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This video really hit home for me, I’ve lost 70% of mobility on my right arm in the span of 5 months after a climbing injury and I will have an heavy intervention in two weeks to fix all of that and after that i’ll have 3 to 6 months without using my arm. Since my injury I’ve left the hobby behind (only one mini painted in 6 months versus 150-200 last year at the same date) because I was afraid to use my left hand to do some painting. I’ll give it a shot and try some of your tricks with my Leviathan !
Dude. I'm almost ambidextrous due to broken bones and other various injuries over the years, and I can safely say there is no way I could pull off a paint job like that with my left hand. Mad props.
While I truly appreciate the artistry that you and others display, for me this hobby is about playing the games not the painting. I love all of your tips and try to use them the best I can. I will never paint a competition level model. It is just not my thing. I just want a decent paint job and get them on the table. I will be using some of these tips and techniques to paint models faster for sure. When I was a child I could pretty much use both hands about the same. I injured my elbow pitching in Little League. Had to get surgery and never really could use my left arm the same anymore. I kind of became right-handed after that. So, I do get what you are going through. I still find myself using my left hand every once and a while like when I was young and don't even realize I am doing it. Painting is one of those things. Sometimes a spot is easier to get to left handed, and I just grab the brush and paint lefty, without realizing it. This was a great video. It sucks that you got hurt, but this was one of your best videos.
Hmmm 'just' infection you say eh? A touch of Nurgle finger maybe? Don't let the inquisition find out ! I thought using you left hand might slow you down a tad so the rest of us might catch up a bit to your skills- nope, they still look awesome!! I'm sure if Michael Perry can learn to sculpt left handed, then painting shouldn't be too much trouble.
This is a really cool concept and they all turned out so great! I know you did it out of necessity but it would be fun to see more mini creators painting with their non dominant hand as a challenge!
Amazing the results that can be had with the cack hand. Not miniature painting, but did you know when sculptor Michael Perry had his hand blown off by a cannon the very first model he sculpted after the accident was the Bretonnian’s green knight?!
Very nice, always a good idea to try and keep your non-primary side keen wherever possible. I had an issue with my right food that kept me from boxing normally for a while. so I switched to a left handed stance so i wouldn't skip practice and it made me a good switch hitter.
Just came back from a navicular fracture, 6 weeks with plaster and a couple of weeks with physiotherapy. Injured my hand om work. No painting for me thou. Good work! Keep the spirit up! And get well!
Whatever you put out, left handed paint videos, or how to videos for various techniques, I'll definitely be watching! Heal your finger, we got your back! P.s. a how to airbrush video would be awesome, and maybe doable.
ok ok, I understand, this is your income and you live in the US and not human healthcare insurance like us in Europe. But please, your health is the most precious thing. Do not compromise it. I'm sure your Doctor told you, that especially hand infection are no joke, at all!
They definitely told me, and I don’t want to risk losing my finger over something stupid. So far it looks like it’s healing alright, so that’s good. But if at any moment it turns for the worst the doctor recommended a specialist, so that’s in the wings just in case. The worst part about it is that it honestly does come down to money for pretty much everyone in the US. Going to a specialist will immediately be thousands of dollars. It’s absolutely insane. So most people, myself included, try and do what we can at home to avoid going in at all. It’s not a good system…
To keep doing what your doing, your hand health is essential, just sucks that there is a group in the USA that puts money over the health of the population. Take care and dont rush , we will still be here.
literally dealing with this now. stabbed my upper palm under my index finger. its been alopst 3 month with 3 rounds of antibiotics and a surgery to get back on my feet. im still not 100% back into the hobby yet while my hand is recovering . best of luck with your Recovery sir
youre more acurate with your off hand than i am with my right. fair play to ya. reminds me of when my dad said hed give me a chance at chess, then said hed play me left handed
When there's a will, there's a way, as they say. Did the doctor give you an ETA for your hand being usable again? Your points about knowing the order of operations are excellent. Good video, Casey!
made a lil tripod doohickie to steady my hand as i shake quite a bit. Took a ball of greenstuff/epoxy putty and squished it in a grip using my pinky and ring finger. sanded it extra smooth to remove the sharp ridges and palm prints. that lil epoxy bit i then placed on a mini folding tripod's screw before it dried and giving myself a small overhang to rest the pinky side of palm on so i don't need to death grip it. this gives me adjustable height by adjusting leg angles, rotation due to the tripod head, and since im not gripping it with my full hand i still have full use of my thumb, pointer, and middle finger to handle a brush. when getting a tripod on amazon, just make sure it's made out of metal rather than plastic as the joins will wear out and loosen on you otherwise and that it has locking leg angles.
Great job i had shoulder surgery were i couldnt use my arm for two and half months. You learn how lucky you are to have a working set of arms and understanding to somebody less fortunate
I'm a retired artist who also happens to be ambidextrous. I had to switch careers in my 30's because of nerve issues in both arms that make it near impossible to perform the movements required for painting or writing without eithe extreme pain or sudden termors and jerking. It really sucks because if my nervous system wasnt essentially broken, I'd have no problem painting some sexy stuff with either hand, but its progressed to the point I cant even write my name without it looking like a toddler wrote it, let alone paint at model scale. Getting old sucks.
I've often found that I can airbrush quite effectively using my thumb on the trigger and my index finger sticking out when i need a change of hand position.
Ok...using sharpies or like Gundam/paint markers is a friggin BIG BRAIN move...it makes some things so so soooo easy 🤘🤠 been doing it for ages now...as artists/hobbyists...we should feel fine with using all the tools available. Don't be shamed into thinking geedub way is the only way!
Awesome video. I got a serious injury a couple of years ago and this would have been very helpful back then. I bet you could make a whole series of videos to give tips to people with disabilities/injuries.
wait people don't train their off hand incase they injure their main hand? oh wait now that i think about it i haven't trained my off hand for painting
I still use the spray, sharpie and wash method for batch painting space marines. Too many models, not enough time for them all to get character treatment.
When i was a kid i mashed my middle finger on my right hand, so i had to learn to use my left for everything .. Try painting the ez way Undercoat, base colour, wash drybrush repeat until satisfied Oh yea paint skeles or Orks!!!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaagghhhh
Thanks! The sunglasses I get are actually from Home Depot...super weird answer, but they are like $5 and seriously some of the best sunglasses I've had lol. I'm not sure why, but they just work for me, and I don't have to worry about what happens to them since they are so cheap. I just looked up the sunglasses you mentioned though and they look pretty sweet! The blue and black ones do look very similar to the ones I have. I may have to grab a pair and try them out :)
@@eBayMiniatureRescues The shame is that they aren't being made anymore, which is why I got excited when I saw yours. I had a pair a few years ago, but I broke them. I'm sure I'll find a pair again one day :D
Very interesting video. Hope you get better soon. Gave me some this to think about as I have nerve damage in one arm and pain issues in the other, one question for you, do you know of any brushes that have a larger handle? somedays just try to grab a brush is an issue.
Best advice is I can give is to set up notifications for the things you want. Do a search for the thing you want, filter it by condition, used, and then make sure to select the built/painted option. Put in a price range, probably pretty low if you want the good deals. Then save that search and turn on at least email notifications. You will get emailed a list of everything within those search results every day, so you end up seeing that stuff before almost anyone else does. Perfect time to get the best deals!
Casey dude health first we will be here for you, sucks that the people voted in to help everyday Americans take money from the corps keeping you down, no political stuff here , love the video great tips on chipping, ive recently started adding that to my minis so you have helped there. Chin up left hand forward and dont think you have to lose a finger or your home to pay a bill.
Thank you, that means a lot! Glad to hear that chipping has come in handy! I do love a good chipped up mini :) It's actually insane to me that America still has the health system it does. It helps absolutely no one and contributes to more problems than it solves. America the great indeed... For now I will do what I can while heeding what the doc said, things are already getting better, so that's pretty nice, but I'm gonna keep up easy and left-handed painting as long as I need :)
I'm sitting here just wondering why I have black bars on every side of your video throughout the whole thing. Why not just upload in ultrawide so if I have an ultrawide monitor I can go full screen?
This sounds like you just wanted to make a video with some fresh title brother 😂 sorry I just can’t believe that lil’ boo boo sat your butt on the bench like that mate 😂 but you still the greates no matter what!! 🎉
@@eBayMiniatureRescues Watching and listening to the video for your commentary. It's getting overwhelmed by the loud music; it's annoying trying to make out what you are trying to communicate over the noise.
@@ccgear4367 just curious why you didn’t say that to begin with. This is actual feedback, while the first comment was just unkind. I am always trying to listen to good feedback and get better, but I can’t do that if you don’t give it in the first place.
@@eBayMiniatureRescues Appreciate the openess for feedback. To be honest, it's my quick reaction to the frustration of the loud obnoxious music that seems prevalent in the miniature hobby space. I don't understand why it seems creators seem to push loud heavy/death metal in their videos to the detriment of their commentary that viewers are trying to hear. Disagreement aside, hope your hands heals up quick!
@@ccgear4367 Other creators aside, I personally use it because it’s the kind of music I listen to every day, that being said I don’t always use it in every video, but getting down to business and trying to accomplish something that seems difficult, like painting with my offhand, the music is more of a reflection of my intentions and determination. Or at least that what I’m thinking about when I pick tracks. I do see your point though, and I will be more mindful in the future, though I can’t promise it will go away entirely! And thank you, hopefully the hand will heal soon!
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This video really hit home for me, I’ve lost 70% of mobility on my right arm in the span of 5 months after a climbing injury and I will have an heavy intervention in two weeks to fix all of that and after that i’ll have 3 to 6 months without using my arm.
Since my injury I’ve left the hobby behind (only one mini painted in 6 months versus 150-200 last year at the same date) because I was afraid to use my left hand to do some painting. I’ll give it a shot and try some of your tricks with my Leviathan !
Dude. I'm almost ambidextrous due to broken bones and other various injuries over the years, and I can safely say there is no way I could pull off a paint job like that with my left hand. Mad props.
While I truly appreciate the artistry that you and others display, for me this hobby is about playing the games not the painting. I love all of your tips and try to use them the best I can. I will never paint a competition level model. It is just not my thing. I just want a decent paint job and get them on the table. I will be using some of these tips and techniques to paint models faster for sure.
When I was a child I could pretty much use both hands about the same. I injured my elbow pitching in Little League. Had to get surgery and never really could use my left arm the same anymore. I kind of became right-handed after that. So, I do get what you are going through. I still find myself using my left hand every once and a while like when I was young and don't even realize I am doing it. Painting is one of those things. Sometimes a spot is easier to get to left handed, and I just grab the brush and paint lefty, without realizing it. This was a great video. It sucks that you got hurt, but this was one of your best videos.
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
Nice to see you using THE proper hand like Brent and I
Lefties unite
Lol, one of us!!!
Hmmm 'just' infection you say eh? A touch of Nurgle finger maybe? Don't let the inquisition find out ! I thought using you left hand might slow you down a tad so the rest of us might catch up a bit to your skills- nope, they still look awesome!! I'm sure if Michael Perry can learn to sculpt left handed, then painting shouldn't be too much trouble.
You should check out the Hobby Holder going forward, great tool that lets you paint with extra support points to stabilize your hand
Yeah, I’ll check it out, thanks!
This is a really cool concept and they all turned out so great! I know you did it out of necessity but it would be fun to see more mini creators painting with their non dominant hand as a challenge!
All the lefties in the hobby salutes you!
I'm glad you were able to get a good video out of some of our comments! This was a great video!
i wish i could afford going to the hospital for an innocuous cut
Amazing the results that can be had with the cack hand.
Not miniature painting, but did you know when sculptor Michael Perry had his hand blown off by a cannon the very first model he sculpted after the accident was the Bretonnian’s green knight?!
Very nice, always a good idea to try and keep your non-primary side keen wherever possible.
I had an issue with my right food that kept me from boxing normally for a while. so I switched to a left handed stance so i wouldn't skip practice and it made me a good switch hitter.
if painting is still difficult next week cloud we get a tour of the new hobby space ? never got a proper tour since you moved to the garage
At a local paint Con, one of the contests is painting with your non-dominant hand.
Just came back from a navicular fracture, 6 weeks with plaster and a couple of weeks with physiotherapy.
Injured my hand om work. No painting for me thou.
Good work! Keep the spirit up! And get well!
Whatever you put out, left handed paint videos, or how to videos for various techniques, I'll definitely be watching! Heal your finger, we got your back!
P.s. a how to airbrush video would be awesome, and maybe doable.
😮😮😮😮😮😮
Michael Perry, of the amazing Perry Brothers miniatures, lost his right hand, and learned to sculpt! with his left hand! You can do it!
The troll turned out great!
I dig the Bloodywood shirt, man! Ari Ari Ari!
ok ok, I understand, this is your income and you live in the US and not human healthcare insurance like us in Europe. But please, your health is the most precious thing. Do not compromise it. I'm sure your Doctor told you, that especially hand infection are no joke, at all!
They definitely told me, and I don’t want to risk losing my finger over something stupid. So far it looks like it’s healing alright, so that’s good. But if at any moment it turns for the worst the doctor recommended a specialist, so that’s in the wings just in case. The worst part about it is that it honestly does come down to money for pretty much everyone in the US. Going to a specialist will immediately be thousands of dollars. It’s absolutely insane. So most people, myself included, try and do what we can at home to avoid going in at all. It’s not a good system…
Ouch… yes, please heed the doctors. Health first
To keep doing what your doing, your hand health is essential, just sucks that there is a group in the USA that puts money over the health of the population. Take care and dont rush , we will still be here.
@@isisnmagic1812 indeed
you need a mechanicus mechadendrite :)
literally dealing with this now. stabbed my upper palm under my index finger. its been alopst 3 month with 3 rounds of antibiotics and a surgery to get back on my feet. im still not 100% back into the hobby yet while my hand is recovering . best of luck with your Recovery sir
Necessity do be the mother of all inventions!
youre more acurate with your off hand than i am with my right. fair play to ya. reminds me of when my dad said hed give me a chance at chess, then said hed play me left handed
When there's a will, there's a way, as they say. Did the doctor give you an ETA for your hand being usable again? Your points about knowing the order of operations are excellent. Good video, Casey!
made a lil tripod doohickie to steady my hand as i shake quite a bit.
Took a ball of greenstuff/epoxy putty and squished it in a grip using my pinky and ring finger. sanded it extra smooth to remove the sharp ridges and palm prints.
that lil epoxy bit i then placed on a mini folding tripod's screw before it dried and giving myself a small overhang to rest the pinky side of palm on so i don't need to death grip it.
this gives me adjustable height by adjusting leg angles, rotation due to the tripod head, and since im not gripping it with my full hand i still have full use of my thumb, pointer, and middle finger to handle a brush.
when getting a tripod on amazon, just make sure it's made out of metal rather than plastic as the joins will wear out and loosen on you otherwise and that it has locking leg angles.
That’s really cool! I have some little metal tripods laying around here, I’ll have to give that a try. Thanks for sharing this, it sounds great!!
Great job i had shoulder surgery were i couldnt use my arm for two and half months. You learn how lucky you are to have a working set of arms and understanding to somebody less fortunate
Great message. In that boat myself. Not a tree and and arm but a roof and a shattered ankle, cant wait to be able to sit at a desk and paint again
As someone with a permanent dominant hand/arm injury that impacts my painting, I appreciate this video a lot
I'm a retired artist who also happens to be ambidextrous. I had to switch careers in my 30's because of nerve issues in both arms that make it near impossible to perform the movements required for painting or writing without eithe extreme pain or sudden termors and jerking. It really sucks because if my nervous system wasnt essentially broken, I'd have no problem painting some sexy stuff with either hand, but its progressed to the point I cant even write my name without it looking like a toddler wrote it, let alone paint at model scale.
Getting old sucks.
Lefties are a great community - we welcome you with open hands 👐🏿
Haha thank you :)
I've often found that I can airbrush quite effectively using my thumb on the trigger and my index finger sticking out when i need a change of hand position.
Ok...using sharpies or like Gundam/paint markers is a friggin BIG BRAIN move...it makes some things so so soooo easy 🤘🤠 been doing it for ages now...as artists/hobbyists...we should feel fine with using all the tools available. Don't be shamed into thinking geedub way is the only way!
For sure, sharpies are a massive lifesaver! These Zebra ones I found are something I will always keep on hand now, so helpful :)
Awesome video. I got a serious injury a couple of years ago and this would have been very helpful back then. I bet you could make a whole series of videos to give tips to people with disabilities/injuries.
Cool topic for a painting video. I think most of us have injured ourselves when doing this hobby and had to work through it.
I was today years old when I realized you could zoom in on TH-cam videos.
Great tutorial and inspiration. Now if I could paint half as well as you with my good hand :)
get well!
Ha, I noticed the Bloodywood shirt! Nice! 🤘
Hope your finger heals up okay!
Bloodywood is so rad :)
Thanks!!
wait people don't train their off hand incase they injure their main hand? oh wait now that i think about it i haven't trained my off hand for painting
I know the feeling I'm going through the same thing with a broken shoulder
If my memory dont playing with me, Jeremy from Black Magic Craft has a video about close thematic - he tries to reduce tremor
Persistance paying off
I still use the spray, sharpie and wash method for batch painting space marines. Too many models, not enough time for them all to get character treatment.
What else is he making you do left handed??? ;)
Answering the phone, what did you think I was meaning??? Get your mind out of the gutter, guys
Very helpful
Fun that one of your first figure painted has two left hands ! 😅
Sharpies and sponges
Wait wait wait - The gw handle has a removable top?? I've been using it for 5 years and had no idea 😂
When i was a kid i mashed my middle finger on my right hand, so i had to learn to use my left for everything ..
Try painting the ez way
Undercoat, base colour, wash drybrush repeat until satisfied
Oh yea paint skeles or Orks!!!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaagghhhh
Hope you heal quickly. What a fine example Of #paintbravely
100k subscribers soon! I'd like to be the first to pregratulate you
Thanks for the content, awesome as always. This is probably a super odd question, but are the sunglasses from Bittydesign? 😎 Cheers!
Thanks! The sunglasses I get are actually from Home Depot...super weird answer, but they are like $5 and seriously some of the best sunglasses I've had lol. I'm not sure why, but they just work for me, and I don't have to worry about what happens to them since they are so cheap.
I just looked up the sunglasses you mentioned though and they look pretty sweet! The blue and black ones do look very similar to the ones I have. I may have to grab a pair and try them out :)
@@eBayMiniatureRescues The shame is that they aren't being made anymore, which is why I got excited when I saw yours. I had a pair a few years ago, but I broke them. I'm sure I'll find a pair again one day :D
@@danielkearney1815 I checked eBay, maybe they are knock offs but I saved a blue pair for $17
Very interesting video. Hope you get better soon. Gave me some this to think about as I have nerve damage in one arm and pain issues in the other, one question for you, do you know of any brushes that have a larger handle? somedays just try to grab a brush is an issue.
I always paint with my left hand
👍
Wait… you’re telling us you got an infection from a Nurgle model…
So no one is going to say anything about how he cut himself on a model of Mortarion and it got infected
I'm more curious what your medical bill was? $500? $1100?
Hope your finger fixes up.
Any advice in buying used ebay minis?
Depends on what you want to buy. Rescue cases? Unpainted Iron Hands after the newest nerf? Painted minis?
Best advice is I can give is to set up notifications for the things you want. Do a search for the thing you want, filter it by condition, used, and then make sure to select the built/painted option. Put in a price range, probably pretty low if you want the good deals. Then save that search and turn on at least email notifications. You will get emailed a list of everything within those search results every day, so you end up seeing that stuff before almost anyone else does. Perfect time to get the best deals!
Casey dude health first we will be here for you, sucks that the people voted in to help everyday Americans take money from the corps keeping you down, no political stuff here , love the video great tips on chipping, ive recently started adding that to my minis so you have helped there. Chin up left hand forward and dont think you have to lose a finger or your home to pay a bill.
Thank you, that means a lot!
Glad to hear that chipping has come in handy! I do love a good chipped up mini :)
It's actually insane to me that America still has the health system it does. It helps absolutely no one and contributes to more problems than it solves. America the great indeed...
For now I will do what I can while heeding what the doc said, things are already getting better, so that's pretty nice, but I'm gonna keep up easy and left-handed painting as long as I need :)
WAAAGGGHHHH
I'm sitting here just wondering why I have black bars on every side of your video throughout the whole thing. Why not just upload in ultrawide so if I have an ultrawide monitor I can go full screen?
You show your left hand as injured in the thumbnail. Damn clickbait!
Great Video. Please don't do the letterboxing anymore.
Re: the finger - get a 2nd opinion at the LLUMC wound clinic. It's worth it, I promise!
This sounds like you just wanted to make a video with some fresh title brother 😂 sorry I just can’t believe that lil’ boo boo sat your butt on the bench like that mate 😂 but you still the greates no matter what!! 🎉
Why the loud annoying music?
Why the obnoxious comment?
@@eBayMiniatureRescues Watching and listening to the video for your commentary. It's getting overwhelmed by the loud music; it's annoying trying to make out what you are trying to communicate over the noise.
@@ccgear4367 just curious why you didn’t say that to begin with. This is actual feedback, while the first comment was just unkind. I am always trying to listen to good feedback and get better, but I can’t do that if you don’t give it in the first place.
@@eBayMiniatureRescues Appreciate the openess for feedback. To be honest, it's my quick reaction to the frustration of the loud obnoxious music that seems prevalent in the miniature hobby space. I don't understand why it seems creators seem to push loud heavy/death metal in their videos to the detriment of their commentary that viewers are trying to hear. Disagreement aside, hope your hands heals up quick!
@@ccgear4367 Other creators aside, I personally use it because it’s the kind of music I listen to every day, that being said I don’t always use it in every video, but getting down to business and trying to accomplish something that seems difficult, like painting with my offhand, the music is more of a reflection of my intentions and determination. Or at least that what I’m thinking about when I pick tracks. I do see your point though, and I will be more mindful in the future, though I can’t promise it will go away entirely!
And thank you, hopefully the hand will heal soon!