This changed the way I paint forever...

Today I'll show you how to paint a Dark Angels Bladeguard in a Grimdark Deathwing bone armor scheme. Today this is considered a very traditional approach but back in the day when I stumbled over it, it really revolutionised my painting and how I think about application of paint, and storytelling with miniatures.
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This channel is about painting miniatures for your warhammer, infinity, warmachine & d&d games, as well as age of sigmar and warhammer 40k. space marines, space wolves, sisters of battle, stormcast eternals, beastclaw raiders, mawtribes, cities of sigmar, chaos space marines. Also painting different scale models and miniature busts! How to paint NMM. How to paint warhammer, how to paint D&D figures.

[@Rodrianius]

Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has Decal Transfers.

[@richardhertz7345]

This ended up being one of the best marine painting videos I've ever watched. The range of techniques, the way you mix paint, it's next level.

[@greyrigorism8869]

came to say the same thing

[@tightning]

Love this take on Deathwing armour, and the statement about Grimdark being an aesthetic rather than a technique. Experimentation and utilising/discovering new techniques is part of the joy of the hobby for me.

[@saltedllama2759]

Good points. A lot of things like NMM and dramatic lighting are also not techniques, but a result or effect. How we get there is a matter of experimentation followed by experience. :)

[@Ennio444]

Damn, I don't want you to cut down the fluff of the video. The step by step, full process is what I love about this! It's how I really learn! Maybe have the "main video" short and sweet, and then post the longer ones in a separate channel? Call it Trovarion Deep Cuts or Trovarion Happy Hour, but please, post the longer form!

[@mauriciooliveira8703]

Completely agree!

[@2WARDEN2]

Big ditto! There's so few long-form painting videos that really help me grow my technique. Having a shortcut with a verbalized description just isn't the same!

[@trovarion]

when I say fluff I mean me being on camera or fancy filler shots, etc.

[@techboi_420]

I think allowing the die hards to trade deep knowledge for some money over on patreon is perfect. It's a win for the fan, and for the creator

[@commanderkeeno5552]

Does painting tyranids in a grim dark style make any sense?

[@johnnytransam5894]

Came here from North Of The Boarder. Instant subscribe. Love watching people who are so insanely good at their art.

[@beforedrrdpr]

me too

[@pavlusf]

First time I encounter your channel, I see an extremely teaching video on painting deathwing armour, green cloth, decal chipping, basing, sculpting a hood, scratching shoulder pads and shield,...all. Very very good content. Couldn't understand the title yet, though.

[@trovarion]

You got good content, the title made you click it. Both parties happy.

[@paddya3304]

Sorry to hear that KZbin isn’t pushing your videos. There’s so much really interesting information and advice in your videos and I sincerely hope that you can continue to make them. All the best!

[@trovarion]

Thanks! it is pushing most, but the painting videos usually underperform. I don't mean to sound like I blame youtube though, I think I know what the problem is and I just have to change things around a bit :) manly make the videos more precise/shorter for more engagement.

[@Wijkert]

5:49 I agree. Reads like snow interestingly enough.

[@ltjamescoopermason8685]

Thanks for showing how to make standing GW figures truer to the feeling that comes from the audio CD's and some of the Books! Excellent Educational experience and that's down to yourself !

[@bongochongopongo]

love the purple shading on the green cloth, great idea

[@wpb5876]

What I love about this video (and a lot of your tutorials) is the end result looks absolutely amazing, and also the process looks very achievable and easy to follow. The ‘techniques’ are not overly complicated but I definitely wouldn’t have thought about it by myself Thanks as always!

[@ghengiscohen3858]

Probably one of the best painting videos I have seen on this platform.

[@Borris-4545]

This is one of the best painting tutorials I have seen on youtube. Thank you!

[@mrscotchguy]

This is the first time I've seen sponge "paint chipping" turn out so good. Great work, liked and subbed.

[@SigismundsWrath]

Love the battle damaged decals! When you first showed off the models, my initial reaction was "OMG, how did he achieve that look?!" You made it so simple, yet so effective

[@guille787]

A delight for the eyes. Thanks!

[@Pizaz0]

You really really sold me on how to use decals better, unbelievable. Thank you so much!

[@saltedllama2759]

Love the simple act of removing various trim pieces and sculpting a hood. Little things can make a big difference; our conversions don't always have to be super ambitious.

[@MLTDWN99]

Insane, seeing something like this is just a pure form of art. Im absolutely speachless

[@MLTDWN99]

Also, the montage/ editing really does well in your videos. Love to see more. It's just sad that our attention capacity is that low, but yeah, it kinda works with your montages

[@adammeney8841]

Mezmorizing. This tutorial gives me some great ideas to try to get my deathwing looking more grim..... and dark.

[@gregmccormack5709]

Babysit the Pigments! I love this thought when it comes to Wash/glazes.

[@SupeS19811981]

That is absolutely incredible.

[@power_SERG]

That green metallic is beyond amazing. God damn!

[@crewie94]

That is a phocking beautiful piece. Wow.

[@DJhayesify]

I often click on to videos but this is the one of the first videos I watched (along with your slapchop and your HH Ultramarine recently, both a similar style to this) the whole way through. For me if you keep adding in tutorials like this, along with the more in-depth/longer videos) I would watch more and that would act as a gateway to being more invested to watch to the longer more in depth vids.

[@tajj7]

The shield looks amazing, you did so much with simple decals, it looks like the personal sigil of a medieval knight.

[@terencehealy5110]

😱😱😱 The weather on that miniature is another level very well done I was supposed to be painting but nar I wanted to watch this

[@EthanSly]

The final mini looks fantastic! I'll be sure to try and use some of the weathering techniques you used with my own miniatures :) Great work!

[@K0sk4]

Loved the montage, as well as the FULL LENGHT of this video.

[@Mark.Matthews]

Perfect look for a fallen/redeemed brother. I absolutely love this cloth look, need to try and replicate it with my blood angels vets.

[@chrismoore5724]

The shield made me ridiculously happy. I sat here smiling at the process. Amazing

[@HorizonIsHere1337]

That's incredible mate. Thanks for such a wonderful tutorial.

[@DigitalOrigami]

Love the shoulder pads. I’m not sure what it is but there’s something about that look that just hits. You’ve got me thinking about giving it a go. I will say I nearly had a heart attack when you took the knife to the shield, lol. This is the best Dark Angel mini I’ve ever seen.

[@sintramdragonis4794]

Absolutely love that mini

[@magnus80a]

I wish I’d thought of scraping the shields clean off of my six vanguard veterans. Looks great!

[@Howardone]

the weathered armour effect, I've always wanted my marines to have this yet could never make it work. Thanks for the vid.

[@netghost07]

Wie immer sehr unterhaltsam. Beeindruckende Fertigkeiten.

[@bfournie1]

I'm trying to restart painting after 10 years. I'm not really into speed painting and have the mini just ready to play. It's nice that you show all those technics and explain what it adds and the result is just amazing.

[@ivanzidarov5696]

Awesome video. As usual beautiful work. For me, this video was edited perfectly and I hope that the algorithm responds accordingly!

[@dawsonneilsen]

The bone armor is super cool

[@telepaten]

Love the look of your weathered armor with all the decals

[@50043211]

Looks good! I find painting or observing someone who paints very well very relaxing for the mind.

[@mileshatch3804]

I really like the way you display the paint/colour on the side when you are talking about it and using it on the model.

[@benicolay]

First video! You're clearly a super-talented artist but you've made it feel like a noob could achieve this result. Thanks so much!

[@bettsdn]

Your greens in this - both the robes and and metallics - are sublime.

[@stephenreed738]

My young daughter says: “You put a lot of work into that and it turned out really good. Well done. You are ridiculously good.”

[@trovarion]

What is your daughter's name?

[@Dpm12349]

I approve the new editing! Very well done!

[@DocDocGoose15]

I'm here from the channel North of the Border. This is such a sick sculpture and I'm glad I stuck till the end. Definitely subscribing

[@unnisa666]

You had a comment about people watching your videos for shorter, I can only answer for myself, but I have fallen into a "youtube-fatiuge" recently, whitch makes me watch content far more un-patiently than before, plus I don't always watch perfectly fine content as long as I used to.

[@nofixedcourse]

Deathwing have always been my favourite but I haven't painted one since the early 90s. Might be time to try again!

[@Blottingpaper]

Plain shield with heraldry looks great.

[@andrewnicon]

All of the chips on the armour look just awesome.

[@mcmhobby2044]

Just want to say That since I have started to watch your videos, I have started to change the way I paint. Which is great, I am still learning a lot. Keep up the amazing work, and Thanks for inspiring me.

[@davidstone-haigh4880]

Beautiful work. The textured heavy cloth technique alone is worth watching. I really like the older veteran head you used too. That combined with the weathered armour and wargear is a much better fit for The Lion's Guard. Cheers!

[@rubenamatuni1184]

So good!! love the montage of the shield aswell. Great music too

[@claesmorin2216]

Very nice, deep coloured bone and the weathering. Great paintjob for the best Space Marines, no repenting needed here!

[@neilcollins7371]

If it's of any help the pace of this video felt perfect for me. Great stuff 😁

[@sevencoloredmage8726]

You nailed the Deathwing colors.

[@donchilders178]

I really like how that turned out. And i always watch the whole thing. Love your work man.

[@timdowning6916]

Please keep these coming! Great video

[@BarokaiRein]

So something I do quite often is open a video just to close it, so it's in my watch history and I remember to watch it later when I've got the time for it. The ''watch later'' playlist never purges itself so I just don't use that. It's a shame youtube's algorithm punishes based on watch time because I'm sure a lot of people do the same.

[@mralloc23]

The absolute mastery you show while painting this mini is insane. I didnt want the video to end lol.

[@boldbetrayerbatey6428]

Bud you are awsome. They look soo good. Love to see wot you done with vehicles.

[@mccollins]

Absolutely amazing

[@tombrand236]

Awesome! Looks simple but fantastic outcome

[@Malthus]

Great tutorial. If the rest of you’re content is this good I’d have no worries about your channel continuing on strong.

[@richardhertz7345]

I can never get sponge weathering to work. This video has motivated me to give it another go.

[@bitzbox]

He looks amazing. The battle damage really makes it

[@Spine1337]

Great video, I think focusing on a few key techniques and moving fast through the rest really help tighten the video.

[@IamZeus1100]

Okay , I’m blown away . One of , if not the best paint jobs I’ve seen on a space marine . Especially pulling off that creamy white of the death wing and weathering it to perfection . Also so many damn techniques being used ! So many things I want to try out now ! You sir , are a master of your craft and also a terrific teacher . Thanks for sharing your knowledge and skills with the world !

[@billdefranza4927]

As always to very impressive and helpful. Thanks, Trov!

[@damiandeans9265]

That sir, is the best ive seen, absoutely loved it, has given me some ideas and will be trying to replicate a lot of this on my next models, thank you so much,, much love from Australia

[@dopeshades4134]

My dude, this looks absolutely amazing.

[@adamlovell1]

Huge props! Just found this as a suggestion in my feed. You were a very easy subscribe choice. Keep up the great work!

[@tillfreitag4446]

best painter out there by far

[@jupitertank459]

This is great, I am about to start painting my mortifactors and I’m for sure using this bone armor recipe thanks!

[@goldmundswelt]

Great video. There is so much to learn here. Thanks so much for sharing ❤

[@Black_Blow_Fly]

Armor is AMAZING ❤

[@NiskRanThawll]

stunning job. absolutely LOVE the tone on the armour

[@PistolPeteLee]

This was recommended to me, and I subscribed. This is probably the best space marine painting video I’ve ever watched, and the easiest to follow in terms of how you do things and how you explain it. Excellent video

[@mandzakminiatures]

This was a great video. It really makes me want to start working on my Relictor Space Marines again.

[@MrSmokincodz]

The GOAT strikes again. Cheers T

[@mrwrench3131]

I'll be rewatching this many times, thanks a lot!

[@elijahdprophet]

That decal work is mind bending, can;t wait to try it myself.

[@harald2101]

So hyped for this video! Have to watch it later. Cheers to the algorithm!

[@Zilkat]

Painting level: Godlike

[@lukasisepp7839]

I don't get it how people can just watch 2 min of ur Videos. Damn I re-watch them I think a hundred times to remember every step of u perfectly 😁😅 Great Videos man. I love ur painting style. It is soo cool and really "easy" to follow. Thank you for ur cool videos you did already help me a lot with my stuff 🙏🏻🙏🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@gingerlyza]

Looks great. This is the first time I have seen your channel, so I'll have to check out some more of your videos.

[@Omegaterrain]

I love how much I learn from one single video. Every single time I watch one I instantly want to cancel all my plans and paint.

[@alexandrefernandes6286]

I love Dark Angels! And... damn you paint so well!!!

[@fallenfossl]

I've commented on this before and watched this vid now for the 3rd time... Feck knows how your vids are at 20% watch you legit are the first KZbin CC where I've considered paying for more 😂

[@Nicolas-yd2mw]

A long video is the difference between outrageous clickbait and quality. Thanks for showing us your talent and your techniques !

[@TheMrBigJeff]

I’ve just had a flashback to painting faces years ago - I’d do one layer and be like okay… another layer omg it looks amazing - final layer… oops it looks awful. Every. Damn. Time. Loved it.

[@TruthTealler]

i like it when u show more painting like this.

[@Hotrancidgrease]

Love the heavy weathering. This is an effect I have been trying to get down. Your video will be helping me do so. Thanks!

[@ovan2190]

I always enjoy watching your videos because, I feel like I'm learning about painting from a diffent perspective. Your grimdark series is a great example because to me at least you are teaching great techniques but I feel like you're also teaching; intent I want to say I could be using that word wrong but I've learned that placement of colors is just as important as the colors themselves it helps sell the effect your looking for. I've recently found a personal recipe for vertigri and rust and have been enjoying experimenting where the rust and vertigri would occur on my bases I understand why you may have to shorten your videos I hope things even out so your videos get more watch time I love learning something from your videos

[@trovarion]

amazing! thanks for sharing these thoughts, means a lot!

[@TheMichaellathrop]

I think the look of the charcoal weathering was very striking.

[@italosavegnago2389]

Beautiful work !

[@craigcook5121]

Always wicked looking paint jobs. Love the comments as they make you feel that you can copy and work along with the process. Love the close ips so you can see what’s going on with the brush tip , sponge etc.

[@BrendanPace]

I love these videos! I look forward to seeing future grimdark from you! Possibly salamanders

[@trovarion]

You might be lucky. I heard that Pyroblasters might be something that Salamanders like.