 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating Q&A live So what are we doing here? Well for about the next hour or so? I'm gonna answer all of your hobby related questions So go ahead and drop those in the chat the comments are over here on one of the sides and basically you can You can drop those in and I'll do my best answer. I mean, it's pretty simple premise really We already have some questions queued up So I'm gonna go ahead and jump right on to those give me a moment here Sorry everybody I've obviously got the screen up so I can watch it Okay, so at any rate Let's uh, let's get into it. So Okay Do to do to do Paul had a question about his army Paul go ahead and drop that in I know you had said that you Had a question about it. So that's perfectly fine Niv to spamp I Don't know. That's a lot of consonants The new jungle based video. What material did you use for the large stone pieces? Well? I actually use this stuff Okay, which is from gamers grass. They have these like rocks and temple pieces and stuff like that You can order so this is actually what I used for that, but I also used some that were just rocks that I made using Her starts molds that I had poured so that's another option, but the gamers grass stuff is really great They I have a bunch of different ones. They have you know tuffs and they have Pre-made bases and things like that. So there it's it's really good stuff in that case I just use their little basing elements of which they have several you can order from them and yeah That's what I used. So they're really handy for that kind of thing Uh Eleo elo something like that if you're okay So you've airbrushed Liquitex ink onto Xenothal, but it keeps wiping away with the wash only way to fix the varnish before the wash Why is that? well, yeah, so If you're washing directly over a Xenothal ink like that, especially like some of the Liquitex It's different inks reactivate easier than others Your Wash has a lot of like flow improver and surfactant and stuff like that in it to make it go run down into the crevices So effectively plus a lot of water. It's a very very liquid thing And if you're applying it in a in the way that people normally apply washes Which is pretty heavy and then moving the brush around all you're really doing is threatening to reactivate those lower Let lower layers because you've got the solvent which is water You've got surfactant flow aid to make it go into the crevices. You've got a just an alchemical recipe That's literally meant to reactivate things And keep things moving and flowing like a lot of what's in a shade is to keep it flowing and run down and not dry Hence, it's very it's very able to reactivate things So the answer is you already have the answer. It's varnish before your wash like that's that's how you solve the problem Okay, let's see Uh to do to do Zaktari Havens to check out the new contrast paint the instant Well, I guess they're called instant colors or whatever Kickstarter from scale 75. I saw it. I'm not interested That is to say I'm generally that's not any bash against them. I just generally don't care about I Just generally don't care about hobby Kickstarter's to be completely honest Like sell your product, especially if you're a large enough company that you can you can do that Like you don't need to be running a Kickstarter if it's some small independent hobbyist trying to kickstart something new I'm all about that. But you know one two-person shop and they're trying to get things done I know scale 75 isn't actually that large of a company But you know if they want to launch a new paint range they can and I'm not if they want to kickstart it Perfectly fine go do do yourself, you know, it's your own you you've got your own thing going on there But I'm not gonna back a Kickstarter like that Especially for something that works like that. I'll give the paints a shot when they come out I'm not predisposed to be negative against them. I'm just predisposed to not care about your Kickstarter. So When you release your paint, I will buy some of it and I will check it out That's I've got a bunch of the third gen AK interactives right now that I'm playing with and I have more coming I think supposed to arrive today actually so But I've been actually really happy with those so there'll be a review of those coming in the next couple weeks As with all my reviews, I don't just like kick them out real fast. I really actually use the thing a lot Like I've been painting with a bunch of these now over multiple figures for more than a hundred hours Which is what I like to put into these paints because I want to make sure I actually know what the heck I'm talking about when I when I review it Okay Havens any tips for making glacier ice bases? I try to test base and I don't like the way the cork looks as ice Sure go back and watch my ice base tutorial. It's like hobby cheating number five and What you would do is instead of just doing a single layer because I have relatively clear ice You would do a layer of the pour Of an epoxy resin then you would do a lot of little hashes and scratches of thin white or gray or white and gray Paint and ink and then you would do another pour on top of it Then you would hash it and then you maybe do another one on top of it So you do a couple layers of it with different kind of scratches and stuff underneath to make it look faulky And that's what I would say Let's see Sketch rec havens any tips on painting tanned skin color choices what to look out for etc. Sure, so I mean I have a Several different skin tutorials that'll get you toward tanned skin So the ruddy skin would probably be a good one to start, but honestly the key with tanned skin is it needs to have a Pretty bright highlight because tanned skin we tend to associate with being quite oily that is to say people are usually Out in the sun so they sweat so you do want to have still some very pale colors in there going up to a high Highlight, but the key is to have a nice sepia tone through your like number three or two like low two through four I always use if you watch the videos all often use more colors brown glaze for that because it's Absolutely perfect, but you can also use I've used oil paints for it before you can use sepia toned oil paints to add that filter It's about the final filter to make it look tan Because tan is sort of the final thing that goes on the top of all your layers of skin It's that it's the top layers of your skin turning that color, right? So So yeah, a very like subtle sepia brownish tone applied as a filter at the end is what you want to is what you want to look for But you could have any You could have any set of colors. So there you go Uh, okay Let's see paul The concept for the army is that they're from haish and they hate the light as it makes them too intelligent And ungrotty every grot is blindfolded every squig is blinded I'll real paul i'll tell you what i'm gonna read it all as you put it in and then i'll come answer it when you get to four or four Okay Milo high vents about to experiment with oils. Would you recommend a gloss varnish over the acrylics beforehand if so, which one? Uh, I mean you don't have to varnish before oils. A lot of people say that I if it's your if you're just starting out I would recommend you varnish before the oils because you probably won't have the like this is not meant to be Anyway offensive to you milo. It's just the first time you do it. You stand up decent chance of rubbing paint because you don't know the kind of Control and texture you should like the brush pressure you should be utilizing I often don't use varnish anymore when I use my oils, but uh, you don't have to gloss just any varnish will work And as to which one I mean any brand it doesn't matter Unless the the only varnish I've ever found that really stands out because it's fit to purposes aka interactive ultra matte varnish And that is truly like super matte Everything else is just what it says on the tin. I if you want my personal opinion I actually usually go for a mix of satin mat satin and matte varnish. So there you go Uh, okay to do Kelly events going to start a space wolves Kill team. What would you shoot in the shadows dark blue really want to show huge contrast? Yeah, I mean I hate space wolves They're like the worst color scheme in the universe like no offense to space wolves players out there But it's truly one of the worst color schemes like it's it's it is baby blue. It's powder baby blue That's what they are. So the like the most viking brutal space marines are all running around in powder baby blue armor Uh, which I find hilarious Uh, now that being said I would push it into so your your shadows are your your highlights are going to be cold because you'll undoubtedly use like some kind of glacier blue type color for the highlight, right? Because that's what space wolf colors generally highlight into So I would actually say like a warm purple, but very very thin as a glaze mixed in with some deep blue So you warm up the shadows just a little that would be my advice. Uh warm shadows with uh With kind of uh Cold highlights tend to work pretty well Uh Let's see crazy horse question. I have 70 25 mil bases to make in a dry desert scheme Do you think crackle paste and a tougher two is enough or what other elements would you add to the base? So I definitely wouldn't just do crackle although you can have some of that like I've been in a lot of deserts I love the desert biome. I've done a lot of hiking in deserts uh many places in the world where I where I've traveled to and um, there's like that Kind of cracked earth isn't actually super common Um, it's around and it's part of the biome certainly especially in like a really really dry desert Uh one that has seasonal dryness. I should say because to get that cracked effect You have to have water. So usually it'll be in deserts where they're not Sahara like Uh, but more of where they do have seasonal rains But they come really intense and then dry and leave that kind of cracked thing behind in in eddies and riverbeds Um, but I would recommend some sand texture. So your Vallejo basing paste sand is a good place to start and then mix in the um Some of the cracked earth mix in I mean you can use all the normal gw stuff like mix in some skulls as far as tufts go That's fine. Definitely have different sized rocks and grit those kinds of biomes have a lot of different size of rocks Because things don't because there's not as much rain And and water things don't erode as evenly and so you get lots of different sizes of of texture Again, where I'm assuming you're trying to it's like an American Southwest Uh desert as opposed to say the Sahara or something like that um So uh, and even the Sahara isn't really like we picture the Sahara depending on where you are, but that's fine. Um the So so having things like that Verticality changes are real important because there's lots of hills. Again the lack of consistent erosion means you don't get just flat right So So lots of verticality changes And then the normal stuff skulls and things like that I think are good. I actually did a tutorial not long ago Where I did a desert base. So check that out because I talk about a lot of that stuff in there Uh Bugman's globe hey vince. I'm that's pretty good. That's a nice name I'm painting up a splintered fang warband for work right and I want to mimic Green snake scales not only for the snakes but for the tunics cloth. They're wearing as well any advice Uh, yeah, actually. So there's somebody in the comments right now. I know So Juan Hidalgo who has a uh channel of his own and does a lot of tutorials. He recently Did a tutorial around um Oh, what are they called alpha legion or whatever the people who have um Scales on their armor. I think it's it's whatever alfarious leads. I think it's alpha legion at any rate. He freehanded all the the Little scales like you're talking about. I mean the real secret is just to make the triangles first You just make all the little triangles and then you just fill them in. It's pretty it's actually a pretty easy process You just make a bunch of triangles and then up then oppose the triangles below that so like You know Here's the first triangle and then boom boom boom and then you set the other ones offset from those But you can check out that tutorial on his channel and uh, and there you go Uh, okay Lot of questions rolling in and I have to be quick in this one. Thank you all. This is great Okay, why do you dislike metal miniatures? Uh, because they're in general bad Uh, I have a 14 point video about why they are bad, but they are an inferior type of miniatures. That is the simplest answer Uh, okay Biggs, do you have much experience with monument transparent paints? Uh, I've been playing around with them and they seem fun Uh, yeah, sure. I I have the full transparent range up there for the the pro grill paints Yeah, I like them. They're very you can use them much in the same ways you would use contrasts or inks or Anything like that Where you're using relying a lot of under shade and building up colors They're great to make glazes out of and things like that. They act a lot more like an ink and all that kind of stuff So, but yeah, I mean they're they're generally anytime you want to create filters glazes Nice transitions interesting color effects putting them over metal is 100 good uses for anything like that Okay Uh, Daniel Engel, did you do anything to the tea leaves before using them i.e. bake in the oven? No, it's just tea leaves tea leaves are already dried out So if for the most part so you don't really need to do anything else like plus They're gonna have varnish all over them and glue and stuff like that in paint. So they'll be fine Uh Okay All right, paul that is a very good question. I love the concept of the army. Here's what i'm gonna say paul You and I are gonna chat later on So just reach out to me paul and and we'll uh because I I want to give you a lot of thoughts on it And it's probably too much for here. It'll be better if we can do it with some with the army So we'll I will hit you up paul because I want to make sure I answer it. I really like the concept for the army Uh galen hey vents. Have you ever bought a miniature from raging heroes? The models seem great But the way they come in blisters is tricky. Um, yes, I have bought raging hero models. Um, I bought into some of their like Sort of sisters of battle. Uh, I find that their their resin casts are okay for their larger figures Um But I don't love them for their normal sized stuff and the resin often has a mold release challenge to it. Um Yeah, I mean they're okay. That's I'd say it's not that they're bad. It's just I they're not They are not my favorite. There you go. How about that? Okay Uh, steven pal I'm trying to come up with a paint scheme for zombicide dark side I'm wanting eldritch horror vibes and have already used off white and blood and green and fluorescent pink on other groups any thoughts Well, when I think sort of the uh eldritch horror, I mean, I generally think of purple and green Uh classic villain colors and it's often the it's a it's a striking color combo Especially if you go for a deep purple and a neon green that generally has a sort of other worldly horror vibe to it So that's the thing that immediately jumps out at me Uh, and I think that would that would integrate very well with kind of, you know, uh bright whites in there as well And stuff like that. So you could have some of the purple transition into fluorescent pink and that would work Well, so hopefully that gives you some thoughts Crazy horse question in your jungle base video Do you think you could put on some of the dried tea after painting to utilize some of the nice color that he has Uh, I generally don't like non-painted elements on painted things. They stand out quite Uh, they stand out a lot now that being said Yes, but you would still wash it or dry brush it a little bit But so you'd retain some of the color but you can get away with just kind of Varnishing it down and then throw in a wash and maybe a light dry brush over it Or something like that or hitting them just slightly with color and that'll generally still make them feel like they're painted And they fit in with everything else. So sure you could you could do that But I would still encourage you to wash and or dry brush it Uh Sand orange, how would you make a normal face look like a skull? Well, you wouldn't really it has too many extra elements like a nose for starters um, now you can do like the Uh, you can do I don't know if any of it is candy skull I think it's the from like the day of the dead You can do that over the top and then you know What you're effectively doing is blacking out the nose and blacking out around the eyes and Blacking out around the lips and painting teeth over the lips Right and that kind of stuff and you're over you're really over accentuating the cheeks Making this really look really really really dark and stuff like that Um, see the you don't need necessarily all the candy skull um Touches and flourishes like the flowers and designs and things like that Uh, but you could use those same basic principles. It's still not going to really look like a skull It's going to look like a painted skull over a face Right, um, but it would look cool. So there you go Uh fadeling any suggestions on basing variety and non broken down disaster zone city basing Non broken down disaster zone city basing I'm not sure what you're asking me fading Uh, I mean basing variety. Sure. I mean, there's a million things you could use You're talking about specifically for city basing just think of everything that sits in a city so curbs and roads and sewers and pipes and uh fire hydrants and street signs and Uh cracks in the stone and grates that go into lower levels and uh bits of detritus and wrappers and things on the ground and Uh discarded pieces of human life like old bottles and You know like old bottles you drink out of and and everything else, right? I mean just look for pictures of new york city streets or or anything like that and you know, there's a Thousand different things like urban areas are dense with just everything everything everything, right? um different paint on the on their Construction sign markings and you know like you'll walk down the street You'll see a little like where the construction crew came out and marked to dig a new line or something So it's just all sorts of stuff Uh val peterson number five. Isn't that 115 years ago? Yeah seems like it. I mean that is a lot of videos ago but yes Still still one of my better ones and still a technique I use Uh Emily you check out. Hey vince. Hope your sinuses are okay. I I know my hobbies are going haywire Yes, I have very bad allergies. Thank you. Emily. It's been like, you know I mean normal for this kind of temperature changes. So yeah, it's up in there. You know, you do what you do It's fine Have you tried airbrushing the third gen acrylics? They claim not to need any thinning and have zero tip dry which are fine hard to believe I definitely do not believe they don't need thinning. That is a that is a lie Uh, I yes, I have airbrushed quite a lot of them actually and liked how they perform in the airbrush The idea of not thinning them is anathema to me as you probably know I thin everything everything everything all the time Uh, I will say they did don't have much problem too much challenge with tip dry. I have had good luck with that I you know, I think that's just nothing is immune to tip dry You're blowing a lot of air over something that's meant to dry solid It's going to dry, but they clearly have a decent amount of sort of uh Flow improver and retardant in them to make sure that they they avoid that and I have I will say that I've found airbrushing them to be quite a an easy and pleasurable experience Uh, there you go. Okay Uh clop foot. Are there any disadvantages to pro acrylic paints? I'm thinking of buying the full set Uh, you have to work harder to make them into a glaze because they're so pigment rich That's not a really a downside. It's just something you need to be aware of But I love the set. I mean I use the paints, you know quite frequently So yeah, I don't I mean that's probably the one I guess if you're going to count that as a downside That's a pseudo downside. I suppose they are very rich and opaque And so when you turn them into glazes, you have to really make sure you're good at understanding how to thin your glazes Uh, Emily, I ordered some of those green stuff rollers if I roll it out on a base Do I cut off the excess right away or wait for it to dry? Uh, I generally wait for it to dry a little before I try to cut it Just leave it hang over the edge if you try to cut initially you'll pull So I'll generally give it like you don't need to wait for it to dry all the way Or else it can be kind of hard to cut them off I prefer to let it go like An hour or two and it'll kind of solidify up and then I then I just get a nice sharp exacto and slice it off Uh, Sam, how many main colors are not too many for you? If it's not zinch or acid trip gets Uh, I tend to focus on traditional triadic color scheme So generally three main colors and then playing with saturation where not all of them are equally saturated Like you can use you can use 10 colors Yeah, you know, like you can go all the way around the wheel and everything in between If you play a lot with heavy desaturation and are really good at balance Um But for me when I think about the three main colors I and I would say three is generally when I go, but I mean I'm a minimalist I like extremely minimal Color usage, so I mean if you look a lot of my paint jobs, they're very dominant often in a particular color scheme And I tend to be I tend to go for like striking high contrast minimal color Um Paint jobs, so there's some of my taste in there Jason hey, Vince. Do you have any tutorials on being a nice guy? No, I don't but I'll say just you know, I don't know Uh Be nice. I don't know like be empathetic think of other people always always try to be thinking outside yourself um Yeah, I guess is is my best advice right like we're all people we all there's a there's a I think of the word saunder or whatever from the the the um Dictionary of endless sorrows which is the realization that every human being you ever meet is living just as full of a trend A full and rich internal life as you are and you mean as little to them in passing as they mean to you Uh, and I think that realization that everybody is their own person and actualized and you know, I'm not any kind of protagonist or anything I'm just another person so and always trying to keep other people in mind is what I would say It's the best thing you can do Uh, all right Uh, do do do Uh fading at an army level, how would you go about transitioning vases from city to open field to tie them in with each other? Uh, sure. I mean you just crack up the stone have broken pieces of cement and and Brick or depends on the time period your your city set in obviously But have broken pieces of stone where nature's reclaiming it, right? You have areas of mud and areas of grass and plants poking through and stuff like that Uh, again, you can find good reference photos for this. The answer is always go to real life Right, if you can go to real life, that's what you do Like never try to just conjure this in your head one of the fun experiments I do with people in painting classes to impress this is I make everybody draw a bike draw a bicycle And most people get it wrong because you can't that's a simple concept It's something we've we've all ridden bikes a hundred times And yet actually drawing a bike constructing that that thing from our own mind And by the way, I'm talking about drawing like a stick figure bike But actually drawing it properly from our minds is almost impossible and 90 percent of people just fail it Okay, you get it wrong because we're bad at conjuring things our brains are really good at heuristics We sort of take things in in a broad way and we don't actually look at detail So don't trust your brain your brain is lying to you go google like abandoned cities Right and go look at how their nature is reclaiming them and you'll get lots of good inspiration from that Zach, uh, good morning sir as far as durability. What would you recommend for varnish painted up a large rc pickup truck Buddy for a friend and before I aka ultramatter like to add some strength to my work I generally prefer a little satin varnish. Actually, that's my preferred. I think gloss is too strong But if you really want to make it like if if i'm doing terrain or something that's going to get beaten up a lot I generally will do gloss and then uh, and then ultramat over it But I like satin so that would be my call. I find a good like vallejo satin varnish should be perfectly fine Uh Walter black what color glazes would you use to kick up the color gold into a more visually interesting color? Answer all of them All of them. There is no you can use any color in gold any color the lord of change who is Uh behind me. You can't see him, but he's sorry wrong way. He's He's that way. There you go. I'll get there Uh, you know, he has a bunch of like gold on him Now it happens to be non-metallic, but that doesn't matter the lessons are the same Uh, he there's pink in there. There's green in there. There's purple in there. There's brown in there There's different various kinds of sepia tones in there Um, there's some blue in there in places where it's near his skin Um everything like the the entire color wheel is perfectly valid It just haven't I mean it's a reflective metal. So it's going to reflect colors around it There's no reason you can you can you can't take anything off the table Now if you're talking about just sort of generic gold sitting out in the world Uh, the general answer would be like a rich chestnut and purple because that would tend to be interesting shadow colors for gold Uh suspicious pineapple. Hey vince any tips on developing wet palette discipline yours always looks so organized Mine starts that way and then looks like my paint shelf tipped over Uh, I Be more be more ocd like I don't know I don't have a good mine's organized I guess because I have a very specific way I like to work But I mean it still gets messy wet palettes get messy. There's nothing wrong with it. Just you know I say get into it my my honest answer suspicious pineapple is don't worry about it Like it's not worth caring about Be comfortable in the way you utilize your paint on the wet palette And if it if it ends up looking like a apolic painting at the end There is zero wrong with that. That's my answer. It's perfectly fine Uh Okay, cool. Well, they don't say that it does. Okay. Zectario was correcting that they don't say you can't use thinner. Yeah. Yeah I mean always use thinner So there you go, uh merchant prince question working out of a free guild color scheme incorporating a very Bluey green or teal color going to be a quartered scheme. So what colors will work for the other main color and spot color? Uh, the answer is many many colors Okay, uh, you could use any of several things So like pink tends to work well with teal blue as sodas purple and stuff like that But I'm gonna I'm gonna set you up here, buddy. I'm gonna hook you up. Okay, so What you want is you want to go to this right here So I'm gonna drop this in the comments for you. This is I know it's way down there Uh, so at merchant there you are Prince And then we'll go badoop. So I can actually put a link in there So there you go. Go to that thing. That's the sessions college color wheel thing that you can use And uh, that will you can you can set a triadic scheme a quadratic scheme that includes it a Complementary scheme split complimentary whatever you want There's lots of choices and that'll kind of give you a much better idea because the answer is many things will work with that It's a question of what you're trying to go for in the overall thing. There's there's not Usually one magic color that works with everything. So that's my best example So go there check that out. See how you like it Uh, Richard helst and uh, havens could you talk about the difference between glazing with normal paints? And vallejo metal color found a tricky to glaze with metal color. Yeah, sure It's it's like glazing with any metal paints is always tough The metal color is one of the few you can do it with because it is Uh, because it is already so liquidy and thin It's much the same thing. I tend to use Still just a little bit of water to thin it out if I can But the the best answer is instead of trying to glaze with it Which you can do and it's hard and it takes a lot of practice, but it's it is tough. I'll openly admit that My best answer is wet blend with it instead so work fast and work on a smaller area and just Drop it on and start wet blending the heck out of it. It is the best when you wet blend like crazy. Okay It will it will just It will kick that up a notch and it's so much easier than trying to glaze with it After working with it for years and years and years. I've come to find myself wet blending with it So much more than I try to glaze with it Okay All right Okay All right, uh val peterson says ma diep approves of desert basing. Well Here, uh, it's not air power. It's desert power. Absolutely Uh, so I mean I've watched the original I've watched the david lynch doing movie Probably 50 times I could I could start right now and the rest of this entire q&a could just be me doing every line of the movie So but I don't think that's gonna I don't think that's gonna be as valuable For everybody, uh, john s. Hi any tips for removing mold lines from highly textured surfaces? Like ridged zangor horns. Love your vids. Uh, god This is truly one of the great frustrations of my life, which I suppose means all my life is going pretty well Uh, but at any rate, yeah, I do have a piece of advice for you. Uh, so Here we go. I'll grab them here and here Uh, I hate that I despise that so much when they put the mold line in those tiny ridges First of all, I hate ridged horns. This is a general call out gw. Just stop making those kind of ridged horns I don't like them. They don't need to be like that. Just make smooth horns. It's so much easier You can do whatever you want with it. They look so much better. Stop with the ridged horns Please okay now. Anyways, this is gonna be hard to show But what you can do is you can get these little guys So these are like your exacto blades, but they're very small Like for example, here's one I have that I have it in my knife You can see how small it is compared to like a regular Exacto blade. Okay You can order a little sets of these. Uh, I got mine from, um, where'd I get mine from michigan toy soldier? um And they have lots of different sizes and shapes and stuff like that on them I know if you can see the little letters and things on there But you can see where the blade edges are how they're at different angles And that actually because of the curvature and the size It actually makes it really easy to scrape tiny little areas like that and get in there at weird angles and get it out of there So that's my uh, that's my advice for you. Um, I I wish I could tell you what these are actually called I don't remember I found them one day and was like, oh those look cool all order set of them because they were only like five dollars I think they're from like japan, honestly Because I think they're like, I think they're a japanese company that makes them so Um, maybe somebody can drop in the comments if you know the actual name of them, but uh, but they I just like I just literally found them one day looking around at stuff. Um Yeah, so I I I hope that helps but in general It's like a tiny exact if you only have your normal exacto blade I mean, you just got to scrape real carefully one at a time in between each ridge and it's terrible Uh Grumdy haven't I know you encourage washing and painting tufts. Does that extend to flock? Yes 100% absolutely Absolutely, I will actually with flock. I will tend to airbrush it to to accomplish the same thing It's just easier because then you don't pick up a bunch of it Let's see Uh, how would you achieve a color like retributor armor using vilejo metal color gold? Uh, I would use Uh to do three drops of gold to two drops of copper and maybe a single drop of um Dallarowni fw burnt umber ink maybe if you want it to be a little warmer There you go. That's what I would do Uh Okay Zen for one Okay, just answering about the rollers cool very good Uh skunk and by the way, I love people's I love seeing people answer other people's questions with their own experience As always I'm trying my best to answer things But I only have my own experiences and what I know to go off of so if you have some some stuff you think you're on your own Please feel free to drop it in there. We're all a big community and we all have our own knowledge and experiences and stuff like that And it can only help to always share Uh skunk fun question just finished watching your jungle love basing video. How do you feel about morris day in the time? Uh, obviously they are amazing and a incredible band and I was very glad when bruno mars eventually came around to that time period and and started making uh Songs that were that were abing on on uh morris day in the time because obviously they're great Yeah, I mean you you can't not jam to that that most of their songs still absolutely slap to this day Uh, there you go. Uh, okay Uh, do do do zektari is it a bad idea to try to add moss texture flocks to painted terrain I'm afraid that the pvc glue will ruin the paint job. I did a test and noticed painting over pvc is hard Uh, no, you certainly can uh, I've done that quite a bit My best answer if you want to do that is put it on there be be as minimal as you can with the pvc glue You don't want it to be big built up areas because that can be tougher But then once that's done just varnish over it and your paint will stick to the varnish It doesn't want to stick to the glue because there's because it's a very Uh, it's it's the the surface of it doesn't allow the the um The paint to adhere so instead spray the whole area with matte varnish after you're done and the paint will adhere again So there you go Vals says some of us boomer players still like metals vince. Well, I'm gen x and we got rid of those things Our generation killed metal minis and we're happy about it. So there you go Uh, okay, that being said, I did just paint a whole army with like a ton of metal miniatures in it when I did the serif on So I'm clearly a hypocrite Shagger rag I'm thinking about starting gloom spike gets my first a aos army Which is more fun to play against grots or squigs. I mean squigs are definitely more fun to play against Uh, they are harder. It is a squigs are a tougher army to play Well, but I mean squigs are I have played squig armies a couple times and it is Outrageous fun every time because they're so random and so crazy and so destructive Goblins can be kind of infuriating to fight because there's so many of them and they cause a lot of negatives and penalties, but there you go Uh And val says to restate he likes some specific rare metals in an army. Hey, I can get behind that look the uh The sig vault the magnificent is a metal miniature that I still stand behind and include in multiple of my armies because it's It's gorgeous and one of the most perfect minis of all time okay To do to do John ashley smith, uh, there is something almost sublime in painting a single piece metal miniature genuinely shocked. Oh, that's funny Well, there you go. Uh, I generally find the texture on them would be bad again I have a whole video on it. You can look it up. It's literally called. I hate metal minis Uh, or I hate metal miniatures Surcon flexes havens what would be the easiest way of painting an army that would not be Ghost stone one recently there was some debate on those easy army paints, but sometimes I just want to test an army uh Like the standard sketch style like under shading through his anithole and then quick inks over top You can still have all the normal parts all the normal colors and it takes Minutes because it's just laying it's slapping one quick Uh glaze over each individual color. It's it's you can use contrast paints for you can use inks for it You can use glaze paints for it. You can use a hundred things for it If you go back and watch the painting an army in a week video that I did Uh, you can see how you have the simple version of that and I mean that was 2000 points of a Pretty big army knocked out in a week and I that wasn't hard at all So there you go Uh, to do to do Uh, Daniel Nuevo hyvens any advice for uh with varnishing with an airbrush I always get frosting with matte varnish in any weather conditions varnish brand is driving me crazy My black turns into a pants are great. Huh, uh, that's probably due to the humidity in your area. I would guess Uh, like so it's regardless of whether you might live in a more moist or humid area um, I I mean, I would generally recommend like vallejo, uh Sort of varnishes if that's what you're going for if you're just trying to seal something If you're that is to say in between steps if you're talking about at the end of a paint job AK interactive ultra matte varnish, that's what you need to be looking for Your black will to look more gray Uh all the time that's because glossy black looks darker black than matte black So black turning matte will look more gray period Okay, like just wet It's it's and you can prove this real easy like take anything black and then put some water on it It will look darker Take a black shirt take black anything and put some water on it. It will look darker Glossy black looks darker black than matte black So that could be what's happening. But that being said AK interactive ultra matte varnish is really what I stand behind It's it's um, it's fantastic. So there you go Uh, jonathan, uh, ladesma havens, what do you use to keep your mini upright during the painting process? Oh Only the highest quality products do I use for example here You can see this product that I paid quite a lot of money for This is the top of a some kind of aerosol can and then there's a bunch of tack on it And then sometimes I'll put the mini directly on that But sometimes I go farther and I have an old abandoned square base with a wine cork stuck in it that I've then glued to the base So this this comes apart see it's modular. That's the level that I'll be kick starting this soon, by the way We're gonna we're gonna this is this is a revolutionary product And uh, so if I want to just paint directly on here because the thing's big enough with feet It'll stick. I'll just take this off. Otherwise if I pin the foot it'll be on here Uh, that's really it. Um, I sometimes old paint bottles Um, so here's just like an old liquid gold paint bottle that die that has Blue tack on top and then I have a couple of these which are actually really nice Um, these are like a nice handle and stuff like that these I got from um Nova and they're cool like I do like these these are really nice that you can pop the little thing out That's it it is truly is modular this little thingy comes out It has a little extra hook you can put on top if you want a place to rest your hand your finger I don't use the hook because I find it just kind of gets in the way for me. Um, but yeah Those that stuff lots of things like that. There's a couple more There you go Okay Uh, ignited X blaze are all fluorescent colors fugitive a.k.a. They fade over time um I don't know. I don't think so. I haven't seen much fading to be honest like they're they're Depends on what you mean by over time like they look brighter when they're wet So there'll be a little bit of of loss of intensity when they try that's certainly true um, but I use war colors fluorescent and, uh, um Scale 75 fluorescence and I've had very good luck with them where they stay quite intense Like I have models It's sitting in that case behind me that are slanesh that some of those I painted, you know More than a year ago or a year and a half ago and they're still Perfectly super bright. So, you know, maybe check into those two. I haven't seen any issue beyond the initial drying Commander Kelthar. Hey vids. I'm using Vallejo metal colors But struggling with the transition from light to dark the medium tone seemed too bright and stark compared to the recesses The answer is the integration of black ink. So even the darkest color like so your gunmetal steel and magnesium Those are actually my mid tones that I tend to use Then I integrate matte black ink. So like Vallejo game ink black is my is my go-to And that bottle is almost empty. I need to wear some more of that and um And that mattes it down gives me the nice dark deep dark areas that I want So there you go. Hopefully that'll help Jim Phillips, do you find war colors more sticky than other paints i.e. scale 75? Is it a matter of just adding more water? Uh, it's about the same as scale 75 the main line. They're they're gel medium. It's not a liquid medium It's a gel medium. So yes, it will naturally adhere more to itself because it's a gel It's like hand sanitizer, right uh compared to water And so, uh, my answer is Yes, you do need like if you're trying to use them like a more traditional layer paint with a liquid medium Then yes, you need to uh, you need to add like some flow improver or something like that. That's the the best answer I can give Uh, okay, uh, let's see zen for one Oh, okay got it So eric general question for airbrushing and health for people living in small apartments Can you airbrush under the kitchen van or do you know any cheap spray booth or ways to build one airbrush beginner? Yeah, sure. I mean you don't Your booth can just be a cardboard box like honestly just having a little mask is fine Um, the the there's a portable airbrush booth. You can get off of amazon and from other places from other stores That's what I spray in it has I don't it comes with a big like laundry tube. You can run out of a window I don't do that. I've never done that. Um, and I airbrush A lot More than you It's you whoever you are Um, there are there are probably a few people who airbrush more than me uh Commission painters and people like that certainly but like the point is that that has uh You put a HEPA filter in the back of that and it has a fan that draws air through So that's actually what I run. It just it just vents out into the wall behind it, you know, but it's the the Uh particulates have all been picked up in the multi-layer HEPA filter And the filters you order for it or you can see it has the full like different layers that you would see on a nice filter um But you only need like a very small space But I would recommend like a portable airbrush booth. Those are maybe $80 here in the u.s. It's a worthwhile thing. You buy it once you've got it for the rest of your life If you don't want to do that then sure you just uh like here's your cheap solution set up a cardboard box Cut a hole in the back Put uh like a put a fan like a a floor fan Behind it and blow the opposite direction like that is to say have it going away from the box And it'll you know draw the air away from you and wear a mask, right? Um, that's really the more important element, frankly Uh, okay Uh pariah havens thoughts on potential winterized suns of behemoth scheme. Maybe pale skin with blue tones Yeah, I mean, I guess 100 percent that I think we're gonna see a lot of frost giants There's gonna be a lot of people doing frost giants. Let me just say that so Yeah, I think uh again go google like all the dnd art for frost giants. There's so much of it out there You can go into grays like blues, but yeah, your your shadows look like that Your your highlights are more into like a pale flesh tone. I think that would look awesome Uh germ vince do you have a recommendation for yellow paint? Sure lots of them Uh camara colors yellows are all really good. Proacryl's yellows are all really good Um scale 75 has a couple good yellows. I really like especially in their sort of non-metallic Um gold uh set. There's actually a couple yellows in there. I really enjoy The ochres from war colors are really nice Iyandan yellow contrast paints is one of my favorite Vallejo game ink yellow is a really good ink. It's extremely transparent, but it's it's super useful All of that go watch the imperial fist how to paint an imperial fist video that I did and you'll uh You'll you'll see me use lots and lots and lots of yellows. So there you go Uh Cortana management Hey vents recently started using Vallejo liquid gold, but I've had a few arrive with almost a puck or goop. Are they oxidized beyond saving? Yes, I that's why I moved away from liquid gold. Uh, like I like them. Don't get me wrong. They are gorgeous But god, do they dry out so easy if there is even the slightest bit of air that gets in there The alcohol evaporates and you get you just get a chunk and they're dead. They're dead like your choice is throw in the trash Um, if it's if it's small clumping like it's just started you can add 99 percent Uh isopropyl alcohol or denatured if you can get it And that will sometimes break it back up, but it's hard like it is not an easy paint to save So there you go Uh Nolan rose do you thin Vallejo with a medium or water? Um, yes is the answer Um, sure depends on what I'm aiming at. I will sometimes use medium My my medium of choice is generally green stuff's world green stuff world's master medium But you can also use like lamia medium or some war colors acrylic thinner or Vallejo Uh, where we at Vallejo thinner medium or matte medium. That would also be fine. All of those are good Um, yeah, I use it some just to kind of if I if I'm trying to go real real thin I'll often have some of that on my palette To work with so there you go Uh, Dave, I've noticed that the master's brush cleaner is suddenly hard to get in europe Do you know of any easy to obtain brush cleaner or alternatives for sable and synthetic brushes? um Sure, so there's a couple out there. I don't know if it's easier to get or not, but um, I also like Gentastic drunken brush goop. This one you can get this from creature caster. It's really nice actually Um, it's kind of a different sort of you can see it. It's still kind of very soapy Mine's very depressed because I've used it a lot. It's not sad. I mean I've created a concave depression Um, if you want to go nuclear, I have a video upcoming on this actually So if you want to go nuclear you can go for Uh Your Windsor and newton brush cleaner and restore When you've got paint stuck in your brush and you absolutely positively need to Need to just nuke that paint right out of there except no substitutions that stuff will melt It'll uh It'll melt the paint right out of your brush It will also destroy the glue in your brush if you're not careful and you use it too often So that is for extreme cases only But it is very good Uh, okay Greg Lewis, is there anything you can do to fix tide marks from using too much nolenoil because you're an enthusiastic new Yeah, sure layer back over it Um, no, I mean it's it's a thing that happens over time like with washes the key is here's my best advice Well for the next Six 24 days Darren Latham's miniature channel is still active Go there to the one where he paints silver skulls And watch how he applies his nolenoil really watch don't just tacitly watch really watch the way he moves his brush Because most people when they watch they go like this And just put the wash on there and let it run Darren when he applies to wash he goes like this Right and he's always working it around picking it up pushing it farther out Working it working it Right and then he'll stop So that's my best advice now now honestly once there's already tide marks Yeah, I mean the real answer is yeah, you've got a layer back over it. You got to just put some of the original base color down Will Wyatt what would the three color choice in would the three color choice include a pop color over that occasionally before colors Occasionally that would be four. I mean again, there's no hard and fast rules to that. That was to the earlier question Emily did did Kathy talk you into giving her stare yet? No, I don't want her sitting out Because she'll get dusty if she's up on her shelves plus she's really big I have a nice case. She can sit in so that's where she belongs Uh, there you go Let's see Uh, it's a good point Val. Yes, and that was I was a philosophy major. That's pretty funny Uh, okay Uh, Eric, uh, hey Vince any advice on painting a russian female someone lives in a very cold climate. I'm getting Uh, oh sure. So yeah, sure go back and watch the um the recent pale flesh video I did with the dark elf sorceress and that's exactly how I would do it It'll it'll portray a very cold climate. You need a lot of pink in the skin and pale pale highlights Uh christian greetings from hungry. Hello. I hope everything's going well Uh, meister stuegel. I've been thinking about getting an airbrush compressor with a tank for less noise Do you use one any suggestions? Yes, I do and I just bought the like master generic airbrush compressor with tank I'd never buy expensive tanks compressors or compressors. They're basically all made in the same factory They're basically all gonna last you a couple years and then they might die because it's a mechanical motorized thing I've never seen any value in spending four times the amount for something that if you're lucky, you'll get an extra three months out of So there you go. And yes, I very much enjoy having the tank. Uh, let's see Okay uh, let's see Paul said are you saying gold paint is the gold faction for painting? They can ally with any color? Yes, yes, I am. That's exactly correct. Mitch. Hey, Ben's trying a null myriad obi army going for black bone with progressive dry brushes of the lejo aquamarine flesh tone yellow white to give an eerie matrixy glow scheme any tips? Well Yes, reduce the number of colors in that scheme Um, there's too many in there. You're transitioning through too much stuff For the size of the space you have Like that would be perfectly fine If you were talking about you were doing some kind of like kaha scheme on a massive miniature where it was kind of flowing through all these colors um, you just don't have that space on a more tech guard, right? so the uh You know if you're if you're going to try something like that my honest would be okay Go black and then go like the aquamarine. I think would be a neat touch I would actually mix a little of those two together Do a light dry brush then go to kind of a pure aquamarine and then maybe mix in a little white And give a very light final dry brush in the upper areas It's going to look better because you're going to lose colors in there and cover too much would be my honest answer Like when you have the space that is less than the my the my fingernail you just can't run Uh, like I mean the white part of my fingernail by the way That this tip which is what the edges of a lot of those more techs look like You're not going to run through five colors on what is the white area of my fingernail, right? okay, uh diva Hello, vince. Do you have any suggestions or videos on creating adapting an existing color scheme for an army? I'm painting mentors astardes and it's dark green and pure white same as bl tan eldar Creating adapting an existing color scheme for an army Uh, no, I really don't but I mean I I assume you mean like where to put what colors? Or what you're asking? My best answer is play around with it. So here's here's my best tip for it um Grab a 2d image of the thing in black and white so you can find like blank space marines and blank all sorts of different uh 40k figures online and print it out just print out a little Like print out a piece of paper with it on there and in black and white and then just uh have a coloring adventure Right like literally think like a coloring book like take some of your paint and place it around and try Like you can run five six different copies of that off. You can see where you like the paint being what balances So you don't need to do 20 test models. Um, you can just be working on paper Uh marika reimer destroyer minis used to do this all the time She would actually like take a picture of it and then turn it black and white and then print it out Uh, and I think that's uh, you know that kind of thing is a good trick because you can try like Well, I do I do I like bisecting the scheme and maybe the greens here and the cloth is white or you know, whatever So you could you can play around with that and hopefully that would give you uh, it's a chance to be completely free You don't have to like paint it paint it in a in a real and time-consuming way You just kind of just like you're sketching in with a pencil, right? You just actually take the paint and go, oh, let's say make this green and we'll make this white And how does that look and then you get an idea David Burton, uh, I'm a total noob. What's the best way to make a glaze mixture? On a drier wet palette on a wet palette and the best answer is go back and watch hobby cheating like one Early 100s when I how to glaze like watch that video it will walk you through it It is I I think still one of the better videos I've ever made and it really does hold up Over time. So there you go Uh, let's see. Oh Oh Back there we go. Okay. Uh, what's something that you have never tried when painting that you want to do but feel intimidated by Uh, or never had the chance to do I don't know. I've tried most things at this point. I mean, I've painted thousands of miniatures and Spent, I mean, I've spent 12,000 hours in the last couple years painting miniatures probably so it's hard to pick something Uh I don't know Oh, no, okay. I can think of one. Uh, butterfly gossamer patterns Uh, so like the rainbow gossamer effect in butterfly wings. I've actually never had reason or occasion to paint that Uh, it's not that I'm greatly intimidated by it. I've just never really had a reason to do it I think it would be super fun. There's a great Bust that is of the girl with the big butterfly wings that a lot of people do that kind of a thing with it I'd love to find a good mini that makes me want to try that sometime. So there you go Uh Divas says thank you for the videos in the pmp. Hey, that's awesome. I know I'm more than happy to help Tomb King Tristan What's the best way to clean a dry brush that previous thing I mentioned the winds are in newton thing again I have a video coming on this in a few weeks. You can so look for that video And I I actually do clean a dry brush in there and show you exactly what I do Fading what makes a paint job look clean seems like some paint jobs have a really clean look regardless of How dirty oozing weathered or clean figures made to look in their world. Sure, uh, I'll tell you exactly what makes a paint job look clean One the obviously no mess of the color going to anywhere. It shouldn't so that's just step one, right? You don't have paint bleeding over to separation dark to light The thing that makes paint job look clean is when you have areas of dark and light separating it Right when everything has its own area and seems cut apart from each other when you have the natural shadows Uh, that's a big deal, right? Like having all of the different elements be distinctly Contrasting now this guy is like ultra high contrast marine because he's he's mr. Crimson fist over here and everything where everything is shiny But um having the different parts to be separated where it goes light dark light dark light dark um The second thing is no Inappropriate shine or the third thing sorry is no inappropriate shine One of the worst things that make a paint job that makes a paint job look bad Is when I see people not matte out their work and the shadows have shine to them I'll see people use a wash and use a poorly or put too much glossy stuff in the shadows or use a paint That's very glossy and in the shadows. There's all this light reflecting that will make a paint job look terrible as so fast right, so Matting everything out is the next thing that will make a paint job look clean because the lighting is then even over it So there you go Steven pal also. I forgot to mention. Thank you for doing these. Oh, no problem. Uh Oh great very good cool Uh current says he's listening to the book right now. I assume that's probably dune and yes I like the book as well. Although i'll admit it's probably a bit heretical I like the movie more than the book although. I love the book as well, but I yeah I kind of like the movie better. I like david lynch and I think he has a cool take on it Uh, it's very different. It's a completely different story, but that's okay I do love the book Milo, do you still use the original paper that came with the redgrass palette? I can't see if you get the balance right between paints and you're drying out becoming over hydrated Sometimes I also just use reynolds baking paper. That's I depends on what's at hand So yes, the answer is yes. Sometimes But if you're looking for a good replacement reynolds non wax baking paper is the way to go. So there you go Uh, vince in a recent warhammer weekly you showed how far fireslayer or how far fireslayers are regarded compared to other ARS armies What are your thoughts about approving improving the aesthetic? I'm not sure you could I think that ship's already sailed Uh, honestly, but I'll tell you the number one thing that would have made them better pants I know it sounds stupid. It's a common joke, but pants and boots I mean just look at go track and how much better he is compared to them like a dude running around in underwear on the battlefield with with with that is just You know and then and then bare feet and naked legs and all that it just feels weird It's too samey um, even witch elves wear thigh high boots Right because they're in like bikini tops and stuff like that But they they have like thigh high boots on um And often and often by the way big heavy bracers that cover their whole arms too So like from their from the tips of their fingers to their elbows and from the tips of their toes to their knees They're covered so the skin actually ends up being quite limited It's just like the top of the chest the and then the torso and the upper thighs The problem is it's just too much of the same texture Um, it's just boring. It's big giant beards with big giant mohawks, and everybody looks the same You know, I think it's just ultimately a whiff Uh, and I I don't know that you could write the ship because if you released a bunch of new models That were that corrected on all of this stuff. It would feel incongruent with the original army Um, you know, if I was gonna like wave a magic wand and start over. Yeah pants boots Uh and and and different takes on the hairstyles honestly, I wouldn't just make them all the same mohawks I'd give them lots of different mohawks and hairstyles and beards and stuff like that That really separate out the units almost like the way that they Put some in like my in different kinds of helmets as well, you know, all their helmets are very similar All their weapons are very similar Yeah Okay Matching them is arcane just try. Hey, I like staying in that movie. Don't be mean to sting Uh, he's fine Okay Uh, Devon I was in Tokyo in November and I have to say the amount of hobby tools they have in their stores is astonishing Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's actually true. So many really cool Hobby tools come out of come out of japan It's where I got my nippers from I use like the I don't use like the godhand stuff because I find that to be overblown but I use like the um the tomia CS2 these little guys and I love them. They're so precise and sharp and clean so Uh, let's see John for mentioning cutting uh, uh 800 800 grit Sandpaper. Yep. That's another good way. You can also just take it fold it up and then run it in between there. That's a good point Uh, let's see Uh, do do do Connor have you checked out Trent Denison's new tutorials? They're fantastic. Yes I was just talking to him the other day about how much I like them. Yeah, they're great He really did a great job with them. He's the final what I love about Trent's tutorials is his commentary Just like the way he's like, well, that's a terrible camera angle up really screwed that up. That's bad I just he's such a he's such an engaging funny guy and at the same time He's just he's just spitting hot fire as far as hobby wisdom goes as he's painting So it's a lot of fun to watch. It's exactly the kind of tutorial. I like it's right up my alley And Trent's obviously a great painter Slippery squid hyphens if you could never use The color purple pink or shades thereof again, would you leave the hobby? Yes, no, I don't know. I can't imagine the world where that would happen but Uh, are you saying I can't use purple paint because I would just cheat and make my own purple and pink out of other colors Because I don't I don't need those paints in in a bottle. I can just make my own Uh, Tony, uh, semana. What type of varnish do you use your safe point satin gloss matte ultra matte? Generally a little bit of satin mixed with matte Uh, Kate brush. Thank you talked about it a couple of minutes ago was more or less cooking saw a video of Trevary and recently Which he was mixing GW crackle paint and a more sandy texture paint. Yeah, you can mix those together Absolutely. Yes, and that's highly what I recommend like don't just rely on one of them mix them together Yep, that's exactly right. You can even like actually put GW crackle paints over Like the Vallejo textures and it's cool. They dry at different speeds So they'll pull way apart and you'll get massive big cracks I do that all the time to get like really big giant deep muddy riverbed cracks Uh, it's just you lay down one basing paste and then you put the crackle paint on top of it And they have different drying times So because they have different drying times, they will pull it with the lower level will pull the upper level apart I know you feel about metallics that aren't Vallejo metal color. Have you tried any that are not Vallejo metal color but aren't bad? Sure Scale 75 steel set. It's not bad. It's a solid B. It's not an A plus, but it's a solid B Kate brush, would you recommend to prepare mixes ahead and reuse alternative GW texture paints? Put them together mix them on the spot. I wouldn't prepare ahead mixes Walter black question if you do extensive conversions often with not perfectly fitting parts like your city of sigmar How do you approach sub assembly? I don't it's challenging You just got to deal with it. That's that's you're exactly right One of the great challenges of really heavy conversions is that you've got to put the whole thing together Unless you could get like a very obvious spot where you can just sort of like snap two things on And you know that's going to work. Okay. So if it's like a really obvious sub assembly, you can do it But like when I made that big ironclad I had to assemble that whole thing because I had no idea what was what right? So I just don't do sub assemblies and it means that it's going to be a little rougher to paint later, but price we pay Devin Jones followed many of the paint sets I get come with metallic medium. Do you find any use for medium? No, I've not seen a metallic medium. I actually like yet. I find the metal flakes that are in there still too big Uh, no time to paint with using loose t bits as basing. Do you have to do any prep work? I can use them straight out of the packet straight out They're generally dry and you're going to cover them with they're already generally dried out because that's the point of it And you just are going to varnish it and paint it anyway, so it'll seal all up Uh, Paul Wagner any tips on making washes from writing ink? I wouldn't writing ink isn't meant to be artist grade. It will reactivate very easily. You can use artist ink So dalleroni fw the liquitex artist ink And there you want to use sure just like a mix of surfactant flow improver And generally like thinner medium stuff like that It will will get you to a good place where you can sort of get to your own kind of wash You'll want to and probably some water as well. You want to have a little bit more solvent in there? uh Do do do Let's see Emily vince when you're when you uh black rim your bases Do you do you do that after you varnish so it's glossy black or just let it mat down a bit? uh generally before Uh, actually, I lie. I'm lying generally after because um I matt I actually varnished the figure to matt everything down before I paint all the metals so it's it would be before Um, yeah, it's generally after I don't really care. I like a little shine to the base I don't it doesn't you know, so I just do it after I'd actually think about my process there and and I did I've never really contemplated. It's it's become so habit Uh, we are gamers haven't just jumped on sorry if you mentioned this already. What are your initial the instant color? I did mention it at the top my impressions or I have no impressions I I don't know what to you know, uh, I'm not going to back a Kickstarter for for that And I generally don't value hobby kick starters that aren't from small independent people who are trying to you know Get their company off the ground And uh, I will buy some of them when they come out and evaluate them then I have no forethought either positive or negative There you go, uh Okay, uh, Michael Wells havens reaching a limit to my non metallic gold any hints to make it as realistic as possible Trying to get it really shiny using rhinoxide xv88 Uh, it's just your gray white pure white. Well, it's less about the colors and more about the application of the colors and balance Um, yeah spend a lot of time looking at like Andy Wardle and Richard Gray and stuff like that and see how they integrate other colors in there Um glazes of other colors into the shadows will go a long way for it But look at how they balance the volumes Right, that's really the key that the key to sort of very Excellent non metallic is really a lot in volumes I think Andy and Richard are the cult of paint guys are really two of the best when it comes to this they they um Like go look at Andy's uh roguldorn figure that he did. It's just you know breathtakingly gorgeous Uh, or if you want to see a more like obviously Richard Gray paints NMM all the time you know his uh recent um Negosh that he was doing with all the green gold So you can see how he balances reflections and stuff like that. The other key is having Reflected light in the shadows. That's another way to pop it out a little bit So you you want to have like a transition where there's some light hidden in the shadows Uh, oh, thank you very much One ngdk. Thank you. I'm glad you're a fan and I'm glad I'm able to help Uh, Paul what kind of terrain could actually inspire you to spend massive time to paint up a whole set to a great level? Zero I cannot imagine any terrain that would it would do that. I it's it's it's it's a venn diagram I can't even imagine Uh, there you go Uh, I just I just like train is fun every so often I painted that for the serif on army I did their peer bed and I was like, okay This is fine terrain is just not my thing. I don't mind it. I don't hate it You know, I've done plenty of it. It's just nothing. I've never had terrain that I was like, ah got to paint that Currently working on the cast lord of griff currently working on the cast lord on carcadrack trying the more pale skin of the monster Like the box art How do you make zenithal priming work for pale mid-tone without the black areas looking chalk? Uh, when you zenithal the areas that you know are going to be more pale Just bring them up to a brighter white and then use your use controlled glazing and and washing and shading and stuff To just bring it back down if I know something is going to be very very pale I will just uh over highlight that area So if you watch the the video I have on zenithal highlighting and unusual creatures Uh, which isn't like maybe the 160s or early 170s um You'll see exactly how I handle those situations where I want something to be more bright I just I don't stick to zenithal zenithal is meant to be a guide not a rule Okay, there are more guidelines miss turner, uh as I have to quote every time so like There's no rules to this. There's only guidelines. So just change and over overblow those areas and that'll help uh, okay, uh Get a Get gnarock. Okay. Having an issue figuring out how to paint those white bone colored capes And robes. I can't seem to find a video that makes it click for me As most aren't blended too well thoughts Uh Look at how I did the how to paint smooth white video And then switch the colors to creamy colors instead of cold white like I did there But wet blending is your key with whites because you want to be you want to work You want to work thick and you want to work wet blended? That will create a nice smooth transition to there Devin jones when trying to make a colored metallic you generally add colored ink ghost tints to something Or are you generally glazing the color over or both both? I have a video about how to do colored metallics And so I would highly recommend you go watch that And you'll see that I do both in there and both have value and I talk about what the value is Uh, no time to paint after your interview with waffle. I got heavy into his videos And I was wondering if you have ever tried to fully paint a model in just oils. Yes, uh, I have it's not Um I don't have the expertise with oil paints like he does Uh, I do want to create some of my own pre mixes like he did. I think that's a really good idea uh and um But I I definitely use oils on my painting quite often I just you know, it's it's fun. It's something I would recommend you try It's something you have to work with and a skill like anything else you have to learn Uh, Kathy ventrila. Oh, what a strange wet's weird coincidence that she has the last name is me Hi, vince. What do you do if your spouse takes craft supplies and then forgets to return them asking for a friend? Uh, my advice would be you forgive them because they're they are probably a wonderful person Who in no way intended to accidentally keep the thing and have a generosity of spirit and love in their heart That would be that would mean getting angry at them would be completely inappropriate. That would be my response Uh, john ashley smith Uh, oh there you go. Cool. Uh ad mech army uriel yellow. Sure Uh, daniel grant. Hi, vince. I started using black ink to thin my black down But I'm finding the brushes are harder to rinse after each application. Is there anything I need to be extra aware about when using inks Yes, they flow a lot more So they will get up into the ferrule of your brush and ruin them So don't use your nice brushes if you can avoid it Also, don't let the ink sit in there any longer than you have to clean them Again, you'll actually see this in an upcoming video. How funny I I have a whole video just on kind of this subject Uh, and coming out soon. So this is I'm glad to see all these questions because this definitely watch that video It'll be useful, but clean your brush often Uh, use longer brushes. Don't use smaller brushes. Make sure the paint doesn't get up in the ferrule use less Ink and paint up on your brush that kind of thing Uh, john shaves is there a project that you have wanted to do but don't because rules Corsair codex just don't allow support it. Maybe it would be modeling for advantage to your frame Oh, I definitely don't ever care about modeling for advantage. Like oh, I I disadvantage myself usually with modeling um But yeah, there is a project and it's giants like I I did a giant army previously But it wasn't really an army because there's no rules to support it But now that's coming other than that. I don't I don't really have anything that's out there that the rules aren't for um That was the last that was the last horizon as far as that goes You know with the the recent books and codices that are out. I can do most everything I've ever wanted to do with armies It's it's Incredible time to be a hobbyist. I'll be completely honest. Like this is this is the best it's ever been playing warhammer uh, let's see okay A lot of people responding to my wife. There you go. Okay uh, let's see Uh Mitch mccann back to the null myriad obr if they have black bones with green glow purpley magic effects and ruined Cream white cloth. Where do I get my contrast colors for basing? Thanks so much Uh, I think that's a perfectly fine color scheme and I would just try to work a little bit of that in there I mean your basing scheme could be anything I don't know that you need to necessarily like have your bases contrasting them in some way But there's lots of things you could do for it. You could go to a more neutral tone Have some, you know earth and mud colors stuff like that. You could have a nice gray Stone and things like that. Oh, that would work perfectly fine. Just make sure you work some purples and greens and all that kind of stuff down in there Uh, Milo says Sergio Calvo did an amazing fairy mini with butterfly wings. Yeah, that's a really great mini did they're very beautiful Uh, I love that one. Uh, jim phillips any tips for painting hair beards on large minis busts, etc yes, um Go google pictures of Vidal says soon hair dye bottles like boxes and Notice how the hair has a perfect halo of light and sheen how the edges catch light And stuff like that and do that same thing with the hair and the beards Like you need to run a huge contrast hair is satin. It's oily. It's reflective So you want to make sure that you have that same range in there and your best guide is those Like hair dye bottle are like the pictures on the front of the hair dye bottles because they look they're photoshopped perfect So they show you exactly where light should be placed and how the transition should go and what the volume should be and there you go Uh, steven pal, how would you explain the difference between filters and glazing? Do you even think there is much of a difference? Yes filters are quarter strength glazes or something like that We we we put these names on here, but it's all just how thin does the paint go right so Paint and then we add some thinner We add some additional medium or solvent and it becomes a layer Then you add some more and it goes toward glaze and then you add some more again and it goes toward a filter It's about how much of the color underneath is allowed to show through Right, that's that's what you're doing there. It's just increasing the transparency um Yeah, that's that's what I would say Uh, hey vents. How how effectively remove remains of blu-tac from the model. Ah, great question other blu-tac That's the secret So when you have a little bit of blu-tac that's left on the model You take a bigger chunk of it like this and you repeatedly press it against that The blu-tac is more Cohesive to itself than it is adhesive to other substances Okay, it's even though it's sticky And so it will stick to itself. So that's always what I do I I like I'll I'll pull it off and then I make a big ball and then I just literally like dab The model like this in the area where it is and it'll all come off So there you go, but that's a great I've run into that same challenge Uh Okay, uh, hey vents for shading true metallic metal with inks. Can I just water down use glaze medium on acrylic paints? Uh, yes, but it honestly won't work as well. So can you do it? Sure 100 it'll work Why it won't work as well is inks are naturally transparent because of the way that they're created And the way they're the pigments that they use and stuff like that. They often use liquid pigments and um So the uh, they just are more naturally transparent and show more of the metal underneath But can you sure absolutely it will still work if you have no inks. It's it's absolutely fine Uh christian having a hard time painting eyes on 28 millimeter minis There's just not enough space and it's so easy to bleed into the surrounding skin I tend to render them being shadowed. Is there a trick to do it right? Sadly the answer this one is lots of force practice. So I have a couple videos on painting eyes Um, but the answer is just a sharp brush of a significant size with a really high tip and practice And moving your brush from the side That's that's one of the big keys. So like When you attack an eye Okay, when you're painting an eyeball Right, I'll do this side so I can see it better when you're painting an eyeball A lot of people try to come in and paint like this. This is the wrong way You paint it like this Okay Uh, that will make it a lot easier But I mean the key is force yourself to do it now It doesn't need to be anything else more than like A little bit of off white or gray and a dot of black for a 28 millimeter and that's fine. Okay But do it force yourself to do it Um, you know, the more you do it the easier it gets like I paint eyes just zip zip zip pretty fast now because I've done You know 600 sets of eyes on 28 millimeters or a thousand sets of eyes or whatever boils down to you know Uh, is it reasonable in terms of speed to premix transition between two colors on a palette instead of doing web blending? Sure, absolutely. There's no right way to do any of that. You could you could do lots of things Uh, you know, like lots of people will do premixed stuff. They'll do like five pre mixes. Yeah, sure. It's great. Perfectly fine perfectly fine Uh, let's see Walter black tip for anybody. I really love the Vallejo steel paint and I'm mixing it with contrast paints Or even applying them over steel has proven fun. Uh, yeah, absolutely John Chaves think of using pre painted bases any pitfalls with matching the base and models paint job that should look out for Pre painted bases Yeah, do you mean just make sure that they're not full of some ridiculous? Oh, like green like game like the gamer's grass stuff Sure. Um, yeah, I generally paint over those I'll say but if you're trying to use prepainted to save time I understand perfectly reasonable Uh, yeah, just make sure they don't have any like outrageous colors that are really clashy with the mini itself Most of them are pretty neutral though. Like most of the prepainted bases are pretty neutral stuff Um, like that's obviously would go with almost anything. That's just like all neutral colors If I had like these that have the little yellow flowers, you know Make sure you don't have anything where the yellow is going to clash too strongly with it that kind of thing But no for the most part. I think it's perfectly fine And I think those gamers grass pre prepainted bases are fantastic Like there's if you if you want to do some really nice bases and not but again, you don't want to mess around painting them It's perfect Uh, let's see we're going to go into hurry up offense mode here because I'm 80 minutes into my hour stream John Dale looking to use oil washes for the first time Is it is it important to get a good brand or will any tube of oil suffice? Use the opt alone if you can those are really nice the opt alone 502 uh beyond that I like the the Uh, the ones I use a lot are just this stuff the wind and oil colors from Windsor and Duton I like them. They will take longer to dry, but I really enjoy them They're trustworthy oil paints. You can get sets of them all over the place. So there you go Uh, let's see Uh burned Uh hyvins any recommended color for under shading you recommend a color for under shading purple Yellow is not a valuable option because it's a weakness in comparison to purple. Uh, yeah, sure deep whole red Especially if you're going to go with a lilac top Uh If you're going to go with a warm top like a warm purple, uh, a top color like a one then, uh, Payne's gray dalarani blue black ink Uh, sand orange. What do you think about using masking tape to preserve og black rim instead of painting a black afterwards? Way too much trouble and I wouldn't want to do it. No just paint it black It takes I mean not to not to be too rolling stones on you here But I see any color base and I want to paint it black Um, it it takes 10 seconds I mean, it's like the fastest task and and it also it's really rewarding I would point out at the end because everything snaps together when you paint that rim black Like I get this cathartic like ah Once I paint that rim black. So yeah Uh, let's see Liam egg havens. Can I make an acrylic paint from an acrylic ink? Uh, I got them to make washes, but I can also make paints with them or are they different beasts? They're different beasts But you can certainly paint with inks in much the same way You'll see me use use inks and paints quite interchangeably quite often They're just always going to be transparent. So you need to work very carefully with your under shading Uh Cameron coats havens. Do you use any kind of conditioner on nicer brushes after washing or just wash them and reform the tip with master soap? Yep, the latter just wash them and reform the tip with master soap. I don't use any conditioner Uh, though you can you can use various conditioners. That's perfectly fine. Uh, Eric, uh It it er, uh, you did a how to fix storm cast internals lately Was that just because they were where they were are or is there anything more than rumour engine? the combination of Seemed like a fun thing to do. Uh, there's probably they'll probably get a new book this year There was a rumour engine that kind of matched it We'd already been talking about doing that episode and just they are the the poster boys of the of the age Sigma world it feels like they should be better Michael Wells I watched Darren L's masterclass video and he goes through planning the colors and tones for a model He talks about warm and cool colors around the model. Do you have a video on planning? I do not I should That's a good. That's a good item. I'm gonna write that down I'm gonna write that down right now Uh, planning your color scheme. I really I don't know why I've never attacked that I just I guess it's just never been something that occurred to me to do a video out of but his like You know first video where he's talking about that's actually really good. So yeah, I'll do it Uh, let's see Uh, do do do Uh, no time to paint uh asking again about the the contrast paints. Yes, I will try them. I will not kick start them Okay, uh Mickey hey Vince for your 28 millimeter competition pieces. Do you paint the iris on your eyes? I'm just trying to figure out how I need to aim for a competition in competition if I can yes, unless it's absolutely impossible Um depends on what the piece is and how like if they're kind of squinting Sometimes you just can't do it If there's any way I can I will get out the magnifiers and do it Uh, in general you can get away with it if they have very very small hidden or sort of closed eyes Then you can get away with just kind of the black dot Uh, do you like oftentimes it's still good to add a little white lifelike but beyond that now You don't need to go really much farther Uh zen for one. Uh, oh, well, thank you very much. I appreciate that Uh, let's see I got a lot of oh, oh good. Okay one. Uh, just wondering whether you don't use p3 paints because the pots Yes, that is exactly why I have no problem with them. I think they're actually quite nice paints. I hate pots. There you go Uh, how would you paint raven feathers so they just don't look black? Uh Go watch my detailed feather video And replace all of the wild colors I use with black and blue and Gray and white like that's it. I would I would thin line all the little All the little pieces of the of the feather over and over again up to like in a in a subtle gray up to a white I would put some subtle blue glazes over it And I would make sure the right down the center of the the feather and down to the back is Is a very dark black and that there's a very dark black in between each little ridge Uh, let's see Brendan, uh, you did a video where you did zenithal priming with a rusty color and said it was good for flesh and red Are there any other colors that you go away from the normal black or a white? Yeah, sure anything warm orange yellow all that stuff. I'll do I do the warm zenithal priming So, uh, which is generally like a deep brown a mid brown and an ivory or something like that, right? Uh, that's what I did with my serif on you'll see that coming next week when I do the how to paint An army in 24 another another painting an army in 24 hours video namely my serif one You'll see that I use a a black a brown and an ivory for them because they're gonna be because they are orange But yeah, generally anything warm Uh Hey, absolutely. Well, thank you everybody who's had such nice comments Uh, no, john. I have no thoughts on that Uh, the beyonder. Are you excited about warhammer the old world and another painting related question Would you do a video about oil wash for painting faces? Definitely? Yes to the second that is on my list Um, am I excited about it? No, not really. I mean, it's like three years away still I'll I'll see what it is. I I I I'm not a very nostalgic person. Um, either things are good or bad. So like Uh, I don't generally have much in the way of rose colored glasses The things they're good for my youth are good because they're good and they hold up like transformers the movie That is a legitimately good movie Uh But like transformers the television show was generally crap Um, you know, like I love he-man, but he-man was a garbage show Like the other point is Uh, I didn't you know, the old world's fine. I don't have a great amount of love for it I like the setting of aos a lot better, but i'm i'm also not negative on the old world It's very far away and I hope it's super successful I hope it's everything that the people who really do have a nostalgic love of the old world want So I want it to be cool and awesome And if it gives me some cool models that I can use in my aos forces, then it's that's win-win for everybody Uh, okay Uh, I believe you mentioned for zeta before if I'm correct in assuming you're a for zeta fan huge for zeta fan Yes, where would you recommend trying for starting to consume for zeta media? I don't even know. I honestly couldn't even tell you where to begin Yeah, I understand what you mean specifically with in regards to absorbing his artistic style I honestly did most of it just like I have a big inspiration folder full of his art and have just tried to integrate the lessons From staring at the piece for like 10 minutes and thinking about how he's using color and and then experimenting and integrating it in I wish I had a better piece of advice for you. I really do but um But it's really great I mean like I like look at the the look at skin and don't think about skin is just being one color Think about it as having greens and blues and browns and purples and stuff like that And look at his art and see how he uses the all those iridescent colors in there. So there you go um So yeah, there you go. Okay Uh, let's wrap this up As we're at our hour and a half mark. We always say we're going to go 60 minutes and then we go 90 minutes How does it happen every time? I don't know Uh As a side part, are there any other similar standout pieces of sword and sorcery media art movies game books comics that you think are Worth watching to glean something artistically Yeah, sure absolutely. Um elmore obviously has amazing art and is wonderful in the way he uses Really bright intense colors is inspiring Um rebecca gway. I think I don't know if I was saying her last name correctly or not She was a magic. She's an artist and she did many magic cards that I found to be absolutely beautifully compelling For a long time. I think hers are really uh, she has absolutely wonderful stuff. It's very ethereal and uh looking at that kind of stuff Obviously any of the old masters. I mean just you could your your entire artistic lessons could be you know looking at Uh much of the old masters, but I find it the impressionist to be specifically Uh useful so saison and van go and stuff like that because they used color in really sharp interesting incredible ways They'll teach you a lot about how shadows actually Look what color shadows actually have stuff like that Uh, there's a lot more. I mean there's there's so much great Uh, so much great like sword and sorcery art out there Um There's another one. Hold on. Let me find his name real quick. All right, because I was just talking to somebody about him recently To do I'll find his name. Hold on Uh, simon be beasley B-i-s-e-l-y Beasley beasley. I don't know. I don't know how to say his name, but there you go So that's that's another one who I I love a lot of that that art style Uh, very presented ish. So there you go Uh, so at any rate, that's it folks that brings us to the end. I got to all the questions. 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