 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating Q&A live. So what are we doing? Well today, we're gonna sit down We're gonna spend about the next hour or so answering all your questions There's a space over on the side where you can you can place those questions So go ahead and feel free to do that you can drop them in there and And I'll go ahead and answer them or I'll do my best to do so So over the next hour, so I think it's over on let's see Doing this in the mirror. Nope. Those are on that side that side of me. There you go There are there's a little comment box So go ahead and feel free to drop your your questions and I'll do my best to answer them over the next hour This morning. I've just been working on a whole bunch of fun stuff. I'm making up a An excel auto calculating character sheet for soulbound because there's a lot of math to it So I was gonna go ahead and so I just made one that does all the work for you Where you just put in the things you're supposed to choose and then everything auto calcs and as all sorts of stuff And I keep thinking of more things to add to it. So I'll share that out at some point. That's fun I've been digging into soulbound. I'm excited about that release. Of course the AOS RPG I've also been assembling some people made up my night is euros for my Tempest Eye whirlwinds edge army as well as my battle mage Of course out of a necromunda girl because that's what sort of fits there So lots of fun stuff this morning. Let's jump into your questions that we've already got a few in the chat So drop them in there and and we'll go from there Okay Michael Anderson hi vents even when my sponge is soaked sometimes the paper on my wet palette Drives out sometimes the paper on my wet palette dries out and curls. What is happening and how can I prevent it? Well, I have a strong suspicion like I can tell you I bet I know exactly what's going on Does the paper for your wet palette extend off the side of the sponge? Okay, you want to make sure that any paper you're using has sponge all around the edge If the paper goes off the edge, so if like this is the sponge Let's just imagine this is the sponge Okay, the paper needs to sit like this on top of it to where on all sides There's sponge all around it if it sits like this where part of the papers hanging off over here That's what's going to happen because all you've done is made like a wick Like literally this is exposed to air on all sides And so water is just going to naturally evaporate off of this and draw it up That's what happens every time so the simplest solution is make sure your paper is contained on all sides by the sponge If there's something different if you aren't having that if you don't have that going on feel free to redrop the question I'll try to dig deeper surface tension. I'm painting some OBR with black bones But want to use glazes and filters to create visual interest any And suggest these are still living creatures any suggestions colors I might consider Yeah, I wouldn't actually recommend glazes and filters mean glazes and filters don't really work over black Because that's not what they're for they're meant to slightly shift colors and glazes don't really work over black You'd actually want to do it the opposite way around so what I would suggest is You know use something like a Either a gray flesh or a beige red or a salmon rose or something like that and Get the high points of your skeleton bones. They're you know, they're Eyebrows and their cheekbones and stuff like that the ridges like OBR have a lot of like ridges and stuff like that on they're very Rigid and then you would glaze that over with the black to sort of bring it in line But that would be a good way to sort of still get that all of those are kind of Caucasian flesh ish tones or something like that with that with slight bits of red orange in them So they would carry the impression of life. So that's what I'll say I mean the other choices you go to the sort of you know glowing eyes and stuff like that Mike Ronco. Hey Vince. Thanks for your time. This is the first one catching life. Hey, well, welcome glad to have you along I have a question about purple. I'm using a flesh color kiss the flesh to mix with my purple to highlight it Okay, good like it so far But it's not enough contrast do I add a lighter flesh color to that after like palette witch flesh to increase the contrast Yeah, absolutely. That's that's what you would yep. Just go up to like a I again I don't I'm gonna be open and say that I don't use citadel paint. So I don't know they're They're names very well But I would say that like whatever the equivalent of like the lejo pale flesh is is yes gonna be the right area if you want to Kick it up another notch another notch Okay All right Okay Sauerkraut, I'm currently preparing to paint some lands lands necks Who were known for their garish uniforms where everyone wore different bright colors? How can I best maintain both the high color variety and have the minis feel like they belong to the same side? Well, I'm not familiar with that historical thing, but my advice would be You can usually do it through the details So that is to say there's lots of ancillary things you can do So you could have all of them having the same color pants for example, but they have very bright color jackets and ornamentation or whatever You could have a similar color ornamentation Maybe they all have like a gold sort of ropey shoulder pad or something, you know not not gold metallic gold, but you know sort of yellowish color So you can go to it like you can use signifying elements like they all have this one thing the same a same helmet a same insignia a same Freehand pattern the same color pants or whatever like if there's kind of one element drawing it all together We can it'll it'll still work and then you know the basing is going to do a lot to draw them all together Like if they're all standing together in the same base and stuff like that they'll And and there's some kind of unifying element across it. They'll probably feel like they all belong together So I hope that helps DMD MTB Hey Vince angel statue tutorial was awesome beautiful skin color. Oh, thanks. I very much appreciate that I've been excited about that one to share that out. So I hope people enjoyed that. It's a lot of fun to paint like that I will tell you it's very freeing when you're just not worrying at all about blending and you just start sketching in colors and going crazy It's really great It's a great way to paint like big monsters and stuff like that It takes a lot more practice to use that kind of a technique, especially with your airbrush on a 28mm miniature It's possible, but it's just it's more difficult It depends on the 28mm I suppose like it'd be easier on a space brain or somebody like that who has large flat plates and similar textures all over himself then You know some necromancer figure that has overt detail or something like that Alright, I hear my dogs are waking up. So they could they you might hear that in the background Okay, so Berserk Vince. I love the Vallejo metal color line, but the gold is lacking for me I want that Retributor color but mixing with the BMC copper is no good is my answer umber or sienna inks Yes, I would still use a little bit of copper like that is to say the way I've the best way I've found to achieve something like that is Is like if you're gonna go to inks You can do like three drops the gold to one drop of copper to like a couple drops of some kind of umber or Burnt sienna ink and you'll get there. That's been my solution Martin Orlando, how would you paint plate armor on a ghost? I want to paint El Tharian like a wraith from Lord of the Rings and I want to paint the armor with a similar spectral spectral look I don't know man I don't know Martin My answer is I've never liked how that sort of ghost paint thing that ethereal thing because you're painting something That's not really there, you know part of the the effect of Ghosts ghostly apparitions is that we see what's on the other side of them Right, it's not just that they're like a spate a sort of pale translucent blue or green color It's that you can see through them that that you still see the images of what's on the other side You know if if you were wanting that to be ghostly Then I think honestly if any of the sort of standard spectral approaches would work But I will tell you I think it's probably a boring way to paint him Like knowing you Martin as I do and knowing that you want to achieve like you know some some high-level stuff with the hobby Kind of ghostly effects are just boring There's there's I mean it's not that's not say they're wrong I don't mind them if you can you can do ghosts and stuff like that and they can be cool But they they're just kind of a boring effect the cool way to do it would be to do something like Kaha does where you have all the sort of intermediate lines and stuff that they're spreading out these colors Like the way she does she she did her lady Oleander But the challenge there is going to be that The challenge there is going to be that the yes, I'm online that There's not enough flat space on him He has like all these runes and things like that, right? and That's kind of like where where her effect sells the best is usually over like large flat surfaces where she starts spreading the color out and stuff Can I help you? Oh the dogs Birkbox got here, and it's Scooby They have a magical mystery machine and a Scooby-Dog. It's very cute. It's adorable. Okay Now love you dear all right So all right back to this Okay, so so I mean that's my answer is It's gonna be tough. That's I wish I had a better answer for you Martin. Okay Meyer Lerke How would you go about painting a mini with moss growing on it want to do an overgrown nature theme for my Gargants? Yeah, sure. This is a good question. So there's a lot of different answers here You can my best answer is stay as Micro with your texture as possible Most moss that we use for like basing is kind of out of texture actually or sorry out of scale is what I mean What I would use Yeah, here we go perfect so You get this from a lot of different places, but this is like the raw flock That you use to make flocked boards. This is this is army painter grass green. Oops. Sorry Okay, and you can see how it's just the powder right and There's lots of places you get this like train all sorts of train model hobby stores like that will have this kind of stuff in big giant you know containers right like woodland scenics makes a bunch of it and Your best bet is to sort of like Kind of take some PVA glue with water spread in an area And then you sprinkle that on there and that'll actually be in scale and then actually around that afterward when you're painting You're gonna step along with your brush you would do this pre priming by the way Or maybe you prime it first and then so there's something for the glue to really stick to you because PVA Glue and water don't will adhere better to primer than it will the raw plastic Then you kind of do that then you reprim over it and you're just gonna paint that like any other texture, right? And then when you when you get to the actual painting you're gonna take a brush You're gonna stipple around that with some brown green in the same color you painted the moss itself to make it Look like there's even sort of smaller Sort of organic growth that isn't big enough to register a texture at that scale And I think that's probably the way you want to you want to go about that That's that's how I've done in the past when I wanted moss sort of growing on things. I've used that Hope that helps Jeff Bryant question. Do you have any advice or tips for correcting for correcting for small amounts of paint texture? I will occasionally misjudge the working time of a paint or lose focus and end up with a very fine paint texture is The mini for competition because if not I would ignore it and say who cares if it's a very fine paint texture It doesn't really matter like It just doesn't matter Sure, lots of minis will have some kind of little bit of texture when you get close so Now if your answer is is there a way to correct it I Mean if it's depending on how much it's dried you can try like softening it like you can put You can put like some flow improver or surfactant on it and just let it kind of sit there for a while and see if it softens the paint But you stand a much higher percentage chance of just ruining your paint job because there's a chemical reaction happening here So acrylic paint the reason we like it is because it has a hexagonal chemical structure Okay, and it's a lattice work and when it dries lattice works are very strong structures, right? Like that's quartz crystal and stuff like that have that same chemical composition There it's a naturally very strong thing because the bond is even and spaced. It's not And so it has a very it has a resilience to it once it dries that lattice work is set in place and It's going to be very hard to get it moving again Without like I said just like really screwing your paint up I mean the other option is you can take a very very very fine grit sandpaper very fine like 1200 or even 2000 maybe And just very lightly sand it you're still going to have to fix that paint then by the way afterward Um, but I'll tell you right now my primary advice would be unless we're talking about a competition piece Who cares? That's that's my best advice move on and live your best life There's so much more time in that you only have so much time in your life And getting a regular army person who's one of you know 30 guys in a unit with a tiny amount of paint texture not worth it There are better things you can do okay, uh Zzerk Ziz Rik Vince, how would you go about painting? Uh different ethnic skin colors like asian middle eastern and native american Well, there's so there's sure there's a lot of different Skin tones you can work into there. It has to do with sort of the addition of lots of different colors um Umbers and sienas as we've talked about there are usually the things you're you're integrating in there Um, I haven't done videos on those kind of uh alternate skin tones So I really want to do like the ultimate skin tone video at some point And kind of show you how to just mix them all like I want to actually take them from the mix That is to say assuming you're not talking about out of the pot paint now What I'll say is there are plenty of ranges that just have You know different skin tones uh in them that will have that kind of middle eastern skin tone or or something like that in there um And so certainly those are perfectly fine to use but if you're talking about mixing it You know sort of yourself raw It it's orange plus white you're to go to your standard sort of Let's call it blank caucasian skin tone pale caucasian skin tone and then the addition of usually uh some amount of magenta or alizarin crimson burnt sienna or umber there's different kinds of umbers you can bring in there like uh The raw umber burnt umber are going to have very different effects Uh if you so like if you really want to see this in in detail Go watch some people who canvas paint and watch how they do it just like go search up in youtube like oil painting You know skin tones and you'll see how they mix it and that'll really give you the understanding of the colors and the breakdowns in in play here So I hope that helps Uh maritio hey vince greetings from italy. Well hello sir. I hope you're you're safe and well over there uh in in in the home country Uh glad to catch you live. I wanted to paint some squigs with uh, yeah with fluorescent paint and have them look good in black light too Do you have any suggestions on how to highlight them? Uh just with the flora with the fluorescent paints Is my best advice like don't do it the highlights should be the fluorescent paints and then you you mix in um Very light other tones into it But still have that like have the fluorescent paint in the mix at all points in time And so start integrating like let's just let's just take pink for example because it's an easy one to work with right So pink is your highlight and like fluorescent pink will be super bright. It's a perfectly acceptable one a perfectly acceptable brightest highlight You just make sure you got some ivory or something white underneath it So that it really pops and then as you go down you mix in some other color paint That's like into a deep crimson until you get into the deepest shadows where you don't have that Then when you flip on the back with the black light, by the way, tom shared some pictures my coast from from uh We're in weekly. He's doing this his army in fluorescent paints And what you'll see is that uh as it gets toward the shadows then the fluorescent effect diminishes And so it actually creates a natural black light shadow as well. So there you go. That's how you do it Uh Meister, how are the gen 3 paints so far? Um, yes, I like them a lot. I I I promise you I want to do a review of this Uh more than two weeks ago almost three weeks ago now as a matter of fact I ordered a bunch more of them because I wanted to test the broader range I I kind of gotten a small group at first like surprise surprise I don't you know, it's not exactly a great idea right now in our current World situation to go and spend a ton of money So I like I ordered a small one and started testing them and I actually really like them I would compare them very much with like pro acryl. They very much feel like pro acryl paints. They're creamy like that They're opaque like that. They're pigment intense like that They're very much like pro acryl paints Uh, so I ordered a bunch more because I I really liked them and thought they were fun And I like the the the range of colors and I thought hey cool. What a nice thing to add to there Yeah, three weeks ago. I ordered them. Uh my tracking shows. They're still just sitting at the post office. So Hopefully that helps like hopefully they show up soon Uh, believe me. I check every day and I'm waiting for that shipment to move I've emailed the store. I bought them from twice and they told me you just have to wait Shipping is really slow right now. Okay, so I'll wait Okay Uh acrylic chemists. Uh, good morning vince. We were chatting about dock bits on slanesh models earlier this week Do the bits convert over easily? Trying to turn some spare seekers into health writers. Yeah a hundred percent. That's exactly what I did My I have seekers as health writers. I have that's all my health writers are seekers And uh, I use the shield arms actually from dock um sisters or canary and um, I use wippy arms from the sisters of slaughter Goes right in it's it's so super easy the bits go together really really well um The dock heads fit onto the witch elf bodies really nicely Without issues. So they're they're very interchangeable because it's usually the heads in the arms you're swapping around And uh, and yeah, they're they're both they they but they both have similar joints because they both kind of have that like ball socket type of joint is basically what's going on there All right, uh, Mikey, uh, oh Oh, okay. Got it. He was explaining the the landskin X. Okay. That's cool meat Yeah, I I knew nothing about them like I will be completely honest historical type of modeling does not interest me at all But I love looking at historical models and think it's really cool that it does grab other people That's not a judgment on the whole thing just you know personal tastes We all have it some of us like to paint sci-fi and some of us don't and so on and so forth Uh days, uh, hey vents on my third attempt to airbrush white panel modulation wish me luck. Yeah, sure. Good luck, man it's it's uh Do you want it? Do you want a good, uh, do you want a good trick? Uh, obviously, I know I hope you're starting like I hope you're working on like the how to airbrush white vehicles Like I did in either cold or warm white. Here's another trick when you get up into the more white stuff Turn your psi up turn your psi way up like 35 You have to be really you have to have really good control with your airbrush So you don't blast it out everywhere like so I warn you Warning this this technique will require extreme trigger control with your airbrush and has a high chance of screwing it up Because if you get it wrong you will blast white paint everywhere That being said, uh, if you do have good trigger control, you can turn your psi up to like 30 or 40 And if you have good trigger control on the amount of paint It'll actually atomize the white paint a lot better because white's a lot thicker because of the pigment that they use It'll atomize it and make it look smoother High risk high reward Maneuver it's the triple lutz there of airbrushing. So but there you go. Hope that helps Steven i'm working on a very small plague doctor, which means very dark And I would guess a lot of black given the size and monotone Blackness, what would you suggest to make things pop and read well? Oh, like the dude with the long mask sure um Yeah, well the the classic trick with this is you put him in some kind of torch light right where they'll have somebody They'll have the plague doctor next to to some kind of light source and use osl to create visual interest on there Um, assuming that doesn't happen You just want to make sure you either focus on one textures where like he's wearing a A leather coat that's you know heavily textured so you can have a lot of grays and scratches and stuff like that in there Um, you can also use near blacks instead of blacks So you can use like a really dark purple that with a deep black in the shadows or a really dark blue with black in the shadows And so that's another way to kind of cheat color in there, but something like that. I think is um It's probably the way to go Uh chimera have you seen the new el-tharian close-ups the model looks gorgeous? Uh, I mean, I haven't seen it close up I've seen it in the pictures I haven't seen one in person if that's what you mean, but yes, I agree. It's the best model in the range It's it is fantastic Uh, I'm like I suspect it'll be very hard not to be monoposed though I mean, it's a unique model so no one's going to have more than one in their army But they're all going to be in the exact same pose I suspect often because I think it's going to be one of those things that's kind of hard to change Because it's precarious how his various bits and bobs are all hanging on each other, but people will surprise me I'm sure I can't wait to see what people do as far as like Playing around with ghost effects and glowing lights and stuff like that. Somebody's going to stick leds in him I'm excited for that day Uh dash. Hi vents I've been painting for eight months now and struggling to improve beyond decent Do you suggest anything beyond youtube videos and more practice to advance? Yeah, sure. Absolutely one deliberate practice Uh, so it's not just practice a lot of people say how do you get better at a thing? It's practice It's not you can practice something for a long time and be and remain pretty crap at it Um, it's deliberate practice So athletes don't just like if you want to be a top tier athlete you don't just work out Right. It's like just do it just work out. No, you do specific things, right? Um, if you're if you're You know trying to be a top football player you have days where you focus heavily on strength training days where you focus on Uh on dexterity on athletics on drills on, you know, like there's there's all these different things you're going to do And you're going to spread them out and you're going to deliberately practice that one thing Today is about building strength tomorrow's about blocking and tackling the day after that's about dexterity and balance, right? And and they by honing in on those individual elements. That's where you see the improvement Okay, um, so so like in other words to translate that to painting challenge yourself to, um Specific things you're going to work on blending. I will just blend Uh, I will just work on faces. I will just work on I'll just do a bunch of non-metallic Like I don't care what it is could be anything could be a technique or a style or a color or whatever But you're deliberately working that thing Uh, I remember hearing a talk from an artist who like a comic book artist who had said that early on they You know, they they felt like they had made a lot of progress But they really sucked at hands and they kept getting feedback when they were submitting their art That all the hands looked like junk and and comic books take that kind of thing really really seriously um Editors and such and so the person sat down and did nothing but draw hands for a hundred days They would draw, you know, like they would try to draw a hundred hands a day for a hundred days And by the time they were done they were really good at drawing hands Right, that's the kind of level we're talking about Ben Cantor wanted to be better at busts. And so he tried to paint 40 busts in 40 days All right That's uh, just that kind of stuff now that being said I also recommend that if you really are looking to get, you know More sort of coaching Then there's a couple ways to do that start, you know pushing yourself and try to paint for a competition That will generally push you harder than you ever have even if there's no real competition Imagine it's a competition mini get feedback directly from people You need like feedback to improve so on on specifics Because the general stops working And if you're not near somebody where you can get feedback or you don't have, you know Like somebody who you who can give you that kind of direct feedback then the the world of patreons is what I'd recommend There's lots of patreons out there that have Sort of personal feedback levels. It's worth investing in even if for three or four months Because that you'll you'll get one on one time with an artist Who's there just dialed into you to give you feedback on on, you know, what you're doing and where you can improve So I hope all that helps All right, shirok. I tried adding daler-roundy sepia to my gold But it didn't seem to do much to the color sepia won't change it to well to the gold I would think it still would Try burnt umber would be my my answer burnt umber is often what I use and it'll it'll have a probably stronger effect So give that a shot sepia has a lot of green in it As does the the base gold. So it's probably not moving very much burnt umber has a lot more Orange and red in it. So that'll probably have a bigger effect Uh, matthew vince. I love the hobby cheating vids The way you prep for a competition model, especially one of my faves I've seen a lot of professional award-winning painters started pure black though pros cons Don't do it. That's the easiest answer They're doing that because they so first of all Yes, they're they are out there. Richard gray famously starts it at, you know, pure black. There there are Plenty of artists who do that Um, I know just as many if not more competition painters who use a pretty standard zenithal on everything um The painters who are painting over pure black are probably doing it because they've been painting for 20 25 years And can understand just by glancing at a figure exactly where every highlight and shadow and color is going to be And they're just much easier. It's much easier for them to conjure. What's in their brain to the mini So if you've painted if you've spent 20 000 hours painting And you've got 20 years under your belt Sure, prime it whatever color you want all the time you're gonna be able to because you just you know, you're gonna be fine um For everybody else Including myself by the way Uh, I always zenithal for many reasons one. It just makes the figure easier to see like your eyes are a thing you constrain Um, and when it figures all black it actually becomes very difficult to distinguish the various elements from each other Um, when you when you zenithal something it's just just becomes easier to see what's what? Uh, even in a well-lit scenario, I mean I have like this this my office is so bright and I I have a light That's normally right here. You can't see it because I've pushed it to the side obviously so I do this It's not in front of my face. I look like uh, I look like a robot when I have it here. See there you go um But the even in those situations, I'll still Uh, if it's over black, I'll still strain to see the detail So none of this doesn't show you where potential highlights and volumes are going to be located But uh and kind of give you a sketch It it also just uh, it makes it easier on your eyes to distinguish the figure So, you know, don't strain your eyes. I guess my best advice okay, uh All right Mikey uh, vince do you have a cheat for figuring out where the highlights would be with a dual light source? Say moonlight and firelight Sure, absolutely So you take your fig Okay, here's here's the fig and So assumingly you want like moonlight from back here and firelight from up here That's a pretty common thing the blue to orange transition like that That's every movie poster in the past 15 years, right? um Sure hold your mini like this Okay Under a light like get yourself a lamp like my painting light I just had hold the mini at that angle under the under a light Like stand up get up get near one of your lights hold the mini near it Take a picture of it with your phone Flip it around do the same thing take a picture of it And then just reference those pictures because when you're holding the miniature like this And you have a picture with the the direct light on it You'll see exactly what that blue light would be primarily affecting And then you'd see exactly what that orange light would be primarily affecting and you just use your own reference photos over and over again That's my best advice Uh Berserk vince have you tried the Vallejo mecha color line? Um, yeah, I tried it. I didn't really notice much of a difference between it and the standard Vallejo I do have some Uh, they have some cool colors in them. I like the bright unusual colors Like I have a really nice lilac and magenta a couple tones. I think they're fine Um, they didn't grab me enough to think that there was anything that different from like model color or something Um If there was a major difference, I did not notice it in performance Uh, I don't know about paint durability. I varnish my minis like eight times while I'm painting them so Durability doesn't really register with me. I'm not sure what that means So, uh, like I I mean, I know what you're saying, but I'm just saying like it doesn't I don't have a way to distinguish that really um Because when I'm painting I'm I'm pretty soft on my minis as it is And then they're varnish so much by the time they're done. They're they're, you know Unbreakable as it were Uh, so but you know I I could look at it. I just I yeah, I didn't I didn't think I had anything intelligent to say Other than like here's the review They have a really nice set of bright colors. They're very much like vallejo model color There you go Review over I don't know All right, kelly uh kelly hyvins, uh, how many layers of paint on average do you put on primary colors for army? I know it depends, but just wondering how many layers of paint on average do you put on primary colors for armies? Uh I don't know That's hard to say like It's not I mean, I don't really think in layers, so I'm not sure it's stacked up like that if you're asking like because sometimes I'll use 20 glazes even for an army just depending on what that army is, right? So is that 20 layers? I mean not really because they're all just like a few Micro Micrometers thick or whatever, right? And sometimes I'll use more web blending. Okay. Well, that's a lot thicker That's probably the equivalent of like seven layers, right? But I got what I wanted out of the wet blend um So, you know four I don't know I don't know what the answer is there because my my painting style is often very different Depending on like the type of figure and what I'm trying to attack Uh, so I like I don't tend to stick to just one thing I mean if you look at sort of the speed painted stuff I did for the armies Right, so like let's go back and look at the ogres So that was on their on their skin That's that's their big primary thing I probably did seven or eight layers out of the airbrush right so That kind of thing and that was for speed painting with an army, but it's out of an airbrush. So it's super fast, right? um Yeah, I mean there's no golden answer here because it just it's a question of not like The the number of layers. It's a question of what's the the volumes and the the Effect you're achieving. Are you are you achieving the the sort of value contrast that you want, right? Uh, that's what you should really focus on Uh, but yeah, that's I know that's a roundabout kind of wishy-washy answer. I'm sorry, but that's probably the best I can do Uh Jew heli finally got some scale 75. How long should I vigorously shake this before using? um a while and with a Agitator in it. So the first thing I do with my scale 75. Let's talk about scale 75 for a moment First off the bottle comes sealed. Don't forget that you got a poke hole in it That's gotten me many times and you have a big old Uh-oh if you squeeze too hard and then pop the top off and pink goes everywhere So just you know that's number one to make sure you put an agitator in there's lots of different agitators out there You can use you can order a little like agitator balls from people that look like That look like that Uh, be stay be very wary of agitator balls Let's say stainless steel by the way Yeah, okay Um, sure Sometimes those stainless steel balls are Truly stainless and sometimes they're not the way that I actually like to do it is for all I have a bunch of like many of us just old crappy pewter figs that I've just kind of collected over the years that I have no actual intention to ever do anything with just kind of happens And I just chop them up into pieces Um, if you have old pewter figs that have the little Thingy on the bottom of their base, um What do you call it the little slot they used to go in slotted bases Take the cut the slot off and just cut that into pieces. That's a good agitator Hey, we're going to use that part anyways theoretically Um, and then so you see you have an agitator and and then you shake the crap out of it My best recommendation is if you can eventually if you get yourself something like let's see if I can actually get this thing on camera This thing Little paint agitator thing lab genius Yeah, that's what it is Uh, I found this thing to be unbelievably valuable. One of my favorite things somebody got it for me as a present Um, and it's such a wonderful gift. So they are a little expensive. I think that thing was like 90 bucks or something like that. I don't like I said, I don't know somebody was very nice and got it for me for a christmas present but um That's a great way to shake so there you go Uh All right charock. Uh, I want to do transfers Does anyone have a good source of micro set in the uk or an alternative product? Oh boy I'll let the comments answer that one. Somebody uh, somebody who can direct him toward microset and microsoul in the uk I don't know. I mean, I got mine originally from amazon, but you know, I don't know Uh, I got it a while ago. That stuff lasts forever when you get like you get one bottle of each and you're good for you know a couple decades Uh, erin griffin haven strange question. Is it possible to own too many paint sets? I enjoy several brands for different reasons, but have so many that there may be a risk of them drying out I've never had paint dry out as long as it's sealed. Well, my paint some of this paint is sat on my wall for Seven years and it's fine. It's still completely fine. So like We find a dusty wind that I haven't touched in a while Here's some vallejo medium blue a color I never use I don't think you're gonna hear that but I can feel it. It's still perfectly liquid inside there There you go. Yeah, it's fine. That's sat there for seven years on my shelf. Um the uh And it's funny you ask about too many paint sets. I mean, I'm I famously have too many paint sets Uh, I mean, I probably have 600 paints on the walls around me right now at least uh, watch for watch coming soon, uh to uh Travarian's channel He and I just actually recorded a little thing on that a little spoiler. I can say anything more Just watch watch Travarian's channel if you if you uh, if you're not already subbed He's definitely one of the best, uh miniature artists around an absolutely great teacher So, uh, go check him out. Uh, T-R-O-V-A-R I-O-N Travarian Uh, and we're gonna do uh, we're gonna he and I are hopefully gonna get a fun little series going but we've already done Recorded an episode for so Uh, okay Yep, I haven't touched mine yet But is there any reason you can think of to not attempt To decant abtolongs using the waffle method and the abtolong thinners No, I want to try it with some of them I decanted a bunch of oil paints and I've been having super fun with them Um, I do want to try it with the abtolongs and see what happens. No, I can't think of any reason why not Honestly, so yep Give it a shot see what happens. I'm I'm gonna do so myself as well I'm gonna get a good set of those because again, there's never enough paints man. Always more Uh Am I right in thinking that I can just add flesh tones to colors to get highlights Sure. Yeah, so that absolutely. Um, it'll give you warm highlights and I I assume you mean like Caucasian flesh tones So like sunny skin tone for example very common highlight color If people want sort of warm light sunny skin tone is a great color that can be used in lots of places So like your your traditional highlight colors I would recommend using on the reg is not white like you should stay away from pure white. It's chalky It's hard to mix. It's kind of it adds a lot of opacity where you don't necessarily want it. Um The you sort of your three most common high highlight colors You'll see painters use by the way is very simple. Okay It's sunny skin tone and or pale flesh like one of the two brighter flesh colors ice yellow and Glacier blue or or ice blue cold light bright pale light bright warm light herbs I did those in bad order, but sunny skin tone or pale flesh is your warm soft light ice yellow is kind of your bright warm light and Ice blue or glacier blue is your bright cold light. So there you go Okay, uh Oh good. Okay, cool So, uh, Norse was answering the question about Microsoft fantastic. Thank you Uh, I love when people I love that because obviously I can't know everything So I'm always happy to see other people sharing information. That's what the point of this is We're just we're all better together cold shoulder. Hello So I asked before about painting living mercury skinks on a previous video the Vallejo steel Silver a Molotow chrome came in. Do you have any further tips or tricks on painting such a scheme? Now, I think we covered most of it like if it was me, here's what I would do I would airbrush the whole thing in Steel I would shoot a little bit of a Like probably uh Some color ink from below you could do a little blue Black you could do a little brown black Just some light ink to glaze some colors from underneath I do a silver from like your sort of middle of the zenithful kind of come down to about maybe 50 degrees Something like that And then I would take that sweet sweet molotow chrome Liquid chrome baby, and then I would come in and just hip make that my highlights and those those little skeaky do's will be reflective That's what I did with my Necrons and I I love them They're like it was the simplest dumbest paint job and they just look amazing because you can in most of them I can actually see my own reflection in their skull heads Like you guys can see a little me in them. That's that's reflective Okay Fernando Hello from Spain, uh, Vince. Well, hello. I hope everything's going well for you I'm struggling really hard to find some sand on the right scale for my warhammer miniatures Any recommendations? It's driving me crazy. Everything. I try fails. Sure, man. I got you covered buddy That's two two options for you. Okay regular like beach sand is often too big As much as I suspect is what you're running into Uh However, this is the this like vallejo basing paste desert sand Because it's a paste and it's all Already together It actually has really nice In I don't know if you're gonna be able to see this or not on camera, but it has really nice. Sorry Really nice in scale Sand because it's just this most Minorest of microtexture So, uh, that one's a that one's a good one to go with you can mix it in with a little bit of like regular course Sort of beach sand or something like that You can also kind of try to grind that down a little bit Like you could take some coarse beach sand and put it in a mortar and pestle Like a marble mortar and pestle and go nuts on it and you can get it broken up a little bit and And that and and if you mix a little bit of that in here and there You'll kind of get the impression of varying sizes. So hope that helps Uh germ havens i'm working on some icy savage orcs with blue green tealish skin Okay, any quick tips on how to highlight a skin tone like this and add some tonal variation. Hmm Yeah, that glacier blue I just mentioned and hide red in the shadows cold highlight red shadows It'll pop pop pop You will you will have to rename those orcs magnitude because they will just pop pop okay, uh Mikey to me it makes the the best airbrush white. It's not even close to anything else even white ink is miles off I'm interesting. I've I've never tried their airbrush white. So I mean, I I do like white ink quite a bit. So I'll give it a look man. I've got some to me of stuff Uh gh Jax 21 I do not know how I would pronounce that but there you go Looking for tips on how to paint clothing that's slightly smoldering with embers similar to oh, that's yeah This is a great thing. Okay. Sure. Cool. Cool. Cool. Uh, yeah, I like this idea. Um, so here's what you're gonna do And take usually it's gonna happen around the bottom of the clothes or something like that right edges edges are gonna catch flame first They're gonna they're gonna halt and catch fire Is that what the name of that was? I don't know. Anyway, so here's what you're gonna do You're gonna take a little bit of a deep brown black red So take like some whole red and mix it with some black is kind of a good way to go And you're gonna kind of stipple that around the area you want to burn Then you're gonna come in with a little bit of just like actual whole red or something You're stipple that on less area than that but kind of randomly in splotchy patterns where the embers are caught Then you're gonna take a little bit of orange And you're gonna like within that red You're gonna just stipple some tiny dots of that orange in there And then you're gonna mix that orange in with some yellow white So it's got a real bright lumeosity and pop then you're just hit a few of those little embers in the center of that Catching along an edge. So it looks like think of how you put rust along the edge of the surface So it looks like the edge is kind of in flame because it's exposed to a lot of oxygen and so would burn That's the way to go I think that's a great idea. I think I've I've honestly Never thought of just having clothes in mid burn like that. I think that sounds super cool I might try that myself man. So hey Can I whistle? Yes, I can I'm not going to do it right now because it'll be really annoying in the microphone But yes, I can whistle although I can't do this thing Like that thing where people put fingers in their mouth like the dr. Cox thing where they they they wheel or they whistle and it's like a Million decibels, but I can just do the normal like normal whistling Amy uh now we just need the light of grom the pot for an epic red match. Okay. Got it. Let's see Uh Okay Sorry got ahead I skipped ahead too far Nice Ikea setup. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, these are all from Ikea. They're great Uh, they're absolutely worth every penny Uh, let's see Vince has your thoughts on true metallic metal bronze change since hobby cheating 160. No, not really pretty much the same thing I don't paint a lot of bronze, but that's more or less my same strategy I use now Uh, you know, you can mix in some other colors into shadows like you can have um uh Oxidation and and and stuff like that going on in there. So you get some nice teals and and uh, and Uh, blue greens in there turquoise is but other than that. No Uh Jim sue. Hey, Vince. What method do you use for fixing minis to complex bases with different texture types flocking sandy bumpy Just super glue pinning combination of both could be a hobby cheating idea Yeah, I thought about this the the the feet thing. Yeah, how do I attach it? Sure I can answer your question quite simply I always struggle with things like this because like I don't know how to There should probably be the most popular videos because they'd only be like even with me talking and rambling on they'd only probably be like four or five minutes long, but I'm always like, is it really worth doing a video if it's only four or five minutes That's that's what all the most successful people on youtube make video links of and I'm like that doesn't feel like I'm giving you enough So, yes, the answer is pinning plus this This is loctite Loctite ultra gel it actually comes in a thing like this So this is what it looks like Loctite ultra gel control you can buy again big packs of these relatively cheap I actually usually will break the plastic because this content this this is not necessary If I did the video, this would be my number one sheet. Here you go I'll share with you my number one sheet from the video this and this container is a lie It is inefficient and oftentimes if you've used this before you'll know that when you're squeezing and you get even a little low You have to squeeze with all your hearts might and to get just like a tiny drop of glue out and it'll hurt your hand And here's the trick. This is worthless this outer shell This is nothing okay, and What you actually do is you just pull this blue thing out of the bottom That pops out then you just snip snip these two little black past plastic pieces And what you get out of the middle is this and what you'll find is when this has stopped working And you can't get any more glue out of squeezing this no matter if you have the strength of samson You will still have a ton of glue in there an absolute ton When you throw this away you waste so much glue. This is a racket This plastic thing drives me bonkers. So anyway That was a long winded answer to that. Maybe I should do a video about this You know what you're right You're absolutely right and it'll have that tip in there because I really do believe in that that ultra gel control It's so good. It dries like cement and usually a pin plus that and the miniatures It's on there and you can push them down in there. They'll stick and then sometimes I'll throw a little extra Putty or something around the feet just to make sure it's nice and You know flush but other than that, that's it Uh, how do you strip paint off of resin? Um, I use Uh Purple power For myself. I know la is totally awesome is also really good. That'll do it off of resin But I've always used purple power that was available at my home depot and I like it I don't a lot of people use simple green I don't have much of a sense of smell like I can't smell almost anything in the world I just Just a thing about me that I'm an ansomniac or whatever Um, but if but very few things I can smell and one of the things I can smell in the world is simple Green and it makes me sick. I just I can't handle it. So purple power smells like nothing to me. So I use that instead Uh, let's see Okay, uh, Emily. Hey Vince. Hi Emily. How you doing? I hope you're staying safe up there and doing well Uh, no question for me, but I have a tip for you Oh, I like this if you have resin runoff from a project to your to your hardwood floor Soaking isopropyl will let you pop it off with a molding tool heard from a friend Yes, indeed. Well, I'll I'll remember that Uh, I will uh, I might have a use for that. I may have a hardwood table that I got That I got some some resin on it's been there for many years though So I don't know if I'm still be able to soften it, but I'll give it a shot Okay Uh That might help me scrape a table that might have had a river might have some Some stuff runoff over onto it. Yes I mean if I was a newbie and let that happen Uh, Doran jr. Junior morning Vince using your speed painting gold recipe and loving a question Are varnish save points the same for metallic models? I don't want to match too early I don't varnish metals ever So all my save points I use are all on the matte paints once I move to metals, which is always my last step No more varnish gets applied to the model So like when I mentioned that that's all pre-metal paint I never varnish metal varnishing metal is a good way to like ruin it So that's that's my answer Uh, no, there you go. Somebody mentioning LA is totally awesome. Yep, I agree. It is really good stuff Uh, Amy, do you have any recommendations for matte varnish that works for brush don't have an airbrush currently? Sure Um, yeah, I mean if you're talking about you actually want it matte because you want it matte The answer is the the one and only true varnish I hope somebody hopefully already answered this in the comments But it it is our one true lord and savior The only thing that we trust when we absolutely positively need to matte the entire mini every time We trust ak interactive ultra matte varnish Uh, this is it. This is brush or airbrush comes in a giant bottle. It will kill the shine off of anything Uh, and is the only matte varnish I trust for for that purpose It is very thin it will not it doesn't do as much on the protecti, but it will definitely do a lot on the matte Uh, so I often actually mix it with satin varnish just to get a little more Kutzpa to the protection I'll do like two drops of satin plus like four or five drops of the ak interactive and it's still dead matte But it'll then have a little more Thickness to it. I don't know what else to say Okay Uh, let's see All right Have you tried andrea colors? Uh, yes, though, they're not commonly available over here in the states really I don't know of anybody who carries them regularly I mean, I'm sure there is none of the stores around me or people I tend to order from carry them I'm positive. There's got to be some kind of us distributor somewhere for them Um, they're perfectly fine. I have no issues with them. They seem like a very valid nice paint Uh, bobby hauls, why do you varnish eight times save points? I varnish in the middle because I often work in very thin glazes layers inks things that can reactivate And it gives you a save point when you varnish in the middle If you go watch my five additional uses for varnish video, you'll see I walk you through exactly how that works and why Um, it lets you prevent messing up later So if I'm even if I saw I work in very thin glazes and inks and stuff like that of the airbrush Then I varnish and then I'm working in a later layer and oops my brush skipped And I got some paint where I didn't no big deal grab a separate brush Flood the area with water scrape away paint comes right off and guess what everything in those lower layers nothing reactivated Nothing got fudged and it comes right off easy peasy Uh, boom boom boom Okay, let's see Ken Den uh, vince ventrilo. I want to talk more about your homemade waffle oil brushers. I will eventually I promise It's the same. It's just what james waffle did. It's it's taking uh an artist Uh oil paint and mixing them with white spirits the I I use the same one as him. I use Mona Lisa white spirits normally Uh, sadly, you can't like my normal source for Mona Lisa didn't have it And all of the stores in my area are closed down right now. So I'm trying a new one So I'm trying the gambling Gamsol White spirits It's supposed to be a hundred percent pure odorless and a lot of the reviews said the same thing Um, so we'll see I I from what I understood. This is also a pretty popular artist paint You can certainly get a big bottle of a cheap. I mean look at this thing. That's huge Look at that bottle. That thing is huge Uh, so I'll give that a shot as well But yes, I like them very much Uh, okay, john chaves thinking about using actual lights example leds on display board any pitfalls that I should look out for Well, I need to paint the shadows on the border. I don't let the light do that naturally I am not the led guy. I'm the wrong person to ask. I've never used leds in a project I would imagine that if you have the light on that scale, it's going to do a lot of the work for you You could certainly help reinforce some of it with paint Um, but I think that for the most part you can make the light do a lot more I know there's a lot of great led tutorials out there. Um, I wish I could help you more but that one's Outside of my way outside of my comfort zones. I feel a little poor speaking on it Bethany, uh, oh well absolutely it's 2 30 a.m. Go get some sleep. Bethany. We'll see you later on Mikey, can you test bbs to make sure they are stainless try to scratch the surface with a file If it's chromed or nickled then the coating will scratch off I put I put one in salt water overnight mild steel will rust in brine pretty quickly Yeah, I have some um, I have a couple different things I'll use for it Like I said, cutting up pewter miniatures is always the easiest to me Mike Ronco, how do you decide how many transitions to make light to dark when you are painting true metallic metal in a non-metallic style? I'm thinking of witch elf blades Uh, is one way sufficient on the top and one on the bottom. Oh, how many transits? I do which sand transitions. Yes Okay, I understand now Mike. Um Yeah, like with short witch elf blades. I think going one way one transition where it's like light To dark, you know light to dark and then flip it I think that's fine. That's how I did most of my quick blades my silveneth are kind of the same You know, if I'm doing something for competition, it's that's not super realistic. It's a bit cartoony, right? But who cares it looks cool. So and that's kind of what I'm going for with my armies Uh, if I'm doing something for competition then generally I I I kind of like the three two of varying volumes So one of the things I often see people do is they'll go three two and they'll make them the exact same width Don't do that. You need to space them Right, so that like there's different Different volumes between it. This is a broader white section. This is a smaller shadow and there shouldn't be three even spaces like Our brain wants to make things regular human brains like order. We create it. We force it Um, you have to that's one of the things you got to break out of but I'll say for gaming stuff. Yeah, one to one's fine. And then when I'm doing competition stuff I usually prefer like A bigger number something that I think looks cool three to two or Uh, or five to four is usually what I'll end up doing just kind of running it around just based on the space Uh, sure rock. I actually came across to Brian earlier. I'd never seen his channel before. Oh good. Well, that's wonderful Yeah, it's great stuff A rock with a cape that is one of my favorite names. I've ever seen on youtube Picked up the chimera colors set as I wanted to try out mixing paints. Turns out I know nothing about mixing paints Is there a guide cheat sheet with some color equations or is it trial and error? Yeah, there's lots of videos on And and and you can just kind of google around for for color mixing cheat sheets. Yes, those do exist So, you know like my I couldn't direct you to one A lot of it. I just do out of habit and time From mixing with paint for so long Uh, but I you know, I'm sure that there are some out there and You know and and at the very least there's a ton of good videos on it Um Let's take a look. I'm on my computer right now. I'm googling color mixing guide Let's see if there's anything out there. Oh, yeah a bunch of different stuff Yeah, that says it says like if you mix these things together you get these things. Yeah Some of them are pretty simple Yep. Yep. So, yeah, you can also kind of make your own just with experimentation, which can be fun But yes, it looks like just a quick I kind of just google for images of them and I see a bunch of interesting ones that are out there That are kind of cool that says like if you mix this plus this you get this thing Um, so yeah, give that give that a look and see if uh, if one of those helps But I think that ultimately it is uh, there's some experimentation to it as well No, no guide is going to be perfect because there's an infinite permutation of colors Um, but you can download something like that to start and then Uh, you know kind of get a good concept from there My Vallejo metal color copper has gone thick any tips on thinning it No, because I have no idea what sorcery is in that bottle. I've thick, huh Did not seal all the way or something may that might have been what happened I've never had one thickened so I couldn't tell you I don't know what they're using in there. So I don't know how to re-thin it I mean the standard answer with paint is you mix in, you know, medium and maybe a couple drops of flow improver But I feel like there's different sorcery going on in that bottle. You could always give that a shot Like and see if that that works you could use some gloss medium and some flow improver and see if you can get it moving again That might work I suppose you got nothing to lose because if it's thick and you can't use it You're just going to toss it in the trash anyway. So who cares you can't ruin it got nowhere to go but up Uh, Zach Hoskins I'm trying to paint a third edition metal zoan throat model and it's very top-heavy due to the huge head and tiny tail Any way to hold this up without a miniature holder? Well, you should always use a miniature holder That would be the first thing don't ever hold a mini in your hands when you're painting That's a good way to mess up your paint job and give yourself like the claw hand like, you know a carpal tunnel Uh, the short answer would be I would honestly drill a hole into his feet with a pin vise Uh, and then run it down into a piece of cork on something like this Um, that will be then strong enough to to hold them up Uh bearded one. Hey Vince, thanks for the content Just started airbrushing looking for some basic tips psi went to mix with long days pleasant nights. Sure Uh, yeah, I give you some basics. Um, so my thinner is an 80 20 mix of the lejo airbrush thinner and flow improver 80 thinner 20 flow improver ish. It's not a chemical thing Okay, it doesn't have to be exact if you end up with 70 30 you're fine um I spray it uh 18 psi pretty much, but again anywhere in like the 18 to 22 range is probably fine Uh, your best thing you want to focus on is your trigger control really understand your your airbrush is a dual action tool So you can go up and down and you can go back and forth and both things do separate things and both things matter So work on controlling both of those uh and controlling the flow that's coming out of your airbrush Uh beyond that I think yeah, you know, uh, watch my how to clean your airbrush fast video that I did I did Somewhat recently that is highly how I would recommend cleaning your airbrush The way most people clean their airbrush is wrong Uh, they like dump a bunch of water in and then blow the whole thing through That's just asking for every bit of nonsense to get trapped down in the thin part and cause clogs I don't ever have clogs It's because I clean my airbrush in the way I show you in that video if you clean your airbrush that way you probably won't have clogs either So there you go Uh, Mitch again, how can I get an old cracked gold texture? similar to an oil painting like the cracks in the face of the Mona Lisa without doing ridiculous fine freehand um Yeah, I mean I don't know that you can without doing ridiculous fine freehand because nothing is going to crack at the right texture um like that is to say, um Anything any kind of crackle paint or anything like that it's going to be way too large that the the cracks will be way too Pronounced you could always try it. You could try very thin crackle paint like crackle paint crackles more the thicker it is So you could try to have it be like a thin application of it that you then paint over the top But it's a tough look man, uh, honestly the the answer is you're probably better off for the freehand if you actually want control Uh, okay Sadly, I do not know an airbrush. Did you have any tips on painting the metallics kinks with a brush? Yeah, sure cold shoulder same thing I said before but just do all that with a brush so like Steel all over that's your base coat and then make put take a brush and apply some little shadows on the lower areas of the volumes And then paint silver on the top parts of the volumes and then paint the chrome on top You can do anything with an airbrush that you can do anything with a brush you can do with an airbrush. It's just speed Uh Oh, that's awesome. He said the high day said the high psi tip worked high risk high reward buddy Okay Uh, let's see Boy, I'm behind. I'm gonna need to speed this up because we're over an hour. So all right Okay, I'm gonna take a drink and then we're gonna we're gonna answer quickly Impulse number four. How would you go about painting albino skin? I would still use a lot of skin tones, but they would be my mid tones and white gray would be my high color And something like infusing purple tones would be the low color That would be my answer Sounds like an interesting topic for a future video. But yes, so I would go like white gray into Mixed into traditional skin tones then down it's like infused with purple Hey Vince, what would be your advice for shooting more colors paints through an airbrush? I was failed to achieve the right consistency Um, I mix them about four or five to one thinner flow improver to paint And I tend to find that works very well. That's my best answer Um Okay, ruben. Hello Vince Uh, you just named the three best colors to mix for highlights. What are the three colors to shade? Yeah, sure. Okay, we can do that. What are kind of some fun universal shade colors? Uh, a very deep purple if you don't know what to shade in shade in purple um A Dark crimson color so like gothic crimson from reaper or any really deep crimson color or whole red or anything like that for your warm shadows And uh deep blue or panes gray any blue black for your cold shadows There you go. Okay uh Max, uh, I want to make some undersea coral themed ostearc bone reapers Can you recommend any techniques for pale pinks and blues? I don't know of anything special with them. Yeah, sounds great. I mean sounds like a really cool theme I would say just use your keep your upper colors De-saturated and and pale and then use the more saturated colors Uh in the shadows, and I think you'll have a real nice coral effect Um, yeah, sounds like a cool idea Uh, okay, uh get save Get get to you. I don't know. I mess up your name every time and I'm not sure what it said what it's supposed to be At any rate Vince. I see you've been working with ak third gen acrylics. Uh, yeah, I mentioned that earlier So yep, I like them. They feel very much like pro acryl uh john dale Any tips for using air dry clay? Uh textured roller when looking to produce 25 millimeter round bases worried about cutting out the rounds and removing details Um, yeah, I have some DOS behind me on a shelf back there. Um, I would put it on the Put it on the mini first like put the clay on the base first Okay, and then you know kind of smooth it out make it nice and flat on the base Let it dry just a little And then with your roller being very wet roll over it one you want one solid roll would you You want to go over the top? That's my advice. That's what I've done with all my bases And I've used a lot of different various sort of epoxies and things on my bases Okay rust belt blacksmith Uh, my store is down to mostly GW airbrush paint every you have you ever used them to brush paint? Yeah, I've got a few of them. They're okay. They're perfectly fine to brush paint. Yeah Uh, now the bright side is uh rust belt the shipping has opened up again So my imagination is that the paint will be back in stock in your store in the next couple weeks, but um But yes, they they are fine to brush paint with there's like a couple airbrush colors. I kind of liked Uh, what was like a xenos purple or something? I thought that was really nice purple. I'm always looking for cool purples um Mitch but it's for blades I don't want to be to do Morden earth and then the bronzer is a possibility thinly without being super time consuming I'm not sure what you're asking me Mitch. Oh, maybe that was to the crackle paint thing Oh, yeah, okay. That's that's what's for yes the crackle paint thing Um, yeah, that's so like I said the crackle paint being thin is you can give a shot Why not give it an experiment, right? What's the worst that happens you ruin one tiny blade who cares you can get replacements for those Um, like a tiny bit. It's just one bit It's not even a whole figure james browning. Uh, thanks for the glue tip. I've thrown so many of those bottles out when they were empty Uh, yes, it's drives me completely insane. I need to make a video about this like just You're right. It's this is this is it. I'm gonna record this video today because it's it's Drives me nuts. Uh, okay I hate that people are throwing away so much stuff. So much perfectly valid valid glue Uh, all right, uh dmn Uh, thanks for mentioning the tip about the loctite. I discovered that a long time ago. I totally changed my glue usage habits Yep, exactly just immediately remove the tubes Uh, oh, that's a good point. Yes. Also, he said the squeeze cart part can be used in terrain He's absolutely right. It's the the little thing inside is actually a cool shape like that thing you're squeezing It's like it's got a flat bottom and it has this weird like branch up. It almost looks like a sci-fi Like power generator thing. It's actually a really cool bit for using for for kit bashing. You're absolutely right Uh, okay Uh, let's see Is ak interactive the same uh as ammo by mig I I don't know if they're both the same thing and I think they're separate Um, I don't I'm sure they have a varnish as well, but I can't speak to that one Uh days is that your varnish combination of choice for oil paints particularly skin tones? Yes Yes, it is that that what I mentioned there of the satin. I'll actually use a little more satin So it doesn't go totally matte on skin I'll actually go for more of like a three to three or something like that Uh, if I'm doing over oils, especially skin tones, but yes Uh, because I want it to be nice and tough Uh, crazy horse question. Have you signed up for nash con yet? And why is it the best to run around? Yes, I have and yes, it is because david is the best to because the terrain is the most amazing Uh, uh, that you're going to get short of going to to mr. Herner who has built entire tables, uh, but the terrain is uh, one of the absolute tops the people are All second to none. Everybody's friendly and awesome And uh, the two list format is one of the most fun way to play fun ways to play So on every Measurable thing as you can see here on all measurable items. It is in fact an awesome tournament Uh, so there you go A scale 75 gold colors Scale 75 gold colors a new recipe since your review. I got them recently not experiencing any problems you had Uh, maybe it could very well be like I had bought those golds way back like when they first released the line Okay, like it was a very They released it. I bought it I mean, maybe a month or two after So, uh, you know, it could very well be that they've changed their recipe around some since then. I I can't say for sure I don't generally Use any other metal paints, but the lejo metal color. So I wouldn't have had occasion to um All right Uh, so david's talking about mixing the white spirits with the winds are new and oil paints and you uh You couldn't get it down there. So the key is when you're mixing it in a bottle That's why you want to mix it actually in a bottle and have your your premix because then you're going to put in agitators And you're going to agitate it a lot. It's going to shake shake shake Shake shake shake shake that paint bottle and uh, and then you'll get it down into a consistency But it really has to like it has to get all mixed in each other's stuff Uh, let's see Anthony, um Glad I got here before the end looking at doing cobblestone bases for more time If I wanted to do rain, would you suggest just resin varnish puddles or how would you make the stones look wet? Yeah, I would do some puddles. Um, I would do some, you know washes of like do some kind of glossy washes like, um, gw makes like, um um Gloss cp You can also just take some gloss varnish mix it with a little cp wash and just kind of spread that around near the Puddles, then they'll look kind of slick. You don't want it everywhere. You just kind of want it around Uh, and the reason I'm saying with some cp of color because it should look dirty. It's you know cobblestone cities There's dirt in between the rocks. So it's going to be dirty water like instantaneously um Yeah, yeah, that's what I would say. Uh, I don't think you actually want to model rain falling You can do that there is a way it's real complicated, but you can do rain actually falling and that's madness um Like you do it near the ground and you can look have puddles and stuff Uh, okay, uh, who icon I tried following banshee mixing his paints and my eyes bled from my brain exploding Yes, I mean banshee's a good example of somebody who just like he has this. I mean he is an artist You know just at the absolute top of the game He's also I believe younger than me which is hurtful, but at any rate, um he uh Watching game work is really fantastic. I've I've um I've taken some classes with him and stuff. He's a really nice guy. I want to get him on the interview show sometime Um, so I I'd really love to speak with him. He's such a such a great artist He's in the middle of a bunch of stuff right now So but I want to reach out to him and see if I can get him sometime He's here to come on the interview with an artist show because he really is wonderful and his approach is so fast. He just he's he's mixed colors so many times. He does have that kind of intuitive understanding of it, but that wasn't That was that's purchased talent, right and that he's worked very hard at that Kelly haven't I'm going to take your advice and reinvent space wolf's colors. What color do you see in your mind when you think vikings? Yeah, certainly not baby powder blue. I'll tell you that much Uh in my head when I see when I think vikings. I think of uh deep Reds, especially crimson's and teals. I often think of like viking shields as being sort of that teal color. Um Like a blue green. That's what I see as as space wolves They're sorry not space wolves as vikings. Sorry. And then obviously like your standard, you know Browns and stuff like that lots of leathers and black letters and brown leathers Any tips for getting mold lines off very textured or bumpy surfaces? Oh, this one came up last time. Yeah, sure. Um Scrape tiny files. There are there are little tiny file sticks you can get those are really good to go in there. Um, you can take a piece of, um Sandpaper a fine sandpaper like a 400 good sandpaper fold it Like that Maybe a couple times if you need to thicken it up like maybe you fold it twice and then you just go Through there Uh, you can also get These little things. These are little little tiny scraper uh Things you can order from japan That have different shapes and are very very fine with sharp blades on the edge I don't think you're gonna be able to see the blade edge, but it's there Um, maybe you can see it there in the reflection That's where your blade edge is and those are really nice because those are super tiny Um, you can get those from Stores that that by modeling stuff from japan. I don't know what their name is or what they're called I just found them one day and bought them and really like them. Um So, yeah, hopefully all of that stuff. Hey vince just want to say thanks for all what you're doing Oh, well happy to absolutely Uh, okay Quick fire round continues. Hey vince not playing ask anything just currently do some airbrush Painting a sub. Oh, well awesome. That sounds cool, man neat. Uh, I do love like that's that's uh Like a big scale model like that where you get a really, you know Get into some good airbrushing some good weathering that kind of stuff Uh, mitch. Hey vince any words of warning advice for dark purple flesh using it for my dock? But results vary from what I've tried so far I'd like to do a variety of tones to reflect how diverse human skin is Yeah, avoid making it too overtly dark and use Something like a Caucasian flesh tone like I mentioned earlier to highlight it to create your volumes So keep in mind only 50 of the surface would need to be a deep purple to make the skin read purple That gives you another half of the surface to play with you can you can do other colors with So just like my skin is, you know, Caucasian But look at how much white and light and stuff like that. There is up here. How much red how much shadow is all blue right so You know like Same thing there Uh, let's see Some guy. Hey vince. What was the the name of that badger blue paint you really liked plasma fluid Uh, I still like it. I just don't have much occasion to use it much anymore It's the the the ghost hint paints are a little tough to work with but um, and I found kind of other replacements, but it's bad It's plasma fluid. It's a good color Uh, rayon. Hey vince. I can't get any vallejo metal. What other metal paint would you suggest and what colors will you suggest in the paint? If you absolutely positively can't get vallejo metal color Can't order from anyone or anywhere or have it shipped from overseas. It would be worth going to the expense Now that being said if you can't they're thankfully there is a fallback The fallback answer is you go get yourself some scale 75 And their steel set which was designed by banshee actually Um Is good like the speed metal is a good paint. It's a solid b. It's not an a plus But it's a solid b still a very passing grade. It's admirable work So that speed metal and the rest of the paint in that set is what I would what I'd recommend Uh vince is using pointillism as a blending method a good idea Sure, if you if you have a ton of patience and a very fine hand and he tips on how to do it I mean do it lots of tiny dots that you very very slowly make change the color mix on Uh, so that kind of pointillism by the way is how coroque and I have often paints a lot of his stuff That isn't textured differently. He uses pointillism quite a bit You would know it because when you look at his stuff, you don't see that But that's what it is. It's just thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of tiny tiny tiny dots That are slowly slowly slowly changing colors Uh, I've I've taken a class of them where he teaches you how to paint and in that I learned that one He is a master and his spine is made of titanium that he can sit there and do that for that long And two that I am not I do not have that level of metal So there you go, but yeah, that's that's the sort of short answer Uh Have you seen liquatex's muted violet ink? Hmm. No, but I like that. I'll have to go check that out. I'm always looking for more purples So thank you, anthony liquatex muted violet. Okay, got it Oh got it. So ak and meg used to be one company, but now they're two separate companies. All right, cool All right It's not a judgment shrunk. I know that the standard space wolf color is is uh powder blue Um, I just I find it hilarious that the the meanest roughest vikingest most feral Warriors in the galaxy Are like what color shall our armor be? baby blue I I take it it was something a little good with snow in their snowy home, which it does It's just funny to me I I don't like space wolf color. I really really I don't like space wolves As a general rule. I've hated them since third edition when they used to kick my teeth in my Down my throat. I never liked them or their rules or their background Uh And uh, I'm glad their planet got blown up. So there you go or whatever happened lit on fire I guess that's what happened Oh, it's fine. If you like space wolves, which a lot of people do it's super cool I get it. They are aesthetically a pretty cool and unique faction in the 40k space ring world. All right Uh, but yes, I do like their 30k color scheme as well. I actually like most of the 30k color schemes a lot Like the death guard I always do in In the 30k scheme the only nergal thing I'll pay is death guard and their 30k scheme is So much better than their 40k scheme in my in my personal opinion Uh All right, there we go Okay, uh, so I think that brings us to the end of our time. There we go. I'm out of questions So, uh, thank you everybody. This was absolutely great. I hope this was all helpful and some good questions Do me a favor as you're watching right now. Please hit the like button You know doing these q and a is awesome. I want to make sure I'm helping as many people as possible And uh, you know hitting that like button helps increase the engagement. 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