Assault Intercessor + Paint Set | Paint-A-Long

A walkthrough/tutorial on building & painting Ultramarine Primaris Assault Intercessors using Games Workshop's new Assault Intercessor + Paint Set.
#Warhammer40k #Ultramarines #Tutorial
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
04:25 - Priming
05:27 - Undercoat
06:12 - Armour Basecoat
07:41 - Metallic Basecoat
09:50 - Shading
11:40 - Highlighting
14:41 - Shoulder Details
16:22 - Base Texturing
18:21 - Plus Necron Paints Intro
19:28 - Model #2 Base Coats
20:17 - Model #2 Finishing
20:44 - Plus Tool Set Paints Intro
22:13 - Model #3 Basecoats
23:43 - Model #3 Shading/Highlighting/Details
24:36 - Model #3 Hazard Stripes
27:29 - Model #3 Finishing & Conclusion
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This video is part of a series of beginner's tutorial on miniature painting that I have made using Games Workshop's X + Paint Sets.
The first video in this series, • Intercessor Easy Build... , covers some fundamentals and background that would be useful to review before watching this video.
I reviewed the specific kit covered in this video previously here, • New Warhammer 40k Mode...
In this video I referenced my Primer on Priming, • A Primer on Priming
Other Related Videos:
Older Model + Paint Set Review - • Video
Space Marine + Paint Set Tutorial Part 2 - • Intercessor Easy Build...
Death Guard + Paint Set Tutorial - • Death Guard Easy Build...
Stormcast + Paint Set Tutorial - • Stormcast Eternals + P...
Nighthaunt + Paint Set Tutorial - • Nighthaunt Easy Build ...
The sets used in this video can be purchased from Games Workshop, online, or from your friendly local game store.
Assault Intercessor + Paint Set:
Games Workshop (CA) - www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/...
Necron + Paint Set
Games Workshop (CA) - www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/...
Warhammer 40k Paints + Tools Set
Games Workshop (CA) - www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/...
Next Steps Sets for Ultramarines or Necrons:
Warhammer 40k Recruit Edition
Games Workshop (CA) - www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/...
Warhammer 40k Elite Edition
Games Workshop (CA) - www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/...
Warhammer 40k Command Edition
Games Workshop (CA) - www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/...
Warhammer 40k Battlefield Expansion
Games Workshop (CA) - www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/...
Next Steps Sets for Non-GW:
Reaper LTP: Core Skills
Reaper Website - www.reapermini.com/search/8906
Reaper LTP: Layer Up!
Reaper Website - www.reapermini.com/search/8907
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[@benjamaster14]

Hey man,great video once again. My intercessor set (8th editio) arrived a week ago and thanks to you my first marine looks awesome.

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Great to hear!

[@JasperDog1685]

Bought this set yesterday and a paint set, did my first mini and omg those shoulder details 😭 I only found this vid now and can 100% relate to the over lapping 😅

[@rjpunkin]

Thanks so much for doing I want to get into painting and find it intimidating how good people are at making things look so good. This really breaks it down.

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

I am glad that you found it helpful ☺️

[@fyo2575]

Your Paint-A-Longs are so de-stressing , you speak clearly and I understand everything you say , and your paint speed is slow enough for me to actually paint along and not be worried of messing up . :)

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

I am glad you are enjoying them 🙂

[@vanbaza]

Managed to get my first ever miniature painted with this! Thank you very much!

[@desingahv]

Thank you for this tutorial Is very usefull the approach yo take in this one, giving the three options on how color them. Wait your necron tutorial now, Excellent work!

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Glad you liked it! I am going to be painting the Necrons this week, so hopefully the video for them will be out on the weekend.

[@Ratstail91]

I didn't realize astrogranite was a texturing paint. Glad I watched this before using it by accident lol

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Glad you found out before having a disaster

[@alandtic4616]

Oh god that would have been a unique model for sure

[@clitoralrosary9474]

How could one make that mistake? Lol.

[@Ratstail91]

@@clitoralrosary9474 IDK im dumb

[@adamcfmacdonald]

My first GW order and first mini painting. Thanks for the video.

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Glad it worked well for you 👍

[@danmclaughlin8016]

Just got my kit today and am thankful to find a good guide for it

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Hopefully it will help you with painting them up!

[@tp6498]

This is the second paint a long video of yours I've watched and I gotta say I'm a fan. I like the way you incorporate the "pause button" after every step. It really gives the feeling that I am painting right along with you in the entire process. I realize that I normally pause, rewind etc many painting tutorial videos I watch to get a better understanding of the painters process and techniques but yours is presented in a unique way and I enjoy it. 👍and a subscription from me sir.

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

I am glad you are enjoying them so much 😊

[@Azrael1793]

Cool I just bought and painted my first mini ever the other day watching your other building+paint videos, I made a mess with the white details but overall it was okay, i'm now gonna replicate your first color scheme of this video on my next intercessor (sadly just priming with abad. black with brush) but this time with a new set of brushes and a mini handle.

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

The white details on these models are probably the trickiest part. Hopefully better brushes will help with it :-D

[@Mr_Waffle.]

This was super helpful as a beginner, thank you!

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tigre_rougeblitz5853]

Assault Intercessor Hype🤗 I decided to make my Frak intercessor as a Veteran Sergeant of the 2nd Company!

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Nice! 👍

[@wigga_gaming]

My set of these guys is coming in 3 days its gonna be my first set. Kinda nervous about painting them but think its gonna work out fine.

[@thetsarofall8666]

Gonna be painting up and customising the hell out of one of these soon enough to give to a friend who's just starting, as his set had a run in with his little cousin who destroyed it before he got the chance to paint it. Give em the ol black templars treatment.

[@ausaralexander2627]

TheTsar ofAll nice

[@Xanderk1203]

A little late I know but just a heads up for anyone thinking about doing this, keep in mind the shoulder pad has a Ultramarines emblem molded into it (thank you this video for pointing that out to me almost made this same mistake) Not a huge deal but will disqualify the model from being any other chapter for serious events, just a though to keep in mind. If you’re just gonna mess around with friends, or you don’t care if your first 3 models can’t play in a serious event for your army then go for it. But just remember you’ll have to work around that emblem.

[@thetsarofall8666]

@@Xanderk1203 for the build i made for a friend i just carved away the entire shoulder pads and replace them with custom ones off of etsy

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

I suspect if one is really dedicated a file or a rotary tool could be used to remove the emblem, but that is way beyond what one would expect from a beginner 😂

[@markfalt8346]

So helpful, thanks for making this

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Glad it was helpful 😊

[@adammckeown7420]

This helped me out so much thank you

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Glad it helped!

[@davidpayne8045]

excellent video, thank you

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Glad you liked it

[@fireemblemistrash75]

I got the $100 variant and man I wish I started small and simple... but I loathe the Ultra Marines so I tried painting em red lol. This is very useful and helpful! I hope you’ll do one on the newest set :))

[@MutsuKazuma]

what's there to loathe about ultramarines?

[@-TrickSh0t-]

Thank you so much im very proud of my minis

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

I am glad that they tuned out well for you

[@Itsallover57]

Got this kit today. Glad im not alone in feeling the pain of that horse shoe

[@Xanderk1203]

Wonderful video, just cracking out my army for the first time in 17 years so this was a great refresher before I go into the deep dive of fixing all my young self’s BS blobby job.

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Glad you liked it 😊 I am lucky/unlucky that I don't have my armies from the 90s anymore. I would love to still own some of those sculpts, but I am also glad I don't have to remember grade school Me's 'amazing' paint jobs 😅

[@Xanderk1203]

@@SleepyWhatsIt I've got everything ;) including even the retro early 00's and even 90's boxes that I got them in. I wish I could post pictures here I got all the boxes all setup in a display behind my table now. But yes that "I did a good job" paint job for me uh..isn't haha.

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

@@Xanderk1203 Now I am wondering if I should have kept all my boxes for the new stuff I bought since getting back into the hobby, cause in 20 years I am going to want to make a display out of it.

[@assaulttvtray9438]

I cant wait to paint mine

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Good luck!

[@cheese_man2717]

Nice

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Thanks!

[@ioanmilenov5231]

Cool video, I really like how your models turned out. I will be painting my fist miniatures in a couple of days when they arrive, but haven’t settled on what brushes to use. Any recommendations?

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Something like a decent art store nylon brush like Taklon Golds are a good place to start. They are reasonably priced and serviceable. Other than the starter brush and the drybrushes from Citadel I don't have much experience with GW's brushes, so cannot say if they are good or bad. They are kinda available everywhere and I know a lot of people use them, but I have never heard people singing their praises. Reaper Miniatures makes a solid well priced line of both nylon and sable brushes that I definitely would recommend. They are what I started with. My goto currently are Rosemary & Co Series 33 brushes which are good quality but affordable sable brushes. Their major issue is that they are based in the UK so depending on where you are they may take a long time to ship.

[@ioanmilenov5231]

@@SleepyWhatsIt Thanks for the info 😄

[@deuxvaal1972]

Yes yes yes

[@jrminiatures9221]

Do you know where you can get a Indomitus set with the space marines and necrons in ?

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

I am not sure, I would suggested contacting independent game shops, they may still have some in stock, or ordered more as part of the Made To Order thing they did.

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Looks like there are also re-sellers on Amazon that have it, amzn.to/3hPDGWH, though that looks a bit marked up in price.

[@joshuajaimes121]

What paint kit did you use? And did you just use the same paint brush the whole time?

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

I restricted my self to the paints from this kit, www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Space-Marines-Paint-Set-CA-2020, and I only used the starter brush from that kit. I highly recommend using a better brush if you have one, since the Citadel Starter brush doesn't hold a point well and generally isn't a good brush.

[@magsimags]

noob question but do i need to thin out paints like agrax earthshade or tesseract glow?

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Generally no, unless you are going for a specific effect/less shading. You might want to thin them and do multiple layers so you have more precise control.

[@dropbear430]

I'm new but i cant find any space marines to buy that have the cool "vader" helmets. Is this the latest edition of the space marine?

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

This kit is the for the current edition, 9th. Are you referring to this style of marine, www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Space-Marine-Tactical-Squad-2020? Those are the older traditional pre-Primaris marines. They are still playable, but are significantly older sculpts and GW has been pushing the new Primaris marines via updated rules, etc.

[@Numen06]

Sorry for the noob question, but what is the purpose of basecoating with black, couldn't you just paint over the grey primer? Thanks!

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

The reason that we undercoat black is so that if there's any small crevices or things like that that we don't fully fill in with other base colors the black just appears as a dark shadow as opposed to a bright point in the shadow. Also a black undercoat means that as we build up our base colors we can be selective about where we put down a second layer to create some shadowing. Normally I would have just primed these black when painting this style, but the kit doesn't actually come with a primer of any sort so I wanted to show putting the black paint on something that looks like the model plastic like a gray primer instead of magically having a black model.

[@Numen06]

@@SleepyWhatsIt That makes a lot of sense, thanks for responding.

[@connor2136]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but do you need to prime them ??

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

If you are planning on playing with them yes, otherwise the paint will tend to rub off from handling. I primed light grey and then painted the undercoat blackt, but something like GW's Chaos Black or another black primer would save you a step.

[@deuxvaal1972]

How much time is necessary to Paint the second Cape of black ?

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

I am sort of unsure of what you are asking. I think you are asking about time between coats of black. Often by the time I have completed a coat I can start applying the second coat where I started the first coat, i.e. if I start at the head and work down to the feet, I can immediately start again at the head. If I have thinned my paint a bit more then normal or it is humid, I may have to wait a few minutes. You are wanting the first layer to be dry to the touch, I.e. when you apply more paint the initial layer isn't being moved by brush strokes.

[@deuxvaal1972]

@@SleepyWhatsIt thanx i dont write good in english xd im from spain

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

No problem, you write better in English then I would write in Spanish 😅

[@deuxvaal1972]

@@SleepyWhatsIt xd

[@caliber3508]

I should of watched this video before painting my first mini, well at least I have 19 more minis to paint

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Hopefully it will help with the rest!

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

Also obviously you should watch at least one of my videos before any painting session 😂

[@WowGamerMike]

Lol they should just give out a card in the kit that links to this video

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

I would be down for that, but I suspect I have talked too much smack about GW over the years for them to ever sponsor me 😂

[@Inconvenient_NPC]

Cool video, but four coats of paint bruh? 😂

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@MutsuKazuma]

seems kinda useless to paint the whole model black if you didn't prime it in black, just paint the joints in black and save yourself some paint, the rest is not gonna be black anyway

[@SleepyWhatsIt]

In this case I primed light and undercoated black for slightly misguided pedalogical reasons, to show using two thinned coats for getting coverage. The final cut of the video didn't really make that point well and it probably just confuses people. For a project like this, like I said in the video, I would recommend priming black. Beyond that though I think there is a potential reason someone might paint this way. Specifically if they only have one colour of primer, that is not black. Given the overall dark tone of this paint scheme, I would probably still recommend undercoating black. Since this paint scheme is relative dark a black undercoat will hide minor mistakes in the base layers, where you didn't get complete coverage into the nooks and crannies. Dark over light primer can be particularly unforgiving in this regard, since any coverage issues will be bright white spots, often in areas that should be shadows.