How to Paint THOUSAND SONS | WARHAMMER: THE HORUS HERESY | Space Marines |

[@TheNoidBag]

I'm biased, the Thousand Sons are my favourite legion by far. I'm suckers for unrepentant asshole villains, but Villains-by-Circumstance is also such an interesting concept. Aside from the attack on Prospero, the Thousand Sons largely sat out most of the Heresy due to both Magnus's shattering, and Ahriman conniving, and just sort of not really having a firm stance in all of it. Really, they wanted to be Loyalists, they just didn't want to give up what made them unique, and Magnus refused the wholesale extermination of his sons for the promise of something better in a future legion reforged by the Emperor. He wanted to help his sons. He wanted to save his Father. But every time he tried his hardest, things went sour. Due to pride or arrogance or ignorance, his own and others. Having failed to properly stop the Flesh Change, failed to save The Emperor, and been slaughtered by the Wolves due to Horus, one can't blame them for basically going rogue and sitting it out.

[@WardenOfTerra]

Cool story, bro. Please, tell me more...

[@Retrofun69]

Like most situations in life. . . its complex

[@FlourEater]

great results!! I also love to keep my TS units more like clean and not that much chipped and scratched. Thank you for the vid!

[@cultofpaint]

Thanks for watching!

[@ka5141]

Just had to thank you for this. I got a commission to do some of these and wasn't prepared for them to not be blue and gold and egypt inspired! I did the gold and silver then the candy red glaze and my god, they look nice. Thanks for a great video!

[@TitusVarus]

This is the 2nd Thousand Sons painting video I've seen this week. I think the universe is trying to tell me that I need to finally build and paint that heresy-era Thousand Sons army I've been collecting bits for. You've done a lovely job here. I think I'll be nicking some of your steps for my own space wizards!

[@chrisgoogill]

Love this. Looking forward to seeing the sons of horus one

[@TheDude_Jonathan]

Lovely job Henry, way too tempting to start these guys. Such a great story and look to the army. Really interesting going for the gold underneath, always pick up something new on this channel. Also can't agree more Warmaster did indeed do an amazing job

[@mirage809]

Candy red Thousand Sons are such a cool look. It's such a shame that you don't see it often as the 40k era Thousand Sons are mostly blue on the box art. I've seen a turnaround on the Forgeworld website for one of the upgrade kits that went with white weapons casings. Really like that design personally, it just cranks the uniqueness of the scheme to 11.

[@NateVHVT]

You could still create a blue candy paint scheme, but it would be a massive time sink as you'd have to spray a silver, then the blue, then go back for and rebase and paint the trim. I know a lad who does his sons like this and they do look top notch, but he doesn't get many of them finished.

[@mirage809]

@@NateVHVT That's actually a genius idea! Sounds like a very slow process on the 40k Rubrics indeed, but it would be worth it.

[@NateVHVT]

@@mirage809 I've had a quick word with him and he uses vallejo model air steel, picks some spots out with vallejo model air silver and then uses Allclad II Candy Electric Blue. But he does warn that the blue is an enamel paint and whilst it will airbrush, you've got to clean the airbrush immediately or the paint will ruin the internals.

[@thomasc6684]

Very nice. Might use this for some metallic Blood Angels I am planning. Thanks!

[@MrLeviathan40k]

Really tempted by Thousand Sons... Would love to see Raven Guard as one of the next legions/videos!

[@cultofpaint]

There’s only a couple left!

[@SparkSovereign]

@@cultofpaint can't wait to see what you do with Word Bearers, I've been really struggling to settle on a scheme and there are zillions of speed painting videos on them but basically nothing for Heresy in the more weathered styles.

[@Genera1en]

I’m definitely gonna use this for my army. Thanks Henry!

[@mariolasan]

As the CSM codex is soon coming up, I would love to see a take form you all how you would go about painting Black Legion - Black is hard to do good imo, and I love your tutorials. But you might also recommend some of your older videos that could potentially serve as a base for the bad boys of the galaxy. And keep up the awesome content!

[@sgtbenton8518]

Been waiting for this one. Nice 👍

[@kieranpengelly4904]

I fell in love with the style of the Thousand Sons vehicle colour plates and was wondering if you had any advice on approaching that style of scheme (with mixed sections of black and gold on large portions of the tank) as well as how to approach candy schemes on vehicles?

[@cultofpaint]

The same recipe, but the challenge is getting your preshade right on the big flat surfaces

[@mrpootank8757]

Word bearers next please! 😃

[@cheesemarine]

I started my thousand sons last week and I was so worried when I saw this I was going to be way off. But my approach was almost identical (albeit I went with tamiya red and gold rim). I've truly learned well from the cult of paint style of painting! 😂

[@cultofpaint]

Tam red is a lovely choice

[@rubberduckaj]

Excellent work on this! I’ve been waiting for this one for a long time! interesting to see the use of gold base. I tried it a few years ago and wasn’t overly happy then I went with the silver preshade using both Tamiya red- and still wasn’t overly happy! Perhaps I’ll have a bash at some test schemes. I think my issues always been lack of contrast and applying too many layers of red. I’ll stick to 3ish and see how it goes.

[@wijse]

HENRY'S COME TO SEE US! JESUS CHRIST BE PRAISED!

[@muzey4382]

Would love to see you do a Raven Guard video, maybe with a purple hue?

[@dennisduszynski2755]

You always paint beautifully Henry, and I always look forward to you and Andy's painting videos. It's nice to see candy paint schemes applies to Space Marines. If you tackled this with a brush only would you use the same methods/paints, or is there anything that you would do differently? Oh by the way, I am an English and Spanish speaker, and I know most English speakers mispronounce Vallejo, but you might be the type of person that likes to learn and grow, so here is some advice. The Spanish letter "ll" (Yea it's two letters to English speakers, but it's a single letter to the Spanish) sounds like the English letter "Y" when pronounced. You pronounce the rest of the word correctly, so you're halfway there. : ) Spanish also pronounces the letter "V," a little harder than we do and it essentially sounds like an English letter, "B". Vallejo therefore is pronounced as "Buh yay ho," but if you just changed the "L" sound to a "Y" sound, you'll essentially be there. It's just like words such as tortilla, and quesadilla. A single letter "L" in Spanish still sounds just like the English "L," though. Recently the Spanish go9vernment removed "LL" from their alphabet as a single letter, but it is still pronounced the same when you combine two "L." I hope that you fellas have a great day and keep making these inspiring videos. They have helped me with my painting.

[@cultofpaint]

Hi Dennis, thanks for the comment. I'll try to remember. With regards to brush painting the scheme, I would be tempted to try the contrast paint reds instead.

[@darrengibbons4728]

top this is the army i am looking at so good to see thanks ... may i ask where the head and chest are from?/

[@cultofpaint]

Thanks! Forgeworld upgrade packs.

[@seancroker9079]

Yet again amazing... you should do Salamanders next 🤣

[@lucadose4526]

Great work as usual Henry!!😍 I really appreciate the gold recipe😉 these models are awesome!! I just want to start an army😂😂

[@cultofpaint]

Go for it!

[@Lelic94]

That’s amazing! I will give this scheme a try. Unfortunately, in my area Scale75 paints are difficult to find, do you know what could be an alternative to decayed metal and elven gold in Vallejo or Citadel ranges?

[@dekai7992]

Beautiful results! Next Legion: Raven Guard, maybe?

[@cultofpaint]

Sounds good to me

[@dekai7992]

@@cultofpaint 🖤

[@versiononedotzero]

this is wonderful, simple scheme. I love it! Did you magnetise the weapon?

[@cultofpaint]

Thanks! And absolutely not, magnetising stuff is saved only for really big things like titans!

[@versiononedotzero]

@@cultofpaint Ah cool, I saw you nudge the bolter and I thought it must be magnetised as it didn't move at all when you were moving the model around and spraying it. Good design I guess, makes painting the chest much easier

[@davidhardstaff8110]

Thousand sons and iron warriors. Not bad guys..

[@jbminis]

Great video! Although you've done the Sons of Horus Contemptor, are you planning on doing an infantry video as well - or would you recommend sticking to that one instead?

[@cultofpaint]

There will be a video covering how Andy has done his infantry.

[@jbminis]

@@cultofpaint Awesome news! Although I am mildly worried now that it looks like Games Workshop are retiring the Sons of Horus Green air brush paint...

[@samuelvoke2347]

Has anyone tried this scheme, how did it come out? Do you think it’s quite a ‘light’ shade of candy red?

[@redbaron671]

Tried this with a different gold, came out a bit more orange than I want. May have to order that gold and give it a try. I think I used a gold highlight with to much white in it.

[@cultofpaint]

Yeah, Angron red definitely goes orange rather than pink.

[@redbaron671]

@@cultofpaint Got the same golds, its a bit better but still feels orange under bright light. Did you have the same issue? I did about 2.5 layers of Angron, im afraid more would continue the orange buildup.

[@cultofpaint]

@@redbaron671 it’s certainly an orange red. Try a few more layers.

[@CocoaBadger]

Now i have to pick between Death Guard, Alpha Legion and Thousand Sons. Like it wasnt hard enough already!

[@cultofpaint]

Or all 3. That’s reasonable right?

[@lallsta_paints]

Great video as always Henry. Once I get my hands on an airbrush I plan on painting my marines from the Imperium subscription as metallic Ultramarines using the Calth Blue clear. Would you recommend the same weathering or different colours for the blue?

[@cultofpaint]

Great idea. I did a candy ultramarines army a few years ago. Yes I’d stick to same weathering.

[@StarPupil1]

That's an awesome paint job, but does anyone know how TS changed their scheme between Horus Heresy and 40k if they're literally dust bonded to that very armor? How does that work? Do your standard Ruberic Marines even have emotions or whatever any more? Did it immediately change when they were bonded into the service of Tzeentch? It's very confusing, IMO.

[@cultofpaint]

If you enjoy reading then the Ahriman novels cover it a bit.

[@jamescheeseright6412]

After 15 comes 16!

[@nathanm9623]

Amazing as always Henry! Do you have a tutorial for Sons of Horus Space Marines? Still trying to figure out how to best do mine.

[@cultofpaint]

Check out the playlist it’s got Andy’s tutorial of how he is doing his

[@collinl5023]

Do you think peridot alchemy from S75 would get the same or close enough effect as a highlight as the MCS paint you used?

[@cultofpaint]

Yep

[@nameisbad]

Where'd you get the 1kson helmets?

[@cheesemarine]

The one in the vid is from the thousand sons forge world mk 4 upgrade heads

[@joenewkirk6136]

Gorgous

[@NateVHVT]

New record S75 decayed metal within 45 seconds! Also Magnus did everything wrong, it's all his fault.

[@TitusVarus]

Years ago I'd have fought you on this, but I've matured. I'm re-reading the Horus Heresy books, and Magnus' decision to use daemon infused warp sorcery to send a message to his Dad causes me near physical pain. Magnus: It'll be fine! As soon as I explain that I had to use dark magic to smash through his wards I'm sure he'll believe me when I tell him that Horus is in league with the Warp! Christ.

[@NateVHVT]

@@TitusVarus Even before Magnus ruined the webway he should have learned to stay away from the warp. Magnus' legion suffered from 'the fleshchange' they were either exploding or mutating into monsters. Magnus and the thousand sons knew this was directly because they were using the warp too much or using it for too long. Magnus thought 'I know what will fix the warp mutations; more warp use! What could go wrong.' an action which cost him his eye and nearly killed him. Like even children learn to not touch a hot iron after it's burned them, never mind cost them an eye.