0:02 hey everyone in this video I'm going to
0:05 show you how to paint warp spiders in a
0:07 nice simple and effective way so you can
0:17 quick as a huge Eldar fan I was very
0:19 excited with all the new aspect Warriors
0:22 coming out I've painted a lot of them
0:24 already and so I was really happy to get
0:27 more to paint to add to my Army I really
0:30 didn't know which ones to go for and and
0:31 what to start with I'll paint everything
0:34 eventually and you'll see that in videos
0:36 no doubt I really like fire dragons but
0:39 I already painted these about a year ago
0:41 actually these Little Cuties the metal
0:44 ones and I thought well let's just do
0:46 something different I really like the
0:47 swooping Hawks as well but I think
0:49 they're going to take quite a long time
0:51 and I'd like to do a pretty nice job of
0:53 those so I thought let's go for some
0:56 warp spiders let's get those guys
0:58 done in this video I'm going to show you
1:00 how to paint them if you have an
1:03 airbrush and also if you don't have one
1:05 if you're painting with a brush I really
1:09 recommend graer primer the pale gray
1:11 having a light color to start with is
1:14 going to help you so much and personally
1:16 I wouldn't do them from black if you're
1:19 airbrushing then like me you could do
1:23 the body in black and the helmets in the
1:25 this gray I've got here I'm going to
1:28 start by spraying some Tamia flat white
1:31 over my gray if you're using a brush
1:33 then you can hand paint some white
1:36 straight over the the gray sear and it's
1:37 going to be quite easy to highlight
1:39 straight from that as there's not too
1:41 much difference between gray sear and some
1:42 some
1:45 white I'm slowly building up the white
1:47 spraying from One Direction just to
1:49 leave a little bit of the gray on the
1:50 side for some shading and if you're
1:53 brushing that just highlight the upper
1:55 areas facing the
1:58 light with the white still in the cup I
2:00 start spraying the bodies as a pre
2:03 highlight so again if you're brushing on
2:05 then I would just use the gray primer
2:08 the main aim for this is to give a nice
2:10 light base coat so we can get a nice
2:13 bright red I really don't enjoy painting
2:16 red from black I can do it but if we're
2:18 going to have red as the main color I'll
2:21 always start with a pale base coat and
2:23 the black and white is good because any
2:25 parts that you want really dark you can
2:27 leave those obviously by not spraying
2:30 them with the white
2:32 I'll be using the cult of paint Reds but
2:35 I'll put the equivalent from Citadel so
2:38 you can go ahead and paint these now
2:39 these paints are close to coming out
2:41 we're just really trying to finish off
2:43 the last few bits but they have to be
2:46 right the main thing the main difference
2:49 with these paints is the color the most
2:51 important thing for me was getting rich
2:54 beautiful colors and the difference is
2:56 subtle but I just wanted to show you you
2:58 know next to miston Red you can see the
3:01 miston is just a little grayer and not
3:03 as rich and for me I want the richest
3:06 most beautiful red I can so when
3:08 designing these colors that was the
3:09 priority really making them really
3:12 smooth and a really nice
3:15 color just to compare as well I'll
3:18 quickly show you rhox hiy which was my
3:20 most used paint ever so it was really
3:22 important for me to get a really nice
3:24 dark brown but again I found this too
3:28 gray and this dark brown is really rich
3:30 really deep which is what you want for a
3:33 dark brown Shadow anyway we'll get more
3:35 information on those as soon as we can
3:38 and I promise they aren't that far
3:41 away to be honest no matter what Reds
3:43 you're using I think the important thing
3:45 to get out of this video is starting
3:47 with a light color and that's just going
3:50 to help get a much more vibrant red you
3:53 can see my first pass with the airbrush
3:55 it's already looking super rich and
3:56 that's helped by the paint they're quite
3:59 a vibrant color as you can see but the
4:00 white is
4:02 just really important to get a beautiful
4:04 red I'll show you how I brush it on
4:06 because I had to brush it on for the
4:08 helmets and once they were finished you
4:10 couldn't tell the difference you can
4:12 just see how quick the airbrush is and
4:14 for me when I'm Army painting that's why
4:16 I like using the
4:19 airbrush the thing I paint the most are
4:21 display models whatever you want to call
4:23 them but kind of going all in and
4:26 spending ages on one figure is my main
4:28 thing at the moment I'm just finishing
4:31 off this Bust from our Kickstarter and
4:34 I've been painting every tiny little dot
4:37 for texture and just spending absolutely
4:39 Forever on it and for this project I
4:41 didn't use the airbrush I wanted it to
4:44 be meticulous and as you can see just
4:47 paint every tiny little Dot and this is
4:49 you know what I want to do but it is
4:52 quite tiresome sometimes so for me it's
4:54 really nice to one paint something
4:57 simple in an army level way but also
5:00 just you know get the airbrush spray the
5:02 red and just get on with it so I like to
5:04 paint those two different things at the
5:06 same time if you're interested in
5:08 tutorials like this this is what I'll
5:11 normally do over on the patreon and the
5:13 video series for this bust is I think
5:16 about an hour and 50 minutes so it's
5:18 super in-depth kind of going through
5:21 every step anyway that's my plug uh but
5:23 I do think it gives context in you know
5:25 when I'm using the airbrush for army
5:27 stuff and having that nice you know
5:30 change between this kind of painting and
5:31 some Army
5:35 painting when the red is base coated now
5:37 you've got to do the worst job which is
5:40 Block in the black my only tip I guess
5:43 is I used a big brush a size three to
5:45 block out most of it as I've done here
5:48 on the gun just kind of the easy bits
5:49 you know that you can't mess up then I
5:53 switched to a double zero detail brush
5:55 where it was close to the red and I
5:57 couldn't mess it up so this part on the
6:00 gun was a really important part and yeah
6:02 I was a little bit scared but uh I knew
6:05 I could fix any mistakes anyway but I'm
6:06 just trying to run my brush along the
6:09 side there get it as sharp as possible
6:11 but I think that's my only tip that I
6:14 can come up with uh for now it's just a
6:17 bit of a SLO I think it took me about 15
6:20 minutes per model to do the black so
6:22 these weren't too bad I also like to
6:25 paint the body suits on my Elder I think
6:27 you know it makes them stand out a
6:29 little better rather than being the same
6:31 color I did this on my striking
6:34 scorpions and it's my favorite part it
6:36 kind of makes the colors around it look
6:39 even better and I think with a red I try
6:41 and paint as much black as possible on
6:44 Miniatures uh with red and it just
6:46 really helps lift and make the red look even
6:48 even
6:50 brighter I start working on the helmets
6:54 now and I begin by blocking in the red
6:56 and this is what I mean by you can
6:59 follow this guide and do it with a brush
7:01 because it's going to look the same as
7:03 the airbrushed one in the end like the
7:06 black I have to take my time here so I
7:09 don't get on that crispy white and yeah
7:12 it took a couple coats but I got a
7:15 really nice beautiful red and yeah I
7:17 found that the airbrush just made it
7:19 quicker but the the final result there
7:22 wasn't really much in it again the key
7:25 really I think is just starting with a a
7:27 pale primer and that just makes
7:29 everything a little bit easier apart
7:31 from blocking in that
7:34 black another great thing a benefit of
7:36 having this pale primer is painting the
7:41 eyes I start with blue green from AK and
7:44 I like to start with the lightest color
7:46 often and then go darker I'm kind of
7:48 going to block in the entire eye with
7:50 this blue green and then I'll just wash
7:53 that with a darker
7:56 one you can also base coat your gems at
7:58 the same
8:00 time now I'm going to wash around the
8:03 recess and I'm using despair Green from
8:07 scale 75 which is a super dark Rich
8:08 turquoise I think you could use a
8:11 contrast paint if you have that maybe
8:14 stegodon scales I think it's called I'll
8:15 put it along the bottom the right one
8:18 but I think the point is you start with
8:20 a A light base coat then paint your
8:23 lightest blue one and then wash that and
8:26 it's going to save you a bunch of time
8:28 also makes it easy finding the recess
8:30 and the details in the eyes and you can
8:32 see we've got super Punchy colors
8:36 already got a nice vibrant red the clean
8:38 white helmets and the the really vibrant
8:40 blue I just think it's a combination
8:43 that always looks great depending on the
8:45 level you want to paint these two
8:47 there's a bunch of additional steps that
8:50 are really optional here I'm reh
8:52 highlighting with blue green and I've
8:53 put a little bit of ivory in it just to
8:56 kind of make the corner pop but this is
8:57 going to be barely visible on the
8:59 tabletop which is why I think it's quite
9:02 optional then I also do a little white
9:05 dot to make it look kind of shiny in the
9:08 corner I paint my wraith bone in a a
9:12 really simple way I use xandre dust but
9:14 it takes quite a few coats to get it
9:16 looking really good probably three so I
9:19 actually start doing this early on and I
9:21 let that dry and you know I add the
9:23 second the third coat while I'm going
9:25 back and forth between other details so
9:27 I thought I'd just get a first coat on
9:29 now and while that's drying I'll
9:32 probably work on some other
9:36 elements I take a darker red and I line
9:39 the panels for me I prioritize this over
9:41 Edge highlighting but we will add some
9:43 highlights in The Next
9:46 Step another optional step is
9:49 highlighting the red I'm going to use uh
9:52 valo Vermilion it's a really nice one
9:54 and it's got good coverage so it's nice
9:57 for highlighting I wouldn't focus on
9:59 edge highlighting personally I'm going
10:01 to focus on highlighting the parts that
10:03 are going to be facing the light around
10:06 the focal areas and just kind of yeah
10:09 building up nice volumetric highlights
10:12 which sounds fancy but it's kind of
10:14 quicker and if anything this is going to
10:17 have more impact on the tabletop than
10:19 pitting all the edges so yeah I just
10:21 focus on what I'm going to be able to
10:23 see really so things like the top of the
10:26 chest the knee a little bit on the
10:28 shoulders that's enough for me I really
10:31 focused on just adding highlights to
10:32 these yeah these areas that matter like
10:34 the shoulders and a lot of the shoulder
10:37 is covered by the backpack so I focused
10:39 on the front of those and the arms the
10:43 knees you really can just put as much or
10:44 as little effort into the highlighting
10:46 step as you want they're going to look
10:48 absolutely fine with a nice crisp red
10:50 and all the black blocked in I think
10:52 that's the important bit for the
10:54 tabletop and depending on your style
10:56 your preferences and the amount of time
10:58 you want to put into these I think
11:00 that's going to dictate how much
11:03 highlighting you do I would say defining
11:05 things with a a shadow so you know
11:08 painting in a dark line with a dark red
11:10 I would definitely do that uh but the
11:13 highlighting is certainly you know
11:16 optional I'm doing a bit of multitasking
11:19 here to save time so I'm adding coats of
11:22 that xandre dust in between and I also
11:24 begin to base coat the metallics with
11:27 decayed metal from scale 75 which is one
11:29 of our favorites I don't know if this
11:32 was a waste of time this step uh but
11:34 later I highlighted uh and maybe I could
11:36 just do
11:38 that I came to the end of my painting
11:40 session and I thought I'll glue some
11:43 sand on actually as the PVA glue takes
11:45 quite a while to dry and then I'll come
11:47 back to that the next day and I can
11:51 finish that so this was more because of
11:53 you know the timing of I was coming to
11:54 the end of the day but maybe you want to
11:57 leave the basing until last but for me
11:59 I'm trying to get this done and film Med
12:00 and I don't want to sit around waiting
12:04 for PVA to dry so I came back the next
12:07 day with my sand dried and I began my
12:09 painting session by just doing a quick
12:12 wash of a rhinox hide over everything
12:14 and you can't mess this up really if you
12:16 get tide marks it's good it's going to
12:19 look like little cracks and stains so
12:22 yeah just a nice diluted normal brown
12:24 paint and wash it over everything and I
12:26 had to do a couple coats of this but
12:28 yeah don't worry about it pulling in
12:30 areas and looking messy it will look
12:31 fine in the
12:35 end for the gun lightning I wanted a a
12:38 slight cold orange look I used pastel
12:41 Peach from AK but there is a a citadel
12:43 equivalent I think it's called lugan
12:46 orange and it's just yet a really pale
12:48 powerful orange and it works really well
12:51 so I added that to the Vermilion and I
12:54 started painting my lightning pattern so
12:56 just trying to do nice big angle changes
12:59 you don't want them to be curvy lines
13:01 and this is difficult and I had them
13:03 more dense towards the lower part of the
13:06 barrel this is just tricky I'd have a
13:09 bit of practice on something that maybe
13:10 doesn't matter if you haven't done it
13:12 before uh but definitely have a go if
13:14 you're a little bit worried about it
13:16 just try it and a few little Forks of
13:19 lightning will look cool then depending
13:21 on your skill level you can add some
13:24 white and then do the lines even finer
13:26 so if you're a little bit worried about
13:28 doing the lightning just do a more
13:30 subtle kind of of orange one a little
13:32 bit fatter if you're good with your
13:35 skinny Fine Lines then you can push this
13:37 nice and
13:41 bright I started working on the black
13:44 I've really been enjoying AK German gray
13:47 as a first highlight for black and for
13:49 these they're tabletop I didn't really
13:52 take it much further than that again I
13:54 prioritized doing you know big
13:57 volumetric highlights you know maybe
13:59 this looks scary to you but I do think
14:00 this is going to have more impact on the
14:03 table personally and I just followed you
14:05 know a long line across the gun across
14:08 the top and I did do a few of the edges
14:10 where I thought it mattered and again
14:12 this is where put as much time and
14:15 effort into it as you feel necessary you
14:17 could add brighter highlights you know
14:19 go up to a lighter gray I was pretty
14:21 happy with how it was looking with just
14:24 the German gray I'm trying to go for a
14:28 simple effective and neat job and that
14:30 means you know if I want to add any
14:32 extra to it I can come back to these
14:35 models anytime and add more I don't like
14:38 to rush any steps but I'm just doing a
14:41 few simple ones here so you know I could
14:43 add in a week's time some brighter Gray
14:45 highlights if I don't like the look of
14:48 the black or maybe I play a few games
14:50 and I'm not satisfied with how they look
14:53 I can just add some extra to any time
14:55 but what's most likely that happens is I
14:57 play some games and they look great and
14:58 I kind of forget about that they don't
15:00 have two or three stages of black
15:03 highlighting so you know again adjust
15:09 important I highlighted all the
15:13 metallics with Rune Lord brass and maybe
15:15 it would be faster if you just went with
15:17 run Lord brass straight away I'm not
15:20 sure if the decayed metal base coat is
15:22 necessary actually I think what's
15:24 probably best is a mix of the two and
15:26 then a highlight with this I think that
15:29 would probably be best either way uh
15:30 yeah I really like this color I think
15:33 it's excellent it's not too yellowy gold
15:35 I think it's perfect for the
15:38 elar so remember those stains I talked
15:40 about with the rhinox hide wash well you
15:42 can take some xandre dust now and if you
15:44 want you could add some texture to the
15:46 Rock highlight them and you can see I
15:48 don't think any of those stains are
15:50 looking bad it just kind of makes the
15:53 rock look a little bit more natural I
15:54 don't think you need to add some
15:57 highlights but you can if you
15:59 want last
16:02 is adding some grass Tufts I like using
16:04 the the Moss Tufts but I think they look
16:07 more like grass than Moss to be honest
16:08 and I really like this color because
16:10 they don't stand out too much and this
16:12 is what I've gone for on the uh the rest
16:14 of my Army so I kind of have to use
16:18 these to match but I like them a
16:22 lot okay so let's take a look at the the
16:25 final result the uh the finished unit I
16:27 think the main takeaways I wanted you to
16:31 get from this is something that's got a
16:33 lot of red on it some red and white I
16:34 think you really do have to start with a
16:36 pale primer it's just going to give you
16:39 an easier time and then the only really
16:41 difficult task is blocking in that black
16:43 but it's so worth it having the crisp
16:46 red against that black just looks really
16:49 really striking and the other thing is
16:53 just adjust the amount of detail to your
16:55 personal level you know different people
16:57 have uh different times that they have
17:00 to paint available I can obviously paint
17:03 all the time but don't feel forced to do
17:05 anything you know you don't have to add
17:07 loads of highlights loads of edge
17:09 highlights it can look good nice and
17:12 simple and crisp um so yeah just just go
17:14 with what feels and looks good let's
17:17 have a little look how they are against
17:20 the rest of my aspect Warriors and uh
17:23 yeah I'm really really happy I love that
17:25 you know the aspect Warriors don't have
17:27 to be the same color that's what really
17:30 appeals to me with the Elder uh it means
17:32 I can do the tutorials for all of them
17:34 because it's not the same color and that
17:37 makes it uh way more feasible to do an
17:39 army of these and do video content I
17:42 will be doing the rest of the Eldar I'm
17:46 not sure when I'm doing the Phoenix Lord
17:48 for the warp spiders over on Patron but
17:50 at the moment I'm just converting it and
17:52 I wanted to Repose it for no other
17:55 reason than just to make it more unique
17:57 um but yeah if you you're liking a look
17:59 at that here's a little sneak peek Peak
18:01 and I'm excited to start that series
18:04 over on patreon I hope you enjoyed this
18:07 video and these warp spiders were really
18:10 fun to paint they were really simple you
18:12 just have to take your time with those
18:14 important steps blocking in the red
18:16 blocking in the black and there's not
18:18 too many annoying details uh things like
18:22 that so yeah amazing new sculpt I really
18:24 really like them I didn't love warp
18:27 spiders before I just didn't have much
18:29 of an attachment to them but but now
18:31 they've got these amazing modern models
18:32 I think they're one of the coolest units
18:35 in my Army so hopefully this year I'll
18:38 get a chance to uh test them out in a
18:39 game anyway I hope you enjoyed it
18:40 looking forward to reading your comments
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