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Okay Alright So somebody had left a few questions here before the show started. So I'll start on those while people are catching up and Dropping in their other questions So Rihann said love your video on gray nights will purple power weapons And orange on the shield and eyes work with a green seal I mean, that's a lot of very vibrant colors Those three aren't really meant to go together for various reasons. You've got so you're with green and purple you're actually Like the problem is it's Sort of a split complimentary scheme, but it's not quite far enough. I mean what I'll say is it could work the Purple and orange will generally work and purple and green will obviously work. That's classic villain colors The problem is really gonna be your balance more than anything If you just have like this tiny bit of green, it's gonna be very eye-catching against that scheme So, I mean you could do it as long as the green was highly desaturated if you're sort of main colors Again, same thing like orange is a super bright color if you put it just in one place like on the shield It's just gonna just draw all the attention and be very imbalanced So like whenever you're using bright saturated colors the key is they have to be They have to be in balance. They have to be like spread evenly around the miniature and or highly desaturated so Could you have a scheme with those three work? Sure you you'd need to push the orange way down like kill all of its lumosity and And probably still have it in some other places as well I'm generally more of a fan of minimalist color schemes I'll be honest like once you involve purple and green which are two like extremely potent colors There's sort of not a lot of other colors. You can easily bring into it you can sneak like Your green could work if it's sort of a green blue That will help better to balance everything out and if it's minimal and if it's spread around So I'm thinking more of like a blue green vertigree type of color Especially if that's then desaturated some with some additional gray or white or darkened with something like a black or something like that so There you go. That's my answer Dash I recently tried AK interactive ultra matte varnish and it's fantastic. Yes, it is it is the matte varnish of choice Amazing product. How much do you thin it down when you apply? I use an airbrush I always not much but I thin everything I always just put baby two or three drops of thinner in there just to keep everything moving thinner Think of it. Just like the the grease in the wheels of your airbrush, right? And it always goes Excuse me. It always goes in the in the cup first, right? So So you always want to make sure that's happening And then you know just from there Let's say like an average figure so like one fig so two or three drops thinner and six state drops of ultra matte Good to go. So there you go Okay, Jacob. Hello from Poland. Hi. How you doing? Have you seen some very bright lava bases online recently any idea how to make that? Well, I have a tutorial on making lava bases and if you look through there, I talk about how you get really intense colors There are lots of tricks to getting intense colors You know part of it is using fluorescent colors You can go that direction, but they need to be put over like a bright white The key is no matter what you're using use like a high Lumosti color yellow orange You know mix a little bit of white in and then there should be a very bright under shade You're actually making the under shade do the work So if you watch the lava base tutorial, I have the most recent one You'll see how there's like a white and then I'm laying down this this, you know Very bright yellow or very bright orange or very bright color over top So if you you know, you could use any of the fluorescent type colors and those would really pop over that So like a war colors fluorescence are some of my favorites, for example, but there are plenty of others around and Putting that over the white and it needs to be minimal Like the key with making it look bright is the other stuff needs to be really dark and it needs to be very minimal What's lit? I know it sounds counterintuitive But like a white screen doesn't seem bright a white square sitting in the middle of a black screen seems super bright Okay contrast is king as always Okay, Weston using night haunt chain-rass ports as necron-flayed ones. What's the best way to achieve way to achieve flayed skin cloaks? That's a neat idea. Uh, I Would say just paint them as skin one of the neat tricks you could do is you could paint some stitching on there Which is actually like the super easiest thing in the world to do fake stitching You just put a black line down like just draw line thin line and then you cross hatch it with little black rectangles And then you just take some white and you put it in the middle So there's still a small black ring around your rectangles That's it. I I once recorded a video on this, but I really hated it and sort of bend it It's one of the like kind of lost episodes But it's a really easy thing to freehand out if I can find some other video to wrap it into I'll rerecord in the future but But yeah, it's it's a really easy thing to do And And you know painting them like a flesh color any flesh color you want frankly or me But maybe even mixed flesh colors by the way have them and then have these lines You can stitch together and have like a very pale Caucasian can skin on one side of the stitch line and then like a Darker African skin tone on the other side that would make it feel very much like just a bunch of stitched together Skin so that's a really cool idea by the way I've never thought about that chain raster a little smaller than I think a flayed ones, but it's a but it's really cool I like the idea Trying to paint wings on a nergal rock fly in my mind. They should look translucent any ideas on how to achieve this I mean the more than I can explain here. So like I mean Translucency you're saying how do you paint air? You know is a really tricky thing it can be done The sort of rainbow is insulating pattern is a is a way you can go to kind of achieve that because it will In our heads That's kind of what we picture those as and that's just a matter of painting it like a Fairly close to ivory color or white ish color Maybe a white gray and then you just glaze on like a rainbow of various things You can do it with just the washes like you go crimson and then purple and then green You kind of follow the rainbow along or whatever I Mean actually painting them so that they're translucent is harder One of the easiest things you can do is wherever there's a vein like a Structure that's holding the wing you darken that down color wise and then you lighten the areas that are in the middle because translucency would mean that like light is passing through it and So the thinner it is the more bright it is and assuming Lee in between the structure of the wings is where it's the thinnest So that's the simplest way you can achieve it But it's like I could do probably a 60 minute video on on painting, you know quasi-translucent things It's a it's a difficult thing to do One of the more more most yeah those kinds of like translucencies rainbow pattern type of things of like Like a scintillating wing like a dragonfly wing or an oil stain are like some of the hardest things to actually paint Nick larking when I tried to do white metallic armor It loses too much shine or looks too much like silver any tips on how to get the best white metallic Well, I mean The reason you're running into that is because there's like white metal isn't really a thing What I mean by that is like it's very hard to distinguish that Because white is the color that silver reflects So it's the same thing. There's no difference like steel armor is just like its reflections are white That's why you can that's why non-metallic uses white to do the highest highlights of steel, right? so If you're if you're talking about like truly white metal It's a really again You guys are picking some things that are like some of the more difficult things you could possibly try to achieve But I'll I'll see if I can break it down In actual true metallic metal It's going to be really really hard because the problem is as you move the figure around The lower parts that aren't white that are metal are gonna then reflect light and it's gonna look like It's all just white and you're gonna lose any depth, right? So as you as you like turn the fig in your hand That's why you like generally you'll see people if you want to see a good example of white non-metallic metal Which I know isn't what you're asking, but if you want to see what that looks like in play with the right amount of gray I would highly recommend you go look at Gareth Nicholas's White scars white scar that he did that's I think one of the more perfect sort of white non-metallic and What you'd be trying to do with true metallic is effectively replicate the same thing you go from white into a regular steel color But that regular steel color would be just in the shadows It'd be like about 30% of the total volume and you would be using like a standard steel color Which is gonna reflect less and appear more gray as your shadow color it's it's going to be a very tricky effect to pull off and Honestly, if I was doing it what I would do is I wouldn't mess with metal medium I just generally don't like metal medium and find it to be like really not looking at all right I would just take a steel paint a good steel paint like a Vallejo metal color and I would mix white paint in That's more like what Banshee did when he did Colossus So that's kind of how the Colossus is done. It's sort of a mix of NMM and TMM in in one space by doing that Ruas Vince is a plain snow base too boring or would you spice up with rocks trees? Yes I mean absolutely does any single texture base is too boring You know, it's not that somebody can't stand in an area. That's just snow like that is certainly humanly possible But it's just like not interesting right so absolutely like there should be stuff in the snow There should be rocks the snow should be blowing it shouldn't be you know, like there should be things that are sticking up out of it You should have you know various places where the snow is shoved into into recesses where it's gathered and clumped Like just in general that's going to be make it the most interesting So now that being said if you're gonna get like a pure snow thing then at least try to color mix it so like Put a little blue hidden underneath it and then lay a little bit of snow on top that way There's like a slight blue glow underneath just like you can play with it to get it to still have some kind of visual interest But in general my advice would be yeah mix it up. It's otherwise it just looks like Just looks like your dudes are standing on white frosting Uh Crandalisa hello Vince. Thank you for your latest video of horse fur What do you recommend for dual main horses meaning white and brown horses? Do we base color gray and dark brown or repeat the video process? Yeah, that's exactly right. Yep that you nailed it In other words like sure if you want to do like a painted horse or a spotted horse or something like that Yeah, you just you kind of mark out your spots first in sort of a darker color You can do it with an airbrush or you can do it with whatever like you could do the soft Pattern with your airbrush the fact that it bleeds some is it gonna matter because you're gonna come over it with the texture and then mix it all together Okay Oh, and then the question is what do you do with the wash? No, you still just do it last you're just gonna do it It's you're gonna do it as a very controlled glaze in that case So whereas I could afford to be a little less controlled in my video because I was it was an all-brown horse You would just glaze in a very specific way Right So there you go Okay, so David high vents Vallejo metal color is incredibly bright but with inks or shades It dulls down really hard any tips to tie shadows and highlights together Yeah, you just got to make 50-50 mixes and kind of glaze them into the middle area And you want to thin your inks on your initial blazes So like when you're using inks or shades the key is you need to be mixing those in in thin proportions and have been building them up So like don't just jump in hard all at once Make sure that you're you're building it slowly, okay Alright, let's see Jack Kirby. Oh, hey Jack. I wonderful artist Hey Vince, I've got a few friends who are very casual and a few who insist on only taking tournament listening This is a this caused a lot of issues. How would you go about trying to resolve this? Well, not specifically an art hobby question, but a great question the answer is change the anchoring mechanism They're wanting everybody's on that that set because you're playing standard 2,000 point lists change the mechanism Play a campaign game where people are forcing something different do a path to glory Do you know I'm saying like change what you're playing so that the people who are locked in their ways have to fundamentally start from zero and Play something different You know like try a team games That's a good way to get people to just like break out of their their existing thing because you know two people taking a Thousand point lists you're still playing a 2000 white game, but it's very different anchoring right and so But that would be my my way to go about it change the change the underlying structure And you'll get people to change the way they're thinking if you just can't say hey guys Let's not beat up the fluffy bunnies. 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I mean if you go back and watch I think I talked about this in a sylvaneth video somewhere But here's what I do Let's let's just take a pink leaf for example because a lot of people like those kind of pink leaves Okay, i'm going to paint the whole thing a mid-tone pink Then i'm going to take a tiny bit of crimson wash not like a normal Slap it everywhere wash people use washes so Indelically and they're a wonderful tool to use correctly I'm going to take a tiny bit of that I'm going to force it into the center of the leaf So it runs down into the vein And and collects down at the base of the leaf Let that dry Then i'm going to take a little bit of white White ink and mix into that pink and i'm gonna come in around the outside the leaf and go tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick It's real fast Okay Boom you got a leaf It's that easy and like that sounds like a lot But it's really not it goes really fast once you get it done because you just pink them all Touch each one with a tiny little drop of wash and then just maybe like seven or eight or nine little slashes Across the edge of the leaf and you are good to go Okay Hello from Portugal, what are the must-have of the lejo metal colors Sure, I'll give you my my picks and in order steel silver copper gold pale burnt metal dark aluminum There you go Anything else is seasoned a taste. They're all fun and they all have uses, but those would be my picks Best way to paint diamonds. I have a whole video on painting gems You would replace I like it instead of I'm doing a couple videos on painting gems Go watch like I think the warpstone video that I where I talked about painting warpstone and replace the yellow to green with like a gray to white and That's that's a diamond. You probably want to have little bits of blue And maybe a bit of purple in there like the diamond needs to reflect some kind of color of the ambient world So you just very slight glazes, but but that would be it And then again still as always like as all faceted gems the light needs to collect toward the bottom of the facet So if this is the facet Okay, if it's this rectangle then this top part up here is going to be the darkest and this bottom part Down here is going to be the lightest on an opposing line Right And then you'll make sure all the edges are like solid white Uh Bonesy for someone without facebook and therefore no access to the pmp Where is the good place on the internet to get feedback on my painting and minis? Well, there's lots of places I mean, obviously the pmp is what we do, but or what I do, but I mean Uh Certainly you could look at patreons that around there's lots of patreons that will offer individualized feedback That's actually probably your best learning method because then you can you know have a half hour hour with some of these amazing artists who will Who will sit down and give you one-on-one feedback and you'd be amazed what six months of that will do? Yes, it's an investment But I don't know of a faster way to grow you will never grow as fast as when you have that kind of one-on-one hands-on tutorial Uh, I mean other places certainly you can just like if we're taking we're talking about not that again, lots of these patreons have At lower cost options that have discord servers with them And so like oftentimes people will have options to post your miniatures in there and get feedback on discord I know like miniac and travarian both have that kind of a Set up in their patreons So you could always go check that kind of thing out and then you're you know You're in a small group and I know they themselves monitor it and look at it and give feedback So that could be an option too Uh, okay debon, uh, do you have any suggestions on a good approach for really distressed metal for the new necrons? Uh Lots of different options like it depends on what you want I've seen I've seen a ton of videos about different rust mechanisms and and You know adam put out one yesterday table. Sorry tabletop minions about you know some light rust and Uh, I mean there's all sorts of items out there The any of the videos I've ever done on battle damage or rust you could just apply those techniques straight over to necrons Um, I'm thinking about doing a necron video. It won't be out for like two months If I decide to do it and right now I'm more involved in I was more involved in putting together this big video for this crimson fist But my general answer is uh You know take any of those sort of battle damage or weathering or or rusted metal videos I've done and you could just apply it straight over the necrons Okay, uh, alexis, uh, hello bins. Thanks for the q&a any thoughts about acrylic gauche for mini painting I've been using the liquid tech range For bright colors. The v days. It's incredible. So bright and saturated. Yeah, they're super cool Um, I have some I have some acrylic gauche That I use sometimes. Uh, yeah, they're interesting. Um, they're very matte. It's something I use for very specific purposes Yeah, I You know, they're they're a good paint There is nothing wrong with them. There's both obviously there's a couple different forms of them out there and uh Yeah, I mean, I know marco, uh has used him, uh, quite a bit So You know, he talks about them in some videos. I certainly think they're perfectly viable. Yeah Anytime as long as you're dealing with like artist level stuff in the general paint world They can certainly be brought over to minis without issues, which which those are going to be Uh, you know, what you want to avoid are like bargain basement sort of like low like low Pigmented like below student grade stuff. That's where you're going to get into trouble and the paints will be bad and they'll look bad on the mini Brandon hey vince, have you ever painted battle tech? What kind of advice would you give to painting a small model like a mech that's supposed to be over 10 meters tall Yeah, yes, I sure I've painted a battle tech mech actually I painted quite a few of them I played battle tech for many many many many many many years and uh, I painted lots of little mechs. I liked um, the answer is treat the volumes as uh as one big thing Don't try to over highlight it. It just won't look right in scale. You kind of have to fake it a little But treat the volumes as though they're going to be heavily shadowed Like look at the line drawings or the art in the in the books itself and you'll see that they emphasize usually like heavy shadows Um, pin washing is generally your friend, uh, because those things often a lot of times have very specific little Like battle tech mechs traditionally have like lots of panels and those kind of panel lines need to be pretty dark and pretty Brought out the key is to treat it as sort of like I'm trying to think of a good example It would be a good one to think about uh I don't know. Sure. Let's just take like the atlas right You know, he has this big very humanoid frame and so like where the structures go underneath like under his big arm Under his big fists or whatever like make sure those are put into relative shadow would be my answer Uh, but it's hard. I mean they're effectively it's such a small scale. It's not something I really enjoy painting I would the the battle tech game. I want would be using almost like action size action figure original action figure size battle tech mechs um, they I know there's when they made the new battle tech stuff. They did a couple three ups So three ups are like this big Right, and I know, uh, matt d pietro got to got his hands on like the atlas at some point And I've never been more jealous of somebody in my entire life Um, you know like my my dream The the thing that would make me buy a 3d printer or get or pay somebody with the 3d print stuff Is if I could get uh, probably like eight nine ten inch tall Uh, you know accurate battle tech mechs, especially from like the 2750 era Or maybe some 3250 stuff Uh, but yeah, like if I could get an old style black knight Oh Multal benny like nine ten inches tall. I would be Oh, I'm just getting excited thinking about it. I got to move on. All right. Anyways. Yeah, so that's the thought That was a bit of a digression, but you got me going there Uh, all right managers. Hello from brazil vince. Do you think blocking highlights and shadows before Stippling transitions on cloth is a good idea to make sure we're not missing contrast. Yeah, absolutely I think it's a very valid way to go about it Uh, it's it's a great way to sort of just smooth out those kind of I think stippling is an underuse technique I mean, it's you know, it's Most miniature painters if you look at somebody like karelk and I have the one arguably one of the best miniature painters in the world, certainly Uh, you know, he uses stippling like crazy if you zoom zoom way way way way way in on his stuff You'll see the little dots he's using so he stipples all over the place I think it's a great way to sort of smooth out and get a nice Um Get a nice transition. Uh, it's also a lot easier than just consistently It's it's actually tends to be a lot easier than trying to get like Blends by traditional strokes. So Uh, Hugo, how can I reduce or completely eliminate chalkiness? Uh, well, it depends on what you're talking about. Um chalkiness comes from paint being broken down too thin and the pigment not density not being high enough Uh, if you're talking about chalkiness and white, you can go watch my smooth white video It's like 154 or something and you know, you can add in gloss varnish to white Which will smooth it out because it'll it'll cover for the pigment because they both both the white pigment and gloss varnish reflect True white. So you can smooth that out. Um, you can glaze over the top of things that'll eliminate the chalkiness So like when you do the very this tends to come in bright colors where the pigmentation once it gets thin and separates looks chalky So you can glaze back the other direction with filters and that will eliminate it So you can take a very very very thin glaze And uh, and go that direction Those are all kind of tricks the other the other option is you can just not thin your paint that much So you use a technique different than than glazing Go to something just like, you know extreme wet blending or something Uh, Emily happy saturday. Thanks for the fertile. Hey, happy to help. Uh, Joel. Hello, Vince I'm painting a historical figure in 135th scale and for the first time I'm going to try to integrate global highlight and shadow colors I'm thinking ice yellow for highlights and dark blue for shadows trying to capture the light conditions Sunny summer day. Do you think it will work? Yes. I think you have exactly the right colors I have no advice I mean you're you're on it. You're on about it exactly right warm shadows produce cool Or sorry warm highlights produce cool shadows. I think those are great colors I think you're right on exactly what I would be using. I mean ice yellow and sort of glacier blue are my uh, traditional go-to's for that kind of work as far as highlights and uh, navy blue and deep crimson Uh, like a gothic crimson or something are my go-to shadow colors for that Depending on which which way the Highlights are flipped Okay, thomas raider any advice on painting less textured models such as elder starting a new project I'm not sure where to go as I normally dry brush quite a bit and smooth services are very alien Yeah, sure. I mean Yes, big flat surfaces like that Generally are going to require you to do a lot more of something like glazing or something like that I'll give you a ton of options. Here you go ready option number one. Go watch my recent videos on oil painting Uh smooth surfaces are a dream for oil paints. It's easy. It removes all blending. You can do everything in minutes It's fine. So there's option one. I that's very different But it's an option. I mean it will make your life so easy Because you'll blow through each ldar and have incredible contrast and ultra smooth blends And it'll take maybe like a half hour per ldar to do all their main colors Then you just as you as you batch paint I mean then you just set them aside let them sit for a day or two to let the oil paint dry Give them a good varnish and then go on and pull up pull out the detail work like normal and bang bang boom You're ready to rock Option two is obviously, you know using an airbrush or something like that in a heavier fashion Can can help that a lot Option three you could still try to to go with a dry brushing technique You just want to get a nice soft makeup brush You can go buy big packs of these you want to look for stuff that's meant to do eyes or blush or stuff like that So you just use big soft dry brushes like this And then you can get progressively smaller. Where's my super small dry brushes? Oh, I don't know. Sorry. I can't find it But you can get super small makeup dry brushes at the same time. They're hidden in my cup here somewhere And you can just kind of progressively very lightly with almost no paint Uh dry brush that way and that's kind of the way to go. So there's three options for you. I hope one of those works Uh rust belt blacksmith vince. I'm assembling a soul grinder. There's going to be some gaps to fill I have GW's liquid green stuff as you ever used it. I want to try but I've never used it I have it's junk throw it out. It's my honest answer Uh, you want to fill gaps on a soul grinder? I've built many a soul grinder I love me the soul grinder. I wish it was actually good This is your answer a nice slurry. You take some Tamiya extra thin You slap in a bunch of sprue just sprue pieces. You let it sit for 24 hours. You give it a good Really good shake or use them like that and you use this to assemble it number one And then once you're done you use this to cover the gaps And then sand it down because this will dry as hard plastic sand it down a little bit bang bang You're setting right to rock. I I hate liquid green stuff If you want to use a putty because you've already assembled it then get yourself either a plastic putty from Vallejo or a perfect putty Perfect plastic putty from deluxe materials This is really really good stuff and you can you can thin that down with water And put it in there and then also sand that down. That's your other option if you've already assembled everything Uh, let's see Uh sand This is a funny question Sand why does nobody add specular highlights on human heads in real life? The forehead is quite reflective I don't know what would call that to your mind sand. Why would you be saying that right now? Uh, no, I mean, yes, certainly you can't some people do I see a lot of artists do it, but uh Especially like on competition stuff I think in general it's tough because you've got to really smooth it out I mean as you can see this very bright reflection on my mind on my Big bald forehead is like Uh, you can see how slowly it fades out into the red color of my head. So it's just tough. I think Best white primer according to vents. Uh, the Badger steinware as white is actually a really good white primer. I use it all the time Uh, sand orange how to combine zenithal under shading and metallic paints No, you you don't under shade metallics you You can zenithal with metallics I have videos on that but you don't do the two because the the metallic itself is going to be opaque there The pigment on that is very opaque. And so it doesn't really allow much through um How to make a large flat non-metallic metal surface interesting Uh Make it like in any of 100 ways. There's lots of ways to do that Chips and damage that that break it up. So it's not just one smooth consistent transition You can use different kinds of of uh reflective lighting. So look at um You know look at what land does and how he's doing it or Uh Caril or anybody like that where they're they're using a lot of lines and colors and things moving in unusual directions Sam lends been doing that a lot lately too. That's another option. Uh Glazed in other colors and reflections. That's another option because if it's really that reflective It's going to pick up colors from the environment Uh best way to fix mistakes on yellow i.e a black spillover repaint it ivory and then put the yellow back over top Paint it a very opaque color like ivory and then put yellow back over top Not the whole thing just the area the tiny little area wherever you got black Uh rihann so on the gray nights the purple and the weapon the green on the shield Maybe a green eye will this work better? Yes, get rid of the orange and you'll you'll work a lot better Uh wow too long too long didn't read how does one go about painting things at night? Uh, this is an extremely complicated question that i'm not sure i could answer here I i'll i'm going to do it's been on my list forever of doing a whole video about night painting The key is the i'll i'll give you the i'll give you the short version. Here you go All your highlights need to switch to blue Uh and be very light and desaturated like moonlight And your shadows need to become a lot stronger. You'll have whole areas of the piece with very little detail actually picked out And everything needs to have that sort of shift to a kind of navy tone Uh if you have a light source in the piece it should be extremely dominant. So if there's osl going on Um, this is a hard thing to sell Painting something and having it look like it's at night is hard because when you're looking at it in reality So when I actually pick up the fig and look at it It's not nighttime and the lighting conditions around me don't look like nighttime They look like super bright fluorescent and yellow and and high kelvin lights So there's going to be this natural disconnect. I'm looking at the figure and I'm like, hmm Okay But it'll sell in a photo if it's on like a black background. It's not going to sell as much in real life Because there's just a disconnect in your brain Okay, uh Gonzalo, uh Oh, thank you very much. I'm glad you like all the videos Uh All right, Mikey, uh found quite uh like the result of adding matte shadows to true metallic metal and armor, right? Yep. Absolutely Good matte shadows Okay, let's see Arden hey vince, thanks for all of your content. Just wanted to ask you about ergonomics I struggle a bit physically when I paint several hours per day back neck hands. How do you approach this? Sure Well step one buy a good chair So I this is the third version This is a third of these chairs I've had and the six years I painted my chairs last me about two years because of how much I sit in this stupid chair all day Like this has lumbar support Back here behind me that I can move There's an actual little pillow that I can move up and down that will push directly in my back and force me into the Proper posture keep your feet planted on the ground You should be at exactly the right like your chair should be adjusted at the height So that your leg is like this and your foot is directly even on the ground If you're if your legs are up or down or dangling you're incorrect Your chair should be your knees should be at like a right angle Okay, or maybe slightly above they can be like, you know 95 degrees, but they shouldn't be up in any way bigger than that um And you want to keep them planted as often as you can When it comes to actual posture try to paint like this if you're gonna lean forward get yourself a nice big lap pillow So you can set your elbows on them and still retain your posture and hold it If you have to then every so often lean forward brace your elbows on your knees And lock your I know I'm out of frame but like and elbows on your knees and lock your hands together And then make sure you don't stay in that position because it's definitely a stress position Don't stay in there for too long return back to here and do whatever you're going to do give yourself a break every few minutes Uh, don't sit in a single position more than like honestly 15 minutes Um, you should be like stopping every 15 minutes Even if it's just for 30 seconds to like stretch your legs back out Stand up sit back down and then continue your work, you know Never go more than 45 but most that'll generally reduce it Uh, what's your favorite gw mini to paint that are on 25 millimeter bases? A daemonettes easy answer Uh, daemonettes are beautiful. I love them. They have really really great faces Uh, Jared I've been so I was wondering how you store your oil paints and hba paints Well, I just I have a nail polish rack and they stand up Um for things that yeah, most of those will stand up if the top of the tube is rounded and they won't stand I get little clips these And I hot glue one side of them To the plastic rack to the nail polish rack where I have other paints like on the bottom And then I open the clip up and stick the little Stick the little bottom part of the tube in there the part that doesn't have paint in it And then they just hang from there But in that case those are the obtulungs and those will stand straight up. So that's fine Uh, but like all the scale artist ones, uh, we're really annoying because they have these like rounded tops So they all have this little that little mechanism Uh jpeg have you been playing with your oil paints lately any tips to paint the brightest highlights? Oh, yes, I absolutely have uh, you're gonna see that in the crimson armor video The key is you let it dry then you go back in with a second a second application You're never going to get the highest highlights on your first application You're just setting the general tones and then you go back in My new favorite for that high highlight is actually this obtulung 502 Light flesh tone. I've been playing around with that quite a lot and I really like it It's a little bit naturalistic It's a little bit warm And yeah, just go back in you put a couple of dots of that a little dots that on then you just smooth it out and multi-bending Vitali, uh, hi vince What is your opinion on hardening tree bark bases with layers of pve or super glue? Would you recommend it? Sure you can It's not generally necessary Like I mean it depends how much the thing is going to be handled I I have tree bark in a bunch of bases and I didn't really do that and you can put on some varnish or something but you know Is it necessary? No I mean What what is this thing doing? Like I I've had tree bark bases in armies. I've used for years. I've never chipped them. So I mean I guess just like Depends on how you transport your minis and how rough you are on them So if you feel like there's a chance they could get get hurt It's not going to hurt anything to do it. So it's fine Uh I'm not going to try with that name I'm just going to say store I've been some currently roughly on the citadel painting apps kill level as I can improve a lot Which techniques would you suggest to focus on moving on to expand one's repertoire? Uh, I mean just understanding contrast and you know using that and then through contrast working on kind of your Your blending So I mean it's just it's it sounds like if you're still relatively early in your journey Then what you want to be working on is just the basics paint control understanding paint consistency how to make the paint Regardless of dilution apply to In a good way is really the best thing you can do because through that unlocks everything else okay Uh, man's act miniatures word up word up cameo Let's see dungeon acid any trick on painting flags banners. I messed one up Uh, I mean the airbrush is a great way to start because it'll very naturally pick out the Waviness to it and then from there just apply the freehand I've got multiple different videos on freehand. So I would say go check those out but you know, I mean it's It's effectively just a big flat surface. So your airbrush is always going to be your friend Uh on something like that because the larger the flatter the surface the better It is for the airbrush because you get nice even application And you the flag is even better because if you can use the slight waves and stuff to your advantage to create little small shadows Uh, okay Uh, so yeah, I would say go there and you know with the freehand I've got a couple different videos on like simple freehand detail freehand go check that out It's just you know build it up build it up is the key you start start simple and then you just keep building Uh Devon said almost every mech is on thingiverse and scaling the models up is trivial. Huh Okay, good to know I might have to look into that. I'll be honest. I never even thought about it before this stream Okay This is exciting news Okay, uh, let's see Uh, Mikey vince, uh, do cool highlights and warm shadows occur in nature? Yes, they do absolutely. Uh, they they occur at night That's so shadows at night tend to have red in them Uh, whereas the highlight is blue. It's just that it's what's happening. There is not magic It's just that what's happening with the reflective light spectrum As the cold is getting filtered out from the reflected highlight all that's left is the warm That's that's what's happening, right? So that that's why that's occurring scientifically Uh, az barbarian, um, like you I love collecting paints nearly as much as painting mentors. Yeah, it's true I have a problem or playing games what I'm curious about is this if you could only choose one brand of paint What would it be? Oh god, I don't know. That's really hard. I mean, I I wouldn't but gun to my head What would I choose? Uh, either scale or pro acrylic both of which are now big enough and I like them enough that I would feel like I would Had a big range, but I mean, I wouldn't there'd be no reason to ever do that because they have different purposes Different paints get used I mean right now to the left of me are like a bunch of oil paints Some ak interactive third gen some pro acrylic some scale Some vallejo some secret weapon. This is all in like one project, right? There's a war colors one in there. So like You know, I just I have different paints. I like an easy for different purposes Thank you clean brush, that's very nice and I don't know about that, but I appreciate it Randall speaking of the slurry, how long will it keep for? Well, if it's sealed in something like this like in its in its original container I made this like Five months ago and it's still super liquid because this container is like mega airtight So as long as it's airtight forever is the answer is how long it'll keep? Uh, let's see Oh, how to make spit strings inside a jaw. Oh, that's super easy actually that I can explain in five seconds You buy this This is called uhu glue. It's really easy It's this is all you need and then you get yourself some kind of little stick or a toothpick or something You take the top off of this you touch the stick you squeeze out a tiny bit You touch the stick to the end of the paint Like get a little globby globby and you go And every time you touch a spot it'll stick a new strand and then when you're done You just let it rest for a second Twist and pull away the stick. Ta-da spit That easy That's all there is to it Okay Oh was one of my dogs spinning in the background. That's funny. Yeah, they're all in here They're all back there. Uh, okay All hands on the aircraft carrier to defense the stations. Yeah, I know I'm not worried that table's strong Uh, let's see the the dogs have learned not to mess with the mini so they know better Hi Vince. I've been thinking about playing with uh contrasting light sources like uh, sure. Yeah one cold one warm Uh, yeah, sure. So um There's like if you're asking how to do it, it's just do it I guess like paint the You the key is you're making one side cold highlights and one side warm highlights. It's not just that As and it's basically like your primary light and your reflected light Now how to set yourself up for that is really easy. So make the room dark And then like light a candle from one side of the mini take a picture Okay, or something like that make a warm light source set up an orange light do something See what's lit Then set up a colder light on the other side shine it up take a picture And then just you know look at the two and notice what each one is highlighting If you could set up this complicated lighting scheme all at once if you've got the that set up to do that Then just do that and take a picture and then just follow along. I mean, that's really all there is to it Um, and then where do the where the cold and warm light meet? Effectively you've got shadow like that should be the definition, right? So it can be a little tricky to figure out exactly how to balance it out But you want it to be you know in between the two is shadow Like that's what's happening. If you have two lights shining at something Where where neither one is hitting that's shadow, right? And so generally that's what's going to separate your two pieces If you actually go watch the interview with the artist I did just last night with uh with singe and scott He has two pieces that do this really well And if you I like just look at what he does there and break that down like again, don't just look see And stare at it for you know, maybe 20 minutes and break it down You'll see how he like goes from the light color and then into fade it and then into a shadow And then back up into the cold color So like warm highlight and then down and then shadow and then up into the Lightest of or the weakest cold and then up into cold highlight. So there you go Uh, okay And no, no problem. Alex. It's your free to ask questions. That's what we're all here for buddy But I hope that helps it the real answer is it's always a very Organic process. There's no one secret to it because it where the light is sitting and how strong they are and stuff like that Uh, it's gonna matter a lot. There's a thousand different ways to do it The real answer is just get into it pick a fig you don't care about that much And pick some warm highlight colors and and and pick some cold highlight colors And just do a piece completely and like orange and bluish tones And just doing that will be super instructive to you as to getting you to understand the basic stuff My dog had to get up in her chair Okay Uh, let's see speaking of oils regular round brushes seem a little soft for working with oil paint Any suggestions for a brush with stiffer bristles? um, I mean I just use a so like okay This is the brushes I was using with my oil paint right here I'll show you all of them when I oil paint. This is what I use because it's about all of this Each one of these is slightly different size some are synthetic some are sable and you know they like In general what I'm do I use synthetics to start because I just find it easier I buy like size three and size six six than synthetics that have a relatively solid bristle structure to them and um And then I uh, and then I smooth it out with Sable is usually down the line, especially in the past two Uh, okay, uh sand how to prevent work or work around streaking when using loaded brush The key is just practice like you sounds like you have a little too much of the Tip color on there if it's streaking you want very I want a very small amount of that And you want the bottom paint to be very liquid if you have a very small amount of the top paint Like very small like so much less than you think and a very liquid paint in the in the in the belly of the brush You'll get it smooth because the water will force it the liquid and the wet paint will force the thick paint smooth So it's really just a practice thing loaded brush is real tricky and frankly, you know not Something you have to do like you could wet blend and achieve the same effect. So you can always just look at something like that Uh, let's see Matthew. Is there a resource vid on how to do color variation? I have minis They're mostly one color and I'm not sure where to put the extra colors Uh, I don't have one. There's tons of videos on color theory and that's what I would recommend you start with Because there's no it's not like anybody's gonna have necessarily have your exact mini. So the key is just, uh Understanding basic sort of the color theory aspects and you'll get where you can sort of put spot highlights around Shortest answer is always be establishing color triangles when you can Uh, so like have three if you're going to introduce a new color have three spots in a roughly triangular shape That's kind of the rule of thumb. It doesn't always need to be true. There's lots of ways to break it There are always more guidelines, but you know, whatever that's kind of the idea Uh, all right zenithal highlighting necrons with filet home metal colors with an airbrush any suggestions for the colors and dry brush sketch After applying the zenithal. Um, I would use some good old fashioned steel silver And uh, then I would brush apply some molotow liquid chrome If you want if you want like the shiniest of shiny and and I don't know that you'd like So what I would do is I would use Silver base shoot black ink from below Uh shoot silver from the top Very very very very very very very very very very very very very lightly dry brush in pure silver And then come back in with the molotow chrome and create them pop lights Uh, that's what I did with my necron kill team And uh, they're like mirrors their heads. I can like I can flip one of them up toward me and see my own face In the skull. That's how strong the reflection is Uh, because I wanted like terminators, you know, like that's like not terminators like spacemaking terminators like Like done done done like that kind of terminator. Okay Uh, so Let's see. Hi vint. I was wondering what you think of the artist's opus dry brush technique specifically how often they Moisten their dry brush. Yeah, I think it's fine. It's obviously another valid way to go. There's plenty of interesting ways that you can use these tools And I don't think there's anything wrong at all with it. I think you can produce some really cool effects So, um, somebody like bohen uses that sort of a technique a lot and obviously to You know, really cool impressive effect. It's effectively just super stippling, right? Like that's what you're doing when you're doing that kind of a thing And uh, yeah, I think it's super cool. There's a if you're achieving a cool looking thing I don't think there's a bad technique. So that's always going to be my answer Uh, Legionnaires has vince done a video on the benefits of each paint range. Yes, I have This would be a hobby cheating 80 Maybe one of the more successful videos I have, but yes, I go through every paint range that was available at the time I probably need to do a part two Because there's been so many new paints introduced since I did that video like four years ago or three years ago I'm gonna crazy number of additional paints So I probably need to do a part two at some point, but but that'll get you that's all the basics like citadel vallejo Scale that kind of stuff. There's a lot in there Uh, let's see Uh, hey vince, sorry late or sorry if it's been asked, but when are we gonna see some new armies on parade? You know, I really want to do that. Thank you so much for asking I really want to do it like I have multiple armies backed up in the queue And I'd really like to get photos of all of them. I just keep painting stuff instead of just sitting around and taking pictures So at some point, I I promise I will get it done at some point Uh, I really want to do those videos Maybe I'll tell like sometime this year Maybe I'll take a little vacation from actual work and because between painting and working like 50 hours a week It's I don't have much in the way of free time. So Uh, obvious. Hey vince. Thanks for the stream any pointers on getting that brushed metal texture when doing non-mm Shiny armor as opposed to smoother style Ultra ultra ultra thin lines. I have a whole video on brush steel. I would highly recommend you go check it out I'll show you it it walks through exactly the technique The key is just ultra thin lines and then glazes on top. It is the simplest technique, but it takes a long time Uh, George. Hey vince. I recently picked up the scale 75 red set. Have you got any tips or advice on using scale colors? Yeah, they're great. That red set's freaking awesome. Um, I mean, they're gel based paints So, you know, you you'll the normal stuff with gel based paint supplies They're not going to apply like your your traditional layer paints like a vallejo that use a liquid medium Since they use a gel medium It's more about putting the paint on and then pushing the paint around on the miniature and smoothing it out They're great for things like wet blending and stuff like that Um, and that red set, especially the brighter reds like the antaris red and stuff are really awesome over Like white or ivory under shades. They give you like Pop punch you in the face red. So there you go. Hey vince, what do you recommend for fluorescent paints? so I have a video on what I on a review for the scale fx series and The war colors fluorescence and those are the two I recommend Um, I really like them Now are the golden liquid text? Fluorescence any good? I have no idea. I haven't used them. So I cannot I'm sorry. I can't give you an answer on that I've used the vallejo. It's fine. They're a little dry a little hard. I've used the the new third gen ak interactive stuff again, they're okay I've used fluorescent pigments. Those are interesting but ultimately My true love is to grab equal parts the fx color series from scale And the war colors fluorescence. I think the war colors fluorescence are some of the the absolute best out there Uh, Amy hold on. Sorry Where'd it go? There is Amy. I'm getting a lot of water marks while trying to glaze shadows into my flesh tone How do you avoid this took a break from paying a night? Uh, you're not wicking enough water out That's what's not happening You need to hold your brush against your paper towel longer wick out the extra excess liquid That's what's causing the tight marks Okay. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Easy. I also did a video on my go-to colors from ranges. That's also another one I did. I forgot all about that video. Have you ever painted a chromatic aberration effect? I don't know what that means. So I'd have to say no Um, Ariel. Hey vents. Hope you're well. I'm interested in starting with oils for washing What colors and brands would you recommend starting with for oil washing? Uh Like uh Go to my oil wash video. I show you exactly the colors. I'd recommend starting with so again, that's like hobby cheating Maybe 80s or 90s somewhere in that range the first hundred Uh, and I show you the exact colors. There's three colors. There's like a burnt sienna A purple and ivory black I think and just get yourself some good, uh, Mona Lisa or gambling White spirits and you're good to go Uh, okay Thanks to the tips on painting smooth panels. I'm gonna try the glaze method. Okay, cool. Great Uh, yeah, and yes it will. It works great over zenithal. Pietro, uh, thank you so much for all the teaching Oh, that's wonderful. I'm glad to help. What's the difference between an ink and a paint? Ink uses a completely liquid pigment and liquid medium. It's highly transparent Paint uses solid pigment and then sometimes liquid medium. There are also other additives mixed into paint Uh, and they, um Uh, and they Are much more opaque, right or let's call it translucent. That's a fair statement. Uh, let's see Devin, I sent you a link for an example search for marauder model on the pmp Looks like Thingiverse pulled the models they had because they were ripped from But there are good models out there. Okay, cool. I'll take a look man. Thanks. That's awesome. Devin I mean like again, I I need to figure out who's like, I know some people will print 3d models for you But uh, I need to find somebody with a like high-end resin printer who could paint like a full-scale 9 or 10 inch black knight or an original atlas or like Maybe an awesome like the original awesome No clan max hate the look of clan max. There's no elegance to them Uh, okay Let's see No, I'm about to start a set of space marine Revers and I was wondering if you have any tips for zenith on contrast paints Um, yeah, I mean just standard zenith on the revers works really well And then as far as the contrast paints go, I mean just depends on your chapter, right? But yeah, contrast paints through the airbrush are fantastic over his zenith. I mean really fantastic Um, you can do it also just with brush application and it'll work fine Just make sure you smooth them out use a little contrast medium You're better doing sort of two coats of it thin down with some contrast medium rather than doing one And yeah, like Juan Hidalgo is is he's he's the man when it comes to using contrast I don't know that there's anybody better with them than him honestly at this point What's the best way to thin down army painter paints? Uh Just generally a little bit of so so if you're having if you're running into issues of any kind of gel Then the answer is always get a little bit of flow improver and use that mix that with your water And that will get you flowing more like a traditional liquid medium Uh, do you have any recommendation for a red glaze over metallics for blood angels? I really like cull to paint recent ultramarines. They used to mea for the blue Uh, I some I've tried are coming out magenta. Well the I mean if you want to stick in their range the to mea clear red Is like an amazing color But beyond that sure Uh, there's a couple good red inks from Dalla Rowney you could use You could try some of the red contrast paints. I think those would be fine You know thin them down a little bit because they're really potent So like put a little of any kind of medium in there doesn't really matter Just airbrush thinner would be fine and those would really work like flesh hairs red or blend angels red Honestly, I think over over the metal will look good Um, you you're getting them you said that they look a little Um Magenta that's because you're reflecting white light off of steel through red White plus red makes pink. So you need to warm up that steel Like you need to add a little brown or something into it underneath and that'll pull it back into a red tone Uh Oh my god, including a night-sized atlas Devon I need all these files. You've just changed my life. I want you to know that yes like Oh, I'm like I'm getting really excited here people. This is something completely irrelevant to this stream But I'm sorry. This is like this is revolutionary information Okay, so I'm gonna lightening around the rest of these because we're getting to the end of the time And I do have to keep it on point today once real again real quick to mention Uh after this so after I shut down this stream at 1 p.m. Eastern. It's about 30 minutes from now I'm gonna be on mr. Mephisto's Uh stream the link is down in the description. It is a 27 hour charity stream for mental health Uh, I the you can go check it out. It's super. It's gonna be super fun. I'll be doing two hours with him Uh, if you donate at all you have a chance to win Uh Like multiple armies slash figs like he has so much product to give away. It's crazy people have donated like like mad So you can win a full and I mean full like huge obr army Nurgle army bunch of other stuff Uh, so definitely go check that out There's so many different things to win and all you have to do is give a few bucks For mental health, which is something I think we can all get behind as as needs a lot of support Especially in these times, which are generally tough on a lot of people. So Do go check that out. Uh, okay, let's see now we go quick Uh Kater I've been watching your videos. Are you seeing like a representation? How long were you painting before you started competing in golden demon like? Oh gosh Uh, a long time like 17 years probably or something 15 years 15 years But I mean painting seriously I wasn't painting serious that time most that time was hate painting the real question The real answer to your question is how long was I painting seriously before I went to compete about three years? Where like I started buckling down and saying I would like to get this other than just occasionally angrily slapping paint on minis which was like the first 12 years of my painting career Vince, how can you pump so many videos? I just I because uh I sacrifice quality for volume. There you go. And yes, my dog is incredibly adorable back here You can see her head up on her chair. That's where she likes to sit Uh, let's see If I'm painting a lot of flesh should I follow the warm colors zenithal guide? It can't hurt It certainly it certainly can't hurt. It will make your flesh look a lot warmer Uh, pietra. I mostly use homemade, uh wash Is there a good way to make it flow less like bring it from the agrax consistently to strong tone consistency? uh Make it flow less Gosh, yeah, I suppose you could mix in a little bit of like Uh, almost like a retardant like a gel retardant like vallejo makes a gel retardant You mix in a small amount of that that would probably slow it down. I've never tried to go that direction So I honestly can't say that's purely a guess uh Okay The first awesome. My pain is a teenager to clown face and blue polka dots. Nice Are you getting your inks online or from an art supply store? Uh, generally online, but I'll often order them from like You know, wherever amazon or dick flick or somebody like that Uh, not called one of your live streams before but you're a hobby painting videos have really helped. Oh, well, that's great Thank you very much. I'm super happy to help Uh, robert any about to start painting your techless longhorns. Yes I'm thinking cream and rich purple is the main colors, but struggling with a third Uh, I mean if you're gonna have gold on there, that's your third because that's yellow So there's kind of my simple answer, right? I mean that's that is gold's true color is yellow Uh, can you link in the chat? Uh for the mephisto stream. I think I can yes. Let me see Uh, I think it will let me link That's a great idea That is a very bad link It did a whole lot. It did the dumb Misdirect thing give me a moment. I will grab the real link. It's down in the description, but I'll grab it right now But I'll grab the the real thing. Sorry everybody Apologize for the slight delay here. There we go Ta-da, there we are. So now you can come join me at 1 p.m. Eastern and uh, and and maybe donate a buck or two Or a few dollars or whatever you can you can do for mental health and have a chance at winning a huge amount of prizes Uh Oh, okay. Cool. See scott sent you a messenger about people I'd like to see you interview. Yeah, that's awesome. Great I'll take a look. Uh, when will the suns of behemoth be released? Oh god. I wish I knew because I can't wait to get my hands on them giants There's gonna be a lot of giant action over the next year Uh, what do you enjoy outside of painting in youtube? I don't understand the question And then Let's see. Okay, great. So there you go, uh come check out the stream Uh, and uh, thank you again everybody so many great questions today. I really appreciate it I got to run these little monsters out So I can get ready for the next stream Uh, but thank you everybody for all the hobby questions. I hope all of this was helpful I'll be back next month as always follow me on twitter I announce on twitter always generally in a little more than an hour in advance like I did for this one this was kind of Backed up against meth stream, but normally I always do these on saturday It's either the second or third saturday of the month And uh, I mean assuming I don't have other things the past couple months over the summer have been really crazy but I uh Yeah, if I can get those printouts, you're going to see me paint something battle tech in a future video You bet your bottom dollar Uh, so at any rate, uh, thank you very much everybody. I really appreciate it. Oh, thanks sam and uh, uh as always Go Check out that stream, uh, you can also by the by if you're a player of aos There's a little survey down in the description. I'm running right now about balance in aos So if you're a player, hey, go fill out that survey. It takes less than a minute. It's only 10 questions and uh Oh, no law after the universe. He said, what do you enjoy to do in your free time outside of painting youtube? That was sarcasm. That was me being funny. I I understood your question I was just being funny. Uh, there is nothing except painting and uh, and and youtube is sitting in this chair No, I mean I spend time with my wife and I love my dogs. That's about it. I um I I live a very simple life Uh, so at any rate give this a like it helps other people find it Uh, go check everyone out. Uh, who who we've mentioned thus far. So there's lots of good resources out there People who earlier asked about patreons like I mentioned like sam who is just in the comments sam has a great patreon You can go check that out. Uh, the other ones I mentioned There's lots of people who offer those one-on-one tutorials So there's lots of places out there. You can go learn. I'm happy to do this Always keep learning always keep trying always keep painting bravely and uh, as always We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye everybody and thank you so much once again