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How I painted an IRON WARRIOR WARPSMITH - learning to paint iron warriors part 3
Jul 21, 2022
Part three of Patrick's pile of shame series see's him paint the iron warrior warpsmith, hazard stripes, martian bases, it has it all!
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the time is finally here the preparation
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is all done it's time to paint the waltz
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smith if you want to see my journey to
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get here you can watch some videos up
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here if you want to but the abridged
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version is
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i'm a videographer who's new to mini
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painting and i'm clearing my pile of
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shame and learning to paint through
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youtube tutorials i wanted to paint an
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iron warrior warpsmith but had no idea
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where to start so i followed four
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tutorials to get a feel for it
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number one was from p the war gamer two
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from the painting coach three from mr
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tooth and coats himself duncan rhodes
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and four
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juan hidalgo please go and follow them
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if you don't already they have amazing
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tutorials on how to paint i'm worries i
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then painted up two test marines of my
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own taking my favorite elements from
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each
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admittedly i did try really hard on
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these but adding the rust to verdigris
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it's all a bit much in hindsight i think
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they're a little busy with all of the
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extra effects but i'm glad i went too
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far so now hopefully
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i know where to stop it's all
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a learning experience
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this is my first character that i
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painted and there's a lot of additional
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details on the sprue i know the painting
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coach painted his warpsmith fully
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assembled but i'm not that brave or good
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so sub-assemblies it is i also made
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myself an order of operations to keep on
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track and hopefully not forget any
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stages
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i want to reiterate as well that this
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video is titled how i paint my iron
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warrior warpsmith not how
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you should paint it if you look at this
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and think it looks terrible one
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you're probably correct
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and two i'm just cherry-picking some of
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my favorite bits and just
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documenting my sort of journey through
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the process i don't for a second think
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that i'm
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telling you how to do things because i
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barely know how to do them
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myself one issue that i came across that
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seemed to be a bit more exaggerated this
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time was the metallic spray base coat
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not accepting paint very well i've seen
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this a little bit before but never this
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bad
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i think i should have washed the armor
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with
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the contrast paint first to help the
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white paint stick
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um because when i did eventually get a
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coat on the texture of it was less than
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ideal which we'll come back to later
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at this stage in the process i was
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making quite a lot of silly mistakes
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placing the recess shade into some of
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the little spaces on the
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metal tentacles and things like that
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so instead i opted to use some dark
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brown pale liner to try and save some of
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the details that i'd already painted on
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underneath and it did work exceptionally
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well
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it smells
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lethal and as far as i'm aware you can't
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stock it in the uk but you can buy it on
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amazon
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i think it's delivered from italy or
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something like that not dodgy
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at all i think the panel liner was great
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for the bits in between the tentacles
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some of the bits in between the fingers
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it's just one quick dab and it just
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rushes into the recesses it did feel
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like cheating i'm not gonna lie but i
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can't argue with the results so i will
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continue
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so at this stage i'd elected to edge
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highlight all of the silver areas i'd
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painted three of the eight tendrils and
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essentially had a mini meltdown
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i wasn't happy with the results and i
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left it and didn't paint anything on the
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model for about two weeks instead i
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painted this monstrosity which
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apparently was a better use of my time
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because it's currently sat with nearly
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two million views on tutorial but there
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we go
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reading that the warpsmith was up for
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pre-order individually this weekend gave
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me the kickstart that i needed to get it
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in my hands and start painting again and
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everything you see after this
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was filmed during that stupid 40 degree
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heat wave that we had here in the uk it
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certainly was
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an experience
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it's filmed exclusively in close-ups
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because
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nobody wants to see
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what i look like
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when it's the hottest day in the uk
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ever
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first step finishing up the metallics i
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eventually got into a rhythm with
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painting the tentacles in small sections
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which kind of worked if you're doing
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this yourself
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save yourself a load of time and and
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just dry brush them
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i think this was probably one of the
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silliest things that i did whilst
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painting this model it was very time
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consuming
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and incredibly repetitive i have so much
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respect
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for the heavy metal guys that do this
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professionally unbelievable next up was
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trying to fix the weird texture on the
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white panels i thought i'd paint over it
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with some more thin layers of paint but
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obviously that texture was still showing
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up from underneath i don't know what i
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thought that would achieve i am
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an idiot
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i didn't want to get into stripping
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individual sections of models because
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that's something that i have zero
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experience with so is here to stay
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who needs typhus corrosion when you are
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just
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terrible
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moving on to more mistakes and things i
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did
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wrong maybe it was the heat more likely
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it was just me
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for some stupid reason i completely
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ignored my order of operations and i
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glazed in my transitions on the yellow
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panels before
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i painted my black hazard stripes i
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don't know why i did that i've never
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never done it before and you'll see why
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it was kind of bad
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right now so from part two of the series
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where i was looking to find the best way
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to paint hazard stripes
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the version that i'd settled on was
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drawing pencil guidelines
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onto your yellow paint
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and then painting in grey and contrast
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over the top
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usually i'm just doing it on a base of
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avalanche sunset but i was going from
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flashgets down to fireslayer flesh
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and as you can see the pencil is
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struggling to make marks on
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the contrast paint it's not the greatest
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texture for it apparently
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so that did make the process a bit more
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difficult
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another excellent example
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on how to paint minis you're welcome i
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opted to start chipping the hazard lines
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with a sponge this time as the smaller
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details it can bring are way smaller
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than i'm capable of doing with a brush
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i only brought the brush out to do some
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slightly bigger chips and cover up some
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mistakes with the black lines when they
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weren't perfectly straight
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i didn't weather the hazard cable
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all of my inadequacies are laid bare on
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this one unfortunately i think it looks
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okay
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from far away but the closer you get the
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more it falls apart a running theme with
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this model possibly as you might see in
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the future
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the white highlight looks too thick the
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black stripes are irregular and a bit
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messy i tried cleaning it up a bit but i
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didn't want to make it any worse so i
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just got it to a stage where where i
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didn't think i'd be able to do any more
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safely and risk messing it up and having
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to start over again so done
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is better than perfect
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in this case i chose balthazar gold for
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the trim washed it then highlighted it
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back up again with balthazar gold it
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wasn't quite as bright as i'd like so i
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mixed a bit of retrobutor armor into the
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bathtub gold and just went over those
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top edges again
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i've never painted a plasma weapon
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before and as if look would have it
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sugg's released a tutorial on
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masterclass very recently i struggle
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with masterclass because i think it's
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just
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out of my league
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not ashamed to say that
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at all
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but i feel like i managed to get the
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general gist again
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looks okay from far away but starts to
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fall apart the closer up you have a look
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at it i really struggled highlighting
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the individual coils with the fist and
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red back up from the glazes underneath
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but alas
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we move on
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i
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heresy hate
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transfers
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in this heat
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i didn't film it in the end because it
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was stressing me out and you'll notice
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the footage just goes straight to the
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base building yay
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third time lucky i've got the transfer
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on roughly in the right place again
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looks alright from a distance just don't
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go that close the grey highlight on that
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shoulder is terrible as well it was
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difficult to paint in this heat so i
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used a bit of cork to build up a bit of
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a platform tore it to shreds with my
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clippers and then sprayed it mechanical
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standard grey
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and this is just following duncan road's
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martian base tutorial from here
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so here we have it the grand reveal
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i can pick apart
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parts of almost every element of this
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paint job and say that it's crap some of
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the highlights looked like they were put
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on with crayon some of the glazing and
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the blends are a bit yeah
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i don't like the hazards on the head or
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the right shoulder i think i should have
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just left them metallic and have done
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with it but having said all that
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to me i feel like this model is greater
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than the sum of its parts
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a few months ago
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me and jeff started this channel
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i knew that i wanted to paint and i am
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warriors walt smith and i had no idea
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how so i set out trying to do it
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and i have
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of course it's not great
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but it's mine and i'm happy
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maybe i'll repaint one in a couple of
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years put them side by side
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and see how much progress i've made but
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in seven models i've gone from these
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heads of stripes which were my first
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and these ones
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which are my most current and any
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progress is good progress
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so that is the end of my iron warrior
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arc for now thank you so much for
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watching whether it's just this video
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you've watched or
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all three
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to people that have left comments and
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helped me get to
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this stage with a complete design
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warrior warpsmith i am very very
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grateful for all of the help and support
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now
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i just need to try and figure out what
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to paint next
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