 Hello everybody and welcome to another holiday hobby Q&A Live what do we do here? Well, we sit around for an hour or so We'll see how long we go and we answer all of your hobby related questions. So over on This side of the screen is that right? Nope. Nope. It's that side of the screen exactly backwards We've got There's a little comment little chat area. You can put in your chat there. I realize they don't need these I'm gonna take these off more comfortable with that and Yeah, I'm gonna do my best over the next hour or so to answer your questions I see that crazy horse one of the one of the three Vinces is in the chat and he said use this pictures under copyright review hilarious Ah Yes, thank you both to Anthony and to Jacob for that amazing image that was truly a wonderful day and something I look forward to seeing everybody again in person adept gone missed everybody these past couple years Holidays are forgetting together with the people you love and so hence this Why because I'm truly grateful and thankful and it's a gift for me to be able to Share this channel and this my hobby journey with all of you. So I thought what better thing to celebrate than to give together and Do a little hobby Q&A alright So with that being said let's jump in to the questions Okay, so let's see Martin said his mom is taking her first steps in the hobby and asking questions Martin your mom has all the all the answers She needs I'm happy to help. I see we're gonna get a visit from the dogs as well right at the beginning This is my wife say hello Hello What's that which that's where you're looking that's the camera. Oh, yes Anthony's on a lot of people are here people are filing in people have questions. Mm-hmm. Yeah, your dog is still loud You know Merry Christmas everybody happy holidays, or if you don't celebrate anything then happy end of December. I hope you at least got some time off So there you go Okay, I love you dear I'm sure I'm sure All right, so Merry Christmas everyone and there you go a little dog visit and And now we'll do some hobby questions Okay So, let's see How does one clone themselves to be more productive you've got to ask those weird aliens on Kamino, they'll help you out Vince any more thoughts on new maggotkin? I think it's Going to be a good book for people who like nergal I think it'll be competitive and right in the middle middle. I think it's a very well-written book Let's see I See TV Grant said he's working on some fulminators for holy wars. Very nice. I just finished up all my fulminators I'm actually working on my Dragon writers right now that'll probably go with me to holy wars. So how about that? Shannon says Merry Christmas from Singapore awesome Let's see. Hey Joe Orthover. How you doing? Merry Christmas to you? Merry Christmas to you Terry. All right Martin says question my mother has some Star Wars Rocky crag scenery I said would be best painted be a dry brushing. Can you please explain dry brushing in a beginner sense? Sure dry brushing is when you use a relatively thick paint And you take a brush that is usually like this is what I would recommend something like a makeup brush You dab the flat part of it into it And then you wipe it on some surface until you've extracted most of the liquid being the idea So that could either be a paper towel or kitchen roller Whatever you call it wherever you live or a piece of cardboard or something like that And then leaving only a small amount of pigment left on the end of the bristles You then run it back and forth which will lead it to it being having a rougher texture such also catching only on the edges allowing you to Both simulate the texture of rocks But also the fact that edges of rocks tend to be more worn as they weather easier. There you go Hope that helps Poodles Poodles wants to know I'm gonna move my screen over here so I can watch the the live thing and So I can see what's happening live and the other one. There we go Okay, now I can see both if I look to the sides is because I'm looking at the new questions versus what's currently scrolling the chat All right Hobby question really struggling with getting good straw hat colors. How would you approach painting a Japanese straw hat? Well, it's not yellow. That's the first key It's ochre to sepia and so straw is generally actually much more of a white sepia color It's a lot like blonde hair. There's a lot of similarities So a more brown infused ochre or something like an English uniform Yeah, here we go Something like that Right then highlight it up with an ivory color is gonna actually simulate straw You can use things like a Sarah from CPO or any kind of sepia ink or something like that To then further reinforce the soft brown tones that are in there Okay Oh, hey goobs, what's up goober town? Merry Christmas to you brother. Hope you're doing well I you're definitely Thor by the way goober town. I think that's perfect. You're really I think you've got Thor covered You you are definitely worthy Okay Michael Warner I'm looking for tips to paint an undead force that is walking around under moonlight. All right First tip don't do it. There we go easy enough now, okay Why don't do it because it's not going to really sell For an at an army scale because we don't view miniatures under moonlight Your army is viewed under a yellow light most of the time most Things in your office or your your room or places where you are or a tournament or gaming halls or gaming stores are Yellow tinted lights, so they're in the lower part. They're like 3,500 to 4,500. Okay meaning they're very yellow Meaning they feel more warm and homey, but they don't sell cold light So there's this immediate clash your brain has of this thing is reflecting blue light Which is very much on like the high end of the spectrum, so it's like 6,500 K plus And So there's this immediate clash. I a lot of people ask me this question This is a very common thing people want to do and the problem is it works fine for display pieces Where you can really control the lighting and take a picture with a black background and you know Do the appropriate color adjustment at an army level. It doesn't work as well now that being said If it's something you want to do because it's something you really love, that's fine Then the key is you need to turn the bone From warm white like it normally is into cold blue white with something like glacier blue And that's it. You just paint the bones and the skeletons and all the highlights use a universal highlight color of glacier blue And that's it. There you go So, okay, let's keep moving Uh-duh-duh-duh, all right No photon I ran up that was why it was late because I realized I forgot my hat actually so I had to go run up and get it Let's see James says he's watching from work from home very nice Working on Christmas Eve slash Christmas Day depending on where you are in the world. That's rough Uh James have interest want to say thank you for being a proper legend this year is always inspired by your work It has helped me get through a tricky year have a bang in Christmas. Well, thank you very much I that means a great deal to me and I'm very happy to to help Let's see Different James when they eventually get to the corn book what models would you like them to release with it? I? Don't know that corn needs any new models corn probably has too many models. I Would almost rather see them cup models Yeah, I don't I don't honestly know that there's anything new they need But you know I what I would love to see is that the blood altar actually have some real cool awesome rules Because that's like my favorite thing in that army and it it has always been bad. So how about that? That's my answer Crazy horse question now that you've been converted to a fall of nerbo. When will the when will the 24-hour army painting happen? I've painted a lot of models from that already painting five models. I don't I don't know I honestly thought about it. Anthony is the honest answer, but I'm not sure I probably 2022 sometime whenever I get broken by it Hey Vince first things first thanks for all the hobby cheating and rain and hell awesome. You're welcome FS War machine are you considering Kragnos and Gargants for 2022 not as a tournament list? I mean, yes, I'll play them a bunch I'll mess with Kragnos and a lot of different things my Kragnos. He's right there You can barely see him, but he's in the background there He is You know painted up not exactly in the style of my Giants, but with a similar basing scheme My Giants are obviously all Frank and Stinney and monsters. So I'll run in with everything I have ever all the destruction armies except gets so I'm sure there you go Nathan said just sent you the tweet Okay, cool. Yep, I'll take a look Nathan Uh Danny watch your snow based video from a few years ago wondering if you have any new products or techniques You've liked using since then My honest answer is it's pretty similar to what I do You know you mix up the I mix up a mix of baking soda White glue water and some snow material specifically This snow material snow soft flake snow This is from woodland scenics from a place that doesn't exist anymore in my town because they closed But that's what I use Then I just drop a little glue water mix or gloss varnish on the top to simulate melting snow or ice And then drop around a bit of the rough snow. You can use the pigment like the one of the things you can use if you want glistening snow is pearlescent pigment so Pearl X powdered pigments makes a wonderful pearl white pigment right here that you can mix into your snow and that'll give it the Sparkly look that snow often has in sunlight. So there you go. All right Christian happy holidays Vince. I'm very happy to help and I'm glad that all the videos are helping Okay keep moving A photon wolf looking at doing a classic Japanese ony paint scheme, but unsure on how to do the tiger pelt clothing Yeah, go back and watch my video on ironically go back and watch my video on When I painted that big squig when I did the tiger squig because that'll that'll give you the Concept of how to do a tiger stripes and stuff like that So if you watch that video, you'll I actually talk through how to paint things like tiger stripes I'm doing it on a flat surface, but it doesn't matter the same rules apply whether it's a first surface or a flat surface Kelly what's the best way to make sure your airbrush gets clean after shooting? Enamels should I use a second-hand airbrush to be safe and save my water? No, I mean I put enamels through there white spirits will clean it out. That's generally what I use Obviously do you know be fully masked up for that and have your hood running and all that kind of stuff both for the white Spirits and for the enamels themselves all that stuff is highly toxic, especially when aerated you do not want to be breathing that Make sure you have ventilation and things like that But yeah, just some white spirits will clean it out Then once all that's through I choose alcohol to scrub everything out one more time and good to go Corey question ever hobby from the couch or not at your desk No, this is where I hobby. I sometimes I will hobby in the other room. There's another room You saw I think Sam shared a picture of us sitting at the my big table out there That's my D&D table when when I have people over for a Vinicon. That's where we hobby from but then I just take a palette out there I mean the simple answer would be, you know get yourself something like like a small wet palette You can take with you a couple brushes and stuff in a pack if you have like the the exemplar wet palette here Is what it's just what I'm using for which is from game envy I really like because it has a little space inside it where you can store brushes and things like that But you know keep a limited Paint selection few brushes a cup of water and your palette and you're good to go. That would be my answer Which books would you recommend in regard of mini painting both things from James Gurney so color and light is really good As well as his other this is second one Oh gosh, I own both of them and I've read both of them and now I don't remember the only but yeah James Gurney Those are probably the best two books because mini painting comes down to understanding light and those two books really deal with light and fantasy creatures really well So that's my that's my easiest recommendation. There's a lot of other books. They're all fine But I particularly love those two Get have Happy holidays Vince does adding scale 75 ink tense inks to standard paint pots intensify the color Yes, although you have to make sure that it's the same color like it's gonna make them more those inks tend to be You know pretty like in a certain color like it's very red or it's very You know purple or whatever? So if you add it to a sort of thing that's not truly red you're gonna make that paint much more just red So if it was supposed to be an off red or a mixed pigment in some way It's gonna you know, delete that and make it just more pure red TP grant question. How do I me? That's a TP that's the question. We all must ask ourselves every day every day that we wake up and you'll answer it a new every day The real trick is that there is no one answer to how do you me? You me differently every day and certainly different as you change throughout your life and grow and Everything as we all do there is no one you there's only the many use you experience as you pass through this thing We call existence All right, hey Dorn Jr. James, how do you personally resist the urge to biobtain too many models STL's and stick to a manageable amount? Because the unpainted things hang over my head like the sword of Damocles and Caused me great objecta so I don't do it I take very little reward from purchasing things. I am extremely cheap and frugal So spending money does not give me pleasure Hence I have no I don't I pass things by very easily Yeah, I mean my best answer is be super cheap Here's a real tip. Let's talk about how we make this actionable. Here we go If you're gonna spend here's a rule that I live by if you're gonna spend more than $20 on something non-essential So, you know groceries or you don't count or you know, your heater goes out Obviously, that's gonna be more than $20 and that doesn't count those are essential things for your life, right? So you're so what beyond shelter food clothing, etc If you're gonna spend $20 more than $20 on a single thing Wait two weeks Don't buy it put it in some kind of add to later save for later wait two weeks See if you still want it If you do if you think about it a lot and you willingly come back to it, okay, buy it If not, you probably didn't want that much to begin with you were just tricked. So there you go Let's see Mega t-cash happy holidays to all you legends. Hey happy holidays to you. All right Sam airbrush question Do you still use washes as part of your airbrush workflow if so when if not how to ensure you have enough recess shading sure? Yeah, sometimes it depends on what I'm trying to do, right? If you watched the air bra all about the airbrush video with the dragon I used an oil wash, right? It just depends on what I'm trying to get at and The like it depends on the particular process. There's no set order. I do things in it's what do I would need to do for this project? so like with my with the dragons for these dragonrider guys from Stormcast I Did the whole mini and then did a Streaking grime wash all over it and wiped it off and then went back in a little bit with the airbrush to smooth some stuff out And then went back in with a brush that happened to be my order there because I thought that would be the one that worked best but you know, you can always just as I talk about in the in the airbrush in the ultimate airbrush guide you can You can recess shade with your airbrush just by creating a whatever the opposite is of Zenithal, Nolidial, I don't know something like that highlight You know you shoot a dark color like a pain's gray from below you'll achieve a lot of the same effect in creating shadows The problem with washes in general is that they don't actually create realistic shadows They like a shadow that's up on the top a crease that's up on the top of something here on the top My shoulders is not gonna be as dark as the thing under my arm or whatever, right? So that's I don't tend to wash things fully unless I'm speed painting in which case Yeah, let you know grip and rip it baby TP Grant, how do I make painting fulminators? Not a chore impossible. There is no answer to that What do gloom spike gets need to be competitive a new book easy answer Let's see Okay W. Soren I'm starting an Emperor's children force. I would like to shift from a dark purple to a flesh tone highlight How would you do that gradient exactly what you just said? Yep that Flesh like various and sundry Caucasian flesh tones are generally great for highlights of purple I don't know like a a Royal purple to a hex lichen then to some kind of medium or sunny skin tone. That's probably all you need That's good enough You're done. You might you might not even need three paints. You probably just use add dark purple and then that Yeah Uh Make a t-cache at my whole home is blue white light. That's very unusual Most people do not use like 6,000 k bulbs throughout their whole house but okay MJ question I see a lot of propaners work up from black primer. What is the pros and cons of black versus a zenithal prime? Sure I'll try to answer this sinkly because I am working over black on these guys Um, there are lots of propaners who zenithal and there are lots of propaners who just work from black And the key is they do that because it's their propaners and it's they know how to sort of work with whatever the starting surface is Now why do one versus the other okay when you start over just black you are Creating the lighting scheme Richard Gray does it because he's sort of a penultimate example Because he's not usually creating a zenithal light. He's creating a very specific lighting schema Usually with a hard directional light like this area here is going to be hard lit When you're trying to control the light very distinctly he has to build up to that If you're trying to do any kind of ambient environmental lighting Doing like an above zenithal when your light is actually two different directions of different colors isn't helpful So some people will will you know, basically do Grisee which is would be the proper term for this when it's not, you know, just light from above and They'll they'll use that to start just to make painting easier For anybody who's not like here's my question if you ask the question, which one should I use you should use zenithal? That's the easy answer Okay, because if you ask to the question it means you sit at a place in your journey of knowledge That it's going to be the most beneficial with you to have the light mapped in some readable way on the figure and Then be able to understand how to paint it better. Your colors will be more true over the top of it It takes less layers It's easier to actually paint more colors become easier to utilize That kind of thing like you reach a certain level where you're gonna know what you want to do Because you know how to use all of your tools to such a level of expertise. I don't mean that with any insult So please don't take it that way. It's just You know, there's there's certain questions that by asking the question you've given your answer Right because you just don't have that knowledge and there's nothing wrong with that. It's just that's the journey We all go on that's life Hey Ben Cantor, how you doing Merry Christmas to you brother? Saga of dice when you you when you use pigments. Do you put them on with a varnish or how do you go about painting with them? I'm using green stuff world pigments to paint potions on gobspring not doing terrain, etc. for context That's an interesting use of them Yeah, I mean if you're gonna use them as paint paint you could you can just mix them with a little varnish or medium Or something and that will have them set But sure like if I'm if I'm using pigments and something and I want to lock it in a varnish over the top will work fine Do I have this year's red gobble and squig I do not James how do you erase errors where your brush slipped and put a blob where it does not belong? I wipe them away real quick when it happens. Like I keep an extra brush next to me. That's not That then just scrape it away generally like flood the area with water and just wipe it away That's why I often varnish multiple times in the middle of work so that that way it's So that way there's a layer of varnish and I can just wipe it down Or if it won't dry you just paint back over it. No big deal easy easy peasy I'll redone Valkia would be really good. I did miss that that would be a good one. I changed my answer that one Rerolling ones Jack. What is the proper way to apply washes? I kind of just slathered on there I recently started diluting it and step my painting game up. Yeah in general so applying washes You should have some moisture in your brush. It should not be just a dry brush You should apply it on there You can you can take the wash and mix it with medium if you want it to be really thin like a contrast medium or Lamia medium The key is your brush needs to be always moving The channel is gone. I believe now, but I think somebody has re-uploaded all of Darren Latham stuff But he's the best example I can give you like watch Darren Latham work I'm sure somebody's done a re-upload of all his videos But he used washes exactly the correct way and effectively you you apply it and then just Keep working it around and pushing like your brush shouldn't leave the miniature. You're you're pushing it into all the spaces Smoothing it out and you keep going but like this is where I applied the wash And I come back and I come back and I come down and I come back and I go push here and there and you know That's how right you constantly be working the brush around working the wash smoothly out Michael question any advice on swamp basing having trouble selling the effect without overshadowing the model itself with foliage Yeah, I've done some videos on swamp basing, but the answer is keep it pretty simple You know a little bit of a thin layer of like water effect on the bottom some moss Which you can you can buy like old Train board flock and that's a good way to do To moss you just drip it in there with some varnish or something. I've done that in a couple of videos like I did it in my sewer basing video. I showed the moss trick So there you go And then just you know little tiny reeds something like that like little tiny grasses are a little tiny tufts It doesn't need to be anything big people will get it if it's wet and swampy. They'll get it Uh Let's see play paint it. Hey Ben some a full-time commission painter and I find myself painting primarily Star Wars Legion How would you paint a bright glowing lightsaber? Well assuming you're like OSL is its own question. I'll leave that to the side. I have videos on OSL I'll go watch them now that being said with a round surface that's lit from the inside It's very tricky, but the answer is effectively you need to pick two vision points on the miniature Which are usually like this on the angle of a lightsaber and there needs to be a white line going down the middle of it And then it works out around the surface to a true version of colors Like if it's a red lightsaber for a sith or something It's like white down these two sides and that lay on white down here, and then it works around to a true red That's I Think the good example. I'm pretty sure Rodrigo Acore. He did a big scale one a long time ago Like he converted a model into a sith and he had a really magnificent take on it To do do do Martin question this one's for me any tips on smoother pupils inside eyes Smoother pupils I mean it's really hard in this scale to paint pupils like the black dot But my best example is mix a good flowing fresh black paint with a little bit of like Payne's gray ink and Some surfactant or something like that with an ultra sharp brush and just confident touch. It's just something you got to practice Unface havens what do I do if I can't decide on a color scheme? Google other people's versions of that miniature slash army slash whatever and just spend an hour or so looking at pictures and find What grabs you and if that doesn't work then paint a couple and just go nuts and see what happens You can just prime over them when you settle on your actual hobby or your actual scheme. That's generally what I do Okay Let's see happy holidays Vince any idea what might be waiting for you under the tree. Yeah, I've got a few ideas I'm pretty excited. It's gonna be a good Christmas. I think Um Play paint advance. I'm looking to get into the YouTube hobby content creating game And I was wondering if you ever plan to make a video about how you create content and videos Oh gosh, maybe but I don't think you find my process very interesting You should watch somebody like maniac. I think it's done a video on it I know Adam talks about it some like they would be much better than me. I'm terrible at content I barely know what I'm doing. I'm really trying hard this year to step up my content as you'll see in some future videos I'm trying to really like up my game New mics new, you know camera settings dialing things in better editing stuff like that. But I'm a bad I'm a bad person to ask. I'm a teacher first and a video creator Just in seconds Uh, I just bang my head against it until it works Uh, Jermas I was going to try and learn airbrushing at a higher level than just base coding and I was going to do Nurgle demons for the learning would you recommend anything for helping my game? I think that's a great idea Yeah, I mean, yes Nurgle demons are a great thing to practice like upping your airbrush game on because they're bright and they're colorful and there's Let's see. There's tend to be like mono texture other than like spilly spilly guts So, uh, yeah, like that's Great great choice Uh, let's see warm weekly merry christmas. I'm starting a mall tribes army in the new year. I would like to do a Blee ancient gaelic theme. Do you have any tips, please? Sure, go watch my videos on doing detailed or complicated tattoos. I have a few of them I assume you'll want to have like the gaelic style Uh, you know tattoos. So that would be my best advice because other than that you could kind of go nuts Uh, let's see. Hey vents. I'm getting an airbrush for christmas So I'm excited for this next step my painting with normal acrylics. Is it okay to paint with a window open? Sure, you can also just get a hood like a little fold-up hood from, you know, amazon or ube or something And run the fan it goes through a HEPA filter. It'll generally be fine if you're concerned Obviously, you should you know kind of be wearing a mask, but if you're if you have a mask on and you're running that it's it's fine No issue. I mean, you know It's it's acrylic paint. It's non-toxic. It doesn't mean you want to breathe heavy paint cam fumes Um, but you know if you've got a mask and a and an air filter running through the back, you're good Uh, let's see Uh Chin, Chinum, do you think there is a faction that is in dire need of updating their models? Skaven easy answer Uh, oh, thank you golden rogue man. He's happy christmas to you and your family as well Mere view says he's going to say Skaven Got him Exactly, uh, tim reardon married christmas to you Starting an iron jaws army and we'd like to know what is a good dark yellow for their armor Uh, if you're actually looking to dark yellow watch my painting an iron jaws army over a week and you'll see the exact yellows I use That's my advice tim. I did a video on painting a whole iron jars army in five days and I painted them yellow So check that out and it's got all your colors in there Uh top three factions that need new models Skaven Uh, probably a lot of old Um Trying to think of who else so like definitely Skaven. There's still a fair amount of old, uh, seraphon stuff and then maybe ogres chaos dwarves Got them. All right, there we go Uh, hey vince, could you quickly go over what instances you would use varnish before completion of a model? Uh, all the time any any time you feel like varnishing it. There you go. That's what it is You can I varnish display pieces like a dozen times by the time I'm done and I don't always varnish them at the end You're trying to save your work lock things in you just did a very thing at thin ink or glaze and it's a fragile paint You used contrast you want to mat things out so you can evenly get an idea of the true color reflection Yeah, all of those things and more Um, yeah, you you can varnish like through your airbrush like 20 times throughout the life of miniatures not gonna hurt anything So yeah, all those and more Uh, let's see Uh, do do do Sorry, it jumped on me. So I have to scroll back here. Okay, there we go. Uh Uh, Marelda. Bonjour. Merry Christmas. Bonjour to you Uh All right, let's see Ariel. Uh, hi vince. Thanks for all the videos and tips earlier in the year I purchased an airbrush and I feel I messed up Some test models when I started would you strip them or just paint over them paint over them? Unless something primed poorly like had Orange peeling or texture in priming if you screw up a prime you have to strip If it's normal paint you can just keep on painting Larry the ogre here has been painted over like 40 50 times in the history of this channel and he is still looking Tweet as a tiger. I've never stripped him. I'm gonna paint over him again. I promise Uh, let's see Christopher McKinley. Happy holidays to you Uh, let's see Curiousness to a very good process for very pale vampire flesh I have a video on dead flesh with a recipe that's pretty good But effectively it's going to be you want like a mid-tone gray Scale color makes a color called miscatonic gray, which is actually pretty wonderful for this You want purple depths with slight reds in the sub highlights and then going to uh Like a glacier blue highlight That's an easy recipe Like vampires still have blood in them. So you want a little bit of red here or there Um, that's their whole thing. They want blood, you know, it's kind of a vampire thing Uh, okay Kendo Merry Christmas to you Uh Painting question. Can you clean brushes with water if using angst or something else needed? Sure, you can still clean with water though. It's always good to use brush soap If you get things stuck up in the ferrule, then you have to go all the way to get like a Windsor and Newton brush restorer works really well. That'll strip anything out of there Um, a good tip is keep a little bit like in your paint water Keep a little bit of surfactant or a drop of dish soap or something like that in there It'll help loosen a lot of that paint when you're initially dipping it in there and really free it from the depth of the brush And it'll make it much harder for it to um To get stuck up in there washes angst anything like that That's highly liquid has a higher chance to go up into the ferrule. That's the problem And once paint is up in that ferrule if it's not out of there, then you got to take pretty strenuous methods to to get it out uh Okay Wiggle wiggle wiggle's bottom. I have a bit of a strange question I'm someone that really enjoys the hobby, but being colorblind is a challenge Especially when I'm super confident in my ability to paint any potential advice Sure. So are you, you know, like I know there's a spectrum of color blindness there. Um, and So, you know as to how people receive color And my answer is if you're like if it's a red-green colorblind type of situation where those are appearing more gray and things like that But some part of the color wheel is still working for you and you can, you know, your eyes read that pretty normally Um Then, you know work in those colors like work in the colors you're comfortable in Um The other thing I would say is in the end the exact hue doesn't often matter It's understanding value and if you're still seeing tones of gray, then you're still seeing the important part Um, it might make you a better painter in the long run because you can focus more on value Which is what people often miss people. I think focus too much on color and not enough on value Light miniature painting is the study of light And so as long as you, you know, use sort of neutral highlights and neutral shadows And then you're just picking some mid tone in the middle That tends to reflect You know a color that you're comfortable with And I think that's really all you all you you need to worry about. Um, I think you you you can certainly, uh No reason you can't fully participate and probably be even stronger because it'll give you an advantage to focus on What really matters which is the light placement Uh Oh, samuel happy holidays to you Uh, let's see Uh, tass tassus. Merry christmas. When do you think the november review video be ready? I'm gonna do november in december as one Um, yeah, just because it got away from me this month. So I'm just gonna roll them together and do them all as one video Um golden rogue, uh, let's oh, okay. Let's see Uh, cool. There you go. Neat. Okay. So he had some he had some good advice there from someone else who's lived that life So that's awesome James for an oil wash over a brighter red I feel I should add some sort of red oil paint the mix of my black and brown oil mix If I do that will it affect the shadows? I mean you can you don't have to but sure you could Will it affect the shadow? Sure. It would make them less dark, which is not necessarily a bad thing Uh, kevin wait when it comes to pizza. Do you like it? And if so, do you like with pineapple? Yes, of course. I like pizza who doesn't like pizza weirdos Do I like pineapple? No pineapple is awful. My wife loves pineapple pizza, but she's crazy Follow up question. What are your feelings regarding peanut butter on a hamburger? I am allergic to peanut butter and will die if I eat it. So I would say against it Uh, let's see Uh, a rock with a cape no question for me just want to say thanks for all you do Well, absolutely. Happy holidays to you rock Uh, hey vince is there anything you can tell us about vincy con? 2021 the the one we just did recently it was a good time. We hung out we painted some golden demon entries It wasn't like anything too amazing. We we did It was just a good it's just a good time for us to get together and paint the those guys will appear in an upcoming video I'll tell you that much. We did record a little something Will we be seeing any more undesigned in the future? I hadn't seen anything pop up on there for a while Uh, it's a question. Uh, my co-host has been going through some real tough life challenges in the time of the pandemic So it's something I'd love to return to someday But I don't know. I really like undesigned. I really like talking rpg games I've I've you know, it's something I'd like to do more of I have a great passion for for rpgs, obviously um, if you know, you know and But you know, it's it's a question of I really like working with that co-host, but I'll I'll see I'm never going to rule it out Uh Grady bruised coloration for nergal black blue purple flesh tones. Yay or nay the green scheme feels blase wonderful Uh, also favorite art forms outside of miniatures. Yeah, sure. I The bruised look is super fine and good and he can be great. Oscar Lars did a video on it recently Um, and I think purple is a great tone for nergal. I think it completely sells. You don't have to be in the green tone Uh, what are my favorite art forms outside of miniatures? Uh movies number one movies are certainly an art form and I'm I'm a huge fan of movies Um live comedy is an art. I am a huge live comedy nerd as well as live magic. I've seen most I've seen a lot of live magic. I love live magic um I like You know, like I really hate most Ultra modern art like I went to the Tate and did not enjoy it at all Um, I went to the van go museum in Amsterdam and loved that quite a bit Um, the potato eaters is one of my favorite paintings of all time. I think it's a singular work of staggering genius Um, so yeah, I like a lot of art What is your favorite color to work with favorite color scheme combination of colors easy answer teal teal pink teal pink purple. There you go Uh, autumn lotus. Hey vince. Have you ever used any turbo dork color shift paints? Uh, I have not So I can't help you there my friend. I'm sorry. I don't really like color shifters as a concept. So it's not probably um Not probably something i'm going to be able to ever answer. Just it's just not my wheelhouse Uh mog why glad you enjoyed that? Uh, oh goobertown just did a great weekend. That's right. Thank you. Yes great shade out shout out james Absolutely goob's video is awesome about this. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes Uh, all right Uh, fuzzy videos. What's your favorite mini painting technique to do? Oh, gosh. I don't know that I have one um I like I mean I I like to use The best answer is whatever I didn't do last I mean really that sounds silly, but I I am someone who values novelty and change and stuff like that So I just like switching things up um Faraday, how could I paint a moonlit model and yet still have a wider spectrum of interest to use hues and play Well moonlight destroys colors, but the answer is you can put a secondary light source in um Like a warm fire or something that will read that will make colors show more true and yellow Or you can uh, you know push the the just the warm shadows in general Moonlit shadows are red So you can kind of take that to sort of a million and really really over exaggerate it and that can be an interesting That can be an interesting journey as well Okay Uh current question for you vince. Do you have a new year's resolution for your painting? Uh for my painting? No for the channel? Yes, and you'll see that in a couple weeks Uh, okay camp k Not painting related, but I remember a comment you made on weight loss from a member of gw Have you ever struggled with it? If so, how did you make it through to where you're now? Uh, well, that's you have a good memory. Yes, I was congratulating ben johnson who's gone on an amazing journey And I'm very very like I'm proud of him and I applaud him. It's a tough journey Yes, I used to weigh a lot more each way like maybe a hundred pounds more than what I do right now Um, how did I do it? I cut a lot of things out of my diet and exercise every day I mean that's I wish there was something else I could tell you but I mean I My exercise about 45 minutes a day. I don't I haven't had chocolate or any kind of processed sugar for 15 years I don't eat anything that's sweet at all. I never eat desserts. I don't eat in between meals. I don't snack Yeah, that's I mean like and I still am not where I want to be But you know We all have a journey So, yeah, there you go, but I fully respect everybody else's journey. It's it's a tough one Uh, and so, you know, if that's something you're trying to do for yourself in a place You want to be then know that I support you It's tough this time of year And and by the way, uh, you know, if you are on that journey, it's okay if you take a day or two off around Christmas Let's you still have to actually get some kind of joy from life Uh, all right Would love to spencer says he'd love to see more step-by-step walkthroughs spencer. I hope you keep that keep keep that vote in mind Uh for some videos in a while Uh, okay Do-do-do Uh, let's see. What would you say is a good scaven color scheme? Oh my gosh, any like There's so many different versions of scaven color schemes, and they're all awesome Whatever you like. I mean, you can have like more albino rats more traditional like brown to tan colored rats Red robes look cool white robes. They're dirty white robes look cool Classic like green pestle and robes look cool I really like orange robes on them. I think that looks awesome purple can be a great color like I mean, it's just scaven are so wonderful because they just work in a million different colors Uh, okay, uh, let's see Best way to strip fine cast without ruining it la is totally awesome Uh, yes, the mortal realms are slowly missing this tumbling followers appreciate. There you go Any advice on getting out of a specific phase in the of the hobby? I enjoy all the steps, but for myself Uh sticking to the building phase because it fits into my schedule as a working dad of a one-year-old um Yeah, I mean Set reasonable expectations of your painting like you work you have a young child who requires a lot of attention Cool, you know work with your partner and see if you can't set up a couple times Maybe there's 30 minutes two couple days a week Where it's just you maybe it's an hour if you can get the time Where you have no other commitments and you sit down and you just paint have your station prepared have your Palette ready have your paints ready have your paint brushes ready It can just be a little fold-up box you open up or something like that, right? So it so it's not at risk and just set that time aside for yourself schedule it And work on something that you find challenging but not frightening And that's what's going to help you you move out of that right It doesn't matter that you're not accomplishing a lot in any given week Life isn't about what you do in minutes. It's about what you do in years. It's a it's a marathon. It's not a sprint And you'll be amazed if you do that for a year what you'll accomplish So there you go Uh ariel, thanks. I hope you have a good christmas same to you fire ant farm Pretty sure you have a video on any question I might have so I'll just say thank you I'm trying that's the goal if I can get to maybe like a thousand videos I'll just have everything covered And then I can just all my future videos will just be referring back to previous work I did Uh Vincy claws is better Leon Any alternative to green stuff world uv epoxy? Hey, I'm glad you asked yes, there is So let's talk about uv resin Um speaking of goobertown by the way, he did an awesome video on explaining the science of resin But as I was messing with the green stuff world resin it occurred to me That this can't be something they made Like other people do this right? Like uv resin is a thing And so I looked around and sure enough it's used by um A lot in like making paste jewelry or like little you know costume jewelry making And so you can buy big multi packs of stuff like this. It's just uv resin hard And this is 60 grams of it And um You can uh, it don't mean like it's cures under uv light you can cure it with a uv lamp or with uh sunlight For example will also work because that obviously has uv rays in it and um, it dries this is like Super hard it comes a little different top that you screw on But I bought a bunch of these and they were cheap and awesome. So yeah, there you go Uh question soft or hard cookies being left out for santa tonight. Well, I don't I don't leave out any cookies don't eat cookies Um, but when I back in the day when I did eat cookies, it's obviously soft cookies I don't remember whether it was john or scott like who was arguing for soft cookies versus hard cookies but it's obviously soft cookies who Weirdos with your hard cookies. No you want it. You want a soft Cloud like a like a cookie that tastes like you're biting into a cloud might have been 15 years since I've had a cookie But I remember what they're like Uh, a super cut of all the times larry the ogre has been painted would be a great video. Yeah, that would be fun Uh, all right Merry Christmas from rayon, uh struggling with scale 75 any advice on working with it? Yes, it is a thick paint either put it on a wet palette And thin it down to a normal consistency and then treat it just like a normal miniature paint or Apply it very thickly but with a small amount like you put the tip of your brush Into it you get a little thick dollop you touch the miniature And then with the moisture in your brush your brush should be wet you then smooth it out and you paint on the miniature What I mean by that is you're actually we think often like a layer I might bend it down I go boop boop boop and that's it No You touch the dollop and then you take the dollop and you start pushing it around you push the paint smooth the paint There you go that kind of thing Uh patrick what format do you like the most to play in magic? Uh, well it used to be just traditional Magic I guess I don't even know like normal um If you mean like what cards are allowed Uh, I was a legacy player for a long time. I really love legacy if that's what you're talking about Recently though as a much more casual with it I've really been enjoying commander just super cash commander like going and getting the The new commander decks that come out whenever they release a set and just doing you know fun One-on-one games or multiplayer games with commander Um with with the stacked, you know the set decks because then everybody's you don't have to worry about building anything Uh, what color mix do you like for oil washing? Uh, what color mix do you like for oil washing gold or bronze? um I don't tend to oil wash them much, but a pretty traditional burnt sienna plus black plus a little purple will serve well Uh Reth on vince as the master of paints. Have you ever experimented with acrylic go go sh. Yes, I have they're actually you can see them in this shot That's them right there. Those are acrylic go's. Yeah, they're fine um, I've messed around with them. Obviously they're you know Uh They're okay. I didn't really see any special properties to it. I'm going to talk about a new paint I've been using sometimes soon on the channel that I actually really like But yeah, I they're they're okay is my answer. Nothing that made me want to keep going back to it Uh, Paul you studied philosophy. I did who is your favorite philosopher? uh camu probably if we're gonna do that um But I mean I I have a list um but like, um Yeah, I don't know the original Uh I like the stoics a lot. So epic teachers Uh, if I'm pronouncing that correctly, uh, you know Aristotle is always a good classic. There's nothing wrong with that Aristotle and playto Yeah, but there you go that that how about that? um I also like linemen it's a lot. I found him to be very hopeful but Ridiculous, but hopeful. So there you go We're talking like classical philosophers people who aren't really alive anymore Uh, all right, uh Mad freak question when is a good time to use wet blending? Uh, I'm trying to get smoother transitions and I don't know which Uh blending method to use. Thank you and happy holidays. When is a good time to use wet blending? Oh, okay, sure. Um, yeah generally for laying down initial coats whenever you've got a large flat surface That's generally what it's easiest for So if you have a large flat surface that's going to serve you well to do a wet blend Wet blending actually gets a lot easier if you use a bigger brush like the bigger your brush the easier it is to wet blend Um, because you can you want a larger flatter surface to smooth and mix the paint together So you don't think of like a boat in the ocean, right? The thinner the line it comes to the more you create a wake And you don't want that when you're wet blending you want things to be smooth you want a pontoon boat or something, you know Okay, hail hydro you often make magic references in your wednesday videos, which I don't understand Can you recommend a source that might help me follow along better, please? Sure. Um, mark rosewater has done some videos Um, those are generally pretty good Um Yeah, that would be a good place to start. Um Okay Uh, let's see Uh, oh larvae, uh, merry christmas to you Uh, how often do I use reference? Uh, pretty often. I'll often draw. I mean references. I suppose if we're talking like from a reference photo very rarely Like where i'm trying to recreate something i'm looking at or see If you mean like do I create a sort of vision board or, you know, a collage of art? um Yeah, very often. I'll often have inspiration folders and stuff like that Uh, michael waran or best pop color to draw the eye. I mean It depends on the overall composition of the piece, but human eyes are drawn to warm bright colors red orange and yellow Sort of preeminently among them Uh, let's see Uh, okay Let's see. Oh, hold on Do do Sorry, it jumped ahead on me. I have Uh, scan back. There we go. Okay. Got it. All right Uh, philip, uh, john ryan. Hello, vince. Huge fans. Thank you rasty. How do you manage metal color flow off brush? I've not picked them up for a while, but I call them being runny You always like with all wet extremely wet paints Your brush should never go from the paint to the miniature It should go from the paint to a piece of paper towel or cloth or something like that Wick out the excess liquid and then on there. It's all you need to do It makes them easiest pie to work with you just Touch the paint touch the paper towel touch the miniature. It's that easy Okay, uh, let's see Trifos any advice for how much effort I should put into people that are part of a large base? For example, slain space brains in the forage world primarks 80% of the effort you put into the main figure How about that? That's the number No, I mean, yeah, you don't want them to stand out But you want them to look well painted, but they should also be rough dead You see you can do things like pigment and stuff like that to mess them up and hide a lot of sins How much sleep do you get a night? I try to sleep seven hours a night Um What do you think about the scale artist? The the the key with my schedule is I don't waste time I always work It's not that I don't sit down and and uh, you know, just relax with my wife sometimes I do But then I'm working on something at the same time like I don't just sit still ever I work like if I stop the devil is going to catch me That's the key. There's a lot of hours in your day if you like Just don't ever stop Uh, what do you think about the scale artist colors the tubes? They're fine if you like a sort of almost heavy body acrylic I have no issue with him. I use them sometimes. I think they're okay They're very much like a slightly softer heavy body acrylic So if you like heavy body acrylics, you'll basically like these they're a little bit easier version of those There's nothing magical or special about them, but they're nice um All right Thank you goobs Farsi or hey vents if I drank your paint water when I gain your power at least become half as good looking Well, first of all, that last part is definitely not true. I am not that Uh, but as to gaining my powers. No, it would probably just be gross Um, but fortunately I've made like 320 videos and that is how you gain all my power. It's that easy Um, Christopher, do you have any artist interviews planned in 2022? No, not yet, but once we get back to conventions and I can start like Talking to people in person again and setting things up. I plan to get I like I do plan to do more next year Yes, those will come back But like I just want to go back and talk to people in person It's generally a an easier way to warm handshake it and then say hey, would you come on my channel and be interviewed? um Constantinos Merry Christmas Vince. Thank you for all the help this year. Hey, absolutely. Uh, what's the best brush on matt varnish? um that would be A k interactive or ammo by migs ultra matt varnish I understand monument's gonna come out with one soon as well. I haven't seen it yet I I hope jason sends me some uh, because i'm a big proponent of ultra matt But any of those ultra matt varnishes you can brush them on or use an airbrush. They work fine either way Okay, uh There you go the channel for darin latham stuff is not darin latham nice Um wiggle. I find your passion and enthusiasm for painting inspiring for someone that's painted for so many years How do you keep yourself motivated to keep doing the thing you love? Uh, it's an addiction. You don't need to be motivated to do things you're addicted to um, I it hits every dopamine releasing Uh Nerve center in my brain So painting is to me like breathing. I would feel bad if I don't do it. I get shakes if I don't do it for several days um So it's not really a question of how do I keep myself motivated? I draw incredible value from it Both short term long term whatever finishing a single armor plate on a display miniature or finishing a whole army in 24 hours I vary my project so I never get burned out. I change the subject matter. I change the colors the paints The brushes the things like that. I I always value both novelty and experimentation Uh, and make sure that I'm always trying to grow and learn and challenge myself and such in that way It never becomes anything that's repetitive. So That's my answer What's the difference between metallic varnish and regular gloss and is there any value in metal varnish? I think it's basically just Gloss varnish. I don't know if there's any difference in it. No, I can't tell It's a just a very glossy varnish. It might be like a very very glossy varnish. That might be the answer I I can't tell Thomas 5908 um Okay, patrick f Uh, I just received an archaeon from my slow grow league is a thank you for running the league Any any building tips owner of two archaeons? Um, leave archaeon separate. Um, you can probably attach the wings. They're not that problematic um But yeah, I mean I like but if you want to you can leave them separate as well I can't make your life easier You just kind of pin them and then you know, they can sit in with pins that way You know, you got them lined up and stuff. Um, but definitely leave he himself separate the the grand marshal of the apocalypse himself um Yeah, that's that's probably it. He's he's actually a pretty open model like he's kind of you know Big and open so he's yeah, he's big and unwieldy but other than that. He's not it's not annoying in any other way to paint Uh, Andrew Simmons says the soft cookie meta. Absolutely Uh, let's see Uh, Dr. Zeffi have gotten back into the hobby heavily during covid. I'm super addicted to it now There you go. How do you deal with the feeling of not painting fast enough to catch up with all the great Many's out there just set your expectation reasonably and know that you're one human being and this isn't a race Like I said, you've got You know Decades hopefully of your life left to paint. There's plenty of time. There's always going to be more minis There's always going to be things you don't paint and things that you do and that's life There's always a million things in life that we all wish we could have seen, you know You don't but you don't see lots of things You don't get to do lots of things or experience lots of things Don't get lost in the opportunity cost of what isn't value the You know the the enjoyment and the the circumstances and the experiences that you have Um, because if you don't pay attention to those they Brush by and then you end up always you end up never taking value out of anything. So Uh, let's see Okay John I'm trying to argue Oreo is the best. I mean, that's just that's just insane. That's just insane obviously Um Will white. Yes, I do hope to see everybody a golden demon next year 100 percent Gamble, why does Patrick Stewart look the same in Excalibur as he does now? It's a 40 year old movie Um, because when you reach max level you stop Uh Hey, hey there gary p. How you doing? Merry christmas to you Uh, okay Uh, what do you do outside of the hobby for work? I am a Uh, product manager for a major Uh, software company and I design insurance software. So we do that kind of stuff It is a very demanding job, but I I like it quite a bit Uh, I really like the pinky peachy elder emperors children's scheme. How would you approach approach recreating that? um brown rose from Vallejo is a good place to start but like beige red and brown rose and All of those kinds of things with just a little bit of purple as your shadow and so on and so forth Uh, people shouting out Marcus Aurelius. Yes. He was a Uh, I liked mark. I like Marcus Aurelius um Let's see Uh, Paul says he taught that stuff this year very nice um Chris tan says so here's what I don't get why are many painters so obsessed with matte finishes It looks awful on skin. It doesn't if you do it correctly because There's an easy example. I'll explain Chris why you want everything to be super matte Because when your painting light many painting is the study of light And when your painting value onto your miniature Placing light in places in certain places You're stating where the highlights are And when you allow things to have a shine and and slight satin can't have purpose I it's not that I completely disagree with it with you or something like there can be purposes to slight satin Sheens and stuff like that in certain examples But a lot of display pieces you want them to be completely matte because you've already placed all the lights So when I turn the miniature around and move it light shouldn't move It's an area that's dark or shadowed or mid-tone shouldn't be casting reflecting white light Because that's not where the light is. I've told you where the light is. That's what I painted Okay, so that's what you want to um Uh, that's what you want to basically put on there. Okay, so there you go. Uh, all right John what's your best advice for not letting paint get to the ferrule? I'm new to mini painter. I feel like it's happening as I wash my brush and water Um, yeah, I mean, it's not probably when you wash your brush But like I said, keep a little surfacan or a drop of soap or something like that in there Um, and that'll help a lot But yeah, I mean you just with very wet paint two things Don't dip your whole brush into it and wick off on a paper towel. There you go Okay Uh, all right, we're gonna we're gonna go into lightning mode here because we're over an hour Uh, these are all great questions, but I know that there's some stuff going on in the real world I need to get back to to taking care of Is there a decent silver or steel metallic pigment powder available anywhere that you know of? Uh, no, I can't think of one. I really like No, I can't think of one. I really oh steel. No, yeah, I can't think of a steel. I really like there's the gold powders from from green stuff world knows are great, but I can't think of a steel Um to practice skills. Do you suggest to do so on a variety of models or pick one model and get duplicates on it? I'm aware Uh, okay. Yeah Uh, okay, uh, my answer is a variety of models is always going to do you better like the the There's no reason not to vary your experience. You want challenges with things like textures and stuff like that, you know Uh, oh shout out for mark rosewater's podcast. Yep, that is a good one. Um, okay Uh far see your cheapy havens assuming we're aiming for a mid tier paint job How do you construct a plan to paint a mini? What do you prioritize? value like The that that I have an interesting composition so that the colors look interesting and in various places And that i'm going to be pushing values you're better off in a mid tier paint job with a with A with a higher level of contrast and worse blending than you are the other way around a flatter paint job That's blended super smooth. It's just boring and doesn't look interesting Um pushing your contrast and making sure you have a good composition Those are the two things that jump out to you first. So there you go What did your dog dogs give for christmas squee toys? Uh, miguel any, uh, Merry christmas any advice for beginner getting into the hobby just bought a wet palette My what to buy in your first six months video miguel is my advice I lay out the first six months and everything you should do so check out that video Adam i'm about to start painting an sce army raptors fulminators and vindicators any advice color scheme workflow plan of attack in general Oh gosh, that's a big question. I'm finding a color scheme that you really enjoy find a way that it's repeatable because it's going to be a lot paint one test model of one of the standard human people And uh, and then go from there. Yeah, that's my that's my best advice like look through the book for inspiration Or add other people and then search other people who've painted that scheme put together your painting thing do one test model and then Cut the non-value add and replicate Uh, can I ask about the desk setup for using an airbrush? I have an airbrush, but I'm afraid to use it because I don't want to make a mess in the air floor ruin on wall It's not actually that hard You need a small desk like a kindergartner three foot by three foot desk and a little foldable hood Which you can buy off amazon takes up almost no space. That's it That's all you need and then you put the little compressor under the desk It can be in a tiny corner. You need like this much space for an airbrush It's no room And you just run that fan it'll pull through the filter Uh, let's see Uh, I'm using reaper and pro krill paint, but I recently got a set of camara Do you have any tips on how to ease into heavy body acrylics after using thin paints? Yeah, sure just add water and water them down and get them flowing on your wet palette That's the easiest answer like turn them into something that feels and looks and acts like normal miniature paint and you'd be fine Uh, wolfen haven't just got here just want to say merry christmas. Thanks for all your work Are you planning on getting the camara expansion set? Yes, I have it ordered mine will probably show up in january Is gobswreck good. He can be in the right armies. What does he need? Probably more survivability honestly, but that's a big challenge Um, I'm thinking of picking up some alcade alclad. There we go lack of varnish for metals But it's super toxic stuff. It is but it is good stuff Mirbell vince if you could if I could give you any mini painted by someone else What would it be might be a new mini painted by a friend or favorite painter a classic golden demon winner or studio heavy metal piece Oh god Any mini painted by someone else, I don't know you'd have to let me think about that one um I've got a lot of pieces that have been very impactful to me So I couldn't tell you off the top of my head. It's that's a tough one Um, I own a few other people's miniatures that I really love but um that I've gotten from other artists But yeah, I don't know Uh, merry christmas to you useless wizard Uh, how would you do a sun drop for mini heavy board games? I don't know what that means jack. I'm sorry Uh, merry christmas from western australia and merry christmas jerome and daniel. Absolutely. Hey andrew wade andrew You've been doing some amazing work recently brother. I love everything you do andrew in the chat here Absolutely true artist someone who inspires me. You know what? I'm gonna answer my previous question I actually want something of andrew's that's what I want his stuff is awesome Um, yeah, I I love andrew stuff. He's he's like A truly inspiring artist someone I could never paint like because he just has a vision to create things in an amazing way So there you go. That's my answer. I completely stand behind that. Um, check out his his insta. It's amazing Uh, okay No, it has nothing to do with me being in trouble. It has to do with something in in the real world That's going on right now Uh, just christmasy preparation plus other Things happened Uh, no big deal. Uh, okay david. I sometimes find vileo metal colors almost too wet. Uh We're in dry brushing. Yeah, like I said wick off the excess liquid into a paper towel Uh, gray seer came back in the hobby after a long gap during covid really impressed by the community now But often feel my painting is stagnant never going to improve. How do you beat the hobby blues? You're always on your own place on the journey comparison is the thief of joy It's a platitude, but it's true The answer is work on stuff that challenges you pick a technique pick a thing pick a color pick a whatever That you are going to find challenging and work it fail learn do it again fail learn do it again be average at it fail You know repeat repeat repeat. That's it. You always need to be challenging yourself in any many you paint Even if it's for an army Or whether it's you know or anything like that can be a chance to learn something practice stippling This is going to be my non metallic thing. This is going to be where I practice stippling This is where I'm going to really push contrast on something. This is where I'm going to try freehand. Whatever Learning every day every mini a little thing Eventually fills out your toolbox of stuff you can do Um Okay Let's see Uh victor happy holidays any recommendation for airbrush shopping in the higher end models I don't catch care much for fancy features and care about something good and reliable. It's easy to clean Yeah, I mean, you know the Like your classic, you know infinity is a pretty great airbrush. There's really not much wrong there um But the the high-end Iwata's are pretty nice. Um, I really like them. They can do a pretty sharp line So anything like that Uh, let's see. Oh, Merry Christmas to everybody Uh, hey, Vince. Do you have a process for composing bases for centerpiece models? I have problems coming up with anything I'm satisfied with and appreciate some tips Yeah, put a bunch of crap on them. I that sounds silly, but I really mean that like Put stuff just junk like big big models like that. You just have a cross section of the world, you know It's like I just start pulling out bits and and broken things and just throw it on there broken tree branches and rocks and walls and Ship parts and anything like wood beams and you know, just junk just Make it interesting just put visual confusion around there. It can often be a scheme in and of itself is just like junk Because it's a big old section of the world and you're painting somebody who's theoretically in an area That where there's war going on so a bunch of destroyed stuff kind of makes sense Uh So I painted Dorgar blue with some purple, but now I don't know how to do the glow under his scales I don't I didn't I didn't do any of mine with glow under the scales. I don't think it makes any sense I don't I you have no need to do that if you were going to do it You would do it in a in a height in a in like a hot white blue But you don't have to Uh, what do I think about bone splitters cragnos list after his changes? I could be interesting. I guess I mean I guess I I'll have to wait and see I'm I'm suspect on anything bone splitters, but there's some people very excited about it Uh, let's see Is it possible to paint an army and only mostly oil paints in a reasonable time frame? Yeah, sure because I mean you're especially in an army because you can just work the first layer of a whole Like and blend out a whole miniature Times a unit Let them dry come back in a couple of you know work another unit work another unit You just let them dry like a week if you wanted to make sure everything was super cured Then come back into a second layer and and you do your high highlights and stuff like that Yeah, like army painting is actually a great way to use oil paints because you you're not trying to just work On one fig and needing to set to the side and then do no more forward progress You can move to the next unit or something like that Uh, ziggy merry christmas fence actually catching a live stream without any stamp until 2 a.m. Yeah, indeed Uh, let's see Uh boom boom boom Pearl merry christmas from france. Thanks for your vids helping a newcomer in aos like me. Hey wonderful to hear always happy to help Uh hobbit question will we ever see you step into the 3d printing world? No, probably not um I just like I paint 3d printed miniatures because I've got a friend who's got a 3d printer And so sometimes he prints stuff for me every so often, but it's just not a hobby. I'm super interested in I mean if they make it like really dumb dumb easy like a home printer Then sure maybe but you know, I'm I'm not interested in a second hobby And I don't have the patience to like watch videos and dial things in and all that kind of crap um As to like I couldn't give you any 3d Printing tutorials. I I'm not sure but I'm sure if you hit up miniac or stuff like that his recent 3d printing comparison video I know he mentioned some discords and and channels that are helpful. So I would check that out Uh, let's see coach coco, uh building textures and such minutes You're ranking with them and seem to have a leather and basic gloss. How would you do silk? silk is is stipples just thousands of tiny stipple dots Hey Darnell was uh, buddy. How you doing there, sir? Merry Christmas to you from Las Vegas or over in Las Vegas. Hope you're doing well, brother Uh, Levi use pva glue with sand separated in a sheet. How do I not have this happen? Uh, you need to mix the pva glue with some water so it more evenly spreads out Uh, how would you base pollution such as tarsot and ash and other forms of trash? uh weight like Not many hours until tomorrow and watch a video and there you'll see a mini that I did With a polluted base and that'll give you an idea Ask yet look at that video in the video that's coming tomorrow. You're going to see such a mini and then if you've got questions Ask me Uh, let's see. Happy holidays Vince. I don't have an aesthetic visual eye So I was wondering what helped you the most to hone that part of the hobby where you can decide what colors look good Um, yeah, I mean neither do I Just a good old-fashioned color wheel my friend and understanding, you know triadic and Split and complimentary and quadratic color schemes and stuff like that Just keep one of those bad boys handy Go look at other painting other artists and see what worked. Well, there you go Uh, Vince from aos next year. What would you love to see? Uh, a complete redesign of the scaven line and a scaven book to go with it Um All right, there you go So with that, I think we're gonna basically call it. I went a little longer than I should But I thank you everyone if you've got any final questions you can pop them in here as I'm wrapping up Uh, great content Vince. Which paint tastes smells the best? Oh, it's definitely that scale 75 artist stuff It tastes like mint. Um, don't eat your paint. It's dangerous. It's toxic. Don't eat paint But if you happen to accidentally get some of that on your tongue that scale 75 artist tube stuff tastes like mints Uh, all right Um If you scratch build larger models, how do you smooth out joins mashup seems? Um Plastic sprue goo. I have a video on making sprue goo. That's how I smooth everything out. There you go Well, there we go. We caught up. We got to the end of it Uh And I just want to say thank you so much to everybody who showed up who asked questions. I really appreciate all of you Um And I do hope you all have a wonderful Christmas if you celebrate that Uh at the very minimum a new new year whatever holidays you celebrate I hope at least you get some time off this time of year Uh to spend with your family with your friends. I hope you get some good painting in I hope you have a wonderful wonderful wonderful Uh at the very least vacation Christmas holiday new year whatever Uh, and if I didn't answer your question or you have more just drop them down in the comments after the video I will as always be happy to answer any questions But I thank you guys so so so very much for this past year for the channel growing for you watching Don't forget to hit like Subscribe do all those things. I really appreciate all of it. You're gonna see some I hope growth in the channel like into how I make videos and stuff like that in the new year Um This is a time where I'm thinking a lot about how to improve the channel So I'm thankful for all of you. You are all my best gift And I wish you all the happiest of holidays And as always we'll see you next time