 Uh, the strict techno-mancer that is Vinci V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vinci V style. Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby-cheating video. And today, we begin with a story. A little while back, I was watching this man, the honest Wargamer Rob and Owen, and they introduced me to this wonderful thing called SmashBat. They mentioned this new FEC flesh-eater quartz list and this incredible Vargulf that could destroy entire enemy armies. And then I went and looked at the figure. Oh Lord. And I stopped thinking about that army. And then, they released this beautiful model for Cursed City. And I thought, okay, maybe we've got something here. So I converted everything up and it's time to paint an army. I'm going to take you through the entire process. And we begin here with the priming, actually. I started with my standard black primer, but instead of doing a normal zenithal, I'm shooting some rock-bron red primer from below, but any deep red would work. And as we're watching these steps, I want to talk about the concept here. Now we're moving into a standard zenithal. I'm using a light ivory color from above. When you're picking your army to do this process, to try to paint an army fast, there's a couple important things. One, stay around a regular army size, 2,000 points, something like that. Don't get too crazy. My next step here is just applying some Raikkon Flesh Shade over everything. Pick simple figures. The right army equals success. For example, here I'm able to drybrush this guy efficiently, the whole thing, because he's basically all flesh. Miniatures with huge amounts of detail, with lots of different types of textures, they're going to slow you down. Something like Flesh Eaters or whatever, make for a perfect army for this, because look how fast I can just zip through all of these guys. Dry brushing everything very quickly. Each individual step as I'm prepping them with all of this under shading is so fast, because they're mostly uniform. Now let's not say they have some different stuff going on. There's fur, there's wings and so on. Now if you wanted flesh colored by the way, you could kind of stop here, but we're going to go farther. And this leads us to the simple color palette. When you're working on an army fast, pick a nice simple but striking color palette. If I wanted to stay flesh shaded, I could have stopped there, but I didn't. I want them to look jaundiced, sick, you know, dead. So I took some plague bearer flesh contrast paint and I'm airbrushing it over. Now it's not going to act like contrast paint, but it will tint them this awful hideous dead yellow color. Then I'm taking some green ink and shooting it from below. Now why did I use the red and the green? Because this is basically a rediverse verdaccio. Verdaccio, you use green and you put red fleshes over top to make it seem a little more neutral. Here, I'm using reds underneath and shooting green over the top to neutral out the green. So there's that hint of death, but it's not overwhelming. Next up, I take my airbrush and I shoot just a little bit of now kind of a whiter color. This is again going back to that flesh ivory just on the highest spots. Not over the whole thing. Top of the shoulders, top of the head, just creating that volumetric light. So that simple color palette with simple figures have set me up for success because I can execute on this amount of figures. It's 77 models. So every time you see this sort of time state of this fast process here, this is going through 77 different models, but I was able to do all of this very quick. And I planned all these steps out in advance. That's the other big thing. When it's a big project like this, plan it all out. Sick to simple steps. Set yourself up for success. All right. So it's about two something in the morning. I've been at it for about two and a half hours. And as you can see, I've got pain all over my face because we're working so fast. That's fine. I don't see an issue. And we're finally done with, you know, this air brushing stage. Now, the bright part of the bright side of this sorry, that's very dark at this angle, but the bright side of this is that the skin is mostly done. These guys look pretty good as far as skin goes for where I want them to be. So now we get to just move on to some details and from there, we're going to start picking some stuff out. Now it's time to get into really fun techniques. One of the best parts about picking an army like this and this is why I say it's so important to choose your force. As you know, when you're going to do a speed painting project, pick something that you can speed paint certain models, cancer models, can't as I mentioned. And the best part of this one is when you get done with the skin, you've got done with 80% of the model. So there you go. So now let's go back to the table and it's time to get out the brush and do some fun stuff. So I've set myself for success with a simple force, a simple scheme and the right amount of figures. 77 models is doable. And with the airbrush, I was able to complete the flesh, the major part of the figure all by itself, but we've got to get the detail and for this stuff, we're going to rely on contrast paints. Very heavily used contrast in this because I have so much other work and zenithal activities. It actually is really easy to just use contrast and have it look tabletop ready. So I took some black Templar covered about half of the the areas I wanted with that. Then I took some flesh tears red and you can see I'm just working over the top and I'm working wet on wet so that the two blend together again work fast with a brush and then the two wet contrast paints they seep into each other and I don't need to worry too much about blending because it's doing it for me. I did everything I could with the airbrush used all that undershading to set myself up to provide an interesting flesh tone. Now it's about picking out the rest of those details and making them interesting. So I'm doing here is going around on the model with things like the bones dropping a little Wildwood into the base and just mixing in the same ivory color I was using for my highlight but now it'll be much more strong when it's applied by brush and I'm just mixing that in with that wet Wildwood paint hidden the little teeth the eyes. By the way this was one brush I use for everything on here this is a size three and I do every part of every miniature with this size three. I don't swap around again everything I can do to increase the speed of the thing right here I'm getting into that pure ivory and really just making sure those bones stand out and you see now that that dark line of that Wildwood has been mostly subsumed into the layers I put on top but because there's a nice light dark light dark line everything stands out now for a little fun touch I took some thinned down black Templar contrast and I'm running that over their hands and feet and you notice how it just kind of seeps down in there and coats and everything this is thinned down about 50-50 just with water and it gives this wonderful staining effect to the hands and now I'm going to take some of the red and do the same thing again but over the edge of the claws so we get all these wonderful transitions of of hue between the edge of the feet where it goes red then to black then to the green and so on and that just creates more visual interest sometimes you're working fast to make mistakes like I did here all you've got to do is take a little bit of that ivory color and neutral tone touch it over the top nuts very complicated skin tone but small areas doesn't matter just touch a little bit on there because it's very opaque paint covers over the spot I let it dry and then I go right into that plate bear flesh and I just work a little bit over that to tint it back to the same color alright so we're six hours and one minute into it there and we're making pretty good progress you'll see a picture right up here one of these sides will be a picture and kind of show you where we're at I have about six five six hours of cool work left at this point the ghouls anytime you got 60 of a model boy oh boy does it take a long time because it's just a lot of repetitive steps so the key is when you hit this point and trying to get a project done like this and trying to do this kind of a paint the key is you just got a power through find some music to listen to put on a good book find a funny video that you can have on the side is listen to and laugh whatever it is find something to keep you working flip your phone over so you're not looking at it because that will just distract you and becomes an easy way out just focus in on taking those steps hit that flow state getting that Zen space and and keep going so this point I'm feeling pretty good we'll see how we feel next update so part of what you have to do when you're working like this is get everything down to a process I was able to do each one of these ghouls in about eight minutes which sounds insanely fast but the reality is when you have 60 of them to do and you multiply that out it's a lot of time right because what that means is every eight is a little more than an hour and I've got a lot more than eight to do so I actually thought I would put this whole sort of process and I recorded one whole ghoul you can see how I worked each of the steps in turn like every time I touch a color it's everything there I did all black and all the red over top of it mixing them in use a little bit of the wildwood to blend it together hit all of the necessary parts hit all of the ivory to get all that 10 the eyes red go right when you're working on these kinds of big projects we've got a lot of the same thing the key is to establish a process and you do that early that's why you plan your steps out why you paint a test model and why you know what you're doing you don't want to be discovering while you're working so look at the different models you have maybe some of them have some different elements that they don't all have figure out how you're going to tackle those deviations from the norm and that will help you move through everything quickly efficiently and get that army painted so here we are it is many hours later just shy of 11 hours as you can see there and all the ghouls are done so that's great 60 ghouls done and finished feeling good about where we are in the progress so now it's time to turn to some characters and this is sort of a piece of advice I have whether you're trying to paint your army in 24 hours or just trying to paint your army period oftentimes after a big push like that where I was really just grinding grinding grinding on the same base troops it's good to change pace go do a single character get that finished that's going to feel good feel rewarding you've got a big chunk they're finished sort of the points they represent and then you can move back to maybe another troop type and then back to a character by breaking up your work like that you sort of you know refresh your palette keep yourself going and make it so you can get through the whole project so let's get back to it and keep painting so I wanted to talk about how I tackled some of the special cases for example these crypt flair stand-ins which are the little viercos wolves or whatever that I or vampires that I added wings to I had to create a new technique for them because it was different but again it's the same principles lay down the black then lay down some new black work wet on wet with the red right keeping with these simple techniques is it refined is it perfect no we're not going for perfect time is our master here so we're just working wet and rough still pushing for that contrast so notice how I'm working a lot of wet over wet paint and just roughly stippling and blending it all together I do want to take a moment to talk about characters characters even in a speed paint are still important so with my smash bats the big characters of this army I go in and I put in some extra time like adding texture to the wing flaps putting some extra detail and picking out individual hairs picking out their claws I was so fast with the other ones this bought me time to do things like add texture to the wings put an extra little texture on their skin their faces clean up mistakes when it comes to rank and file masked infantry the reality is a big horde of them looks impressive if they're all painted but with the state you lose the detail but with the standalone characters it's worth spending the extra time again true if you're speed painting a whole army or just painting your army normal put the love into the characters all right so we're just shy of 15 hours into this whole mess and basically everything the primary stuff is done so we're way ahead on here we've got all our boys here ready to go all their primary colors done what we're going to do now is the bases and a little bit of the metallics and thankfully since the metallics are going to be heavily rusted we can actually do that all at the same time so everybody's getting a quick coat of varnish just to lock everything in flatten everything out and then bases metallics and we're going to call call this project closed now normally I like complicated bases but here we're keeping it simple in line with everything else we laid down some mud we're dry brushing it with the same ivory as everything else with the metallics we just coated them in a base simple metal then we're going to go in with browns and oranges and stipple those colors in more visual interest more break up to those elements adding that tonal variation into them because now there's little items to discover little rust spots a little texture that brings everything together and makes it interesting so here we go all done 77 figures took me 17 and a half hours total but we got there and one more army down this is a lot of fun I really hope you enjoy this video I'm going to end this with some shots of the whole army so you can see everything up close and and how we got on but this was really great and now can smash bat smash that why yes he can thanks for watching everybody I really hope you enjoy this give it a like if you did subscribe for more hobby cheating in the future if you've got questions drop them down below but as always thank you for watching this and we'll see you next time