 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating Q&A live. So today The we're gonna sit down for about an hour these usually go a little over but we'll try to keep it to an hour and I'm gonna try to answer all of your hobby related questions so over on the side here Which would be over on let's see That side probably Nope, I think that's the wrong side. No, that's right. That's right. That's right. Ha got it Over on that side There is a little comments thing and you can type in comments so please feel free to start asking your questions and I'm gonna do my best to answer whatever I can And We'll we'll get rolling These are always fun to do. I like it. I actually just finished up a Project I was working on the hour or two before the show been working on editing some new videos So just putting stuff together. It's been it's always good to finish a project and Got the the Duchess posted up that I finished up earlier this week So, yeah, good week good hobby day So hope you all are having a great hobby day wherever you are Whatever time it is But yeah, let's get into it Oh Whether mouth says afternoon, how's it going? Let's go and well Glad glad you're here alive. A lot of people talking about my pronunciation of necrons That's not gonna change anytime soon as a funny aside, I Think I got more down votes on the first necron video than I do on most anything and I'm pretty sure It's because I pronounced them necron so I I guess I'm just inviting more of it by doing it again That's fine. Such is life All right, let's see Hello, everybody. There's lots of people joining in Saying hi, I hope everybody's doing well Oh, yes. I saw hello, Emily. I know she's dog sitting today Very good Hey, Vince any advice on how to do charred bones on hex rate is where I'm painting Yeah, this is a question that's come up a few times So charred bone is really difficult to do because we have an association in our mind that Bone is roughly bone color There's so there's sort of a subconscious bias there Um that being said Yeah, I mean the answer is stippling So if you go back and look at The you'd have to dig through my projects, but when I did the fallen angel bust And I had her wings Burnt at the tips and on fire That's kind of what you'd want to do And I think if you had just a little bit of orange a little bit of flame still there or heat or something It would kind of sell the effect But you would effectively take a fairly small brush depending on the size of the thing you're working on Hex rates are pretty covered in robes. So it's going to be hard to sell. That's another problem On something like a hex rate um But you You're going to want to just kind of stipple from brown To red brown black into black and like have the black sort of at the tips where things would be the most charred the most thin The most exposed surface area So that's basically my best advice I can give it's it's a tough thing to paint. I'll be honest It's a very tough thing to sell Especially on such a small scale if you were doing like a 75 millimeter Skeleton you could probably sell it a lot easier because you could see the texture Some part of char is texture Right, and that's really hard to sell in in Uh in that small millimeters that small size Uh, oh, well, thank you everybody a commenting on the Dutchess. I appreciate that Uh patrick I've been struggling to figure out some good colors for the horses Uh for my bronze armored Chaos knights. I think I was thinking dark gray or blue grays. Sure. Yeah, that worked fine As well with light gray and white and anything like that But I mean if they're chaos horses and you want them to look kind of evil Then darker horses have that feeling but yeah anything in the like I wouldn't you can add in some color Get out a little green into the mix. It sounds weird, but a green gray will really sell a horse Especially a dark evil horse Just look back At like frasetta paintings. He would work green into stuff like that quite a bit and it'll sell Um, so that's my advice there Uh, let's see Uh Dorn help transitioning dark to light colors airbrush black Vanguard hunters and I want to have light wolf pelts Help trans I okay Uh I'm not sure what you mean Can you re ask your question? Dorn? Are you asking me like how do you go airbrush from dark to light? Like what are you? I'm not sure what you want me to what you want me to answer there Um, but I'm happy to answer it. Just just give me a give me a deeper explanation and I'll give you an answer Uh, Dave, what do you do when you think a scheme is good for your army, but halfway through you decide you don't like it anymore? Start over I guess, uh, I mean it depends on how much you don't like it, I guess Uh, and whether or not you want to soldier through um You know, I mean my answer would be unless it's a real train wreck You could probably just Uh, you know go back and add some other color to it or add some contrast to it or something or make a small change And then bring it into line, you know chances are it's not a complete train wreck. It's just something is slightly off so There's You know probably a good chance that you Uh That you can make some Some difference there just with minor touch-ups that would be my best advice I guess Uh, try to figure out sort of what the the most minimal thing you could do to bring it into line Uh, all right Uh withered moth. I've just finished my corn skull crushers sat on my hobby file for years Feel so good. Just batch bait any other 10 blood warriors now nice Uh skull crushers are great Uh Okay Uh Bow check, uh, just finished assembling the queen of ruin from creature caster It has quite a bit of small gaps between pieces. What would you recommend for fixing them? Sure since it's resin Come here Uh, this is my preferred stuff Perfect perfect plastic putty This comes from deluxe materials There you go It's really easy. It's water soluble. It dries nice and solid Um, yeah, it's great It's uh, effectively a better version of the lejo's plastic putty so Uh, you can get a nice big tube at probably the most local hobby stores or off the internet from various game stores or amazon or whatever That's what I would recommend because you can you can put a bunch on there and then get a wet brush and smooth it out And it sands down real good once it's dry or real well Uh, jim with With oil paints. Where is a good place to start? Um, get yourself a good set of winton oil paints, uh, so that's these or the obtolums Which is these You know or some mix of the two um, get them in the Get them in the colors that you want To paint with I guess I mean if you're just saying engine. I don't have any specific idea I just want generic colors then, you know, you're some kind of Probably like a yellowish ochre color a cyan a magenta or crimp like an alizarin crimson probably a nice good red um A cold yellow basically a cold yellow and a warm yellow Uh, a white and a black and a good sepia tone or a burnt umber or something Um, and you're good to go. That's probably the group I'd start with Something like that and then you just need, you know, some cheap synthetic brushes and some white spirits I would recommend Mona Lisa or uh gambling The their Gamsol white spirit both are quite odorless and easy to use and very clean Uh work fiend. I'm still not happy with the gold trim on my black legion It looks great up to the edge highlighting stage and that can make it too busy any tips I try to keep the lines as fine as possible Uh, I mean with those kind of models my best advice is You know Depends on what metal paint you're using to do your highlighting you can wheel back the the hardness of the edge highlight Uh, so if I'm doing something gold and I want a nice soft edge highlight I use Vallejo metal color pale burnt metal. That's a nice soft highlight um, you can also go back and clean up your edge highlights through Repainting the gold with a thin brush through the center Of the thing to get rid of the the fat edges if you have the fat edge syndrome, which happens to all of us by the way Uh, but I mean it is a very busy model. I'm not sure there's a huge amount you can do There's just a lot of junk on them and that like That edge on top of edge on top of edge is going to make things very busy Um, you can desaturate the gold some by you know, obviously integrating shadows through inks and and in your tmm and I would highly recommend that but um Yeah, I mean it's it's It's tough. They're always going to look a little busy. You can try focusing your edge highlights on only the upward facing angles Like that can be a way to calm it down some so something like that uh Rachel when speed painting an army, how do you decide when to stop taking it further When you're happy with the look or on a time basis Uh, if you're speed painting an army, you should have a set scheme. You know you're painting toward first So you shouldn't be worrying about quality You should be doing like a test model or two at the beginning That has appreciable steps. You know, you want to get to And it's going to get you to the place you want to be like the key with speed painting is you can't be making decisions Okay, you need to be following a process So what I mean by that is this okay When you go like people who uh, have a regular workout regimen They don't just walk into the gym And then say like well, what am I going to do today? And then they think about it an average after every machine or after every exercise they go Well, which one should I do next now on mondays? They do this on tuesdays. They do this on wednesdays. They do this and so on they have a set regimen today, right? They've cleared out the decision making from it And that's so they get the optimal amount of work within the time limit They've set because that's the governing thing they have like an hour to be at the gym, right? So they can't they don't have time to sit around thinking And to do non-optimal stuff So they need to it needs to be set so you do your test model You get your steps write them down if you if you if you want to I would highly recommend it makes it easier And then you just follow that recipe Over and over again you repeat you repeat you repeat and where your ending is wherever your recipe stops Right because it's all speed painting is about setting a time Not an you're you're painting to a time not to a Look So there you go. All right Uh suspicious pineapple. It is very suspicious Suspicious pineapple. Are you a psych fan? I just I need to know that because it's a very pineapple focused show All right. Anyways tried wet blending The first time with war colors and found I was removing paint rather than drawing the colors into each other Unsure if it's brush pressure or something else. Sure. So war colors can be a little tricky to Wet blend with because they're gel based and because they're rather transparent My honest advice for you is do it with something like a vallejo paint straight out of the bot pot If you're going to do it with war colors, it takes a couple applications. You can do it It's nice and really smooth But you want to put it on much thicker than you could possibly imagine like you need to put a little glob Of paint on there and then the key is you spread the gel into each other and then you wipe your brush and you smooth it out Okay, and so like war colors can can wet blend really well, but it has a very unique method of achieving that If you use a more traditional liquid medium layer paint like a vallejo or You know, I don't know pro acryl or ak interactive or something like that you'll find it to Perhaps match more to what your expectations are if you're just starting And knowing that it's the first time you're wet blending in my mind how you're probably moving your brush And doing that kind of thing. Okay, so that's my advice Uh, david, uh, hi vince giving a laurels Beetle some wings any advice on sculpting bug wings? Oh goodness. No, that's outside of my purview my friend Uh, I am not a sculptor. I'll tell you right now. I I did I did sculpting once I took a like a weekend course on sculpting miniatures And um at the end of that I realized I never want to sculpt anything again in my entire life Uh, I hate it So I'm not the person to ask Uh, I mean, I'm sure the the the basic answers I can give you are like you're going to have to use a frame you need to make like a wire frame And then you're gonna need to work around that But beyond that I would reach out to somebody like trevarian who's a really good sculptor Uh, or somebody like that who who does a lot of sculpting in the painting community and they can probably help you out I'm sorry. That one's that one's just outside of my valley wick Uh, okay Oh, jim. This is in so jim had a follow-up to his earlier thing about oil paints Tried on a large cloak dress skin etc first. Yeah skin or big cloaks are the best place to start learning with oil paints Big long big flat surfaces or things like that Stuart Hastings. Hey Vince, what's your advice for enjoying painting as much as possible? How do you keep motivated after all this time? This is a question I get asked every so often And it's not something I'm going to be able to give you a convincing answer on because The answer is I'm addicted to it. Um You know why why Why do attics keep doing anything because they've rewired their brain chemistry To appreciate the thing. Yeah Um, yeah, I mean the answer is I can try to disassemble why I like it But my answer is probably I always have projects that I'm passionate about and I only paint what I want And I paint it to the level that I like to paint it with too And I like sharing it with people. I like being creative You know the key is to not get yourself beat down by army painting I think a lot of people would enjoy it more if they stopped worrying about getting an army done in the next two weeks And just started thinking about like what can I do with this piece that'll be fun? Um, always be challenging yourself with deliberate practice So whenever you pick up a miniature make it a learning opportunity If you're if you're challenging yourself and learning at the same time you're painting it will be more engaging And you'll have more fun doing it Um, you know share whatever you paint in various communities It's it's great to share and and engage with other people who are also in the you know painting stuff um Yeah, and and explore different scales different sizes Paint a one-off from an army. You're not going to play every so often You know just stuff like that because it lets me try new things Uh, you know, whether it's a new product or a new technique or or to push myself further on something You know the duchess that I just painted today. I really wanted to play with the reflective light On the sword. It was just sort of a big thing. I wanted to do And so that took a lot of work back and forth And I really liked how it came out. I thought it came out pretty cool. Um having that neat sort of Reflection of the red in the sword. I thought was fun as well as the reflection of the the hilt And you know that was a that was my thing that I was really excited to do on that miniature and it was challenging and stuff like that So I think that's a big part of it Uh, Joe, do you ever put a wash like citadel on Vallejo metal color? No Uh, I tried it and worried me that I could see little metal flakes start floating in the wash No, I do not I do not wash my metals ever. I do not believe you should ever wash metals ever Unless you're trying to make old rusty crusty metal in which case hey wash away and go nuts Um, I put I use inks and normal matte paints and I paint them in a sort of true metallic style Right now. I'll sometimes use an oil wash over Vallejo metal color Because I can wipe that away If you Saw metal floating in your wash, then you either put too much wash on you push too hard with your brush Or something you did to pull up the paint when you put wash on on paint It's not that you're like metals the metal color specifically weak. In fact, it's quite a durable paint because it's it's aluminum Uh, but the issue that you're running into is anytime you get acrylic paint super wet And you let it sit there if you touch it real hard with your brush you have the chance to pull flakes up But so there you go. There's my thoughts on that one Uh, Matthew Uh, hi Vince. Thanks for always putting out such amazing content. Oh, well, thank you very much. That's very nice I don't think that's the case, but I appreciate it My question is about highlighting blue. I play ultra marines and always struggle with painting them in the rich blue They're pictured in Uh, sure. I mean the key there is glazes So if you want to get that rich blue the key is always some final glazes of Of a good rich like ultra marine blue. I mean they're I don't know if they're named after the paint like if that's a joke someone had originally but certainly that's You know The I believe the main color they're meant to be based off of Um, but the key once you put in all your highlights and shadows is then to go back and glaze in some You know some of that blue is just a very thin controlled glaze over the whole thing And uh, and that'll bring the color back into line And make it feel more rich and saturated. Um, as a matter of fact, if you want to see that in in very Precise action, I know uh, one Hidalgo miniatures is in the chat right now and he has a great channel um, and you should go check him out because he um, he does a lot of that kind of painting like that sort of Uh, heavy metal style painting that's really great And if you watch how he does it and how he reincorporate saturation through glazes at the end You'll see exactly what I'm talking about So you could go watch like his most recent video which was on the shield night and the red the red non nmm and that That'll it's doing it with red, but he has some previous videos on blue as well Okay, uh, let's see, uh, Daniel, uh high vents. I started layering up with my paint mixed around 50 50 with diluted fw ink It's been a game changer for speed and spooniness. Thanks for the tips. Hey, absolutely Yeah, I mean it's Using ink to dilute your paints is such a wonderful thing, especially when you want to get it You get it it has all the flow and all the saturation and everything like that and and opacity Um, but still shows some of the under shade like it it creates this wonderful mixture and it's so much easier to paint with Uh, hello Dave, uh, michael anerson any advice for painters with shaky hands? Um, stabilize as much as you can that is to say don't like You're you're you're gonna tend to shake more the more free the rest of this is buy yourself a good square lap pillow you can go to like, um Like a joe ance fabrics or or a michael's or something like that and they'll have like places that do craft stuff And anywhere you can get these online too You can buy like the foam inserts to make pillows right because they they sell those big foam inserts For um for people who are doing, you know, little pillow crafting projects and crochet and stuff You can get a big square one or something like that put it in your lap So first make sure you're sitting so that your legs are at a right angle Right, so your chair should be at a height that your knees are at a right angle Then you're gonna have the foam pillow in your lap And you're gonna set your elbows on that You're gonna lock your wrists together And you're gonna paint like with the miniature holder here in your hand and your brush like this Right and everything is then supported and locked in place. It's the best I can say Um, I know that I think black magic crafted a video recently on dealing with shaky hands because he has one Or he has the that challenge I should say Uh, so you may want to check that out as well Uh, okay Tristan, uh, oh, I'm sorry. Hold on. There's a question. Daniel I've had problems locating Vallejo metal colors everywhere sold out and they can't seem to locate stock Well, then my my My unending crusade my zealotus mission to get this in everybody's hands is working. Uh, any tips on vendors Uh, yeah, I mean michigan toy soldier is a good one. You already mean you said that, um Gosh, uh competition minis might have it Uh, so you may want to give them a look that would be one. I don't know if you've checked yet But yes, any any of the bigger game stores Um are carry it. So I mean a lot of those big game stores have presents. Maybe like atomic empire Uh, they have an online presence. Maybe noble knight games those kinds of things you try all those all those stores that have a big online presence Uh, Tristan, I'm going to be building out a painting studio soon any recommendations for lighting or layouts One that's comfortable to you a good l desk will do you a lot I mean you've seen my video on on my setup, you know nail polish racks are all around me My light which is off here right now, but I'll move it in so you can all see it is like this It's a big architecture light that I can pull it over top of me And then I have other lights as well behind that the Behind there that kind of flood the area lots of light But yeah, I mean just find a comfortable l shape desk is my best advice because that gives you space to work Get as much off your desk and onto the walls as you can through like hobby cheating stuff or through um Through nail polish racks. I was thinking about the hobby cheating video. Yeah that kind of thing Uh, all right Patrick fisher um would pro-acryl bright warm gray be what you mean about incorporating Greens into the gray um kind of it has a little bit of a green tint to it But there's there's lots of grays out there that have it I mean literally you could just take some green paint some like deeper green paint Like a gunship green or something from Vallejo And mix that into mostly gray and that would work So, you know, you can you can make it yourself if you don't if you don't there's not one exactly like Uh, let's see, but yeah, right that they're they're bright warm gray or dark warm gray would both be great for a base color for that Uh withered moth on the note of using oils. Do you recommend anything other than q-tips? They fray easily fluffy bits all over my minis. Yeah, I don't use q-tips at all I know some people really are about that life. I'm not Uh, I am all about makeup sponges Little tiny makeup sponge Wedges you can buy makeup sponge wedges on amazon or other places or go to your beauty store And you can buy them in packs of hundreds for a few bucks They'll be like at the dollar store places like that target, you know, anywhere like that will sell these big bags And uh, those are they're very soft There because they're meant to wipe around People's eyes and on your skin in your face. So they're they're very soft and they don't leave fibers behind So absolutely all about it. That's that's my normal wipey Uh, let's see Okay, I'm getting behind you need to catch up here Uh, doran jr Uh, airbrushed armor is black, but they're all wearing pelts I would like to paintbrush wolf pelt to a brown off-white and worried I will be fighting it being too dark No, I mean I don't I don't think so airbrushed armor is black They're all right. I like to paintbrush the wolf pelt to a brown off-white No, just use a nice brown that has a good coverage Um, I think is what you're gonna do to set your base And there's there's plenty out there But you could you know, just pick any any decent strong brownie. You should be able to go over the the black without any kind of issue Uh, let's see Recently found out how awesome inks are any brand you recommend sure starting ink set Uh, just go buy yourself like the Vallejo game inks. They come in a nice set of eight. They're very cheap Beyond that, then you're gonna want to go to your dollar-roundy fw. Oh, that's actually one. Sorry Here we go your dollar-roundy fw inks if you can't get those something like the Vallejo Um artist inks are a good substitute depending on what's available in your area Um Yeah, those are those are the inks I use the most so there you go Uh days haven't I've got an idea for a bust that involves tears Tears tears cutting through the dirt and grime Oh, no it is tears. Okay Spell the same through the dirt and grime of soldier's face. I would also like To do old dried blood spatter on his face and face and cloth any tips Wow, uh stipple on something with actual texture like mix some pigment in and then Actually try to then while that's still drying take your a wet brush and just start dragging down from the eyes to create natural tear patterns Now as to like blood spatter, sure. I mean that's easy. You can you can do that in a lot of ways if you want it to be very natural I mean just get either like some blood for the blood god or some To me a you know clear red or whatever and you put it on like a little the tip of a brush and you can either then Flip it at it or you can take your airbrush and blow air at it and those will give you very natural patterns Uh frost form is metal color bronze the best for painting bronze in your experience Well, I wish there was a metal color bronze sadly There's only vallejo metal color only comes in copper and gold Bronze is just a really tough color to do with it um My best advice is you take just the copper and you brown it out through the addition of like an Umber ink and generally I found that to be pretty effective So I really wish they would expand their gold and copper range into a good bronze But sadly they have not Uh, let's see Benjamin. Uh, do you think many painting will eventually split off into more different branches? I know there's sort of different styles already, but nothing comparing to realism versus surrealism and traditional art Hmm I don't know It's hard to say um It's still a it's still a very young art form. Obviously, you know, um canvas painting goes back It's just that just forever and ever and ever centuries one centuries one centuries, right? Um Will it eventually split off? I mean, yeah, probably As people continue to push it, but I I'm not I'm not one for good predictions I I hope more people do more experimental stuff And and find styles of art that are compelling to them And if that necessitates a sort of movement that happens, sure, I I have no issue that I think it'd be cool Uh irrational. Hey Vince, I'm prepping a craft world army using a sea theme Sounds cool planning to airbrush my blue and green tones over a gray blue metallic base should I go with ink or contrast to breast preserve? luminosity Ah, that's a good question. Um, if you mean you want that metal shine. I mean the contrast paints will be Um, will dull it more than if you use a sort of glossy ink like a like an fw or the scale inks or whatever The scale inks are super glossy. They'll really preserve it. You could also use the tomia clears Those would also preserve the glossiness of it That might honestly be your best bet. You might want to go look at getting some of the tomia clears Um, those are super glossy super transparent really high quality through the airbrush um, but that being said You know, if you don't have that if you already have like the fw inks, those are a great Pull and probably what I would use Uh, assuming you want to preserve the preserve the metal shine If you're more interested in just having like a soft shine, then I would use contrast as it'll be a little more matte Okay Let's see. Josh. Hey Vince. How do I sell a nergal green slime effect? Nergal's rot technical paint isn't doing it for me and I also need more than tiny gw pot if I'm basic in army Yeah, sure. So, I mean, I I like nergal's rot as a sort of finishing thing or as a as a Extra element to it, but if you're talking about making pools of slime Then you use some kind of just resin water mixture Uh, and you you mix in inks into that like deep green and yellow green inks into that and you do it in kind of layers So you can just do like a pour of a of a dark green And then mix in some yellow green and do a little pour over top of that And when I say pour I mean it can be very small if we're talking about bases You might just be taking a pipette and like putting a couple drops on in that place Let it dry come back put a couple more drops on over top of it. Let it dry Um, and then you can go in with the nergal's rot and put a little bit on the top Just as kind of like a little bit of gathered goop On there, but yeah, the key is like everything else. It's contrast It's the same thing if you if you watch my how to paint realistic blood splatter video I don't just use blood for the blood god Right. I use a bunch of different colors of paints and then blood for the blood god as the finisher So the key is there you still have to preserve that contrast It's the same thing with rot and goop You have to use different colors to create a contrast and then the nergal's rot can be kind of a glossy finisher Uh Well, Jack, when can we expect the next undesigned episode? I don't know. We'll probably do season three sometime We got we got kind of through the end of where we wanted to go with season two and I'm sure Probably next year we'll do a season three. So there you go Uh, Alex, hi Vince. Can you recommend any good baby pink paints? Oh baby pink Sure. I mean just good old Vallejo model color has a nice baby pink. I assume that's what you're meaning Um, they're just straight pink. It's pretty baby pink um AK interactive makes a nice baby pink um Scale 75's fluorescent Uh, FX pink is a nice baby pink I'm just looking around my wall. Uh war colors in their 88 line. I have to stand up to get this one But it's a really good one War colors in their their nostalgia 88 line, which I do love this line. This is a really great line of paint by the by um this they make a Situating pink which I believe is supposed to match like some kind of a original color from their their range Yeah, these are great. And this is that's I mean that is Super baby pink. So Um, that's a great range. I gave I gave it a review a while back I've honestly like it's in the pots because ha ha that's what they were all in then which I you know I hate pots, but paint wise. I do love the paints Uh, okay Great. Let's see moving through uh Okay, uh Soc addict. I see lots of advice saying don't use metallics on wet palettes I've not had any problems. Is there a good reason not to do it? Yeah water breaks down metallics Um acrylic binder is really important in metallics because the metallic pigments have to be spread really evenly And if they're not you will not get a metallic effect. It's not like matte paint Um, it it's it's just a different effect because of the opacity of the pigment itself And generally the size of the pigments because they're larger So, um, wet palettes introduce too much extra liquid to your to your metal paints and breaks them up and they have a less convincing shine The reason if you look at my stuff that it that it looks like like my things reflect pure white Okay, the things I paint and that's one because of Vallejo metal colors and two because I don't I don't thin them down at all, right Um, so there you go And in general it just it can also soak into your sponge and stuff like that I don't know how much getting metallic flakes into your into your wet palettes actually a thing But I know that I don't want it on there making it gross because it's going to be a mess to clean up if it does if it does If you I mean you've seen in my videos that I've had paint run off the end of Run off the edge of my piece of paper. I did to my sponge and that's hard enough to clean I certainly don't want to try to be scrubbing metal pigment out of it Uh, rummy bum. Hey vents. I'm going to paint my castwares in a brown iron type of color Using Vallejo metal colors have any tips for large amount of metallic armor look interesting Yeah, sure I mean start with like a burnt iron Add in a little brown ink and and you know create the contrast up into a pale burnt metal You know again, it should still reflect even if it's brown And uh, you know do a couple final glazes of like a sepia colored ink over the whole thing Or most of it at least let's call it 80. Don't hit the highest highlight or something like that. That's what I would say Uh, okay Oh, very cool. Tristan has some advice for the sculpting Beatles. That's cool. Uh one Why am I so popular? I don't think I am man. Have you seen what other people pull down on subs? I'm pretty sure they're more popular, but that's okay I'm glad I'm I'm very happy for for where the channel's at and I'm so grateful to everybody who's watching and Who watches the videos and thinks they're good and and stuff like that, but uh, I definitely don't think I'm popular But that's okay. Believe me. My wife keeps me in line and reminds me that I am an idiot quite often. So there you go Uh, Benjamin. Oh, okay. You're just answering the parchment paper question on the wet palette Uh kind of stuff. All right days Um, second question for you Vince. How do you go about making cold human skin tone? I have difficulty adding blue and green to a skin without it turning gray and gross So the key with cold skin tone like It depends what you mean if you mean somebody who's actually blue Right, like like a blue person like a frost giant or something Um, then the key is to actually just work in blues and have your your Uh, if you're if you're one two three four five one being the highest highlight five being the low light Your one and two should be traditional Sort of maybe Caucasian flesh tones or whatever you're going for there And your three four five should be blues into like a deep purple at the end to introduce warm shadows and cold highlights Now if we're talking about making somebody look cold, I have a video on painting pale flesh and that's more or less the same thing Um, because flesh will get very pale. It'll get very pink. Um, so you don't actually want to work in much in the way of blues Um, the key is to just add a little tiny amount of it in It's like with blue and flesh tone you have to be so so so minimal The other key is you want to get your shadows warm in the same way as I just mentioned with blue skin tone cold highlights warm shadows so Hopefully that helps I I want to I'll probably do a fully focused like cold skin tone video at some point in the future Uh, Dave, thank you so much for your autumnal base vid really helpful for my necrons going for an overgrown theme with war paint from the tribes you thought they were Statues, have you any weathering advice on the statues? I mean, I have lots of weathering advice I'd say go watch any of my videos on weathering probably more than I could say here, but I mean pigments and you know oil paints for streaking and and uh, and Grime and things like that is what I tend to do lots of stippling Be random break up your your brain's desire to have everything be Ordered and just use a lot of stippling and random patterning and stuff like that Uh, okay, northern cross. Hello, Vince two questions are crown caps more suitable for detailed work over closed cap crown caps more suitable for detailed work Oh, you're talking about okay. Yeah on your airbrush. Sorry took me a minute to get my head into into exactly what you were asking there um My dogs have decided to come down because my wife is here. Yes Uh Okay, that's enough She's over there. I am online right now Okay Um at any rate, uh, no, I don't like the so the crown. Let's let's get to what you mean So the crown caps are things that have like your airbrush board has a tip like this okay Where there's it's not all closed I despise all crown caps because they're very hard to cap and backfill And it's like a standard part of my process So I've never noticed any real difference in the performance of the airbrush in any way because I do have airbrushes in different caps I've never noticed a difference in the performance of them because of that uh, so I I always like just a standard full cap that I can put my finger up against and go Now the something like the Iwata Highline, which has an angled cap. It's more trapezoidal in shape That's actually my preferred shape. Yes, it's going to trap more paint inside in the long run and you have to clean it a little more But it's it's The way it directs the air will generally keep your your paint flowing smoother Okay, okay, I'm glad um all right Uh, Nigel, I know you like to use varnishes a lot, but do you varnish metal color? No Easy answer. Nope. I never varnish metallic paint ever I paint everything matt then I varnish the model then I paint my metallics Uh, let's see tim high vince not really a hobby related question and my apologies This is something you prefer to talk about but is there a reason why you don't have a patreon amazon affiliate links, etc Um, yeah, sure. It's just this isn't uh my job I might do an amazon affiliate link at some point in the future It's laziness more than anything else. I suppose like I have a job. I enjoy my job I like what I do for a living. I do this because I really enjoy teaching and sharing stuff and and Hanging out with all of you. I mean, that's my motivation. So I'm not really trying to make money off it I definitely don't want to have a patreon right now Like if I ever decide to make this my full-time job, then I'll have a patreon But I would never put content behind a paywall ever So if you ever see me announce a patreon in the future, it's not going to be Hey, there's going to be content behind a patreon. That will never happen Zero content I produce will ever be behind any kind of paywall ever from now until the end of time Okay It's my solemn promise if I introduce a patreon It will do because I'll be doing a bunch of private coaching and that'll just be the way I facilitate it Because I would love to just teach people how to miniature paint. That's the thing that would draw me in um So I mean I would do it just so I could have Private one-on-one coaching with people every week and I'd schedule hours and hours and hours of it Because I really love teaching people how to paint. I think it's super fun So that would be what I would do if I ever went that direction in the future But I like I said, I really love my job. So I like what I do for a living I like the people I work with so I'm lucky I work for a good company and work with good people. So Hashtag blessed, you know, I don't know like it's just it's not the kind of thing I'm wanting to step away from Okay Let's see Yep, cool. So yep mentioning the black magic craft shaky hands video. Cool Uh Will I do a 50k special? No, I don't I don't like I don't tend to celebrate milestones like that Whatever, well, we'll hit 50,000. Hopefully pretty soon for subs and that's great But no, I probably won't won't do anything special. Um, I You know, everybody who's who's who's subbed I value everyone equally I value, you know, 37,276 as much as I value 50,000 So, um, everybody and everybody who's here. I'm grateful they're here Uh, uh avian hi Vince. Thanks for the q&a question regarding scale 75 Picked up a couple of sets and loving them for glazing and wet blending, but really struggling with base coats any advice Yeah, I mean the gel based paints like that are tough to base coat with my biggest advice is don't base coat with them I mean, that sounds really flippant, but uh, I went to the doctor. I said doctor it hurts when I go like this He said don't go like that You know scale for me or more about Uh wet blending and creating contrast and stuff like that. I tend to base coat with an airbrush or with Um, something that has more covering power. Um, so pro acryl or Vallejo model color or ak interactives new line their third gen acrylics, you know anything like that um, and if I need to uh, if I'm trying to get a strong base coat like There's a there's a sort of or chimeric colors another another really great one Like there's just sort of a set of paints I have in my head that I that I know like this is when I need to really set a strong color. This is what I use so That's my answer Not the best answer. I know kind of a flippant answer, but it really is like sometimes The answer is use the tools for what they're good at, right? Like I'm trying to screw a screw into a wall and it's not working with my hammer. Well, I've identified the problem, right? um Okay, uh, right There we go, uh, michael if you are painting for gaming anyone complaining about your abilities Are people you do not want to game with? Yeah, there you go. That's it's a good answer back Am I talking about painting for gaming? Yes, okay uh, let's see Thoughts on airbrushing the liquid gold copper seems like a speedy way to oh the alcohol based paint. Yeah, you can do it um, you got to be like Fast because that stuff dries like that. Um, so yeah, it can airbrush You just want to be careful with it through your airbrush because it will dry and coat the inside of your airbrush And then you got to get in there and scrub the thing with alcohol um, but yeah, it's it's a great way like if if you're doing um Like custodias or something I would absolutely probably get out the something like the liquid gold Um, just be and put it through the airbrush because it will produce such a perfect sheen Right now in general if I'm airbrushing I much prefer Vallejo metal color because it's a standard acrylic paint and just 100 times easier to work with uh, let's see Uh keys uh vins other than making extremely thin glazes filters. Are there any other situations where? Using a glaze medium to paint ink is preferable over water Uh, I mean just when you're needing to I mean yes all the time, but keep mine Paint thinness is the name of the game. That's it. Like that is actually the whole thing Okay, all of miniature painting is just being able to properly control and apply the consistency of your paint That's it. It's that in brush control Those two things are everything. That's the whole shooting match So, you know, if you find something like glaze medium helps you control the thinness of your paint depending on the paint you're working with Um, then it can be a useful tool anytime even if you're just trying to get some layers going Right, you're just again like I reference my understanding Paint thinness video that I did recently because that really kind of breaks it down I mean glazing is a huge part of everything that gets painted That doesn't always mean just I'm glazing the whole miniature It can just be like a final step because I'm repeating everything I do many times So sure, but then again, you don't have to use that stuff Um, you know, you look at somebody like Trent Denison who uses like his joe sonia magic mix Uh, almost everything he paints whether he's doing layers or whether he's doing thin glazes He just how much of it he uses right But it's sort of his mix because it has a little bit of retarder a little bit of flow improver a little bit of medium So it's just kind of a nice mix of everything uh, right Decimation what's a good brand of toaster? That's a good question. I don't know. I have a toaster that I got for my wedding More than 17 years ago, and it's the toaster that I've used whenever I make toast for 17 years So that one seems pretty good. Whatever brand that is the the one I got at my wedding brand So thank you to whoever gave me that toaster very useful thing A lot more use out of that than the gravy boat uh, all right Uh TD mcdonald, what are your thoughts on making a desaturated palette work on minis can value contrast alone Do enough work to make minis readable pop from a distance? Yeah, sure, absolutely You can use a completely desaturated palette. There's lots of miniatures out there that will do that It's not my favorite way to paint obviously. I love bright insane punch you in the face colors But yeah, sure absolutely that you can you can you can do all desaturated You have to rely a lot as you said on on contrast of value But if you're kind of pushing that to its its limits and your color balance amongst the desaturated tones is still Graving like you have to focus a lot more on the other things like composition and value contrast, but yeah, sure I can have it Dave the barbarian what airbrush compressor would you recommend for a beginner? I would recommend you go by like the master airbrush compressor set Airbrush and compressor little bundle set for between 80 and 100 dollars depending on when what bundle is available When because it's all just repackaged stuff And it comes with everything you need to get airbrushing Because you when you start you will break your airbrush and that airbrush that g 22 or g 23 or whatever happens to come with There can literally be replaced for 20 to 30 dollars So it is a very cheap investment when you can get an airbrush cheaper than most miniature kits You're not going to care if you break it and you will you'll gum it up. You'll screw it up You'll do something wrong. You'll bend a tip. It'll happen nothing wrong with it. We all do it It's the same reason. I don't give a sick you or I wouldn't give I don't give anything I don't have any kids, but it's the same reason. I didn't get in you know When I went out and bought my car when I turned 16. I didn't go buy a nice car I bought an old crappy car because I knew I didn't know how to drive and would probably beat it up So there you go Um, so yeah, that's that's just look up master airbrush uh Kit on on amazon and you'll you'll find the thing and then once you get a few months in and you've You know kind of learned the ropes then you make a little investment into something decent again Please do not go to like the top of the line and spend 400 dollars on an airbrush for your second airbrush Go buy like an iwata hpcs beautiful workhorse airbrush Fantastic still my workhorse airbrush was my first airbrush still one of my all-time faves not what I use all the time but a great brush Uh, should I avoid zenithal highlighting models and they're also going to get metallic paint? No, unless they're all metallic So like I don't zenithal the skeleton frames of imperial knights for example because that's an all metallic thing If they're just going to have some metallic on them Then no, I absolutely still zenithal them because I want that for all the matte areas and to understand the volumes and It's a roadmap as much as it's anything else Uh, hi vince ever painted a blood bowl team. I have not I have not I keep wanting to get the scaven blood bowl team And because I want to expand some of my like eshen stuff for my scaven But I just never get around to it. I mean if I paint one it's going to be that one. I'll tell you right now um Vince our all artist inks pretty much identical. Can you substitute one brand for another without issues? um For the most ish part there is some difference in reactivation there Especially amongst some of the colors. So you do have to be a little careful um But for the most part if we're talking about the vallejo artist inks the liquitex artist inks and or the Dalla rowney artist inks. Yes, as long as they're the artist inks Excuse me. They're all pretty similar So if if you can get one of those in your area You can use them You just may find depending on how wet you're getting your your later layers of paint You could reactivate them. So you might need a varnish in between something like that Uh Vince have you ever used the dr. Faust inks? I oh, uh, I talk about dr. ph martin's inks Is that what you mean emily? If so, do you find any particular differences between that and ford roller or f ford rolled? That's your diary the fw or vallejo? Um, yeah, I've used the dr. ph martin stuff a few times. I don't like him as much They don't seem to have the same Quality and they have some reactivation issues So that would be my feedback, but other people might have different opinions But that's been my experience with the few I've tried. I'll openly admit. I have not used the entire range Uh Oh nice, uh, whether moth says I find adding purple ink to the gold makes a nice bronze copper color. Cool Good good shout out. I like that. I will openly admit. I have not put some purple ink in that I'll give that a shot and see what it looks like See always fun Uh Okay Oh, there you go for bronze with a vallejo metal color try mixing gold into jet exhaust Yeah, I want to play around with taking some of the Silver colors and mixing in brown inks to see if I can get a good bronze Um, that's I'm gonna play around with that actually in a future video Just to like let's make some bronze right and and actually have a fun time playing with inks And those kind of things to make unusual colored metallics will be a fun. That'll be a fun video at some point Uh Oh, I heard you say thinning with inks was in a recent hobby cheating or is that in the inks glazes videos It's probably sprinkled through many videos. I couldn't tell you. I do it quite often So I'm like it's in the painting sharp lines video and it's yeah I mean it shows up pretty often because it's a pretty normal way I paint Uh work fiend mentions uhu glue plus tesseract glow is a great method for slime. Nice. Yeah, absolutely Uhu glue is your is your go-to what he's referencing there is this stuff Uh, uhu uhu For this is this is your slime maker your slime maker your spit maker your blood Uh strand maker any of that kind of stuff you want that you got to get that uhu Uh irrational vince many thanks. Uh, your supposition is correct. I made me here because you're the shine. Cool. There you go. Okay, awesome Uh, hey vince just wondering any tips for making blood effects. I've used uhu glue But I'm interested in a free falling globule kind of effect that doesn't connect to other areas if you give me Oh, I do I do get you and I do have an answer That's right here beside me So this Is how you do it This will be a video at some point. Okay, so this is a long thin plastic String like you can buy Bunches of thin little wire from craft stores like thin little plastic wire. That's how thin it is You can also just take it off of like the tags that come on your clothes You know, they have that little plastic thing on it you use that And then you can do it in a couple different ways So you can then touch some some Super glue to it Kind of run it down and let it Uh build up into bubbles and then once you have little tiny bubbles You just touch those with gloss varnish And you let it dry and you'll build a nice little strand of little blood drops Now I built I built a whole bunch here because these are meant to be cut like you don't use all this You make one big strand and then you can cut it right and then you just paint it red Uh, yeah great for doing when you make them in a neutral color you can blood over them You can goop over them. You can do all that and then you can have a little free free flowing strands Uh, let's see Follow up to my earlier question about metallics and wet palettes. Does that include the lejo metal color in scale 75? Yes, I don't put anything on a wet palette. Never no metallics go on wet palettes. Never ever ever ever Uh, I don't even touch my brush to a wet palette if it has metallics anywhere in the brush Um question. How would you paint true metallic metal black metal? The key is a very small volume I would start with a dark vilejo metal color like magnesium Uh, or something like that or gunmetal gray and I would It's the same way I would paint. It's the same way you look at my if you watch my non-metallic black video I would use the exact same technique. I would I would just be laying down those glazes of black or blue black or brown black Over and pulling down over the existing metal. That's exactly how I would do it It's actually a pretty Fast thing to do because you're just sort of applying one thing and then creating all shadow and letting the little bit of reflection act as your highlight Would you recommend a place to mail or paints even one tube at a time? Um Yeah, michigan toy soldier I mean is the place to be uh, or michigan toy soldier or competition minis both have a great selection And I like both of them. They're both run by great people who have wonderful shops and are just generally Very helpful and have great customer service So those would be my two recommendations and I've oftentimes ordered just like a couple bottles of paint from them uh all right Uh brandon hey vince I picked up the Reaper vex to get into airbrushing. Oh cool. Aaron's new airbrush Yeah, any tips for airbrushing with war colors layer paints. I also airbrushing tips in general would be great Um, yes, I have a video. I have a hobby cheating called airbrushing with war colors So go watch that. Um, I would recommend that highly that'll that'll get you started on the basics And then I also have several uh other videos would be like watch the how to the most recent video on cleaning your airbrush fast um That's probably a good one to watch and then watch like the zenithal highlighting and glazing video which I do with an airbrush Which is like hobby cheating 75 or something. It was pretty early Those three will get you on the right road Uh shadow hey vince nice to catch you live. Have you ever tried soft pastels for me? um, I recently saw Daisy saw his painting horses with it and I was blown away Never tried it soft pastels I'll make a note of that and give it a try at some point. I I've crushed up pastels for pigment I've never uh, I've never Tried at that and actually that way. Yes, there was a dog fight in the background They like to play with each other when they come down here um Yeah, I do need my own pachow. Definitely. I need some way I wish there was during when doing it live There was a way to just like grab links and share them out besides me literally going and copying it and posting it in the chat or something uh Oh, somebody asked what's my day job? Uh, I'm a product manager for Uh, a company so I I create I make software. I make insurance software Which sounds very boring, but I enjoy it Uh Lost my place There you go. Okay. This has always struck me as a side hobby aside from any worry And I can't think of anyone who can get away with doing this for a full-time job. Oh, there's many people who do do this Is a full-time job Lots of the most of the big Like hobby youtubers do this as their full-time job Um, so like miniac would just be an easy example I mean he has a very successful channel and that this is this is his full-time job. This is what he does Um, which is why his videos are really high quality and really well produced. I mean he does he does awesome work Uh, are you going to continue to work with oils? Yes. Can we expect more videos of oil painting projects? Yes easy answers Uh, hey, vince. Do you ever use chipping fluids like a k or ammo mig? Um, yeah, I don't like volatiles I think there's this crap, but but yes, I've used chipping mediums before and I like them I have a video on using chipping medium That and salt salt weathering. I like both those things. I don't do it very often I kind of tend to prefer to paint it more But yeah, there's nothing wrong with it. I don't find myself with the need to do it very often is what I'll say But I do have a video on it Uh, wondering when you refer to painting over static terrain bits, etc. Does that include tough static grass? Yes, and um, I mean with the tufts I I force wash into them and dry brush over the little tufts with static grass I will tend to airbrush Color changes and stuff like that into it just to create some subtle variation So there you go. You can also just take some wash fill it in ice big brush and just kind of touch it to the grass Let it flow out there and then pick your brush up. So you just touch touch pick your brush up touch pick your brush up Uh Twilight uh hyvins love your stuff. Have you considered adopting? Oh, okay Uh Yeah, that's uh, that's there was a I answered that question previously I mean my camera is pretty nice. I don't know if it's probably me using it wrong more than anything I mean, I don't think this is my camera Okay, so this is like a canon eos rebel t7. I this is what I normally shoot on So it's you know, I mean it can do pretty high quality stuff But I'm sure I'm just using it bad because I don't I'm bad at technology because I am an old person um Uh any suggestions on first timer, uh zenithal priming for a warm gray first Suggestion on first timer zenithal priming for a warm gray final color Uh, oh sure Um, yeah, I mean just go up to like any if you're looking for specific paints I can't help you there, but something like the the um The what would the aforementioned bright warm gray and dark warm gray from pro acryl would actually be really great for that Um, because then you could just a couple little glazes over the top smooth everything and get some get some volume in there and you're good to go Uh, best way to practice getting paint consistency right as a beginner um Paint a lot with deliberately trying to practice that like force yourself to do it Just repeatedly paint on picket. You're working on a squad. I am going to glaze on this Uh miniature Right and so just do that and do that on all 10 models force yourself to do it a lot You know, like one of the reasons I always paint eyes on every mini I ever paint is because it's forced practice And like now I've gotten to the point where eyes don't bother me anymore because I've painted Thousands of eyes on all the minis I've done, right? So like the key is you just keep doing it and make that a part of your deliberate practice Um, the real key with your paint consistency by the way Beatrice for a beginner is wicking the paint off So my I keep a paper towel next to me at all points in time and this is what they look like when they're done This is one from a recent project Okay Because I'm constantly taking my brush I'm taking my brush I'm putting it in the paint getting the like thinning it down and getting it to the thin as I want And then I'm touching it over here to the paper towel multiple times to get all that excess liquid out Because you don't want it to be you don't want too much liquid. That's what that's what's going to kill you more than anything Uh, all right Uh, the withered moth question more of a community-based question. Are we going to see you feature on trapped under plastic? Uh, no, we didn't record an episode when we were out there Um, we didn't record much of anything. I think maybe sam shot a little footage Um, you know, I mean we just hung out. Um We weren't really interested in in sort of doing content the whole kind of point of the weekend was to Was to just chill out So I I mean I would love to go back at some point in time And I'm going to try to have all of them here at some point in time in the future We'll see how that works out. Um once people can sort of get on airplanes again and um Yeah, I mean I Eventually sure anything's possible. I would certainly go on an episode It would be but they the two of them have a wonderful dynamic together. I don't know that they need me and they're screwing it up um Like yeah, just uh, john and scott are both really funny when they're together um Okay, uh, I never used ak interactive acrylics yet. So what paint brand would you say they are most similar to? Uh valet home model color. They're pretty similar um a little bit Maybe more pigment intense, but they're that's a very similar thing Uh, let's see was planning on getting the infinity c plus cp plus airbrush But my first airbrush sounds like that's a bad idea if I Yeah, exactly like I would not get something that nice as your first airbrush. No, no, no, no No, no, no, no, no. Would you give a 16 year old a new bmw? No, they're gonna mess that up. So No, get it if it's your first airbrush just get something cheap Okay, get something cheap you can break and throw in the trash And that is what it is. Like that's that's the right answer Then eventually if you're comfortable and you want to spend some money sure go ahead. They're really nice airbrushes Uh, greaty. Vince, how would you handle freehand and or transfers over oils new to oils? I'm planning to paint the first oil coat varnish freehand then do touch-ups highlights I would do it exactly like what you just said I mean if you go watch my crimson fist video You'll see I use a ton of oils and then go into freehand and back and forth So watch that crimson fist video and that's exactly what I would do because that's what I did Uh, okay, let's see Uh Justin Smith, I have 3d printers and patreon subs. You really you're really excited about painting But struggling to get through sets not finishing since I'm getting discouraged with results focusing on one model at a time better Can be depending where you're at or or just to I mean part of it is just making sure you set your expectations accordingly I've spent 15 000 hours in the past Seven years painting Okay, how many hours have you spent? like And that's by the way, my number isn't that big go look at somebody like james waple. He's probably spent 50 000 hours 60 000 hours painted over the past 20 years 25 years and you know, so like Like there there's just a You know, there's a scale here, right? You've got to set your expectations accordingly like proper expectations are important So like when you're starting don't don't look at stuff that's on the box art or on that and think that's what you're trying to get at That takes time and that will happen. You'll get there The key is deliberate practice of individual things. Don't try to Get to like some whole perfect project get to one thing you like All right, like I'm going to work on making This robe have some nice Contrast great do that, right? And if you fail, that's okay. Look at it and figure out where it didn't work And if it if it did work, then you're good to go Right and you've learned something or focused on just paint cleanliness or something like that, right? Um, but yep when you're you can work on one model or five models of ten models the key is that deliberate practice Uh, chuck and dub. Let's see. Um Your creativity is inspiring. Well, thank you very much. That's very nice Listening while painting dwarves a great brown wash using liquitex burnt umber pro acryltransparent brown and very thick coffee for my french press nice Uh Derego, um Fishing line for the blood droplets. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's another great example. Thank you Yes fishing line. Perfect. Yes That's that's not what that is. I think I just found a long plastic string from a tag or something But yeah, that would work great Um, I'm trying to get the classics the classic gray drow flesh, but it keeps looking like dead gray flesh How would you make drow flesh? It's actually kind of a common question. It's been on my list to to paint forever just forever um, but I I I just never found an excuse to do it Um, the the the key is to add in purples and and reds into the deep black shadows and to add in very light soft blues into the highlights Like they need to have cold highlights because they're generally drawn underground and they need to have warm shadows So like the integration of color is the answer just like with all flesh tone Uh, just in any suggestions on a plan on building the skills to paint more often Sit down every day and make it part of your daily schedule. Um clear out other things other decision making You that you you do like don't waste time. Don't play video games. Don't You know Don't just sit there in front of the television or whatever like don't surf social media and read facebook for three hours every day like clear out the non value ads of your life And say i'm going to spend 15 minutes or 30 minutes or an hour painting Keep everything on your desk ready to paint use a wet palette. So your paint's out and ready You just take the lid off and you go. Um, keep your brushes handy your water cup handy Your wife you pay for towel handy keep everything in hand So there is zero like when I want to paint I literally sit down in this chair and 10 seconds later I can be painting that's it clear out everything that's a barrier to entry Right, and then you make the most of your time Uh, let's see Uh Paul havens, how do you make rivets for sci-fi train bases? I used to slice thin styrene rods, but the end result doesn't look that great bit too thick Yeah, there's many ways. So here's a couple you can do that Like you said with thin styrene depends on the size of the bolts you're going for you can roll out really really really thin snakes of green stuff like really thin it out like You know keep doing the roll and spread trick So you roll and then you spread your fingers and you roll and then you spread your fingers and you roll and then you Spread your fingers and you do that until you get like really little beady thin snakes You let it dry and you just come in with your hobby knife and Slice those really thin Uh, also if you want you can take something like if you're trying to just do like small rivets You can take something like your perfect putty And then you take like a round shapey tool like that You make a little thing of your putty you dip the round shapey tool in and you just go dot Dot dot redip in this redip in the putty dot dot dot redip in the putty dot dot dot so on And that'll work That's how I did the rivets on the decking of my big ironclad that I made Because you can make your really really really small dots Uh, john j I want to do a lush red wizards cloak flowing rolling rolling style cloak models Skin color i'm looking for is like that of jason memoa. Okay Are you looking for like a skin color recipe or are you looking for the red cloak the key with the red is to it is to You know integrate like just a lot of white undercoating and then take a nice bright red over that and lots of like lots of intense red glazes um As to the As to like jason memoa's skin tone That's the addition of like some sepia or raw umber into your into like your um Your more neutral caucasian flesh tones And that'll give you that really nice tan effect at the same time you want to be integrating your standard Red still and stuff like that. So yeah, how about that? Hopefully that helps Uh hunter hey vince, what would you recommend for sculpting green stuffing? I haven't tried it out yet and wonder where I should start like I said I mentioned this earlier, but you might have been here yet. I'm I'm not a sculptor but So there's lots of good channels that that are um travarian has a lot of stuff about it moroc wolf m a r r ok space wolf has some great green stuffing videos but start simple with things like um purity seals or feathers or Blood droplets or whatever just little start with little simple things And get the basic shapes down of you know, you want to be able to master like the drop and the snake And once you get those two shapes down you can you can do a lot from the drop in the snake And uh, but yeah, go check out those channels I have I have a video on basic green stuffing techniques where I kind of walk through the drop in the snake and stuff like that So you could always check that out As to whether or not you have to use actual green stuff. No, you could use like green stuff gray stuff brown stuff There's a whole bunch of things and they're all fine How many fully painted armies do you have? 16 sounds right. I think that's my running number to either 16 or 17. So let's something like that Um, I mean, I've been in the hobby for 23 years. So I hope I've accomplished something Uh Yes Yes, Mikey, that's what I'm doing. So the flock the flock's dyed colors like a base color and you're just adding highlights and shades Yes, correct Let's see chris robinson Hello, vince. I'm looking to get into airbrushing. Do they go on sale or the price is fairly static? Honestly, they're fairly static now One notable exception Once a year badger airbrush on ken's birthday He's not one of the company He does a deal where he has a bunch of different airbrushes you can buy For however old he is in dollars. So he's in his fifties now So it's probably like 55 or 56 bucks or something like that And you can you can and and you can order Many of the airbrushes in their line for that price It's a great deal It will take a while because they get so many orders So like it will take about six months after your order probably to get your three to six months at least to get your airbrush That being said, you know, again, if you want to just get a simple starter airbrush that master kit I recommend it comes with the compressor the tubes everything else you need Which is really important when you start out Uh for like 80 to 100 dollars. So there you go. But for the most part the rest are pretty static Uh David, uh, when are you going to sell your wicking paper? Oh, I did that it got auctioned off So it did somebody did win that I don't remember who but yeah, somebody somebody did win my a year of wasted paint art piece So that was super cool. The uh nova open charitable foundation was was Really nice. I wanted to do something or you know a big art piece like that And they said they'd be happy to auction it off for charity. So that was cool Uh, let's see Okay We're about like an hour and 15 in so i'm going to go into a little more Hurry up mode here. So if you've got some final questions drop them in now And uh, and and as I move through in a little more lightning round Uh, let's see Remus any good advice on the cloaks for the new war cry shadow elf cloaks Um integrate blue and purple into it lots of wet blending or oil paints are going to make that a really simple easy task Same with your airbrush. That's another good easy way to go with it But you know the integration of colors into the black is going to be what you're going to want to do to make those pop Um wacky wookie. I'm starting a bust and I want to I want a bluish Moon source of lighting. How would you do that in the skin? And a beige jacket without making them look blue you use glacier blue as your highlight or ice blue It's this color right here. This is your final highlight color. Then you integrate this into your tones um From your from your mid tone up that some of that paint gets integrated That's how you make cold highlights in the same way that you can make warm highlights by using You know more neutral Caucasian flesh tones and other paint colors or icy yellow or something like that So there you go. Uh, why do you undercoat? Zenithal highlight with the lejo pens are gray instead of black because black is too dark It ends up having a lot of other negative externalities. It's actually made from mostly blue um I don't actually want true black on the manager as a shadow shadows aren't dead black It's a slightly lighter color and it's easier to move around while still providing a realistic shadow Um, Stephen I was dipping the makeup sponges into mineral spirits to remove the excess of oil paints from some minis And they would start to disintegrate within a minute or so Um, I don't put white spirits Into them. I just I just dry wipe if I need to use white spirits. I'll use Either a very small soft piece of cloth Like use something that's normally get an extra piece of cloth that's normally used for cleaning Eye lenses you can get again just big packs. These were a couple bucks like for glasses And uh, those I I dip in white spirits if I and then wipe them mostly off if I need to use white spirits But most time you really don't need to use white spirits to clean up. That's that's almost going to be usually too aggressive Uh, centered miniature painting haven't how's it going? That's going well Going well, uh, what's your go-to for orc? For orc shadow on green skin tone whole red That is my go-to shadow Um, I love the the look of a deep whole red as an as an orc skin shadow Uh Let's see Oh, yeah, john ashley smith mentioning that there are also scale nuts and rivets produced from model railroading Yep, good call. Absolutely always go to the scale modeling folks there They've they've got everything you need the number of like tools and insane things. They ever crazy It's great. If you've got a good hobby shop that has really like a huge focus on scale modeling You can just lose yourself in there Um moss works hobby What's the main difference for use of green stuff brown stuff? I think there's one other gray stuff none just different colors of epoxy putty because green stuff's more of just a specific thing They all more or less are going to be the same Now some of them are slightly more malleable Some of them have slightly longer drying time or shorter drying time or dry a little harder Or have a little more give or a little easier carve or sand or whatever But you know for the most part to be starting out. They're all going to be equivalent Uh, let's see Fluorescent paints from vallejo have a pretty gloss finish any way to combat that Um, I mean use a different fluorescent paint would be my answer I don't really love the layhouse fluorescent paints my go-to's are war colors and scale 75s, which are very matte That being said you can either over the top or Mixing in a tiny amount of ak interactive ultra matte varnish It's always the answer ak interactive ultra matte varnish is the most matte thing in the world And despite how dumb that company was recently with their stupid thing. They still make a good product there. So there you go Let's see Gare hey ventz just want to say thank you so much for everything you do. It's invaluable to newcomers like myself Oh, well, that's wonderful to hear. Well, thank you very much. I'm always glad to help Uh Yep, there you go. Stephen talking about the airbrush sale. So there you go Um quick. What would you tell someone who is getting into aos from 40k advice on starting your first aos army? Uh, yeah, look around depending what the army is look at maybe secondhand stuff Figure out a paint scheme you want to do start small build in we kind of did a whole show about it this week So I would say go watch that show because we talked about starting an army Um, but look at the start collecting boxes and find if there's a start collecting box that that fits what you want That's usually the good way to start because it's not too much stuff And it'll give you a nice good base to work from and let you develop paint schemes and things like that Hey ventz just look through the how-to videos. Maybe I'm blind, but I don't see an airbrushing with warcolors You could only find airbrushing with pro krill Uh, oh, I thought I did an airbrushing with warcolors. Maybe I didn't Uh, I apologize if I didn't if I'm if I'm mistaken I I will openly admit I don't always keep all my videos straight So I'll just say it this way the key with airbrushing with warcolors is to mix at least one to one at minimum With your thinner and flow improver mix So I use a standard 80 20 mix of the lejo thinner to flow improver both the lejo Mix one to one make sure you get them well mixed up You need to break up the gel medium and then they'll airbrush like a dream. So there's the answer Uh, james, I have an Iwata ninja air compressor, but it only goes to 20 psi. I want to upgrade to a higher psi compressor uh I mean you really don't often need to go above 20 psi, but there's like a yeah sure just the simple master airbrush compressor with a With a tank on the bottom. I mean it's still small. This thing is like this big Like it's not that big. I mean it fits it would fit anywhere it's like Two feet long by 18 inches tall by Eight inches wide maybe like that's not that's not a big thing, but yeah the master airbrush compressor with the tank By cheap airbrush compressors like that don't spend a lot of money on airbrush compressors. They're all the same thing They're all made in the same factory Um All right, whiskey tango looks like we're about to the end of our questions. So good is what we're coming right down to it Uh, I think you tend to like elaborate bases. I do but have you ever found minimalist basing that you liked? Sure, sometimes some good rollers can be fun Like the the basing that I did for my sewer bases, which there'll be a video coming out on in a couple weeks Or we're pretty simple really Um, I I like that what to feel like they live in a world That's the key. It can be any world They just need to just needs to feel like a world and that generally means some amount of detail color Contrast visual interest detail, you know something that makes them feel like they occupy a space um Yeah, there you go Uh airbrush thinner and medium okay to use with brushes. Yes, absolutely whoever's telling you know is full of it um, I you like you could just go by so These two things like Vallejo airbrush thinner and Vallejo flow improver Like I said, my standard airbrush mix is an 80 20 mix of those two Thinner 80 flow improver 20 I could use that as my medium all the time All the time with brush and without Anybody who's telling you different is Crazy or wrong in some way. So there you go. All right, so I think that brings us to the end I have no more questions. We did it Yay We did it. Okay. So with that, I will say thank you very much everybody. I really appreciate it I hope this is all fun today. Um, I try to do these Uh, uh, I try to do these as often as possible like generally once a month always always on saturdays Um, you know, you can always hit the little bell or stuff like that and that will tell you when these are coming Also, follow me on twitter. I always announce them in advance on twitter. So that's a good place to look Uh, the quick final question that I do want to answer robert said Um, you said you don't train as didn't train as an artist, correct? Where do you suggest learning color theory? James gurney's color and light That's the book. It's the go-to book There you go. I mean, you can also watch like 50 million youtube videos on it as well, but that's a good one Uh, that's that's your go-to resource Um, will I do a forest basing video? I mean the autumnal base is kind of like that. I did a jungle one You know, you could just kind of mix those two and you get to you get to forest, I suppose So there you go Um, I'll be back next month with another one of these Uh, so save up those questions But as always if you've got additional ones I didn't get to answer just drop them down in the comments I will answer any questions that get asked uh down in the comments as always So thank you so much for watching. I really appreciate it. And as always, we'll see you next time