Contrast+ How to Paint: Isengard Battlehost - Painting an Army worthy of Mordor

Isengard has Emptied! War has come to KZbin courtesy of Games Workshop sending me the new Isengard Battlehost Box early to review and paint up for all of you! I love painting Lord of the Rings at the best of times but this just felt really special to me. It's time to paint up your armies worthy of Mordor using these simple and effective recipes!
Order your Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar from Bad Moon Cafe at 10-20% off and support the channel at no extra cost: bit.ly/39sg3hZ
Support the channel on Patreon: / warhipster
Buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/warhipster
Follow me on Instagram: / warhipster
Follow me on Twitter: / warhipster
Don't forget to like, share, subscribe, and ring the bell to make sure you keep up to date with all our latest videos!
Thanks for watching!
Paints used:
Cygor Brown
Ratling Grime
Wyldwood
Black Legion
Gore-Grunta Fur
Skeleton Horde
Guilliman Flesh
Frostheart
Black Templar
Gryph-Hound Orange
Targor Rageshade
Agrax Earthshade
Mortarion Grime
Nuln Oil
Drakenhof Nightshade
Carroburg Crimson
Iron Warriors
Bloodreaver Flesh
Morghast Bone
Iron Hands Steel
Dawnstone
Dark Reaper
Screaming Skull
Grey Seer
Corax White
Flayed One Flesh
Pallid Wych Flesh
Fire Dragon Bright
Yriel Yellow
Russ Grey
‘Ardcoat
Grey Seer Primer
#warhammer #ad #lordoftherings #mesbg

[@benrichardson5662]

These sculpts have held up very well, seeing as the Uruk-Hai are like 20 years old. As you demonstrate here, they're quite easy to paint efficiently since they're almost all textured metal.

[@Warhipster]

A sign of truly classic and everlasting design!

[@ArynCrinn]

Definitely agree on that last part. They were some of the first models I ever painted, and I still don't think they look terrible...

[@echoechoecho7142]

@@Warhipster We need more Lord of the Rings.... way more... ;) Thanks for the channel as always.

[@echoechoecho7142]

Oh sweet, started painting LOTR mini's a month ago or so, awesome to see this, I was hoping you would do some LOTR's stuff! They turned out fantastic. Love seeing what you can do with older models.

[@SonicShock1]

Bases are Astrogranite, drybrushed with Tyrant Skull. This was kindly shared on an AMA.

[@shango1234]

Awesome ! Please more LotR from Time To Time

[@nazeem2835]

You are easily the best painting tutorial KZbin channel out there! I love following your tutorials because they get my models looking AMAZING easily! Also I have been learning more about painting as I watch, so I can do much better without a tutorial then when I started! If I have one request it would be the glottkin it’s huge and makes an amazing proxy for a great unclean one. But also is great is aos! I’m planning to get one soon and am very scared to paint it. There seems to be only like 1 tutorial on how to paint it, and that one is not very good. So I’m very scared about making it look good without a good tutorial. If you made a video about it that would make my YEAR!

[@Hughzaa9]

So glad I found your channel! I'm really keen to paint up some of my grey Middle Earth minis and these kidns of guides are gonna be a huge help to get me through them in a way I can actually manage. Thanks for making the guides!

[@jackcopestake9948]

Awesome! Absolutely love how you used mortarion grime and the result

[@supernosh123]

I’m in the process of getting this box set, and you’ve really helped ! Keep up the good work.

[@mattfletcher7190]

Love this, thank you. How did you do the bases?

[@TimHendrikx]

All the yes!!! lotr. Thank you enjoy the weekend

[@Warhipster]

You too Sir!

[@philipgriffiths3106]

Just found your channel recently. So impressed with the flesh tone of the Uruk Hai. Makes a fantastic change to see orcs painted in Tolkien style instead of D&D green....will be working through your videos picking up ideas & effects as I'm just restarting my interest after a 40 year break

[@christopherharkness5418]

Dang these are cool, truly an army worthy of Mordor!

[@gortak]

omg cant believe you painted this :D looks amazing bud:D

[@Warhipster]

Thank you so much 😀

[@KurtMifsudBonnici]

Great video as always! Gonna to try out your celestial vindicators recipe this week. I'm not too good as a painter so wish me luck!

[@117mxsanchez]

Nice! I super cleaned my gold vindicators and am turning them into his Celestial Vindicators now! hardest part for sure is the white edge highlighting/panneling lines. He does them so clean! very hard to do them that clean.

[@GiuseppePasquali2780]

Thank you so much for this great tutorial (and for the one dedicated to Rohan). Watching them gave me the push I was looking for to start playing and collecting Middle-Earth. Question: Will you also do the tutorials of the two remaining Battlehosts in the future? Greetings from Italy.

[@7zensen]

Want to see an tutorial für the two other Battlehosts aswell. Your way to paint the models and youre tutorials are insane!

[@markwatson1113]

Thanks

[@Pandenhir]

There will be no dawn for men! - Great video, big thanks :) Any chance of more LotR minis? Battlehosts or the new Elrond?

[@tobiask3931]

Thanks for your content. Its been a big help to get into painting. But can you pls tell me how you did the basing for the Uruks? I really like the minamlisitic design and approach. Did u use Citadel Technical?

[@steves9305]

That's amazing. (As all of your works.) I want to ask however, how fast did you paint this host?

[@ModernHouzz]

would love see you paint Azog and Bolg with some Gunabad Orcs

[@burningphoneix]

This is excellent. Every other tutorial makes the Uruks look cartoonishly red instead of this slightly ruddy Ebony skin.

[@linkinpark988]

Will you also paint the other battlehosts?

[@Penismeister63]

Very cool Video bro

[@Darth_Roveh]

Hello I would like to know if there is an equivalence to mortariom grime in the above range of shades and contrasts. Thanks in advance and congratulations for the channel.

[@szoltys888]

Hello, how you did the basing ? It looks cool and easy

[@jackcopestake9948]

You planning to do the other host sets ?

[@bysigmar3819]

will you do gondor as well?

[@sergeantb708]

I'm curious to the skin tone variations, from what I can pull there is a blue-ish grey, black/red, a red/white/ and a black/blue. but outside of uruks, it seems only the other orcs give us varieties into green and pale?

[@linkinpark988]

Yesss MESBG

[@Channel4NewsTeam]

Do you use the side of the brush for highlights?

[@SaltySuprise]

Really nice video tutorial! I’m actually planning on following your video to paint my own urak hai but I have a question in regards to thinning out paint. I’ve been told by many other people to always thin out my paint but it looks like you didn’t do so. Is that the case or am I just not paying attention? I’m completely new to painting models and the hobby as a whole.

[@Warhipster]

Welcome to Warhammer Painting! To answer your question, when it comes to my videos, anything that is a Shade or a Contrast Paint unless I say or use a number like 2:1 Black Templar:Contrast Medium for example, you don't need to thin them down they can come from the pot absolutely no problem. Base and Layer Paints however should always be thinned down with a little bit of water on a palette!

[@SaltySuprise]

@@Warhipster thank you so much I’ll keep that in mind as I paint them

[@Lesandira]

Who do you serve? - SARUMAN!

[@longstreet0163]

Surely the Agrax ES will completely blank out the Targor RS ? The former being much darker than the latter I mean.

[@RockerBoy20045]

That looks amazing! Might pick up some models as I'm actually enjoying the Rings of Power show.

[@christopherpeery7436]

Are you using the new agrax earthshade?

[@Chewie1212]

What did you use for primer and bases??

[@foxdream1158]

Доброго дня,а подскажите пожалуйста.Как вы грунтуете миниатюры?

[@piotrwojcik2979]

Do you put agrax on targor? 😉

[@BobBob-ug3tn]

sadly you dont show the baseing. seems like no one on youtube ist doing that part so its very hard vor a beginner to learn this kind of stuff

[@Kerath]

I'll scour eBay just for that Palantir alone. I'll use it as an Objective Marker for AoS and Warcry.