I've been painting warhammer for over 25 years but I love watching your videos very informative fun and most important you make me smile keep up the great work
Thank you for making this video, I really love painting videos that encourages people to really take more time painting their miniatures instead of doing it “quickly” or “straight to table” because a good looking model looks good forever
I agree with this to an extent. I love a good painted model but the vast majority of my friends just enjoy the game and if there were not methods like slapchop and such they would have have played with unpainted models which is far worse than quickly painted models. In the 20yrs i have been in this hobby there are order of magnitude more people in that arena than in the quality painting arena and primarily that comes down to time. Those that want quickly painted models more often than not just don't have the time to paint models like this. There are also an exorbant amount of video's on how to paint models well vs quickly. Yes there are those that are titled as quick but by the end they are just doing the same thing that always do. Its just they state part way through the video "you can stop here for table top or you can continue on with these other steps." So essentially the title about painting quickly is just there to follow the YT algorithm. The painting phase and 1 or two others are the only ones i have found that when they say table top standards actually stop at that point. Artist Opus is one that kind of fits in this category as their video's typically do not follow the trends and seem to truly just do their own thing. I have actually enjoyed that painting style far greater than slapchop or even Zumikito's style. For me it is the best mix of quality and speed.
Just getting into the hobby, and this is the first video I've seen from you. First thing I thought looking at the mini was "wow it looks so metallic! Guy must be using some crazy metallic paint I guess". Then you brought up the point about metallic paint. Mind. Blown.
You can still do the same sort of shading with metallics, you just have to pay attention to your mixing, because you typically won't have a full range of tones and tints with metallics. If you have a monochrome metal, you can run the range of iron to gunmetal to steel to silver, but one of the characteristics of light and metals is that metals reflect the color of the metal, so just using black and silver to get a range of golds won't look right, because it washes out the gold; with many different metallic colors, you can use the monochrome blending, then apply glazes and shades to add your desired colors to the metal.
I found myself talking to my wife the other day and without even thinking about it I said 'Hoooweeeverr' in full Zumikitio style.... Superb vid as always!
Making it credible and not just correct is brilliant advice. Ive been struggling for the longest time with figuring out how to get my lighting just perfect from all sides. Sometimes that perfect correctness looks like shit and its more worth it to just have fun painting something nice
2:30 is timestamp I had to like the video 😂 after starting this hobby you are one of the 2 channels I just enjoy watching instead of just trying to improve
This! This is exactly what I've been searching for. I've got the entire Leviathan box set to paint and I was dreading painting the space marines, because I feel they are nearly impossible to make look good, due to the large, boring single colour panels. This looks fantastic though and you've also sold me on non metalic metalics too. Yours look far better in my opinion. Kudos and thanks.
actually really informative thanks, especially how the backpack and legs 'fade' away from the visual focus of the face, chest and guns. I'll be using this theory. chur!
Really love this kind of video. I could honestly watch you all day just painting a model and talking through the scheme. Would love to see a lot more of these ❤️
I've found the most important advice I've heard is "practice practice practice." It's one thing to know the technique or what you want it to look like in your head, but it means jack if you can't get that picture/technique from your head to your hands.
On your goblin with the squig under it, the bottom of the helmet is capable of picking up a reflect light. So for example the sun could hit the top of the red squig's head, and those light particles would bounce back up into the bottom of the goblin's helmet, giving you the excuse you need for the additional color.
This kind of clickbait titels I try to avoid with most content creators, but when you do it I press like and watch the video, because your videos are premium stuff and always great for learning ❤️❤️❤️ Heck, if your next video is named 'doodoo' I 'd watch it 🤗
Im glad you circled back around for that clevage joke someday 😂 i remember the first time i saw that mini and i said, "now here's a guy who knows how to use highlights"
Finally a miniature that looks good. For some reason I see everyone do those strange highlights on EVERY sticking out surface and it makes the mini look ridiculous and confusing because that's not how light works. You can't have highlights on every part of a model, even if you put it in sphere with 360 degree lightning.
3:34 Nice to see another "smashed brush" enjoyer. 👍 Also, would be hilarious to paint the front of the model really well and just leave the back entirely black because it isn't shown on the illustration. xD
Excellent video, thank you!! How do you paint the back as it is often overlooked, you don't have any reference from the picture based on where the light is. Did you do it as being mostly in the sadows or did you use the same light directionality on the back as well?
Noob question: How important is painting in sub assemblies? I always think like "oh no if I assemble it now part X will be hidden behind part Y and I won't be able to paint it" which means my dudes are always semi-assembled and not painted at all. Guess I answered my own question there, thank you, carry on, I'll see myself out.
It's a very light blue - I added a lot of white, so it might looks greyish. I do a lot of back and forth on my minis, so it's nothing unusual. If I feel like it's too light/the reflection is too spread out, I just make it darker again etc.
and one question, what do you think about pinning diferents parts of the miniature for painting separated? Or maybe it is better to build the full miniature before painting? Thank you for you answer Zumikito
It really depends on the model and your expectations. This SM has open and very straight pose so there is no need to prepare subassemblies. But you can. I'm used to keep separated heads/helmets, backpack, arms with guns and shoulder pads, if I'm able to do it because of the model cutting.
When it comes to the "debate" of TMM compared to NMM, my baseline example will forever be the Angron model. I firmly believe you cannot paint Angron with NMM and have it look better than TMM.
I feel like it also comes down to personal philosophy. Some of us like to capture a realistic (note: not necessarily *accurate*, because as shown in this video you can be more accurate to your intended image by not using metallics) approach using realistic materials. Specifically, we want to make something come to life with a range of more "real" materials, and for miniature purposes, metallic paints do a decent job of capturing that. Like the people who will go out and bake dirt from their own lawn to dry, clean and then add mediums to turn it into a permanent mud effect rather than going with the easier approach. I also think metallics work startlingly well for battle damage.
Quite similar to how, "artists don't work with depth, they work with light and shadow". I didnt think that the miniatures size is what causes the overlap between 2D and 3D
out of curiosity, how long did it take to paint this single model I've been working on improving my painting skills, recently with airbrushing and I'm taking longer and longer per individual model
Me watching painting tutorials with the nearest shop that sells warhammer isn't in my 10 kilometer proximity, and i don't have contact with anyone in real life who KNOWS of Warhammer.
So im new, what do you mean non metalic metalics? I have gold paint, im assuming that's a tradition metalic. I was under the impression that's all there was?
Yes, shadows need to be painted onto miniatures (either by paint or washes), highlights are however cut from the same problematic cloth as NMM: they are seldom made to look natural - and this here is why I disagree with the statement that it should look 'good or credible, not necessarily correct' - when painting a 3D model as opposed to a 2D character, you have the slight problem that you will always have the natural light giving highlights, something you don't have with a flat surface. That's why being extremely careful with highlights is so important, otherwise the model will look like its cut from a canvas or a comic, with highlights that are too bright and too prominent (which incidentally is how I guess 99.99% of all mini painters paint). But reality doesn't look that way: Take any guy, any human person and put him outside. At say arm's length, you won't notice any shade or highlights in the clothing, unless its made from some shiny material like vinyl for example. And this is fine - its a 1:1 scale human after all. Look at the same person at say 50 meters - he will look smaller because of the distance and incidentally at about the same size as a regular tabletop mini at 1 m distance, and here you will start seeing the shadows in the clothing and wrinkles and some very discreet highlights on say the shoulders - but not in any way to the same degree as most people paint the minis, and I challenge anyone to find edge highlights everywhere on anyone in any kind of clothing the way GW likes to paint their minis. You can't, because that BS is just a way to show off details on minis that are meant to sell boxes of models. So why bring this up? Because this is my main gripe with the entire hobby - sure, it might look good, and as long as you are having fun there's no harm done - but to me it seems this 'deep shadows and push the highlights' is the only way people learn how to paint, and its such a shame when there are other methods that might not give the same eye-catching blings from highlighted edges on a particularly sharp fold in a shirt, but that can look just as good if not better.
2:26 was an instant subscription for me
I've been painting warhammer for over 25 years but I love watching your videos very informative fun and most important you make me smile keep up the great work
Thank you for making this video, I really love painting videos that encourages people to really take more time painting their miniatures instead of doing it “quickly” or “straight to table” because a good looking model looks good forever
I agree with this to an extent. I love a good painted model but the vast majority of my friends just enjoy the game and if there were not methods like slapchop and such they would have have played with unpainted models which is far worse than quickly painted models. In the 20yrs i have been in this hobby there are order of magnitude more people in that arena than in the quality painting arena and primarily that comes down to time. Those that want quickly painted models more often than not just don't have the time to paint models like this.
There are also an exorbant amount of video's on how to paint models well vs quickly. Yes there are those that are titled as quick but by the end they are just doing the same thing that always do. Its just they state part way through the video "you can stop here for table top or you can continue on with these other steps." So essentially the title about painting quickly is just there to follow the YT algorithm.
The painting phase and 1 or two others are the only ones i have found that when they say table top standards actually stop at that point. Artist Opus is one that kind of fits in this category as their video's typically do not follow the trends and seem to truly just do their own thing. I have actually enjoyed that painting style far greater than slapchop or even Zumikito's style. For me it is the best mix of quality and speed.
Your videos are the perfect mix of top-tier information and just so bloody funny. Never change, man.
Just getting into the hobby, and this is the first video I've seen from you. First thing I thought looking at the mini was "wow it looks so metallic! Guy must be using some crazy metallic paint I guess". Then you brought up the point about metallic paint. Mind. Blown.
You can still do the same sort of shading with metallics, you just have to pay attention to your mixing, because you typically won't have a full range of tones and tints with metallics. If you have a monochrome metal, you can run the range of iron to gunmetal to steel to silver, but one of the characteristics of light and metals is that metals reflect the color of the metal, so just using black and silver to get a range of golds won't look right, because it washes out the gold; with many different metallic colors, you can use the monochrome blending, then apply glazes and shades to add your desired colors to the metal.
I found myself talking to my wife the other day and without even thinking about it I said 'Hoooweeeverr' in full Zumikitio style.... Superb vid as always!
Making it credible and not just correct is brilliant advice. Ive been struggling for the longest time with figuring out how to get my lighting just perfect from all sides. Sometimes that perfect correctness looks like shit and its more worth it to just have fun painting something nice
2:30 is timestamp I had to like the video 😂 after starting this hobby you are one of the 2 channels I just enjoy watching instead of just trying to improve
Thank you for taking the time to explain how to make the mini painting experience straightforward for those of us lacking the skills needed
I'm waiting for my first 40k kit, need all the tips I can get. So I really appreciate these videos.
I would have loved to know which colours you used !
Maybe just in a corner of the screen when you switch
You always do a great job explaining, then illustrated, then applying your instructions. Love watching your videos.
This! This is exactly what I've been searching for. I've got the entire Leviathan box set to paint and I was dreading painting the space marines, because I feel they are nearly impossible to make look good, due to the large, boring single colour panels. This looks fantastic though and you've also sold me on non metalic metalics too. Yours look far better in my opinion. Kudos and thanks.
actually really informative thanks, especially how the backpack and legs 'fade' away from the visual focus of the face, chest and guns. I'll be using this theory. chur!
Loved the illustrative styling of this mini. Badge thingy is called a tilting plate
I plan on painting my first miniature soon.i have watched a ton of videos on how to start
Loved this video and I'm going to try copying a 2D image onto one of my minis down the line. Overall, great info and the final result was lovely!
The best part of the day! So happy to see one more video from you!
Oh yeah!
Let's just base coat our Minnie's! 😂
This one made my day! 🫶
Adorable presentation and perfect mix of humour and usefulness! I totally am your fan, man.
I think I have learn sometime more from you then any other TH-cam channel on painting
I absolutely love it...would 100% die to know what paints u used for the blue 🙃😍
Very entertaining while pushing me to think about how I use to do what you explain. And so many lovely examples!
Really love this kind of video. I could honestly watch you all day just painting a model and talking through the scheme. Would love to see a lot more of these ❤️
I've found the most important advice I've heard is "practice practice practice." It's one thing to know the technique or what you want it to look like in your head, but it means jack if you can't get that picture/technique from your head to your hands.
Yes I was looking there when you said hey what are you looking at.
Great video and insightful. Like your no nonsense approach. I wish my paint brushes stayed sharp like that. Would make doing details so much easier.
On your goblin with the squig under it, the bottom of the helmet is capable of picking up a reflect light. So for example the sun could hit the top of the red squig's head, and those light particles would bounce back up into the bottom of the goblin's helmet, giving you the excuse you need for the additional color.
gorgeous mini, truly awestruck!
Incredible brush control - just amazing work. and, you seem so nice!
great video :D i'm going to try and do this myself i just need to figure out what colours were used
This kind of clickbait titels I try to avoid with most content creators, but when you do it I press like and watch the video, because your videos are premium stuff and always great for learning ❤️❤️❤️ Heck, if your next video is named 'doodoo' I 'd watch it 🤗
Could you show an example using the beiltan defender from the ninth edition codex. The one with all the green shadows
Love your videos. Entertaining whilst still being informative
Bro... you're a legend! That is all.
Love this content. Really provides a different perspective
"Hey! What you looking at?"
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Dude you got me. I laughed so hard at that.
Great video.
Humor is a valuable enhancement when teaching. You do it brilliantly. Doubly so since the information and the delivery are both brilliant.
Awesome work! Thank you for your tips!
Im glad you circled back around for that clevage joke someday 😂 i remember the first time i saw that mini and i said, "now here's a guy who knows how to use highlights"
Great vid Simon. It's diffinately time for me to up my game with light sourcing and variation in the highlights for different areas of the model 💪👌
Hello, thanks for posting this.
The Editing was especially good in this
I have alot of respect if you prime with white paint as its really hard
This was awesome, really good work. The model is fantastic
Awesome! Love this style.
Love this colour 🙌🏼
Your scripts are always amazing, man. Respect as always. :)
That "why am I not blending it" comment is absolute gold! 😀
How about using the decal and painting over it to add the shadowing and highlights?
Sup!
Thank you so much for your videos! You are doing great job!
Great advice video as always!!
Finally a miniature that looks good. For some reason I see everyone do those strange highlights on EVERY sticking out surface and it makes the mini look ridiculous and confusing because that's not how light works. You can't have highlights on every part of a model, even if you put it in sphere with 360 degree lightning.
Great video. Do you have one on painting wolves and fur? Going from dark to light in a natural and un-natural way?
It looks awesome
Any advice on painting fur or leather cloaks?
I hit the "subscribe" not for the mini painting tips but because that beard is so epic
Awesome content, using this advice :)
Your every video gives me "that one advice" that pushes me forward. Plus, they are so fun to watch!
P.S. I love the way you say "tü dëë"
Entertaining and informative great job !
Great job - thanks
One day I will be able to paint like that 🫠
Bro you got me
3:34 Nice to see another "smashed brush" enjoyer. 👍
Also, would be hilarious to paint the front of the model really well and just leave the back entirely black because it isn't shown on the illustration. xD
Do you think or do you have a set of vids for new people like for there first few mins cause there is no way I could follow this but good vid🎉
Holy mother of god. Please make a long video on how you paint an ultramarine like that !!!!
If it helps at all, there is unedited footage (like 4 hours) of the painting process for this guy on my Patreon, but without commentary
Excellent video, thank you!! How do you paint the back as it is often overlooked, you don't have any reference from the picture based on where the light is. Did you do it as being mostly in the sadows or did you use the same light directionality on the back as well?
It is significantly darker than the front, yes, but I don't always use just references so I painted it as I thought would be fitting! Thank you
@@Zumikito Thank you!
That looks so cool
Noob question: How important is painting in sub assemblies? I always think like "oh no if I assemble it now part X will be hidden behind part Y and I won't be able to paint it" which means my dudes are always semi-assembled and not painted at all. Guess I answered my own question there, thank you, carry on, I'll see myself out.
Nuln oil before shades? I had never actually considered that before. It's a preshade right?
Awesome video like always but what are painter sippys? 😂
Hi, do you do commissions?
What would be the colors to use if I wanted to paint space wolves salamanders blood angels black templar and imperial fist
Amazing video, as usual!
How is your fine motor control so good
is it? Feels like could do better, but I guess it's all just muscle memory
Have you pre highlighted the model with grey? @2:44 on the arm/gun?
Just seeing if thats a step you would recommend?
It's a very light blue - I added a lot of white, so it might looks greyish. I do a lot of back and forth on my minis, so it's nothing unusual. If I feel like it's too light/the reflection is too spread out, I just make it darker again etc.
and one question, what do you think about pinning diferents parts of the miniature for painting separated? Or maybe it is better to build the full miniature before painting? Thank you for you answer Zumikito
It really depends on the model and your expectations. This SM has open and very straight pose so there is no need to prepare subassemblies. But you can. I'm used to keep separated heads/helmets, backpack, arms with guns and shoulder pads, if I'm able to do it because of the model cutting.
@@tomaspekar1389 Thank you for ypur answer :D :D
When it comes to the "debate" of TMM compared to NMM, my baseline example will forever be the Angron model. I firmly believe you cannot paint Angron with NMM and have it look better than TMM.
Why that one?
@@arinthel The kind of brass you want it to be and the scale.
I feel like it also comes down to personal philosophy. Some of us like to capture a realistic (note: not necessarily *accurate*, because as shown in this video you can be more accurate to your intended image by not using metallics) approach using realistic materials. Specifically, we want to make something come to life with a range of more "real" materials, and for miniature purposes, metallic paints do a decent job of capturing that.
Like the people who will go out and bake dirt from their own lawn to dry, clean and then add mediums to turn it into a permanent mud effect rather than going with the easier approach.
I also think metallics work startlingly well for battle damage.
Your model looks soo good. Better than the art you tried to replicate.
I love the way you explain many things but in this particular case I'd say this 2d illustration example use 3d rules not the way around.
Yes
What blue colors are those?
As a person just starting in to warhammer i would love for youtubers to at least add in description what mini they paint or from what box...
Amazing!
Dude what kind of gold recipe did you use??
Fantastico! 🙃👍
What GW model exactly it is?
OK I know now: Leviathan Sternguard veteran Lieutenant (2023)
Quite similar to how, "artists don't work with depth, they work with light and shadow". I didnt think that the miniatures size is what causes the overlap between 2D and 3D
Are the paints used included in the patreon video? This looks too damn good.
No, but DM me and I will try to put them together
You madman 😂 you are a god 8:52
What brushes does he use?
How would I apply this to Imperial Fists?
out of curiosity, how long did it take to paint this single model
I've been working on improving my painting skills, recently with airbrushing and I'm taking longer and longer per individual model
Me watching painting tutorials with the nearest shop that sells warhammer isn't in my 10 kilometer proximity, and i don't have contact with anyone in real life who KNOWS of Warhammer.
i dont even look your videos for the advices on painting cause im too lazy for that, i just find them entrataining
I entered but... If I win, I’ll have to get the rest of my Ultramarines up to that standard, which will take me a couple of hundred years.
So im new, what do you mean non metalic metalics? I have gold paint, im assuming that's a tradition metalic. I was under the impression that's all there was?
lol. You actually do use wash in 2d when painting watercolor.
Yes, shadows need to be painted onto miniatures (either by paint or washes), highlights are however cut from the same problematic cloth as NMM: they are seldom made to look natural - and this here is why I disagree with the statement that it should look 'good or credible, not necessarily correct' - when painting a 3D model as opposed to a 2D character, you have the slight problem that you will always have the natural light giving highlights, something you don't have with a flat surface. That's why being extremely careful with highlights is so important, otherwise the model will look like its cut from a canvas or a comic, with highlights that are too bright and too prominent (which incidentally is how I guess 99.99% of all mini painters paint). But reality doesn't look that way:
Take any guy, any human person and put him outside. At say arm's length, you won't notice any shade or highlights in the clothing, unless its made from some shiny material like vinyl for example. And this is fine - its a 1:1 scale human after all. Look at the same person at say 50 meters - he will look smaller because of the distance and incidentally at about the same size as a regular tabletop mini at 1 m distance, and here you will start seeing the shadows in the clothing and wrinkles and some very discreet highlights on say the shoulders - but not in any way to the same degree as most people paint the minis, and I challenge anyone to find edge highlights everywhere on anyone in any kind of clothing the way GW likes to paint their minis. You can't, because that BS is just a way to show off details on minis that are meant to sell boxes of models.
So why bring this up? Because this is my main gripe with the entire hobby - sure, it might look good, and as long as you are having fun there's no harm done - but to me it seems this 'deep shadows and push the highlights' is the only way people learn how to paint, and its such a shame when there are other methods that might not give the same eye-catching blings from highlighted edges on a particularly sharp fold in a shirt, but that can look just as good if not better.
I really like the emphasis on "credibility" over "reality" After all, art is meant to be exaggerated for visual impact, not technically precise.