 All right, there we go. Hello everybody and welcome to another interview with the artist and Today, I'm very excited because we are joined by my old pal a meal squid mar I'm doing fine. How are you doing? I'm doing pretty well I look I want to start off just with a question real quick Which is do you regret choosing squid mar as your mini and having like being referred to constantly a squid mar and squid Did you realize what you would create it when you initially chose that name? I think I love it to be honest I think it's fantastic It's very unique and the nice part is it comes with like its own It comes like its own Mascot like you've got the little squid as your mascot. You're set right out the gate. That's You got to find this sort of brand name Yeah, I'm happy Well, sir, I'm very glad we managed to make this happen I know you're in the middle of a bunch of stuff. You're always a busy man making some great videos You're making minis. You made brushes and yeah, I You're all over the place. You're a man of many and myriad talents, which we're gonna talk about today Yeah, it's been it's been an intense 2020 to say the least Yeah, most people have been taking it easy you know not at all. Yeah, it's been the opposite, but I'm having fun So that's that's like the The main thing I'm happy about that. There we go. All right, so before we get into what you're doing now And I want to take time. I really want to dig into especially all these projects of this stuff You're doing because I think it's really cool. I want to get into the the journey, right? Where are you started? Yeah, so because Not that like I feel like Aslan a bit right when he's like I was there when the deep magic was made, you know, like I remember so so Because I've been looking at your stuff for a while and it was it just impressed me how fast you ramped up and stuff like that, but I want to share that with everybody else so Yeah, when you start painting what got you into painting when you first start deciding Yeah, so, I mean if we go way way way back as most people I started as a kid I think it was 11 maybe 12. I had some friends who were playing at the local store here in Umeå Which is still around. It's still one of the biggest ones in Sweden even though we have a tiny city and the people there were really like encouraging had Painting competitions young blood painting competitions and I just like painting was a big part for me even back then and and I played for I think about three years and Was this fancare in 40k? Yeah, fantasy I picked up some like old orcs and I got some given to me from This is like my dad's boss bonus son or something like that So I had a bunch of 40k stuff, but I only played fantasy and then I came back into miniatures about That's gonna be three years ago now, I think yeah three years ago So yeah, what what Chris what what prompted? The the return right? What was the catalyzing event there? Did you just like get filled with nostalgia one day and look around did you did you wander by a games? Workshop store or something and the the bright lights drew you in like a like a siren song. What was it? Yeah, so I have Like the story I always tell and I think that's that's the closest to the truth is that I Really really needed a creative output and I had been looking at Warhammer like Every fourth year maybe like going on the website like what's happening I want to get back into it, but I never did and I was just really like Creatively drained I would say from my my job that I was doing as a photographer in advertisement and Yeah, I just needed to do something differently so I wrote one of my friends and he helped me get into it sent me some links to YouTube channels and obviously your channel was one of them. So That's why you you know what happened I got started because I was Quite engaged in in your community already back then and yeah the paint painters motivating painters and everything like that So yeah, it was great. I remember I remember reviewing lots of your minis during the monthly review and watching just how fast you you came up to speed so Up speeds the wrong way to say it. That's that that seems like there's some kind of bar You're trying to reach and that's not really what I mean. What I mean is How much you progressed every month was really impressive? Yeah, and Even looking now as I was looking through your stuff and watching your recent videos It really struck me because I went back for this and also looked at stuff from years ago, right? And it's sort of a boiling the frog thing, you know, it's hard for us to see our own progress Right until you take something you painted five years ago and put it next to or whatever and put it next to something You painted yesterday and you're like, oh my god I really I really have actually improved right because you don't find a notice Yeah, your own stuff. You're sure always feel like oh, there's more I can do. Yeah, and everyone else is better, right? Right exactly, but that's that's fact. So What was it that like what was your What were your techniques? What were you're going? What was your go-to? How were you learning when you come back into it? Yeah, because I come from like I'm not sure art background is the right word, but Because I was doing photography and a lot of my photography were like Photoshop and read retouch Base that was working a lot with flashes shooting in studios and then recompositing images. So I had this sort of Somewhat art background I've been working in photography and working with lights and kind of understanding how light falls on faces and things like that yep, so so the biggest thing for me was to kind of understand how to How to put that into this new medium learning how a brush works and learning How I can take this light that I got like when I when I use photography I have the shape naturally and I just have to adjust the light a bit when I get this nice light for the Rembrandt light or whatever But in painting I had to do it all manually. So that was sort of the biggest thing but I also feel like if I would go back to photography now, I would probably have improved a lot because Yeah, learning to paint a miniature is it's a different beast. So Yeah, yeah, I think that the photography such an interesting background because I think truly and this is sort of a thing that I really Hold in my heart is that the great journey of miniature painting is actually just a study in light Yeah, right like that and photography is the same thing. It's all about light Um, and then you have like color and composition is secondary Right, sure. And it's yeah, it's not that those things don't matter in miniature painting Of course composition matters. Of course color matters. There's lots of things to it But in the end so much of what I'm thinking about so much of what I focus on so much of when you look at pieces that really strike you It's almost always the light and that person's control of the light, right? Yeah And so that's great that you had a leg up. This is you know, there's I think there's a couple Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I mean that's that's because I like a lot of people are like when you read on forums on on facebook, especially There are these memes sort of like me after 10 hours and then youtuber after 10 minutes And it's like the binge piece in the bottom and there's the one with the Googly eyes on the on the 10 hour one and and people are always complaining like how Like the I really don't see myself as a master, but if we say like Alfonso Giraldes or Are now lots of how they can paint something in five hours and it looks like a masterpiece And it's it's not like they started painting miniatures and a year later They magically ended up there, right? Some of them come from an art background where they illustrated for 10 years Or they started the painting paintings when they were 10 years And they could apply all of that into their their new thing So as I said for me the the the thing was to learn like I do not enjoy using washes because I can't control it the way I want so The first three months when I was using washes like nothing looked like I wanted it to be So it's a lot of those kind of steps I needed to take but then when I had taken those steps and learned how to control the brush and the flow of the paint and everything uh I had already taken like the first 100 steps And then I could take like the last 10 ones just to Kind of that's why the journey looks faster than it actually is Well, it's funny because when we start painting and maybe this is the same for you I don't know like depending. I guess the people we have around us People tend to focus on the technical of like The colors of the paint and the paint application again and not that these things are bad They are all things you need to know and learn But I don't think anybody ever talked to me about really understanding lighting when I was starting painting Right. No, no, I totally agree and and that's one of the subjects I I try to like convey in my videos like It doesn't matter what which paint you use like sure You can get a really nice tone if you use my favorite colors But if you don't learn how to place it where to place them, it's it's not gonna Look the way you want it So, yeah, exactly Exactly. Um, all right, cool So my other computer just had a little freak out for a minute that I was watching this on So I was like wondering what the heck was happening as it suddenly had I've been trying to have a one screen with you neon on the side and then I had a chat on the other side Yeah, exactly every time I move the mouse everything just like What's happening? All right, so I know you have a love Of old school orcs, right? Because one of my one of my favorite videos That you've done is you with that giant haul of the like really old I think they were like mostly 40k orcs or something, but I'm not sure I don't like the old Space orcs, right? Yeah And did that come out of your fantasy days playing them? Do you just all do you just love orcs? Like what's your what what is the attachment there? Yeah, I always loved orcs. That's like who doesn't uh, I know you had a They had to ease up on you, uh, but They they snuck in it wasn't it wasn't an initial love, but eventually they work their way into my heart. Yes, exactly Yeah, but now I just always love the works even from the beginning um So that was one of the things like I was playing wood elves because wood elves was my other like huge love I had other loves too, but those two were kind of the main ones and I actually picked up one of the One of the mega bosses From 40k in metal. He has like a claw and and one big gun and some banner I don't even know his name But I had picked that one up because I was like, yeah, if I'm ever going to start with 40k That's that's the army. I'm gonna do so I picked that one up and I was given this old box with the old Like rogue trader era orcs and second-edition orcs and that was sort of like um You know, uh, it's we didn't recall it when the when the coin drops and we just kind of like, uh You know, you just realized that this is I do love this, uh, but I quit playing like half year after that So I never got really to realize them. I painted a few of them, but you know, it just ended there uh and then I can't remember what what was the catalyst now when I got back to it. Uh, there was something Can't remember if I picked it. Yeah, I remember I got one of these like Loot boxes. I I scourge facebook marketplace and things like that for Boxes of like old minis that people sure sell off from their like, uh, garage or whatever and I got a few of those minis in the box and that was just like I need to get them all now So I spent a few months just buying orcs Yeah Is this it okay? I want to talk about with your current output projects Yeah How much bigger are your eyes? Then your time to actually complete the projects You understand what i'm asking like You've got all these orcs and even in the video you were like, look, I don't know if i'm ever going to get to paint these But I want to right how much do you find yourself collecting stuff for projects that's because of the Endless endless loop like until you're making content, right? You don't like it's just an endless cycle You are never off the treadmill How much do you still have time for your own projects? Right now But I try to incorporate like some of the personal stuff into videos as like as much as I can but A lot of times it's like So for example my next week's video I'm giving back An army to a person who was forced to sell all this hobby stuff last year So we Picked up and we like calculated. I think it was like two thousand six hundred fifty dollars worth of tau bottles So we built it up and painted it up and I mean it was like a month's Work right for one video And we've done that spread out over I think four months too Because you know I can't take a month off and not release any videos and just do that right, uh, so we had to spread it out and And when you do stuff like that, it's really hard to kind of just take one week and just paint your own minis but Yeah, I hope to do that more because I'm hired an editor Who works now full-time for me? so Hopefully that's going to speed things up and I have another guy who helped me a little bit extra. So Yeah, awesome. Awesome. See because I I want to see you get those orcs painted. I'm pulling for you, buddy I want you to know that like I I can't wait Yeah, and now I have a thunderhawk to build. Yeah. Yeah, exactly Is that thing in resin or is it metal? No, it's metal Holy moses Yeah, you're gonna be running some pounds. It's gotta be like 18 16 to 18 pounds somewhere. Oh my god It's metal That's uh, that's gonna be a project. That's gonna be like painting a dog Yeah Yeah, exactly. Uh This on the bright side getting that Will probably put you off of ever getting like a warlord titan or anything You'll never you'll never go down that road once you're done. Yeah, and the thing is like I actually hate painting metal. So Uh, this is gonna be fun But i'm really excited about it at the same time So I so I wanted to ask you there because I have like I have this older video called I hate metal models and I do truly hate metal models Yeah, you and me both absolutely and somebody just commented on it like a day or two ago And they were like you need to ask You need to ask squiddy about his metal thunderhawk and I was like there's no way that thing can be metal Like how could it be metal? It'd be like 20 pounds. It is That's insane Uh, well Bright I had some regrets when I opened up in this unboxing video. I'm sure I'm sure Uh, I mean bright side you have a once you do get it put together and painted you have a really dangerous weapon ready at hand Should everyone ever? Oh, yeah in your place. You just grab that thing hit somebody with it. They're dead. That's it Nobody can take that thing and let's be honest here Like 99 of the people who bought the thunderhawk didn't even assemble it. So If I actually assemble it and paint it It's going to be like one out of 10 painted or something Absolutely, absolutely. So I mean that that's something to to look forward to so You've got like This is a ridiculous request and you shouldn't do it. I want you to know this you need to not do this I'm giving you bad advice. Okay? Okay That needs to be painted and then brought to like the gold demon warhammer fest In uh in in in england. So that way we can all see this painted metal thunderhawk Uh, oh my god, I don't know. Maybe I could enter the like the open competition. Oh, it could go in vehicle There's no reason I get still a vehicle. No, I know. I think you have to enter something that's currently Available for purchase in in like the categories It doesn't have to be currently available, but I'll tell you the only way you're going to win anything Like here, this is why I'm telling you I'm giving you terrible advice. Like it's valid It just has to be a game's workshop reduced monk. So so here's the thing mid-winter minis. He bought the the Mars patent titan. Yeah, and on my video he commented like the next warhammer world warhammer fest Uh, let's play a game like yours versus mine. Sure So challenge is accepted there. So if I'm going to warhammer fest, I'm going to bring it to uk anyway, so Why not? I mean I'm just saying win or lose in the category, which I mean generally I will say they do have a strong bias towards currently produced miniatures Win or lose actual Thing that's a win. You would be the talk of the convention. That's that's the reality I'm gonna do it and we have like the video title there. I entered golden demon with a 30 year old miniature. I mean, that's Boom that is ready made content. That is just Bang done awesome All right, so I mean, let's talk about competitions a little since we kind of spun off into that Obviously, this has been a rough year. Were you What have you managed to get into as far as competitions go because you really just You know start to spin up, okay Right in the year probably you wanted to compete Uh, so and and here's the thing like I have not painted a single mini to my highest standard this year. So Um, yeah, it's been a lot of video producing if we put it that way But at the same time, like I learned to paint faster and So when I'm actually gonna paint for competition, it's probably gonna be a lot Easier for me to get to the level I want. All right. So what are the competitions you want to go to? Let's let's fast forward the clock. It's 2022 The world is back to normal knock on any type of wood throw salt over my shoulder Whatever I have to do to avoid the curse. I just brought down on jump over black cats. Yeah, exactly Whatever Uh, what what would you know in your perfect year? What competitions do you want to get to what would you hope to go check? So if if I'm honest, uh I'm not very driven by competitions at the moment. Uh, but if you put that to the side, uh Like crystal brush The way it used to be I think that would be the Like the The one that I would most like be most excited about Taking part of and and winning Because I feel like that's the one that's most At least of the big ones that's most open for different styles of painting and Uh, and different types of miniatures you can show up with against workshopini and win But you can also show up with Uh, uh, own sculpted miniature Yeah, something that Michael Charest did just for you or whatever. Yeah, exactly and we've seen Sevill Cal We'll do that and uh, Antonio Pena and And they've done amazing things But in Europe there are so many ones like uh, Montes and Civino scale model challenge Uh, world expo And obviously obviously golden demon. That's one of these like childhood dreams. So Uh, yeah, I mean Like all of them But I think it's a fair brush the way it used to be. Gotcha. Be probably the number one Yeah, I'm sure somebody like good ideas never really die. So I'm sure give it a long enough time frame You'll see something like that come around again. So yeah, I think so and and the hobby is growing. So exactly Whoever invest investor does that first. He's gonna Make his money back. Sure. It's it's only a matter of time. So, you know, until then I'm just excited that After seven years away, we actually got a well, we should have what you're supposed to Get a golden demon back in the back in the states never actually happened. But And we like for me a big thing why I wasn't going to any competitions early on is like I have Young kids and small children and just like going away for a week and a half. Uh, It's not as easy as it used to be That's understandable. That's understandable. Uh, but here's what I'll say I hope whatever the next fest is Whenever the next warhammer fest is science where they host the big golden demon whenever it happens I'll be there. I hope to see you there, brother. I want to see you there I want to see you walk into the room hoisting that thunder hop Just above your head like the boombox Like this you're gonna you're gonna be able to hold it for like five minutes maximum workout Yeah Then you're you're done for the year Let's work out Awesome Okay, um So I want to talk about I mean like obviously You make a lot of videos a lot of great videos in a lot of different formats So I want to talk because that's as much of a hobby as actually painting the figures What's your journey been like with You know with making videos with having such a successful channel like, you know What what prompted you to start doing that and then what's kept you going, right? Okay, you're gonna have to ask the second question again because I'm gonna forget it as I Talk about the first question but uh, so I was like Me deep in miniature painting when I like started painting I like that was the the only thing I could think about and I was talking to all my friends who didn't care about Miniature painting about like look at this media. I painted I have to get you into painting too and Like most of them didn't care But I had this one friend who's been one of my best friends for many years and we've always pushed pushed each other both creatively and like in terms of Work and and things like that And he was like Because we were both doing photography He was he's in switzerland and i'm in sweden and he was like dude You have to you have to stop doing photography You have to start a youtube channel and do this and I was like, yeah, sure whatever And he just kept bugging me about it for like six months And he was like this this is your call in life And I was like sure whatever whatever you say and I just tried doing like an unboxing video And that was kind of fun. So I did uh one where I did like first basis and I kind of just snowballed from there because I was having a lot of fun and people were really appreciative even from the beginning uh, so that was kind of The introduction to it and I think I think he was right. Uh, I think it's At least one of my callings in life to just have fun and make videos and entertain and Yeah, nice That's awesome. Yeah, and I think that you do a good job of communicating the information Uh, in a really accessible way, which is good. Like that's the that's the hallmark of being able to share it, right? But yeah, it's like it's fun. It's not it's it's you clearly have a good talent For this kind of production. So the follow-up question was what's kept you going? Is it just that like because you you know, the quality of your videos is obviously increased, right? So yeah, you find yourself. No, it's a it's a learning process and I think especially like in front of the camera uh, because english is obviously my second language uh and that that has been the biggest part to Feel comfortable again speaking english every day and doing it in front of a camera being relaxed Because in the beginning I was like editing every word because I was studying or I was saying Um between every word in a sentence. So I had to edit out like 20 ums in one sentence So things like that has improved a lot Uh, and also it's like I have so many ideas and so many fun things I want to do Whether it's, you know, ordering a miniature. I would I thought I'd never have in my entire life Uh, like the thunder hawk sure Or it's You know doing the masterclass video we did for elant for like my own dream bus that I like the one I was really excited about making myself So, uh, yeah, it's just more ideas all the time. So that's kind of pushing me to the next You know stage and of course the community. That's one of the things that Uh, you can't see past like having people engaged and positive and happy around you That just makes you excited about things It really keeps you going. It's absolutely true, right? Yeah 100% Well, and that leads right to the next thing. So that's exactly like you're you're just setting me up for these segues, man It's great. Mm-hmm. Okay. It's like we practice So Recently you you not just not just your making videos, but you made your own brushes You've got miniatures to do the Kickstarter or all this, right? Yeah, by the way, before we get into that how stressful did you find running the Kickstarter? Oh, I to be honest, I think it's even more stressful now but I mean that's we could we could take a discussion about that later, but It was very intense. I think it was like three months of working Probably 80 hours a week Yeah So that was a lot of and we also did videos during this whole Kickstarter process So Yeah, I don't I don't even know What say like that is the exact response. I was expecting everybody I know Who's including myself who's ran a Kickstarter? Yeah, it's been successful It is one of the most stressful things you can ever do in your entire life. It's unreal How I think from the outside it it feels like oh, you just put it up and then people throw money at you and then that's it And it's like Oh my god, it is just endless hours of work not just Leading up to it and then throughout the whole thing and then after it It has this huge build up in the super long tail. Yeah, and the thing that people don't see I mean, it's it could be things like So they're having a strike in Italy at the post office. So they can't ship me busts in time I mean just things like that that just you know keeps adding up and people Think we're just being lazy about not shipping their stuff, uh, you know, right, you know all about it I I very much do. Yes All right, but As we could sit here and have a fun little joint, uh winch section about I don't think that's the content people to do more So, uh, tell me about making your own Brushes getting your own miniatures. Like yeah, what led you to want to do that? Yeah, so I mean Miniatures, I think it's kind of self-explanatory like it's awesome to have ideas of miniatures you want to do Um, a few of them was from a video series that I did Where I let my audience first pitch ideas of busts And then we went on fiber to have concepts artists do it and then the viewers could vote on which Concepts was the best and then we took the concepts to sculptors and then they could vote on the sculpts And then we made miniatures into them. Uh, so that was kind of Yeah, my own thing was a few of them and then some of them were the viewers Uh, just as much as mine And the brushes themselves is I've I've since I started painting. I've probably tried 50 different brands brushes Right and three four different versions of every brush from every brand and I was talking to The owner of the local gaming store here and he was like Why don't you just make your own? Uh, so reached out to a few brush Brands and asked if anyone was excited about it and the one we ended up going with was Da Vinci, obviously Right How they sent us a bunch of brushes and I wrote down notes of if I wanted them longer or thinner or Thicker and which size I wanted for the m and snl and everything And yeah, then we came up with the brushes that just was my favorite type of brushes the the softness You know the thickness the belly the length everything so it fits my painting style And yeah, I just made a video talking about it and then we Planned the Kickstarter and yeah, that's where we ended up. Nice. Nice Uh, yeah, it's such a personal thing, right the exact right amount of softness Of snap of like the length of the bristles. It's yeah, absolutely. Like there's that's why I always encourage people Not to just Like it's good to get a nice brush, but don't just buy one and just like assume that's your brand forever Yeah, different. There are differences in these brushes. So you should try multiple ones Try squintars and see if it's the one for you, right? Like that's that's the answer. Yeah Yeah, and I this as you say it's so personal because I know a lot of people they love the artist opus but for me they were a little bit too long and I had trouble with the control because of that and Some love winster newton and some hate winster newton. So it's really like Yeah, find your own favorite. This was mine. There you go. It's that easy. Yeah So do you are you going to have uh, are you going to continue uh with miniature creation with having more more miniatures in the future? Yeah You don't need to tell me the exact stuff. Just is that something you want to continue exploring? Yeah, so I'm I mean for me that's I have creating miniatures I was so creatively fulfilled doing that. Gotcha. And I mean there were two of them that were sort of my own I'm completely own thing and that was the the old guy with the small ferrets and the elf With the squid on the shoulder. Yeah And I had so so much fun doing that and when they were done I was so proud of them and it really felt like, you know, my own creation Even though I had other artists do concepts and sculpt them But yeah, that was so much fun. So I'm I'm already planning to do a few more and tell a bit more of a story about sort of These characters and the world that they're in. So, uh, yeah Awesome, that's a little bit more about I think but if it's a year away if it's nine months If it's two years, let's see. I'm gonna let it take the time it it needs So I don't have to kill myself from overworking. Yeah, absolutely I mean we just we live in this golden age It's so far beyond anything that I grew up with of Miniatures that are available the range of miniatures the types, you know scales It's it's Wonderful to have all this out there and every time I see somebody Making new stuff with it's really beautiful like you did. It's really exciting because it's just It's fantastic for all of us who just want to paint beautiful stuff. So yeah And and like for me as well, I learned so much like From that and I'm gonna take with me both like as a painter and as a miniature maker So hopefully the next ones will be even better and I'll have even more fun when I paint them And so I can only recommend you to do the same. It's so much fun. Yeah, one of the things I I love watching miniature painters create Minis because then I know they're made For painters if that makes sense like that you you you're naturally looking through a painter's eye We've all gotten those figures that you look at and you're like Whoever sculpted this has never put a brush Into paint in their life because this is this is just completely unfun to paint, right? Like the sculpt doesn't want to be painted. We've all seen that, right? Yeah I think games workshop falls for that a few times because a lot of their things are made for their style of painting So for someone who paints with volumes, some of their stuff is just terrible to paint New elves. Well, they also love the bejangles. That's another one of the things that drive me crazy My biggest issue with them. There's just so much stuff on them. I just Like I love the sculpts. I think they're fantastic and especially with the new release I'm like I want to buy all of it. But then I see like all these details and jangles and I'm like I'm never going to paint that right never But yeah, there are some fantastic sculpt sculptures sculptors Out there who do amazing things Yeah, yep, exactly. It's I think that you probably have the same taste as I do in this regard where like Can I get a little bit of negative space here? Can I have something to let the miniature breathe So that I can express my own take on the on the boy that are happening here, right? It's not every inch of the miniature is covered in something, right? Yeah Yeah, I see a lot of this too in in 3d printable stuff. Yeah There are some I think could do an amazing job with this and then there are some who Do like really really really cool sculpts But then when you paint them, it's like I'm not really sure where this volume is going. I'm not sure where this thing Needs to be highlighted It makes it hard to have to be a bit more selective with that stuff I am going to post a miniature probably tomorrow that I just finished up earlier today that has that exact story where I was just like Man, I want to like this thing, but you're making it hard on me, you know what I mean like All right, like yeah, okay Um, yes, I completely understand what you're saying. Let me just say that. There you go Uh, all right, cool Well, let's take it. Let's uh, let's Let's sidestep here. Let's look at some minis. We've had this chaplain up the whole time over here But but let's yeah, let's look at some other fun. That's actually I think my First painting commission I ever did. Wow Okay, uh, so it's it's close to my heart But it's not the best piece I've done But it's it was a good place to start. That's why I wanted it. It's a nice beginning of the journey I don't know that these are necessarily in chronological order, but they're in an order Uh, so that's fine. Uh, so now we've got a larial. So tell us about uh a larial and when you painted her And yeah, love the base by the way, you're right in my wheelhouse here on it So with larial I started I had painted for I think maybe five months when I started painting on her Uh, and I just picked up picked up my airbrush So I was kind of experimenting with that as well a little bit on her And the base was the first thing that I did And that I did maybe even like two months before I started painting on her because I wanted to have it It also has like a light in it an LED light So it like shines red crystals in there Uh in the little cave um And yeah, I like it took me quite a few months to finish her because I repainted the skin So you didn't really know how to paint skin when I painted her So I had to kind of figure out what to do to get to the place that I wanted to Uh, it's the the kind of stuff that once you've painted for a while, you know which steps to take Uh, but if you have sort of the visual idea in your head, but you don't know how to get there It takes a lot of time Uh, but yeah, so that was my like army centerpiece And the army won best in show when I entered my first tournament nice So yeah Yeah, and you're making some really strong choices here earlier on early on I want to draw your attention To this red under shade slash shadow color you're using the sort of whole red tone Up under the Beatles Stabby parts mandibles. I don't know what they are. We'll call them stabby parts Uh, I just I love that, you know using instead of just a normal darker green using the red to keep it much more interesting The contrast vibrant Um having the head of the beetle go into like this bright fiery red It's it's really extreme But then you tried to balance it out with lots of like red on the base and red on her hand and stuff like that Red up on the swords and stuff or whatever these things are her little soul amorphae pods or whatever they're called So the terrible parts to build Yes, exactly. You gotta keep all that crap separate. Yep. Yep Uh, so I just I really like that and I like the natural patterning you did on the beetle as well like just this sort of Uh, it feels very much like a real creature with this that sort of like stipple. Yeah Yeah, I was super proud of it when I did it. I still am And a lot of I've talked about this a lot in in my videos that You have these sort of uh, the way that you've grown up the art you see when you're a kid the shows you see on tv You get this sort of like pre It's hard to put the english words right here, but like you have this Uh, pre-conceived preferences. Maybe it's right way to put it that that you don't maybe actively know that why you prefer them yep, and greens and like natural like colors like browns I've always liked them and I think that's because of the environment I live in I live near the forest There's a lot of like greens here and a lot of like the classical swedish painters like young bauer for example Uh, did like all of his artworks in like greens and browns and it's always like natural tones So I always kind of tend to go back to that Gotcha the sort of naturalistic Yeah, yeah, but but also like punching in other colors obviously, but If you look at my artworks, you're gonna find a lot of greens and browns Gotcha that explains my love for pastels growing up on a steady guide of like early 80s cartoons and Bright colored cereal while I was while I was watching those cartoons. So there you go Yeah, I think that's a really interesting topic. There's uh one one of my favorite photographers they like a whole week in work workshop about it and Again, like coins dropping Around me what I was listening to is like all makes so much sense now Nice nice, uh, okay, so she's great. Let's keep the journey going here. So Uh, would you And next up we have this this guy now. I'm partial to this guy. This is the your mega boss. I can't see which one Okay, yeah, he'll come up in a second. Yeah, yeah, there's a little bit of a delay That's why I always start talking first that way. I buy us time for it to catch up Um, so this is your mega boss. This guy's obviously still showing up on your on your channel banner We all love this guy. Uh, this is one of my favorite sculpts. They've ever done Uh, I think this mega boss is an absolute like he's just such a joy to paint, right? Oh, yeah, yeah So, uh, what made you want to do this guy? Uh, here's a question. I wanted to ask you Let me let me answer the question before you ask you. Okay, David soper. Yep, that's it You knew you knew Yeah, I mean So anyone who watches golden demon stuff anyone who's been around for Three four years have seen the original which is david sopers version of it And when I did this one, it was sort of like a test for me to see how far I could take it uh, so I had printed out photos of his and pretty much Copying like every inch by inch just seeing how far I could take it and I improved so much from doing this piece And obviously I I'm not David soper, so it's not gonna look like his piece, but It's like 95 inspired with a touch of squid mar So but yeah, I have him to thank for so much because I learned so much from copying him on this one Well, it's it's interesting that you say that because I mean like I I felt that influence and I was like, yeah You know, it feels like I mean his that that mega boss is a real standout piece of it. Yeah, I mean It's even it's way better than mine, but I mean we don't have to go there No, but this is it's just fantastic and I really like Your take on it And I think that's interesting that you actually were trying to like learn from it through Replication and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. You know, right a lot of times really important Yeah, when they start writing they'll write like in the voice or try to mimic other writers. They like Right that kind of thing and I think it can help teach you stuff Do you recommend that other people try the same thing like find artists? They like and try to like oh, yeah You can do to come close. Yeah, that's nothing. Yeah, I've actually Just recorded a video about it So it will be yeah, I will cover the topic a little bit and and kind of the steps that I took to to You know, there's the things that helped me improve and and that is definitely one of them And just remember to credit the the original artist. I think that's you know Important but other than that, you know copy as much as you can to improve and learn and Yeah, yeah, um, have you considered returning back to this guy and trying again? Like putting your own spin on it now with where you went I have so many other stuff. I want to do I rarely Like I rarely enjoy repainting something again I had fun doing because I've done Elon's, you know my bust with the squid right then I won three times but Other than that, I I prefer to do something else something different I don't get to paint as much as I wish because the video production takes so much time. Sure So, yeah Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah, it's interesting because for me I think that there's I would say I'm mostly the same way But I wonder if this is you know, you mentioned painting the bust that you did three times For me, I'm mostly the same way. It's like it's fun to do a new thing Right, you want to keep exploring new sculpts new new visions But I think there are a couple like a couple of figs that I keep coming back to Because they just hit so well like something about them Appealed really deeply to me. So I wondered if there were any sculpts like that for you, right? Anything you saw and you were just like, you know what? I could do this more Yeah, I mean There's a lot of like smaller miniatures like Primaris intercessors. Sure. That's one of these sculpts that Like I'm not a space marine fan. But boy, do I love painting primaris for some reason. I don't know why it's super fun Uh, they're so they're just such a great miniature to paint like the the intercessors that kind of primaris the new stuff They're there's something really Wonderful about the volumes on there. They're they're they're exactly what we were talking about earlier Yeah, I think one of the things that like they just nailed there is it's only basic shapes pretty much have no like Alternative shapes or you know things like that the stormcasts are quite similar But they have a little bit of like s shapes and things like that Yeah, uh, but and and like there's a lot of open surfaces for Your own interpretation So you can work with obvious sorts of lighting you can do like remnant lighting you can Paint super reflective metallic or you can paint matte metallics. You can paint ceramites, you know There's so much to do with it. Uh Yeah, yeah Yeah, I agree. It's it's an interesting call out because it is almost like this I don't know what I want to say like an anatomical bust right that kind of thing where you see, you know Like a simple bust you can use to just Like uh, like you mentioned banshee earlier, right? Like what banshee had with his Like very straightforward. Yeah anonymous one and two that he did, right? Where it's it's like the whole point of it is not to be some incredibly complex thing The whole point of it is to allow you to bring your interpretation to it. Yeah, I think there's a lot of value to that uh So yeah 100 uh, well, I want to see you paint more works. I love how you paint works I think you did a great job here and And uh, I just I I this is exactly my style On this note you mentioned the space works. Oh, yeah, exactly. It's colorful. He's he's punchy like Yeah, it's great. That's a texture um You're gonna do that gaza ghoul. How you feeling about gaza ghoul thoraco? Oh, it's it's a bit too much for me I wanted to get your temperature on him Yeah But I have I have so for my orc army It's it's only gore gruntus and then I have two more crushes and I've only painted one of the more crushes and I did that one I had only painted for like I think nine months when I did that one. Uh, I finished it like the same week that I finished a lariel Uh, this one I did three months after a lariel. So that was I had painted for 11 months. I think when I did this one Um Yeah, so that that that big work on the more pressure I'm probably gonna do again because I have the model in a box here. There you go. There you go We can't leave this guy behind without also mentioning that uh, you're sort of diorama type base that you did here Yeah, right So was that also part of your goal? Did you want to play with like a taller diorama base tell a little You know play around with those kinds of effects. Do you like doing that kind of stuff? Yeah, all my basis looks like that like that's that's one of my smallest basis I I saw I saw I think uh You and me were on quite around the same time starting to experiment with these like huge bases. Yes, uh, and Yeah, I just did it from like my first miniatures and I haven't been able to stop since I see absolutely nothing wrong with that as usually we are simpatico on this. Yes 100 percent great minds It's what else could it be? Yes, exactly All right, uh, okay, so next up let's keep going next up. We have this I think you're more recent piece Uh, but this is uh the barbarian like your um The yeah, I don't know. He's he's a barbarian and he has the old barbarian from black sun. That's right The old barbarian. Yes. That one is actually as well quite old. I think I did that one That was the piece I did after this orc mega boss. All right I was trying to nail the order, but I wasn't sure if I got it correct. I was doing it from I think I had to paint it for maybe one year and Four months or something when I did this one. I'm doing a pretty good job so far of getting these. Yeah. All right. All right Uh, so Was this one of your first forays into other scales? Yeah, that was my faith this guy. That was my first 75 millimeter miniature Because I had been looking so two of my favorite painters. One of them Is antonio penia. He unfortunately doesn't paint a lot anymore, but uh He used to have a patron when I got started and I watched like all of his streams all of his videos and His style was just amazing. I mean he often did Uh, yeah queen palathios scouts and this is one of his scouts And the other one was sergio calvo who's also done a lot of his so I felt like I really needed to try I had to like try to emulate what they did because it looked amazing So this was my first foray into 75 millimeter And it's my favorite sculptor. He's the one who did the Elf bust for me for the Kickstarter with the squid on it. Nice. Nice Yeah, this is a fun piece. I like the the sort of pink Motivated lighting coming up from beneath. Uh, I think that's placed really strongly I really like the unusual color that you used for your for your metal This sort of like green tone Almost right for the metals and stuff and this is such a fun bust to explore the skin Right because this guy has such a different chest volume Then and like the volumes on his chest. They feel much more naturalistic like how somebody his age would Like he's still very muscular and fit. I think he's such a genius sculptor. It's crazy. Yeah Because most of time when you see these kinds of like when you see the chest of a male figure It's usually this like completely perfume. Yeah Exactly. Exactly. Whereas this it just feels like yeah, that's what that guy's muscles would look like somebody who's naturally worked their muscles And is now in their like fifties, right? Yeah Uh, but I think you did a great job on interpreting the the volumes here, especially for your Jumping that thing. Yeah, I would say it's probably my second like real after allerial This was my second like real try at Trying to nail skin And again, I learned so much Um I also this was one of the first times where I really Incorporated like the airbrush and kind of found my way in using the airbrush without it looking airbrushed Gotcha So, yeah Nice looking back on it now. Is there anything that you uh, You know, obviously we would change a ton of things if we yeah to repaint from scratch But looking back on it now, what's sort of the things that jump out at you? Do like oh, I wish I had maybe done x a little differently or something like that I'm not 100% sure the the magenta river fits with with it. Uh, it was a really fun So I'm not afraid of of experimenting and painting, you know outside of the comfort zones and this was really that I entered this to a painting competition and Uh, I think I came like it was one of these like public vote things And everyone was like this was the best painted, but I hated the pink river So that was uh, yeah Maybe they were right in in some, uh Senses, but I thought of it as like a magic river Sure, uh, obviously I think the skin I would paint the skin better today, but I'm still happy with it. Um Um Yeah, there's not like tiny things Yeah, I mean on his belt. I'm not 100 sold on that A few volumes on the like the beard Uh, that maybe I would do differently paint more detailed Uh, and obviously I got better brush control on like painting the detail on the head and things like that, but Uh, for what it is. I'm super super proud of it Yeah, I think he came out really great, but yeah the It's the pink river. I will say is so eye-catching Right, that's like if it had been toned down I think that's probably the the the element, right? You almost could have even left it off and just said the pink started motivated from nowhere But I like it when the motivated light sources are actually on the base. Yeah, um So at the same time like I'm super happy I did it because I learned so much about the fluorescent paints and Yeah, what uh, what fluorescent were you using for this? This fluorescent Magenta, I think it's called. Yeah, I knew it's what you were gonna say I could I could just your your expression if I learned so much of working through the paint I could feel the pain On the back side of those words and that told me right away you were working with Vallejo fluorescence And I was just I knew it. I could I could have called it. I could see it. I could see your jaw clenched You mentioned the fluorescence Yes Yeah, they're not easy to work with Yeah, real challenge Okay Good stuff. Yeah, I love this guy Uh, such a great bust and it's sorry. It's such a great sculpt and uh, you did a good job with the man Uh, okay, cool. Now, let's uh move to our stormcast lady Uh, this is I think uh from like a little site conversion of steel hearts champions or something Like yeah under world's war bands. Yeah, and uh, so walk me through what you were doing here Yeah, so I traded uh some 3d printed stuff with a friend and I got the the Under the underworld start collecting books the first one And he had glued these miniatures together so poorly There are huge gaps and he had painted them with texture paint Uh, but It's like both both as a challenge. Also. I wanted to to make this uh, sort of uh Into something really good because I was really excited about like practicing non-metallic metal. It was one of my I think this was my third attempt at non-metallic metal Um And I like really wanted to paint this warband good But if you look at it Really closely now you're gonna see like a lot of like these sandy texture bits and things like that But I try to paint around it and focus on the volumes And when you do that like it doesn't matter how poor the sculpt is or if there's a fail or anything It's still gonna look good. Uh, and I was a little bit inspired by Olmo Castrilo on this one And especially around like the sword area Uh, he painted the sword so cool. So I had to copy that Uh, and uh the idea with changing the heads because I swapped all of the heads to female heads Was to paint it was my wife and my two kids I had at that time. So that's my My family warband. That's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah Uh, you gotta get a bigger warband on their hair and Like you gotta you gotta move up to a four person warband if you ever repeat that project, absolutely Yeah, that's the problem. I have to I have to buy another one and Convince my opponents that I can play with four instead of three I see no problem with it. I I'd let it happen They're juice if they don't if they don't There's a lot of little fun things that I I enjoy What you were sort of going for here and I just wanted to call them out to the audience and talk about Yeah, just have you talk about sort of what you you know learned in these attempts and and and you're working through it So for example, I want to draw everybody's attention To this side of the sword the sort of interior side of the sword facing her Where we have the cast reflection of the red cape happening in the shadow The cast reflection of the boot happening in the bottom of the sword, right? We've got this blue lighting By this other painter, so I can't take fully But but yeah Continue I can talk more about it And I really like just a little I think one of the things that we Undervalue is As a sort of as painters because when we think of shadows We think of them just as being dark and not having much going on and just being like the absence of visual information But you know and we're going to see it again in a minute in a in a big way But you're a little like use of the the this Turquoise or this blue color right in the shadows under the lion face Shoulder pad really makes it striking and stand out like makes the gold pop, right? uh So I just think it's it's This use of reflections was were you trying to like experiment with that? Was that one of your main goals that kind of thing? What do you learn from I can't remember everything But I think uh, so there is this blue light kind of coming from the right side You can see it on his on her boots Uh, so I tried making this sort of like blue light coming from one side Uh, and my idea there was like this blue light is kind of shining from underneath And it really does as you say like it helps create an interest When I look at this piece now, I like it doesn't look like an osl It looks more like some parts of the armor is blue So in some ways I may be failed, but again, everything is like a learning process and One of the things like as with the sword like why Why I think it ended up looking good is because I I've learned so much from my previous career In trying to like analyze details of my favorite artist's work and my favorite painter's work and illustrator's work Is to find these details and this reflection was one of those That like if I wouldn't be Analyzing a lot of people's work. I would never learn things like that. So Uh, that's something I can really recommend people to do Nice Nice. Yeah, awesome. I dig it. I I just I really uh the the sort of like Uh reflections are such a fascinating thing to play around with Especially in like these bright shiny non metallics and and I think that when I when I paint non metallics It's almost no fun If you're not trying to figure out some reflections and interesting colors in the environment you pick up It makes it so much more visually compelling Right and just being flat that color Yeah I'm really proud about because when I look back at this again, this was done around the same area as I did the the orc megaboss Uh, I'm really proud of like the tassel around the the head of the helmet. Yeah, uh, because I feel like the Again, this was one of the times when I started really sort of understanding Painting with the general shapes Instead of every single detail So you can see the highlights goes through the center of the head instead of like every single one being highlighted all the way around Um, and I think that looks great still Yeah, like It's it's such a good point when you the the difference here between just like going the standard sort of games workshop like Like these are all line hence people trace all these lines right and having this more like, you know I always talk about it as like the pan team glow The front of the the hair dye bottle absolutely Yeah, they're just having that that ring of light in some way or in this case like a shaft of light That's coming down that really creates this nice line down the side of the piece because it's carried through to the head Right down to her knee down to here like you it sets up the whole lighting scheme really well And that's exactly what we were talking about at the beginning right with like it's just a study of light Yeah All right My dogs are probably gonna go crazy here in a minute because I just heard my wife walk in So if I mute myself, that's what's happening. I'm warning you all in advance I'll be your tom and start talking about Hfc more news excellent All right, so that's fine because guess what here we go. We're up to it. This is uh, this is the bust from that you uh sculpted and And I love this guy. There's a whole I'm just gonna shout out right now. There's a whole video on your channel Uh, there was a recent where you go into great detail on your painting of this thing and kind of How to break it down and the armor and the skin and the squid and the leathers and the reflections it is It's I'm here for it. It was fantastic content one of my favorite videos. You've ever done I know like I said my favorites, too I mean we talked about a little bit that it must have taken you forever So thank you for putting it all at work. But yeah, man Tell us the story on this guy because I know this is something you like Where do you want me to start you start wherever you want to start the longer you talk Likely or the things here I can mute myself. Yeah, the more you can monetize the video So I mean with with with the whole idea again, I'm uh, I'm a huge wood elf fan um So I knew I wanted to do an elf for my first bust And the the octopus on the shoulder is sort of a reference to the whole squid thing like the nautical animals and It's got the tentacles. It doesn't have the same head shape as a squid, but I'm I'm okay with it I call it the squid even though it's an octopus just because Wait a minute. Is that the difference? Yeah, so so the the squid has this sort of like I'm all like told. Yeah, okay, and it has it doesn't have eight tentacles. It actually has 10 So it's it's a little bit different, but It's close enough I I am not an I I do know I did not know sea creatures enough to recognize that that was the difference. Okay. I'm learning Uh Yeah, and then I had uh first one illustrator do like a concept and that concept was more like uh I would say like a finished artwork almost so the sculptor said like it's hard for me to make something from this because it's It's hard to kind of understand the the shapes and the face and everything So I had another artist sort of make another concept art from that artwork if it makes sense And then I send it to Ya Queen Palacios has said my favorite sculptor probably of all time. Um, I mean, there are other fantastic ones, but Leased out of the active ones. I think it's my favorite and Yeah, he did just an amazing work making this one and He's a master of like volumes muscles and his faces are always very expressive And I wanted to have so I had to do some adjustments on like the armor plates to get them the way that I wanted to have them Uh, because I'm a big fan of these S shapes on the shoulder pads because it creates a lot of like visual interest and you can create these like reflective points that This creates so much interest um Yeah, I love the the form on this guy Yeah, the muscle the way the muscles are stretching as he like bends for this It looks like he's like defending and then about to like, you know counter a strike It's so like the way those muscles are captured is so great Yeah, it's so good And yeah, then it was just like painting and Again, you can see the colors. I'm using it's my It's browns and greens and then we have the orange has sort of like a complementary color They can't hear you I invited myself He's invited he's got a ticket to the next con. That's right. You just got to get himself over here Absolutely, my wife was saying she was she was looking forward to having you over when you post it. So yes, she saw it Thank you No, this is all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna mute myself again Yeah, well about the colors. I mean it's it's the greens the browns that I really love Um, and I always come back to uh, I really like like mixing in colors in metallics This makes it feel like more magical more fantasy-like And then the orange just complements everything really well. So Yeah Awesome No, it's great. It's a great piece. I'm I'm glad you shared that video. It was a lot of fun And it really like, uh, I do one of the things I appreciate in the video Is how many times you had to repeat? Highlight up to the lower edge of the surface like just That I think if there's one thing that people should take away from that video, it's that definitely Yeah, that's why I repeated like every step of the video like all the way up Because I mean you know with with my patrons because I have uh with some of the patrons Who are like in the top tiers we have these like one-on-one classes and It's one of these things that I we talk about pretty much every Week and it's so important to learn sort of like that the light goes all the way up to these I just you can see it so clearly on like my eyes here Have a dark shadow underneath And this highlight like it doesn't start here on the center of my cheekbone It starts all the way up here to just underneath this shadow And uh, yeah Yeah, he came out fantastic. All right. Well, uh, that's all we've got to look at which is Great stuff. So that means it's time for us to do the lightning round questions. Are you ready? No for the lightning round Here we go, but I'll do it anyway. Okay. All right. We'll do it. Here we go Uh, do you listen to stuff while you're painting and I'll put in the same thing maybe while doing other Video type work that isn't rely on sound. Do you have do you do you listen to background music? What do you listen to? I have a lot of like I have audible stuff listen to a lot of like warhammer diablo books Um, I watch marvel movies just on repeat lord of the rings movies on repeat um Podcasts obviously warhammer weekly. I've watched like every episode the last three years Uh, that's the only podcast I I have time for now. So it's But uh, it's it's mostly when I do like these longer videos when it's like uh Painting and start collecting in on like in like a day or something. That's when I tend to listen more to it Otherwise it's it's more Uh recording and focusing But yeah, there's at least a few times every month when I have time to paint and listen to stuff. So nice nice Uh, all right. This is the tough question. Here we go Get ready because as usual you can only pick one. That's why this is a hard question Yeah, so who is your favorite miniature painter? Well either past or present And the trick is you must narrow it down to one Okay, I will say Rodri Wakora is probably my number one right now but there are probably 20 more that's like One point behind him All right. Yeah, that's that's always the challenge, right? Yeah. Um, what is it? What is it about him that draws in what it would? One of the things is and that's similar to the other names I've mentioned Uh, like Antonio Pena and Sergio Calvo is is the colors He's very vibrant and you can see that a lot in in my works too as I mentioned like mixing these like super bright greens in like the osl on this figure And like the super bright orange and and he has this weird sort of Weird softness that just like draws me into his pieces and um It looks so soft even though it's super sharp super crisp painted and his transitions from colors and he often mixes in like different tones in his shadows that just brings out the pieces like four steps beyond what most painters think and Uh, yeah, I can just recommend people just go into his instagram and stay there And just look like properly look at the stuff. Yep and see the the brilliance in what he does Yeah, don't just look see it Yeah, uh the You know, I did a I did a video a while back about it was literally just in 10 minutes Of one image on the screen Right and I said what we're going to do for the next 10 minutes is we're going to see this image We're just going to look at it right the world we live in is so easy. It's this world Right, the world just scrolling. I'm like, yep. That looks cool. That looks cool. That looks cool And and it's so easy to just get lost in like everyone paints so much better than me because you see so much stuff But just sit down and just look at it and here we have eric swinson and now I have to say he's uh One of those who is just behind It's such an amazing painter He's an amazing painter and eric. Hey, buddy. You want to come join us? You are more than welcome brother. The door is open. You don't you don't even it doesn't even need to be vinycon Uh, or you can just you can just knock on my door, man. I'll find you a space, but anytime you want Uh, door's always open Uh, we have hey wall there too. So who is my favorite aos commentator? Let's say hey wall That's that's an easy answer. He's all of our favorite aos commentator because There is no man who delivers the the the wit the dry Perfect. Oh, yeah, like hey wall you could almost think he's british in his humor, but he's american and he does it so well Yep. Yep. All right My last question Uh, my lightning round questions then we'll do a couple for that people have thrown in the chat and we'll call it a day Uh, what's your favorite color you got to pick one? Paint pot or color? Whichever you like Um, so let's say color green Paint pot rinoxide Because it is eminently useful. It is such it's it's one of the like four games workshop colors that I keep On hand and ready at all times because I actually find it to be a really useful color. So good Yes, I agree. All right Let's see. So Dave said a question for squid mar. Do you have any swedish specific hobby products? Which you love that are not known about outside your country Uh, swedish specific there is like, uh, no So here's the thing go to ikea pick up udla coconut fiber Boom, you're done It's all you need now. You can do whatever you want. You can paint with it. You can create bases with it You can eat it You don't need anything else multi-purpose tool Yeah It means to uh, you know when you put like plants into dirt or like Uh vegetables seeds. That's udla at udla But it's the dried coconut fiber and it's so useful for Basin I use it on almost everything. Nice I'm gonna have to uh, I'm gonna have to have you explain what all of the names of my furniture mean that I have behind me Yeah, most of it is city names Oh, is that what it is? nice Uh, it's it's always fun for me to try to recommend these like because all these cabinets Yeah, I don't even know what it means to be honest. I think it's a name or a city or something Gotcha Uh, yes, and so I'm trying to recommend what these things are and I'm like, I don't know man It's this Uh, it's challenging. All right Very good. Uh, let's see If anybody anybody okay, what other questions somebody else asked a question a little while back Well, I'm uh scrolling back for that. Here's my my one of my last questions Which is do you have a favorite type and you may construe type however you like You have a favorite type of miniature you like to paint Oh Comes and goes in in in waves so I had when I did this kickstarter I was so into busts. I was so excited about painting busts Right now. I am really excited about 75 millimeter scale fancy figures And always warhammer Yeah Benjamin had asked uh, or not Benjamin. Sorry, uh, james had asked is there an outside view of the shield on the barbarian? I'm curious how that looks. Yes, there is if you go to A squid mar site, which is linked which will be linked below. Um, there is a gallery It's very easy to find and uh, you can you he does have multiple pictures of that There we go. Okay, and uh, let's see Uh, David said, uh, coconut fiber from Ikea. I know Ikea has a small decorative crystal stones for glass jars Which are excellent for your bag. Yeah, I used those a bit too Very nice. And then of course Ikea round cork Pan base for breaking up corks. It's a cheap cork. You can always use more of that. Yep Uh, and then finally rising eight minis says hey, Amelia your facebook community was a source of my most positive hobby experience so far One of the community reached out in the first lockdown and gave me some free minis because I had run out amazing So there you go. Yeah, people there are amazing We love it. Uh, we will uh, I will link all of that stuff down below so you can connect with everything Squiddy, but you haven't already get into it. What are you doing with your life? How are you watching this and you're not connected into that stuff? It would be it's I that's unfathomable to me But uh, at any rate Emil. Hey buddy. Thanks for hanging out with me for like an hour and a half. Yeah, it was super fun Absolutely, uh, thank you all so much for watching Uh Oh, okay. We'll leave on this one because hey, we'll ask a fun question off painterly topic How successfully do you feel you've been in taking back control of your work upload schedule the youtube grind can also grind one down? I hope your balance is in order. This is a fun thing to kind of talk about the end How have you treated your videos because you don't have like a regular I do it all the time at this point, right? Like you you you release On a schedule like one per x, but it's not like all yeah one seven a.m. Or something like that No, so I was I was doing my like in the beginning. I was doing wednesdays at 1800 central european time But lately it's been like whatever i'm finished with the video whether it's wednesday thursday or friday it's never tuesday or monday or but Whenever i'm done with it i'm gonna publish it and usually it's european evening because that's when americans go up and Europeans are still awake. So I like to publish it then but It's a grind to make a video week In the extent that I make the videos they take me Some of the videos that are fast take 30 hours to make but most of them are 50 60 hours or If it's like next week's video, it's like 200 hours to make Or like the masterclass video. It's the same like 150 hours or something and editing and painting and preparing and Yeah, so it it it really takes some hard work and it's Tiring a lot of times, but it's also a lot rewarding. So Well, we all appreciate you doing it. That's what I'll say you make some great videos. So Emil, thank you so much for all of you out there Thank you so much for watching. Like I said all the links down below go hit them up if you haven't already uh