How to Speed Paint Eldar Ulthwe Storm Guardian for Warhammer 40k (Craftworlds Series Part 1!)

[@MediocreHobbies]

What Craftworld schemes would you like to see?

[@Shyish]

Iyanden!

[@macinboss2159]

I second Iyanden please!!

[@cactus351rs4]

Iyanden please

[@elkglenn1013]

Harlequins, the diamonds are hell.

[@KaratePath]

Seim-Hann

[@HonorEggs]

You are amazing! Love to find these videos when I have a new model I want to get on tabletop

[@MediocreHobbies]

Glad to help you out 😊

[@jamesgordley5000]

Hmm... That extremely simple base+contrast+drybrush+wash certainly created a *very* smooth and slick result. You did a lot with very little right here.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Thanks pal. Glad you liked it.

[@cazza1630]

Another great job m8, really looking forward for your take on Nids when they come

[@MediocreHobbies]

Cheers dude. Looking forward to that myself.

[@jamesrodriguez3667]

Really needed this!!! Thanks Andy!

[@MediocreHobbies]

So happy to hear that man. Hope it helped.

[@spectrareal]

Looks great as always Andy. Maybe Beil-Tan next? They’re my favorite, and probably the hardest to paint

[@MediocreHobbies]

They are already planned. I think it’s Sundays video.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Here you go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYHGmmqpoKt_hZI

[@EmpsYT]

Really nice and quick, thanks!

[@MediocreHobbies]

Appreciate the comment man, thanks so much

[@veon1169]

I know this is waaaay after the posting of the video, but I'd be curious how you would do the camo cloaks for the new Rangers/Shroud Runners to fit the theme of your bases!

[@MediocreHobbies]

Not a bad idea. Thanks pal.

[@RSB703]

I really like this! If you wanted to take it one or 2 steps further, what would you do?

[@MediocreHobbies]

Cheers pal. You could always go in with say Corvis black and relayer the armour to make it a little smoother. And then maybe a small transfer on the helmet. Guardians are simple models. I would save all the hard work for aspect warriors and characters.

[@jmc7034]

That has to be the easiest black armour that I’ve seen and it looks good too

[@MediocreHobbies]

Cheers pal

[@dominicbenson3246]

Really nice video. Quite fancy having a go. How would you translate this to a wave serpent? Contrast on big flat panels seems quite tricky

[@MediocreHobbies]

You are not wrong. It would involve a different process. You would have to go back in and layer the panels again. Check out my eldar bike video from last week. That has what I mean in it.

[@mcpanzer4637]

Looks great!

[@MediocreHobbies]

Thanks pal.

[@edarthur85]

Love it! I converted guardians and used contrast on their new legs, which looks great, but the top halves are botched with rubbish highlights. Reckon I could hand paint white and contrast those or would need to paint strip?

[@MediocreHobbies]

You mite be able to get away with it. Probably faster to just give them another spray and then contrast again if the paint is thin enough.

[@SarahLaineSmith]

Does it need to be an oil wash or could a very thin acrylic wash work? I don’t have oil paints yet.

[@MediocreHobbies]

I don’t use oil paints at all the wash is just callled Nuln oil. It’s from gw.

[@kristofpfannschmidt8748]

Was wondering if you could do a video on Mymaera, struggling quit a lot on them :)

[@MediocreHobbies]

So many people have asked me for that one so I’m gonna have to do as not to disappoint.

[@kristofpfannschmidt8748]

@@MediocreHobbies Awesome dude :] you are the best, honestly you faned the fire to paint in me

[@RSB703]

The start says you did black primer with grey zenithal, but it looks pretty solid grey. Is that just the camera or did you go with a lot of coverage with the grey over black?

[@MediocreHobbies]

Yes the grey was quite heavy. I know your thinking why did o bother with the black. But the contacts won’t stick to the plastics at all. So if you leave any grey plastic underneath it will be hard to work with.

[@RSB703]

@@MediocreHobbies Oh I thought Grey Seer was a primer itself?. But i guess the darker black undertones will help with the black contrast no matter what. Thanks much!

[@MediocreHobbies]

@@RSB703 exactly. Thanks for watching and keep asking questions if you have any.

[@lollingtoon]

Can I still achieve this if I’ve already given them a black base coat??

[@iamnahaerys6892]

Great Tutorial, I decided to go this route with my Eldari. Would you recommend the same technique for Wraith models as well? Or are they to big for contrast?

[@MediocreHobbies]

They should work just fine. It’s will get harde as they get bigger. You just have to be careful with pooling.

[@uniquewargamingterrain9125]

Nice work there brother 👍

[@MediocreHobbies]

Thank you so much.

[@clood0814]

Great video. Just starting with Eldar and I wanted to paint them as Mixture between Ulthwe and Iybraesil. Could I do a heavy drybrush with stegadon scale green or sotek green over the black templar to achieve a somewhat dark turquoise look? Or would you recommend a different approach? :)

[@MediocreHobbies]

Honestly I would recommend a different approach. Maybe check the video i did for the new void scared eldar. That would be a lot closer.

[@clood0814]

@@MediocreHobbies will do that. Thanks :)

[@raphaelkoch1573]

Late to comment here, but if The Guardian is primed with black then white instead of grey should you dry brush with a darker grey other than Ulthuan grey to darken things a bit?

[@MediocreHobbies]

No it should still be fine as long as you stay consistent across the army.

[@raphaelkoch1573]

@@MediocreHobbies Thanks for the reply, I want to start and Ulthwe army but have a few old guardian but they were primed black then white.

[@jarrodhill9149]

Can you do a speed paint white and blue eldar tutorial mate?

[@MediocreHobbies]

What do you mean?

[@jarrodhill9149]

@@MediocreHobbies contrast white over grey zenathol... I'm trying to work out a quick way to make a corsair heavy/outkast space pirate looking jetbike heavy custom craftworld.. or perhaps survivors from a fallen or near fallen craftworld.

[@jasonhatcher6008]

Hi mate, great tutorials and especially this one as I’ve just started painting my ulthwe army. How do you do the base on this one?

[@MediocreHobbies]

Glad you like the videos pal kzbin.infocWaoLkH0Jos?feature=share Here is a video where I do the bases.

[@kevinishki]

What do you base with?

[@MediocreHobbies]

I have an entire video and how I based these guys. There is a basing playlist.

[@skinniestfatman5641]

im late to the party, would love to see a tutorial for all the Aspect Warriors

[@MediocreHobbies]

I’m doing them as all the plastic once come out. So they will all eventually be done.

[@skinniestfatman5641]

@@MediocreHobbies awesome, suppose in the meantime i could paint up Dark Reapers like you have done with the Ulthwe guardians

[@jensskautrup640]

Nice

[@MediocreHobbies]

Cheers pal.

[@jonathancapps1103]

So, I haven't been active with GW games in about 20 years, but I'm pretty sure I remember that their helmets used to be yellow.

[@MediocreHobbies]

No always black bodies with bone helmets for these guys some other craft worlds have yellow helmets.

[@alexh2491]

Way back in the Second Edition era of the game, Ulthwe did indeed have black armor with yellow helmets! In third it changed to bone, and that has been the primary visage since.

[@JamesEarlCash]

I see a lot of people painting the helmets either black+bone visors or bone + bone visors or bone+black visors. I guess if you have three 10'man squads of Guardians it might be one of the possibilites to differentiate those squads from each other.

[@veon1169]

Is it too late to throw my vote for Il-Kaithe??

[@MediocreHobbies]

I shall see what I can do.

[@Transatlanticism04]

MYMEARA!!!!

[@MediocreHobbies]

Not a bad idea at. Quite a challenging one to do.

[@Transatlanticism04]

@@MediocreHobbies I'd love to see how you do the blue to green colour shift 🙂