I can't count how many painting tutorials I have watched since my son took up playing Lion Rampant. I really appreciate the simple, yet quality results you achieve in a reasonable time. I also really enjoy the miniatures finished esthetic you create. Nicely done.
I think we're in the same boat! I've been doing this a pretty decent while now, but every couple of weeks someone will come along with a new tool or technique that shaves a few minutes off of a paint job. Always worth keeping an eye out for someone else's cunning ideas!
Oh man I absolutely love this colour scheme - as you say it's quite Gondorian and it looks amazing. Would be really intrigued to see your take on a Landsknecht; so many ludicrous colours and flamboyant clothing would make for a very interesting tutorial! (plus I'm painting a few up myself atm and could do with the pointers :p)
Great tutorial! I did not think that there was a difference between the Agrax Earthshade and Strong but you cleared that up so I can see how different they work. Thanks for sharing this.
Glad it was helpful! There's a tendency to call them 'the same thing' and be done with it, but they pool on a miniature very differently to one another and give fairly different results. I tend to find Strong Tone with a bit of medium works better if I'm wanting to highlight a miniature without having to use the basecoat a second time.
You sir should produce audiobooks. Your voice is really calming. I enjoy the painting tutorials when tired after work, and looking for motivation to paint some of my own projects. It never fails. Keep it up
Thank you kindly! North Star do some absolutely brilliant miniatures across their ranges, so it's nice to paint something a little uncommon now and then. :)
Great tutorial as per usual! Some nice thoughts upon colour choices and examples of the importance of fine brush control. The result is a characterful little mini who might (?) also double as a Dark Ages/Early Medieval tribal leader or champion. Excellent work. xx Sf
I hadn't even thought of using him in an actual historical game! I suppose he'd work for a medieval-ish adventurer type with the gear he's got; there's nothing too fantastic about him, except perhaps that helmet design. He's a great little figure, though! The Oathmark human infantry would work brilliantly as town guard or militia in most games.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Oh, I think The Helmet isn't too far from Dark Ages/Viking design... The shield hints at a more 'Roman' look, (though it's not 'curved' like a Scutum...) but I'd think he'd pass in quite a few Dark Ages armies!!! (And it would give him a break from fighting supernatural creatures like skeletons and giant ogres!!!!) xx SF
Back in the early 2000s, there was a couple of youngsters at my gaming club who were some of the best and most prolific army painters I've ever seen. They'd paint a 1500 point 40K army in about three days. First thing they did was cover every model in Scorched Brown - gave every model they did a really rich tone. So nice to see you doing the same with Rhinox Hide :)
As chance would have it, I think it was around that era that I'd first seen the overall Scorched Brown shade. Must have been something in the water! I remember it being used as the first stage in someone painting one of the Aragorn miniatures - seemed appropriate to carry that on forward to the present.
Cool, Rangers and Sonic Sledgehammer collide in a very, very special episode. That mini is wonderfully atmospheric and the paint job is super sympathetic to the Ranger's tone. That's a very nice Rhinox hide Haubergeon. ;)
This is one of the flat Warlord bases. I'm not sure whether or not they're available individually without the lip; I got this one from either the US Marines or one of the old British infantry boxes.
You know, it took me a bit... but coming back and looking at him again, I can totally see it. He's got a definite Klingon scowl going on, and that tash doesn't help!
Just recently found your channel, very nice stuff! Instant sub! I adopted your method for painting my roman legionaries, they are turning out nice. I was wondering if you have a 'how to' planned for painting barbarian types with lots of exposed skin (like gauls or germanics)?
Excellent video as always, thank you. I agree with you 100% about the differences between Citadel and Army Painter shades. I am highly intrigued about adding mixing medium to the shade. What does it do to it? Soften the shade colour? Or make it more glossy? I’m going to have to get a bottle and experiment I see. Thanks for the “homework” assignment! 🤪 Thanks again and stay safe! Cheers 🍻
The mixing medium thins out the colour of the Strong Tone a little without changing how it applies to the miniature. Adding just water will give you a similar effect, but the shade won't then pool in the recesses in quite the same way - and in my experience, can sometimes end up a little patchy and dirty-looking instead! It's really useful stuff; ordinarily I find it lets me go from basecoat to highlight without having to worry about reapplying the base colour for a smoother transition.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thank you, Sir! I had to run out and pick my daughter up from school...So I used that as an excuse to stop at my local hobby shop. They don't carry Army Painter Mixing medium, but they do carry Vallejo's, so I grabbed a bottle to play with this weekend. And a couple of contrast paints followed me home too! LOL, I have a paint adiction! LOL! Thanks again for sorting me out and you have an amazing weekend. Cheers!
Sonic, I'm huge fan of your table top tutorials. I'm sorry to be one more fella in row asking about Agrax VS Strong Tone. If I understand it right, you would go for Agrax in case you wanna reapply the base color again before you aplly layering color(s)? I use mainly Citadel and few VMC I learned from your tutorials. But that Alchemy when and why applying AP tones instead of the others is still quite a secret for me. Based on more reactions regarding that, a tutorial dedicated to such a topic would be highly appreciated by many.
This is one that's actually come up a couple of times, so might be useful if I can get a handful of identical miniatures made up to prime white, then demonstrate the end result of a few shades and washes alongside one another.
The note on strong tone vs Agrax was interesting so how about a special on the differences between the shades, washes and inks? You may get a bit fed up on painting the same base model a few times though 😁
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on how the Vallejo Game Wash compares with the AP & Agrax Earthshade - 200ml for €7.99...
It's really down to the final tone you're looking to get. For bright colours, a white undercoat. For darker stuff, use black. If you can find a coloured primer that will work for the majority of the colour on a miniature, then just use that. Grey is a good middle-ground for just about anything. All it takes is a bit of practice and experimentation and you'll find what works for you.
I don't, and honestly it'd be a rare case that I'd paint something that wasn't available to people. If something's been out of production for fifteen or so years, it's not likely to find its way into the hands of many new collectors, I'd imagine. ;D
I have a hard time painting skin specific to the face area. I just painted an Elven reaper. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. As usual your Video is spectacular. Thank you for your inspiration.
I've actually done a couple of videos specific to faces! 'How I Paint Things Faces' in the search bar should give you what you need - I'd link them myself, but it's a bit of a mission on my phone!
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I can't count how many painting tutorials I have watched since my son took up playing Lion Rampant. I really appreciate the simple, yet quality results you achieve in a reasonable time. I also really enjoy the miniatures finished esthetic you create. Nicely done.
Cheers Paul, really glad to hear it. :) Lion Rampant's an excellent system to be getting in with as well!
Your channel is criminally underrated. I love the videos, and you have a great relaxing voice. You deserve tenfold the subs you have!
Very kind of you to say. :) Much appreciated! It'll happen in time, I'm sure.
What a nice paint job on a cracking figure.well done again🙂
Many thanks!
Nice miniature...love the colour scheme and paint job. Really enjoy your style
Thank you very much!
Very interesting. Been painting for decades but there's always room to learn something new!
I think we're in the same boat! I've been doing this a pretty decent while now, but every couple of weeks someone will come along with a new tool or technique that shaves a few minutes off of a paint job. Always worth keeping an eye out for someone else's cunning ideas!
Oh man I absolutely love this colour scheme - as you say it's quite Gondorian and it looks amazing.
Would be really intrigued to see your take on a Landsknecht; so many ludicrous colours and flamboyant clothing would make for a very interesting tutorial! (plus I'm painting a few up myself atm and could do with the pointers :p)
Great tutorial! I did not think that there was a difference between the Agrax Earthshade and Strong but you cleared that up so I can see how different they work. Thanks for sharing this.
Glad it was helpful! There's a tendency to call them 'the same thing' and be done with it, but they pool on a miniature very differently to one another and give fairly different results. I tend to find Strong Tone with a bit of medium works better if I'm wanting to highlight a miniature without having to use the basecoat a second time.
Great Talent - and a brilliant tutorial. Thanks
He looks cool indeed !!! Great job as always !
Thank you very much!
Really nice paint job my Friend you do inspire to get better and better Top job keep it up
You sir should produce audiobooks. Your voice is really calming. I enjoy the painting tutorials when tired after work, and looking for motivation to paint some of my own projects. It never fails. Keep it up
Glad to hear it! :) Anything that helps, right?
Another great video I must say I think you make it look so easy for people to pick up a brush and paint 🎨 keep smashing it .
Thank you for this very nice video. Love the paint job and tips, and also the mini!
Thank you kindly! North Star do some absolutely brilliant miniatures across their ranges, so it's nice to paint something a little uncommon now and then. :)
Fantastic! Another game I love to play, especially now.
I was definitely late to the party on ROSD, but what a game it is!
Great tutorial as per usual! Some nice thoughts upon colour choices and examples of the importance of fine brush control. The result is a characterful little mini who might (?) also double as a Dark Ages/Early Medieval tribal leader or champion. Excellent work. xx Sf
I hadn't even thought of using him in an actual historical game! I suppose he'd work for a medieval-ish adventurer type with the gear he's got; there's nothing too fantastic about him, except perhaps that helmet design. He's a great little figure, though! The Oathmark human infantry would work brilliantly as town guard or militia in most games.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Oh, I think The Helmet isn't too far from Dark Ages/Viking design... The shield hints at a more 'Roman' look, (though it's not 'curved' like a Scutum...) but I'd think he'd pass in quite a few Dark Ages armies!!! (And it would give him a break from fighting supernatural creatures like skeletons and giant ogres!!!!) xx SF
Great series. Very cool miniatures and clear explanation!
Back in the early 2000s, there was a couple of youngsters at my gaming club who were some of the best and most prolific army painters I've ever seen. They'd paint a 1500 point 40K army in about three days. First thing they did was cover every model in Scorched Brown - gave every model they did a really rich tone. So nice to see you doing the same with Rhinox Hide :)
As chance would have it, I think it was around that era that I'd first seen the overall Scorched Brown shade. Must have been something in the water! I remember it being used as the first stage in someone painting one of the Aragorn miniatures - seemed appropriate to carry that on forward to the present.
Cool, Rangers and Sonic Sledgehammer collide in a very, very special episode. That mini is wonderfully atmospheric and the paint job is super sympathetic to the Ranger's tone. That's a very nice Rhinox hide Haubergeon. ;)
Hauber... hoobastank... howdoyoudo? I'll have to look that one up! ;D I had a feeling someone would know!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Where did you get that nice, low profile base you've mounted him on?
This is one of the flat Warlord bases. I'm not sure whether or not they're available individually without the lip; I got this one from either the US Marines or one of the old British infantry boxes.
Gosh you, what a great painter you are! Oh thank you you.
You impressed me as well. xD
Thank you! Cheers!
Before you highlighted his face I was all "he looks like a Klingon" 🤗 But, as always, your highlights sorted these doubts out 👍🏻 Good job
You know, it took me a bit... but coming back and looking at him again, I can totally see it. He's got a definite Klingon scowl going on, and that tash doesn't help!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio the brain can be a mysterious thing ☺️
Just recently found your channel, very nice stuff! Instant sub! I adopted your method for painting my roman legionaries, they are turning out nice. I was wondering if you have a 'how to' planned for painting barbarian types with lots of exposed skin (like gauls or germanics)?
Welcome aboard! As chance would have it, today's upload features exactly that. :D
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Fantastic news, I'll check it out! I'll flatter myself with thinking you made that **especially for me** :D
Excellent video as always, thank you. I agree with you 100% about the differences between Citadel and Army Painter shades. I am highly intrigued about adding mixing medium to the shade. What does it do to it? Soften the shade colour? Or make it more glossy? I’m going to have to get a bottle and experiment I see. Thanks for the “homework” assignment! 🤪 Thanks again and stay safe! Cheers 🍻
The mixing medium thins out the colour of the Strong Tone a little without changing how it applies to the miniature. Adding just water will give you a similar effect, but the shade won't then pool in the recesses in quite the same way - and in my experience, can sometimes end up a little patchy and dirty-looking instead! It's really useful stuff; ordinarily I find it lets me go from basecoat to highlight without having to worry about reapplying the base colour for a smoother transition.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thank you, Sir! I had to run out and pick my daughter up from school...So I used that as an excuse to stop at my local hobby shop. They don't carry Army Painter Mixing medium, but they do carry Vallejo's, so I grabbed a bottle to play with this weekend. And a couple of contrast paints followed me home too! LOL, I have a paint adiction! LOL! Thanks again for sorting me out and you have an amazing weekend. Cheers!
Fantastic!
Sonic, I'm huge fan of your table top tutorials. I'm sorry to be one more fella in row asking about Agrax VS Strong Tone. If I understand it right, you would go for Agrax in case you wanna reapply the base color again before you aplly layering color(s)? I use mainly Citadel and few VMC I learned from your tutorials. But that Alchemy when and why applying AP tones instead of the others is still quite a secret for me. Based on more reactions regarding that, a tutorial dedicated to such a topic would be highly appreciated by many.
This is one that's actually come up a couple of times, so might be useful if I can get a handful of identical miniatures made up to prime white, then demonstrate the end result of a few shades and washes alongside one another.
Awesome video....its been a while since you did a fantasy based miniature...please do more
Do the gnoll and the D&D adventurer not count? ;D
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio moooooooore
the medieval adventurer was two months ago...and the gnoll was good ...but painting heroes like these is beter
Rangers of Shadow Deep!
*adds Mahogany Brown to the shopping list*
You'll barely regret it at all! ;D
The note on strong tone vs Agrax was interesting so how about a special on the differences between the shades, washes and inks?
You may get a bit fed up on painting the same base model a few times though 😁
Not a bad plan, that one!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on how the Vallejo Game Wash compares with the AP & Agrax Earthshade - 200ml for €7.99...
@@malcolmrose3361 I couldn't tell you, unfortunately. I haven't used it.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Perhaps you could include it within your special on washes and inks?
How do you decide on your base coat primer it's the hardest thing for me do I use black , brown , Grey or white gees
It's really down to the final tone you're looking to get. For bright colours, a white undercoat. For darker stuff, use black. If you can find a coloured primer that will work for the majority of the colour on a miniature, then just use that. Grey is a good middle-ground for just about anything. All it takes is a bit of practice and experimentation and you'll find what works for you.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thank you
Do you own the last chancers by any chance? I would love to see how you would paint them...
I don't, and honestly it'd be a rare case that I'd paint something that wasn't available to people. If something's been out of production for fifteen or so years, it's not likely to find its way into the hands of many new collectors, I'd imagine. ;D
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Which brings me to my next question... would you ever buy from recasters?
@@swaaahtome Nope. There's nothing I want that I need as badly as giving business to recasters.
Thank you , Sonic .
I have a hard time painting skin specific to the face area. I just painted an Elven reaper. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. As usual your Video is spectacular. Thank you for your inspiration.
I've actually done a couple of videos specific to faces! 'How I Paint Things Faces' in the search bar should give you what you need - I'd link them myself, but it's a bit of a mission on my phone!
This the Death corps Drab a citadel color?!??
Yup! One of the Base range. It's been out a little while but they didn't really announce it very loudly. It just... arrived one day a few months ago.
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