How to Wet Blend your Miniatures

[AnthonyJCohen]

lol canajuns.

[Ydouneed2nomyname]

That was just the basics of wet blending. Most wet blending takes way longer than six minutes to finish. He only blended one side and didn't do a mix of base and shadow for a medium dark blend. Same goes for lighter colors. But don't get me wrong this is a great basics tutorial.

[arisbetrayer]

you fucking retard retarder!

[Brickfilmer123]

Drying retarder :p

[xxKvl385xx]

Interesting technique, I have never seen it before but it looks pretty effective. I'll have to try it, but It docent look ideal for cloaks but anyway rock on guys

[SpaceWolfPainter]

Works better with a wet pallet.

[squigs81]

What a good name dry retarder xD !!!!!

[seversic]

DUS RETARDER MAKE YU RETURDED????

[Naarkian]

@seversic In your case : YES ;P

[IIGECKOII]

people who are getting overly offended by Tabletopminiatures' comment don't realize that all they're doing is dignifying the term retard's connotation for special needs people. Yes it's immature, but you're all inadvertantly supporting its use in that context anyways

[Extremehalofan14]

plaugendon is right.

One I did a Grey Knight with a psycannon, and while using chaos black and a toothpick, I put it on too heavy. It looked like the gun had scales or something.

[peyo001]

Hmmpf, why on earth go in that direction; fellas, underneath the neck would be dark and above would be light..... seriously, guys make videos that people can use, don't make them for the sake of making them.

[jelmersaur]

@peyo001 he's showing blending not "how to paint a horse miniature realistic"

[TableTopMiniatures]

RETARDer lolol

[AchtungSPITFIREroar]

@TableTopMiniatures are you not aware of what the term "retard" means? Its not really funny, its as immature as a "Query"

[TableTopMiniatures]

@AchtungSPITFIREroar ok ok sum 1 dnt know how 2 take a joke

[TheDarkWolfBlade]

@TableTopMiniatures You think that is a joke? There are REAL people in this world with REAL special needs and we don't need your immature and derogatory humor infecting the comments section. You are dismissed.

[TheDarkWolfBlade]

@TableTopMiniatures Joke? You are an insult to humanity...

[alloriginal]

I have a quick question. I prime my minis with chaos black spray, would I paint a base colour on my mini before doing this? If so, I'm guessing I would base my mini with the lightest colour I'm using. Is this right? I use water to thin my paints, not retarder.

[Squerkie]

Thanks for the nice video :)

[ManusCelerDei]

that looks average, plus it would have looked better if you'd done dark at the bottom - natural highlights

[Malavain]

@ManusCelerDei You're right it doesn't look amazing but it's a good enough way to teach the technique, and actually... it's more natural and realistic to have fur get lighter as it goes underneath an animal. Not many animals out there with a darker belly than back, there are some, but generally animals will have a lighter pelt on their bellies.

[teetertoter3]

Coolio

[TheMagichan33]

drying retarted XD

[coffey3c]

Mike. Good video. It's a great technique that I haven't thought about in a while, and it's exactly the kind of tool that can inspire gamers to want to make really awesome mini's, quickly. Very good, thank you.

[JVThrillz]

What kind of paint are those? How much per bottle? Are they Gamesworkshop specific?

[hellball5]

@JVThrillz he said at the begining of the vid

[teetertoter3]

@JVThrillz Reaper. $3.49. No.

[SteventheThorn]

Thanks for the video - some painting techniques you just can't get unless you see a demonstration.

[Xynok111]

That is just so much easier than doing seperate mixes for the paints. Makes it more consistant if you use it a lot. I may have to get some reaper paints, I don't like the waste you get off citadels because they don't have the dropper. I tried using pipettes but it doesn't work.

[UbarL33TDo0d]

so... did i get that right... when i use drying retarder i dont need water?

[fear432]

I don't see why you'd go from a dark brown to a light brown from top to bottom...

[SentinalBlade91]

@fear432 Some animals, such as timber wolves, are darker on top, and yellow/white on the bottom

[fear432]

@SentinalBlade91

Oh, ˆI see, so then I suppose he'd just drybrush a highlight on afterwards. I don't know, I've always thought and used wet blending as a way to highlight smoothely but to each his own.

[MwKVortex]

would it give the same effect if I just made a brown and lightened it up then smoothed?

[ratlesnake316]

u kinda screwed it up. u shud have started dark at the bottom and highlight to da top

[Cipher100]

Thing that gets me, he is painting dark to light, its supposed to go light to dark.

[Raptorjesusface]

@Cipher100 Actually, you'll see that fur is frequently lighter underneath a creature. He wasn't highlighting this.

[thaSHUFFLEpro]

nice l am going to make a high elve army and will do this for my lion chariot thankyou so much

[philipabcq]

thanks for this advidce, it will be very helpfull :)

[3Li0nsD0M]

could you do it with an ink with a paint

[maximusdarc]

Nice- excellent tutorial! It really makes wet blending into a very simple and easy to follow process!

[thedr00]

all the GW books talk about wet blending being how you feather a wet paint into a dry paint. Thanks for this, its so much simpler and easier to get a result with this technique than what those idiots at GW have been telling us!

[jboweruk]

Nice, do you think this would work for giving depth to a hole where there isn't one?

[reptar33]

Thank you very much for this video!!!!!

[phaedruslive]

this is the definitive wet-blending tutorial

[MRFBA1]

AWesome!!

[TheWarmaster666]

oh so thats how you do wet blending

[aboogie123456]

no basecoat?

[dom1940]

Looks like it's already been done white...

[lue005p]

i thinks its white?

[07kerky07]

wow drying retarder helps alot and looks awesome. im gonna go out and buy some now. thanks mwg.

[MuskieMcKay]

Thanks for posting this. I'm not sure why you wouldn't just dry brush fir. I also think I seem to get good effects from my old school techniques, though I do admit your technique was quick. I guess I do layering and washing for most things.  Also it seems you waste a lot of paint this way which is something I try to avoid. Anyway good vid, maybe I'll do it someday on a cloak I bought slow-dri to try some of these techniques out, but I mainly paint rank and file...

[Lootaful]

Check out AwesomePaintJob's wet blending video.

[NotATubeSurfer]

How well would you say this works for Robes? For example, the Robes of my Space Marine Dark Angels? Is there a better method than this for robes?

[minipancho94]

are citadel paints acrylic or is there a different technique for the citadel paint series?

[somebodystudios]

No they're not acrylic, you will use the same technique showed in the video except citadel does'nt have the retarder so you need the reaper retarder.

[dom1940]

Citadel paint IS acrylic. And I'm willing to bet this retarder stuff would probably work with it. I'd rather just skip this stuff, add a slight drop of water to my paint and just do all 4 colours in a oner anyway tbh.

[FlamingGerkins]

lol retarder

[somebodystudios]

Thats not funny...

[Warhammerxander15]

my main concern was why he didnt undercoat it. i mean there was nothing wrong with the technique but you dont need to glob on thick layers of paint for it to work. if anybody has seen my latest vid i blended just fine without retarder (LOL) and without blobing things on. the lava efeect i got looked authentic. anyway back to the main issue WHERES THE SODIN UNDERCOAT. no offense but thats the first thing any GOOD hobbyist will tell you to do.

[LuckyXJ]

Okay hotshot - I would have thought that odd white colour on the miniature was the undercoat. But seeing you're such a genius, you may be able to tell me where the white came from then.....

[40kdaemonlord97]

retarder lol

[terrainapprentice]

Thanks man that was great!

[Xorplon]

lol i couldnt say drying retarder with a strait face

[Darthburn]

you make it look so easy

[Cutthroat556]

i wished you used citedal paints

[Dawn59er]

So thats how you blend it!

[Lewisthemad]

lol

[Harzy5]

I no this is immature but

LOL dry retarder

[AvoidingtheQuestion]

Mike your making my day.

[BloodsailadmiralHeys]

lol its named drying retarder :D ^^

[RazzyReikoCanFly]

shake well ^^

[MrGuardman]

hey u dick ur an idiot

[plaugedon3]

PEOPLE! *Do not glob paint on models!!!* That was bad advice, you can get away with it on fur and hair if its thinned down but to glob paint on to smooth surfaces is a surefire way to have a rough caked on paint job. Instead of retarder use water(which you should be using anyway) or saliva it works fine.

While you get a nice transition with that technique, you get no highlights on the actual fur. I would go over the browns with some sort of highlight.

[Alienerd]

yeah but once you blend out the paint, you are dragging it down, so it goes from thick to thin, worked on my gandal wihthout any thick patches, thanks to the retarder

[plaugedon3]

You said yourself you used retarder, it works fine with the retarder because it thins the paint out. Mike has suggested without retarder thickly applying paint to the model which is a recipe for disaster, You should ALWAYS thin down your paints especially if you are going for more advanced techniques such as wet blending.

[Alienerd]

Well sorry but you didn't specify you were saying about the quote on without any thinner. Of course you should always thin with water, but nexrt time be more specific

[plaugedon3]

It is quite easily implied if not directly stated in my post if you took the time to properly read. Perhaps next time be more thorough

[Alienerd]

at no point did you say "reffering to the quote of applying un thinned and un retarded paint", or similar words. you id in your later post because i mentioned it. even so I dunno why I'm wasting my time trying to explain simplicity

[sheepthehack]

@plaugedon3 - Amen.. man.. people that cant paint just shouldnt be making videos.. Im old skool.. my figures are very good and ive never used anything but paint and water.. use proper amounts and you can blend perfectly without blobbing, its all about opacity and consistency, also.. u NEVER!! need 5 paints to make essentially a lighter brown :) 2 would do.. perhaps!! 3.. this guy doesnt need paint dry retarder.. he needs painter UN-retarder.. to top it off the model looks HORRID!! at the end.

[teetertoter3]

@sheepthehack 194 people disagree

[sheepthehack]

@teetertoter3 - luckily im a better painter than 194 of them.. so i care not :)

[TWZTDxxBG]

@sheepthehack I'm sure you are. How about your minis up on youtube so we can all get a good laugh:D

[teetertoter3]

@plaugedon3 I thunk Mike know what he do

[ManusCelerDei]

@teetertoter3 what he's saying is true, mike isn't the epitome of painting experience

[cgrisetti87]

@plaugedon3 This video is simply on blending... I think they know that highlighting is a completely different layer...

[SkullKid10260]

@plaugedon3 true about the globing, but wouldn't the drying retarder act as the thinning medium?

[videoGunZ]

@plaugedon3 if you add a dark wash to the complete hair, you got your highlight at the same time :) thank you for that hint with the water. thumbed you up :D

[arigametaoz]

¬¬!

[buttonfactoryjim]

i just dont like this technique, it works, but i think ill just go with high lighting rather than the transition style

[strader1234]

ya i found that to like it was striped in a weaird way

[Clawlessic]

looks nice ;)

[kangarradio]

it is undercoated.

[lucashope]

Did you undercoat the model white before painting or did you not undercoat it at all?

[AcceleracerWylde]

Is wet blending used just for fur?

I've got Lizardmen, Tyranids,Legion of Everblight for Hordes, and Retribution of Scyrah for WarMachine, could I use blending on the models for each of these factions, and does blending work on plastics?

[Wanderer787]

Great technique, but shouldn't the lightest color be on the top and the darkest on the bottom, if it's imitating sunlight effects?

[jfuite]

He did not imply that the blend was to imitate sunlight effects. Many animals are darker on their backs and lighter on the underside, for example, tigers.

[8888Duke8888]

yeah..... that was what i was thinking too.

[CHesTeRtoTheGaME]

You forgot the undercoat

[Dtram10]

*cough* its white.

[DarbysBored]

thanks so much for doing this I really appreciate it!!

[nress3]

ive tried to apply the pait thicker but then it cracks and chips and that just looks bad....wat shud i do there?

also if the only option is to buy drying retarder where can i get some?

[Karskin145]

probably at your local games store if they cary reaper paints. otherwise look on the MWG store

[Karskin145]

what else do you think this method could aply to. maybe something in 40k?

[fallingfourever]

Looks awesome on vehicles

[macmoontrotter]

painting pelts and furs.

[Jager1000]

sapce wolfves, tyranids, some eldar, defs kroot

[Karskin145]

it would look cool on space wolves (my next army :D) thanks

[91111a]

SPACE WOLVES!!!

[HandOfNephthys]

Dieing Retarder.

:P

[shadowslayer322]

lol my sister hust taught me how to do this yesterday! ha how ironic

[lifedragon99]

that isn't ironic its a Coincidence

Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a situation, literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity, discordance or unintended connection that goes beyond the most evident meaning.

[UltramarineFTW]

what ever we all know what he means!

[AICOLLECTIBLES]

Great technique! Love the vids!

[shreddedbiasuras]

awsome tip thanks

[facewarping95]

drying retarder lol

[t3trojans]

when fighting me you'll be more like a dying retard!

[stephenjurkowski]

what the hell is reaper paint!

[thedarklordellesar]

reaper master paint is just a brand of paint

[Natakue]

The best paint ever! Its put out by reaper minis and IMO its the best paint out there. The best part is they already come in the three shades you need to highlight.

[nicocuijpers]

drying retard er lol

[janjjd]

thanks!

the staff in the games workshop where i go say you can also use more water but second time: thanks i used it on horns,claws and teeth

[nab789456123]

Thank u MWG! This is awesome help for me in painting coz im not so good in it yet :D

[anpe1001]

Wait... drying retarder?

[ManusCelerDei]

yes

[Jaiyeson]

Good Video. Ty Evil Mike

[xTRU3RY4No]

AHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA RETARDER !!!!!!!!!! xD

retard - slow in french :P

[Rufus555]

That would look nice on some Zerg. .erm.. I mean Tyranids..yeah.. tyranids..

[xArmedGamer]

I been watching Miniwargaming since they started, and to be honest, they are still great :), but just that I find them not as good as they were in beginning of 2009 to 2008 kind of area. I just find more sales/advertising, the terrian dave does now is still awesome but I did prefer the older video style :). (Joey from MWG forums). Just my view

[wh40kgod]

really helpful great vid

[supermoppy]

wts the point of this

[PePethegamesmaker]

wts the point in u watchin this

[Vengefuldarkelf1]

waste of time . Most the vid's they do are with unpainted armys .or just table ready paint

[evildevo714]

shouldn't you have gone from light to dark? not dark to light.

[Finniej]

I understand your train of thoughts, but it's about the idea, not the result.

[Number1GamerAsh]

cool vid but im not to impresses i would exspect more :( cool vid for beginers tho

so thanks for them

[QsKIIHALOIIWoWII]

your drying retarder

[conswarp]

from going from a dark to light colour would it it looked more affective going up instead of working down

[pts2800]

very nice tutorial, i have been wondering how to do that for awhile now. ima going to have to give it a try

[hjaltos]

the primer was skull white

[gunperry]

awesome vid

[battelman97]

no primer?

[miniwargamereric]

Its clearly primed white.

[battelman97]

ahhh

[romlottsali1]

retarder :D lol

[kazamato1]

lol what i though xD

[dougpecklord]

Drying retarder... Hehe...

[BURNxxxTHExxxHERETIC]

great, realy healpful. how fast do you have to work if you dont use the drying retardant?

[mummaDevil]

woah weird but cool way of wet blending!!

[bubzymozzop]

LIGHT TO DARK< NOT DARK TO LIGHT. retard

[stumpythumper]

It's a fantasy horse...

Of course the critics known how it should be painted...LOL...

Please paint how you choose:)

Thanks for sharing Mike:)

[spazmaster1996]

its not fantasy he said its hords stupid

[stumpythumper]

I'm sorry I didn't realize there are real Hordes horses...

Theres a genre called fantasy...

Just like sci-Fi

And Historical...

Consider yourself schooled :)

[dtregenza]

haha this is funny. I've never seen anyone do wet blending like this

[benjiboy111111]

the drying retarder isnt the only retarded thing in this video. light to dark not dark to light

[ramzca]

Actually, if you prime it white, as this guy did, you go from lights to darks rather than dark to light.

[DualBoom]

dawtz da most retharded paitn iv eva senn looolz

[Drac40k]

it's like magic

[aapjeBOB0]

shouldnt the light part be on top and the dark part at the bottom?

good tutorial tho

[darthd95]

i wonder the same but he is a pro painter and he knows what he is doing

[aapjeBOB0]

hmm guess he didnt realy think of it whilest making this tutorial. The technique is good, the places of highlight/shade are opposite;p

[MrGuardman]

the people from miniwargaming arent pros at painting

[darthd95]

mike is

[15bwebb]

ya but horses hair hass darkest on top and lightest colors on bottom

[rekone607]

absolutely true

[DanielJarvis2k8]

shouldnt you have done it lightest to darkest because of the sun gleaming on the fur thats were the natural highlights would be???

[ShadowsSpawn]

think of this as the base, you can still highlight on top of this after. i do this with my nid's sything tallons from red to black, highlight orange.

[TAEKEDEHAAN]

mwg you must buy a better camera

[CaptMorgasm]

True. they do enough advertising you would think they have enough moneh eh.