Painting Knights - Bright Liveries and Shining Armour [How I Paint Things]

[@Strawfoot]

Everyone’s painting knights right now, it’s so fun! That blue looks great. Thanks for another great video.

[@johnkelley9877]

Beautiful work Troy! The figure is a great looking sculpt and your painting really made the knight and horse look fantastic. Thanks for sharing this.

[@mrkapowski8507]

My 1990's Bretonnian army were all done in blue + white heraldry, so this guide is getting saved for later to help me recreate it for The Old World 😀

[@durzod2052]

I had a unit of knights back in WFB days that were all red and yellow but were each unique. I halved and quartered their heraldry in different patterns and even halved some quarters. The result was a group of unique knights that actually looked like a unit.

[@rutiguer2701]

Great job! I specially like the pale blue scheme. Thank you!

[@andreaspersson5639]

Looks absolutely gorgeous. Much better than black and red ;) (and some good advice, as I am soon to paint a bunch of knights myself, although later ones than these)

[@torros1839]

Nice work. Your advice on painting white is very welcome

[@Castillo525]

Glad to see this video, Ive been assembling my box since saturday lol

[@johnoneill3654]

Gorgeous colours bud 👍. Might use this for my Middenland Swordsmen.

[@Bluecho4]

I might need to do that "highlight metallics AFTER the matte varnish" trick more often. I've done it a few times in the past, but not always. The unvarnished highlight always retains the shine better.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

I always *think* I'm going to do it... aaand then forget. 😂

[@h347h]

Looks great!

[@thepiratepenguin4465]

Very nice, it looks awesome.

[@goforitpainting]

Really cool.

[@AndyPaintsPoorly]

Looks really good! Wish I had seen this before starting my Knights as they're the same scheme! Dead helpful for highlights though

[@alessiodecarolis]

Very beautiful, the heraldry is simple but striking, also if generally I use for metallic parts Cote d'Arms ' Metal Wash , as, at least for me, give a more "blackish" tone to armour & weapons . You could try Vallejio's Satin varnish, given with a brush it helps to shine more the metallic parts. P.s. with these alternate heads is really possible make different knights with the same body, it's really a great option.

[@Pyre001]

The Highland stuff looks really good. I don't have a 3D printer but there has to be a company printing these off...

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

There's quite a few licensed printers on Etsy.

[@davidknight2220]

Brilliant, I have to say I prefer the other manufacturers, but I appreciate that I have every right to be wrong 😂

[@markmorris2207]

I bought the Gallia foot knights because of your video. Now I must buy the mounted knights as well!! Oh you are a devil, sir. ; ) Your painting is very nice and I like that color scheme. Thanks very much!

[@alteleier9595]

Greetings from Nuremberg/Nürnberg 😁👍

[@Ernzt8]

Great model and I really like the bright colours. I noticed you didn't paint the glue part on the shield, but you did on the arm. Glue on paint, will that hold? I always mask my models on spots to be glued, but not sure now if that is needed.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

I've never really had it be an issue. I guess the paint's stuck to the miniature anyway, so short of pulling it off it ought not to be a problem. At least I've never had bits fall off, anyway!

[@mikeb4085]

Beautiful !1

[@MrGunnar177]

If you printed him, at what scale did you do it at? 100%? 90?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Straight from the STL at 100%.

[@donaldxavier2056]

Excellent paintjob! It is a shame that GW knight sculpts do not look this good.

[@lukepeil8640]

Nice Work, i love this colors. Where did you get the Decals? ❤

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

This one came from the Cities of Sigmar Freeguild transfer sheet. I honestly wish I'd used something slightly different, but there's a *ton* of really neat decals on there.

[@michaelrossel7339]

„Ich habe den Sachsen das Angeln beigebracht, seitdem heißen sie Angelsachsen.“ Sorry I get in the mood for python every time I see bretonians Wonderful. Need to strip and rebase mine now :D

[@ieuandeakin6497]

I've ordered some Grail knight wannabes from Etsy and they've not turned up 😫 been slowly working on the new Pegasus BSB as practice since I'd probably use a regular pony BSB

[@theandf]

Looks amazing, as expected from you. A couple of questions: that white looks grayish, at least on my screen (so much so I was sure you were going to say "don't use actual white, use light gray instead because it looks better"). Is that so, or do my eyes deceive me? Another question: is varnish really needed for plastic/resin minis? (I know it's needed for metal minis, 'cause the metal is harsher on the paint when handling it by hand... but has anyone ever seen paint peeling off from plastic minis? I haven't. Is this one of those things we hobbyists do out of ritual?).

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Which white? Only the very final highlight is a 'true' white - Corax White is a faint blue-grey off-white, and Pallid Wych Flesh has a very vague peachy tone to it, which I really like for 'cloth' white. As for varnish, it's less about protecting the miniature and more about the finish it gives. I varnish pretty much everything, regardless of material. A good matt varnish will often make cloth look more natural and smooth, where a satin varnish suits things like Space Marines or stuff with a gleaming, clean aesthetic.

[@theandf]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio ah, yes, I meant Corax White. You say you're applying "white" but it looked light gray to me (and I also heard the advice elsewhere that pure white must not be used as a base coat). As for varnish, your use makes sense!

[@matteotani1360]

I love you 😂❤

[@nickdavis5420]

Ah a noble steed

[@Zontarz]

Saved for a watch later! Stoked! Did you do any scaling for the Gallia figures or did you keep it at it 32mm?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Nope, this dude's just straight from the STLs and on to the build plate. They're not really that much larger than the original knights, though the bigger base size for The Old World helps with the real estate!

[@stompieandsuzie]

Are you using AP Fanatic paints straight out-of-the-pot, or diluted a little - if so, with water or medium?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Mostly straight from the pot on a wet palette, with a tiiiiny, tiny bit of water left behind in my brush from rinsing a previous colour. Not even a full droplet, just 'damp brush' and get going.

[@MightyWolve]

Where did you get these knights printed? Looks great!

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

From my printer? 😅

[@MightyWolve]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio cool! What printer do you use?

[@matteocinti6482]

Yeah I have been fighting with painting white "fast" for a while now. I guess it might be the colour that need the highest amount of work

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

It depends a little on where you're starting from - a predominantly white miniature with a few splashes of bright colour can be super easy from a white primer, but with something a bit more involved like this, yeeeah, it slows down the work just a tad. 😅

[@TomT531]

Hi there, Amazing knight! Do you think the 3d prints from my mini factory will come out well at 20mm if I was to re scale them? I run a mars 3 pro so the printer will be more than capable.

[@thanasisgeronimos9124]

with drying time for the wash , how much time do you think roughly did this took? did you kept time?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

The whole miniature? I'm afraid I wasn't really paying much attention in this case. Not a huge stretch of time, maybe an hour and a half?

[@thanasisgeronimos9124]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio awesome....

[@yendub]

I'm getting ready to start painting knights, but not for Old World. I have to get a 100 years war army painted up for Blood and Crowns.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Even better! :D

[@dariostabletopminatures]

BRETONNIANS!

[@jacawandersmok9043]

how you coneted sheald? to that small handy plasick samll stick handle?

[@leiferickson5602]

Can't see any coconut!

[@TheOniraf]

Please show us how to paint a slave to darkness chaos knights

[@TheRealOrangeGringo]

Would love to see more genuine GW models, I certainly enjoy those vids more. But thanks for this, I’ll give it a good watch later.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

I can't afford non-stop GW miniatures; it's either a few extra videos featuring similar-but-unofficial miniatures a month, or I can manage one or two videos each month, where I'm demonstrating the same techniques anyway. It's very, very rare that free miniatures end up on my painting desk, and certainly never from GW.

[@johnoneill3654]

Tbf it's so similar you can just use the same scheme for GW miniatures. Don't see the need to have the exact official mini myself but to each their own.

[@TheRealOrangeGringo]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio that’s totally fair. I have so many GW models that I’ll never paint. I wish I could send them to you! 🙂