As a painter who hasnt painted for like 20 years, it is really liberating to just be able to buy anything and it high quality and mostly compatible with each other. Outside of what the best paint brand is, i think one of the best things is that most brands are just available everywhere - in stores or via domestic webshops.
💯 agree. Prior to Jan 2023, the last time I painted anything was probably 2005…? And all my painting up to that point was model cars and planes using Testors enamel paints. (I still have all those paints and I’m going to experiment incorporating them into my mini painting.) Getting started with minis was a little overwhelming, but also exciting: there are so many paint lines to choose from, but I also know I can buy pretty much any line I want and still have a decent experience, and I can experiment. I think people get too trapped in the idea that they need to find “the perfect paint brand” instead of finding which paints from which lines work best for their style.
re: skyrocketing skill and information. I started painting in april and there is SOOOOOOO much good info out there. You two guys, Vince, ALL this crazy good information. Watching Marco Frisoni or Duncan actually show their palette and thinning their paints probably gave me a two-year shortcut to improving my painting.
You're right, it's never been easier to learn how to paint models. There's just so much good information available at the click of a button. As somebody who started painting with no Internet access and only a single page of bare-bones instructions, I'm a little jealous.
Jon's immense experience in engineering telling him that the next step in wet pallet innovation will be something that plugs into the wall... has me worrying about what he's engineered and whether it is in my home.
TL:DR I vehemently hate the lighting industry. I'd put lighting a lot lower. Just had to replace my hobby light. LED's are either really expensive or absolute trash. I spent a month researching lights, trying to find a good one, and sifting through all the buzz words. Without talking about price, because this is one of the few topics that It should be a factor, the technology itself has gotten worse. I generally found three options for lights: - Photography/Filming Lights - Lights made specifically for the hobby - Tons of Buzzwords and having to deal with how inconsistent the item you purchased is. The main issue is that most of these items come down to being LED, and having poor CRI. LEDs just have certain colors their bad at. Old Daylight Incandescent bulbs typically put out a far better CRI, but are just really hard to find ( US department of Energy doesn't want them being made anymore due to high energy usage ). Lighting has way too many options. Between the lumens, color temperature, CRI, diffusion, trash mounting brackets, types of arms, how short most lights seem to be, price, reviews, listings with no details or tons of buzz words, just plain old quality control, and then having to do all this same sifting and shopping every single time the LEDs start to go out. I've built my own gaming PC, repaired my car, shopped for cars, apartments, etc. Shopping for a new hobby light was the most infuriating purchase I've ever made. I never want to do it again, but I will have to. And the whole time I didn't have a working light, I couldn't paint minis. All of my hobby time got replaced with scouring the internet trying to find a light that wasn't $200 that I actually liked. I also learned to vehemently hate a certain website named after a rainforest for allowing people to blatantly lie in titles while having so much conflicting information in descriptions, and all the people in reviews telling how trash the product is.
Did you check out Redgrasscreatives’s R9 Lamp? Worth every penny! They also have an R9 Solo launching on Kickstarter this fall which will be under $200 but has the same high LED tech.
I work in film as a lamp operator. There are plenty of options and I love that you dived so deep into everything including sky panels and even calling the lights "fixtures". But from a budget prospective, it's all about 3 things: angle of the lighting, daylight bulbs (5600K), and diffusion. The angle so your big ol head doesn't block the light, daylight or blue light to get the most accurate colour values of your paint, and diffusion so those fixtures don't blow out what you're looking at. Thanks for nerding out about lights :)
I agree the advent of high quality engaging instructional content on youtube has had by far the biggest single impact on overall painting quality across all levels. Previously even with books or instructions I wouldnt have really understood how to do volumetric shading or highlights or many painting techniques, let alone know how to approach a competition entry. With good videos knowledge is much less of a barrier, its more practice and application. I feel like many more people now have the know how and skills to paint a model which would have had people falling over with awe when I was young
Episode idea: how does one go about teaching a complete begginer how to paint models? What are the most important points to hit, most important concepts to convey, the best model to start with etc.
This is pretty good actually, I'm always stumped what to say when I see a complete newbie on the minipainting subreddit post some splotchy ultramarine with the title "my first model, how do I minipainting?" How do you build a foundation? Telling someone to "prime, basecoat, shade, highlight" means absolutely nothing to someone who is completely new.
As someone fairly new to the hobby about 5 years now entering id say intermediate stage. Looking back the best advice I got was #1 just keep doing it. Putting in the time cant be understated. Achieving brush control changes everything. #2 Paints definitely matter. Ive now branched out to many brands but GW method is the way to start. #3 Windsor newton series 7 size 1. At only $22 and cared for it will out last any syntheic being way cheaper overall. #4 good synthetics to protect the windosor newton from rough areas that damage brushes. #5 Wet pallette another game changer IMO. Id say those are top 5 for me
The new Fanatic range from Army Painter feels sooooo good, and the clear shading guides on the labels are a godsend for me picking out shadow, mid, and highlight colors inside a color family.
Oh my goodness! BIG LOL! I was just imagining the looks around the table - as the Sunset magazine-type setting quickly morphed to SNL with Scott’s double-barreled “battle barrage” sound effects upstaging the relaxed conversation!!! I’m sorry you had to experience all that - but thanks for sharing it!!!
I could not disagree more about the RGG reusable palette paper. Am I the only one who loves it? I think it lets the perfect amount of water pass through at just the right rate to keep my paint in the sweet spot. To me, it feels like a huge step up from baking paper or the previous RGG paper. The only reason I do take the time to rinse and rub off the paint to reuse the paper is BECAUSE I love it's properties for painting so much. I can reuse the same paper about 4 or 5 times before the surface starts to break down and it's time to grab a fresh one.
Dr. Faust found the solution several years ago. The Cold Palette. 6x6 tile, towel, ice pack and some kind of tupperware or glass container. I did the Red Grass KS but quickly went back the cold palette and the RG sits on the shelf.
Great episode 👍 loved your holiday story Scott I was in stitches because I can obviously see your well now so it's hilarious 😅 but shit man definitely sounded rough. Looking forward to your weekly uploads mate. Get that ytube algorithm working for you again 👊🤘
the game envy archy fingergrip thingy is ace for two things. resting the brush on when you absolutely need milimeter precision. And it is very nice to rest on the table for that one time you need to hold the mini upsside down..
Went to China earlier this year. Went to a a couple public toilets that had maybe a dozen stalls (most squats but thankfully usually had 1 or 2 'western' toilets), and ONE GIANT roll of toilet paper for the entire bathroom outside the main bathroom entrance door. You had to take what you thought you needed and hope for the best LOL. They also had the poop paper trash cans and man the smell was something spectacular!
As someone with small hands, I have never found a painting handle that works for me until I got an FDM printer. I adjusted the size of a bulbous type handle until I found a size that works and printed up a bunch.
Always makes me chuckle when youtubers talk about regular schedules and worrying about drowning or it being a grind. From the perspective of a 9-5er this is just normal... 😂
I re-use parchment paper for usually as long as it takes to paint a single miniature. It does start breaking down but is effective. It's more not wanting to cut more parchment than it is being frugal.
Jon's joke, "Would you make me a video?" Might be a fun idea. Cartoonists do guest strips for each other from time to time. Might be fun and some cross exposure to swap videos with people you know. I would expect the Venn diagram overlap for your fan bases is pretty big. But it might get you both out of your comfort zones.
I think there has been a marginal improvement over the Masterson. I have owned 2 and both have developed a convex bottom, meaning that the center would have little to no water in it and all the water would run down to the edges. Still buying two Mastersons over 5 years is still cheaper than one of the other palettes.
Oh, man. Scott, I’m really sorry to hear that your time in Greece was disrupted so badly by illness. I’ve tried something like that in Egypt, and it turned out that I had amoebic dysentery. Mine went on for days and I ended up needing medical intervention😅 On the plus side, I think the first choice meds for it are OTC in the US - it’s the stuff you take for urinary infections - so if you go again, maybe bring some of that, and ffs, bring antihistamines, my dude. I’m really sorry for Amber too. I hope that you go again and that that next trip is BRILLIANT.
Great coveration. As a 62 year old metal head, hobby-gamer nerd, you nailed it on all points. I wished I had TH-cam, 3D printers, and the internet had been around when I was that 12 year old kid painting models in my bedroom( 50 years ago...fuck I feel old..lol). You guys would have been two of my heroes for all the practical know-how you regularly serve up along with the laughs. Thanks to both of you for all the inspiration! It has been a joy over the years watching your channels rise to reach the level you presently reside. Much deserved. Keep it up, and the 12 year old in me will keep watching amazed and inspired. Slay the Gray and Paint More Minis!
Except your memories of that time would be tainted by the never ending revolving door of the new...we can barely purchase the new hotness before the announcement of the next crap comes out. At least back then, we were given time to enjoy things as they came and went. Today sucks...I fee like I live in a constant adevertisement for stuff that is "coming sonn:.
@@MoragTong_ Nah, chasing the "new" is part of the hobby. I wish I'd had the assortment of paints, models, knowledge, etc., back in the day. Today's scene can be a bit overwhelming if you are constantly trying to have the newest stuff to play with, but the big thing is just enjoying the hobby with what you got on hand. Getting new tools just make it fun when you start getting bored with what you've got.
Is this why Ninjon's Warcrow video was so late? I am fully on board with him setting these boundaries. It will encourage longer lead times from companies, and better videos from content creators
The Masterson pallets have served my dad, myself, and my kids well. I think we have 4 or 5 including the larger ones used for heavy acrylics. You know what? They work great. Keep a .99 cent store piece of glass around for metallics and that's about as advanced as I need to get until you have something that will allows me to digitally control the specific gravity of the paint.
Like the paint handles as well. Like the cork top. The Red Grass light has been amazing, costs a bit but I use it for electronics as well. My wife wants one now. Make sure to get a decent Chair! GW does not have models in stock, does not matter how much stuff you put out if it can only bought when first released.
The closing at noon/midday is usally a heat related thing, so mostly only in the south of europe. During summer it's so hot that no one goes outside at midday. So most business close so they can go home, cook and have lunch and some take a small siesta. Of course this is not comon practice in big cities but if you go to the country side, that's the norm.
yo back in 2001 I used to store some mixed paint in film canisters because they had a great seal, and used them as mini holders with tac and dbl sided tape! would you believe I am also not old.
Great video/podcast guys. I’m a professional lighting designer and if ever you ever wanna know about geeky lighting stuff, I can help. The cheapest, CRI 100, brightest, diffuse and direct source is the sun. If you can use daylight and a light source, you’re winning!
I have just gone back to corks with paperclips stuck in the top and magnets stuck to the bottom to paint my seraphon, it's the only way to get right underneath without the handle being in the way. Sometimes low tech is the way 😂
I'd love to see some of these high end painters do a fun video painting a model using only artist grade acrylics and see how they like them compared to the hobby paints they're used to.
I thought I left a comment about the wet palette I have been using, but I dont see it. So attempt number 2. TLDR: I use a nordic ware 1/2" deep x 13" x 18" aluminum baking sheet with the 12" x 16" mastersons sponge and palette paper as my wet palette, and its the best and most reasonably priced one I have had so far. I got a 1/2" deep, a 1" deep and cover to fit both sheets from costco for 25 ducks, and now its only 18 ducks at costco. I have two army painter wet palettes, an exemplar, a redgrass, an AK interactice, and the 12x16 masterson wet palette in my quest to find the best wet palette for me. I really like the army painters sponge and paper, but the sized killed it for me. The redgrass and exemplar were okay in size and paper, just left me feeling meh, and the AK interactice one infuriated me...especially its paper. I tried the masterson one under suggestion, the size was perfect, but the side height, flimsy lid and its supports disappointed me. I modified it the sides to about 1/2" instead of the 1" but then the lid didn't fit correctly. So I ended up modifying the lid to reinforce the flimsiness and removed the supports that dug into the paper and sponge....it worked, but meh. I was at costco saw a pack of aluminum sheets for 25 ducks; a 1/2" deep one, a 1" deep one and tall rigid covert that fits both and gently snaps on the sides of the sheet. It was love at first sight. the 1/2" deep one is the right depth and has rounded edges so it doesn't dig into your wrist, and the cover is tall and rigid so no risk of it being pressed into your paints (cats), you dont need a band to hold it on, and its clear so you can see how your paints are looking. I only had to drill four small holes on the top of the lid in the corners, so it can vent. Also my wife got a 1" deep aluminum sheet to use for baking. message me on instagram (@ulfhrim) and I will send you pics of the setup....its imo the best.
I’ve had really bad food poisoning a few times and every time I’m like “if I died right now . . . I would be ok with that.” When I got food poisoning in China, it wasn’t from the street food I ate all the time, it was from an American steak place some friends insisted on going to.
Collectors editions without game discs is pretty common these days. I don't know if it's due to digital distribution or makes it easier for you to pick your platform with it on top.
The irony of Scott saying he wanted to make it easy as possible painting OSL so he skipped using the airbrush to use the spray to suggest where the glow hits. Flip side, you do dodge overdoing it airbrush style!
Foundry Paints: I used them for decades! and still go back to them for specific projects. Most of them are great with good coverage and consistency straight from the pot! There can be some coverage issues with the usual suspects like yellows and pinks but no worse than GW or Army Painter. They were designed to be used as a triad shade/colour/highlight so I guess that might effect how they turn out when using certain colours on their own. I would pick them over Scale 75 or Army Painter any day and don't really think, as a range, that they're any worse than Vallejo, plus I have come to hate Vallejo's cloggy bottles.
I have used a Masterson Pallette since I started painting again. I still cut the paper and have never had an issue. Makes it hard to buy another brand. I have had inklings to try another, but I always found an excuse. Is what it is.
The Squidmar wet palette is $50. I think the regular XL is like $40-45. I don't look at the cover of my wet palette very often, buttttt that Squid special shizzz does look dope af. I mean yall drop something with a dope cover on it, no shame in the game. I need to check out that redgrass handle. I end up using old rx bottles for anything that does not fit in the small citadel one.
"Really awesome finecast" I'm pressing x to doubt. I recently mucked about with a 5 man of finecast Warp Spiders. Worst time I've had in the build phase of a model ever. To be fair, though, I'm writing this out immediately after that was said, and haven't heard much past that
One of the things I'm surprised you didn't mention is 'dry paints'. While GW tried to innovate again with that, before the contrast even, IMO they failed. AMMO/MIG on the other hand, have some great dry paint. The other thing was brushes. IMO not a lot of progress there nor price breaks as the name of the game is money but hey, dry brushes have evolved into the make up types eh?
I live in Spain. Here businesses close at midday too. It is the less efficient thing ever. Then they open until 8 or 9pm. So dumb. It is a waste of time.
I have 2 35 dollar Amazon desk LED lamps and it’s incredibly bright and definitely doesn’t strain my eyes to see my models so I have a hard time imaging any reason for me to spend 290 bucks on a lamp to be maybe a bit better. That seems very luxury but unnecessary to me
This came up in my feed again and my old comment was kind of embarrassing lol. Not gonna lie, I've had a lot of struggles with paint and I've spent too much money only to dump most of what I had at various points in time for a loss on ebay. Ak 3rd gen, the new formulation Vallejo, P3, and Army Painter Fanatic are my top picks. Some go to colors from Citadel, thunderhawk blue is my favorite paint they make, and contrast being my favorite one coat paint range. With tools, if there's a scale modeling or gunpla version, it's going to be better. It'll also most likely be cheaper, or so much better that the high price is actually justified...looking at you GodHand clippers. Also, red grass games is horribly overpriced on everything. They don't make a single thing that you can justify spending a higher price for their version of it.
I started painted minis back in the early 90s on heroquest models and DnD chainmail figures.. using enamel paints from a department store. I've made more progress in the past 2-3 years than in the previous decades. The best improvements by far have been the paints and youtube tutorials. You guys did hit on it, but in my experience Instagram and even the minipainting reddits are really bad for new painters. There is a lot of comparison, and bandwagoning in certain styles and 'correct' ways to paint. It's also very disheartening to have model you feel proud of and want to share with the community and it's completely overlooked or even criticized.
Amber it's time to travel solo. Leave Scott at home. You both will be happier :) Also you can budget the same amount so you will have more money to spend on yourself :)
As a painter who hasnt painted for like 20 years, it is really liberating to just be able to buy anything and it high quality and mostly compatible with each other. Outside of what the best paint brand is, i think one of the best things is that most brands are just available everywhere - in stores or via domestic webshops.
💯 agree. Prior to Jan 2023, the last time I painted anything was probably 2005…? And all my painting up to that point was model cars and planes using Testors enamel paints. (I still have all those paints and I’m going to experiment incorporating them into my mini painting.) Getting started with minis was a little overwhelming, but also exciting: there are so many paint lines to choose from, but I also know I can buy pretty much any line I want and still have a decent experience, and I can experiment. I think people get too trapped in the idea that they need to find “the perfect paint brand” instead of finding which paints from which lines work best for their style.
re: skyrocketing skill and information. I started painting in april and there is SOOOOOOO much good info out there. You two guys, Vince, ALL this crazy good information. Watching Marco Frisoni or Duncan actually show their palette and thinning their paints probably gave me a two-year shortcut to improving my painting.
You're right, it's never been easier to learn how to paint models. There's just so much good information available at the click of a button. As somebody who started painting with no Internet access and only a single page of bare-bones instructions, I'm a little jealous.
Jon's immense experience in engineering telling him that the next step in wet pallet innovation will be something that plugs into the wall... has me worrying about what he's engineered and whether it is in my home.
TL:DR I vehemently hate the lighting industry.
I'd put lighting a lot lower. Just had to replace my hobby light. LED's are either really expensive or absolute trash. I spent a month researching lights, trying to find a good one, and sifting through all the buzz words. Without talking about price, because this is one of the few topics that It should be a factor, the technology itself has gotten worse. I generally found three options for lights:
- Photography/Filming Lights
- Lights made specifically for the hobby
- Tons of Buzzwords and having to deal with how inconsistent the item you purchased is.
The main issue is that most of these items come down to being LED, and having poor CRI. LEDs just have certain colors their bad at. Old Daylight Incandescent bulbs typically put out a far better CRI, but are just really hard to find ( US department of Energy doesn't want them being made anymore due to high energy usage ).
Lighting has way too many options. Between the lumens, color temperature, CRI, diffusion, trash mounting brackets, types of arms, how short most lights seem to be, price, reviews, listings with no details or tons of buzz words, just plain old quality control, and then having to do all this same sifting and shopping every single time the LEDs start to go out. I've built my own gaming PC, repaired my car, shopped for cars, apartments, etc. Shopping for a new hobby light was the most infuriating purchase I've ever made. I never want to do it again, but I will have to. And the whole time I didn't have a working light, I couldn't paint minis. All of my hobby time got replaced with scouring the internet trying to find a light that wasn't $200 that I actually liked. I also learned to vehemently hate a certain website named after a rainforest for allowing people to blatantly lie in titles while having so much conflicting information in descriptions, and all the people in reviews telling how trash the product is.
I'm curious what you settled on if you wouldn't mind sharing
Did you check out Redgrasscreatives’s R9 Lamp? Worth every penny! They also have an R9 Solo launching on Kickstarter this fall which will be under $200 but has the same high LED tech.
Rainforest listings have deteriorated so much that now I never even know if I can trust "named brands" to not be counterfeit
I work in film as a lamp operator. There are plenty of options and I love that you dived so deep into everything including sky panels and even calling the lights "fixtures". But from a budget prospective, it's all about 3 things: angle of the lighting, daylight bulbs (5600K), and diffusion. The angle so your big ol head doesn't block the light, daylight or blue light to get the most accurate colour values of your paint, and diffusion so those fixtures don't blow out what you're looking at.
Thanks for nerding out about lights :)
I agree the advent of high quality engaging instructional content on youtube has had by far the biggest single impact on overall painting quality across all levels. Previously even with books or instructions I wouldnt have really understood how to do volumetric shading or highlights or many painting techniques, let alone know how to approach a competition entry. With good videos knowledge is much less of a barrier, its more practice and application. I feel like many more people now have the know how and skills to paint a model which would have had people falling over with awe when I was young
Professional Hydrologyst here, what you're asking for is beyond our current understanding of hydration.
You should fix that then imo
Episode idea: how does one go about teaching a complete begginer how to paint models? What are the most important points to hit, most important concepts to convey, the best model to start with etc.
This is pretty good actually, I'm always stumped what to say when I see a complete newbie on the minipainting subreddit post some splotchy ultramarine with the title "my first model, how do I minipainting?"
How do you build a foundation? Telling someone to "prime, basecoat, shade, highlight" means absolutely nothing to someone who is completely new.
As someone fairly new to the hobby about 5 years now entering id say intermediate stage. Looking back the best advice I got was #1 just keep doing it. Putting in the time cant be understated. Achieving brush control changes everything. #2 Paints definitely matter. Ive now branched out to many brands but GW method is the way to start. #3 Windsor newton series 7 size 1. At only $22 and cared for it will out last any syntheic being way cheaper overall. #4 good synthetics to protect the windosor newton from rough areas that damage brushes. #5 Wet pallette another game changer IMO. Id say those are top 5 for me
"It wasn't a jet, it was one with the spinning blades." Priceless, Made my morning, Scott! Love you guys.
The new Fanatic range from Army Painter feels sooooo good, and the clear shading guides on the labels are a godsend for me picking out shadow, mid, and highlight colors inside a color family.
Oh my goodness! BIG LOL! I was just imagining the looks around the table - as the Sunset magazine-type setting quickly morphed to SNL with Scott’s double-barreled “battle barrage” sound effects upstaging the relaxed conversation!!! I’m sorry you had to experience all that - but thanks for sharing it!!!
Post preamble ramble...We have a bowl at our house that is called "the throw-up bowl". It has one and only one purpose in life. I love that bowl.
I could not disagree more about the RGG reusable palette paper. Am I the only one who loves it? I think it lets the perfect amount of water pass through at just the right rate to keep my paint in the sweet spot. To me, it feels like a huge step up from baking paper or the previous RGG paper. The only reason I do take the time to rinse and rub off the paint to reuse the paper is BECAUSE I love it's properties for painting so much. I can reuse the same paper about 4 or 5 times before the surface starts to break down and it's time to grab a fresh one.
Dr. Faust found the solution several years ago. The Cold Palette. 6x6 tile, towel, ice pack and some kind of tupperware or glass container. I did the Red Grass KS but quickly went back the cold palette and the RG sits on the shelf.
Picture of it or link to the video?
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@@Ulfhrim search bar; dr faust cold palette
links don't work well on YT ironically
I love the cold palette, thats all i use now, my Red Grass sits on the shelf too
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Great episode 👍 loved your holiday story Scott I was in stitches because I can obviously see your well now so it's hilarious 😅 but shit man definitely sounded rough.
Looking forward to your weekly uploads mate. Get that ytube algorithm working for you again 👊🤘
the game envy archy fingergrip thingy is ace for two things. resting the brush on when you absolutely need milimeter precision. And it is very nice to rest on the table for that one time you need to hold the mini upsside down..
Went to China earlier this year. Went to a a couple public toilets that had maybe a dozen stalls (most squats but thankfully usually had 1 or 2 'western' toilets), and ONE GIANT roll of toilet paper for the entire bathroom outside the main bathroom entrance door. You had to take what you thought you needed and hope for the best LOL. They also had the poop paper trash cans and man the smell was something spectacular!
Who was in charge of that time stamp to say it stops being gross at 37mins 😂
As someone with small hands, I have never found a painting handle that works for me until I got an FDM printer. I adjusted the size of a bulbous type handle until I found a size that works and printed up a bunch.
Always makes me chuckle when youtubers talk about regular schedules and worrying about drowning or it being a grind.
From the perspective of a 9-5er this is just normal... 😂
The left dude is lit...
I can tell you without a doubt, yellow paints have come a loooooong way since the Citadel twist top days.
I almost suffocated laughing when Jon told the worm story.... i just can't hahahahha 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I re-use parchment paper for usually as long as it takes to paint a single miniature. It does start breaking down but is effective. It's more not wanting to cut more parchment than it is being frugal.
Jon's joke, "Would you make me a video?" Might be a fun idea. Cartoonists do guest strips for each other from time to time. Might be fun and some cross exposure to swap videos with people you know. I would expect the Venn diagram overlap for your fan bases is pretty big. But it might get you both out of your comfort zones.
I think there has been a marginal improvement over the Masterson. I have owned 2 and both have developed a convex bottom, meaning that the center would have little to no water in it and all the water would run down to the edges. Still buying two Mastersons over 5 years is still cheaper than one of the other palettes.
No hospitals closed, neither pharmacy, you allways have one guard pharmacy opened
USA people getting surprised that not the whole world works like they expect :D
Oh, man. Scott, I’m really sorry to hear that your time in Greece was disrupted so badly by illness. I’ve tried something like that in Egypt, and it turned out that I had amoebic dysentery. Mine went on for days and I ended up needing medical intervention😅
On the plus side, I think the first choice meds for it are OTC in the US - it’s the stuff you take for urinary infections - so if you go again, maybe bring some of that, and ffs, bring antihistamines, my dude.
I’m really sorry for Amber too.
I hope that you go again and that that next trip is BRILLIANT.
Great coveration. As a 62 year old metal head, hobby-gamer nerd, you nailed it on all points. I wished I had TH-cam, 3D printers, and the internet had been around when I was that 12 year old kid painting models in my bedroom( 50 years ago...fuck I feel old..lol). You guys would have been two of my heroes for all the practical know-how you regularly serve up along with the laughs. Thanks to both of you for all the inspiration! It has been a joy over the years watching your channels rise to reach the level you presently reside. Much deserved. Keep it up, and the 12 year old in me will keep watching amazed and inspired. Slay the Gray and Paint More Minis!
Except your memories of that time would be tainted by the never ending revolving door of the new...we can barely purchase the new hotness before the announcement of the next crap comes out. At least back then, we were given time to enjoy things as they came and went. Today sucks...I fee like I live in a constant adevertisement for stuff that is "coming sonn:.
@@MoragTong_ Nah, chasing the "new" is part of the hobby. I wish I'd had the assortment of paints, models, knowledge, etc., back in the day. Today's scene can be a bit overwhelming if you are constantly trying to have the newest stuff to play with, but the big thing is just enjoying the hobby with what you got on hand. Getting new tools just make it fun when you start getting bored with what you've got.
Is this why Ninjon's Warcrow video was so late? I am fully on board with him setting these boundaries. It will encourage longer lead times from companies, and better videos from content creators
"Did you ask for an Xbox 360 one?" LMFAO
I KNOW RIGHT!!! XD
PC gamer master race
@@Miniac the xbox 360 came out in 2005
@@RenMomoDotPog wouldn't know
The Masterson pallets have served my dad, myself, and my kids well. I think we have 4 or 5 including the larger ones used for heavy acrylics. You know what? They work great. Keep a .99 cent store piece of glass around for metallics and that's about as advanced as I need to get until you have something that will allows me to digitally control the specific gravity of the paint.
I just finished my first orc out if the war crowd box set and I'm pretty dang pleased with how it turned out
That gatekeeping thing has had me re-examine every 'meh, not my style' comment I have ever said. Thanks for holding up a mirror to the ugly.
Like the paint handles as well.
Like the cork top.
The Red Grass light has been amazing, costs a bit but I use it for electronics as well.
My wife wants one now.
Make sure to get a decent Chair!
GW does not have models in stock, does not matter how much stuff you put out if it can only bought when first released.
Jon: Eats paint for a living.
Also Jon: I don’t think resting is good for your body.
You may have picked up norovirus. Your description of symptoms matches it perfectly
The closing at noon/midday is usally a heat related thing, so mostly only in the south of europe. During summer it's so hot that no one goes outside at midday. So most business close so they can go home, cook and have lunch and some take a small siesta. Of course this is not comon practice in big cities but if you go to the country side, that's the norm.
The red grass lamp is my hobby lamp when I travel.
If you're looking for pirates (ghostly or otherwise), try Freebooter's Fate - there's a lot of neat models to be found in the range.
yo back in 2001 I used to store some mixed paint in film canisters because they had a great seal, and used them as mini holders with tac and dbl sided tape! would you believe I am also not old.
Great video/podcast guys. I’m a professional lighting designer and if ever you ever wanna know about geeky lighting stuff, I can help. The cheapest, CRI 100, brightest, diffuse and direct source is the sun. If you can use daylight and a light source, you’re winning!
The word you were looking for pertaining to Scott’s situation in Greece is “Shomit” .
I dont need anymore paint. on a completely unrelated note where do i get briefcases of the new vallejo paints
It sure has. I am loving the new army painter speed paints ❤❤
Wish you would elaborated more on what you were about to say about Reaper. I would have liked to hear another pro’s opinion on them.
When it comes to light, what about wearing a small light headlamp? There are many tiny headlamps that are not uncomfortable to wear.
The longer the preamble ramble, the better the podcast is.
Lighting, find the Eons of Battle episode. Two ikea adjustable desk lamps and two led sun light bulbs. So cheap and super effective.
Also a couple of diffuser covers from Amazon.
I had the same experience when I went to New Orleans, so I can totally empathize.
I have just gone back to corks with paperclips stuck in the top and magnets stuck to the bottom to paint my seraphon, it's the only way to get right underneath without the handle being in the way. Sometimes low tech is the way 😂
I'd love to see some of these high end painters do a fun video painting a model using only artist grade acrylics and see how they like them compared to the hobby paints they're used to.
I thought I left a comment about the wet palette I have been using, but I dont see it. So attempt number 2.
TLDR: I use a nordic ware 1/2" deep x 13" x 18" aluminum baking sheet with the 12" x 16" mastersons sponge and palette paper as my wet palette, and its the best and most reasonably priced one I have had so far. I got a 1/2" deep, a 1" deep and cover to fit both sheets from costco for 25 ducks, and now its only 18 ducks at costco.
I have two army painter wet palettes, an exemplar, a redgrass, an AK interactice, and the 12x16 masterson wet palette in my quest to find the best wet palette for me. I really like the army painters sponge and paper, but the sized killed it for me. The redgrass and exemplar were okay in size and paper, just left me feeling meh, and the AK interactice one infuriated me...especially its paper. I tried the masterson one under suggestion, the size was perfect, but the side height, flimsy lid and its supports disappointed me. I modified it the sides to about 1/2" instead of the 1" but then the lid didn't fit correctly. So I ended up modifying the lid to reinforce the flimsiness and removed the supports that dug into the paper and sponge....it worked, but meh.
I was at costco saw a pack of aluminum sheets for 25 ducks; a 1/2" deep one, a 1" deep one and tall rigid covert that fits both and gently snaps on the sides of the sheet. It was love at first sight. the 1/2" deep one is the right depth and has rounded edges so it doesn't dig into your wrist, and the cover is tall and rigid so no risk of it being pressed into your paints (cats), you dont need a band to hold it on, and its clear so you can see how your paints are looking. I only had to drill four small holes on the top of the lid in the corners, so it can vent. Also my wife got a 1" deep aluminum sheet to use for baking.
message me on instagram (@ulfhrim) and I will send you pics of the setup....its imo the best.
I’ve had really bad food poisoning a few times and every time I’m like “if I died right now . . . I would be ok with that.” When I got food poisoning in China, it wasn’t from the street food I ate all the time, it was from an American steak place some friends insisted on going to.
Collectors editions without game discs is pretty common these days. I don't know if it's due to digital distribution or makes it easier for you to pick your platform with it on top.
40:57 did Scott just tell us he had red lumpy balls?
The irony of Scott saying he wanted to make it easy as possible painting OSL so he skipped using the airbrush to use the spray to suggest where the glow hits. Flip side, you do dodge overdoing it airbrush style!
43:36 Not a good time to be eating hahaha
43:00 really Jon, right in front of my bagle?
Having a kid and them going to daycare… never been more sick in my life this reminds me of that time
I recently had a weekend from hell due to this exact reason. He was fine after a nap but it destroyed me and my wife
Foundry Paints: I used them for decades! and still go back to them for specific projects. Most of them are great with good coverage and consistency straight from the pot! There can be some coverage issues with the usual suspects like yellows and pinks but no worse than GW or Army Painter. They were designed to be used as a triad shade/colour/highlight so I guess that might effect how they turn out when using certain colours on their own.
I would pick them over Scale 75 or Army Painter any day and don't really think, as a range, that they're any worse than Vallejo, plus I have come to hate Vallejo's cloggy bottles.
I'm not sure why my experience was so much worse than yours, but I bought a few colors to paint my wood elves and was very disappointed in the paints
@@Miniac I'll admit some of their colours are complete trash! Wine Red is a good example of a bad paint! But most are fine.
They should really give TM-30 info on LED lights for painting.
I have used a Masterson Pallette since I started painting again. I still cut the paper and have never had an issue. Makes it hard to buy another brand. I have had inklings to try another, but I always found an excuse. Is what it is.
I am realy not enjoying all the new Valljeo paints , the old paint formulars where 10x better ... so I'm swapping to AK 3rd gen 😅
The pie Scott ate, Name translates to " Pie that kills tourists " in English. Don't say they didn't warn you.
That's definitely an allergic reaction, I get that reaction to stuff
The Squidmar wet palette is $50. I think the regular XL is like $40-45. I don't look at the cover of my wet palette very often, buttttt that Squid special shizzz does look dope af. I mean yall drop something with a dope cover on it, no shame in the game. I need to check out that redgrass handle. I end up using old rx bottles for anything that does not fit in the small citadel one.
Can yall do a bit like Mr Roger’s neighborhood and water the plants once a week 😂
I use a 5x3 scrim and daylight balanced led bulbs
My name is Dan now. ill be awaiting my gifts.
Good epi bois! 5 tendies
"Really awesome finecast" I'm pressing x to doubt. I recently mucked about with a 5 man of finecast Warp Spiders. Worst time I've had in the build phase of a model ever. To be fair, though, I'm writing this out immediately after that was said, and haven't heard much past that
Yeah they missed it, it’s a forge world model so I’m assuming better resin
Middle earth SBG is the jam!
33:36 Scott, have you played God of War? You felt sick, because your body achieved Greakness, but your mind still thought you're an American.
Am I mistaken or is all of the audio about 2-3 frames out of sync with the video?
Two tendies and a nug, no need for messy floating point tendies here
I just found my Murderous Magenta that I got over a decade ago, still good.
I guess you could say Scott’s insides got Greeced up like a Diddy party
How would you rate evolution of Dry Paletts ? xD
From "piece of paper/plastic" to silikon "pop widgets" actually makes difference :D
How telling is it, that Jon used "Barbie-sized", and not 'G.I. Joe-sized', as his analog for the size of the U-marine in the diorama? 😮 LOL
I think it’s telling that he’s a girl dad. As a Dad of 2 girls I do the same myself
One of the things I'm surprised you didn't mention is 'dry paints'. While GW tried to innovate again with that, before the contrast even, IMO they failed. AMMO/MIG on the other hand, have some great dry paint.
The other thing was brushes. IMO not a lot of progress there nor price breaks as the name of the game is money but hey, dry brushes have evolved into the make up types eh?
I live in Spain. Here businesses close at midday too. It is the less efficient thing ever. Then they open until 8 or 9pm. So dumb. It is a waste of time.
I want a dune skirmish game soooooo bad
Was painting nemesis claw kill team when i hear sarlac pit and i lol so hard i had to take a break.
Man, I literally just bought the Red Grass Games wet palette 🤦🏻♂️
I have 2 35 dollar Amazon desk LED lamps and it’s incredibly bright and definitely doesn’t strain my eyes to see my models so I have a hard time imaging any reason for me to spend 290 bucks on a lamp to be maybe a bit better. That seems very luxury but unnecessary to me
This came up in my feed again and my old comment was kind of embarrassing lol. Not gonna lie, I've had a lot of struggles with paint and I've spent too much money only to dump most of what I had at various points in time for a loss on ebay. Ak 3rd gen, the new formulation Vallejo, P3, and Army Painter Fanatic are my top picks. Some go to colors from Citadel, thunderhawk blue is my favorite paint they make, and contrast being my favorite one coat paint range. With tools, if there's a scale modeling or gunpla version, it's going to be better. It'll also most likely be cheaper, or so much better that the high price is actually justified...looking at you GodHand clippers. Also, red grass games is horribly overpriced on everything. They don't make a single thing that you can justify spending a higher price for their version of it.
20:30 don't take apart power supplies!
Ive taken apart and modified the box of multiple power supplies. As long as you're not doing something stupid you're fine.
I started painted minis back in the early 90s on heroquest models and DnD chainmail figures.. using enamel paints from a department store. I've made more progress in the past 2-3 years than in the previous decades. The best improvements by far have been the paints and youtube tutorials. You guys did hit on it, but in my experience Instagram and even the minipainting reddits are really bad for new painters. There is a lot of comparison, and bandwagoning in certain styles and 'correct' ways to paint. It's also very disheartening to have model you feel proud of and want to share with the community and it's completely overlooked or even criticized.
Lol, what's a "China" ball lamp? I did the Goog and saw nuthinz.
The big paper lanterns
@@Miniac Thought so
Old nerds unit! Also don't gatekeep.
Listening to this while eating lunch was not a great idea.
The siesta is more of a Mediterranean thing. Other parts of Europe do not do it.
"sorry your dad didn't love you " the most accurate dis for those basement dwelling trolls
I don't know to feel about people who paint stuff creatively for a living not getting the point of an art book.
Amber it's time to travel solo. Leave Scott at home. You both will be happier :) Also you can budget the same amount so you will have more money to spend on yourself :)
The time skip was NOT long enough😂
How long will GW punish Scott for that mistake he did? I mean he doesn't get any of these promo stuff since that "Instagram/Facebook leak"?
I watched it all, but I think that "skip to" timestamp should be like 10 minutes later.
Bussin