I really irritates me, that you get told, when you first start, that you need cover every surface on the model, when your sitting here an basically ruins every method I've been told to do, when your painting. Nothing is smooth, its all a mix of colors, and i can basically just slap some paint on the model with a sponge, if i have a little understanding of where projectiles or dust often hit the armor. And yet i know its because of years of experience that your able to do it so well and so fast. I could have done so much with a lot less training, if i was a model could/should look like this. I might be due to popularyty over time... but alas... very nice vid... can´t wait to do this on my marines too.. what's a good base color for chips/scratches, to icy blue marines?.. my guess is silver or white, with a darker tone upper corner.
I would be interested in seeing what you could do with Alpha Legion. People like to add effects of them dropping out of a camouflage or adding a color shift effect.
And he should do Logan Grimnar on his sled. As it would combine everything the Wolves are known for. Tons of details, ornaments, trinkets, totems, etc. 😄
It seems that the sponsor also unlocked the music in this video! The flamer looks amazing, but I think that the taint in the eagle was a little bit too much. Great vid, as always
As a fan of you who asked for a dark angel tutorial, and a man who likes the brighter green much more than the original dark angel green, this is accepted with a like :D
Nice job on the heat treatment. Most people get it backwayrds. With flamers it's a bit simpler since the hottest part is at the muzzle, but things like melta guns will be hotter on the inside where the beam is emitted inside the barrel, not the exit point (where the beam would be coolest, relatively speaking). Like in the image references you showed, it's more blue and violet on the engine side of the exhaust, not the exit side. Awesome cool green tone and freehand, too. Love the look. I've always liked the Salamanders, but so many go for a yellowish green, a color I'm really not fond of on a vehicle. Looks amazing.
If you love this grim dark style, Richard Gray has some great 'simple' stippled schemes for a whole load of chapters that really gel with this aesthetic.
it would look more realistic when the area of the purple and red on the heat dispenser is smaller, the temperature range to make metal purple is so little that it turns realy fast from yellow to blue. and red is almost imposible. as a watchmaker iam talking from experiance :D
That painting style is sick! Unfortunately my blue boys keep their armor pristine in the lore, so this style doesn’t really apply to my ultrabros. But I may put a couple characters in with this style just to mix things up. Great vid!
That's true, but if they've been entrenched for months, it's not always possible. You can absolutely make your blue Bois and dirty as you like and it'd still be lore accurate and dope.
These videos are FANTASTIC! I really enjoy your grimdark style. I especially enjoyed the heat staining on the flamer weapon. I've been looking forward to doing this on my own models. As for next chapter my vote goes to a metallic chapter to see how those behave in this style. - Grey Knights - Celestial Lions (the chapter I've settled on)
Fantastic. The reason I like your grimdark videos so much is that not only does the end result look incredible- I feel like it's also achievable for someone of my skill level.
This method is awesome! Used it on my own marines, and the results are so good (and I'm by no means a great painter). It's really easy to replicate, and nails the grimdark look without leaning on a thousand technical paints. 10/10 would recommend if you're a bit sick of the same old 'paint-by-numbers' method of painting your minis.
A pleasure, as always. I only use this style when painting Space Marines, it looks great, and is a fun and satisfying way of painting as well. I really like how the flame thrower turned out, I want to try that out my self, and you make it look easy - Im guessing I wont feel that way the first time. Thanks as always for keeping up the good work and making your corner of the internet such a pleasant one.
Outstanding as per usual!! Every time you paint this way it makes me want to copy it... I really love how the Sons of Horus turned out on the bolter body...
Loved the breakdown of the steps and why. Truly nice for me as a Salamander to see it done. Usually go with Caliban Green for the 'under' armour and Warpstone Glow for the 'plates' with highlights done with Moot Green or Tesseract Glow as it matches almost to the Moot. Also gives the benefit to make it a nice use when I want to use the zenithal I put on to guide me for lighting. I will use your method for the flamers though, I use a bronze metallic, Magos Purple and Grey Knights Steel to get the effect but it's a pain to do most of the time. Thank you for the showing of it :D
I'm a newbie, yes, I studied art but heck the minies world is another thing, also super thanks bcs i always needed a good tutorial for salamanders like this
Once again a great tutorial! Hopefully we will see you doing White Scars one day, as their scheme is of course among the harder of all the scheme's of first founding chapters.
I'm so happy to see the Salamanders getting some Grimdark love. This is an incredible paint job and I definitely learned a few things from watching this video. Well done Trovarion!
Grey knights or similar Grey themes would be amazing next. Your grimdark method has changed my painting forever. Started a new chapter of SM Green funnily enough, so i could do some coloured Grim Dark. Also maybe some grim dark thousand sons/alpha legion/2world eaters would be awesome.
Iron warriors would be great to see or celestial lions. Silver or gold in your grim dark style would certainly add to the solid tutorials you already have. Love these man, keep em coming
I would love to see you paint up something bigger one day and just go by your own preferences and create something you feel would be fun and exciting. Imagine like Bel'akor or something with your own colour scheme. Everything you have done up to this point has been truly amazing work. So let Trovarion decide basicly! A model and paints of your choosing and go nuts! at least i think that would be exciting 😅
I love every one of these videos. I find tricks and small things I can apply to my mortifactors. I would love to see how you approach a chapter with two main colors, like howling griffons (red/yellow), eagle warriors (blue/white) or even mortifactors (bone/black) 😅. Would be interested to see how the process changes when you have more than one primary Armour colour.
You make it look so easy. I might just give this technique a try. My Salamander green is made up of a 50/50 mix of Vallejo goblin green and dark green over a black primer.
I use a pretty similar palette for my salamanders, but instead of Caliban Green I use waaagh! Flesh and I edge highlight with Averland Sunset. Also for the blacks I use Abaddon Black, and then do my highlights with Mechanicus Standard Grey and Dawnstone. P.s. Thanks for giving Salamanders some love! They're the underdogs of the space marines in terms of fan attention hahah
I'm curious how this grim dark style would apply to a Grey Knight. Trovarion, your paintings have continually inspired me through several armies and many display quality miniature gifts I have been able to make for my friends. Keep up the amazing work!
Other TH-camr’s: you should only have paint halfway up the bristles of the brush in order to not clog the ferrule in order to prevent damage over time Trovarian: GREEN BRUSH
Love these vids so much, particularly the blood angels 😊. Thanks mate for another outstanding vid, the mini looks fantastic and the tutorial I really easy to follow
Gives me a lot to work with for my salamanders kill team, love the end result though i will likely use scale 75 greens for.mine, still time to experiment on a test marine
I would love to see you do a Legion of the Damned marine. It's been my dream to build an entire army of those since I first saw them way back in 2nd edition.
I loved this! I had been thinking of using a similar technique on my new Deathwatch when I get around to painting them and then I stumbled onto this video! I'd love to see your take on deathwatch and how you highlight up from black, what colours you use etc
As for what chapter to paint next, since you're only missing a few of the first founding chapters/legions at this point, you could do Iron Hands, White Scars or Raven Guard next. I personally really like the Iron Hands but Grimdark white armor would also be cool.
This serie is very inspiring. I might try this with the Space Marines I have, painting them as Crimson Fists, replacing the Ultramarine Blue from the ultramarine tutorial with Kantor Blue maybe?
Actually using metal for edge distressing makes sense even though "ceramite" isn't technically metal I doubt space marine armor would just be paint over ceramite. Real world vehicles and machinery have layers of primer, laquers and heat resistant materials, nickel plating, etc between the top layer of paint and the base material. I imagine space marine armor would be the same. Isn't asbestos dark and shiny?
That stippling technique really give miniatures an very distinctive and interesting look. Though I like much more the method you used with the Blade Guard Dark Angel. Furthermore I would love to see you painting a Space Wolf. For once I couldn't find any video of you ever painting one and secondly the fur, trinkets, totems, ornaments, tons of details, etc. might actually be a challenge, if taken time and care ofc. So give it a try and why not go for the big Great Wolf himself? He is one of THE heroes of the Imperium, the only Marine known of ever beating a Demon Primarch in close combat (Magnus), Logan Grimnar.
Any Tips on how i can remove my old Space Marine shoulder Plates without damaging them. (i want to use the Upgrade kit for Salamander for shoulders and head)
That Salamander is just plain awesome. I was hoping to see one painted by you and now, this ends my day in a beautiful way. Now, I hope to see some Heavy Gear Blitz! painted your way. :P
Takes me back to the Grimdark Blood Angel Marine that you painted and that was kick-ass. Wasn’t too keen on the flames - I think Algerothen wins hand down on those 😅👍
I'd love to see what you do with the Raptor Legion. Their colour scheme has changed over time and is currently a drab green, but I feel like there's an opportunity to bring a little more heraldry into it. I feel like the fundamentals suit your style, but you could really bring a fresh take that would make them more exciting.
This has me even more hyped for my box, can't wait to paint my minis. I would love to see a complete lineup of your grim dark style of every chapter because each one so far has been amazing and I feel like I learn something new with each one
Please do a bit on using pigment powders for the base. Everyone seems to have a different opinion on whether they need some sort of setting medium or not if they're going to be transported and used for actual games.
I'd suggest to do Grimdark White Scars. They're not super common, and im interested to see your take on how to paint battle damaged white armor without doing the usual "make it rust and brown" approach.
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I really irritates me, that you get told, when you first start, that you need cover every surface on the model, when your sitting here an basically ruins every method I've been told to do, when your painting. Nothing is smooth, its all a mix of colors, and i can basically just slap some paint on the model with a sponge, if i have a little understanding of where projectiles or dust often hit the armor.
And yet i know its because of years of experience that your able to do it so well and so fast.
I could have done so much with a lot less training, if i was a model could/should look like this.
I might be due to popularyty over time... but alas... very nice vid... can´t wait to do this on my marines too..
what's a good base color for chips/scratches, to icy blue marines?.. my guess is silver or white, with a darker tone upper corner.
Awesome tutorial!!
As a huge Salamanders fan this is everything I wanted. Your grimdark method just makes the minis look so real and worn down. I love it. Thank you!
Yeah, this is awesome!
I would be interested in seeing what you could do with Alpha Legion. People like to add effects of them dropping out of a camouflage or adding a color shift effect.
That pencil with some sponge was the real MVP 😂
It's one hell of a high tech tool!
btw, are using blue tack to fix that sponge? or just shove it in?
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It's official, I'm starting a Salamanders army using this guide as a basis for the overall look. Awesome paint job and techniques!
I would love a video on how you would paint Space Wolves in a grimdark style!
And he should do Logan Grimnar on his sled. As it would combine everything the Wolves are known for. Tons of details, ornaments, trinkets, totems, etc. 😄
Dude that little flash of the finished salamander freehand inbetween the montage is amazing! great video as always 🔥
"now draw the rest of the owl" ;)
@@nvcn86 Haha I love that joke
It seems that the sponsor also unlocked the music in this video!
The flamer looks amazing, but I think that the taint in the eagle was a little bit too much.
Great vid, as always
The metal heat discolouration is such a fun effect to do - if you use an airbrush you can even use it in speed painting
I would love to see some Space Wolves, mainly to see how you would do the fur and preferably face and hair! Thanks for awesome videos!
Would really like to see how you'd tackle Iron Hands for a mostly metallic ceramite. That or the usually pristine silver of the Grey Knights!
that cut in the montage to the finished symbol was very nicely done!
Yes! I have been struggling with a more worn look for my Salamanders and this is perfect!!!
As a fan of you who asked for a dark angel tutorial, and a man who likes the brighter green much more than the original dark angel green, this is accepted with a like :D
Nice job on the heat treatment. Most people get it backwayrds. With flamers it's a bit simpler since the hottest part is at the muzzle, but things like melta guns will be hotter on the inside where the beam is emitted inside the barrel, not the exit point (where the beam would be coolest, relatively speaking). Like in the image references you showed, it's more blue and violet on the engine side of the exhaust, not the exit side.
Awesome cool green tone and freehand, too. Love the look. I've always liked the Salamanders, but so many go for a yellowish green, a color I'm really not fond of on a vehicle. Looks amazing.
On the box of the primaris eradicator set, the ends of the meltas' muzzles are blue though
Darker Space Wolves would be great. Maybe a bit more in the grey blue direction instead of the bright ice blue.
This is pretty much the only channel you need to watch if you like to paint space marines
Dude did some amazing Nids as well.
If you love this grim dark style, Richard Gray has some great 'simple' stippled schemes for a whole load of chapters that really gel with this aesthetic.
This technique gives a real look of weight to the armour. Great to see new ways to paint. Awesome!
it would look more realistic when the area of the purple and red on the heat dispenser is smaller, the temperature range to make metal purple is so little that it turns realy fast from yellow to blue. and red is almost imposible. as a watchmaker iam talking from experiance :D
That painting style is sick! Unfortunately my blue boys keep their armor pristine in the lore, so this style doesn’t really apply to my ultrabros. But I may put a couple characters in with this style just to mix things up. Great vid!
That's true, but if they've been entrenched for months, it's not always possible. You can absolutely make your blue Bois and dirty as you like and it'd still be lore accurate and dope.
These videos are FANTASTIC! I really enjoy your grimdark style. I especially enjoyed the heat staining on the flamer weapon. I've been looking forward to doing this on my own models.
As for next chapter my vote goes to a metallic chapter to see how those behave in this style.
- Grey Knights
- Celestial Lions (the chapter I've settled on)
the skill in this is absolutely fantastic. made me want to try a paint scheme like this
Stunning. I’ve been waiting for this one since the Blood Angel video. I think what the world needs to see now is your take on Grimdark Ork skin.
Fantastic. The reason I like your grimdark videos so much is that not only does the end result look incredible- I feel like it's also achievable for someone of my skill level.
This method is awesome! Used it on my own marines, and the results are so good (and I'm by no means a great painter). It's really easy to replicate, and nails the grimdark look without leaning on a thousand technical paints. 10/10 would recommend if you're a bit sick of the same old 'paint-by-numbers' method of painting your minis.
A pleasure, as always. I only use this style when painting Space Marines, it looks great, and is a fun and satisfying way of painting as well. I really like how the flame thrower turned out, I want to try that out my self, and you make it look easy - Im guessing I wont feel that way the first time. Thanks as always for keeping up the good work and making your corner of the internet such a pleasant one.
Love these last three videos. I don't have the patience to do smooth transitions, this rougher style really clicks with me.
very impressed how fast and effective the commentary is in this video Trovarion, perfect and easy to follow!
Surprisingly i'm already using some these techniques for my Marines Malevolent army. Love me some sponge painting
I really want to see your approach on painting Gundams or Mechas. Love your grimdark style, when I think of warhammer your minis first come to mind.
Heat warped flamer is 🔥As always your grimdark style is both easily achievable and looks fantastic.
I was looking for a good guide on grimdark Salamanders, and this was everything I wanted, thank you!!!!
Outstanding as per usual!! Every time you paint this way it makes me want to copy it... I really love how the Sons of Horus turned out on the bolter body...
Astounding work! I'd love to see your take on a grimdark Grey Knight, this is something that no one seems to have done yet.
Thank you for introducing this method here. The result speaks for itself. Such an awesome style!
Loved the breakdown of the steps and why. Truly nice for me as a Salamander to see it done. Usually go with Caliban Green for the 'under' armour and Warpstone Glow for the 'plates' with highlights done with Moot Green or Tesseract Glow as it matches almost to the Moot. Also gives the benefit to make it a nice use when I want to use the zenithal I put on to guide me for lighting.
I will use your method for the flamers though, I use a bronze metallic, Magos Purple and Grey Knights Steel to get the effect but it's a pain to do most of the time. Thank you for the showing of it :D
Good for a grim dark look for sure. Brighter colors seem to work well for this method 👌
That is such a cool paint scheme! Gonna use this for my Salamanders battle force! Thank you!!
Love the free hand stuff, thank you for showing us how to do the flamer heat shield metal blending that was pretty cool!!
These paint schemes are so good. Please do a space wolves one I’ve tried myself and can’t get the right paints
That gun casing process is sick - def using that on mine.
I'm a newbie, yes, I studied art but heck the minies world is another thing, also super thanks bcs i always needed a good tutorial for salamanders like this
This was exactly the style and colour scheme I was hoping for
I've been wanting to try the heat effect and I'd like to see your take at a darker Space Wolves scheme.
Once again a great tutorial!
Hopefully we will see you doing White Scars one day, as their scheme is of course among the harder of all the scheme's of first founding chapters.
I'm so happy to see the Salamanders getting some Grimdark love. This is an incredible paint job and I definitely learned a few things from watching this video. Well done Trovarion!
Grey knights or similar Grey themes would be amazing next. Your grimdark method has changed my painting forever. Started a new chapter of SM Green funnily enough, so i could do some coloured Grim Dark.
Also maybe some grim dark thousand sons/alpha legion/2world eaters would be awesome.
Finally someone showing some Salamander love to Leviathan. 💚
Those eyes are perfect! Awesome tutorial, thanks.
I would kill to see a video on a proper dark angel scheme in this style with deep greens!!
I'm hoping we get some new Grey Knights soon, I'd love to see ow you would approach them in this style with the very bright armour.
Iron warriors would be great to see or celestial lions. Silver or gold in your grim dark style would certainly add to the solid tutorials you already have. Love these man, keep em coming
I would love to see you paint up something bigger one day and just go by your own preferences and create something you feel would be fun and exciting. Imagine like Bel'akor or something with your own colour scheme. Everything you have done up to this point has been truly amazing work.
So let Trovarion decide basicly! A model and paints of your choosing and go nuts! at least i think that would be exciting 😅
Iam always amazed how much depth the stippling technique creates.
I love every one of these videos. I find tricks and small things I can apply to my mortifactors. I would love to see how you approach a chapter with two main colors, like howling griffons (red/yellow), eagle warriors (blue/white) or even mortifactors (bone/black) 😅.
Would be interested to see how the process changes when you have more than one primary Armour colour.
I really liked how you did the flames. I don’t know if I’ll ever have a reason to freehand flames but if I do this would be how I do it
Can't go wrong with salamanders awesome paint job keep up the great work!
You make it look so easy. I might just give this technique a try.
My Salamander green is made up of a 50/50 mix of Vallejo goblin green and dark green over a black primer.
I love your tutorials. You should do a grim dark tau! (Farsight enclaves maybe)
I use a pretty similar palette for my salamanders, but instead of Caliban Green I use waaagh! Flesh and I edge highlight with Averland Sunset. Also for the blacks I use Abaddon Black, and then do my highlights with Mechanicus Standard Grey and Dawnstone.
P.s. Thanks for giving Salamanders some love! They're the underdogs of the space marines in terms of fan attention hahah
I'm curious how this grim dark style would apply to a Grey Knight. Trovarion, your paintings have continually inspired me through several armies and many display quality miniature gifts I have been able to make for my friends. Keep up the amazing work!
Other TH-camr’s: you should only have paint halfway up the bristles of the brush in order to not clog the ferrule in order to prevent damage over time
Trovarian: GREEN BRUSH
YOU GOT TO SLAP THAT PAINT MY DUDE!
I'm personally not a fan of the armour paintjob, but the tutorial was awesome as always and the heated metal looks great.
Love these vids so much, particularly the blood angels 😊. Thanks mate for another outstanding vid, the mini looks fantastic and the tutorial I really easy to follow
Such a huge fan of seeing more about this method, it makes sense to want to move to more variety I will still come back to see this stuff again.
Gives me a lot to work with for my salamanders kill team, love the end result though i will likely use scale 75 greens for.mine, still time to experiment on a test marine
I would love to see you do a Legion of the Damned marine. It's been my dream to build an entire army of those since I first saw them way back in 2nd edition.
Thank you thank you thank you!!! I’ve been trying to figure out how to up my game on painting my salamanders and this will help a lot. Thanks again.
Your videos have gotten so much better man ❤
Well edited awesome lighting and sound/music
Sweet model and tutorial!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU for showing us how a master painter handles a salamander!
That heated metal effect was so well done
Great video and LOVE the muzzle burn! The freehand was impressive too =)
VULKAN LIVES! Thank you for creating this masterpiece! 🔥
Very nice, will try it on my Leviathan Infernus Marines too 👍
I loved this! I had been thinking of using a similar technique on my new Deathwatch when I get around to painting them and then I stumbled onto this video! I'd love to see your take on deathwatch and how you highlight up from black, what colours you use etc
Really love your grimdark style! Maybe we can see something bigger/special like abaddon in this style?
As for what chapter to paint next, since you're only missing a few of the first founding chapters/legions at this point, you could do Iron Hands, White Scars or Raven Guard next. I personally really like the Iron Hands but Grimdark white armor would also be cool.
Trying to paint jade green salamanders. Thanks for working with green.
This serie is very inspiring.
I might try this with the Space Marines I have, painting them as Crimson Fists, replacing the Ultramarine Blue from the ultramarine tutorial with Kantor Blue maybe?
sure, why not!
Great tutorial! even though I don't paint salamanders there were tons of useful tips I learned. thanks for the great content!
Actually using metal for edge distressing makes sense even though "ceramite" isn't technically metal I doubt space marine armor would just be paint over ceramite. Real world vehicles and machinery have layers of primer, laquers and heat resistant materials, nickel plating, etc between the top layer of paint and the base material. I imagine space marine armor would be the same. Isn't asbestos dark and shiny?
I really enjoy your grimdark style tremendously. I would love to see grimdark Chaos marines in a future video.
That stippling technique really give miniatures an very distinctive and interesting look.
Though I like much more the method you used with the Blade Guard Dark Angel.
Furthermore I would love to see you painting a Space Wolf. For once I couldn't find any video of you ever painting one and secondly the fur, trinkets, totems, ornaments, tons of details, etc. might actually be a challenge, if taken time and care ofc.
So give it a try and why not go for the big Great Wolf himself?
He is one of THE heroes of the Imperium, the only Marine known of ever beating a Demon Primarch in close combat (Magnus), Logan Grimnar.
Maybe do one for each first founding chapter? I’m not fussed I just love watching you videos. Awesome work
Any Tips on how i can remove my old Space Marine shoulder Plates without damaging them. (i want to use the Upgrade kit for Salamander for shoulders and head)
That Salamander is just plain awesome. I was hoping to see one painted by you and now, this ends my day in a beautiful way. Now, I hope to see some Heavy Gear Blitz! painted your way. :P
Thanks for listening to your community. Salamanders for the win🎉
with shatterpoint out, a tutorial to do white armor you be a perfect timing for a new video :p
T that is an absolute show stopper!!!
Takes me back to the Grimdark Blood Angel Marine that you painted and that was kick-ass. Wasn’t too keen on the flames - I think Algerothen wins hand down on those 😅👍
I'd love to see what you do with the Raptor Legion. Their colour scheme has changed over time and is currently a drab green, but I feel like there's an opportunity to bring a little more heraldry into it. I feel like the fundamentals suit your style, but you could really bring a fresh take that would make them more exciting.
I freaking love this series
This has me even more hyped for my box, can't wait to paint my minis. I would love to see a complete lineup of your grim dark style of every chapter because each one so far has been amazing and I feel like I learn something new with each one
Yeah, i thought about doing something like that. Just need a good idea how to package it into a video 😅
Great video and thank you for sho6how to do the flame, will definitely be using that going forward.
Please do a bit on using pigment powders for the base. Everyone seems to have a different opinion on whether they need some sort of setting medium or not if they're going to be transported and used for actual games.
Looks Amazing, the Grimdark series is awesome! Any chance you could do Space Wolves next?
I'd love to see this done with Yellow for Imperial Fists or Lamenters!
there is an imperial fist version on my channel.
I'd suggest to do Grimdark White Scars. They're not super common, and im interested to see your take on how to paint battle damaged white armor without doing the usual "make it rust and brown" approach.
Love the sponge techniques thanks
I'd vote for some more obscure chapters maybe. Void Spectres or Star Phantoms for example.