Paint a Trench Pilgrim Warband in 2 Hours

Want a Fully Painted Warband in 2 Hours?

Here’s how.

Step 1: Metal First

Army Painter Broadsword Silver speed paint on all the metal bits for the warband. Super fast, pretty straightforward.

I do metal first because I want to clean my water cup so it doesn’t get all those metal flakes in the other paint.

Molotow Liquid Chrome

Quick minute to show you how cool liquid chrome is on these guys. Very specifically and carefully using it in select spots.

This stuff doesn’t come through on camera, but it genuinely looks like real metal. You don’t want to go overboard with this. I’m stippling it on the mask, putting edge highlights on the gun in a few areas, hitting the little plugs on his chest.

It really pops.

Step 2: Clothes and Capes

All clothing painted Battleship Gray (Army Painter speed paint). All capes and hoods painted Blood Angels Red contrast from Citadel.

Over a zenithal highlight without slap chop, you still get really high contrast. This red is just perfect.

Being Sloppy on Purpose

On this nun, I’m purposely painting it sloppily—splashing on the legs, getting it on arms and head—to show you don’t have to be careful with this method.

Freehand Crosses

While I have the red out, going back to the ecclesiastical prisoners. My brush is still raggedy.

Don’t be scared. Hold your breath and freehand some crosses on this dude’s chest. Using the very tip of the brush, almost stippling, carefully and slowly painting these crosses.

The Liquid Chrome Effect

On the helmets, I’ve stippled liquid chrome. It looks like if you took metal and sharpened it or scraped off the top layer.

Step 3: Streaking Grime

This whole video series is really just a review on how good streaking grime is.

Slather everybody up. Not being careful at all. Covering everything.

Step 4: Makeup Sponge Time

By the time I finished the last model, the others were ready for the makeup sponge.

The trick: go up and down, think about how light would hit. Take it off shoulders, head, and arms more than the underside of the robe.

Don’t go side to side—it’ll catch on arms and bust them off.

The Sloppy Nun

Remember the nun we were very sloppy painting red? After blending and removing streaking grime, you can’t tell there’s red on the pants. Red was all over the side of those pants, all over the armor. Gone.

Using Streaking Grime on Skin

On the big guy, using a different sponge on the skin to push streaking grime down toward shadows, then removing from the tops. Creating shadows and texture in muscle lines.

On big flat areas, I’m stippling and wiping the sponge. You can polish the skin tone—the pressure creates a glossy shine from that enamel.

(I got too crazy going side to side and busted the bell off.)

Step 5: Silver Dry Brush

Final step: Mithril Silver dry brush over all metal areas. I’d normally let streaking grime dry more, but it’s not a huge deal.

Even go over gold parts—gold shimmers in real life, so hitting gold with a dry brush of silver only makes it look more realistic.

The Results

Here’s the completed warband together. Including an hour on just the shrine, this whole thing only took 3 hours. Pretty crazy, pretty fast, and looks awesome.

Transcript

Do you guys want to have a fully painted trench crusade war band in two hours? Here I’m just going through painting on Army Painters Broadord silver speed paint on all the metal bits for the war band. Running through super fast, pretty straightforward. I do the metal first because I want to go and clean my water cup out so it doesn’t get all those metal flakes and all the other paint. And going to take a quick minute here to show you how cool liquid chrome is on these guys.

Uh if you caught their video already two days ago, you can go see how I did all of them. Uh, I’m just finishing these guys up by very specifically and very carefully using the Moloto of liquid chrome in some select spots. This stuff, it’s it doesn’t come through on the camera, but it it genuinely looks like real metal. So, you don’t want to go overboard with this stuff. I’m stippling it here on the mask.

I put it at a little edge highlights on the gun in a few areas, and I hit the little plugs on his chest. And again, it doesn’t come through on on camera, uh, but it it really pops, as much as I hate using the word pops. So, now back into the main uh, war band itself. We’re going to paint all the robes, all the actual like clothing was painted battleship gray, the army painter speed paint, and then we’re going to paint all the capes and the hoods red. And that red is Blood Angel’s red, the contrast from Citadel.

And this is pretty straightforward. Um, just picking out this is the the unifying color for the war band. And you can see that when we do that over a zenithal highlight, uh, without we didn’t slap chop or anything like that. We still get the really high contrast. And this red is just perfect.

And now on this nun here, I’m purposely painting it on pretty sloppily. Like I’m splashing it on the legs. is I’m getting it on some of the arms on the head. Uh just so I can show you that you don’t have to be careful with this method. And while I have that red out, I’m now going back to the ecclesiastical prisoners that we painted in the last video.

And uh my brush is still pretty raggedy. And again, I want to show you just like don’t be scared, hold your breath, and freehand some crosses on this dude’s chest. I’m using that very tip of the brush that’s sticking out and just very sa carefully and slowly almost like it’s almost stippling really am I painting these crosses. And that’s one. And then here’s the second one.

This one I’m doing a lot more smaller ones cuz I kind of caught my stride here. And you can also see on the helmets here, I’ve stippled on that liquid chrome. And it almost like it looks like if you were to take a metal and like sharpen it or scrape off the top layer. Like that’s really how it looks. And now, same thing as the other guys.

We’re just going to slather everybody up in streaking grime. Like this video is really just a review. This whole video series is just a review on how good streaking grime is. So, we’re slathering them. Like, we’re not being careful at all.

is covering everything and we hit everybody like this. And I will speed all this up for sure. >> All right. And you know how it goes. Now it’s makeup sponge time.

Uh I let this sit pretty much by the time I finished the last model. Uh the other ones were ready to go for the makeup sponge time. And you see how clean this sponge starts off. And I actually, this is my last sponge, so I really had to stretch this one out. So you’ll see just how much of the streaking grime we’re taking off by the end of this.

So again, I’m going to speed all this up. Uh really the only trick here is you want to try to go up and down and think about the way the light would hit. So I want to take it off the shoulders and his head and that arm more than I would like the underside of that robe. Same thing here. Just up and down.

And the reason we don’t go side to side is it’ll probably catch on those arms and and bust the arms off. And you can see this is the nun that we were very sloppy and painting that red. Uh by the time we get in there and get done blending in and removing that streaking grime, you can’t tell that there’s red on the pants. Uh like especially right here in the shot, there was red all over the side of those pants. There was red all over the armor.

And here I’m just coming in. No mineral spirits on this brush. I’m just feathering out the shadows so I can come in and just take more of it off cuz I couldn’t get the sponge back in there. Okay, on to the big guy. Uh, a few things I want to talk about here.

You’ll see I have a a different sponge now. And I’m using that on the skin to kind of push the streaking and grime down towards the shadows and then removing it from the tops to almost kind of blend it in and create some shadows and some texture in the muscle lines. And with streaking and grime, it’s hard to explain if you haven’t used it, but you can all you you can use it to polish the skin tone. So on these big flat areas, I’m actually like I’m stippling the sponge and I’m wiping it. And you’ll see that I got too crazy going side to side instead of up and down.

And I busted this bell off. But here you can really see what I mean by polishing. Uh it’s it’s just from that enamel, like the pressure from the sponge, you can actually create like a glossy shine. And now we’re on the last step, which is just dry brushing. We’re coming back in.

Um I’m using Myithril silver here, but any bright silver you have uh is all it’s going to take. And again, I’m going to I’m going to go pretty fast after I finish talking. You want to just hit all those metal areas again to make it pop. Um I would normally have let the streaking grime dry a little bit more before I started this, but as you can see, it’s not a huge deal. And I’m even going to go over the gold parts.

This is a very bright silver. And even when you’re looking at gold in real life, that gold shimmers, so hitting the the gold with a dry brush of silver is only going to make it look more realistic. And here we go. Here’s the completed war band all together. Uh tomorrow I want to have the anchorite shine all finished.

I spent a little bit more time on that, but altogether uh including an hour on just the shrine itself, this whole thing only took 3 hours. So, uh it’s it’s pretty crazy, pretty fast, and looks awesome. So, stay tuned for next time.