Kitbashing A VALHALLAN ICE WARRIOR Sentinel - Astra Militarum Conversion

[@PeteTheWargamer]

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[@lord_kuma4439]

Man i would absolutelly love to see the new Rogal Dorn tank converted into a Valhallan style one

[@Matt-md5yt]

the name doesn't fit the thing but it's neat

[@derloco2035]

Me too +1

[@mikemcc1156]

Fully agreed 👍👍

[@pakxoid_76]

Me too +1

[@thesmileyone29]

Same!

[@Schneedrache06]

Glad to see a fellow Night Shift enjoyer, the amount of heart and detail he puts into his projects also had me wanting to apply his techniques to some wargame vehicles. That sentinel came out amazing!

[@ItsEzlan]

MA FRIENDS

[@Unknownmonkey13]

​@@ItsEzlan M u h f r i e n d s !

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Couldn't agree more! He's a massive inspiration and has been one of the driving factors of me trying to incorporate scale modeling techniques in wargame miniatures.

[@Schneedrache06]

Mah friends! Seriously the best part of a Friday is hearing that.

[@telkhine_4067]

The way this communicated the bleak feeling of being out in the cold and snow during combat was honestly great. Just looking at it and thinking about it made me uncomfy, which is definitely a good thing

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Thank you! I tried to keep the model looking bleak and drab without it just being bland and boring so I'm glad to hear that it comes across that way 🙂

[@maxvarjagen9810]

It makes me feel very comfy knowing I'm not there

[@samdaniels4961]

Some Catachan Conversions would be fantastic. A tank with a "lived in" look. Their Tank being their home base for excursions through the death world! Keep up the incredible work

[@Ben-fk9ey]

Probably one of your best paint jobs so far, also I really like the bridge between scale modellers and classic warhammer tank painting! Miniature painters like Night Shift use so many techniques that are applicable to warhammer stuff it's a shame the two communities don't mesh that often. When they do you get brilliant results like you've got!

[@nikot.9920]

So hyped for this, your Valhallans are so class

[@peeledapples4176]

This looks excellent, the weathering is beautifully done and really sells the "winter warzone" vibe

[@comradebusman3]

Your valhallan kitbashes just make me wish for a kitbash of Ciaphas Cain, Jurgen, Colonel Kasteen, and Major Broklaw

[@augustinthewakeofdawn1788]

absolutely love the base on this! would love to see you tackle a regiment like the mud jumpers from solo: a star wars story. i wet weather, muddy regiment would be fantastic to see weathered in this style, and would especially love to see you tackle a really muddy, trench-like terrain.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Cool idea!

[@OmegaLittleBob]

Your Valhallans are so good I'd love to see you do some more.

[@Exidous96]

Amazing as always!! I'm really excited to see what you get up to with the new Ridgewalkers kit, they look like a kitbashers dream!

[@drkriegkorps294]

Since I am building my own winter/vahallan themed army, I would love to see more Imperial Guard/Militarum conversions in the future. I already used the techniques I learned from this channel to give a few officer models fur collars and ushankas. Wonderful work, and I love your panting style. It sold me on the new look of the sentinel. I don't feel like 'Eavy Metal's style of painting the Guard does a good job of showcasing what the new models have to offer, but yours gets the gritty feel of the machinery to come through with out looking messy.

[@ShadowSentinel94]

One thing i'd recommend as someone who lives in a cold climate is that snow builds up in nooks and crannys on vehicles so it could be cool to pack some snow onto the flatter parts of the armor panels.

[@sarven5974]

Reminds me of a great Soviet Kv-2, which fits perfect with the Valhallan style, stellar work!

[@PariahRonin]

If your going continue with the Valhallans - then is Commissar Cain coming up?

[@thesmileyone29]

God I hope so!

[@SpetsnazStevens]

23:35 "The last soldier, his village burned down around him, quietly watches the fire from the Sentinel hatch. There is nothing left for him here."

[@rileysmith7763]

It looks awesome!! I think it’s hilarious that the community has seemingly agreed the sentinel’s gyro stabilizer looks terrible and can be left out of the model.

[@brokenheroics8223]

What I love most about this paint scheme, you proved you don't always have to paint certain parts metallic silver, like the engine, and legs that you see often. This was brilliant. The snow effecet on the base is phenomenal.

[@TetsugakuSan]

Very very well executed, great effects Constructive feedback if it helps…. - I applaud the painting of most metal parts. You’d think in GW land that almost half a tank was bare metal. Good to see you avoided that. But some, especially moving parts, should be bare and could have interacted with the weathering in a cool way? Same for the engine cowling, with some more metal you could have the opportunity for colour / heat affects - the smoke launchers have a bit of a mold line on them - the base is amazing, but really felt like it needed a foot print from the walker in it, breaks the illusion not having one behind the right leg Keep Up the amazing work

[@LichKing36]

Hi Pete I want to make a suggestion can u build and paint ww1 theme astra militarum with Bombast Field Gun using Wargames Atlantic upgrade sprue pickelhaube heads. I'm planning to build the Teutons from 40k.

[@seangallagher9435]

Seeing the attempt at wield marks really looks cool. Makes me want to try making a Cast Iron appearance on a tank now

[@squidgiemctentacles5265]

I am going to cry You stopped doing the 30k legion conversions right before my favorites (the 4th) Why do you hurt me this way? (Good conversion though lmao)

[@Nubloot]

Holy shit you need to do a full army like this.

[@dylanevans4950]

Really like the approach to flavoring vehichle units towards particular regiments or chapters. Great job!!

[@AshleyBlackwater]

The fact that you watch Night Shift but do weld beads like that...

[@maxvarjagen9810]

Like when a master chef makes a simple meal. Without straining his craft with fancy tricks and elaborate embellishments, he falls back on what he knows will work, and effortlessly creates a masterpiece. All it is is an open hatch and a soldier wearing an Ushanka, but I still find it more impressive than the demons and vampire lords.

[@sandwichgaming2002]

One day we will have The vallhalan guard and commissar ciaphas cain

[@giggabyte6413]

Im a big fan of Night Shifts work also and i have to say, your Sentinel is rly good looking

[@sanguinius6815]

would love to see some conversions for the age of darkness praetors

[@carsonfox4730]

I would love to see your take on Tallarn Desert Raiders

[@emilwinter8095]

Wonderful as always, I adore this conversion, just as I did the other Valhallan conversion. Wonderful work Pete, keep it up!

[@nh5316]

When are we going to see the Wargames Atlantic / Reptilian Miniatures SpaceNam video?

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Once they've been released in the UK 🙂

[@High-LordHarza]

This is INSANE. That paint job is phenomenal

[@Convincing_Reality]

Sticking with the Imperial Guard, and given the somewhat surprising discontinuation of Commissar Yarrick from the range, would you consider attempting a kitbash?

[@AlexAttemptsTabletop]

Ah I see your a man culture… Nightshift makes some incredible content. Makes minis come to life! That said, really enjoyed this video as well obvs 💁🏻‍♂️👏🏼 Thanks again ^^

[@OM3GASOUNDWAV3]

One of my favourite videos you’ve done so far! …but you missed the counterweight bit on the back of the legs, unless you missed it by choice, I couldn’t unsee it I’m sorry 🤦🏻‍♂️😂.

[@PeteTheWargamer]

Haha, yeh I chose to omit that piece. I know it makes more sense mechanically, but it also looked kind of stupid.

[@OM3GASOUNDWAV3]

@@PeteTheWargamer I actually agree with you, it’s far to big, the only reason I noticed is because I think it looks silly too! Haha. Again great video!

[@Tipperbodda]

By far one of your best paint jobs so far. Awesome video as always Pete

[@williamowens5144]

On real military vehicles that were painted with a winter white wash, the vehicle markings were masked (often roughly) and left a portion of the original paint color around them. Might be easier for some hobbyists to do than cutting out a stencil.

[@Dustind1211]

Vostroyan Firstborn!!! Please!

[@darthbobminiatures]

Gorgeous paintjob and so happy to hear you giving Nightshift a shoutout! He's so talented and has so many awesome tips and tricks for helping wargamer hobbyists as well as armor modelers.

[@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247]

Ever consider an Atillan Rough Rider unit converted to look like a regiment of Polish-Lithuanian Winged Hussars? GW just released new Rough Rider models, and the wings from an Aeldari Autarch would work a treat for the unit-leader. Just prepare to pay for music-rights... I think I hear a Sabaton tune coming on. >w>

[@gusheine2119]

I love the ice warriors style and aesthetic, I don’t have any sets or models of my own, mostly cause painting very difficult for me. It’s so awesome seeing you create these beautiful models all by yourself

[@TheeYellowDart]

Man...I've been watching your vids for inspiration and when you mentioned Night Shift I was like "YAS!" I love 40K and Scale kits :)

[@foreverfornever1124]

This looks cool! Pun intended lol. I wish GW gave this much love to other guard regiments. I have to use this paint scheme asap!

[@Bottle-OBill]

Pete: Makes rough weld beads on Sentinel Me: "Heh, sounds like something NightShift would do." Pete: "The inspiration for this theme came from one of NightShift's recent videos." Me: 👁👄👁

[@madmerlinsart]

I'm really struggling to find a good winter themed battle board tutorial, as I'm trying to create a Hoth themed board for my Legion models. I think I might be taking a trip to AK's website and ordering some of their texture paints.

[@NotALot-xm6gz]

Needs more bowls of tanner.

[@KurtKn1sp3l]

So, Mr Fantastic now fights for the Imperial guard? You again did an incredible job here. How about kitbashing the new Guards into Vostroyan?

[@SirEarlGrey]

Awesome. Would have love to see some smoke stacks coming from the exhausts and tiny red glow from the engine. It would contrast nicely against the bue/greens

[@benjaminstorace6699]

Since they've killed off Yarrick, bring him back as a Rogue Trader-era Imperial Guard Dreadnought.

[@Tharringbone]

When I saw the thumbnail I immediately thought of Night Shift. Very fun to hear that’s where some the inspiration came from!

[@takyz138]

Amazing as always! While you're doing Guard conversions, I wonder how doable a Tallarn squad using Necromunda Ash Waste Nomads is...

[@jackjames2872]

You have to make a Valhallan army

[@epicgamer1910]

Love it! I’d love to see you give some heavy weapons some Vostroyan flair, whether that be the heavy weapons squads proper or field ordnance batteries. Tanith would also be rad, and Athonian Tunnel Rats would make for a good challenge - their art looks stunning but MAN would it be complicated to put together.

[@P1NSH3R]

You schould really get some of those Mortian Tanks or Crawlers and make them in this Valhallan Style. You are very Talented. Love watching your videos and learning new tips and tricks. Keep it up ! :)

[@Flight_of_Icarus]

Ever since the plastic Krieg kit came out, I've been really hoping for a revisit to the Maccabian Janissaries.

[@40HDR]

I think I made a mistake somewhere along in the build. I ended up with a VanHalen ice warrior...........but, it Rocks.

[@pvrhye]

Can you share some thoughts on Tamiya XF? I've always been intimidated by it because it's laquer based, but you seem to use it well. Personally speaking, it's much more readily available than other kinds of paint.

[@adamstewart5188]

This is a fantastic project all around, Pete. There are so many different things here that a hobbyist can take away from this video, even if they don't plan to convert at Valhallan Sentinel: the pilot sticking out of the cockpit, the fur-lined hat, the stencil, the green stuff fabric roll, and the snow basing can all be useful tutorials. I'm just getting started with Astra Militarum. I don't think I'll do Valhallans (I don't want to have to do green stuff sculpting on every single infantryman), but I really like the idea of having a Sentinel with the pilot leaning out.

[@FerreusVir]

I really liked the extra armor steps you showed, another excellent watch. Edit: You referenced Night Shift, nevermind, heh.

[@NarcolepticLTD]

I dig the extra armor you added, but seeing the weld beads done in sprue goo looked like an exceptionally precarious step - one false move and you've got a melty mess that would require a LOT of sanding and resculpting to sort out, or possiblly a total loss. You mentioned your paint scheme was inspired by Martin Kovac over at Night Shift, you may want to offer up his solution to weld beads with epoxy putty as well :) Not taking away from the finished result here btw, it looks great!

[@ErwinHistory]

Wow, you managed to make the ugly New sentinel look decent. I'm impressed

[@mickthegeek875]

As I'm starting an Astra Militarum army myself, seeing the stencil technique you used for the number has helped me figure out how to do my own numbering on the armor of the soldiers. I would love to see further videos of you Valhallan Army. Especially a Castellan conversion as I'm wanting to give mine a Mechanicus cyborg foot!

[@altonblue6921]

I'm curious about how you would handle converting an Imperial Guard model that is inspired by medieval knights, using only GW kits

[@ravenniwolvarious8801]

Amazing conversion Pete, great job as always. The Valhallans look incredible and love the hatch work on the sentinel. Not sure if you'd be interested but I'd love your take on a Chaos conversion for the new Cadians, some of them may have fallen after all....

[@jagorpirkic2776]

Awesome work! I'd love to see you maybe work on converting some Vostroyan Firstborns. They have a unique and beautiful aesthetic that I would absolutely love to see you take a crack at, especially the gas masks

[@KyrasTheMoontamer]

I cannot help but ask, but what is this absolutely fantastic music that you have in the background. It matches the model wonderfully as you are working on it. Also, I must say, this is highly inspiring but I never knew how many different products there were for just detailing models, let alone weathering them.

[@scagmo_au]

Cane here after watching the Krieg Russ kitbash. Instant sub after hearing the love for Uncle Night Shift 😁. Incredible work here and on the Krieg Russ

[@sjhhej]

Exceptional. Dear Games Workshop, instead of endless bloody tedious Cadians, do more of these other regiments. Praetorians first please.

[@toblexson5020]

The hatch isn't seperate? What a dumb design decision. Having an open option with a commander would be so useful for sentinel squads.

[@RipperX2K]

I feel like Games Workshop should your selling upgrade kit to make people different guardsman Legions like Armageddon steel Legion the Valkyrie in those snow Russian guys with the fuzzy hats

[@Isaac-nl9kw]

amazing work but plz plz plz don't use the passive voice in your narration--it's unbearable

[@RockSplitter]

Uncle Nightshift is great. And if you're thinking about vehicle conversions, go Ork. Nothing is off the table for them.

[@UltimaCorvus]

Personally I'm all for modifying kits, as they make them more persona for the creator, but also, all modifications done tell stories. However, I must say, some modifications (namely the additional armour panels here) tell only half the story to me. I was thinking, okay, more layers added, but why, and why only there? Something had to happen so that they fixed it up. This is no criticism, I just would have added some battle demage to that area to show a well founded reason to put those panels up to strenghten only those areas. I love your videos, I can't wait to have some more free time to get back to my minis!

[@julienpique7415]

Hi, as you are now a famous kitbasher hobbyist who like to clip, scrape, sculpt, and stuff, why not do a take of an omegon's wrath cloaking effect fading revealing an alpha legionaire who was pretending being a marine of any loyalist chapter? Seems a perfect idea to me to use all your talents, and probably recycle some already clipped parts of other projects, no? :)

[@braynceltheartificer]

I'd like to see some Armageddon Steel Legion conversions, both infantry and vehicles, please.

[@The-Apothekari]

I only just found your channel, an you give me such inspiration to kitbash my own models, hopefully i can paint my models half as good as you~

[@n0bilis]

as always very nice kitbash and a very nice project. I realy enjoy jour greenstuff-skills. I would love to see some catachan kitbashes as well 🙂

[@TheMalevolentSpoon]

I have had Factor meals myself, I can attest to their quality. They're super great for lunch alternatives for folks at work.

[@Zzrik]

It's nice to see the Valhallans getting some love, GW have abandoned almost all other regiments and just sticks whit giving the Cadian poster boys new stuff along with the jungle fighters.

[@homeless0alien]

As always, loved the conversion work and the final model came out really well themed even though there wasnt too much work to this conversion. I have to say though the paint scheme this time round really didnt thrill me. Your technique and skill is clearly excellent but i dont think the colour work here was as strong, just didnt look very mechanical and relied very heavily on the base colouring. Just my opinion though, and look forward to your next work!

[@gatall91]

Great video Pete! Think you could do Savlar Chem-Dogs?

[@Butcherl1ke]

I wonder how you would tackle creating some Steel Legion with the upcoming Armageddon book.

[@MobileTech296]

Great job. It's amazing what a couple of touches of flavor and the right paintjob can do.

[@2MeatyOwlLegs]

Hi Pete, I was wondering for a while now why you use passive voice so much in your videos? Just curious because it is kind of unusual. Great video as always :)

[@pointynoodle]

Man I love that slush! You can tell it's the kinda mud/snow that feels nothing like christmas, and a lot more like getting soaked to the bone as the mud sucks your boot right off your foot. However, I can't help but feel you missed an opportunity by not dusting the tank in a light layer of snow, to really integrate it into the scene.

[@cavemanbum]

I never liked the external ammo hoppers that GW has with these autocannons on vehicles. Doesn't make any sense that to change the ammo, one would rely on outside assistance. For my own armored sentinels years ago, I took the ammo feed belts from a Space Marine Land Raider's assault cannons, twisted them back, and had them feeding into the center hull of the sentinel. Looks menacing and fantastic.

[@nickthejack]

Awesome conversion and paint job, i really like the casual pose of the guy sticking out of the hatch. Im a sucker for more natural or relaxed poses on minis, i think warhammer can sometimes go a little too far with the endless heroic poses. My only slight critique would be i think you should have applied a little bit of snow texture to the walker itself: it looks a little divorced from the base to me. When you operate a vehicle in the snow, you'll find it gets everywhere, and little bits of snow in recesses or built up on top would really sell that these guys are deep in a frozen tundra. Maybe even a little build up behind the open hatch would be cool, like he's tipped it off when he opened it up

[@erns_t]

yes more pls, Valhallan Rogal Dorn tank next? I'm so glad the painting is included now

[@brianhoang2312]

Aww, do you not do the 3/5 dead animal bits difficulty anymore? I really thought that was quaint

[@nian89]

This was great :) I'm a big fan of uncle nightshift as well! Hope to see more of your Valhallan's in the future.

[@barrycopithorne]

Wow never thought to use that stencil trick! I'm going to do that with all my stuff now so I never have to apply those sticker things ever again. They always fall off.

[@rougenarwhal8378]

4:16 this is canon, just a poor guardsman captured by the dark eldar's flesh humonculus with ginourmous hands for skin crafting

[@MrTigroz]

Oh man, you could go to town putting dirty, greasy snow clumps and icicles on this army's mechanized elements.

[@AshariusGame]

Bro thank you for inspiring me to make even better conversions!! I love those Valhallans!

[@Phlebas99]

This is one of the first things I've seen actually use the AK Snow Basing stuff. I hope people can find their way to this video for a good example of their use, if nothing else.

[@johnflenaly6322]

Not sure if you take suggestions for projects but if you do here is an idea. Make a Inquisitorial inspired kill team based on the Dark Tide characters.

[@TheGreatArtichoke]

Yeeesssss! Just in time! I was just about to update my sentinel models for the new codex! Thank you for another awesome video!

[@tyjames3339]

i was just looking for a good whitewash technique for my new Russ tanks, this armor looks exactly like what I wanted