Great effort mate. I really like your conversions. You had a good eye for where the parts come from. Where you pegged them as zombie parts they were. The original plastic zombie kit has a lot of charm albeit there are definitely good parts to the new sculpts too but I really liked the flexibility of the kit you have used parts from At a future date I would like to do a vampire counts army (beyond the minis I had already from the old Warhammer fantasy days) and I would definitely like to mix and match the Bretonnian men at arms minis with zombies and skeletons The monk you did would also work really well as a necromancer For the knights you could also use the men at arm heads with skeleton/zombie part heads. Also some of the new foot knights have the open visors and you could file off or cut out their current faces and replace them with shaved down skeleton/zombie faces Not sure if people are selling spare heads on eBay but surely it won’t be long until they do…also I suppose you could just buy a kit and add them to your army

horn Blower reminds me of Darkest Dungeon. played that video game recently again

glad you did this kind of video my friend, hope you are doing well. :)

really nice, what would you say is required to make this more grimdark?

I would only but old minis for the old world if GW could make them with better sculpts, I'm not saying completely resculpt them just make the old sculpts better with the technology they have.

Wow, I never knew you could 'reverse' plastic glue like that -- brilliant!

i like the stains, if you chose more of a brown or red than a black then the stains would look better.

I'm not into 40K or the like it's far too restrictive so I appreciate what You have done ...

Newsh dries in about 15 minutes.. do batches of 5 and you should be fine.

If GW doesn't offer cheap supply... 3D Printer will go BRRRRRRR

My print station and OPR stls can pop out a massive army for a fraction of the price.

go woke go broke. printers go brrrrrr

Gw actually having the models for sale... Waiting on Wood Elves :(

If they have stats, they will be back. If not it's a maybe in there upcoming arcane journals

For High Elves, the Handmaiden of the Everqueen, Maidenguard, Sea Guard, Alarielle. For Tomb Kings I'd like to see Khalida made to order, she's cool. For Bretonnia, I'd like to see the metal Tits McGee on Unicorn come back since she actually has female features unlike the current resin version's new sculpt. That's about it though; got most of what I want for my factions and I don't 'really' need to make blocks of 30 spearmen etc...

Flagellants are still sold under the AoS Free Cities line, thats propably why they aren't in any of the promo material for the Empire. Eitherway, they're still available. Bizarrely, the Empire Engineer no longer has access to mount options at all, so for now I'm not gonna get my hopes up for the mechanical steed to make a return. Maybe in the Arcane Journal as part of a Nuln themed army - but for now its a strange omission, it certainly sucks for people who still got that mini and can't play it for now - I guess you could proxy it as a Captain with handgun and/or brace of pistols. Eitherway, I don't think any of the other main armies suffered a cut like that. Treekin. A Treeman is a spirit who is bound to a living tree, a Treekin is a spirit animating dead wood. High Elves are an interessting case; the promo-material heavily features the Lothern Seaguard, Swordmasters and Reavers from the 8th editon 'Isles of Blood' starter set. What makes this noteworthy is that those minis share their sprue with the Skaven part of the box. In a first for the Old World, I think GW is going to remaster the plastic molds for those minis, so that they can release them seperately from the obv discontinued rats. I do find it strange that they feature the Stone Trolls in their promo pictures. I think GW's philosophy is that everything that you see advertised in the core books is stuff that is actually available. But Stone Trolls were Made-to-Order. I wonder if they originally were ment to come back for good. I expect GW is going to take inspiration from the Total War games when it comes to Chaos and the Arcane Journal is going to feature Norsca - an army with limited or no access to Chaos Warriors, with a heavier focus on Marauders and war beasts. I figure the second list is going to opposite direction, something like an exalted war host with access to daemons, daemonic cavalry, and war shrines. Beastmen are indeed not featured in the book. My theory is that they were a last minute addition to the game as GW couldn't decide whether to leave them with AoS or not.

What would make me buy miniatures for The Old World? I do have a big 4th edition dwarves army, but I won't be playing The Old World, and GW won't get a single cent from me. 😄 There are many other game systems that are easier to learn, faster to play and don't require the players to spend tons of mony on new rulebooks, army books and models every couple of years, because units that were crappy in the previous edition are suddenly the best choice in the new edition. The Old World? Thank you, but no thank you.

I’m loving the made to order items that GW has selected so far. Admittedly some of them probably should have been the regular release items in my opinion such at the stone trolls over the common trolls. I’m looking forward to the dwarfs coming out next and seeing exactly what will be offered for MTO outside of I suppose the imperial dwarf prince and retinue…of which I might pick up the command group as I only have the champion and standard bearer plus lots of troopers not the prince or musician. I think the alternate armies for dwarfs will be a slayers force and something more mobile like a rangers army I enjoy the aesthetics of nearly all the armies but I haven’t got big collections of everything. I’m possibly inclined to jump on the bandwagon as each is released but that would be tempered each time by price and only really cherry picking the stuff that really appeals to me

Have you used AK interactives streaking grime line of products? Still smells, but is pretty easy to get a similar effect.

I have found, with my experiments with Newsh, that it works best doing only a few models at a time rather than 10. I feel like also a small makeup sponge works a little better than a q tip.

dude you need to show the color labels used. blank citadel pots are not helpful.

Hmm, I think enamels are the way to go for drying time and reduction technique. This is only a good option, like you said, if someone's doesn't want to mess with other paint mediums.

Very interesting product. I had only really heard the name before not seen it being used. It does have that same leap of faith moment as the oils when you coat the whole mini but just like the oils it did clear up basically in the areas you don’t want it in. The process certainly seems quick, at least compared with the original time taken to paint the mini with regular colours. Bit of a shame it does leave some marks on the flat areas….maybe they could be dealt with by being a little more selective on where to put it at the first step? The darker stained parts on the flat area didn’t detract from the mini too much though Overall looks worth trying 👍

Sweet more minis being painted up

Really enjoyed this I’ve learnt a lot of techniques but sometimes the simplistic methods are the best Where can I find these models?

An interesting concept, nicely done though

Base rims should be black, always :)

Your points about rattle cans vs airbrush, and the notion of specific highlighting areas you wish to be brighter are lessons I had to learn the hard way. I wish someone had mentioned those nuances in a video when I first started using speedpaints. I hope more painters see your video.

These minis turned out really great, loved it. Some very interesting techniques that you used throughout the process. Certainly as I watched parts like the black oil bath there was a bit of faith that it was all going to turn out, and you certainly deserved that faith :-) Do you use Discord much or considered using it much for hobby purposes? I'm on a pretty good discord belonging to Miniature Realms that has a good atmosphere where people can share their hobby, even has a section on promoting your own stuff (like your KZbin channel). There would I think be a lot of people who would appreciate what you do over there. I'm not affiliated with the Discord other than being someone on there...just suggesting a place you might enjoy sharing your work.

this is awesome my friend.

I have an absolute desire to buy one or both ToW starter boxes and use the miniatures for my Warhammer Age of Sigmar projects: Bretonnian-style Cities of Sigmar and Neferata's Legion of Blood in egyptic theme. I'm sure that I can exchange square bases for round ones at the rate of 1 to 2. Easy find someone to sell the book and templates to. I also want to buy Bretonian Foot Knights set and make two units of male Sisters of Battle for 40k out of them.

Looks great! Excellent concept

Very nice!

Since I restarted the hobby in 2019, I also keep my unpainted stuff low.. Not thought about a number but i have less than 100 right now. it feels good.. Buy new stuff when i have painted some. I know others that just buy and buy.. they will never paint everything..

Flat dark earth rim is very grimdark. (Its what i do so its right)

Viewing this video myself the image quality is really bad. Please let me know if this is not only me because the uploaded video is of a much higher quality.

And it's a mighty looking troll.

Nice paint work there, quite a stylised result. I have never worked with oil paints on miniatures before. They do seem to offer some advantages in terms of the paint staying wet so you can easily blend for longer periods of time and even blend on the mini itself rather than just on a palette. It is hot here so the paint (acrylic) dries very quickly which also has its benefits too but also some definite drawbacks Perhaps in the future I’ll give oils a go as well. Always happy to learn new techniques

glad you gotten some minis painted up my friend

Love the look. The men at arms turned out really well. It is a shame having limited hobby time vs all the possible projects. I’m trying to stick to my current Bretonnians when I would also love to do a few other things at the same time

I’m really looking forward to the dwarf release. I would love the chance to get some metal minis again. I am also interested in the plastic ones because I never got any multi-pose plastic dwarfs back when they were made last. All my dwarfs are either metal or the old white plastic ones from the regiments box set where you got 10 of each skaven, dwarfs, goblins, orcs, dark elves and high elves. I’m like you in that I hope they will be the older style dwarfs.

0:48 what parts are used on the guy on the very left with the drum?

I wonder why the comments are so negative. They're your archers and you should paint them however you want! We just buy silly plastic kits to have fun, and everyone should do whatever is most fun for them. I personally wouldn't choose this style, but they're mechanically well done and definitely have the desired grimdark/gothic horror look.

A very interesting concept you have spoken about. I think my goblin has been in charge for a while and part of that is because I have gained enjoyment from acquiring the miniatures and browsing through eBay listings etc to get old minis that have been long out of production for some time. All of this knowing that I wasn’t in a position to want to paint or play with any of them This time feels different however because I have now started to paint again and will try and be more conscious about getting plenty of miniatures in a playable state. In one week I painted up 10 archers that I think look pretty good. Once I have the full 24 done I will go back and add a little bit more for highlights etc. I had the same thoughts as you in that I hadn’t painted for years and the archers are the more simple minis to put together and get painted up. Seeing progress is important and will keep levels of motivation hopefully pretty high. I’m not sure I will be able to maintain a fast pace but I would like to put out a complete unit per month so that in one year I have two small armies on the table I’ve got to say that I’m a little jealous of all that snow. It is very hot here and I’m really looking forward to some cooler weather 😂

I really enjoyed your video. Love the look of the men at arms mixed with the skeleton kit. A bit sad that Vampire Counts were made a legacy faction but Bretonnians do seem to lend themselves to being able to be downtrodden and or undead as a substitute for VC with perhaps vampires as the knights or barons. A great deal of artwork from the old days was quite dark in nature. The lore also had plenty of darkness to it with murderous cults lurking behind closed doors and Bretonnia itself was written up as a place of great decadence combined with decay. Newer lore seemed to do away with this a bit but when you look at those peasants they are certainly a poor looking bunch that well suits dark colours and general muck. Whilst true the miniatures themselves were often painted in bright colours, even chaos warriors, I think it is totally fine not to do it that way and probably a bit more true to the original artwork. I’m currently painting up a standard Bretonnian army with red and blue for the colours. In the future though I would love to use the Tomb King spare parts and kitbash men at arms and some knights in a similar fashion to what you have done 😀

Very cool! Nice little conversions and a simple yet striking colour scheme! I would go for mud on the bases, e.g. from AK, and also smear that on the lower Part of the minis for more Grimdark. In my opinion, the desaturated green on the rim is fine - Grimdark go-to would be black though. I am btw painting Grimdark Bretonnians myself atm using a very similar black and yellow scheme - the colours of the cursed dukedom of Moussillon.

I have been looking for Grimdark Old World vids and glad to find your channel. Subbed

One thing i have noticed about youtube mini painting tutorials is that If its from a Brit or a yank it will be a quick concise video. If anyone and I mean anyone from europe makes a video its will feature 15 mins of B roll footage while the creator searches his soul and ruminates on the question of what grim dark really means to them.

The whole of the old world was grim dark; Blanche, Mordheim, etc. Painting back in the day though was not. And then Bretonnia has always been about bright colors. Great video, and it’s making me consider doing a war weary Bretonnian army instead of a fresh and bright army.

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