Hi everyone! It's Javi (Javipaintsminis)! Thanks a lot for your words, I'm happy you liked my paintjob and conversion! It has been a pleasure to take part of the video :) The truth is that I don't think I understood the task very well, hahaha, I thought I simply had to make a version of Lukas' piece but not copy it 100%, otherwise I would have removed the hair and the eagle from the chestplate! Keep your brushes sharp!
It's really a bit abstract. For example, I did not add more pigments or that osl because once done it seems to me to dirty the paint with so many pigments and that osl looks like rust and very forced. I just did what I thought was right. Congratulations to all the painters, we have very good artists and especially in Spain😊
Many thanks to those who liked my work (WALDO PAINTS) and especially to Emil and Lukas. I was delighted that some of you noticed the detail of the Thundercats sword.
Agreed Javi's is just stunning his highlighting is amazing. I'm willing to bet good money that waldo_paints just realized that they can charge more for their work LOL.
The quality of Fiverr artists has gone up so much over the years and I actually think your channel profiling them has helped bring in more talent to the platform. Very cool.
Pretty much the truth for most artists and people who produce hand crafted stuff. Most stick to doing it as a hobby vs. an actual career / profession because it can be damn hard convincing the general public to cough up the dough for original works when they're used to mass produced prices.
It's not too hard to get to a level you can be at least proud of. I used to paint minis when I was much younger, and while my skill never EVER came close to approaching this level of skill, what I did put out I was at least happy with. So, with a bit of practice, you can at least churn out an army you'd be happy to field that folks would still be impressed by =) There's some pretty easy tricks for painting nice minis as long as you're not hoping to win national championships. I got good enough to win local shows XD
The difference in tones could be due to the monitor settings in which every artist saw the reference picture. It`s hard to tell the exact real pigments from a jpg
@@TheGravyMonsterthanks man, things are okay I guess. You never know who you'll see in various places 😅 You'll find me all over 40K stuff though. Been a Warhammer nerd since 1990 🤣 (oh god I'm old)
The mini Lucas painted is my favorite. The details of the sculpted tabard won me over. The sculpt has a realistic flow to it with shadows, lighting, and dusty pigment adding to the realism.
I gotta say Lukas did such an amazing job painting this miniature here. The painting level in insane, id love to be able to produce anything even close to that. It also reminds me a little bit of the grimdark painting style, which is a absolute favourite!
Tbh I don't think that's a good idea. Being an artist is hard enough without further incentivizing them to lowball their prices. People are going to pay what they can afford, and people are going to charge what they can live with, and having a high profile youtuber giving bonus points for cheapness doesn't benefit anyone!
Well, the argument is true in the reverse, someone that charge less is not going to put in the same effort as someone that charge twice the amount. @@witeshade
Should add a "Packing skill" Most people that want to buy minis are not as good with tools but still want a cool army. So reciving an broken mini could be devastating.
I'd like to see the scores further broken down between score per dollar. Which of course I can do myself but it's nice to assign a score for value. Awesome entries!
While every single mini looked absolutely stunning, I have to commend Jonas for painting the most unique one, it looks like it climbed out of a comic book. Good job everyone, keep up the good work
@@waldo_paintsI am so envius of all that can paint this well, i SUCK at painting and now my eye/handcordination sucks even more and my sight going bad. I WISH i could paint even decent but i am basicly on my dead cats painting skill level. I do enjoy watching what other can do and this was awesome, and the sword of omen things makes it so cool. and it wouldnt really be out of place in the lore with a warp-twisted crystal letting you see things far away in space and time... to bad they didnt see or comment on that.
@@ronnyhansson8713 I'm glad to know that you like my work, for small anonymous artists like me, these comments are pure energy that help me continue painting, which is my great hobby
i think that was a bad criteria, since they didn't say that they wanted pigments in the order, and from the one photo they included you can't tell if it's pigments or just landscaping dust or paint.
So you CAN use paper for miniature work! That is very interesting to see. I love the idea of having dynamic parts on models (chains/tabbard's/etc) so that when you move them around, they have parts that move the way they would normally. Not make or break for a model, but it's a cool "extra".
It is a bad Idea ussually... Moving parts will hit other surfaces, what equals to chop paint... Part of a great posing is to give momentum and movement to the character actions... having dinamic parts ussually ruins this (imagine a exterminator with chains as skirt, and doing a pose of "I will chop your head with my axe hit" ussually you would want a fixed pose for the chains, just like how you like moving capes. Paper have been used many times but ussually it gets saturated of cyanocrytale glue so it gets rigid.
honestly they look good, but only loano's was very good. the rest kinda look like what we did back in the day with a random 3€ brush and normal colours just added over each other; with no special skills etc. and in mass (like 20 models at a time, was warhammer fantasy back then) so as professionals taking 100+ € per model painted it doesn't seem very impressive. i mean 1-2 models should be an entire day off work. remember we did like 20+ models paint in a day or two (since some required wait time), and again while maybe a bit less precision work, the looks where on par with the rest. loano's was really good, that was 2 steps up from what we did. 2:22 that guy seems on another lvl. look at that treant in the middle bottom. look how much colour nuance is in there and how extremely beautiful every detail is, only the skulls on the shoulder and between legs could have been improved, and the leave between legs; the rest is basically perfect. insanely high skilled work. i would use him over the rest if that's the general lvl
Oddly, i think the one with least points in the results looks most like a Black Templar colour wise. When did we start doing them so grey and silver highlights? The one with the chain, thats not just a nuce touch its what any sword brother should have.shouldwr pad trims are all wrong though BUT, maybe im being too much of a nerd.
Omg Squidmar got and idea, what if you and Lucas made and army of 1000 point army each . BUT every mini in the army is painted by a fan of yours. Rules should be like Rule 1. Name the mini under the base. Rule 2. Lucas and you decide the color theme for each of your army with a primary color and a secondary color. 3.You paint your HQ choice for your own army 4. maybe artist name also? While you wait for the the paints jobs. You fellas makes an awesome board to play on. Before the game you evaluate the paint job maybe pick a top 3 or 1 for each army. Send the winder a T-shirt or something in a video :) AND THEN BATTLE! Fight until one Army's are death Remember to make kill track on each mini an apricate the name! RP for the pleps After the battle of course one of you should be punished. Up to you how.. Just see it done xD
I feel like a lot of them struggled with good posing. They come off as kinda awkward and/or off balance. Waldo is the only pose that really works for me
You should do a video where you each draft a handful of artist at different pricepoints for the same jobs, tallying points for whoever picked the better artist.
I dont play or read warhammer. I do like it just no time or have others i know interested in it. Anyway besides all that i enjoy your videos. Well done , informative and entertaining even to a non hammerer
In my opinion, the first painting was superior to yours, the rest is fair fair, but his paint and ink was superior. [EDIT] Before seeing the end, I had t pause... last one was easily the 2nd best or the best! [EDIT] After seeing the end.. Good. Javi and Waldo were the 2 best.
I love these videos!! There are so many very talented painters in the world. I'm curious, do you let them know that it will be featured on a video? That would make me nervous as hell lol! Thank you so much for the awesome content as always!
I feel like the fine dust effect was probably one of the most important things making that piece look so realistic and no one managed to get eve close. No sand on the fists, no sand on the swords. You scored them way too high.
The weapon being chained to the hand is lore accurate. Javi was the only artist out of everyone who did this... nerd level 1000!
He should have gotten extra points for the chains
And still he did not remove the aquila... Nerd level disappointing
@@fetalmistake5624 Achtually its an Imperialis not an Aquila so maybe up your nerd level as well
Wannabe Worldeaters!
Was gna thumb up this comment but it's at 666 so I'll drop mine here👍🏽
Hi everyone! It's Javi (Javipaintsminis)! Thanks a lot for your words, I'm happy you liked my paintjob and conversion! It has been a pleasure to take part of the video :)
The truth is that I don't think I understood the task very well, hahaha, I thought I simply had to make a version of Lukas' piece but not copy it 100%, otherwise I would have removed the hair and the eagle from the chestplate!
Keep your brushes sharp!
It's really a bit abstract. For example, I did not add more pigments or that osl because once done it seems to me to dirty the paint with so many pigments and that osl looks like rust and very forced. I just did what I thought was right. Congratulations to all the painters, we have very good artists and especially in Spain😊
my jaw dropped upon seeing your work mate... it is gorgeous and you should be proud. well done mate
@@Peedrinka gracias
@@Peedrinka Thanks a lot!
@@waldo_paints Yeah, I thought and did the same! Cheers!
Many thanks to those who liked my work (WALDO PAINTS) and especially to Emil and Lukas. I was delighted that some of you noticed the detail of the Thundercats sword.
I was going to comment about the sword of omens.
I love your model, honestly near perfect in my opinion.
Amazing work! 😁❤️👍🏻
I WAS LIKE WAIT is that thundercats??
@@MrPyrowolf51yes😂
Excellent bud!
Javi was my favourite. The staff alone was awesome. However the last one was the best value by far.
Agreed Javi's is just stunning his highlighting is amazing. I'm willing to bet good money that waldo_paints just realized that they can charge more for their work LOL.
@@GanjaCoyoteSsssshuush, nobody tell Waldo 😜
I prefer Jeremy 's one, much more details and the special weapon is very very cool too.
The quality of Fiverr artists has gone up so much over the years and I actually think your channel profiling them has helped bring in more talent to the platform. Very cool.
What drives talent out of fiverr tho is that 20% commission.
My main conclusion from this video is that mini painters don't get paid nearly enough...
Pretty much the truth for most artists and people who produce hand crafted stuff. Most stick to doing it as a hobby vs. an actual career / profession because it can be damn hard convincing the general public to cough up the dough for original works when they're used to mass produced prices.
Small part of me wants to paint myself.
Large part of me wants well painted minies ...
That’s so what I was thinking. I so want to be able to paint to that level. But my collection of Airfix models says ! NO ! Way.😂😂😂
Hey, I'm on the same struggle bus
It's not too hard to get to a level you can be at least proud of. I used to paint minis when I was much younger, and while my skill never EVER came close to approaching this level of skill, what I did put out I was at least happy with. So, with a bit of practice, you can at least churn out an army you'd be happy to field that folks would still be impressed by =) There's some pretty easy tricks for painting nice minis as long as you're not hoping to win national championships. I got good enough to win local shows XD
All of them were amazing. Its crazy how talented these artists are.
Thanks guys! ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
You deserved higher on the paint level!
@@TK421-53 thank you for your kind words 🥰
@@MushaMiniatures At that price you were very good !
I also think you should have scored higher! Very awesome work and you matched the style quite well. Very impressive.😊
@@Sigh_Bold thanks a bunch! I’m so glad to read that lots of you liked my piece 🥰
The difference in tones could be due to the monitor settings in which every artist saw the reference picture. It`s hard to tell the exact real pigments from a jpg
The last one wins for one reason - they've painted it as the Sword of Omens from Thundercats.
Stop the count. Game over. No one beats that.
beat me to it
Thunder... thunder...
Yesss 🎉🎉🎉
Hey Jonty! Didn't expect to meet you in this corner of the internet. Hope all well with you and ChainBear.
@@TheGravyMonsterthanks man, things are okay I guess.
You never know who you'll see in various places 😅
You'll find me all over 40K stuff though. Been a Warhammer nerd since 1990 🤣
(oh god I'm old)
I really enjoy when this type of content comes out. It is cool to see how different artists paint.
This video adds to the proof that Lukas is an amazing painter
The mini Lucas painted is my favorite. The details of the sculpted tabard won me over. The sculpt has a realistic flow to it with shadows, lighting, and dusty pigment adding to the realism.
The last one looked like the Sword of Omens from Thundercats. Loved it.
Yes! I was just coming here to say I can't believe they didn't notice the Eye of Thundera on the last one!
yes thank you, was breaking my head over it :p
you have a good eye 👁️🗡️🐱
good one ;) @@waldo_paints
I gotta say Lukas did such an amazing job painting this miniature here. The painting level in insane, id love to be able to produce anything even close to that. It also reminds me a little bit of the grimdark painting style, which is a absolute favourite!
If you could win the painting on, candles alone.. the wax job on the Waldo mini if fantastic! Bravo.
These are my favourite videos, especially when you mix up the artists you pick.
They all win in my heart because they have what it's important in life: your money.
I was really hoping someone would add a weapon chain, go Javi!!!!!
Last one have such a beatiful detailing on armor edges- like it really worn out!
I love the Thundercats Sword of Omens on #6
🤟😜
Next video: How to properly package and ship miniatures.
Definitely need to see a video of Lucas painting that Black Templar. It looks incredible, the face looks amazing.
Omg Javipaintsminis is a monster, that chain in the handsword... how in hell? And the paint job, no words. Well maybe 200 hubdred words hehe
the last ones sword being done as the thundercats sword was the best little detail for me
I love the way Jonas lit up the back of the head on his to show the illumination from the candles. Very nice touch.
aquila is the eagle with two heads, imperialis is the skull with wings.
To me this challenge only confirms how incredibly good Lukas is!
You should have a price category as well. Maybe a +/-15% of total adjustment for price.
Tbh I don't think that's a good idea. Being an artist is hard enough without further incentivizing them to lowball their prices. People are going to pay what they can afford, and people are going to charge what they can live with, and having a high profile youtuber giving bonus points for cheapness doesn't benefit anyone!
Well, the argument is true in the reverse, someone that charge less is not going to put in the same effort as someone that charge twice the amount. @@witeshade
always love the Fiverr content when it comes around
Should add a "Packing skill"
Most people that want to buy minis are not as good with tools but still want a cool army. So reciving an broken mini could be devastating.
Did anyone else notice the last ones sword was the one from Thundercats nice little detail. All amazing paint jobs 👌
I'd like to see the scores further broken down between score per dollar. Which of course I can do myself but it's nice to assign a score for value. Awesome entries!
Javi was vor me 20/10 in creativity :D loved his piece so much.
Waldo No 6 deserves more for originality. They put an eye on the sword, turning it into the Sword of Omens from Thundercats.
Thanks ❤
While every single mini looked absolutely stunning, I have to commend Jonas for painting the most unique one, it looks like it climbed out of a comic book. Good job everyone, keep up the good work
Well I could only ever dream of painting to the level of any of these painters. Absolutely amazing job from all of them. 👏👏👏
Just practice bro I believe in you
@@puzzlejinx That’s so kind, I will thank you.
"I hate people taking freedoms" lmao I love this guy!
Also the sword of the last one seems to be a version of the "sword of omen" from thundercats with that eye in the red crystal
Yesss, thundercats thundercats thundercats 😂
@@waldo_paintsI am so envius of all that can paint this well, i SUCK at painting and now my eye/handcordination sucks even more and my sight going bad. I WISH i could paint even decent but i am basicly on my dead cats painting skill level. I do enjoy watching what other can do and this was awesome, and the sword of omen things makes it so cool. and it wouldnt really be out of place in the lore with a warp-twisted crystal letting you see things far away in space and time... to bad they didnt see or comment on that.
@@ronnyhansson8713 I'm glad to know that you like my work, for small anonymous artists like me, these comments are pure energy that help me continue painting, which is my great hobby
Amazing job by all the artists ! Great idea for a video
I think, Lukas` figure was the best. Especially the dirt and the fine face. I liked it the most.
the reliquary on the loano one is pretty badass
Best mini show :) great work all painters! „Winning nothing” but our respect :)
If I got these mini photos as a reference, I would ask if I also need to copy the cat hair on the chest as well :D
Javi added chains on the sword hand so def forgive him for leaving the Aquila! That’s a super niche BT thing!
They're all amazing, wish I could afford a full army painted by any of these guys.
Also love these Fiverr videos that you guys do!
would love to see painting of this mini by you, not only showing it for others to copy
Jonas had a truly unique style of painting if you asked me. I actually really dig his own sort-of "3D comic book" style of model painting.
do you have a tutorial for those black templars anywhere? they are absolutely amazing!
Can you explain what you mean by pigments?
There a very fine powder you brush on.
Who sells them?
@@WarFan07 I use weathering pigments from tamiya
@@WarFan07 You can also use soft pastels and just scrape of the pigments, much more cost efficient.
i think that was a bad criteria, since they didn't say that they wanted pigments in the order, and from the one photo they included you can't tell if it's pigments or just landscaping dust or paint.
So you CAN use paper for miniature work! That is very interesting to see. I love the idea of having dynamic parts on models (chains/tabbard's/etc) so that when you move them around, they have parts that move the way they would normally. Not make or break for a model, but it's a cool "extra".
It is a bad Idea ussually...
Moving parts will hit other surfaces, what equals to chop paint...
Part of a great posing is to give momentum and movement to the character actions... having dinamic parts ussually ruins this (imagine a exterminator with chains as skirt, and doing a pose of "I will chop your head with my axe hit" ussually you would want a fixed pose for the chains, just like how you like moving capes.
Paper have been used many times but ussually it gets saturated of cyanocrytale glue so it gets rigid.
I really liked them all and the first one I loved that custom staff
Really makes me rethink my level and what I would charge, lower end. Great work to the artist in this vid
yall are nuts Javi was easily the best. also you should include the price , higher lower points.
That last one... That sword looked suspiciously like Lionore's sword from Thundercats 😁😁
Yes❤
Best chapter ever, mooooore Black templars PLEEEEEEAAAASEEEE!
This video is pure gold. The comedy mixed with the information you guys share really is the best
I would not feel bad at all spending 100 on that masterpiece. Holy cow! They're all beautiful, but for the value.... yeah, that's the clear winner.
Javier’s is simply incredible. Sorry but it’s just fantastic!
honestly they look good, but only loano's was very good.
the rest kinda look like what we did back in the day with a random 3€ brush and normal colours just added over each other; with no special skills etc. and in mass (like 20 models at a time, was warhammer fantasy back then)
so as professionals taking 100+ € per model painted it doesn't seem very impressive. i mean 1-2 models should be an entire day off work.
remember we did like 20+ models paint in a day or two (since some required wait time), and again while maybe a bit less precision work, the looks where on par with the rest.
loano's was really good, that was 2 steps up from what we did.
2:22 that guy seems on another lvl. look at that treant in the middle bottom. look how much colour nuance is in there and how extremely beautiful every detail is, only the skulls on the shoulder and between legs could have been improved, and the leave between legs; the rest is basically perfect.
insanely high skilled work. i would use him over the rest if that's the general lvl
next challenge: discord picks their best models,you guys have to COPY.
the last one, the eye in the sword, which cartoon was that from?
Thundercats ❤🗡️👁️🐱
4:14 what a nasty hawk-tuah
The sword looks awesome on the first mini!
Emil : Jokes on toilet paper
The Toilet Paper : One of the few methode to not break the mini
15:07 Honestly better than the one you made.
Javi did some serious job here. Nice!
Oddly, i think the one with least points in the results looks most like a Black Templar colour wise. When did we start doing them so grey and silver highlights? The one with the chain, thats not just a nuce touch its what any sword brother should have.shouldwr pad trims are all wrong though BUT, maybe im being too much of a nerd.
The quality of all of these for the money is amazing. How they can paint this well, but fast enough to make a living is baffling.
Seing these prices that just makes me wanna invest in a metal or plastic 3d printer, a paint remover and a painting set
Omg Squidmar got and idea, what if you and Lucas made and army of 1000 point army each . BUT every mini in the army is painted by a fan of yours. Rules should be like Rule 1. Name the mini under the base. Rule 2. Lucas and you decide the color theme for each of your army with a primary color and a secondary color. 3.You paint your HQ choice for your own army 4. maybe artist name also?
While you wait for the the paints jobs. You fellas makes an awesome board to play on.
Before the game you evaluate the paint job maybe pick a top 3 or 1 for each army. Send the winder a T-shirt or something in a video :)
AND THEN BATTLE! Fight until one Army's are death
Remember to make kill track on each mini an apricate the name! RP for the pleps
After the battle of course one of you should be punished. Up to you how.. Just see it done xD
Getting a real Thundercats Sword of Omen vibe from the sword on the 6th mini
0:53 - what was that music? - love that beat : )
in the last mini, the gem in the sword is reminding me of Thundercats.... I admit I am old :D
I feel like a lot of them struggled with good posing. They come off as kinda awkward and/or off balance. Waldo is the only pose that really works for me
I like how Waldo gave the mini an Indonesian flag, good to know that Indonesia is still standing strong in the 41st millennia.
You should do a video where you each draft a handful of artist at different pricepoints for the same jobs, tallying points for whoever picked the better artist.
We did one half a year back:)
@@SquidmarMiniatures ahhh, I need to find that. Thanks!
I dont play or read warhammer. I do like it just no time or have others i know interested in it. Anyway besides all that i enjoy your videos. Well done , informative and entertaining even to a non hammerer
Are these prices heavily discounted i feel they normally woukd charge a lot more
In my opinion, the first painting was superior to yours, the rest is fair fair, but his paint and ink was superior.
[EDIT]
Before seeing the end, I had t pause... last one was easily the 2nd best or the best!
[EDIT]
After seeing the end.. Good. Javi and Waldo were the 2 best.
In UK we call DHL drop it,hide it,lose it. Clearly living upto the drop part lol.
DHL bad work 👎
how do you make that type of paint in the feets, like sand incrusted
My headcanon for years has been that Squiddy was 6'3 like me, and I'm happy I was close!
Musha, you went extra! That is impressive. Good job.
By Thundara!! A Thundercat is in danger! Sword of Omens, Give me Sight beyond Sight!
The last one looks like he painted the jewel like the Sword of Omens from Thundercats. I could be seeing things though lol.
The last 100 dollar mini they painted like thundercats sword
Yesss, 🗡️👁️🐱
Haha all of them won some free advertising though! Even Musha’s was still so badass!
Thanks 🤣
The last one looks like he is in the process of falling over.
Lukas paint job was so good I can’t tell if that’s a piece of hair on his models chest or something else that he planned to be there.
lukas`s mini is so good !
10:11 why is the spear through his wrist??
I love these videos!! There are so many very talented painters in the world. I'm curious, do you let them know that it will be featured on a video? That would make me nervous as hell lol! Thank you so much for the awesome content as always!
As Musha sent 2 hats I guess they knew who they were painting for…
What kits are the swords from used on these minis, its really cool and i want to use one.
I feel like the fine dust effect was probably one of the most important things making that piece look so realistic and no one managed to get eve close. No sand on the fists, no sand on the swords. You scored them way too high.
Daaaamn, i never thought about removing the Hairs from the Heads 😅 thanks!
Y'all missed the Thundercats sword there, major pts there! Guy won tho so...
Lion-o approves🐱
3:55 Starting to smell like Surströmming in there
Can't believe you guys didn't pick up on the sword of omens!
Yesss, thundercats ❤🗡️👁️🐱