 All right, there we go. Hello, everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating Q&A live So what is this? Well, this is once a month. We get together and we sit and spend about the next hour or so Basically taking all of your hobby related questions. Hello, everybody. Basically another be pretty simple eating Q&A We hopefully everybody can hear me. Okay, somebody should give me like a little chat or whatever a little thumbs up that you're we're all good but over here on one of these sides there is a There is a little Area where you can put comments drop the comments in there ask your questions Whatever they happen to be we're gonna sit here for about the next hour Ish or so and try to answer all of your questions live. So Yeah, let's get to it. You got those questions drop them in there and And I will do my best to start answering them. I saw before it started somebody said they need a painting guide For the new start collecting slaves to darkness. Well, I'm sure that somebody will provide that for you I don't do individual model painting guides like how to paint a thing I do how to paint in general But that being said I am quite positive as I know I'll be painting a bunch of slaves to darkness that we will get plenty of videos that That cover lots of fun techniques probably as well will do a black armor when in there somewhere There's a lot of thoughts. I've had on black armor for a while I've got my desk down here. By the way, you can see as part of the shot now Just in case I need to actually show something or put something on camera there. I don't have to hold it up It'll be a lot more clear down here But don't worry. I'm sure we'll have some some some s2d content for sure Alright John Chavis, what's your favorite scale to paint and why? Well, I mean, I think that's the thing I paint the most of is undoubtedly You know standard like 28 to 32 millimeter probably heroic because I tend to paint games workshop more than anything else But actual favorite scale just to paint would be Probably they're 54 75 mil You just have a lot more space in there you have a lot more room to do different techniques to explore things It's a lot more relaxing. So something more like this guy, you know, this guy's a 54 millimeter Dude right here. You know this this guy I Just find that to be it's a much more sort of relaxing experience, but ironically I paint a lot less of it. Oh Right Let's see everybody saying that sounds good glad to hear it Joshua calling I'm doing gloom spike gets and I want the crescent weapons to look like steel that is painted yellow Okay So far I painted it normally and glaze some yellow ink over it and it's okay, but it's lacking Well, are you when you say painted yellow Do you mean like enameled? Do you mean that they used like an like a an imperial fist sort of marine? Do you mean? Like yellow like the metal is tinted yellow The answer is, you know, you it's it's if you I wouldn't use yellow paint I'd use yellow ink if I would I would just tint it yellow Would be my personal take on it and I would focus on like Working some into the Kind of three to four section of the blade So instead of you know, if your highlight goes from one to two one two three four five one being the brightest five being the darkest I would oppose the crescent that way Alternatively you could If I happen to have a guy on the screen right now that's got that little sickle blade you're talking about So specifically You won't be able to see it. I don't think if I move my mouse over here. Yeah, you can't see it, but that's okay Specifically, I mean along that crescent I would you could also just do a yellow to sort of blackish transition in pure yellow paint into it non-metallic metal But then I wouldn't use metal paints at all I would just fake it using like yellow in a non-metallic style But you've got to cut all orange or brown out of it Otherwise, it's gonna look just like you're doing gold and that's really the problem is that Gold is just yellow metal Okay, so you're going to make that like this is a very tricky thing You're trying to accomplish here because it's just gonna make it look like gold in many cases The true color of gold is yellow So when you make metal look yellow you make it look like gold It depends a lot on the individual yellow in question, but that's kind of the the basic of the thing Hopefully that makes sense Let's see But yeah, I would just like I would actually just work some glazes into the three to four range area Also in the same vein I want the terrain Look to be painted stone and not plastic painted yellow Sure, so like your big the big moon well then stippling is the answer right you need to work in different colors and have it look Like stone stone is very rough and has a lot of texture and should be stippled accordingly and stuff like that So, you know, that's what I would would I would focus on get a big yourself a big old round makeup brush and go nuts with some some stippling and textures and stuff like that and have black and gray and chips and Streaks and things like that is what I would say Right Brooks, how would you go about painting black metallic armor? Yes. Well, I have a whole video on this I mean, there's lots of different ways to do it. There's there's no simple answer. Here's the shortest answer It's a very annoying color to paint painting black and making it look good is Probably the most annoying color to paint I think I would much rather paint white white is much less annoying black armor is just always Time-consuming if you want it to look good or flat if you don't because black is the most boring color It's the absence of color It is nothing you're painting nothing So when you do that, it just is going to be very hard-pressed to actually look good Now the short and sweet answer is You do a standard Xenothal and then you make yourself like a blue black glaze You drive our soul model and then you do a blue black glaze and you glaze that down pulling toward the shadows So like if this were to be the chest plate This top part would still be white and then I would pull a glaze down in this direction And so this lower part all becomes very dark and this still has some lightness to it And that's the speed painting quick method if you're talking about like You know, you want something that's a little more Detailed then take a look at Darren Latham's video. He did recently on painting black space marine armor It would be the same exact techniques you would use for the slaves to darkness But there will be a video on it in line with it. There's many different techniques you can use And I'll probably walk through most of them in the video. So All right Constantino's hello from Sweden. Hey, how you doing? Uh might be a stretch, but here goes. Where do you start with cavalry? I'm looking at barren garden I'm sweating bullets. Well, you should be there ridiculously complicated annoying models Hopefully that wasn't super loud, I'm sorry everyone Um The answer is you split up the rider and the mount Um, and I usually start with the airbrush. I mean, I start with the zenith all over the whole thing Then I usually will set the base tones with the airbrush And go from there. I mean that's obviously there's a lot it's good depends a lot You know painting a Bretonian cavalry is going to be a lot different than say Like a squig rider is a lot different than Uh a gorgoranta is a lot different than A barren guard, right? Like I would use a lot of different techniques on these but the the things that would always be the same would be Uh, I would always keep the model separate. I would always Like that to say rider would be painted separately from horse. I would never attach them. Don't do that. That's a recipe for pain and uh, I would Uh, you know start with the zenith all and then set my initial colors and then from there is just detail work So there you go Okay, hopefully that helps them Uh All right Carl martin Rosenberg in your video on deliberate practice You stress the importance of reverse engineering other people's work for ways of identifying your you're improving your own skills. Yes, absolutely Uh beyond this what's your system for doing deliberate practice? How do you track and measure your own progress? Uh You just do I guess I don't know you just you get better I mean it sounds like a flip answer. I suppose But I mean the the technique is basically this on this model. I'm going to focus on Weathering I'm going to try non-metallic metal. I'm going to push my contrast I'm going to work on my faces. I'm going to paint eyes. Whatever you pick a thing Right, whether a style or a technique or a brush control or a whatever it doesn't matter You pick that thing and you do it and you do it As as well as you can as like that is your singular focus And then you do it again And then you do it again you pick a different thing you do it again You pick a different thing and you do it again and you pick a different thing and you do it again You pick a different thing and you do it again And a thousand models later you've you know gotten really good at a wide swath of techniques How do you measure and track you look at a mini this you painted this year versus what you achieved last year or Kind of you know that that sort of thing And you you know you compare yourself to yourself If you compete actively and you're doing competition pieces then the comparison gets a little easier because theoretically, hopefully you're improving your performance or your feedback from the judges or something like that But that's that would be my my best advice is The the key is to never stop picking something to work on with every project never waste a project Then it doesn't have to be a big thing Right. It could be some very small thing. I'm going to try some small freehand tattoos I mean those take a few minutes at most You know Even across an army. It's a very fast process. Cool. That's great. You know doing it 30 times on 30 minis Going to be good. It's going to be good practice and then so on and so forth And what you'll notice is you just start to aggregate these skill sets, right? How do you how do you measure and track your your performance in your job? I mean chances are you have some kind of yearly performance reviews But I don't know if those ever really do anything you what you really notice is day to day You know the right people to call the right things to do, you know, you you just kind of get better at your job Same here, right? So that's what I would say Let's see Tim I'm painting a larger model with mostly bare skin I found it's much harder to get these larger bare areas looking decent any tips on better skin on larger surfaces Well, the airbrush is going to be a real great advantage for you. I mean, I'll start there But the second thing I'll say is I you know, I've got several videos on on skin tone And the key with skin is it can't be boring. So it has to be varied skin is incredibly Rich look at my face as it stands on screen right now There's a big light reflecting here on my that is the light above me on my, you know, very shiny forehead There's one right here. This is very bright There's shadows in here in the wrinkles when I you know crease my brow There's deep shadows down here. There's purple under my eyes from being tired There's a lot of red in my nose down here in my cheeks, right? There's a deep shadow here There's five o'clock shadow here on the side of my face, right and so on and so forth like there is a host of different colors going on here just with what's on screen and You have to try to recreate all of that. So Glazes and different colors pushing into spectrum like red and purple Understanding the yellow blue understanding the the yellow red blue spectrum of things like faces where the top is yellow The middle is red and the bottom is blue Tends to be pretty important just like having lots of variation in the skin is what I would say You know, that's that's the best advice I can give I love painting skin But that's because it becomes like this zen like thing where you're just sitting around You know glazing for a long time working shadows building tones adding color doing little filters And you know, that's kind of how you get real good looking skin now. There's also faster ways if you go watch the Painting an army in 24 hours hobby cheating from last week You'll see that I think I get decent ish looking skin with just the airbrush and that's on those are pretty large surfaces Those are all ogres So and that's just I build that up nice layers You know standard shingles on a roof technique, right just with the airbrush and that's a good way to get it solid Uh Milo is there any of your hobby cheating videos you look back on and consider to be incorrect or dated advice? Oh, yeah, man Oh, yeah, I'm sure Like I mean some of them I've updated Like I did an original video on snow and didn't like it as much and then did an updated video on snow that I still With a technique I still use to this day um But I mean, I'm sure there's some that I don't follow as much. There was an early like shading metal to look like, you know, like shading metal video where I used washes and things that I wouldn't use now Uh, that is to say I still had the like TMM as NMM idea But I was using different products than I would use now and again, that's the thing I've rerecorded probably three or four times Um, but I think most of it's pretty solid. Oh lava base is another one that I like Hate the initial version I did and then made a much better version later Uh, but a lot of basing related stuff Because that's a craft sort of project, but for the most part I think that Uh, what I say is in line I'll often just come back and understand that there's more to say That I could go deeper or have deeper explorations of the subject Rather than like what I was doing was completely wrong or something like that Uh, Liz any advice for pushing light and shadow on miniatures? I'm trying to control for the light and shadow to put more drama into my models, but I'm really struggling nailing it Uh, I mean, I'm not sure exactly what you mean like the answer is yes do that thing Like that sounds really again flip and stupid But what I mean is just like push your highlights up Make them brighter. Make your shadows darker Glaze in darker colors push your lens up to higher highlights Now how to achieve that sure like which I think is what you're actually asking Uh, web blending is your friend. I'll start there So you see a live a lot of videos on not thinning your paintings and doing fast high contrast base coats go watch those You can get a long way just with web blending pretty fast um Pay attention to the material like metals should go higher and be more reflective than Uh, than cloth or something like that like that's one of the ways it'll work skin should be pretty darn reflective As a matter of fact as you can see from my shiny bald head Um, you know, so those kinds of things Um I would say also here's a good tip just for testing yourself Take a picture of your photo and then turn it black and white everybody's phone can do that now You can just take a picture of it and then turn it black and white And if you you should see the appropriate levels of contrast if everything looks flat gray You don't have enough contrast It's that easy, right? Um, because black and white will show you the the Value contrast on your miniature pretty quickly and officially I hope that helps Uh Joshua have you tried vellejo nocturnus fairy flesh set? I have not I have a couple of the nocturnus sets I haven't tried the fairy flesh. I heard it's very good, but I haven't tried it Uh, hey vince i'm trying to paint corn in an oxidized state I think it's the way i'm stacking my paints. I like the way vellejo 10 bits looks, but when I add the green it looks funny Uh, well, I wouldn't use vellejo 10 bits I'll say that much first to start will you know, I would always recommend vellejo metal color Uh, but now that being said Oxidation should have everything from black to light green My usual mix is I start with some vellejo blue green Then I mix in Some vertigree from vellejo And then I mix in some gauze blaster green From and I use that to be the very edges just like sort of how rust goes from Deep brown black up to orange or even yellow in some cases Uh, I use a blue green Up to sort of a very bright Nillic oxide like thing and even up to gauze blaster green to do that And it should focus around edges rivets places where water would naturally collect and cause the oxidation So hopefully that helps. I'll look at your pic on twitter and see if I think anything different Uh, timbo. Hey vince, do you have a special wet palette that you bought on amazon or do you build your own? Uh, no, I use a red grass palette. That's that's what this is. So this is a this is the red grass like excel palette It's what I use all the time. I absolutely love it. They're they're fantastic. I have a couple of them actually Um, sponge is fantastic. It's super good Uh, unfortunately, I live in a very dry place. So I like my water evaporates here Instantaneously my basement is unbelievably dry Uh, which is good. It means I don't have any mold down here or anything. So hey thumbs up on that Lower the home repair costs. Uh, but it does mean that my paint has to like constantly have to add water. Um But yeah, I I like it the sponge is very antimicrobial Things seals up nicely keeps the paint workable Solid investment in my in my estimation like I'm very happy that I have it Uh, hello, Emily. How you doing? Uh, let's see. Oh burt macklin. Oh fbi Uh, hey vince. Is there any good way to strike a balance between getting better at display quality painting And still maintaining progress with my gloom spite army backlog? Yeah, sure I mean, it's what I do all the time the answer is you the standard way you get you you create efficiency and everything ever in life as psychology psychological and You know other types of research I've shown which is you do two projects at once Uh, human productivity maxes at two projects You get more done when you have two things less than we have one less than you have three It's two two is the number of the counting and never more than two So the answer is one you can do deliberate practice throughout even your existing models and the ways that I talked about before You know just focus on this unit I'm going to work on this thing and trust me. No one's going to notice the difference Everybody's all worried about this all the time, but my army will look slightly different Who cares? No one's going to notice one two So what? Even if they did and three it would only impress me as a paint judge if I saw you growing over the course of the army and Putting more work into things not the opposite You get no points for sameness Okay If your army looks like a cacophony of different colors and and everything completely doesn't go together Like if you just bring 17 different units that have no absolute correlation with each other I'm docking you of course you're going to lose points there as a paint judge But like if I notice slight differences where it looks like you're trying to improve that's only going to help your score More better painted models equals better in paint judging. This shouldn't be like complicated um So yeah, even on your normal minis you just deliver practice pick a thing and work on it on particular models on your Gits, you know work on your the contrast work on your bone texture work on your metals Whatever there's lots of stuff that's good to do on gits And then break up that army project with display painting By the way, when you do deliberate practice just get the rest done Your goal with the things you're not deliberately practicing should be to finish So you can do deliberate practice on something new Right, you'll Like the best the best way to improve is to do Uh, there's the old canard that perfect is the enemy of the good and I absolutely believe that I was talking to my wife today actually and she said I always tell my my team perfect is the opposite of done And I said that is the greatest thing ever and I'm going to steal that and use that from now on and I that is the That is many people struggle in general perfect is the opposite of done Uh, you are never going to reach perfect. You will however fail to get things done Uh, so at any rate my my advice is that alter between two projects Deliberate practice on the stuff you're working on and then you know take a miniature every so often and use it Push yourself all the way combine all those techniques you've been working on and go to a high level All right, well, thank you schnauzer. I'm glad you're here Uh, let's see Emily, uh, I'm so curious. Do you know about how long it took you for your 24 hour army video? How long it took you to clean and prep the minis and build the bases? Uh, I don't know maybe six hours total probably because most of them were already assembled Um, they were an old army that I I've got back. Did I strip them? No, did I change how they were done? No I scraped a little bit of some mold lines that didn't get caught End of prep on those already assembled minis Uh, and then I just zenithal primed over whatever paint was there I see people strip stuff all the time when it's a relatively thin paint. I'm just like, well, I enjoy wasting your life I mean, I don't know why you're doing that, but I guess if it makes you happy um You know, that's fine. You can you can throw you can throw time in the garbage. I too Don't value the very limited and inexhaustible or sorry exhaustible resource that is my my life and time Um But like that was and then basically making the bases. It was probably about six hours It's there was no big time investment. The bases were pretty simple it's just cork with some Vallejo paste over the top let that dry and then Uh, you know drop some different grit and rock over it Glue down some skulls and little pieces to make them more interesting and Jobs are good and right you can have nice little level changes and stuff Changes of texture and things like that there you go Uh, Joe McGill. Hi vents. I've wondered if you had ever experimented with colored zenithal highlights thinking about maybe using orange From the top blue from the bottom to make the warm cold sides in a more subtle way than osl Yeah, sure. Absolutely. That's a great question and the answer is yes um often I'll do it still to keep white at the top Because I I I'm generally you're trying to recreate light not color necessarily now you could do it depending on like your Sort of orange at the top. It was a very very very light orange shirt. You could still get away with it But I'll often set different colors as my You know natal highlight or whatever the lower the under color is um I'll I'll use Like green for reds and reds for green. I'll oftentimes do that Uh, so that way I just get a natural complimentary shadow color And yeah, I think that's a lot of fun. You can absolutely do that I you should absolutely push your zenithaling you can mess around with all sorts of different color combinations Sometimes I'll do the whole thing drop a low tone in that's a completely different color like over the black gray primer And then I'll apply a glaze to the whole thing like just a light color glaze whole thing Uh, just to further set the tone, right? So deep red in the low part and then I maybe I give the thing a very slight red glaze or something And then that gives me a nice already existing transition to lay a different color over top of So yeah, it's great. I I there's so many different ways you could do it I would highly recommend you just play around with it and see what happens You know, there's there's lots of different colors All right, uh Legionnaires hey vince besides ventilation. How much room do you need for an airbrush setup? Uh About three feet by three feet and I don't worry about ventilation Mine sits on a tiny desk to the left of my office It is the size of a child's school desk like a kindergarten or school desk It's it's in a tiny hood. I mean that that little thing I bought the little, you know, unfoldable portable Airbrush booth it has a filter and event you can turn that on and it takes up about two by two feet or something like that pretty close and That's what I do. That's what you need I mean, you know a little bit of desk space to the side to like, you know, keep your airbrushes and and Sort of keep a little cup to dumps enough out into but other than that It's actually a pretty small amount of space you need That's what's nice about it. It's people think of it as being like this giant thing I mean, like I say a desk because that's the little like picture that three foot by three foot volume because Then you can have the airbrush to the side the little booth sitting on top and your compressor underneath and bang bang boom That's all you need So hopefully hopefully you're not buying a house that doesn't have that amount of space That would be a I love that tiny house show but that would be a truly tiny house Uh, all right Matt Orton hyvins with the cast dwarf Blood Bowl team going up on made to order today. How would I tackle painting older minis in a true 90s style? Well, I am the wrong person to ask man. I'll be honest with you because I despise everything about that old style It's I find it just literally the height of ugliness Um, now the answer is a bunch of bright colors Like this style then was just you Take red and it's just red. It's the main red Like not shaded reds not desaturated reds It's red and then you take yellow and it's just yellow saturated yellow You know, you take your color wheel and you pick the brightest Elements of all of the different sides and you just paint in those And there's very little like shading and stuff like that I mean, I think the greatest thing would ever happen was the death of that style to be completely honest personal opinion But that would be what it is. I mean, I would grab you can there's lots of people who And lots of good image searches on there. You can find of like good examples of that stuff from 90s Uh, heavy metal articles and and white dwarf articles But yeah, if you grab those you'll see it's like a lot of intense bright saturated colors So stick to your primaries make sure your paint's nice and smooth and really vibrant and bright That would be my my best advice paint over white Uh, or or a gray white or something like that that way you get really intense versions of the colors Don't paint over black Okay How do I find out where I should place highlights on irregularly shaped swords for example the male storm giant sword is doing my head in Anywhere you want doesn't matter like there's there is no right answer to that Metal is super reflective. How does it reflect? Okay, like it just it does here is a shiny piece of metal, right? How is it reflecting? You can see it on two cameras The answer is it depends a lot on how you're looking at it. What light is around it? Where is it at? What shape is it? Which way does it catch the light? You know the answer is you just want to use some of those principles where you're traveling from light to dark There is no singular right way people talk about this a lot With volumes like your Your the chest plate on somebody When you assume a light from a direction you can then set a lot of statements about that But with a weird curved blade Alternate the you just follow the basic rules you alternate light to dark and you create variation And you run across the blade. So this guy That I talked about earlier like this dude and his sword, right? So, you know, one of the things that Sergio talks about is with things like weapons He doesn't really He doesn't ever worry about how light acts on weapons like this because if you Turned that sword like if if he himself of the model rotated that sword a foot it would completely change the reflections So like he just goes for variation up and down the blade lots of changes of color and light And tries to alternate light to dark. That's it Like it's doing your head in because again, you're trying to get it perfect, but there is no perfect That doesn't exist for that thing It's this weird shape in weird lighting conditions held at a weird angle Just make it alternate in some interesting way and it'll look good Make sure you keep your contrast high. So it reads like metal and you and jobs are good in there, my friend Uh post human gamer hyvins. How would you make a mix with the lejo model colors to make brass? brass gold with yellow ink I assume you mean nmm, right? uh brass I would probably use like I don't really paint a lot of brass, but in non-metallic um Vallejo black red would be a good base. I'm actually using it right now, which is this one. It's 708 59 black red um Trying to think of what else I'd use ice yellow as the highlights Uh, I have a recipe. Let me look at my phone. I have a couple different not really recipe. That's the wrong answer I don't really use recipes, but I have a bunch of paints. I like for just different things Things I've used in the past Let me look here. I'll see what my my thoughts are on that Uh, oh, yeah, there you go. That's some good stuff colors that I like in brass I just I don't maintain a list of like an exact recipes, but I have a list of like I like these colors in this type of thing Uh, calahari orange. That's another good one from scale 75 Uh, vallejo model color salmon rose. Like I said, ice yellow for the highlight. Yeah, there you go Those are the kind of colors I'd give a look at And I bet so another thing you can do by the way if you paint a lot of nmm Don't try to keep yourself a recipe log That'll often lead you astray and make your work look very samey Instead keep just a color list of colors that are interesting Right in a thing so like in my bronze list I have all sorts of different oranges and browns and rusts so I can play with those in different levels and different Amounts and volumes and get a lot of different effects out of them And but I still kind of have a range of different colors to work with it's not about a recipe It's about a list of potential ingredients Right like you're trying to make a soup You can throw a lot of stuff in a soup And it'll still taste like that kind of soup like you can make Chicken noodle soup with a lot of different stuff It's got to have chicken and noodles Beyond that you can have a lot of stuff you have carrots, you can have celery, you can have some rice in there You do a lot of stuff, you know throw some mushrooms in there, whatever you want, you know Um, so just like Yeah, that would be my best advice Uh, Alexis have you tried 3d printing? Uh, no and I won't for a long long long time to come Uh, I don't knit my own t-shirts. I don't grow my own food Uh, I don't have any interest in printing my own stuff Now if it gets to the level where it's completely commoditized where I can, you know Just literally get that high quality Miniature and the same thing like and I know the new resin parents are good, but it's there's still work You have to upkeep that thing You have to go buy the resin. I'm not interested in a raw product kind of thing in that way Uh, personal again, this is just personal opinion Like I'm happy to go support companies that are making high quality miniatures at the moment and get that stuff I I buy some 3d prints off people for terrain. I really like it for that Um, I think it's great and there are people friends of mine who do a lot of 3d printing and they really enjoy it And by the way, if it's something you enjoy, that's not me Being negative about your hobby It is a hobby in itself and one I think is super awesome Tom loves it my coast on warhammer weekly and I think that's awesome Like if people are really into it I'm so glad those people exist because they're making awesome terrain and cool things that I get to take advantage of It's just as a personal statement. I don't have any interest in it. It's not a hobby. I enjoy But I'm glad to hear the quality's coming up. I mean, I do wonder how many years before it just becomes Sort of a commodity, right? So I don't know. We'll see Stay, how would you go about painting a black beetle carapace that reflects different colors like petrol and water? You asked this question in the comments and I gave you an answer. So check your email Uh, I wouldn't You're asking how I went and I typed this all out But you're asking how would you paint the most complicated color in the most complicated light reflection pattern possible? How would you paint truly one of the most complicated things you could ever decide to paint? I in fact, I'm not sure I could think of a more complicated thing to paint Except maybe that in an osl color where some glow is also happening Uh, because you have to scintillate through the whole rainbow You have to use kind of every color and you have to very carefully blend it all together in this Moving pattern that looks like it's accurately capturing the light like it's not It's not just like well I would apply this color and then this color and this color I mean you can go look you can go google the images same as anybody else and see what they look like And the answer is it has to come up to a high highlight. It has to progress through all these different colors You have to have like the white light placed at the one Then it has to sense like down and then only black and sort of the shadows You have to have secondary reflections down there as well because some of the color is going to reflect in the secondary light Where it goes from black and then into some of the deeper tones like blues and stuff Um, it's just a really really complicated thing you've asked Um, that's like saying well, how would you build a rocket ship to get to mars? Well, I mean there's a lot of steps probably in there. Um Um My best advice for it is I would go look at like kaha if you just search up kaha miniatures k a h a Um, and you search for that on google. You'll see her style Which is incredibly bright and beautiful and scintillating through a lot of colors Um, and if you're really really keen for something like that, you know, go check out her stuff I believe she does have a patreon and you can sign up and learn how she's doing her techniques And you know, she did a she did basically the effect you're talking about because that's her thing She loves these like she always uses these colors in this amazing way and catching these reflections and stuff she's a truly unique and genius painter and She did a a l'oreal beetle That was fantastic In all of those scintillating colors, so I would go check that out assuming I haven't dissuaded you which You know, I'll be honest this kind of Michael because it's really tricky But that being said if you aren't inclined to learn I support your wanting to learn and that's what I would go check out Just be prepared for pain. I always want to be I always want to be transparent Uh, john chev's what technique would you use for cannon barrel soot? Just residue not heat stress I take black pigment and I shove it against the end of the barrel repeatedly on an old brush Multiple applications until it's built up jobs are good. It's that easy like Cannon barrels are leaving behind black sooty pigment Just use the real thing I like that's why I keep black pigment around on my my pigment palette is kind of buried right now But I mean I'll show you what I'm talking about I just literally keep a palette of dry pigments There you go. You can see Black pigment right in there. I literally just dip an old brush into it and start which I will do on this guy For example right here. I'll just stab the end of that cannon barrel a bunch until it's uh sooted out Uh, I'm I'm in the middle of weathering my little my little buddy here my little my little bug walker But he's uh, he's not fully weathered yet So yeah, that's all I do. It's easy Uh, Steve keen finally picked up the Vallejo metal color golden copper. I'm intimidated about mixing the two To make say bronze and brass and just manipulating in general any chance for a video Maybe sure I can add it to the list because it is something I mix them all the time Here's my best advice for things like brass that I've read in them. If you want the more brassy color you do You lean more on the copper two to one three to one with the gold if you want more rich gold It's three to one gold to some of the copper. There's the short easy answer But beyond that I also will mix inks and some of the silvers into them and stuff like that So but I'll I'll I'll do a video and walk through it Uh When batch painting, how do you stay focused on the project or stay driven to finish? Um, well, I don't batch paint by so if you watch the 24 hour Painting an army in 24 hours. I don't batch paint like here's a thing I'm going to do this little blue thing and then I'm going to move to the side Then I'm going to get the next one to do this little blue thing that I'm going to use this side That's actually inefficient and mentally defeating Right. Like there's a reason that factory work like that is unbelievably de-incentivizing to your positive mental health when you're just doing one thing at a time all day um The the way I do it is I'll do these big broad steps like again if you go watch how I handle the ogres You know, I did all this stuff for the airbrush and I would come over and I did like all their belts and buckles and boots and details All at once on one ogre All that And then he looks he moves from like a partial state to a pretty done state all at once And I set him to the side and I get this little ping of like yay. That's an almost done ogre I'll come back and do the metals. That's my that's sort of how I break things up like here's all the matte stuff Boots leather, you know things like that and then here's all the metals And so I do all the basic mats set him to the side and I look at him and like yay That is an almost done ogre. I feel good. I have accomplished a thing I get the positive dopamine hit of getting a nearly done model to look at Whereas there's just no hit like that when you just do a belt and then set to the side and then a belt and set at the side That's just demoralizing right um The second thing is uh You know, you you give yourself micro goals After I do this I will go do this other thing or I will reward myself in this way have a cookie Have a drink have a glass of wine whatever whatever thing you like and I won't let myself have that thing Until I I don't drink any of that or eat cookies, but you get it whatever my own personal things are different. Um But I won't engage in that that until I finish the thing Uh, I also have a very focused sort of personality like I pay attention to one thing and I tend to lose track of all of the outside world Uh, so I mean which is an advantage for junk like that Um, but my best advice is really the thing of like don't just do the one step batch painting You're not actually gaining any time Especially if you're using a wet palette and keeping all your paints fluid and ready to go You're actually just causing yourself a mental burden that will defeat you So hopefully that helps Uh, okay David kratzberg Okay, cool. All right. Good. Good answers. Okay. Cool. Cool Brandon s havens i'm thinking of doing a wordbearers army How do you differentiate the darker? I guess red of this armor with say a blood angels Do you do the same red ink over warm zenithal? Aren't wordbearers like kind of magenta-y don't they kind of push a little bit into the deeper like wine color? right, um I Like I would just use I would mix that in I would just use a crimson color Honestly, like I'd go way down in like the ten caros crimson or or uh, Or a blood fest harvest or blood harvest fest or blood whatever something like that blood fest I don't know something like that blood fest look up blood fest color in scale 75 those sort of deep crimsons Uh, alizarin crimson is the color that's at the root of all this So like this is alizarin crimson, right? You can see that color there. That's where I would push it to into that dark color Um, you could also just use some alizarin crimson That's that's what I've used when I wanted this before like literally I'll just use the heavy body acrylics and get it in there But yeah, that would be my advice stay away from your orange reds Um, if the wordbearer or or just use the orange red a little bit in the highlight and make that like your your one and two And pull down into those deep crimsons But I will I think that's right for wordbearers. I don't remember right off the top of my head But that that would help you could mix in a little purple you could mix in a little black into your red Uh, taigo, I hope I'm saying that correct any any tips for beginner in non-metallic metal Uh paint more than you research research 10 percent paint 90 fail and keep replacing Contrast is the key go really really high if you go watch the pmp review videos that I do every month There's a linked video in all of those that will take you to a deep explanation of non-metallic metal Um watch kujo's Video on shapes and how they're highlighted kujo's just just search for kujo non-metallic metal K u j o kujo's a great teacher and uh, he made the all-time seminal work on Understanding highlighting shapes. Uh, it is what I recommend every time I will never do a video on it because it would just be worse than his Like I see no need for a second video on a subject where the the the Anything I do would be penultimate basically. Yeah Uh, but yeah, go check out that stuff. Um, don't pay too much to recipes pay more attention to contrast And uh and and the nature of the shapes you're you're working on That's my best advice And and have fun like it's super fun to experiment with nmm You can just do some really great crazy stuff So, you know, it's not going to look amazing at the beginning and that's okay Don't feel bad about it. You know, just like learn get some feedback and and keep growing and that's all good Uh swashbuckin here the black and white thing is awesome I did it with my levide on shell and it's all a singular tone of gray. Yep It will taking a picture of your minis and then looking at them in black and white It will change the way you look at your minis. I guarantee it Uh, okay dvl trigger I'm getting into freehand and notice your hobby cheating on the subject said to thin with ink I'm terrified of putting ink into my Windsor seven zero zero at all. Am I being paranoid? Yes. I put ink into all of my fine brushes all the time. The key is So I'll bring my I'll bring my palette over here The key is how you're putting ink in your brushes. First of all, all brushes are eventually going to get ruined Just period like it's a brush even if it's 10 or 20 dollars. It's a brush It will eventually get ruined the name the universe is one of entropy things tend toward a state of disorder and destruction But anyways, the key is this is this is ink right here on my palette You go in and you mix it up like this you know And like that's how much of my brush has the ink in it I don't know if you can see that or not that much right What I didn't do was go That's a good way to ruin a brush right Because now ink is going to get down on the ferrule Uh other pieces, but like, you know, you just yes. Yes, absolutely your painting life will change if you're trying to do sharp freehand or Tattoos or stuff like that. You just need ink You don't you wouldn't put acrylic paint in a pen and hope to get to write with it so And and you know just regularly like keep your brush clean Don't let the pits that paint set there and dry wash it regularly clean it at the end of the night with your standard brush soap Get some heavier stuff like your winds are a newton brush cleaner like that'll That'll kill the paint right out of it. That stuff is I don't know what it is, but boy. Oh boy. Will it just like Blow the paint right out of your brush, but I wouldn't use it very often because it's it's it is harsh stuff Uh bar tech hello from new zealand. Hi. How is it on the opposite side of the world? Any advice for doing the reptilian half of creature casters drakon? I'm planning to zenithal including the light underbelly. Yeah, I mean, I think that's right Uh, so my unusual under shading unusual creatures under shading video Do a heavy dry not well. Yeah, do a dry brush first Do a wash first and then you could probably go over top with a glaze and you know be almost done Um, but go back and make sure the edges of the scales. I have that guy sitting on my shelf I'll probably tackle him at some point. I might actually do a video on like draconic Scales and stuff with him, but I wouldn't wait for that. That's probably gonna be several months away Um But yeah, I think that that's how I would do it. I would prep him with a full like dry brush and wash thing You know really play into that heavy texture, right? Uh all sin Alt scene, okay. How do you beat painters block? I don't feel like painting but it hurts looking at all the gray Uh, I don't have painters block. It's a terrible thing to say so I'm not trying to hold this over your head I I have an addiction to painting. I paint every day that I can't like I was just away with my wife for like three solid days Where I didn't get to paint at all. I came back. I helped her unpack and I sat down here and started painting Immediately I can't help myself now What are my good answers? Okay, so here we go now that I'm done being a real jerk um Get into the habit make it a habit sit down every day put paint on a brush This is I completely stole this from John Nina's who got it from somewhere else, but I totally agree with it Sit down Force yourself to sit at your desk Get out a brush and put paint on it Make that your goal every day no matter what Now what'll happen then is you'll accidentally paint stuff But even if you don't even if you just then put the brush back into water and put it away That's okay. There's nothing wrong with that But you'll find that if you sit down and just put that paint on that brush You will start painting set up time set an alarm put it in your phone Paint stuff you love, you know, you got a giant pile of gray. Who gives a crap If you got a new project that's burning out, you know, that's getting you excited paint that Paint a thing that's exciting you that's getting your juices flowing Painting begets painting All right, so don't it's not a punishment. It's not a work order like if you Feel that there's something that is You know that you really want to do do it ignore the pile of gray Sell off some of the pile of gray That could be a good answer. Don't let it hang over your head like a giant sort of Damocles But try to make a little bit of time every day 30 minutes always try to sit down at least get paint on a brush Set an alarm and say between 7 30 and 8 every day. I'm going to sit down for 30 minutes Keep your stuff ready Like my paint and my brushes and everything sits on my desk in a ready position I can sit down and begin painting in 10 seconds. It takes me zero prep time Lower all possible barriers of entry to yourself to sitting down and painting because if you have any barrier of entry You'll give yourself an excuse. I don't want to fill a cup up with water. You'll do that Not you personally. I'm just saying like you the broader you right Um, if you give yourself a chance to have an excuse, you'll do it trick yourself It's a slightly different variation on treat yourself. I hope those things help Uh Hey vents, how would you paint a miniature with a huge flat surfaces like a space marine rhino? Well with an airbrush is the short answer. I would never do big vehicles with a brush I always do it with an airbrush and I I have videos on on panel modulation Look up panel modulation on vehicles That will show you exactly what I mean how I would paint them Hobby cheating panel modulations probably in the 150s. I think off the top of my head Joe or thauber from or thauber studio. Hey vents I want to say hi and well wishes. Well, same buddy. Same to you. How you doing Joe? I hope everything's going well and you're with your uh with your family Joe makes awesome plinths and paint handles and projects out of wood check out or thauber studios if you're looking for See people a lot of times ask like where do you get plinths for displays for competition painting? You go to places like or thauber studio who makes great plinths Uh ruben, uh, hello vents any tips on painting realistic wood for the sylvaneth creatures? Oh, yes. In fact, I have a video completely dedicated to it called realistic wood Uh, it's in Hobby cheating like 60 something. It's right there at the beginning of the 60s. I believe Uh, the answer is uh lots of Variations, so I mine. I always start with a zenithal then I give it a good dry brush And then we then we get out our The secret to all wood the one of the only Ink tense wood. That's right. You get out your ink tense wood from scale 75 magic In a bottle you can put one coat over this and it will look like basic wood But then you do just more coloristic color variation You add in some greens you add in some purples you dry brush with a little gray then you wash this again It's just a lot of dry brushing and washing to be completely honest with lots of different colors So if you go back and look at that video, you'll see that but that real that ink tense wood you got to get that ink tense wood It's the way to go Milo H. How do you cope with dust and dog hair? It's the bane of my life. Oh my god. I hear you my brother My this office has three dogs in it all day because I work out of here as well And my dogs have to stay with me So they don't get into trouble and dogs make dust and fur and it's just it is a constant thorn in my side I don't know man. I wish I had a greater answer for you. I'm trying to find a good like HEPA filter I need to go get something industrial like they use for coal mines Um, I don't I just you know deal with it. You can cover your projects That can be a good solution like at the end of the night Just keep like a keep literally like a big piece of saran wrap on your desk And when you put a project to the side just set it over the top that can be a good way to go um Keep a keep a big giant brush a big giant soft brush Like something, you know, like an artist would use for a canvas, but maybe we're like super super duper soft bristle bristles Uh, like a giant giant makeup brush could also work like a foundation brush And just before you start painting you just You give the thing a nice soft brush, but there's not I find dog hair in my minis all the time and boy does it just drive me Fuckers So I get it buddy Uh, do you have any experience with the chimera colors pure pigment range? I don't it's something I want to play with but I just I every time I remember and go to order them. They're out of stock I just one of these times I'm gonna it's gonna line up where I remember I want to try them and I go there to order them and they're in stock And then it will happen because I am excited to give them a try Brandon s to strike with burt's earlier question where you said work on two models for a display competition Are there any single minis or small squad you highly recommend for a beginner competition painter? In specific my answer is always the same. It should be something you're very passionate about because you You need to to really love that thing enough to sit there with it for 60 80 100 hours, which is how long it should generally take on something like that Uh, unless you're super duper fast. I mean like on average. I'm giving an average there Some things will take a lot lot longer. Some things will take a lot lot shorter, but there's a good average Um pick something open by open. I mean this Standing there in an open position, right? Don't pick this If you pick this You're naturally covering your own work up and you're gonna make it very hard to get a nice clean paint job That's why people love that like the night quester Right and stuff like that or the tide caster who was open You'll notice when gw picks their figure their figures for the evi metal category the past couple years They've picked very open figures Not people that have like two-handed weapons. They're clutching as they're in as they're hunched over Right, that's a nightmare Uh new things generally better than better than old things like just uh, not only for golden demon, but Yeah, just in life in general because they have a novelty to them Um, but also because they tend to be much cleaner sculpts So, you know, it's you don't want to fight the sculpt Can you do a great paint job on a bad sculpt? You absolutely can. I've seen amazing work. Should you? I mean why especially if you're just starting out Leave that to somebody who's well along in a competition wants to torture themselves for for fun just to say they did it, right? That's my advice Okay, uh, whiskey tango Yes, indeed two should be the number you should count the number the counting shall be two. All right Uh, let's see Gotta I scroll down now. I need to catch up with myself Okay, there we go We're coming to the hour so i'm gonna go i'm gonna go a little quicker, but i'm gonna keep answering the questions With the wet palette should you just avoid wetting the top facing part of the paper? Just noticed on the redgrass just noticed on the redgrass website, but I always poured water on the paper. Is that bad? Yeah, don't pour water on the paper you pour water around and then you set the paper down You don't this should not be wet or have open water on it like I I I keep a squeeze bottle and I put water in here and under the sponge But you'll take the paper off, you know, not when it has pain on it, but like When I change this i'm gonna wet this whole thing then put a new piece of paper down and then I refill from the side here Yeah, don't get the top wet Shouldn't have wet sitting on it like when I want to refill it I have my little ck studios dropper bottle and I come in here and put that thing right underneath and just Fill it up kind of tilt it around make sure it's soaking into the sponge And there we go Job's a good Okay, uh I'm just laughing at Emily's comment. Yes indeed it is. Uh, let's see Okay All right, whiskey tango. Have you stripped any models that had oil paint on them and do the usual things work fine? I haven't I would imagine they do um Like I would imagine things like purple power would probably pull that off or simple green, but I don't know for sure Um, I mean at worst you could always just use white spirits and probably get It way softened and then throw it in there. So Uh Question about the color wheel Which one would you recommend? Oh, do you mean? Yeah, sure between the two color wheels Whichever one you find more useful is the honest effect is the honest answer Because like there's a lot of high level sort of artsy fartsy discussion We could have about which color wheel is an artificial construction based on paint pigment and which one is a An actual representation of color and light as it exists in reality And that's valid and there's a great amount of sort of academic like discussion around these different color wheels And how you utilize them My answer is always just Use one like use one you like and understand whether you're However, you're balancing those two as long as you're staying in balance as that wheel is constructed In other words, as long as you're not mixing the two together to determine your composition for a singular piece It should still sell You know like I there are high level and very like Discrete advantages to end to one or the other I think in the end like your You know things that are more focused on like the cyan magenta are more accurate To actually how colors work like that the primaries and all those things are wrong and that and that but like that that the rgb is kind of a construction but um At the same time It wouldn't matter you can use whatever as long as you're kind of referencing the same one and using that singularly on a project You'll still end up in an okay place. That's my answer Uh, john chevaz. I'm thinking of doing a pearl effect for 40k power swords technique Hey, remember that thing I said about scintillating colors on a On a on a beetle carapace It's not at same level, but it's pretty close Pearls are tricky. They have a lot of very strange colors in them. Um You you do it like nmm But you're doing it all in this sort of cream to gray to blue to white spectrum And it has to alternate through those colors very specifically Um, it has the sheen of metal without being metal Because it's all in a more singular tone Uh, and so like you've got to balance all that out If you search around there are a couple good like paint splotch examples out there of pearl But I'll tell you it's going to be hard to sell and like especially on a power sword um My recommendation would be don't just like Do a different spread of colors No, but if you're really curious search for like the pearl like how to paint pearl There's lots of good canvas examples because people do paint pearls on canvas a lot for sort of necklaces and stuff And you can find the color swath It's just there's you you're running up to a You're running up to the the predisposition bias What I mean by that is human beings your brain does a lot of work in how you perceive stuff And when I see a string of circular objects around the neck of a figure I expect that to be pearls And so if it's in the color range my brain makes the rest work and goes yep, that looks like a pearl I don't expect a sword to be made of pearl right So it's gonna i'm going to look at it and my brain's going to go wait. What is that? Why does that look like that? So it's like because you have to sell it Perfect Your brain doesn't isn't going to jump any gaps for you there. That's why it's challenge, right? Okay Josh hyvens my question is when choosing colors. Is there any rules In relation to warm and cool colors. For example, I want to do my iron jaws with red skin Dark blue armor and yellow spot colors. I mean, well, you're basically in the three primaries there, right? um, I mean see earlier discussion on color wheel uh, those would be very Bright, I mean orks in general. I was tough because they always have a built-in color unlike sort of Caucasian or african skin tones, which are much more neutral In tone You know green and red like you're describing I would Probably recommend that you knock one of those colors out like unless the blue is very dark blue Um, but look up triadic color schemes. That's what you want to look at like go Find a good there. There are online color wheels again in both forms that we just discussed You can find either of them use either of them. It's fine set yourself up Either a triadic or a split complementary color scheme and use those tones The other trick would be, you know Like you could do that as long as it was like highly highly desaturated for some of those because Just the primary colors all together are going to be quite Gaudy in a way that isn't very appealing to the eye. Um Think about the last time you walked into any building and saw completely saturated red blue and yellow all over the place right It would just be uncomfortable. So there you go If you shifted out that like red for I actually kept the blue and shifted out the yellow for like there you go, that would be right shifted out the yellow for a neutral tone Uh You know, uh White or an ivory or something it would suddenly look a lot More compelling it would look like old Bretonian knights who always did red blue and and ivory, right? I saw you used regular vallejo metal color thinned down through your airbrush in a vid Do you use vallejo metal air ever? No, no, there's no such thing tidings I saw you ask this question earlier Vallejo metal color. That's it not model color not air Metal color. This is it. This is the one there is no other metal color. There is no other type It always says airbrush. It always says airbrush colors. They are for brush and airbrush Vallejo metal color not model not air not game not any of that this This and this alone all other metal paints should be thrown in the garbage because that's what they are acrylic metal paints With the exception of like, I guess scale 75 speed metal that's like, okay That's a solid b minus But this is an a plus There you go Uh So yeah, just metal color and what do I not like about all of them? They don't look like metal They don't shine like metal. They have bigger pigments. They don't act like metal. They don't blend well They don't do the things I want them to do which is mainly look like metal Like if you look at this guy, look at how shiny that metal is see that pop That's what metal looks like right And that's vallejo metal color I guarantee you that is not what like some gw metallic would look like it would not reflect like that It would also have giant ugly pigments like some metals are still worse than others Uh, normally I say use their repaint you like but everybody knows that like this is one of the things I am Uh, I am just rabid about which is the vallejo metal color Uh, tomahawk jam. Hi, vint. Sorry if you have spoken on this before Do you have any general tips for airbrushing war colors? Uh, yeah No, absolutely. I I do have a video on it on airbrushing war colors so you can go check that out. Um, but in general I mix it down with some vallejo thinner. I use an 80 20 mix of thinner to flow improver mix it in the cup. I usually do Probably a five or six to one ratio In general something around there depending on what you want to go with just mix it up drop a water I'll usually just use add drop of water because it is a solvent and all that and yeah, it's good no issues That would be my advice W. Soren have do you have a resource that you can recommend to start planning a color scheme? um, I do There is an online There is an online color wheel that is certainly acceptable and is good enough And It is from sessions college s e s s i o n s if you just search up sessions college color wheel You will find it and it's great And you can put in all the different types of schemes quadratic and split complementary and triadic and it'll just automatically show you the appropriate colors You can move around you can adjust your tints and shades and desaturate things. It's super great Check it out Uh, okay, uh, you can also change your type by the by depending on what color wheel you want to use So there you go Zach, uh, hey vince. Thank you for all your content. Well, thank you. I appreciate Zach Uh, curious if I have just missed over it, but have you done a video about applying screens? Should I be applying screens with an airbrush? Do you mean like Applying screens. Do you mean like to mask and like uh, like something like this? Hold on peeling it off my thing Do you mean something like this guy where you have a little a little thing that you put down and then Kind of airbrush it to get a shape No, I've never done a video on it. I do use them. Um, the ones I use are from fallout hobbies. I really like those They're just a little sticky stickers that you can put on there Um, I mean not much to it. I mean just you know, I you varnish first I always give a good coat of satin varnish first Then I just stick my little stickiery thing on there and Cover the rest around with something like just some other masking agent tape generally or or silly putty We'll often I'll just use that around there Uh, and then just spray away and never apply too much just a nice nice light coat Let it dry nice light coat. Let it dry nice light coat. Let it dry done All right, you don't want too much liquid though if you apply too much liquid and have it running It'll get up under the sticker Okay, let's see Uh, Brandon asks sorry for the multitude of questions any chance for a hobby cheating on your favorite websites communities for the hobby Uh, could be interesting. I'll I'll think about it I do want to do a my favorite paints thing. So there you go. Uh Okay Yeah If that's a question about the color wheel, which one would you recommend? Oh, you already have okay. I already answered that Let's see David Mooney trying to paint a solitaire to make him look like he's wearing white a white doctor's coat Where would I start or should I start with an hba white and tone down the recesses? Yeah, it's exactly what I do Uh, exactly what I would do I would start like I would honestly go watch my how to paint smooth white video David and that should lead you Where you want to go and I knew what you meant by tone Uh, Emily. No, I don't eat cookies or cake or any processed sugar of any kind like I don't uh I have not had a dessert or chocolate or anything like that in 15 years And I try to stay away from most heavily sugared fruits as well by the by Uh, let's see Regal that last bit. Uh, oh good. Okay, excellent Good. So I said that advice on keeping painting helped awesome Uh, vulgar question is rather a small thing I never know how to paint the areas where skin meets armor or cloths somehow those borders never look right Push dark shadows into them from both sides And if that doesn't and then once you're down from there give it a good black line Um, don't use actual true black but use something dark like a deep purple and get a line in there Elements need to be separated Um, you know like you can see on this guy how he has that little rope that's right next to his skin Like that has a black line around it It's not painted yet because I had just been like he's still I never finished him But like a dark line separating the two and then push shadows toward it So like on skin, I would have a little bit of shadow going toward that cloth You know, I'd use my deep uh purple or something like my african shadow or my black leather or whatever I happen to be using for skin in that case How would you shade down and highlight orange? Uh, you highlight orange with usually Caucasian flesh tone is the best way to do it And you shade it with a rust or a brown color is usually the if you're just talking about sort of standard orange spectrum Like you're trying to paint a pumpkin Uh, James, uh, I'm painting an orc from the realm of light I want them to be dark skin tones My ideas is lorra rings orkai skin but with green tones rather than african tones Uh, other than to saturate greens any ideas Um, sure. I mean you could do desaturated like purples and or deep browns You could take an orange and mix in a fair amount of blue to get a really desaturated deep brown That would work. Um, yeah, I mean, I think any of those things would would be cool and give you a fairly, uh, organic skin tone still Uh, all right, we're gonna go into a lightning round now because we're over when I wrap it up So here we go lightning round I always see, for example, glaze applied blue to recesses to red Is there any resources in one place as to what colors to go with or as simple as looking at the opposite colors in the color wheel It's it's a little bit of a little bit from column a a little bit from column B Like, you know warm colors get opposed by cold and cold cold get opposed by warm I have colors. I really like haul red It's my one of my great shadow colors when I'm doing cold colors and pains gray is one of my things I really like in there purple can be a little of both If you have something in the middle, right? Um, but yeah, kind of that's they're like if you just wanted to keep it super simple Like a deep crimson or a whole red for your cold highlights a whole uh, a whole red or a black leather or warm purple like a like an African shadow for your sorry for your for your cold highlights a uh, a pains gray or a similar blue black for your warm highlights and then purple when you want to do a little both Uh, let's see Grumdy heavens, how would you approach painting the glowing skulls within the mount of Ark on the black? I can tell you how I did it. I did a lot of dry brushing over the top and then glaze them all with a singular color and then went back in and layered the uh, the upper levels of each bone Like picked out with, you know, two layers each ridge and bottom of the skull. It's pretty quick process overall. I mean, he's a centerpiece model. He's worth taking the time on a couple hours of work Uh, Tim, can I add flow improver to my glazes to help get an even coverage? Yes, 100% you can but if you're having problem with your glazes pooling your problem is not flow improver your problem is wicking You are not wicking your glaze out enough. Okay. If if a glaze ever pools, there is too much water in your brush. This is, you know, I can make a nice thin glaze out of this red. Okay. All right. And if I then put this on a miniature and it does that I have too much water. I need to come to my paper towel and wick the excess out so that what I get is a smooth application. I should see a tiny dot of paint at the end here which I can then pick up Okay. So your problem is not flow improver your problem is wicking but that being said yes I often do I'd flow improver to my glazes just to make sure it does stay nice and smooth. So both can help Uh, yes you could. So painting with that brush size. Oh, you absolutely can and should test yourself with larger brushes. I mean like I normally use size sixes and eights and stuff. I only do detail work like I do these little flames on the side with a smaller brush but Yeah, like you you will paint more and you will paint better if you start using a larger brush. Your paint will be smoother because when you're using a tiny brush you're just chopping the paint up and you could do it too. I have no great Dexterity. I am a very very low dexterity person. I don't even want to know what my dnd score would be and I have and I have no artistic talent. So if I can do it, you can do it because I am innate talent less. So there you go. Let's see. Any advice on how you balance color composition models a piece of art with real life colors and materials that the model is supposed to have. Yes always lean toward art and screw anything to do with real life colors and materials unless by changing it you will destroy somebody's very strong preconceived notions. I will give you a simple example. A belt can be any color you want and it doesn't matter. Period. Any color. Like literally any color can be anything. Okay because their belts are just belts. They can be brown leather and they can be bright red or pink or purple or white or whatever because belts exist in all those colors and it doesn't matter. Right. So there you have to kind of pay attention. You pay attention to nothing. You go toward the art and what's demanded of it. But rust looks like rust. So when you're painting rust it needs to look brown and orange maybe some hints of red here or there but like it needs to look like rust otherwise it isn't rust. Right. You couldn't make that just any color you want because there are preconceived notions that our brains have about how things work in the world. Right. You can add other tones in you can sneak other colors in you can sneak other other colors into there like you can also sneak some turquoise and stuff into rust as kind of an oxidation of some kind of copper around or anything like that so you can get there you can still be tricky. But that's I always lean toward the art unless it's going to like a human being is going to look at it and be unable to determine what the heck you were painting because you change the color. Natural druid my shoes when I start getting the finishing touches I get distracted and have issues finishing minis. I would never stop right near the end. I don't stop running when I see a goal line man I run harder. But the answer is stop doing those finishing touches if that's giving you a challenge like just get to more done minis and then slowly start pushing yourself. Like discipline yourself to two roads one just stop doing them completely and say that's good enough and I'm done and stop feeling like you're not doing something that's OK if they're up to tabletop quality and that's what you're aiming at jobs are good and why torture yourself. Option two is for yourself to do it like sit down and be like this is what I'm going to paint and again set up a reward system a punishment system for yourself like whatever incentives you tend to respond to. But you know that's that's the way I would say. And keep in mind you're running a race and you're looking at the finish line and then you went oh dear and you just left the race and never finished finished that race. You're right there. There you go. Five second take on the slaves book not really what this is for but short answer is I quite like it. I'm excited about it. Hannah multiple projects if I get tired of painting one project and do another I'm doing this because I like painting when I'm not comfortable painting another 20 client rats all swap. Yeah exactly two projects always the way to go. Let's see so many questions. OK. Do you ever go back to an army like 24 hours of scale the paint job. Usually no there's always something else to do. Over a course of years maybe eventually like I did go back and upscale my slinnish six years later which was itself upscaled from six years before that as with all slinnish I must revisit every six years for that is the sacred number of our dark prince long may he she rain. Let's see I would doubt Catacross will I mean he'll show up at Golden Demon but it depends who paints him was not really an innate thing about him that makes him hard and he's a tough piece to actually compete with for a couple different reasons like that's too nerdy and deep for this particular discussion but he's a tough competition piece. He'll be stronger in Golden Demon than he'd be in other competitions. And hello hello from Romania. Good to see you. Should you so should you avoid doing vehicles and such until you have an airbrush. No but I would buy an airbrush real fast like if I was going to do a bunch of vehicles that would certainly motivate me. I was going to do a couple one off. No you can do it just you need you know then your paint get a big brush get a big big brush big big big brush big flat brush. And and then use your other Russian paint some glazes over it to get it nice and smooth in the paint. Yeah. Two headed calf any ideas for alien fauna for a desert base. Oh sure yeah like um yeah man. Oh do I have you covered alien fauna. Why yes I do. Where's that here's now. Okay how about stuff like that. Boom blue bright things that you can then dry brush and get some other weird colors into like take this dry brush this pink over the top. Whoo you got some alien plants baby right there. These are from gamers grass. That's where these are from. You can also get some great colored tufts from Annie at bad squid oh games but yeah gamers grass and that that's what I would say. Okay that's a good point yeah it's if he had mentioned you could use like colored rattle cans yeah that is also a really great point if you don't have the airbrush. Hello Travarian how you doing. Always be closing. Hey remember those ABCs tell me true the new Mordenheim win. Oh geez I have no insight into that my friend I don't know what's going on the GW studio but I would say at minimum probably four years whenever that old world thing happens if then so two years after that. So let's call it 2025 at earliest how's that. Jonathan weird question I'm painting Nautilus from League of Legends for a friend 3D printed. Got any tips for me. I don't know that many I don't play League of Legends. I'll look it up real quick. Nautilus League of Legends okay. What does this thing look like. Is it just a big guy with glowing eyes. It's just a big steel guy. So he just looks like a big armor dude with some internal glowy green plates. Okay got it. I see so he's like glowing from the inside out kind of in some places. Yeah neat. My recommendation is if you want to make him look like that. Look at my OSL video. White ink is going to be your best friend to like do some nice fine lines in those areas to have a tracing out and you're going to glaze over the top with a color. You're going to glaze out very lightly into the areas where it's glowing and then you're going to go back in with a white slash that color glaze mixture and trace some of the middle line and then you'll create a few light spots of just like white ink. That seems like the hard part of him is that internal glow I think the rest of it's like probably just metal. Just metal paints that you could he looked rough so you know some dry brushing on the metals probably could like stippling type dry brushing not just like but like create texture. Use a fat brush create some stippling like do intentional rough texture with different kinds of steel and inks and stuff. How do you maintain a sharp brush on a tip you clean your brush regularly it actually has nothing to do with the brush itself. You need to keep your paint wet and thin if your paint is thick it will not it will cause your brush to get weird. You need to keep your paint wet thin and you need to clean your brush regularly. That's how you keep a sharp tip on a brush. It's that easy. If your paint is thick it will screw up if your paint if you get paint too far down in your brush it will get in the ferrule you'll get dried paint down there and it'll split and you won't have a nice tip. If you do a lot of rough stuff if you're very aggressive with your brush be soft be soft with that with that baby weasel hair be soft with it. There you go. Okay. Steven Powell. Okay let's see. Okay cool. On the metal one bad monkey Vince what was your biggest challenge in becoming a paining YouTuber. I have no idea doing it I guess. Just sitting down and committing to doing it every week. I don't know I built this very organically I didn't like put a lot of forethought into this I just really like sharing stuff and so I just started doing it. I learned from other people who did it better. I don't have any great I have no great insight for you. Which Vallejo metal colors do you start with here we go steel silver copper gold pale burnt metal dark aluminum exhaust manifold in that order rewind back for questions. Vince how do you remove the metallic flakes when you actually get them on non-metallic areas in the model bane of my life. I do two ways one I will always sat in or I'll varnish in general. In some way before I do the metal paints. So then if it gets on somewhere else I just take a nice hard synthetic brush and put water on it and then just wipe it off. And because there's a layer of varnish there it'll wipe right off it gives you a safe point so you can easily erase it that's step one. Step two if you don't paint your metals more carefully I guess it seems like the dumb obvious flip answer. But three like you have to be really careful with them and it happens to me too still I do hate it I know what you're talking about. And three I don't I just go back and weather over that area later if I'm doing like a vehicle or something or if it's no no weathering just go back in and paint a little bit of your map paint over it when it's all done you'll cover it right up. I found that Vallejo glaze medium dries pretty slow am I doing something wrong or other mediums I can use to build up places quickly. We don't have to use glaze medium you can just use water but yeah glaze medium will dry slowly you can also just use like green stuff World Master medium is really good. You can use Lamia medium contrast medium acrylic thinner for more colors just some kind of medium you don't have to use that I like a little I like a little bit of that medium and mostly water. Let's call it 70 30 is how I often make my glazes Dave good advice to varnish first before masking with a sticky stencil. Yep got some checkered and I think works and some fall hobbies. Yeah always give a nice varnish before you put stickers on your minis that way it doesn't and let it the varnish dry completely that way you don't pull up any pain. Sean Vince been watching since day one of hobby change just want you to know your content made me have decent painter. Well that's fantastic buddy I'm glad to hear it and I'm glad you've been around and don't worry I'm not going anywhere anytime soon but I love hearing that. It's got 12 so the question pertains to your mustache to use mustache wax and if so what brand do you prefer I don't I really should if you've got any recommendations I'd love to hear because I really should. Let's see. To do looking forward to meeting everybody can con yes I'll be down at can con hope to see you there if you see me come say hi. Okay sure so Anzo blue striations on this on the the squig sure straight thin lines on his horns. That's all I mean right look go look at how GW does their horns they'll have striations that look like this two different colors. This is brown this is white that could be your simplest answer like you can do a blend and a glaze you can do a couple of layers of striations but in simplest form it's this this is white. So this would be your blue into a darker color down like black down here I think if I remember it was how your manuscript squig was set up but they interchange and they come to little triangles basically. Hopefully that helps. Let's see. So for army projects do you buy the army then paint the army then buy the next army and then paint that army in general yes that is how I do it I will get one army at a time I paint my way through it in three to six months and then I that's it I'm done now. And then I'll add to it often slowly over time like scaven's a great example I've added to that thing just years and years and years and years some armies I add to some armies I don't. Let's see. Yep I agree go Vallejo metal or Molotow chrome that's it yes when you want that real shine that shiny shine shine shine Molotow chrome is the only thing I trust except no substitutions frost foam just want to say hello is that behind you war hammer fast at the AOS QA this year. It's funny I'm an easy person to see if you're sitting behind me because this bald spot back here is very recognizable. I could see myself in one of many acts recent videos where he was following John Nina's up to the front in the crystal brush award presentation and like I saw my own head instantly because I was like reflecting this. This light so it was very funny. All right let's see Ralph Houser layering Vallejo over war colors the Vallejo tends to crack no matter what I do any idea why I have no idea I certainly have put those two paints together I've never found that to be the case. Are you letting they I mean one is gel medium and one is liquid mediums they have different drying times so make sure that the war colors completely dry. I guess my advice would be do the war colors and then varnish it and see if it makes a difference but I mean I know lots people who use war colors with mixed in with Vallejo and I've never heard that issue so but I don't know. Possible to varnish without an airbrush yes and a K interactive ultra matte varnish the only matte varnish I trust ding. I'm not paid by them or anything but it's they want to I'm available reach out guys but no it's this stuff a K interactive ultra matte varnish. And yes they can be brush or airbrush it's great for both. Let's see. All right we'll end on the miniatures paintbrush question here we go last question terror guys to paint although I'm feeling intimidated any advice the big monster intimidation problem I'll leave with this and then we'll then we'll call it a day. Don't don't be intimidated by big monsters I love me big monsters they're great there's no more fun thing to paint it's huge you get to get stuck in you to experiment. You have lots of different textures you got muscles on the terror guys you got bone you got sinew you got hair. Right you can do things like paint textures on the wings do demon dots do free hand get nuts experiment with some exposed muscle and blood ripped bruised flesh. Right you can you can have that hair be weird you can add stuff on to him. You can play with these huge transitions because you got the space you're not trying to blend in some teeny tiny baby space we're in the pad where you like oh you got to work seven to blends in this little knee pad. No no you got a giant wing you're going to go nuts you're going to get out your airbrush you're going to do five colors on the wing then you're going to wash it then you're going to dry brush it then you're going to do some more airbrush you're going to go crazy. Right what I'll say is this like big monsters should be fun and my best advice is don't be intimidated by them because they are a chance for you to really learn and grow and do a bunch of different stuff and like see them for what they are. I love monsters I mean there's a reason I have like you know nine sphinxes and five gorgons and you know on and on with this kind of nonsense right. Because I'm obsessed with painting these big things because everyone is just a new chance to do something different and they're so big they're a palette. You just they're a canvas rather I should say that you just get to do like everything you want with you can throw all these different techniques together. I said it earlier in the presentation I'll say it again now. This is my new thing I've totally stolen this from my wife and full credit to her to my shining star and truly guiding light in my life as always. I you know perfect is the enemy of the good that's true but her statement was that's not strong enough. Perfect is the opposite of done. Right so jump into that big mini start throwing colors around see what you like there you go. And just to have a good time use it for what it is a giant canvas that you get to just like you get to go nuts with. And that's awesome like when you're done you've got a big giant monster worth lots of points in the game like it feels so good you're like oh my god this is like four points in the game. I have so much of my army down this one giant thing and he was so much fun so you know there you go it's win win win. Okay so there you go how do you. So I hope that helps everybody as far as the person asked about lettering and scrolls are open books I have a hobby cheating on it search for that very thing in the hobby cheating thing. Look for scrolls and doing tiny work like that and it will it will show you how to do it. All right so there you go and remember Rob I believe in you as I believe in all of you. I say that only because what I said earlier is really true like I don't have any innate artistic talent I'm not an artist. I didn't come to this with any great art skill like I took some art in high school mainly because it was a fun period where I could screw around and make ash trace you know like I didn't take it very seriously. I I never was really good at anything artistically related I like to draw someone I was a kid because we all did and I thought comic books were cool but I just felt like I was always a bad artist as bad at drawing things. And if I can do what I do if you like what I do I don't have any great skill this is nothing more than than just practice over time and I want to make sure that you feel the confidence that you can do it too because I really believe all of you can. So I hope things like this help I know you can all get there I I'm so glad that everybody showed up I hope this is all very helpful. And if you've got any questions at all that I didn't answer down in the comments drop them down there as always I'll answer all the comments. And and I'll be all as always I really really appreciate everybody all the great questions thank you so much everyone really appreciate it and as always we will see you next time bye bye.