Sisters of Battle: Order of the Bloody Rose - How I Paint Things

[@Angel0fSleep]

This will be the third of your paint schemes I use! Thank you for this How To!

[@huskar97]

"Very simple answer: Im lazy" Truly the best answer there is. Great video.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

No need to dress up the truth, right? ;D

[@SnakeWorksStudio]

I prefer to say efficient with my time!

[@frigginsepone446]

Truly the Bob Ross of miniature painting... ;)

[@kairos468]

Sonic Sledgehammer, the Bob Ross of miniature painting!

[@bagmuk6]

Amazing.thanks for the Kindle flame tip

[@SnakeWorksStudio]

Oh that red is lovely! and the highlights don't look pink! good work!

[@ohhgeez865]

Thanks! I'm about to start painting my first army and this video helped me feel less overwhelmed!

[@story1951]

Thank you for this paint scheme. She looks gorgeous. The red armor looks great.

[@ericmats4662]

Now, i just came in here to say thank you. Ive used your guides as base for two different armys now and im really pleased with the result. So thank you for the nice guides and keep up the good work! :D

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Great to hear! Best part is that you're happy with the outcome. :D

[@alexgill484]

Thank you that painting tutorial is gonna be of a huge help for my army :-)

[@johnkelley9877]

This was very impressive! The painting of the figure looks simply fantastic and the matt finish really brings it all together. Thanks for sharing this.

[@dwadland]

Wow. Fantastic job on here. This is making me reconsider whether I paint my Sisters as the Order of the Argent Shroud - I'm so tempted to switch to Bloody Rose now...

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Argent Shroud are another favourite of mine. It's genuinely difficult choosing one out of the major Orders!

[@vetras1ua]

Thank you very much for these videos - after watching I stopped being afraid to paint my miniatures!

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Very glad to hear it! :D

[@Asger55]

And once again I'm adopting one of your painting guides to my entire army - I LOVE this 😊!

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

If it works, it works! ;D

[@Ssaaka]

Looks good, the robes look fine without shade. I’ve replaced carroburg crimson with the flesh tearers red contrast paint for shading my reds, it’s just such a rich dark red when layered over mephiston.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

It'd look good for a darker finish, perhaps closer to what's on the cover of the books, I imagine. A little darker than I'd usually choose for Bloody Rose, but still an excellent choice!

[@honestbenny]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio For darker finish you would chose just mep.red primer then instead of doing white->mep

[@M0narch1024]

I always love your video's, they're always very...cozy?

[@SnakeWorksStudio]

like a big warm blanket? and a mug of tea!

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Thank you kindly. :D Glad you like them!

[@itsarchie1261]

Man I love your painting videos, I'm sure I've said this on other videos of yours before but I really like your focus on getting great looking tabletop ready minis with minimum effort. Whilst the in depth ultra-high level display or competition quality painting videos can be interesting and give some good ideas, there's no way in hell I'm going to get a whole army done to that standard, I'd just burn out trying to do it and get discouraged I wasn't able to get the same results. Fighting the grey plastic with your simple and effective schemes!

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Glad to hear it! It's all about shifting the mountain of grey plastic, after all. I don't always promise the fastest methods (although I do try) but instead something that'll look pretty good compared to the amount of time you'll have to put in. Not all of us are out to win Golden Demon, after all!

[@SPARTANTROOPER]

Love the paint job, do you have any pointers for painting the inside of the robes? I always seem to give the backs of the legs a paintjob too when I try.

[@RenegadeMexican916]

As someone who is also lazy and also painting Order of The Bloody Rose, this video speaks to me on a spiritual level. Will be using this paint guide for the rest of my army. Maybe not my named units, though lol. :D

[@powerwolf-vw8st]

i've been pinning these by the foot plus leaving the backpack and bolters off where i can. Sounds like itd take more time but i havent noticed the difference besides i just greatly prefer just being able to get at everything even if it is tabletop quality. The head also worth considering having seperate but i havent bothered.

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , Sonic .

[@Levante6997]

Tour sister look really cool

[@gameswithtoasty3246]

I'm very excited for this :D

[@madmerlinsart]

Very nice and helpful tutorial. I'm going back to my old colour scheme for a Sisters of Battle project and while I'm trying for a different red to other red orders, I found your method really nice, pity I didn't pick up the Kindleflame in my old suppliers discount basket.

[@leonmumford179]

Your speed painting looks better than most people's neat painting.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

In this case I wouldn't really call her speed painted - there's too many bits to concentrate on! But the techniques are at least simple and easily replicated.

[@CorvusMiniatures]

Looks basic but clean, very nice job!

[@rick9663]

Wasn't sure how to put in a request, but I would love to see your take on painting 40K Imperial Guard Penal Legion.

[@thanasisgeronimos9124]

if you unpin the mini from the base then you can reach the inner side of the cloth of her cloak ...excellent job!!!

[@Dash277]

Well now I really want Cavalry Brown and it's out of stock at my normal paints stops. Wishlisted though!

[@TheEccentricMan]

Nice guide, did I miss how you did the face?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

I accidentally trimmed the Reikland Fleshshade and Cadian Fleshtone from the video, but it's nothing revolutionary, I promise!

[@TheEccentricMan]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Phew! thought I was losing it :)

[@Imperialguardftw]

Hey mate nice model! What do you think of using black template contrast in certain areas instead of abbadon or flat black?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

I'm not sure it'd give quite the right look over a red basecoat - red does show through quite strongly in most cases, and Black Templar really works best over a grey primer. You could try it, but I think I'd stick to the 'normal' black paint for a more solid finish.

[@Okanehira]

I love this scheme, however what happens when it comes to vehicles? Wouldn't it look really awful if you slop the carroburg crimson over a tanks panels? That's the only thing stopping me going ahead.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Rather than applying the shade all over the panels, paint it into the recesses directly - you'll hear it referred to as 'panel lining' or 'pin washing' in some circles. It'll give you a very slightly brighter finish on your vehicles, but due to their size it will match up fairly closely to how your infantry are painted without changing any colours.

[@Okanehira]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thanks for the reply. I'll give it a shot because I love how your finished model looked! Cheers.

[@honestbenny]

Wouldnt evil sun scarlet on dry work little better for highlights for more "reddish" instead of orange finish?

[@JSledge825]

I know I’m painting for a table top game. But it bothers me knowing there are unpainted areas in certain areas. I’m too much of a neat freak. So it will probably take me a couple years before I can finally finish stuff. It took me 6 hours to paint one Space Marine completely from start to finish. Only thing I would have changed is the color of the brass in the magazine to a brass color.

[@vallytine]

So, I tried that makeup brush technique you did, and I found that no matter how much I took off the brush, it'd leave behind an awful chalky streak across the whole surface of the model, even if I aimed really carefully for the edges, so I eventually went back to a regular drybrush. Is there something I'm missing?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

It might be that you've got a little too much paint on the brush to start with. Makeup brushes can hold an awful lot in the center of the brush where you can't necessarily see it, so maybe try with just a little less paint to start with. Otherwise, it might be that you're applying too much pressure; if you're getting long streaks, try flicking just the very tip of the brush where you're trying to highlight rather than pressing the entire brush down.

[@marciscool7663]

What did you do for the basing?

[@thalum]

She is beautiful ! How do you make that clean base for a model with so many fabrics close from the ground when the two are already glued ? ^^

[@vallytine]

Not sure if you still check this particular thread - But do you have any alternatives to Cavalry Brown for those gauntlets? Vallejo stuff is very hard to find in stock here, and my first thought was Khorne Red but it doesn't quite seem to match.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

There isn't really a straight equivalent to Cavalry Brown outside Vallejo, unfortunately. Khorne Red is a fairly close approximation, but it's a bit more red of course. Doombull Brown is slightly more brown, but probably the closer look.

[@vallytine]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Yeah that makes sense. I checked my local third party today and no stock, so I might mix rhinox with khorne and see how it goes.

[@warshrew5080]

As much as i love and use this, i didnt realise the tabbard colours were inverted from gws bloody rose. My mistake for being to new to sisters to realise. But still, do you invert them out of preference?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

I had to double-check my Codex to make sure I wasn't wrong, but it turns out there's very few pictures of actual Battle Sisters of the Bloody Rose in the latest book - most of them are Celestians or other specialist units. The 'standard' tabard colours are black outer, white inner, which is inverted for the Celestians and Seraphim. Take a look at the Order of Our Martyred Lady units to see the same thing reflected; it's a little weird they don't include more basic troops for each Order for people to get a look at, it'd just be a couple of photos!

[@florianamann7978]

CAVALRY BROWN EFF YEAH!

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

DAMN STRAIGHT!

[@grimpaints9415]

I enjoyed the part where you painted black

[@jamesplace1339]

Great scheme, I’m definitely going to use this! Would you alter the recipe for the red for vehicles at all?

[@Sephy7777]

Is base covered in sand or some technical paint?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

This is Stirland Mud, drybrushed with Ryza Rust and Eldar Flesh.

[@elcabron8869]

Hello what it the name of the paint orange please? I want to do color bloody rose sista they are very beautiful :)

[@davidbrehaut7114]

Great tutorial as always. Quick question! Why Kindleflame and not Astorath Red? Please forgive my ignorance, I’m just going off GW’s painting guide!

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

This is actually a really good question, and not one with a short answer, though I hope they'll come across as relatively simple. There's really two things at work here, which are: 1.) I'm shading over the entirety of the armour, where GW's guides usually tend to assume you're going to carefully recess shade with a fine brush and a great deal of patience, then drybrush edges. As a result, I will ordinarily use much brighter drybrush colours than suggested as I want the shade to dull all of the colours beneath down without having to take my time painting it into every panel line. 2.) The GW painting guides aren't always 100% factual about what colours they've used to achieve certain effects. A specific example is the red cloak on the Age of Sigmar Stormvermin which one can find on the Citadel Paint App. Their suggestion of 'Khorne Red, shade Nuln Oil and highlight with Wazdakka Red' is missing probably five or six steps compared to how they'd have done it in the Studio. Part of this is simply the necessity of saving space on boxes or that the app isn't really prepared to deep dive on techniques, but some of the suggested methods from GW are best taken as guidelines. Hopefully this helps! With practice you'll find you're able to call attention to a few examples where they've said "We used a simple..." and spot that's not entirely correct! ;D

[@davidbrehaut7114]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio thank you so much! I’m looking forward to trying this on my own sisters.

[@dasheavy101]

@sonicesledgehammer you don't use a paint handle? just curious, I bought one from citadel but i've seen some painters not use them at all

[@samvortex2802]

I love your Bloody Rose scheme, it is very vibrant and RED. Others I’ve seen are either somewhat dull or on the orange/pink side of red. Amazing video!

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

I've seen some of the other methods out there which have a slightly darker, 'meatier' kind of red. I'll admit that I do quite like that look sometimes, but there's something to be said for lurid, bright red on the tabletop these days!

[@samvortex2802]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio For sure, I have a sisters box and been undecided on the colour (I’ve painted some black and some white, but they are kind of dull) I’ll be painting some red now and I think I’ll use that as my army’s scheme!

[@dandes7113]

Sonic, almost every video you drop is a table top ready bomb! Since I'm unfamiliar with VMC paints, what VMC paint would you recommend to obtain for edge highlight of Cavalery Brown. I am simply impressed by the result of those red leather gloves. It seems you can get slightly better result compared to GW Doombull brown I am used to. Btw I use almost only Citadel, but based on your videos I have already switched to VMC flat black 😉

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

I'd probably look at something like VMC Red Leather as an ideal highlight for Cavalry Brown. Just a touch red, mostly a lighter brown; it'll do the job quite well, I imagine.

[@elibarker201]

Anybody have a good alternative set of heads for sisters? Whether it be files for resin prints or 3rd party sellers?

[@942mattu]

Gw really hit it out of the park with these new sisters models. They are a bitch to assemble though! :D

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

They're very cool, but there is a LOT to paint on them!

[@02SamJ]

Mine comes out so much darker red :/

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Are you priming straight Mephiston Red on to the plastic? I started with a quick spray of Wraithbone on this first, then the red primer. You can use a white as well, just something to key the red to the plastic without being dulled down by the grey beneath.

[@02SamJ]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio yeah I used wraithbone spray then mephiston red spray. Maybe I'm putting to much mephiston red on my brush? Not sure it comes out a lot darker than yours for some reason lol I'm a new painter so maybe it's just my lack of experience lol

[@FappleFace]

chad wingalings vs virgin imperial Aquila

[@JazzTehHippy]

"wingalings"

[@johnyentes6643]

What would you recommend as viable alternatives for the varnishes you used?

[@johnyentes6643]

Also, I found Vallejo Matt varnish, but it is not the spray version. Would brushing it on provide a similar result?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

I quite like the brush-on version as well. There's not really a single straight answer to this - whatever brand you find that gives you the result you like is going to do the job. Munitorum Varnish, Vallejo's Matt Varnish, Instar Varnish+, AK Interactive Matt; the list goes on! I tend to prefer Vallejo's spray for the fact it's quick, and I haven't had a problem with it frosting yet, but any of the others are quite good.

[@petersaczko6192]

Why did they call themselves The Order of the Bloody Nose? Oh... no... no, wait... nevermind. Forget I said anything

[@tomroberts6934]

Hahaha... wingalings ...