 Hello everybody and welcome to another interview with the artist and I'm very excited today We're sitting down with Juan Hidalgo. How you doing sir? It's very good to have you on Hello, hello, Vince. It's it's it's a real pleasure to be here Sir, it's it's great to have you on so one of the fun things about this one is That it's rare. I get to interview someone whose work. I like so much who I have watched Personally like grow so much over the time period That that I've known you And why that what I mean is, you know, I I remember years back when you were started submitting stuff and I've just watched you month over month over month improve and improve and really Deliberate practice and grow and and now you're out there your channel rocks. It's full of incredible tutorials You're doing amazing stuff. The things you're painting are just absolutely fantastic. It's just so good to sit down with you, man It's a real pleasure. Thank you. I I mean I It's I I've progressed I think quite a lot from from when I started and it was all thanks to to YouTube actually YouTube videos and Including the Warhammer TV guys when I went back I Came back like about six years ago and I started and and I just actually went back because I started watching the Warhammer TV videos Duncan and all the other crew and and and they just gave me that motivation to start painting again and Then I I just discovered the Facebook groups and and all just escalated from then Yeah, I mean, let's dig into that a little so did you paint before that time in your life? Like was there where are you do you have the same story as a lot of us where yeah painted at one point in your life? Leave then you come back. All right. So when do you actually start what got you into it? Well, I started in the fifth edition Warhammer fantasy, okay, I've been a bit earlier than that 90 something I think was 97 or 96. I can't I can't really remember and I But I remember I started some months before that when a friend of mine Brought a white dwarf to school And I remember it was the white dwarf that included a a necromunda Ganger a Gang member, okay, whatever. Yep. I knew it was an orlock. I Kind of still remember that and I just got I just and I just thought this is so cool I have to get myself into this so I bought I think it was the next white dwarf or the two numbers after that and that Included in a Bertone and Archer because they were promoting the new fifth edition Fantasy box, uh-huh that classic showdown between the lizard men and Bertone. Yes. Yes ridiculous when you when you think about it was a ridiculous Proposition of a box because those those two one one makes Did just one fight Rarist fight in war. They couldn't pick two more outrageous people to fight You know though that box set I how do you remember that box? It do you have fond memories of it because I'll say I still love like the Soros that were in there I remember it. Yeah. Yeah, it was I I remember it as the greatest thing ever I mean like that was fantastic and and when you get back to it, okay They are all monopos and they are on all the scopes and you can really tell that but Even being old, they are still great. I mean, they are not bad the scopes at all. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, you can you can really see the the technology has evolved obviously But That's just But they the scopes themselves are really good actually Yeah, I've it's like those Brutonian archers. It's funny because what you've got is the sort of 2d syndrome Right in that box where a lot of people are yeah, I like that Yes, yes But they really had character they really did yeah, yeah, yeah All right, so you're in there. You've got those white dwarfs like It's funny because you and I started it almost the exact same time I guess maybe the same year. Yeah, I asked so Obviously because that works like that. I had two Brutonian archers So I said if I had two miniatures, I better just keep on going with with that line because I Otherwise, I'm going to waste two precious Brutonian archers So I asked I asked for Christmas for the box And they got it to me. I was I was lucky my That they that they actually because it it it wasn't it wasn't cheap for the time Those boxes are never cheap But I was lucky they got it to me and well that it they just started the a very dangerous Rabbit hole Very very dangerous You know, no, yeah, so so how long did you keep painting then at that time? well until until it got Until I had to decide between Painting and sculpting and finishing my my my university career, so sure That Because I I also started I I just get painting and painting and then I started trying to sculpt some things And then I posted one of my skulls because by that by that time it was I cannot remember what year it was It feels like a thousand years ago I I was playing a game by a Scottish company that was called urban mammoth and the game was urban war And I didn't like the scouts for some of the some of the mother so I made one and I posted to the forums And they like and I got a message like about an hour later that they wanted to buy it for me Oh, wow, that's pretty amazing. Yeah. Yeah, I just got a man and and if I was interested in working for them as a sculptor so I just did and Surprisingly enough working as a sculptor and a study in engineering is not really compatible Just the time requirement there Yeah, it's just Funny enough, it was it I just found out the hard way that it wasn't compatible. So at some point I I just had I just had to Decide if I wanted to work as a sculptor which it it was it was a very risky path or it just wants to finish the working of the Engineering and I took the second choice which was the conservative one and it works so well because I'm now working as a goldsmith Oh, well, there you go. So so yeah, so yeah, it was pretty useless, but you know Education and and all that stuff. It's never bad to have a good Never it's never bad. It's never bad. I want to dig into this because it's fascinating So you start sculpting now had you had any art background where you were You know, like had you worked with armatures before were you using like an armature to base from were you using like green? No, no, I sculpt again. Did you just literally sit down one day and go, you know, I don't feel like I'll sculpt a miniature Let's say it happens. No, I I actually started Making conversions like everyone else just take a bit of green stuff and just add some things to some stuff it wasn't good and Then one day you say I just want to try to sculpt one But back in the day you didn't have to do videos and you didn't have anything to teach you So I just had to go to several shops as the guys there then look at obscure web pages and and look for for tutorials there and I just started and the first minis were horrendous like really bad but But if you just keep going Eventually you are going to get to a point that you that you start to make progress actual progress and This one I feel I actually remember this one was the first one that I started using polymer clay instead of green stuff Okay, and I was really proud of it So that's why I posted into the into the forums and I just and it was Quite surprised actually that they offered me a job. So I took it. That's amazing No, that's fantastic. Do you think so you you you work as a as a goldsmith now you said, right? Yes Do you find there's an overlap in that skill set with being able to like Work in that very small intricate detail. Oh, yes. It is and in fact Coming back to the hobby I found I Everything is easier now now they have that very skill of working very small very precise It's making everything seem easy really I'm not going to To be I it just feels it feels like a half a skill now that I didn't have before Right. Yeah, I don't want to I don't want to jump ahead here, but one thing I'll say I mean, we've got a wonderful example of one of your painted miniatures up on the screen here that at night in Cantor she's gorgeous. Yeah, and Which I think is actually a Gareth Nichols sculpt it is a Gareth Nicholas sculpt. Yes, there you go and Which by the way, I'm I really would like GW to create the sculptors again, I think there's something that I completely agree Why don't I really miss credit on the box or or in there somewhere or reference on the page on the website or anything like that? Yeah, yeah, I think that is that is a shame because they have a meeting artists that are just unknown to most of us Yeah, I will say nicely if you go to if you if you follow any of them on social media because they are all Social media now and you just ask they will tell you hey, yeah, this person sculpted it So they'll get a tiny now. It's hard back today. You should you always have a sculpted by Right, whatever painted by whatever and they just always credit it Maybe because now is more of a team job probably I'm sure that's the case and you know what look I get it. There's no eye in team But at the same time I still like to know, you know, some artists took the lead on it And I just want to be able to know there. They're all doing incredible work But yes, yes, yeah, what what the reason why I say this is because when I look at your Painting style and especially like this girl is a great example We'll see a lot more as we go through some of your other work later on you have the same Precision and like I for extreme detail that I see and people like Garrett than Darren Latham and people like that Where you you can just work in this wonderful small detail seemingly so effortlessly And and I mean, I'm sure it's I know it's actually quite difficult, but you really do have a talent for it Thank you that I'm just jealous of I'm not gonna lie Well, it's it's just it's an And and acquire a skill actually this is just practicing and But yes, as I said before before my my job actually has helped me a lot with this Because most of the day I'm just sitting on my chair looking through a through a Microscope setting stones very small stones, right and that kind of extreme precision Because you cannot make a mistake if you make a mistake you are going to break something that is not yours and it's very expensive, right? So that kind of has given me that I know hunt Yeah, yeah, absolutely the delicate touch or whatever and yes Obviously, I am a huge huge fan of Darren and Gareth. So that also helps But you have to do you just cannot go Hardcore on that style you have to creep in slowly and this that's that's how I've been done it because when I when I went back I actually and I Kid you not I promised myself. I know I was I Wasn't going to get into into competitive painting again. I Just say that as I see to Ev your metal trophies like literally out. Yeah, just out of shot behind you Yes, well, yeah That's that's how Where where we are now, but when I when I came back I just thought I just going to pay my armies and he's going to play kings of war Which was what I was into I was going to pay my armies and he's going to just do something that I'm happy with but not But I'm not going to spend two months painting one many because that's not what I want to do and a couple Five or six years later here. We are and I just spent like three or four months painting one elder. So yeah Well the best laid plans Yeah, I mean are you still playing anything or now has it become full-time just like because now you're producing content and Painting has playing followed by well since Since we are all in lockdown or we have been in lockdown for a long time and everything is still a bit You know, yeah, the world is the world is on flames and everything I haven't been playing for a long time, but yes I still play dead soon and kids of war such two games by Monty games and they are the only games that I can really Care about because The rules are really well-written and I'm just too old to to be dealing with with bad Britain rules at this At this point, I mean, I Think that's fair. Yeah, I Find the same thing as I get older. I look for I I tend to favor simplicity where I can just understand what it is And move on like I don't have a lot of time. I just I used to play warhammer fantasy Like hard like really hardcore when I was younger and I just I tried to play that game again When I went back and then just I just can't be bothered. It's just It's such a mess The rules the rules are a mess. I have I'm really big I'm I'm I'm really fond of the of the of the setting and of the world But I just can't deal with those rules anymore Fair enough. Uh, no, I mean I look I get it So, okay, you came back you mentioned like I want to keep diving into this YouTube see you come back about six years ago you're painting on this you're trying to focus on your armies and You know, one of the thing I know you were involved with because I I mean I know you were part of the the PMP and stuff for a while and getting feedback and things like that How much did you foot when you when you were did you sit down one day and go? I want to improve right you understand. I'm saying like did you make a conscious effort to say I'm gonna get on this track And then what I did you pursue to do that besides just you know watching stuff because there's a lot of Well, I was I just finished painting my little men army. I remember clearly that and that was That was a very long time and that took what it wasn't fully painted, but it was It was too painted to a point that I was able to play it with almost everything painted and I Decided to just plan the next army Just to have something to just go on. So I dug out my Bretonians Because obviously those were my two my my two armies, right and And and I found my green knight Can I just say by the way kudos to you for actually keeping Those forces many of us who had a let's call it a break period did not manage to keep all of everything I threw away a lot of things. I'm I'm not going to kid I'm not going to to pretend that it didn't happen. I Did throw away quite a lot of stuff But I kept what I thought was the most precious of all of all those things and I'm really happy I did So I found my green knight In a box and I said, you know what I was always scared of that miniature to paint it. Yeah, I was it was I was I I actually Fell in love as Many did when I saw it in the white dwarf. Yep painted by Mike McBae. Yep. I mean A Unbelievably classic. Yeah sculpt slash paint job, right? Like when you mention you just you like almost everybody can just instantly Conjure it to their mind because Mike McBae painted like the platonic form of that minute. Yeah, I Remembered opening the white dwarf scene it and I think that's amazing That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen and and so I I immediately bought it and I tried to paint it Because I I was I was I Just saw it and I think that's not that difficult. I mean there's some lines and but I can do that. Well, turn us out. I couldn't I Really couldn't do that So he just was in a box for a very long time and I just I just opened the box So I didn't think I think now I can I can make it just this And I tried to make it as as well painted as the original as possible and Let me tell you that is a challenge Because you you you see that picture and you think well, I can do freehand So that's not that hard. But when you actually get to the miniature, it's tiny, right? Yeah Yeah spaces that you have to paint those intricate lines are Did they just they're tiny? Tiny it's not near as big as you think like you look at the picture when it's you know It's all blown up in the white dwarf and you're like, oh, this is good. Wow. I can do that. Right. It's easy It's it's really really hard and I pushed myself with that mini Really really harder than I've ever done before probably and that sparked They'll just make something click in my head. I think When it painted that and they're just escalated from that Nice nice Okay, so what did you do then to pursue that you've made the decision, right? You're like, okay This was an all like it that challenged you was by the way Was it the challenge that got you with it got you going because I found that that's what it's me When there's something I try and it's really hard. It makes me want to do it more, right? It was the challenge and it and it was also Succeeding to a point, right? Feeling like you got somewhat there. Yeah, you know, you even push it far. Yeah. Yeah, exactly because I now Take that meaning to my hand and say I really like it, but I could do something better with the metallics For example, I could push myself more there or I could make something better, but I'm not going to touch it Right, right, right Okay, but yeah, so then what do you do to actually take the steps like obviously you're we know that that we know that you know YouTube tutorials are out there. That's fantastic. What else were you pursuing? Did you you know, did you form a group? Did you have somebody give you feedback? What you know, what kind of steps are you doing? I? Have I'm quite lucky to have another really good painter here Very close to me that I that I play kings of war against and we used to talk a lot and I also have several what's up and and And that kind of groups but we talk a lot. Yes and recently I've joined a group of a what's a group with probably some of the best Spanish painters are there and They also are pictures and they he feedback which is amazing Yeah, and and you do have that like I'm not gonna lie once again I'm jealous. Obviously Spain is a hotbed of some incredible painting talents there. So yeah, certainly It's it's when you when you start to see what all those Spanish painters are doing It's it's quite amazing when you start to dig into out of the GW sphere. Let's just say off of painters and you start to dig into more the mark mas clans and And Banshee and and Another people there are a lot of people. Oh, yes Are now and and a lot of people and this is They have so much talent. I mean like it's crazy the things they The life they can bring to a bust. Oh, it's just astonishing Agreed agreed. It's it's it is it is awesome It's it's truly amazing, but at any rate, so you're you're you're working with all of them How much was actually getting did you start participating in getting direct feedback is what I'm trying is what I'm, you know Honing it. I I did but it was in the PMP. Actually, that was my my first dive into the direct feedback Because I joined one when it was still Yahoo group Yahoo page or whatever and that was my first Like getting to the feedback and trying to be better And then I tried to and then I make a conscious decision to try and learn NMM That was a game changer for me Not because of the NMM itself But the things that is that it that it teaches you to be a smooth the glazing Be the how the light works thinking about all those things. Yeah, and also You have to put such dramatic Gradients into such a small space and One next to another one next to another that you learn brush control and you learn glazing and Blending really really well just by just by trying to paint the NMM. I think it's a fantastic technique if you want to To learn how to paint better No, I completely agree with this. So this is something I've mentioned a couple times and I'm so on board with you here because the The funny part is and I see a lot of people some of you see like, oh, I don't like NMM because yeah Okay, whatever fine. I'd like whatever you personally like aesthetics. It's fine. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna hate on anybody You can like whatever you like in painting. We all have base. That's aesthetics. That's a personal thing Despite my funny voice of impersonating that person But but it is a thing that I would you know once you've got the kind of basics under you Like right like once you're comfortable enough with kind of painting the basics You understand how to get your paint down how to control your your brush, you know It's not something I would recommend you start at should not be like a day one thing Please don't do that. You're not gonna don't do that. It's it's not the right time But like once you understand the basics you understand basic contrast and you know how to highlight and how to shade like all The basic stuff we we learn the absolute basics starting to explore with NMM is such a learning Thing not because of what you're not because of the NMM you're trying to replicate No, exactly what you said, it's the it has nothing to do with it It's just trying it just pushing your those techniques that you know to the extreme. Yep Yeah, and that's it basically taking what you know to the absolute extreme because you cannot do anything That is more complicated or more complex in painting that That's what NMM is I Think yeah, I mean it the you can the integration of NMM into other light sources, right? We start mixing in colors and stuff like that because the upper end on it's so high I mean like I just want to draw everybody's attention real quick to really Describe what I'm talking about here if we look over at this the the the encanto or who's on screen right now Notice that the secondary reflections on her breastplate here How the red from her I don't know what this thing is called her arm tabber. Yeah, whatever This piece of cloth is being reflected in the metal, right and So it's gonna teach you like the road of what you can learn by Practicing it is so high as you said the glazing you understand light better you understand brush control better You understand blending better you understand light sources and their secondary reflections like and on and on and on and on Right the top end of it is just so high that it becomes almost like a teaching method for yourself It is it's it's basically that it's just taking What you know and and just pushing it into the absolute Extreme of what you can do with it. I Except for painting like the hyper realistic Faces that people like like mark Muscle and spades. I don't think there's any anything that's more complex than then and then the painting Really good-looking NMM, right, right? Yep. Yep. No, I agree. All right, so Now you've been on you know, you've been doing several different projects Yeah, obviously now when did you just start when did what what catalyzed your decision by the way to start teaching and sharing on YouTube? Well, I was It's a couple things. I actually started the channel a very long time ago because I said I I just went back into sculpting I I got in touch with a friend that has that has a very small major company And he was producing some halflings Nice, and I we just got talking about sculpting and he just give me that each so I start sculpting again finishing half made project And I was that were abandoned like ten years ago and and and I just started Recording those that process. It's just it was just me sculpting things It wasn't there wasn't any voice over or anything. It's just me sculpting and And then people start to ask me how do you paint that? How do you paint that? And I was just so tiring to write that down all the time on Facebook That is it. Well, I'm going to make a video very basic videos I mean, it isn't it wasn't going to be any voice over which if you watch my first videos There aren't any voice it's just me painting and just trying to make simple videos as well made as high as I can make them I mean like I wanted good production I wanted the all the all the graphics appear in and a good intro and whatever with a background music and you know and I just And I just start to make them and I made one of painting I think green was the first one then red and then I did blue and In the blue one, I really don't like painting blue people ask me why what what do you hate blue? What do you what is that that you're coming from? I just don't like painting that pure blue I think it's really boring so boring to paint and the worst thing is the only thing the only way You can highlight it without changing the hue you want to maintain the pure blue is adding white or black Into it. You want to shade it? It's so boring It's just a boring very boring color to paint and very hard to glaze because you are just adding white So I made a fun intro on that of Me saying I just hate painting blue and whatever and that just and And then I thought what this speaking to the camera thing. It's not that bad So in the next video, I actually painted a wooden shield with different color like freehand wood grain right and Whatever and and I just I just cannot do this without talking because I cannot explain it You did the I need to explain so I just said what is it wasn't that bad last the last time So I'm just going to do it again And then I started making videos like more serious videos and the channel started Getting some traction and then just We are just here now Contrast paints came out. I just have to make you videos about them and yeah, here we are Right on So here's my question now that you're you're making videos and your videos are fantastic. They're great quality I would highly recommend the channel will be linked down in the description if you're not already subbed Please do go sub You're just doing incredible content I've directed as I said before we were on air and I'll say again now I've had people ask about things like red non-metallic metal, which is one of the really truly most Difficult NMM colors you can do and I've directed everybody who's asked to your video because I really do think you you made a just a masterwork Tutorial of how to get at it. Yeah So go check that out. But here's my here's my question for you. Okay, here's the tough part Now that you're making videos, how much time do you actually have to personally paint for you anymore? Absolutely nothing. I Just don't paint anymore. I have I have two armies painted and one more that I started and it's just It's just I haven't painted a single meter for me in months It's all projects either for for competition or for the channel There's just not not any more army painting at all Well, I'm lying because I did paint something for the channel that I'm going to use for my armies which is the asterian spectra, but That's a very happy Happy coincidence. Yes. I'll be coincidence. Yeah I will say that one of my biggest things I do is try to like Extract from whatever I want to work on from my For my armies the tutorials I want to teach like if you can make those two things overlap. It's very helpful. Yeah All right So you mentioned competition there and I do want to get back. Yeah, obviously originally you had made this this Decree to yourself not to get back in but you try to get out, but they keep pulling you back in Obviously, I can you had you participated in Ed Banger there Yes, are you look are you getting ready to do? I mean like again assuming we're on the other side of all of this that we're living in right now Are you are you looking forward to to going to some? In-person competitions. Did you get to go to any before? No, I didn't okay. I didn't I didn't the first real serious competition that I entered it was the head banger It wasn't this year. It was the year before Which I won two goals and then this year I went back in in deep But I had to go into the masters category now Having won and I just got absolutely owned It was it wasn't it wasn't even it wasn't even funny But but yeah, I do plan to go to the to the next Golden Demon whenever and whatever that is fantastic We really don't know when that is going to be Isn't that the truth, I'm personally still hopeful for whatever Warhammer fest slash thing looks like in May of next year My fingers are crossed. Yes, exactly. That's right. I mean, we'll we'll see Hopefully that That would be a very good date and maybe if they announce it is they will make me push and finish my my pieces for that because they are now halted I just I Well, I got so exhausted with the first part of the of the main entry that I just I just needed to arrest. Yep So let's I wanted to go into that real quick. Yeah display display painting competition painting step above display painting, right? Yeah Can be Let's be honest exhausting, right? It's mentally taxing in a way when you're 80 hours a hundred hours 120 hours keep going right into a piece There can just be there's there's literally a where on you where you just it becomes hard to keep going Yeah, how are you? How do you how do you fight that? Do you set it aside work on something else to refresh yourself? You know recharge your batteries? What's what's your strategy for that? Well, this is some other area that I found that my job has helped has helped me Over overcoming that wall so to speak because Most of my job is as I said, just sitting on chair and just grinding through a thousand stones for a piece for example, right? So it's just it's it's very precise very detailed and very Hard work But it's mind-numbing so I just I just could shut my mind and just keep doing because I I know all the movements really Well, but I I have to still be concentrated and it's really similar to to to computation painting in a way And I just I just I just do it. I just Not shut down my mind, but just not think Not nothing in how many hours I have ahead just finishing the next thing Gotcha, got it. Just do you set yourself mini goals? Yeah, I gotta get this little piece done Yeah, I go into finish that bit of goal I'm going to finish that freehand and they're going to finish and then and then I go to the next one And I'm going to highlight that area and then I go into highlight and just keep grinding a little bit Yep. Yep. That really helps me. Yeah, I agree. I use the same thing. Well, let me tell you what sir I very much hope that Golden Demon happens in the UK and if so, I'll see you there I'll say I like assuming they allow us back in at this point It was that's going to be the hard part at this point I can't go anywhere because I live in the US and nobody lets us into your country But assuming they let us back in I will be I will be there Yeah, assuming this this doesn't turn into a Mad Max sequel. I think we will we will all It will be a pleasure to see you there. Yeah 100% all right. So let's take a look at some work Shall we let's let's start looking at some stuff and I'll have you I'd want you to share some stories behind it Okay, okay, so we're gonna start off He's now up on the screen. We're gonna start off with the the shovel night Yeah, and so kind of I know you've done a couple bottles in this range like that is to say from this on this theme Yeah, the shovel night universe. So but this is obviously that the character himself. So yes, the first one as well Yeah, yeah, yeah walk us through. I was what made you want to do this and yeah I've always liked the game. It was a really good 2d platformer and One day I I can't remember why I was looking through Google About things about shovel night, and I I really can't remember what I was looking for and I saw it I saw a conversion that someone has made. I have forgotten his name But he doesn't even have social media of a guy that just took a stomach as added a chaos Warrior head Made a shovel out of different plastic parts and it was really cool. It was really well painted and they just thought that's genius I need to make myself one of those so I did and And He was he was just going to be one It was going to make shovel night and then move on But you know how these things are no turn into a project. Yeah it was it was going to be a One time and turn into a massive project when I'm starting to build all the characters from the game. So yeah Nice now, I can't help but notice that this guy is the color blue It is blue yeah So it was that also part of it because you had been on that did you have a mission against blue With some part of your thought like I'm gonna I'm gonna conquer blue here like I'm gonna get over my hatred I'm gonna work with it. I'm gonna make it interesting somehow partly. Yes, and also this was It was with this many they painted his leg gold that I started to Try to to conquer NMM So I painted his leg gold Obviously that that wasn't that was that was never going to be the final color It was just it was just a very convenient leg that I had lying around sure So I made a video about painting gold in the Devin Latham style. So it obviously had had to be a leg Because that's the only thing he paints Yes The most popular thing you see on the internet space marine and storm cast legs. Yes. Yes. Yes and so I painted the leg and then I made a Joke video about me painting it blue over it over that Really hard-worked gold and a man And he just thought it was really funny and and then yes, I And when I had anyone had to paint him I said well I could just paint it blue NMM and just practice more of that try to do something in the style of Gareth Nicholas the kind of Reflections he does which are more blended than the Devin Latham ones Then Reven just paints white lines into the dark shadows to simulate the secondary reflections While Gareth makes them more blended And I just wanted to try that style and I also wanted to try and make blue interesting. So one It has the the four sources of light Yep a style of an M that Gareth and Darren developed actually I think they they actually developed that together back in the in the heavy metal studio days and And I just and I just thought well When when the light is hitting a certain surface and it's from the source of light that is close to it I'm going to paint it with hot blue. That's it's just a teal so I just highlighted teal in the parts that are closer to the source of light and the parts that are Facing a sort of a source of light that is not the direct one. I made a very desaturated blue Yeah, it's So and I just thought that would be quite interesting I thought that it would make for a very interesting looking mini So it has a two tone effect actually if you look at it You can see some parts are really intense and bright Another highlights are like more muted and I think I thought that was really interesting Yeah, no, you can definitely see the difference. I mean just for the audience if you look at his helmet It's a good example right where you can see the sort of intensity of the two different light sources Very much on display so that folks get a good idea of that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah No, I think that's a great idea. It came out. Well, and it does make it feel like there's You know different lighting sources that are all kind of blending together, right? But you're still getting the the hot hit of that that light source that he that's that's somewhat near him. Yeah came out great um Yeah, I I do love the work on the shovel itself by the way too. I mean we can't underestimate that That's also a really nice really nice touch. You just you captured the reflection of the shovel in a fun way as well Funny funny enough. That's that's that's the only part that I'm that when I look at him. I think uh, I'm not sure I'm not You know those when you paint something then You kind of yeah, I'm happy, but I'm not sure that's that's the right way That does that's the only bit that I'm when I look at him. I go just shovel I'm not sure that shovel is It's highlighted the way I like but I'm not going to touch him Sure. No, I get it because it's such a weird shape Right. It's very weird tape because it's all it's all this and it's sort of this weird sweeping wave pattern Right because you got an up and then a down and then an up and then the down and up down. Oh, you know So yeah Makes it unusual that to have a surface that with that kind of shape that is also that shiny, right? Yes Uh, the the curvature of it is almost more like what we would expect on cloaks Ironically, right with the all these up down patterns. Uh, but it's obviously not something that would be highly reflective. So yeah Okay, fantastic. Yeah, I love this dude. Uh, and this guy spawned a whole the your your whole, you know Universe concept there of where you started converting these guys. It did and I It's it's it's a funny thing because This guy has quite a quite a lot of work put into him And a lot of people has told me, um, would you bring that to golden demon and and and And the answer is always no because it's it's never going to win anything Of this guy, so I'm not really bothering much because it's not an in-universe character It's like painting an orc red If you paint an orc red for a golden demon, you are not going to win Yeah, you have to be in their universe. Yeah, you have to be in universe. So yeah, yeah One of the things they are very particular about this Uh, but it's a great piece of it's a great piece of work. No doubt. I'm really happy with it. So this project is not a competition project It's just some fun thing that I'm going to make Which I'm not which I don't know if I'm going to sell after I'm finishing it I'm back to thinking about it. Well, hey, I mean One I'm sure you could find somebody who wants to buy it if you did But at the same time, it's just a really cool thing to have right like, yeah Yeah I just I just I just feel sad to have minis in a shelf that is that I'm never going to see A gameplay I'm just that kind of person Please don't look behind me. All right, so I didn't really Uh, okay So now let's speaking of of regulars of storm cast traditional storm cast original recipe storm cast as it were Uh, so now we have up Our big storm cast guy with our grand hammer Super classic You know original recipe storm cast and uh, what what made you want to do this guy? Because this is like the classic scheme taken to 11 Well, I I wanted for for my first um AOS Heavy contrast series in the channel. I wanted to paint the like the the The definition of h of sycamore and that is the storm cast whether we like it or not that's as well If you think about AOS, you're going to think about the storm cast if you think about 40k You're going to think about the space marine. That's that's that's how the games are So I want to paint one And I wanted to also try to push myself in my metallic games because there's always metallic paints are weird And they they don't they don't follow the same rules as regular paint right In how they work and how you apply them So we wanted to make something that it's a bit pushing myself a bit more than than what I usually do, which is a base code of of a A choice metallic a wash and highlight with silver I do for my armies. I wanted to do something a bit more More in line with my nmm Experience, so I added that kind of tmm effect, which I'm really happy with Now were you using matte paints? Were you using inks because obviously I mean, I hope everybody sees all the wonderful subtle Glazing and ways you've taken control of the light, which is the number one thing I always say with metallic paints Just don't do I mean like again if you're just going for an army or whatever do what you will but in general I I ward people off of of Just washing their metallics completely because you you really do change the nature of the the surface and the metal itself In these you've taken much more deliberate control here. Yeah Yes What I what I usually tell people is don't let the metallic paint Itself dictate where the highlights are going to be right Make them yourself because if you just rely on the metallic pigment It's not going to look as good as if you intentionally place the highlights Where you want the reflections to be even if the paint itself shines You really need to create an intention and for this guy. It's just all contrast paints It's just a base code of retubutor armor classic GW paint And then just contrast paints to shade it and and some highlights adding silver to that. It's just very simple Nice nice, but contrast paints are really like a very sweet spot of What I like to shade metallic with metallics with Because they have enough shine To not matt down the metallics too much And they also are very really transparent. It's like a really really nice. They are fantastic for for working on on metallics Uh, I completely agree. It's actually my favorite Use for contrast as taken as a whole Uh, they're just so excellent actually over metallic paints Uh, I I'm not sure if everybody's really, uh You know cottoned on to this yet, but they're just so so wonderful But it also becomes so easy to just add subtle tones through the various contrast paints into your metallics, right? Because they're not overwhelming No, they're not they they just have almost the exact right amount of Uh pigmentation transparency and hue for what you're trying what you want to do over metallics It's just it's just a lucky recipe. I don't think that was actually their intention, but it works out well I don't think it is but and It's it's I think it's I think it's really funny. It's it's not that they That they market them that they marketed them wrong because they they have sold A bajillion of them. Sure. So they so they really did a good job with the marketing, but I really think they missed a point In this kind of work with them Yeah, because you don't see them doing this kind of thing and this they are so good for that They will sell more among the the more professional painters or the more, you know pro painters If they did Obviously Most of the of the pro painters are already using them for this kind of work as you do and and Another time. I know marco frisone also uses them And a lot of people use this contrast paint from type because they are really good. And I think uh, gw mist Just a tiny bit of the market there not not making them look appealing for For the moral bands Painter from the start. Yeah, absolutely Because they can talk about how like it's it it can have two purposes, right? It's it's okay. It doesn't have to be this It's not it's not only a hammer. It can be a multi-purpose tool as it were. Yeah, yeah They are they are selling them as a system, which I don't I don't think is a good idea But obviously they are they are doing really well. So What what do I know? All right, so let's keep moving Uh, next up we've got uh, this big guy. I don't remember what this game you told me right before you went live And I still don't remember but this guy is real big is the point this this awesome He looks like a no-one thing, but I know it's not actually no-one thing No one no one remembers this This game ever is is one of those tragedies because it's a fantastic game It's an asterian as a spectra from the game that's owned by mantik games. No, there you go. Okay Yeah, and it's it's such a good game. It's one of those games when you play it when when you when When you get someone that is used to playing gw games and and all that kind of games and you And you get them to to just try that some once they say this is amazing How is this game not taking over everything? And it's it's just because it's not made by gw or another big company mantik. It's just mantik So so what made you so this guy is obviously pretty big is this actually like an army you're playing What was your what was your motivation with this? Yeah, that's that's that's for my dead zone A strike team. Okay. It's a a skirmish game and this is probably the latest model they've they've released for the game And he's just massive. It's just so big But yeah, I I just wanted to paint it for actually mantik send me that mini to paint nice because they every time that that That's people asked for for dead zone examples all my work is always there because The big tragedy with with with mantik games is that no one really puts an effort on painting Mantik minis. Well, not even mantik Right, which I think is a shame. They are starting now. They just I think they got Angel Heraldo to paint some of their newer stuff. Oh nice Yeah, but not but not the old ones and and it was thought they are not that bad. I mean, they are really nice minis There are some gems there. So I always try to paint them as well as I can And it was the case. I always posted my all my Asterians in the in the several facebook groups and I know they're in all of them There are people from actual mantik there that interacts with the people And and he got in touch with me and said, do you want one of those to paint for the channel? I said, yes, of course. I want one of those three minis. Yeah sure three minutes that I actually want because I I have I have offers for free minis for to make videos, but I They're not stuff that I'm interested in. Sure. So I just I I always politely decline because I don't feel well painting something that I just not interested in. Yeah, you want to if you're going to do it on your channel I'm a completely agreement. You want it to be something you're actually passionate about you think is cool. Yeah. Yeah, I always When I have someone ask me if I do commissions or if I do that kind of work I always tell them no, thank you. I'm really appreciate you asking By all I that sounds too much like a job and I already have one and I surely don't need two of those right I don't need to I mean I already have a job I don't want two jobs. That sounds like like a horror story to me I just want I just doing this for fun. Basically, right Right. So when people ask me if I want to paint something for the whatever brand The last one was a guy that made it had a 3d printing mini patreon And I just I mean, they are all the minis, but I'm not interested. Thank you right And when mantik got in touch with me and I And they already knew that I played that faction. That's my main faction They're my main army for the fall dead soon and they offered me as a yes, of course I'm going to paint it and I'm going to find a way to try to promote it So someone sees it. So I just made I just luckily enough My my color scheme is inspired by the far side enclaves towel color scheme. Okay So I just made The best towel painting video with any towel in it And that's how did you find this because I this is one of the bigger minis I've ever seen you actually paint and share. Yeah, how did you find? You know scaling up to this size was it was it super different? When did you find you had to change your your normal tactics some like what what was the experience? It was painful. I'm not going to lie to you The I I really don't like painting big minis. It's not for me. I really hated it But it's a really it's a really beautiful mini. It's also a gareth smith sculpt Gareth gareth nicolas. Sorry gareth smith Fucking thinking. Yeah, it's another gareth another gareth nicolas sculpt And it's fantastic. It really is It's really it really shows it's made by an x gw a sculptor because it's leaping off something Sure, the leap. Yes the leap But it's a really beautiful sculpt and it's really well made and it's a delight to paint actually it it was I What I don't like is When you have such a big surfaces, you really have to put some more effort into them, right? Especially this that are really rounded So you nearly need to put more effort and I'm a bit lazy sometimes for my armies. So this was A bit of a challenge, but it was it was fun because I know we're going to use him There you go. Actually he is going to he's going to be there. I also had a lot of fun painting his his base He's a rubble thing. He's leaping from which is really different from for what are you for the style? I used to paint things Yeah, it's very like rusted and and streaky and all of that I don't see you paint a lot of like heavily weathered stuff like that I wanted to make something that contrasts the the character of the of the mini really well because they are really advanced Technological robots So I wanted to make something that was like the direct opposite for the base. So it will make him stand out Low-tech old weather. Yeah Yeah, so I just had a lot of fun with that. Yeah, that was that was really really fun I wanted to make something more for the shield my first idea that that shield comes almost like that from the from the from the box I just painted in the lines, but I just couldn't make the paint that stick to it. I wanted to add some shadows in the and Make it like he's shining like more like an m&m style lighting some shadows with the with the same blue glaze that you just follow He saw but just paint just won't stick to it. I don't know Maybe the type of plastic or something like that. It's a kind of resin and it's extremely hydrophobic It's it's ridiculous. I I even tried I had I have another one. I even tried Hitting that with a matte varnish spray. That was gonna be my next question. So yep, you're gonna step ahead of me Yeah, and it made it Better but even the spray is high. It's making that shrinking a bit. Wow. Wow. Yeah Yeah, it's it's I don't know and I I obviously cleaned it. I made everything and it's just really hard to make something stick to it I don't know what they are making it with but but yeah, so just just painting The the research lines that are on the back was I just have I just had to basically flood them with paint Gotcha. Gotcha. And then eventually just enough of it stay there. Yeah Right on Okay, cool All right. Next up we have we we return back to the uh shovel knight universe for the uh shield knight Shield knight and yeah, this girl came out fun. I love the sculpt you decided to use for this because she already Like she just fits really well With uh with she's really done and obviously you had to do there's there's work there being done. Certainly. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, but just the sort of core frame. I think it's really what is really more than There is more of the more work than than what seems apparent because First of all, I had to cut he all the The tabat that is hanging the like the metal scale tabat that they that old stone has half. Yep And that takes a lot of work. I had to re-sculpt a big portion of of of her leg It does not show Yeah, I just had to carve it out of the plastic. I just cut it roughly and then went with them with an esecto knife and just Trimmed it and sculpted it basically Like carve it out of out of the the raw chunk of plastic that was there. Yeah, there was a lot of work there. Yeah It came out fantastic Yeah, I mean you you couldn't tell at all. I mean obviously I recognize that it's not there just because Yeah, paid a lot of storm cast too, but you did a great job of getting that looking clean and smooth There aren't a lot female storm cast models Especially not for the earlier ones for the liberators. So so that was like the only option I had Gotcha. Yeah, they're making a lot more of them now, but the early the first version they were they were was not many of them at all Yeah, no Seymour couldn't find enough heroines Female heroes to turn into scone into the storm cast and then suddenly he found like a like a pool of of Female hero salts somewhere. I guess So tell us about the uh So talk about the the the red nmm on this one and and you know, we mentioned it earlier This is obviously the model where you you have the tutorial drawn from And tell us about what you were aiming for what, you know, was there did you test on other models first? Did you come to a recipe? What was that? What was the process you went through here? I did. Yes. I actually Test that out. I have my my test Space marine here. You're hold on. Let me let me realize you real quick so people can see there we go Oh, oh, yeah, sorry And you can tell one of that's what it tested the red nmm Actually, you can see yeah two legs there and the blue nmm was tested there my recipe there Yeah, always good to have an extra store or space marine around here super useful um and cheap pride Primaris marines from the from the from the magazines Gotcha, so I just yeah, I have a bunch of those just to test Uh Techniques out so I just What I what I did is I love um Gareth nicolas, uh red Blood blood angels nmm. Yes. It's incredible. It's so beautiful. So beautiful So I actually went to his um etsy page and I bought a couple of his guides Which I totally Recommend people they are really cheap and such a good Thing to have they really are they really are a fantastic product He really puts a lot of work and and and I and I also wanted to support another artist, which it's always it always feels good So I just bought several guides including the the blood angels one and But he basically what he does for red mm is you take red you take black and you take white And you just throw them together into the mini With a lot of talent and you get a beautiful red nmm so That wasn't going to work for me It was and it certainly wasn't going to work for a for a good video because I try to make my videos easy to easy to replicate Gotcha, that is not easy actually I There is a lot of work that goes into just figuring out a recipe that it's easy to make So what I did is try to I he has another another guide for a crimson fist And his fist is painted In a similar way as this and I thought well, this is easier because it has more orange So when you add orange instead of white, it's always easier to blend So it's always easier to to blend So we're easier to work with So I just I just thought well, I'm going to make something similar to that But using a stock colors as much as possible So I just I just basically took what he asked what he he uses in that guide And I try to look for colors that come in that come pre-made that are similar to those And then added a bit of my of my own touch into it Right So the idea was to make a red nmm that was easy to make And it this in and didn't require you to mix And to and to balance colors as much as the classic red nmm does So yeah, they has a lot of desaturated oranges As highlights, which I think it works really well Yeah, I agree. This came out wonderful She looks she looks absolutely fantastic Also, just by the way, it's something we haven't talked about a lot But I one of the things else and it's the reason I chose this picture of her I also think you just did a great job on her face Like her the the skin her eye like everything is like she looks really alive and it's wonderful Funny enough, that's the stomach cast mask Is not the her face is not It it started at as the as the mask that the mini has Really? Yeah, I just sculpted the teeth. I sculpted the eyes And that's it basically Wow Okay, all right. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. Well, she looks fantastic. What it was that is amazing I was having such a hard time finding a face To to to Kid bash because I mean there are no female. There are very few female stomp cast I just couldn't find a separate face that I like it that I could buy in a bit space. They were all right sold out And I was having a really hard time and And just one day just looking at the At the at the at the frame at the plastic frame and said well, maybe I can use the mask It just need eyes really And I'm going to try it and I did and it works surprisingly well Especially because because you can't see the top of his of his head basically, so the only thing you see is the Is the the front of the mask? And I think it works really well. I'm really happy with that. Yeah, no came out fantastic I would I'll tell you this here's here's the highest compliment I can give I would have never guessed that that was the case in a in a thousand years Yes, like if you look I have picture in so I I I think I just posted I also posted in social media previous to that The the the unpainted version and you can really tell it's it's just the same face Gotcha, gotcha. I'll have to check that out. But no amazing work then this this went from a from a 10 to a 10 plus my friend because of that It's so great. The only thing I would probably add now because actually someone suggested this in the comments of the video And I'm really glad glad that they did that he did I I can't remember who he was He said that instead of mixing black into the corn red and then black for the last shadows To mix incubate darkness and use pure incubate downs into the shadows And I thought that was such a genius idea. I thought that is genius And I used that into my next into the copper video that I did. Yep. Yep I I just added incubate darkness for my final shadows instead of black and it's so it's such a good idea And it's such a richer color just because of that addition of that green you makes and and it makes for a deeper contrast Funny enough, it's not as dark as black, but it makes for a darker contrast for a starker contrast because it's also contrasting in temperature right, right All right, awesome. Okay. So we've got one more here and uh, I saved this one for last quite intentionally Okay Uh as this is one of my favorite things you've done I love this. I know this project took forever. Yeah, uh You know, I I am also like I have cover art that I have also Uh You know sought to recreate and I thought this was just masterfully executed So I just for those who don't know obviously this is uh, you know, one of the 90s covers of one of the eldar books from 40k I don't remember the exact edition second second edition, maybe second edition. Yes second edition 40k. All right and uh Man, you you killed it with this. I just like the way you incorporate all these different tones The the way you captured the art. So just tell us about this one because this thing is so good. It's so much fun I actually cannot remember when I when I decided to to start painting that But I think just one day I just again, I just found the mini into a box because As we all have I have random boxes full of miniatures everywhere. Sure And one day I think it was it was it was cleaned up or it's just uh, like Packing things together just to save space And I I just found him and I said It's not a it's not a great looking mini It has flaws But I I think I just recently saw Darren Leibem a painting or sharing a A dire a dire old dire adventure elder. Yeah painted. Yep Like if you know how he likes to paint old hammer and middle hammer stuff a lot Yes, I just saw one. I said that looks amazing with a bit of effort it it can really make Such a blob of a mini look sharp And I thought I I want to make that too I I I just got the urge to paint an old mini and try to make it as look as Look as good as possible And I had that elder into my hand and I thought You know what? I remember someone painting the cover Someone I mean I just It cannot click into my head seeing it in in a white dwarf And and I started to to google it and and and yes someone back in the day Recreated that that that cover using like a conversion of this mini I thought I want to make that but try to make it as close as possible to the cover right like like try to make it As best as I can this is one of those examples of me trying to paint as good as I can paint This I just cannot do anything better than this. This is my absolute limit of my skills so I just It I just first started painting one side of his helmet just in case I Wasn't able to to make that that freehand work So I just painted one side of of his head just in case just to Just to see if I was able to And it worked surprisingly well. I was really happy and I said, okay I knew that when I finished painting that side of the head. I knew I was in for a very long time I mean I knew at that at that moment that okay, do I I now have I now have to finish it and I know it's going to be This is not going to be a quick painting right This is not going to be a quick paint job So I just I just I just started painting it and it's one of those things that you just Don't have to think about it. Just you just you just have to go Now did you have to sculpt or change anything or was the original thing? No, no, that is the original thing Yeah, and that is one of those things that I kind of regret not making Like not changing the sculpt to look like the cover He's pretty close, but yeah, there's a couple differences. They're they're never exact they're never exact he's he's Left leg should be on top of kind of a rock Like a banded and his arm with the sword is above his head in the original one. He's more like doing this Yeah, yeah, yeah And and he has a A pistol in the original one if I'm not mistaken in the in the artwork and I just It's one of the things but I already had The head painted and I said I'm not going to to risk damaging it right I'm I'm not going to risk it. So I'm just going to paint it like it is Because again, I I really thought I I wasn't going to be able to make it. I'm not going to lie to you Uh, well this came out absolutely fantastic I mean this is This guy blew me away when I first saw him. I think this is you know, I think this is still my favorite thing You've you've painted because it just it evokes so many one it evokes so many happy memories in me But two because you just execute it on this so flawlessly it just feels so good The thing it's it's it's more of a challenge than when people think Obviously, that's not something that everyone can paint but But it's more of a challenge than people think because The sculpts of that era are so They they just don't have sharp edges, right? They're very soft. Literally. They are a blob Everything is it's it's it's rounded So to make it look sharp All the lines that look sharp and look like he has a hard edge That was more difficult than anything else that and the apps the apps were insane The freehand the freehand on his apps. I still I really still don't have a clue how I managed to to paint that Yeah, I think that's one of my favorite things about competition painting is you'll be in the heat of it, right? Yeah, and just doing it. Yeah, and then you kind of get to the end you look back and you're like, I don't know how I actually did It's one of those things that if I had to make the to paint that again, I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to right right Like genuinely he came out absolutely fantastic, uh, beautiful beautiful piece my man Uh, I'm really proud of him. So I know I'm not even going to try to to pretend I'm I'm surprised or anything He's awesome. All right, let's bring you back up on camera here. Yeah and uh, if if anybody has any questions Uh, go ahead and drop them in the chat now and then uh, we'll ask those questions So if you've got anything drop it out there, but of course we're going to do some lightning round questions here. Here we go my favorite Okay, so lightning round questions Uh, I think you probably know these Uh, and here's the first question Which is yeah, and you can only pick one. Who is your favorite miniature painter past or present? Okay, that is easy because it's Darren Lever Not because he is the best But because he's a style is what What aligns to me the best Gotcha. Yeah, like it's it's what appeals to you aesthetically. Yes. Yes. Yeah, they are they are far better painters than Than him not that he isn't good. He's really good But they are painters that I just blow my mind when I see what they paint But Darren just aligns with my style So well, there's just it will be it will be really It would be a different respect to to him if I if I didn't pick him nice nice. No, I love it Uh, so we know you're not a fan of blue, but what is your favorite color of paint? To paint yellow Okay, probably that would not be a popular choice. Why yellow? No, it won't be it's just I just have a lot of fun painting it. It's just one of those things that you just cannot rush and I It's it's very it's not a hard color to paint Really if you if you take your time And it makes for a really It's just I just when I see something painted yellow. I just I know I just I just I just like it It's just something that I really enjoy painting. Yeah, it's beautifully eye-catching. I mean, it's obviously why imperial fists are the best face marines Yes. Yeah. I actually the the army that I started painting and it's not finished. It's my high elves And they are yellow. I started painting them yellow I wanted to paint a full army of yellow elves And I and I was having a really good time painting it but you know the channel and everything I just paint one elf I just spent one elf a year or two elves a year and I'm happy with it. Hey, you'll get there eventually It was a matter of time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right, and then My last lighting around question is and you can construe the word type however you like What is your favorite type of minis to paint? That's a good question And even even if I don't play H.O.C.C. I will say that the storm cast are my favorite minis to paint Just because they are such a delight to paint I mean, they just paint beautifully. Yeah Such such wonderful volumes all over them like all the volumes. Yeah. Yeah Space marines are really good, but they are limited in what kind of volumes you get They are more straight lines, right? While the storm cast have flowing flowing curves and really beautiful shapes and everything is such so well made The skulls are fantastic. The the the mold technology that the GW Has is unbelievable I just I just converted the They how is the name they Larissa Saddle-Starker the limited edition. Yeah. Yeah, uh, Tomcat with the spear and The the mold on her is such such a beautiful engineering And She's incredible. I think I've painted that many three times now. I mean, she's so beautiful. Yeah, so beautiful I butchered mine. I turned mine into a flying floating the spectrum with a site That's uh, sounds awesome. Yeah, it's going to be the next The next shovel shovel shovel cast nice. Nice. All right. So we've got a couple questions here Uh, so first of all, um, somebody said, uh, does one have any channel to follow? Yes, it'll be down in the description. He has a great channel. You should go subscribe Uh, the and then bar hammer says do you have a favorite, uh, favorite fantasy Fantasy race or 40k race or a os race like any of those things? Well, I will I will name one for each Okay, a favorite fantasy race The list of men I just I just love them so much Because you can you can go nuts painting them right any colors on the board or anything's on the table. Yeah You can make everything with them. I have an army which each all these kinks are painted the same But each monster is painted differently, right? So it looks like a different animal because they are all animals So he's painted each type of animal different and just looks so good on the table. It's just beautiful 40k That would have to be elder And a os I will probably go with the storm cast Okay, nice So, uh Mad studio says and this is a great question. He had he had left actually on another Interview video. Oh, is there any new painter that you that you've noticed or somebody that might not be as well known That you think is really awesome that you like Like anybody you're following that you think isn't, you know, they're not super well known, but you really like their work Yes, I actually I actually have one Yes, I guess actually if you if you let me expand on that on that question I actually have one painter that I really really like how he paints. He really I really think he paints way better than Than than me and that would be a friend of mine, which is called alvaro alvaro larreo which I think he has I think it's uh Let me let me just look how the name of his Of his of his painting page is Sure go right ahead It's silver silver school painting studio on on facebook and on instagram And he really does a fantastic job. He's such a good painter silver As silver skull Okay, got it silver skull. Okay, right on. I will I will I think I can I can link Yeah, if you throw in the chat, I'll link it up there. Yeah, yeah, perfect He is a fantastic painter And he really he really is Very very talented the problem is he just doesn't paint any gw stuff. So That can be a little tricky to Sure to to make yourself known if you only paint Obscure games on and that kind of stuff, but sure he's really he's really good and I also like to I've I've been enjoying A lot of small content creators lately. So I just like to throw a shout out for For one that I really like which is um A Eight eight point at the start painting which I think he's he's really He does really interesting videos Nice, nice. I'll put the link in the description Sandorock like he linked it in our chat that he and I are and and I'll make sure it goes down in the description Yep Wonderful. Okay. Um dicey. Hey dice. How you doing? Uh, he said Uh, how do you get the laser focus that you seem to hold? You think it just comes out of years of training with your job? Is that what I like with your work? um, yes, and also trying to To good to get good good brush control like really precise. I really recommend people trying bigger brush sizes So try to move away from the double zeros And zero brushes. I basically paint everything now with a size three and a size four If you get one of those with a sharp point and you learn how to use it You will learn how to be very precise Very quickly. Nice. I like that Yeah, uh Gavin says uh excluding shovel night if you could paint a model from any video game book or movie What would it be? Is there anything out there that you would want to see? Yeah, I would really like to see a really good, um Elric of mended bone miniature Oh, yeah, sure Oh, I love that book Those those books actually it's probably one of my favorite books to read and I would love to see a really good range of minis out of that but Gw made but no one's ever done like a 54 or 75 Mill version memory at least not that I'm familiar with It's not I saw some Someone painted one once in a magazine a really long time ago But I thought I think it's or either a custom Custom sculpt for a competition as the No, you know how how how competition pictures sometimes have sculptors make them just custom custom sculpts for you know, like um A crystal brush and yep And why not because that makes a bigger impact if no one has that mini So I think it's one of those cases or either a very Well-made conversion or a custom kit or whatever Nice, and so and I always wanted to paint one of one of one of those. Yes Nice. I like that's that's a super awesome idea. And plus what a wonderful fun challenging paint scheme too Because it's with his uh with his you know, that sort of albino-esque skin color there Uh, all right. Uh, Mikey says, uh, does backstory and fluff impact your enjoyment of painting a specific model? Uh Sometimes when I'm painting my army, yes, of course, uh, I have I have fluff for all my armies Actually, because that makes it that makes it See more alive in a way So you can add that that fluff little touches of that fluff all around All around your army. For example, my my my proton an army back in sixth edition, which I played solely with with britannia Was didn't have any knights Well, I I had I I had to have one unit of knights because that was mandatory for the for the army. Yep But but I I used, um Erran knight minis and be instead of the of the realm knights Gotcha. So the the young guys with the hair flowing And I made the army like like a like a poor Like a poor lord that doesn't that really cannot afford any any knights fighting for him. So we just have a lot of peasants Nice, and I thought that was and I thought that was there was like a real fun idea. So only Only like a like a lord for in this grace So only only peasants and erran knights and and that kind of people join him because No other knight will will will join his ranks and I just thought that was a really cool idea And I just and I just did that And it was a really good army actually it thought really well in the game too, which surprises people a lot Hey power to the people all right All right, very good. Well one that's all our questions. So thank you so much buddy. This has been absolutely fantastic I really appreciate it for me as well for me as well It just we just been here for a kind of an hour and a half and it's just the time just Just has flown by I could I could be here another hour completely I'm gonna say thank you very much, sir. Thank you everybody out there who's watching like I said links are down in the description So go check those out subscribe One has such amazing tutorials such a fantastic painter. Thank you sir once again for sitting down with us today Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for having me It's been a real pleasure. Absolutely for all of you out there. Thank you so much for watching and as always We'll see you next time