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I'm working on the next We're gonna on ten of these annoying little bikers for my pistol ears So all my battle line will be done time to take your medicine. We call this the the battle line medicine So we've got to get that done All right. So anyway, let's let's start answering some questions as some people already dropped in and hello everybody Everybody look coming in from around the world I'm so happy to see everybody. I hope everybody's doing well it's this is a You know, there's a lot of of course rough times going on right now, but you know, we still have our hobby we still have our hopefully our Things that matter our friends and our family and our hobby and all those things so we can celebrate that and hey look Single person streaming. This is this is self quarantine a thon right here. I'm ready to go. This is this age Just not go away. So That's great Okay, so anyways, let's answer some questions All right, so the first question scroll back here. Sorry How would you paint the skin and face of a tired man? Somebody very very tired like tired all the way through yeah, so the answer is you want to up the sort of Pinks in the skin a lot that sort of has a feeling to it You want to up a little bit of the gray tone in the skin in your sort of mid to highlights Because gray just has a way of feeling kind of old and tired. That's the emotion it communicates And then finally you want to make sure that you have like deep lines and dark circles around the eyes things like that You know, you still don't want to go all the way around the eye, but you want it to be Reaching out more from underneath the eye here. Okay Yeah, so basically that would be my answer it's you know, somebody who's really tired I mean it has a lot to do with the eyes as well You can push more red more bloodshot into the eyes depends on the scale of the miniature and sort of what you're able to achieve It was a larger bust You could do more than if it was a say a 28 mil miniature. It's gonna be really hard to capture that kind of emotion Okay Let's see Ten for one said hello all from sunny, Florida. Yeah, it's it's snowing here today in Ohio. So how about that? Okay Zectari, have you tried the third generation of AK interactive acrylics? No, I have not I mean they're brand new they aren't really even available in the States yet to in any wide degree I was talking to somebody from the US rep of AK interactive and talking about, you know, what I could do to get some of those to do a review So at some point it's certainly something I want to try it's on my list I mean, I just got my Camara colors and was I've been playing with them for the past couple weeks and Spoiler, I do love them. They'll be a review full review for them coming next week Oh Poor Emily who's yes who's in the health care industry and we'll have no rest for the wicked during this So good luck Emily stay safe and safe travels Okay, let's see Uh Bartek hey Vince you you mentioned in your oil washes video that you like to use them for flesh as well Can you give some tips on that? Yeah, sure. I mean If you're looking to get high highlights into skin, you know nearer to white reflections and stuff like that It's great. It doesn't go chalky really easy to smooth out Love them for low low lights and filters. You can make oil washes down Into so the white isn't in a wash It's just you put a little little tiny dot of white paint on there And then you just smooth and smooth and smooth it out with a dry brush Uh, I love it for filters and things because it does make filters really well um, so you can uh You can you know take sepia tones and stuff like that and apply a very gentle wash of it And then wipe it away or smooth it out again with a dry brush or a t-shirt or something like that Or a piece of foam. There's lots of different options Um, or or my personal favorite, uh, these little makeup brush wedges that you can get a whole lot of For very very cheap So that kind of thing. Um, one thing I'll say is if you want to see it in action, uh Go over to james waffles channel. We recently did an interview with him And uh, you know, he uses oils quite a lot. So would recommend that So check that out Uh, let's see Uh, I somebody asked kamara colors. What are your thoughts? I there'll be a floor review coming next the end of next week and my thoughts are I love them But they are a very limited set of colors So you have to be either down for mixing or you're going to be using other colors for other things That would be my short answer Uh, zectari, do you thin ultra matte varnish from ak and your airbrush? And if so with what ratio? Uh, yes, absolutely. I absolutely thin everything all the time. So so let me just get this out there I thin everything full stop If your follow-up question is but do you thin this? I thin everything Period end of discussion Okay, so let's get that out there. All right now Ratios sure. Um, generally I keep a couple drops of thinner in there My thinner mix is a 80 20 mix of thinner and flow improver Uh, so if I'm doing like an average sized figure, let's say I'd put, you know, two or three drops of thinner in there to I don't know five or six drops of varnish. I guess something like that So a little less than one to two, I guess would be the the thinner to to Varnish ratio, maybe apply the varnish in a couple thin coats something like that Uh Well, thank you very much bass. I appreciate that. I'm always here and happy to help Uh crazy horse question. When will you start a serif on army and why is it right now? Um, I probably will do something serif on related So I have a bunch of old old old serif on models like, um From back in fourth and fifth edition so metal stegodons and stuff Uh, I well, I was thinking what a fun army to do another Paint an army in 24 hours project with and just be fun to have another army to put on the table And I could do the whole thing in a day Because they are the easiest army one of the easiest armies to paint um And you can do a lots of lots of colorful creative things with them So and I might use some different techniques like I'd love to use some oils on them I think they'd take that really well They'd be great for doing patterns and just stuff like that, but they're very they're so they're so unia Unia texture like they're often almost all skin with only slight bits of you know um A weapon or a small item or something they're carrying or a tiny piece of armor like Lots of of lizards are basically naked, you know Uh, so it makes it a lot easier and so I was thinking that may be a fun project Um, I want to get this stuff. I'm currently working on for my Tempest eye army done because this is going to be a big boost to that army And we'll get me up to a really nice place And then I need to think about sort of what other units I want to do for that army And um, so I'll probably I'll probably do it then Might order one or two of the new kits just to kind of supplement because it'd be fun to have Just like a big karnosaur model something like that Uh, but that's probably not for a month or two just to really level set on that So we're all clear. I don't know when it will be at some point Uh, let's see Olaf, how do you choose where to put a highlight on a sphere as it depends on the angle from which you look at it? Well, it's it's whatever angle you've decided for your light So if you've lit from above then that's where you light the sphere like a sphere itself isn't lit differently Uh, no serious shut up Uh, a sphere itself isn't lit differently depending on the angle you look at it's lit differently depending on the angle of the light And spheres are one of the simpler shapes to highlight because they have a very standardized highlight structure going from like Again if we use just sort of the one through five and we assume that this is the sphere Then it's you know kind of one Let me do it on the side of my hands. You can see it, you know one two three four five four three right on the reflected light so, um Bouncing off of uh, you know the ground or another nearby surface So effectively like as always I like to set the angle of my light say is it coming and my general thing I almost always highlight from like 1 30 p.m. Basically Uh, so slightly off center Slightly off center's anothel and I find that to be just sort of the most Stable area and easy to work from and then I just highlight the spheres accordingly You know one of the more common spheres you'll tend to see are kneecaps It's about a kneecap armor Specifically, so if you think of a space marine or something like that So just set your highlight point at wherever you've said the light is coming from And that's a decision you make on all the shapes on your miniature Uh, all right Okay, do do let's see Um Oh some some support for the third gen acrylics from ak cool. I'm happy to I look forward to trying them out Judgemental hamster. Is there a chart that shows similar colors from different brands? I mean, there's an old chart if you search for like just paint range compatibility DACA chart You'll see an old chart that gets tossed around a lot from DACA Yeah, which is what andrew fairbanks mentioned But I will mention that that chart is also wildly out of date and doesn't really it hasn't kept pace with the industry On all the new sort of colors that have come out The answer is don't worry about it too much Just you like unless you're looking to go shopping Which I understand that can be tricky But I mean the answer is in most cases it doesn't matter like as long as it's pretty close It's a red to brown Okay, so any red brown will basically work But yes, you can check the DACA one if you want to if you want to uh See something that has sort of the main lines as they stood several years ago It's still useful and if you're using common colors or common brands, it will still help Uh Derek. Hey, Vince. Do you know of any mini artists with a similar painting style to you with the patrion? Uh, well, you know as in zenith all and lots of glazing. Um, I mean, I don't know that I always do that necessarily anymore I'm not sure that's even my painting style anymore to be completely honest with you, Derek um I I oftentimes will I I don't know what my style is or how I would I would do it now If your question is do I know anybody who's doing the zenith on lots of glazing thing? um Sure that like there's plenty of people for whom The I mean james wapel has a shaded base coat technique, which he relies on pretty thin transparent layers built up in lots of time You know, so that's that's similar ish to what you're talking about So I would honestly check him out. That's probably the closest because he builds his colors like that Um, my technique now is often a lot more like Sure, I might glaze set of color depends on the surface depends on what's going on how much texture there is I mix airbrush in a lot more. I use a lot of wet blending. Sometimes I'll go very strong with my color I'll go very thick and then I wet blend it out Like I use a very pig in style of whatever I feel is appropriate for that moment and for that particular surface or whatever I happen to be working on so Uh, yeah, that's what I'd say Constantinos hey vince cool to catch you at europe time finishing up my third baron guard now. Could you explain what filters are? Uh, yeah, sure. So a filter is just a really thin glaze. I mean, that's that's the easiest way to say it If you're talking about consistency the point of a filter is either to intensify or slightly alter a color to enhance uh, either saturation or realism or volume or depth of information being communicated by the color I use filters all the time I talk about them quite frequently and in hobby cheating videos if you watch the crimson armor one from today The final alizarin crimson step that I do is basically a filter It's being used to in other words. It's not meant to supplant or replace or really cover in any way any of the paints underneath it It's meant to simply express different variations of those tones Through the very very very thin layer you've put on the top The most common place that I end up using filters are often with faces and skin if you watch the If you watch the full video I did on The mini I did for golden demon of the dark oath chieftain. I filter his skin at the end with a sepia tone Which is a very common thing you'll see a lot of people do in air brushing videos is to sort of have a sepia tone filter I'll usually do filters for cheek Coloration so sit take a red or a magenta and thin it way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way down And uh, you just run, you know, you run a little bit of that over there and then kind of fuzz the edge just a little bit So yeah, that's a filter Shag a rag. Um, you've got me convinced to buy an airbrush. Well, good. I'm glad to hear that Uh, how necessary would you say a spray booth and respirator are? Uh, I would say it's pretty good to have a spray booth just depends on where you're spraying I guess like if you're in if you have an unfinished basement or something that you're spraying in I don't know that it matters too much, but I mean you're going to get paint everywhere. That's that's all it is The the booth isn't about Breathing it's about also. I'm going to assume you're talking about acrylic paints here, by the way like non-toxic acrylic paints um If you're spraying toxic paints enamels or or anything like that, uh, you Absolutely want a booth to capture all that and filter all that and a respirator is absolutely essential You do not want to be breathing fumes from those things that are out and out toxic in those kinds of cases Please do always keep yourself safe and use a respirator and and you know things like that Uh, but for standard acrylic paints, I mean I You know, my advice is always you should probably wear a mask. I don't wear a mask I'll I'll be completely honest with you. I run the I run the I do use a booth And I does have a fan in it and I do and had that has a HEPA filter in it and I do run that um Beyond that though, I I mean I don't but you don't have to be like me if you want my personal experience I mean, I'm not going to lie to you. Um, I don't I spray quite a lot. I've never had an issue Some people are more sensitive than others. You know yourself better than I do Um, and then when I say that again, I'm talking about non-toxic acrylic paints um But it's what I would recommend is, you know, do do what I say not what I do It is always better to you know, be as safe as possible But uh, I'll leave that to you and your tolerance level for that So there you go. Um, a booth is good just because it keeps your walls clean if nothing else Um, like you could spray with no booth and just for the mask if you're concerned about safety A booth isn't a safety issue. It's really a uh, you don't want pain all over your walls and surfaces because that's what will happen Uh, there you go. Uh, okay. Uh, hey Kujo, how you doing? Kujo said in response to the thing I said about always thinning If your next question is am I thinning this enough the answer is no I would tend to agree with him. I think people often Like when they're using their airbrush try to get by with like the minimum amount of thinning Which doesn't really make sense to me like your airbrush is such a fast tool And we always talk about like everybody is internalized now The thinning your paints is often good, right? Because it you know using thin controlled layers of paint Uh, help you get a smoother finish and avoid buildup and and you know The 20 benefits of using thin paint Uh, but yet with the airbrush it seems like we just All those lessons just go right out the the brain and we just try to get it like thin enough So it sprays that's good enough. No like be thinner your airbrush can apply a whole layer of paint like that So why not use more thin layers like you'll get a smoother application of it Um, I I completely agree with Kujo this this man speaks wisdom This this this mf spitting right here. So there you go. Uh, okay Uh, let's see Uh, buh-buh-buh John Gallant, uh when stippling what kind of paint consistency is best you typically have a little paint in the brush Or is it loaded up? Um, well, you don't want it to be just the tip of the brush even when stippling and the reason for that The answer is generally like a layer consistency whatever that tends to mean like a thin but not overtly thin controlled amount of paint Um, and you don't want to just in a tip you want to actually use the largest brush you can for stippling Because you're using just the tip and um, because keep in mind that the tip that the paint at the tip of your brush Is staying wet and liquidated by the moisture in the belly of your brush That's why when you use a little Little eddy baby brush it dries like that because there's no belly in it and there's no there's no water seeping up Like there's capillary action in your brush that's pushing liquid toward the top when you push that brush against something the more Moisture is in the belly of your brush the more the paint at the tip will stay liquid So the answer is like most of time when I do my stippling I use a pretty standard layer consistency And I use a pretty standard amount of paint on like a size one ish brush with a nice tip um Yeah, that's what I'd say so there you go Cameron Uh Following up on zektari's question. Can I blow varnish through my hpcs or should I use a separate? My hpcs is what I use for varnishing all the time. That is my workhorse brush. I'll say so I use different brushes for very fine detail work But there's but it doesn't really matter Like the key is to just make sure your airbrush is nice and clean afterward I use still like if you watch my how to clean your airbrush fast video That's exactly the technique I use all the time Uh, I will state though that when I use varnish or primer Instead of just rinsing it with water I do also rinse it with 99 isopropyl alcohol and make sure that that gets in there That will generally destroy acrylic paint pretty fast um 99 isopropyl alcohol is Pretty destructive to acrylic paint and we'll just kind of break it down Same with varnish by the way. It will it will chew up varnish Uh, so I just use that make sure that's nice and clean and the other secret by the way Like I'll give you all the this isn't what was asked But I'll give you all the the the great secret to keeping your airbrush nice and usable You're not going to be able to see this but this is my one of my airbrush This is like my high line that I use for a lot of detail work. It's got a 0.2 needle in it I'm sure you're not going to be able to see that but there is water inside of there right now This is just obviously it's not connected to anything. This was just sitting over in my my holder I always just leave my airbrush with a little bit of water inside of it. Your your airbrush is stainless steel It's all metal just regular water is not going to hurt the Anything it's not going to rust anything. It's not going to Injure anything I wouldn't leave like solvents or anything in there But and yes, I understand that salt paint that in acrylic paint water is the solvent But I just leave water in the airbrush and then I when I start airbrushing I just dump that water blow it through and it's Clean and smooth and ready to go keeps anything from drying on your on your needle or stuff like that Okay All right Skunk 12 Vince, how can I convince my wife? That I can't help you with my friend. Gotcha. I understand your question That is outside of the purview of the hobby related questions. I can answer Dice dealer our osl and true metallic metal mutually exclusive. No, absolutely not You can you can certainly create reflections on true metallic You can integrate colors. You can lay down inks over top in the same way you would any other addition of color No, they work very well together You just need to be aware of what's going on there like you Okay, so let's let's assume Here we go. I'll pick up a metal thing. Okay. So this thing Is like there you go. That's glowing from osl Right osl just means there's some kind of light source other than generic ambient environmental light If I put a just blue filter over that light that's reflecting this It's not like there's these two things are suddenly incompatible, right? I would just need to be aware that where the light is reflecting the brightest I'm trying to turn it to an angle where you'll see it like where the light is reflecting the brightest Here that's still going to be near white light Right, so you you can't just like run blue ink over and call it a day In general your your one your highest highlight again just using the simple Terminology so we can talk about this one being your highest highlight five being your deepest shadow Yes, you probably have more than five variations, but we'll keep it simple um your one should be like a vaguely infused element of that color like you take your brightest silver chrome or Molotow chrome or whatever you happen to be using and you just have a little bit of that that That Of that blue in there so it gets that tint and then beyond that is where it's actually in the sort of two three ranges where it's actually showing the reflection So there you go Uh, all right, uh Ariel, uh, hi vince fernander reese will be holding a master class near where I live when he can leave spain again Would you recommend going? Yeah, yeah, he's a great painter. I mean, I always recommend in person learning from anybody If you can obviously this is not a great time for it in the world right now, but that in general Um, you know, there's no reason we can't do one-on-ones and stuff like that or even going to classes Uh as time goes on And the answer is yes. I mean I've I found anytime I've sat down with somebody Who I I consider to be a good painter to be valuable period In there is no substitute for in-person learning if you look at like the learning chart of like what generally makes you learn best In-person education and then repeating that practice are the sort of foundational pyramid that have the largest amount of retention So there you go Uh, okay Oh nice somebody people are mentioning the paint rack app. That's a good idea. I had forgot about that one. Yeah, good call Uh brooks, uh any updates on an advanced eye tutorial? Uh Well, I did one for chibi eyes and honestly that's Pretty good. Like a lot of the rules for chibi eyes are are just doing really ultra crazy Bright eyes. They're they're they're cartoon colored, but they they still aim for a level of sort of realism in there Um, but yeah, I don't I don't know if I if the opportunity comes I will certainly add it in there Uh, Michael Anderson, what's the best way to highlight black? I am particularly interested in drow flesh Yeah, I mean drow flesh is is Much more gray. It's a very different situation. Like drow flesh is still flesh and in that case I would use probably like a uh Caucasian flesh tone to build up my highlights because people just tend to recognize that Look at lots of artwork of drow. Obviously, we can't go to the real world But that would be there now the best way to highlight black. There are a million ways to highlight black I have multiple different videos on highlighting black, which I would recommend. I would advise you to go check out If you're just talking about black in general because it's highly highly highly dependent on the surface The difference between how I would highlight Black wool for example an extremely sort of matte Cloth surface and a glossy black car are night and day different, right? In general, the answer is you want to infuse some kind of hue in there. You want black and white are your most boring colors They don't do anything. They're visually uninteresting and they have very little punch So you infuse hue in them to make them interesting. So with like for example Drow skin, I would look at something like using a A Caucasian flesh tone as my highlight and I would probably bridge the gap through the midtones with purple Like a deeper purple because then you're adding some kind of hue that's that's visually interesting and compelling I have a video coming out talking about using yellow regularly in your purple So, you know in in your low tones. So that kind of stuff Uh, Jared, Avis, did you film any more of the painting of the Carcadrack? I did not I didn't know I I was the only this is the only video I have for him Um, I wasn't sure that there was really anything else that I had to say about him that I haven't covered before If there was something you saw about him that you feel I haven't covered or you'd like to see covered I mean I have another one of that guy. So I might paint a second one of them at some point. So I'm happy to you know, think about future videos Oh, there you go. Thank you. Alex mentioned Travarian style is very glaze heavy. That's a great call. Thank you Yes, Travarian would be a wonderful, um example Of somebody who used a lot of glazes A plus. Thank you, Alex Uh, okay Vince to sensory opinion of Doctor Who's last series Uh, you mean the latest one I assume. Uh, I didn't watch it. So that's my that should tell you What I think about it. I mean, I just fell off. It's I like Doctor Who a lot You all can't see it, but this whole wall Like I don't I think I've only shown it in like the walkthrough of my studio or office or whatever you want to call This place I sit this room My whole wall is a mural of the 10th Doctor's TARDIS So it looks like you're when you when you look at that wall, it looks like you're looking down into the TARDIS It's like an 11 foot tall mural that runs the whole width of my wall And I love the doctor. I have the 10th Doctor's coat. I wear it all the time. It's one of my favorite jackets Yeah, I mean it's it's just I don't know. It wasn't I wasn't because I think it's bad It's just because I kind of fell away from the show. It's too much good stuff to watch My wife watched it. She seems to like it. So there you go Okay Hi Vince any advice on getting smooth blends? Sure I have a whole video on it called achieving smooth or you know achieving smooth blends And I would go watch that is the short answer to the question But the answer the the or the long answer the question I guess um I mean that being said blending This is I mean I teach a whole hour and a half and a longer class on this um blending is really a matter of Attacking things in different styles it all all blending techniques are because we use acrylic paint which is meant to dry fast and to be durable It's bad for blending like the base tool we use is bad at the thing. We're trying to do If we used oil paints, there'd be no classes on blending Wouldn't even be a concern because oil paints stay wet forever So there's lots of different techniques you can get to achieve smooth blends. You can use retardant you can use wet blending where you're using very thick paints and smoothing them on the miniature You can use lots of uh glazing. You can use your airbrush in later steps. There's Literally an infinite number of ways to achieve it, right? The key is all just time Some of those methods are faster than others some achieve better results than others depends on what you're aiming at as far as quality level and the amount of time you have to dedicate Because and the source of all of that is that we're using the wrong tool for the job Acrylic paints are ultimately not meant to blend. They're meant to dry fast And be durable So there you go Uh narcoleptic elizrin crimson is my new favorite red and mixing it with uh veridian makes an awesome black cherry Can't get it to work with my acrylics but in oils. It's awesome. Um, yeah I mean elizrin crimson. There's a reason bob ross was always Sneak at that into every painting because it is a fantastic color. Um, my You know my golden acrylic uh elizrin crimson gets uh gets a lot of use. I like it quite a bit As you can tell from this extra little dangle of paint hanging off it that I just now noticed Okay, uh, let's see joseph Uh, oh good awesome. It said he's enjoying that crimson. Hello, everybody got some people joining the chat Uh, hey, vince. No questions. Just thanks for your freehand detail vid Awesome, man. That's right. You have the power that is exactly correct Uh, you are absolutely right You've got the touch You've got the power Yeah, okay, uh, let's see Uh Okay, uh, josh kelly. I've been having issues with very thin airbrush paint peeling up particularly scale 75 Um, sure any thin paint when you break it down far enough could could have that happen Um, it can it can when you say peeling I assume you mean like you put another layer over it and you When you re uh wet the paint it becomes workable again. Uh, the answer is just varnish more Um, put on your very very extreme thin layers and then varnish the mini and then go back and keep painting So I have a video coming out in a couple weeks Uh, all about different uses for varnish But this is what I always talk about with creating save points like I varnish minis many times in the course of painting them Not just at the end, uh Put on your thin paints with your airbrush let it dry completely And then varnish it let that dry and then go nuts. You'll be fine. You won't peel up any paint Daniel rodriguez. Hey vince, could you please explain or show how to set the light on faces To make the face look softer sweeter when I airbrush a model the light looks good and the face is soft What is that the light on faces to make the face look softer or sweeter? Uh, well in general if you're trying to make a face look soft The answer is you want the you don't want deep Dark contrast in crease lines. So think of like your lines here Here here Right here and here Um, in general you want those to be very smooth soft transitions um So, uh So let me see there's some more other questions when I need to push the shadows and highlights. I end with a harsh severe face Okay, um So yeah, I mean the answer is just it's a lot of work like So here's the simple rule Let's say you're painting a figure and you're going to spend x amount of time If you want the face to look really nice 40 percent of that time should be spent on the face And faces are lots of back and forth very careful blending and glazing and stuff like that because they they go through a lot of Transitions faces have a lot of different colors on them They're they're an area of extreme high detail in a very small amount of space So you can push to high highlights. They just need to softly transition away right, so it's lots of glazes of of colors to get it really smooth and well aligned Um And you know in general you want to follow like the t Rule right depending on the face. So here and here depending on how bald you are There's a capital t mix of the lowercase t Um or how pronounced the eyebrows are um But that's where you want your your extreme highlights to be and uh, it will get softer if like take male faces For example, yellow red Blue Okay, is is what people talk about as being it. So this should be yellow infused This area should be red infused around your cheeks your nose Your eyes and this area should be blue infused because you've got stubble like I have right now Uh, because my wife is gone and you know, whatever. I'm just sitting around painting all day I'm not going to go shave that that takes time. Um It takes time that could be painting and uh, so The the answer is to to transition through that stuff really softly You can't have extreme color changes on the face where there's harsh lines. That's what will really hurt you more than anything So I hope that helps Uh Okay Um, I will I am going to do some more videos on faces coming up. It's something I want to talk more about Um, so you'll you'll see some more face videos in in coming months Uh, anthony hi vents from Oz. Hello. Uh, I tell the wizard. I said hello It'd be interesting for you to do some composition analysis explanation videos, e.g Some that look at the same model by different artists who have different approaches to composition. Oh, that's a cool idea Yeah, I've done a couple composition videos Uh, but that's a really neat idea. Okay I'll see what I can do. I'll take that down. That's a great idea All right, I like that. I mean, uh, I'm going to put that in my notes right now Let me bring that up. Let me bring up my my notes for future video stuff file that I keep Do do do Composition comparison video. Okay. Got it saved great suggestion Okay, uh, I find that I'm thinning the paint properly, but sometimes I take too long before Dipping again. I'm always trying to extend the paint Uh on the brush to the limit. Yeah, and that's I mean, it's a thing you've got it You've got to It takes a couple seconds to go back to the palette Wet your brush to do whatever you need, you know, do that. Don't let the paint dry on the brush It's a good way to ruin your brush and waste money number one It's a good way to get a bad chalky result number two. So yeah, I mean, that's just that's just breaking a bad habit You know, it's what happens Uh, okay Uh, let's see Brian trailer hyvents. I'm new and I've been painting, uh a Uh, sorry, I lost it. I'm new and I've been painting a starter box using contrast paints There are a ton of areas that I can't get my brush into but it's all primed and white. So it sticks out. Can that be fixed? Uh Sure, um, it's one of the reason I prefer zenithal priming over Um Over that and why sometimes I do subassemblies. So I would think about both of those things You don't have to use those those primers with contrast paints. They will work fine with any kind of primer Especially if it comes out of an airbrush and is very smooth Um, I would argue they probably work better out of an air off an airbrush primer because it is so much smoother Uh, the answer is you get a long as long a bristled brush. You can I I'm I don't know what you mean by can't get your brush in there But the answer is identify those areas first and shove black paint in there or not black Or you know some very dark colored paint in there um And just kind of push it in there. So if you ever watched marika reimer paint who Who she's not painting as much anymore because I think she's a neuroscientist and is doing that work But she's one of my favorite artists of all time And um when she started figures one of the first things she would do is create her deepest shadows by just shoving dark paint Into deep creases like off of a white prime Right, so she would just take a big brush and start like Just literally like pushing a bunch of dark paint in there and then she would just paint over top of it Right as as well as it went on in the shadows were set So I mean that's probably what I would recommend to you In the future if you as you go if you notice spaces like that just shove some very dark paint in there before you do The contrast over the rest of the thing And that will probably help you you don't have to actually use black Just use some dark shadow-ish color to sort of get rid of the white um Emily asked do you leave water in your airbrush with the needle in or do you take the needle out? I leave the needle in and just put airbrush in never had a problem Uh, okay Okay Let's see ends uh um havens any way to Thicken pre-thinned paint like vallejo game color air my metallic paint keeps Slipping from the surface. I'm painting on it's not binding. I think it's called beating Uh, so the answer is take that paint Get rid of it get rid of that metal paint throw that in the garbage Uh, and go get yourself some vallejo metal color, which is this paint right here Okay, and then this is the only metal paint you ever use again This is extremely thin and it won't matter it will cover like a dream in one coat over any color It will suddenly become steel it will glaze it will blend it will wet blend It will do everything and it will shine brighter than any other metal you've ever had There you go. It's completely airbrush ready and uh, and it will not bead It will just perfectly apply a smooth beautiful coat of wonderfully lustrous perfect metal That's your answer Uh, the other the only other answer I would have is is no not really Um, but you know in general you can you can wick off There's no way to thicken it, but there's a way to dry it which is make sure you're always wicking your paint You should always be wicking Uh, a b w always be wicking wicking means this when you When you get your this is my paper towel I keep in front of me notice look at my paper towels See all this this is just wicking paint Right every time you put your brush in paint you should be touching it to the paper towel first And that will drain away the excess liquid So there you go It can't be a hobby cheating q&a if I don't go on at least one rant about vallejo metal color Uh, Cameron, uh Okay, great awesome good excellent Uh, joe or thawbers do oh there you go. All right. Yes. We're just talking about joe's wood. Okay, that's fair Uh, or thawber studios does make some excellent plinths and has some beautiful wood. So there you go If you're looking for great plinths, I highly recommend you look up or thawber studio on facebook And you can order some great stuff from him Uh, let's see Uh Getting back into the hobby after 14 ish years away suggestions on glue to use I mean sure I can tell you what I use. So I use three ish four ish different types of glue Um, if it's plastic I will generally use revel contact glue as my plastic glue. I love revel This is my favorite stuff. I order I you know get it from like europe or whatever where it is And then I will smooth over it with some tamia extra thin Um, so that's my plastic glue If I assuming I can use that Uh, otherwise super glue I use sort of these two I use the zap a gap for cheaper things and stuff like terrain and and you know gluing cork to a base or something like that And I use the loctite gel for resin or metal or things like that This is really the best stuff around. It's great. It can still react. It'll still react to To accelerant. Um, but it forms an unbelievably strong bond and it's gel So it's easy to put some on there and then you can still move the mini around and get it set in place then push it together and You're good to go Uh, okay Let's see So judgmental hamster just started out small collection of paints. I've heard Vallejo washes aren't that good So is there a brand I should use should I just go with citadel? um And yeah, the answer is if you're just starting out and you're using a sort of traditional gw method, which is perfectly fine on the learning Uh on the initial learning. There's absolutely nothing wrong with painting like that, especially when you're starting out Um, yeah, I mean citadel just their washes are a traditionally good product like Null oil sarif mcpn agrax or sage are the sort of traditional holy trinity And if you're just starting you'll get a ton of mileage out of that stuff. So that would absolutely be my recommendation Yes, they're just easy if you want an alternate one army painters like strong tone Try to remember where the hell my army painter is. Oh, it's over there Like strong tone mid tone dark tone all that kind of stuff is also the soft tone strong tone dark tone There you go. Is the other is the other ones you can look at. Um, and they're they're all so good Uh, let's see, uh riddle guard. Hey vince. I was going to take one of your classes at depth con sad that happened um, yeah, it's a shame Oh asking. Do I have any plans to do some sky or discord classes? Um, not at the moment, but I mean, I'll be teaching at nova. I'll be teaching at gen con I'll be back to a depth con next year. I do You know, I have videos on everything that I've done there Uh, that I'm that I'm going to teach it's I know it's not a replacement for in person And I hope to see you there next year. Um, I just don't know really how I'd facilitate that beyond what I already do With videos so but I mean I it is a shame But I I teach a lot of different conventions every year and I hope to to be back next year. So hopefully I'll I'll see you there, sir Um That's a shame. It really is. I mean, but it's the right choice. I'm not lamenting it. It was absolutely the correct choice There's no reason to bring that many people into a situation where a disease like that could easily vector out pretty hard um But uh, I will miss it. I mean, I've spent the last nine months 10 months Preparing for golden demon in the u.s. Like I started my first project in may of last year so, um You know, that's a shame like most of those projects are a hundred hundred fifty hours and you know, I'll still get to use them Or compete with them at some point. So that's fine. Um, it's just they were really golden demon projects. So Um, I'm sad, but I am at the same time Uh, Not going to lose any sleep over it like there will be more contests There will be more things in the future and we will all get together and celebrate and and there will be a new day You can cue up the sting music now uh, okay Uh, steve duly any advice for getting out of a bit of a rut? I find myself getting a bit quicker, but not any better Yes, deliberate practice. Um, the answer is you want to like If you're it's good to you're working your speed muscle. There's nothing wrong with that your speed muscle is important You want to make sure that that's that you work that But getting better is a matter of deliberate practice. You can do anything repeatedly and get no better at it Deliberate practice is how you improve at things. So you tell you say on this mini. I am going to work on blending or non-metallic or making or texture or My highlights being having enough contrast or whatever and you do that and you Fail at it and then you learn what you failed from and then you do it again And then you get a little better, but you mostly still fail and then you do it again And you and so on and so forth. I love how your follow-up is with regards to painting not life But the answer is much the same and either um If you really want to be good at something then you need targeted deliberate practice about it Right and you need to fail a few times before you do it before you get it. That's the answer Um, and and that by the way is also very refreshing from being in the rut When you do those things it it energizes you it jazzes you up and You'll find yourself like, uh, quite a bit more inspired honestly. So Because you're pushing yourself like that Uh Let's see Question how to blend uh valet ho metal color paints, especially silver Um, the answer is you put them on there. So what I is here's how I do it I I either do traditional layering that is to say I just mix slowly, you know I take the I take steel and silver and I mix slowly increasing increments of them. That's one Um, the easiest answer is honestly feathering like feathering is your your best bet where you put a little bit of the silver on cleanly You wipe your brush and then you just feather out with your mostly dry brush Um, that's going to give you a really nice result, especially on the metal that they they feather really well Um, the other answer is you can apply some wet steel at one end some wet silver at the other end and then Wipe your brush and pull them together and you do some traditional wet blending. So I mean same rules apply basically Uh, monst for someone that picked up an airbrush a few days ago. What would you recommend as a few exercises to learn the basics of the tool? um Actually just make sure you watch my videos on cleaning it that would be my first recommendation Then do like we talked about earlier and make sure your paint's thin enough That's your next one, uh, which I also have a video on and um And then beyond that just I don't know start picking up some minis and painting I don't know that I really recommend any training exercises. Just getting into it's going to be the best teaching of it, right? Like Uh, work on applying just some base colors to an area and then slowly try to push a highlight where you want it to be, right? um Like try to work on being, you know Well targeted and controlled and understanding How your airbrush brush flow works and being aware of like when you're spraying this, you know, this thing You're also spraying what's behind it as well So kind of you know, be aware of how your your angles work and stuff like that Just play with learning your angles and your your finger control Um much like brush control is an important thing you can only learn by painting Airbrush control that is to say your trigger control is something you only learn by doing um And it's the most important thing you've got as you need to sort of learn to to work it and treat your airbrush like a brush My best advice is that I guess if I was to summarize treat your airbrush like a brush Think of it a lot like that And you'll you'll have success Uh, let's see. Anthony. Have you found that the pigments and artists quality acrylics aren't as ground as Uh as ground aren't ground as fine as specialized miniature acrylics at all Uh, it depends on the acrylics. There's certainly not meant for the type of small painting we're using it. That's It's a very wide question. There's there's many different types of artist acrylics out there And there's many different types of miniature acrylics out there and all of them have different levels of pigmentation size, right? So the answer is sometimes that could certainly be yes Um, but it's not always going to be the case Um Yeah, I guess it just depends on on your exact comparison Uh, okay Boy, I'm behind. All right. I gotta catch up here. All right Hurry up mode. Let's go. I'm gonna start answer. I'm gonna try to be a little less wordy. Okay Uh, that's a good point. Zenith alling is a good place to start. Absolutely Okay, uh, let's see Galen second question. What is your least favorite or just straight ugly color Vallejo released? Uh, I don't know. I probably don't own many of those that I don't like. I would have gotten rid of them Uh God, I don't know I find like some of the blues to be kind of ugly like they just look very fake Um, but yeah, I mean all kind of fit. I don't know. I have a lot of Vallejo paints on my wall and I was looking at them And I I kind of enjoy all of them for their appropriate time Uh z plot howdy vents. What would be your method of choice for painting sisters of battle fast but with good results I mean, I don't I don't think about how to paint an individual figure, right? Like that's why I don't do hobby cheating of like today We're gonna paint a sister a battle. Um because that's not how I think of figures like A sister of battle is armor and cloth and skin tone So like I would use my standard cheats on that so like I have how to paint fast flesh tone and You know wet blending cloth and How to get a good look out of black, right? Like I in my in my how to paint you're assuming you're gonna do a standard sister So that's what I'm picturing in my head. So she has black armor Um in my how to paint black armor video. I recently did I have a sort of speed method for that, right? So I would like I don't think of minis as a there's no whole mini. There's only its component parts And so those are kind of that's why I break up my videos like I do And so, you know, my recommendation would be I would use like the Any of the speed base coating techniques you've seen me do on wet blending for cloth I would use the speed technique from the black armor and I would use how to paint fast flesh tone And then I would use the video I did on how to paint white hair There you go Okay Uh, let's see Uh, Jared been trying to get into oil painting Tried to paint black cloaks on my night haunt and it came out good But literally took over a week to try any way to speed it up Sure you there are things that will make That will make your oil paints dry faster. You can let them seep out on cardboard first. Um, so the some of the extra, um Linseed oil comes out. There are things that will help you can you can um, there are additives you can use to uh To expedite drying time you can try like the obtilung 502 oils. They're formulated to dry a little bit faster So all that kind of stuff, I would say Um, it's probably my best tips Uh rust belt vince. I enjoyed the marble effect video for bases. I'm wanting to do it for inlays On the blasted hollow hearth building sigmar and his chair. Does anything change for them compared to flat bases? Uh Break it up to one flat surface at a time when you're working that because it's a it's a technique that requires Very wet paint to work because it's like sissing and stuff So you want to do like one flat surface at a time You just break it down to every flat surface And you you do one to Completion and then the next one and the next one and the next one that kind of thing other than that. No Uh ice axe miniatures quick question. What is your favorite paint bottle? I like reaper I finally clog a bit more but their tips don't spit out as much as vile or scale 75 uh Honestly pro acrylics who has their little screw tops Um, I just really like them. They don't ever clog um You have to wipey wipey the little tip at the end But I like them. I just I I've never had to remove a clog from one of these ever so Yeah, that would be my answer the pro acrylic tip Uh, let's see trippy the shroom. I don't have a question. Just want to say thank you Well, hey, I'm very happy to help trippy Uh, okay Uh, let's see Brooks. Hey, Vince. Do you apply the same techniques to your warhammer model? Eyes that you do in your gbi video Um, no, I mean when it when it comes to like regular warhammer figures Especially on an army type level. Um, no, I mean I I will generally just keep it to pretty straightforward like gray and then Gray white in the center of the pupil Maybe a little bit of red around the edge and then a black dot Most warhammer figures most 28 millimeter miniatures eyes are so small It's like outside of say display painting or something Um where you're really trying to work color and then sometimes I will kill myself there trying to put in like life dot or you know life Lights and stuff like that. Um, no, it's just more or less like, you know, keep it simple And uh end go from there. Uh, oh and thank you very much on the base. I appreciate that Brent Uh, let's see Uh, Joe Osborne greetings from SoCal new to the hobby and have an airbrush. What do you use for your thinner? Sure, great question. I'll show you exactly so I use Vallejo airbrush thinner and flow improver. I make a mix out of this in a smaller bottle Which looks like this and is all gummy and old And the mix goes, uh, 80 or sorry 80 thinner 20 flow improver roughly It's not like some exact measurement. I'm not doing science over here close to that So that's my that's how I thin and I have great results with that Don't generally have clogs. Don't usually have a problem. Uh, let's see Uh, Amy, I really love the scale 75 metallics, but they all come with these colored metallic alchemy paints Do you have any idea how they're supposed to be used? I can't figure out what circumstances you're supposed to use Um to add colors and reflections to the to the to the metal It's kind of exactly the thing we were talking about earlier with you know using osl and metallics We're just adding cool sheens or effects or reflections You know metal highly reflective metal reflects the colors in the ambient environment around it So that's the idea just being able to add interesting colors and inflections into your um Into your metals nothing more than that So you don't have to use them certainly but they can be good things to just kind of work in there uh Okay, yep exactly what brinell said next so you know adding shadows adding extra reflections the highlights all those kind of things like that Mathias, how would you create an underwater atmosphere consistently over different units and bases while painting an army? Uh, I would darken all the colors down if you're really on deep underwater. There's not a lot of light So I would darken everything down, you know working a lot of navy blues and stuff like that. Um Work in deeper tones and then have some bright pop colors If you watch the video posted on if you go to the honest wargamer There was a video where I reviewed all the armies that were a can con And in there, there's a eideneth deepkin army That was sort of painted and I thought achieved the effect really well because you just very dark desaturated colors, but then had like Bright pink sort of bioluminescent pop colors down there and I really liked how that looked It sold the effect to the environment the feeling Right So that that would be my my the way I'd go about it Okay Keys hyvins. Do you have uh experience with airbrush stencils any tips from using them on somewhat irregular surface? Yeah, I use a bunch of different stencils. So I have um these guys. I think from fallout hobbies like this kind of thing right here Um It all use them sometimes and my answer is I don't use them on irregular surfaces. They just don't really work Um just freehand it is the answer on an irregular surface like It's going to be much less infuriating to you um On a on a on a flat surface like the hull of a a night or something or a shoulder pad. Sure. They're great Um, but if it's an irregular surface at all, I honestly just freehand it It's worth it and it'll force you to get better at that sort of thing Right like again that deliberate practice thing like you'll just be better off Putting in the hours and practicing because in the end Like as stencils cool and I I don't you're wrong. I said I use them But in the end you working up that freehand muscle muscle is going to be a much more versatile skill Okay Uh, let's see Uh, yes agreeing with that. So like alclad just people talking about alclad metals. Yes, once you go outside of acrylic paints Um, your alclad 2 is one of the best metals around. I'm going to try the new extreme Metals uh from ak. So I'm excited about those see how those look and work Uh, those are also not acrylic base paints Uh, recommended colors on Vallejo metal color line or just pull the full or just pull the trigger No, you don't need a full line. Here we go. Everybody ready? Okay one more time I wonder if people already answer this question for me. This is the purchasing order. Here we go ready steel silver copper gold pale burnt metal From their season to taste exhaust metal You know, whatever you like So again steel silver copper gold pale burnt metal and then whatever That's my advice uh Very good. Stay safe, Emily. Okay. Uh, let's see TD Vince, how would you build paint a base to look like a mossy hill like jump at Japanese temples often have? uh Sure, so build it up with cork put some um clay or like dosk clay or um Uh, or milliput or whatever your filler of choice is over top of it into a nice little hill and uh Then lay down some various grasses. I mean, you know building it up building up a base is usually just a matter of You need a surface to sort of build it up. I I have an old video called building up a big base In that case, I used it to build a desert base, but you may want to go check that out It's exact. I would use exactly the same techniques today um, you can use dap like wallpaper um Or not wallpaper. Sorry. I'm dry wall putty is another one you can use for filler. Sure. That works just fine um any of that stuff and uh, and and then just you know lay down that and and over the top I would have some rocks and some differences. I wouldn't make it don't make it a one smooth surface. You want some, you know variations In the in that hills are very unnatural, right? So something like that Uh, let's see Uh Scott coley. Hello. Do you thin your vallejo airbrush primers before using them with an airbrush scott? I'm going to assume you joined late with that question and that's okay So I will repeat what I said earlier in the video, which is I thin everything Full stop That's it and the answer is yes. I thin everything everything But what about everything everything Okay, so there you go. Now next question might be ratio probably one to two um with vallejo primers. So like one thinner to two drops of primer uh, let's see Kelly, uh, vince, what was that old truck with super glue and oh trick with super glue and tissue paper you once discussed Yeah, sure. So for getting metal models to stick together. This is what we had to do back in the 90s with you Um, sure. So here it is. You got two pieces of a metal model. You need to stick together and they're a relatively thin surface You want to make sure they adhere Okay, so here's how we did it back then You would you take your two pieces of metal You take a tissue you want a single ply tissue Like, you know most of the time now like the tissues that I use are like, you know Tissues with lotion and and they're multiply and they don't fall apart You want the cheapest possible facial tissue. Okay So you want it like single ply if you got a multiple just pull it apart make sure it doesn't have lotion and stuff like that And you take the two pieces you put super glue on each end Okay, so there's both both both ends have super glue And then you take a little tiny itty bitty baby square of that facial tissue And you put it up against the glue on one side and then you take the other side and you push it against that And what you're doing there is creating a bonding agent, right? So the glue is going to attach because the glue can't really soak into metal, right? Um, it can't it's hard for it to find purchase there But each side can attach to the paper towel because the fibers or so the facial tissue Sorry because the fibers and stuff and the glue soaks into it. So they both become attached to the facial tissue More than they become attached to each other That's that's how we did it back in the day Uh, I know this keeps coming up. But how would you make the same color as retributor armor using vellejo metal color? Uh, I would use Three drops of gold to one drop of copper Um, if you don't like that go if it's not quite warm enough for you yet then make it five to two Or something like that, okay That's all you need. You'll get a beautiful lustrous rich warm gold If you've seen all the gold I use on any miniature I've you I've painted that's the basically the the mixture that I'm using Uh, ryan haven't you're gonna continue your color series? Yes, I will I do them about every 10 or 12 videos You will see one coming up relatively soon Uh to do Brentwood question. Have you ever played around with inks medium and paint to create a contrast like paint? um No, I've never tried to really make my own contrast like I have contrast paints. I use them. I like I'm just fine I use them for various purposes Um, I don't really feel that they're there there. They exist. I would just use them Like I certainly mix flow aid into things to make them be if I want things to get real thin like I'll Mix some water some flow aid and stuff to get it So it's really flowing down into the the recess as well But I've never like I have no desire to try to manufacture my own contrast like that product exists I don't sew my own t-shirts. I don't grow my own food Like I we've got people for that Okay Um Owen, what's the best way to repair chains or flimsy joints got a unit of wrathbongers It can't be pin joined. I'm going to try using super glue and army painter rapid setting spray Yeah, I mean with little thin stuff like that that's really kind of the best option The other thing you can do is you can try You know a very small piece of like green stuff that you roll into a very thin snake And you kind of wrap around it just make it look like a rope or something that's tied on there Like he has a little ribbon on the middle of his chain. It's an easy it's an easy modeling thing um, and that'll give you some extra support like Gw's famous for just tying random ribbons around all sorts of things So why not have a ribbon around the middle of your chain that can be a way to add some extra support But yes, I always use accelerant like super glue accelerant jobs are good You know, I I can't imagine waiting for super glue to actually dry. I haven't waited for super glue to dry in years Like I drop super glue drop the accelerant One two three done Hey Vince, how would you go about weathering bronze? Looking for inspiration for my death guard Uh vertigree and black is short sort of the short answer. Um, I don't know that I've ever done a full video on weathering bronze specifically, but if you go back and look at a recent video I did on You know making non-metallic metal or sorry making true metallic metal look like you know in in non-metallic metal styles revisited I don't know when it was probably in the 170s or something. Um, you'll see how I that I'm using a bronze-ish color there And so you'll see how I weather it there Um, but the answer is you know some some vertigreying Um, some turquoise some blue green and some black Like here's the shortest answer this Weathering is one of those things that's actually really fun to do because you have The hardest things to paint are things that have no real-world analogs But there is a horde of real-world bronze that's been weathered. There's bronze at not all the place So just search for it. Just go google image search weathered bronze And look at it. Don't just don't look at passing see it Right. Look at the dots the shapes the patina. How is it weathering? What are those colors break it down? and then Put that on your mini is really the answer Uh, by the way, great name suspicious pineapple. I love that. That is truly hilarious. Uh Okay Uh, wow trello huntery. That's a lot of Tree trello. Okay. I'm just gonna say wow. Why does everyone say to blackroom your bases? But gw is the same color as the rest of the base or brown The answer is because a black rim creates a bridging point between a frame Between the figure and the stuff that's on top of it Which is in the universe of the figure and the rest of the world which is not and gw is wrong and should stop Doing brown bases because they are wrong Um soft brown like that. That's the same color is incredibly distracting and extends the universe from the top of the miniature Onto the side and bottom of the miniature, which is not correct. That is not part of the miniature And it doesn't look good Your bases can be any color as long as they're black and by the way by black I mean any kind of near thing like that. They can be dark gray or you know anything like that It's just they shouldn't be weird wacky colors. They most definitely under no circumstances should be green Uh, but I mean like how many paintings? Okay. I have frames behind me. Every one of those frames is black Why is the frame black? The frame is black because I want to create a distinction between the wall and the painting Right or the picture the poster whatever it happens to be right That's the same reason it's it's creating negative space That separates the figure from the universe and the universe it occupies from the rest of the world. It does not It creates a clean visual break line There you go I agree with tristan gw is wrong Okay Cameron coats going to try painting my first bust one of the smaller banshee anonymous ones How would you make a painting handle for this thing? Um, I well, I have one and I did make a painting handle for it I drilled a pin up into the bottom and then put it down into a piece of cork so like Something like this I put a little piece of cork on a base and then that sits on top of something with a sticky And uh, and then there you go and I just I just drill up through it with a pin vice You know standard sort of pin vice up into the top put a pin up there You're good to go. Then you're all set for when you want to run it down into your plinth, too Uh, let's see Okay Okay, uh, still just reading catching up a lot of discussion about base rim colors. We're all going to bike shed the heck out of this Uh, okay Uh brett, do you use mdf movement trays? How do you get the paint to stick to match the base? Match the base of the models. Um, yes, I do use mdf movement trays and I just Spray them black. That's it. I don't I don't worry about anything else I don't want them to look like the base the mini the movement tray is not in universe It's just a game aid there to help it. I don't I don't try to make my Three-inch and nine-inch measuring sticks match my bases. I don't try to make my dice match my bases Those are all just they're all just game aides Um, they're there to make the minis be easier to transport. They're not there for display purposes Okay Uh, all right Uh, mark Nolan hyvins. Hope you're doing well was wondering if a black gray and white zenithil is a good choice For blood angels or would a warm zenithil be better? Even for blood angels, but they're they're they're well, they're I guess they're very bright reds. I'm sorry I was thinking of like somebody else like crimson. No, who the heck was I thinking of? It doesn't matter. Yes, a warm zenithil is definitely the right answer for for blood angels There you go before I twist myself around this axle Uh five fieve, uh, vince. I'm currently trying to do marsh bases for my scaven force. Cool. I like that idea Uh any advice on ways to do this over a whole army? Sure, uh, you can do lots of different things like obviously a little bit of I mean, you know, I still assume you want it to be kind of wet lots of tall grasses and reeds and stuff like that Um, get yourself some of this like some ak interactive puddles Uh, this is kind of mixed to be murky muddy water You can just add a couple drops of this to the base so it looks wet and glossy at the bottom Uh, and then you know, yeah lots of rocks weird sticks sticking up out of the marsh Um, you know little tiny animals hidden in there skulls that are obviously half submerged All sorts of fun stuff marshes are great. That's a that's a great biome for a base. I love that idea That sounds wonderful. Uh reminds me of when of the end times when the scaven were marching on the um The lizard men homeland and absolutely wrecking it and decimating it. So there you go As well all as well should happen to all slon. Okay. Um tribute the shroom I heard you mentioned earlier, but what are your thoughts on the army painter strong tone? I use it as a final top to bottom wash Uh, but I hear mixed thoughts on it. Yeah, it's fine. I mean it's very strong Ultimately, I would not recommend it as a final Well, I never recommend washes as a final step ever because that is not going to Ultimately look great like it will you will get coffee staining and that kind of stuff on there um So Yeah, I mean that's but but that being said I have no problem with strong tone as its purpose. I think it's good I think all the the um army painter like their soft tone strong tone and dark tone are all good They're good analogs for the gw product and effective Uh travis ellis, I'll assume I answered your question earlier. This is about the thinner flow improver with primers uh Toku why do base coat and mid tone color wouldn't be easier to shadow color as a base and work up or doesn't matter Um, no, it doesn't matter. Um, because in general it's that's personal style So somebody like Sergio Calvo Does starts with the darkest color and then layers up completely to his highest color. He's one of the best artists in the world Um, many great artists start in the middle and then shade down because they like to set the mid tone of what they want it to be And then understand their contrast from there as they continue to push it apart Um, the answer is there is no one right way. It's fine either way It's a question of what you find easier and more logical and you know can sort of conceptualize better There's a lot of like when you start a mini you have to see that what the end colors are the end color state One of the things you learn over time is just being able to visualize what a miniature is going to look like when it's done And that helps guide you on how high your contrast should go. Um, so Yeah, it's really just a question of that Uh fading starting to work on my first army. What are your thoughts on how consistent the zenithal angle should be from model to model Would it just look strange having the light coming from different facings? Yeah, I mean in general, like I said, I go for like a 130 ish So near not not directly above but more like this and in general, it's fine I you don't notice the difference once everything's sort of painted If you watched the speed painting an army in a week video I did with the empire guys I certainly that was done with the glazes and and that was certainly done with like glazes and zenithal and I literally just laid them all out at once like I primed the whole army at once that way I knew they were all at the same angle So, um, but if you're not doing the whole army at once the answer is just you know Be roughly consistent and you'll be fine if it's slight off People get way too concerned about having things look the same in armies. It doesn't matter people don't notice Okay, even judges don't notice when you have these sliding consistencies and they're not going to mark you down for that like It's there's there's a hundred of the things I care about more As a as a paint judge Uh, then little things like that All right, so, you know like I If I if I was going to give advice in general on army painting being better for the armies I judge Let me tell you consistent angles of lighting would be way down the list Way down the list Just getting all your gaps and mold lines cleaned and Pushing your contrast we can just start there and if we get to that point then we can do the rest It's like, uh, it's like if you have a main artery cut But you also have a hangnail. Which one am I going to medically address first, you know Okay, uh, Anthony, thanks for your answers. Glad you liked the vid idea. Oh, cool. All right, good. Yeah, I think it's a great idea Uh, see marca, can you think of a way to represent speed? To represent speed when painting modeling a slanesh army without repositioning models just through paint No, because like speed lines and comics happen off of the miniature, right there. There are things you put behind people Um posing and and now with posing and composition Sure Like people look faster when their legs are spread apart when their arms are spread apart when they're more at a forward angle Like all those things communicate to us running and and motion Bringing them to the front of the base is also a compositional element that makes them feel fast People who stand way back are perceived to be not in a hurry Things that the front of the base are perceived to be fast and pushing forward hard, right? So Just a paint alone. No, honestly, not really but with composition. Yeah, you can do a lot of stuff Uh, let's see What do I think about Vallejo shifters any plan on using them? I have some I'll play with them at some point. I don't particularly love color shifting stuff in general Um, I would rather just do that by hand because it's hard to work with them and Highlight them and shade them in the way I normally treat metals because I treat metals like non-metallic And once you start applying a bunch of other things on top, they somewhat they lose their effect. So But I'll play with them at some point Uh, do you ever find yourself getting bummed out by how good some painters are? Um No, but I understand the I I don't but I understand the instinct like when I look at something land does Or Caril can I ever sang you on Lee or your Sergio or somebody like that that's that really is it does, you know top level work Um, and there's the list of painters like that are long Um, I I often think wow, that's really amazing. I want to be able to achieve that it drives me But at the same time sometimes that happens with my own work Like I'll look at something past. I'll do it. I did not be like, how did I do that? You know, like it just happens you just get into the the rhythm of it Um, so I mean my answer is it's there's no reason to expect to be bummed out unless you've also painted for 20 years of deliberate practice and put in the probably 20 to 30 thousand hours they have Like if that's the case Then sure, I guess be bummed because you didn't use your time as wisely But you know, if you're if you're not that if you haven't done that amount of work Um, you know, I write some stories and stuff I don't fault myself for not being as good of a gm when I when I gm dnd as chris perkins or somebody like that, right? Who does it professionally? um I I I like to to go running sometimes I don't I don't get angry because there are runners who can run marathons I just haven't put in the time or the practice, right? So, yeah, I mean the answer is just like it's perspective, you know, I try not to get bummed by much stuff I said there's there's too much good stuff in life um Let's see Hi vins, I was wondering what is the smallest airbrush needle you would use for a glaze or tint? Uh point two is generally a smallest needle I use they make a point one five for the For the infinity um But I don't I don't own that one my infinity has a larger needle in it and um I don't use this brush very much I will state this thing is a a masterpiece, but I use it like I use it for very particular jobs And I want to be very careful um But yeah, I would say point two is usually the smallest I use normally uh, let's see Okay. Yeah, good. Just some person had some yeah, there you go. Thank you. Yes using something like um Uh, use recommending additives and great for making oil paintings dry faster. Thank you Anthony great great recommendations They're all around John Gallant. Do you mind if I share the link to the Coalated hobby cheating list for those that might not be in the pmp group John. I don't mind at all I would love to do that. You're a you're a hero and uh, and an amazing person for doing that So share share like Uh, oh one final note anybody who does play age of sigmar if you are I'll put the link to the three surveys That I talked about on wednesday that i'm putting out there for how people like the armies Down in the description of this so go check that out and fill those out. They take about a minute each There's three surveys. I'd love to have you do it after the video. They'll be down in the description So go click those I'm going to close those down probably tomorrow so I can start doing some some uh synthesis on the data Uh Oh nice. Okay. Good tip, Anthony Uh, Anthony Burton Shaw. Hey vince been rewatching your old army on parade vids was wondering if you plan on doing anymore Yeah, I really need to like it's just I keep painting stuff and saying like i'm gonna make that video I'm gonna make that video And I just keep not doing it and I keep adding to those armies Um, like the iron jaws video. I've only added one or two. I've only added one or two units two since I did that um So I do need to do one for slanesh. I'll need to do one for this tempest eye army It'd be fun to do one for like the ogre army that I speed painted um I probably need to do one for my Beasts I realize I've never done one for my beast of chaos. So yes, I absolutely want to do more Uh, let's see Okay Okay more questions Are you gonna talk about the puppy model you have picture in the top right? Um, I just have it up there to have something interesting on I'm gonna share it later on It was a lot of fun to paint. I loved the war the the the llama kitty I loved this thing. This is one of the best minis. I've painted in a long time It's the perfect level of detail. There's only one thing I would have changed had I noticed it right off the gate I would have gotten rid of the fur That's like these random little fur things on his leg and here on the edge of his uh, his like torso muscles That's the only mistake they made. I do not understand why they put those there There's some of the fur edges that I like like at the sort of crest of the the tum-tum and stuff, but I just It it's weird. It's a weird fur texture in some places. So there you go Uh big ape 12 havens i'm trying to shade my ultramarines highlighted them with an airbrush and just using nulnoil or black looks strange Would you recommend a dark blue contrast paints or inks or something else? So you don't want to wash the whole thing is the answer like that's what's not going to look good In general you could do a couple things you could mix in a dark red into your blue That'll give you quite a like a whole red that'll give you quite a dark color Um, you can use my my painting partner's back. She gets down and gets up every so often Hey Lay down Okay, uh, so but The the real answer is I I don't generally wash anything like that because those Space Marines actually take to washes quite poorly, especially late in the process You could use one of the darker contrast paints, but I would still only apply it into the areas You're specifically trying to shadow and then I would just feather them out into the other areas um If you if you over highlight it and now you want to cover that over Then I would recommend just like a nice glaze of your midtone over the top trying to put your shadow color up Over the top of your highlight is just going to be destroyed like it's not going to work There's no there's none of the darkest color in the lightest color, right? That is to say there's no black up in the white is what I mean there I hope that helps Um, Richard, I'm getting speckling when zenithal priming with a rattle can Any advice of combating that without just getting closer to the mini? Uh, I mean It's it's just part of really honestly. What's with a rattle can I mean my best advice you're not going to love richard But it's get an airbrush and all that goes away instantly and you can prime anytime and easily And you don't get that happening But the best answer is yes, you've you know pushed down on the trigger less and closer to the mini But I mean airbrushes are always gonna or sorry rattle cans are always going to speckle some that that The paint is not aerosol to such a level as to not do that Uh, anthony m vince looking at doing a 40k night lords midnight blue armor under moonlight How would I differentiate that cool ambient lighting from just the standard highlighting of blue? You really wouldn't is the answer like it's not going to be readable dark Like figures at night is almost always a challenging thing to paint. It's not really an army thing Um, like I said, you can desaturate all the colors like I talked about before and that'll make it feel like that But when it's already night lords when it's already that super dark blue I mean the answer is use white blue highlights and warm shadows Okay, because at night shadows will be warmer and light will be cool will be highlight will be colder So you can certainly push that and that'll help with the feeling but I mean, it's nobody's going to just look at your force probably ever in a normally lit room Full of light and everything around to go. Oh those figures are at night You know those kinds of effects are just if you're really trying to sell that It's better on something like a display model where you can put it against the black background like this guy here and you can you know You can control the overall lighting source, but my best advice is use a cool highlight and a warm shadow Uh, let's see. Thanks for the answer on modeling speed. Are there other basing tricks that would sell the speed effect? Oh, sure. You could have rocks being kicked up think of everything you ever see and like when the flash or superman or You know quicksilver so make take off at high speed So you have like little things flying from the back of their feet You can like kick a you know dig their feet down into the dirt where they've really pushed And like rocks have kicked up behind you can put a couple like little floating rocks Stuff like that. That's a good way to go Uh John, I don't think it's going to let you post it, but if you post John if you post the link down in the comments Um, that'll that'll work and I'll I'll pin it to the top. Okay Uh, all right. Hey, we got to the bottom of the list. How about that? Okay Uh, I sped up enough. There we go. All right. So, uh Okay, so Agamemnon, I want you to go. He said I envy people you have no problems with an airbrush Mine clogs constantly the point where I spend hours cleaning after every session Go watch my how to clean your airbrush fast video If you're having problems with your airbrush, there is no reason your airbrush should clog If it's happening, it's one of two things either you're not thinning your paints enough or you're cleaning your airbrush in the wrong way Okay, and I talk about both in there. So one thin your paints more to go clean your airbrush How I talk about in that video you will not get clogs. There's nothing mystical about their airbrushes compared to yours It's just how you're using the tool and if you go watch that video I walk you through exactly how to get it clean and that should eliminate that problem It's a wonderful tool, but it does require a different set of uses. So I hope that helps Okay All right So, uh, we're at a little over and we're almost in an hour and a half Uh, so we went a little longer than an hour, but we always do that's what's fun Uh, hopefully people are still there and can still hear me Nobody asked any questions or typed anything recently. So hopefully you're all still there Um All right. So, uh, in which case Let me make sure here Yep. Hey. Yay. People are still there. Okay So, uh, at any rate, here's what I'll say as we bring it to a close. Hey everybody You're all here. Thank you very much. I appreciate that hit. 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These were fantastic questions today folks I certainly hope that this has been, uh, uh, helpful Um, so I'll answer a few fall let a few final questions roll in and then we'll call it a day Uh, zen for one mince for models on elevated stands like seraphims Did you ever think to include the clear stand as part of the mini for example as part of the jet blast or stirred up dirt ground? Yes, 100 percent. That's a great thing you can do right like I like to stick them off terrain like have their foot touching terrain I never use flight stands, but that being said if you have, uh, jet exhaust or something like that Yeah, you can absolutely just do some modeling around that and hide it as Jet exhaust. I think that's a perfectly valid idea. I've seen some people do that with um, What are they rocket boys or jump boys or whatever the orcs are and I think that's um, I think that's useful Uh, some arc events. How do you model rocks that have been kicked up behind a model? Sure, great question. The answer is you stack them like this So you put one on the back of his foot Just barely touching and you glue that touch then you put another one just touching the corner of that Then you put another one just touching the corner of that and people will notice the rocks They won't really notice the tiny connection of the foot and you do the same thing from the ground You have one kind of standing up and then you have one just barely attaching to a corner there And then one just barely attaching to a corner there and so on Uh, massive voodoo has an article about this if you're not already if you haven't already checked out massive voodoo That's roman the pots thing. I highly recommend you go check that out. Thank you tristan storm boys Um, I highly recommend you go check that out They have an article on doing like magic lifting effects and it's just you kind of glue them all over the place like that So there you go Uh, awesome. Thank you very much everybody Okay, so we'll do we'll do travis's question as the last question and then we'll call it a day Uh Travis wet palette would you say more water is always best? I feel like my paint gets too thin Perhaps this goes back to your comment earlier about always be wicked Always be wicked. You do have to watch how much water you have in there It depends the answer is it depends on your environment how dry it is how quickly your paint's drying on top In general, you want a nice amount of water around the edge of the sponge And you don't want a one good trick with your wet palette. Don't close it completely. It should not be sealed I know that's weird to say we make these things out of ziplock and stuff because we feel like we want to seal it But if you seal it completely it will often get too humid and the paints we use will often get over liquidated If we were using like artist acrylics or heavy stuff like this on a relatively thick piece of paper You'd want it sealed completely with our stuff You want a little bit of a crack so that there's some air interchange still and that will somewhat help So there you go uh Any recommendations for blood angels red color for glazing over the warm zenith Of vellejo game color red ink would be an awesome one. So that's probably a good one. I love that It's a nice super bright shock punch in the face red that seems like it would fit What's the name of this is ford staff behind you. This is lira I have penny and aspen are my other two dogs, but this is lira. This is my dog And she is my she is my little My little baby girl and she has an attitude about everything. She's very stubborn and she uh She's a wonderful little puppy. Okay Uh idea for doing ash covered bases dry pigments do the right the right thing to pull this off. Yeah, absolutely Yes, dry pigment absolutely looks like ash 100 percent Any experience with the different color shifting paints out there? No, not really. I mean, I've used a few of them I guess that I don't love them. I'll probably do a larger talk about them at some point in time Marco, hey vince. I just got the vellejo varnish. How's the ratio varnish to thinner? I use a two or three drops of thinner in my let's call it six to eight drops of varnish. How about that? And uh, those are fine I also highly recommend ak interactive ultra matte varnish if you really want to go for matte So there you go everybody. Hope you enjoyed that. 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