Fixing My Worst Painted Warhammer Army

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0:00 Intro to the Dumpster Marines
2:14 What's Wrong with the Paint Job?
4:18 The Plan on How to Fix the Army
6:00 Upgrading the Paint Jobs, Step by Step
15:40 The Reveal and Final Thoughts

[Pud]

Alternative title: Taking your finished army to the next level, has a broader appeal I think, this is super informative thank you!

[Dadsidehobbies]

Sees thumbnail. Immediately remembers Ninjon not listening to Vincy V in opening of video. There's a lesson in there somewhere 🤔 🤫

[RobbieB]

Original job was by no means bad (better than I can do), but your updated army looks massively better. Awesome army

[KireektheAndroid]

That original Night Lords army painting video inspired me more than any other project I've seen and helped me finally finish several of my own armies, after many years of struggle to find and stay motivated.

[tomsteer]

I watched the first video on this army several times and honestly thought it looked okay, but for the extra steps it does look waaay better. Think I am going to be taking a similar approach with my FEC army that I am currently in the process of building. Get it all done and get pay some games with it, then come back later to add to the paint level

[bmtsqls]

When his "worst" is 10000 times better then my best... :(

[Wijkert]

6:20 not to mention the trigger control practice you do here, will come in handy during future projects!

[MistahJsArcade]

so a Time Capsule army, throw a complete paint job on the whole army, to the level of skill and patience you have for it at the time, and once a year you upgrade the paint job on all but one squad. by the end, you will have an entire timeline of the evolution of the army.

[piratepimm]

This looks genuinely better. Would love to see a similar video for the Ossiarch Bonereapers, that army painting video remains one of my favorites of yours

[SamBrownBaudot]

This is an important message for a lot of minis painters: You can always come back to your old armies and add detail, interest, smooth the transitions. Don' tget hung up on every single miniature being a prize-entry contestant. Do as much as you enjoy, then on to the next thing.

I'm a little bugged you criticized this army as "your worst". Ok, so maybe it is, relative to you, your worst. But you're a prize-winning professional painter. Your worst is better than what most new painters could aspire to hit anytime soon, especially for a full playable army worth of figs. It's like the fitness model at the gym pointing out the one tiny patch of fat they still has left; it makes the normal folks at the start of their journey think the goalposts are impossibly far away, and demotivates them to even start.

I'm with those who'd love to see this titled something that puts the emphasis on that it's leveling up your own work, not dogging on work that most folks still can't match.

[parkerreed]

Night Lords Omnibus is incredible! ADB is a genius. Loving you going back to this army, was very impressed that you got all of them done so fast in that last video, but I understand looking back that it was a little rushed lol

[HansBohr]

2 videos after this army was done, you doubted yourself and felt like an imposter.
But you had the maturity to go through, the humility to go back to your army and the courage to bring those model up to a better standard.
This is just beautiful and an example to follow.

[thegibb]

There's nothing wrong with the Night Lords books.

[adamschorsch]

Really, REALLY glad to see you revisit this army. As I watched the original you had the blues and most of the other stuff done and I thought, "it's not very vibrant but it works for a speed-painted army" then you hit it all with the oil washes and lost what vibrancy you had. Good to see a skilled painter can look at something they did and acknowledge they weren't happy with it, I'm in the process of repainting about 9, 000pts of Tau for precisely the same reasons!

[_marduk]

I THINK IT LOOKED GREAT! They're toy soldiers- just a hobby!
But, I really appreciate how you built on your previous work. It's inspiring!
You're an amazing painter. Thank you for all your work & videos.

[NINETAILEDFX]

Why would you not be proud of having read the books? They’re a great read and nerd shame is very early 2000’s - be proud of your interests!!

[joshuabrowncrow]

I’m all about this. After time I have more patience and skill, so it’s great to go back to already painted miniatures and level them up. I’ve had some results that really surprise myself without a lot of work.
Great video. Glad you got your army to a place you feel better about.
Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!!!

[parkerbutynski]

Nothing wrong with reading the Night Lords books! They were great!

[benjaminjane]

This is so funny because I just very VERY recently began a similar project to repaint my chaos army.
AND my chaos boys are also heavily Night Lord inspired! My personal legion are the Rime Fiends (subject to change), they are a contingency of Night Lords that got stranded on an icy hellscape of a planet for centuries before found by a derelict ship piloted by worshippers of Khorne. The Night Lords took it as Khorne choosing them and thusly they have married their Night Lord shock tactics the ferocity of the Khornite world eaters.

Basically allows me to play the majority of the army both as World Eaters and CSM. I also use a lot of old WH Fantasy bits like furs and Chaos Warrior helmets in order to give them this Old World Chosen look and feel to them.

[modelmanjohn]

One man's screw up is another man's golden demon.