Painting a metallic Night Lords Chaos Space Marine in 4K!

[@trousersnakes8855]

I found you videos for ideas and techniques on my NL army. Not only are your videos EXTREMELY well put together and edited, you also give great tips and I find much joy and amusement just watching your videos or using them as background noise when I am doing the job of a servitor at work.

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much for your comment, it really encourages me to keep going when I know there are people who get something out of these videos. Good luck with your Night Lords, I have a new video about a Night Lords Contemptor coming out in a couple of weeks, where I show how I painted flayed skin 👍

[@mahari7285]

Wow, in my opinion this is the easiest and most comprehensible painting tutorial for Night Lords and CSM in general...! It is also very pleasant to listen to you, voice and background music fit very well, thank you very much! Now I'm even more looking forward to the new Night Lords Kill Team...! Once again, thank you very much and have a wonderful Christmas! Greetings from Germany.

[@KabinMiniatures]

Vielen Dank 😁 So happy to hear you enjoyed it and thank you so much for your kind words! That Kill Team is looking soooo good, right?! 😎

[@KabinMiniatures]

Merry Christmas to you as well! Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪

[@redcorsair14]

Wow, for the second time today I was really impressed by your tutorial. I will have to give this a try. I had told mysel f I wasnt going to like metallic Night Lords after 30 years of painting them in normal dark blues.

[@KabinMiniatures]

Wow, thank you so much! 😄 I hope you have fun trying it out. I've gone back and forth when it comes to painting Night Lords, they were my first army over 20 years ago and I've painted them "normal" too. But in 30k I saw some cool metallic ones and wanted to try that. You can get smoother results with an airbrush and that would work great for the new beakies mk vi coming out. But for CSM I think this is so much quicker, due to all the trims!

[@andrewlotz3276]

Just did a test model following this advice. I love it. You really break it down well, and I love the balance of colors (the less/non-metal trim with the Gore-Grunta especially). Thanks so much for putting this guidance out for others.

[@KabinMiniatures]

You're quite welcome, my friend! I'm glad you could use this video and thanks for the compliment!

[@Tekkaman76]

very well explained and clever!

[@KabinMiniatures]

Wow, thank you so much 😃 glad you enjoyed it!

[@kyleduquesnay1429]

Don't own an airbrush but the simplicity of the scheme combined with how well it turned out makes me want to find a work around and paint up a relatively quick night lords army, loved the way you explained the thought process behind your choices.

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much, good luck with your painting! I don't think an airbrush is 100% required here. Just replace the zenithal highlight of silver with a drybrush instead, focusing from up above. If you still want to do the gloss varnish step after that, you can always do it with a brush or spray can 👍

[@kyleduquesnay1429]

@@KabinMiniatures Thanks so much for the advice! I'll have to try that.

[@justinkotrba2197]

Thanks for sharing this. Awesome color.

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you like it!

[@diegofarfan6727]

Amazing video! Just the look I was looking for! The gloss varnish that you used, is it the premium gloss varnish from Vallejo or the regular gloss varnish? Also did you use an air brush for varnish??

[@KabinMiniatures]

@diegofarfan6727 Thank you Just the normal Vallejo gloss varnish for this video, but nowadays, I also like to use their Mecha varnish. And yes, I dilute it with water and use my airbrush to apply it 👍

[@etiennegaulier6775]

Really good tutorial, full of good ideas !. I've just build 10 news chaos chosen and I really wan to try your "metalic contrast technique" !! Good job !

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much! Good luck with the Chosen, I hope you have fun with those awesome models!

[@DarthSid]

Very nice metallic blue!

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate your comments, my friend 😊

[@DarthSid]

@@KabinMiniatures expect some more, i am still watching some of your fine videos 😉

[@KabinMiniatures]

@@DarthSid I'm so glad you like them! 😄 thanks for your support, it really makes a difference!

[@kreetinator]

Very nice.

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much, I'm glad you like it!

[@stoneysshed]

Subscribed! That was awesome and I think I’ve found the scheme for my kill team

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you, I really appreciate that! Good luck with your Kill Team and have fun with it!

[@DarthSid]

Superb👍 The rim recipe is very nice. I want to use the torso/ legs of the current mono-pose CSMarines with some Kromlech (Wings/Glaives) bitz for Raptors 😎

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much! That sounds like a cool idea, you should go for it!

[@dafrenchork615]

Superb!!

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thanks!

[@ghostparty2062]

Iv been trying to work out a way of doing dark metallic blue for a chaos warriors army. The purple wash works really nicely. Can't wait to go home and try this?

[@KabinMiniatures]

@ghostparty2062 Thanks for watching and good luck! When I made this video, I still used the old formula washes, so I'd advice you to just experiment first if you have the new wash to see what it looks like.

[@m22152]

Genuinely a lovely scheme. Going to have to give this a try! Subbed stay safe

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thanks, I appreciate that! Good luck with your painting, I hope you can have some fun with these ideas 👍

[@Nekorook]

This video is why I’ll be playing night lord in Horus heresy

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thanks, that is awesome to hear! Can't wait to preorder my box 😎 I think I'll try an airbrush variation of this colour scheme on my Mk VI to save some time, given that they don't have any metal trim...

[@fakeman6542]

This is my favourite scheme of yours so far. Metallica nightlords just jump off the screen

[@KabinMiniatures]

Cheers it's fun to experiment with metallic schemes for Chaos Marines 👍

[@FirstNameLastName-fe2tu]

Really great work done here. I very much how you did with the blue and how much it pops out.

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much, I'm glad you like it!

[@znufer]

Hey, great work on the miniature and the video editing!

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much for your kind words!

[@balkenkreuz2063]

You know, thanks to your videos I just realized that the new CSMs are way more versatile that I originally thought! I spent quite a few dollars buying raptors/talons kits and bits to make a decent enough host for my NL when, as you just shown me, I could as well have just added jump packs to my marines to do the trick, LOL.

[@KabinMiniatures]

Yeah, I really like the new multipart kit we got a couple of years ago! Much more versatile than the Shadowspear ones, which makes it easy to do Raptors/Warp Talons. Before that I was trying to do true-scale NL with modified MKIV armour, which was a pain in the butt... The proportions of the new CSM models are so good that I just couldn't use the older plastic Raptor/Talon bodies anymore. While the poses are great in that kit, their age is starting to show in terms of their "squatiness".

[@mahari7285]

Just one question for my understanding: Did you prime the model before applying the Leadbelcher?

[@KabinMiniatures]

I primed the model with Leadbelcher spray. If you don't have a silver spray, you can just prime it black for example, and paint/airbrush on a silver paint after that.

[@rjlarose5271]

I have to know where u got that shoulder pad with the skulls.

[@KabinMiniatures]

It's in the multipart Chaos Space Marine squad box (the one you can buy separately; not the monopose Marines from the old Shadowspear set).

[@rjlarose5271]

@@KabinMiniatures thanks!

[@francescopresti9813]

Great video! Love the end result. I’ve been giving this a try myself, i skipped the zenithal and I feel it makes a huge difference… mine is soooo much darker 😫 maybe leadbelcher on its own is too dark?

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much! Yes, Leadbelcher on its own would be quite dark, I imagine. If you don't have an airbrush, I would suggest drybrushing or layering with Runefang Steel, focusing on the top parts. It doesn't have to be pretty, as it'll be covered up by contrast and shade paints anyway. 👍

[@martinwright4063]

What color should I use if I want to add lightning bolts to this scheme?

[@KabinMiniatures]

If you want to, you can check out this other video we made. At 10.57 there's a tutorial for lightning bolts 👍 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHyyanlpjpuSgZI

[@Longhorn1228]

Awesome I'm going to try it! What did you use as the contrast medium?

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thank you so much! I just used GW's own Contrast Medium since I had it on hand. I believe you can dilute it with other products too though.

[@Longhorn1228]

@@KabinMiniatures Thanks! I also noticed you have uploaded a Night Lord raptor video showing one off. Love it but I hope you will make a tutorial on painting that scheme? It's a more matte finish and I love how the edges are highlighted.

[@KabinMiniatures]

@@Longhorn1228 thanks, that's an old video on my channel. That colour scheme used an airbrush to do a gradient from black to blue on the armour and then edge highlighting with a normal brush. After that it's traditional metal trims etc. Takes a lot more time than the metallic scheme. Might be a video for the future, right now I'm working on a bunch of other content to be featured on the channel, including trying to finish up Be'lakor.

[@CapAdGroup]

How would you handle large surfaces like tanks. Ive noticed that contrast paints dont seem to like large flat surfaces.

[@KabinMiniatures]

@@CapAdGroup I've found that, too. Either I'd airbrush it on (you can see examples of that in my 30K Night Lords series) or experiment with diluting the paint and applying it in multiple coats.

[@CapAdGroup]

I just painted my first model. I got to the druchi violet stage but as i was applying it i noticed the blue contrast paint started to come off. I think its because of the varnish layer. Have you encountered this before?

[@KabinMiniatures]

@CapAdGroup Sorry to hear about that. No, I've never had Contrast paint reactivating or chipping off (unless it wasn't properly dry). I'm not sure why that would be happening? I used the old version of shades (before they changed the formula), but that shouldn't make a difference, I would think... Maybe skip the varnish stage then, if you think that's the problem? The new Nuln Oil formula flows into the recesses quite well, so it's fine to use without gloss varnish I'd wager.

[@BradleyEdwards-rg6sg]

How would this look on flat panels of a vehicle? Im worried id make it streaky

[@KabinMiniatures]

That is a risk with large, flat surface areas. If you own an airbrush, you can definitely apply it more evenly with that. I use that with my 30k Night Lords here on the channel 👍 If you don't have that, maybe try applying several coats, more thinned down, to even the streaks a bit? Haven't tried that myself, though...

[@maximilianrediger98]

Can you still paint in the lightning ?

[@KabinMiniatures]

I have done lightning on some of my older Night Lords, but I didn't do it here. But it should work fine on the metallic armour, I think? Maybe do a light blue lightning shape followed by a thin white line inside?

[@maximilianrediger98]

@@KabinMiniatures yeah from what i have gathered thats the Standard also i'm kinda new to painting can you still edge highlight the metal parts? Or are they complete

[@KabinMiniatures]

@@maximilianrediger98 if you want to edge highlight metallic armour, I would do it with a bright silver paint. Either do it before the blue/putple paint for a more subtle effect, or afterwards if you want it to really stand out as a chipping kind of effect. Less is more for the second alternative IMO (that's why I sponged my chipping on).

[@maximilianrediger98]

@@KabinMiniatures i'm gonna look into it thanks for the answer

[@KabinMiniatures]

@@maximilianrediger98 of course, good luck with your painting!

[@Thorn16]

Can I use this technique to paint things a metallic color like Kharadon Overlords do you think?

[@KabinMiniatures]

Sure, if you spray them silver and then use a diluted brown and/or yellow Contrast paint you can get all sorts of metallic colours to represent bronze, gold, copper etc. Or if you wanna go crazy with something like purple metal that would be cool too!

[@Thorn16]

@@KabinMiniatures Yeah I want a painted metal not just bronze and such! Gotta figure out a scheme though.

[@KabinMiniatures]

@@Thorn16 That would be cool, maybe metallic purple and yellow could work? In the past I've tried metallic green and orange together too. Good luck, I would love to see your results!

[@Thorn16]

@@KabinMiniatures Thanks, might be a while lol but I'll keep you in mind!

[@MonCompteTubulaire]

Hi Kabin ! :) I'd like to adapt this colour scheme to paint 6mm Night Lords for Epic Armageddon. Is it a good idea to stay with metallic colours or is it better to only keep mat ones ? :) thank you

[@KabinMiniatures]

Hi there, I'm glad to hear you want to try out this method! Hmmm, at that scale I'm not sure if the metallic effect will show up much? Not sure. I guess that it could work with an off-white undercoat as well (like Wraithbone). However, then you would have to paint the trims with metallic colours after the armour. Maybe do a test and see what you think?

[@DragonSemi]

Since I don't own an airbrush, is it possible to do the zenithal highlight using a rattle can?

[@KabinMiniatures]

Sure, if you undercoat the whole thing with a dark metal paint and then do a careful zenithal with a lighter silver from above. That, or just drybrush it, focusing from above.

[@marcelveronelli3920]

This hasn't worked out for me. I thinned and experimented with Akhelian Green but wasn't able to recreate that first layer of blue you show, it was always way more green and even after the druchii Violet layer looked not like a blue / dark blue.

[@KabinMiniatures]

Oh, that sounds weird? I don't think GW have changed the formula of the "old" contrast paints... the only thing I could think of is if the bottle still had pigment on the bottom and wasn't properly mixed. But I'm assuming you did mix it and it still sounds weird that it would be so green... very strange. Maybe you need to use another colour or mix some blue contrast paint into it?

[@marcelveronelli3920]

@@KabinMiniatures Thanks for your reply, I shaked the Akhelian quite a while and also tried different ratios of it with the medium. The result was just to green. I will give it a try with Leviadon blue but need to grab the paint. The whole process otherwise looks realy nice with the silver base and all so I will give it another go but change the blue.

[@KabinMiniatures]

@@marcelveronelli3920 very strange indeed. Good luck with your experiments, maybe you can mix the two if Leviadon Blue doesn't look good on its own?

[@marcelveronelli3920]

@@KabinMiniatures I will come back as soon as I could test. Waiting for the paint to arrive and we got crazy high temeperatures the next days so not sure if I paint.

[@internetman1213]

Great video, very simple and easy to replicate! I do the same with my night lords as a base or battle ready. Around the trim I leave most of it silver except for the shoulders and maybe some select areas. Hearkens back to the legion's orignal color scheme from the Horus Heresy. If you plan on doing more of these I would look into the champions of death blood bowl team for nice bits to use on the NLs and to try painting the lightning trim like actual lightning. Work like a charm, if you're curious you could check out my results on my instagram @thegr33nmat

[@KabinMiniatures]

Thanks a lot! I'll be sure to check out your Instagram, that sounds cool!