Forging an Army: The Sons of Horus

Avatar The Beard November 29, 202394  42 94 Likes

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Join Fletcher on his journey into the Horus Heresy. In this video, he shows how to paint the Sons of Horus, the inspiration behind the project, and how he approaches army painting.

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B1G_DAV3
B1G_DAV3
10 days ago

@fletchers_painting. Been watching this vid and dug out all my unpainted heresy stuff. Inspired me to finish the army I never finished. One question though, did you just eye ball the mix for the 2nd highlight. Or did you mix it to a specific ratio?

Philippe Boulanger
Lodge Member
4 months ago

Amazing

ALEX NICHOLSON
ALEX NICHOLSON
4 months ago

Amazing video as always! Fletcher I have to ask though? Fleshtearers soon????????? Please!

Itkovian
Lodge Member
4 months ago

Fletcher. Thank you. Every time you do one of these, I learn something new. You are painting goals.

Philippe Boulanger
Lodge Member
4 months ago

Fantastic work, great video

Anthony J
4 months ago

Absolutely stunning work.

Marcus Ehrlich
Lodge Member
5 months ago

Your understanding of colour is just next level to me. Amazing stuff.

Btw, what was the music in the background? It was like meditation music!

Ethan Butler
Ethan Butler
5 months ago

so nice ill watch it twice, wonderfully painted army, inspires me to keep painting!

_ewar_
5 months ago

What a great video and a stunning army. I have a SoH army which I haven’t really got to grips with in a few years… it’s the most shamed part of my pile of shame. Seeing yours has both inspired me to give it a go and the sense that it’ll be hopeless in comparison 😂. Will you ever add the big man himself? Both incarnations are absolutely stunning.

Chuck Bailey
5 months ago

Always absolutely love your videos Fletcher. I’ve found them invaluable for learning so many tips and tricks and info around colour theory it’s fantastic. Incredible work as ever on your models, truly an inspiration ❤️

Alex Manson
Alex Manson
5 months ago

What is the music used in the video?

King In Yellow
5 months ago

As a serious painter, i want to thank you for these tutorials. I use them in my own painting. Thank you Flecher and TT.

jon vaughan
jon vaughan
5 months ago

Thankyou sir loving this style of content. You deserve all the recognition for your fantastic work.

Rory Colborne
Rory Colborne
5 months ago

This was great, well done Fletcher, such an in-depth showcase, really liked the detail you went into for Maglehursts skin tones etc.

Timmy Tables
Lodge Member
5 months ago

This is such an astonishing content! I can see you are really excited about the army and it was a terrific getaway from painting other things you might not necessarily enjoy. I love how you thought about adding flesh tone into the green highlight, it is amazing and I’d never think about it. Really inspiring tutorial I’ll definitely get back to every now and then.

Benoit Cappez
Lifetime Member
5 months ago

I wish I had the same dedication with my Scourged army. Great work and focus.

Oscar Van Huizen-Husselson
Oscar Van Huizen-Husselson
5 months ago

Absolutely inspiring!!!

Gerald Turner
Gerald Turner
5 months ago

I love this. All of this. More of this please. Could we ever see more personal army project stuff from other team members??? I’d love to see the Spider or Beard paint.

Steven Turner
Steven Turner
5 months ago

It’s like a little piece of God was chipped off and that’s how we got Fletcher.

Sam Dawes
Sam Dawes
5 months ago

Absolutely stunning work. I’ve been loving the WIP updates on your Instagram and it’s great to see this video show how it all came together. Just a shame we’re not going to get to see this army regularly on the channel. Really inspired to start my Dark Angels Heresy army after this!

Lennon Simpson
Lennon Simpson
5 months ago

Love these kinds of painting videos where you explain a lot of the “why” behind your choices. Great stuff!

John Kozempel
John Kozempel
5 months ago

Fletcher, this is absolutely amazing. I’ve been waffling on getting an airbrush but as someone who is also not huge on the ‘Eavy Metal style, this is really inspiring me to take the plunge and try to level up my painting. Great great work.

Prebuilt Toast
Prebuilt Toast
5 months ago

Fletcher, Do you always use the Vallejo model colours or do you use their Game Colour range too? The model colour looks more matt than the game colour and I was wondering which you prefer for larger black armour areas

Jason Hoy
Lodge Member
Jason Hoy
5 months ago

Epic video. This made my day.
Absolutely love the longer format and how you talk about why you’re doing something, instead of just walking through the colors you’re using. Makes it dead easy to follow along and learn the theory behind a technique. I love this paint scheme so much. Well done sir!

Also I need that music playing while I paint. Super relaxing stuff.

Harry Higginson
Harry Higginson
5 months ago

What a delightful video to watch over lunch. Massive congratulations Fletcher, they look brilliant as always. Finishing a project is always such a great feeling – this is motivating me to crack on with my next twenty Ork boyz. Ere we go!

Stefano
Lodge Warrior Member
5 months ago

Every day with a Fletcher viedeo/guide is an awesome day. Truly, I can’t get enough.
I used the age of darkness set to build my own CSM army, using the colors of the Sons of Horus (not near as cool as yours, but still I love the hue) and a lot of vikings elements. And then I play them as Emperor’s Children :D. It’s one of my favourite projects, and I plan to going back to it as soon as the rules for the EC are released and I can start again to convert my “clean” chaos army.

maxpower
Lodge Member
maxpower
5 months ago

I’ve just started a Sons of Horus army. While I’m no Fletcher, to hear from the master himself is very helpful! I love these videos.

alan rayner
Lifetime Member
alan rayner
5 months ago

Hey Fletcher, loved the video! Do you have any info on how you have your wet palette? I still really struggle to “dial it in”?

Tommaso Silvestrin
Lodge Member
5 months ago

I haven’t even watch this and I am already Hyped for some Heresy !