How To Paint Captain Artemis - Warhammer 40k Death Watch Tutorial (The War Gamer)

[@porcu12345]

Woah! This one is really well painted, wouldn't look out of place in one of White Dwarf's display pictures.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Thanks!

[@Hordakkk]

again spectacular guide. the Black > Steg > t-hawk blue stuff simply rocks. the warning stripes on the weapon cable is also simply amazing. great job! looking forward to your next video

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Thank you, I wanted to give the armour an ever so slightly blue-ish tinge to it as sometimes black can be a little too boring.

[@fuzzy4461]

"Using citadel paints" 10 seconds later "primed with army painter"

[@Brandles5]

Your videos always seem to improve with quality each time! Keep it up!

[@PeteTheWargamer]

I'm glad you think so, thank you :D

[@decency2824]

The War Gamer I have a lot of different legions of space marine so I want to make them into deathwatch but I don't have any deathwatch shoulder pads and the models are already built. Could I paint a shoulder pad and arm silver? Please advise!

[@gedmcloughlin866]

Even after over a year this is still my favourite painting tutorial!!!

[@VaftrudnerKGA]

I just got myself a Captain Artemis model so this is awesome to have a guide and tips for painting him. 👍

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Glad to be of assistance!

[@czi123]

Looks great, I will use some of this when painting my deathwatch sergeant!

[@gradylawless]

Getting a deathwatch tactical squad in a few days, was going to follow the GW one, but yours looks much better! Very nice work.

[@FaustSketcher]

Doing Raven guard, didnt think of using a blue hue for the black power armor highlights, doesnt look bad at all. Since i plan to do some deathwatch troops in the future, might give it a go.

[@knoxhobbylife]

Awesome tutorial! I am painting some deathwatch right now and this is a huge help!

[@Galezki16]

Although I don't collect deathwatch this video was very informative and the quality was absolutely wonderful, keep up the good work. Subbed! Cheers.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Thanks for the sub!

[@farnball1]

Thanks for your tutorials, it's always a pleasure watching your vids.

[@Hordakkk]

as always an excellent video. i just started a deathwatch army with the new battleforce release and this blue-highlighted black is the best hands down. i love your painted skin aswell. superb. id love to see a guide on the DW salamander termie from DW overkill, i can see myseöf struggling quite abit with him.

[@pablopradas5295]

Hordak un

[@dannyeccles1894]

only just started watching your videos, and I must say they're really good. you make it look really simple and the quality of the painting is top notch. nice work, keep it up.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Welcome to my channel, I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the videos :D

[@dannyeccles1894]

Very much so. Looking forward to more spectacular work.

[@GetEmComics]

This look phenomenal!

[@peterliotta5795]

Gorgeous Paintjob

[@michaeljdauben]

Very nice tutorial! Some really useful ideas an using Lhamian Medium particularly.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Lahmian Medium, or any medium, can be a big help to painting once you've cracked how to do it.

[@karlhowarth928]

Damn! Looks better than duncans, will absolutely be using this tutorial for my deathwatch!

[@WAcrobat19]

Use imperial primer as a replacement for the spray. Then put abbadon black as the basecoat. Then follow all the needed instructions.

[@virogue]

What a beautiful result, 'Eavy Metal quality! Thanks for sharing this one, you keep getting better each time! Would love to see you do a tutorial on how you make a regular good-looking base, no fancy colors just like this one. Keep it up :D

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Thanks! I've started to experiment a little more with my techniques as well so I'm glad that you think they are paying off! I'll keep the simple base tutorial in mind for my series of quick tips I'm hoping to do soon.

[@Will-zo2qm]

can you please paint Magnus the red? because I'm a massive chaos fan and I really want to see how you paint him and its a great tutorial

[@xaq-industries]

Absolutely lovely work!

[@paulcoxessex]

Excellent video on par with the games workshop channel. I'm just getting back into painting, and I would find it useful if you mentioned which brush you were using per step, just a thought. Keep up the excellent work.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

I tend to only use one or brushes in my tutorials, a character sized kolinksy sable brush from elementgames.co.uk or the GW Medium Layer brush. Both are pretty similar. For some smaller details I may use an Army Painter detail brush.

[@chiripitio]

Excelente video tutorial . eres un artista. tus videos son una fuente de conocimiento y aprendizaje. muchas gracias por compartirlos

[@lpwbmx8823]

You deserve more subscribers!! You videos are amazing! 😄😄

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Thanks!

[@philhitchings]

Excellent tutorial, thanks.

[@MarkSubie]

This one looks awesome mate

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Thank you!

[@samconroy]

Wow, that is amazing!

[@Jose_Herraez]

Amazing tutorial!

[@IDICBeer]

Great tutorial dude

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Thank you, it was one of my favourites to do for a while.

[@Darkvoidninja]

Just sealed my fate in my choice to do deathwatch as my returning army thanks man!

[@PeteTheWargamer]

You're welcome :D

[@sainbrian2]

Just wow. I want to get to this level but it seems so hard. I can paint 2 units to tabletop standard in a few hours but i cant come close to this detail.

[@MiecioMiszcz1]

Great video, been looking for something just like it. Thank you for making this :) I've got a question, though. How do you attach a mini to a cork? Just glue or do you drill a hole in it or..?

[@EraQuisnamVigila]

Yeah I'd like to know that one, too.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

I drill a hole into the miniature and the cork and insert some wire into them to hold the two together. I'll be doing a more in depth tutorial on this shortly however!

[@MiecioMiszcz1]

Hey, thanks for the reply :D Tutorial would be really helpful, I always (well, quite often) see people paint with the help of that cork-wire thingy and for some reason can't quite figure out the logistics of that.

[@snakemont]

Pretty Awesome!

[@residenthoneybadger616]

I still have an unpainted Inquisitor Era Artemis, but somehow all I have is his helmeted head and not the bare one for the model. What would you suggest for the Helmet lenses?

[@Algebrodadio]

When I was assembling mine, I was like, "I should leave the cloak and the arms off and paint them separately." But did I? No. No I didn't.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Hindsight is always 20/20 :P At least now you know what to do in the future!

[@Truthteller024]

Are you using a magnifying headband when you paint? Do you have any suggestions for etching detail? I'm not very good at it yet and struggle to avoid making a mess out my deathwatch miniatures.

[@MrDarthTesla]

Can you give an advice on how to paint an already assembled model? Yeah, was so excited to assemble first miniature out of Start Collection box and didn't think of how it would be hard to paint it. Thanks in advance. Great tutorial btw.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

So it's not impossible but you need to think about the order you're painting things. Make sure you paint things that are in the harder to reach areas first. Then move on to the easier to reach areas. This prevents you from accidentally over spilling on to parts you have already painted.

[@MrDarthTesla]

Thanks for advice!

[@olehlutsenko]

Hi, I have picked from one of your previous tutorials idea of using a wet palette, which after some investigation of how to make one, really brought up painting with most colors to a new level, and I am very thankful for that advice. It was hard before to properly water down the paints, because this phrase is a bit abstract for the beginner. But I also noticed, at least till now that using metallic paints from the wet palette probably gives them to much water, and some paints, like Retributor armor already a little thinner than say Leadbelcher. Any more awesome advice you can give of how exactly water down some metallic paints to really smooth them? :)

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Use Lahmian Medium, I've found that watering down metallic paints a little bit works fine but they tend to 'dry up' faster than other paints in the pot. So adding in some Lahmian Medium pretty much revitalises the paint and makes it much easier to paint with.

[@GozOn_Sdz]

Pintas como Dios! Un diez!

[@dominicrussell1623]

Very useful. Thankyou

[@MatthewJDo]

Are there any alternative colours to thunderhawk blue in the scheme? My gw doesn't stock it, so it'll take a while to get a pot. Thanks.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

You could try Stegadon Scale Green mixed with Fenrisian Grey.

[@ronraducanu9633]

Absolutely stunning!! I have a bunch of Kill Team miniatures to paint and appreciate this vid very much! Quick question. What colors/washes did you use for the hair? Thanks again for a great vid.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

I used the exact same steps that I used on the cloak :D

[@JarrettBeck]

Looks Great! When you painted Rakarth Flesh onto the underside of the cape you accidentally labelled it Reikland Fleshshade.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Unfortunately I only noticed that after I had already edited, exported, compressed and uploaded the video. It just makes sure that you're paying attention

[@Brother2314]

I'd increase contrast on the blade.

[@Debriefgames]

\Hey TWG, great tutorial. May I suggest using manual focus in future? As it sometimes focuses on your hand and the model loses focus!

[@PeteTheWargamer]

I've used Manual Focus in the past but unfortunately due to the fact I'm focusing on an up close miniature I have such a small 'window' in which to hold the model to be in focus. If I moved the miniature even just a few millimetres forwards or backwards it lost focus and ended up being worse than the auto-focus! The best solution would be to stop getting hands in front of the lens as much :P

[@BigMekDanskull]

Very nice man.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

:D

[@chrisyork1901]

Amazing video, Focus needs some work. But great video👏👏👏👍🏻👍🏻🙌🏻

[@thepiratepenguin4465]

Looks great, but would have been even more impressive if you used Army painter paints

[@mx3mx3freak]

fantastic

[@MiNDmaZing]

Nice, but you meant rakarth flesh? Grafic show reikland fleshade on the cloak

[@PeteTheWargamer]

That's just there to make sure you're paying attention :P

[@kuato8418]

How did he paint his hair?

[@Comissar80]

Amazing tutorial! One question: the number 3 in the right kneepad is a transfer or has you painted?

[@PeteTheWargamer]

It's actually sculpted onto the miniature itself

[@Eredish9119]

Hi TWG, I''m just getting into your videos, been watching them for the last 2 hours. Do you have any videos on how you assemble your models after you finish painting ? If not, how do you do it ? Thanks !

[@PeteTheWargamer]

I'll be kicking off my quick tips video series shortly which will feature just this. But ahead of that, remove the paint from the joins with a hobby knife and then use a bit of superglue to bond the joints.

[@Eredish9119]

Great, looking forward to it, thanks for the reply !

[@dariostabletopbastelecke4846]

EPIC!

[@henrythe9th377]

Hi, what is the black undercoat that you start at the beginning please?

[@skyeeoorrt4539]

you mean chaos black spray?

[@PeteTheWargamer]

It's actually the Army Painters Matt Black Primer: shop.thearmypainter.com/products.php?ProductGroupId=15#Matt Black Undercoat

[@jordanjames5042]

amazing

[@LordofWinterfell1]

Hi, what brush Do you use for the smallest details? btw: great Videos and insane skill!

[@PeteTheWargamer]

On this video I used the GW small detail brush, hope that helps

[@ArcaneCowboy]

Inside of the cloak. Was that Kislev Flesh? Reikland is only a wash.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Rakarth Flesh :)

[@ArcaneCowboy]

Aaah, okay. You say it correctly, but screen shows Reikland. Good video. I'll be using this as a guide when I get my models.

[@oliverandreasson3978]

What camera do you have and how many lamps so you use? Im making my own videos and need tips

[@PeteTheWargamer]

I use a cannon XA10 with a daylight painting lamp

[@oliverandreasson3978]

+The War Gamer Thanks alot!

[@Stormraven416]

can you do how to paint blood angels?

[@Stormraven416]

some people paint models different and I would like to see how he paints blood angels :)

[@PeteTheWargamer]

30k Blood Angels will be next :)

[@Stormraven416]

thx :)

[@snakemont]

Thank you soooooooooooooooooo much!

[@CageyJ0nnY]

you sound like your from the merseyside area? great video btw!

[@CesarIsaacPerez]

What did you glue it with? Citadel plastic glue or just super glue?

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Super glue once it's painted but Revell Contacta Professional plastic glue prior to that.

[@CesarIsaacPerez]

Ok, just making sure super glue doesn't melt it or anything. I'm putting together my first kit and watching these videos helps a lot!

[@MrSphinchee]

how do you glue the model after you paint it?

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Either I will remove the paint from the joins and use plastic glue or (if its a tricky spot) I will remove as much as I can and then use superglue/pinning to hold the joins.

[@MightyWolve]

Awesome! Any Age of Sigmar Empire related coming up? ;)

[@PeteTheWargamer]

It's not on the list at the moment but maybe at some point in the future!

[@pierfabiochesini6435]

great!

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Thanks :)

[@dsanchez23fight]

idk if it's been said before, but your camera focuses on your fingers as opposed to your models =\

[@PeteTheWargamer]

It's mainly due the fact that I kept getting my fingers in the way on this tutorial for the finer detail parts :P

[@holm76]

Nice video. He looks great but... you missed the metal parts in his forehead. That would make him look even more amazing :) Maybe you didn't notice or you chose to not paint them is up to you of course.

[@holm76]

I stand corrected. It was lighting in the video. You did paint the metal in his forehead.

[@roheinz5007]

Awesome! (c:

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Thanks!

[@katiehunter7313]

Deathwatch Rhino?

[@PeteTheWargamer]

I haven't looked into doing any vehicles just yet but I will keep that in mind, thanks for the suggestion!

[@wartmcbeighn]

good tutorial...except you fail to mention what colors to use for his hair

[@tombudach7351]

I think you mean Rakarth Flesh...

[@dkaardal]

Yeah, I just noticed that - at 6:35 he says (and uses) Rakarth flesh, but the colour listed is Riekland Fleshshade. Good catch!

[@Ally.Cat.252]

I hate painting faces i cant paint eyes

[@PeteTheWargamer]

You don't always have to paint the eyes. I didn't on this miniature and it's only noticeable up close. On a table top you'd hardly see the eyes anyway!