Trench Crusade Bases & Weathering - Finishing our Warband Part 1

The Point of Painting

It’s to have fun with it, guys. I’m down here talking to myself, making messes. I’m not worried about if this is going to look good.

For me personally, it’s very easy to get caught up in “I have to paint like I’m entering this into a contest.” Because of that feeling, I just never get anything painted. It doesn’t make me a better painter—it makes me not paint at all.

Time to Get Technical

We’re using weathering pigments to really kick these up now that they’re tabletop ready. We start with these, then matte coat everything, then come back with glossy effects like blood and viscera.

Tamiya Weathering Master

Orange rust, gunmetal, and silver. Comes with a little brush (mine’s getting beat from use).

It’s very fine powder. You brush it on like a dry brush. This gives us the shine back on metals that streaking grime took away. You don’t even really see it on the brush, but when you hit the model, it starts shining.

For the shrine, we want to show it’s old while everyone else is expendable. The shrine is eternal.

Nilakh Oxide Disaster

I actually hate nilakh oxide, but I’ll show you how to still get good results. It’s easy to overdo and lose all your work.

Important: pluck the edges of foam for the uneven part. Don’t use the flat side.

The Mistake

I stripped the gold paint because I did this too quickly after painting. The oxide stripped right through. Our purple is back. That went through a layer of streaking grime and multiple layers of silver.

This is why I don’t like this stuff. It kicks my ass every time.

Fixing It Live

I’m leaving the mistakes in to show you how we fix them.

The parts where we chipped paint off are higher than everything else. We make it look intentional—stippling and quick strokes with Hoplite Gold contrast paint, catching just the tops.

Then dry brush over the top (don’t get it in recesses) to take the edge off the oxide. When it dries, the top that rubs against stuff stays shiny.

The Bases

• Metal: silver
• Wood: Plaguebearer Flesh
• Stone: we’ll figure it out

Brownish Decay - New Favorite Paint

Very interesting paint. It gets like a film as it dries. Could potentially do cool things with it.

Using it like a chipping medium—hitting it wet again, stippling, being savage with our paintbrush. The stone looks sick just from us being savages.

Wait, What?

Oh no. It’s stripping our silver off. Whatever’s in that brownish decay went through streaking grime and multiple layers of silver. Very interesting.

Still my new favorite paint. Even though we’re not homies anymore.

The Warcolor Brush Shout-Out

Look at how rough I’ve been on this Warcolor size two brush. I can still spin it back into a point. Best paintbrush I’ve ever used. Go buy one. I don’t deserve this thing.

The Philosophy

It’s just paint, guys. If we mess it up, we can do it again. No reason to be scared.

I’m trying to silence my inner critic, but there’s only so far I can go. He’s always there.

Transcript

I And the whole point of painting that is is to have fun with it, guys. I’m down here talking to myself. Uh making messes. I’m not worried about if this is going to look good. I’m not trying to like I think at least for me personally, it’s very easy to get caught up in I have to paint like I’m going to enter this into a contest and I have to paint like I’m the best painter there is in the world.

And because of that feeling, I just never get anything painted. Like it doesn’t it doesn’t help me paint anything. It doesn’t make me a better painter. I just makes me not paint at all. And I am suddenly not even a pain.

Guys, it’s time to get technical. We’re going to use a few products uh to really kick these up to the notch now that we have them tabletop ready and really make everything come together and look good with some weathering pigments here. We’re going to start with these because then we’re going to matte coat everything and then we’ll come back in with some glossy effects. So, we’re going to do like stuff like blood and visceral last after the matte coat happens. All right.

So, Tama Weathering Master. Uh, this has orange rust, gunmetal, and silver on it. And it comes with a little brush. Um, I’ve used mine so much it’s getting pretty pretty beat. So, what this does is it is a very fine powder.

So, I usually I wear gloves, but I I’m out of gloves right now. And you just kind of brush this on in the same way that you would dry brush. And this creates just a very it gives the gives us the shine back on the metals that the streaking grind took away. You can see on the on the back on the neck I didn’t do it, but on the head I did. So that top part gets that shine back.

You see like on the brush you don’t even really see anything, but then when you hit the model with it, it just starts shining. So same same concept as a dry brush. And see like with this rust here, if you want to rust stuff up, it’s the same same concept. And we’ll hit that a little bit right here. It just adds like that little bit of orange hue to it just to give our it’s going to give our metallic some depth.

We’ll just make him a little bit rusty. I said this in the video when we painted him. Even though this is gold and not silver, the silver is still the highlight. It is the utmost highlight of gold because really to the eye, this is just going to make the silver. It’s just going to your eyes going to register that this is gold and the silver is just going to make it shiny gold.

Again, like this whole project, we’re being kind of sloppy. Like this is just about looking good enough on the tabletop. All right, we’re back coming in on the inkite shine with the pigments. I just wanted to show you guys this to since we didn’t really cover dry brushing part to bring him back up after the streaking grime. So again, we’re just putting this over everything, especially like the shoulders and the chest just because that’s where we want the attention to be.

All right. So now he’s very nice and shiny. And the thing about the pigment powders is they’ll lose they’ll get a little dull from the matte finish, but not as bad as the acrylic will. So even though we’re going to hit this with matte, it’s going to keep that luster. All right, guys.

Uh, I actually hate nyllock oxide, but um I want to show you how you can still kind of get good results. It’s very easy to overdo it and kind of lose all your work, but I’m going to show you how to hopefully do this right. We’re going to keep the chest piece golden, but these plates we’re going to use it on. And we really want to show that that the shrine itself is old, whereas like everybody else’s life is kind of expendable and uh they won’t be around for very long. the shrine.

Uh the shrine is eternal, right? So, this is going to be our way of showing that this is an old shrine. A decent amount on the brush. Not too much, right? And we’re going to hit again, we’re going to stick to being sloppy.

We’re going to make sure that we get in the recesses here and all the nuts. Always got to wash the nuts. All right. And now we’re going to take a piece of of foam. And it’s important that you pluck the edges so that you get the uneven part.

You don’t want to use a flat side. You want to get the uneven effect. And then we’re just immediately going to come back in here and wipe this off. So, of all the high spots, we’re wiping. And actually, I was looking for another sponge cuz this is taking off our paint cuz I’m doing all this so quickly.

But that’s okay. This is going to be one of those videos where I leave the mistakes in and show you how we fix it because we put a little bit too much on a little bit too soon after we painted this. So, it’s it stripped our paint off the gold. Let me just show you like how jacked it is. And it’s okay, guys.

We’ll fix it. Um, let’s feather it out here on the side. There’s just water on this brush right now. And honestly, that part’s going to scrape. So, there’s not going to be a ton of patina there.

And now this is just again wet brush coming in to get up in there and clean it off the head. This is why I don’t like the stuff. It kicks my ass every time. Every single time. All right, this time uh we’re going to be smarter about this.

We’re going to start with the with the with the foam inside and we’re dipping the foam in the pot. And now we’ll come over here. I’m going to close it so I don’t spill it. And now we’re just we’re hitting this with stippling. And now what?

This is only going to hit the high spots. So you got to really kind of press. And now wipe. And when you wipe, that’s what pushes it into the cracks. So see this side is is way more of what we’re going for of the patina.

And we jacked it, right? We jacked it up, guys. It’s okay. Um we’re going to come back in. Like I’m not stopping.

I’m not going to cut the video so you can see like live. Um the nic oxide is probably still wet. So, we should hit it with a heat gun real quick. All right, let’s fix this for real now. Okay, so now we are going to fix it with whatever is on our desk.

We got hoplight gold, right? So, so this these parts where we chip the paint off, we chip the paint off cuz it’s up higher than everything else. So, we’re just going to make it look like that’s intentional. See, we’re doing almost like stippling and then quick strokes and it’s it’s like a wet dry brush with this contrast paint. We’re just catching the tops of stuff.

Make sure we get our little fees. Get the edge of this. Catch all all those spikes. All right. So now I’m just checking how much paint’s on the brush on my hand right here.

And I want to get most of it off. And now I’m going to actually dry brush just over the top. I don’t want any of this to get down in the recesses, but I’m just kind of taking the edge off that that oxide. And it’s wet now, so it’s brighter than it’s going to actually be. But there we go.

And you can see when you look at it from the side, it’s got that matted down nalic oxide, but the top that’s going to be rubbing up against it or rubbing up against stuff is shiny still. That’s how you fix that. And then we’ll come over here. And again, this side we can just dry brush like we were going to we planned on doing normally. We don’t have to have that that wet stage.

Before we do the matte sealant, we’re actually going to knock out the bases now. So, anything that is metal, metal silver, I’m going to put this right in the middle of my workspace like a dummy. Um, anything that’s going to be wood plague bearer flesh. I think it’s going to be a lot. And this stuff got me.

Spilled it all over my desk. I’m sure in one of these videos you could see it. It’s all over my damn dry palette. Oh, and the stone. We got to do something for the stone.

We’ll we’ll come back to that. So, or actually no, let me just get it all out. Uh what are we going to do for the stone? And the whole point of painting that is is to have fun with it, guys. I’m down here talking to myself.

Uh making messes. I’m not worried about if this is going to look good. I’m not trying to like I think at least for me personally, it’s very easy to get caught up in I have to paint like I’m going to enter this into a contest and I have to paint like I’m the best painter there is in the world. And because of that feeling, I just never get anything painted. Like it doesn’t it doesn’t help me paint anything.

It doesn’t make me a better painter. I just makes me not paint at all. And I am suddenly not even a painter. Like I’m This is a very interesting paint. It has like a uh I don’t know if it just dries faster than the other paints, but it gets like a film.

I don’t really know how to describe it, but I’m going to experiment with this more cuz I think you could potentially do some cool things with it. All right. And I I’ll show you how we’re going to do the stone because I don’t want to get more paint out. Uh because I I feel like I’ve I turned this project that was a simple Zoran pallet project and now I’ve added all these technical paints to it. I think we’ve already used streaking grime.

But we’re going to hit it. Just hitting it once over with our brownish decay that we’re doing all over everything else on the base. Just making sure. Getting the paint up in there nobody’s ever going to see, but I’m going to know. And like I’m trying to silence my inner critic, but there’s really only so far I can go, right?

Cuz he’s always there. Okay, I’m taking my spruce sponge and I’m just uh I’m not going to swipe because when I was swiping it’s going to make lines and especially on this corner right here. Just dabbing up and down, up and down, up and down. Uh swiping. We’re going to get our wet brush here.

And on this corner, we’re just going to back and forth. Oh, it helps if you can see it. We’re just going to we’re going to back and forth and push that contrast paint back down into the crack here. And we can water stain this because this would be most likely water stained in real life if there was a bunch of grime and [ __ ] on it. So stippling abusing the the Jesus out of this poor brush.

We are putting this brush what this is a this is a war color size two and like just today look at how rough I’ve been on this brush and I can still spin that boy back into a point. So, this is the best paint brush I’ve ever used. I’ve done some terrible, dirty things to this. Go buy one. Uh, Warcolor again.

Yeah, Warcolor Sables. Uh, so good. I don’t deserve this thing. And here for See, like this stuff’s already starting to dry on us and we can It’s almost like a chipping medium now because we’re hitting it and getting it wet again. Uh, very interesting.

So, I’m going to play with this for sure later down the road. But that’s our stone. Our stone looks sick just from us being savages with our paintbrush. And I’m looking at these shoulders and I’m almost thinking I need to hit it with streaking ground again because maybe I took too much off of it. Maybe I took too much off of it.

Am I in my head I’m like hit it with this. Hit it with this. No. No. I That’s crazy.

That’s crazy, guys. Let’s not hit it with this. But it see it out. We’ll leave it on that one. Oh, well that’s looking good, though.

Oh my goodness. All right. [ __ ] it. We ride. All right.

I’m going to I’m going to put some water here. A lot of water here. Get some of that. What is this? Brownish decay.

This is my new favorite paint. Brownish decay is my new I’ve not used this before today. Um, it’s just paint, guys. If we mess it up, we can do it again. No reason to be scared, right?

All right, we’re slipp. But I do have to go fast because I know that this stuff doesn’t play around. Oh, that’s having a reaction. It’s taking our silver right off. What in the world?

damn. Our purple is back. Jesus Christ. Uh, that’s okay. I got silver on my pallet.

I got this silver right here on my pallet. I’m about to have silver all over all my other guys. Interesting. Whatever’s in that strip. Oh, that went through a layer of streaking grime.

It went through multiple layers of silver. Very interesting. Oh, that’s crazy. It’s trying to do it over here again. Very interesting.

This is still my new favorite paint even though we’re not homies anymore. Oh god, it did it over there. All right, let’s I got to stop working it. Um, little bastard. I’m stippling this on because I don’t want brush strokes and I don’t want to have to streak and grime it again.

But I think at this point we’re just going to have to stop working it.