Painting Chaos Scabs & Dregs - Darktide Style [How I Paint Things]

After having mentioned Kill Team specifically, it occurs that tweaking something like Space Hulk would also work remarkably well for representing close, tight combat with enemies that follow simple decision trees for taking their actions. Hmm...
There's also Five Parsecs Bug Hunt worth investigating; not strictly a Warhammer 40,000 game, but one which would reskin easily enough to let your operatives take on hordes of diseased cultists and maniacs... www.wargamevault.com/product/...
00:00 - Intro
01:07 - Priming & Basecoats
09:28 - Shading
10:24 - Highlights & Finishing Touches
14:39 - The Finished Cultist
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THE BASE: Astrogranite, wash with Agrax Earthshade, drybrush (lightly!) Underhive Ash and pick a few dots of PVA to add scraggly, dead-looking static grass of your choice.
PAINTS USED:
PRIMER:
Matt Black (Army Painter)
CITADEL:
Rhinox Hide (Base)
Mechanicus Standard Grey (Base)
Zandri Dust (Base)
Iron Hands Steel (Base)
Abaddon Black (Base)
Leadbelcher (Base)
Death Guard Green (Base)
Bugman's Glow (Base)
Mournfang Brown (Base)
Khorne Red (Base)
Morghast Bone (Base)
Catachan Flesh (Base)
Agrax Earthshade (Shade)
White Scar (Layer)
Plaguebearer Flesh (Contrast)
Skrag Brown (Layer)
VALLEJO:
Steel (Model Air Color) - Could just as well use Stormhost Silver
ARMY PAINTER:
Moon Dust - This is about as light as Bad Moons Yellow, but more rich. You could try Dorn Yellow here as well.
VARNISH:
Munitorum Varnish (Citadel Spray)

[@heretic192]

Awesome mini. Its great that Darktide sparked the love for traitor guard.

[@simonnick8422]

The 6th just looks very cool, right? Will ask a friend with a printer if he has some heads with spikes.

[@tastefulavenger]

He looks like a cross between the dregs and scabs. Scabs being the moebian dudes and dregs being the guys in cloths and drabs.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

I'm going mostly off of screenshots, myself - I might be the only person that doesn't have Darktide. 😅

[@TheKsalad]

You always come through clutch with the best, easy to follow painting guides for stuff I'm looking to paint at around the same time!

[@zackcook5123]

Looks bloody good straightforward and solid

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Can't beat simple when you want models out the door quick as you like. It doesn't have to be perfect every time!

[@JohnMiller-yh2lj]

Very nice job 👍, huge Papa Nurgle fan, I'm currently trying to finish my gobo's and traitor guard army only twenty more troops to go for my guard and I'll have a hundred of them,as for the goblins about 300. 😆🤣😂🙏😇🇺🇸

[@Marshal976]

Great scheme mate!!

[@rockkiller124]

Currently addicted to Darktide, love playing as Ogryn

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , Troy . 🐺

[@timothyyoung2962]

To this day the Blackstone Fortress minis are some of my favorite GW minis. Just picked up Forbidden Psalm: The Last War and it gives me another reason to bring out my Traitor Guard, Krieg, and Chaos Cultists for some post apocalyptic war fun! They fit the bill for scavengers and baddies in that game with spades. The Last War is geared to solo and co-op play and you make up a small team of around 5 models and they level up as they go. Worth checking out.

[@wpeaston]

Great video, I’ve got plenty of these ready to paint and was looking for inspiration, thank you!

[@grodd1016]

They would be great for Space Station Zero too

[@Matt-md5yt]

Happy you did a cultist my friend, and it's based on Darktide.

[@irishtom30]

Very very cool, great job. I wish GW would have options for models that are much simpler, come in higher numbers, and are obviously cheaper. Boxes with like 24 shirtless/disheveled chaos lunatics with just melee weapons and maybe the occasional pistol would sell gangbusters, especially with how big Darktide is right now.

[@SavageBehir]

Another one of your videos that I added to my painting inspirations list :). Since I've gotten the Moroch box I've been wondering how to paint the traitors. After the open beta I thought that maybe something like that would work, and now I have an easy to follow process of achieving that :)! And as for the solo games, I think that it would be easiest to use something like Planet28 or OPR. Or the solo rules for Stargrave and just use those minis :)

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Planet28 seems like it'd have the right vibe, I think. Definitely going to haul out the PDFs for that one again and double-check... :D

[@AnimalBlundetto601]

What are the best brushes in your opinion mate? I want ones that don't lose their tip so quickly as GW brushes. I'm thinking Artis Opus but they are expensive lol

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Honestly, I've usually had good results with GW brushes. You might try the Army Painter range, they're pretty good too and the price is alright. Otherwise, yeah, you can start finding some pretty pricey brushes. 😅

[@dmeep]

use different brushes for different things. take care of your pricy detail brush and use expendable brushes for stuff that will wear them out like drybrushing. There are some painters like Sam Lenz that use cheap syntethic 10 brushes for 5dollars packs for most of his work. Also where you are on your journey as a painter will also influence what kind of brushes it is sensible to buy along with if you are speedpainting an army to get it on the table or spending 50+ hours on a diorama for a competition. Some people swear by brush soap and claim to get years out of their brushes that way. I haven't given brush soap a try so i cannot verify. A friend keeps buying new golf clubs thinking it will magically improve his game and I don't think a new club will help as much as spending more time practicing on the range and green. Tips generally split because paint gets upp in the ferrule the metal part holding the bristels to the wood. Rinsing your brushes out properly after a session and not gettin paint all the way up will help. Always use cold water as acrylic paint is a form of liquid plastic and hot water makes it set faster not dissolve it like grease etc when doing dishes. I hope some of this helps

[@AnimalBlundetto601]

@@dmeep Appreciate the info, thanks 👍

[@AnimalBlundetto601]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thanks king 👑

[@vladimirpotrosky7855]

Single player kill team is a great idea for us forever alone types

[@Katalmach11b]

Every time I look at a painting tutorial, my thought is "I bet Sonic can teach me how to paint it 1000x faster and make it look just as good" and I haven't been wrong yet

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Well, maybe not *always* just as good... but close enough that skipping half the steps out of the middle won't hurt! 😂

[@Katalmach11b]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I spent like 15 years being frustrated trying to make my minis look great, until you taught me how to do it the easy way lol. Love your channel

[@alessiodecarolis]

The mini is OK, but why did all these cultists/gangers from GW seems all get out from a Mad Max - style movie? P.s. to add variety to your Wild Bunch of cultists you could try to make some Blackstone Fortress style bases.👍

[@Matt-md5yt]

This lad came from the Blackstone Fortress set but yeah they do fit post apoc more

[@nickdavis5420]

Mmm heresy

[@TRTT]

As a new baby youtuber... how do you film like this with the camera seemingly right in front of you? It's such a great place for the viewer to see from. I tried mounting in front of my chest and had trouble actually seeing what I was painting. Or do you use a good phone camera to film that angle?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Unfortunately, you've got it right - the camera sits basically right in front of me, and I kinda... peeeeeer over it. 😅 It's a huge pain in the ass, in short, but you kinda learn to deal.

[@TRTT]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio oh no, that's not the answer I wanted at all! Lol

[@davidnandrin8825]

Great tutorial (as usual ) ! I wonder , do you play 5 parsecs bug hunt yourself Mr Sonic ? It seems like a lot of fun according to the reviews... I might get tempted...

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

I've got it, but haven't had a chance to play yet. The rules are very good, though - like most of the Nordic Weasel lineup. :D

[@wodenpwn]

Super cool paint job! I can't figure out any benefits to using black as a primer, though. I switched to white years ago, and have never gone back. its very easy to go dark, but having to put down layer after layer of paint to cover up black primer is no fun.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

The darkness is the point in this case. Most of these paints don't cover solid over a white primer, either, and when you want deep recesses and a few grimy corners, you can't rely entirely on a shade to give you that depth. White and light grey are useful choices, but for these guys it's black or a dark brown for me.

[@wodenpwn]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio whatever works, works! I just reached the end of my rope with it.

[@Burnt_Hickory_Minis]

Painting in front of the white background makes it difficult to see anything.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

You'd see even less if I painted in front of a black background. 🤷‍♂️

[@kevh6948]

Who the hell down voted!?