Batch Painting Valor Korps Infantry - Drybrushing & Shades [How I Paint Things]

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This was supposed to be the first upload of 2023, but since people asked very nicely about the preview image that went up... alright, alright. You get it early!
Quit overthinking your paint schemes! Pick a handful of colours, drybrush uniforms, highlight one striking detail and leave the rest as shaded basecoats. You're painting vast armies of infantry, after all - skip anything you can! Pick and choose what'll be in the 'background,' and find those details to pick out with a little extra work that'll make the whole unit come alive on the tabletop.
Check out themakerscult.com/ for old files and previous releases you can purchase direct, along with links to their Patreon for up to date releases. Finding third party printers is a little more work since they don't list them, but Google will point you in the right direction, or you can contact The Makers Cult directly to ask who's available nearest to your area.
00:00 - Intro
01:03 - Priming Notes
01:40 - Basecoats
09:80 - Shading
10:54 - Highlights & Varnishing
13:55 - The Finished Squad
Thanks to Producer Patrons Alan Nuttall, Kyrie Crawford, Andrew, Jimmy, and Rod - as well as all the other Patrons that made this video possible, and Exit23 Games for recording equipment that helps keep the channel ticking over! Find out more at the following links:
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ko-fi.com/docwholigan
exit23.games
THE BASE: PVA and sand. Thinned down German Camo Black Brown, drybrushed with Brown Sand and Dark Sand - all from Vallejo. While drybrushing, skip up on to legs and coat a little to give impression of grubby, dusty uniform. These tufts are Mountain Tufts from Army Painter, added with super glue. Done!
PAINTS USED:
PRIMER:
Wolf Grey (Army Painter)
CITADEL:
Etherium Blue (Dry)
Baneblade Brown (Layer)
The Fang (Base)
Dawnstone (Layer)
Iron Hands Steel (Base)
Corax White (Base)
VALLEJO:
Flat Brown
Cavalry Brown
Black Grey
Black
Steel (Model Air)
ARMY PAINTER:
Strong Tone
Quickshade Mixing Medium
VARNISH:
Instar Varnish+

Пікірлер: 61

  • @shadowjack239
    @shadowjack239 Жыл бұрын

    2:57 Ah, the Valor 'Royally Flying' Korps have arrived, I see. ;) great looking minis and scheme.

  • @brunoarambulagomez1838
    @brunoarambulagomez1838 Жыл бұрын

    0:34 seconds into the video, I really need to say this: please, never stop doing videos with WW1 related material! The color scheme, the weathering, the basing, it's a fantastic paint job! I really appreciate your work and even if I just discovered your channel earlier this year looking for Death Korps ofKrieg painting tutorials, I look forward for your videos as a fresh look into miniature painting. Thank you and I hope you have a great 2023!

  • @loupiscanis9449
    @loupiscanis9449 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you , Troy . 🐺

  • @Strawfoot
    @Strawfoot Жыл бұрын

    Haha thanks for leaving in the mistakes… I’m glad I’m not the only one dropping models 😅

  • @R0xxo
    @R0xxo Жыл бұрын

    This is a great scheme. It would look really great on the new Cadians as well.

  • @PlaidPenguinGaming
    @PlaidPenguinGaming Жыл бұрын

    They look great. Amazing how good miniatures look with simple techniques applied well.

  • @johnkelley9877
    @johnkelley9877 Жыл бұрын

    They look great! The French WWI uniform color really looks good on these figures. Thanks for sharing this.

  • @torros1839
    @torros1839 Жыл бұрын

    Love the pastel coloured look

  • @tabletopminions
    @tabletopminions Жыл бұрын

    The paint on these looks great! Spectacular color scheme, as well.

  • @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you kindly! Can't beat a bit of blue, it's a classic.

  • @user-od9rp2ng9y
    @user-od9rp2ng9y Жыл бұрын

    I love your Chanel. You show how to paint tabletop miniatures for a short time .

  • @graemeatkinson2138
    @graemeatkinson2138 Жыл бұрын

    Recently restored my 20 year old Revell French WW1 and currently working on Airfix vintage WW1. I'm using Tamiya ocean gray spray as the primer. To get a horizon blue outcome it really is important. Dry brush technique you use is fantastic and I have replicated on my project. Overall good outcomes. Once the other colours go on it's interesting how the horizon blue just starts to pop. Great video Sir.

  • @lisashoneyistim
    @lisashoneyistim Жыл бұрын

    LOVE IT!!!

  • @fnyquist8779
    @fnyquist8779 Жыл бұрын

    Wow this is exactly what I had been looking for thank you so much.

  • @WarLore
    @WarLore Жыл бұрын

    outstanding video friend

  • @MrGood1988
    @MrGood1988 Жыл бұрын

    They look amazing. When i saw them at the begging of the video i thought there would be much more highlighting then there is.

  • @BlueaxeReproductions
    @BlueaxeReproductions Жыл бұрын

    Look amazing chap. I tend to do like you and matt varnish all at the end, and then I havea small pot of vallejo gloss varnish which I stick on any scuffed bit of metal, a gem, a wet tongue, gore, or very shiny metal: works really well!

  • @Okanehira
    @Okanehira Жыл бұрын

    That seriously looks fantastic

  • @Strawfoot
    @Strawfoot Жыл бұрын

    I love all your videos but Imperial Guard are my favorite!

  • @NSYresearch
    @NSYresearch Жыл бұрын

    I'm sure I went to school with a lass called Dawn Stone .....

  • @victormai5182
    @victormai5182 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @sludgedisciple
    @sludgedisciple Жыл бұрын

    This is a fantastic tutorial. Thank you and Happy New Year! Subscribed!

  • @NordicMiniaturePainting
    @NordicMiniaturePainting Жыл бұрын

    love these! i think ill try to paint up some myself :D nice inspiring!

  • @nickdavis5420
    @nickdavis5420 Жыл бұрын

    Love these guys might need a friend too print some up for weird war 2 French

  • @Marshal976
    @Marshal976 Жыл бұрын

    These look ace mate, an army at this quality would look great on the tabletop. Happy New Year to you and your family.

  • @ajones4574
    @ajones4574 Жыл бұрын

    Nice to see dry brush techniques. Just finishing Warlord Games Eighth Army... prime, slap on base coat, then contrast paint for depth/creases. Leave to dry and then dry brush. That's the uniforms done. Dry brush techniques makes it quicker and does add to the effect of material. Webbing colour is slightly different between figures... uniforms in action are never, well, uniform.

  • @geronimo8159
    @geronimo8159 Жыл бұрын

    For things like the respirator tubes you could try a colour called "tire black" (or something like this) from Secret Weapon. It looks really, well, rubbery 🙂

  • @yagsipcc287
    @yagsipcc287 Жыл бұрын

    Great stuff bud I am grtting ready to print off a bunch of stuff this coming week. I love the other helmets they designed and made available with most of their Valor Korps range (of course csn print them off from other ranges as well for even older ones or for Characters. Soing a OnePageRules army for human defense forces but also want ro use them in Horus Heresy as Imperial Militia as rhe rules just came out for thrm.

  • @soerenheriksen
    @soerenheriksen Жыл бұрын

    If you want to reduce the chalky finish with drybrushing, try to wipe off excess paint using cardboard or a texture palette. Using a paper towel will remove too much moist from the paint leaving the remaining pigment dry and chalky.

  • @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    Жыл бұрын

    In this case, I'm actually looking for the chalky finish. It's extra texture on clothing which might otherwise appear quite smooth without small scratches and highlighting.

  • @username12120

    @username12120

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the tip about the cardboard over paper towel. This will be a big help going forward.

  • @JordanThreinen
    @JordanThreinen Жыл бұрын

    this is great! can you also do a video for matching armour paint scheme for this style?

  • @benjaminadcock9729
    @benjaminadcock9729 Жыл бұрын

    I already have 20 painted a lot darker than this with 10 more primed and ready to go. Now I have to decide to go back and fix the old ones to this wonderful scheme or continue with mine…

  • @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    Жыл бұрын

    Remember: Uniform isn't! There's all sorts of reasons you could have multiple colours throughout an army, supply chains, weathering and fading of fabric, or new equipment being introduced while the old slowly phases out of an army's stores... There's nothing to say you need to repaint what you've already done if you like how a different method looks. :D

  • @lordbiscuitthetossable5352

    @lordbiscuitthetossable5352

    Жыл бұрын

    Indeed! The beautiful thing with uniforms is that the age of it likely could reflect experience, with the more vibrant colours likely being newer folks, with only the old guard having the dye bleed into the battlefield. It is probably only a matter of months for guard...Ahahaha!

  • @alessiodecarolis
    @alessiodecarolis Жыл бұрын

    These minis could be used as Gear Krieg's adversaries, WGA make some WWI boxed sets that coul be a good start for conversions, f.e. for an Alternate history Earth, they seems really a What If? likes for a retro sci-fi past👍

  • @jonbauml225
    @jonbauml225 Жыл бұрын

    Dang! He jumped right off the handle

  • @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    Жыл бұрын

    Not ordinarily how one paints paratroopers, but I haven't seen the new Guard Codex so maybe it's an option...

  • @manticman2148
    @manticman2148 Жыл бұрын

    Great. This is now I'm going to paint my army. Can you do another tutorial with a vehicle in the same style to go with them? I printed a Ace Minis tank and have no idea how to paint it.

  • @rupertjones5197
    @rupertjones5197 Жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately you can’t get these on his Etsy shop, I’ve emailed them and waiting for them to release them and then I’m gonna make a whole army! Love these sculpts

  • @gabrielemarino5162
    @gabrielemarino5162 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing video as usual! I really like your Imperial guard videos. Only one question, throught... What did you use to blend them in with the base? Did you use pigment powders? Or is it drybrush? Thanks a lot!

  • @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    Жыл бұрын

    The dust and grime is leftover on the brush while drybrushing their bases; once you've got most of it off, you skip up on to the legs and coat and it's nice and quick to do. The colours are in the basing section of the description! :D

  • @gabrielemarino5162

    @gabrielemarino5162

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SonicSledgehammerStudio thanks a lot! Really like the result!

  • @NeoByteNL
    @NeoByteNL Жыл бұрын

    Amazing work and paint scheme, any chance of doing the vehicles or Artillery of the Valor Korps ? Also, the dust effect on their jackets is that only due to the shading or did you do anything else to it?

  • @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    Жыл бұрын

    The dust and grime is leftover on the brush while drybrushing their bases; once you've got most of it off, you skip up on to the legs and coat and it's nice and quick to do. The colours are in the basing section of the description! :D

  • @matthewjames2846
    @matthewjames2846 Жыл бұрын

    Looks great, was there no further weathering added to the bottom of the greatcoats? The final products on the turn table look like they have had some further work down to them but it may have been the drying time? Either way, thanks for the video!

  • @alcovitch

    @alcovitch

    Жыл бұрын

    looks like dry pigments

  • @coajokazz
    @coajokazz Жыл бұрын

    Why didnt you show the last step, the weathering? I acrually wanted to see how you get the smooth transitions between blue and dust

  • @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    Жыл бұрын

    Short answer is that it's almost impossible to catch on camera. It's just drybrushing while basing, though; check the description for the colours used.

  • @TinelCH
    @TinelCH11 ай бұрын

    Hei man, how did you do your bases? What's the diameter? Looks kinda cool :)

  • @Swordprince
    @Swordprince Жыл бұрын

    How did you do the fade at the bottom of the coats? I didn't see that in the video

  • @alcovitch
    @alcovitch Жыл бұрын

    It looks like you put some pigments on their lower coats to give them a dusty appearance.

  • @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    Жыл бұрын

    Just drybrushing with the base materials! Check out the recipe in the description. :D

  • @TheDarkplace
    @TheDarkplace Жыл бұрын

    A weird question on a painting video but what resin do you print with? I only ask as i have had too many figures break for falls like that one.

  • @joegekko

    @joegekko

    Жыл бұрын

    Resin certainly makes a difference, but oftentimes very brittle minis are caused by leaving them under the post-curing lights for too long.

  • @TheDarkplace

    @TheDarkplace

    Жыл бұрын

    @@joegekko it also doesn't help when they are covered in fiddly bits like the ones from infinite heroes

  • @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    Жыл бұрын

    I'll second the comment about how long they're cured probably being a contributing factor. I use the water washable resin from Elegoo, but once these guys are out and cleaned up I cure them under the rotating UV lamp for just 5-6 minutes. Any longer and things like swords and lasgun barrels start getting a bit too crispy.

  • @mrfriedpickle7495
    @mrfriedpickle7495 Жыл бұрын

    Do you think this color scheme would looks good on the dkok kill team? I haven't seen anyone paint their new dkok kill team with this lighter style blue, Worried it will look bad

  • @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm not the person to ask! 😅 Do YOU think it would look good? Honestly, if it works on the Valor Korps, it'll almost certainly work on the Death Korps. They're close enough except for the helmets they're practically identical.

  • @dking6021
    @dking6021 Жыл бұрын

    is this a normal scale model? they look huge to me, like is that a 32mm base?

  • @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    @SonicSledgehammerStudio

    Жыл бұрын

    These are almost exactly the same size as the resin Death Korps miniatures, on 25mm bases. Maybe you're sitting too close to the screen? 😅

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