As long as you are happy with your army and how you painted it is all that matters

Whoa those Dark Angels make me fall in love with the 1st Legion

I really needed this video. Been feeling burnt out looking at my massive Ultramarine unpainted army. People hating on me for liking Ultramarines. But I genuinely love their lore and Guilliman. Thank you, PlayOn, for this.

I have to watched David talk for 10 seconds and I would die for this man.

Been watching you guys for ages. Fantastic stuff, really a cornerstone of the community. Thanks for all your great work!

Well done, my Dark Angels Brother! A beautiful army. My wife and I had suffered a devastating loss and I threw myself into the hobbying part. It helped so much. To be able to slow down, turn my grieving brain off, and just work. It really is meditative. Well done, my friend.

I've had an eerily similar journey to you; been into the hobby since the 90s, thought I wasn't good enough, got hooked on Dawn of War. Years passed, and I happened to see a video from PlayOn...of the same massive Space Marines vs Tyranids battle. I finally threw my hands up and bought a box of Tactical Marines from my local store, and nearly 3 years later I have a 2000pt army of Blood Ravens.

Love this guys energy and transparency every time he is on. Bring him back more often please! ❤️

David, as a fellow Dark Angels player these are wonderful, amazing work!

As a perfectionist recently struggling with the hobby aspect, this was a well timed and much needed message! I really appreciate David's attitude, layout of his thoughts on what drove him, and for PlayOn to give him this platform to speak on it. Inspiring stuff and a great looking army!

Hey just a message for nick! You've got me into tau and my brother into warhammer in general, he loves whenever you play and he says he's always in a better mood whenever you're on since he's been a bit down recently

all that IN A YEAR ?! that aint normal - my Pile of Shame is giving me Condemning Looks.

David has such a great attitude towards painting. "Do better on the next one." I don't have the steadiest hands or the best eye myself either, but as long as I'm moving forward it's all good. FTL.

those first marines are already great paintjobs

I love the look of his army, but the fact that he has an Authority Zero shirt on makes it even better.

I can relate to Daivd, Play On's big Apocalypse game of Marines vs Tyranids was the first video of theirs I watched and was one of the first 40k videos that finally convinced me to give the hobby another chance after I crashed/burned trying to enter back in early 3rd edition as a kid. It is now nearly 4 years later, and I own over 5000 points of Deathwatch and a few Imperial side characters (I spend probably too much time on each model brainstorming how I want to customize them before meticulously sculpting/kit-bashing them).

Been collecting Dark Angels for 22 years now and I must say a gorgeous looking Army David! I enjoyed watching your game against Nick. I liked the way it was set up in a narrative way. Also you are very knowledgeable about the lore which I really like. Can't wait to see you more often on Play On. I hope this gives other watchers lots of motivation to just go and try out the hobby and collect the Army that speaks to them looks wise

What a wholesome fellow and a great looking army

3:07 "Finish a model and then pick one thing you want to be better on the next one" is such an amazing mind set.

Great message! They dont have to be perfect as long as you have fun doing it. Those models look gorgeous!

Absolutely awesome army but even better is this guy's attitude towards the hobby. Thanks for showing this, nice to see the human side of the hobby!

Man, I LOVE the helmets on those terminators. So Roman gladiator, theyre perfect

Something to note to. Some people are into this hobby to play on the table. They aren't in this hobby to be a painter. So in those cases your going to see more things like dark washes for recessed areas, dry brushed highlights and two to three colours per piece. With a simple base. Then you get people that are into the hobby for the lore, their armies can sometimes have really well done leaders or named heroes and really plain units. What we usually see though on youtube is competition looking pieces, the pieces that take hours and days to finish. With custom bases, with rocks, branches, flowers, water or lava effects. Massive amounts of blending, shadows, highlights, object source lighting, bounce lights, none metallic metal etc and so forth. The people that do stuff like that are usually painting said miniatures for their main jobs or at least for a commission or to win a contest. People need to stop comparing themselves and their minis to these types of people lol. Nobody just starting out in the hobby is going to wind up painting a work of art the first thing they try to paint. It's a learned skill. Like cooking. The worst thing someone can do though is not paint whatever they have and feel bad about their skills. You wont get better if you dont put the time in and paint. Like cooking. It all takes time. 🦖

Thanks for featuring David and his army! As a new player myself, both are an inspiration. Love that the Play on Tabletop team hosted one of their long-time supporters like this to share his love of the hobby with other fans.

I love these army showcases! Seeing all the hard work people put into their models is always a joy to witness

One of the best pieces of advice I can give to someone who thinks they won’t be good enough at painting - 2ft. If you think they look good from 2ft away, then they’re good enough. How often do you really pick up and look closely at an individual models? Meanwhile, on the tabletop they be about 2ft away on average. So that little bit of blending that you think you messed up on? Too far away to see.

The balck armored Aggressors reallt stood out to me. Great army.

Nice army! Thanks for talking about your approach and love seeing all the conversions you've made. Best part for me was hearing about your nod to the Dreadwing - I've been working them into the lore for my DA successors in a similar way. Keep up the awesome work

Is that an Authority Zero shirt? Much love from Arizona, pretty obscure local band we have in phoenix.

As someone new to the hobby putting together my own dark angels this was great to watch.

Fantastic work! Genuinely inspiring, thanks David!

MOOD KINDRED?! I struggled to get into the hobby because I figured I could never paint well enough to due the models justice. 3 years later, each new model is a learning learning experience for doing something better, learning a new technique and upping my painting/modeling game. Congrats on making an outstanding army, and for helping people maybe sitting on the fence about their own abilities make a jump in and learn to surprise themselves with how far they can grow and learn!

Great video! Will never tire of listening to hobbyists talk about their armies / collections, particularly with empowering messages ❤

I've been wanting to play 40k for years but the painting has been the hardest and most daunting prospect. I also have very little artistic ability, but I've been practicing and beginning to enjoy the meditative nature of painting. I really needed this video to see that there is hope for me yet!

I just started a dark angels army. I’ve got 3 blageguard done and a bunch of intersessor on the way. I’m doing a successor chapter with all the same colours themes except that they are dark purple instead of dark green, the deathwing having only some parts of their armour white like in 30k. I really like the result so far. In my head canon all the characters are Risen leading primaris marines. The chapter is called the Honour Guard for their Risen that have stayed honourable even after being called traitor for 10 000 years. Thanks for reading my comment 😂 Cheers

Love it you can actually see the evolution of his painting getting better and better

As a fellow Dark Angels player ( I play the Successor Chapter The Disciples of Caliban) your army looks great!

In 9th i bought myself some tau models but i only finished a squad of breachers and a broadside and stopped, but i found a group that plays and i bought myself a 2k army. the painting for me is so important, seeing my models painted is making me so happy.

I would love to bring my fallen army to table top and play David.

David is my new hero.

I felt the same way when I started. I had the phobos kill team sitting on my table for a month before I opened it. Then I bought a push fit set and started with it because i was lost with all the options in the phobos box. Painting is one of my favorite parts now

I bought the Dark Vengence box years ago for Chaos army and left the Dark Angels in my drawer. This has honestly pushed me to just not worry about them being perfect and just enjoy them. Awesome content as always!

Great video, brilliant showcasing peoples armies and delving into why they started etc.

I love this type of video! Please make more of these army and player showcases! I do have one suggestion, though: I found the music an odd choice. Metal works for game sounds, but when the topic is more introspective, the music should take a backseat and not take away the focus from the person speaking, as I was distracted throughout the video by the music.

Awesome looking Dark Angels army! I love how you took the Dark Angels scheme and made it your own while staying true the 1st legion. I also picked them because I liked their look, lore, and having a now active Primarch.

Been a big fan of the dark angels lore and army since I was a kid. This is a beautifully painted army. I have serious army envy from seeing this video.

More showcases please👍

I always love seeing these videos and as a proud son of caliban I'm very excited to see more sons of the lion and I'm happy to be getting my Lion tomorrow and gonna build my army of Risen :)

I've only been watching yall for a couple of months now and love all that you do. It's channels like yours that got me into the hobby

Fantastic... I just started my own DA army after returning to the model side of the hobby over 30 years ago.😊

This is so cool. Can we get something like this for the Blood Angels? Love seeing the models and hearing you guys chat about the lore.

I was introduced to 40k around the start of 8th, collected a few models off ebay and Deathwing Knights prepainted. Then after my wife and i got married, we joined a new church and I found a group to play 40k with towards the end of 9th, i built a Dark Angels army up from scratch, been wanting to get the Veteran models, and would totally build my army entirely with cloaks if i could afford it (have twins now). I havent painted my army, and really wish i could paint my army as a sorta Deathwing expansion. 20 termies strong!

As someone making a salamanders army, I love seeing the dark jade green of the fall- I mean dark angels.

Amazing work! I also delayed getting my first army because I was afraid I couldn't paint them good enough and would ruin them. A turning point for me was discovering 'slap chop' painting with speed paints. The results were surprisingly good enough to boost my confidence to keep going.

I was super intimidated for years because i got into 40k as a kid but didn't start playing until my 30s. I've learned to play into my strengths, i don't have steady hands and i don't go for absolute maximum detail but i know i am good color selection and as a result everything looks awesome together on a table. I love when i get compliments for my armies and internally im like "Just don't look up close" hahaha

Truly loved this showcase. Originally clicked on the video because it was Dark Angels, but then I got to appreciate that you guys are sharing your fan's work with the rest of your fanbase. Great stuff guys!

This video is great. I have the same thoughts when it comes to painting my Dark Angels. I just recently built my first mini and will be painting it soon. I am nervous, especially since I got a commission painter to paint up/build a good portion of my current army. David's message was really helpful, and I'll keep that in mind when I get around to painting my chaplain in terminator armor.

I was honestly myself surprised when I went to my hobby shop after painting my most of my T'au. I have a slight variation of the Vior'la Sept as my colour scheme mostly adding a bit more Orange to help break up all the white. With making some of the similar looking units having purple instead, so I could tell which unit was which. Mostly who was close range and who was long range. What surprised me most was people saying "The white looks so good" then asking "How did you get your white to look like that?" I had no idea white was such a hard colour to make work, since I was so new to painting and it was my main colour. Not to mention people gawking over my Farsight with his translucent green sword. Which was a choice I made because it's a Necron Sword (As I'm told) so I thought it should be green. I didn't think much of my painting skills but hearing and seeing some of the issues people had with white alone made me realize I did a good job. It's not perfect but I did a good job and made me less ashamed to show them off. It helped me be confident in my ideas even if it isn't the "cannon" colour scheme.

Dread wing dark angels look awesome

Beauty lookin army mate! Different wings are why I went with DA as well

Beautifully applied 👏 👏 👏 so Crisp!😮

We actually can see a skeleton hand coming out on 1 of the watchers on Lion L's scabbard carrier on the mini! Which makes me think the big skeleton robed figure on the same mini with wings and sword and halo is an ancient watcher in the dark. Which makes me think again, the name Dark Angels is to honor these creatures, these angels in the cloak and shadows, and watchers are the baby Dark Angels that survived. They are nurturing them to full size to use as weapons in the final fight.

I play successor chapter for Dark Angels as my main army. Love seeing when dark angels are on the channel.

I have nearly a full company of Raven Guard I have painted in two years. Id love to show them to the world on your platform some day.

Nurglings in trench coats are the reason I love dark angels.

Hit the nail on the head on: “Going back to the paint table and looking at it” to rate yourself 😭 haha 🙌🏼🎉

Great job, always cool these showcases

Over the last few weeks I've taken a sharp interest in Warhammer40k and have been watching you guys and this channel! It seems like a very fun and enjoyable game especially with the cool and fun people featured on video. I still don't know too much about it or where to even begin, but the Grey Knights look so sick and I would love to get a set and paint them...but I'm not sure if I'd have the time to learn how to play the game or to stop by my local Warhammer store to bother others trying to learn to play lol

Sick Army Sick Authority Zero shirt!!!!

I would love to see more videos like this!!

Totally agree with everything said - Skari's 'Just put paint on it' philosophy had led to me embracing the painting side of the hobby and at my last GT I won 'Best Painted'

I was the same. I watched play on and decided to dive in after 15 years of watching from the sidelines

This was such a great video to watch on my lunch break 😁

Awesome army and seems like an awesome guy

More army showcases please! Find a black Templar player please!

FOR THE LION!!! Have a rather large amount of Dark Angles. Sadly, most are just primed.

Nick, that Dread stomping on a Crisis Suit is straight out of War of Secrets novel. You know, the one where the fourth expansion sphere leaders turn on their human vassals. And get the DAs to kill them while they try to wipe out the Angels of Absolution.

Let’s gooo, Dark Angels appreciation is always GOATED

Love this video!

You need this to be weekly

I understand his mindset. Biggest difference is my wife loves painting. I am close to 1500 points for my Dark Angels.

Those heretics look awesome! Great job!

most players want to play casual, narrative games. this channel should focus more on that.

Awesome video! would be really cool to do this style video with all guests!!

Loved this episode! David should be proud of what he has accomplished with his army! It looks good and it was amazing hearing how he started out and finally took the leap and decided to start playing. More of these sunshine stories!

This makes me glad to have chosen the Dark Angels for my 40K army. I can’t wait to start my journey with the Ultimate Starter Set. I’m looking forward to getting my refund from my student aid this semester to start my own Dark Angels and Hallowed Knights for Skaventide.

Such a good show. Greetings from vienna

nurgling in a trenchcoat is a great band name

Love this guy! He is 40k

I'm very much the same way. Been into 40k since dawn of war 2, but I always said I'd never get the minis because I couldn't do the painting or assembling. I finally gave in when the new csm codex was coming out. I have some stuff and... I'm half right half wrong. I'm not bad at it, I'm actually impressed by the first 2 models I painted. I am however, incredibly slow and I procrastinate a lot and it's easy for me to go a week without even looking at a model. I have the itch to play, I really really want to play some games and I'm sure once I do I'll be able to go back to the hobby portion with no problem. However to play some games, I need to do the hobby portion first..

I too was very into warhammer, but the hobby aspect intimated me for a long time for the same reason. And this is me telling you all now if you feel that way don't, go out and buy your first box of minis it's an amazing hibby

The imperial fists could also unite all of their successors.

i would have thought the imperial fist and their successor chapters would be a match for ultramarines and dark angels

Well done David. Love the army, love the sentiment, great work, 10/10. (but PlayOn, dial back the soundtrack, it was a little distracting. 9/10) 😁

“Dark angels are the only force that can stand up to the ultramarines” *Laughs* in imperial fists

Inspiring!

just awesome nice job😁

Such an awesome army. I want to start a Dark angels army but i play death guard and dont want to have another green/bone white army.

9:35 he does have a point in that. Also during siege of fenris, the dark angels are tricked by the changeling into bombing the planet so when the grey knights arrive on the rock and exposes the changeling they obviously chased after it. But during the chase the changeling who was diguised as azrael stumbled upon a watcher but since the changeling is a daemon it didnt see the watcher as a small hooded figure but rather as a empty void that gave off VERY ominous vibes to the point even the changeling was like " NOPE" and ran full speed away from it all the while the watcher just stood there doing nothing. so yea dont mess with the watchers as they make even deamons shit themself in fear

If the hobby side ever frightens you, just know there are plenty of sprue gray armies on tables all over