Slap Chop DEATH GUARD! Speed Painting Grimdark style!

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This is my step-by-step guide on how to paint Death Guard.

In this video I speed paint 5 Death Guard Plague Marines using mainly Games Workshop contrast paints and AK Interactive's Streaking Grime in the Pallid Hand scheme. Its super fun and very simple to follow, so why not try yourself? It only took approximately 1.5hrs to paint a 5 man squad - not including drying time. I use an airbrush for the base cost and zenithal highlight, but this could easily be done with spray cans or by hand painting.

At the end of the video is an optional extra where I used a Black Oil Paint wash and Rust Wash to add extra weathering to the model.

The result of this technique is the Grimdark and Grimy look that goes well with Death Guard. I have used this same technique to paint Mortarion, Deathshroud and Terminators. It could easily be adapted to be used on the Death Guard vehicles too.

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Citadel Paints used -
Contrast - Plaguebearer Flesh, Aethermatic Blue, Gulliman Flesh, Volupus Pink, Iyanden Yellow, Snakebite Leather
Metallics - Vallejo Dull Aluminium, Gehenna's Gold
Enamels - AK Interactive Streaking Grime and Rust Wash
Others - Windsor and Newton Black Oil Paint

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This channel is about painting converting and kitbashing miniatures for your warhammer & d&d games, Age of sigmar and warhammer 40k games. I will maybe paint Space Marines, Space Wolves, Stormcast Eternals, cities of sigmar, chaos space marines, painting scale models, miniature busts in the future. I haven't ever tried How to paint NMM. I've done guides on how to paint warhammer, how to paint d&D I may do a conversion guide for Darktide or Dark tide however it is spelled. And in the future I will build and paint some terrain for my miniature war gaming wargaming

[TaxEvasin]

The music is so peculiar, alien and fitting. You're also very calming to listen to, with a touch of humour with your bipity, bopity, boo sound effects.

[peroxideman]

This reminds me of lovecrafts The King In Yellow, absolutely beautiful paint scheme

[chadashton]

I'd love to see you do some Maggotkin of Nurgle. I know...they could be done very similarly to how you did these...but it's always nice to see someone painting the actual models you are getting ready to paint. Helps to be able to visualize things a little better.

[bensinclair]

I live in Plymouth too :) Mate this scheme is sick, I'm going to try a similar style on my orks!

[skyelime]

God damn, those turned out fantastic. I really should start messing with more enamels and oil paints.

[vargaresa]

Thank you for that awesome video, man! I just watched it again one year later, and I just wanted to say that your video really influenced my painting process and made my Death Guard become so damn good-looking!
By the way, I noticed that if you use Plaguebearer Flesh for the Armour, over a Grey to White Zenithal Drybrush, it will get a colour changing effect, as the grey makes it become green, while it's a greenish yellow over white.

[keeferofsecrets]

“Boop” haha. Great video. Well explained info. Enamel and oils are perfect for Death Guard. Love me some AK

[jimsabo]

Haha. Didn’t realize you also did this vid. Watched it earlier and thought you were”out to lunch” on the initial colouring. Then the oil. Great job yet again bud! Looking forward to future content.

[leeperry]

Good stuff man, glad to stumble onto your channel.

[אשחרבןבשט]

love your videos ' amazing paint work

[aarongalbraith]

First of all, amazing work. I have been watching many DG tutorials, but yours really hit me. I've been searching for the right look for my DG. You have shown me the light. I have a few questions for you:

1. Did you use the satin contrast undercoat primers from Citadel?
2. I have never used enamel paints. I have some trepidation in doing so. When you show the streaking grime all over the minis, when did you know it was the right time to stop applying it/that enough was enough?
3. Did you thin the streaking grime at all?
4. Have you tried using the streaking grime over a bone/cream color armor? I am wondering how different the armor plates would look.
5. How much drying time did you have with these 5 models? What was your total time expenditure for them including drying time?

Thanks so much for showing your process. I love what you've done and I plan to copy it (with some slight color changes). Thanks again!

[Robzilla]

Great video, subbed. Thank you for actually spinning the models around after you do a color so you can see them from different angles. One of the missing in a lot of videos out there (at best you get a spin around when its finished instead of where beginning painters need it step by step.) I also liked your non-traditional color choices on this model. I would invite you to try a slightly different zenithal when working with contrast that I think you would like. Paint the whole model in Grey Seer, do a top down with wraithbone and then a top down drybrush with white. By avoiding black it sets up the contrast to do its thing much better as I have noticed some colors don't look right or discolor over black. Give it a shot and see if you like it. (Edit) I should add that the 30k/Pallid hand scheme is my favorite/only way to paint deathguard.

[UnderdogPainting]

Looks very cool I’m gonna do mine in a bone colour. Subbed

[Virakotxa]

One thing is to be quick or effective... (and ok, one a half hours alone would take me to paint all that trim) Or the fact that I've never used contrast paints... But this video made me feel like a total moron!! It was all disgustingly brilliant!
My only doubt would be if some varnish would be needed between the Grime and the black oil-wash...? Damn... This was so good and inspiring!

[benjimcc]

Awesome ordered the stuff and giving it a go Friday. Do you have pics of vehicles and north in this scheme .?

[daveman]

Awesome video - Did you have to varnish the mini prior to airbrushing the grime on? Also, what's the drying time like before you can seal it up and play? Keep up the great work!

[UndeadFangtooth]

When you apply the white spirits to the Streaking grime, do you wait for the grime to dry completly? Or kinda do it as its drying? Its hard to tell the passage of time in your vid and looks like its still wet before you use the spirits...

[dragma]

"BOOP" Subscribed. Another "BOOP?" Notification bell.

[mikewatson]

This is absolutely incredible, and I am about to embark upon my quest of painting up all my deathguard using this very tutorial (plus the sequel to this one where you did the whole army). I do have a question though- unfortunately, my army is based with the citadel deathguard spray, whereas yours was white. Considering this, are there any changes you'd recommend where paint choice is concerned? For the contrasts or AK enamels? I sincerely appreciate your time, and this video was incredible. The entire reason I decided to do all my Deathguard.

[GoodSirMathew]

do you use this same exact technique for vehicles? i feel like it may look weird after you remove the enamel wash on a large vehicle