I know I’m very late to the party on this - but I’ve probably watched this video a 100 times whilst painting my huge my Nighthaunt army. This video made the daunting task of painting an army of ghost so effortless - thank you 😊
What I love about these videos and I mean this without any disrespect is how simple and unpretentious they are. Many people seem to have a misconception about how good dry brushing and washing can get models to look but effort in versus result out cannot be beaten. At times I feel ashamed to put my models onto instagram without at least an attempt given to wet blending and NMM such is the snobbery in the hobby these days. Valid skills but totally unnecessary to achieve brilliant table top quality models that anybody would be proud to play a game with.
Just brilliant as always mate, can't stress enough how helpful your videos were in getting me out of the mindset that every model needed to be painted to my highest ability. Sometimes simplicity and efficiency really is the key, and that characters and HQ models are the ones where you can spend that little extra time to add more detail.
I still struggle with it a little myself, but someone suggested thinking of painting an army as actually painting for your opponent's sake. At a glance, most of our miniatures have different silhouettes, so they're easy enough to pick out from one another on the battlefield, but all you need is to differentiate them in some way from one another. The Nighthaunt cloaks/hoods are a really good example of this, I think - your basic Chainrasps only have the hoods, where the Bladegheists have almost full capes, and the Grimghast Reapers add just a touch of red. "If you're painting an army for the tabletop," he explained, "you're really just painting to help your opponent's threat recognition." That put a really interesting shift on the attitude for me!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio That's an excellent way of looking at it, one that I haven't heard before tbh. Maybe now I can finally decide to go for Red trims and crosses for my Black Templar intercessor segeants - as I have been conflicted about that for a while, but it certainly makes those particular models stand out and be easily recognizable for both the opponent and myself. Not to mention it's lorewise correct :D. Can't wait to see more videos from you man, keep up the great work!
I've been at it for a while! I suppose it's fair to say that I make it look easy, but the techniques are themselves pretty straightforward and hopefully quite simple. Just a little practice is all it takes, rather than years of muckig about; my experience, distilled!
I think you are finding your niche with this type of videos! They relation spent-time vs quality you achieve is much better than any other TH-camr out there. Please, please, keep doing this type of videos :)
Glad to see you back! This was well worth the wait and it looks great. You show lots of good techniques that can be used on other figures. I am painting my Cadians in your winter scheme and they look great so far. Thanks for sharing this.
How nice to see a realistic guide that works with simple paint techniques, and which I've been able to apply using just Vallejo paints.... I've not copied this exactly, but what you've shown has helped me get some results i've been really happy with, thanks.
So I just finished painting my Cairn Wraith in this paint scheme and it turned out well! I'll post a pic on my Twitter later and ping you. Thanks for being a trailblazer!
I just picked up the Legion of Grief boxed set, and this is a most fortuitous video to watch because wow I got a *lot* of ghosts to paint in the near future...
I was staring at a lot of primed Nighthaunts scratching my head, awaiting the motivation to get onto them... Now... Thanks to you I’m SOOO excited to get the production line going hahaha!! Cheers :))))
Thanks, bud! I've moved internationally a couple times and found I had to be pretty careful with my pronunciation and diction at first to make sure people understood me - 'speaking English' doesn't work the whole world over! 🤣
Awesome as ever. I've always done shade, then drybrush to lighten it up. I don't know why I've never considered doing it the other way around, but just now I did a quick and dirty cape in this style, and I like the effect a lot more. Thanks!
I tend to find that except in rare cases where I want a really bright drybrush finish for some reason, the shade after that step helps tie everything together. :)
I thought it was weird that you started with the chains but other than that, I used almost exactly the same paints and technique that you showed here, even down to the Ulthuan Grey to cover up the Corax. I love painting Nighthaunt, you can do almost anything and they come out looking pretty decent. Thanks for the Drakenhof tip, I’m stealing it! 👍
Honestly deserve alot more publicity for this channel, youve helped me and my son in painting my cadians and his death guard army (we just started) i need more practise but he is getting good, anyway i kind of rambled there but keep up the good work and thanks man.
... I started painting my Chainrasps a few days ago... I went Hexwraith Flame for the part below the top cloak things. Nighthaunt gloom for their cloak tops. Nihilakh oxide for skulls, arms, and hands. Ulthuain grey dry brush. Leadbelcher, agrax, typhus compound, ryza rust for the metal parts (sword pummels were B. Gold). Dryad bark for wood. Almost done. Genestealer purple for the candles is what I'm thinking. Then the bases and stones and other silly stuff. Done. :)
I'm painting mine with physical bodies (skulls and arms painted as actual undead rather than ghosts) but your video helped me so much with everything else.
I like this better than the Green Ghost version (Hexflame Wraith) you did previously. This is a lot closer to GW’s paint scheme which I like a lot. I’ll give it a try.
Great easy tutorial that I'll follow if I get around to getting some ghosties. Would love to see a tutorial on Dryads. Warhammer's official paint scheme seems so dull and a more vibrant, fantasy, Lord of the Rings rich green/brown theme would be more "foresty" in my opinion. Thanks!
Thanks Stu, it's nice to be back into things. :) I've got Blackstone Fortress, but it'll honestly be a while before I end up tackling those miniatures - I've got so much on the backlog it's not even funny!
I'm waiting to for nightvault to arrive so I might try goblin Green capes, gretchin green robes, thraka green wash, then dry brush original colours before highlighting with escorpena green and white drybrushing all over lightly then mithril silver weapons and leviathan purple wash followed by white drybrushing all over to give a dead ghostly effect, might add some black to the handles for a darker atmosphere
Great video, as always! I'm planning on using Nighthaunt Gloom on my Renegade Guard fatigues, but I am priming them grey. Would you suggest undercoating the fatigues with something like Ceramite White?
Funnily enough, there's another big pot of technical paint called Hexwraith Flame which would be perfect if you're looking for that kind of finish. :D It's a glutinous kind of green - over the top of Corax White spray like I used in this video, it'll come out looking kinda similar to Slimer.
Hexwraith Flame instead of Nihilakh Oxide (?) it's a bright green, kind of like Slimer from Ghostbusters ;) - www.games-workshop.com/en-EU/Technical-Hexwraith-Flame-24ml-2018 I
I've recently picked up this hobby again and jumped from lord of the rings to Warhammer, do you have any more plans on continuing this series? Or do you have a list of paints used for all nighthaunt models?
Is it just me, or does this video have an ethereal feeling to it? Pun's aside, there's something different in the lighting or maybe it's a different camera. Either way it's still another great tutorial video. :{J
I'm think of buying the Nighthaunt+Paint set, along with primer and one or two paints; should I buy Nihilakh (whatever it's written like) Oxide or Hexwraith Flame?
It's a matter of taste, but personally I'd go for Nihilakh Oxide. Hexwraith Flame is reeeeeally green, so I tend to prefer the slightly more pale blue look.
Hi, first of all great work! Second question… since corax white as a primer has been discontinued what would you think would be a good alternative: white scar or grey seer? Mind that I would like very much to replicate your technique!
Would it be possibel to do anything similar using *only* the paints from the Age of Sigmar "Paints and Tools" starter set? As a complete noob videos such as yours are greatly appreciated, but it is still somewhat overwhelming trying to find a reasonable starting set of painst and brushes.
I'd have to give it a shot! I think you could get relatively close. I'd still recommend you'd want to pick up Nihilakh Oxide for that spectral, faded teal appearance, but on the whole you'd be able to do something pretty near to this I think.
It works pretty well for the 'skin' bits of the ghost, but I wouldn't put it over things like weapons and chains. A bit of Agrax Earthshade instead there will dull them down, but give you plenty of contrast with the spectral bits!
My nihilakh oxide cracks like a texture paint in areas it pools up a little. Not sure if it's just because of the weather or a dud pot. So over the unpredictability of some products.
That's odd. I've not heard of it doing that from anywhere else. Maybe try using a little less? Though it is possible you might just have lucked into a bad pot, which is no good. The only other product I've heard of 'variable quality' is Ceramite White, but even then most GW stores have been pretty happy to just do me a straight swap.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio After it started cracking, I came here to see how much you had used (as I had previously watched you using it) and sure enough I think I used less than what you did in this video, but it's just a guess. I've also had problems with my nuln oil drying white in areas it has just SLIGHTLY pooled up. I can only use my nuln oil as a glaze. Never had that problem with any of my other gw shades.
How well would the Nighthaunt Gloom and we Hexwraith Flame work over clear, or semi clear models? Anyone any ideas? I’ve got some D&D ghost models that are clear/blue plastic, so it’d be dice to keep some of that translucency.
I'm not sure it'd work terribly well - the Nighthaunt Gloom in particular covers quite well, despite the weird effect it gives over a primer. Hexwraith Flame might work a little better, but I'd definitely try it on something I wasn't too worried about looking perfect first!
In theory, sure, but the results will be different. You could prime grey and then give the model a couple of coats of white paint from a brush, but working from a plain grey primer won't give you the same look.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I have a can of the older Skull White (paint inside is still good, tested it out on a mini) is that the same as corax white?
I know I’m very late to the party on this - but I’ve probably watched this video a 100 times whilst painting my huge my Nighthaunt army. This video made the daunting task of painting an army of ghost so effortless - thank you 😊
What I love about these videos and I mean this without any disrespect is how simple and unpretentious they are. Many people seem to have a misconception about how good dry brushing and washing can get models to look but effort in versus result out cannot be beaten. At times I feel ashamed to put my models onto instagram without at least an attempt given to wet blending and NMM such is the snobbery in the hobby these days. Valid skills but totally unnecessary to achieve brilliant table top quality models that anybody would be proud to play a game with.
Just brilliant as always mate, can't stress enough how helpful your videos were in getting me out of the mindset that every model needed to be painted to my highest ability. Sometimes simplicity and efficiency really is the key, and that characters and HQ models are the ones where you can spend that little extra time to add more detail.
I still struggle with it a little myself, but someone suggested thinking of painting an army as actually painting for your opponent's sake. At a glance, most of our miniatures have different silhouettes, so they're easy enough to pick out from one another on the battlefield, but all you need is to differentiate them in some way from one another. The Nighthaunt cloaks/hoods are a really good example of this, I think - your basic Chainrasps only have the hoods, where the Bladegheists have almost full capes, and the Grimghast Reapers add just a touch of red. "If you're painting an army for the tabletop," he explained, "you're really just painting to help your opponent's threat recognition." That put a really interesting shift on the attitude for me!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio That's an excellent way of looking at it, one that I haven't heard before tbh. Maybe now I can finally decide to go for Red trims and crosses for my Black Templar intercessor segeants - as I have been conflicted about that for a while, but it certainly makes those particular models stand out and be easily recognizable for both the opponent and myself. Not to mention it's lorewise correct :D. Can't wait to see more videos from you man, keep up the great work!
I must agree with you buddy 😄
You are in my top 5 hobby content providers...glad you are back.
Absolutely gobsmacked at how quick you paint with professional results... great looking model
I've been at it for a while! I suppose it's fair to say that I make it look easy, but the techniques are themselves pretty straightforward and hopefully quite simple. Just a little practice is all it takes, rather than years of muckig about; my experience, distilled!
I think you are finding your niche with this type of videos! They relation spent-time vs quality you achieve is much better than any other TH-camr out there. Please, please, keep doing this type of videos :)
I love how chillax all your schemes and techniques are. Plus I saw your guard video first so I think of you as a fellow Cadian.
Glad to see you back! This was well worth the wait and it looks great. You show lots of good techniques that can be used on other figures. I am painting my Cadians in your winter scheme and they look great so far. Thanks for sharing this.
How nice to see a realistic guide that works with simple paint techniques, and which I've been able to apply using just Vallejo paints.... I've not copied this exactly, but what you've shown has helped me get some results i've been really happy with, thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
So I just finished painting my Cairn Wraith in this paint scheme and it turned out well! I'll post a pic on my Twitter later and ping you. Thanks for being a trailblazer!
Got a Spooky boys army to paint in a couple of days so this was immensely helpful - Thank you :)
I just picked up the Legion of Grief boxed set, and this is a most fortuitous video to watch because wow I got a *lot* of ghosts to paint in the near future...
I was staring at a lot of primed Nighthaunts scratching my head, awaiting the motivation to get onto them... Now... Thanks to you I’m SOOO excited to get the production line going hahaha!! Cheers :))))
Definitely going to try this.
This has actually helped me so damn much always had problems keeping that ghostly look and this worked perfectly
Really such a useful technique video. Going to apply this to other color schemes and models as well!
I must confess, that I'm still undecided as to who has the greatest laugh on TH-cam, you or JoergSprave :)
Being a Mexican who speaks and understand english pretty well, I love your accent and pronunciation man!!! great vids!!!!
Thanks, bud! I've moved internationally a couple times and found I had to be pretty careful with my pronunciation and diction at first to make sure people understood me - 'speaking English' doesn't work the whole world over! 🤣
Awesome as ever. I've always done shade, then drybrush to lighten it up. I don't know why I've never considered doing it the other way around, but just now I did a quick and dirty cape in this style, and I like the effect a lot more. Thanks!
I tend to find that except in rare cases where I want a really bright drybrush finish for some reason, the shade after that step helps tie everything together. :)
Painting for the spooktacle
Deep sigh!
Spectre - cool
I thought it was weird that you started with the chains but other than that, I used almost exactly the same paints and technique that you showed here, even down to the Ulthuan Grey to cover up the Corax. I love painting Nighthaunt, you can do almost anything and they come out looking pretty decent. Thanks for the Drakenhof tip, I’m stealing it! 👍
Great tutorial. Thanks for saving me sooo much time!
Honestly deserve alot more publicity for this channel, youve helped me and my son in painting my cadians and his death guard army (we just started) i need more practise but he is getting good, anyway i kind of rambled there but keep up the good work and thanks man.
Glad to hear it! Those Death Guard can be a lot of fun to get into the gross bits on. :D
... I started painting my Chainrasps a few days ago...
I went Hexwraith Flame for the part below the top cloak things.
Nighthaunt gloom for their cloak tops.
Nihilakh oxide for skulls, arms, and hands.
Ulthuain grey dry brush.
Leadbelcher, agrax, typhus compound, ryza rust for the metal parts (sword pummels were B. Gold).
Dryad bark for wood.
Almost done. Genestealer purple for the candles is what I'm thinking. Then the bases and stones and other silly stuff. Done. :)
Glad to see a new video! All the best in the new year! :)
Great video! I am gonna try this! :)
Enjoyed that! Welcome back!
Loving your work! Keep them coming mate!
This looks Much better than the first chainrasp you painted
Best tutorial so far, great work ^_^
I'm painting mine with physical bodies (skulls and arms painted as actual undead rather than ghosts) but your video helped me so much with everything else.
yeah imma do the same as him but leave the shade off the weapons and use skeleton horde on the skull and arms
I like this better than the Green Ghost version (Hexflame Wraith) you did previously. This is a lot closer to GW’s paint scheme which I like a lot. I’ll give it a try.
I'm feeling adventurous and wanna try this on my Howling Banshees for my Eldar. They are Banshees after all.
Nice to see you back dude! Wish you a good new year. P.S.: Mostly I like the way how "you paint things" ;)
Really helpful! Thanks very much
I did black capes with drybrushed dark red and it looks good
Superb!! As always
Great easy tutorial that I'll follow if I get around to getting some ghosties. Would love to see a tutorial on Dryads. Warhammer's official paint scheme seems so dull and a more vibrant, fantasy, Lord of the Rings rich green/brown theme would be more "foresty" in my opinion. Thanks!
I like this look better than your other chainrasp video.
Glad to see you back old lad , great vid nil ox looks great ,please let me know if you plan on doing any blackstone fortess vids take care stu
Thanks Stu, it's nice to be back into things. :) I've got Blackstone Fortress, but it'll honestly be a while before I end up tackling those miniatures - I've got so much on the backlog it's not even funny!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudiono worries , hope you have time to play a bit cheers take care
dude thats amazing
Glad you think so!
great video again!
So cute! I love it!
Just started watching your stuff since I'm thinking of getting the nighthaunts so thanks and also you sound like another TH-camr I know lol
I'm waiting to for nightvault to arrive so I might try goblin Green capes, gretchin green robes, thraka green wash, then dry brush original colours before highlighting with escorpena green and white drybrushing all over lightly then mithril silver weapons and leviathan purple wash followed by white drybrushing all over to give a dead ghostly effect, might add some black to the handles for a darker atmosphere
Great vid
Ya bois finna bouta get down spooky
Just finish now with mine, it's perfect, thx :D :D Want this same "blue paint" but glowing in the dark ! :D
Now that WOULD be cool for display... might be a little difficult reading your dice in the dark, though! ;)
Awesome videos
Great stuff as always, would love to see your spin on a Slaanesh piece.
Very nice Video
Very easy to do this , thanks .
I’m thinking a greenish cloak . Could it work ?
You're really not helping me not buy these.....
Thanks for another great video
Great video, as always! I'm planning on using Nighthaunt Gloom on my Renegade Guard fatigues, but I am priming them grey. Would you suggest undercoating the fatigues with something like Ceramite White?
I'd stick with grey! If it helps at all, here's how that might turn out. ;)
th-cam.com/video/lhX509u7pwk/w-d-xo.html
What would you recommend using if you wanted to make this a more green ectoplasmy ghost?
Funnily enough, there's another big pot of technical paint called Hexwraith Flame which would be perfect if you're looking for that kind of finish. :D It's a glutinous kind of green - over the top of Corax White spray like I used in this video, it'll come out looking kinda similar to Slimer.
Hexwraith Flame instead of Nihilakh Oxide (?) it's a bright green, kind of like Slimer from Ghostbusters ;)
- www.games-workshop.com/en-EU/Technical-Hexwraith-Flame-24ml-2018 I
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Concur. I did this for my Chainrasps.
I've recently picked up this hobby again and jumped from lord of the rings to Warhammer, do you have any more plans on continuing this series?
Or do you have a list of paints used for all nighthaunt models?
These ghosts are so spindly, my gorilla hands are really only fit to paint orks
Try holding a handful of them at a time? ;D
I can relate. Just bought The Elfheim Eagles.
Curious if you could achieve this kind of effect with a metallic base coat for Necrons
Another great video!
Any chance of a How I Paint Things Dark Eldar Kabalite warrior? I'd love to see how you do them!
Is it just me, or does this video have an ethereal feeling to it?
Pun's aside, there's something different in the lighting or maybe it's a different camera.
Either way it's still another great tutorial video. :{J
Bro do u have any alternatives to their paints? or its just really convenient getting their premixed colors( lore wise )
I'm think of buying the Nighthaunt+Paint set, along with primer and one or two paints; should I buy Nihilakh (whatever it's written like) Oxide or Hexwraith Flame?
It's a matter of taste, but personally I'd go for Nihilakh Oxide. Hexwraith Flame is reeeeeally green, so I tend to prefer the slightly more pale blue look.
Pretty much exactly how I did mine. Any thoughts on doing speed painting for Orks?
Hi, first of all great work! Second question… since corax white as a primer has been discontinued what would you think would be a good alternative: white scar or grey seer? Mind that I would like very much to replicate your technique!
White Scar would be my choice. You'll get a slightly cleaner, more crisp finish than you would from Grey Seer, better for the spooks and specters!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio thx for the answer! I’ll try white scar then!
hi! my english isnt very good but i can understand what are you saying! thank you so so much
Would it be possibel to do anything similar using *only* the paints from the Age of Sigmar "Paints and Tools" starter set?
As a complete noob videos such as yours are greatly appreciated, but it is still somewhat overwhelming trying to find a reasonable starting set of painst and brushes.
I'd have to give it a shot! I think you could get relatively close. I'd still recommend you'd want to pick up Nihilakh Oxide for that spectral, faded teal appearance, but on the whole you'd be able to do something pretty near to this I think.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thank you. Has anyone done anything similar but with a pale ice blue palette rather than green?
Wouldn’t Grey Seer base coat work for this?
any chance for some Blackstone Fortress figures painting tutorials? just finished assembling them, looking for some inspiration ;)
What other paints do you use other then citidel paints
hi im new to this aos nighthaunts . been a good 17 years since i last painted . is there any links to get the brushes please
What color of spray you used for undercoat?
This was Corax White, but anything pure or off-white will work fine for a similar look.
Would Hexwraith flame be a good substitute for the Nihilakh Oxide? Just trying to keep to the theme of my greeny spooki bois
It works pretty well for the 'skin' bits of the ghost, but I wouldn't put it over things like weapons and chains. A bit of Agrax Earthshade instead there will dull them down, but give you plenty of contrast with the spectral bits!
I use gauss blaster green
My nihilakh oxide cracks like a texture paint in areas it pools up a little. Not sure if it's just because of the weather or a dud pot. So over the unpredictability of some products.
That's odd. I've not heard of it doing that from anywhere else. Maybe try using a little less? Though it is possible you might just have lucked into a bad pot, which is no good. The only other product I've heard of 'variable quality' is Ceramite White, but even then most GW stores have been pretty happy to just do me a straight swap.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio After it started cracking, I came here to see how much you had used (as I had previously watched you using it) and sure enough I think I used less than what you did in this video, but it's just a guess. I've also had problems with my nuln oil drying white in areas it has just SLIGHTLY pooled up. I can only use my nuln oil as a glaze. Never had that problem with any of my other gw shades.
How well would the Nighthaunt Gloom and we Hexwraith Flame work over clear, or semi clear models? Anyone any ideas? I’ve got some D&D ghost models that are clear/blue plastic, so it’d be dice to keep some of that translucency.
I'm not sure it'd work terribly well - the Nighthaunt Gloom in particular covers quite well, despite the weird effect it gives over a primer. Hexwraith Flame might work a little better, but I'd definitely try it on something I wasn't too worried about looking perfect first!
Will a grey primer work instead of corax white?
In theory, sure, but the results will be different. You could prime grey and then give the model a couple of coats of white paint from a brush, but working from a plain grey primer won't give you the same look.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I have a can of the older Skull White (paint inside is still good, tested it out on a mini) is that the same as corax white?
What was that blue shade at the beginning?
Nihilakh Oxide. It's good stuff!
Thank you so much 🙏🏼
spook taclar paint job
A ghost with an axe? Where's a ghost with a GUN =P
Oh, you want the Legion of the Damned! ;D
www.games-workshop.com/en-US/The-Legion-of-the-Damned-bundle
Painting for the spectacle? More like spooktacle...