They specifically did not allow the mtg artists to be credited when the wargammer magic decks came out, they just want full credit for the brand not the people.@@andrewpackham8236
That was 100% back to your personal roots - not that you're a Dark Mechanicum tech priest (although....), really top notch video. Interesting,well executed and very informative. Thanks Guy.
I can't thank you enough for this idea. After years of being part of Warhammer community as a lore nerd, I finally have enough money to dip my toes in to the miniature side of the hobby. My only problem is that GamesWorkshop is really expensive, and eBay does not always have what I need. Not only that, but I really love dark mechanicum and have deemed them as my favourite faction, and was going to customize admech army as a dark mechanicum army. And as I was scrolling for admech minies in ebay, I saw a lot of "box of random bits" offers and was thinking that those might be useful for something. And now seeing this video it just now gives me an idea that I could create the models myself by combining those random bits, everyday stuff from my house and clay or something similar (already do sculpting as a hobby) to create my own models. Thank you for this amazing idea and keep up the great content. (English is not my primary language so bear with me here)
Printing big things has been a revelation...so much so, my gaming group has decided to revisit Inquisitor, the old GW large scale skermish RPG. My eye-sight is failing as I get older and I hear a lot of complaints about scale creep in miniatures lately but doubling the scale of stuff has worked nicely. As a test project, I created 250 pt armies for Warhammer 40k 3rd ed, which whilst the game was definitely not intended to be played at tha scale (points or miniatures) it was a very fun hobby and gaming project for a bunch of grognards.
I would be so happy if the Grim Skull models (e.g. the amazing grimdark servitors and much more) on Wargames Exclusive would also be available as digital files, not only physical minis. Tracking through a warzone, shipping and especially customs are a huge factor in why I would prefer to have them printed by a company/friend in my country :/ I asked them about this and I was told they don't plan to offer digital files, sadly. Either way, their designs are the best I've ever seen for many models.
If you're in the UK and want to grab some small wires for free have a look at the ground around the dark green phone/Internet junction boxes. The engineers are always forgetting to clean up their scraps 😅
I’m here for the hot Quake 2 grenade launcher action. That was the first PC game I fell in love with, and so good to see it getting a mention here. Amazing game.
@@MidwinterMiniswhenever I do an impression of a grenade launcher (which my wife will tell you is pretty much daily), that’s the noise I’m replicating. Absolute classic.
Joke about official Warhammer toilet roll (TM) for engagement metrics. "Cover up the crack (on Cadia) with your munitorum special issue bog roll. Remember to praise the emperor"
@@MidwinterMinis Jesus christ that brings back memories of school toilets, that cheap as shit single ply tracing paper toilet paper that is both simultaneous too thick and also disintergrates the moment any moisture touches it...
Great video. Really like the scratch build. The blue was a great touch. Those large knight proxy would be great to see. Looking forward to the next video. Keep up the good work.
They're really cool! check out the HH book "Mechanicum" if you want to get a glimpse at the birth of them, or if you're not a reader I know Arbitor Ian and Mira is soon realising a review of that book on his channel
I supported Pete the Wargamer's "Dead Animal Bits" sprue kickstarter a while back, so I'm going to have quite a few spares. While the sprue is mostly organic parts, like horns, severed hands/heads, bones, and shark teeth, the sprue DOES have oversized kiwi skulls. And I've been thinking that would work very well for strange kitbashed cyber-thralls, if they're poking out from under shrouds. So this video is VERY relevant to my interests. Unrelated, but this technique also works for creating your own Nighthaunt minis for Age of Sigmar. Just remove all the random wires, and employ regular skull bits and arms from historical minis. Anyone who builds such kits has a plethora of spare weapon arms.
Hi Guy, thank you for giving me such a great idea because of this video. I just kitbashed a thousand sons infernal master a couple hours after the video released, thanks again man ,and keep making great videos and please make a traitor guard video soon.
the dark mechanicum are allegedly gonna get some proper tabletop representation in the near future, according to rumours. i think vashtorr's appearance may have helped there. not really a "hidden" faction though, they're mentioned plenty and have a massive part in the lore since the heresy (schism of mars etc), they just don't have an army yet. fingers crossed
dark mechanicum has such potential the idea of chaos infused flesh and metal in the most unholy of combinations is at least on paper The scariest thing in 40k
I've been a big fan of DorkFactory since I first found them on MMF a couple years ago. Nice to see some collaboration there. Also, I've never seen Solwyte get a spotlight before! Her designs are so damn cool! She also has other model ranges so if you think her style is cool check her out on MMF as well.
This video is awesome, going straight to my favorites. I've seen similar techniques used to kitbash AoS Nighthaunt. If you think about it, the basic template is the same for any shrouded floating dudes, it's just the dangly bits and weapons that change...
Looks good, the different visor makes a huge difference. The weapon changes also an improvement. Followed your previous video to build six terminators 👍
Great work! Hey keep any circuit boards and save them as well, I use them for walls in my terrain builds, they make awesome control rooms or power grid walls and doors. I had the idea about a year ago
I genuinely hope the negavolt cultists come back as a battleline unit if/when they release DarkMech. They're just so cool looking, and the voltagheist field ability was pretty cool
This creature reminds me a LOT of the Dr Zachary Smith (Gary Oldman) in the 1998 Lost in Space movie, after he becomes some sort of space spider-human mutant.
What a coincidence, I also have some leftover Triach Praetorian parts and also intended to replace the missing legs, arm and neck with cables to go for a lamia/kraken inspired Necron. :D
Thank you for this, wanting to do a dark mechanicum combat patrol for a while and unsure what to do for the Skitarii substitutes - gonna use this as a basis,
Not sure if anyone mentioned Station Forge. They have a lot of 40k inspired minis that are great for bits as well as proxy models. They have a whole Mechanicum inspired line and a few Necron style robots that I'm sure would work great kitbashed or used just as.
Very Inventive. I would have never thought to try that. Also, Wild West Exodus is a great game. So anyone taking this advice buy two sets, because its worth playing it as intended. No Ad. Just one of my favorite games. It made me a touch sad to think about chopping it into bits just to play more 40K. Anyway, great video, very creative.
I *love* how creepy and ghoulish it looks, but still with all the sci-fi bits. I think 40k is at its best when it braces the old school science-fantasy aesthetics.
Evil Mechanicus be like
“Well rested and well fed workers are much more productive and efficient”
Ad Mech: "are we... the baddies?"
@@MidwinterMinisNdmech: new shift format introduced! Zero breaks, work till you drop, get fixed, back to it!
Fun fact, that thought process is how public schools were originally created in the UK.
"Whatcha got there?"
*nervous dark admech*
"... a smoothie?"
Ad Mech: "Wait, WE are the GOODIES?!"
They're actually called the Dark Mechanicum because they were originally discoverered by Arkhan Dark.
... and the wrestler Billy England discovered England!
@@MidwinterMinis I think there was a Mister Sandwich at one point, and he ordered his steak between two slices of bread so he could eat while gambling
I see what you did there
The Emperor's true name is Jimmy Space and the Astartes are his Space Marines.
This comment had me laugh far harder than it should have ♥️
This is why I love Chaos. You can just create whatever you want and just say "yeah, Chaos just does that sometimes" so good for creativity.
Same with Orks tbf
I love that you've credited the artists in the artwork used. Now... if only GW would credit their artists
They don't do that anymore because 'fans' sent death threats to Matt Ward's house
@@andrewpackham8236GW don't do it to keep down the wages for their artists as they don't get any recognition
They specifically did not allow the mtg artists to be credited when the wargammer magic decks came out, they just want full credit for the brand not the people.@@andrewpackham8236
Same!
Yes! Please make MORE videos on scratch building and converting minis!!!
As an Iron Warriors player, I love kitbashing Dark Mechanicum goons to use for my cultists and I got some great ideas from this one. Thanks!
That was 100% back to your personal roots - not that you're a Dark Mechanicum tech priest (although....), really top notch video. Interesting,well executed and very informative. Thanks Guy.
You really are a genius, the scratch built one looks better than those printed ones!
Totally agree!
I can't thank you enough for this idea. After years of being part of Warhammer community as a lore nerd, I finally have enough money to dip my toes in to the miniature side of the hobby. My only problem is that GamesWorkshop is really expensive, and eBay does not always have what I need. Not only that, but I really love dark mechanicum and have deemed them as my favourite faction, and was going to customize admech army as a dark mechanicum army. And as I was scrolling for admech minies in ebay, I saw a lot of "box of random bits" offers and was thinking that those might be useful for something. And now seeing this video it just now gives me an idea that I could create the models myself by combining those random bits, everyday stuff from my house and clay or something similar (already do sculpting as a hobby) to create my own models. Thank you for this amazing idea and keep up the great content.
(English is not my primary language so bear with me here)
So, my English must not be great too. I did not see anything wrong with yours. I guess I don't know it well enough to see any problems with yours.
The intro was so sick
Thanks mate! Nessa gave me some very weird looks when I was doing the voice. I think she thought she was in trouble.
XD I just finished watching the video abd 7 likes and already. I always enjoy the intros you do
"My Magos, may we have Glaivewraith Stalkers?"
"We have Glaivewraiths at the Forgeworld."
Glaivewraiths at home:
"If it breaks, it breaks"
Ivan Drago, probably.
Printing big things has been a revelation...so much so, my gaming group has decided to revisit Inquisitor, the old GW large scale skermish RPG. My eye-sight is failing as I get older and I hear a lot of complaints about scale creep in miniatures lately but doubling the scale of stuff has worked nicely. As a test project, I created 250 pt armies for Warhammer 40k 3rd ed, which whilst the game was definitely not intended to be played at tha scale (points or miniatures) it was a very fun hobby and gaming project for a bunch of grognards.
The teture of the paper towel really gave the cloak a fun woven look!
I would be so happy if the Grim Skull models (e.g. the amazing grimdark servitors and much more) on Wargames Exclusive would also be available as digital files, not only physical minis. Tracking through a warzone, shipping and especially customs are a huge factor in why I would prefer to have them printed by a company/friend in my country :/
I asked them about this and I was told they don't plan to offer digital files, sadly.
Either way, their designs are the best I've ever seen for many models.
The big roll cloak / shroud is very effective & quick to pull off.
Great video and thank you for crediting the artists at the start! It’s pretty rare to see that in YT 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks bud, I've started to do that wherever possible. I can't rightly criticise GW for not crediting artists and not do the same in my own videos!
the homemade skitarii is so good I thought it was using the glaivewraith stalker kit from age of sigmar, but no! entirely from scratch, wonderful!
That's what I thought, too, when I saw the thumbnail
If you're in the UK and want to grab some small wires for free have a look at the ground around the dark green phone/Internet junction boxes. The engineers are always forgetting to clean up their scraps 😅
This I think is universal for both telecom and electricity technicians the world over
Castellations is my new favourite word
I’m here for the hot Quake 2 grenade launcher action. That was the first PC game I fell in love with, and so good to see it getting a mention here. Amazing game.
THE NOISE! Thoooook... diggle-diggle BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
@@MidwinterMiniswhenever I do an impression of a grenade launcher (which my wife will tell you is pretty much daily), that’s the noise I’m replicating. Absolute classic.
Looks fantastic. Think I'll try this type of kitbashing with my young-fella and let his imagination run wild
After watching this video, all I want to do now is give my entire army toilet paper capes.
Joke about official Warhammer toilet roll (TM) for engagement metrics.
"Cover up the crack (on Cadia) with your munitorum special issue bog roll. Remember to praise the emperor"
You know for a fact that Imperium issued bog roll would be that horrible single-ply tracing paper stuff
@@MidwinterMinisNope, just actual sandpaper.
Yeah, not wipe but scrape it off.
@@MidwinterMinis Jesus christ that brings back memories of school toilets, that cheap as shit single ply tracing paper toilet paper that is both simultaneous too thick and also disintergrates the moment any moisture touches it...
Yessss YESSSSS!!!! Bring more of the dark Mechanicum to life. I don't see other youtubers doing it
Great video. Really like the scratch build. The blue was a great touch. Those large knight proxy would be great to see. Looking forward to the next video. Keep up the good work.
This was awesome, bashing together a homemade figure, coming up with cool textures and bits, this was awesome 😁
Great build. we appreciate the effort that goes into using images from human artists and crediting them.
No problem! It only seems fair
I love this kitchen paper technique, its my go too for fabrics- for my own models I don't even sculpt fabrics I just leave room to do this!
Love the scratch built element to this channel, keep up the good work
In my 3 years of doing warhammer I never knew these guys existed 😂
Get yoself on the Horus Heresy audiobook addiction.
The schism on Mars makes me long for a Dark mech army
They're really cool! check out the HH book "Mechanicum" if you want to get a glimpse at the birth of them, or if you're not a reader I know Arbitor Ian and Mira is soon realising a review of that book on his channel
"Robotic dangly bits..." Surely a line from Carry On 40K!
I was wondering if I was the only one who sniggered when he said that. 😆
3:06 nope! Here because I love all your content and character 😄 very excited for the next titanic great unclean one vid
I'd love the Dark Mechanicum to become a full fledged faction with rules
Thanks
Thanks matey!
Paper mache!! My goodness, this takes me back to Art Attack!!
Absolutely smashing! Love the colours too. That trick with soaking the kitchen towel in PVA is genius. Definitely stealing that.
Eric would be proud of this, lol. Great video. I love seeing hand built stuff like this. Great imagination and great ideas!
I supported Pete the Wargamer's "Dead Animal Bits" sprue kickstarter a while back, so I'm going to have quite a few spares. While the sprue is mostly organic parts, like horns, severed hands/heads, bones, and shark teeth, the sprue DOES have oversized kiwi skulls. And I've been thinking that would work very well for strange kitbashed cyber-thralls, if they're poking out from under shrouds. So this video is VERY relevant to my interests.
Unrelated, but this technique also works for creating your own Nighthaunt minis for Age of Sigmar. Just remove all the random wires, and employ regular skull bits and arms from historical minis. Anyone who builds such kits has a plethora of spare weapon arms.
I really really want to see a squad of each of these lads! Amazing inspiration here
“That’s Warhammer, baby!”
Hi Guy, thank you for giving me such a great idea because of this video. I just kitbashed a thousand sons infernal master a couple hours after the video released, thanks again man ,and keep making great videos and please make a traitor guard video soon.
Ok that looks sick...
Now i want to do that.
Since I watched Hetty make Oogie boogie i swear to god i see the world as potential textures now.
Man, I sure do live the videos you make! Dont ever stop!
The kitbash was brilliant, and I was very impressed with the paper towel trick definitely gave me ideas for my next kitbash
Get the man to 5k likes, I wanna see those proxy knights!
The solwyte stuff is insane. saw someone digibashing some random skinny arms onto the constructs , that was such a Dark mech Vibe.
really like the scratch build model looks very cool!
Awesome! Now, for the love of the chaos Gods, please turn this into a series Guy!
I’d love to see some other creations to fit this theme!
the dark mechanicum are allegedly gonna get some proper tabletop representation in the near future, according to rumours. i think vashtorr's appearance may have helped there. not really a "hidden" faction though, they're mentioned plenty and have a massive part in the lore since the heresy (schism of mars etc), they just don't have an army yet. fingers crossed
I'm converting a Forge World Goliath character into a Forge Tyrant, and im just about to use this technique to make his cloak. Wish me luck!
dark mechanicum has such potential
the idea of chaos infused flesh and metal in the most unholy of combinations is at least on paper The scariest thing in 40k
*at least on toilet paper
Ftfy
I've been a big fan of DorkFactory since I first found them on MMF a couple years ago. Nice to see some collaboration there. Also, I've never seen Solwyte get a spotlight before! Her designs are so damn cool! She also has other model ranges so if you think her style is cool check her out on MMF as well.
This video is awesome, going straight to my favorites. I've seen similar techniques used to kitbash AoS Nighthaunt. If you think about it, the basic template is the same for any shrouded floating dudes, it's just the dangly bits and weapons that change...
Ah yes the most deadly of all omens for the loyal mechanicus, the Blue Screen of Death
Fun seeing Bill’s Bead Bot build technique brought to the very community he pretends to loathe so much. Very interesting video, Guy.
Something new from MM?? Now that always saves the day! 🎉
There's something slightly like the old Inquisition models this reminds me of! Love it!
The iron hive by makers cult is something I keep regularly contemplating to print. It's a mix of dark mech and tyranids. Very tempting.
Excellent vid that empowers your viewers. No reason this would not work for an Admech army.
That turned out incredible!
Looks good, the different visor makes a huge difference. The weapon changes also an improvement. Followed your previous video to build six terminators 👍
Great technique. I get absolutely so excited when I watch this video 👍👍
That scratchbuilt guy looks fantastic, cheers!
Great work! Hey keep any circuit boards and save them as well, I use them for walls in my terrain builds, they make awesome control rooms or power grid walls and doors. I had the idea about a year ago
this channel never ceases to impress me
Aw, thanks mate!
I genuinely hope the negavolt cultists come back as a battleline unit if/when they release DarkMech. They're just so cool looking, and the voltagheist field ability was pretty cool
Brilliant video. Love kitbashing.
Really great video. I don't know what to call this style of video but I like it.
“Junk”?
The man calls pricey GW bits “junk”!!!
I love the bitbox kitbash dark-skitari. I'd love to see an attempt at making an army (or kill team) just from spare parts.
Great stuff. I love the kidbashed one.
I find wet wipes/baby wipes with a 50/50 mix of PVA and water work well as canvas for minis. Makes for great cloaks and even tarp for terrain.
This is the coolest video you've made. Godspeed.
I would love to see more scrach-built minis!
Seems the Age of Sigmar Nighthaunt could be a good Base for a Conversion, very nice work so far, as usual :)
You've pretty much given me a recipe for creating my own flayed ones. Many thanks
"thats warhammer babey" - maclador the siggilet
This creature reminds me a LOT of the Dr Zachary Smith (Gary Oldman) in the 1998 Lost in Space movie, after he becomes some sort of space spider-human mutant.
What a coincidence, I also have some leftover Triach Praetorian parts and also intended to replace the missing legs, arm and neck with cables to go for a lamia/kraken inspired Necron. :D
For cloaks: VMS produces something called paper shaper that turns paper, cloth etc into plastic like material when it dries
Another intro going hard, well played guy!
Oooo evil ad mech makes so much sense! This is a faction I honestly didn't know existed, I'm super interested!! 💀
I really like the grim reaper esc feel of the first model. Vashtor would be pleased
Thank you for this, wanting to do a dark mechanicum combat patrol for a while and unsure what to do for the Skitarii substitutes - gonna use this as a basis,
this is amazing. Amazing job
Fat tadpole... teardrop... or what? 😶
Fantastic job. Feeling inspired!
I will say that the kitbashing in this video is also great for making some custom nighthaunt models for AoS
Damn I love your videos. Always fun and inspiring!
the little nightcourt vampire ghoul guys are also perfect for dark admech
Love how you made something from almost nothing here!
Not sure if anyone mentioned Station Forge. They have a lot of 40k inspired minis that are great for bits as well as proxy models. They have a whole Mechanicum inspired line and a few Necron style robots that I'm sure would work great kitbashed or used just as.
Some of the wraiths from fantasy/aos combine well with the kataphron parts for a very cool admech look.
Back here from the announcement from Warhammer Day last Saturday where Dark Mechanicum has been announced for Legions Imperialis.
Very Inventive. I would have never thought to try that. Also, Wild West Exodus is a great game. So anyone taking this advice buy two sets, because its worth playing it as intended. No Ad. Just one of my favorite games. It made me a touch sad to think about chopping it into bits just to play more 40K. Anyway, great video, very creative.
Excellent idea. Now I want try this project myself. Also, Guy, do you wanna play second edition with me? 😊
YES PLEASE! I was actually binging your videos in my lunchbreaks this week!
@@MidwinterMinis 😃 that is so cool. I am honoured and humbled.
this is giving "sisters of nurgle"
Nighthaunt in SSSSSPPPPAAAACCCCEEEEE !
Love it!❤
I *love* how creepy and ghoulish it looks, but still with all the sci-fi bits. I think 40k is at its best when it braces the old school science-fantasy aesthetics.