I've been searching high and low for a death guard scheme that looks fantastic, is effective and not unnecessarily overly complicated and this may very well be the one!! Excellent work sir, I am blown away.
Got my first plague terminators and scoured TH-cam for painting guides and yours by far is the best look!!! Can't wait to start, just hope mine come close to yours
One of the best death guard painting guides I've seen! Could you cover how to do those tentacles on a lot of the models at some point please? How to fade from fleshy to that we're pinky colour at the end.
Glad you liked it. I can certainly do a vid on that, will try and get it up in the next few weeks. Can't have Death Guard without tentacles after all :)
Thanks for the video! I was very unsure of how subassembly would work and actually read some things that suggested it would t for this model, at least for the head. Glad to see that I can do it!
As many other people have said, this is probably the best tutorial to paint Death Guard out there. Every step is explained in delightful detail, the image of what you're painting is always crisp and clear, and there's just a "pleasant" vibe to the video overall. I've seen this video several times in the last couple of days, and this will for sure be my #1 preference when I start painting my DG shortly. The one thing I would like to know more about is the exact consistency of the paints you apply. For instance, do you use wet or dry palette? What's the ratio between paint and medium when you mix them? And when lahmian is not mentioned, does it mean the paint is straight out of the pot, or thinned with a bit of water via wet palette? Outstanding job, congrats and please keep them coming :)
One of the more beautiful painted death guard tutorial, I dare say, rival the WarhammerTV. Well done! Definitely keeping an eye for your future content. :)
Would love to see more death guard. Deathshroud, poxguys, tanks... Just because this is so good. If you would have a patreon i would follow. I just bought myself a DG army. You just made me want to start right away. I don't find good tutorials, not even as a siegestudios and others patreon. Thank u so much
Thank you for putting this together! I learned so much. Also thank you for replying to comments and answering questions. I wanted to know what brushes you used, and you had already answered that in the comments below. I hope to see more nurgle videos in the future. Would love to get your take on bloat drones, plagueburst crawlers, and mortarion. Also, if you know how to do glass bottles, I'd love to get your take on Biologus Putrifier. :) Thanks again for sharing this amazing work!
Very good death guard painting video and I've seen a lot of them. One comment, in my opinion, the music volume when you're not speaking should be the same volume when you are speaking.
Thank you, glad you liked the video. Just to clarify, would you prefer the music to be louder when I am speaking, or quieter when I'm not speaking? Thanks again, and I appreciate the feedback.
I can't count the number of times I've had a look at an army I've 'finished' and decided I want to go back in and change stuff. In the middle of revamping my Maggotkin of Nurgle at the moment, definitely easier in my head.
@@drunkengorillapainting Awesome! Will that be some stuff you post about? I don't touch the fantasy side, but always can learn from new ways to paint items. The way you paint some skin or a trinket might spur me to paint something of mine differently!
Perfect! I mean as I said, really. My new reference in painting Mortarion's sons. I like the way you do and try to do so when I will paint one of the characters soon
Cheers mate. Really enjoyed the video! Calm and skillfully made. Well explained. I subscribed and hope to see more Death Guard related content from you in the future. Keep up the great work 🤙
I've (youtube;]) just found (for me;]) your channel; your painting is stunningly beautiful man. I am going to watch all your vids, and download them onto hdd in case world will start to end and They will take away Internet! I've 'just' returned to hobby, and already have one year hole in that 'returning' ;p. But now I am painting, and while Plague Marines which I currently paint have to stay like they already are, the next one I will try to paint just like you are showing to us. For me right now, when I am painting, the hardest thing is to develop right order of doing things; and not knowing how things will end up, when you apply one color onto another is also demotivating. But I still have steady hand and enough good eyes. I will fight:). Also, thing in this tutorial like this one 'i know there is leather on some Plague Boys, so I will just show you on this handle' is unique bro. I mean, that's beautiful. One mini to paint them all. I am totally fan of this video, and I am leaving, cause I have some guts and rust to paint. Long Live and Prosper.
yours feels more green than my Death guard green, did you do something not shown on the video, after the rust glaze step? My death guard green look much more pale.
With the panel glazing, the mix is about 3 parts lahmian to 1 part doombull brown, and making sure there's very little paint on the brush. Hope that helps, and thanks for your support :)
Glad you liked the video. I attached the parts by drilling small holes into the joints I knew wouldn't be seen when fully assembled, then using paperclips to attach them to the corks. If the fit was too loose, I'd use a small dab of super glue. Hope that helps :)
This is an Amazing tutorial so thank you for the detail. Can I ask how you fit the head into the model afterwards? Seems too big to go nicely and don’t want to ruin the time taken.
Great tutorial, thank you so much! Been watching this on repeat as I paint my Death Guard kill team. I'm about to start weathering, but I don't have any Doombull brown. Do you think something like three drops Mournfang brown, one drop Khorne red, and two drops Lahmian medium would get close enough? Thanks!
At 3:27, what color did you apply to the metal parts before you started chipping with the sponge? Also, did you do it directly over the DG Green spray coat?
In the stage before the chipping I went over all the non armour areas, metal included, in Abaddon Black. This step was more for visual clarity than any necessity for the painting, though I do find it easier to get an even metallic base coat over Black so it does save some time down the line. I actually didn't do it over a DG green basecoat (as I couldn't get my hands on any in time for the video), but I layered DG green over a similar green primer. Even if the model had been base coated in DG green first, I'd recommend doing at least one layer of DG green with a brush as I find the finish from spray priming and using a brush are slightly different. Hope that helps :)
I use quite a wide range of brushes, but my go to brushes at the moment are the Raphael Brush series 8404, size 1 and 2 in particular. Though for other techniques like drybrushing and washing I tend to use GW brushes.
Is the agrash earthshade wash a thin one? at the start. On model on screen doesn't really look like it fills the recesses. Mine looked too grimy and the recesses were filled?
Although the agrax wash wasn't dilluted, I'd make sure that a thin layer is applied, as you can always go back and add more if it doesn't darken it enough. It's good to get some of the wash into the recesses, but if the wash looks like it's 'pooling' in any of the detail, such as the recesses, be sure to go back in to remove some of it. Hope that helps :)
This is fantastic and very helpful and informative. You've won yourself a sub! Quick question unrelated to the model itself. What paintbrushes do you use? :) Thanks
I'll be watching your career wtih great interest. well shot, well edited, excellent sound and video quality. Well done. I hope you take off, as everyone else I subscribe to does. Edit: Death Guard's my favorite, but how would you paint an Orky army? >:D
Thank you, I really appreciate the support. As far as Orks go, the Green Tide will always hold a special place in my heart, and I'm planning to do a video featuring an Ork in the next few weeks. Hope to see you there :)
Your death guard look amazing!!! I'm new to painting minis and chose death guard as my army. I've done some plague marines, but now I've seen this video I will try this on my death shroud. I only hope I can make them look half as good as you have. Could you do a video on more death guard units?
Great to hear that you enjoyed the video. As for other Death Guard videos, I expect I will be revisiting them at some point in the future as Nurgle holds a special (if somewhat rotten), place in my heart. For the moment though, there is another video on Death Guard on my channel, just in case you haven't seen it already. Really Appreciate the support :D
Thanks man. I have a medium layer brush but the lines were too thick 🙈 I bought a size 00 and I will try again with that. Maybe I will make a channel so you can see my painting and tell me what you think 🤣
I've a question: during the step where you apply a wash of agrax earthshade on the entire armor (minutes 1:18-1:30), did you use a diluted agrax? I applied a non diluted wash of agrax on the armor and it appear much more dark and dirty than the armor in your video
Whilst I didn't dilute the agrax myself, a number of other people have also noted that when they used agrax it came out darker than mine did, so I think my pot of agrax might be 'less potent' than that of others. So to that effect, it might be worth thinning out the wash with just a touch of agrax lahmian medium if the wash is coming out too dark for your taste :)
The steps for the chainmail and weapon can be found starting at 10:00. They're a bit of a collection of steps with some other bits thrown in there (such as the bronze), but the colours and techniques you're looking for should be there. Hope that helps :)
@@drunkengorillapainting ty sir! Im a step by step king of guy and this is my first attempt at painting so felt a little lost when I saw what appeared to be a time skip 🙈 Appreciate the reply my friend, incredible work!
Are you sure you put on 2 coats of death guard green? Not a coat of death guard then elysium green. I ask only because the results im getting are less yellowish green than your example. Perhaps its just the lighting
I think it might be the lighting, as I only basecoated with Deathguard green. That being said, if you prefer the end result of using elysian green, then by all means go for it; I'm sure it would turn out great whichever you use :D
I love everything but the axe blade...black doesn't match and looks like "unfinished" to me. IMHO, It would have been much better to paint it in mithril silver then to apply several washes and glazes of diluted black paint to control and shut down the tones and finally highlight and scratch the edges with this same mithril silver at the end...Anyway, the rest of the paint is wonderful.
Glad you liked the video :D As far as the axe goes, I confess I wan't entirely sure how to go about it, so decided to match it with the bolter casing, in part for continuity and in part because I couldn't think of another way to paint it. I quite like the idea of shading down from a mithril basecoat with black; I reckon that could build a nice gradient on what is quite a flat surface, I'll definitely give that a shot on a future model to test it out :)
@@drunkengorillapainting I particularly appreciate your texturing with the foam... it's an easy and very effective way to give richness and realism to armor (i usually use this only on my building's roofs or vehicules)...Great job...:-).
the best painters are usually the ones who don't get the most recognition. hope your channel takes off!!
Honestly. One of the best guides i've ever seen. Straight to point with each step explained.
I've been searching high and low for a death guard scheme that looks fantastic, is effective and not unnecessarily overly complicated and this may very well be the one!!
Excellent work sir, I am blown away.
After a lot of watching different videos, ive decided this will be how i paint my death guards. What an excellent paint job and video
This one's amazing! Very clean, traditional painting style with a lot of punch! Very much looking forward to all your upcoming projects!
Best blightlord terminator paint tutorial that i found.Nooice!!!👍
Got my first plague terminators and scoured TH-cam for painting guides and yours by far is the best look!!! Can't wait to start, just hope mine come close to yours
I’m going to paint my entire army in this style, I love it!
Music is awesome. Guide is nearly perfect! Voice timbre is absolutely terrific! Video just hypnotizes with Chaotic Death guard vibes
I used this video as the base for my own Death guard models. Thank you so much for the step by step tutorial! Great work, amazing result!
Truly excellent video, exactly the look I needed for my Maggotkins armour 👍🏻
Fantastic video, enjoyable, in depth, concise and quality musical ambiance very fitting
Seriously happy that I stumbled upon this video. Beautifully done! Thank you! :D
One of the best death guard painting guides I've seen!
Could you cover how to do those tentacles on a lot of the models at some point please? How to fade from fleshy to that we're pinky colour at the end.
Glad you liked it.
I can certainly do a vid on that, will try and get it up in the next few weeks.
Can't have Death Guard without tentacles after all :)
by far the best tutorial for plaque marines i have seen.well done brother
Easily one of my favorite models from the Death Guard range! Great job making him look properly dirtied up!
A fantastic tutorial! Hope to see more Death guard in the future.
Fantastic Blightlord and one of the best painting tutorials I've seen for DG, I'm sure this will be a big channel in no time at all
Thanks for the video! I was very unsure of how subassembly would work and actually read some things that suggested it would t for this model, at least for the head. Glad to see that I can do it!
mate this is outstanding, i am going to try a few of these techniques on my Blightlords and Deathshrouds
As many other people have said, this is probably the best tutorial to paint Death Guard out there. Every step is explained in delightful detail, the image of what you're painting is always crisp and clear, and there's just a "pleasant" vibe to the video overall. I've seen this video several times in the last couple of days, and this will for sure be my #1 preference when I start painting my DG shortly.
The one thing I would like to know more about is the exact consistency of the paints you apply. For instance, do you use wet or dry palette? What's the ratio between paint and medium when you mix them? And when lahmian is not mentioned, does it mean the paint is straight out of the pot, or thinned with a bit of water via wet palette?
Outstanding job, congrats and please keep them coming :)
Thank you for this! Love the step by step instructions! Gonna be a real help when i start painting my death guard!
I learned so much from your both death guard videos, thank ands thanks again!
Excellent guide, thanks!
One of the more beautiful painted death guard tutorial, I dare say, rival the WarhammerTV. Well done! Definitely keeping an eye for your future content. :)
Very nice work! Easy to follow, great explanation. Thanks very much, subbed
Would love to see more death guard. Deathshroud, poxguys, tanks... Just because this is so good. If you would have a patreon i would follow. I just bought myself a DG army. You just made me want to start right away. I don't find good tutorials, not even as a siegestudios and others patreon. Thank u so much
Really appreciate that, and glad you found the tutorial helpful :)
How do you only have 251 subs? Your work is amazing!
Thank you for putting this together! I learned so much. Also thank you for replying to comments and answering questions. I wanted to know what brushes you used, and you had already answered that in the comments below. I hope to see more nurgle videos in the future. Would love to get your take on bloat drones, plagueburst crawlers, and mortarion. Also, if you know how to do glass bottles, I'd love to get your take on Biologus Putrifier. :) Thanks again for sharing this amazing work!
Great video, thank you!
This was a great video, thank you so much for this!
I'm going to follow your guide and hope for the best
Very good death guard painting video and I've seen a lot of them. One comment, in my opinion, the music volume when you're not speaking should be the same volume when you are speaking.
Thank you, glad you liked the video. Just to clarify, would you prefer the music to be louder when I am speaking, or quieter when I'm not speaking?
Thanks again, and I appreciate the feedback.
@@drunkengorillapainting just lower volume a little, in my opinion. I'm liking forward to your next videos
You deserve way more subscribers, ive shared your Channel in various Groups on Facebook
Thanks for the support, Glad you liked the video :D
Really enjoyed this. Great technique.
Super cool.
Fantastic guide, makes me want to repaint things on my DG! Glad to be in first 25 subs!
I can't count the number of times I've had a look at an army I've 'finished' and decided I want to go back in and change stuff. In the middle of revamping my Maggotkin of Nurgle at the moment, definitely easier in my head.
@@drunkengorillapainting Awesome! Will that be some stuff you post about? I don't touch the fantasy side, but always can learn from new ways to paint items. The way you paint some skin or a trinket might spur me to paint something of mine differently!
I expect there'll be a video on it in the relatively near future, probably on the demonic side of nurgle, maybe some Plague bearers or Nurglings :)
Perfect! I mean as I said, really. My new reference in painting Mortarion's sons. I like the way you do and try to do so when I will paint one of the characters soon
Sick paint job man.. I just ordered all the paints you used in this project and im going to try all your methods! Great work!
Glad you enjoyed the video, and get cracking with the painting :D
awesome tutorial. thank you for that
This death guard tutorialis different than most others, but in my opinion it’s amazing!
Cheers mate. Really enjoyed the video! Calm and skillfully made. Well explained. I subscribed and hope to see more Death Guard related content from you in the future. Keep up the great work 🤙
I've (youtube;]) just found (for me;]) your channel; your painting is stunningly beautiful man. I am going to watch all your vids, and download them onto hdd in case world will start to end and They will take away Internet! I've 'just' returned to hobby, and already have one year hole in that 'returning' ;p. But now I am painting, and while Plague Marines which I currently paint have to stay like they already are, the next one I will try to paint just like you are showing to us. For me right now, when I am painting, the hardest thing is to develop right order of doing things; and not knowing how things will end up, when you apply one color onto another is also demotivating. But I still have steady hand and enough good eyes. I will fight:). Also, thing in this tutorial like this one 'i know there is leather on some Plague Boys, so I will just show you on this handle' is unique bro. I mean, that's beautiful. One mini to paint them all. I am totally fan of this video, and I am leaving, cause I have some guts and rust to paint. Long Live and Prosper.
yours feels more green than my Death guard green, did you do something not shown on the video, after the rust glaze step? My death guard green look much more pale.
me whos brand new to painting, saw abunch of stuff suddenly turn black, panicked and now have taken a brake
I kinda messed up my model cause I was quite heavy handed with the Agrax wash but it still looks nice
Great video! How do you place the head in the helmet after the fact? some of these heads are pretty large to fit through the opening.
What amount of Lahmian Medium do you use with the Doombull for the armor panel glaze?
With the panel glazing, the mix is about 3 parts lahmian to 1 part doombull brown, and making sure there's very little paint on the brush. Hope that helps, and thanks for your support :)
Excellent tutorial. How are you attaching the sub assembly parts to the cork?
Glad you liked the video.
I attached the parts by drilling small holes into the joints I knew wouldn't be seen when fully assembled, then using paperclips to attach them to the corks. If the fit was too loose, I'd use a small dab of super glue.
Hope that helps :)
This is an Amazing tutorial so thank you for the detail. Can I ask how you fit the head into the model afterwards? Seems too big to go nicely and don’t want to ruin the time taken.
Great tutorial, thank you so much! Been watching this on repeat as I paint my Death Guard kill team. I'm about to start weathering, but I don't have any Doombull brown. Do you think something like three drops Mournfang brown, one drop Khorne red, and two drops Lahmian medium would get close enough? Thanks!
At 3:27, what color did you apply to the metal parts before you started chipping with the sponge? Also, did you do it directly over the DG Green spray coat?
In the stage before the chipping I went over all the non armour areas, metal included, in Abaddon Black. This step was more for visual clarity than any necessity for the painting, though I do find it easier to get an even metallic base coat over Black so it does save some time down the line.
I actually didn't do it over a DG green basecoat (as I couldn't get my hands on any in time for the video), but I layered DG green over a similar green primer.
Even if the model had been base coated in DG green first, I'd recommend doing at least one layer of DG green with a brush as I find the finish from spray priming and using a brush are slightly different.
Hope that helps :)
can you to an vidio how do paint deamon machines with this style?^^pls^^ very great stuff
what paintbrushes do you use
I use quite a wide range of brushes, but my go to brushes at the moment are the Raphael Brush series 8404, size 1 and 2 in particular. Though for other techniques like drybrushing and washing I tend to use GW brushes.
Is the agrash earthshade wash a thin one? at the start. On model on screen doesn't really look like it fills the recesses. Mine looked too grimy and the recesses were filled?
Although the agrax wash wasn't dilluted, I'd make sure that a thin layer is applied, as you can always go back and add more if it doesn't darken it enough. It's good to get some of the wash into the recesses, but if the wash looks like it's 'pooling' in any of the detail, such as the recesses, be sure to go back in to remove some of it. Hope that helps :)
This is fantastic and very helpful and informative. You've won yourself a sub! Quick question unrelated to the model itself. What paintbrushes do you use? :) Thanks
How long did this take?
I'll be watching your career wtih great interest.
well shot, well edited, excellent sound and video quality. Well done. I hope you take off, as everyone else I subscribe to does.
Edit: Death Guard's my favorite, but how would you paint an Orky army? >:D
Thank you, I really appreciate the support.
As far as Orks go, the Green Tide will always hold a special place in my heart, and I'm planning to do a video featuring an Ork in the next few weeks.
Hope to see you there :)
With sotek blue, do you mean sotek green? i cant find blue but i can find green,(but it does LOOK blue just called different)
Hi, absolutely meant to say Sotek Green :)
Your death guard look amazing!!! I'm new to painting minis and chose death guard as my army. I've done some plague marines, but now I've seen this video I will try this on my death shroud. I only hope I can make them look half as good as you have. Could you do a video on more death guard units?
Great to hear that you enjoyed the video. As for other Death Guard videos, I expect I will be revisiting them at some point in the future as Nurgle holds a special (if somewhat rotten), place in my heart. For the moment though, there is another video on Death Guard on my channel, just in case you haven't seen it already. Really Appreciate the support :D
Can you tell me what size brushes you used to do the fine rusty looking lines on the model please?
@@renegadesaint1819 Absolutely, I used a Raphael 8404 size 1 brush, which I believe is about the same size as a GW medium layer brush.
Thanks man. I have a medium layer brush but the lines were too thick 🙈 I bought a size 00 and I will try again with that. Maybe I will make a channel so you can see my painting and tell me what you think 🤣
Stumbled across this.
Now saved it.
Great tutorial!
(Maybe mix up the music a little bit)
Though I'm now wondering why you're second coating of Death Guard green is somewhat brighter/yellower than my DG Green.
Hey dude, do you do commissions?
I've a question: during the step where you apply a wash of agrax earthshade on the entire armor (minutes 1:18-1:30), did you use a diluted agrax? I applied a non diluted wash of agrax on the armor and it appear much more dark and dirty than the armor in your video
Whilst I didn't dilute the agrax myself, a number of other people have also noted that when they used agrax it came out darker than mine did, so I think my pot of agrax might be 'less potent' than that of others. So to that effect, it might be worth thinning out the wash with just a touch of agrax lahmian medium if the wash is coming out too dark for your taste :)
Where is the section to paint the chain mail, weapon ect?
The steps for the chainmail and weapon can be found starting at 10:00. They're a bit of a collection of steps with some other bits thrown in there (such as the bronze), but the colours and techniques you're looking for should be there. Hope that helps :)
@@drunkengorillapainting ty sir! Im a step by step king of guy and this is my first attempt at painting so felt a little lost when I saw what appeared to be a time skip 🙈
Appreciate the reply my friend, incredible work!
mm at some point it just skipped to where half the model was black but didn't say what paint was used, did i miss something
Honestly really beautiful, wish mine wouldn't look like ass but yeah
I've been there, just keep painting and you'll be great before you even know it :D
@@drunkengorillapainting appreciate the genuine support, thanks c:
More videos!
Are you sure you put on 2 coats of death guard green? Not a coat of death guard then elysium green. I ask only because the results im getting are less yellowish green than your example. Perhaps its just the lighting
I think it might be the lighting, as I only basecoated with Deathguard green. That being said, if you prefer the end result of using elysian green, then by all means go for it; I'm sure it would turn out great whichever you use :D
Phwoar!
Are you Darren Latham??
I love everything but the axe blade...black doesn't match and looks like "unfinished" to me. IMHO, It would have been much better to paint it in mithril silver then to apply several washes and glazes of diluted black paint to control and shut down the tones and finally highlight and scratch the edges with this same mithril silver at the end...Anyway, the rest of the paint is wonderful.
Glad you liked the video :D As far as the axe goes, I confess I wan't entirely sure how to go about it, so decided to match it with the bolter casing, in part for continuity and in part because I couldn't think of another way to paint it. I quite like the idea of shading down from a mithril basecoat with black; I reckon that could build a nice gradient on what is quite a flat surface, I'll definitely give that a shot on a future model to test it out :)
@@drunkengorillapainting Thanks for your prompt reply. By the way, you're not so bad for a drunken gorilla !! ;-). Cheers mate.
@@drunkengorillapainting I particularly appreciate your texturing with the foam... it's an easy and very effective way to give richness and realism to armor (i usually use this only on my building's roofs or vehicules)...Great job...:-).
38 odd paints used ? Wtf
what brushes did you use?