Gunpla Enthusiast Paints Warhammer 40K Minis for the FIRST TIME!

[@joshuamichael1232]

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[@registan1104]

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[@bloodangelsassaultracoon3067]

Once more, James Workshop claims another soul...

[@cassiecooper1553]

Watched this video as a longtime Warhammer hobbyist and got curious about gunpla and went down the rabbit hole. Bought my first kit today.

[@plamomancer]

Amazing!! Which kit?

[@cassiecooper1553]

@@plamomancer The HG Destiny Gundam

[@plamomancer]

@@cassiecooper1553 sweet!! Happy building!!

[@DoomStarRequiem]

Same here.. long time Warhammer/ miniature Wargaming fan, bought a gunpla kit...or two.. HG zaku2 FZ, Gerbera Tetra and a Gunner Zaku.

[@AsheramK]

I will always support an artist who clearly puts his soul into his work. Very well done.

[@Pibbmasta]

I'd love to see you try out some of the Flayed Ones, all the flesh and gore colors on top of all the metallic framing would be challenging but offer so much potential for customization!

[@plamomancer]

I will have to do that! Lots of interesting options for painting the Flayed Ones!

[@JoshJohnson-em8fu]

Welcome to the hooby! Those necrons look great!

[@plamomancer]

Thanks a bunch!

[@bluedotdinosaur]

You made an excellent choice. Necrons are a great starter for this kind of miniature painting. Easy, forgiving weathered metal with a few key details which provide unusual and interesting challenges, like glowing weapons.

[@stevo_hobbies]

As a Warhammer guy who has recently got into Gunpla, great job!!

[@plamomancer]

Thank you!

[@ultimapanzer]

This is called "hobby transference"

[@zeroxexe111]

Hell yeah! From gunpla to grimdark!

[@ocha-time]

Looks good! I never got to the Necrons in my Indomitus box before I decided I wouldn't be able to finish it and dumped it, those look nice!

[@Roymantic]

Glad you liked it! I came from 40k and now do some Gunpla for fun

[@evanfish4505]

Welcome to the Grimdark brother

[@jaykafkaesque5061]

First time seeing you, and I'm a long time 40k player. Instant sub. Seriously, your process is better than MANY 40k players, your step by step instruction makes this super easy for a beginner to see and feel confident in joining the hobby themselves, and your editing was clean and concise. I am thoroughly impressed and will be watching future videos! Seriously, great job man

[@plamomancer]

Thank you so much!

[@sadlyanuxtakustan8950]

Excellent job. Very good execution, it was very interesting to see 40k models painted by a gunpla enthusiast and from that perspective.

[@plamomancer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@mitchellgraber9448]

Those minis look amazing! I'm actually making the exact opposite journey right now going from 40k to gunpla and I've learned a lot about building/preparing models by doing so.

[@plamomancer]

That's very interesting. It's crazy how much carries over between the two hobbies.

[@IRCannonFodder]

Welcome to the Grim Dark. Always paint what you want to paint.

[@davivanatorable]

First video I watch of you. Production quality up the wazoo. Subscribed at the speed of light.

[@BlackHoleEye]

You know, if you want to try and mix styles a bit, you could paint a Warhammer model like a gunpla model. Take a look at some of the Eldar mechs (like the Wraithknight) or the T'au mechs (like the Stormsurge). I think those could comfortably be painted like gunpla. Especially some of their larger resin models, like Titans or the Ta'unar, but those are quite the financial investment.

[@AnthonyDyer-f2c]

You've done a great job of making a solid warhammer tutorial. I've looked at some of your gunpla videos and I'd love to see you do a version of that for a warhammer miniature.

[@vicarsol9954]

YES! As someone who comes from the military scale modelling side initially, I think a lot more Gunpla builders should try out or at least learn the techniques from not just mini painters but the guys who do scale models and even sculptors. There are so much you can learn from those adjacent to the hobby, that I wish more people try it out and it adds a ton of flare to your typical gunpla projects. Like as you say in the video, brush techniques are so underrated in the gunpla community and how brushes are somewhat treated as just a step before you get an AB or just used to paint in small details too hassle to be masked. Which is a wrong mentality as both are different tools with different purposes. Being able to utilize the handbrushes for textured brush strokes is something people should know a lot more.

[@goodguykonrad3701]

I don't think I need to say the minis are good as that's a given. However, what I was really surprised by was your sub count. The video editing, sound quality, VO, and just about everything to do with video making was really good. I thought for sure you would have a channel with at least 20k subs. Just saying this to mean that you're good at it

[@plamomancer]

I appreciate that! I'm learning as I go and its been real fun trying to figure this all out.

[@redmarson261]

Nice work! Thank you for drilling your barrels too.

[@plamomancer]

Always!

[@gaijingabber1056]

im so happy i found something to do thats not looking at a screen. I got home from work and built gunpla for 4 nights in a row and never turned on my tv or looked at my phone and i could feel my mental state change drasticly, cant wait to try warhammer, high cost for entry though

[@plamomancer]

That's amazing. It's why I got into these hobbies. The simple sense of fulfillment from working on models and overcoming hurdles to get to the end results never gets old.

[@Winter_huntsman]

They turned out great! If your ever wanting to do more warhammer stuff tau battle suits like the coldstar commander may be right up your alley

[@izzydunnyet]

I recently finished my 2nd army and am thinking about expanding into other none 40k models. Keep up the great work!

[@plamomancer]

Thank you!

[@stopmotiongamer1728]

Welcome to the hobby hope to see more from you.

[@Gelles22]

Awesome job! I just recently finished the Tyranid starter set (with the four minis and paint pots) and so far it's taught me that I don't have the patience for brush painting yet lol, but I plan to try again with some Imperial Guard soon.

[@goodguykonrad3701]

IG will definitely test your patience lol. But just have fun with it!

[@plamomancer]

Imperial Guard are pretty rad. And that's fair, we all get what we take. Definitely try it again!

[@Bizm4rk]

Glad you're enjoying the hobby! Depending on what you enjoy about painting, you can do a ton of stuff and experiment. You've created way above "Tabletop standard". One of the things you learn though once you have painted 50+ mini's, is that certain steps don't change the outcome, and your recipe you used (which is a great idea) gets trimmer down and you get more time to do other things. You're clearly into the acrylic painting style, but experiment with slapchop and contrast paints and you get to see a different side of painting. Even Artis Opus who is an amazing dry brusher will teach you so much. Have fun!

[@plamomancer]

Met some of the guys from Artis Opus at Adepticon these past few days. Super inspiring stuff.

[@raiderboy105]

I have no interest in gunpla, but you earned my subscription simply because high-quality content should be rewarded. Good job!

[@taquitothegecko8709]

Try orks sometime, I play em and there’s nothing more fun than painting big scrap mechs and little green dudes

[@kadennightwing9563]

I just got into the hobby as well, I'm doing Ultramarines. I have 2 of my 5 terminators done and working on a ballistus dreadnought.😅

[@plamomancer]

Quite the backlog! I don't even wanna look at mine >.>

[@sfcsamc12]

one of us one of us welcome

[@uruk_bye1232]

Necrons were my first miniature love as a kid. Do yourself a favor and look through the lore in their 3rd ed codex. It was wonderfully creepy. Great painting, bro. Glad to have you.

[@saidlira5424]

your work is amazing!! welcome to warhammer :D

[@plamomancer]

thank you!!!

[@Ragamuffin-Guesses-cgc-grades]

For your first Warhammer minis you did awesome, much better than my first attempt.

[@botindeldiablo]

Very cool Crons bro, I would love to see you paint the Kastelan Robots & Datasmith box combo; I seen the crazy stuff some japanese players do with Mechanicus models and I think it would fit you well in your artstyle I seen from your previous videos. Cool channel, you got my sub.

[@foreverfornever1124]

Same journey here, starting with Necrons, coincidently. Now 3 years into the hobby and Im really enjoying it. From experience it becomes a rabbit hole to the point of neglecting gunpla for almost a year now. Im not ashamed of that as theres always going to be a backlog, deemed a pile of shame in the mini hobby haha. On the bright side it forced me to be a lot pickier with my gunpla purchases, rarely buying HG or lower grade kits anymore. I have largely stuck with RG as they've been knocking it out of the park consistently and not buying MG kits gives me far more shelf space and saves me money to put towards Warhammer. It got to the point I was selling MG kits that had RG kits, despite the earlier ones having the pre-built inner frame

[@bigyeticane]

Ok well you earned my respect when you drilled out your models' gun barrels, lol.

[@death2all79zx]

Great work, and rockin' outro too!

[@plamomancer]

Thanks, will def be painting more minis in the future

[@Jan_Iedema]

5:55 if you take these guys into an army you’re probably looking at having to paint 20 or maybe even 40 of the guys. If they all look as great as your test model you’d have someone with a great looking army.

[@MiniatureMasterClass]

While I love Gunpla (been doing it and 40k concurrently for years), the more 40k content you do, the larger and faster your channel will grow.

[@Dje1025]

welcome to the greatest hobby in the world

[@King_of_Sofa]

Respect. You did a very good job

[@plamomancer]

Thank you, it was a lot of fun!

[@matraser3201]

I painted a bit of 40k but have been curious about gunpla too

[@1polvomagico]

This is a very good guide for newbies

[@scottlidstone1902]

By the way, well above what most people would class as tabletop ready. Nice work.

[@plamomancer]

Thank you!

[@goforitpainting]

Looks cool.

[@AsukaLShikinami]

Hope to see what you do to a character model

[@oonooneoo]

You're a brave man to post your first miniature. 👍

[@HurkaTheGuard]

Welcome to the hoby, and don't undersell yourself. That paintjob is great and way higher than the tabletop standard. Also as a fun coincidence, your channel name is just a few letters away from an actual Necron model, the Plasmancer

[@plamomancer]

The Plasmancer looks pretty cool. Ill have to try my hand at painting that one day.

[@Thebeekeeper11]

Lord Duncan Rhodes what say you?

[@Dethelem]

Enjoyed the video! It would be interesting to see similar video of you trying the game vs another player. Combat patrol rules are good step for it.

[@plamomancer]

Honestly some of the combat patrols seem like a good value to pick up. Maybe ill try it with a friend willing to walk me through it one day.

[@Dethelem]

@@plamomancer There is a lot interesting options for content when it comes to starting warhammer hobby. What ever you end up doing and enjoying is gonna be good fun to watch for sure!

[@darkgeargaming1564]

@3:55 what is that little scraping tool?

[@ultimapanzer]

I'd like to add that the C'Tan were basically gods to the Necrons, and the Necrons eventually rose up and killed/defeated their own gods and seized back control for themselves. Not a lot of factions can say they killed their own gods!

[@jmit126]

I don't see that anyone else has said it, but I didn't look that hard, and I'm just going to say it anyway: Coming from Gunpla to 40K, I was _sure_ you were going to pick T'au. Nevertheless, enjoy your zombie Egypt robots! Your ten Warriors look great!

[@plamomancer]

Thank you!

[@sjsart7181]

You can (at least as of a couple of years ago the last time I did it) contact Games Workshop customer service and request a PDF of the assembly instructions for free for just about any kit no matter how old. Good work, BTW.

[@bludragon77]

Necrons are great as a starter for new people but man you get to chaos space marines and that chaos trim is a b word

[@Ball-destroyers]

Brooooo I just wanted to watch how could I airbrush my gunpla and the mini pilot it comes with and some how I’m getting warhammer 40k lore on mg fyp and I’m frigging hooked someone help teach me more of the lore

[@ShadySKWASHA]

What mouse is that you got with the EVA colors?

[@plamomancer]

PWNAGE Ultra Custom. The colored shells are sold separately on their website.

[@Anarcho_slimer]

Great video. But now you need to go bigger and better. I wanna see a gunpla guy take on an imperial or chaos knight.

[@Ball-destroyers]

What is a wash??

[@plamomancer]

@@Ball-destroyers a wash is a thin and transparent layer of paint you can paint over a piece to add a filter effect, or shading to recessed areas. They can be water and oil based and a variety of colors. When applied to panel lines or recessed areas precisely, you'll sometimes hear it called a "pin wash", "panel line wash", "recess shading", or "panel line accent". A lot of companies make them, and you can also make your own.

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

0:48 Honestly It's really the same as any model kit painting/kitbashing like Gunpla, TTwargames/RPGs/boargames, "Normal" models, Japanesse speial kits heck even Custom Lego.... All and I do mean all the skills carry over from one or the other they main difference is medium... Like what to kitbash Lego or some mecha? Just swap parts! While the rest are more destructive... But still when I whent from digital Photography and Pixel art to this physcal art place it the only skills that carried over were all the art skills... Like you have no idea how much I miss undo and doing everything one handed and man brushes suck... But even then I know composition, color theory and the rest which many new artests may only know from grade school... If that... So yeah the hobby of model painting is the same regardless of what kit you use.

[@Theinternetnerd]

Great choice, if you want a small but equally challenging step up, try some immortals.

[@jakreacher991]

Welcome to 40k.

[@skunk12]

Tip: Turn your sprue-cutter so that the flat part is against the model piece. This will result in a more accurate clip and significantly reduce the amount of "clean up" with your hobby knife.

[@plamomancer]

Cool thanks

[@skunk12]

@@plamomancer PS. Thank you for the upload. Love your content.

[@plamomancer]

@@skunk12 Thank you!

[@ChubbsMcgoo]

Kind of surprised you didnt go with any Tau battlesuits as they are the closest to gundam in 40k.

[@Dog_with_thumbs]

excellent, now do 149 more!

[@taxman3749]

I don't know if I believe you.... You have a suspiciously high amount of citadel paints for a guy who has never painted Warhammer before... And a Gunpla expert... But you DIDN'T start with T'au...? I think I'll keep an eye on you, boy.... ....because it was a good video. Well done.

[@plamomancer]

Lol. I used them for the smaller details on gunpla believe it or not. I was honestly considering T'au, but Necrons appealed to my love of skeletons.

[@ratsmacker8113]

wooden blocks?! double sided tape?! did you watch EOB's recommendations perhaps?! 😆

[@plamomancer]

Yes

[@death2all79zx]

Rustoleum Matte black.

[@matthewgagnon9426]

Necrons aren't basic, tbh. If they weren't currently one of the strongest armies not that many people would be playing them. Now Space Marines? That's the army for basic people.

[@plamomancer]

I was referring to how I selected them as my first army as basic; as I just went with how I liked their skeletal aesthetics over anything else. And I hear ya, Space Marines seem like the skateboards of minis. I'm sure I'll paint my fair share myself eventually. Necrons themselves are pretty cool.

[@matraser3201]

​@@plamomancergoing for easthetic is recomended since one need to spend a lot of time painting and one doesnt get stuck painting something you dont like

[@romangl9070]

Descent of the angels is like at least in the top 5 worst horus heresy books lol

[@gaomon2887]

fake news the rim always gotta be black jay said so him self

[@MrFraknak]

I'm getting so tired of KZbinrs babying everyone about airbrushes. It's not cheating. It's not "non accessible," People just love to whine because they don't want to spend the money and time to actually learn the skill. Mini painters are way, way too stuck in their own ways I've seen, and they miss out on using so many hobby skills for no reason at all other than pride.

[@plamomancer]

If you're implying I'm babying anyone on using or not using an airbrush, that's simply a bad take. For the purpose of this video, I just wanted to employ more brush painting techniques as that's what I wanted to try on my first minis; as that's a skill I'm interested in improving. I'm actually quite familiar with using an airbrush. I never said it's "cheating" or "non accessible". While I can agree that folks can be stuck in their ways, that's their choice, and I personally don't think one method is superior than the other. I'm a firm believer that you should use whatever tools you have at your disposal. The airbrush is a tool to get to the end results just like anything else. If people don't want to use an airbrush, that's their decision; whether they see that as a loss or a gain isn't something I want to gatekeep or control; that's up to the individual spending their time and money.

[@harisnk7196]

Stop it before to late

[@plamomancer]

IT'S TOO LATE

[@Omnivolv]

Stop lying 🤥 first go

[@taxman3749]

I don't know if I believe you.... You have a suspiciously high amount of citadel paints for a guy who has never painted Warhammer before... And a Gunpla expert... But you DIDN'T start with T'au...? I think I'll keep an eye on you, boy.... ....because it was a good video. Well done.