I am going to try this technique with the Leviathan box. I'm planning to pay the marines as Salamanders and have been looking for different technique to use. This is going to be the one I use, it's so good.
Don't usually comment on these vids but watching this i felt like I needed to say - the way you use seemingly simple techniques to such great effect, and in ways I never would have thought to, is truly impressive. I've seen your vids with more advanced techniques and the result is always incredible. But i feel the demonstration of a true master of an art form is to use simple techniques to incredible effect as you have in this one.
Love this! Please do the dark angels!!
this painting style looks so sick!
Can't wait to try this technique out!
Bro, I love this mini. Great job! I also like your technique for doing Gold. I'll have to try that out on mine
I've been going down this road for a bit with my models now. And I see as you are growing in it, so am I. Altering things in different ways. This method is extremely enjoyable to me with a grand outcome. I hope to see you progress is this similar style. May I our models be grim
-Mjar
@davideghezzi2501im guessing you are talking about the ultra marine? Eshen grey, grey blue. Check out his Playlist he has. They are all on there.
If you are speaking about after he puts the brown on then yes he mixes
Excellent work! Excited to give this a shot myself. Would love to see a green marine in this style (Dark angel/Salamander)
This is the style I want to use. That looks amazing! More please, just more!
Fantastic, I plan to paint my Chaos Space Marines in this style, black is going to be tough but I am up for it!
Like a dekade ago, this is how I painted rust effects. Just using various brown and orange tones and at the end either highlighted or just drybrushed with a silver metal colour and it was done.
wow amazing! i have been wanting to see a custodes army all weathered down like this, a guardian spearman after a year long battle or something.
I'd love to see Salamanders next up. Absolutely love this technique. Looking forward to trying it out soon 😊
Looks fantastic. I really like the heavy industrial look you chose for the weapons.
I used your grim dark technique on my horus heresy space marines love how they look
Such a great finish, just got my hands on the Space Hulk terminators, going to test this out and then use it on those!
Hi Trovarion, looks great! I love all the different approaches you took.
Wow. It's fantastic, as always. Your videos are huge source of inspiration for me. And something I aspire to achieve.
just got back into warhammer again after my 15 years or so away, my wife brought me blackstone fortress box game. This guide is how I imagine a space marine to look, I completely love this style, I have always found normal painting they look too nice. This makes it look like u mentioned the armour looks like it has been in as long campaign, I find it a more realistic looking model.
this is just amazing, really really lovely technique
There is so much texture, I love it so much!
I love this style and technique. I just got myself some Dark Angels, hope to see your take on them at some point in this style btw. I however tried out different schemes and colours for them over two weeks before I came across your Blood Angel video and I just love the final look of them! I still need some time to get the sponging right and get paitient enough in generell to paint in quite thin layers but I prefer this way FAR over slapchop!
That tip about the contrast paint over white is genius.
This is the way ! and this is what a model should look like when coming from a grim dark future... Having done 1/35 tanks model with all the weathering / realistic effect for so long, I could not believe that most people painted their 40k models with that pristine almost plastic look...
*My favorite Austrian painter.* 🥰🥰
I’m infatuated with this series. I have such a petty but intense sense of revulsion to the constant “parade march” style of painting I see everywhere, as if everyone is fresh off the factory. Completely opposite to the lore and atmosphere of the 40k universe.
Your work is a breath of fresh air in a stagnant basement. I am both inspired and will look forward to each release eagerly.
The result looks great! I'd be interested in seeing you do this on a more complex scheme, such as something like the Howling Griffins.
oh dear god...that would probably be a headache :D
@@trovarion It gives you something to keep your mind off staring at your wall.
@@BBTactics trueeeee
I’m in love with this style of work! Thank you!!
genuinely one of the most real to mind space marines i have ever seen painted, epic. Bravo! i really want to see you smash a Deathwing terminator for us ! 😎
not literally, but with a brush... hehe
I have a deathwing style bladeguard on the channel. (2nd to last video)