As a Space Marine player, the most important hobby tool is a Primaris Lieutenant. They have so many uses! Ranging from: - Paperweight - Desk decoration - Brush holder - Mobile bits box - -something to put in the jar- - Base decor - Sprue-Goo fodder - Alpha Legion Chaos Lord - Reusable canvas And many more!
Deadass, I use a Thunderwolf as a reusable test subject! I prime it white, and test my paints on it first. It's currently various shades of blue & pink. (I play Thousand Sons, and use Space Wolves as basing)
I was wondering why lighting wasn't in the necessities. Then there was the explanation that these are best for people who are getting older. "As we enter our thirties..." hmm, yes, THIRTIES, yes.
I was wondering if the hands we see in the video are Berilio’s. Until a wild block of goiabada appeared. That’s 100% a Brazilian dude enjoying his snack with his minis.
The reason pin vises are called that, is because they're used in machining, watchmaking, and similar trades to grip stock to be polished/shaped into a mechanical or decorative pin without burning your hand or sending it flying across the shop. At least thats what my grandfather taught me when I was a kid.
I use wine corks! You can buy a hundred for like a tenner, and push the wire from a model's foot right into it. Reuse the same wire for pinning to the base later.
I use flush cutters from the hardware store to cut my parts off the sprues. They have a lifetime warranty for when I inevitably drop and break them. If you're using plastic cement, get metal tweasers. Plastic tweasers will melt with plastic glue.
I teach kids/teens how to paint minis as part of my job and we use the 3 by 3 poppet toys as paint pallets. Highly recommend, especially if you want to get your kids into the hobby
Cheaper alternative for the magnifying glasses is to just get "Cheater" reading glasses from the dollar store. You can get them from 1.5x to like 3x and a pair is like $3. Just having a pair of 2x's completely changed the game for me.
Gonna put a shoutout in for the vortex mixer. Shaking a paint for 2 minutes by hand which you can do with a vortex mixer in 20 seconds might not seem like much, but if you use multiple paints it saves you time and your wrists. It's really up there in the 'absolutely not necessary but great to have' tier, but especially paints that separate really easily (looking at you scale75) benefit from this.
Some extra additions that come later. 1. A ring light with the ability to change how warm/cool the lighting is. 2. Dirty Down rust and verdigris if you want to play anything nurgle related. Haven't used their new blood product yet, but if it is as good as the others I would put that on the list for soulblight, orks, chaos daemons, and khorne. 3. A comfortable chair that you don't need to lean forward in to prop your elbows on your painting surface. Easier to do with a desk that can be raised or lowered. 4. Micro Sol and Micro Set to apply the decals that come with your space marines. I have tried several products that do the same thing and this system is the best imo.
For sprue clippers, I started out with just using wire cutters. They were extremely cheap and worked perfectly. I also used an old motts applesauce cup for a water dish and bought a hobby paintbrush set for ~$10, which is awesome. I also pulled tweezers from a grooming kit, which helped hold tiny pieces in place on a model (i never used it otherwise, lol, glad it got some use). I may sound insane but when I went to prime stuff, I sprayed it on the sprue inside a box that was lined with duct tape before tumbling it around to get it to swap sides without touching it (honestly I could've used gloves)
Yay, I am free again to spend the extra little time to do the Shill%. This week's are: merch at 1:28, Patreon at 1:30, merch again at 35:27, TH-cam pleasantries at 35:57. I love Brad's Christmas sweater. As a really inexperienced person in doing hobby, some of this is very good to know. The superglue activator will be quite nice for my shaky hands trying to attach arms. I would say you don't need an apron because you can just be clean, but accidents happen... I was using an old dropper bottle that hadn't been used in like 5 years that was clogged -- if you squeeze a clogged dropper bottle hard enough, 1 of 2 things will happen: either it will clear the clog or the clog will clear along with the dropper head, sending paint all over you, your table, and any models you had nearby.
If you have empty pill bottles, those make for excellent painting handles with a bit of bluetack. You can even keep the lids off of more pill bottles and just swap them out as needed.
Perfect episode going into the holidays -- great for ideas to add to my holiday list so my family doesn't add to my pile of shame with minis I won't get to for years
3:52 recommendation go to hobby lobby if it’s in your area while hobby supplies are on sale. Go to the Gundum section and by a gundum building kit. In my area they are like 25 full price on sale you can get it for 18. I’m not in love with their plastic cement. But there’s a mat in the gundam kit, a hobby knife and sprue clipers. Some very nice markers. I can’t find everything but I believe there is also multi part separator. Also Hobby Lobby also sell super cheap really nice paint brushes. And some wonderful pallets. Cyramic plates are wonderful! A lot of the supplies outside of magnets can be purchased at hobby lobby for cheap. And there is a brush clean cup and burts brush cleaner that I use to keep my brushes.
Really excellent list! One thing I would add is blue tac/poster tac, it's so useful for partial assembly and testing out poses. Makes painting so much easier
I've been using a 7" tall jar for my water, and it's very nice because even if you fill it 2/3 the way through it still holds a ton of water and is very hard to accidentally knock down
Re: the pin vise: We used to use a pin vise with a small headless nail instead of a drill bit at our old custom picture framing shop to help prevent marring the super soft basswood or whatever they made the molding out of! Maybe that's why they're called "pin" vises.
The timing for this is actually perfect for me :D About to get into the hobby and a little scared to get overexcited and overspend on stuff I don't really need.
@ literally like 3-4 days before the Christmas battle forces were announced I decided I wanted to look into dark angels haha. So hoping I manage to snag one of them before they sell out. How about you?
@@mhdover2385 currently browsing eBay for good deals on Tyranids. I was originally interested in Genestealer Cults, but I've heard their miserable to paint, so I'm sticking with Nids. I've also been very interested in Necrons recently.
19:30 I made my own painting handle by washing out an old plastic peanut butter jar and gluing a magnet to the inside of the lid. Now I just glue magnets to the underside of all my bases and then bam. they snap right onto my painting handle no problem.
For a good inexpensive lighting option i looked at what the nailtechs at the local nail salon used. They give a wide area of good light you can adjust temperature and brightness. Theyre professionals that have to work with resin and epoxy, clip file and paint intricate designs day in and day out for very demanding clients. If it's good enough for them its good enough for me and my silly toy soldier hobby.
I used to twist bits off the sprue instead of using a cutter. I'm not proud of my past. Oh, reccomendations! I use the wooden spools from hobby stores for painting handles. Plus poster tack, of course.
Best present I received for Christmas, that admittedly is more hobby adjacent than for this specific hobby, is a desk that converts into a standing desk. One of the ones with a motor that'll raise it from sitting height to standing height. Genuinely great for if you tend to sit down for hours
As a newcomer in the hobby (Thanks to this channel), i'll add to the list some basic PPE when you have to prime your minis, at least FFP2 mask and gloves that you can get pretty much anywhere now after Covid. Also some specific storages like a paint rack and a generic plastic case with a few compartiments made for tools like bolts, nuts, etc... I sorted all my bits in it for easy access whenkitbashing.
One of the best hobby tools in my arsenal is an empty 16-oz Sprecher root beer bottle with a twist cap.. It works very well as a priming paint handle for most minis with 32mm bases or smaller. This has further value if you're magnetizing your bases anyway as the model's magnet will stick to the metal cap. I have ~20 of these bottles I use to prime groups of minis.
7:30 I am currently using a year old bright yellow plastic plate that has paint dried to it in the perfect colors so I can use it for mixing paints, also I want to say this podcast is the perfect thing to listen to while building or painting your army
One thing I'd say that's helped me no end is having a dedicated work space. Obviously not going to be possible for everyone but back before I used to have one I would paint on the kitchen table so it was a chore to unpack and pack every time I wanted to paint. Now I can literally paint just whenever, even if it's just 5 minutes which means I'm just painting a lot more (as let's be honest, 5 minutes never ends up being 5 minutes).
About the painting handles, I live in a college town and for my entire 2 year hobby experience I’ve just used empty beer bottles my friends leave around my house after the weekends. I poster tack the model to the bottom of that and grab onto the neck of the bottle.
So as a gunpla person, God hands was designed to give us gundam builders the cleanest cuts for (Polystyrene) plastic which is a lot tougher than gw plastic. So using them on gw kits is an absolute dream. Yes they are expensive at like $70, but I haven't found another clipper that cuts as smooth or leaves such a precise job. Depending on the gw kit, sometimes I don't even need to sand, or file with my knife to clean up. They're worth it.
This video was awesome, definitely going to try the silicone palet, and get a drill so Brad doesn't hate my non-drilled ultramarines, but they're ultramarines so he'll hate them anyway. Thanks guys, your content is my favourite on TH-cam and I'll be gutted when I've made it through your back catalog.
A good painting handle is an old ibuprofen bottle. Perfect fit right in the palm, plenty of space to grip and turn the model around, and less plastic for the landfill. Gotta try to offset all the sprue nibs we trim off and toss straight in the trash. Same premise, blue tack the bottom of the model, stick the model on the lid. Badda bing, badda boom.
This is perfect, in the last week I dredged up my 15 year old Eldar models and bought a combat patrol. I’m basically starting over from scratch since I was more concerned with playing the game then the hobby side back then, and I never did develop any of the skills to make really nice looking models. Already took some notes from the paint recommendations video 👍.
For paint handles I use candles holders (individuals, made of plastic) + some tack or museum gel for holding the base of the model. The handles are like $1 and have a good shape.
LIghting, I was so happy to see that. I repurpose running headlamps into modeling and painting lights. Mostly due to having tables/desks that are not able to handle clip-on lamps.
The godhand pin vise cuts through plastic like butter. Though I don’t use it a lot the gunprimer raser + glass file works very well for bigger or flat surfaces.
I have purchased many hobby extra’s and the best one by far was a vortex mixer for paint. I have also used mixers designed for nail polish which worked, but basically, something to make mixing you paint easier is so nice!
The goofy, GW painting handle is honestly the best thing I've ever bought for hobbying because I have only the clumsiest, butteriest of butter fingers. If I don't have a nigh-impossible-to-drop thing to grip onto I will dump whatever I'm working on directly onto the floor. Yes, this does make it rather difficult to handle paint pots. Yes, I have spilt paint all over everything multiple times. But that goofy upside-down wineglass looking thing? Rock solid. But this video did teach me of the closed resting tweezers and I am getting a pair of those as soon as I can. Thank you for your hobby service, Poorhammer.
I’m pretty brand new to this hobby, but the wet palate has been my best purchase, I absolutely love it and would 10/10 buy it agin, I only have little bits of time randomly throughout the day, and it’s amazing I can just pick up where I left off and not have to re mix colors because the paints don’t dry out
Unironically, my favorite pallette for miniatures snd smaller models where I know I'm not gonna be painting over multiple days is my grandmothers old ash tray. It's hefty and doesn't shift around if I accidentally move too much
AK Paneliner is essentially a gateway drug to oil paints. It's a pre-thinned oil wash that comes in the same kind of bottle as the Tamiya plastic cement, making it really easy to work with. It's now the go-to for just about every model's finishing touches, and I've finally gone out and picked up some actual oil paints to try out.
For applying basing material, I'm a big fan of the silicone sculpting tools. You can get 'em pretty cheap, they have flexibility like brushes, but also different shapes which can let you get a little more control over their movement, and nothing sticks to them, so with a little rinse you can get them totally clean again.
Cheap pipettes are nice when you need to put a little more plastic cement or sprue goo somewhere. They’re also nice for applying baking soda as a super glue activator.
I can only recommend pill bottles for painting handles. They're cheap, often easy to find and replace (ask any person 50 and up you may be close with if they have empty bottles to spare!), and fit very well in hand! Plus depending of the shape of the mini you can tack them on the inside of the bottle for safe transport or storage until you're done painting them.
A good thing to note as well out of my personal experience; try to genuinely start with just the bare basics. Buying more stuff because you feel the need to and understand why you buy it (wet pallet and the like) helps with actually using the products you have gotten and makes you learn A LOT about the hobby too.
I love using sprue-goo for literally everything, it’s perfect, I call my cup of cut up sprue/bits “nurgles pot” Even for large gaps I’ll just stick some green stuff in there and use goo for the contact around the green stuff to smooth the transition, it helps with making more organic model gaps (like tyranids) look like they were molded like that
its crazy how much cleaning brushes will help them last. even when its used for the nastiest, stickiest stuff. i work on boats and our boats go in for a bi-yearly maintenance which includes them being recoated with a bitumen coating. our boat manager always makes sure we properly clean the brushes out at the end of the maintenance and those brushes are in excellent condition, some even almost look new, despite years of use in bitumen paint.
Strongly recommend a roll on deodrant stick as a painting handle, very ergonomically comfortable and you can also glue a magnet to the underside of the lid so that magnetised bases will stick to it
For painting handles, I bought a bulk bag of bottle corks from Amazon really cheap, I put blu-tack on the top and the bottom of the cork and stick the bases on it, I only put blu-tack on the bottom to help keep it from tipping over on the table and to help grip the table when I'm resting my hand on it It could also be a good way to transport minis if you're still painting them Another good use for the cork is for painting in sub-assemblies, I have some snipped paper clips that I've jammed into the cork, then glued to the cork with some hot glue to keep it in place, if I'm painting a head or a powerpack for a space marine, I'll hot glue them to the paperclip to make painting easier, then the hot glue is brittle enough that the bits come off really easy and it's inexpensive
Hand vacuum, or a shop vac if you have the space. Basing inevitably creates grime that you have to sweep up, and a vacuum that is right there will really help keep the space clean. Also useful for other stuff
For paint handles, I have legs off of a broken wooden stool. They were free and oddly the perfect shape. I even gave one and some blue tac to a friend to prevent him from buying the Citadel model holder.
I would say a nice and cheap model holders are cork bottle plugs and metal washers. Poster tack them or pin them there with a paper clip works like a charm for me.
I got a nice wooden painting handle with rotatable swappable magnetized tops and a removable metal bar to support you painting at weird angles. It's actually really great, and the best part is it was the cheapest option on Amazon at the time
-In the span of 3-4 years i kept buying GW minis for cheap(mostly IG infantry) and i now look into proxying vehicles with my 3d printer(FDM printer so i will lose detail, but its ok, as the detail for vehicles would be minimal(i hope)) and now as i print im making plans on how i will assemble my minis and what tools i will need. So this video is at a perfect time, as tomorrow i need to go buy additional stuff, love your timing and your channel :*
Tip for those vehicles: check online communities which vehicle models are 'good bit donors'/ contain lots of bits. A lot of 40k vehicles do have a suprising amount of detail, but there usualy are one or two per faction that have far more weapons, turrets, hatches and detailed trimming in their kit than you need. Buy one of those, 3d print yourself a second one, and then split the actually detailed bits across both.
I had a wooden Jucoci Painting Handle on my bday wish list and it has been a great gift. Would recommend. Def something that is NOT a required tool, but it is pretty awesome for not having paid for it myself. It has an armature for resting your hand against, and is magnetized so you can pop the top disks off and back on. Comes with 5 I think. Very nice to just blue-tack on a squad of 5 on individual disks and be able to swap them in when batch painting. I can paint, then set aside to dry and pop the next one on. Another great gift idea is something dedicated for paint storage. I got a nice laser-cut wooden display/storage unit and it is SO much easier to just grab that and carry it down to the kitchen table. Plus it can hold my smaller tools such as the hand drill, nippers, and GreenStuff in its little drawers. I think the brand is Plydolex and they're like $40 or under. (HEADS UP: If buying for someone else, find out what size paint bottles they use the most. I got the smaller diameter one because I use Vallejo and ArmyPainter brand paints that are a small squeeze bottle. If they use craft paints or Citadel a lot, they will want the larger diameter holes. Some options have a combination of the two as well. Both are great Xmas/bday gifts that won't break the bank. And your friends/family can know it's something you'll actually use.
7:40 - Best tip ever when you are doing metallics or just small amounts that you won't use more than a drop or two of. The other works as well, I bought those silicon molds for candy chocolates, huge for models but pouring washes into one of those for when you coat a whole damn army in one go - trust me, one quick go of it. Also use it to get airbrush consistency before I pour it into the actual airbrush rather than guessing the ratios in the cup. 11:35 - Army Painter has small wet palette, like real small, that works very well. Use it my self but I also got a big one for when it's "serious" time. In fact, Army Painter is usually a safe bet to look at, not the best but also never the most expensive. They are kind of "lagom". 20:00 - Blue tack is lovely for sectioning/covering parts to airbrush other parts. There are more expensive things for this usecase but damn, be lazy! 22:30 - Sexy gogs are essential once you get going. Do not kid your self, this is peak requirement :)
Fun fact: I found that the opaque plastic caps of the pringles (chips) cans are really good painting pallettes. For cleaning, wrap my finger into paper towel and scratch off the dried paint with my nail. I know it's cheap, but on the bright side: if you want a new painting pallette, just buy more chips (which you might have done anyway)
I hate summer. That's why I made myself a "mini" desk fan from our old PC. You can find such designs on printables / thingiverse and it I have it turned on pretty much daily. It also helps with drying paint on models and pastes like stirland mud very fast. I must recommend it if you want to speed up painting.
I like to use dedicated steel baking sheets for my hobby Surface. I have one for painting (wet pallette, brushes, paper towels) and one for hobbying (sprue, paint, knife, clippers).
A great option for painting handles is blue tack on top of a standard pill prescription bottle with a "child proof" lid. The bottle is designed to be comfortably held even by people with hand injuries and the cap rotates freely if you want to adjust the model angle without moving your wrist to an odd angle. Bonus points if you use a perfectly ironic prescription like opioid painkillers, antidepressants or ADHD medicine
I am a really big fan of using "Uncle Atom's Favorite Brushes" from Monument Hobbies as a brush upgrade from the cheap first ones that you buy. You get three sizes for pretty cheap and my first set lasted me about one year.
24:00 I bought a makeup brush cleaning mat with suction cups at the dollar store, then cut out a circle that I have stuck to the bottom of a mug. It really is worth it to have something abrasive to wash brushes with.
For the people who don’t like the brush cup in the video, Game Envy makes a really good collapsible one with dips in the rim to hold your brushes, and they come with pucks that can go on the bottom of any cup to get the paint off. You can buy the pucks separately if you want.
Good diffused LED task lamps on adjustable arms can often be found at a good price from eyelash or nail shops. Turns out you need pretty good lighting for that sort of things. A lot of the fancy LED painting lamps are just these same generic LED task lamps with a brand name and massive markup slapped on them. Also, a short, fat salsa jar is the best water pot for cleaning brushes!
For Tau army collectors, I will suggest the Tamiya panel liner. Not quite a paint, but better than pink washing forever. It's a good introduction to organics/mineral spirit based products too
My wet pallette is a takeaway tub, some kitchen roll, and a sheet of leftover baking paper, which I swap out every week. Quite literally free since I get the stuff for it with other purchases. Sure a proper one would likely be better, but this still works great and £0 is a good incentive
I've got one of those silicone popper fidget toys. You acn mix paint in the little silicone wells, and when you need to clean it, you just pop out the dried paint.
20:00 use a golf ball with a beer cap hot glued to the _bottom_ and window sealer putty. Its basically blue tack without the dye and cheap for metric crap ton roll you get.
Great episode, and my wife will thank you - I'm impossible to buy for. However, you should have a mention of your Dec 2022 episode, in which you go over hobby gifts. At least have a link on the singleton page. Anyhow, keep up the marvelously entertaining show!
just for anyone that's curious for what sprue clippers actually are, just go to your local hardware store and ask for flush cutters. they're much thinner and smaller for being precise but still super sharp so minimal force is needed to use them. they're a great hobbying tool and for just general use.
As a Space Marine player, the most important hobby tool is a Primaris Lieutenant. They have so many uses! Ranging from:
- Paperweight
- Desk decoration
- Brush holder
- Mobile bits box
- -something to put in the jar-
- Base decor
- Sprue-Goo fodder
- Alpha Legion Chaos Lord
- Reusable canvas
And many more!
Lethal Clicks
Deadass, I use a Thunderwolf as a reusable test subject! I prime it white, and test my paints on it first. It's currently various shades of blue & pink.
(I play Thousand Sons, and use Space Wolves as basing)
Basing material
I both love and hate how the fucking jar is the ONE thing from the my little pony fandom to become a mainstream meme
@@SarahAngel3WW Using Space Wolves as base fodder and paint scheme guinea pigs for your Thousand Sons is so deliciously evil.
Is brads model wearing a Christmas sweater? That’s actually really neat. Congrats to whoever did that, it looks good.
That'd probably be Birellio (something like that, their main editor).
DISGUSTING. It is NOT Christmas. CHRISTMAS does not START until DECEMBER.
@@JonathanNormandy It's past Halloween. Commercially, that means it's Christmas.
@@Brickerbrack INCORRECT AND WRONG, by merit of I SAID SO
Birellio if it was you good job! If not good job still on editing the video! 👍
I was wondering why lighting wasn't in the necessities. Then there was the explanation that these are best for people who are getting older. "As we enter our thirties..." hmm, yes, THIRTIES, yes.
I remember entering my 30s, and exiting them.
Lighting is massive. After just the basics nothing made a bigger difference hobbying than a good bright light
I've been entering my thirties for some time now. Some may say for years.
Even more important once you enter the 40s 😅
I just turned 27 and I’m getting into the hobby. Man I can’t see shit
I was wondering if the hands we see in the video are Berilio’s. Until a wild block of goiabada appeared. That’s 100% a Brazilian dude enjoying his snack with his minis.
It also appears to be Idoneth Deepkin, the Sigmar army he plays and recently actually got the models for.
Saying “normally closed” in reference to the tweezers made my electrician brain happy. Thanks guys, have a great day.
The reason pin vises are called that, is because they're used in machining, watchmaking, and similar trades to grip stock to be polished/shaped into a mechanical or decorative pin without burning your hand or sending it flying across the shop. At least thats what my grandfather taught me when I was a kid.
Listened to the audio only this morning, came here for the amazing hand modeling by Berilium
Pill bottles make great free painting handles
All I've used since I started hobbying.
Vallejo Metal Colour bottles also are decent paint handles after you give them a blob of bluetack
Small dixie cups + sticky tack
I use wine corks! You can buy a hundred for like a tenner, and push the wire from a model's foot right into it. Reuse the same wire for pinning to the base later.
@@Axquirixchampagne Corks for the lovely bulb on the top, plus you get to drink it first! Extra fun painting session
I use flush cutters from the hardware store to cut my parts off the sprues. They have a lifetime warranty for when I inevitably drop and break them.
If you're using plastic cement, get metal tweasers. Plastic tweasers will melt with plastic glue.
I teach kids/teens how to paint minis as part of my job and we use the 3 by 3 poppet toys as paint pallets. Highly recommend, especially if you want to get your kids into the hobby
The biggest advantage of fancy paint brush cup is that you don't grab the wrong mug to drink from
but the colors add flavor to my coffee
"Bro, I can taste the colors, bro"
How do you tell if it needs more nuln oil?
The forbidden juice
Cheaper alternative for the magnifying glasses is to just get "Cheater" reading glasses from the dollar store. You can get them from 1.5x to like 3x and a pair is like $3. Just having a pair of 2x's completely changed the game for me.
Berillio, enjoy your new army and all the stuff that goes with it. You have definitely earned it 😊
Gonna put a shoutout in for the vortex mixer. Shaking a paint for 2 minutes by hand which you can do with a vortex mixer in 20 seconds might not seem like much, but if you use multiple paints it saves you time and your wrists. It's really up there in the 'absolutely not necessary but great to have' tier, but especially paints that separate really easily (looking at you scale75) benefit from this.
it ads fancyness like a dremel.
having one is awesome.
I use my mixer so constantly that I didn't even think of it when coming up with a list of my favorite tools, lol.
Some extra additions that come later.
1. A ring light with the ability to change how warm/cool the lighting is.
2. Dirty Down rust and verdigris if you want to play anything nurgle related. Haven't used their new blood product yet, but if it is as good as the others I would put that on the list for soulblight, orks, chaos daemons, and khorne.
3. A comfortable chair that you don't need to lean forward in to prop your elbows on your painting surface. Easier to do with a desk that can be raised or lowered.
4. Micro Sol and Micro Set to apply the decals that come with your space marines. I have tried several products that do the same thing and this system is the best imo.
I was waiting for the Talk Tuah podcast to cover this, thanks for getting ahead of them and bringing us such fun and helpful information!
For sprue clippers, I started out with just using wire cutters. They were extremely cheap and worked perfectly. I also used an old motts applesauce cup for a water dish and bought a hobby paintbrush set for ~$10, which is awesome. I also pulled tweezers from a grooming kit, which helped hold tiny pieces in place on a model (i never used it otherwise, lol, glad it got some use).
I may sound insane but when I went to prime stuff, I sprayed it on the sprue inside a box that was lined with duct tape before tumbling it around to get it to swap sides without touching it (honestly I could've used gloves)
Yay, I am free again to spend the extra little time to do the Shill%. This week's are: merch at 1:28, Patreon at 1:30, merch again at 35:27, TH-cam pleasantries at 35:57.
I love Brad's Christmas sweater. As a really inexperienced person in doing hobby, some of this is very good to know. The superglue activator will be quite nice for my shaky hands trying to attach arms. I would say you don't need an apron because you can just be clean, but accidents happen... I was using an old dropper bottle that hadn't been used in like 5 years that was clogged -- if you squeeze a clogged dropper bottle hard enough, 1 of 2 things will happen: either it will clear the clog or the clog will clear along with the dropper head, sending paint all over you, your table, and any models you had nearby.
Aprons are always optional if you don't like the clothes you're wearing.
And the curtains!
If you have empty pill bottles, those make for excellent painting handles with a bit of bluetack. You can even keep the lids off of more pill bottles and just swap them out as needed.
The snack break was amazing 😂 6:54
Perfect episode going into the holidays -- great for ideas to add to my holiday list so my family doesn't add to my pile of shame with minis I won't get to for years
3:52 recommendation go to hobby lobby if it’s in your area while hobby supplies are on sale. Go to the Gundum section and by a gundum building kit. In my area they are like 25 full price on sale you can get it for 18. I’m not in love with their plastic cement. But there’s a mat in the gundam kit, a hobby knife and sprue clipers. Some very nice markers. I can’t find everything but I believe there is also multi part separator. Also Hobby Lobby also sell super cheap really nice paint brushes. And some wonderful pallets. Cyramic plates are wonderful! A lot of the supplies outside of magnets can be purchased at hobby lobby for cheap. And there is a brush clean cup and burts brush cleaner that I use to keep my brushes.
Note: Hobby Lobby is run by awful people. Famously the company was involved in a mummy smuggling scandal not long ago.
@@JohnathanJWells Its cheap. I like cheap. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I work for amazon. they are bad people too but they keep the lights on for my wife and I.
Thank you for the great footage Berilio
Really excellent list! One thing I would add is blue tac/poster tac, it's so useful for partial assembly and testing out poses. Makes painting so much easier
I've been using a 7" tall jar for my water, and it's very nice because even if you fill it 2/3 the way through it still holds a ton of water and is very hard to accidentally knock down
For the brush cleaner cup I just cleaned up and glued some sprue to the bottom of a plastic cup it works well and was effectively free
Re: the pin vise: We used to use a pin vise with a small headless nail instead of a drill bit at our old custom picture framing shop to help prevent marring the super soft basswood or whatever they made the molding out of! Maybe that's why they're called "pin" vises.
The timing for this is actually perfect for me :D
About to get into the hobby and a little scared to get overexcited and overspend on stuff I don't really need.
Same lol. What army are you going to pick?
@ literally like 3-4 days before the Christmas battle forces were announced I decided I wanted to look into dark angels haha. So hoping I manage to snag one of them before they sell out.
How about you?
@@mhdover2385 currently browsing eBay for good deals on Tyranids. I was originally interested in Genestealer Cults, but I've heard their miserable to paint, so I'm sticking with Nids. I've also been very interested in Necrons recently.
5:34 well there goes my Saturday
19:30 I made my own painting handle by washing out an old plastic peanut butter jar and gluing a magnet to the inside of the lid. Now I just glue magnets to the underside of all my bases and then bam. they snap right onto my painting handle no problem.
For a good inexpensive lighting option i looked at what the nailtechs at the local nail salon used. They give a wide area of good light you can adjust temperature and brightness.
Theyre professionals that have to work with resin and epoxy, clip file and paint intricate designs day in and day out for very demanding clients. If it's good enough for them its good enough for me and my silly toy soldier hobby.
I used to twist bits off the sprue instead of using a cutter. I'm not proud of my past.
Oh, reccomendations! I use the wooden spools from hobby stores for painting handles. Plus poster tack, of course.
Best present I received for Christmas, that admittedly is more hobby adjacent than for this specific hobby, is a desk that converts into a standing desk. One of the ones with a motor that'll raise it from sitting height to standing height. Genuinely great for if you tend to sit down for hours
As a newcomer in the hobby (Thanks to this channel), i'll add to the list some basic PPE when you have to prime your minis, at least FFP2 mask and gloves that you can get pretty much anywhere now after Covid. Also some specific storages like a paint rack and a generic plastic case with a few compartiments made for tools like bolts, nuts, etc... I sorted all my bits in it for easy access whenkitbashing.
One of the best hobby tools in my arsenal is an empty 16-oz Sprecher root beer bottle with a twist cap.. It works very well as a priming paint handle for most minis with 32mm bases or smaller. This has further value if you're magnetizing your bases anyway as the model's magnet will stick to the metal cap. I have ~20 of these bottles I use to prime groups of minis.
30:16 Yep, had the God Hand recommended to me for Gunpla kits and those things are generation defining. Actually a worthwhile purchase
7:30 I am currently using a year old bright yellow plastic plate that has paint dried to it in the perfect colors so I can use it for mixing paints, also I want to say this podcast is the perfect thing to listen to while building or painting your army
Back in my day we made our models using nothing but tooth floss and pva glue
By Tzeentch, I'm so early the C'tan aren't defeated yet.
One thing I'd say that's helped me no end is having a dedicated work space. Obviously not going to be possible for everyone but back before I used to have one I would paint on the kitchen table so it was a chore to unpack and pack every time I wanted to paint. Now I can literally paint just whenever, even if it's just 5 minutes which means I'm just painting a lot more (as let's be honest, 5 minutes never ends up being 5 minutes).
Remembered it's Tuesday and seeing the upload flipped my day for the better ty y'all ❤
About the painting handles, I live in a college town and for my entire 2 year hobby experience I’ve just used empty beer bottles my friends leave around my house after the weekends. I poster tack the model to the bottom of that and grab onto the neck of the bottle.
So as a gunpla person, God hands was designed to give us gundam builders the cleanest cuts for (Polystyrene) plastic which is a lot tougher than gw plastic. So using them on gw kits is an absolute dream. Yes they are expensive at like $70, but I haven't found another clipper that cuts as smooth or leaves such a precise job. Depending on the gw kit, sometimes I don't even need to sand, or file with my knife to clean up. They're worth it.
This video was awesome, definitely going to try the silicone palet, and get a drill so Brad doesn't hate my non-drilled ultramarines, but they're ultramarines so he'll hate them anyway. Thanks guys, your content is my favourite on TH-cam and I'll be gutted when I've made it through your back catalog.
A good painting handle is an old ibuprofen bottle. Perfect fit right in the palm, plenty of space to grip and turn the model around, and less plastic for the landfill. Gotta try to offset all the sprue nibs we trim off and toss straight in the trash. Same premise, blue tack the bottom of the model, stick the model on the lid. Badda bing, badda boom.
YESSSSS when they are needed! They have come!
This is perfect, in the last week I dredged up my 15 year old Eldar models and bought a combat patrol. I’m basically starting over from scratch since I was more concerned with playing the game then the hobby side back then, and I never did develop any of the skills to make really nice looking models.
Already took some notes from the paint recommendations video 👍.
For paint handles I use candles holders (individuals, made of plastic) + some tack or museum gel for holding the base of the model. The handles are like $1 and have a good shape.
LIghting, I was so happy to see that. I repurpose running headlamps into modeling and painting lights. Mostly due to having tables/desks that are not able to handle clip-on lamps.
I love that toolbox insert you made.
The godhand pin vise cuts through plastic like butter.
Though I don’t use it a lot the gunprimer raser + glass file works very well for bigger or flat surfaces.
Barellio being the goat with that sweater on brad
I have purchased many hobby extra’s and the best one by far was a vortex mixer for paint. I have also used mixers designed for nail polish which worked, but basically, something to make mixing you paint easier is so nice!
The goofy, GW painting handle is honestly the best thing I've ever bought for hobbying because I have only the clumsiest, butteriest of butter fingers. If I don't have a nigh-impossible-to-drop thing to grip onto I will dump whatever I'm working on directly onto the floor. Yes, this does make it rather difficult to handle paint pots. Yes, I have spilt paint all over everything multiple times. But that goofy upside-down wineglass looking thing? Rock solid. But this video did teach me of the closed resting tweezers and I am getting a pair of those as soon as I can. Thank you for your hobby service, Poorhammer.
I’m pretty brand new to this hobby, but the wet palate has been my best purchase, I absolutely love it and would 10/10 buy it agin, I only have little bits of time randomly throughout the day, and it’s amazing I can just pick up where I left off and not have to re mix colors because the paints don’t dry out
Unironically, my favorite pallette for miniatures snd smaller models where I know I'm not gonna be painting over multiple days is my grandmothers old ash tray. It's hefty and doesn't shift around if I accidentally move too much
AK Paneliner is essentially a gateway drug to oil paints. It's a pre-thinned oil wash that comes in the same kind of bottle as the Tamiya plastic cement, making it really easy to work with. It's now the go-to for just about every model's finishing touches, and I've finally gone out and picked up some actual oil paints to try out.
9:02 have exact kit, best hobby purchase I've ever done, quite good quality. Apparently it's a gunpla kit thing.
Funnily, I have the same kit as well! Works pretty well! Next add on for me will be a variety of sandpaper sticks.
I never thought of using dremel heads for sanding. Cool idea!
Apoxie sculpt is my preference to green stuff.
Oils are dope. So so good.
Nice vid for before black Friday. Some good Christmas ideas
Thank you for being my Tuesday bathroom break video. Love y’all’s stuff
You live in the Midwest and use a painting apron? I thought we all just used thrifted flannels as paint shirts.
For applying basing material, I'm a big fan of the silicone sculpting tools. You can get 'em pretty cheap, they have flexibility like brushes, but also different shapes which can let you get a little more control over their movement, and nothing sticks to them, so with a little rinse you can get them totally clean again.
Cheap pipettes are nice when you need to put a little more plastic cement or sprue goo somewhere. They’re also nice for applying baking soda as a super glue activator.
Baking soda is a superglue activator? Whoa
I can only recommend pill bottles for painting handles.
They're cheap, often easy to find and replace (ask any person 50 and up you may be close with if they have empty bottles to spare!), and fit very well in hand! Plus depending of the shape of the mini you can tack them on the inside of the bottle for safe transport or storage until you're done painting them.
I was about to shout the virtues of the popit pallet. Especially for contrast style paints in dropper bottles. Absolutely a boon to the hobby desk.
A good thing to note as well out of my personal experience; try to genuinely start with just the bare basics. Buying more stuff because you feel the need to and understand why you buy it (wet pallet and the like) helps with actually using the products you have gotten and makes you learn A LOT about the hobby too.
I love using sprue-goo for literally everything, it’s perfect, I call my cup of cut up sprue/bits “nurgles pot”
Even for large gaps I’ll just stick some green stuff in there and use goo for the contact around the green stuff to smooth the transition, it helps with making more organic model gaps (like tyranids) look like they were molded like that
its crazy how much cleaning brushes will help them last. even when its used for the nastiest, stickiest stuff. i work on boats and our boats go in for a bi-yearly maintenance which includes them being recoated with a bitumen coating. our boat manager always makes sure we properly clean the brushes out at the end of the maintenance and those brushes are in excellent condition, some even almost look new, despite years of use in bitumen paint.
Strongly recommend a roll on deodrant stick as a painting handle, very ergonomically comfortable and you can also glue a magnet to the underside of the lid so that magnetised bases will stick to it
For painting handles, I bought a bulk bag of bottle corks from Amazon really cheap, I put blu-tack on the top and the bottom of the cork and stick the bases on it, I only put blu-tack on the bottom to help keep it from tipping over on the table and to help grip the table when I'm resting my hand on it
It could also be a good way to transport minis if you're still painting them
Another good use for the cork is for painting in sub-assemblies, I have some snipped paper clips that I've jammed into the cork, then glued to the cork with some hot glue to keep it in place, if I'm painting a head or a powerpack for a space marine, I'll hot glue them to the paperclip to make painting easier, then the hot glue is brittle enough that the bits come off really easy and it's inexpensive
Hand vacuum, or a shop vac if you have the space. Basing inevitably creates grime that you have to sweep up, and a vacuum that is right there will really help keep the space clean. Also useful for other stuff
The pop-it fidget toy is an awesome palette for washes, contrasts, metallics, basically anything that you don't want to put on a wet palette
For paint handles, I have legs off of a broken wooden stool. They were free and oddly the perfect shape. I even gave one and some blue tac to a friend to prevent him from buying the Citadel model holder.
I would say a nice and cheap model holders are cork bottle plugs and metal washers. Poster tack them or pin them there with a paper clip works like a charm for me.
I got a nice wooden painting handle with rotatable swappable magnetized tops and a removable metal bar to support you painting at weird angles. It's actually really great, and the best part is it was the cheapest option on Amazon at the time
-In the span of 3-4 years i kept buying GW minis for cheap(mostly IG infantry) and i now look into proxying vehicles with my 3d printer(FDM printer so i will lose detail, but its ok, as the detail for vehicles would be minimal(i hope)) and now as i print im making plans on how i will assemble my minis and what tools i will need. So this video is at a perfect time, as tomorrow i need to go buy additional stuff, love your timing and your channel :*
Tip for those vehicles: check online communities which vehicle models are 'good bit donors'/ contain lots of bits. A lot of 40k vehicles do have a suprising amount of detail, but there usualy are one or two per faction that have far more weapons, turrets, hatches and detailed trimming in their kit than you need. Buy one of those, 3d print yourself a second one, and then split the actually detailed bits across both.
@@reappermen Thank you for the advice, il surely look into it and see what boxes i could use :D
I had a wooden Jucoci Painting Handle on my bday wish list and it has been a great gift. Would recommend. Def something that is NOT a required tool, but it is pretty awesome for not having paid for it myself. It has an armature for resting your hand against, and is magnetized so you can pop the top disks off and back on. Comes with 5 I think. Very nice to just blue-tack on a squad of 5 on individual disks and be able to swap them in when batch painting. I can paint, then set aside to dry and pop the next one on.
Another great gift idea is something dedicated for paint storage. I got a nice laser-cut wooden display/storage unit and it is SO much easier to just grab that and carry it down to the kitchen table. Plus it can hold my smaller tools such as the hand drill, nippers, and GreenStuff in its little drawers. I think the brand is Plydolex and they're like $40 or under. (HEADS UP: If buying for someone else, find out what size paint bottles they use the most. I got the smaller diameter one because I use Vallejo and ArmyPainter brand paints that are a small squeeze bottle. If they use craft paints or Citadel a lot, they will want the larger diameter holes. Some options have a combination of the two as well.
Both are great Xmas/bday gifts that won't break the bank. And your friends/family can know it's something you'll actually use.
7:40 - Best tip ever when you are doing metallics or just small amounts that you won't use more than a drop or two of. The other works as well, I bought those silicon molds for candy chocolates, huge for models but pouring washes into one of those for when you coat a whole damn army in one go - trust me, one quick go of it. Also use it to get airbrush consistency before I pour it into the actual airbrush rather than guessing the ratios in the cup.
11:35 - Army Painter has small wet palette, like real small, that works very well. Use it my self but I also got a big one for when it's "serious" time. In fact, Army Painter is usually a safe bet to look at, not the best but also never the most expensive. They are kind of "lagom".
20:00 - Blue tack is lovely for sectioning/covering parts to airbrush other parts. There are more expensive things for this usecase but damn, be lazy!
22:30 - Sexy gogs are essential once you get going. Do not kid your self, this is peak requirement :)
Fun fact: I found that the opaque plastic caps of the pringles (chips) cans are really good painting pallettes.
For cleaning, wrap my finger into paper towel and scratch off the dried paint with my nail.
I know it's cheap, but on the bright side: if you want a new painting pallette, just buy more chips (which you might have done anyway)
Dremel is great for pinning, kitbashing and terrain building. It's literally a micro version of power tools.
I hate summer. That's why I made myself a "mini" desk fan from our old PC. You can find such designs on printables / thingiverse and it I have it turned on pretty much daily. It also helps with drying paint on models and pastes like stirland mud very fast. I must recommend it if you want to speed up painting.
can’t wait for this to be why you should own an airbrush part 2
I love your hobby-episodes and always look forward to those!
I like to use dedicated steel baking sheets for my hobby Surface. I have one for painting (wet pallette, brushes, paper towels) and one for hobbying (sprue, paint, knife, clippers).
A great option for painting handles is blue tack on top of a standard pill prescription bottle with a "child proof" lid. The bottle is designed to be comfortably held even by people with hand injuries and the cap rotates freely if you want to adjust the model angle without moving your wrist to an odd angle.
Bonus points if you use a perfectly ironic prescription like opioid painkillers, antidepressants or ADHD medicine
I am a really big fan of using "Uncle Atom's Favorite Brushes" from Monument Hobbies as a brush upgrade from the cheap first ones that you buy. You get three sizes for pretty cheap and my first set lasted me about one year.
For some reason they’re not available to buy on monument hobbies’s website.
24:00 I bought a makeup brush cleaning mat with suction cups at the dollar store, then cut out a circle that I have stuck to the bottom of a mug. It really is worth it to have something abrasive to wash brushes with.
For the people who don’t like the brush cup in the video, Game Envy makes a really good collapsible one with dips in the rim to hold your brushes, and they come with pucks that can go on the bottom of any cup to get the paint off. You can buy the pucks separately if you want.
Good diffused LED task lamps on adjustable arms can often be found at a good price from eyelash or nail shops. Turns out you need pretty good lighting for that sort of things. A lot of the fancy LED painting lamps are just these same generic LED task lamps with a brand name and massive markup slapped on them.
Also, a short, fat salsa jar is the best water pot for cleaning brushes!
Just noticed Brad's avatar is wearing a sweater. Adorable.
For Tau army collectors, I will suggest the Tamiya panel liner. Not quite a paint, but better than pink washing forever. It's a good introduction to organics/mineral spirit based products too
Nice burelio deserves love too i would love too see his impression of paint and monting that deepkin.(as a beginner )
My wet pallette is a takeaway tub, some kitchen roll, and a sheet of leftover baking paper, which I swap out every week. Quite literally free since I get the stuff for it with other purchases. Sure a proper one would likely be better, but this still works great and £0 is a good incentive
I've got one of those silicone popper fidget toys. You acn mix paint in the little silicone wells, and when you need to clean it, you just pop out the dried paint.
20:00 use a golf ball with a beer cap hot glued to the _bottom_ and window sealer putty. Its basically blue tack without the dye and cheap for metric crap ton roll you get.
Great episode, and my wife will thank you - I'm impossible to buy for.
However, you should have a mention of your Dec 2022 episode, in which you go over hobby gifts. At least have a link on the singleton page.
Anyhow, keep up the marvelously entertaining show!
I just 3D printed a painting handle.
Empty pill bottle plus bluetack is the ultimate painting handle
just for anyone that's curious for what sprue clippers actually are, just go to your local hardware store and ask for flush cutters. they're much thinner and smaller for being precise but still super sharp so minimal force is needed to use them. they're a great hobbying tool and for just general use.