Free STL file for this mini! bit.ly/3qs43HI This video was a collaboration with Loot- they sculpted a sweet mini, and I painted it! It's a great figure, I can highly recommend it. :-)
Well, this video both taught me a new painting technique and provides a mini that I think will replace my current captain for my campaign game of Five Parsecs from Home. This mini gives off such a vibe of a brave leader with a good, cheerful attitude and the sort of guy who really cares about his crew. My current mini is fully enclosed, and just doesn't have the right feel to it for the crew captain. Scaled down, this guy is just perfect
I'd recommend trying another method: a pen. You can get micron pens with very fine nibs (I typically use Sakura Pigma 005 which are 0.2mm wide) that are just the right size for panel lines in miniatures. They give you a lot more precision and control than a brush and they're faster and more convenient as you don't have to keep reloading them with paint/ink. They're also great for doing eyes on miniatures. I'd highly recommend giving them a try.
Agreed! The Micron Sakura pens, .5mm are good for panels as this one typically fits inside the panel. The only warning here is to make sure the ink is totally dry before moving forward with any next steps. Solvents can reactivate the ink.
I also use Microns for scribbling down chicken scratch on scrolls and purity seals! I get much more control than using a paint or ink with a brush, and I can get some convincing-looking script much more easily.
@@GoobertownHobbies Micron, Copic and Faber-Castell can all work for this purpose. Lots of nib types and sizes available. Decent colour variety as well. Also really good when you need to have lines/panels on a flat surface after painting as well.
I'm more and more convinced that Brent is the God Emperor of Mankind. Who can deny the such a stud, with those golden flowing locks, while standing heroically in that glorious power armour?
I love this technique for almost all Tau models. From battlesuits to troops it works so well. The standard Tau armor colours of White, Yellow, Blue and Red really pop out when you can do this well.
from someone who's looking at gunpla customisers on youtube too, those guys give details to huge flat panels with panel lines. when panel-lining those guys choose the color of their inks and don't just go with a pure black. If they're panel-lining white armor, they use a light gray, if they're panel lining a off-white armor then they use a yellow or orange ink. I think hobbyist should give a look to the techniques used in this other great hobby :)
@@GoobertownHobbies A lot of youtubers actualy use black as well, since the less contrasting panel lines can come out a bit understated in fotos and videos
@@piethein4355 I could see how at the smaller scale of most tabletop minis, you'd want the black for a greater contrast that pops more when looking at them across the table.
If you want to pin wash with acrylics you can wet the area and wait for the majority of the water to evaporate. There will still be some water collected in the recessed areas and touching an ink to them will initiate a similar capillary action as what you get with solvent-based products
@@GoobertownHobbies can't take credit for coming up with it but it's definitely handy if you don't have the necessary ventilation for using solvents safely 🙂
I wouldn't recommend this if you use Nuln Oil, though, Citadel washes typically react really badly with water and they leave a chalky white residue. It ought to be fine with inks or other products though!
That's a really interesting thought. I've seen other people using makeup sponges to gently remove excess oil washes after the fact, and they would probably work really well for removing the water quickly to try out this technique.
I like how there was inking, then everyone got obsessed with washing and highlighting now I'm seeing videos about panel lining which is just new vernacular for inking. This hobby is awesome because you always get to come back around and use old experience on new models, and despite the learning curve for new players and modelers, there are tons of options and techniques to fit your taste.
Oh my I'm SOOOOOOOOOO happy a mini painting hobby channel has addressed panel lining as a legit technique for mini painting. I learnt about this from doing scale models and it absolutely changed the way I do mini figures. Personally I can't believe GW hasn't introduced their own "panel line" products. Anyone who has painted a marine or guard tank battles away with standard acrylic washes when an enamel panel liner could do most of the work for you.
They may be reluctant to on the grounds that a lot of their customers are inexperienced and/or children, so if some of their paint range can't be mixed with water it could damage the first impression that their customers get of using their materials. Being the closest thing the hobby has to a household name can have its disadvantages, I guess.
I grabbed a bottle of tamiya panel liner, a while back for this after looking around gunpla modelers' videos, and I really like it. I think it's well worth venturing out into other related media, especially ones with different subcultures and priorities for techniques. There's some really interesting things to be learned from people with different focuses. Gunpla models are all about large, perfect flat panels with crisp lines and mechanical detail, and the techniques to make the most of that are really well developed. Plus, because they tend to use enamel paints, there's a lot to be learned about how to manipulate that medium. I really appreciate this though, because the models are different, and adapting techniques works best when you do the work to understand the underlying goal and find the best thing for your models. I do really like the tamiya liner's built in brush though, that's neat and has worked well for my purposes.
Yup yup! There's a ton to learn from all of these adjacent hobbies. I actually think the tamiya in-bottle brush is a bit big for panel lining purposes... but it's amazing for their extra-thin plastic cement bottle!
@@GoobertownHobbies I love that little extra thin cement brush. Dry fit the perfect alignment of the parts, hold, touch the seam with the tip of the brush, cement wicks into the seam, perfect join every time.
Yours is the only channel that I can put on my Chromecast and watch with my family and they dont duck out of the room bored or I get nervous about someone's crass language. Your skill is topped only by your chill demeanor.
Only Brent could have so many models with his face on them and not seem conceited about it. This was a really interesting comparison! I was wondering what else I could use other than my FW inks.
Classic oldschool technique! I remember seeing the Japanese modelling magazines at the hobbyshop when I was a kid and literally EVERYTHING had panel lines made with Micron markers.
I missed this old music. There is something heart warming about it and reminds me of summer a couple years ago where I first started watching your videos in a sunny pub garden. This when I got back into minis after 25 years in my late 30s
Brent, I wanted to take a second to thank you and to let you know how much I enjoy sitting with you as you discuss miniatures. Although we haven't met in real life, I, like many, consider you a friend and a blessing. Thank you for your time and effort.
Many years ago in the dawn of time, there was a youngling who found the beauty of an ultra-fine black ink pen and his metal D&D miniatures, unfortunately, he liked this style too much and used it on everything, this was in a time before Acrylics hit the big time and Humbrol ruled the land, a time when Games Workshop was just starting out, when £100 bought him close to 80 miniatures as separate full-price Lead mini's not in packs. A time when there were more than one games/gaming shop in his local city & none were Games Workshop! This may sound like a fantasy land to you but it was on earth some 40 years ago. I painted nearly all my mini's (badly) but their one saving grace was the black lining, some of them particularly the knights in armor looked great others looked odd, but I loved the style. If I had continued over the 40 years I would have probably been a Master Wizard able to wave my magic paintbrush at a mini & a masterpiece would have appeared, but I had some 35+ years break to do other things, but after being drawn back to the hobby by my love of 3D Printers, building models, etc. I find myself also black lining again, but with oil paints and a very fine brush, I haven't perfected it yet & it seems a lot harder than just drawing the lines in with my pen, I even tried finding a pen fine enough but it seems they don't make them fine enough for me to be satisfied with the lines Lol 🙂 Just been reading some other comments, I will try looking for the magic 0.2mm ultra-fine liner!
How do you know Brent is one of the most beloved miniature painting TH-camrs out there? It's simple: there are dozens of super talented painters, but there's as far as I know there's only one to have his face put on so many miniatures. I have Brent of Goobertown from Artisan Guild, and now I'll be a proud owner of a The Goober Baron, Ace Pilot. You'll fit right into my collection of Loot's Sci-Fi prints. Stay safe, man!
Its a great technique Ive been using for a while, But all those different options and products? You've nailed it some of these will make my life easier for sure! Cheers big man!
Thank you so much Goober! I'm sitting on Tamiya Panel Liners for a year and had no idea how to use them on miniatures. Your videaos are always helpfull!
I started to used panel lining too recently. I used Tamiya panel line and got the exact experience as yours . I will try acrylic ink as suggested. Your methods are not new but I admire your unbound mind set. People tend to stick to a fixed mind set and disregard other non-orthodox ways.
Are you a magician, Brent? Literally four hours ago I went onto Amazon, got myself some cheap oil paint set and some white spirits, because I was planning to start panel lining with oil washes for the first time, hahaha. You must be a psychic!
These terms are used interchangeably, but panel lining is any process that results in a dark shadow mean to represent occlusion shadows. Black lining is the same. Armour modelers are more likely to say panel lining and figure modelers are more liking to say black lining. A pin wash is a specific technique of wash application. You pin wash in order to panel line, but you don't panel line in order to pin wash.
I think it is good to emphasize that with the oil bases products, you have much more time to fix your mistakes and they flow well enough that you don't need the gloss varnish.
This would make Retribution of Scryah really pop! As you said in the podcast this would really make doing comic style painting raiser to grasp. Also yes his name is Mike Cousins.
Great demonstration, Brent! Love the finished results and I can definitely see that model leading a squad of Space Marines! What chapter do you think Space Marine Brent would belong to?
For some reason when you spoke about drinking coffee I got the “Flying high” vibe: ‘I picked a hell of a day to quit drinking coffee’ ‘I picked a hell of a day to quit sniffing glue’…
gundam markers work well for this. fine panel liner and pour type markers are the ones to use. fine liner comes in three colors black, gray, brown. Pour type comes in much more but damages abs.
Nice work. Try experimenting with browns and greys for a more subtle effect that replicates the way dirt and grime naturally build up in the recesses. A popular technique for aircraft weathering is to leave a little excess, let it partually dry and then wipe away in the direction of airflow (or gravity in your case?). Depending on how aggressive you are this can give nice streaking effects and/or subtle non uniform staining/fading replicating the tonal variation you see in paint on aged military equipment that has a hard life in harsh conditions and doesn't age unfortunately.
I just make my own acrylic washes, basically paint + water + 1-2 drops of flow improver to reduce surface tension. It is tricky to do gradients with acrylics but it is possible dampening the surface first then doing a glaze using the mixture I mentioned then removing the edge with a slightly damp makeup sponge. To make the gradient better using the base color on the outer edge applied as a glaze does the trick.
Local auction. Won two groups of Elder Rangers for $7.00. They're mostly painted, yet not all painted. So, I found you again to catch some pointers. This is above my skill level, yet fun to see. You have some Friends there.
I'll tell you the biggest secret to panel lining - Use oil paint. For black lining, You want mars black, not ivory black. It's more opaque. The big advantage? If you mess up a spot, you can you can just come back with a brush dipped in thinner and clean it off. No hurry. It'll be wet all day. Edit - Oh, because it was brought up in the video, I mean full on manual panel lining, not pin washing. You can definitely do that too though!
What an interesting video, lots of food for thought. I liked your point about how the difference between using contrast style paints and oils becomes a style choice.
indeed! It makes sense for cracks to have a bit of shadow, but when you make 'em thick black lines... yeah that's a style choice. Both are good, depending on your mood :-)
the first picture as i startet the video: A guy with a moronic happy grin, looks at a miniture of himself with the same grin while wearing a power armor all while a cat licks his arm and a kids painting of the cat in the background. and then he proceed like it is not even worth to mention whats going on. i wantet to say this made my day but thats the best thing i saw the whole month.
2:38 after seeing that I took a fallout mini I haven’t painted yet and did a thick wash coat just like that in it. It’s perfect for fallout power armor.
Nuln Oil Gloss behaves slightly differently from regular Nuln Oil and pulls into crevices a bit better, especially over glossy finishes like a thin coat of gloss varnish or metallic paints. It’s what I tend to use for lining but keen to check out oil based products next time I’m doing lots of armour or vehicles.
Ink is one of the best investments I made in my first year of painting. I got lucky and got some on clearance, but it was worth every penny and more. That said, oil washes are incredibly fun, and a worthy investment. I've only really used home made washes, but the variety of color you can get in washes is incredible.
I love this video as usual! I actually just used Liquitex Acrylic Ink to panel line a Dire Wolf Clan Mech about 3 weeks ago. It looks awesome and was time consuming, but easy and effective! Glad to hear you like it too!
Super helpful video - thanks muchly! I've just recently started delving into hobby videos here and yours are always very enjoyable and easy to follow. You clever goober, you 😊
Nuln oil gloss over gloss varnish is a quick way to do the lining. It flows a lot better the standard nuln oil and does not stain as badly . Works really well
Thank you for your video - was having print diffs with my mono x and your comment on a cold basement confirmed my suspicions. Painting always a fun video to watch - keep them coming!!
Yay panel line washing. I spent last week carving out the shallow panel lines on an old hasegawa jet model (mig25) and then doing a panel line wash on it later on. I know some scale modelers go crazy with this and carve out panel lines using reference photos for more realism.
I love using this technique on my custom chapter Space Marines. But instead of messing with mixing my own oil wash, I use Mr Weathering Color and its Solvent from Mr Hobby.
What am incredible video to watch. How cool it was to see another miniature of yourself in the different colors. Another one to add the to the collection 😃. Great video Brent. Keep up the educational and entertaining work.
Great tips---I tried panel lining with Star Wars troopers but lacked the patience. A quick and dirty short cut was to black wash them then heavily drybrush with white--kind of a cheap, shortcut panel lining. It was satisfactoryish for the tabletop. Also, my toddler son enjoys your videos. I think it is a combo of your calm narration and the pretty colors!
For those with shaky hands I find it's best to do the panel lining after the base coat. That makes it very easy to correct any mistakes you make along the way. Unless you plan to apply some other washes or similar which can undo some of the strong contrast they provide.
Just started watching your videos ( speed paints was the first, I'm a newbie in miniature) and your vids are so more helpful than the others I've seen, thanks for the work you do.
Free STL file for this mini! bit.ly/3qs43HI This video was a collaboration with Loot- they sculpted a sweet mini, and I painted it! It's a great figure, I can highly recommend it. :-)
Well, this video both taught me a new painting technique and provides a mini that I think will replace my current captain for my campaign game of Five Parsecs from Home. This mini gives off such a vibe of a brave leader with a good, cheerful attitude and the sort of guy who really cares about his crew. My current mini is fully enclosed, and just doesn't have the right feel to it for the crew captain. Scaled down, this guy is just perfect
@@raeishimura hahaha, that's awesome!!!
And I wondered who this is and why hes in my Sci-fi subscription 😆
You're hilarious.
Brentception
You should do a diorama with all the Brent minis together. A sort of "Into the Brent-verse"
Is that what clone troopers actually look like with their helmets off?
yes this is canon :-)
hehehehehe
Why not Goober-verse?
Bren-to the Brentaverse: Brenter the Brent Troopers
I'd recommend trying another method: a pen.
You can get micron pens with very fine nibs (I typically use Sakura Pigma 005 which are 0.2mm wide) that are just the right size for panel lines in miniatures. They give you a lot more precision and control than a brush and they're faster and more convenient as you don't have to keep reloading them with paint/ink. They're also great for doing eyes on miniatures. I'd highly recommend giving them a try.
Agreed! The Micron Sakura pens, .5mm are good for panels as this one typically fits inside the panel. The only warning here is to make sure the ink is totally dry before moving forward with any next steps. Solvents can reactivate the ink.
Thanks for the recommendation! Pens intrigue me, but I didn't know what brand to be looking for. I'd love to give this a try. :-)
Genius! I use pens for eyes all the time, never thought of using them for blacklining. 👍
I also use Microns for scribbling down chicken scratch on scrolls and purity seals! I get much more control than using a paint or ink with a brush, and I can get some convincing-looking script much more easily.
@@GoobertownHobbies Micron, Copic and Faber-Castell can all work for this purpose. Lots of nib types and sizes available. Decent colour variety as well.
Also really good when you need to have lines/panels on a flat surface after painting as well.
Those marines are both AWESOME and TERRIFYING!
I'm more and more convinced that Brent is the God Emperor of Mankind.
Who can deny the such a stud, with those golden flowing locks, while standing heroically in that glorious power armour?
Yes, but a pact with Nurgle powers the Golden Throne after death.
I love this technique for almost all Tau models. From battlesuits to troops it works so well. The standard Tau armor colours of White, Yellow, Blue and Red really pop out when you can do this well.
Oh yeah, the tau line is perfect for this!
from someone who's looking at gunpla customisers on youtube too, those guys give details to huge flat panels with panel lines.
when panel-lining those guys choose the color of their inks and don't just go with a pure black. If they're panel-lining white armor, they use a light gray, if they're panel lining a off-white armor then they use a yellow or orange ink. I think hobbyist should give a look to the techniques used in this other great hobby :)
Yup! oh I know that the choice of black was super aggressive, it was just easier to standardize across multiple different product lines :-)
@@GoobertownHobbies A lot of youtubers actualy use black as well, since the less contrasting panel lines can come out a bit understated in fotos and videos
@@piethein4355 I could see how at the smaller scale of most tabletop minis, you'd want the black for a greater contrast that pops more when looking at them across the table.
If you want to pin wash with acrylics you can wet the area and wait for the majority of the water to evaporate. There will still be some water collected in the recessed areas and touching an ink to them will initiate a similar capillary action as what you get with solvent-based products
whoa! I hadn't heard of that, that's cool! :-)
@@GoobertownHobbies can't take credit for coming up with it but it's definitely handy if you don't have the necessary ventilation for using solvents safely 🙂
I wouldn't recommend this if you use Nuln Oil, though, Citadel washes typically react really badly with water and they leave a chalky white residue. It ought to be fine with inks or other products though!
@@GoobertownHobbies Would you mind doing a short demo video with the technique?
That's a really interesting thought. I've seen other people using makeup sponges to gently remove excess oil washes after the fact, and they would probably work really well for removing the water quickly to try out this technique.
For those wondering about the tank in the intro:
It's from Victoria Miniatures, called Kangaroo APC.
I like how there was inking, then everyone got obsessed with washing and highlighting now I'm seeing videos about panel lining which is just new vernacular for inking. This hobby is awesome because you always get to come back around and use old experience on new models, and despite the learning curve for new players and modelers, there are tons of options and techniques to fit your taste.
Inking is just use of inks and usually refers to a broader application. Panel lining is a far more specific technique
This method is the only way to get good white armor. It's awesome your talking about this
The joy of panel lining with Goob Ross. Brent is really the Bob Ross of mini painting
Oh my I'm SOOOOOOOOOO happy a mini painting hobby channel has addressed panel lining as a legit technique for mini painting. I learnt about this from doing scale models and it absolutely changed the way I do mini figures. Personally I can't believe GW hasn't introduced their own "panel line" products. Anyone who has painted a marine or guard tank battles away with standard acrylic washes when an enamel panel liner could do most of the work for you.
They may be reluctant to on the grounds that a lot of their customers are inexperienced and/or children, so if some of their paint range can't be mixed with water it could damage the first impression that their customers get of using their materials.
Being the closest thing the hobby has to a household name can have its disadvantages, I guess.
it's good stuff isn't it! :-)
I grabbed a bottle of tamiya panel liner, a while back for this after looking around gunpla modelers' videos, and I really like it. I think it's well worth venturing out into other related media, especially ones with different subcultures and priorities for techniques. There's some really interesting things to be learned from people with different focuses. Gunpla models are all about large, perfect flat panels with crisp lines and mechanical detail, and the techniques to make the most of that are really well developed. Plus, because they tend to use enamel paints, there's a lot to be learned about how to manipulate that medium.
I really appreciate this though, because the models are different, and adapting techniques works best when you do the work to understand the underlying goal and find the best thing for your models. I do really like the tamiya liner's built in brush though, that's neat and has worked well for my purposes.
Yup yup! There's a ton to learn from all of these adjacent hobbies. I actually think the tamiya in-bottle brush is a bit big for panel lining purposes... but it's amazing for their extra-thin plastic cement bottle!
@@GoobertownHobbies I love that little extra thin cement brush. Dry fit the perfect alignment of the parts, hold, touch the seam with the tip of the brush, cement wicks into the seam, perfect join every time.
Yours is the only channel that I can put on my Chromecast and watch with my family and they dont duck out of the room bored or I get nervous about someone's crass language. Your skill is topped only by your chill demeanor.
Awww, that makes me happy, thanks for letting me know!! Thanks for watching, friends :-)
Only Brent could have so many models with his face on them and not seem conceited about it.
This was a really interesting comparison! I was wondering what else I could use other than my FW inks.
It helps he looks so silly there too. I would enjoy a diorama of him mowing down a big scary monster with 30 of them, all with that smile
Classic oldschool technique! I remember seeing the Japanese modelling magazines at the hobbyshop when I was a kid and literally EVERYTHING had panel lines made with Micron markers.
I love the combination of informational, calming, and enthusiastic you bring to these videos!
I missed this old music. There is something heart warming about it and reminds me of summer a couple years ago where I first started watching your videos in a sunny pub garden. This when I got back into minis after 25 years in my late 30s
You noticed! yeah all of these were songs from the early days of the channel. :-)
@@GoobertownHobbies They're awesome
goobertown hobbies videos are actually therapy. thank you for your videos!!
hehehe, glad it helps! :-)
Brent, I wanted to take a second to thank you and to let you know how much I enjoy sitting with you as you discuss miniatures. Although we haven't met in real life, I, like many, consider you a friend and a blessing.
Thank you for your time and effort.
Thanks for the shoutout brother! Loved the full review of everything, super thorough and fantastic information as always. :)
You da man, Vince, you da man! :-)
Me: casually sipping my coffee
9:00
*sipping intensifies*
It makes sense that the inks are best - good balance of opacity and flow.
Hey Brent! Just wanted to say I've really been enjoying the Twenty Sided Realms podcast. It's great to listen to while painting some minis.
Nice! thanks so much for listening and letting us know :-)
I'm sure it's challenging, coming up with useful, thorough, well-done comparisons like this, but we appreciate it.
Many years ago in the dawn of time, there was a youngling who found the beauty of an ultra-fine black ink pen and his metal D&D miniatures, unfortunately, he liked this style too much and used it on everything, this was in a time before Acrylics hit the big time and Humbrol ruled the land, a time when Games Workshop was just starting out, when £100 bought him close to 80 miniatures as separate full-price Lead mini's not in packs. A time when there were more than one games/gaming shop in his local city & none were Games Workshop! This may sound like a fantasy land to you but it was on earth some 40 years ago. I painted nearly all my mini's (badly) but their one saving grace was the black lining, some of them particularly the knights in armor looked great others looked odd, but I loved the style. If I had continued over the 40 years I would have probably been a Master Wizard able to wave my magic paintbrush at a mini & a masterpiece would have appeared, but I had some 35+ years break to do other things, but after being drawn back to the hobby by my love of 3D Printers, building models, etc. I find myself also black lining again, but with oil paints and a very fine brush, I haven't perfected it yet & it seems a lot harder than just drawing the lines in with my pen, I even tried finding a pen fine enough but it seems they don't make them fine enough for me to be satisfied with the lines Lol 🙂
Just been reading some other comments, I will try looking for the magic 0.2mm ultra-fine liner!
Ahh, those were the days! I took a ~15 year break myself. Yeah, these tiny pens sound very interesting, gotta get some of those!!! :-)
I love the more science based approach that you have. It takes a lot of the mystery out of the techniques that you are showing.
How do you know Brent is one of the most beloved miniature painting TH-camrs out there? It's simple: there are dozens of super talented painters, but there's as far as I know there's only one to have his face put on so many miniatures. I have Brent of Goobertown from Artisan Guild, and now I'll be a proud owner of a The Goober Baron, Ace Pilot. You'll fit right into my collection of Loot's Sci-Fi prints.
Stay safe, man!
Awww, thanks for including me in your collection! Happy New Year!! :-)
Brent has to have the record for most sculpts made of a youtuber. Just once I want to see a sculpt of Brent and his war cry. You're the best brother!
hehehee, glad you like 'em! I'm sure angry barbarian brent will happen one of these days :-)
In the far future, humanity reaches across the stars with an expedition force of panel-lined Brents. 10/10 (the tamiya panel liner is my go-to btw)
hehehe, yeah that tamiya is good stuff! It was my favrorite of the 3 oils I tried in this vid.
I've been enlightened to the Tamiya Panel Liner. Gives my Marines a great look.
yupyup!! :-)
Pretty cool that Loot Studios put Alan Tudyks face on that marine for you 😂
I like the smile and enjoyed the story behind the painting process.
Great sense of humor. These figures prove it.
Just printed up a couple Brent marines. The supported versions worked perfectly. I’ll probably be using these for paint practice.
COOL
Brent Marine is happy as Vulcan when he finds some Eldar children in the attic. Great explanation of technique!
Its a great technique Ive been using for a while, But all those different options and products? You've nailed it some of these will make my life easier for sure! Cheers big man!
Putting your face on the mini is so awesome! Imagine showing up with an entire army of Brents - every opponent would immediately surrender.
hehehe, gotta have goals :-)
It's very funny how satisfying it is to watch the paint run along these thin lines, haha. Visual ASMR, or something.
it's even better in-person! give it a shot :-)
Amazing as always duder. Thanks for taking the time!
That's cool. I love that they put your face on the model! Also great info!
Stop washing? I don't think that's gonna do a lot for me socially...
Thank you so much Goober! I'm sitting on Tamiya Panel Liners for a year and had no idea how to use them on miniatures. Your videaos are always helpfull!
Nice! Have fun :-)
I started to used panel lining too recently. I used Tamiya panel line and got the exact experience as yours . I will try acrylic ink as suggested. Your methods are not new but I admire your unbound mind set. People tend to stick to a fixed mind set and disregard other non-orthodox ways.
Having this side by side comparison of all these products is wonderful!! Thank you Brent! Another great video 👌
Are you a magician, Brent? Literally four hours ago I went onto Amazon, got myself some cheap oil paint set and some white spirits, because I was planning to start panel lining with oil washes for the first time, hahaha.
You must be a psychic!
nice! Have fun :-)
It's clear you put a lot of time and energy into your videos, really great job.
hey thanks! thanks for watchin :-)
These terms are used interchangeably, but panel lining is any process that results in a dark shadow mean to represent occlusion shadows. Black lining is the same. Armour modelers are more likely to say panel lining and figure modelers are more liking to say black lining. A pin wash is a specific technique of wash application. You pin wash in order to panel line, but you don't panel line in order to pin wash.
This jives with the way I had things in my head, thank you :-)
I think it is good to emphasize that with the oil bases products, you have much more time to fix your mistakes and they flow well enough that you don't need the gloss varnish.
Those Brent heads are so fantastic. I love stopping off in Goobertown! Thanks for the lesson. Much love from SC!
If Brent keeps doing sponsorships that give out free STLs with his face I will one day be able to have an entirely Brent army.
The future is bright! :-)
Brent you are so zen! I would have gone a little crazy doing all that panel lining... Looks amazing!
oh it's total zen + relaxation once you get into it! Just tracing some lines :-)
This would make Retribution of Scryah really pop! As you said in the podcast this would really make doing comic style painting raiser to grasp.
Also yes his name is Mike Cousins.
Great demonstration, Brent! Love the finished results and I can definitely see that model leading a squad of Space Marines!
What chapter do you think Space Marine Brent would belong to?
I've been asking this question for years and I still don't have an answer! :-)
Probably salamanders
For some reason when you spoke about drinking coffee I got the “Flying high” vibe:
‘I picked a hell of a day to quit drinking coffee’
‘I picked a hell of a day to quit sniffing glue’…
Simply magnificent! Love the long locks on the minis! They're too cool 😎
heheheh thanks!! :-)
gundam markers work well for this. fine panel liner and pour type markers are the ones to use. fine liner comes in three colors black, gray, brown. Pour type comes in much more but damages abs.
Nice work. Try experimenting with browns and greys for a more subtle effect that replicates the way dirt and grime naturally build up in the recesses.
A popular technique for aircraft weathering is to leave a little excess, let it partually dry and then wipe away in the direction of airflow (or gravity in your case?). Depending on how aggressive you are this can give nice streaking effects and/or subtle non uniform staining/fading replicating the tonal variation you see in paint on aged military equipment that has a hard life in harsh conditions and doesn't age unfortunately.
Oh for sure! :-)
I just make my own acrylic washes, basically paint + water + 1-2 drops of flow improver to reduce surface tension. It is tricky to do gradients with acrylics but it is possible dampening the surface first then doing a glaze using the mixture I mentioned then removing the edge with a slightly damp makeup sponge. To make the gradient better using the base color on the outer edge applied as a glaze does the trick.
Local auction. Won two groups of Elder Rangers for $7.00. They're mostly painted, yet not all painted. So, I found you again to catch some pointers. This is above my skill level, yet fun to see. You have some Friends there.
congrats on your auction win! Have fun touching them up! :-)
I'll tell you the biggest secret to panel lining -
Use oil paint. For black lining, You want mars black, not ivory black. It's more opaque. The big advantage? If you mess up a spot, you can you can just come back with a brush dipped in thinner and clean it off. No hurry. It'll be wet all day.
Edit - Oh, because it was brought up in the video, I mean full on manual panel lining, not pin washing. You can definitely do that too though!
I love Liquitex inks. Price to quality is just so tight, and it opens up a bunch of different techniques.
love 'em!
Your hair looks so lustrous on those minis ✨
hehehehe
This makes such a huge difference for minimal effort on all kinds of minis.
Literally using minis if yourself for teaching cool techniques
What a legend
Hehehehehehe
I've been a Loot subscriber since September. Their stuff is amazing. The extra content is also really nice if your a gamer.
And...saving this one. Thank you!
What an interesting video, lots of food for thought. I liked your point about how the difference between using contrast style paints and oils becomes a style choice.
indeed! It makes sense for cracks to have a bit of shadow, but when you make 'em thick black lines... yeah that's a style choice. Both are good, depending on your mood :-)
the first picture as i startet the video:
A guy with a moronic happy grin, looks at a miniture of himself with the same grin while wearing a power armor all while a cat licks his arm and a kids painting of the cat in the background.
and then he proceed like it is not even worth to mention whats going on.
i wantet to say this made my day but thats the best thing i saw the whole month.
Have a great evening! :-)
I always get insults when I say I dislike washes. Finally somebody out there that at least clickbaited my opinion!
The clean look is so crisp and fun! :-)
2:38 after seeing that I took a fallout mini I haven’t painted yet and did a thick wash coat just like that in it. It’s perfect for fallout power armor.
Nice!!! :-)
Nuln Oil Gloss behaves slightly differently from regular Nuln Oil and pulls into crevices a bit better, especially over glossy finishes like a thin coat of gloss varnish or metallic paints. It’s what I tend to use for lining but keen to check out oil based products next time I’m doing lots of armour or vehicles.
oh! I'll give it a try, thanks :-)
Ink is one of the best investments I made in my first year of painting. I got lucky and got some on clearance, but it was worth every penny and more.
That said, oil washes are incredibly fun, and a worthy investment. I've only really used home made washes, but the variety of color you can get in washes is incredible.
Yup yup! both of those categories of supplies deserve way more love :-)
I love this video as usual! I actually just used Liquitex Acrylic Ink to panel line a Dire Wolf Clan Mech about 3 weeks ago. It looks awesome and was time consuming, but easy and effective! Glad to hear you like it too!
Nice! yeah it's fun stuff :-)
Amazing video. I did pin washing for my blood angels a year ago... turned out great 😀
Super helpful video - thanks muchly! I've just recently started delving into hobby videos here and yours are always very enjoyable and easy to follow. You clever goober, you 😊
Thats great to hear! Have fun painting :-)
LOL! First time I have seen a mini artisan with their own head on a mini. Belly chuckling 🙂. Great channel btw. Subscribed.
hehehe welcome aboard! as for the minis... well there are a few more of them out there :-) th-cam.com/video/Cf_T-50bljY/w-d-xo.html
Nuln oil gloss over gloss varnish is a quick way to do the lining. It flows a lot better the standard nuln oil and does not stain as badly . Works really well
Interesting! I accidentally bought some gloss nuln last year, I should give it a try! :-)
The face on that mini looks..... familiar...... :D
Awesome mini and congrats for being immortalized in Loot's scifi range!
The group photo reminds me of multi-player Halo games! They look great! Looks like I need to break out my old art supplies!
Loved the video and loved this model, Loot is super cool
Thank you for your video - was having print diffs with my mono x and your comment on a cold basement confirmed my suspicions. Painting always a fun video to watch - keep them coming!!
Yup yup! Save up stl files for the warm months! :-)
This is the best thumbnail I’ve ever seen on the internet, ever.
hehehehehehe
I really like it when you really like something that is already in my paint rack.
score!! :-)
damn what an era to learn painting ! all those tools and fantastic tutorials, thanks a lot
Excellent as always goobs
Yay panel line washing. I spent last week carving out the shallow panel lines on an old hasegawa jet model (mig25) and then doing a panel line wash on it later on. I know some scale modelers go crazy with this and carve out panel lines using reference photos for more realism.
Nice! I bet those look great :-)
I love using this technique on my custom chapter Space Marines. But instead of messing with mixing my own oil wash, I use Mr Weathering Color and its Solvent from Mr Hobby.
What am incredible video to watch. How cool it was to see another miniature of yourself in the different colors. Another one to add the to the collection 😃. Great video Brent. Keep up the educational and entertaining work.
This is going to be fun... Great video as usual
dude the black wash looks great
i used panel linig only for vehicles, never thought about painting minis that way, i really like the result, its like one of those linklater movies
pretty cool eh? have fun!!! :-)
super informative and straightforward 10/10
Yay! More Ink Videos Please! ❤
good idea! :-)
I haven't forgotten about those rocks Brent!
Great tips---I tried panel lining with Star Wars troopers but lacked the patience. A quick and dirty short cut was to black wash them then heavily drybrush with white--kind of a cheap, shortcut panel lining. It was satisfactoryish for the tabletop.
Also, my toddler son enjoys your videos. I think it is a combo of your calm narration and the pretty colors!
A gundam marker works well for panel lining. especially when you have a lot of models. You can generally get them from hobby lobby
Thanks, I'll give 'em a try!! :-)
For those with shaky hands I find it's best to do the panel lining after the base coat. That makes it very easy to correct any mistakes you make along the way. Unless you plan to apply some other washes or similar which can undo some of the strong contrast they provide.
Just started watching your videos ( speed paints was the first, I'm a newbie in miniature) and your vids are so more helpful than the others I've seen, thanks for the work you do.
Nice! Welcome to goobertown! :-)