5 Hobby Hacks to Help Your Mini Hobby | Tips & Tricks List | Warhammer Storage, Assembly, & Photos
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- Today I share 5 Hobby Hacks to assist you in your Miniature & Terrain assembly, painting, and photography.
These are five (CHEAP) tricks I've picked up during the year have really helped me in my hobbying and I hope they assist you as well!
Let me know in the comments below if you have any tips of your own!
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Museum Putty:
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Brush Shampoo:
www.amazon.com/General-Pencil...
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A hack for your first hack. Use painter's tape on the lids of the boxes. You can write on it what's in them and the tape comes off easily, so you can reuse the box over and over. Especially handy when you use them just for WIP things and will be swapping out what's in them often. We actually use this a lot when doing mealpreps and want to label what's in a tub. No more scratching out the marker or trying to guess what yellow curry is in it when you've made 3 types of curries in the last weeks (especially when one of those tubs somehow manages to get lost at the back of the freezer for 3 months...). If you regularly go through projects and just need the bins for quick storage, using painter's tape for the labels works wonders and won't leave icky residue.
I also use painter's tape to mask when I prime, but I know that some brands will leave residue behind when you do that, though I've not had that experience yet.
The last one, the brush conditioning, was taught to me by the best painter at my local store. Solid gold, that one. These are all good stuff, but I was glad to see that one.
It is a great trick I learned from a Professor once that really helped me out when I was a very broke art student XD
I have never even heard of brush cleaner before now. I haven't done much painting, but enough to have ruined some (fortunately cheap) brushes. Definitely have to use this tip.
The bead containers are priceless for bits / model WIPs - Hobbycraft (UK) have a range in various sizes with removable inserts
I use the bead boxes when I'm assembling my minis - to clip the bits that belong to one mini together. works great.
As an addendum, the inside of a faction's book will have sheets of paper that can be used as backgrounds for images as well!
As soon as the video started I though to myself "If Angela does not mention bead boxes, I will". Hard to get rid of old part even if you don't use them for ywars but by cutting then off sures you save 90%+ space.
Excellent advice. My big brain was obviously was overthinking the whole assembly process before priming. I was originally gonna put the putty on each individual piece of the figure on a separate platform as I spray them down but your idea is far superior.
The museum putty trick was awesome!
I actually prefer Silly Putty to poster tack for masking. It's less tacky, so it's easier to remove, but otherwise it works just the same.
Interesting, does it leave a residue on the miniature at all? I recall some putty products like that are slick to the touch and I am curious if that residue feeling is left behind on the mini.
@@HobbyNight I haven't noticed any residue, nor have I seen any issues with paint adherence after using the silly putty. It's particularly nice for irregular camouflage patterns, since it's easy to form, the edges keep paint spray out well, and it peels up without damaging any earlier layer of paint at all.
Thanks for the info, I will certainly keep that in mind!
Thanks for the hobby hack. Will try out ☺️
"Silly Putty" has been used by model builders for a very long time. Harmless to models and easy to use, cheap too.
I never had an idea about brush cleaner existing, that TH-cam channel is a wonderful descover. Thank you so much!
Happy to help!
Love the slow-down-on-news-time-to-make-amazing-content weeks when they come around. Thanks for the excellent tips!
Our pleasure!
Wow, I’m still watching but yep I totally use that first hack. Especially for large units, I like to clip/sort each troop into each square and then build later.
It's super convenient!
Your voice is really nice in the background while I paint! Very helpful video
Oh thank you! I am glad to hear it! 😊
WOW! THIS is all VERY COOL! The old saying of "You are NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN NEW THINGS" is SO TRUE! I'm 55... I've been a Modeler/Painter/Scratch Builder for 50 yrs. so I've been at this for a VERY LOOOONNNGGG TIME! It's Nice to learn NEW "HACKS" even at MY age!
So I will pass a few along to all of YOU!
"REALISTIC METAL CHIPS" If you want the LOOK of Realistic Metal Chips on something, the BASE COAT is the KEY! I use "STAINLESS STEEL EPOXY APPLIANCE PAINT"
I spray 2 to 3 coats... THEN I apply whatever agent I am going to use to make the Main Paint Color NOT Adhere to the surface. For that "AGENT" I will use either Liquid Latex OR "MUSTARD"! YES that's RIGHT! I use a CONDIMENT! and it REALLY, WORKS WELL! Try it!
But it's the BASE LAYER of EPOXY PAINT In Stainless Steel that is as I said the "KEY"! It will give you a SUPER Durable "METAL" Layer that MOST if not ALL OTHER PAINTS will NOT Remove! It's EPOXY so it's VERY VERY TOUGH!!!
I used this technique on my "Darth Vader Chest and Belt Boxes" and it looks AWESOME! :D
They OTHER "HACK" is... well it's not REALLY a "HACK" as more of a "SUGGESTION"... I have a REALLY NICE Set of Paint Brushes for EVERY Paint Medium possible that is for "WHITE PAINTS ONLY"! THIS Ensures that ALL my "WHITES" Will STAY that way and won't get tainted by other colors! Because I have found that no matter HOW HARD You try... not matter HOW MUCH or LONG You soak brushes {Which you shouldn't "SOAK" TOO LONG it will RUIN them!} Darker Paints and even Lighter ones like "Yellows" and "Silvers/Metallics" WILL STILL BLED OFF into they White! And as I said... this goes for OILS/ENAMELS, ACRYLICS, or whatever you are using!
Another "Suggestion" is go to your local "DOLLAR STORE{S}" and Look for Small, Sealable Containers for your "CUSTOM" Color Mixes! These will keep those "SPECIAL COLORS" Still usable and they are SUPER Cheap! I ALSO Save/Use those small "SOLO" brand Containers that Ketchup, Hot Sauces, Etc. come in from Restaurants!
If you ask them REALLY Nicely... they MIGHT give you a few, Clean "UN-USED" ones! :D
Lastly... ALWAYS look at things like Old Super Glue or Acrylic Glues or whatever "CAPS"! They can be used for LOTS of things! I used a Super Glue Cap to make an old style "Jet Engine Exhaust" for my small Green Goblin "Bat Flyer" figure because I didn't LIKE the way the original looked! These can ALSO be used on 1/72 Scale Model Jets as well! OR If you have any "MINI-FIGS" that need something that needs and old style jet engine "Exhaust" these work PERFECTLY!
Sooo That's about it! I hope what I wrote helps others!
Yes! A fellow “blue tack” user! I sculpt as well as paint minis and there are so many uses for it I can’t recommend it enough!
Museum Putty is super useful like that! 👍
Blue tack does everything. I mostly use it to stick miniatures to a base for painting, which allows me to spend time making more interesting bases and not have to worry about the miniatures colours getting on the base, or vice versa. It's always really hard to get a base right when there's legs and stuff in the way. XD
Great video love to see more of this.
Thank you!
Holy crap, that blue tac pre-priming assembling hack is a great idea!
I find it incredibly helpful!
Bits boxes are the miniature gamers best friend. They are just so handy!
They really really are!
#3 was an eye opener for me. Thank you for that one!
You're so welcome! 💜
Angela you are so amazing and I am glad I came across this channel!!
Been using those bead organizers to store and transport my finished minis for years. And they are usually super cheap too.
Yes they are! Which is lovely. ✨
This was a great video! As someone who's leaving one hobby and insearch for another, I've been soaking up little tips like this. Funny enough, the brush conditioner thing is something I knew from an oil painting class I took in college. I really like the museum putty hacks here.
Thank you!
I actually learned that particular trick from one of my sequential art professors in college. It seems to not be very commonly know in the hobby space but I feel like it really should be!
Dude right, I use the Museum Putty hack in one of the two ways I showed off on most of my projects these days.
you can also use clingfilm to wrap parts for paints 2 less mess and less chans for braking your parts :D
There are similar trays made for fishing tackle.
That's true! I have used those types before too. I prefer the trays meant for beads though because I find the dividers in them to be superior. But both styles work great!
Definitely some fantastic hacks and tips in there. Well done Angela
Glad it was helpful!
Been using these boxes for quite some time. I highly recommend! 😊
An additional note on the boxes: you can buy some dry erase tape and line the inside of the lid with it. That way if you want to cut bits out, you can label the lid with the part numbers. Since its dry erase material, you can reuse the box very easily for WIP builds!
That's a great idea!
Plano boxes have been an amazing boon to my board gaming life. I couldn't live without them, actually!
Exactly! They are great little storage boxes. Super useful.
Thank you for the tricks
Thanks for the video. It is what I really need now!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks! This is great!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks. Some good tips there.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the helpful tips!
No problem! Happy to help 😊
Loved the video and the great painted minatures
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Nurgle rot on the hand. This made me chuckle.. subscribed 👍
Thanks for subbing
Thank you for the tips.
You bet!
Your vast collection of miniatures looks so awesome. If I was there right now I'd be stuck between admiring them or admiring you x
Well thank you! 💜
Liked the photo tips. Hope you had a happy and safe holiday. Thanks for sharing.
I am glad! We did! I hope that you had a safe and happy holiday as well. 💜
Nice. Museum putty looks like good stuff
It is! 👍
these are fantastic tips! Definitely buying some museum putty ...
I use it so often during my painting process!
I play Kill Team and use those tackle boxes that look like those bead boxes you showed, cut up plastic Walmart bags for padding. Also, a MUCH easier way to prime... prime on the sprue. Before you even clip ANYTHING.
Nice, I have known a lot people people that use the as army transports or storage. They are very versatile!
I prefer to have the models partially assembled so that I can see more easily see how things connect. That way I don't accidently paint something the wrong color.
@@HobbyNight I prime on the sprue, but paint on the sprue. I do a little assembly before painting, though. Like gluing torsos and legs together and such. I also divide the bits up into baggies, one baggie is a dude. I then 'assembly line' paint. One color at a time, baggie-by-baggie. Base coat everything, then move on through the colors depending one amount intended on the model, metallics dead last. I don't understand how people can paint or prime fully assembled. there will be places the primer and paint can't get to due to spacing.
That's interesting because I use those organizers for my Citadel paint. Fits any standard size pot. I never thought to label them though. It would help to keep warm colors, cool colors, earth tones, and monochromatic.
Cool! Can you close the lid still or do you pop the lid off and just leave the trays open topped?
Closes just fine. I have it split up into about 4 major sections, and I've always wanted to have them in their own little quadrant, but they always end up all over the place. I'm sure my wife would be excited to make special little labels for each one.
Cool tips
Coconut Body Oil works amazing well in conditioning or preserving your brushes after cleaning them aswell - clean like normal, then just put the oil on your brush and work it to a tip with your fingers and set aside until ready to use (my wife taught me this and it's awesome on my more expensive nicer brushes)
I hope my subscription is encouraging! Great to see some old school kits too!
Happy Hobbydays Everyone!
They all do! 😊
Absolutely, I love collecting the older kits. I have a number of goodies in my pile that I hope to one day feature on the channel. Happy Hobbydays!!!! 💜
I also like using poster tack to pose my multi-pose models before I glue them together
Excellent!
LOVE your T-shirt! 😊
Thank you!! I love it because it looks super Nurgle AND is a awesome wrestling tee! 💜
(I can't explain how hyped I am that Death Triangle is finally back together after so long on AEW!!)
First video I watched of yours. It is great and very well done. Subscribed!
Thank you and welcome!
Great stuff, subscribed. I use matte hair wax for the brush restoration, and one of the best tips i ever learned.
Awesome, thank you!
Hey, if you have to much mini’s I can take over some! 😉
I just got started with miniature painting and got myself some nice ork boyz! Can’t wait to paint them!
This video realy helped me out! Thank you!
Oooh nice! Do you know what your color scheme will be? I've not painted too many Orks but the few that I have were a blast. : )
@@HobbyNight I don’t quit know it yet. I bought a warhammer 40K paint and tools starter set. I wanted to use the green for my goblins but, oops, apperantly that was another kind of paint and I did not knew that yet, so I need to get some more paint now. 😕 But all well, noobie mistake I guess. 😂
Sold! I will subscribe just to see more minis painted ( I should start painting mine XD)
Hey I love ur videos but these hacks are so good am going to try every one
Awesome! I am glad you found it so useful!
That's an awesome camera drone.
Drone..?
Nice video! Great insight. Seen some of your other videos; however, I have now decided to subscribe. Happy Holidays!
Happy holidays! and Thank you! 💜
Think I’ll borrow that backdrop hack
Please do!
I never understood why people use blue tac or museum putty cause it gets very tedious to get lil pieces off at the end but u just opened a door to which i must now travel through again but with confidence this time thank u
Great! The stuff really wants to stick to itself more than anything else. So you can use a ball of it to 'pick up' the excess off a surface that has residue. Takes like 5 seconds in my experience.
even tho its prob changed by now, I LOVE ur gaming space!!😃😊✌👍👏🙌🤙🤟✌
totes read "5 Hobby SNACKS to Help your..." and so of course I instantly clicked... Although I was disappointed to learn snacks won't help my mini painting but your vid was insightful, thanks!
I would argue that snacks WILL help with your mini painting because they can help prevent excessive hand shakiness from lack of nourishment!
I don't paint GW,but I keep getting these videos. Privateerpress need to step up.
These are totally not tips exclusive to GW! I use a lot of these same tricks when painting and storing or photographing my Wizkid, Mantic, and Reaper miniatures as well. 😊
Hey I already do the bits box thing haha mine is a little fishing tackle box though that might be cheaper for those looking but probably similar prices
I've used those styles before too! Great stuff!
think I'm going to use the backdrop idea , been trying to find a way to get better pic's for my insta
SMART.
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Deathtriangle ! AEW rocks! 👍like for your shirt!
Penta/Rey/Pac + Nurgle rep. It's my most multi-use shirt
@@HobbyNight 😅😅😅😅👍!Im a great fan from eL 👌M! I ❤ the luchabros! The reborn of World Champion Wrestling is pure TNT. Best show on the world! R.I.P Brodie Lee!
RIP Brodie Lee
good tip got my sub
Awesome, thank you!
I sometimes use painters tape, so I need to try the blue tack instead, soon
I am using Museum Putty for masking! Not Blue Tack. And I have had a number of people in the comments stating that Blue Tack specifically can sometimes peel the paint on a miniature. So be careful if you use that brand name product!
I've had pretty good luck using running alcohol to restore brushes the same way.
Just be aware that it might age your aminal hair brushes prematurely.
Great video! I noticed that you have the same desk clamp LED light as me, same silver elastic thing at the base (not sure what it's for though)
Thanks! Oh yea, it's great little light. I think that elastic is for helping keep the cord wrapped up if you were to travel with it or needed to store it. But I'm not sure. : )
Nice AEW hoodie
Thanks! ✌
Really nice small hobby tricks, Angela ! Thank you for the video. Do you and John have any plans for the holiday season ?
No problem! And no, we don't have any plans. Just a nice holiday together. What about you?
@@HobbyNight Not much, currently we're not allowed to see my family and friends a lot due to the pandemic so, it will be a calm holiday season for me. I'll probably take time to paint my army. Have a nice Sanguinala/holiday season !
Oh... oh, spechless... Jajaja. I am looking for more of your videos. It´s like and Epiphany, jajaj
Thank you! 😊
I go to the hardware store to buy boxes for screws, they can have the same type of dividers, and i find that they are usually cheaper.
Gotta add that i live in a country where hobbystores have a insane markup on hobby specific tools and accessories
True! May def be different in other countries. I'm looking at bead/craft storage which tends to be a little cheaper than Mini-hobby. The boxes I showed were about $8 American each.
00:31 - Another good place to find those is in fishing tackle sections of stores.
EDIT: Should have read the other replies first - somebody else already mentioned this!
Not to worry! Fishing tackle boxes are a great alternative as well. I just like the dividers in the bead boxes more. 😊
Angela has been blessed by Papa Nurgle... He must have noticed her Death Guard vids :-)
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We used to use blutac to play our unpainted miniatures - just impatient I guess!
(Keyboard clattering)
"I'm in."
👏👏👏
Oh, I'm not supposed to put all my mini's in a duffle bag and throw them around?
Good hints.
... zenithal priming from below?
Could def work for that. Lava floor / light source beneath kind thing
Subbed
museum putty :) not heard that one before... you mean blue tac
No, I didn't. Different materials, though they serve similar purposes. Bluetac is a bit stiffer and some people in the comments have noted it pulls paint a bit more than the museum putty I linked too.
If you look for a tackle box, they are the same as a bead box, but it is so much cheaper
Good tips, be careful using blue tac on painted minis tho as it can pull paint off, I believe therapeutic medical putty is better as it’s less “sticky” 😉 great vid tho, have subscribed 😊
Thankfully it's Musuem Putty, which at least thus far has not had that problem! 😊
@@HobbyNight awesome, glad to hear 😊 I haven’t heard of museum putty 🤷♂️ here in australia the main thing is blue tac which is pretty sticky, good for holding minis to cork handles but i wouldn’t use it on anything with paint already on it 😉
That’s what I have been told by a number of people, so I think I will be avoiding it for any masking purposes if I pick it up.
Hm, Museum Putty is also a product used for securing objects to a mantle in case of earth quack tremors or the like. So maybe if there is a product like that in Australia, it might be similar to what I am using.
@@HobbyNight to me the museum putty sounds more like blue tac, but I’m sure it’s not exactly the same, but might be worth looking into the therapeutic putty for masking, just to be safe, I would hate for u to ruin a paint job if it can be avoided 😬
Was the background music that song from Two Worlds 2?
No, may be a sound-a-like. We license music from a service for it for TH-cam.
I must say that I only subed to force you to paint your minis
Don't you worry! I will be on Monday. 👍
Knowing how litigious Games Workshop is, I'd be a bit nervous using any of their interior box artwork as a backdrop to photos. Maybe paint your own backdrops or look for artwork that has licensing that would let you use it. Still, some good tips otherwise.
I've actually never had a brush become damaged. Either I don't paint enough, or my fifth grade art teacher's tyranny made an impression.
Nice video, looking for those boxes now, really useful! Please, can you tell the size of those boxes? mainly, how tall is it?
1.8" The amazon link to the ones I've recently used is in the description!
@@HobbyNight nice! thanks, it's the same size that I can get here in Spain
re hone your hobby tools once in while its cheaper then going out and buying new this can work for hobby blades but if you are using scales dont .
Oooooh this channel about to blow up. Happens every time I find a new channel I like. I'm kind of like...the John the Baptist of the TH-cam algorithm.
Save some more money buying saddle soap, it's basically the same as the branded brush cleaner...
euhm, great video... love the tips... but...euhm "TOO many (unpainted) mini's?" What is that? I have been painting for more than 30 years (bought ANd sold/traded mini's) and never had TOO many unpainted mini's. ;) Thanks for the tips!!
Where did you ge that light? I’ve one but it’s a lot smaller lol
Amazon!
www.amazon.com/TROND-Halo-9W-C-Gooseneck-Diffusion/dp/B01FDD79AW/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=trond+light&qid=1609718696&sr=8-4
@@HobbyNight thanks you so much. Gotcha yourself another sub. Binge watching your videos 🤣
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
Just be careful with that first suggestion. You will find with some kits that some parts only connect to other specific parts. If you put all of them in one bucket you no longer know which legs were part 12 vs. part 13 for example and it can lead to issues.
What is zinaful prime?
A zenithal prime uses multiple contrasting colored primers (most often a black, grey and then white) all sprayed from one angle (usually top down) to help create a stronger highlights and shadows while painting. It's especially effective with contrast paint.
If museum putty is just Bluetac, then doesn’t it damage the paint? Bluetac is too tacky for the job and rips off the paint. Or is museum putty lower tack?
Though I use silly putty anyway, lower tack, leaves no residue and will absorb paint after a bit of needing, making it reusable and long lasting.
Admittedly, bluetac is a bit 'hardier' than the museum putty. (You can kinda see how it's 'gooier' than bluetac in the vid.)
I haven't used Bluetac as much, but it hasn't stripped when I've been careful. But, I def can see them behaving a little differently.
Is that a death triangle tee?
Yes it is!
@@HobbyNight nice! I love pac one of the best today!!!
Oh wow! I can replace the boxes I have with other boxes! No way
Cheap makeup brushes make great dry brushes.
I have not tried this myself yet, but I have heard about it a few times now! Def something I might look into the next time I am needing to grab new dry brushes. : )
And 6: a big house...
Great video but please consider adding a tripod to your recording setup when you can :D
She used the putty to destroy the putty.
I like to hoard all of my empty boxes and can't bring myself to throwing them away.
That's fair!