 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating Q&A live Let me move my mic here. So it's in a better position. Sorry everyone So what is this? Well, this is where we get together for about An hour or a little longer and we talk about everything related to Your questions with the miniature hobby pretty straightforward. So there's a box. It's over on This side I'll say there's a delay so I can't see exactly where I was pointing And you put your questions over there and I answer them. That's pretty much how this goes It's 2020. It's the end of it. It's the last one of the year and I wanted to make sure that we had one more chance to sit down together and do some Q&A I was just in the middle of working on some hobby. I'm I'm painting up Saint Celestine here the big Saint Celestine. This is actually supposed to be a terrain piece But no, I don't feel like it's terrain piece. I'm gonna paint her as though. She's the real the real deal So that's what we're in the middle of She's real big which I like. She's a nice basically 75 mil miniature So we're still in early days on her but we're doing some work there And I thought what a great time to do this because I have to let some some oil paint to dry anyways and There you go Do I have an echo? Why do I have an echo? Okay, hopefully there I don't have an echo anymore. I'm sorry everybody that fix it Somebody tell me if that fixed the echo there shouldn't be There's only one thing they're hopefully that fixed it Tell me if that fixed it. I hope it did. I have no sound in the room. Okay. Sorry everyone. I apologize I didn't realize that something somehow sound was coming through somewhere. Okay. I'm sorry everybody. I apologize for that Okay, there we go Now we're better. So welcome everybody to the last Q&A of 2020 At any rate, let's answer your questions. Okay, so start posting your questions over on That side ha got it and And I'll start answering them when I when this goes live I'll try to edit out those first couple minutes of echo and we'll just start here So like I said, I'm working on a little hobby. I hope you are too I hope there's people are getting a little time off here at the end of the year I hope you're all making the best of the end of 2020 horrible year that it was Okay Hey, all right. I've got some people saying first time making it from the start. So hi from the UK. Hello, Alex Hello, everybody. Hope everybody's good Alright Devon ox. Hey Vince. What do you mean when you say that certain? Metallic metallics have a large pigment and that scene is negative. Well, okay I mean sure I can talk about this. It's pretty straightforward. So metal paints are made from Ground up crappy metal paints are made from ground up mica and they don't bother to grind them very hard Because they're tough pigments And so they don't it costs a lot of money to grind them small enough to make good pigments And when you apply them, it looks like glitter paint and you can see it and you can see little chunks That's not how metal looks in the real world I don't see little bits of glitter in this metal. This is just some, you know This is like aluminum or whatever, right? This doesn't look like dots of glitter This looks like metal Metal doesn't look like dots of glitter. Metal is not just shiny You know dots, okay So, uh Good metallic paints, especially like Vallejo metal color Use high quality aluminum and they pay a lot of money to grind it very fine One that means it can go through an airbrush two that means that it actually once it dries The metal pigments settle evenly and in a small way that make it look like That make it actually like flat That make it look like a solid piece of metal And when I see glitter paint when I see visible pigment and chunkiness I'm like, oh, that's just not metal. You didn't paint metal. You you're painting glitter Like it just immediately breaks the immersion of the thing because it has the wrong texture It's not the thing that is not metal. It doesn't look like metal. The paint looks like not metal So it can't be metal. It's pretty straightforward Okay Is Tamiya extra thin cement the right glue to make the famous sprue goo? Yes, it is You can use either the quick drying or not Uh, so you can it's just this stuff Either one Yeah, there you go. You can use either one. It doesn't matter if it's quick drying or not I kind of prefer making it out of the quick drying But your mileage may vary as long as it's to me extra thin. You've got the right stuff Okay, uh, let's see Uh, let's see How does it feel to be a frequent topic of discussion untrapped under blasting? Great. I it's that's awesome I love those guys. I mean scott and john are amazing. They're both really really great guys And uh, they're friends in real life. So I um, they're gonna be coming here And a little more than a month and we're all gonna hang out and do some couple days of hobby along with sam And uh, we're gonna do vini con 2021 should be a great time. Um, I'd hang out with those guys all the time if I could like if they didn't live Live many states away. Honestly, I'd I'd hang out with them, you know, until they got sick of me Because they're great. They're hilarious. They're fun. They're nice that, you know, it's great to Sit with people and and do the miniature hobby and that kind of thing. So Yeah, it's I'm I'm glad that that uh, that That I'm interesting enough to discuss Certainly knows that I talk about Uh, them often as well. So it goes both ways Uh, let's see Uh Okay, let's see. What's the best way to do eyes without creating a blob of crap? Please need help. Um, sure So I have a video on doing eyes. I have a couple videos on doing eyes, but in the simplest form war machine The answer is eyes, especially on 28 millimeter, uh, managers Need to consist of basically three parts. Okay So the first thing you need to do is black out the eye Like it should be and it doesn't have to actually be black paint. In fact, it's better if you don't use pure black But a very dark color. I tend to like purple like a deep violet But you darken the whole eye Then you take an off white not a white and off white either an ivory or a gray or something like that like a light gray and then you color the middle part of the eyeball And you leave a very small thin black ring around the outside And then you place the pupil which is a matter of just the dot the black dot Um on 28 mil you don't generally need to go bigger than that You don't generally need to go farther than that depends on the eyes Some minis have big enough eyes where you can Where you can do more color and fun stuff, but for the most part that's Good enough and the key is you want to make sure it's aligned So the easiest thing to do is to use the nose as a guideline So like take the nose take the cheekbones and then make a line like this So find the top of the cheekbones and put the pupils right here Right because that's where my eyeballs are My pupils are I should say Um And and that's kind of a good tip now if you're not sure you can get them even then there's an easy trick And it's called the evil dog look So You know anytime you the the evil dog look is when you the the joke in a cartoon where you zoom over and the dog goes And looks all the way to one side right and so you place the pupils in the corner where they're looking either left or looking all the way right Uh, and then you can't mess it up because if the just the black spot is over on the corner Then it's going to look aligned Uh Mikey have you seen the new green stuff world chrome paints? Yes, uh, I ordered some of their new metallics. They're not in yet at michigan toy soldier But I have them on order. So whenever they like I'm on pre-order whenever they arrive. I'll I'll Experiment with them and I'm sure I'll review them Uh, jcs miniatures. Hey, how you doing? Hello, Vince. Very happy. I managed to catch you live. Hey, I'm glad you're here live Uh, considering looking into master classes in 2021 to up my painting any own advice on where to start Uh, sure like if you're talking on youtube, I mean if you're just looking for like free stuff Finding obviously like darin lathams did his master class travarian when he like anything travarian does But especially around when he did the ogroid. I think he had a lot of really good tips in there the ogroid mermadon Um, go chatting if you haven't already subbed up to sam lens Sam has a couple videos where he walks through a large part of a figure uh and kind of shows his techniques and and tactics around it And I think those are really good like he has one where he walks through a imperial armature one where he's walking through a space marine His non-metallic video with the guy with two axes or axe and hammer or whatever. I don't know that guy's name that fig but Um, and then beyond that if you want to go to a patreon or do classes in person I mean, there's lots of different youtube channels. I could recommend cult of paint and Angel Veraldes and obviously miniac and john both Uh john nenas both do fantastic Stuff. I mean, there's just like this is everybody. I'm subbed to I mean I subbed to everybody who's doing miniature content for the most part and watch all of it Because I'm always fascinated by what people are painting. I just I love watching people paint Uh, but those are all good ones that are out there and then you know If you're going to take the next step then a patreon or doing some classes in person Hopefully 2021 will be the return of in-person classes. So I think that'll be Uh, good If that happens Okay Uh Dirt what kind of paint mixer would you recommend that big typhoon or is a small vortex good enough? Yeah, I mean get yourself one of these like lab mixer things. I'll see if I can I don't know if I can get it on camera or not. There we go Because it sits over this side of my desk. These things are super heavy. This is what I use you can find them on ebay and um And on amazon pretty cheap just there. That's all one manufacturer. They're just rebranded a bunch of different brands But that is what I would recommend Now I try to put this thing back with its long cord There we go Okay, but yes, that's what I'd recommend that that thing works perfect never an issue Uh, hey vince is oh jeez. Sorry chat jumped going backwards. Here we go. All right Hey vince is brush on varnish an acceptable alternative if I lack an airbrush I don't love it, but sure. Yeah, especially something like ultra matt varnish will brush on just fine There's no issue with it. You can certainly do it. It just doesn't give you quite as even of a coat I mean as always my recommendation would be get an airbrush It's you know, the next time you're going to buy a miniature kit that's relatively expensive Don't and instead buy yourself an airbrush setup. Um, you know, you can get going on airbrushing for you know, basically, uh 100 bucks or something like that and that's everything you need really So it's always my recommendation Uh, but that being said, yeah, it's acceptable. Um, so yeah, there you go Okay, uh Mr. Uh martinson the best non-gw model of the year Oh god That's a really tough question. Um I'd have to honestly think about that but my Easy vote would be Uh, the Deregarde stuff from call to paint. I liked that the best Um, I think those are awesome. Uh, I think especially the um Uh, especially the one that I got to paint Which is the bust of the the lady that actually Andy just finished up the full size big of because that one exists The the uh, what else with the wolf I do not remember her name because they all have crazy welsh Celtic names and I cannot pronounce any of them I'm bad at normal pronunciation with the one language. I barely know so I'm certainly not gonna try that, but I think those would take my my vote I think those are fantastic. It was so beautiful. Such a joy to paint Uh, let's see, uh This is on a felt I want to try some new metallic paints only use citadel so far Vallejo metal color depending where you are in the world You may or may not be able to find it. The new formulation is shipping out as quickly as Vallejo can Uh, it is the best acrylic metal paint on the market period bar none. Everything else does not compare Uh Corbin says join just in time to hear the patented vince metallic paint rant that trying to get me going again Most of time, yeah, rob caught a bit of that when I was on his stream over the the holidays When he said I'm using this metal paint. I said, uh, it's garbage throw in the trash Uh, a rock with a cape. Hello to you and goodbye to 2020. Absolutely. Well, that's something we can all celebrate Just picked up some obtolung 502 oil paints. I'm curious about how they behave compared to other oil paints Do they need to be thin with spirits like winden? Yes, I mean you always thin your oil paints with spirits Um, it's always good to have at least some in your brush You don't need to like I work straight. I set my palette back down over behind me It's like over no this way it's right here over on a thing Uh, because I was just working with them But yeah, basically you're keeping your brush itself moist with white spirits more than anything And then you're pretty much just pulling the paint thin on the palette And you're you're then applying it out. It's going to be relatively thick But that's okay because the smoothing step is what happens next with a nice bone dry brush But they there I mean they're basically interchangeable. I was literally just working with both some winden and some obtolung 502s 10 minutes before I started this stream Uh, see Brandon. Hey Vince. I've had trouble with steinl res primer scratching off super easy Even though I'm pretty sure I did everything right. What do you use for primer and what kind of durability do you expect? I do use some steinl res. I use Vallejo surface primer as well as steinl res I use the steinl res white because I like it on the top. I also like their flesh tone and their ivory Um, I don't really have a problem with scratching off, but I'm usually shooting it over Vallejo surface primer So my first luck coat is just always Vallejo surface primer. Never had a bad spray out of it. It's easy peasy It's lemon squeezy. It's the way to go Um, keep in mind some things like your local humidity and things like that can affect how you're Your primer is adhering and how strong it is There is an extra step I do after my priming which is to varnish the model So like this thing I showed earlier that I'm working on this st. Celestine Like who's going to have this very strong directional lighting coming down from the torch? That's why she's got the lighting set up that she does and you can probably already see where her skin is like in deeper shadow On the other side, right at any rate. She like I did the whole zenithal. This is surface primer Vallejo surface primer and then Steinl res white and Then I Varnish the whole thing with my mix of satin varnish and vallejo ultraman So like I let it dry for 20 minutes or so It's about how long I let primer cure about 20 minutes And then I varnish the whole thing and then I let it sit for another 20 minutes And then it's good to go So there you go Uh, Vinny con with chicken tendies. Yes, absolutely. Of course there will be uh hail hydro Will we get a vince scott sam and john bat rep someday? I that seems unlikely. Will we make some content? Probably not It's it's a lot of pressure to make content. It takes a lot of time to like set up cameras and stuff But we'll we'll see what we can do Uh, let's see. Milo. Is it just me or have you noticed the pro krill tend to dry out and separate relatively quickly on a Wet palette compared to other brands Um, yeah, I depend you have to keep your wet palette very wet for them That being said, I actually like how they behave, but you can just remix them pretty quick So like I keep a very wet wet palette Like lots of standing water in the side and I never seal the thing completely I always leave a little gap so that it's not too humid inside and um Yeah, and then, you know, sometimes I'll just I'll start the new day and I'll just Mix the paint back up and no problem. It's completely workable again Uh, Alex fry been feeling a crazy painting plateau lately. I know it would be best to get some feedback on an actual piece Do you have a do you have any advice on mentally breaking through to make progress again? What a great question? Alex, that's fantastic. Yeah, it's gonna happen You will plateau at certain points in your hobby journey And my best advice is you've got to move out of your comfort zone And you've got to find some way to challenge yourself through deliberate practice So you've got to pick a relatively complicated Thing you're trying to do push yourself in some way Uh, maybe it's an exploration of texture or lighting or osl or whatever. I don't care Like pick a thing that you feel you don't have mastery of and push yourself to do it Uh, and In that regard Uh, then you submit that, you know, then you try to get feedback on that from people who know And you're not do great at it the first time and that's all right. You need to reintroduce failure If you're plateauing it's because you're not failing enough So you've got to reintroduce failure into your painting regimen and start losing again Okay, and once you're failing then you can start Learning from those mistakes and refine and refine and refine Right, so that's my best advice like Move out of your comfort zone pick something that's going to challenge you deliver a practice Create the virtuous feedback loop of You know of a feedback I guess of you know getting advice from people and where you went wrong and then do it again And then do it again and so on and so forth Uh, croven I watched the badger miniature metal smith video and was intrigued Uh, is there a follow-up experimenting filler further with the ore ink seemed like there was some cool potential Yeah, they're okay in the end the problem was contrast launched right after that and contrast did that better So I recorded something to do a color Contrast over metal video really hated what I recorded and threw it in the bin Uh, because it was garbage. So I've got to re-record it. I just I don't know what I want to record there exactly I I I've recorded it twice and didn't like either one So I need to figure out like what I'm trying to communicate with that and kind of show different interesting recipes and colors In some way, which I'm really not sure what I'm what I'm trying to do because it's but yes The the issue is the metal smith ores are cool But ultimately they just don't have much of a value because contrast can do everything they can do better and in a wider variety of colors So and I kind of like working with them better honestly Okay evening vents. Uh, well more afternoon for you. Yes, indeed What color did you undercoat the carriage main body of your blood rack shrine? It was a standard zenithal prime and then I laid the green down the teal over top of it So, yeah, just a standard zenithal like I was careful with my zenithal I created lots of fades and stuff with that. It wasn't just, you know, sit up from above and just go And spray like crazy. It was uh, you know, it was like I was more precise about where I was applying the the highlights and the whites and stuff But yeah, that's it Uh, let's see. And then yes, it was despair green was the color over the top just in case that's what you're also asking Grimlock steve, can you recommend any youtube painters who do simple but effective painting techniques? I find that your tutorials are a bit too advanced for me at the moment Well, I appreciate your honesty grimlock steve and there's no problem with that. I get that Um, I really need to make like a beginners playlist out of my stuff because there's certainly things in my list that are very simple Um, a lot of the like speed painting stuff I have and working with glazes over a zenithal are really simple So I do want to I I should make that a priority for 2021 is to organize a beginners playlist. I do want to do a Uh, a complete beginners video. Um, so I'm going to do that soon Ish look for that in q1 I really want to get into it into a nice High quality Beginners video like this is where you start and then I'd love to have a playlist that people can follow on with stuff like that Now that being said sure, um Cult of paint similarly has some great like those guys are amazing painters But they have some really really good introduction videos that are like at a beginner level and do a really nice job with it um angel Uh, geraldas if you don't mind subtitles or dubbing over on some of his videos has some really nice actually beginner stuff, especially if you're airbrush focused That's that's just very simple. He explains everything really well um angel is like One of the best teachers I've ever learned under. He's such a nice enthusiastic genuine person um So like that's a good place to go Uh, who else has really good beginner stuff like true beginner stuff Um like dr. Faust dr. Faust painting clinic. He has a huge um He has a huge library of stuff that's often very beginner friendly I mean dr. Faust is where I started watching painting videos got eight years ago or something I mean the man is a living legend on on youtube as it were so, you know There you go Uh, w soren uh question when painting wings on something like canary. How do you simulate thin membrane? Yeah, that's a great question. You make it lighter toward the middle so So translucent objects Allow light through like your hand right like if I put a flashlight behind my hand You would be able to see the light coming through my hand right my hand was made of concrete Which is an opaque material that would not happen so Where the material gets thinner light travels through and becomes more yellow infused effectively assuming We're talking about like a yellow tone light It's just gonna be a mix of the This the whatever the material is it's passing through and the light color So with like canary wings They need to lighten toward the middle because on the sides where their materials very dense and they're attached to the bone Light would not be traveling through where they stretch In the middle and it's the material is pulled the thinnest like a like a sheet pulled out, right? That's where you would see the most light traveling through so you infuse your light tones into the center So they should effectively go dark to light There you go By the way, if you ever want to I'm just reading this again I've read this years ago But I gave my copy away and lost it and my wife was nice enough to replace it this year like this If you really want to learn something like that there there are sections in here about light passing through skin in fact, I think I just Passed it No, I don't know it's in here somewhere There you go subsurface and scattering there you go. That's what you're talking about right there Wait, which hand is it this hand this orange? right This is like the seminal work on light and how it transmits through objects Okay Uh, cool So let's see Let's see Jim Phillips. Thanks for all the amazing vids this year. I'm still confused on why and when to use inks Sure. I use inks all the time. Why do I use inks inks are naturally transparent? They use a liquid medium They're uh, they naturally have a much much higher Transparency value. So they'll they'll show what's underneath them quite easier So whenever I'm trying to you do glaces, that's a good way That's a good time to bring inks in whenever you want the color underneath To to start dominating the color on top like if you watch my thinning paints video I talk about what what's trying to dominate here, right? That determines your level of the consistency of your paint If this color on top needs to dominate then it's a layer if this color On the bottom needs to dominate then you're going for a glaze and uh the The key with using inks is is that they because that transparency they'll show that color underneath much easier They're great for things like glazing smoothing out. They tend to rest a lot smoother because of the liquid pigment um, so they will They will like when I say rest I mean like you don't get the graininess that you sometimes get with acrylic paint when it dries Um, I also use them whenever I need to do sharp thin lines whenever I'm needing to be really really precise Do dark lining between objects or you know do freehand and have really precise lines You wouldn't put acrylic paint in an ink pen because it would be a nightmare It wouldn't come out and everything would fall apart. It wouldn't fail it would fail But ink draws nice thin lines easily. That's what ink is for so whenever I need to do sharp thin lines Those are the two primary reasons. I'm using ink most of time. There are a couple other uses, but that'll get you going Steve nelson painting tiny eyes and they always come out googly and sane looking micron pen works a little Do you ever use that? Uh, no, I don't use a micron pen. It's just like I forced myself. I paint eyes on every miniature I've painted for the last five years if you do Like I've told the story a bunch. I'll tell it again I met an artist who said I'm who said who had said told this great story. He said I was bad at drawing hands He was a 2d artist. He said I was bad at drawing hands. My art teacher gave me feedback So every day I drew a hundred hands and I did that for a hundred days By the end of that he was fantastic at drawing hands Right, like you're not going to get better at eyes by not painting eyes right So like I said the key with this is what I said earlier Dark it out the whole the whole globe with something like deep purple or something like that An off-white ivory or gray over the ball leaving a small black ring around And then place your dots either on the cheek line or against the corner and you'll get to where you need to be And then it's just practice practice practice Okay, and I gotta scroll back up because my thing Jeff there we go. Okay Uh Ruben hyvins. Thanks for all the content. Oh, absolutely. I'm really welcome. Glad it's enjoyed Matt s hyvins love your tutorials and derisory explanations really curious how you come up with and painted the swirl circle pattern on the cloak of the keeper of secrets Uh, oh detailed Detailed explanations that makes more sense uh I Said I want to do a pattern on it and then I got some a mix of ink There's the ink and paint and I started drawing swirly twirly patterns until I felt like it was full enough of swirly twirly patterns I had no pre-thought or plan. I literally just every line was decided by where my paint brush went That's it. Some things don't need a plan And random brocade patterns like that are pretty when they're just random when they're just visual confusion so it was just Literally me sweeping the brush your wrist is comfortable in circular motions Getting your wrist to do a perfectly straight line is actually very hard your your the joints Don't want to move Straight very easily. It's really easy for it to be off But your wrist is very comfortable doing sweeping patterns So it was just sweep and sweep and sweep and sweep and sweep and just kept doing lines until I was happy with all the lines That's it. It's all there was to it Uh, Mikey vince, do you have any suggestions for storage of in-progress models say if you're painting an army in one go? I've got limited desk space Uh, one don't do that. Don't paint an arm. Well, unless you're doing like a 24 hour challenge like I did in which case Yeah, just set up a table and Put them there. I don't know like I dinner dinner trays Like that's what I use when I had my 24 hour video that if you if you saw some of the like shots of the in-progress stuff That were in the video that was just literally like the little fold-out dinner trays you sit down in in a chair and have you know Have your deal your your food on Um, I don't use those for dinner ever, but I do use those for painting If you're gonna I mean if you're painting it over a long period of time If we're talking like if all in one go means over six months Just put the models in something like a big plastic tub and get them out one unit at a time Don't leave everything on your desk that's just creating a sort of Damocles that hangs over your head and and De-incentivizes you to paint because you're like oh, I've got so much more to do Why won't this ever end? Whereas if you just have one unit you finish that one unit you get your your hit a dopamine You're like yes one more down one more That's all See, I mean just put them all away put them all away like in a bin get a plastic bin a cheap plastic bin from the hardware store Put them all inside it get out one unit at a time done Uh, let's see Rob Johnson other than pans or gray by Vallejo. Do you have a good primer that you recommend? Uh, yeah, I mean like we talked a little about the cyano res primers earlier. I like them. I use them pretty frequently I have no issue with them. I think badger makes a great primer. I I've never had the scratching issue So I'm not sure um But I think they make a good primer Uh, just make sure you like they can't freeze So they're you got to be tough We like when you order them in the winter if they freeze solid like and it It has to get colder than freezing temp because they're not water It's got to get down below zero really for them to freeze. But if that happens they die Uh Tony any tips are doing good war paint like that seem in Works in a bone splitter's army or plans for hobby cheating video on it. Well, tony good news I've already done a war paint video. It's already in the hobby cheating playlist and you can go watch it right now Uh, yeah, it's already out. It's already there my man Uh, I'm looking right now to bring up the list so I can tell you exactly what number it is because I don't know what number it is Uh, because there's been a lot of these uh, let's see 256 how to paint war paint. There you go Uh, favorite non-gw game and gw minor game favorite non-gw game Chocolate miniatures non miniatures dnd. I mean I've played dnd for 30 plus years now and I still have a regular weekly game Um, if we're talking miniatures um Probably malifaux. I think it's really creative. I think it's fun. I think it's cool. It's got a cool aesthetic and I like it's um I like the card mechanic. I think having a You know a deck of cards that you use as a quote-unquote your dice is a really cool thing Uh favorite like minor game work. I easily work right not even close Okay, uh, hey vince. What if anything do you watch listen to while painting? I yes all the time I can I only have stuff on while painting. I don't paint in silence ever um And everything everything is the answer a mix of other people's painting content. I watch that a lot So if you're making painting videos on youtube, I watch most of them Uh And then philosophical type stuff or things like that. Um I I like learning so if I can watch stuff about economics or philosophy, which is what my degree is in It's just a lot of stuff about that Um, very occasionally. I'll watch some I'll listen. I listen to the 538 podcast when it comes out. I like them I like 538 so I like data driven sort of journalism in general Um, yeah, lots of stuff. I mean, it's but yeah, mostly, you know Mostly all of the aos and mini painting channels and then philosophy and then news. Yeah, there you go Uh, hey, vince any tips on cleaning mold lines quicker because it takes ages. Oh, richard I wish there was but no sadly it is it's a thing that kills me and kills my soul But no there is I have no secret tricks for you It's it's a matter of getting it clean and I don't know what else to tell you my man It's not fun I mean, you can buy a little mold line scraper. I found them pretty underwhelming and exacto knife generally works better You can get different little blades Um, like tamia and various Japanese companies make little special blades for more easily cleaning mold lines in different places They have different weird hook shapes and things like that so they can work on different type Different shapes you'd be going over So those are fun. I use those sometimes uh Warp fiend studios i'm looking to try out some war colors paints any suggestions on where to start. Yeah 100% Uh, I really like their turquoise set their purple set And the glaze line. I think those are three fantastic sets. So there you go I suppose none of those colors should be too surprising if you have watched any content on this channel Uh Oh bigs just got here. So my apologies to advance this. I did not are you interested in the kareel? Can I have faq book? Yeah, sure. I I'd love to take a look at that at some point time. I mean kareel is Truly one of the best painters in the world right now. It's that's pretty I think that's pretty uncontested um I could never paint Like him. I don't mean achieve the same effects. I'm not sure I ever could I just mean I can I literally cannot paint in his style. So for those of you don't know kareel favors like a He used a lot of dots very very very very very very very very very tiny dots Most of his painting most of his painting is built not all but most is built up of very very very very very tiny dots He uses a pointillism style and he uses a very small very sharp brush And he just it's just millions of dots tiny tiny almost imperceptible dots You can see it if you grab one of these pictures and like really super zoom in you'll kind of see it Every so often in some of the transitions Um, it's a great way to paint it gives you it eliminates all the brush stroke type problems Uh, I just I can't do it. I find it soul crushing to paint that way So I will literally never paint like that But I mean he's amazing and I his insights are incredible the man's mind I've taken a couple glasses with him and in his mind He knows so much about painting and color and light and the interaction like he has a living Encyclopedia of that kind of stuff. So I mean a book like that that commits that kind of knowledge to to print I have to think is a is amazing. So yeah, I definitely want to check that at some point What do you do about basing materials coming off the base? I normally use pva glue, but I still see grass or snow or whatever coming off Uh, don't really have a problem. I use super glue most of the time not pva I mean occasionally a tiny rock will break off or whatever But for the most part most of my stuff sealed and then I varnish it down before I put the figure on So, I mean if you You know like I super glue everything in place if you're really if you're really concerned You can put a layer of like thinned down pva plus water over everything and then shoot with varnish To even it all out and that should hold everything in place, but I I don't really have stuff come off. So Yeah There you go Uh trevor hyvins happy 2021 really appreciate your content as a fair novice painting Uh I want to try painting 54 millimeter french and indian wars figures any tips or guides or stepping up in scale Yeah, I've talked about I have so I have a video on painting larger scales. Um, and did it recently with the um with miniacs 54 mil figure so I would go watch that And I mean the key is you have to it's it's more it's just more you can't paint in the same way Uh, because there's more space. So you need to add more detail more texture more refinement more everything it's just Uh So like that video talks about a lot of the details. I would go check that out and that should answer most of your questions Uh buzzed aldrin hey vents. I was curious if you maintain any stretching exercise regime Uh Yes, I mean I I do absolutely I work out every day. Um, it's important to You should stay physically healthy as well as mentally healthy as much as you can Um, yeah, I work out every morning. I don't know I don't think you really probably care about my workout routine, but it involves a lot of stuff you would imagine Um, the most important part of the thing I look forward to most every Uh day is is doing some uh, I don't do them every day I do push-ups every day, but I don't do knuckle push-ups every day But I really like doing knuckle push-ups. They're fun. So, uh, yeah Cobra Kai, uh, so at any rate, uh, let's see Uh Carl, Merry Christmas Vince apart from painting white. What is the killer app of heavy body acrylics? Um, yeah, why why does it matter? Why do you care about heavy body acrylics? Um, because they you only you paint in an almost oil Like style where you're gonna put down a little bit of color and then smooth it out over the whole area So the advantage to them is they're super hyper Unbelievably pigment dense so you can have this complete control of them from very thick where you're using a lot of feathering All the way down to like you've already worked it into a very very thin glaze on your palette And it'll still stay together and easily glaze. So that's that's why HPAs because they're they're just so pigment rich But then you have to effectively make the paint you want out of them Uh, hail hydro, would you consider supporting a slow grow as part of the pmp in the new year, please? Why y'all are welcome to do it? I'm not gonna stop you. You don't need me to you don't need me to authorize that Get a slow grow together to community. I I encourage you to to do so uh, I I don't slow grow armies. I just hate them in three months So it's not as much for me But if the community wanted to get together something like that, I'd be all for it I'll take a little sip here talking a lot My wife who is watching back in the beginning. Am I ever going to get my glue gun back? No simple answer Matt mountain as things permit in the future Do you think you will come back to the uk to run some classes? Yes a hundred percent a hundred percent playing too. Um, I mean I am sure I'll be back in 2022 Like I I know for sure I will be so yeah a hundred percent Sorry, I was just really realizing my web palette was drying out while I was sitting here. I'd add a little water Okay Is there a hobby cheating guide for ghosts? Yeah Yeah, it's a really early one Uh, where I was talking about glazing and I actually did a ghost with the glazes You could go check that out. I don't know that I've ever really done anything else besides that That was like number seven or something. It was super easy. It's super early It's definitely a very low quality video, but I mean it's it does Basically talk about how you do ghosts. I mean ghosts are pretty straightforward. It's like you pick a White as your highlight and then you go into some lower color like blue or green and that's kind of And you you just it's all glazing onto it. So Uh, let's see Oh, did I miss a question there? I might have okay. Hello, Vince Do you think it could work using the pre highlighting and zenitha light then airbrush? a color to Using the pre highlighting and zenitha light and then airbrush a color to paint a mini quickly Jose, I'm not sure exactly what you were asking I'm not sure exactly what you mean. I mean, yes, you can do all those things But I'm not sure I understand the steps you're purporting to to do there Uh, okay Let's see Mike I'm planning to travel to the u.s in 2021. Do you plan to give the classes in 2021? Whenever a vaccine is you know available to everybody and we can all gather. Yes, I will do classes So hopefully the back half of the year As always I'll do my classes through CK studios So I you know check there is always the links down in the description So whenever they're published they'll be down in that link in the description Uh, what is this about a new formulation of alejo metal color one of the one of the Items that they needed for to make that paint. There's no longer available because of covid I suspect it was probably isopropyl alcohol as I long suspected that there's a little bit of alcohol in those paints to keep everything suspended And I'm guessing that that high grade isopropyl that they use is probably no longer available because it had to go to You know hand sanitizer and cleaning stuff. So they switched to something else. Uh, it's it's out there It's in the eu and the uk have it in their stores. We do not yet here in the us Klaus, um, I want to start with with an airbrush. Can you recommend a nice airbrush yet? Uh, sure it's in my Uh, I have a video that shows like everything you need to start with an airbrush, but um It's effectively just go literally go onto amazon and find yourself the cheap master airbrush all in one kit That has like the g 22 in it as well as a tank and that'll get you started for usually under a hundred bucks Um, it comes with a bunch of other crap. You don't need but that's fine Um, if you can find the skinny down kit with just the g 22 in the tank and the hose and stuff like that That's really what you need. Um, all the rest of stuff. You don't need that. You don't need a little Metal thing to like spray your overflow into you shouldn't be spraying extra paint into a thing You'd use a plastic cup and you should be dumping like my how to clean your airbrush fast video You don't really need a booth. I mean you can get a portable booth if you want I do use one, but you could just as easily use a cardboard box or something and just wear a mask Um, we all have masks now. So that's fine. Uh, but that's that's really it Uh marvelous, uh, let's see. Hello, Vince. I recently painted a mall crusher with a spotted leopard Gecko pattern as a tribute to a pet, but I'm not happy with how some spots turned out any Tips on ways to make natural animal spots Yeah, they they need to be a varying size. They need they have to be random and your brain probably didn't do that Um Like your brain probably wanted them to be roughly even sized circles and roughly in You know a kind of pattern, but of course in nature if you look at leopard spots They're mostly not perfect spots. They have lots of occlusions in them. Um, they Oftentimes have the varying sizes the varying shapes. Some aren't exactly spots You know, they they go around they're very it's it's completely organic natural randomness, right? And so to do spots you have to do the same thing. You have to turn off your brain's desire to for to make everything symmetrical And perfect because nature isn't like that Um, if you're and like on a hard surface like that I mean it's tough on a mall crusher because he also has this scales pattern That doesn't feel like it's going to fit with that like you're kind of mixing two things that aren't going to work super great spots work better on big flat surfaces uh, and so You know, it's uh It can be tough. You can still work with it. It's just harder because you've also got a scaled pattern Right, so generally look up pictures of like Speaking of that color and like look at pictures of like dynaetopia and look at how he did spotted Dinosaurs and that's a good place to look you generally are making the spots bigger and instead of a little tiny leopards It's kind of a larger pattern thing Okay, uh, let's see Hey, Vince. How would you go about texturing an already blended cloak? Uh, I would do it just like I do in the video where I do the exactly the thing you're talking about Uh in my Oh gosh, what video was that? Let's let's take a look I have all my videos up here somewhere Uh, okay, where do I do that? It's in I think it's in the finishing details video Oh, no right before that how to paint textured cloth hobby cheating 226 Um, that does exactly what you're asking so check out that video Uh, let's see Uh, okay. Uh, hangar bird. Okay. Maybe a newbie question. But what's the difference between surface primer and primer? Nothing is just that's the name of Vallejo's primer just Vallejo surface primer Uh, making an army of heavily converted forest giants with mixes of sylvanath parts What would be a good skin tone color to go with as generic Caucasian doesn't feel it fit great? Um, sure. I mean any anything Um, you could use it. You could make it a more olive skin tone or something like that So you can introduce more cps to it Effectively anything that you like like if you don't want a standard sort of pale Caucasian By the way, I'm not sure that wouldn't work. I think if you had wood parts and you went extremely pale I think that could look cool. Um, I think you want to stay away from probably like a You want to stay away from probably like a deep African skin tone Just because if you have a very heavy brown in the skin tone and then your wood is also brown That's just not gonna it's there's gonna be no contrast there So it depends on how much you want the pieces to fit together and then where are you making your contrast like I'd need to see the piece to give you formal recommendations But I mean you could you could make the skin super pale or unusual you could make the skin green Um, that would be a good trick and you just use like a lighter flesh Like a lighter Caucasian flesh down as the highlights and make the skin itself green Like they do with spite revenants or your tree revenants Sorry tree revenants spite revenants have blue skin in their little in their their stuff But that could be another cool way to go Uh 100 second the request for a beginner playlist. Absolutely. I'll put it together Uh, okay Oh, that's true. Yes, of course. Wanted all go. Yes his So people are asking about super or beginner friendly stuff. Yes Juan Hidalgo's series is great. I thank you very much for recommending that I watch all his stuff as well It's any I hate naming things like that because I'm always going to forget things I mean, I because I have you know 100 subscriptions or whatever on my youtube and I'm always going to leave people out But yes, Juan is truly awesome and has really really great content really well produced Uh, let's see Hawkeye. Hey, have you got any tips for painting interior stone? Dwarven pillars for example Sure, I mean same rules as always. They shouldn't be just gray. They should have lots of different tones in them If we're talking about interior, then you should be You know, they're still going to be greens caves have water and growth and organic life in them So they're still going to be greens is going to be browns toward the bottom where things have dripped or dirt has accumulated You can use blues, um, you know push your your your use like blue gray tones in your stone That'll look make it look like it's sort of a an interior You know dimly lit cave with a blue light So you can integrate, you know, blue white tones your highlights that kind of stuff Uh, let's see jcs quick question about the scale Fantasy and games line. I find they drive very satin and are quite transparent Almost similar to contrast paints or inks this normal. Yes, they are very transparent paints the fantasy and games Tend to be a little more satin and they are very transparent like they're not good if you're trying to lay down a base Coat or something like that you wouldn't base coat with them Um, but they're great if you're trying to just like do some great layer work or glazing work. They're they really excel for that Have you ever taken lessons in or done other kinds of art involving painting and colors? Uh, I mean, I took some art in High school other than that. No I liked art in high school because it was fun. It was a we had a really cool teacher who was laid back and didn't care and was awesome and would just like every quarter the way my art class in high school was was um Every quarter she would say, okay, you have to complete this many projects and there's a and she has a big list of like You know, for example, she'd say you got to complete four projects this quarter And here's the list of eight mediums you're allowed to use And that was it that was the that was the class and then at the end of the quarter You got graded on the four pieces that you did So and she didn't care if you came in one day and were like too tired to work and just wanted to take a nap It's fine with her. It didn't matter. Uh, that's fine taken out that day But at the end of the quarter, you better have your four pieces done. So there you go Uh She was a great teacher Okay Uh class, can you recommend a good airbrush set that you can use the beginner that is uh, oh, yeah, sure So the master airbrush set I recommended earlier. It's going to get you going. You're going to mess it up It's you know, whatever and then um And then That's fine You're going to throw that g 22 in the garbage eventually and then you'll get get yourself a nice airbrush But I wouldn't as a 16 year old. I wouldn't give you a nice car I would buy you a piece of junk that you're going to drive and then mess up Uh, and then I'll get you can get a nice car once you're slightly older and you know how to drive Uh, but you know, then you can move up to like an iwata hbcs or something Uh altar was as a matter of opinion, do you think it is better to paint enhanced lighting from a singular perspective or general natural light? I don't think either is better. I think it depends on what you're going for. There's lots of and by the way That's two out of 10 different ways you could construe lighting Um, so like I don't think any of them are better. It's about what you're trying to communicate Now for armies, I tend to like a more A mix of sort of a directional with a little bit of diffuse lighting I think that tends to read the best where you where you get your standard volumetric Highlights coming from basically above into one angle That's what I tend to prefer for an army because I think that just Looks better under most neutral or bad lighting that's going to occur in Like a tournament room where you take your army to play or whatever, but in the end you could you could do anything Um, Mikey, I've seen you use contrast for rust streaks. Is this your go-to product? Do you have a preferred rust product? No, I have no go-to product for rust streaks I use a million things for rust streaks. I use specific rust technical paints and typhus corrosion and dry rust and and stuff from Um From game effects. I use contrast paints. I use inks. I use oil paints So whatever I feel like at that given moment rust is incredibly varied and fun And it'll just literally just whatever I happen to be deciding to play with that day Uh, Hugo, um, I vents. Have you ever hobbied in a limited living space? I share a one bedroom apartment with no space for a dedicated hobby desk And the setup tear down can be a barrier to painting motivation Um, I have not but here's my best advice for you Um, get yourself like find yourself three feet of space I understand you have a very limited amount of space Okay, find yourself like a small desk like a kindergartner's desk Okay, that you can work at and keep everything in a plastic Like a flat plastic thing like keep a wet palette in there. Keep some brushes Keep some paints and maybe keep your project in a little like pick up and go kit and then You have this little desk and you can use it for other things like you could write on it. You can have it for whatever But when you sit down, uh Pop your thing open and everything's right there and ready to go right the key is have your kit You've got your kit ready and then when you're done, you close it back down put it under the desk That's my best advice that way you're not Putting everything back away. I mean I'll admit I I'm very lucky that I have the luxury of this hobby space that I have But that's my best advice take your kit down to the minimums, right? You can go get a cup of water on the way and you don't need to you don't need to keep that in the kit But like that's just walking from the kitchen with a cup of water or whatever or the bathroom Um, that's what I do when I travel, right? I when if I travel and I want a hobby I just have a small little kit Fig wet palette whatever right done and dusted. I can open it be painting in a few minutes close it side to the side Uh, Andrew, good afternoon Vince painting a keeper secrets What is your opinion of the paint job you did? on your first one like the My forge world first keeper secrets years ago. I think it's okay and doesn't really hold up that it's fine enough There are elements of it. I still like um Yeah, I mean like as with all my old paint job, there are a few elements of the thing I like and I mostly hate it Uh rusty glass, where do you go for busts preferably in the u.s Do you have a suggestion for a bus with lots of textures such as for her skin metal start on? I can't give you a specific Bus to start on because it's generally very specific and people have like their own tastes. Where do I go? Mr. Lee's minis Uh, I believe mr. Lee's is out of the uk, but they I've never had a problem shipping from them Uh, they're also a great site and the person who runs the place is awesome So mr. Lee's minis, uh, they have busts from a huge range of different manufacturers all available and um, yeah That's what I would recommend Lots of good like work and barbarian stuff there too. If that's what you're looking for Uh, oh, yeah, there. What's the best place to buy a busted? Hey say same question twice. Uh, mr. Lee's minis Uh Love your work wins keep living your best life. Well, thank you. I'm trying Uh, have you used liquid green? Have you used? Oh green stuff liquid frost? No, I want to I think that looks really cool Um, I have not got a chance to use it yet. I mean they Green stuff world has figured out that their niche in the market is weird technical products Okay, like that's what they're out there. They're living their best life of with weird technical products Um, I can't try and buy all of them, you know, like I I do have a limited budget here But I I I want to try some of them as much as I can uh, okay Uh, when painting a cloak dress skirt, okay That fades from dark on top to light at the bottom Okay, I find that it clashes with doing a zenith will highlight any tips Well, the upper areas of the dress should still be more highlighted Than the lower areas of the dress if what you're saying is like, okay The dress starts purple and fades to a light blue or something Okay, well the upper areas of purple should still be Brighter than the lower areas of purple I mean in general I use the zenithal to to set those those tonal variations that are going to be happening of value You're talking about a variation of hue Right variation of hue. It's not darker at the top. It's a it's a it is a color that has less Brightness to it. So like if it's purple at the top that is a less bright color, but it's not darker okay Like value and hue are two separate things So it should still be like there should still be if if I'm like I'm picturing a standard dress that has these like little Hoopy swoopy things that go like this, you know throughout That top part should still be a bright purple going down at a bright blue And if there's a swoop down that'll be a deep purple down to a deep blue Right or something like that So you'd still have the same effect And you know, but in the end I it's not counter to it. It just means that I I'm not getting the maximal value out of it, but that's okay Hope that helps Uh Okay, hey vents. I got a nice nine-headed hydra, but it's made from resin. How do you glue resin parts together? Sure For resin you use this right here, which is the loctite Uh, I'll show you what it actually looks like you never use it It actually looks like this This is the loctite super glue ultra gel control And then as soon as you buy it Which you get in like multi-packs you take it out of this dumb plastic thing that wastes paint and you use just this thing And uh and because this is what's inside here And but this this will hold resin together. This is a really good glue and it seals like cement So there you go Any advice for setting up proper lighting I have a small led lamp on my desk and another one that lights up the room in the background But I'm having trouble with bigger models. Thanks. Sure. I mean my room is nothing but light I have an ultra bright light directly above me as you can tell with this wonderful heat spot or light spot here on my forehead um, I have multiple different uh Different value lights Back behind me that are both shooting at the wall Not at me not at my space. So one is a very like neutral daylight. One is a much more warm Uh intense light and they're both shooting away from me But creating lots of bounce light everywhere and then the thing that's turned sideways right now You can't see but I'll move it in here is I have an architect's drafting light Which can be set to lots of different values. I think it's it's set right now when it's sort of Bright daylight setting and I just bring that down over me and that creates all this light I need There we go Those are a good investment something like that is a nice investment Um, but really you can you don't have to spend a lot of money I mean like that architect light wasn't cheap, but for the most part you can just go buy like five or six dollar Clippy light things at at Home Depot get a couple different very bright Lighting things and then put them on clips on your wall behind you That's what I did like all those lights. I was describing behind me or just on like I think the I think the little Fixures were like six dollars because they're meant for construction sites And I just clipped them onto a stand behind there and you know then bought some light bulbs Uh Vince would you would you approach weathering an eight millimeter giant robot the same Way as a 28 millimeter robot Uh eight millimeter giant robot. I seem to mean like a really tiny thing. No, I would not because I mean you have to Like You have to You have to think in scale right and how much it would actually be visible I don't paint things that tiny because I find super tiny things to be completely bad to paint like they're just not fun I I hate little tiny things. I I don't even like true 28 mil I like being able to actually see what I'm painting So but I mean you would you would have very little visible weathering because at that scale it's just not going to be Super visible Um, but like I would have very tiny micro dots of like micro micro dots of Of texture or weathering or something like that Do you want to listen to philosophize this the podcast? No, I don't but sounds interesting. I'll check it out Uh, someone needs to start a mold line cleaning business. Yeah, that'd be that'd be great Uh Draken's greed havens today ordered my first ever airbrush base in your recommendation and I'm really hyped for it any advice And how I should first use it priming base coating a bit of everything Yes, get into it. Get deep in it. Mess it up. Make mistakes. Watch my cleaning video. Do that Don't blow paint through the front of it when you don't need to be blowing paint through the front of it Um, why clean it out with water a little bit of maybe ice propyl alcohol here and there that kind of thing You're good to go Uh, let's see. Will you do more true metallics metals videos? Yes, always I will always do more true metals videos I'm always going to be your guy for true metals because I love true metallics and and I paint non-metallic. I like it It's fun, but I will I always have a deep love for true metallics and I'll always be more of them I was actually just thinking about wanting to rerecord a good Pure silver true metallic video to really get my thoughts on it down and and kind of make like a sort of bible study for it It's like just the this is the this is the dictum. This is the way Well, let's see Austin Fletcher Havens 21 army is scaven scryer your recommendations me the day on twitter Excellent videos to watch any thoughts on cool basing ideas warp stone little warp glow balls Uh pools of warp fluid Uh sewers like I did mine um Broken down ruin cities they're marching through or like an old ruin city like if you're in scaven blight itself Sure bones lots of bones Uh, do you have a photo of your archion? Yes, I have two archions. Both of them are behind me right now and both of them are on my twitter and uh Yeah, both of them are on my my twitter. I the the newer one the archie l the slanesh one is on instagram as well Uh, this is not a valid question in what situations would you use your expensive fancy brushes? I brought a rafael klinsky brush, but i'm too scared to use it So funny, uh, it's so funny because you'll you'll you'll learn why that's so funny in about Two and a half weeks based on a video that's coming out Uh, but anyways, um, I I use it when i'm doing detail work or finishing work or careful work or work where I need, uh to be Precise that's it. Hey, let me let me let you know this you are going to ruin that brush Okay You will ruin that brush It will happen The world is entropy everything is eventually dust and nothing except this Bring it into yourself realize that this is truth Okay, and then laugh at it and do not care This is what how we must live so The point is is that It's okay All things you're going to eventually ruin it, but don't be afraid to use it You know because it's a great tool and it's going to do you it's going to pay you great dividends Uh So when do I use it simple answer when i'm base coding and doing stuff that's dirty messy work washes Big base coats stippling rough work that I use crappy synthetic brushes or old beat-up broken brushes glazing fine layering detail work eyes whatever things like that uh that is um That's when I get out the nice detail brush because I can also control the amount of paint that's in the brush Uh, and no bill wilson. I'm watching both comments by the way the people who are commenting Like I have two chats up. That's I think why the sound got weird at the beginning. So I'm sorry everybody It's not praise nergal nergal's wrong nergal wants to make life from nothing. I'm saying everything is nothing Nergal's wrong. He loses in the end In the end it's all just dust The heat death of the universe happens and that's it, but that's all right. That's okay We don't care Okay, I'm never gonna rep nergal not on this channel Uh, okay Uh, Dan. Hey vents. I enjoyed your dala rowney review video. Have you had success with their pearlescent inks? Uh, I haven't used them. Um, so I can't I can't say I've never used their pearlescent stuff So I I cannot speak to it. Um, if not, what would you use to get that pearl unicorn look on say sphere inks? I don't generally like pearlescent looks I think that they like I think pearlescent looks are just glittery white for the most part Like if you want to paint a pearl It's actually a really really it's one of the most complicated things you can you can paint And the actual way to do it is it involves a lots of like careful glazing, uh Of you know working in Like lots of different colors and things like that And that's Like getting a pearlescent effect Properly painting it. It's just Literally one of the most complicated things you can paint Now if you don't care and you just want sparkly white, then sure like You know the different pearlescent colors are probably fine. Like I said, I don't know the inks Or like you can get pearlescent white or whatever from the fx fluorescent set from scale 75 and those kinds of things But my answer in general when people have asked me on this show or in the past Uh Is that um It Don't do it. Just don't paint pearlescent effects. They generally don't Look great. Um It's kind of my answer I don't want to I don't want to just I don't want to like put you off doing a thing you'd have fun with So you can get those paints and then you can glaze in some like light blues and light pinks and you can get a cool effect But it's it's just Yeah, it doesn't it doesn't suit me and I find it hard to give advice Okay Uh terrier halo not a question. Just thanks for your channel has helped me a lot as I started painting again Oh, well, that's great. I'm very glad to hear that terrier Uh spice rack 89 when are the warhammer weekly mugs getting released my kitchen feels empty without some soon I uh, I need to find some new somebody to do some additional art resources I'm trying to find somebody so There you go Uh, and then I'll have them up because I need to have a I need to get some new different size of art and different takes and stuff like that In 2021 I want to get them out in 2021 as quick as I can as well as a bunch of other new merch I've been to use love lube for the airbrush. Do I use the lube the lubricant? No, I do not You go simple answer. I don't I don't ever use that stuff Uh nick garcia. Hey ventz. Love the feedback you gave me at the end of the month review Mine was the allarial piece last month off topic question. I've heard you mention anime What are your top and rewatchable? Oh, jeez. Sure. We can run this down real quick So, I mean anything Miyazaki is obviously gorgeous Any anime that runs longer than 26 episodes is garbage All proper anime is one season and one season alone. It has a beginning middle of the end and tells a perfect story So my perfect animes are like that I've rewatched dozens of times or obviously cowboy bebop It is the greatest there ever was and there is never anything else that will be like it It is a singular work of staggering genius But I also like the original bubblegum crisis. So bgc 2032 Uh Let's see record of lotus wars was a great one that I that I've rewatched many times and really enjoyed Outlaw star really enjoyed that. Yeah, I mean there's there's I mean I've watched a ton of different anime But those are ones that sort of stand out. I've rewatched and rewatched and rewatched Of the Miyazaki films my absolute favorite is kiki's delivery service I think it's one of the most beautiful heartfelt wonderful heartwarming stories ever told So there you go Arnold I just want to say thank you for all the info and hours of entertainment all the best for 2021 for you and your loved ones Well, Arnold right back out to you. I hope everybody's 2021 is better than 2020 I hope everybody has a really great time. Okay So let's keep moving. We're gonna keep going got some more time Okay, uh for what it's worth. Okay, good just answered some previous things Marco thank you for all your content. Oh, absolutely. Happy to which Vallejo metal colors are must have. Oh, absolutely. Here we go. Common question Here we go ready number one steel number two silver number three dark aluminum number four copper number five gold Season to taste from there Okay Kroven I started with that master set and it was a great learning tool just upgraded christmas Yep, that's exactly right. You start with the master thing because you don't know what you're doing You're gonna screw up your airbrush when you first start and that airbrush costs about $20 to replace If you literally break it if you leave the needle tip off and drop it and snap that needle in two You go, okay, toss that whole airbrush in the garbage. You're buying new one for $20. That's it Like that is the cheapest Thing you can use in air brushing Uh, you know, you can buy like seven of those for one solid eyewater Uh, oh my gosh. Yes. Thank you. Oh death guard mentioned berserk the original series. How did I not mention berserk? Yes, the original berserk. Correct. Absolutely the golden age the original golden age animation Not the remake the original one Uh, yes, which you have to watch starting on episode two. Don't watch episode one You start an episode two, then you go all the way through the end, then you rewatch episode one Gosh, how did I miss that? Okay, uh Our covid mask is effective in air brushing for acrylic paints, especially if you have like an n95 mask Yeah, sure. That'll work fine because it's not, you know, it's not um It's not like a Uh You know, you're not air-reading that many particles, especially if you have a fan on now If you're doing anything that's like in any way toxic you want a full respirator Like enamel paints or anything that's going to really put dangerous particles into the air Well, let's see Uh Oh, yeah, okay. Good, which is what exactly what cost is set afterwards Which I completely back if you're doing any I cannot state this enough folks If you're going to air brush any kind of toxic paint So enamel paint oil paints anything like this that stuff is very toxic and should not be aerated uh, if you're using non miniature based acrylic paints like some some very like Some artistite paints still have stuff like cadmium and things like that in them Do not airbrush those without a full respirator. That stuff is super toxic So, please do be careful Uh hybids have you ever tried using acrylic retarder to slow down the extremely fast drying time of acrylic paint? Yeah, sure. I have a video on a guide to paint additives where I talk about retarder in detail Um, it's okay. It depends on you need a really pigment dense paint to use it and get the most out of it Okay Um, should I buy a respirator or fume hood for spraying slid at all the lejo paints? I think I answered that already but my answer is basically no you could you can I don't mind having a little hood With a fan on the back. It's actually quite nice because it just keeps everything moving through a HEPA filter Um, so it's a decent investment if you're going to talk about air like if you're just airbrushing non-toxic acrylic paints You don't really need to have a full respirator. Um, I mean you can if it depends on how sensitive you are to particulates in the air uh, let's see Uh, but you could also just like be you know out in your garage or something and do it there and With a door open and just kind of spraying a cardboard box and that would be fine Uh, let's see Do okay, uh estinger. Hey vince. Thanks for doing this. Where else can I draw inspiration? For striking chitin patterns for my tear nids. I seem to only find marier minor variations in insect photography Well, I mean the most common chitin is obviously just the sort of standard hashes and you know insects chitin is chitin Right. It kind of has this look I don't know that there's really much you can do to vary it because it's one of those things that's like It's like you're asking How can I get different textures in in my wool? Well wool is wool. It has a texture that is wool, right? When you thread the wool together um So, you know, you could always have different spots and patterns and natural Colorations and you could go to other things like you could go to lizards and things like that and integrate those patterns in there But ultimately chitin is one of those things that's defined by a texture not by the uh uh Not by the coloration or something like that, right? So there you go Okay, uh Peter having trouble with the coverage of metallic bronze paint old citadel dwarf bronze Is it just a case of multiple coats trying it over black primer? Best to best to put a new base over the black My answer is watch my recent video on using vellejo metal color to make bronze And you'll get an awesome highly opaque coverage using uh Vallejo metal color and a little bit of contrast in a beautiful rich color that has both excellent opacity easy shading and easy highlighting All in one short five minute video Uh, that one is that was a very recent one I was really happy with that recipe when I found it I had worked a long time to find that recipe and finally made it hobby cheating 270 very recent video Okay Where are we at? Sorry it jumped my my comments jumped on me and now I got to scroll back Uh, let's see Somewhere I'm going to find the comments. There you go. Okay Found it. All right. Let's see. I assume you've seen the coconut crab pattern. That seems pretty popular. That's cool Um start repeating your favorite youtubers in a list. Yeah, sure exactly like aria stark. That sounds like a good idea Um sw I've been supplying washes over true metallic metal usually dulls down the shine a lot of oil washes over metal A better a better option a thousand percent. I never wash metal ever period Ever that is intended to be shiny If it's intended to be a rusted hunk of garbage then wash away you want to dull it out That's the whole advantage But if you're actually trying to make like shiny metal washing it is just ruining it You just put a whole coat of medium and pigment over top that is literally not metal. You're just that's not metal You just ruin it like that's ruining it Oil washes because the way they work they because they they have this extreme capillary action because it's not water They go into the recesses sink in and then you come back in with some white spirits Clean it up and you get back to your original metal Good to go Jobs done Let's see Do you varnish your models? Yes about 12 times in the middle of any any project Uh, but I don't varnish them at the end. I paint all of my matte paints my non metallics I varnish them and then I put the metallics on Uh, how does and does varnish affect the colors on a model? I shouldn't uh, if it's good Now certainly if you're if you're saying like you might think it does Because you think a color is a color, but it's not you're looking at the light reflection I see there's a lot of people talk about reds red is often reflecting a high amount of light when you matte it out It looks more dull So you've got to be careful with stuff like that. So leaving a slight satin sheen to your red can sometimes be It's not actually changing the color. It is changing the way the light is interacting with the color Which is changing your perception of the color, right? Because shiny red seems more red than dull red But it shouldn't really be Uh, okay Uh, Rob are havens. Thanks for all the content. I've finished it in 2020. I went several local comps So I feel like I've hit a plateau and not sure how to move on. Hey Rob. I I mentioned this earlier So but I'll mention it again You if you're hitting a plateau, it's because you're not challenging yourself You need to get back into failing you need to get back into the habit of failing So pick some things you want to work on focus on deliberate practice Challenge yourself fail Go get feedback from people figure out where you failed do it again Right and repeat that process plateauing is Entering our comfort zone where we've stopped failing. So you got to push yourself so you can still fail Uh, and yes, I also varnished the basis as the answer to the last question Uh, let's see. Could you show how you store the airbrush? Um, yeah, I mean I sure I store my airbrush and I can't show it to you But I store my airbrush on a little like airbrush holder It's one of those little u-shaped things, but there's just a bunch of water inside there I don't know if you're gonna be able to see that or not. There's a bunch of water down in there Uh, that's actually a mix of water and a couple drops of isopropyl alcohol just to make sure that it's like, um Just to make sure that it's really chewing up any paint that's in there But yeah, I always just keep a bunch of water in the cup Uh, let's see You can also just take the needle out and put it completely into a cup of water like a glass cup Just take the needle out first and then set the whole thing down in front first Uh Flash, uh, what is the thing you're most enjoying in the hobby right now? Oh god. I don't know painting everything talking to all of you I mean, yeah, it's it's great. I I don't know. I can't pick a single thing I've I've never had more fun in the hobby than right now. Whether it's gaming the community Uh, sharing this with all of you like everything. I can't wait till next year when we get back to events as well That's going to just be a great time. It's it's a golden age okay, uh Mitch any tips on achieving a convincing roll rose gold? Uh, trying a slightly orange bright copper mixed with pinkish crimson wash thinned paint any advice No, I do not I'd have to think about that. I'm happy to experiment and see if I can find something for you Um, but no, I've never I've never really tried a rose gold off the top of my head Maybe like the standard gold mix and then a little bit of like One of the Pinky or red Contrast paints, but again, I don't know. I need to experiment with it Uh, okay. How do you rate pro acrylics versus scale when it comes to second place metallics? Uh pro acrylic is definitely worse than scale 75 from metallics Uh, let's see Any tips on achieving a convent already did those right? Oh, uh Cool I don't know. I'm gonna call you k Hey vince and everybody else spent a long time and I haven't caught a q&a stream topping up Uh, the tamia glue pot with plastic right now. Awesome. Get that sprue view going John hey, vince, how would you approach emperors children chaos space marines? Like what paints would you use? purple a purple Probably a violet purple That's uh I don't know. I would probably use like a Sunny skin tone is my highlight. Maybe scale 75 violet as my mid-tone and maybe like camara violet mixed with a little Pains gray blue black as my shadow. That seems like a pretty good answer uh I've never I've never painted emperors children. So I can't tell you Uh nick, but that's that's probably where I'd start Uh, nick Stockton. Sorry if this has already been asked But do you have a post covet plan for doing live section live sessions? Yes, absolutely and 100% it'll probably be the second half of this year just based on sort of vaccine We're all out in the u.s. But um, yes 100% I cannot wait to start teaching in person again I will absolutely be doing so. I'll be coming back to australia to teach next year the uk to teach next year Uh, I want to do a whole lot of teaching. I I love it and I miss it This last year has taught me that how much I miss it Uh, hey vince, I've got my scaven army that I'm doing and want them being very muddy dirty and pretty With wet muddy bases any tips on dirty them up both during and after the main painting process Uh paint them nice then dirty them Uh and have the dirt collect like it does which is mainly from the bottom up Don't just like throw a brown wash over the whole thing and say that makes them dirty Because dirt doesn't collect in the recesses up here on the top of their back Right, it's it sticks to the bottom. It kind of comes up So you're gonna want to soak it up into their robes and stuff like that uh, let's see Hey vince, which blending technique would you advise to blend from a dark blue to a beige white without an airbrush? Any is it it's irrelevant. It's color independent. It's about how you're painting it. You could layer that up You could wet blend that up. You could loaded brush that up Do any of those things about what you're most comfortable with What I will tell you is that if that's what you're trying to do then the answer is you turn the fig mostly white For like if you want to go easy mode, so let's talk about easy mode anything would work It depends on what effect you're trying to achieve, but if you want to go easy mode You would Make the thing mostly white Okay, like through your rattle can or whatever like rattle can and a sort of ivory or white color And then you just would glaze the blues down That's kind of then you're not blending at all. You're literally applying one color only the blue And you would just pull down and pull down and you know Apply more and more glazes like if this is the white surface you start here with the first one feather the edge And then you're here you feather the edge then here you feather the edge done Let's see Vince I look at your head when I hear reference for non-metallic metal boy. Are you not wrong? This is you want a reference of what contrast needs to look like My head under the lighting in my office is a perfect reference for non-metallic metal. You are not wrong Uh, Gonzalo, I just want to say your vids are so awesome. Hobby cheating is like my late night tv. Well, that's wonderful Uh, I'm I'm very glad to hear it and happy to help Uh deathguard legionnaire. Um Nope, he's answering somebody else. Okay, cool. Very good. I like that adam umpford. Hey adam Uh, just about to pick up an airbrush because if I'm honest, I really don't enjoy painting and want to try something new Any tips? Uh, yeah, like I said, I've already talked a lot about the airbrush get yourself a nice good master set Watch my how to clean it video like if A lot of people are like using my airbrush is so hard It takes forever to clean and I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about Then you're doing it wrong is my honest answer and you didn't watch my videos any time I hear somebody say that I'm like, well, you're doing it wrong because there's no other answers to that Uh, my am I airbrush if I wanted to start airbrushing I could be doing it in eight seconds from now and I spend about 10 seconds in between color changes cleaning at most So, um, like watch the videos I have and that's it once you that's actually the only painful part of it Beyond that adam just play with it man. It's an airbrush is such a great tool You will have to relearn you want to learn some new stuff But man, is it is it fun? Especially if you're looking for like doing some stuff that looks good fast Just a great tool Okay Uh All right, just people talking about the liquid frost Hail Hydra would a natural prime work to start on a mini with a lava base, please I worry how the mini would work when people's eyes would still be drawn to the shattered face. Thank you Okay, so if you're talking about Lighting complete. So first of all when we do lava bases generally We assume that there's still going to be like normal light in the world And that the light from the lava is not really casting that much of a glue up glow up And no I wouldn't natural prime Because if you're talking about being completely lit from below being lit from hell And that's assuming it's just dark other than that And that's going to look really weird on a gaming table because in a room the light is not only coming up from the lava It is in fact coming up from above So if I were going to do that like on an army scale I would paint the whole miniature like normal And then and leave my deep shadows down in there And then I'd come back in either with a brush or an airbrush And just get a soft orange glow like right on the lower legs And up in that just sort of you know the groin or region basically and that's it Um Maybe like the bottom of a shield if that's hanging down there or a weapon if it's hanging down low, you know something like that Um, so yeah, because you don't want to light your gaming miniatures completely from below It's just not going to read and it's very hard to do Um, and it's going to look weird when they're in a room where that is in fact not the light Right, it looks great if you're taking a picture of it against a black background And the only light is that it'll look amazing in a real world. It'll look really weird Uh effrin, how do you recommend painting kaiju and other minis that are like 40k dreadnought size but represent monsters that are like skyscraper tall I don't know that I have a recommendation for that You have to really push the contrast is a short answer because they're way out of scale So you've got to really sort of push the contrast around and and stuff like that make them as visually interesting as you can Uh Adam wants to move away from using pure gw paints. Where would I start with that? I mean vileo is the easiest answer. Um, if you're going into something else if you're feeling a little bit adventurous Something like scale 75 or pro acryl would be my my next recommendation vileo will give you the most gw like experience with a wide range of colors Scale is easier for blending and pro acryl is just wonderfully wonderfully great paint with incredible opacity Uh, but that can also be thinned down into a wonderful glaze James meek's glazing medium or water Well, I generally use water but you can certainly use glaze medium if you want or master medium or anything like that It was nothing wrong with either. It's whatever you prefer and you find easy to control is my answer Uh, let's see. All right, we're gonna try to catch up here because I got a call this a day soon We're 90 minutes. So it's lightning round time before my dinner gets here Uh, have you used the new vileo metal color formula paints? No Uh, I have not yet. I'm keen to do as soon as they can Uh Oh, okay. Uh, he might he said the eight millimeter like adaptive titanic models Yes, I would approach them just like chipping on a 28 millimeter space marine. It's exactly the same thing That's that's how I approach them. But like again smaller Smaller because you're talking about mini mini mini dots like you have to shrink it way down The more you draw the scale down think about the dot if the if the scratch on the robot is this big in real life Then how small is it when it's shrunken down one to a hundred scale? Right, I mean that's that's the answer to question like just do the math in your head on on how everything needs to come down Uh, let's see How do you choose one brand of paint over another when the color is pretty much the same? Uh, it paints have different properties that I've learned over time So it depends on what I want to do like scale and stuff. I tend to like them. They tend to be great for like Uh blending and and that kind of thing pro curl is really good for wet blending Or if I need high opacity base coats Camaro is really intense when I want to play with colors and do lots of my own mixes I mean, it's kind of just whatever I feel like at that moment in time It's not like there's actually one super duper great way Uh hyvence. I'm trying to upgrade my uh airbrush skills Tried your fast vocation skin tone tutorial. Good any tips or exercises how to master the airbrush targeting and trigger work Um, keep working with it. I mean just keep practicing. It's one of those things that like brush control. There's no Specific exercise. It's just something that comes over time Hyvence an idea for a cool theme for a necron kill team something That's a bit out of the box not seen that often. Oh boy. I'm the wrong person to ask My necron kill team is literally terminator silver with green guns Um, so I'm the wrong person there. I old rusty robots synthwave robots punk rock robots. Give them all mohawks I don't know Uh, what would be the best paint brand to do wet blending in your opinion? Why uh, I mean if you're talking about just a standard miniature paint line I like pro acrylic for their wet blending. I think it wet blends really well. Um, they're quite thick They're quite opaque. They have a long working time chimera same way Oh, let's see Let's see just talking about my existential rant Oh, yeah, you tried to include a link. Yeah, you can't include a link hat rack But if you want to hat rack, just hit me up on social media or something and I can I can try and answer your question Um adam bow. What do you think about reaper bones paint lines? Reapers are fine Um, I've never particularly liked them. I think they're okay. Um, but they're just not for me But a lot of people use them. I mean again, karell uses a ton of reaper paint in his work Uh, elizabeth bradford uses a ton of reaper paint. They're just don't tend to work for me too much Like dubby said, I do have some colors. I really like like I use their vampire shadow and skin and Goth crimson and there's a couple colors like a golden blonde that I really like other like they're they're fine paints Uh, let's see Let's see thoughts on painting freehand onto clear decal paper I find touch-ups of mistakes after an airbrushed base time consuming and difficult. Yeah, I mean it's it can be tough um I've never tried that thing. I have no idea if it was work if it would work. It's cool idea I give it a shot see how it works Uh, let's see sw thanks for the clarification on the airbrush lube question I thought as a follower slanesh you might be into it Good. Yeah, nope. No lube Uh, not for the airbrush. Uh, let's see crazy horse question. How would you paint fly wings? Yes, thank you. Thank you, anthony. I love you too Uh, I wouldn't or as thin transparent white things Isak's miniatures question. Do you think there are differences in approach to painting? And do you think there are differences in approach to painting and content creation based on having a day job Versus being an aspiring full-time painter seems like you are less clickbaity than others. Oh, well, thank you Um, I mean, I don't blame them for being clickbaity. They have to because that's all that most people watch Um, if they're trying to make a living off of it, they have to be clickbaity I'm never going to be mad at somebody for making a funny thumbnail or having a clickbaity title They're trying to feed their family. They would like to pay their rent and not starve This is not a game you get into because you're trying to make the big bucks Like yes, there are some youtube channels where people become millionaires Those people are not in the miniature painting world, right? Like this is a small audience We're speaking to you got to do what you got to do I would love it if more people watched my stuff, but I'm just like I'm not It's not what I'm about. So I I'm here to teach. That's what I want to do I want to teach everybody. I want to share what I know. I want to talk to all of you And but like to get a lot of views you've got to be in infotainment And you've got to be snappy and make good cuts and stuff like that because that's what people will watch Um, clearly not you people you all are all higher class people. I can see that and I like that about all of you You're all clearly a cut above and I thank you for it Um, but yeah, I mean, you know, it's I I'm never gonna I don't hate on somebody for trying to pay their rent You know Like that's that's it. So Um, I but there's definitely a difference between being a painter and sort of a content creator you Content creation if you if you want to be really successful at it will chew up your life Um, it will chew up your entire life And so that's why I make content the way I do because I'm I'm much more instructional about it I'm not gonna put 30 hours into just sort of into the things you need to do to get that ultra-quality because In the end I just I don't have the time like I have a full-time job where I work probably 50 hours a week easily And uh, I also have a life like a wife that I'd like to see and spend time with so like I've got to put Sort of limitations on you know this on what I can do for my own mental health But I still want to teach and if I can share stuff and people will watch it then that makes me very happy Uh, okay Oh, let's see suggestions about painting a night hot army. Uh Yeah, I mean go again go back and watch the ghosts video the the zenith on ghosts It's an old terrible video, but it does have good lessons in it Watch the more recent video I did with um, how to cheat at edge highlighting because I use a night hot in there And that can actually be a really good tip for things like night haunt. So check that out Airbrush venting hood for acrylics. Yeah, or nay. I I do use it. I like it. Um It's nice, especially when priming or varnishing just because that stuff's kind of stinky and potent Uh, and those things do tend to have polyurethane in it, which isn't really great to breathe in um Okay Matt O'Brien no question here. Just best wishes and many thanks. Well best wishes to you Uh, okay Um, have you tried? Oh, hold on Gotta catch up. We got to go faster here. Okay There we go. Okay. Let's see. We're back. I'm catching up a little Have you tried the culture hustle paints like the pinkest pink or mirrorist mirror? No, and I don't like them They're not made for miniatures. They won't really work on miniatures. They're just they're not miniature paints They're not made for it. I I I do not see any value of them in miniature painting Um So if everything is dust does that mean the gosh is right? Nope because even he's dust in the end and he Wants to stick around Uh question when airbrushing I seem to by the way, I'm sure the rules of the mortal realms are different Than than our world Uh, let's see. Oh, he is right though that you know, most things do die. Um Question when airbrushing I seem to end up with an unidentifiable white specs on the mini Yes, it's because you're not thinning your paint enough Like especially if you're using white, you're not thinning enough or there's a clog in there And it's it's chopping up the paint and not coming out as a smooth small misted spray You need to either up your psi Or thin your paint more or both Uh Okay, how do you deal with ultra fragile parts in assembly cutting from the sprue? Very carefully, but I use very small nippers. It's good to get a nice set of nippers. These are uh To me and nippers right here. They're like very ultra flat. You can get an exact cut They're very gentle A good set of nippers will do you well Uh, do you all oh, I didn't sound already Legionnaires havens do you have a recommendation on matt varnish, uh, ultra matt varnish ak interactive or mi ammo by mig both make one Uh, thanks videos. How would you base a board game like blackstone fortress? I make something that looks relatively like that those tiles Just kind of make your own version of those tiles. It doesn't need to look exact just close So and you could or you could use existing bases depending on what you what you've got like you could use the One of those base kits in a box Or like find a a secret weapon Resin base thing that makes sense or whatever. But yeah, I would make it look kind of like the board game Doesn't you look exact just kind of like Uh, kayoma happy holidays happy holidays to you Uh, bill wilson is that deionized water in the airbrush to prevent lime scale buildup? No No, just water Just water literally out of the tap Like I said with a couple drops of ice propyl alcohol. I've never had lime scale or that issue I've been leaving water in my airbrush for five years so But that could be I might have very filtered water here. I don't know. So like your area may be different Uh Okay Reaper just announced in-house manufacturing of a thermoplastic injection molded line of bones minis. That's cool I did not see that. I'll check it out scale 75 is a great alchemy product That mixes with Vallejo metal color to make a good rose gold. That's cool. Nice Uh, I'll have to check that out. Uh, bob, uh, do you Have to use to me an extra thin cement for sprugu or can you use the normal to me a Plastic cement my local hobby stores out of the extra thing you want to use the extra thin You do not want to use the regular plastic cement Uh, zack damke haven't curious what color you would do Do an overplayed osl on necron other than green. I mean it'd be pink. It's absolutely pink It's of course, it's pink 100 and I would use like the scale 75 fx fluorescent pink and the war colors fluorescent pink Both of which are my go-to pinks along with just like a regular magenta to Trim it back all over white Uh, hey tremor. What's up, buddy? I miss you too, sir Uh, just lurking a bit tremor. I hope you're doing well. I follow all your posts on facebook Crazy car guy. I hope you're doing well Uh, let's see John ashley smith. Good afternoon vince chat. I hope you had a good christmas. I did Marxist fail early fail often. I agree completely Francisco, I want to start a slanesh army after seeing the new stuff Should I wait before getting stuff for the army or is there some core stuff that I should get while I wait for those new models? My honest answer is you could start with a couple things like, um Like there's certain things. They're just going to be perma part of the army like the keeper of secrets Or uh, the contorted epitome like I cannot imagine those changing to be bad or not worth it Those are two very important things. Selesk is already a very mortal focused Model like she has a lot of bonuses for mortals So I have to imagine she'll be a big part of the new force You could pick up the new lord of pain. You could pay, you know, like that's kind of evergreen stuff Um, a chariot or two is not going to do you bad. I have to imagine those will always be useful They're great for summoning. I imagine that somewhere they'll still stay grid for summoning. So, um, yeah How many keeper of secrets do I need six the answer is always six any candidate sessions? I have no idea I mean, I don't have them all planned out yet. There's just certain things I know I'll be doing But I don't have everything planned out. I I'd love to if I could Oh, let's see Burt, um Oh Burt Macklin FBI events. I'm working more and more with oils and I quite like them But I've had a bit of a difficult time getting light colors not to get dominated by darker colors It's all about that second application Burt. That's the key. You do your initial mix You let everything dry then you come back into the step and a second application So go watch the one where I do skig where I paint skig the Skaven mini you see how That's what happens. The light colors get dulled because they get mixed in You got to go back a second time once everything's dried and then you got to reapply Uh, there you go. Sylvaneth necron's could be special. Give them some metallic horns and leaves Michael right. Havens. I'm having trouble with painting the glowy tubes on the back of storm fiends Any advice on which area should be darker light? Which area should be darker light? I mean my default with tubes is they're dark toward the end and light toward the middle If you want to get funkier you can alternate do like two or three little light spots and have it like alternate as though There's something pulsing through it But in general if you want the simplest answer you go like dark light dark easy Uh, did you ever post the video of your slanesh? I did not I want to get some armies done Like some army videos, but I don't know if it'll happen. I want to I really really want to Did you get the new non metallic paint sets from chimera? I did order one of them I ordered lands because I thought it was cool to see his mixes Uh, let's see Uh, hey vince, what was your favorite model to make paint this year? Oh god in heaven uh everything I converted for my This is a year of conversions like all my city's armies and my giant armies were both super heavily converted And I had tremendous fun with all of them. So yeah, I don't know that I could single one out But if I did maybe the giant iron cloud that I built almost from scratch that was real fun Okay, uh, I didn't try contrast paint. I feel like I'm missing something. It's it's fine It's just useful for various purposes. They're like inks. You can use them in a lot of the same ways It's nothing essential about it, but it's fine Uh, let's see Mark I'm thinking about putting scale color artists in dropper bottles. What thinner flow improver would you suggest? Standard liquitex flow improver would probably be the right stuff um Okay question after priming and painting is their way to stop scraping or damage priming I never don't don't touch the mini until everything's sealed. I mentioned earlier after you prime Varnish it like there's no reason people are afraid of varnishing before it's done I varnish minis like 10 times in the middle of painting them I varnish over and over and over again Like after you apply your primer, let it dry and then varnish it. That's the easiest way But I mean always like I don't do I do not touch the minis while I'm painting them They're always on some kind of handle notice my ultra tie a high tech expensive handle I've got here of an old paint cup and then some some goop and then a Old square base and an old cork as you can tell Uh scott made fun of me extensively for my super sweet paint handle and I think he's wrong Okay Let's see Uh, okay Oh, well, thank you isaks. I appreciate that the signal to noise ratio is the highest. I really do appreciate that. Yeah I'm not I'm not disparaging any of them. I get it. But I thank you. Like I said, my my goal is just to teach That's that's what I'm here for I try to be funny. I hope the jokes land sometimes. I think I'm funny, but you know, I my wife would disagree Uh, Vince, what do you think of army painter paints other than the metallics? I mean, they're fine It's I don't particularly like them. I think they're okay, but I think they're perfectly Okay, like they're good paints that you could do worse Um, they're not my favorite. I think they're like A six out of 10. How about that? Uh Maliki Haven starting a world eaters army in 40k enjoy good conversions of watching a number of videos Which have been great any suggestions on what to do what would do to the karn the betrayer model Oh, gosh, man. I don't really know. Yeah, that's outside of my area of expertise. I know karn is like the I know his existing model, but you could always maybe pull some parts from the, um Wrathmongers or skull reapers that kind of thing that might be fun Uh Do do do I'm thinking painting my slaves darkness army on bases that represent an evasion of azir. What would you use for basing? Probably one of the like I would get a basing set that looks like really nice beautiful like cobblestones or cityscape or something like that Uh, I've seen some youtubers say you don't need an expensive airbrush Do you find a big difference between cheaper and expensive airbrushes? You don't need an expensive airbrush, but I would recommend something like the iwata hpcs It's not very expensive. It's a pretty mid-range airbrush It's you need to hit a certain level of quality where the parts are machined well and that that's that level of quality You don't need to spend 400 dollars or something like that. That brush is like 140 150 bucks probably in the u.s Perfectly reasonable investment. It's been my workhorse brush for five years. There are a few things in my life I've invested in that have paid more My glaze has often come out chalky. How can I avoid this? It's because the paint is breaking down You're going you're you're stretching a paint that can't You've stretched the paint too thin Uh, there's not enough pigment And so either one use a higher pigment paint i.e. Camara pro krill high pigment paints to Thin it with thinner medium or glaze medium or some kind of medium that will then keep it from breaking up Both of those things will is how you need to work with that Acetone or mech work great for making sprugu. Yeah, I've heard that I've I've never tried the acetone, but it seems scary to me That seems like way more toxic than I want to get into But hey if it works it works Lucy the dino girl vince my blades of corner resistant to airbrush mostly What armies do you think don't lend themselves to airbrush overly detailed brocaded insane models? basically Uh, are going to be tough. That is my answer Uh, yes Okay, I'm watching my food slowly get here Uh our run. I just want to say I love all the work produced highest quality. Oh, absolutely. Well, thank you I try to be um Okay, I try to be helpful. So I'm glad to hear it Uh Frederick thank you very much for watching. I appreciate it Uh, I have not ever tried welding three instead of to me a super thin Let's see Another reason to varnish mid paint job is you can use yep. Okay to get off the top layers. Good. Good All right. I think I got everything. Oh, hold on. Did I miss anything? No, I think The old heat knight's book was pretty much all demons. Will the new book be a mix of demons and mortals? Yes, it'll be everything all wrapped into one Okay, there you go. We got to the end. We did it. All right So there's all the questions if you have more questions or if I missed something Of course, you can drop it down in the comments. Thank you very much everybody for watching It was great to see all of you here today Uh, I'm having some chinese food for dinner. That's that was a question asked just some chinese food And uh, if you've if you've got any others drop them down below Always happy to help As always I'll answer every comment here just as I always do And I in all seriousness just to take a quick moment here I do want to say thank you to everybody Thank you all so much for being here today for being with me through all of 2020 This is a year of great growth for the channel. Um, I want to keep growing So, you know share the videos recommending them to people is really the nicest thing you can do Um, I really do appreciate that more than anything else in the world Uh, where to keep keep going upwards and onwards for 2021 This wasn't a fun year for anybody But part of what made it bearable was having this community was having all of you was being able to share all of uh, All of this hobby and all of everything we do together And so, uh, I do hope we get to continue doing that next year. So I'll see you all in 2021 Bye everybody Bye