 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video today. We're gonna talk about a little paint jam slash paint challenge Let's get into it. The strict techno man sir. That is Vincy V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vincy V style So recently I had the boys up for our annual Vincy con now Vincy con is when Sam Lenz John Nina's also known as Ninjohn Uncle Adam and and usually Minniac come hang out here and we just paint and jam and talk and do a bunch of fun stuff over a weekend Sadly this year Scott was not able to attend although. You'll still see how he was here in spirit in the video But we all got a different idea this year This year we were all going to paint the same thing Specifically we were going to do Alana from big child creatives. Now. This is a really fun Bust and it gave us all a chance to work on the same project Simultaneously the idea being then as we worked on it if we ran into challenges or had questions We could pass around the figures to each other and since we were all working on the same model Resolving the same challenges and trying to get to the same place a good-looking display quality paint job on this Bust we would have better information and feedback to give each other in real time This was an awesome experiment Let's see how it went. The first thing I did was honed in on the skin I knew I wanted to do something that was sort of zombie-like and so I focused in on both the color of the skin and on the sort of freehanding the wounds and open Torn skin for lack of a better term that took me most of the first day But all in all I do think it came out pretty awesome as a place to start Let's check in on the other boys see how they're doing as well John so we're like midway through really. What's the full day one? Yeah You've made a full zero progress on your bust from what you did yesterday, though It still looks more advanced than where mine is by far So well done Thank you. Yeah, absolutely, but you have been jamming your golden demon piece quite a bit Yeah, my plan was to get all of his under cloth and Then the leather is done today, which I'm pretty much done with that and then I'm gonna switch over to the bust They wanted to make headway every day on the Golden demon piece just so I my goal is that by the end of the weekend I have this this piece done or almost done and then this one will be a totally different approach and Have fun in a different way with the big brush and make a lot of impact and just kind of see I don't have a Expectation of what it's going to be like Sure at some point I will take it into your office Spray with fluorescent pink mm-hmm and everything will be nearly ruin it and then realize that it's all awesome. Yeah. Yeah, Sam Let's take a look. Let's see where you're at How's it going over here? Pretty well try to get the better lighting on that. Oh, yeah, you're good Yeah, I'm getting on the non-metallic metals established I had to spend a lot of time in the hair just getting in and out of all these details You have to glue the head on before you can connect the sword and stuff. So I had to Paint it in sub-assemblies basically. So I finally have it to the point where it's all together I'm really happy with the overly red scheme, but yeah, there's a balancing act going on in there and I'm realizing the metals are my Know as far as contrast goes there my light object among all the dark sure which originally was just going to be her skin That still has miles to go, but now I can push everything up to that kind of halfway point Yeah, I love the three approaches. I realize said this in the car I want to say it here. So when we got this when we all started doing this like John immediately goes in does all this complicated airbrush work to set light and hue and Value and sort of all this stuff, right? So he's got all these color interplay happening Sam Classic Sam goes for like a wide sweeping kind of wet blend with a big brush You know gets like the the basic tones and sort of in like Ideas of the values and where you want the light to be What where the colors are going to sit kind of bringing the whole thing into some kind of balance and then you spend the rest Your time adjusting right pretty much and refining block wet blend refined Yes, and then Vince over here who started from pure black just goes, you know, I've got a really good idea for the skin I'm just going to spend an entire day painting that and didn't do anything else So just really three different approaches to model painting here Very targeted approach in the case of Vince. I think I'm just kind of in the middle. Yeah, John went very broad He went wide. I went specific. You went kind of middle ground. Let's see how Scott's doing Scott. How are you feeling over here? He still wants us to paint more minis. Alright, good stuff Scott as always we'll check back in with him and see how he's doing My next thing to resolve was the other colors now. I'll be honest I didn't have a good plan going into this what I eventually came to as I sort of worked my way through it was this Very desaturated plum color and in fact that then set the tone for the rest of the piece Just as the skin was so highly desaturated so to with the rest of my elements or at least Mostly we'll talk about that in a second But as I started working out from there, I had the value set I knew where my light was going to be thanks to the skin and now I knew how I wanted to treat my colors Making them all very desaturated and weak from that It was just a question of composition, but of course we have to see how the other boys are doing as well Let's check in on their projects. All right. Let's uh, let's do a midday update on day two here of the jam John you actually painted your model beyond the airbrush. Yeah. I last night. I did a little work on her And get in there. Just trying to think about Give me give me a rotate there John. Oh, sorry Most of it's not painted so the rotation is pretty And then the back is Blue and purple So I'm just kind of building up like the the true color of each surface Just through highlights and trying to keep that amount of color minimal and impactful and I started with just her skin Because that's the most important part to set like my most vibrant and most bright points Yep. And so everything else that I do is either needs to be less eye catching than her face or I need to then go back in and boost the face more But that's kind of a go back and forth and And draw on that as I go So nothing is is complete there But it's just laying that out and really trying to define for myself How I'm going to use the colors that I put down To build up paint over the top and what techniques seem to work well for that Gotcha, and then how's the golden demon piece coming along? Um, since you since you decided to up the difficulty by working two projects at once Yeah, it's really weird because last night when I was working on on the bus for a while I actually did not want to go back to the golden demon piece because it was like they're just a totally different Oh, sure variance fun Not fun. Yeah, this is this is like just fun and interesting Not fun and interesting Yes, very grindy meticulous detail oriented tiny man painting But that's I know I There's a level of it that is I really enjoy painting The golden demon stuff here at vincy con because I can kind of go through the motions of this while we're chatting and hanging out and laughing and listening to music Whatever whereas if I'm at home by myself it feels like it's even more tedious. Of course actually hours of work. All right, sam You've made some progress. What's going on man? Oh, hey there sam. Hi everybody. Um, yeah, I'm just It has a very strong light coming from Facing right towards here. Let's I'm gonna walk around to sam so we can actually see it edit No No editing no clips. No, we're not clipping. I'm not cutting anything takes either. So that's right We're just gonna come around here. This is all just we're just shooting this gorilla style. There we go So what I'm you can see these Specular highlights coming into play and I'm finally getting it to the point where I can really push those together You know the the banding around her kind of ribs abdomen area Um having a lot of fun playing with the reflections in the skin areas The hair is lacking But man, who knew painting a larger model is just plain easier like the size of these bottles Right so much room to work and then everything's the same size online Uh, but yeah, yeah, I'm managing a very, uh Reddish hue to everything and I'm really happy about that Finally kind of rounding the corner from base coats to the sharpening phase Nice very nice. Mine is over there. I took some pictures of it and it is it's way over there It looks dark, but trust me. I did stuff. I painted things. It's happening Uh, hold on. Let's take a look over at uncle adam's area here Now adam, you're not working on a on a bust with us because you know, that's not your thing How many things have you assembled? Uh, let's see here. I've built five Uh Neck runs For my combat patrol. I've built three bases of scarabs and I've built four Uh of these scavengers from north star and now I'm kit bashing This guy's just a collection of different parts from a lot of different things And I'm working on another one right now and I'm gonna try to build a group of uh Just complete randos and uh kind of have fun with that as well Very nice. You've got a friend here with you. I do Hello penny All right, let's check in with scott. Let's see how he's doing over there scott What's going on and today? Oh, it looks like he's hungry There you go, all right We'll check in with you later scott after you get some lunch and see how you're feeling. All right, very good My next step was the non-metallic metal There's quite a lot of it on this model and I knew copper made sense given my scheme I could beat it up vertigree it and I just thought it would better fit overall The problem is copper is both a very complicated non-metallic metal scheme But also because of the orange it tends to be highly saturated I knew I could rock this back some through the actual Vertigreing of it when I when I sort of added that The blues and greens of the vertigreed But I'm not sure if I did enough and in fact to this day right now as we see here I'm still working on this But as I was turning to the metals the boys were making some really really amazing progress in their own right All right, there's john stuff now john you've not made a lot of progress on your girl Zero to be exact. Yeah, okay, but that's okay because you made a lot of progress on this little boy Yeah, I've been doing a lot of work with the non-metallic metals on him which uh The shot could take a long freaking time. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm So I've gotten kind of wanted to get down the Technique and the look of metals for the whole figure on the most important thing which is this front left shoulder It's front facing. It's you get to see the whole surface. It's not covered up by other things So once I got that figured out in getting some feedback and some Advice and tweaks that I made and then copied that down to some smaller bits to get some small victories If you don't know small victories in your paint jobs are very important Especially when you're working on a piece like this where it's a tiny single guy and you have spent Many many hours on him so far three days one bite at a time I knocked out his little knee pads and now I'm I'm working on this other shoulder pad Um, and then once I get that done we'll go back and deal with his chest Which I just did a rough blend to understand the volumes in the light and then we'll Bring that up And then the hardest part of the model will be done. Nice Sam Hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. You've been you've been hard at work Yeah, yeah, man. I've just been packing the paint onto this But it's I feel like it would have gone more quickly But I'm experimenting a bit trying to overemphasize the light sourcing on it So just a little bit of a back and forth Um, but yeah, I'm getting to those final kind of capstone moments. I'm throwing freckles on the face Screwing that up trying to do justice to all the freckled people out there in the world, but I haven't always had the opportunity to do to work on such a large face Or at least spent a while. So I'm having fun packing these extra details in Very nice. It's looking really good Adam how goes the assembly? Look at this. The the pile has grown. There's more people. Yeah, I uh, did four Kind of kit bashes at all kinds of different parts and pieces yesterday and now I am working on Some steel raft steel rift not steel raft, but steel rift max h e v's as they're called Uh for steel rift. I've already got one force built and painted at home. Uh, that is a Freelance industrial force. They're all bright orange and then these guys are the authority and I'm going to probably paint them Probably like an off-white with some blue accents and things like that if you've seen the Recent movie that was in theaters called the creator There were these giant tanks that were run by the u.s. Military and I want to mimic those Kind of paint schemes a little bit Um, but yeah, they're they're fun parts to put together. I'm enjoying them. So very nice And of course, we can't not check in with scott. Let's see how he's doing over here Uh scott. Okay. How we doing buddy? There you go, looks like scott. No, that's okay. It looks like he's really getting along Uh, here's his progress so far. So he's he's got a little ways to go, but it's okay. We're pulling for him All right, we'll talk about how my piece came out in just a second But first I want to throw it over to both of them for the end of this project and how they felt everything went Obviously john didn't get to work as much. He was more focused on his golden demon piece But it was still amazing how much he could do in such a short time And as I mentioned earlier, it was really fascinating to watch how each of us started from a different place Sam went in for fast minimal like some amount of value transition base coats on everything John worked this huge color and value spectrum Almost sort of a craft world style really of having yellows and magentas and oranges Peaches blues purples to set the tone and the feeling and the warmth and the environment for the whole figure And I went sort of full instagram Painter printer mode and just took one particular section at a time from zero to 95 99 percent And the fun part was neither of those were wrong Or none of those were they all got to the same place And I think that's an important lesson You can approach figures in lots of different ways. There's no one right road to walk And this was really instructive in that regard Okay, so john here's the result of your weekend. Yes. All right. What'd you think? um Working on two different models Was a challenge but also kind of fun because if I got overwhelmed with one I would just go to a different scale in a bigger model and kind of futz around a little bit But uh, I'm reminded how much time it takes to paint tiny little warhammer figures For golden demon and that is a ton of time. So getting together with people and you kind of Lose track of the time in a good way the hours go by while you get a lot done Um feels really good. It feels like leaving here. I have some momentum and I have the start of an exciting piece in the bust to Kind of ruminate on the direction. I want to finish it with and bring her to life Now that I've seen how you two have painted yours And then I can just paint it like yours again I say nova 2024 that bus is showing up in the cabinet, right? Yeah, there you go reasonable. All right very good All right, sam so Uh, you're also done over the weekend. You were the first of us finished surprising absolutely no one Well, the first one to finish and the also Won not to play magic Adam did not play magic the gathering either, but by abstaining from the game of cards. I have succeeded in life This is this is true. So what did you learn with your piece? It was very bright. It was very different It wasn't a normal sam piece Yeah, I've been trying to really manage my values and make sure I have more Lighter tones were appropriate like not every surface area goes down to Absolute black even though I like a great depth of contrast Also trying to manage three different Red tones it it came out like way more pink than I had imagined but in a In appreciable way. I was happy about it, you know kind of have that uh vision, but it may change as you go on Yeah, it's it's very light, but I want to focus on the mids and saturation and Hope those subtleties. I think they show through in the photos. It was a delicate dance. Um Yeah, man as always it's a blast to get together and hand my model across for some feedback from To you know respected artists And yeah, that definitely well three don't forget about scott. Oh, yeah, thanks scott I love learning He says But yeah, man and and I took a lot of that into account and it made my model better And yeah, again, like like john was saying it's nice to just have this Separate time to roll into something undistracted and good company Yeah, I mean, I think this was interesting and you know john way in here. He's still in the room obviously Here he is John So, I mean look This was an experiment that we've wanted to do for a while you and I talked about this like a year ago Of everybody get the same model And we all paint it and then get feedback on it. I I think this was an amazing success I think it was an awesome experiment other people should try it. What do you think? I think so and I have to say thanks to big child for supplying the models so much appreciated for that and yeah, like Getting these different perspectives and we all went drastically different directions, which I really appreciate It wasn't just oh my parrot has the blue hat mine has the green one Completely different concepts. Like yeah, you kind of flipped the reality of yours john's is just so Light based like the figure just looks washed and like Dawn or evening sunset or something. It's it's very cool. So Yeah, just seeing all the all those different directions come together kind of forgot what I was saying at the beginning of this No, it was awesome. John any final thoughts? I thought that we were going to end up with a red a red bandana a blue bandana and a green bandana And it wasn't at all. I think You don't realize how Wide of a spectrum from a blank canvas of the miniature can be until you sit around and just Go through the same process with somebody else So I'd recommend it if you have friends or a group that you'd want to get together to paint the same thing And then finally of course We have to leave with I mean, let's be honest someone who's been Here for us the whole weekend, you know, when we were down when we were struggling They were there to pick us up with words of encouragement Uh, they were constantly just really an emotional rock. So scott. What's your final thoughts? Yes, exactly. You said he loves learning Well done scott. I see you need to fix your glasses there a little bit overall, buddy In all seriousness, we're making fun. But yes scott couldn't be here this year But we miss you scott. We love you and uh here in spirit. So at any rate, there we go. Yeah good I think it was overall a rousing success for my piece. I'm pretty happy with how it came out I'm going to show you some photos of everything here all three of ours together Again, john honestly only spent about three hours on his so that's pretty great But as you could see from the video his golden demon piece He made a ton of progress on or at least the beginnings of it He's going to have 300 400 hours into that by the time he's all done But the first steps on a very long road were walked successfully And I wish him nothing but the best. I really want to see him bring home the trophy this year But I found this incredibly instructive. I thought the pieces came out amazing It was obviously a great time hanging out with the guys And uh all in all I learned a lot in this process I felt like this was really instructive really helpful And it made me push myself in a way that when we're working on our own pieces We don't because I knew my piece was going to be directly up against theirs And somehow, you know that competition does sort of light a fire under you and make you work So thank you so much for watching this if you liked this give it a like Subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future. 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