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Good afternoon. Good evening. Whatever you wear Whatever it happens to be wherever you are in the world. I Wanted to make sure I got this done last week as obvious or this week Sorry as obviously last week. We had our interview with Richard Gray, which was a lot of fun I hope everybody enjoyed that last week. We've got some more fun ones coming up and Next week I will be in Australia for Kancon. So You know There you go Emily says hey there. Hey Emily. How you doing? I hope you're not having to travel too much for work She says she's been working on her army in 24 hours. She says she's at 25 and a quarter and still have to do the metal in the bases That's still pretty great Like look, it's not about the exact number. It's about setting that thing as a goal for yourself, right and Getting there to where you can So the fact that you've set yourself into that mode and are focused on getting things done tells me you're you're in a great place So if anybody's got any questions go ahead and drop them in I myself am just finishing up One project for my whirlwinds edge army I've got all my little Biker pistol ears that are all that are all finished up and they're gonna go on their basis today I'm just finishing up their bases and then these little motorcycle dudes are gonna be ready to Run and gun So I'm working on that I've got my next project prepped up, which will be the lady of strife from creature caster That'll be a lot of fun to get into some stuff And I was so well working on that. I was also editing some videos today for some upcoming hobby cheating I hope everybody enjoyed the black armor one today. I know that's been highly requested for a long time So I really tried to really tried to get into the details there So hopefully people enjoyed that if you haven't checked it out yet. Check that out All right, so let's let's take a look at some of the questions that are rolling in John Chaves says hi Vince. I'm planning on doing tempest to scions with white armor over black clothes Okay Got it. My question is this spray black and paint white over or spray white and fill in the black neither Zenithal and then and then go from there in the way you saw me do the black armor earlier and The way you've seen me do painting smooth white Just starting from a neutral tone Like if you don't have the ability to zenithal in any way like you can't you don't own two rattle cans Then my advice would be gray like it'll be way easier to work from a neutral color Into each of those then on to anyone then then starting on either extreme. So there you go Okay, Brandon S. Hey Vince for an army similar to how you painted your ogres How would you paint the monster trucks? I wanted to do white, but I think it's going to look blah on winter bases Yeah, I mean in general like black and white no offense to the previous question ask her Because like I understand a lot of a lot of colors in 40k unfortunate black and white But so this is independent of that Black and white are The most boring colors. It's not like a subjective judgment I just mean they contain the least amount of visual information that are communicated human beings tend to find color things that are cues That is to say Actually be more visually interesting, but they need contrast they need expressions of shade and tint to be interesting Now that being said yeah, I would you can still do them as white ish and have it look fine The answer is you work in colors like hues working in hues is always the answer So make the skin a kind of warm orangey-ready Browny-purple, you know anything in that range and then make the fur of bluey white right so color is still there and dominating but You then against the snow it'll it'll be a lot more interesting It'll stand out because it's a thing that is actually colorful and has a bunch of different hues in it Compared to the snow which tends to be just kind of you know white Okay So that would be my best advice do the do the same thing there just work in those subtle hues Devin Jones when I restarted painting I started with reefer I noticed that you don't have any reefers in your go-tos. I have no religion on this Is there any way I'm doing myself a disservice with that as the backbone of my paint collection? No They just don't tend to like them They have a finish that they're that I don't particularly love They tend to go powdery especially in the lighter colors a little a little more than I like And they're just not as suited to my personal style, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with them I mean cruel can I have arguably you know? One of the best painters in the world if not the best I mean he's certainly in the top top top tippy top echelon of like five or six people I would name as the best painter in the world and You know he uses Reaper all the time like all the time. So It's good enough for him There you go. That's all I could say Oh Am I overlapping with a tabletop minion stream? I didn't know that I thought he was doing his show tomorrow Did you decide to do it today? Oh? The once a month patreon stream, okay, gotcha. I didn't know that well I apologize for that, but hey hi Adam. I hope you're doing well. He's a great dude. Okay Josh says Can you talk about scale 75 intense wood and your process on small wood things like scaven shields buddy? I'm always happy to talk about intense wood You know the the intense wood so what we're talking about here is this right here for those who are unfamiliar So this is scale 75. It's a part of their intensity set. This is the first one There are now two intensity sets. This one is intense wood, which is great How do I apply it over small areas like shields? Sure, so assume we're starting from a standard zenithal. I Dry brush the shield area or the wood area in white if there's no texture at all I will draw in the lines with ivory And then I lay a layer of intense wood over top and then add other colors to taste So maybe I'll do another little part of agrax in there. Maybe I'll work some green in there Through some subtle washes or something like that. Maybe we'll stipple some chips or cuts in there Whatever something like that and then I just matt out the whole thing because these intense inks are very very glossy as Inks so you just want to apply like an AK interactive ultra matte varnish and you know jobs a good If we're talking about like a scavenge yield so theoretically something you're painting, you know a hundred or more of That would be super good for me And it'll feel like wood and look great because it's it's magic wouldn't a bottle Okay Sorry, I scroll back here. There you go Okay, Dorn jr. Can you direct me to where you talked about dealing with wet palette paper curling on my redgrass gaming XL? I can't find it, but I swore you instructed us. Hmm. That's a good question I don't have it curl, but I can tell you how I solved that I don't know if I ever mentioned it, but I'll talk about how I do it which is I Wet the sponge and everything get everything nice and wet and then I lay down the paper here We'll do this. I don't have my other camera today because it wouldn't work for the show And I don't know why I need to like reboot it, but okay So I'm sorry everybody that I can't just actually switch to my palette cam and do that in the future I'll have these but I take the paper and I lay it down like this side to side and Then I just literally take my gloved hand and I run it across in both directions Smoothing toward the edge. It'll want to curl you just push it back down The key is to have your wet palette be very wet when you start like the water will evaporate, of course And then yeah, I just push from the center out. Think of like you're like you're making pizza dough Right just nice and smooth out soft gentle push and that's that's generally all you have to do It'll it'll lay flat once you get that it's curling because it's suddenly getting wet once you flatten it and it sort of evens out It'll stop curling Steve Keed Question painting a unified chaos army with black armor as the base EA today's video For my nergal I want to corrode and rust up the black any tips on incorporating that with black Sure, I mean standard brown and orange rust will look okay against it black never shows wear very easily I mean, that's why you know like a That's why you kind of You don't have the full range of options there because you can't do deeper stuff But you can still do brown rust and streaks and orange and stuff like that So yeah, just focus on more of like the Brighter brown and orange tones in your rust and you should be just fine That would be my advice So you can still you know focus on edging like where you've got edges that are going to rust Make sure that's nice and poppy with some bright orange and it'll it'll show up well against that black You know, that's a color combination that's quite striking. So there you go Uh, Alejandro Vince. Have you had a chance to try the Liquitex acrylic angst white specifically? It's easier to find in my area than a usual recommendations of FW. Yeah, um No, that's Vallejo, uh, yeah, I've tried a couple of the different ones. They're fine There's nothing wrong with the Liquitex as long as it's the artist inks. Um, you're you're fine the ones that have the standard like Uh durability and and light fastness and resistance to water. Yeah, no issue If you if you can only find the Liquitex, you'll be perfectly fine. Those are a perfectly good substitution Uh keys high vents when following any kind of color scheme on the color wheel complimentary split complimentary, etc Does the saturation of the colors you use matter for achieving color balance? Oh my gosh. Yes a thousand percent. Yes Um, in general if you make both colors highly saturated or you know, you make all your colors highly saturated If the piece will become overwhelming there are ways to do that, but it's tricky and you've got to really watch yourself Um, I would so so if you go and watch that Richard Gray interview Where we talked about the way he used red and blue together, which aren't Traditional complimentary colors, but he used red blue and a little pop color of green He controlled it in two different ways. One was desaturating the red through extreme orange highlights So pushing it more into orange but having it be very uh, you know Very orangey when he did the blue part It's highly desaturated blue because he added tons of white, which just desaturated the heck out of the blue color So he had a strong red orange as his primary Then he had a very weak blue and then green instead of weakening the color He just reduced the amount of it. So there's only a few instances of it around there of that bright green color So there's kind of a couple tricks you can use one is you can use less of it So if you've only got a few dots of the complimentary color or something like that You can actually be rather intense with it if it's say gems or something Cool, there's a few scattered around the thing neat. It's neat to have them pop strong If it's going to be something big where you have, you know, uh A character a figure who's in like a bunch of armor that's showing but also has a big cloak and cloth And a tabard and stuff that's all showing and you want those to be complimentary ish Then that then one of those needs to be highly desaturated. Okay Otherwise, it's just going to be too overpowering to the eye And of course you can desaturate by adding in Some of the complimentary color, which will also unify the piece or you can just use the old standby of, you know Gray brown white black all those things that that sap the life out of color Uh merchant prints any tips on doing green armor that's so dark It appears near black from a distance Uh I'm paying to really dark green. I guess. Um, I you know, like it's a flip and answer um Yeah, sure. I mean, there's a cut. There's actually like one of the greens in in gw's line is like that I don't remember what it is. It was like a super dark black green And like my advice would be do mostly that Do mostly a color like that and then in the high volumes the highlights have very Small volume highlights. So most of your piece is like again If one is the highest highlight and five is the deepest shadow have most of the piece before and five And have a very small short transition into one two three where it goes up to something very fairly high highlighted into like a Normalish green tone And then when you get close and look at it the eye will read the highlights and see the green But from a distance it will just it will you know, if 80 of the surface area is that dark black green It'll read more as that So that's probably my best advice As far as color wise, there's a lot of good choices out there. Like I said, there's the gw color um Game ink from vallejo also makes a really nice black green ink. So that's something you could use to help smooth your transition Okay Do Emily says the patry on stream starts in about an hour. So it shouldn't overlap too much depends on how wordy vince is Well, we're screwed. Yeah, that's uh, that's generally my problem Uh Al Capone. Hey vince given that you like to work with underpainting When do you typically choose to work with opaque paint such as pro or curl all the time? I mean underpainting still has value even if you're using fairly opaque paints All paint is somewhat translucent painting even pro or curl paints Over White is going to look very different than over black. Even if to your eye, it looks completely opaque Like as an experiment just, you know, take a piece of plastic card Primate black, primate white run a sheet run a layer of opaque, you know paint over it And you're going to see that certain colors, especially reds and all those kinds of things anything warm Um is going to be highly affected by what's underneath it So I mean the answer is always if I like the tones I tend to like pro or curl because they thin really well. They cover really well. They're a nice paint I mean right now my my paint that's over here You know kind of being used on this current project was a mix of a bunch of scale pro or curl War colors and a few vilejo. So I mean, it's you know, I'm all over the shop It's a question of like right fit for right thing. Do I like the tone that kind of thing? In the end it doesn't I'm always covering all of my underpainting like there's always 20 layers of paint on anything I'm painting, right? Um, it's just most of that stuff is very very thin and glazes and things so You know in the end you don't see any of the underpainting, but it still helps set the overall tone And it just gives you a good sketch to work from Just makes it easier on your eyes too like painting and all black figures really hard on your eyes If you're not reflecting much light it doesn't like seeing the separation between the elements Um, you know, I'm an old man here. So it just kind of makes my life easier Scott Baker, I liked your black armor tutorial thinking of using metal color for my ks warriors Maybe gunmetal is the darkest tone than lighter shades or highlights and accent any tips on using these Um, sure, you could look at something like my speed painting steel video. I think it's like 105 or something hobby cheating 105 somewhere in that range You know, you could do the whole warrior like that and then paint matte paints over the fur and cloaks and stuff Uh, but yeah, I would actually recommend if you're going to use something like gunmetal It's still not quite dark enough. It's a good. It's a good tactic. I love the idea Um, I would do it with that mixed in with a little matte black ink So something like vallejo game ink black would be a great fit I'd mix that in and that would be my layer and then I would work up from there go into base gunmetal go into gunmetal plus You know pale burnt metal and then just pale burnt metal or something. There's a simple like, you know kind of four step progression That's how I've done I had I did an anvil's of the handle anvil's of helden hammer. There you go uh miniature for someone a couple years back and That's how I did that effectively because I wanted a black metallic scheme So there you go Uh, alexander held your 24 hour video has changed my view on the hobby so much. I'm redoing my second-hand army It isn't perfect, but it's being painted Uh, that's awesome That's great to hear. Um, because You know like that's I I think more people need to it lose the fear like A painted miniature is always better than an unpainted miniature full stop Okay So there's no reason not to just get painting You will learn more by painting than you will by not painting. I guarantee that Uh, and I think he's got more to the question So let's see, uh, trying to paint a blue army what other colors would go well with it Lots of things depends on what you want. I mean blue is a pretty versatile color Um, you know the traditional complimentary is orange. So you can use a desaturated orange as a fun color to complement it um, blue can go great with things like Uh purple and green like if you want to go kind of with that side of the color wheel You can lean all over there and that can be a fun sort of zinchi. That's that's how zinch colors are arranged Right. It's blue purple and like teal And that works fine Um, so yeah, there's there's lots of choices. Um, you know, just grab yourself any kind of Little color wheel if you like and and play with different color schemes that you think Seem fun with like a a triadic or a split complimentary um sessions college if you just search for sessions college Color wheel they have a digital color wheel you can use Then you can just like set yourself to blue and then try a bunch of different schemes And it'll show you the different colors to use. It's great. It's a good resource Okay Uh andre what citadel or vallejo colors do you recommend for general all-purpose use in zenithal? Highlighting as far as rattle cans go. Would you do two three? Maybe even four colors? If I was going to do rattle cans, I always keep it to two. It's just black and white You don't need anything else Now if you're going to do something unusual sure any of them can work Then it's just some dark and some light like it's always two colors Let's say you're painting like a bunch of uh a bunch of gross nergal stuff. Let's let's take plague bears. Okay Um, I would do a dark green. I don't know what their dark greens are I don't know the rattle can paints that well, but whatever their dark green is And then ivory or whatever their bone color is I assume they probably have some kind of ushabti bone or something That would be my zenithal over a bunch of plague bears because that just did most of your work for you Like from there. Boom. It's it's glazed city and you're rock and roll Right, so but when I'm doing when I'm doing an airbrush I can do I can get crazier because I can be more precise a rattle can isn't precise enough to do that many different colors Stick to two rattle cans are already very thick paint. You're already risking detail whenever you use a rattle can So a nice light quick application of the dark color nice light quick application of the light color Jobs are good and off to the painting desk you go Uh, let's see ryan, uh, michael michael michael Ryan Uh, ran out of a mixed color on my palette. How to best go about Remixing it and verifying it roughly the same color before putting it on your model Uh, I don't know just do that. We'll just put the two back together This is not a thing I think about I'll be honest with you like, um, I don't work like that I will often mix tiny amounts of paint and I mean I mix paint constantly and I just keep remixing it like you still have it on your wet. Is it on if it's on a wet palette, which it should be Uh, it gets a lot easier one. It stays useful longer and two Like you still have the other paint there next to it on your wet palette So you just bring more in and mix it around does this look like what's next to it on the palette, right? That's my simplest answer But just try it on the back of your hand first and you know if it's slightly off Which sometimes it will be just add in more of whatever you need Uh, it's like if you put it put put paint on the miniature and it's slightly wrong. Who cares It's irrelevant Like if that's eight seconds of additional painting you're gonna have to do go back and mix in you made yourself a blue black You mix yourself and you ran out of it and there's a new blue black you're doing and you you was too blue Okay Cool. You just made a slightly highlight color pull it up into the highlights Go back pull in a little more black Lays over Bing bang job is a good one, right? Like the the I think people get too hung up on mixes in general like having things exactly, right? I mean my palette is just a mess of different colors I've pulled here and there and mixed a couple brushfuls here and mixed a couple brushfuls there Uh, it's No one will ever notice is the short answer Like unless you made something wildly different Uh, no one will ever notice it doesn't matter Okay Uh, let's see Uh, doggagrim I have been wondering for a while and can't find a clear answer that makes it clear Sure What is the difference between Vallejo thinner medium and glaze medium and islamia medium fit in? So what you need to do is go back and watch my paint additives hobby cheating video I think it's 135 And that will explain all this stuff But here's the short answer to the specific question Thinner medium is just medium It's just acrylic medium as far as I know. I don't think they use any extra additives in there Um, it's just acrylic medium. Whenever you see the word thinner across ranges in general It's not always true because we don't they don't they never release their recipes for this stuff So it's hard to tell what other additives they might have snuck in there But in general Paint consists of three things pigment medium solvent Okay pigment is pigment. It's what adds color solvent in the case of acrylic paints is water medium is it's your medium It's acrylic medium. It's what gives it its name And so in general thinner is just more of that Um acrylic medium dries in a lattice work format And so hence when you thin things with solvent too much you added too much solvent not enough medium pigment breaks up That's why you get coffee staining um Adding additional medium just keeps the the lattice will still form but the pigment is less dense in it um Lamea medium as far as I know is basically their version of that thing Um, like it's their version of just their medium I mean, I have I think every that I don't I think I have everything you just mentioned like One's probably a little Like gw probably put something else in there, but like there's war colors thinner next to the thinner medium of Uh of the leo you can see they're both like these white milky colors of acrylic medium Lamea probably has other stuff in it. I don't know what else they probably put in here But something glaze medium is just thinner plus other additives generally like flow improver Uh a little bit of retarder so it dries more slowly and can be pushed in even out So it's just additives that's the hidden fourth element of paint is various additives that make paint work in weird ways So there you go Uh Visor can you use your influence to get the leo to put out new metal color golds and coffers? I wish um, I I tend I wouldn't actually want new golds and coffers I would just want a pure bronze Like one that doesn't have any other colors in it because that's actually the hardest one to make Um, that's the one that you've got to get like you got to go in the lab And like a couple drops of this and some brown ink and something. I mean, I still use all the time It's fine. I can get a good bronze out of it, but I'd love it if they just had one more straight out of the pot Um, it's it's the funniest paint range because it's just the best paint And they have 72 colors of silver and one gold and one copper that you have to mix to make all your shades So whatever Uh Anyone have uh tips for painting white feathers doing goose zangors, which I love the idea of Hopefully they're float goats Float goats is a thing now folks. Uh, if you're doing zangors on disc in any way, those are now float goats That's my favorite name ever. I can't take credit for that. Somebody on twitter said that and it's my favorite thing ever um What uh, yeah, the answer is work a color into the shadows Just like just don't make them white the same thing I said earlier work a hue in just like with the fur I mentioned blue blues a great color. It'll make them look cold. You can use a deep desaturated purple like black leather is a great one from Scale 75, you know anything like that just make them a color and you can apply it as a wash and pull it toward the shadow So if this is the shape of the feather This area should be white and the center the the center line down to the base of the feather Should have that color tone in it with it very faded culminating to the most rich area of it down here That's the answer Uh, Galen hey ventz question. How do you paint an orcish worn and old gold armor with true metallic metal? Paint an orcish worn and old gold armor Uh, for your golden boys. Well, I mean gold is just gold gold doesn't It depends if you want it to really read as gold or if you're willing to be a little more fantastical with it If you're trying to keep it to like gold like real gold It it's just gold you can dust it and dirt it up like it can it can weather through um other things getting on it like that is to say, um You know it can accumulate dirt and grime and stuff like that and you so you could go that direction But gold is gold like you can set a gold ring on the ground And if it stays there for a hundred years come back and dust it off and it will still be gold That's why gold is cool. It doesn't oxidize in any way or change or rust like in the way that that You know other these other metals do Um, this doesn't react chemically in that way Now if you want to be a little more fantastical then just go nuts Go nuts with all your normal weathering tricks Um oxidize it build that kind of stuff and and who cares it's fantasy gold. It's not real gold It's it's gold inium and gold inium in this world reacts with oxidation because that's fun Uh, so, you know that's that would be my advice But like the answer is you can make it look older and more worn if you deepen the shadows Um, so when you're glazing in your your inks and stuff for your shading on your true metallic metal More deeper browns and purples will make it look older So that's that's a short answer Zach, uh need help with doing 40k orc zombies looking for zenithal color recommendations for undead orcs Been using purples and blues from below, but unsure of where to go. Thanks a bunch Yeah, sure. I mean, I think that would work fine. Like honestly, I don't know exactly the color scheme you want, but I assume they're like gray green Probably with like purple in the shadows So I would do it as a standard green works well with a standard zenithal purple works well with a standard zenithal I would just do it as a standard zenithal and then Shoot from below with purple and there you go done You're you're you're rock and roll. You're ready to go lay a couple Thin layers of like a desaturated green over that work some gray back into the highlights Dead orcs Okay Let's see All right, I've got to catch back up here. I got to start answering questions quicker. Okay All right mattiesman, uh, I don't game. I just like to paint minis and busts. My question is is there any way to glaze White without it going chalky and making the colors under a pastel. I mainly use vallejo Yeah, so don't glaze white. That's number one. Like there's generally not a reason to glaze white. Don't do it Apply white normally and then glaze the darker color back down Okay, so you want this my hand here to go from white to purple Don't glaze the white paint white here and then glaze the purple down here Okay, that's the answer now Second secondary question. How do you avoid chalkiness and white paint use white ink use a heavy body acrylic white They're just richer. So when I say heavy body acrylic white, I mean something like this You can get you can get this is like my golden artist acrylic for heavy body. This is what I normally use You know, he's like schminke or whatever it's called. I don't know it's a european thing Uh or something like that It's other ones out there. It doesn't matter. It just has to be heavy body artist acrylic paint Those you can smooth out much better You can take a big dollop of that hba white put it somewhere and then just pull it down and effectively smooth it out So you're still not glazing it, but you're you're feathering it. That'll work better additional trick gloss medium In general or gloss varnish in general, you don't want to make your paint glossy. There is one exception The reason you don't want things to be glossy is because then it reflects light in weird ways And you need to take control of the light with your paint. It shouldn't be your It shouldn't be your paint reflecting light in strange ways. That's why gloss is just generally bad Almost nothing should ever be gloss. It just will look bad Because why is that skirt that is matte like this thing my apron? There's no part of this that's glossy If this is glossy on the figure and like all of a sudden because I turned it one way This fold starts reflecting white pure white light Immediately somebody is going to be like, no, that's fake. That that isn't real. That doesn't work. That doesn't your brain goes There's one exception though Things that are pure white gloss reflects white White paint is white Hmm By adding in some gloss varnish or medium You'll actually create a super smooth white because the eye can't tell the difference between what's white paint and what's reflected light It's a cool way to smooth it out. So there you go. Hope that helps Uh, when is the wood not intense? Never. It's always it's always intense Uh, ryan michael for photo backgrounds you recommend in your videos You recommend hangar 18, but it seems to no longer have a story. Do you have any other recommendations? I don't I don't know where else to get them from that was the only place that I got mine from But I mean here's it. Here's a fun thing. Um, you can just take uh, like the book like the I don't think I have a gaming book around me Um, but the interior page of your game of most of your game books Like your coda seas and battle tomes and stuff has a black and white image. You can always just set that back there open It doesn't have the infinite horizon trick But it has this wonderful mix of like Random chaos and in general black and white gradients that'll work perfect as a background Um, so you can do that. That's a that's a fun way to go. Um, other than that I'm sure there's probably places to get it, but I I'd have to look around. I really don't know anymore um, you could also just like Take a big piece of card paper like from the hobby store and just go nuts with your airbrush And that would work too Um, if you want to go the cheap way or even with some rattle cans just go like jackson pollock on it and and you're good to go Okay, uh Uh scott collie coley scott Do you have any tips regarding weathering pigments and how to properly apply them? Do you varnish the model first? Do you apply them wet or dry and what if any fixing liquids to use? So yes, I have a whole hobby cheating on pigments I have multiple hobby cheatings on using pigments So I would recommend you go look at that to get that in detail answer But let me answer your questions in short order here um A dry brush never wet Um always just dry I keep a palette that is just dry pigment. I mean it doesn't pigment can't dry out So I just literally keep a palette pigment You can see it right here. That's just a bunch of different pigments I've got greens and blues and blacks and reds and browns and stuff. I keep it over here It's it's well out of the way like it's not any way where I can ever bump it or move it. I keep it in a drawer over here Um, so that way it's not, you know, I can't get disrupted Uh dry brush. I use an old old broken crappy brush Which I don't know where it is at this moment, but it's somewhere around here Whatever you want a nice fat worn down brush is the answer. I don't know where my my uh my pigment brush is um And I just kind of staple it in like just did that that that that that that that in there um Do I uh, do I fix it? No, not generally Um, because it will actually just generally stick If I need to fix it um a drop of alcohol work a drop of varnish will work Um, in general you want to avoid varnishing through your airbrush or anything But you can just literally or or the fixers that are out there like the pigment fixer from Uh mig I think has one. It's really good Um vileo has one. That's really good. Um, you can use all those But you just like take a drop of it onto a wet brush and you just like You just literally go and put little drops around the area The only time I really fix pigment is if I'm doing a lot of ground work with pigment um because there it it Like it will wear off and stuff On things like like these um these bikers tires have pigment that I worked into them I'm not going to fix those. They're fine. Like that's not going anywhere So, you know, will it maybe come off in 20 years? I don't maybe but it's fine Um, but if you wanted to fix it Yeah, just like I use a lot of pigment on all my bases where I just stick it around for colors in stone There I just put normal washes over it or dry brushes over it Just more paint over the top because I'm just using it as a step in the painting process So there you go. Hopefully that helps Uh, okay Um Devin says he's had some trouble with liquid text inks where they sometimes get a little grainy Um, yeah, I mean, uh, they're white is fine. I've used a couple of them and had perfectly fine results I think that can happen. I you like you should always be using thinner with your inks Always nothing should go through your airbrush without thinner Full stop Okay, so even with inks I use thinner and flow improver my standard 80 20 thinner flow improver mix um Now that being said Like I've come to trust fw. I just think they're Better overall. I've had better results of them, but I've used some liquid text And I didn't have any bad results, but your mileage may vary as always Um any tips any hints for using the badger candy coats. I want to paint my tower blue and then give And they give the best color. It's a larger area. And I'm not sure if I should paint brick by brick or dry an airbrush Um, I would definitely airbrush it They work best through the airbrush. They're actually somewhat challenging through a brush, but they're great through an airbrush Uh, and then I would varnish afterward Uh, any kind of varnish will do just make sure you put a layer of varnish down because they are pretty susceptible to reactivation And you want to be careful of that so just um Just give a nice varnish after you're done And you're all set That would be my advice Daniel writings. Uh, hi vince question. How would you approach the ground texture for cave bases any tips for making stalagmites? Yeah, I think you asked this question on a video and I haven't got a chance to answer it yet Um, I actually have another I have a like a dungeon video coming out at some point in the future It's still a ways off Um, but I've I've recorded. I've just got to edit everything together and whatnot, but um the The short answer to your question is Is Is the same as anything Think about the environment in detail. Don't don't just casually let your brain Wander really think about it. So let's do that Okay, I'll close my eyes. I'm gonna conjure the seam I'm in a cave In this cave. It's a magical cave full of goblins. What's around me? Well, certainly certainly stalagmites and stalactites Okay, well, we can't use tights because we don't have a ceiling on our miniature. So, okay stalagmites fair Well, there's mushrooms. It's a goblin cave. There's certainly mushrooms It's gonna be big cracks in the floor. So I'd want to break up the texture There's gonna be rocks and grit scattered about where rock slides have come down the side of the cave or Or detritus that was left from whatever burrowed this There's gonna be moss and small vegetation things like that that grow in here because these caves will be wet Right and so they're going to attract small lichen and life like that Um, that's where if there's mushrooms that that other kind of life is going to be present Maybe there's glowing crystals that makes sense There would be that kind of thing and that like the cave is lit in some way And so maybe there's bio or you know, there's like luminescent crystals that glow around So I have little crystals around what else when I cast my eyes around skulls bones Creatures that have been eaten and left here. There's no dirt for them to sink into so they're going to sit on top of the rocks So that's going to be there Uh, yeah, I mean there you go, right like Conjure that whole scene in your head and just start imagining like the way I always do it is imagine I we're going to write box text for my dnd group as a dm And wanted to set an interesting visual scene for them to be in what all would be there Right and you can go farther than that like chains on the walls because somebody was once chained in this cave Or you know an on and on and on right Uh now how to make stalagmites Uh, I make them out of the well, you can get some in one of the basin kits like one of these type of basin kits Yeah, it's actually this one has some in it But you can see how this basin kit has like mushrooms and stalagmites in it As well as all all this junk. So you can see if somebody's just selling these bits whoop Um, because those are useful you can also um, Hearst arts molds has one That's why I make most of mine like my crystals and and uh stalagmites and stuff like that I use uh resin and I used Hearst arts molds. So Um, check that out. I have a video on on using Hearst arts molds and and resin So you can go check that hobby cheating out Any suggestions on making green and red as complementary colors not become a christmas tree Yes, same thing I said before one of them has to be highly desaturated Christmas is both of those colors in their true form Take one of them and very much desaturate it make it red and green black or something like that, right If one of the colors is much weaker It won't feel christmasy. It's really that simple Uh chaos spawn I do zenithill then pallet flesh drybrush then 50 50 null and medium before adding any color for fleshy bits such as dark oath models or trolls should I use strong tone instead of null and oil Um, I would when I you'll see a video coming soon where I do basically what you just described And I actually used a mix of druty violet and agrax thin And I liked that Um added a little bit more visual interest a little more brown black purple mix I had good results from that Okay, konstantinos. Hey vents question about paints. How do we store them and how long can they stay in a box? Can they come back maybe with flow? Uh, what not? Uh, I mean I store them on the nail polish racks. You've probably seen in any number of videos that I've done Um, and how long have they sat there? I mean some of them have sat there for like Seven or eight years they've been on my wall since I put up my some of the initial racks and they still work fine As long as they're sealed Um, and the area that you're in is relatively normal in temperature Like I this is my office is in a basement as you can see from that window right there um And you know, so the temperature down here stays very normative like it doesn't fluctuate wildly Um, which is one of the things that could cause some challenges Uh, can they be resuscitated? Yeah, sure. Sometimes you can add in more medium not really flow improver You might want a little bit of that But it would be mostly medium that you'd be putting in like, you know Alomium medium or a thinner medium or an acrylic medium or you know liquidx medium It doesn't freaking matter just something like that and you'd want to mix that up and agitate it around um But that's probably my but there's gonna come a point where they just can't The the key with storing your paints is, you know Don't put them in direct sunlight and make sure they stay in an area that's relatively normal in temperature and they'll last Years and years and years and years, you know decades if they're properly sealed As as people who rent, you know, we'll often randomly share on facebook that they found like, you know, some old pot of X citadel paint from the early 90s and it still works. Well, those are just sealed really well Right, and they just were in a relatively normal temperature and pop it open and boom still good to go So to addict I just ordered a bunch of pro krills with some creature caster models yesterday Very excited to try them held myself back from buying the entire set. Yeah, you'll enjoy them They're nice and you know, I just got some of the new bottles. Um, so everybody knows so creature casters Bottles previously were like this the pro krill paints They switched to a bottle like this One of the challenges I think people had is that this this bottle is really hard Like it's a really really strong hard plastic And they they they go out in a weird way where you turn this knob and then it creates the paint up top and so on and so forth Um, the new one still works like that. That is to say the new one still has the twisty top Which I've actually come to really like but the plastic is like softer It's a really nicer plastic and you get two more milliliters of paint same price But the new ones are 22 milliliters compared to 20. So that's cool neat stuff Pro krill delivers value. Um, but yeah, I really like the new ones. I had to I had to replace some ivories and bright ivories myself Recently because I I use those things all the time Uh, josh kelly any advice for speed paint on warm purple roads robes colors for under paint or specific paint For a glaze doing 180 gets Sure, uh, yeah, if you want to be warm purple, uh My best advice would be a deep hole red up into like an ivory or a flesh tone or something like that Would be good. And by the way, that's great colors for goblin skin, too Red is the complementary to green. It will naturally desaturate into brown shadows the ivory top would or or Or or a Caucasian style flesh tone Light flesh tone would make a great it'll make a great yellowy green highlight So it'll work well for both the green of the goblin skin and the purple for the robes And that like deep hole red will give you a lustrous deep shadow purple and the ivory will give you a nice bright purple So that kind of a speed paint. That's what I'd do You could by the way Just do a standard zenithal and then do hole red from below and reshoot from ivory on top or something like that Or you could completely switch your colors. It doesn't really matter Uh brandon s for my next project I want to do a city's army themed around boarding pirates with a big model destroying a ship But don't have any idea of what to put in any ideas Pirates with a big model destroying a ship Like as a diorama or as part of just a regular thing Uh a boarding party boarding pirates of the big model destroying a ship Uh I don't know man. I mean if you like star drakes are takeable one in four So you could have a big star drake crushing like something else Um I don't know. There's a lot going on there, man That feels more like a diorama than an individual model to be completely honest I'm I'm not sure but like think of how you can integrate like courage and overlords can go in tempest I so you could play with stuff there Storm cast can be in all the cities. So, you know, you could have things like star drakes and stuff like that So maybe maybe that's the answer Uh It's the cmd. Hi vince. I started value sketching and working with inks How could I apply shadows in areas that are black but might look better in a different color? And how do I choose correct shadow colors? Yeah, so the answer is uh, take your gray or your middle level level of your value sketching up a little higher Like I don't leave much actual black on the miniature other than like lines When I'm when I'm working with, you know, initial value sketching Um, the answer is though like because because they're just very hard to move that color So if you turn more of it gray and then use deep shadows Uh over it, you know darker purples and stuff like that Then it's gonna it's gonna look better and the colors can actually move now How do you choose the correct shadow colors? I mean, do you have the next three hours for me to explain the complexities of shadow colors? Like that's a huge question. You just asked man But at the same time it doesn't matter Somehow those are both true. Let me see if I can unpack what I mean here Shadows just need to be a dark color one beyond that It doesn't matter like unless you're talking painting for golden demon here or you know Capital palette or or you want to go to monte san savino? If those are your goals, then we need to have a much deeper discussion If you're painting an army, it doesn't matter. They just need to be dark. They just need to be shadows Okay, now here's the simple rule of thumb. Let's go to the next level down The simple rule of thumb is warm highlights have cold shadows and cold highlights have warm shadows so Uh, if you have a like a glacier blue as a highlight, then it's whole red or crimson red or something like that Some deep that color. Yeah, that's your shadow color If you have warm ice yellow ivory as your highlight, then you have blue or blue black or something like that as your Your shadow color. So like a pain's gray Um What's the easy answer in the middle red plus blue make dark purple? All right, so purple can kind of act as this interesting universal shadow color on almost anything Uh, it can shadow red. It can shadow Green it can shadow blue. It can shadow other purple Um, basically the only thing it doesn't really work right over is orange and yellow Um So and and you know, they like when you go into orange, you can still work a little purple into your shadows Like orange key, uh, like take something like a black leather, which is brown with some purple in it Um, that can be a great way to get shadows and orange So you're still having this hint of that kind of color, but there you go Hopefully that helps now beyond that the answer is just make sure there's some kind of color in there So there you go Hopefully that helps uh, andra andre. Sorry Andre, so could you please do an updated vid on shading true metallic metal? You did one on scaven's back with like coffers I would love to see this done on a model with more Of a variety of angles and armor shapes like storm cast Yeah, absolutely. It's something i'm going to return to over and over again Because it's something i'm constantly doing In an upcoming video, you'll see it as part of a larger process Like there's an upcoming video where there's i do focus in on it for Five or six or ten minutes of the video. So you will see that happening with some interesting angles But yes, i'll do a whole video on it again. Absolutely Uh, galen, what do you think about the grimdark or blanchitu style of painting? Have you tried it? Do you think it's good for beginners? I think it's fine. I don't like it. It's not for me I think john blanche is one of the most talented artists ever Um Certainly in this hobby He set the tone for a thing we love I think he is really good at using those desaturated tones to tell interesting stories, especially in two-dimensional art um It's often that that style is often just used as an excuse to not try And to just like paint super messy for no reason Uh, john is very purposeful if you watch him apply it Like if you go and watch the voxcast interview with him where he actually paints in real time there with the with wade Um, you see how intentional he is about what he's doing like paint goes in different places outside of quote-unquote lines But he's very intentional about how he does his colors. It's not just like Slap dash, which is how I think a lot of people interpret that to be and it's not It's there's an intentionality to it. That's really important. But either way, it just doesn't suit me I don't I don't like I my favorite colors are pink and teal man That's not blingy too. Okay Like I I like bright colors. I like poppy things. I live a synth wave life And uh, and that's not that's not where where that style lives. So it's just it's just not for me Do I think it's good for beginners? Honestly, probably not because I think it instills in them Lessons that aren't great Um Here's what I mean by that Blanchetsu is intentionally breaking the rules In a way that like It's fine to break rules in painting art is a bunch of guidelines. There are more guidelines, mr. Turner. Um, but like You and you they can be broken. Some can be bent others can be broken But you have to understand What that means and how to break them properly um Like you you know, it's it's like any other artistic pursuit like you can break the standard structures of writing a novel But you have to be a good writer do that and understand why the standard structures are there And when you subvert them or deviate from them, it has to be purposeful. So that's I would say no in general I don't think it's good um all right Stuff sub-vents any tips on what colors for a warm brown skin color? I find painting natural brown skin difficult since it always ends up looking like bark or mud Uh, sure. Um, I have a video on painting dark skin. So I would go reference that stuff. I still like that video very much um, but yeah, I mean the answer is uh Is skin tones, especially Various shades of african and darker skin tones can run a wide gamut of colors Uh, and the answer is they need to have the same transition of highlights as any Caucasian skin tone or any other sort of ethnicity you would want to build in using Caucasian style flesh paints And the highlights of darker african skin tones actually works because that creates your highlight colors very naturalistically Um, you know thinned oranges and orange glazes work because all skin has orange as its sort of base um, even very pale people who live in basements and are trolls like me The uh deep purples work well to to work in there So that's what I would kind of recommend you can go watch that video and see how I use all the colors I just mentioned over the course of it um, but There you go. That's that's you need to still run the same gamut. There still needs to be red tones in there Uh, because there's still blood pumping in veins and you know skin goes red So that's kind of how I would how I would recommend it Steven Powell I'm new to airbrush and I was doing test models for my zombicide invader box set And I found that my primer and ink were beating up even after I washed The second one did I over thin we're beating up? Oh, okay. I got it on the miniature. They were beating up Uh Maybe could be you over thinned. Um, could be you have too much pressure Um, you know could be you're pulling back too far if you're new to airbrushing You know your airbrush is a dual trigger control. It's not just it's not just back It's also down and a lot of learning to use the airbrush is brush control. It's the same as working with a paint brush And so when you have very thin paint you have to be very controlled your psi might have been too high Uh, that could also be a possibility. I generally run it at the same thing Like I that I know a lot of people do which is which is 18 psi or somewhere in the 1.8 bars range That's kind of I know people like uh on hell gerald as do the you know, they they run about that same place Um, although he's a crazy person. I was just watching one of his videos earlier He has a great channel by the way, and he was using like a 0.15 needle I can't even imagine how small that is like that's insanity That man is gifted with an airbrush to be sure. But anyways, most of it's just brush control It's just learning how to press the trigger. So, um Try to depress the trigger less pull back less And um And and see where that gets you maybe try a little slightly lower psi see if that helps if it's still beating then Yeah, it's it's the thinness Uh store her to again. That is a heck of a name Uh, hi vents just been digging through some of your videos on suggestions from a facebook group after I made a meme It's really helpful, and I just dropped by to say hi and thanks. Well, that's awesome, man Well, thank you. I'm I'm glad I'm always happy when new people come to the channel and join me I certainly hope you're all uh on the the the hobby journey with me, and I'm glad Thank you Okay, uh, so let's see Uh, okay I got I got to go into hurry-up mode here because where I have a lot of questions. Oh my gosh, so many questions All right, I'm going to answer some of these quicker because we're getting up toward the hour And I want to make sure I get all your questions answered Uh effort to all hay vents. I dug your 24 hour ogre video. What are some other good armies this would work with? Oh, it's a great question Simple answer anything that's somewhat uniform in its application doesn't have an over emphasis of details Stormcast yep a plus Uh Flesh eater quartz. Oh man, they would be great for it. Uh, bone splitter orcs. That would be really good Um gloom spike gets especially if you're doing like trolls and squigs and stuff. Oh, that would be Fantastic there are no issues um Trying to think of any oh nurgle nurgle in general, especially a more demon focused nurgle Would would do really well with that because it's just a lot of gross flesh So you can just be like going nuts with colors and washes and stuff. So yeah Uh, yeah, that's a good good list probably there's probably some more but that's a good Steve Dooley. I really enjoy painting But I have never painted for the sole purpose of the joy of painting Oh listen to Bob Ross the joy of painting I would like to start my journey into competition painting any tips on where to start Yes Start by entering a competition Sit down pick a piece you really love something that's going to be good for competition a relatively open figure That doesn't have a lot of like Insanity or when I say open. I mean a figure like this versus like this And spend as much time as you humanly possibly can with it torture yourself Okay, because part of what being good at competition painting is doing is building up your endurance Um, when you want to run a marathon, you don't immediately go out and run 26.2 miles You run a mile and then you run two and then you run two again Then you run three then you run five You got to build up that that endurance, right? This is the same thing Paint until you are just out then get feedback from people then paint again Until you cannot take it with that miniature and then go to competition and lose with it Right or whatever and feel the emotional Crush of that or if you win. Hey super happy, but the point is is that like Paint for you because at the end of that what's going to happen is and and talk to the judges and understand where you need to do The next figure Because at the end of that the value is that you have a beautifully painted miniature that you put Your heart into that's worth more than any award any acrylic trophy anything like that Because you will learn so much by doing that from the process of it from building your endurance From getting the feedback from others from getting the feedback for judges. It is the fastest way to like take a bunch of steps on your hobby journey and And it will be so valuable as an experience like I cannot explain how valuable it was for me to just go to competitions and lose I know that sounds harsh um, and and you know like Some people show up and win their first time and that's great And and good, but like a big part of I have lost at competitions a lot more than I've won You know, I I won a golden demon the first time I went to golden demon Okay, now that was years into my competition painting, but I had seven entries six of them didn't win one did All right, so I lost six times. I won once Now I was very happy about that but still So my point is it like the process and then I took those six and I went and got feedback from all the heavy metal painters And judges and said what should I have done better? And that was amazing All right, because I know where did I learn more than in that 20 30 minutes where I'm sitting down with the judges Because they tell you what they saw and they have better eyes for it. So there you go Um, yeah, that's that's my best advice Uh, hi vents. Have you tried dark star metallic paint range? Yeah, they're okay. I mean, they're just they're not vellejo metal color They're too jelly. They're too gummy. They don't cover as well. They don't have the sheen. They're okay, but they're not They're not as good Uh, jim phillips hi vents. Thanks for your your help. Do you thin vellejo varnish when you airbrush it on? Yes, I do. I always use a few drops of thinner in everything that goes through the airbrush always always everything Unless I'm just putting water through to like keep it clean Uh, jim phillips. Uh, oh sorry next one. Uh water hi vents. I've been looking into oil paints They seem to offer many advantages. Why would you say they are so seldomly used for miniature painting? Because they take a real long time to dry That is an advantage and a disadvantage We all move to acrylic paints because acrylic paints are simple. They're easy. They're non-toxic They dry super fast and that's generally what people want in their paint Oil paints are more tricky to work with like they take more they have a a more shallow learning curve and uh They're just harder to kind of get the your head around They're more toxic. They're more expensive in general They require white spirits to thin and work with they have challenges But they do offer a lot of advantages like blending is no longer a thing You don't like struggle to blend with oil paints you can blend anything Like that's that's just not a thing because your paints wet for a day You can sit there and and just push colors around and blend like it's going out of style Blending is only a challenge in this hobby because we use acrylic paints that dry in seconds right So there you go Uh So yeah, but I think they're fun. I use them quite often It's just it's a matter of like are you willing to put in the time to kind of learn how to do it? That's all there is Uh grumty hyvens. I'm having trouble painting glowing eyes in my more tech card They have recessed eyes with a raised pupil. What technique would best achieve that look? So go watch my glowing eyes video And you'll see that the trick is you need a bright highlight on the pupil dark all the way around in the socket basically And then a slight light very light light lighter than that. Are you thinking light enough yet? Nope twice as light as that Glaze around the socket Okay Now how would I achieve that? I would paint the inside of the eye relatively dark In a color that I wanted like let's say I wanted green glowing eyes. Okay. I'd put the I'd paint the socket a dark green And then I would paint around the little pupil a black green And then I would go in and touch the pupil with white and then I would go in and touch the pupil and let that dry Then I would go and touch the pupil with a bright green Then I would take that same green that I used initially and I would thin it way out and I would glaze it around Around the socket that'll create that nice transition Hopefully that helps Uh Philip I can't stay as I need to get on with it with a text mini I just wanted to thank you. Vince probably amazing material, but oh, well, thanks, man. That's great Uh, let's see. I work in school with kids around 12 to 13 year old next week I'm starting a workshop for them to come and shout paint managers What could be a simple first lesson in painting? Oh boy. Um for kids, um Yeah, I think probably just having them paint areas just literally getting colors balanced and get their brush control I think that's the most important thing to To do first just like if we want to start with the simplest method Just show them some paint and bring a couple washes with you and have them focus on applying paint to just an area And then wash it over and and let them they'll they'll feel like it's amazing because the first time you learn how to use a wash It really is just like Mind blowing and so, um, yeah, that's what I would do like I would bring some relatively simple minis Um with some interesting texture like fur and stuff that's not hard to Wash will really pop on and I'd go that way Um, can you mix the ak interactive ultra matte varnish with inks to kill the shine? Uh, oh, absolutely. Yes and do I do all the time. It's great. I mean, it'll thin the ink It'll be less impactful because you've you've subtracted the amount of pigment the overall mix, but yes, it it works Uh, let's see. Oh, I can't imagine how youtube captions me if it's using the automatic captions bethany that has to be hilarious Uh, daniel baker. Um, hi vins. Love your work. Any tips for choosing color schemes? Um Look at the real world at interesting things. That's the best way I can describe it my journey with color schemes always starts with just Googling images. I google art The other thing I want like when I did when I do various things I just start by googling art out there that I think is cool Um, and and just looking at various paintings and and things like that and looking how they used color You know look at new art for stuff. Um, if you want to do something cool I'll look at like synthwave or punk art or I'll look at flowers in nature and stuff like that Like natural creatures are a great way to look go look at art of underwater plants and flowers and all sorts of stuff like that The real world is the best example I can give you Uh Let's see what what oh, uh, robert says what psi do you most typically use in your airbrush? I understand already, but it's 18 psi or you know in 1.8 ish bars somewhere in that area Um, how does the varnish save point work? It's pretty simple In between doing your various Tasks you just varnish the mini I use a satin varnish in the middle. I think that's the best mix And what'll happen then you like that dry and then you keep on painting And what's great about that is if you get paint somewhere. It's not supposed to be you can just take a big old brush Wet it and just rub the heck out of that area of the miniature and you'll wipe the paint right away And because the underlayer under that's varnished you don't rub anything else off And there you go. It's just that easy It's great. So if you make a mistake with your brush, which we all do you just grab an extra an extra crappy brush I keep beside me wet it Flood the area wipe wipe wipe wiping you can you can scrub kind of hard because you've got a protective varnish layer there Marchello vince, how would you go about introducing color to the shadows and the high points on black armor? I'm struggling to figure out my base since it seems counterintuitive to zenithal So watch the black armor video I just put up today is the best answer to the question and it will show you how I do just that Um, but the short answer is you use deep reds. Here's a simple when you use deep reds in the in the low tones And you use blues and the high tones cold highlight warm shadow That's it. It's that easy, but I I do dig into that in a much deeper version in the video from today Uh maroc if you were going to paint something with two sources of light How would you go about starting say one light from below and one light from like above? And how do you go about painting with a desaturated color? um Yeah, sure. So multiple light sources if it was like a single miniature which I've done this for competition many times Yeah, you just kind of start I'll generally sketch the sort of zenithal or the grezee Grezee or whatever you want to say from both sides from both places the lights going to be And it's a lot of careful work like it takes a while because you need to tone Everything specifically So like what's cold if there's like a oftentimes you see it's done in cold light warm light if you go back and look at my um Tomb kink bust I did he had this because he had cold light coming from back here And then he had a warm light coming up from here And uh, it took a long long long time. It's just careful placement and using slightly using different the same mid tones Same color like everything is this color But it's looks very different because one i'm using a cold highlight for you know glacier blue or something and one i'm using a Uh a warm highlight for you know yellows and flesh tones and ice yellow or whatever, right? Uh, so yeah, I mean that's that's the best answer How do you and how do you paint with a desaturated color? Just I mean you desaturated out So that is to say we all desaturate our colors all the time when when we're highlighting with a white or a bright color That's just desaturating but mixing the complementary add white add gray add brown add black all those desaturate in different ways Um michael any preferences on color shift paints? Not really Not really um Nope There you know there's lots of the the the various paints that perform that sort of color Shift and color changing effect. I I don't I don't tend to like them much at all Is the short answer to your question? um I just like They they're not a thing that I particularly enjoy so it's personal taste Uh Galen um why some of the citadel's bone colors like palette witch flesh Uh or ushtabi bone are so hard to make them flow smoothly. I have problems with them even using medium Because they have white in them and white is a naturally chalky color and it depends on the white pigment. They're using I mean, that's all it is. But yeah, get yourself some white ink and you again and mix in other colors or Try the pro acrylic off whites. They're smooth as butter to be honest. Like there's a lot of good ones in there Uh, the red wizard. How do I convince my wife that the non-toxic acrylic paint we use is is Fine to use in the same house as our newborn uh Just point or two anything that says shows acrylic paint is non-toxic Um, it's it is there's nothing harmful about it. I mean, you know, it's just it's just around It's that um show her like kids finger paints for children That are made out of the exact same material as your stuff is would be my probably go to Um, you know, that's like that kind of stuff is literally the exact same product so If kids are literally meant to get their hands into it and start going like this and Wipe it all over themselves like kids are prone to do It's probably safe. Uh Okay But I don't have children. So I don't know my dogs don't seem to mind. They don't complain Uh Ruben hello Vince chibi big head minis advice, please. Uh, yeah, it's a great question. Um I I want to do more videos on chibis. Um, the best answer. Here's the shortest answer Uh pop everything to 11 chibi should be bright. They should be colorful. They should be loud Like you take the contrast up up up chibis are contrast in action You want contrast of hue contrast of value you want them to pop pop pop. Okay But I'm going to do more chibi videos I actually I have a chibi coming up here sometime soon It might be a couple buns. I warn you but um I am going to do some more chibi videos because I want to get a there's a couple chibis I've got I really want to get painted Uh Terry core, uh, good afternoon, Vince. I'm new to airbrushing Uh, I'm struggling trying to properly thin down Vallejo primer to the right consistency any tips I have their flow improver and thinner. I mix an 80 here's the best I can give you Make sure that make sure their primer is very very well shaken. Uh, I use my little I use my little lab mixer Paint shaky thingy, but even if you don't have that that's fine You can put a little agitator ball in there or something as long as this is not ferris metal you'll be okay Um, and I use a little less than a one-to-one with my primer and my thinner mix is 80 20 thinner flow improver And that goes through just fine. So hopefully that helps Uh Let's see Daniel. Uh, thanks so much for the answer on cave bases follow up question How would you build mold the cave floor milliput? Just definitely milliput just some stones just make up some stones. Um Yeah, you can also by the way, um, her starts mold does have a cave floor mold as well So I want to think about that. But otherwise just milliput Yeah, just fashion out some quick simple cave stone and add in the texture that'll let you put in cracks and and go nuts so And milliput's just cheaper than green stuff in mass. I wouldn't generally use green stuff for a thing like a base Uh, let's see Boom and boom boom and two. Okay. So I'm pretty new painter. My question is why do all my brushes get the fish hook? I clean them dry them like I see on youtube and I use conditioner, but they all still get the fish hook um Probably because they're synthetic and that's going to generally happen Because they have long extra hairs that are just synthetic brushes will just do that Because they're made of some like it's the material they're made of And after some amount of use like synthetic brushes are meant to be cheap and throw away Um, you're you're like sable brushes or stuff like that won't generally do that Um, my advice is go somewhere like hobby lobby and get yourself big packs of of cheap synthetics And then you can you can use those until they fish hook and then you toss them It's just what it is like you can clean them But the fish hook isn't isn't a nature of paint stuck in the feral or anything. It's just you know It's it's what's going to happen now. Here's a here's a possibility Chances are if you're new you're leaving paint on your brush for a long time Like ask yourself how long are you sitting there? With wet paint and working on an area And if the answer is a while where the paint is drying to any degree on the brush That will expedite that even if you clean it. It doesn't matter You've reshaped it by letting paint dry on there in some way Because as the paint dries and the water evaporates what happens It goes like this right If you've ever watched like when the water evaporates it causes the shrink the the shrinkage right and that's causing this to come down So what's happening is the paint is drying on the tip of your synthetic brush to some degree And that's going to happen using a bigger brush is a good way to avoid that because it keeps more paint More wet paint in the belly of the brush You know if this is your your brush the very you've got the tip and then you have the belly and then you have the feral down here You want a lot of wet paint in here that will prevent that from happening Uh randy, uh, I have a metal figure with a tab on the bottom that fits into a slot on the base It would be easier to remove the tab Or or mount it and try to fill the gap I always I always cut tabs off and then just like I always cut tabs off the bottom of minis I I never keep tabs on bottom. I cut them off file it down make it completely flat Jobs a good Josh Oh wanting me to interview Marco. Yeah, I I I love um Uh, I love Marco. I watch all the stuff seems like a super positive guy. I love his attitude I I'm gonna want to reach out to him and see if I can I can talk to him. This is a very very fun, dude Uh, try foes any tips for masking off the slots in blood bowl bases. I want to add water effects I don't know if masking tape will hold up to that Um, yeah, sure. You got any clam packs Uh cut up a piece of clam pack Like just, you know the plastic of a clam pack and then glue super glue it over the top Ta-da Um, go back and watch very early video like my like maybe hobby cheating five Which was like how to make ice bases and you'll see how I cut clam pack plastic to do that But any thin piece of any super thin piece of plastic are like that. It's just that's free Um Okay, oh, yes. Yeah adam uses granola bar wrappers. Yeah, I saw that too Um That that is another fun one. Yeah anything solid like that should work Okay, let's see Uh, boom boom boom just going through the discussion. Good glad to see people answering each other's questions. That's awesome Uh soul grinder skin. I want to make pale skin with purple and brown as shades and highlights. How can I make this work? Do that I'd do that thing God sounds like you've got the plan to me. You don't even need to tell you Um, you've got all your colors. I Glazes is probably the answer like Pale skin. So let's say a pale gray would probably be your right answer. That's what's going to look best on that Transition into some purple transition into a deeper, uh, brown. I would use a brown red And you're you're rock and roll Um, you know, uh, like if you watch my any of the videos where I paint skin, you'll see how I go about it Um, like if you wanted to the actual technique of brush application Go back and watch like how I did ruddy dwarf skin, but just replace with your colors there. But yeah, I think that sounds like an awesome plan Um Hey, vince, how would you get neon colors such as safety vests or things under black light but not osl? uh, I use fluorescent paints from war colors and Scale 75 generally you can also use the vallejo ones Um, and that that gives you like a hyper bright fluorescent color Um, they're there. I don't like whether or not they actually fluoresce is irrelevant, but it gives you that hyper color thing You're looking for so that's what I do Um, you've talked a lot of varying colors by adding other pigments I eat green skin with red tones for depth as a new mines end up cloudy and dirty or just um, how do you do that effectively? um It's about thinning the color down and and learning the brush control like it's just if you if you watch Go back and watch the orc skin video That I did how to paint orc skin. So this is maybe like 103 and you'll see how I I just used red from below The key is you use very little amounts of it if I'm doing with a broad like I did with an airbrush first red underneath And then I just did greens over top there. I didn't have to mix reds in at all You can also watch my desaturating colors video. I think that one's in like the 60s You'll see how I mix green into red that one will really give you a good example Because I mixed green into red when I was painting little red writing hood to do her shadows Because she was in a forest scene. So I wanted everything to be in those naturalistic colors um The um The the answer is small amounts, right? Like when I say desaturated it only takes a little bit of green to desaturate red And if you're getting like a brown color, you're just over mixing them because that's where they come to in the middle Right, so you just want to mix less Uh, let's see And let's see. Yep. Yep. There are water-based oil paints. Yep. Those are good I know it's crazy, but yeah, I'm not I haven't messed with them because it's all my oil paints. I have a bunch of oil paints They're all just traditional, you know Oil paints like oil oil paints. What satin varnish do you use for save points? Just Vallejo satin varnish Uh, let's see Oh, Marcello, no problem, buddy. That's perfectly fine On getting this notification before the black armor video. No, hey Well, hey, I've got a detailed answer to your question that I published today just for you, buddy Uh, gondy. Hey vince, how did you do the aged white banner on that ogre speed paint video? I wanted to do it on storm cast robes stippling nothing more to it It's literally just taking washes like I took serfimcipia and agrax and gnome and a relatively decent size brush And just stippled it over and over again not washing it I'm just dipping the wash wicking off the excess and then stippling and then Wiping it and getting the next one and then stippling and then and repeat that 20 times That's all there is to it. It's a great way to make worn looking things So there you go, uh, Eric, uh, hey vince, how do you paint realistic looking tank tracks? Super super rusty. What are you? Uh, when you paint them in gun metal into a series of darker washes to imitate light rust Oh, sure. So if you want like old rusted dirty weathered tank tracks depends on how, uh Dirty and rusted you want to be but I mean, yeah So start at the beginning When when you work with your metal color put some brown ink in there. Let's start there. Let's just get this brown from the beginning Right if this is really old and weathered and oxidized steel throw that let's throw that ink in there right away Let's get it brown Then we can do some things like washes over metal when we're going for old old old old um Like very weathered metal you it's okay to wash it I generally am against washing true metallic metals because you're just ruining the shine But in this case we want to ruin the shine so thumbs up Uh, and then you start using I use a mix of like pigments and regular paints and Uh, and and inks and just start Getting the colors in there The best thing you do is lots of stippling and lots of randomness. It needs to be organic So I'll usually just take a pretty big brush and just start working stuff around like literally just like I'm I think think psycho like But flip it around and that's your paintbrush And that's really the best way to go right because that creates this very naturally random organic pattern And then you can come back at the end and you could have some scrapes that show Just regular old gun metal or steel or something like you can come back in and put some just little chips where where You know where the tank is driving along and it hit a rock and Chipped off some of that rust and got back to real metal Don't go to silver Go to steel But chips don't become bright silver Yeah, okay Hey Travarian, how you doing? Good to see you my man Uh, been loving your videos lately, man that uh, I've ever met Travarians in the chat there If you haven't watched his purity seal video that he put up I would highly recommend it was such a nice explanation of how to get a good looking purity seal Uh, so great video buddy. Uh, everybody should go check that out Uh, let's see, uh, whish whishkurt I'm probably saying that wrong. Hi Vince. What would you use to dry brush green tones? For example came in green from Vallejo. I don't know came in green. I think I have that color Yeah But at any rate it shouldn't matter. Uh, painting some crocodiles with decently big scales. Okay, sure Um, yeah a yellow ish tone or an ivory ish tone And then I would just glaze back over them the dry brush should never be your final step Because it's even when it's very soft one use a makeup brush to use less paint than you think Three use more strokes than you think so like this is one of my dry brushes It's a very soft like eye makeup brush. This is this is like, you know, baby skin soft, right? And I get most of the paint off that and then this is the amount of time it should take to cover And to make it start showing up Okay, paint is showing now Okay, we're good, right and if you apply it really soft like that You won't get those streaks But you still want to glaze after it using some kind of like ivory or yellowish tone or something like that Like an ice yellow or something if you then put a nice green glaze over it It'll give you this very naturalistic highlight where the the You're catching the sort of warm light and the age of the scales and all that in one big One big thing Sam goose can I use rhinox hide for dark skin tones? What do I shade dark skin with? Yeah, sure. I mean again Human beings are uh are are multifaceted and have so many interesting and fast fascinating colors in their skin So yeah, it's probably a darker skin tone So depending on how deep you're trying to get I would use it more as my again using the example of like One is your highlight and five is your shadow just to keep it completely simple It's would be more my four or five Well, what I shade it with a deeper purple basically Um, like it's pretty dark. It would be basically your your lowest tone Okay But but yeah, you could absolutely use that and then again transition up into Uh into some lighter browns mixed in a little Caucasian flesh tone mixed in a little desaturated orange desaturated deep reds Um, so there's colors like african shadow for example from scale 75 Which would be a great mid tone to transition off of rhinox hide. So just that kind of stuff Uh Apollo, uh, thanks for all the content. I'm setting my first airbrush right now. Uh any training tips Run water through it first. Make sure first of all awesome. Well done. Congratulations. Welcome to a beautiful world of of saving time and making the most of your life um, and My answer would be um Run water through it first make sure everything's working Like that say like you need to make sure that nothing's back flowing. There's no bubbles that you understand Um run water through it Start there. Make sure that everything flows smoothly once that's done Make sure you understand how to disassemble it and stuff like that like take off the back Take off the chuck nut get the needle out take off the front Yeah, da da da, right and then two Um, you don't need to start on a piece of paper or anything you can start on whatever But don't start with primer because primer is real thick. So just like Start you can start on piece of paper or some or some miniature that's already been primed before or something And just kind of thin some regular paint and get comfortable with it Okay, just so you understand like what's actually spraying out there and Go one to one with your thinner to your paint to begin with at least depending on what kind of paint you're using Make sure you check your consistency spray very little Um, and watch my how to clean your airbrush fast video Do that Do that often Uh, and you should have a nice experience. So there you go And then eventually the reason I just say don't start with primers because primers just thicker and naturally a little more challenging Once you feel you understand how you're thinning and how to blow paint through and how to get it clean With normal stuff, then you can go ahead and you're off to the races Uh, oh, I'd love to interview kujo sometime Uh, yeah kujo is a great dude and uh, also it would drive my wife would be very happy because she loves like scottish accents So there you go Uh, I want to interview everybody eventually all sorts of artists Uh, how would you achieve the effect of a translucent purple cloak? It depends what's underneath it. Yeah, like you need to make the parts that are folds be purple and the parts that are Not folds like that are flat against something Um, be the color underneath it Uh, is the short answer to the question. So go look at destroyer minis.com, which is marica rhymer. Go look at jen hayley's work um Go look back at the queen of the deep I did last year. You'll see a lot of this in play Look at my sheer cloth video. Um, how to paint sheer translucent cloth hobby cheating maybe in like the 130s 120s somewhere in that range remember the exact number Because you need to show the light coming through it It's it's a very very difficult effect if the cloak is hanging out in the air If it's against skin Or something like that it becomes much easier because then you can just kind of You can you can create the illusion that that color is showing if you're just showing light It's a lot tougher sell Uh, like it's it's doable, but it's real hard um Matt O'Brien, hey vince, do you have any tips for gauging the level of contrast when wet blending metallic paints? The appearance varies so much with the angle of observation that I end up feeling cross-eyed midway You know, you're absolutely right. It's tough. Um, my answer is yes Just turn and rotate get it to somewhere you think is relatively okay. Then let it dry And once it's dry, you're going to see any inconsistencies and then you can like with the leo metal colors and inks you can glaze down You can actually work metal colors as a glaze, which is one of the reasons they're amazing And you can just uh, you can then just smooth that out So get it good enough is my answer and then just fix later Matt O'Brien, hey vince, do you have any tips for gauging? Oh, that's what you just said. Sorry. Sorry matt, uh, randy Boom, boom, boom. Okay, cool already. It was answering somebody else's question. Uh, so we're going to wrap up here. Uh Uh, we're going to wrap up here and so if there's any final questions put them in the chat We went a little longer. There's like an hour and a half or whatever. Sorry adam If I ran over your time there of his patreon stream. I apologize Uh, but uh, hey travarian buddy. I'll sit down with you anytime. It's always good to hang out and talk painting my man Also, dude, your new studio looks great. Uh, travarian just moved to your new place So congratulations and his new studio is looking really cool Uh, setting up your paint space is something I can't recommend everybody enough Just as a as a slight instructive freebie lesson. Um, get yourself a dedicated spaint paint space to paint Even if you don't have a lot of room, even if it's like literally a child's desk That's like three foot by three foot Just have a space Have something that's already there That's already set up that's already ready to go Um, where you've got some paint some brushes some things at hand It will just simply lower the barrier of entry to you sitting down and painting and it will become a happy place for you Right, so even if it's very simple a chair and a small desk That's really, you know, you can go bigger a lot of people build their spaces and make it You know something into truly incredible and that's wonderful when you can build yourself a great Gorgeous hobby space like that but even something small just having a space that becomes for this purpose Means you will do it more Uh, okay Jammy you're welcome for the black armor video Uh, how would you get over the fear of stripping paint off when cleaning oil washes up? I tore my nice highlights and now I'm wary Soft or touches Makeup sponges is a good way to go grab yourself some makeup sponges That's a good one. You can order big packs of like 100 200 makeup sponges for Five or six dollars on amazon Those are like super soft because they're meant for people's faces And um, those soak up paint really well without you without much risk of taking paint Because in fact, I happen to have one right here. This is what I'm talking about. They're these little paint wedges And you can just literally like, you know, you got your oil paint. You can just go like boop boop boop boop You just boop it and booping doesn't remove paint Uh, and that's how I often clean stuff up So that's my best advice. Just boop away and uh, and you should be good to go Uh, let's see Uh, awesome exile. I'm glad to hear that Uh, yes, I will be at warhammer fest this year as soon as they announce it Have they even said the date of warhammer fest yet? They need to get that announced I've certainly planned on being there and I all things assuming all things line up I'll be teaching the week beforehand in london Um, so uh, if you're gonna be over there, I would love to have you to class I don't have the details yet since we don't know the dates At least as far as I know if they didn't announce the dates and I missed it Please tell me because I would love to know that so I can get those classes set up and and uh going But yeah, I'll be over there teaching Uh, in london the weekend before warhammer fest whenever that is And that's going to be a great time. I did that last year. It was super fun We're going to do another class on doing some big monsters and we're also going to do a Like a display painting class for your character models Like um, think a space marine primaries captain or something And I think that's going to be super fun because we're really gonna we're going to get into it So there you go All right Uh, yeah, I hear you a train. Yeah setting up the space takes time And yes, don't Mikey R says don't let your painting desk get covered in a mess completely agree Not only step the space keep it clean and organized Organization is the key to paint all my paints go away after every project every time I'm done painting minis They all go back into their respective space I have a small nail polish rack right here to my side that holds my current paints I'm utilizing and they all sit in this rack in an organized fashion when they're done they go back up on the wall I do a cleanup step after every project where everything goes away the wet palette paper changes the water changes Everything gets cleaned and wiped down And then we we reset and it's a it's a cathartic zen moment of the project is finished We now wipe it from our life and we begin anew. I recommend that So you go, uh Been painting a bus and having trouble with glazes on the face For example adding red to the nose or cold weather usually ends up standing or leaving a tide mark any tips Uh Thin with a medium if it's tide marking the paint the pigment is breaking up So the paint you're using can't handle being thinned to that much with a solvent that is water Use medium instead make sure you wick off all the excess and uh Yeah, that's and maybe some flow improver a tiny touch of it just to make it go there Uh, let's see Zectoria, I never seem to get better at speed. I understand that you can't have both speed and quality You can over time you will see them come together But like in the end if you want really high quality, you can't have super speed like good quality always takes time But you will watch them come together Right over time, but sure But sometimes it seems that uh pro painters have both any secret sauce to gain spade without losing Quality practice focused practice on that thing the key to anything in miniature painting is not practice. It's deliberate practice So you practice your speed muscle you focus on techniques like wet blending and shortcut techniques like that You improve your brush control. So you're able to hit the spot you want achieve the thing you want In the minimal amount of time right when you're not correcting you're moving faster So techniques like wet blending and feathering and void brush blending and stuff like that are all the technique side of it Brush control is just the time side of it and then ultimately just understanding what you're doing And making sure you're not correcting is the is the skill side of it And you put all those three things together over time with deliberate practice like say I'm going to give myself two hours and I'm going to take this to the highest level possible Go right and force yourself into that and then do it again and do it again Right and you'll you'll eventually get those tricks down So there you go All right How do you organize your paints by colors by types by brands? By purpose Is the first I'm fascinated by hierarchical orders by purpose in other words pigments set apart from paints inks set apart from paints Yeah, okay purpose or type high typology Brand color Yeah in that order So there you go So I and I tend to use I tend to do the rainbow if possible Because I like that it makes me happy Uh, so there you go. That's uh, oh set if it's if they're set also in there Uh, all right. So, uh, that's it. That brings us to the end folks gotta wrap it up Uh, but I hope everybody enjoyed this. Thank you all very much for watching If you enjoyed this hey hit that like button down there. It really helps more people know about this I want to make sure I'm helping as many people as possible I do this once a month the more you like it the more you comment the more you share this kind of stuff Um, that does really help people Uh Find this because that's what youtube does youtube relies on that kind of stuff. So, um So give it a like hit that little like button over there. That really does uh help If you're new, well, you know subscribe I can't imagine that anybody's here who isn't already but if you aren't hey do that too Like I said, we do this once a month as well as all the normal hobby cheating and things like that Thank you to everybody who came today and sat down. This was amazing questions. Everybody was wonderful I do hope this really helped. I'll have the little palette cam back next time. I apologize my camera just wouldn't Work today and my software was going wonky and I didn't want to delay the stream. So I just did it this way Um, but I will have it back next time. Uh, but as always, I thank you very very much for watching this I hope everybody has a great day. I hope you're all painting some stuff on the weekend and