I mean, I guess it’s “legends” content now but ancient pre-lightsaber force weapons were steel swords with force energy arcing over them and are apparently able to stand up against “modern” lightsabers and some are “better” (usually because their association with the dark side etc)

I love this channel. Jay gives a straight to the point no bs tutorial on power weapons, with a charming intro, in under 4 minutes

While the lightning crackle paint looks good, your paint looks a lot more eye catching, especially from a tabletop distance.

My left arm was numb and useless. I threw myself to my feet, pulling my sword from my webbing. The device is a fine weapon, of the old kind. It has no material blade like other, cruder models I have seen. It is a hilt, twenty centimetres long, inlaid and wound with silver thread, enclosing a fusion cell that generates a metre-long blade of coherent light. From Xenos (Eisenhorn trilogy).

Oh I was just considering how to improve my Krieg power saber, I may have to try this as it would really elevate the sargent to the next level - thanks Jay!

Just tried to apply this technique to the comparatively plain sword I was originally going to have, thanks 👍

1:16 I also suspect that chain swords and chain axes might have small disrupter fields in them to help with their cutting as a “budget” power weapon.

Man, succinct and easy to follow, I can actually see this helping me painting. Huge props

You make it look easy! Awesome results as usual!

I feel called out. Time to step up my game!

Good stuff! I’m gonna try this, but power swords should always match Mountain flavors if you ask me. Gonna try for Baja Blast first! 😎. My old method was to splatter Aethermatic Blue contrast over leadbelcher 🤷‍♂️

Great vid and thanks for the painting tip.

Awesome video guys!

Amazing tutorial

Wow this seems like a super simple way of doing a crazy good looking paint job

might try this on my Dred Knights blade using Black 3.0

I'm just here to say I'm really happy I found Aeons of battle and that I love models and memories. I put it on to fall asleep and rewatch it the next day.

I should really try this. Thanks for the vid'.

Back in the day I always used the old plasma ball lightning paint job, but those are some eye-catching swords, I may give that a shot next time I have a Slaaneshi with a power weapon on the workbench. (I always liked to imagine the power field not so much 'pushing matter aside' as causing any matter it touched to violently explode, that seemed like how a 40k lightsaber would work - less cauterised wounds, more eruptions of shrapnel and gore.)

This is weird, I was experimenting with this technique just last night

Jay, you wonderful person with the same name. Any tips for someone soon to attempt painting her first Battletech mechs?

Considering that a power sword emits a molecular disruptor along the edge of its blade would easily bypass the containment field of a lightsaber if anything else where all it does is become a flashlight fight where as long as the individual isn’t hit then it should be okay, although with a lightsaber being blade less means that it’s far more maneuverable than a power sword having a 360 attack radius rather than the backwards or forwards motions of a power sword, but that’s also excluding other variables such as the force and things like secondary weapons for the space marine such as say a plasma pistol or bolt pistol and whilst a Jedi might have super natural speed and even foresight still won’t change the fact that a bunch of regular men with blasters were able to effectively take out a Jedi a squad of guardsmen who’s closest example would be the eldar, would still fall to a hail of lasbolts and whether or not a lightsaber can deflect a laser is uncertain as the jedis plot armor, and considering that the standard loadout for a space marine is power sword and bolter it’s not unfair to say that the Jedi would simply die due to the bolter or amount of shrapnel flying in his direction and even though bolters or bolt rounds are grossly over exaggerated a hail of bolter shrapnel isn’t great and considering that a Jedi can at best focus on one thing at a time ie fight or use the force to stop shrapnel from flying into them

Jay, can you tell me what is the color on the armor? Looks like skavenblight dinge, but i know its 100% not GW

I've always thought of power swords more like vibroblades as opposed to lightsabers.

If memory serves there are incredibly rare powerswords that are just a hilt and have a lightsaber style blade that is purely made of disruptor field that emerges when the blade is activated. I think Inquisitor Eisenhorn had one initially.

Lovely

Sounds like a combination of an obsidian blade and a vibroblade, truly a terrifying combination.

0:35 was that a prozd reference?

I just give it an Iron Warriors base coat and just go over it with some Turbo Dork color shift paint. I don't care if it's a smoothbrain technique, I like the way it looks lol

Don't forget Power Boots, and Folding Power-Chairs

now waiting for a video answering whether terminator power armor is the same as Jedi robes

I paint my power swords kinda different. What I do is make one color blend into another color. May favorite ive done is a blueish green that transitions into yellow.

I can see the future

xenophase? blade looks really cool

I always had this headcanon where there was no external switch on a lightsaber. That only force users could activate it, by using the force to shift the crystal into place. Then it makes the weapon into a TRUE weapon of jedi, and wouldn't really be of value if you stole it from one.

I feel silly for not thinking of just using white paint to lighten my red paint for a power sword. I was so used to buying specific shades I was considering buying like 7 red paints.

Also the blade just so happens to be a single molecule thick and made up of what is usually used for things like tanks

For those looking for a better star wars comparison for a power weapon would be a vibroblade.

I do believe there actually are 'lighsabres' in 40k.

I am of the opinion that Necron blades should be more laser than weapon. Specifically because it makes them look like ghost swords

Yes , Jay, yes they are,....

Hey Jay! Delete if this is against your rules but there is a kickstarter out now for 3D printable kitbash bitz for Dark Angels and Black Templar, thought you would be interested, it's called Eternal Pilgrims.

"May the force be wi..." "HERETIC!!!" "...the emporer protects!" "🤨"

Yo

Except.Eisenhorns first one, which was actually a lightsaber

tiny nitpick but IIRC force weapons are not power weapons. force weapons use psychic energy instead of a disruptor field.

Mankind did have actual lightsabers during the DOAT. And the Tau have something similar . . .

Anybody every paint a power sword in a gray scale and shoot it with transparent ink?

OI ALWAYS THOT A CHOPPA WUZ A CHOPPA WUZ A CHOPPA UNLESS IT WAZ A POWA KLAW OR A UGE CHOPPA.

they're considerably less silly than lightsabres. there's an actual physical blade there, unlike a lightsaber, which can be switched off and on to dodge any kind of parry. why this doesn't occur to lightsaber duellists in canon eludes me.

Second

There is nothing so silly as a 'chainfist'... I know they're quite good in certain places in the meta, but I hope I never have to stick one onto a model... that is just one step beyond derpiness for me.

No they're not the same. One is a straight piece of plasma, the other is a sword with a engery field emitter making the blade of the sword that much sharper. You want the best example, try the tau fusion blades.

Who would win, a space marine or a terminator?

I have always imagined power weapons in 40k to be very ornamental or ceremonial in appearance, and with a force field so thin you can't see it, except for a slight glow of some color (depending on faction I guess?) along the blade's edge or edges. Always seen then as something very elegant, thus never painted them the way GW and seemingly most others do. I will admit GW's ways to paint them have always looked like a lot of fun, and now you good Sir have convinced me to paint some power swords in this and similar fashion. Not sure if a thank you or a damn you is in order. :p

1 space marine could defeat the entire star wars setting. Because i said so

well one thing like see in this and ALL the vid you got are NO MORE ADDS your vids are to good fore em in fist place two like get the 3 D prints frome that patron thing the bass bileding from dawn of war if whare pre printied and sold right to ever does not have a printer then i buy some last like sword paint stuff i see more as more is posted

Keep the disney star wars crowd as far away as possible from the very tightly locked gate to 40k.

Sounds like cut with extra steps

Lightsaber are more of an plasma blade

Lies! Next your gonna try n tell me that Darth Vader isn’t in Warhamster 40k!

It be a lot cooler if they were like lightsabers.