The retro paint scheme is beautiful, the retor base just looks terrible. It would be really cool to see a retro paint scheme with som ebetter basing though.
Not being specially humble. I dare to say that my painting style and photos I send to GW changed all this interesting old school painting style and box art. They literally copied everything 1to1. Well I could work for them but I choose to study than. I was regretting it later after finished studies, but now I do not, seeing where are they going to. With this all ideologies. One of the things that is biggest abomination they did is Space Marine helmets............................ It was best cosmic helmet ever designed. Now it look like something made by kid for cosplay. No intimidation no grace no powerful look.
I strongly believe that space marines look better with all the goofy heraldry, flame patterns, checkers on the power fist, KIL, any and all of it. It rules.
I enjoy the vibrant colors. Heraldry. Back banners. All that stuff. Much more fun than grimdark and dust powder and stuff that makes models look worn and dirty
The studio still presents models with a lot of pop. And don't be mistaken, running around in blue/red/gold/white armor is quintesentialy goofy and a callback to knights heraldry. I think this is a vibe problem and not a real one. Painting with pop and bright colors is still the dominant style I see just about everywhere, it just isn't the same glazing style from the 80s/early 90s, and the universe have firmed up a bit and become less silly - despite still being quite ridiculous.
We put on two coats of gloss back in the day , because the paint chipped so easily off those metal mini's. Your mini only needs a bit of gloss for that perfect 90's look.
I heard somebody describe older Warhammer models as having the benefit of looking like game pieces that collectors were intended to play with, while the modern ones look like art pieces you shouldn't touch for fear of damaging them. The paint style definitely helps with that impression, and the chunkier shapes of the old pieces reinforced the idea that these were safe to pick up and place down in positions where they might fall over or a child might grab for them.
This has always been my favorite mini painting style. Volumetric painting is cool but I like how this type of mini looks good from any angle and any lighting condition you put it in.
What might be an issue while glazing over the red is that the liquitex inks tend to reactivate when applying watered down paint over them, sealing them in with a varnish solves this issue
Beautifully done! Reminds me of my youth. I won awards painting lead minis back in the day, and was considered very good, but the paints were very different (we used enamel and oil paints!) and so were the surfaces (lead is nothing like plastic). I still have some of my old lead minis and my friends are amazed at what I managed to accomplish back then. I am quite proud of my young self, but I haven’t painted a miniature in over 30 years. You’ve made me want to try my hand at doing this again. Whilst I think I might be able replicate my old paint jobs now, I will have to relearn how to paint with modern media to duplicate what you’ve done since enamel paint doesn’t mix, flow, or cover like acrylic. But, then again, I’m remembering my glory days and I would probably be disappointed in my brush control. Thanks for making this video, you’ve brought back good memories.
Nice post, having tried enamel paints for a bit back in the stone age of youth, I can say acrylic is way easier to handle, especially on plastic and with the newer paints even easier. Try your hand, I believe you'll find it easier than you think.
Just wanted to say that if painting minis again will bring you joy, I really hope you don't let your self criticism and doubts stop you from pursuing it Besides, there may be some techniques you remember from your younger days that could be adapted to modern paints in completely new ways
Just to note while the old GW pewter definitely contained lead it wasn't made only of lead. I still sweat a bit thinking I probably put those things in my mouth just to hold an arm or whatever while I was gluing stuff together lol.
Thank you for Painting a Primaris in the style of the 90’s color/style. Everytime I see a video/tutorial of someone painting in the 90’s style its always with an Older Model or I see photo of a primaris in the style but no tutorial. But this was very refreshing to see and I might try this Blood Angel next year. This model looks Absolutely Stunning!
I'm liking the retro vibe going around. I love the aesthetic John Blanche created for the setting, and I'm glad it is getting a revival. I think you did the box are justice with this mini.
The paintjob is remarkable, you've captured the vibe of the 2nd edition box cover perfectly. It doesn't really capture the feel of 90s paintjobs that accurately, but is a perfect tribute to the illustration.
I have a whole Ultramarines Primaris army painting in 2nd editon style. Red gun casings, yellow trim, green base and back banners. Merry Christmas to you!
Red gun casings are a must on my mostly-yellow Lamenters army, and I might just include a few more oldschool stylings like that. Vibrant and fun models, that's the goal.
I like this ALOT more than I thought I would, there's a lot of nostalgia unlocked for sure but the vibrancy of the colours and the sharpness of the contrast in colours really makes the mini pop
As a 39yo blood angel aficionado that has not painted anything in the last 20 odd years... This made me feel right at home! You got a great result and, in my old guy's opinion, a beautiful model! You made me want to go buy some blood red and goblin green (sadly discontinued, I know)
Love that red. I always wanted that deep rich red that featured on the BA on some of the WD covers of the day, but GW leaned into that more orange shade after that.
Wow this looks fantastic. You managed to recapture the vibe of the 90s but with a more modern execution. I was skeptical at first because of the color scheme but it just pops. The result is just great.
In a world where a lot of the current 40k community are made up of 8th edition or newer that dogmatically insist on a comparatively visually sterilized 40k and spout hate on anything else, it's really awesome seeing some good original soul on a Primaris. The Goblin Green base is such a stone cold classic, excellent touch lol
I came in during 9th Edition. Literally was delivering to a table top store at UPS and finally asked what alot of this was etc. They mentioned 40k I went home watched some lore videos and immediately loved what it was. I do think the old box arts are cool and the color design is just simple and to the point and not need 20 different colors to do one model or box of models.
One of my favorite videos of yours. Would love to see this kill team. I gave up painting these back in the day because the paint was so bad. Started collecting in 88 and this takes me straight back. Good job
This looks so amazing. Thanks for this. I definitely think this has a place in the modern style and I think also our modern techniques could give it an extra touch and update.
That is an awesome paint scheme. I got into warhammer 40k during 2nd edition. Interestingly, the old citadel blood red was closer to an orange and next to impossible to highlight. My 10 year old self salutes you in replicating the box art red, thank you.
I started playing Warhammer 40k because of the sick Black Templars painting on the cover of the 3rd edition book. I am now looking to get back into it, and your base looks exactly like all mine use to! Super cool paint job on this mini and excellent execution!
Great job. Have lots of nostalgia for that particular boxart and think you nailed your goal here. Particularly like the flames, those and checkered patterns scream classic 40K in my opinion. A complete Killteam in this style will look amazing.
No spraypaint back then ofc. I was never into gloss myself either. I had a silly style of painting, often using black lining (laborious). Slowly got better over the years but the standard now is on another level. The tools and access to guides too, we just had the odd paint guide in White Dwarf and asking your local players ofc. It's great to see how good its all got (no jealousy here!).
The mini looks great! The base might be a tad to deeply green (both for the retro look and for my poor eyes 😅), but the miniature realy evokes the right feel. And looks awsome
I am always amazed with your skills, The paint scheme you did may be old school but it's definitely still great. You did an amazing job with it. Thank you again for another amazing video
Acrylic inks indeed act weird as a base paint. I actually don't like them as much because they sometimes reactivate and do some weird colour mixes. I do use a similar red, with the airbrush, for highlighting purposes in Blood Angels. I use something like Payne's Gray as directional shade underlayer and then a medium red, and then the bright red ink for the highlights. I sometimes will varnish them at this stage because the ink will do weird stuff sometimes. And then I'm likely to use oil washes for panel lining so the varnish helps for that, too. I painted Blood Angels at the time (1994-197). The paints didn't give good coverage and I still balk at yellow because it was really hard to cover anything with it - the hazard stripes were really frustrating sometimes. The yellow power fist in the video looks amazing - as the rest of the figure. Very nice replication effort! It looks as good or better than the old Heavy Metal team's models.
Nice job would love to see an army like that. Ahh the yellows back then were a pain in the behind. Bronzed flesh basecoat and sunburst yellow did the trick but if you had a large surface... Such a pain.
As a child in the 90's i got my uncle to spray paint my 40k Blood Angels red. He used to work for Honda on motorbikes and would get it done at his work.
Bright and shiny power armor is fun. It's how I paint my Ultramarines, like they're in a comic book. Really pops. I save the grim dark for my Slaves to Darkness army.
I dont know if I was directly influenced by any recent trends, but 2-3 years ago I finally had the extra funds to collect warhammer again. It was especially a good feeling because I had to sell all my armies off years ago, and I had been playing since the 90s. But GW is so far up its own heiney with constantly-changing rules for their games, that I decided to not play warhammer at all, and just collect and paint. That's when it hit me, if Im only going to paint to display, I may as well collect the models I always wanted as a kid! So I'm in the midst of rebuilding/painting a wood elf army as that was my first army, a small high elf force because I always liked their 90s plastics, and orcs and goblins because the best displays always have a good vs evil setup. And of course, the bases will be painted with goblin green! I noticed around the same time I got back into oldhammer, there were a handful of youtube channels which put a special focus on oldhammer and oldhammer painting techniques
Great paintjob. Bold Pyrole Red by monument hobbies is also a great vibrant red, I don't own the liquitex inks so I can't compare the two, but the monument hobby paint is great!
Merry Christmas and happy holidays! This model is amazing! The flames, the gem and the eye lenses are really great! I always liked the classic 2nd edition Blood Angels painting scheme and I still stick to it. However, my models do not come up to the quality of the miniature you have painted :D
On reading the title my reaction was "NOO0000oooo..." but actually that turned out lovely. I can't quite get my head back around to goblin green bases, but the rest looks so much better than I thought it would. Great job. Also the heraldry starts to bring a touch of a first edition vibe too. Looking forward to that kill team :)
My cousin just recently told me he much prefers the bright old style much more than the grim dark dingy streaking grime look of todays popular paint jobs and definitely for certain things I agree and your final product of this video is incredible
I really like this oldschool look. Even the green base. I would try to varnish the red ink. That should create a surface on wich the other colors should react as expected.
My personal favourite bright yellow if you haven't tried it yet is bismuth yellow from pro acryl. It's almost painfully bright, coverage is poor but great for really pushing highlights.
A way to reduce the time and increase the vibrancy of the yellow would be not using masking tape and applying a pink colour. I use Pro Acryl pale pink and it covers really well (it has probably some of their famous bold titanium white) and doesn't give a chalky finish if thinned properly. And why not recess shade with oils ? Does it reactivate the ink ?
Blanches preferred medium was inks. Blue inks tend to fade over time hence the reason he didn't use blue a lot in the majority of his work, his oil paintings tend to have blues in as oil paintings pigments behave differently to inks. The fact that john blanche has a dark gothic style that cemented the term 'grimdark' but can also produce vibrant masterpieces like the second edition box set is more than a demonstration of his skills as an artist.
I've noticed twice in your recent videos that you've had issues with staining once with oils on your imperial fist and once with inks with this blood angel. I think its due to your rattle can white primer adding a micro texture to your miniatures. I think its gripping the pigment as it drys.
Trov, you are an artiste. I still remember your golden demon pieces, so maybe I pedestal you a bit - but my god man, your videos are a resource. I need you. More oldhammer pls?
Bright and visually readable even under duller lights, this paintstyle is probably the best for seeing details while playing and is probably why Games Workshop used this style for ages.
I think the modern grimdark style is better than the ultra bright 90s version, but I can't deny that it has some appeal and you really did the style justice.
Very cool looking, I'm wondering how well you could do the shadows but using either oils or enamels both for their longer working time and for the general reductive workflow? I'm also curious what would happen if you mixed some florescent inks into your highlight mixes either in addition to or instead of white, or even just glazed it on over the shadowed and highlighted surfaces?
Yes we had airbrushes in the 90s, I had my first one in the 80s, we also used to use white basecoats a lot back then in 2nd edition, rogue trader was generally black basecoats, we used a lot of non GW products to get the right effects, most of it was from techniques from the old Airfix and Tamiya ww2 model painters passed down, for my 2nd edition Blood Angels I used a Burnt umber oil paint made into a wash to shade, and panel liner for the darkest shadows.
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The retro paint scheme is beautiful, the retor base just looks terrible. It would be really cool to see a retro paint scheme with som ebetter basing though.
Not being specially humble. I dare to say that my painting style and photos I send to GW changed all this interesting old school painting style and box art. They literally copied everything 1to1. Well I could work for them but I choose to study than. I was regretting it later after finished studies, but now I do not, seeing where are they going to. With this all ideologies. One of the things that is biggest abomination they did is Space Marine helmets............................ It was best cosmic helmet ever designed. Now it look like something made by kid for cosplay. No intimidation no grace no powerful look.
i like it a lot looks dope
I strongly believe that space marines look better with all the goofy heraldry, flame patterns, checkers on the power fist, KIL, any and all of it. It rules.
It speaks to the audacity of it all. Grimdark and blanchitsu is great and all, but add some audacity for the true 40k experience
@@GenuineMartin it makes them feel unique and personal to you rather than the plain ones on the box art
I enjoy the vibrant colors. Heraldry. Back banners. All that stuff. Much more fun than grimdark and dust powder and stuff that makes models look worn and dirty
The studio still presents models with a lot of pop. And don't be mistaken, running around in blue/red/gold/white armor is quintesentialy goofy and a callback to knights heraldry. I think this is a vibe problem and not a real one. Painting with pop and bright colors is still the dominant style I see just about everywhere, it just isn't the same glazing style from the 80s/early 90s, and the universe have firmed up a bit and become less silly - despite still being quite ridiculous.
@@ericclark2296 i think its also the fact that a lot of Warhammer fans seem to have taken this hobby WAY too seriously these days
We put on two coats of gloss back in the day , because the paint chipped so easily off those metal mini's. Your mini only needs a bit of gloss for that perfect 90's look.
A mini falling over was always groan inducing because you know paint would chip.
My parents would lightly bake them with a pottery sealer. Those things didn’t chip tell I reached my teens .
@nickdavis5420 first i ever hears of that. Any idea the temp? White metal has a lowww melting point.
@ it wasn’t that hot like as low as the oven could go
As I reach boomerhood, I can confirm lol
I heard somebody describe older Warhammer models as having the benefit of looking like game pieces that collectors were intended to play with, while the modern ones look like art pieces you shouldn't touch for fear of damaging them. The paint style definitely helps with that impression, and the chunkier shapes of the old pieces reinforced the idea that these were safe to pick up and place down in positions where they might fall over or a child might grab for them.
Now you have to paint a retro space marine with a modern grim dark style
The glossy vibrant Ulta saturated looks so good. I love grimey grimdark paint style too, but man, you just can't go wrong with the retro style
the toy soldier look has a charm of its own
This has always been my favorite mini painting style. Volumetric painting is cool but I like how this type of mini looks good from any angle and any lighting condition you put it in.
What might be an issue while glazing over the red is that the liquitex inks tend to reactivate when applying watered down paint over them, sealing them in with a varnish solves this issue
Had that problem, ruined my entire motivation for a project army. Even varnishing in several layers didn’t remedy this. 😢
@asiburger mix a bit of Matt medium into the ink while airbrushing it, that solves this alot better than varnishing afterwards
Someone once told me, long aeons ago, that "varnish is a save state for your paintjob", and truer words have never been spoken.
Beautifully done! Reminds me of my youth. I won awards painting lead minis back in the day, and was considered very good, but the paints were very different (we used enamel and oil paints!) and so were the surfaces (lead is nothing like plastic). I still have some of my old lead minis and my friends are amazed at what I managed to accomplish back then. I am quite proud of my young self, but I haven’t painted a miniature in over 30 years. You’ve made me want to try my hand at doing this again.
Whilst I think I might be able replicate my old paint jobs now, I will have to relearn how to paint with modern media to duplicate what you’ve done since enamel paint doesn’t mix, flow, or cover like acrylic. But, then again, I’m remembering my glory days and I would probably be disappointed in my brush control.
Thanks for making this video, you’ve brought back good memories.
Nice post, having tried enamel paints for a bit back in the stone age of youth, I can say acrylic is way easier to handle, especially on plastic and with the newer paints even easier. Try your hand, I believe you'll find it easier than you think.
Just wanted to say that if painting minis again will bring you joy, I really hope you don't let your self criticism and doubts stop you from pursuing it
Besides, there may be some techniques you remember from your younger days that could be adapted to modern paints in completely new ways
Just to note while the old GW pewter definitely contained lead it wasn't made only of lead. I still sweat a bit thinking I probably put those things in my mouth just to hold an arm or whatever while I was gluing stuff together lol.
Thank you for Painting a Primaris in the style of the 90’s color/style.
Everytime I see a video/tutorial of someone painting in the 90’s style its always with an Older Model or I see photo of a primaris in the style but no tutorial.
But this was very refreshing to see and I might try this Blood Angel next year.
This model looks Absolutely Stunning!
I'm liking the retro vibe going around. I love the aesthetic John Blanche created for the setting, and I'm glad it is getting a revival. I think you did the box are justice with this mini.
The paintjob is remarkable, you've captured the vibe of the 2nd edition box cover perfectly. It doesn't really capture the feel of 90s paintjobs that accurately, but is a perfect tribute to the illustration.
I have a whole Ultramarines Primaris army painting in 2nd editon style. Red gun casings, yellow trim, green base and back banners. Merry Christmas to you!
so you have any pictures on social media to see them? sounds awesome and similar to what I'm part way through with my space wolves!!
Red gun casings are a must on my mostly-yellow Lamenters army, and I might just include a few more oldschool stylings like that. Vibrant and fun models, that's the goal.
@ yes I do have some pictures. They are on instagram under the same handle as on here. I’d like to see your space wolves too.
@@Spacedcrusader why do you paint your space marines as africans? You're mind is cucked lol
I like this ALOT more than I thought I would, there's a lot of nostalgia unlocked for sure but the vibrancy of the colours and the sharpness of the contrast in colours really makes the mini pop
As a 39yo blood angel aficionado that has not painted anything in the last 20 odd years... This made me feel right at home! You got a great result and, in my old guy's opinion, a beautiful model! You made me want to go buy some blood red and goblin green (sadly discontinued, I know)
Love that red. I always wanted that deep rich red that featured on the BA on some of the WD covers of the day, but GW leaned into that more orange shade after that.
Yeah, I never liked the more orange red GW went with. My BAs are a deep red that looks like, well, _blood._
Wow this looks fantastic. You managed to recapture the vibe of the 90s but with a more modern execution. I was skeptical at first because of the color scheme but it just pops. The result is just great.
In a world where a lot of the current 40k community are made up of 8th edition or newer that dogmatically insist on a comparatively visually sterilized 40k and spout hate on anything else, it's really awesome seeing some good original soul on a Primaris. The Goblin Green base is such a stone cold classic, excellent touch lol
I came in during 9th Edition. Literally was delivering to a table top store at UPS and finally asked what alot of this was etc. They mentioned 40k I went home watched some lore videos and immediately loved what it was. I do think the old box arts are cool and the color design is just simple and to the point and not need 20 different colors to do one model or box of models.
One of my favorite videos of yours. Would love to see this kill team. I gave up painting these back in the day because the paint was so bad. Started collecting in 88 and this takes me straight back. Good job
This looks so amazing. Thanks for this. I definitely think this has a place in the modern style and I think also our modern techniques could give it an extra touch and update.
That is an awesome paint scheme. I got into warhammer 40k during 2nd edition. Interestingly, the old citadel blood red was closer to an orange and next to impossible to highlight. My 10 year old self salutes you in replicating the box art red, thank you.
Yeah, a ruby red base and blood red as a first highlight was the trick I found to work with orange and sunburst yellow for edge highlight.
I dry brushed Red Gore into the shadow areas of mine, it was slightly glossy, gave really nice depth and made the armour look like blood
Great job. I take my eyes burning as a good sign.
Thanks
Thanks a lot for the support mate!
@@trovarion you're welcome. have a good end of year and all the best for 2025.
I still have my 2nd edition books, I love checking out the artwork from time to time. This looks great!
I started playing Warhammer 40k because of the sick Black Templars painting on the cover of the 3rd edition book. I am now looking to get back into it, and your base looks exactly like all mine use to! Super cool paint job on this mini and excellent execution!
Love it all. Love the green base.
Yeah this looks sweet.
Great job. Have lots of nostalgia for that particular boxart and think you nailed your goal here. Particularly like the flames, those and checkered patterns scream classic 40K in my opinion. A complete Killteam in this style will look amazing.
No spraypaint back then ofc. I was never into gloss myself either. I had a silly style of painting, often using black lining (laborious). Slowly got better over the years but the standard now is on another level.
The tools and access to guides too, we just had the odd paint guide in White Dwarf and asking your local players ofc. It's great to see how good its all got (no jealousy here!).
I started the hobby during 2ndE so this is amazing! That goblin green base is the cherry on top
That yellow result is the major thing I always associate with old hammer painting. The orange shadows and almost washed out white highlights.
The mini looks great! The base might be a tad to deeply green (both for the retro look and for my poor eyes 😅), but the miniature realy evokes the right feel. And looks awsome
I am always amazed with your skills, The paint scheme you did may be old school but it's definitely still great. You did an amazing job with it. Thank you again for another amazing video
I love this style and I love all of the extra little details and patterns. Can't beat those black flames
For me red bolters are like one of the things that first pops up my head, when thinking about 40k
Acrylic inks indeed act weird as a base paint. I actually don't like them as much because they sometimes reactivate and do some weird colour mixes.
I do use a similar red, with the airbrush, for highlighting purposes in Blood Angels. I use something like Payne's Gray as directional shade underlayer and then a medium red, and then the bright red ink for the highlights. I sometimes will varnish them at this stage because the ink will do weird stuff sometimes. And then I'm likely to use oil washes for panel lining so the varnish helps for that, too.
I painted Blood Angels at the time (1994-197). The paints didn't give good coverage and I still balk at yellow because it was really hard to cover anything with it - the hazard stripes were really frustrating sometimes. The yellow power fist in the video looks amazing - as the rest of the figure.
Very nice replication effort! It looks as good or better than the old Heavy Metal team's models.
Great video! Just in time for when I started kitbashing Angels of Death, and I thought about painting them inspired by the exact same graphic.
Thanks for this video, such an awesome Christmas gift! I’ll watch it this evening
Nice job would love to see an army like that. Ahh the yellows back then were a pain in the behind. Bronzed flesh basecoat and sunburst yellow did the trick but if you had a large surface... Such a pain.
As a child in the 90's i got my uncle to spray paint my 40k Blood Angels red. He used to work for Honda on motorbikes and would get it done at his work.
I love it, the color really pops. I look forward to seeing the finished Kill Team.
Bright and shiny power armor is fun. It's how I paint my Ultramarines, like they're in a comic book. Really pops. I save the grim dark for my Slaves to Darkness army.
Very cool work. Gonna try out some retro Boys in Blue, I think. Cheers.
Looks amazing!! Well done!
Lot of nostalgia for me in this video. The result is gorgeous. It reminds me a period where the grim dark future was vivid and saturated !
I wasn't into 40k back then, but yeah that is quite bright and awesome. Matches the old art really well!
I wish this style of painting evolved and was more common, I love how colourful & bright it all was & the contrasts between segments. Fantastic stuff.
I dont know if I was directly influenced by any recent trends, but 2-3 years ago I finally had the extra funds to collect warhammer again. It was especially a good feeling because I had to sell all my armies off years ago, and I had been playing since the 90s. But GW is so far up its own heiney with constantly-changing rules for their games, that I decided to not play warhammer at all, and just collect and paint. That's when it hit me, if Im only going to paint to display, I may as well collect the models I always wanted as a kid! So I'm in the midst of rebuilding/painting a wood elf army as that was my first army, a small high elf force because I always liked their 90s plastics, and orcs and goblins because the best displays always have a good vs evil setup. And of course, the bases will be painted with goblin green!
I noticed around the same time I got back into oldhammer, there were a handful of youtube channels which put a special focus on oldhammer and oldhammer painting techniques
Bad ass as usual. My favorite mini painter. Thanks for the video!
So dope. Only input would be to make the base slightly lighter, in my mind the OG big bottled Goblin Green had a paler hue.
These old school color schemes are just fun to look at... makes me want to start a blood angels army now 😅
My top highlights for this one are Bright Pale Yellow from Monument hobbies. Outrageous coverage with no chalkyness
Great paintjob. Bold Pyrole Red by monument hobbies is also a great vibrant red, I don't own the liquitex inks so I can't compare the two, but the monument hobby paint is great!
Merry Christmas and happy holidays! This model is amazing! The flames, the gem and the eye lenses are really great! I always liked the classic 2nd edition Blood Angels painting scheme and I still stick to it. However, my models do not come up to the quality of the miniature you have painted :D
On reading the title my reaction was "NOO0000oooo..." but actually that turned out lovely. I can't quite get my head back around to goblin green bases, but the rest looks so much better than I thought it would. Great job. Also the heraldry starts to bring a touch of a first edition vibe too. Looking forward to that kill team :)
Looks awesome I’m not a fan of the og artwork but how you converted it into a paint scheme is impressive
My cousin just recently told me he much prefers the bright old style much more than the grim dark dingy streaking grime look of todays popular paint jobs and definitely for certain things I agree and your final product of this video is incredible
I have a mix of old metal orks from the 90s that are painted up old school, and I have used those bright saturated colors in my modern models as well
I found that 2nd edition sergeant model you showed a picture of in the intro in a thrift store lego box, his chainsword is broken off though.
this looks awesome. great job.
He totally nailed it. Gonna have to try this style on a mini asap, myself.
I really like this oldschool look. Even the green base.
I would try to varnish the red ink. That should create a surface on wich the other colors should react as expected.
My personal favourite bright yellow if you haven't tried it yet is bismuth yellow from pro acryl. It's almost painfully bright, coverage is poor but great for really pushing highlights.
Lovely take on the classic scheme!!
A way to reduce the time and increase the vibrancy of the yellow would be not using masking tape and applying a pink colour.
I use Pro Acryl pale pink and it covers really well (it has probably some of their famous bold titanium white) and doesn't give a chalky finish if thinned properly.
And why not recess shade with oils ? Does it reactivate the ink ?
Love the 2nd Gen paint job, so good!
Amazing work as always!
Completely knocked it out of the park. A beautiful and faithful homage!
Yes yes yes. Love these retro painting videos!
Absolutely loved this. Merry Christmas, Mate.
That is still a really vibrant red from what you can get across through a camera lens
Looks absolutely stunning man, iconic colour palette 🎉
I never used an airbrush back in 1998. I didn’t thin the paints either. I did wash with inks though.
Those inks are god tier for getting really bright saturated colors! Did my bad moons with a yellow ink
That looks super awesome. Love the blue gem
OMG this looks fantastic!
This is why I cant decide on a chapter, now I love Blood Angels
This was a really cool nostalgic video.
Blanches preferred medium was inks. Blue inks tend to fade over time hence the reason he didn't use blue a lot in the majority of his work, his oil paintings tend to have blues in as oil paintings pigments behave differently to inks.
The fact that john blanche has a dark gothic style that cemented the term 'grimdark' but can also produce vibrant masterpieces like the second edition box set is more than a demonstration of his skills as an artist.
This looks fantastic. Something we are not used to in modern times, something "old-new", something fun.
I've noticed twice in your recent videos that you've had issues with staining once with oils on your imperial fist and once with inks with this blood angel. I think its due to your rattle can white primer adding a micro texture to your miniatures. I think its gripping the pigment as it drys.
Nostalgia! Totally love it. Great work. Thanks for sharing mate.
Wow! I love the look. Thats the 40k I fell in love with as a Kid
One of your most beautiful models so far
That yellow is hardly a 93 yellow! I've been painting up some 90s eldar and loving it!!
I absolutely LOVE how this looks!
The red looks way darker in the final shots. I love there is even a green tactical rock 😂
The switch hit off the orange highlight kills me.
that masking puddy is insane, looks like it works
Trov, you are an artiste. I still remember your golden demon pieces, so maybe I pedestal you a bit - but my god man, your videos are a resource. I need you.
More oldhammer pls?
Bright and visually readable even under duller lights, this paintstyle is probably the best for seeing details while playing and is probably why Games Workshop used this style for ages.
I like the green trim on the base. Very retro, but the textured top could be done realistically. I've seen that done before. It looks nice
Another amazing piece of art!
That looks amazing! I can't wait to see that killteam!
I think the modern grimdark style is better than the ultra bright 90s version, but I can't deny that it has some appeal and you really did the style justice.
Now that's a blast from the past.
Very cool looking, I'm wondering how well you could do the shadows but using either oils or enamels both for their longer working time and for the general reductive workflow? I'm also curious what would happen if you mixed some florescent inks into your highlight mixes either in addition to or instead of white, or even just glazed it on over the shadowed and highlighted surfaces?
Lovely work!!
I love the end result, though I am old enough to have owned that 2nd Edition Box Set in the 90s, so I might be biased 🤣
This is AMAZING! 🤩
This is the coolest looking Blood Angel I've seen
Yes we had airbrushes in the 90s, I had my first one in the 80s, we also used to use white basecoats a lot back then in 2nd edition, rogue trader was generally black basecoats, we used a lot of non GW products to get the right effects, most of it was from techniques from the old Airfix and Tamiya ww2 model painters passed down, for my 2nd edition Blood Angels I used a Burnt umber oil paint made into a wash to shade, and panel liner for the darkest shadows.
Of course, but it was nowhere as widespread as today.