Batch painting an ENTIRE WHITE SCARS ARMY in UNDER A WEEK!

[@CheefIndian]

After 3 days of attempting to paint every ork I own for Orktober, I now have a much deeper respect for anyone that does these "paint an entire army in x hours/days" videos. Keep up the good work, happy hobbying!

[@LizardofDoom]

@@CheefIndian thank you 😂 I had to do it like this or it was never getting done!

[@brionl4741]

I'm working on the Hive Secundus box for Necromunda now. It's taken me 2 weeks just to get the Malstrain half assembled, let alone painted.

[@ReadyMack-g]

@@LizardofDoom what gold pen is that?? thank you

[@The-British-Fella]

Must say, for an army done in a week... a weeks time it looks really nice. Those dragon transfers are awesome!

[@LizardofDoom]

@@The-British-Fella thank you mate 🤘😄

[@Weifuknigt]

That subtle and quick momma jab was hilarious. I had to do a take back on that . 😂

[@Velkanize]

"I am a human being, I am like you" You've joined me in the shiny head club so I'm convinced 😂

[@LizardofDoom]

One of us

[@artycharr]

those gundam decals, makes sense that amruo ray would be a white scar!

[@snakeeater1923]

Dude, watched you for ages, this was so entertaining for me. Purely because im a White Scar, and painting them nicely really is quite the endeavour. So i commend you sir!! Loved this video

[@LizardofDoom]

Thank you mate! And thank you for being here for so long! 🙂

[@MiccyTheRat]

oooo !! those metallic markers im going to have to try those

[@LizardofDoom]

They're awesome but I recommend they're one of the last things you do :)

[@Waffle-Habit]

For whatever it is worth. I like the duller look. 17:58

[@WulvenKraft]

These turned out great & that barnet is perfect!

[@Deefry]

Your leader is gonna look sick next to this lot! Awesome job :)

[@LizardofDoom]

Thank you mate! Looking forward to kitbashing him :)

[@DatTuxedoPenguin]

Amazing video! Loved it. The blueish white looks incredible with the gold!

[@LizardofDoom]

Thank you brother 🤟

[@IncredibleMD]

The fact that this is the first video of yours I've ever watched makes that intro a thousand times funnier.

[@LizardofDoom]

Curve ball intro, not the video you were expecting 😂

[@johnhanley5546]

Always enjoy the painting videos - keep them coming!

[@LizardofDoom]

Thank you boss!

[@suddenlysarablog]

I love love LOVE that you've included an OPR option in your campaign!

[@LizardofDoom]

That's all down to the man with the plan. Buggritt in the discord is THE MAN when it comes to running a campaign that's accessible for all :)

[@finnon7460]

Earned a sub - Absolutely amazing work ! Those metallic pens are really cool, convinced me to give them a shot. Also couldn't agree more, AK is fantastic hobby brand, love their stuff. Looking forward to your next project - keep it up ! :D

[@LizardofDoom]

Thank you for the lovely feedback, for being here and for being you! 🤘

[@midnightworf]

Thanks for introducing me to the phrase "pile of future fun", I'm going to use that from now on :D

[@LizardofDoom]

Hell yeah! No need to shame ourselves over something we enjoy 😄

[@Sarkhamy]

Hey just up temp as a person who's been using ink pens before I have always found it successful to gloss varnish the miniature, apply the metallics let the metallics dry for a full day or more and then apply solvent-based paints. Many of the pens are using alcohol-based acrylics which drive very hard, as long as you let them cure 😊. There is no chemical reaction between The solvents in streaking grime and fully cured acrylic paint. It also is already a high gloss finish, meaning that you will still have it seek the recesses like if you've glossed the area. Try it out on a test model first obviously, but it's the same steps in a different order so it shouldn't take you more time

[@Clumsy_Bear]

Amazing paint job 😮

[@Sturmensky]

That is DANG impressive! They turned out really nice and, let's remember: one week, one army. I can't even finish *four* models in that time, lol

[@LizardofDoom]

Me neither normally I just had to leave some mistakes that were really getting to me 😂

[@Sturmensky]

@@LizardofDoom Heh I do understand that. Regarding the chrome, you could always touch it up to get the shine back. As I tend to throw a Sepia wash over my models to provide a unifying tint, I do that sort of touch up on parts of the metals to bring back the sheen.

[@henrikwannheden7114]

DAmn! Thats a very snazzy army! Great work!

[@LizardofDoom]

Thank you 🤘

[@Cerderius]

I had a painting date with a friend of mine on Saturday. I was ambitious and brought a full Battle Sister Squad, an Ork Megaboss, 5 cast Grey Knights, and a little Solrock mini. He was painting some Seraphon Warriors. In the eight hours he finished painting his 5 Serapon Warriors and I didn't finish a single minature. I did the capes, cloth, and guns on all my Battle Sisters and thats it. It doesn't help that I decided to go with the Order of the Sacred Rose meaning much like yourself I have to suffer with a miniature that is 80% white. I regret nothing and everything all at the same time.

[@LizardofDoom]

Hella ambitious but if you don’t back yourself who’s going to? 🤟😂

[@dekai7992]

Amazing work, seriously! Very inspiring, too!

[@LizardofDoom]

@@dekai7992 thank you 🤘❤️

[@Tophathammer]

This is amazing!

[@tobek284]

Looking nice! I’m working on my white scars atm. I think you are onto something with the airbrush for contrast and some shades here. It is too hard to mask brush strokes and patches without it.

[@jojan292]

he's only gone and finished an entire army! Rimmed and all!

[@LizardofDoom]

For the first time in history 😂

[@Jerseyangel89]

20:32 you sure we dont need several hours of that footage? lololol

[@LizardofDoom]

Time to start an OF I guess

[@chaosfrogs7]

You are a lean mean painting machine!

[@LizardofDoom]

HELL YEAH BROTHER

[@dreadgarr]

those dried tips from the markers, just dip em in some IPA... stir it and thek on a piece of cardboard begin pressing down on it shake pen press the tip.. shake..etc.. you will see it will saturate that dried tip again.. D.

[@bio-boosted]

Far braver than me to paint white scars scheme! My local flgs has some chrome paint in, going to try it to see if its similar results to the pens.

[@LizardofDoom]

Recommend you do it as one of the last things on the mini 🙂

[@ruskalehtosaari2429]

You could make a part of a video explaining your way to do a zenithal. A basic ”true” zenithal sucks, so more experienced people just sort of cheat it - like I see you do. It would be interesting for me to hear how you think about this and probably very beneficial for many others as well.

[@LizardofDoom]

I shall have a little look when I’ve got a lizard lesson episode that suits it 🙂

[@Buggritt]

I am also not an army painter but would definitely benefit from some of these techniques

[@LizardofDoom]

Quite frankly it stresses me but sometimes you just gotta grit your teeth and get it done. Done is better than perfect sometimes. 😂

[@Buggritt]

@@LizardofDoom perfection is the thief of joy ;)

[@Ydrakar]

Fun fact: even white scars would have golden trim if the unit is representing the 2nd company, since they are a codex compliant chapter!

[@LizardofDoom]

Good knowledge!

[@Ydrakar]

@@LizardofDoom so turns out that although they are codex compliant, the white scars' "Brotherhoods" are indicated by unique badges rather than shoulder trim. They are an exception to the rule. in terms of their shoulder trim, most wear white, while command and veterans wear red.

[@SilimSavertin]

I've stopped doing the puches and co in leather color, myself. With actual army pouches and such on body armor, they're the same color as the body armor - so they're just getting the same color as my armor, now. I stick to picking out things like holstered bolt pistols. After ruining my yellow armor with a slight hand tremble one too many times, that's been my solution...

[@LizardofDoom]

That’s fair if you’ve got a tremble, straps and stuff like that must be difficult! You do you and paint it however you want that’s best for you 🙂

[@jontyhugh1080]

Lizard of Zoom???

[@LizardofDoom]

*nods solemnly*

[@beebeebees]

Great job man

[@LizardofDoom]

Thank you 🤘

[@NerfsDJ]

i've probably only painted like 20 models in total over 12 years lol. Got the starter set at the start of september and i'm only on my 9th tyranid xD but i'm determined to finish the tyranid part.

[@thequestbro]

Holy shit I need those pens!!!!

[@pronstorestiffi]

20:34 nice nice.

[@wpeaston]

Flipping great video, army looks great. Just a little Q, did you varnish over the pigment on the base to seal it in?

[@LizardofDoom]

Thank you mate! I didn’t varnish afterwards as I find it just soaks it up and you can’t see the pigment anymore. When you put it on you can brush most of it back off and even blow it off with a hairdryer if you want to be sure. The stuff that’s left will of stained it enough for the effect to work. Works better on mat surfaces. 🙂

[@thequestbro]

Nice Space Wolves. :)

[@Tophathammer]

👹👹👹👹

[@5az2]

Hope this video performs! Great content!

[@LizardofDoom]

Thank you mate me too 😅

[@BuggzZ1823]

Only watched the end atm because I'm at work but looks amazing man, got a question for you, wondering what your opinion is about GW pushing the raptors chapter so much, I think its to appeal to military painters but my friend thinks its because they are going to turn out to be from a different gene seed to what its presumed to be raven guard

[@LizardofDoom]

It's a confusing one. GW often plan years ahead so there got to be SOME reason. Personally I'd like to see more support for other main chapters especially on the transfer sheets.

[@GeoffSavory]

Good episode.

[@TheGoblinGrotto]

Did you just put the pigment powders straight on? I’m new to them and I don’t know if binder is essential or not. Thank you!

[@LizardofDoom]

Depends what you want to use it for. My bases were painted in the style I want them to be and I used the powder to give them an authentic dusty look that also affected the lower areas of the mini. That tied the model to them as if they were really in that environment. For this you don’t need binder. Just be sure to sweep or blow as much as you can off again otherwise game day will be messy. With most pigment powder, Vallejo especially, the small amount left behind after removal will of stained the mini perfectly. Hope this helps. 🙂

[@TheGoblinGrotto]

@@LizardofDoom it does, thank you! What about for things like tank tracks? I appreciate the quick reply and useful information 🤘🏻

[@richardebourne6332]

Hi Max, great video. I'm painting up a WS successor called astral bears. I've taught my son layering and dry brushing to get from a cold light great to white highlights but I can be time consuming and / or need a bit of correction. And I use panel liner from scale models for ermmm lining the panels of armour. But what's your recipe for the oil wash, is Matt or gloss varnish best, and do you remove the wash with white spirit straight away? Many thanks and keep up the good work. The models look awesome - be great to see how the rest of the army has come on since!

[@LizardofDoom]

I believe for this video I used a grey streaking grime from AK interactive (bought from firestorm games, link in the description of the video) and thinned it with some white spirits about 50/50. As far as the varnish goes it’s far easier to remove if you’ve used a gloss varnish but either would work. (Leave the varnish over night before you do the wash so it’s fully cured) I use white spirit to then pull it back off. Doesn’t particularly matter if you let it fully dry first or not it’s just harder to get off if it’s dry so it’ll end up looking dirtier. I usually at least let it dry half way. Hope this helps!

[@richardebourne6332]

@LizardofDoom thank you so much for the in depth response. Will be sure to try with the gloss varnish and see how I go. We'll have a lot of different styles but if we can get one that works fast that's great! I'm also keen to try the 'texture' style for cloaks. Have a conversion of korsorro khan I'll be using in my BGVs and this might look v cool on him

[@josephrigley8974]

I've batch painted lots of my own stuff and it's never been fun. Efficient though.

[@GhostMkrMiniatures]

Batch painting white? You absolute psychopath... They look great dude, final result is beautiful. Well done.

[@LizardofDoom]

Thank you brother😂 Airbrush goes a looooong way with white.

[@GhostMkrMiniatures]

@@LizardofDoom still terrifies me 😂 Painting the Apothecary from the Leviathan set was bad enough 😩

[@mcw280]

Can you list the paints you used in the description so I can make a list?

[@LizardofDoom]

@@mcw280 I usually try and say or show the paints as I’m going, is there any specific ones you were after ? 🙂

[@brionl4741]

I'm lucky if I can batch paint an army in under a decade. 😸

[@TheRonHockman]

Are you using a .28 or .44mm nozzle? Looking at the needle back, I think I only see two ridges, which makes me think you're using the .28mm. I've found white acrylic (or other acrylics with a lot of white pigment in them) through the smaller nozzles is troublesome. I'll put up with it for a single figure, but when batch painting I swap out to the .44mm and enjoy myself quite a bit more. I actually keep the .44 in most of the time now, and only swap to the .28 for more detailed stuff. I also have a 0.15mm nozzle but that's honestly very difficult to use with acrylics. If I need to be that detailed I just get out a regular brush.

[@LizardofDoom]

You are very astute! I actually had this smaller nozzle/needle because the larger one was already clogged even worse when I went to set up the airbrush and it was soaking in iso. 😂

[@SweetManaT]

Tbf the White Scars are based off of Mongolian tribes, so the gold makes a ton of sense to me.

[@LizardofDoom]

@@SweetManaT aye thank you for justifying my rule of cool choice 🤘🙂

[@Manchesterunitedfan123-ur7yt]

Did anyone else look at the invader atv’s base and start getting mad because there was a hole where it should have been stuck down😅 Or is that just me??

[@LizardofDoom]

@@Manchesterunitedfan123-ur7yt alright smart arse 😂 the ATV doesn’t come with a base, that’s a base from something else that used those peg holes. ATV doesn’t use peg holes, I stuck it to the base in a way that covered two other peg holes and stuck a tuft over the last one when I was done. The more you knooooowwwwwww

[@Manchesterunitedfan123-ur7yt]

@@LizardofDoom ahhh ok thanks for clarifying that 🙂

[@xvkamui]

raven guard next??

[@SweetManaT]

White Scars!

[@mokatwenty]

Epic 'ya mum' joke! Pay that!

[@Bodkin_Ye_Pointy]

I gotta say you are one of the first painters I have heard refer to the red flush under the skin in Caucasians. I like the way you do it and may well adopt it myself though my colour range is a totally different brand.

[@LizardofDoom]

What colour range do you use? I also like to use “screamer pink” from citadel for this. 🙂

[@freewave04]

I refuse to imagine 40k cows for leather so I paint my pouches black

[@LizardofDoom]

Who said cows? Surely there’s other waste products when they make corpse starch 😂

[@KrullMaestaren]

Corpse starch Corpse leather Corpse nuggets 🤤

[@seanbrown3977]

Paint pens are good for basic work with gunpla but I found for miniature work to leave them alone as you said they smudge and I have found they just don’t look right

[@benrezh]

Just a friendly advice for airbrush cleaning, once you have remove the nozzle, dont pull the needle through the back of the airbrush, but push it out through the front. otherwize all the nasty stuff on the needle point might endup stuck inside the body of the airbrush. Great job on the army !! :D

[@arianash7763]

hope you've been enjoying rimming my mum, she certainly seems happy ^^ great vid as always Max

[@LizardofDoom]

@@arianash7763 another satisfied customer 😂

[@bad-people6510]

I feel like you might benefit from taking the opposite approach. Don't pressure yourself, don't give yourself a deadline, just work on it a little at a time, over a long period, whenever you feel like painting.

[@LizardofDoom]

This is what i usually do but it ends up with me having a half painted army on game day. The purpose of this project is to have something I can put on the table and play with as soon as possible with out worrying too much about the fine detail. 😊

[@bad-people6510]

@@LizardofDoom Fair enough. I don't actually play the game almost ever, so deadlines aren't as much of an issue for me.

[@Kitbash.Carnage]

🔥🤘❤️

[@piotrjeske4599]

Took me 4 years to paint my White Scar 2500pts army.

[@LizardofDoom]

Thats how i usually do things 😂 I'm going to have a little break and tackle the next thousand points in another batch.

[@brianhall4182]

Yes, another leather strap hater! I also hate them. Both from painting Marines as well as Orks. So. Many. Random. Straps! I've also found a tip with pigment powder: mix it with a bit of water first. It still gives that dusty look when it dries but is less messy when applying it.

[@LizardofDoom]

I wanted to leave a bunch of the leg pouches off but then the leather straps look like garters 😂 stop it GW! That’s a good tip with the powder, I’ll try it out 🙂

[@kalebs6201]

Your faces are exquisite!

[@LizardofDoom]

Thank you, you're pretty handsome yourself! 😉😂

[@ericsonkennway9651]

*criesingreyplastic*

[@yansmac4796]

Like for the 5 head. 😂

[@LizardofDoom]

Brother this is at least a 12 head atm 😂

[@chrisday9297]

My mum said she was disappointed with your rimming game

[@LizardofDoom]

its not my fault she's got such a big rim. Takes too long to get round it.

[@chrisday9297]

@@LizardofDoom 😂

[@Jkbawlings]

Was this project so stressful that all your hair fell out?

[@LizardofDoom]

I ripped it out when the airbrush clogged immediately😂

[@waynes.wilson6616]

7:22 Racist? Space Marines aren't racist, I'm a black priest for Emperor's sake

[@guineapigsith699]

lol ask your mum. gorgeous

[@akumaking1]

Hi. Do you have an email to contact? I’m asking because I’ve found some concepts/ideas that you might like. (For example, somebody make fanart of Star Wars Stormtroopers as Astartes)