Fixing everything wrong with Legion of the Damned

This week, we fix everything wrong with space marines - and legion of the damned! In a love letter to one of the coolest factions in the warhammer 40k universe!

Thank to Weshammer, Bell of Lost Souls, the squidmar mod team, Darren Latham for the help and inspiration with the history of the miniature / lore.

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Emil On

Videos edited by Maxime Dader & Viktor Westermark

[SquidmarMiniatures]

🖌🎨 You can now get the Paint sets, Wet Palette and Airbrush here🎨🖌

[andrewramsay]

Lukas just free handing the pauldrons like a boss.. #MoreCookiesForLukas

[carlstanford]

Absolutely nailed it in this video. Great subject matter, editing, and painting. Loved it. Thanks lads

[krystalmesh]

I've been waiting for LotD minis for 20 years. I don't have the skills to convert my own squad. I hope the added hype for the LotD of late will push GW to finally make some minis. Probably not.

[derisgaming]

I still remember being in High School 2 decades ago just starting my Dark Angels Space Marines and my friends dad showing me his LotD Marines and explaining their lore and thinking it was cool as hell but then hearing very little about them for the next 20 years except in little tidbits here and there.

I always like to imagine that they are the Emperors Will manifested, in a way his own "Daemons" but not chaos aligned.

[stevethepirate]

My Lore theory on the Legion of the Damned is that they are the 2nd legion.

The Emperor looking forward into the future, foresaw a time when all would be lost. He sent for two of his legions, the 2nd and the 11th. He told their Primarchs of what he had seen and asked for them to travel through the warp into that dark future. The 2nd volunteered to go first. Big E applied the full might of his power to them. They burst into flames and became the Legion of the Damned. A force capable of surviving till that distant time within the warp.


Seeing this the Primarch of the 11th refused to have this horror befall his people, and because he already knew of this dark time the Emperor had to put down the first of his sons. The 11th legion was mindwiped, and splintered into the other legions, with the Ultra Marines gaining the largest number.

And my reasoning is they are the "Legion" of the Damned. Not the Chapter of the Damned. And the 2nd and 11th are known as The Lost and the Forgotten. Lost in the warp, and forgotten to all fits this idea perfectly.

[GibbsZzapp]

I would really love to see how you would fix the Night Lords. I think they are okay but could do with way more of a vampire style aspect to them. So would loooove if you could do them

[fretsoffury]

I’m a believer that, just like Celestine, the LotD are summoned by the Emperor when needed. They are originally the slain of Isstvan 3&5, the War in the Webway shows them being led by a figure that is described pretty heavily as Ferrus. The Fire Hawks could have been added to the Legion.

[ts]

I was never a big fan of the flame decals on the Legion of the Damned's armour since it makes them look tacky, but a marine wreathed in flames always looks pretty cool in my book. I did wonder, since you mentioned that in the lore they were formally the Fire Hawks, if you would sculpt flaming bone hawk wings instead of the ribcage on the armour. I also think that if/when GW gets around to re-sculpting them officially that they should incorporate more of their spectral nature since they are imperial daemons after all.

[Revan_]

One thing I absolutely love about your videos is the music you play in the background when you both paint.

I'm not familiar with the genre names at all but would love to know the styles/genres used in your video to listen to when I do my own painting at home 😊

[jonpru]

The stippling layers and highlights are an amazing departure from the smooth textures and dry brushing I usually fall back on. This seems like a great technique for my IWs. Well done.

[diegogisbertllorens]

Love your videos, guys 😂 Also, great to see my old LotD artwork used in a cool way!

[maxbrandt]

Actually, the Legion of the Damned go all the way back to the very early days of 40k, someone on the studio painting team at GW came up with the idea and it slowly grew in popularity. If you hunt for a bit, you will find some pics from the old White Dwarf magazine that had a few of the RTB01 space marines painted up in that now famous paint scheme of black with burning bones and skulls. There was even a Reaver titan in Legion of the Damned colors and markings someone did for Golden Demon way back then!

[Sonderbar]

Everything Lukas paints looks so maximum sick. My favorite painter! Thanks for all those videos guys!

[Brettoh]

Love these “Lukas makes a mini” episodes!

[robinetthebest]

I realy liked the little lore part at the begining of the video. Great job!

[blackc]

"Imagine it was 1996....'
Ye gods i wish it was.

[KanzRedDusk]

Warp Spiders are 30 years old today, it would be amazing to see an improved version of their amazing(ly old) kit.

[AcidHoundArchives]

This is the coolest Black Legion mini I've seen. The pose, the sculpt, the paint job, everything just oozes intimidating hopelessness. This is fucking sick man, impressive work Lucas 👏🏻🙏🏻🤙🏻🤘🏻

[klug]

Here are my proposals for future ideas:
1, recreate the 4 iconic heroes of Warhammer Quest
2, make a nice miniature or Malus Darkblade
3, make a space dwarf. GW made 2 fine models for Necromunda (don't say League of Votann, they are just shorter and roundier space marines...), but it's not like the old squats
4, make a decent chaos dwarf hero or sorcerer
5, make a new but classic Morathi with very few clothes, to show the painting skin of a flawless female, without muscles and heavy shades (way trickier than supposed to)
6, Gotrek and Felix (Gotrek got a nice update for AoS, but the classic Felix is out in the Old World)
7, Tyrion and Teclis guys, like a modern version of the high elves, not the weird update from GW

8, do whatever you want, it's always entertaining to watch, you two!