GW price rises? Make your own minis from junk!

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Let's explore the Dark Mechanicum, Warhammer 40k's best secret faction, show you where to find 3d printable or purchasable models, but also how to make your own... from JUNK!
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#3dprinting #gktwo #warhammer #admech #poorhammer
00:00 Forged Souls
01:01 What is the Dark Mechanicum?
03:10 Make minis from junk
08:12 Where to buy Dark Mechanicus models
09:27 3d printing Dark Mechanicus models
11:46 A quick and simple paint scheme

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@justa12packofrccola81 Ай бұрын

Evil Mechanicus be like “Well rested and well fed workers are much more productive and efficient”

@MidwinterMinis Ай бұрын

Ad Mech: "are we... the baddies?"

@pizzalord3n Ай бұрын

@@MidwinterMinisNdmech: new shift format introduced! Zero breaks, work till you drop, get fixed, back to it!

@blizzardgaming7070 Ай бұрын

Fun fact, that thought process is how public schools were originally created in the UK.

@unclegruber5703 Ай бұрын

"Whatcha got there?" *nervous dark admech* "... a smoothie?"

@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen Ай бұрын

Ad Mech: "Wait, WE are the GOODIES?!"

@Arachnarch Ай бұрын

They're actually called the Dark Mechanicum because they were originally discoverered by Arkhan Dark.

@MidwinterMinis Ай бұрын

... and the wrestler Billy England discovered England!

@kaelbeuk1 Ай бұрын

@@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

@dvandrom Ай бұрын

I see what you did there

@baalrog887 Ай бұрын

The Emperor's true name is Jimmy Space and the Astartes are his Space Marines.

@Siege181 Ай бұрын

This comment had me laugh far harder than it should have ♥️

@sfjfilms8716 Ай бұрын

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.

@nickkohlmann Ай бұрын

Same with Orks tbf

@childofthedarkrat Ай бұрын

I love that you've credited the artists in the artwork used. Now... if only GW would credit their artists

@andrewpackham8236 Ай бұрын

They don't do that anymore because 'fans' sent death threats to Matt Ward's house

@Yurt_enthusiast7 Ай бұрын

@@andrewpackham8236GW don't do it to keep down the wages for their artists as they don't get any recognition

@skrumpf6793 Ай бұрын

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

@nickkohlmann Ай бұрын

Same!

@CorpusCallosotomy Ай бұрын

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!

@Sir_Whooo Ай бұрын

The intro was so sick

@MidwinterMinis Ай бұрын

Thanks mate! Nessa gave me some very weird looks when I was doing the voice. I think she thought she was in trouble.

@Sir_Whooo Ай бұрын

XD I just finished watching the video abd 7 likes and already. I always enjoy the intros you do

@L9_Zwenguard Ай бұрын

You really are a genius, the scratch built one looks better than those printed ones!

@djsuter4410 Ай бұрын

Totally agree!

@dartmart9263 Ай бұрын

Yes! Please make MORE videos on scratch building and converting minis!!!

@joshuawitchalls3827 Ай бұрын

Love the scratch built element to this channel, keep up the good work

@Hungry_Bert Ай бұрын

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 😅

@Yurt_enthusiast7 Ай бұрын

This I think is universal for both telecom and electricity technicians the world over

@Neukku Ай бұрын

Great video and thank you for crediting the artists at the start! It’s pretty rare to see that in YT 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@MidwinterMinis Ай бұрын

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!

@poMocnyMichal Ай бұрын

"If it breaks, it breaks" Ivan Drago, probably.

@idizme4316 Ай бұрын

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)

@robinblackmoor8732 Ай бұрын

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.

@Hartmansgrad Ай бұрын

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.

@bio-boosted Ай бұрын

The big roll cloak / shroud is very effective & quick to pull off.

@bignick2488 Ай бұрын

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!

@MegaSharkX Ай бұрын

That's what I thought, too, when I saw the thumbnail

@mattshaw5179 Ай бұрын

"Robotic dangly bits..." Surely a line from Carry On 40K!

@Mechmaster0 Ай бұрын

I was wondering if I was the only one who sniggered when he said that. 😆

@kennymartin5976 Ай бұрын

The teture of the paper towel really gave the cloak a fun woven look!

@marks6928 Ай бұрын

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.

@MidwinterMinis Ай бұрын

THE NOISE! Thoooook... diggle-diggle BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

@marks6928 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@NotOnLand Ай бұрын

"My Magos, may we have Glaivewraith Stalkers?" "We have Glaivewraiths at the Forgeworld." Glaivewraiths at home:

@fynnnr Ай бұрын

In my 3 years of doing warhammer I never knew these guys existed 😂

@unclegruber5703 Ай бұрын

Get yoself on the Horus Heresy audiobook addiction. The schism on Mars makes me long for a Dark mech army

@Yurt_enthusiast7 Ай бұрын

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

@gryffin20 Ай бұрын

Yessss YESSSSS!!!! Bring more of the dark Mechanicum to life. I don't see other youtubers doing it

@mrheisenberg83 Ай бұрын

Get the man to 5k likes, I wanna see those proxy knights!

@MentatOfDune Ай бұрын

Looks fantastic. Think I'll try this type of kitbashing with my young-fella and let his imagination run wild

@Bluecho4 Ай бұрын

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.

@Iseeyousleeping Ай бұрын

This was awesome, bashing together a homemade figure, coming up with cool textures and bits, this was awesome 😁

@andywang7875 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

You know for a fact that Imperium issued bog roll would be that horrible single-ply tracing paper stuff

@liamoneill7692 Ай бұрын

@@MidwinterMinisNope, just actual sandpaper.

@darrylhilbig6459 Ай бұрын

Yeah, not wipe but scrape it off.

@luketfer Ай бұрын

@@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...

@dustpunkminiatures Ай бұрын

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!

@pikmyman Ай бұрын

Ok that looks sick... Now i want to do that.

@cannonbo3642 7 күн бұрын

Great build. we appreciate the effort that goes into using images from human artists and crediting them.

@MidwinterMinis 7 күн бұрын

No problem! It only seems fair

@johnbruce4004 Ай бұрын

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.

@TheOneTrueKit Ай бұрын

6:06 DISSAPOINTED! I was expecting a sneaky …..’loo roll’ Neil Buchanan Art attack reference there, For shame! Keep up the good work!

@TheMrFishnDucks Ай бұрын

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.

@RickardLejonhjarta Ай бұрын

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

@AccoSpoot Ай бұрын

*at least on toilet paper Ftfy

@kennymartin5976 Ай бұрын

Paper mache!! My goodness, this takes me back to Art Attack!!

@rileymitch33 Ай бұрын

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.

@bottlecaps2741 Ай бұрын

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.

@TheHammerHero Ай бұрын

Something new from MM?? Now that always saves the day! 🎉

@RestlessSoul45 Ай бұрын

The solwyte stuff is insane. saw someone digibashing some random skinny arms onto the constructs , that was such a Dark mech Vibe.

@nickkohlmann Ай бұрын

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.

@electronicrat3836 Ай бұрын

3:06 nope! Here because I love all your content and character 😄 very excited for the next titanic great unclean one vid

@alistairwilkinson4055 Ай бұрын

“That’s Warhammer, baby!”

@Malachi57 Ай бұрын

Eric would be proud of this, lol. Great video. I love seeing hand built stuff like this. Great imagination and great ideas!

@jaysunbodaysun3302 Ай бұрын

Man, I sure do live the videos you make! Dont ever stop!

@moldiworp9143 Ай бұрын

Since I watched Hetty make Oogie boogie i swear to god i see the world as potential textures now.

@Nomortem Ай бұрын

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

@joshuaedley5191 Ай бұрын

really like the scratch build model looks very cool!

@SirTetley Ай бұрын

The kitbash was brilliant, and I was very impressed with the paper towel trick definitely gave me ideas for my next kitbash

@Bobdd0 Ай бұрын

I really really want to see a squad of each of these lads! Amazing inspiration here

@arandomlostsoul753 Ай бұрын

That scratchbuilt guy looks fantastic, cheers!

@daverage4729 Ай бұрын

Absolutely smashing! Love the colours too. That trick with soaking the kitchen towel in PVA is genius. Definitely stealing that.

@diyfireking Ай бұрын

Great technique. I get absolutely so excited when I watch this video 👍👍

@heretical_hobbyist Ай бұрын

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!

@toblexson5020 Ай бұрын

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.

@MosBaked Ай бұрын

That turned out incredible!

@dalangilbert Ай бұрын

This is the coolest video you've made. Godspeed.

@moldiworp9143 Ай бұрын

Castellations is my new favourite word

@NeilVanStyn Ай бұрын

After watching this video, all I want to do now is give my entire army toilet paper capes.

@Miniscape-wh40k Ай бұрын

Excellent idea. Now I want try this project myself. Also, Guy, do you wanna play second edition with me? 😊

@MidwinterMinis Ай бұрын

YES PLEASE! I was actually binging your videos in my lunchbreaks this week!

@Miniscape-wh40k Ай бұрын

@@MidwinterMinis 😃 that is so cool. I am honoured and humbled.

@anneperchard3477 Ай бұрын

Brilliant video. Love kitbashing.

@CyberWeapon1337 25 күн бұрын

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

@greulich9635 Ай бұрын

For cloaks: VMS produces something called paper shaper that turns paper, cloth etc into plastic like material when it dries

@RainMakeR_Workshop Ай бұрын

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.

@PelinalDidNothingWrong Ай бұрын

I'd love the Dark Mechanicum to become a full fledged faction with rules

@dominickkhanum-lowe3263 Ай бұрын

I just bought a box of admech skitari for kill team, a week later this video comes out, must be a sign

@khorem1353 Ай бұрын

Great stuff. I love the kidbashed one.

@soupalex Ай бұрын

"thats warhammer babey" - maclador the siggilet

@deividgarmar Ай бұрын

I would love to see more scrach-built minis!

@alfiesmith-ward1590 Ай бұрын

this is amazing. Amazing job

@Draekal Ай бұрын

You've pretty much given me a recipe for creating my own flayed ones. Many thanks

@lesforgeursdemondes Ай бұрын

Very cool !

@wolfgangrecordings Ай бұрын

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

@blackguardunlimeted Ай бұрын

🔥 cannot wait to try this !

@rainjoubert5741 Ай бұрын

Damn I love your videos. Always fun and inspiring!

@chadkittleson5447 Ай бұрын

Really great video. I don't know what to call this style of video but I like it.

@thegod-emperorofmankind6638 Ай бұрын

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.

@sglenny001 Ай бұрын

I always use baby wipes as cloalka

@KazeTheCursedOne Ай бұрын

Ah yes the most deadly of all omens for the loyal mechanicus, the Blue Screen of Death

@nornironlad8472 Ай бұрын

Looks good, the different visor makes a huge difference. The weapon changes also an improvement. Followed your previous video to build six terminators 👍

@pat0652 Ай бұрын

Excellent vid that empowers your viewers. No reason this would not work for an Admech army.

@goralein Ай бұрын

Seems the Age of Sigmar Nighthaunt could be a good Base for a Conversion, very nice work so far, as usual :)

@frankyboi1819 Ай бұрын

I will say that the kitbashing in this video is also great for making some custom nighthaunt models for AoS

@CthulhusDream Ай бұрын

Oooo evil ad mech makes so much sense! This is a faction I honestly didn't know existed, I'm super interested!! 💀

@theandf Ай бұрын

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...

@sglenny001 Ай бұрын

Guy i would say your the blue peter of The Warhammer world

@WarhammerWings Ай бұрын

Looking great!!!

@DarkPhoenix1515 Ай бұрын

this channel never ceases to impress me

@MidwinterMinis Ай бұрын

Aw, thanks mate!

@thedabblingwarlock 7 күн бұрын

The foil body looks like a Prince Rupert's drop. If you've never heard of them, Smarter Every Day has a video or two on them. Still, it's a cool mini!

@NiftyVT2 Ай бұрын

Fine cheese cloth is great for the cape/shroud.

@sonarchy5158 Ай бұрын

Can't spell "Mechanicum" without Mecha But I guess that's just Chaos Knights

@MidwinterMinis Ай бұрын

Ohhhh, now I just want to see Chaos Gundam

@RMP1186 Ай бұрын

@@MidwinterMinis That is a great idea for another video.😂

@TheMichaellathrop Ай бұрын

Some of the wraiths from fantasy/aos combine well with the kataphron parts for a very cool admech look.

@adamsedgwick3539 Ай бұрын

There's something slightly like the old Inquisition models this reminds me of! Love it!

@JCetto.2612 Ай бұрын

More than 5k likes... Printing and painting video coming up!!!

@NagashUnbroken Ай бұрын

Fat tadpole... teardrop... or what? 😶 Fantastic job. Feeling inspired!

@minime9990 Ай бұрын

Another intro going hard, well played guy!

@travman228 Ай бұрын

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

@timothyyoung2962 Ай бұрын

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.