How to Paint a GRIMDARK Medieval / Fantasy Knight - ASOIAF King's Men

Welcome to this special how-to painting video from the Imperial Minis channel. In this video, we'll be demonstrating a quick and easy method for painting medieval / fantasy knights in a Grimdark painting style. We'll be demonstrating this method on a unit of Baratheon King's Men from the A Song of Ice & Fire tabletop miniatures game. These beautiful models are the perfect canvas for this fun technique.
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[@threhane3492]

Fantastic work! Excellent instruction.

[@sparkygiraffe]

Breaking up the tabards is a great idea 😃👍

[@imperialminis857]

Thanks. I like to find ways to break up the uniformity a little bit by changing up the colors of certain items. It kind of fools the eye into making you think you’re not looking at the same three or four sculpts.

[@HitsAndCrits]

Great video my friend!!!!! This will be my process of choice!

[@imperialminis857]

Thanks man!

[@dogedad5172]

100% agree the kings men sculpts look great and the grimdark style is excellent. i always love to see more videos for ASOIAF

[@trentdarling4416]

Sensational

[@brentr926]

Looks great, I like how you do the metals, seems like a good recipe for worn armor in general. The tabards look really nice, though I might have to simplify it some if I try anything similar.

[@imperialminis857]

Thanks Brent! It’s a pretty simple process for the armor and doesn’t require a lot of detail work at all. You could simplify the tabards by combining a couple of the steps (like base coating in 50/50 choc. brown and Iroko and doing 50/50 Iroko/Sahara Yellow for the first highlight).

[@art840412]

Really nice seeing asoiaf minis getting painted grimdark style! 👍🏻

[@imperialminis857]

The setting of ASOIAF lends itself to some grimdark treatment, I think. It’s a pretty brutal, merciless, and violent world…

[@marshallbravestarr2117]

Well structured and presented process. Acceptable amount of colours. I really enjoyed this.

[@imperialminis857]

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

[@kenmccarthy9838]

This is perfect. Im currently painting the Baratheon starter so thank you for this.

[@imperialminis857]

Great, I hope this can be of some use to you as you paint your Baratheons!

[@seanhiggins5154]

Awesome as always!

[@imperialminis857]

Thanks Sean!

[@thezoned101]

Awesome paint job! Love the effect and look forward to more content!

[@imperialminis857]

Thanks Clarence!

[@OB-Lixoriginalmusic]

Great work! Tks for sharing

[@sooutofhere]

Really like your style. Thanks for the tutorial

[@imperialminis857]

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

[@czaroczaro1]

Thx, good job;) I think we want more;)

[@imperialminis857]

Thanks, good to know. ;)

[@sh4dewarrior576]

Absolutely amazing work! Miniature painting and wargaming is not common from where I am and suddenly came across somebody's post about ASOIAF game. I have recently started painting minis myself, mostly warhammer. After looking for tutorials on ASOIAF I found you video about wardens and was mesmerized, actually made me want to buy Baratheon starter set and paint it the way you do.
Excellent video, excellent tutorial, I just have one question, do you brush primer on minis or do you use airbrush?
Will be trying you way soon. Oh and yeah, I want more painting vids... No, I want all the painting vids! 😂

[@imperialminis857]

Thanks for the feedback! I’m glad you’ve found this video and the Wardens video helpful as you continue your miniature painting journey. As for priming, I use airbrush primer for a couple of reasons: first and foremost, it’s a lot cheaper than using spray primer, and second, you have greater control when using an airbrush. But for me, the cost-effectiveness is the biggest factor. If rattle can primer was a lot less expensive, I’d use it 100% of the time for convenience purposes. But as it is, a bottle of airbrush primer costs the same or less than a rattle can and lasts me five or six times as long, easily.

[@sh4dewarrior576]

@@imperialminis857 Thanks for the reply! I use hardware store rattle can primers but I can't seem to find black-brown color, nor do I have an airbrush, so I was wondering if you had tried applying ProAcryl black-brown primer with brush and if you did, if it worked well.

[@imperialminis857]

@sh4dewarrior576 I think that applying the Black Brown primer with a brush would work just fine, assuming you had already applied a black primer underneath. The Pro Acryl Black Brown is thin enough that it should go on pretty smooth. In fact, I often find myself touching up the minis with a brush after airbrushing the primer on, because there are inevitably little nooks and crannies that I miss with the airbrush. So I’d definitely recommend giving the Black Brown a try with a brush if you don’t have an airbrush (again, assuming there’s already another primer layer underneath).

[@Kyojuruzi]

can u paint casterly rock honor guard?

[@imperialminis857]

I don’t play Lannisters at the moment and don’t own any Lannister minis, so it’s not likely that I’ll paint CRHG any time soon unfortunately. I have a mountain of other units still to paint for my other factions I play.