I do nothing in my life as cleanly and precise as Vince Venturella paints on a daily basis. I would like to see a Big 5 or HEXACO Test be done on him. I bet his conscientiousness is at 99.9%
Awesome vid. Great timing for me, I'm working on a Dark Souls mini right now with extremely heavy corrosion on its armor. I found that mixing GSW bronze with satin medium and Dryad Bark made an awesome base coat for old bronze. Love mixing the metal pigments with inks and matt paints to get different effects- thanks for putting me onto them! I couldn't live without them now.
Fascinating use of colors/techniques to bring “old metal” to life….so much to,digest and consider for future projects..as always, an excellent tutorial that is very welcome. Thanks!
@@VinceVenturella Is there any chance you could do a video on highlighting musculature/flesh? I really struggle with highlighting flesh to a standard I'm happy with.
Hi! New to the channel and absolutely loving your work. I was hoping to ask what product you add in the small clear bottle to the paint to thin it down? You mention it a couple of times but I just can’t catch the name. Thanks!!
Currently recreating this as best as I can on my great gnashtoof! Really wish there was a silverversion of these pigments, even metal colour looks poor beside them
Love the vid, Vince. One thing I’ve noticed since living in such a humid environment is the difference between copper-proper and copper metal alloys’ weathering. It seems like copper has a much greener verdigris than does bronze or brass. Would you use some different techniques for copper?
Great video as always. I was wondering if the Nihilak Oxide and Valleja Vertigris paints have a slight texture to them when they dry? I can't quite tell from the final pictures.
Is Fyreslayer Flesh + Vallejo Metal Color Silver (or similar) still your usual go-to bronze or are you leaning more towards GSW bronze or other recipes for general purposes?
Great video. Great to see the real life examples and then how to achieve in paint. I would like to have seen if it would have worked with a less golden finish. Achieved with a darker ink spray or 2nd coat?
great tips but the metal seems really bright. Looks like polished, well cared for brass. I feel like the way GW painted it was perfect, even if very fantasy looking
This is pretty much exactly what I needed for my Tomb Kings, so bloody cool! Do you have any tips on how to distinguish the verdigris from normal blue paint? I'm worried I'll make it just look messy without contrasting colours
Use a really deep blue with shades of purple. If you shift the blue into the purple while shifting this into the green (which it naturally does), then you will have them easily distinguished.
I can't get over how your super smooth skin blend gives him a pronounced baby's bum look on his back lol That said, great looking job, especially the verdigrised metals!
Hey Vince! Being someone who uses contrast paints in your projects have you put much thought into the new-ish Scale75 instant colours? I’ve been mostly using them for easy glazing and filters. Haven’t been able to use as advertised. Just curious on your thoughts :)
@@VinceVenturella I eagerly await your review! I know the Scale75 USA store has been out, so I ordered it from Spain. Took about three weeks but I got it and they’re still in stock if you were so inclined ^_^
THe key is, the verdigris colors should effectively be in the shadows and add almost a "bounce" color. Effectively they should be the areas that aren't reflecting light.
Awesome vid! I plan to use this on my Vampire Counts stuff. A quick question though, what brushes do you use to paint metallics? I see you use that red handled brush a lot and it seems to be high quality.
Hey vince with oil paints I’m struggling with over short areas like a stormcast breast plate all three colors mix together and just form one mono tone color. How do I fix that? Do I wipe the brush more often?
You need a smal brush and VERY small amounts of paint. Its just little micro-blending. It can also help to let the first layer dry, then go back in to reinforce the highlights and shadows.
vince, you really ought to set up an amazon affiliate link and stick it in your vid descriptions. I buy a ton of stuff from amazon because of your recommendations. I wish you'd get a kickback from those buys :/
I like to preface this comment by saying that we are painting fantasy miniatures, so the rule of cool is a good option to take. However, in this video you showed 2 examples (both were made to look like bronze verdigris, but I am pretty sure they where new objects, not museum pieces for example) and also mentioned that you took inspiration from nature. You painted a beautiful bronze armor, but it doesn't look like real bronze verdigris and it sounded like you were going for that look. Sorry to be this critical Vince, don't want to be rude, but have been looking at reference pictures a lot, and they look different from the effect you achieved. Basically you ended up with a more fantasy style of bronze verdigris, while it sounded like you wanted to go for a more realistic one.
Wow. Awesome vid. I had been looking forward to a video like this. Question: if you wanted it to look even older and more corroded, would you keep going with the inks to darken the metal?
And let me tell you, it was really helpful just sitting there in the queue ;) Thankfully while vertigris looks intimidating it is fairly straightforward once you know what your doing.
If you're looking for your next hobby cheating, I'm Having trouble figuring out the value or trick to making things look like cheap plastic. I want Tau that look like a used saturn. Kharadron that came in a happy meal.
Hi Vince. Interesting video and useful technique but for me it didn't work on this figure for two reasons. Firstly, as shown in the "real life" photos, copper and bronze that reaches this level of rusting will be so old that it would have darkened to an almost dark wood colour and not still be shiny and bright metallic. Secondly, I doubt that a character such as this centaur would allow his armour/decoration to get into such a state of decay - he would keep it clean and polished. I'm just a noob so feel free to shoot me down - it's just my opinion from an objective "real world" perspective ☺👍
Agree on the first point, as for the second - this character has been imprisoned in a mountain for a looong time, most likely without the means to keep his armor clean and polished!
Maybe Kragnos is constantly at war and just doesn't have the time to keep his gear in good condition? Or maybe he just likes the look of the vertigris. Maybe the model isn't finished and more weathering will be added? There can be a story behind why objects look the way they do, they don't have to copy the look of something in a museum. But I have also seen amazing models that try to replicate an existing object e.g. rusty old WWII tanks. Ultimately if the person paining the model thinks it looks cool then that is all that is needed, but no harm in constructive criticism either.
Learn about the rule of cool. Also, in this hobby, nobody needs to be told what works and what doesn't work, if the artist is happy that's all that really counts.
@@ryangoss7891 As mentioned I am a noob to mini painting and actually just using it as a break from and to improve my brush skills for my other hobby of spaceship modelling. I have no interest in playing tabletop (I let my computers do the dice rolling for my RPG's) and so have no knowledge of or interest in stories behind figures. I just enjoy painting the minis for the fun of it. My point was simply that "rust" doesn't look right on shiny metal and seems rather at odds with the rest of the rather stunning figure ☺
Perfectly fair feedback. :) - Yeah, if you want it more weathered out, the key would be to extend the brown ink a little bit and dull out the whole lot, in this case, I wanted the contraast. :)
That tiny painting handle in relation to the massive model is just so funny to me... 😂
Yeah, he's a big boy. :)
I do nothing in my life as cleanly and precise as Vince Venturella paints on a daily basis.
I would like to see a Big 5 or HEXACO Test be done on him. I bet his conscientiousness is at 99.9%
Man, I wish you all the success with this one. It is so stunning! The tattoo really catches the eye. Love it!
Thank you! :)
Awesome vid. Great timing for me, I'm working on a Dark Souls mini right now with extremely heavy corrosion on its armor. I found that mixing GSW bronze with satin medium and Dryad Bark made an awesome base coat for old bronze. Love mixing the metal pigments with inks and matt paints to get different effects- thanks for putting me onto them! I couldn't live without them now.
Awesome, sounds amazing. :)
Fascinating use of colors/techniques to bring “old metal” to life….so much to,digest and consider for future projects..as always, an excellent tutorial that is very welcome. Thanks!
Always happy to help. :)
You always seem to do videos on stuff I’m currently doing. You rock Vince! Keep on fighting that grey
Thank you, always happy to help. :)
Looks amazing! Another great vid, nice job! Would love to see a rust video as well!
I have several in the playlist, but I can always do more. :)
Thank you I always enjoy your work even though I don't have time to paint anymore I always enjoy watching your videos
Thank you, always happy to help. :)
i am really blown away by your paint job... this was really inspiring to watch, thanks for a great video!
Thank you, always happy to help. :)
Great job! Thanks. It gave me pleasure!
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Final photos look great, good idea to swap out the base rock for something more visually interesting. Good luck with the competitions!
Fingers crossed! :)
This is the exact content I subscribe for. Absolutely masterful tutorial, sir! Chef's kiss. 😘👌
Glad you enjoyed it!
Incredible as always, Vince! Best one I've seen by a mile. 😎
Glad you enjoyed it! Always happy to help. :)
@@VinceVenturella Is there any chance you could do a video on highlighting musculature/flesh? I really struggle with highlighting flesh to a standard I'm happy with.
Stunning work...!
Thank you :)
Big fan of the red tones in his hair, and the way you did his horns/antlers?.. Any tips/guide to these, or are they the bones of a future hcv?
The red hair is here - th-cam.com/video/XwUf5JBO40M/w-d-xo.html
The bones are here - th-cam.com/video/AnY7gwABMVE/w-d-xo.html
hope that helps. :)
@@VinceVenturella absolutely! Many thanks!
so good. Best content on youtube.
Look forward to your videos all week!
Glad you enjoy it! That means a great deal to me. :)
Hi! New to the channel and absolutely loving your work. I was hoping to ask what product you add in the small clear bottle to the paint to thin it down? You mention it a couple of times but I just can’t catch the name.
Thanks!!
In this case, it's some flow improver, there are many brands, any are acceptable. :)
Currently recreating this as best as I can on my great gnashtoof!
Really wish there was a silverversion of these pigments, even metal colour looks poor beside them
I know right!
Love the vid, Vince.
One thing I’ve noticed since living in such a humid environment is the difference between copper-proper and copper metal alloys’ weathering. It seems like copper has a much greener verdigris than does bronze or brass. Would you use some different techniques for copper?
Same techniques, just push the colors around. :) (More green, more blue, more black)
Great video as always. I was wondering if the Nihilak Oxide and Valleja Vertigris paints have a slight texture to them when they dry? I can't quite tell from the final pictures.
The Nihlik, not really, the Vallejo is thick, it's not textured per se, but it can build up easier yes.
Is Fyreslayer Flesh + Vallejo Metal Color Silver (or similar) still your usual go-to bronze or are you leaning more towards GSW bronze or other recipes for general purposes?
Yep, still what I do
Great video. Great to see the real life examples and then how to achieve in paint. I would like to have seen if it would have worked with a less golden finish. Achieved with a darker ink spray or 2nd coat?
Sure, you could brown out the rest a little as well, thin filter of the ink would bring it all down and still preserve the shadows.
@@VinceVenturella good luck with the mini. It looks amazing. Loved the oils from the previous video.
great tips but the metal seems really bright. Looks like polished, well cared for brass.
I feel like the way GW painted it was perfect, even if very fantasy looking
skin looks incredible though
All fair, I wanted to show the contrast. BUt I get it.
This is pretty much exactly what I needed for my Tomb Kings, so bloody cool! Do you have any tips on how to distinguish the verdigris from normal blue paint? I'm worried I'll make it just look messy without contrasting colours
Use a really deep blue with shades of purple. If you shift the blue into the purple while shifting this into the green (which it naturally does), then you will have them easily distinguished.
@@VinceVenturella Your brain is a labyrinthine complex of wrinkles and super-conductors, thanks for the tip I bloody love your work!
I can't get over how your super smooth skin blend gives him a pronounced baby's bum look on his back lol
That said, great looking job, especially the verdigrised metals!
Thanks!
Hey Vince, are you using Contrast plus surfactant because an actual oil wash would reactivate the oil paints from last week's video?
Just an easy way to achieve the slightly more dirty effect I want here.
Hey Vince! Being someone who uses contrast paints in your projects have you put much thought into the new-ish Scale75 instant colours? I’ve been mostly using them for easy glazing and filters. Haven’t been able to use as advertised. Just curious on your thoughts :)
They are something I want to get my hands on and really try. :)
@@VinceVenturella I eagerly await your review! I know the Scale75 USA store has been out, so I ordered it from Spain. Took about three weeks but I got it and they’re still in stock if you were so inclined ^_^
Awesome Vince
Thanks! :)
Good luck Vince!
Thanks!
That looks super hot! 🔥 I know you prefer TMM, but do you have any advice on doing verdigris on NMM? Thanks for, yet again, another awesome video!
THe key is, the verdigris colors should effectively be in the shadows and add almost a "bounce" color. Effectively they should be the areas that aren't reflecting light.
@@VinceVenturella Thanks!
Need one on painting clear stuff Vince.
Do you mean like clear resin and windsheilds and such?
Thank you once again.
Happy to help as always. :)
Awesome vid! I plan to use this on my Vampire Counts stuff. A quick question though, what brushes do you use to paint metallics? I see you use that red handled brush a lot and it seems to be high quality.
It’s a monument igniter sable
@@jaretmoskal5558 awesome! Thanks
Yep, they got it, that's the brush.
@@VinceVenturella thanks team!
Exquisite. All there is to say!
Thank you!
Hey vince with oil paints I’m struggling with over short areas like a stormcast breast plate all three colors mix together and just form one mono tone color. How do I fix that? Do I wipe the brush more often?
You need a smal brush and VERY small amounts of paint. Its just little micro-blending. It can also help to let the first layer dry, then go back in to reinforce the highlights and shadows.
@@VinceVenturella you know what I was using a size 6 and quite a bit of paint so that probably was my problem. Thanks vince!
vince, you really ought to set up an amazon affiliate link and stick it in your vid descriptions. I buy a ton of stuff from amazon because of your recommendations. I wish you'd get a kickback from those buys :/
Yeah, it's something I should do for sure. :)
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
Thank you 👍
Have you tried the dirty down verdigris or the other ones yet?
Not yet, but I will have to check them out.
Good luck at Golden Demon!
Thank you!
What was the clear warcolours paint he used I cant make it out... surfuctint?
Surfactant, it's basically flow improver that breaks up the surface tension of the paint and makes it flow. ;)
@@VinceVenturella Any reason you use that one over any other flow improver? I've been loving warcolours but havent used any of their technical paints.
@@McWerp It just has some nice properties I enjoy, but any flow improver will work.
There is something about your timing this week. Got a lot of death guard trim thats going to get some of this treatment i think :D.
Great timing for me too, I just had some nurgle daemons arrive a couple of days ago.
Awesome. :)
Best Kragnos or best kragnos?
The first one. ;)
at :37 you add something from Warcolor?
He talks about that at 2:35
Surfactant, basically and analogue to flow improver. :)
I like to preface this comment by saying that we are painting fantasy miniatures, so the rule of cool is a good option to take. However, in this video you showed 2 examples (both were made to look like bronze verdigris, but I am pretty sure they where new objects, not museum pieces for example) and also mentioned that you took inspiration from nature. You painted a beautiful bronze armor, but it doesn't look like real bronze verdigris and it sounded like you were going for that look.
Sorry to be this critical Vince, don't want to be rude, but have been looking at reference pictures a lot, and they look different from the effect you achieved. Basically you ended up with a more fantasy style of bronze verdigris, while it sounded like you wanted to go for a more realistic one.
Gave the 666th like, that gotta count for something! Phenomenal job and great reference for future projects
Awesome. :)
Wow. Awesome vid. I had been looking forward to a video like this. Question: if you wanted it to look even older and more corroded, would you keep going with the inks to darken the metal?
I hope that question makes sense 🤔
It does and yes, bring it all down and expand the verdigris.
Awesome, thank you! I'll be trying this out at some point soon(ish)
Hobby cheating idea: How you did that red hair.
Hobby Cheating answer: th-cam.com/video/XwUf5JBO40M/w-d-xo.html
Hope that helps, I can certainly do a newer version as well. :)
Great video thank you. I noticed you were using some sort of putty to mask the miniature while you were airbrushing the armor. What is it called?
AK Interactive Elastic Putty (but it's basically just silly putty from the egg).
I wonder why gsw is selling that line as a pigment.
Maybe if u want to make a dragon lair treasure diorama, to weather the dragon. They fo have a metallic paint set, quite big in fact
I'm not sure why, but I like it. :)
Where was this video two weeks ago when I had to paint some Bronze Age skeletons?
Uploaded and waiting to launch. ;)
And let me tell you, it was really helpful just sitting there in the queue ;)
Thankfully while vertigris looks intimidating it is fairly straightforward once you know what your doing.
What is that black putty
It's Plastic camo putty from Ak Interactive, but it's basically just silly putty. :)
it's funny how english translate and accomodate it from french "vert de gris" instead of "green from grey" or "greenish grey".
This sounds insane, especially as I studied and spoke french years ago, but I just understood what the compound word was.
👍🏻👍🏻
:)
If you're looking for your next hobby cheating, I'm Having trouble figuring out the value or trick to making things look like cheap plastic. I want Tau that look like a used saturn. Kharadron that came in a happy meal.
Wow, that is interesting, I will have to think on that.
Honestly, all I could focus on was the background music. Couldn't get through the video lol :)
It's a jam. But I'll make sure it's quieter in the future.
Hi Vince. Interesting video and useful technique but for me it didn't work on this figure for two reasons. Firstly, as shown in the "real life" photos, copper and bronze that reaches this level of rusting will be so old that it would have darkened to an almost dark wood colour and not still be shiny and bright metallic. Secondly, I doubt that a character such as this centaur would allow his armour/decoration to get into such a state of decay - he would keep it clean and polished. I'm just a noob so feel free to shoot me down - it's just my opinion from an objective "real world" perspective ☺👍
Agree on the first point, as for the second - this character has been imprisoned in a mountain for a looong time, most likely without the means to keep his armor clean and polished!
Maybe Kragnos is constantly at war and just doesn't have the time to keep his gear in good condition? Or maybe he just likes the look of the vertigris. Maybe the model isn't finished and more weathering will be added?
There can be a story behind why objects look the way they do, they don't have to copy the look of something in a museum. But I have also seen amazing models that try to replicate an existing object e.g. rusty old WWII tanks. Ultimately if the person paining the model thinks it looks cool then that is all that is needed, but no harm in constructive criticism either.
Learn about the rule of cool.
Also, in this hobby, nobody needs to be told what works and what doesn't work, if the artist is happy that's all that really counts.
@@ryangoss7891 As mentioned I am a noob to mini painting and actually just using it as a break from and to improve my brush skills for my other hobby of spaceship modelling. I have no interest in playing tabletop (I let my computers do the dice rolling for my RPG's) and so have no knowledge of or interest in stories behind figures. I just enjoy painting the minis for the fun of it. My point was simply that "rust" doesn't look right on shiny metal and seems rather at odds with the rest of the rather stunning figure ☺
Perfectly fair feedback. :) - Yeah, if you want it more weathered out, the key would be to extend the brown ink a little bit and dull out the whole lot, in this case, I wanted the contraast. :)