How I Paint Things - Imperial Armour: Leman Russ

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4 жыл бұрын

The Leman Russ is the main battle tank of the Astra Militarum, and a staple of any collection of Imperial Guard stalwarts. Produced en masse by forge worlds across the Imperium, there's few foes that can withstand their armoured might! READ MORE:
With the same basic techniques used to paint your infantry - block colours, a shade and a drybrush to highlight - you can get a Leman Russ on the table in no time. The total painting time spent on this one was around two hours, not a bad turnaround for a couple of evenings of hobby time. Tanks are an ideal candidate for 'edge drybrushing,' where you can highlight very quickly. Whether you're just getting started or an inveterate treadhead, I think this is a pretty solid method for turning out your armoured support choices for any Imperial force. Try swapping colours for different climates or urban environments!
This video comes courtesy of a very generous donation over on my Ko-Fi page, so a massive thank you to the contributor that made this possible - I'm not sure if they're wanting a shout out or to keep it on the down low, but it's very much appreciated and I hope this helps get some of their Guard tanks painted and on the table. :D
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PAINTS USED:
PRIMER:
Death Guard Green
BASE:
Castellan Green
Rakarth Flesh
Leadbelcher
Mephiston Red
Corax White
Dryad Bark
LAYER:
Screaming Skull
Fire Dragon Bright
DRY:
Tyrant Skull
Nurgling Green
Wrack White
Necron Compound
SHADE:
Agrax Earthshade
Nuln Oil

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@philloynes 2 жыл бұрын

Sat with a base coated chimera in my hands, watching intently

@americankid7782 2 жыл бұрын

How did it go? I'm currently 7 minutes in after 2 weeks

@philloynes 2 жыл бұрын

@@americankid7782 I decided to do pin highlights instead of overall wash.

@justanothercaptain6566 4 жыл бұрын

Good Day sir. The word you are looking for is Episcope. The driver, gunner, and loader have episcopes. They are fixed in one direction only. The commander has episcopes and one periscope. It doesn’t go up and down like a submarine, but can turn left and right to help the commander find targets and supervise his tank troop/Sqn while under contact. It’s often called the commanders sight. Who said over 30 years in the Royal Canadian Armour Corps wouldn’t come in handy in gaming?!? 😁👍

@SonicSledgehammerStudio 4 жыл бұрын

Aces! That's actually super useful to know. It wouldn't have occurred to me that the positions other than the commander would have a fixed line of sight.

@justanothercaptain6566 4 жыл бұрын

Sonic Sledgehammer Studio No Problem. Glad I could help out. If you have any questions about tanks, IFVs or Armoured Cars, just ask me. And if I don’t know, my friends in the Ontario Regiment Museum will. FYI: the Ontario Regiment Museum is the largest living history Museum in North America and Second to Bovington in the world. If we can’t find the answer, you don’t need it. Lol!

@elwayfan01 3 жыл бұрын

@@justanothercaptain6566 oh great. Another AFV museum to add to my wish list. (A good problem to have mind you 😁)

@justanothercaptain6566 3 жыл бұрын

@@elwayfan01 Glad I could help you out! Cheers 🍻

@terrain4print 4 жыл бұрын

When I was in the army we called the viewports prisms. Because that was what they were in our vehicle. Of course, that was not the 41st millenium. :-)

@Stuffandstuff974 4 жыл бұрын

They're periscopes.

@terrain4print 4 жыл бұрын

@@Stuffandstuff974 periscopes are hollow with mirrors on the inside, prisms are solid glass. We had prisms.

@terrain4print 4 жыл бұрын

Ahh, a google later I find that periscopes can actually be made of prisms instead of mirrors.

@Stuffandstuff974 4 жыл бұрын

@@terrain4print It's ok, I was a mechanic in the British army for six and a half years which is why I know. Much respect to you for correcting yourself though, most people wouldn't.

@NarrowJester91 4 жыл бұрын

in german, we say "sight mirrors"

@dru_champion 3 жыл бұрын

I am so glad you posted this! I have looking for this exact tutorial, optional and all!

@ModellingforAdvantage 4 жыл бұрын

Ah, very Special again!

@13Robzilla 4 жыл бұрын

Great to see a new video. Hope you have a healthy and happy New Year!

@jhnlk 4 жыл бұрын

Bravo Sonic! Looks great and well delivered as usual!

@John-nh5bk 3 жыл бұрын

Your channel is a godsend I got my first Start Collecting box today and you have so many resources on IG painting. Cheers man.

@cadillacdanb 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. I have 4 Russ tanks that need to be painted. I will be using this guide to help me.

@russchamberlain4002 4 жыл бұрын

Good job and thanks for the video!

@songohan1075 4 жыл бұрын

very great job, I use some of your techniques, same 8th regiment colour sheme with few different colours, priming my tank with Zandri dust spray your weather techniques is great and looks good.

@robertcoble1445 4 жыл бұрын

very nice mate, thank you

@crusader2410 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video!

@huwtindall7096 4 жыл бұрын

Painting my first Guard tank and new where to come for painting tips! Dryad bark for the base on the tracks is new for me and looks a right old winner out of the gate. Think I may cheat and mask up the camo with straight edged jags. Don't have to worry about steady hand and crisp edges on the paint that way. Probably do another time saver and use sprays for the base coats. Zandri Dust and Halfords Green Camo perhaps.

@americankid7782 2 жыл бұрын

This tutorial is extremally helpful especially as I have never painted a full squad yet (I'll get there eventually) and I have no prior knowledge of painting techniques so thanks for making this. I am also in the midst of making 2 imperial knight sized mistakes so lets see If I can apply techniques from this video to those big boys. Lets learn!

@Omanion83 4 жыл бұрын

He is back😁

@peterdickinson4599 4 жыл бұрын

Very cool.

@oldschoolfrp2326 Жыл бұрын

Tanks a lot, I have a vintage LR that would fit my army well in this scheme

@macfenchel2418 4 жыл бұрын

Great work always impressed :-)

@grimpaints9415 4 жыл бұрын

Barrels not drilled, enjoy your ban serious tho, great vid bossman and pleased to see a brilliant video for 2020

@SonicSledgehammerStudio 4 жыл бұрын

You're gonna get a smacked bottom. 😜

@redbarbarian659 4 жыл бұрын

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio bit kinky 😂

@derjoman523 4 жыл бұрын

easy and nice!

@loupiscanis9449 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@masterofgitarren 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing as always. i would love to see you repainting x wing models :-)

@tabletoppainter7390 4 жыл бұрын

Looks great. How come u dont drill the hb barrel

@interestingpie493 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I left my tracks as just brown and then added some mud texture paste to the bottom half, It turned out pretty well but I think it could benefit from a brown drybrush in some places, any tips? I don't really want to do metal as I want to keep the intense mud look.

@johnkelley9877 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for making this tutorial! I have been waiting for a Sonic Sledgehammer painting tutorial for Imperial Guard tanks and it has been well worth the wait. I now have to go out and get some more paints and tanks too. I will certainly watch this again. In the U.S. the lenses are called periscopes. or vision ports.

@Elevatorshere 4 жыл бұрын

Can't wait to use these for my Imperial Guard vehicles! Especially the weathering effect. Do you have any advice on a good drybrush to highlight stormvermin fur?

@SonicSledgehammerStudio 4 жыл бұрын

Can't beat simple Dawnstone in most cases, but for a sharper highlight a very light drybrush of Longbeard Grey works well. Be sparing with it, though!

@MrSphinchee 4 жыл бұрын

Those things are actually periscopes. At least they are in real life. As always love you videos

@Stuffandstuff974 4 жыл бұрын

The view ports on the tanks cupola are periscopes.

@domoonogotno71 2 жыл бұрын

As a former M1A1 Abrams crewman we referred to them as viewports.

@AF-kj2zl 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this! Would you consider doing a "How I Paint Things" for Mephiston model?

@Rivenexta 4 жыл бұрын

What about a tripple on a baneblade? I kinda got hyped and assembled it (wrong. I put the casemate foreward with a volcano cannon) im looking at blue, light grey, and beige (for sandy camo) for a sort of desert camo

@yurimastermind1601 4 жыл бұрын

It's great to see you back at it Sonic! I look forward to seeing what you do next! I have a quick question. What would you do for The tortured, stretched fleshy bits of a abberants' skin? Like the split-two-face of a Abominant for instance.

@SonicSledgehammerStudio 4 жыл бұрын

I think it'd depend on the colours I was using for the Hive Fleet they were descended from. As a general thought, I'd probably look at getting a Contrast or Shade in the relevant colour and thinning it down with a little medium, then painting a couple of layers from the 'alien' side toward the 'human' side. Let the first dry, then just a tiny bit less medium and paint a second layer or more that doesn't go quite as far onto the human skin, as a quick way of blending those bits together.

@nicolaiholmstoel6546 3 жыл бұрын

Dude i think you might have stumbled across the Vostroyan Firstborn tank color by accident. I tried your tan color combo out on some test models and sure enough it's almost identical to the Vostroyan Firstborn tank color from the Astra militarum codex. All the tutorials i have found on youtube for Vostroyan armor have either been too dark or the wrong color all together. So yeah thanks even tho that wasn't the point of your tutorial. :)

@mononoification 3 жыл бұрын

Hi all! I have a question. I dont have an airbrush (too expensive!) and I paint with a good quality brushes. I usually paint 1:35 tanks without camo (I tought airbrush was strictly necessary) but when I watched your videos and your technique... Can I do the same with 1:35 tanks? I boughy the Fury Sherman and it has a simple camo (olive us drab and a darker olive). Thanks for your videos!!!

@SonicSledgehammerStudio 3 жыл бұрын

I don't see why not! The technique should work fine on a larger scale vehicle. I use it on everything between 1:100 to 1:56 scale stuff without a problem, so it ought to do the trick.

@mononoification 3 жыл бұрын

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thx for your answer and your videos! :) I will try with my Sherman. You have a new follower! :)

@danielknight5288 2 жыл бұрын

Hi there. I'm about to start mine following this tutorial. I do have one question though. For the green parts, I've seen you spread agrax earthshade all over the surface and go straight to highlights with dry brush. Doesn't it get too dark? The "official" painting guide says to shade only details. Thanks in advance

@SonicSledgehammerStudio 2 жыл бұрын

Whether or not it looks too dark is really up to you. The WarhammerTV method suggests going about it the long way but so long as you're mindful of how your shade settles while you're applying it, you can shave off ages of painting time by just shading and drybrushing.

@terrain4print 4 жыл бұрын

Will the head of a primaris be twice as good an agitator?

@SonicSledgehammerStudio 4 жыл бұрын

The extra wound in the pot makes them a great deal more resilient to clogs and lumps. ;)

@Nikto434 4 жыл бұрын

Usually I just get a spray that's close enough to my basecolor. Tamiya TS-61 Nato Green is not exactly similar to Castellan green, but good enough for me and saves me plenty of time and nerves.

@SonicSledgehammerStudio 4 жыл бұрын

Ooh, good call. I'll have to see if I can find that from a local supplier, I hear good things about Tamiya's sprays.

@Nikto434 4 жыл бұрын

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio beware that Tamiya sprays are about as small as they are expensive. Most recently I did my taurox by spraying it with cheap camouflage spray paint ( c004 army green by Bosny) and was really happy with the results.

@RWJP 4 жыл бұрын

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio TS-61 is a wonderful spray in terms of colour and application, but damn it comes in small cans and is fairly expensive... It makes GW sprays looks pretty cheap! Still worth it though!

@ukcabbage 2 жыл бұрын

Great video buddy, any tips on what to do if you think you've over done it on the agrax earthshade? Looks abit too much on the green as is.

@SonicSledgehammerStudio 2 жыл бұрын

A quick overbrush of the base colour again will take care of that if you're worried it's too dark.

@ukcabbage 2 жыл бұрын

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thank you. This is my first piece that I'm painting so learning the hard way 😂

@jeffjessen1935 3 жыл бұрын

You make it look so quick, simple, and easy! Now do sponsons

@nathanfaubert667 Жыл бұрын

I'm new to Warhammer and this is actually the first set I'm assembling. Did you paint the entire tread assembly before gluing them on, or did you leave the hidden portions unpainted? I don't want to glue those segments on if I should paint the entire thing first.

@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын

In the video you can see they're attached the whole way through. If something's hidden and is never going to be seen, there's next to no reason to paint it - unless it's a vehicle interior you're planning to show off at some point, it's just more work.

@millennialsecularandauthri3338 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting I’m considering getting 6 of these but not doing the camo scheme. I just want a pure green, I’m trying to build a krieg army.

@TheBloodofKings 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all your videos. Really love them. Can you maybe do a "How I paint things - Adeptus Custodes" ? Regards from Germany!

@SonicSledgehammerStudio 4 жыл бұрын

Custodes would require me buying a box, unfortunately - they're not cheap golden boys! If it helps any, I'd paint them in much the same way as I do my Stormcast Eternals. That's a slightly older video now, but the way in which I paint gold wouldn't change. The only real difference would be using red for their capes instead of blue, and that's just Mephiston Red. :D

@jeru_jj1161 4 жыл бұрын

You only primed the model and you already commited heresy! Move on.

@MutsuKazuma 4 жыл бұрын

a second time when he said he uses a space marine head as an agitator

@cadderley100 3 жыл бұрын

I'm incredibly lazy. I'd just undercoat with black, spray a couple of coats of Green on, done :P. People keep saying, what's the easiest army to paint? Is it Necron, is it Eldar, is it Iron Hands space marines? No, it's an Imperial Guard tank only army. Spray black, spray green, paint weapons with Leadbelcher, wash with Agarax Earth Shade and Nuln Oil, done. World class lazy painting and collecting of "whatever is easiest". You know what confuses me about tanks? They keep painting them in cammo colours to add a stealthy approach to them, but wouldn't the roar of the engines give their position away anyway when they move, making all the camo paint pointless? Not to mention their thermal heat signature, assuming they use thermal vision in the 41st millennium. Be a bit hard to miss a squad of big, f**k off Baneblades closing in on your position.

@americankid7782 2 жыл бұрын

This is 40k we don't do logic here. so shhhhhhhhhhhhhh

@jacobheller3146 4 жыл бұрын

U ever considerd painting a levithan dread?

@SonicSledgehammerStudio 4 жыл бұрын

I haven't really much use for a Leviathan, I'm afraid, and that is rather an expensive kit just for a painting video! 😂

@jacobheller3146 4 жыл бұрын

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio could always lend u mine XD

@cfbush2000 4 жыл бұрын

Pariscopes.

@ThreatLevel9 3 жыл бұрын

You stuck a space marine head in that pot of corax white?? XD

@stevenmcgrath5114 2 ай бұрын

16:35 They are called periscope, many armor terns find their origins from the Navy.

@flatheadgg2443 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for not using sponsons ;)

@SonicSledgehammerStudio 4 жыл бұрын

I've got a ton of them which already have all the shiny bits on, so I figured it'd be worth having a 'cheap' option without all the extra guns. Does make it just a touch quicker to paint, too! 😜

@flatheadgg2443 4 жыл бұрын

Good choices but I mainly keep them off because it looks kinda goofy because they make it nearly as broad as it’s long also I think it makes more sense in a narrative way for the enormous imperial industry to just roll out their tanks bare bones to keep up the numbers and spare resources just like soviets were spamming T34‘s in WW2 but that’s just my evil inner history nerd talking to me