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Learning to Paint IRON WARRIORS - Road to Warpsmith part 1 - Pile of Shame
Apr 22, 2022
I'm learning how to paint Iron Warriors from Warhammer 40K, this episode I'm following tutorials from theseawesome creators: Pete the Wargamer: https://youtu.be/dFfZ-06cTDE The Painting Coach: https://youtu.be/eKOYmyAfSo0 Duncan Rhodes: https://youtu.be/DAnZjL-GsRI Juan Hidalgo: https://youtu.be/-mz4g5dcGHI
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so i am a videographer by trade
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certainly not
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a miniature painter
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my days out working usually look
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something like this
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so obviously weddings over the past
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couple of years haven't been going ahead
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as usual
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and i got my introduction to this hobby
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working as a videographer at games
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workshop
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ultimately i decided to leave and return
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to my own business as things were
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becoming
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somewhat a little bit more normal but i
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left with a couple of things
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one was working with a bunch of really
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great people who some of which i now get
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to call my friends
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and the second
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is a ton of warhammer my name's patrick
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and welcome to my pile of shame
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so when i left uw at the tail end of
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last year i had two options as i saw it
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sell off what i had never really think
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about it ever again or try and learn how
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to paint it and here we are i am a
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complete novice painter and the premise
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of this show is only using
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youtube content
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painting tutorials made by fans and
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creators of warhammer i am gonna try and
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learn how to paint
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or see how good a painter i can become
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or
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something when the new warpsmith was
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released i decided i really wanted to
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have a stab at painting it as an iron
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warrior so in this first video i'm gonna
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paint four different iron warriors from
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four different youtube creators see
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which one i like the best maybe i'll end
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up merging
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bits of them together to try and get
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some practice come up with the color
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scheme that i like the most
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to paint my warp smith at the end and
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diving straight into it the first
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tutorial i'm going to have a go at is
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from pete the wargamer oh and one last
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thing before we get started all of these
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pieces to camera
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i'd be lying if i said this was the
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first time i filmed them this video took
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quite a while
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i didn't really like some of the
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talking bits that i did so you're gonna
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notice some horrendous continuity errors
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with the length of my beard and or hair
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just try and get past it if you can
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so the first tutorial i'm going to try
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and follow is the cheapest one on the
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bunch which is speed painting and
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warriors from peterborough gamer and
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it's only seven paints under 30 quid
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which is great and i've started off
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spraying this guy black and i can tell
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that i've done a terrible job at
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removing some of the mould lines but to
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make up for that i have drilled and
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broken the gun barrel um so first things
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first what i'm gonna actually before i
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start dry brushing i'm gonna drink lots
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of tea from the hollowed out school of
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spider-man and then i'm gonna dry brush
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it all with lead belcher
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that's right i'm here to show you how to
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speed
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so i've just finished applying the
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contrast paint to the leg and the
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shoulder and whilst i'm waiting for that
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to dry
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i guess i'm just contemplating how on
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earth i'm going to try and do these
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hazard stripes and have them not look
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heresy
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i've never tried to paint perfectly
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straight lines never mind
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lots of them
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in succession so we'll see how that goes
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uh in peace tutorial he does just paint
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them on the leg you'll see i've done the
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shoulder pad here i wish i could say
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that was because i fancied the challenge
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and wanted to make things harder for
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myself but in reality
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i overloaded my brush
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up painting the trim which went on to
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the shoulder pad tried to cover it up
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with some blood belcher but it didn't
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really match the rest of the finish
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on the marine so slapped some paint on
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it made things harder for myself
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i will regret it i mean is it but we'll
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see what happens
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so the hazard stripes are on couple of
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washes later with some contrast paints
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and this guy is finished
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following that tutorial was nice and
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straightforward i feel like i've managed
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to replicate what was on screen
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reasonably well probably through the
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contrast paints rather than my own skill
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um but it's a really cool looking marine
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nice and weathered i think the dry
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brushing has saved a ton of time no edge
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highlights inside but you still get that
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definition on the corners and stuff like
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that which is which is awesome um
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if i'm getting a bit pinnickety with
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what i've done i think the hazard
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stripes could use a bit more work the
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ones on the shoulder pad especially are
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a bit bulbous and a bit close together
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at points not as uniform as i would have
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liked the ones on the legs
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which i did afterwards
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are
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a significant improvement even though
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some of the angles are a bit
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but um yeah that tutorial was great
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super happy with how that guy looks
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on to the next one
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[Applause]
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so the second tutorial i'm gonna try and
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follow is painting iron warriors by the
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painting coach
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i have watched a bunch of his videos
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before i do really like them it's
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probably got something to do with his
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accent it's amazing if i can try and get
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a sound bite of him saying balthazar
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gold i would use that as my alarm there
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was one paint that for the life of me i
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couldn't get a hold of and that was
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chrome model air by vallejo so instead
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i opted for
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green stuff world chrome metal airbrush
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and just in case it was crap
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i got green stuff world chrome metal and
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we will see
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how these go
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well
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i mean you know
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that i'm filming this after the fact so
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i know how it went
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but you don't
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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so when it came time to use the chrome
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paints i did what
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pretty much i've seen everybody do on
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youtube and is put air paints straight
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onto a wet palette and with this green
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stuff all their paint as you can see it
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just dispersed
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absolutely everywhere and was completely
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unusable trying to brush it
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onto the model so thankfully i obviously
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bought the normal
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chrome metallic paint and putting that
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onto my wet pallet it seemed like we
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were getting off to a good start but
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after a while i noticed it was clogging
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up my brush and looking at the palette
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it all just seemed to be congealing into
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some kind of weird chrome
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goo and was completely unusable so
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i just put it in a normal dry palette
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and i have to say with this paint
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specifically
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i didn't really like
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the texture of it it's very different to
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what i'm used to which is basically
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citadel paints this was quite expensive
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it was over a fiver a bottle and
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i wasn't really a fan
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but i wanted to paint these guys i
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wanted to use a chrome paint uh
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there we go lesson learned
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[Applause]
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so here we are finished this tutorial
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and this iron warrior
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having a look at it it is a lot brighter
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initially
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side by side under these studio lights i
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did think i preferred
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the look of pete's marine but over time
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and especially looking at these
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under normal room lighting from a
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distance on a table
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i am drawn to the shiny boy
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i just
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i think it just stands out that little
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bit more i guess um which i don't know
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if it's a good enough reason to
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necessarily prefer one over the other
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but there we go so looking at the
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stripes first of all i tried to learn
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from my mistakes on the first model and
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if i made a mistake with the black
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instead of widening the rest of the line
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making the yellow smaller i would cut
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back in with wraith bone and then go
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over it with the contrast paint again
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but as you can see on the gun
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when i've done a few layers of the
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contrast paint it has gone quite orange
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where as you can see at the back it is
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yellow which is the color it kind of
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should be to begin with i really like
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the bronze trim
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and i'm pretty happy that i've managed
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to go around it with the gray in the
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black pauldron a direct comparison
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between these two models is perhaps a
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bit unfair pete's was a speed painting
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tutorial and half the price half the
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cost the results you get from this are
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brilliant
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but
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again
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slightly shiny
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i do like the horns as well i don't know
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why and the bag's cool but there we go
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right moving on this time it is the man
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himself mr tooth and coats iron warriors
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by duncan rhodes to begin with there's a
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lot of similar techniques in this
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tutorial to the ones that pete uses
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especially with the contrast paint over
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the metallic so i'm going to bring you
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in once i've got to that stage and i'm
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adding in those extra details that are
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in this video as a quick aside duncan is
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obviously painting a havoc in his
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tutorial i'm painting a regular marine
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so with the bags and some of the leather
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i am using the same recipe from the
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painting coach and all i've done this
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time is try and add
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a bit more weathering into it i don't
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really know if i did a good job or not
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thank
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so here we are with the finished
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article and the thing that really jumps
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out to me on this one that i like is the
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eyes
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i think they look
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evil as
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pharisee like the person in this is just
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an evil brother
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and he's probably quite ill as well the
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red the orange the yellow and then the
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little dot of white i mean i could have
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done a better job of doing them of
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course i could have done but
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they do look really cool
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i
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don't like my application
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of the wash
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i think it's quite messy in places um
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probably too much on my brush
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you know me being completely inept and
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out of my depth i think the contrast
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paints perhaps work a touch better for
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me but using that avalanche sunset when
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i inevitably messed up painting the
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stripes i could cut back in and it was
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easier to correct those mistakes on a
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dark marine these do stand out and i do
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really like them i think the only
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downside again completely my fault was
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especially on the pauldron where i've
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cut back in with the yellow you can see
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some brush strokes and some and a bit of
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a build up of paint i don't know if i
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let the layer underneath completely dry
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or the paint i was using wasn't quite
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thinned enough
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i'm sure someone will tell me in the
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comments and please do please let me
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know where i'm going wrong so directly
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compared to pete's marine i think all
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the extra details from duncan the eyes
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the bullets they do help it stand out
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that little bit more the stripes are
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definitely brighter
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but i do think i prefer
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the wildwood wash for shading
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rather than the right and flesh shade so
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moving on to my fourth and final
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tutorial it's painting iron warriors by
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juan hidalgo so it was at this stage i
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realized i'd built some of these marines
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pretty terribly to be iron warriors the
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stripes should be on the right shoulder
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not the left the left should be black so
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i tried to uh take take the pauldron off
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ended up just ripping the arm off but
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you know juan paints his
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as a sub-assembly so i can too
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and i totally meant to do that
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so
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here we are with the finished results
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and i have to say these are
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my favorite hazard stripes that i've
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done uh they are a bit chunkier and
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there was just one simple phrase that
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juan said in his tutorial was when
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you're painting them on the pauldron
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just make sure you keep the orientation
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the same paint from top to bottom and
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you'll keep your lines a lot straighter
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and long behold
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it worked i think with the other ones it
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was moving around quite a lot and just
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sort of lost where i was but with these
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a bit chunkier
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kept the marine straight kept the lines
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a bit straighter and i'm really really
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happy with the results
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cutting in with the yellow paint to give
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this the black stripes a bit of
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weathering i would have preferred it if
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they were a bit sharper that's down to
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me but then glazing with that wild wood
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and then with the flash gets yellow i
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think just
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really makes them stand out they look
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really cool
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i really enjoyed the glazing on the
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armor on this one going down with the
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wild wood and then up with the brighter
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metallics worked really well i found
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taking a bit of moisture off the brush
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was really helpful for that
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and glazing with contrast paints so much
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easier than washes i've found so that is
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quite noob friendly and i appreciate it
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very very much on a technical level
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i think this was my favorite tutorial
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and i think the armor on this one is my
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favorite i think the stripes are my
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favorite but when looking at all of
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these marines all together
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i can't
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help but look back
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to my first shiny boy and i think with
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juan's marine i think it's
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perhaps the gold trim i think i prefer
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the darker trim that's from like the
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painted coach from duncan from pete
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i think i like bright armor
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dark trim so maybe there's an
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amalgamation of these two in the future
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and we'll see how that goes so here we
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are heading towards the end of this
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video i have painted my four iron
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warriors i have elements of each that i
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think i prefer i like the eyes
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on duncan's marine i like the stripes
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and the silver armor from juan's but the
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bronze from the painting coach and that
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being said these tutorials were
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quite expensive and very very close with
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this speed painting tutorial like i
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still think the stripes on the legs are
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some of the best that i have done
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and that was all done for half the price
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and half the time
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and
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yeah that was really really cool so as a
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way of saying thank you to these
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creators i've joined them all on patreon
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for the next month and i also bought the
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new kilting box through the painting
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coaches affiliate link to goblin games
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and i do really want your input in this
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as well if you have a favorite from the
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marines that i've painted here or if
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you've painted iron warriors before
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please let me know i'm i'm really eager
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to to see what everyone thinks and what
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i can potentially do to paint this
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warpsmith i am jacket at painting and i
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do need your help
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