Ultimate Guide to Painting Horus Heresy Mechanicum - EASY GRIMDARK

[@nukakitten]

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[@nukakitten]

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[@bldos5362]

you are the dream of so many warhammer nerds, dear Commissar Kitten.

[@nukakitten]

@@bldos5362 every guardsman needs their commissar for morale and motivation! Think of yourself thrice blessed to have a commissar, such as I! 😂

[@MaskedRiderChris]

That's a mighty scary looking cyborg dude, there! Nicely done, Kommissar!

[@nukakitten]

@@MaskedRiderChris AND you can be one too!! Glad you like it!! 😁

[@rick_bassman]

Whe the commissar posts, i answer the call with my thumbs!

[@nukakitten]

It must be raining, because you have brought a tear to this commissar's eye! Many thanksss guardsman!! 😁

[@canuckchuck8836]

Commissar Nuka, you are the best Commissar that has ever Commissared! ...and I am not just saying that because I want to keep my head. **PLEASE DON'T REPLACE MY HEAD**

[@nukakitten]

@@canuckchuck8836 I'm sorry guardsman, that honor goes to ciaphas Cain, hero of the imperium! Hahahaha who's replacing your head!! Your head will replace your body!!! So, don't worry about it, know the certainty of steel!! 😁

[@GhostMaker00]

This is great, happy you tube suggested you!

[@nukakitten]

@@GhostMaker00 Me too!! I have no idea how the machine spirit of youtube works! I just throw content out and pray to the machine God!!

[@RevDrTSgtC]

Your videos just keep getting better and better.

[@nukakitten]

@@RevDrTSgtC Many thanks!!! I want to have fun making the videos and to have a personal touch! Glad you like it!! 😁

[@Caniswalensis]

Great turorial & great presentation.

[@nukakitten]

@@Caniswalensis tutorial?!? Yes...that's what we will call it. It's most definitely not to get my guardsman to volunteer into the mechanicum so I can get that sweet sweet land raider. 😜

[@Caniswalensis]

@nukakitten of course! Volunteering for the mechanicum is its own reward!

[@SonnyBear5]

Awesome work! You've grown so much as an artist and a creator! Enjoy your landraider, Commisar Nuka!

[@nukakitten]

@@SonnyBear5 Much appreciated!! I also like your avatar change!! 😁

[@mikey_vengenz]

Who's this charming hobbyist I'm only just now discovering?!

[@nukakitten]

@@mikey_vengenz Your commissar ofcourse...didn't you see the hat?? 😂

[@lifeinjersey9846]

Ooooh metallic base and then painting in the red....this is giving me chaos trim ptsd 🙃🙃 Fantastic job on all the details for the metallics 😲

[@nukakitten]

@@lifeinjersey9846 I typically prime in mechanicus standard Grey but past me already primed it a long time ago. So, I decided to just go for it instead of re priming the mini and potentially losing detail. Glad you like it!! 😁

[@timmcpharlin773]

Your videos always make my day❤❤❤❤

[@nukakitten]

@@timmcpharlin773 Glad to hear it guardsman!! 😁

[@hughmac7423]

Looks pretty good.

[@nukakitten]

@@hughmac7423 I think so too!! 😁

[@MedinaPrime]

Contrast frost heart is exactly what I’ve been looking for! I can use that for my dark angels plasma guns! Thanks again Commissar 🫡

[@nukakitten]

You are in luck guardsman! I have a short on how to use contrast frostheart for a plasma gun. It's a youtube short! 😁

[@jonesfigures]

Excellent work, Commisar! *nods*

[@nukakitten]

@@jonesfigures Glad you like it, guardsman! nods

[@jonesfigures]

My arms are dandy, currently. But this is exceptional information. 🎉

[@RvnKnight]

It's the Cute Commissar making content for the masses again! Everyone take up your fighting positions for we may very well win this day!

[@nukakitten]

@@RvnKnight Cute?!? -_- now sign this contract guardsman! Don't worry, at least half your brain will be intact!! 😁 Worse case scenario, you can become a servo-skull for the commissar!!

[@RvnKnight]

@@nukakitten I see, the Commissar does not like being called cute... Sadly, as an old man (43 tomorrow), that's about the safest compliment I can give a young woman. Seems I have to become a servo skull now :-(

[@nukakitten]

@@RvnKnight unfortunately, the only commissar we can call cute is commissar Yarrick! At least that what the orks keep saying when we fight them! 😁

[@RvnKnight]

@@nukakitten I thought you were his daughter though. If so, then we can apply it to you too. At least you would have a semblance of respect from the Orks.

[@nukakitten]

@@RvnKnight guardsman, all commissars come from the solar progenium, as war orphans....plus I'm a terrain born. I'm not from Armageddon sadly 🥲

[@korvusknull1447]

The Omnissiah approves. Grace and blessings from the machine spirit.

[@nukakitten]

@@korvusknull1447 Makes the symbol of the cog---emote

[@KrishnaBheemul]

Serious command and conquer red alert 2 vibes! Great video!

[@nukakitten]

@@KrishnaBheemul You are the second guardsman to tell me that! Which isn't is a lot but weird it happened twice! Glad you like it!! 😁

[@liamkehoe5957]

Great techniques for mechanicus...finally Thanks :)

[@nukakitten]

@@liamkehoe5957 mechanicus was actually my first army!! Glad you like it!! 😁

[@Dracula-uw2tn]

Nice style!

[@nukakitten]

@@Dracula-uw2tn Nice comment, Dracula!! 😜

[@phuryian]

That was cool - thanks

[@nukakitten]

@@phuryian Cool comment - thanks 😁

[@stevenkennedy4130]

Noice! Thanks for the share!!

[@nukakitten]

@@stevenkennedy4130 you are very welcome!! 😁

[@PeteOfDarkness]

Thrall #4 from army box will be like: 3 points, 14 parts. I think they won award for "least points, most parts" (excluding things like tokens, they usually are "free" part of larger models). Models are pretty good and any excess will make nice conversion fodder.

[@nukakitten]

@@PeteOfDarkness The forge world one, which this one is, is 3 parts including the base. The multiparts is way to complicated and I'm not sure if I still have a finger prints from all the glue on the new plastic kits 😅

[@PeteOfDarkness]

@@nukakitten I have to say, FW have nicer style, but I'm ok with plastic ones.

[@nukakitten]

@@PeteOfDarkness It's sad the plastic kits are starting to cost as much as the forgeworld kits!! 😭😭😭 I also thought forge world had more detail and unique sculpts. It's a shame!

[@Wrath_the_Fallen]

Great paint job Nuka, is there any chance of age of sigmar painting guide? Also love the little nod you do after explaining each step.

[@nukakitten]

@@Wrath_the_Fallen I do have some age of sigmar, star wars Legion, and so on. Currently the plan is to paint the land raider then early orktober!!!!!! I have a lot of specialy made orks and I'm super excited to paint! However, if I get the land raider done early I can put it on a poll before orktober!! 😁

[@Neardarkphotography]

Love you mommy commissar. Thanks for the content.

[@nukakitten]

@@Neardarkphotography these guardsman keep picking up the strangest words?!?! I might have to consult an ordo hereticus inquisitor about possible Heresy??....ohhh guardsman, how long have you been standing there?? 😂😂😂

[@hegga_nm]

I came for the painting but I stayed because of the promo messages and the pep talks. 🤣

[@nukakitten]

@@hegga_nm as all good guardsman should! This was actually one of my favorite intros! Also this mini is the old forgeworld mechanicum. Which in my opinion...no a matter of fact!!! Is so much better that new hh mechanicum GW came put with!! 😁

[@hegga_nm]

​@@nukakitten I won't argue, that intro was gooood. You also get bonus points for throwing the Beacon of Gondor reference in the script. 😃 I hate to admit it but when youtube first suggested one of your videos to me I was expecting to see just another pretty face making the nerdy content for all the wrong reasons... Oh boy... I couldn't be more wrong, and I am really happy about it... Which is totally unlike me as I hate being wrong! 🤣

[@nukakitten]

@@hegga_nm the beacon of gondor is not scripted. That was on the spot and what I was thinking of at that moment. Lotr is my favorite movie of all time and yes I say movie because you can just watch one. I have the directors cut extended edition and I watch at LEAST once a year. Only the beginning part is semi scripted and is more of an idea than a script. Just prepare to be more wrong mwahaha this is only the start of the commissar nuka series!! 😂

[@hegga_nm]

​@@nukakitten Oooohhh if that's the case I love the creativity even more! Just keep them coming, commissar. 😃 It's funny you said that as LOTR is my favorite movie of all time and I actually binged it just a few months ago (of course it was extended cut! 🤣). I totally agree, who in their right mind could watch just one?! Man, I still have PTSD from watching The Fellowship for the first time just to see the note that the sequel is being released in a year!!??? That's why I'll never ever ever ever make a significant break between the LOTR parts ever again!! 🤣

[@nukakitten]

@@hegga_nm if it wasn't your favorite movie ...there's a meeting in airloc....I mean a group of people who don't like the movie 😂

[@craww1990]

hell yeah

[@nukakitten]

@@craww1990 How did you know that's where we are supposed to attack next?!? Are you some sort of psycher??? 😜

[@zeushii9235]

Man warhammer xxx this what this is

[@jamesdeeds8799]

Whoo Hoo Commissar I'm first to comment love the video thank you for your time

[@nukakitten]

@@jamesdeeds8799 I think you even got there before I did!! 😂😂😂 wow!! You have been promoted to door kicker, guardsman! Congratulations!! Since I'm a kind commissar, I'll even give you grenades!! 😁

[@jamesdeeds8799]

@@nukakitten Once more into the breech, tapes down the spoons on my new party favours

[@nukakitten]

@@jamesdeeds8799 IT must be raining because it seems there is a tear in this commissars eye!! 🥲

[@facelessman265]

Commissar your opening was great as was the painting this word bearer thinks you are really good for a loyalist

[@nukakitten]

@@facelessman265 wow! This ogryn with extra spikes still thinks he's a spacemarine! Don't worry big fella, listen to the big hat lady!! 😜 Glad you like the vid, always appreciate your comments!! 😁

[@TheMichaellathrop]

Is that music from megaman?

[@nukakitten]

@@TheMichaellathrop Not that I'm aware of 🤔

[@stunistus]

og techthralls forever

[@nukakitten]

@@stunistus You're Emperor damn right!! 😂

[@BlommaBaumbart]

Say, you seem pretty well practised on the brush. One of the things I'm always wondering: Is the "grimdark" style simply one in your toolbox which you do on the channel because it's having its moment in the limelight these days, or is this just your personal style for which you use the grimdark name because it fits and people understand it?

[@nukakitten]

@@BlommaBaumbart I used to paint differently then I was thinking about it and one spacemarine is said to be able to take over a whole planet if given enough time! I was like this Boi is not going to be clean cut out of the factory!! He should at least have a proper grimdark. I could paint in more detail with more technique but I want to be easy to replicate. Perhaps in the future I will show more. I showed some on the dreadnought, but that's because it was more of a passion project for me! 😁

[@BlommaBaumbart]

@@nukakitten As someone whose painting so far mostly consists of putting a single colour onto a single space (e.g. a solid layer of brown onto a backpack), I am awed by the prospect of sheer time investment that your description opens up. My Deathkorps actually looks very passable with my current approach, with only the cloaks having a layering of multiple colours for shading and highlighting for a natural effect, but I want to improve my skills, so... I got two follow-up questions, if you don't mind. 1. is there any next step you'd recommend as an appropriate second skill to learn after "colouring within the lines"? 2. How much are you a player next to being a painter? What pains me is that we're currently playing a game once a week and I want the game to have painted miniatures But painting all miniatures nicely would take about 5-7 hours times 75 models. (6 Kill Teams). I'm afraid my friends' passion for the game will run out of steam before I get anything done, but at the same time I don't want to rush the paint job. Yet, with all that painstaking effort put into my 20 Guardsmen so far, I can't really have them touched all the time with the varnishing step still so far away, so these two aspects of the hobby sort of get in the way of each other.

[@nukakitten]

@@BlommaBaumbart for the first question, I would wash the mini in some sort of brown shade. I recommend agrax earthshade and a pro acryl has some good washes for decent prices. Washes can really upscale the minis, you can reapply washes to make something darker or thin a wash down with water to make it a lighter shade. Next, for a tabletop ready, I would only do major highlights then when I have enough time I would go back to the mini and do specific details. That way you have a mini ready for tabletop and you can choose to make it better at your own time. For the second question. In my opinion a decent looking tabletop ready mini should be done in about 1-2 hours and 3-5 for a detailed mini. The dreadnought took me 6-7 hours in total to paint. I don't play as much as I want but I've also moved a couple of times in a short period of time and have been busy with school, work, and the channel 😅. If your not airbrushing or using oils, you most likely don't need to varnish. Acrylic paints are like plastic and don't chip too easy. I have 10 plus year old minis sitting in a hot attic, thrown in a bucket. Not one of them has chipped. Hope this helps!! 😁

[@BlommaBaumbart]

​@@nukakitten Revealing some of my personality here, I actually believe you about your abused miniatures and still don't quite dare... But I'll keep it in mind. As it happens, I'm currently doing some Corsair Voidscarred and am doing my first in any way successful uses of Xpress colours (Vallejo equivalent to Citadel Contrast) as washes. Still pretty far off the mark, but those crocodile skin capes have some lenience for mixed results. And I turned that Hunter's bird into a beautiful (for my skill level) lime green parrot. So I guess I'm on track, which is nice. (And of course your advice helps!) Glad you're busy for school. Those Imperial Truth litanies don't memorise themselves after all.

[@BlommaBaumbart]

@@nukakitten Oh, most wonderful Nuka, how true rings your advice. I actually have Vallejo Washes but have not touched them in months because I only ever got blotchiness. While I had achieved for the first time a clean coat with the Xpress Color, I wasn't even thinking about touching the Washes. But now, following your recommendation, I gave that aforementioned crocodile cloak a wash with some cool umber. And that just gave it's flat sort of random look a NATURALNESS that I'll be in awe of for the next two days. Hestiance: Overcome.

[@Regulus985]

Poor Guardsman Jenkins.

[@nukakitten]

@@Regulus985 he's jenkins the third. We don't speak about the other 2

[@risuyubritvoy]

Я долго ждал нового видео

[@nukakitten]

@@risuyubritvoy I KNOW 😭😭😭!!! I've been working this summer to pay for my warhammer addiction! BUT it's for my guardsman so it's ok!! OR at least that's what I tell myself to justify more minis!! 😅

[@MtgTerrorKing]

the constant weird head nod, please stop lol.

[@ChampionOfSkyrim]

I know you're trying to go for the comissar thing but uhhhh the hat's a bit much

[@einarr7301]

No its not

[@nukakitten]

@@ChampionOfSkyrim that's what people say when they don't have the hat...

[@nukakitten]

@@einarr7301 see this guardsman gets it! He probably has a cool hat too! 😎

[@ChampionOfSkyrim]

@@nukakitten I mean, it doesn't even really look like a comissar's hat you just kind of like you're the captain of a train in Berlin i 1942

[@nukakitten]

@@ChampionOfSkyrim I'm going to take the hat off for a second here...son, you need some help. (puts hat back on) the hat stays

[@bandguyjohn]

That nod.......

[@nukakitten]

-_-