4 NEW Miniature Painting Tools You Never Knew You needed
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This week I'm talking about products, tools and gear you didn't know you needed! The best paints for vibrant colors, the worlds blackest black, gap filling made easy using uv resin (and avoiding green stuff or milliput), a rotary tool for assembly, and more!
Golden High Flow Fluorescent Paints: amzn.to/3FMPAxA
Golden Acrylic Fluorescent Paint: amzn.to/3G5SleW
Bondic UV Resin Pen: amzn.to/3HO0CFy
Cordless Dremel: amzn.to/3je2HQR
Black 3.0: shorturl.at/cKO08
Musou Black (Available on Amazon): amzn.to/3v6Lxaz
00:00 Intro
00:50 Know Your Socks Off Paint
2:33 Assembly
2:50 Fixing My Least Favorite Step
4:40 Tool to Speed Things Up
5:57 The Most Wild Paint Out There
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Lyla Mev The Mini Witch creates beginner miniature painting tutorials and easy-to-understand guides for Warhammer, dungeons & dragons, and more. My favorite things to paint are sisters of battle, display quality miniatures, and focusing on having fun. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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If you have a project that needs to use superglue or so other long curing time adhesive, I recommend using a container filled with rice to nest the model and support the pose. Rice has the benefit of being normally easy to remove. This is what museums have done for decades.
THAT IS GENIOUS
That's a really good idea
Wow thx
Omg
omg, I want a video of this, or photo at least :)
Remember to like and comment to appease the almighty algorithm 😁❤️👍🏼
you are the man
My favorite!
Sounds like a good plan!
Yes! Blacker than black! Black 3.0
6:27 you should put some metal mixing balls in the bottle. It helps a lot
Good luck on getting to being a full time TH-camr! Of all the mini painters here you are one of the top ones in my opinion, and your channel is what I hope my channel eventually becomes! Can’t wait to see what the future holds for you 😊
Great video! You actually can sand and drill bondic. I’m a huge fan, been using it about a month now on various stuff. Love that it’s non toxic (when so many uv resins aren’t). But you’re definitely right- it doesn’t remove…like ever.
For gap filling I love using Milliput and Isopropyl Alcohol. It's sandable, more workable than sprue-goo.
YES I was wondering when a TH-cam mini painter would discover Black 3.0! That stuff is awesome!
Agreed!
Bought a few of their products. They have a mirror paint. It uses white spirit as solvent. It is very shiny.
Maybe you are wondering because you never looked...it has been in videos up to 3 years ago across major painting channels on a basic search in youtube. Many things that aren't sponsered only get little mentions unless it is a buying list. Especially if the videos aren't able to get the click engagement that the rest of art scene is enjoying for the same products. Basically the only miniature vids that get boosted are warhammer related and in the thumbs.
Groovy color choices on that demonic reindeer, 2ould love to see a cyberpunk genre painted in that style.
Never once though to use a rotary tool to clean mold lines. That's such a damn good tip.
Brilliant! Bondic pen is so useful
Nice tip on those Golden paints.
Love that UV pen
Yes!!
I enjoy your channel. Thanks!
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
I can always count on you to enable my hobby purchases! LOL
I've been using black 2.0 and 3.0 for a while. Adding his neon pigments to other neons also helps with neon transparency a lot.
Agreed on the Golden High Flow acrylics. Definitely a fan here.
While it is likely not as black as the Japanese paint, one version of black that I have been quite happy with for brush use is from the Golden SoFlat line. It gives an absolutely wonderful matte finish. As a general caveat, their SoFlat line is ONLY for brush painting, as the pigments for many of the paints in that line would be toxic if aerosolized through an airbrush.
Piggybacking on this, Ninjon pointed out that Golden High Flow’s Titanium Buff colour is an almost perfect match for Citadel’s Wraith Bone colour for those of us on a budget!
The SoFlat line has cadmium in some of the reds, yellows and oranges (clearly identified in the names). Liquitex acrylic Gouache has similar properties to the SoFlat line and has reds, yellows and oranges that replicate the cadmium pigments but without cadmium (also dropper bottles).
Golden SoFlat black is amazing for finishing your base rims! Highly recommended.
Be careful with fluorescent paints: they are NOT lightfast, meaning they’ll fade and lose their vibrancy in just a couple of years. To slow this down, store miniatures painted with fluorescent paints in dark boxes away from the light.
The artist paints (Liquitex, Golden) typically have the ASTM lightfast rating on the bottle, and fluorescent paints always have the worst possible rating. Hobby paints don’t list it but use the same pigments and suffer from the same problem.
@@jtwernbold That is good to know!
I noticed the water pot in the video looks cool.
Lyla, I found your channel by happenstance, these are great tips! I am a military modeler (1/35th armor and 1/48th aircraft) and these tips are great no matter what your modelling interest is! I just picked up the uv resin tool and the mini dremel tool from your link to Amazon! I am fighting an ill fitting B-2 Bomber kit right now and this resin filling tool will come in very handy!
Wow, loved that Dasher, nice job Lyla.
Thank you 🤗
Great vid!
Thank you!
100% going for the multi-tool for sanding and drilling. Game changer!
Thank you!
The dremel and the resin pen are the most likely things I'd add to my collection, since cleanup and drilling/pinning are the bane of my existence as well, especially where metal models are concerned. And is it me or do you always find mold lines in the worst places they never were before *after* you prime your minis?!
I always remove mold lines, prime, then remove more mold lines.
I wish I knew about that UV resin pen a few days ago! Definitely need to add that to the wish list!
Awesome video! Thank you as always for your hard work. Happy Holidays to you and Cardamom.
Thank you!
I use the Golden High Flow acrylics since over a year and they are perfect for the airbrush
Great video! I'm putting the cordless rotary tool in my shopping cart as we speak! Also glad to hear you're making the leap 🙌
Awesome! Thank you!
Be very careful, things happen "fast" with spinning tools and your skin is a much softer material. I enjoy building so i tend to take it slow. I will give a metal model a once-over with a wire brush to really highlight the mold lines.
I love my Dremel Lite cordless rotary tool for carving, sanding parting lines and drilling holes. I build styrene car and military kits.
Heck yeah!
Golden Highflow fluro paints are soooo good.
i recommend Back 3.0 as well, it is a great shadow color for space terrain or shadows on dark miniatures.
Culture hussle are based literally a couple of miles from me, they make some amazing paints
A well put together list of things that I don't hear repeated a 1000 times over.
That was the goal!!!
Another tool is the small sanders such as MicroLux from Micromark, a handheld sander makes life so much easier. I make my own fluorescent paints.
I totally took your advice on this one and got some of the high flow paints. Good God! They're great! I mixed them into my other paints and geez did they do an amazing job. Thanks for the video tip! Called you out for it on Instagram.
ok. that uv resin thing is cool.
Just clicked in the video, I'm like 15 seconds in and I'm calling it. Golden High Flow Acrylics. I use the hell out of Golden brand stuff. It's great. Just don't eat it and you're fine. Haha
Edit: 2 minutes in. Called it! Great call ma'am you're the best!
For gap filling, I prefer Vallejo acrylic putty. It has little shrinkage and is easy to clean up. I push it in and smooth it out with a damp finger.
Ah has! An engraving tool. That's a great idea. I was looking at Dremel kits or other rotary tools. I'll see if I can find on cheap in Australia. The postage for a small tube of BLK 3.0 was double the cost of the paint to get to Australia so I'm using Dulux Theatre Black instead. It's not nearly as good unfortunately but if I start doing more dioramas then I think it will be good enough.
I could use a few of these
Took me like an hour to manually drill through like an inch and a half of pewter. Got a small Dremel and it went through a thicker piece of pewter in like 5 minutes on the lowest setting 😄
woohoo! we have the same vortex mixer! Mine has been more of a paper weight as of late...hehe!
Golden paints are amazing. I personally like them more than mini paints. They look great and it’s easy to color match as they use standard names.
I’ve got a bottle of Black 3.0 heading to me (hopefully before christmas). Awesome video Lyla - as always. #NotificationSquad
I hope you like the new paint!
I know this might not be relivent but if you use Tak on models you cant mess up because you can cover any part and remove it easily after this is extremely helpful for highlights.. perfect highlights. Im still freaking out to be honest.
Ok I need to get those paints for my daughter's Vanari Shining Host
I know we all lack safety sometimes, please wear a mask when sanding/drilling resin models! Resin dust is toxic when inhaled and fine particles will kick up like airbrushing particulates.
For hobbyists without a mask, you can do this in either a well ventilated area or put a drop of water on to make the particles "stick" to the model. Also wear safety glasses if you don't wear glasses.
As a side note, I love Bondic! I also can't wait to paint the corrupted Dasher! It looks so dang cool!
I did wet the resin before I started sanding it! I filmed it but didn't include it; but I should have at least put in a bit of text about it in the video.
@@LylaMev Oh fantastic! I don't know if many people know to do that, so I'm happy you did! :)
I salute you...from Iraq
Do I have to thin the golden high flow colors to use them with my airbrush for undercoating ?
It seems that this is not necessary to avoid clogging, but is it necessary for the result ?
Thank you for your videos, each one shows me how much I have to learn.
Great video and you are beautiful as well. Question. What speed do you usually use when working the dremel with your pieces? I see this one goes from 5000 rpm. This one in particular is not sold in my country but i am looking for substitutes and some start around 8000 rpm or 10k . Thats why i ask to see if it would be too much and damage the pieces
If you happen to do any war gaming, I’d love to see you play with your superbly painted miniatures!
The Grimm Gripp :) lol
Thanks for another great video! Have you tried Warcolours fluoresecents? I too have tried most of the fluos out there and they have been 10/10 when used as a glaze, better than any other brand by a mile. I wonder if you could compare the two? It's not opacity I'm looking for, though, but used for glazing.
Here's a tip. Liquitex acrylic gouache fluorescent paints are even better than Golden's. Also the whole line of Acrylic gouaches are a better version of golden so flat.
I just but a bottle of gray resin used in 3d printers and use large UV flash light. Works great
Hail to the algorithm!
All hail
Just noticed your link for the Bondic UV Resin Pen links to the cordless dremel.
OH NO
I hate assembly prep! But i hate mold and marks more, what other prodeucts help this step?
Thinking about UV resin pen, has anyone tried using clear builder gel (like we use for nail extensions?)
Alright I did check them out and did become a gold tier member their stuff looked cool and the price was right to many places promising you the world then when you see what you go well its not good 🙂Thomas over at The Model Hobbyist
I wondered if that resin pen was any good. Looked interesting.
It’s made gap filling so much faster!
nooo you gave it away :P well - i love my highflow golden acrylic paint ^^ - i havent tried the regular line yet. i thought its just too thick.
what about fangs? When do you bust out the vampire fangs?
1) I love the Golden brand Gluorescent paints for doing glowing ares!
2) I wonder if anyone likes the assembly portion of miniatures?
3) I have a lot of trouble with powered tools. My depth perception sucks.
4) I have wondered about the Black 3.0 paint...thank you for talking even a little about it.
Assembling miniatures (albeit customising them) is my favourite part of the hobby
Q: for your drill, is that better than a Dremel ?
Musou Black is much easier to work with, I was brush painting with it straight out of the pot.
Does still need to go on after the varnish, though.
Love my Golden paints! Also, where’d you get that cat shirt at 5:50? I know some cat parents who would really enjoy it!
It's my zenithal cat tshrt! You can get it on my tspring
The assembly step is my favorite part of the hobby. But since I started 3d printing my minis, I don't get to do that any more
Just removing supports!
Bond-ic is a product I saw on TV and unlike anything else ever, I went and found it. It is a really great gap filler. Spot on Lyla! I have long coveted the rotary tool. Was the drool Bondic bubbles?
It is green stuff world uv resin! The bondic does not dry clear.
I'm a big fan of using Bondic as a fast spot weld that holds something larger while I apply a main adhesive like CA glue or 2-part epoxy which will do the heavy lifting.
@@LylaMev Interesting. I have been 'making' myself paint a little each night-- I paint a dragon for each of my children every Christmas. It has really re-ignited my hobbying interest. thank you for the quick answer. I'll have to check out the Greenstuff UV resin. That is so clever. Again, fantastic video!
I would personally vouch for a rotary tool like a dremel or proxxon, since they're more common and will be usefull for more than just our hobby. Then again, I still refuse to use these tools on miniatures, since they're better at messing things up, than fixing things, but that's just me...
I'd rather spend more time with manual tools, and get things right, it's a hobby after all... 😉
It all depends! I have very wreak wists and this thing is a god send.
@@LylaMev Some of us might be a bit more harsh though, a gentle touch is definitely what is needed to make this tool work to our advantage, but I wouldn't recommend it to newcommers, I wouldn't want them to blame you for squaring of legs of their spacemarine regiment for example, so some caution should be taken... 😉
Fluorescent pigments are inherently fugitive. They will rapidly fade when exposed to light. They're pretty for a while, but I'm not interested in a mini that looks great for a year or that has to be stored in the dark. That said, Golden So-Flat paints are really, really good. Like any artist's paint, you really don't want to eat them, though.
You can use the Bondic UV pen (I have one), or you can use 3D printer resin and a UV flashlight. One of these is cheaper and comes in a variety of colors. And if you already have a resin printer, the dregs of the bottles are functionally free.
I've never found typical rotary tools to be useful. Their lowest speed is much too high for most of the things I want to do with minis. (Note that I got my first Dremel about 50 years ago; it's not a new subject for me.) OTOH, the Wowstick was remarkably good, though I think it's overpriced. Because of my bone-deep skepticism, I never would have purchased it, but when I received one as a gift, I was really surprised at how well it worked.
If you can get Black 3.0 (or Vantablack) to work and not be incredibly fragile, you're doing better than I can. Kudos.
as far as rotary tools go, my preference is an extremely cheap one I got off aliexpress for literally 6€ that is a million times more comfortable than the Dremel I used to have, it's not cordless, but in exchange you get an extremely thin tool since it doesn't need to house a battery, had it for 2 years and it hasn't failed me yet
You got a link…?
love the shoutout to black 3.0. they have a TON of other REALLY cool paints, if you haven't checked them out, you really should. they can do some really cool things. (like their pinkest pink!)
I have the pinkest pink powder but have been too afraid to use it!
@@LylaMev dont be afraid. Its "just" some pink.
....might burn your eyes a bit so neon it is, but risk and reward i always say 🤣
@@LylaMev The beautiful thing about culture hustle is that those products are amazing forgiving. You can get the super base from them if you want, but I've had excellent success just using the pigments with distilled water (to prevent any sort of discoloration from tap or other water). You can also use them with any other paint medium you have, so if you have something from army painter or whatever that's a medium, that's an option.
Muso black is nicer to work with than culture hustle
Did you use the Black 3.0 on the bust's sides where the model cuts are?
I did not!!
@@LylaMev okay, I got worried because I didn't think it looked super super black 😅 I had Black 3.0 on my xmas list, the spot shadow-OSL you combo you did looks like it could be fun.
That would have been a great place to put it, but I didn’t even think about it 😂
Ok....how did you do the saliva on the santa monster?
It's Green stuff world UV Resin with hair and fishing line!
How’d you do the saliva effect at the end of the video?
It's uv resin!
Where did you get the cordless drill/sander?
there are links in her description
Thanks!
so not really related, but i see you have a tier on your patreon where you do a private paint class once a month, but theres limited spots. i don't know if i can swing it every month, if i did it just once or twice then bumped back down, would that open the spot back up for other people? i was really glad to see this teir cuz you were the first artist that came to mind when i thought about doing a private paint day thing, and glad you're taking the "full youtube" leap lol
I can do individual scheduled lessons! Message Me on Instagram!
Black 3.0 is a great paint, i use it on the rim of the bases and sometimes just a touch on the miniature itself.
You don't want to take 5 minutes to mix it everytime ? Here's my tip: mix it really good one time and then pour it in one or two little dropper bottles... They are way faster to mix.
Goodness I’m an idiot. That is so smart. Also: IT ONLY TAKES YOU 5 MINUTES???
@@LylaMev I dropped bolts in the bottle and then shake a lot, and yes the last time i had to refill i took me 5 minutes, wich is already a long time according to my arms.
@@lagachedamien117 You might wanna reconsider dropping metal in those, if it rusts there goes your expensive bottle of paint, unless you *know* it's good quality rust-proof stuff you're better served using something else
@@jherazob I use bolts made for boats, resistant to corrosion, salt and rust. Don't worry. One i bought metal balls and when they arrived ( from china) they were already rusty, since then i'm very carefull about it.
@@lagachedamien117 Perfect!
wat are the spit pieces made of?
It’s uv resin and hair/fishing line! Not the bondic uv resin, that stuff don’t dry clear.
I thought vibrant crazy colors was Fiver of Sugar Candy Miniatures’ signature style. You two should have a paint battle…
I’ll tell them you said that when I give them their Christmas gift tonight.
What is the product that made the drool on that last model?
It was green stuff world uv resin and fishing line!
@@LylaMev Oh, neat! There is a product some folks use that kind of strings and globs up nicely to look like wet drool. I had assumed you might have used that. Your technique is super creative.
Does the Black 3.0 have a weird smell (like sweet breakfast cereal)? I use the White 2.0 a lot and I can't decide if the super sweet aroma is attractive or off-putting. Certainly grabs my nose's attention, though.
according to the website, it smells like black licorice! I didn't really notice a smell either way.
Warcolours Flourecents beat all those
Tools look nice... but! it will be nice if actuali can be bought... not only for US.....
If you are going to use a rotary tool or other similar device with metal then eye protection is highly recommended. You really don't want to require a doctor to remove shards of metal from your eyes, it is very unpleasant! Eye protection is probably advisable for plastic as a bit of plastic in your eye would equally not be pleasant.
THAT HOT PINK.
I KNOW
Is Cardamom a cat?
think i got a little crush on you.
I’m the opposite - I like assembling but I I don’t like painting.
that rotary tool make me cringe....but I have a professional jewelry grade one, so I'm likely more then spoiled. (foot control is a win)
I definitely got the cheapest one that would still work well. There are more expensive and probably better ones for sure!
❗️ please note that resin dust is highly toxic and you should always use your mask when you dremel that stuff ❗️
I was wet sanding!
The question is: Does Cardamom NEED any of those products?!?
He does not!!!
@@LylaMev 😜😝🤪
The video should have been called sponsor minutes
Why is that? I bought all of these products with my own money.
the most important step in using black 3.0 for mini painting is to not be Anish Kapoor
exactly!
What kind of camera and equipment would be good to start with to do what you do