Don't thin metallics. Use old brushes with metallics. No one told me that stuff until I heard Vince say it on his channel and so many things suddenly made sense.
I began painting a lot since I picked up some T'au for KillTeam. I've kept a very loose idea for my eventual 40k army that I developed for my KillTeam. It had to be something I would be motivated to finish dozens of models, something I could creatively enjoy and rework over the many units. So I chose a loose ideal instead of a strict pallet. Boba Fett. Paint every unit as if it's Boba Fett. Everything comes out so beautiful and I love it :)
GW SHILL!!!! I see what’s happening here GW is paying you to use GW models as paint handles in order to sell more miniatures! You arent fooling me! This video should be disclosed as sponsored!!!!!!! You really sold out when you went full time! Unsubscribed! I love you moist boi
Advice on not worrying about a specific paint color is a good one for people who haven't really painted before. Thanks for making these, they're helpful.
Hey man. I watch your videos every time you post them. Just wanted to say I saw a HUGE difference in this one. Maybe it's from you not having to fit in your youtube time before/after work? Maybe you are just very happy to start this new adventure in your life and it's showing through? Either way, I could see the passion you put into this video... and while your others aren't bad.. this one was noticeably better. I'm proud of the progress you've made as a youtuber and looking forward to watching the channel grow. huzzah!!!
About the last tip, i think a lot of people, even some of those just getting into it, probably do see their hobby as a form of artistic expression to some extent. Not to state the obvious, but there can be plenty of expression in hobbies of this nature(not even just warhammer) and thats just great too. Whether your painting as an ends to a means or not, either is good, just do what makes you happy
I generally lay down a coat of either black or gray primer, then white primer over that when zenithal priming, but I confess that the white ink route is something I'd look into, especially since I now I have an airbrush and need to learn how to use the thing...
The only time I recommend a tiny brush is painting eyes on minis, but honestly using a fine tipped artist marker like a micron is a million times more reliable than that even. I also really second the humidifier tip if you're in a dry climate! Up here in Nevada it can get to 0% humidity sometimes and even the thickest paint will dry almost immediately without it.
@2:18 I was baffled, hilariously amused, astounded, and intrigued all at once. This man got 24,016 views (at the moment of me watching this) and we all listened to him *literally* talk about paint drying. Something about the 'ol "Boring as watching paint dry" got me, mainly because I love videos like these, and it just hit me.
Not always possible, depending on the gun. One trick you can use if the barell is too thin to drill is to paint the tip black and then let the barrel color overlap onto the plack, which gives the illusion of some kind of thickness.
Couple things that have helped me (on top of the ones listed). Lean on something to help with shakey arms, when doing highlights I now roll my brush to help make a tip in the bristles.
When I decided to start my Ork hoard a few months ago I planned that they would be on something like a mountain gravel path. So grey texture paint shaded and highlighted with snow added in random patches. At least two models from the same mob have a skull on the base or random bones so when all together the green tide is on a uniform grey and snow base. I used Rhinox Hide to paint the rim of the base as it went well with the gravel and did not be a huge feature of the models.
Love this video, I just started painting miniature (its good for the soul) and I'm doing my own journal/serie of my progress. I started slowly, and take a model after model and use more advance technic as I go while finding my errors. Thank you! And cheers!
Great video- damn, son! The ole Scott Magic turned up to 11- lost it at your 'Paint your damn rims!' bit. I've been painting a couple of years now and I think I'm doing fine- but I love how your video brought new stuff to my attention that I hadn't considered before. Thanks, man!
4:22 Brilliant tip! But the past tense of "cast" is "cast", not "casted". The sentence should be: "Think about how this piece was cast." as you cast a model, you don't casted it. The more you know! Keep up the great work!
Going to start painting this weekend for the first time and your videos have been very entertaining! Thank you for the great tutorials and for a video like this in particular (I was having terrible analysis paralysis about paint color and I want to just give it a go now)
A lot of misconceptions with a primer coat is it’s only there to help the paint adhere, it’s also there to show imperfections. Use a primer that will take being sanded.
Isit easier for myself a beginner to leave off the arms, head and pack so I can paint the chest without obstruction. Really helpful channel for a beginner.
Why not open up the discord for the community and then have patreon only channels? Love your videos man, just gotten back to painting after a 25 year break.
Great Vid. Thanks for mentioning the mold lines. Nothing irks me more than seeing someone post an Ace paint job with BIG FAT MOLD LINES protruding out bigger than 5 pizzas in a one pizza box. Everyone knows two things here - you don't own an exacto knife... and you got 5 pizzas, so I'll be taking some of that pizza! Hey, look! Is that Space Marine unsaved? - or is he just happy to see me? Aaaaahhhh haa haa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!
Hey Scott, little off topic, but have you ever painted a Gundam model or something similar? I'm wondering what it would be like to model and paint something bigger and naturally I love huge mechs and robots. I think it would be cool to see what you do with one. New video idea?
Do not use a drybrush to drybrush, I know it is in the name, but makeup brushes are softer and will give you a much less chalky end result. Keep a large makeup brush, toothbrush or similar to hand to clean away plastic dust and debris after removing mould lines or drilling barrels. You can get an anti-static brush for this from Tamiya, but most of the time these cheaper alternatives are just as good and far less expensive. Save the runners/frames your miniatures come with, chop them up into small pieces, place those pieces into glass paint pots like Tamiya's or Mr Hobby's and then pour in Tamiya plastic cement and leave overnight to create a liquid plastic resin you can use to fill holes or gaps on your plastic miniatures with the exact material they are made from. Apply with modelling tools like those used to work on small clay and green stuff sculpts. Allow to dry and cure, then simply cut or sand away any excess. If you are struggling to get your acryllic colours down in the limited window of working time, or want more working time to do things like blends, invest in a liquid acryllic retarder additive from somewhere like AK Interactive. A drop on your palette or wet palette can be picked up by your brush and added to your globs of paint to give you more time to apply or work the paint on the miniature. Avoid using Vallejo's retarder though, as it is a thicker glossy material that will in turn thicken your paint or leave unsightly globs and patterns on your painting surface as it dries.
FYI, not all mold dies are two part construction. More complicated shapes can be made with multi-part sliding mold dies. For example, th-cam.com/video/c-J-SJAhVJE/w-d-xo.html shows a part made from a sliding die which allows a part to be made from injected plastic with a more complex shape than just a two surface plane. These dies are expensive, so many manufacturers will not opt for them, but for companies like GW who are making some fantastically molded models, slide dies offer a way to make much more dynamic minis than the basic two part dies can make. This means mold lines may not only follow the same plane as the sprue. It depends on how the die was made and how it operates during the molding and injection stages.
I just started painting miniature Arcadia quest yes I'm a noob I use cheap Walmart paint's I find myself going over and over with paint what would you recommend to stop this from happening and would you do a black primer and then a white primer on top I have no idea of I'm doing but your vids have help out a lot
So for the sake of brevity when you say "Paint your base rims" do you mean tighten them up at the end of painting with any color so they're solid or do you mean with a color other than the original base color?
Loved this video. You’re killing it brother. I would love to hear some detail about the white ink you mentioned. I have never heard anyone else talk about this and i was actually just about to buy some Vallejo white primer to do priming in this method. Are you saying to do black then grey but instead of white primer use white ink in the same way? Sounds interesting.
Hey there Miniac - a question for you . You mentioned using "semi opaque white ink" for zenith highlighting. Do you mix/dilute that with anything when you're airbrushing it on (thinner, airbrush medium/ flow improver)?
That would only happen if the paint was really thick. Far thicker than you would be using on a mini. Hairdryers are pretty standard craft kit for a lot of painters. I have a little travel one for the purpose. Speeds up drying shades and texture paint.
Can you teach us the difference between different types of paint and how to use them? Like what marks an Ink, where should you use said Ink, what the fuck a Zenital undercoat is, and so on?
Some of these are good technical tips - thanks for them dude :) . The others though is suuper tryhard. Unless youre not selling painted minis like cocaine on a friday , you wont be needing most of them. However i also understand this is Mniature Maniac , so thats also logical. For example , if im painting one day, ill be using all the paint ive deployed on the pallet. I use very little paint at a time , and for details i even use toothpicks like a fucking pleb. If the mini looks relatively dandy , it's finee :P
Don't thin metallics. Use old brushes with metallics. No one told me that stuff until I heard Vince say it on his channel and so many things suddenly made sense.
Some gold here. The bit about bigger brushes (learned from Miniac somewhere in the past) accelerated my painting game.
This is me and I am deeply shamed:
0:45
3:06
lets be shamed together
Lol I'm almost doing all of these
b l u e
HE SAID MOIST GUYS
HE SAID THE THING
Oh Lord... now I'm not so sure I want to watch the video...
@william crow hahaha shit
😂🤘🏻
"MOIST GUYS"
Anne Slagboom tell me how to turn back time, the video was published yesterday and u commented 2 weeks ago
ive never even gotten to that stage of THAT paint cup.... dude that's an achievement all on its own.
Just cast, no need to say casted ;)
(Sticking to the topic)
Seems to be common use now in uneducated countries :-)
I thought I was the only one bothered by that.
It hurt my ears..
it is known that europeans have the best mud browns
*Nods in agreement" It is known.
It's well known we do have the best selection of muds for inspiration!
I began painting a lot since I picked up some T'au for KillTeam. I've kept a very loose idea for my eventual 40k army that I developed for my KillTeam. It had to be something I would be motivated to finish dozens of models, something I could creatively enjoy and rework over the many units. So I chose a loose ideal instead of a strict pallet. Boba Fett. Paint every unit as if it's Boba Fett. Everything comes out so beautiful and I love it :)
GW SHILL!!!! I see what’s happening here GW is paying you to use GW models as paint handles in order to sell more miniatures! You arent fooling me! This video should be disclosed as sponsored!!!!!!! You really sold out when you went full time! Unsubscribed!
I love you moist boi
Advice on not worrying about a specific paint color is a good one for people who haven't really painted before. Thanks for making these, they're helpful.
You seem a lot happier in this video and more enthusiastic.
I approve this video keep it up my God
I just started painting warhammer 40k and your videos help a ton!
Hey man. I watch your videos every time you post them. Just wanted to say I saw a HUGE difference in this one. Maybe it's from you not having to fit in your youtube time before/after work? Maybe you are just very happy to start this new adventure in your life and it's showing through? Either way, I could see the passion you put into this video... and while your others aren't bad.. this one was noticeably better. I'm proud of the progress you've made as a youtuber and looking forward to watching the channel grow. huzzah!!!
About the last tip, i think a lot of people, even some of those just getting into it, probably do see their hobby as a form of artistic expression to some extent. Not to state the obvious, but there can be plenty of expression in hobbies of this nature(not even just warhammer) and thats just great too. Whether your painting as an ends to a means or not, either is good, just do what makes you happy
I generally lay down a coat of either black or gray primer, then white primer over that when zenithal priming, but I confess that the white ink route is something I'd look into, especially since I now I have an airbrush and need to learn how to use the thing...
The only time I recommend a tiny brush is painting eyes on minis, but honestly using a fine tipped artist marker like a micron is a million times more reliable than that even.
I also really second the humidifier tip if you're in a dry climate! Up here in Nevada it can get to 0% humidity sometimes and even the thickest paint will dry almost immediately without it.
Never thought a redhead would be cool like this... now i'm a miniac-fanboy. Nice video!
New t-shirt idea. Scott's face doing the tongue flicker with "moist" written underneath in that same font and colour
@2:18 I was baffled, hilariously amused, astounded, and intrigued all at once. This man got 24,016 views (at the moment of me watching this) and we all listened to him *literally* talk about paint drying.
Something about the 'ol "Boring as watching paint dry" got me, mainly because I love videos like these, and it just hit me.
5:26 FINALLY A USE FOR MY OLD HIPOINT!
Always drills gun barrels.
You don't even need small drill just use the tip of a hobby knife.
Before or after having used it as a painting handle?
Not always possible, depending on the gun. One trick you can use if the barell is too thin to drill is to paint the tip black and then let the barrel color overlap onto the plack, which gives the illusion of some kind of thickness.
Drilling out guns with a hobby knive. I cringe everitim.
@@jean-luccoelho1915 its odd because it would save them money by using less plastic so ya i don't get it
Pinvises are literally like £3 on eBay... some even come with a set of bits... not excuse not to have one haha
Thanks again Scott for the great advice.
Couple things that have helped me (on top of the ones listed). Lean on something to help with shakey arms, when doing highlights I now roll my brush to help make a tip in the bristles.
I use empty child proof pill bottles for a mini h9lder for painting. The cap can be spun to turn the model without risk of dropping.
Walgreens bottles have a reversible top so you can flip the mini inside the bottle to protect it.
When I decided to start my Ork hoard a few months ago I planned that they would be on something like a mountain gravel path. So grey texture paint shaded and highlighted with snow added in random patches. At least two models from the same mob have a skull on the base or random bones so when all together the green tide is on a uniform grey and snow base. I used Rhinox Hide to paint the rim of the base as it went well with the gravel and did not be a huge feature of the models.
Ah yes, my favorite paint handle U P S I D E D O W N U L T R A M A R I N E
Yes...hellish landscape here in AZ!
Love this video, I just started painting miniature (its good for the soul) and I'm doing my own journal/serie of my progress. I started slowly, and take a model after model and use more advance technic as I go while finding my errors.
Thank you!
And cheers!
Great video- damn, son! The ole Scott Magic turned up to 11- lost it at your 'Paint your damn rims!' bit. I've been painting a couple of years now and I think I'm doing fine- but I love how your video brought new stuff to my attention that I hadn't considered before. Thanks, man!
I prime my minis off the bases, even do base coats. I don't put minis on bases until the base is done and the mini is ready for detail work.
4:22 Brilliant tip! But the past tense of "cast" is "cast", not "casted". The sentence should be: "Think about how this piece was cast." as you cast a model, you don't casted it. The more you know! Keep up the great work!
Nice tips mate made all Of these mistakes at the beginning....
I fucking live for your videos lately.
Going to start painting this weekend for the first time and your videos have been very entertaining! Thank you for the great tutorials and for a video like this in particular (I was having terrible analysis paralysis about paint color and I want to just give it a go now)
I just learned about using larger brushes maybe 2 weeks ago. It helps alot.
Also I don't paint my base rims. I don't think I ever will.
I will never be your friend
Wow?! An actual entertaining mini fig channel. Subbed
What u got in that cup would look cool on a base
A lot of misconceptions with a primer coat is it’s only there to help the paint adhere, it’s also there to show imperfections.
Use a primer that will take being sanded.
What for?
I want to see you paint Astra Militarum figure and war machines
Isit easier for myself a beginner to leave off the arms, head and pack so I can paint the chest without obstruction. Really helpful channel for a beginner.
hey ik arizona is a hellish landscape i live there, but i get snow too
I saw a Morbius the living vampire poster in the backround cool!!!
When you called Arizona a hellish landscape, I felt that.
We need more videos with moist any tios on how to paint hotwheels for gaslands?
the painting handle space marine!
LMAO
Thank you for the video
I love how I can laugh and learn in all of your videos!
Thanks for the advice gonna grab a phat brush
Why not open up the discord for the community and then have patreon only channels?
Love your videos man, just gotten back to painting after a 25 year break.
Great Vid. Thanks for mentioning the mold lines. Nothing irks me more than seeing someone post an Ace paint job with BIG FAT MOLD LINES protruding out bigger than 5 pizzas in a one pizza box. Everyone knows two things here - you don't own an exacto knife... and you got 5 pizzas, so I'll be taking some of that pizza! Hey, look! Is that Space Marine unsaved? - or is he just happy to see me? Aaaaahhhh haa haa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!
Waaooo Guild Ball mini sighted. Thumbs up!
As always, amazing stuff Miniman 🤯🎊🤘🏻
Hey Scott, little off topic, but have you ever painted a Gundam model or something similar? I'm wondering what it would be like to model and paint something bigger and naturally I love huge mechs and robots. I think it would be cool to see what you do with one. New video idea?
I do ALL OF THOSE THINGS! WOOT WOOT
I didn't believe the white ink suggestion til I tried it. That s**t is sorcery.
Loved it, great stuff Scott. Keep it up.
Do not use a drybrush to drybrush, I know it is in the name, but makeup brushes are softer and will give you a much less chalky end result.
Keep a large makeup brush, toothbrush or similar to hand to clean away plastic dust and debris after removing mould lines or drilling barrels. You can get an anti-static brush for this from Tamiya, but most of the time these cheaper alternatives are just as good and far less expensive.
Save the runners/frames your miniatures come with, chop them up into small pieces, place those pieces into glass paint pots like Tamiya's or Mr Hobby's and then pour in Tamiya plastic cement and leave overnight to create a liquid plastic resin you can use to fill holes or gaps on your plastic miniatures with the exact material they are made from. Apply with modelling tools like those used to work on small clay and green stuff sculpts. Allow to dry and cure, then simply cut or sand away any excess.
If you are struggling to get your acryllic colours down in the limited window of working time, or want more working time to do things like blends, invest in a liquid acryllic retarder additive from somewhere like AK Interactive. A drop on your palette or wet palette can be picked up by your brush and added to your globs of paint to give you more time to apply or work the paint on the miniature. Avoid using Vallejo's retarder though, as it is a thicker glossy material that will in turn thicken your paint or leave unsightly globs and patterns on your painting surface as it dries.
FYI, not all mold dies are two part construction. More complicated shapes can be made with multi-part sliding mold dies. For example, th-cam.com/video/c-J-SJAhVJE/w-d-xo.html shows a part made from a sliding die which allows a part to be made from injected plastic with a more complex shape than just a two surface plane. These dies are expensive, so many manufacturers will not opt for them, but for companies like GW who are making some fantastically molded models, slide dies offer a way to make much more dynamic minis than the basic two part dies can make.
This means mold lines may not only follow the same plane as the sprue. It depends on how the die was made and how it operates during the molding and injection stages.
"I have to use a very specific blue!", kills me xD
The gun handle was funny
I just started painting miniature Arcadia quest yes I'm a noob I use cheap Walmart paint's I find myself going over and over with paint what would you recommend to stop this from happening and would you do a black primer and then a white primer on top I have no idea of I'm doing but your vids have help out a lot
How did you like that new Kublai Khan TX?
What sanding sponge twigs does he use? Only ones iv seen and had are stiff and ridged. D=
But what colour of brown Should I use? Asking for a friend...
What can I use as a painting handle to paint forgeworld’s dread saurian? That thing is heavy.
Made me laugh with your gun painting handle.
Your
best video
I've been using 20/0 spotters for years with excellent results. Of course I paint 6mm Baccus figs...
So for the sake of brevity when you say "Paint your base rims" do you mean tighten them up at the end of painting with any color so they're solid or do you mean with a color other than the original base color?
just clean them up with whatever color you want.
Loved this video. You’re killing it brother. I would love to hear some detail about the white ink you mentioned. I have never heard anyone else talk about this and i was actually just about to buy some Vallejo white primer to do priming in this method. Are you saying to do black then grey but instead of white primer use white ink in the same way? Sounds interesting.
check this out: th-cam.com/video/1phTRAhY-Fg/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Miniac
Hey there Miniac - a question for you . You mentioned using "semi opaque white ink" for zenith highlighting. Do you mix/dilute that with anything when you're airbrushing it on (thinner, airbrush medium/ flow improver)?
I like this style of video.
Next beginner mistake
HELP I BOUGHT TOO MANY MINIS AND CAN'T GET THEM DONE!!
I can relate I have close to a hundred to paint I will get them done....eventually
@@carldebellis7310 it's the curse we live with
Annoyingly the newer GW sprues have none-planar mould lines, i.e. they sometimes move around the mini on bent lines due to more advanced tooling.
wouldn't dry blowing by hairdryer cause crackling in the paintjob, because it dries too quickly?
That would only happen if the paint was really thick. Far thicker than you would be using on a mini. Hairdryers are pretty standard craft kit for a lot of painters. I have a little travel one for the purpose. Speeds up drying shades and texture paint.
Miniac ur fkn crazy , I mean that wit love u crazy diamond shine on !
Dude you need to use trigger discipline when you use your 911 as a paint handle!
It's a 1911.
Why? If he screw up he's ready to shoot the figure.
Crap yeah it is. My phone was freaking out when I was typing it. I thought I got all the typos but I guess not.
Beginning Drybrushing mistakes
Took me some time to realize that it wasent my brush handling technique that was the problem it was the Army Painter Psycho brush used to its limits
Arizona in the house
1:19 Nurgle, what are you doing ?
Help! I started an army and made a big batch of my main color...and can't replicate it that well now that I'm running low :)
I do indeed use another mini for a paint handle
The good old Space Marine handle for Space Marines 😂
That sharp brush be thicc 😍
Can you teach us the difference between different types of paint and how to use them? Like what marks an Ink, where should you use said Ink, what the fuck a Zenital undercoat is, and so on?
If a brush could talk that would be the voice it would do it with :'D
Some of these are good technical tips - thanks for them dude :) .
The others though is suuper tryhard. Unless youre not selling painted minis like cocaine on a friday , you wont be needing most of them. However i also understand this is Mniature Maniac , so thats also logical. For example , if im painting one day, ill be using all the paint ive deployed on the pallet. I use very little paint at a time , and for details i even use toothpicks like a fucking pleb. If the mini looks relatively dandy , it's finee :P
Most miniature painters have terrible trigger discipline and scott is no exception.
My tip to everyone is to paint a black color scheme for your first army/ mini/ whatever. That’s what I did.
i love you
4:14
Great how to vidéo definitely giving me ideas for new how to videos on my channel ;)
Miniac ROCKS....hows the full time YT going?
its going GGREAT!
@@Miniac glad to hear it's going well...this video today was awesome as always....PAINT MORE MINIS
Space Marine: My eyes are up here
as a noob, fucking hate that word, I would paint fully clothed. Now I am completely buck ass naked and ready to go balls to the walls!!!
AZ isn't THAT hellish =(
Saying the word moist uhuhuhgh lol
Reminds me, I need more European Mud Brown
What if... I wanted to be a pleb for the rest of my life ? How do I do it Scott ?
I actually paint miniatures for artistic value, I don’t play at all, I don’t give a crap about other people’s colors either