100 Layers of Warhammer Paint

Two thin coats? How about ONE HUNDRED! Let's have a bit of stupid fun, and see what Warhammer models look like when they're painted with 100 layers of different Citadel paints.
Which was your favourite?
The models on eBay:
Mephiston Red www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485241842
Talassar Blue www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485243171
Leadbelcher www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485269945
Nuln Oil www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485271447
Agrellan Earth www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485268687
Blood For The Blood God www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485244949
Typhus Corrosion www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485273199
Ardcoat www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485245775
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00:00 Intro
00:59 Mephiston Red
01:55 Talassar Blue
03:24 Leadbelcher
04:16 Nuln Oil
06:23 Agrellan Earth
07:45 Blood For The Blood God
08:55 Typhus Corrosion
10:25 How we made this
11:59 Ardcoat
13:08 Recap
14:10 Weigh-in
15:33 X-ray vision

[@MidwinterMinis]

All 8 models in this video are on eBay right now, and 50% of their proceeds will be donated to the mental health and suicide awareness charity CALM. Here are the links if you're interested: Mephiston Red www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485241842 Talassar Blue www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485243171 Leadbelcher www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485269945 Nuln Oil www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485271447 Agrellan Earth www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485268687 Blood For The Blood God www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485244949 Typhus Corrosion www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485273199 Ardcoat www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195485245775

[@ShakerGER]

I kinda feel like you are admitting a bit doing mental damage with this one. xD TO you two or the viewers? Who knows?

[@Spardin]

Why not 100%? I can understand you taking out postage and eBay fees but 50% seems like you are out to make a quick buck knowing people will bid up because of charity

[@ericl8261]

@@Spardin Heaven forbid they make money from their work. Guy was clear and transparent about the breakdown of the proceeds. It's still a nice thing that part is going to charity. Take your glass half empty rubbish elsewhere.

[@Spardin]

He makes money from the video adverts and patron, No reason 100% couldnt go to charity Plenty of people give up there free time to raise money or volunteer for charity work (myself included)

[@ericl8261]

​@@Spardin I don't believe you. You have a bitter and resentful vibe about you. You probably stop in front of salvation army Santas and complain they aren't ringing the bell hard enough then reach into the pot of coins and take money OUT

[@utarionzo3099]

Oddly, the necron ended up having an almost Giger-esq vibe to it

[@vanillaicecream2385]

Professional pro painted minis 200$ (no negotiating)

[@sanctusletum8522]

Biit of ginger, bit of T-1000 Terminator. I dig it.

[@D3sToD3s]

It's because you apply tissue, like actual skin and muscles, over a skeleton. They ought to look interesting

[@waffle_lord1229]

Yeah, looks like a T-1000

[@mikeg9516]

Wow Guy, you have become such a good painter, truely this are some of the most painted minis ever!

[@getstickbuggedd]

They definitely are some of the painted models ever

[@comradedogma4957]

Certainly the painted models I've ever seen

[@whoistobby296]

The most original comment writer on youtube:

[@trollwholivesu7258]

@@whoistobby296 ok well he got over 1k likes and you have 2

[@whoistobby296]

@@trollwholivesu7258 if you wanted to ashame me you should've used this -> 🤓

[@Jaydee-wd7wr]

That Necron actually looks good though, he’s like a liquid metal terminator.

[@frogjog8822]

*Pause* Like every necron ever...?

[@d-emprahexpects849]

That's what I thought too!

[@devonwilson8306]

I legitimately love the way the head turned out on it.

[@feralhawg867]

Yeah, whoever buys it should totally run it in their army as a mid-resurrection Necron!

[@d-emprahexpects849]

@@feralhawg867 he should be in Trazyn's museum

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

I feel almost like the effect on the daemonette is appropriate for the model, either as a representation of how they burst from the warp, or what they get up to in their spare time lol. I can't imagine much more intimidating than seeing a horde of them surging towards me covered in suspiciously viscous fluids

[@karlwallah2601]

Yeah very “sus” liquids.

[@jijansguidetotheuniverse1852]

jesus christ this comment is so cursed lmao

[@mathdesm9306]

Santorum basically

[@jc7997aj]

So what your saying is those deamons need an exorjism ??

[@MECHA_DI]

yea that is an unfortunate paint to use that many coats on a model

[@JimsTableTopWargaming]

You gave those models the landlord special

[@warhatter]

Nothing but the best paint jobs for our minis

[@ScytheNoire]

I laughed so hard at this.

[@GuckDaBaws]

Now THIS is finally a beginner tutorial I can actually follow

[@666styxxx666]

🤣yeah don't do it unless rich , not your paint/floor or an enemy demands you paint their army 🤣😂

[@graefx]

My take aways: it took nearly 30 layers before details started getting lost, so paint bravely and thin paints you're not going to ruin anything. And I prefer old nuln oil. (Well really I prefer Badab black but that ship long sailed)

[@MidwinterMinis]

100% this!

[@spamerling833]

The new Nuln is shit

[@vaniellys]

With the 100 coats, the Necron warrior looks like a T-1000 Terminator shapeshifting.

[@wellsb973]

If you win the daemonette, you not only get the mini but you also get added to a special watch list. Just kidding- great work as always.

[@arandomlostsoul753]

Anyone who bids on the daemonette is added to the watch list :^)

[@Docktavion]

100 layers!?! I can achieve this level of pro painting with one coat…

[@hansiboo657]

One thing i did not expect was to find a new favorite blue metallic in this video. 3 layers of Talassar Blue over gold. That one's going in the back pocket. Fun vid as always!

[@PureMetalDragon]

As a Talassar blue enthusiast (Bluecrons for the win) I also discovered a few original uses for it... Talassar blue over Runelord brass gives a tarnished dirty brass look. Try it out on all those bells on your Nurgle guys. Edit: whoops I checked my notes. It was Frostheart, not Talassar Blue. Talassar blue still gives a strange alien blue green metal. Want to quickly paint a bunch of Nephrek Necrons (golden body, green glow). Paint it gold all over, and add the Talassar blue where the glow is needed. Want a colored metallic that just seems to glow almost like a fluorescent paint. Get yourself the shiniest chrome paint you can (I used Tin Star by Turbodork. Beware: you'll be cleaning out micca particles out of that brush for days, but a good smooth coat will be almost mirror like) and add Talassar blue. Seriously stunning Do you have trouble wet blending? Necron hyperphase blades got you pulling out your hair? a coat of thinned down contrast (3 medium per paint) will smooth the transitions. Actually... Talassar blue might not be the best for this, better use a weaker contrast like Aethermatic Blue (what I use)

[@pervyturtle2673]

@@PureMetalDragon thanks for tips.

[@pervyturtle2673]

Same, I think I know what Ill do for my 1k sons

[@PureMetalDragon]

@@pervyturtle2673 Just to warn you. I checked my notes and the tarnished brass recipe was Frostheart, not Talassar. My bad.

[@iapetusmccool]

I've used talassar blue over retributor gold for the carapaces of some of my 'nids, to give the impression of iridescent beetles.

[@neonsamurai5637]

Painting over those blue paint stains on the floor with citadel paints to look like the old floor would be a cool video

[@craggylotus]

the bloodletter is the most table-top ready, looks like he's either just warp'd in or he's had some really good rolls and is ready to call it a day. The Bukakkette is quite amusing. Most surprising is how that ghosty lad turned into a dinosaur!

[@bestnameever1850]

Cease

[@blackenedsilversoul]

I liked how the Bloodletter turned out; he looks like he was freshly birthed in the blood vats where Khorne sources both his warriors and his party mixers

[@nrgspike]

Interesting that the Daemonette is presently selling for more than the others combined... some folks must really like 'Ardcoat I guess.

[@andrewramsdale]

It’s the deamonette and necron that are being bid on the most ones 2 something the other is a hundred and something

[@SkeleGem]

Slaanesh coming home from a hard day of corrupting mortals, only to find the Demonette: *”WHO PUT THE DEMONETTE IN THE TIMEOUT JAR??!?!?!”*

[@theclarkmaster3642]

Turning Warhammer 40k into modern art sculptures.

[@MidwinterMinis]

... or trash. You decide!

[@groovecrusader2042]

@@MidwinterMinis Both is good

[@Nibtarr]

@@MidwinterMinis He already said modern art, silly.

[@mikahvasquez6525]

@@MidwinterMinis people saying what modern-day art looks like and still saying it looks good

[@Zach-xf5my]

@@MidwinterMinis same thing😂

[@Hysterically_Accurate]

Hmmm. The nuln oil finish would look well on a vindicaire bodysuit, actually

[@meshuggahshirt]

Kinda want to do a Nurgle army where the squads are distinguished entirely by how many coats of Nuln Oil they get

[@synergy8879]

their leader is just a blobof solid nuln oil. plot twist, there isn’t even a marine inside. it’s just a blob that looks vaguely human like.

[@frog_mug3172]

@@synergy8879 is just a pot of nuln oil

[@poggestfrog]

@@synergy8879 nurgling pranks be like

[@SetaDragon]

That last one actually could be pretty cool in some ice scenery. Like she fell in the water and froze in a block of ice.

[@synergy8879]

pov: you tried to invade fenris

[@010101110100]

Bless this child

[@funnyhaha7340]

They sort of look like candles! I could see the sisters of battle having space marine candles lol

[@will_oak]

Brilliant! Haha. I'm reminded of the quote "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should." :D

[@EricsHobbyWorkshop]

How long did you have to sustain that slowly ascending note on the slide whistle to get that smooth sound on the sped up bits? Very impressive

[@TheSonOfRyan]

I think its a stock sound from the WB sfx disk. I used to use it in "1950s Brighton beach summer" themed animations.

[@RussellTeapot]

1:21 a couple of drybrush sweeps and those details will pop back up to life in no time!

[@marioroman555]

Duncan: "I... sense a disturbance in the force.... as if someone applied too many layers rather than 2 thin coats!"

[@notreallydavid]

My dad liked to contemplate the notion of somebody painting and painting and painting a room until there was only a little cube of empty space in the middle.

[@kmykz]

I rewatched it because I got this in my recommendations and I just now caught the Milhouse-moment!

[@inquisitor_snake]

The necron actually looks really cool with all those layers. It makes me want to start a necron army with smooth faces

[@queencyrys6309]

Same for the bloodletter, it looks like a monster forming from a lake of mud

[@the_price1540]

I have become an incoherent sobbing mess because of this video

[@weshammer]

This has got to be the most unique painting video I have seen in awhile! well done!!!

[@nigh7fire462]

Hey I know you

[@KungKras]

That daemonette is the most lore-accurate daemonette I have ever seen! xD

[@EMSWK]

Blood letter lore: a new layer paint every time it's put a wound on a model....lol

[@MidwinterMinis]

YES!

[@ArkAngel_45]

When I first painted a mini of any variety ever, I thought nuln oil was primer. And painted layer after layer after layer after layer and so on

[@ArkAngel_45]

Also the bloodletter that looks like animated blood is kinda metal

[@Liontamer972]

Art comes in many forms. Paint is never wasted, no matter how silly the project!

[@Ocean_Man]

As a newcomer whos still learning to correctly thin Im getting "Im in this video and i dont like it" vibes lmao

[@HeWhistlesTunes]

The Ardcoat was dope at 13:01. It starts to look like Tyranid Saliva

[@step2fr]

it looks like more than just that💀

[@TheMrBigT77]

It looks like something alright...

[@themechbuilder6171]

tyranid mil-

[@poggestfrog]

some "alien fluids"

[@tychoMX]

That’s what the radical Inquisitor was told… “erm… must be Tyranid saliva, Lord”.

[@tharistan454]

the ardcoat would probably be good for ice terrain, maybe stain it a bit blue at the end or during the buildup process

[@Dagglestone]

I needed to see something funny like this today. Awesome

[@Agent00abe]

"She looks like she's having a great time" Cracked me up xD

[@adamcharman8726]

If Guy has to have 100 layers of makeup, there should be a "Guy does Hattie's Makeup" video. Really embrace those BeautyTube memes!

[@MartinBentley]

Beautube?

[@Jan_Iedema]

FINALLY, a level of skill I can match!

[@chrisfield5709]

Typhus Corrosion looks like he was petrified at Pompeii. You could use him as a terrain peice, a long dead Chaos Marine entombed in stone!

[@jeffk3801]

I kinda dig the Necron. It looks like an amorphous otherworldly alien. Gets some Glacius from Killer Instinct vibes.

[@Madbog1375]

How hard was it to keep duncan from breaking into your studio?

[@nrgspike]

Somewhere a man named Duncan felt a terrible disturbance in the Warp.

[@warhatter]

Muahaha

[@OGXenos]

It's really cool to see genuine, professionally painted Ebay models.

[@Zapzel24]

Imagine being tactically outsmarted by someone with miniatures like this.

[@tappajavittu]

This experiment reminds me of the way a school "friend" of mine painted his eldars way back when in the 90's, I had quite a good chuckle.

[@Taphosthewarlock]

Blood for the blood god heavily stacked still looks great, a few of these actually look like very time consuming ways to make excellent base effects - blood for the blood god for a chaos pool of blood, and ardcoat looks like the mini is trapped in ice to a degree.

[@Aurion254]

You spent so much time on the how, you never stopped to ask yourselves why!

[@MetalGearAusInd]

Really like these videos where you’re both weighing in, it gives the videos a really light, fun air. Keep it up!

[@SJGvP]

That was absolutely ridiculous... in a good way. I think the way you managed to do the timelapses was the most insightful part.

[@harbl99]

That poor, poor Ardcoat test subject. Any other model: "Please, not the jar! I've been good!" This one: "Yay! 100 thin coats!"

[@AceTaxiaGaming]

I'm surprised it was smooth... I'd expect very sticky

[@userequaltoNull]

Well, it *was* a slaaneshi daemonette, so it was probably more like "Please! Gimme the jar! I've been good! -daddy- "

[@theticksquad8218]

"Blood angels, which are the coolest space marine chapter" 10/10 highly agree, would shop here again.

[@FlesHBoX]

As silly as this seems at first blush, some of these could make for some legitimately interesting effects. That Typhus Corrosion ends up looking like some super old stone statue that has weathered for hundreds of years. I bet it could be used to great effect in a scene like this.

[@peterheinzo515]

well but i think you could get the effect a lot cheaper if you used something else (maybe cheap acrylics, or just acrylic medium) for the bulk and just use the citadel paint for the last few layers

[@FlesHBoX]

@@peterheinzo515for sure. You could get that effect with far fewer coats from what it looked like.

[@alejandroballesteroshernan1678]

Hey guy, for something like old Nuln Oil (or Old Citadel shades) get the Duncan Rhodes washes, they are good. Same for metallics

[@juzkful]

He has a video where he explains how to produce liters of that stuff urself…

[@riverdelavidawilliams9624]

If you apply a ton of crackling paint like Agrellan Earth while it’s all still wet then you will get the massive cracks you were looking for, and much faster I might add. Try flipping a normal black GW base upside down and fill it till it overflows with paint and that should work. Thanks for another awesome video 🎉

[@splitjawjanitor5369]

Somewhere, Duncan is waking up from the worst nightmare of his life.

[@samhoban2509]

Really enjoying Hatty’s input and humour. I can’t choose a favourite mini!

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

Great video and I did learn alot about how those various types of paints work! Which It makes me feel better about my first mini that I'm 13 hours into and you can still see the detail like before I painted it. Which you can make the old Nioln oil as one of my other mini painting youtubes breilfly mentioned which I think it was eons of battles not sure though.

[@podger_minis]

100 thin coats!

[@ten01_labs]

This painting technique is the dream of every paint manufacturer. 😂😂😂

[@ThunderCatsAreGo01]

that 'everything's coming up monhouse' joke is excellent

[@synergy8879]

i love how the necron warrior was literally becoming a liquid metal terminator

[@graefx]

The composite bloodletter and rubric look awesome. I wish there was a way to do that

[@SgtMudbug]

This is a question I didn't know I needed answered. Takes me back to my first enamel paints as a child.

[@kasperv967]

I both love and hate how these models turned out. Thank for your sacrifice making these haha!

[@Randicore]

I'd love to see cross sections of these.

[@bryal7811]

The x-ray versions are really cool, the bloodletter in particular looks fantastic. Also, the daemonette belongs in a jar to really sell the effect!

[@TheMrFishnDucks]

Fantastic video. Really great work. It is nice to see all the changes before everything looks monstrous. Keep up the good work.

[@deanlewis8083]

"Looks like she had a great time" I'm dying 🤣

[@timothythorne9182]

This video was awesome! Thanks for something different

[@BarokaiRein]

Honestly I'm just surprised that thinned paint even stacks like that. I assumed this was thick right out the bottle Like I regularly put on like 30 layers of paint when working on skintones and you can't tell that by looking at the model.

[@dylanfrancis5996]

Bloodletter: Livin’ the dream! LIVING THE DREAM!! 🤩

[@CaptainMischief]

I have to admit, the idea of sand eroded and edge smoothed Necrons really scratches something good in my brain

[@RickardLejonhjarta]

this is some Advanced heresy

[@basfinnis]

Looks like some of my first efforts when I was young 😜

[@MidwinterMinis]

Same!

[@benfraser6840]

The last one will haunt me to my dying day. So its a big thumbs up from me 10/10

[@hellglazer]

The Bukake Demon.... Clearly the best 😂😂😂

[@frog8220]

If you could upload photos of the first 10 layers each (to your website?) that would be genuinely useful as a reference. :) Great video, the voiceovers are both really well done!

[@nazeem2835]

So guy remember how you originally said that you planned to release a start collecting death match every fort night? Is that still gonna be The plan? BECAUSE I SURE HOPE SO, THOSE VIDEOS ARE AMAZING AND I NEED MORE!!!

[@MidwinterMinis]

The 2 upcoming boxes are in the works :)

[@viciousyeen6644]

Aren’t you too preoccupied with being in the cloud-district?

[@nazeem2835]

@@MidwinterMinis hurray! And thank you for actually responding to comments, it really helps this community grow!

[@_Zom]

The Bloodletter looks like it’s being birthed out of a pool of blood it’s sick af

[@MrRaven0700]

This is so dumb, I love it :D

[@DanishArtist]

I can see some interesting uses for some of them, the Bloodletter I can see being used for a terrain piece or diorama for Bloodletters forming from a large pool of blood, the Deamonette I can also see being used for a terrain piece or diorama as a Deamonette frozen in solid ice, the Typhus Corrosion one reminds me of cave rock formation, and the Agrellan Earth one looks to me as a big desert rock :)

[@Pandapeep]

"Frozen ice."

[@DanishArtist]

@@Pandapeep, Frozen in solid ice, big difference. ;)

[@sinwithagrin4243]

Blood for the blood god made it look like he just had to burrow out of a pile of corpses and i love everything about it. Just like this cartoonish ammount of gore. I love it

[@cybermang878]

That daemonette looks like it just escaped "the jar"

[@Callm3sol]

I need a Guy makeup video now

[@Lucassrizzo]

I'm surprised by the negative comments. "How dare you make silly and light-hearted content on ... ... ... KZbin."

[@TheGoldenbear76]

The charged silence after that Daemonette.... I'm imagining some very pointed and judgmental stares directed at you sir lol. I can imagine my wife taking one look at that and looking up at me with flat dead eyes, slowly shaking her head walking away

[@Salted_Fysh]

The bloodletter timelapse had a really cool effect. It really does look like some very thick blood. And the composites also look really cool.

[@thomas2406]

Now throw them in alcohol for a week and see what happens

[@AdeptusImperium]

"bondage bearer" no. Please no.

[@chester1882]

Hatty, you entered into a non-binding contract with us. Give us the makeup tutorial on Guy!!

[@eifpr0n]

Really loving the vibe Hattie brings to these videos. Keep it up!

[@SlocumJoe7740]

....this makes me EXTREMELY uncomfortable... I don't like this....help...

[@gouki4u]

You should see how well different paint stripping materials handle the 100 layer challenge. I'm pretty sure we've all bought an old model at some point that just refused to go back to the bare metal.

[@ms_rifle_spiral]

I haven't even started watching yet and the thumbnail already made me feel pure anguish inside, thanks a ton

[@cooldad7920]

Subbed the second I heard Old Mate's laugh at the daemonette, fantastic

[@kilianfunk2459]

This is probably the best miniature painting video