Without trying to sound creepy, I could listen to you talk about cyberpunk, or anything really for hours ! Thanks for another great source of inspiration!
@@52Miniatures Incredibly so! You have this sort of perfect way of sounding both confident in your statement but reflective as well. Like it is a constant stream of thought but also has a cohesive conclusion in mind as it goes!
Even within Cyberpunk there are so many directions to go. There's the sort of dirty neon of Akira and Ghost in the Shell that you favored here. I consider Blade Runner and Shadowrun to be more of a sort of wet neon. There's also the more 80s Outrun style you feel in Atomic Blonde, Hotline Miami, or old Lamborghini advertisements. Then I feel like Johnny Mnemonic, Neuromancer, and Strange Days carry a sort of cigarette stained metal feeling.
Cigarette stained sure is right. I think the thing with genres is that... well... we just like to put things in genres for some reason. I don’t really know why. We could just say “here is a story about a future”
Been enjoying your content lately. I brushed into your stuff a few years ago when I was doing more D&D minis but lately I hadn’t been watching much in this vein. Your dry sense of humor is just perfect. Commensurate to the extra effort of using your non standard painting style on smaller than usual minis in a harder than it sounds quantity I figured I’d take the extra effort of making a comment. Thank you so much!
The opening chapter of Count Zero is above and beyond my favorite chapter of any Gibson book ever, hands down. It works nearly entirely on it's own, and I can practically quote the opening for memory. Great video!
Me, two hours into a project: I still have no idea what colours I'm painting. 52 Minis: I'm going to watch all these movies and read all these books before I decide what colours I'm going to use. Fabulous work!
Fear not: That's the art school way. Artists often let materials speak to them. That's what separate a mini painter and an artist: a mini painter wants a formula to make your models look good and dogmatically follows that while someone more artistically inclined (That doesn't make a mini painter minded person any worse, let's make it clear) may stop at some point and look at the mini and think what the mini is asking for. I really paint very few minis but when I do it's not a one way process but a back and forth, a conversation between a shape, a set of colors and me. And anything else but that is others' shenanigans. Inspiration, tutorials, theories... in the end the best way is your OWN way 🙃
I'm Australian but lived in Stockholm (Kungsholmen) during the 90s for 3 years so I absolutely love any exterior shots that make it into your vids. And back then I remember these quaint lil shops with a treasure trove of secondhand pop culture goodness, this shop reminded me of a awesome lil comic/book shop around Slussen. And I love this tale of inspiration, research and the application of it.
Thanks Matt! Some of those shops are still about but they are not as many. Sort of like record stores... going from smelling of stale cigarette smoke they now smell of high price tags..
"Stripping paint is a messy business and can ultimately stain your floor, much like a Cyberpunk crime scene". Alex, I could listen to a an audio only podcast of your work with as much enthusiasm as I watch your videos. Brilliant commentary, as usual. Two thumbs up.. one for your script and the other for your cinematography. I am also pleased with "the overall Cyberpunk vibe".
Thank you humbly Mark! I am enjoying making these type videos, regardless of the time they take. The stains on the floor in the other hand... well I’m glad I’ve got a less delicate floor in the new studio :)
I like your description of the "bar in Chicago". Living in Chicago...I can tell you that I've visited that bar many a time 'back in the day'. Brings back great memories. Thank you.
The ASMR beat-poet cadence of your voiceover, the videographic style, and the demonstration of such excellent talent, make this video excellently soothing and engaging.
These look absolutely incredible. I love the idea of the master color giving them a common theme without requiring the same colors one each miniature. I think I’ll try the same thing with the next adventuring party I paint up.
I love it all. The flash and blatant attack on the senses from the garish outfits and colors really sales the theme. The Mantic apes are cool models. Great work!
Normally, i don't watch your videos all the way through, because i'm convinced you are in love with the art of speaking, the subtle art of dramatic pauses, and your own voice. However, this was good, and the research you put in, was well worth the effort.
The sequence at @1:00 ... the lighting!! Genius. So evocative of any movie scene set in a cyberpunk/dystopian work ... shadow with glimpses of light streaming in. You style my good man, is nothing short of *chefs kiss*
Your approach to painting models is so interesting. I liked your ideas for sourcing stories to make the painting process consistent and have a theory you follow throughout. It's a nice change.
Listening to this with headphones, I can hear the enviroment you recorded your voice over work in and it has this amazing reverb to it that most audio people would dream to replicate. Another great video and story telling. Keep up the amazing work!
I am subscribed to Rhystic Studies even though I have never played magic the gathering, nor do I plan too, but his videos are just so beautifully put together that it becomes an art form. This channel the second channel that gave me that feeling, but I do paint minis, so you have an unfair advantage :P.
Another brilliant video. That violet filter you see in Ghost In The Shell was also what I imagined went into "The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel." Not just static, which is bright and chaotic, but sort of heavy and leaden pressing down on everyone like a weight.
I love how you draw inspo from more traditional means such as books and films vs what most of us do, the internet. It really champions the origins of our nerdy love. Kudos, man!
Thank Louie! Books I think is the biggest difference, I mean it could be audiobooks. But inspirational material that gets filtered through ones own thoughts and not visually hammered in straight away :)
I think the disparate colors work well in the end too. They do come off as a rag tag group kind of just wearing what they can/want. Thanks for the video : )
Probably a very minor thing to notice given the sheer volume of information you went through in the video; but the effect of adjusting the focus on the group shot of the gang at the end was fantastic. It did a great job of highlighting each of the models while still keeping them all in context as a group
I showed a good friend your chanell and just in time a notification pops up. In my browser I was the first to like the video which gave me a nice feeling. :) High quality storytelling and footage as always, thank you very much!
I run a Cyberpunk game and have been wanting to get minis made for this game. I thank you for the direction and a way to make them look better for the game.
I really, REALLY love the commitment to experimentation, color theory, pushing your boundaries, and unity. The technical description of the process from color wheel to color matching and mixing, is very informative and interesting to me. Thank you!
Fate has shown me this video, which is great. Recently I have been buying and painting many different miniatures and miniature buildings to run a Cyberpunk DnD, and this has given me a good bit of insight. I've got the Escher gang and a load of other minis, so thank you for some inspiration on how I might go about painting some of them!
Seeing as you have some cyberpunk crews already painted up now, you should pick up the rule book for Reality’s Edge. It’s another miniatures agnostic skirmish game published by osprey, but specifically with a cyberpunk setting. Haven’t had a chance to play it yet because of pandemic, but it looks like fun game. Great paint jobs btw!
I really enjoyed this video, thank you for your insights on how to bring Cyberpunk to the tabletop and the pros/cons of Mother Colour in a palette. It was a great watch!
Great analysis of the cyberpunk esthetic. And a nice demonstration of how to use inspiration to not just copy, but to dig deeper and create an experiment for yourself that will teach you so much more than just copying!
Very nice! I had a similar experience with painting like this, but I ended up only doing my shadows tinted with purple/violet. The results weren't as nice as yours but it was a huge shortcut on a more limited palette. Love watching you talk about painting, Cheers!
And I really love Gibson's and Dick's work. Though praised, in Dicks Case posthumously, nevertheless underappreciated in terms of cultural impact, I believe.
I love the cyberpunk aestethics and you did really great job with it. Very informative too, as always. It's great seeing a new video from you. Dont worry about the sound. Just keep painting and spoil us with great vids. You rule. Regards Danskjävel
Thanks D, yeah one step at a time. If I would fix everything I want to fix in this space it would take months before videos where being created. I'd rather do videos and take it slow with the fixing.
Your kit bashes turned out great! I especially like the use of Necron bits, I'm definitely going to try the same with my Eschers. The ape is totally legit cyberpunk: the result of a megacorp's genetic engineering program, or maybe an escapee from a brain augmentation experiment. All suitably grim cyberpunk back stories. 😎
Alex: OMG! I'll never paint ten miniatures at once again! Me: I only have nine horde armies. I wonder if I should get another one? Great video as always :)
Simply incredible! I know that many miniatures take a long time painting but as a final result it is very impressive. Congratulations, another great video.
I awoke hours early today - apparently in order to watch this vid. Mother Colours, like Mother Sauces, remind me that I still have so much to learn. I am grateful that you force marched through the entire 10 figures and all of the colours! Fantastic work as always - both the minis and the overall production. Totally worth the loss of sleep (I can hear Mako in my head - "Time enough for sleep in the grave") Cheers!
Thanks H! I mean in retrospect I'm glad I did all the 10 because of how they all look in a group. And it enforced my theme so to speak. But man was it a lot of work :)
I love your story.... I mean I started watching your channel because of the painting but it became so much more. Thank you for making it sooo interesting!
Great choices of sources both books and movies!! Im dating myself but I remember reading or watching them all. I think you pretty much nailed it, the tone. Fav first sentence of any novel, "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." -Neuromancer
I think the mother colour works best with either a primary colour or with a very light highlight colour e.g. mixing a bone colour into your paints to create the highlight can look very different to if you use white. I think with secondary colours the pigments sometimes interact in unexpected ways.
It's a hard vibe to get right, but you hit it hard. Neuromancer is my personal favorite, but your pool of inspiration is rich and deep. Sky the color of a television tuned to static.
I love how colourful things can get with the Cyberpunk style. Especially with the orange, that turned out really well as awalys Alex ^^ And oh boy... Han solo, I doubt I'll look at him the same next time I watch Star Wars with friends... thanks xd Also Ghost in the Shell, classic, a true man of culture I see!
Great video, great looking miniatures. I really enjoy all the research, thought and introspection involved in your painting projects and it makes for very interesting videos! SOme of the best painting content on TH-cam!
First of all, welcome back! Hope you had fun on your vacation. Secondly, what a great idea with the mother colour. I don't think I'd be able to pull it off just yet, but it worked so well in your case. Although, as a big cyberpunk genre fan the only thing I was wating to see were some brightly chromatic implants screaming at me with a combination of 80s kitsch and loud rock and roll energy. Still, very cool looking group that will definetly stand out on the table. Bravo!
Thanks :) The vacation was over way to fast and then work and the more to the new place has been dictating my life. Finally getting this video out was a great thing. I hope things will just move on a little more smoothly now :)
@@52Miniatures vacation is always too short. I had two months off and it just disappeared. I managed to paint 4 models in that time... so yeah, I'd say you're doing great!
A fantastic video! Ghost in the Shell is my favourite movie of all time, I love it! I really enjoyed your story of being inspired by it and other things to paint your gang. Really brilliant. Well done and thank you.
Another great video. I particularly enjoyed that shot of the whole band where you slowly panned the focus back through the party highlighting different groups of the troops as the focus shifted. I think cyberpunk is sort of one of those “you know it when you see it” genres. It feels very samey samey when you picture it in your mind’s eye, but when you actually look at visual examples it’s quite amorphous as far as genre aesthetics go. For example Star Wars is decidedly not cyberpunk, but the visual of a Jedi Knight (see: space samurai) pursuing a bounty Hunter through the industrial and neon lit underground of Couriscant, their equally neon lightsaber ablaze feels far more aesthetically cyberpunk than the decidedly cyberpunk Matrix’s mid nineties New York night shots.
Yeah, we (humans) are funny with the need for putting labels on stuff. We could just say "this is a story about a future".. instead there is space opera, cyberpunk, post apocalyptic... all these genres to make us feel more in control.
Amazing work. Your viewpoint continues to inspire. One of these days I'll be able to apply inspiration from other sources other than whats been provided in the *insert game here* cannon. Thanks for the continued content.
they look great. For future reference though while members of a gang may not dress the same, they do tend to wear the colors of their gangs or carry items that have the color or symbol of the gang on them,
3:30 I recommend letting the mini's soak for a while (you can leave them in as long as you want) with the lit closed. That way the IPA doesn't evaporate as much since you need to scrub less. An old toothbrush also works wonders. Either that or a ultra sonic cleaner, but that is more of a luxury item as in that it's not essential. EDIT: also IPA can be used multiple times. Eventually it get saturated with paint. If you will leave it to settle, the paint will sink to the bottom and you can reuse the IPA by pouring it (or using a syringe if you want to be need) in a new pot. This way you don't waste much which is nice for your wallet and the environment.
I’ll be more patient next time! 😂 It did work out rather nice in the end. I agree, a sonic cleaner is a bit of a luxury item... if I striped a lot it would probably be worth it but just the mini now and again... I’d rather just scrub.
Those figures turned out so cool! I always enjoy hearing your thoughts on genre and aesthetic (with the bonus of more book recommendations). Hope the new space is still treating you well.
Thak you for sharing your experience with this. You gave me a lot of great ideas. I am gong to have to pick up some violet and make some cyberpunk minis.
I considered cyberpunk-ish Eshers. But my sister convinced me to glam rock girls. With leopard print, outlandish hairstyles and makeup. They are still my favourite. Even if it took a month to paint. :)
Thinking about it again, when I worked on creating a board and miniatures for the cyberpunk skirmish game Reality's Edge, I realised that all the focus should be on the scene or the diorama, with its lighting, architecture etc. The figures themselves were nondescript, as you point out. Their colours are all reflected light, or the light of their devices, as they exist in a shadow world, both metaphorically and literally. p.s. For me, the best cyberpunk writing is in William Gibson's short story collection Burning Chrome, particularly the stories New Rose Hotel, Dogfight and Burning Chrome.
Agreed. I mean, it’s basically wearing what we are wearing. Just add more neon. I did appreciate all the films though, there is a lot of one color approach, and most wear different colours to create something more visible.
So cool! Cyberpunk is my personal nerd wheelhouse more than fantasy or space-based scifi, so I’m so happy to see it explored on your show. I also have a set of the Necromunda Eschers in my (pile of shame) collection, and I’d love to find other gang kits with that street fashion-meets-combat energy for kitbashing options. To talk about cyberpunk media specifically, the genre has changed a lot since the 80s, since what we rebel against in corporate society has also changed since the 80s. I strongly recommend Autonomous by Annalee Newitz as a book, Psycho Pass as an anime and The Red Strings Club as a game for modern works that reflect some of the current-day discussion points of the genre.
Thanks for the tip, I will most certainly check it out. As you say, most of my inspiration is "dated" pieces in a way. Something I really like. Almost like transporting the 80's into the future and adding some neon on the way. It would be intresting to read something written later.
thank you! Cyberpunk is something I've always been fascinated with, but scared to dive into! This helps break it down and show its not impossible to break into! Another great video under your belt!
The Mother Color is something I wish to try...it has slowly gained some traction in my own painting development. This was quite helpful to illustrate the advantages to going forward. Thanks for that And of course, Cheers!
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Without trying to sound creepy, I could listen to you talk about cyberpunk, or anything really for hours ! Thanks for another great source of inspiration!
Not creepy at all, just nice to know the script and all the other stuff that goes on in my head is listenable :) Thank you B!
I agree with this statment!
@@52Miniatures Incredibly so! You have this sort of perfect way of sounding both confident in your statement but reflective as well. Like it is a constant stream of thought but also has a cohesive conclusion in mind as it goes!
@@kyledolenc5822 I'm glad of that, because no way do I really know what I'm doing. Just trying things out :)
@52Miniatures Can we get a follow up video that's just you reading the Stockholm phone book?
The Cyber Punk Visual theme is lifted from the 2000 AD and Tank Girl, with this in mind, Your Ape fits perfectly well on theme.
Even within Cyberpunk there are so many directions to go. There's the sort of dirty neon of Akira and Ghost in the Shell that you favored here. I consider Blade Runner and Shadowrun to be more of a sort of wet neon. There's also the more 80s Outrun style you feel in Atomic Blonde, Hotline Miami, or old Lamborghini advertisements. Then I feel like Johnny Mnemonic, Neuromancer, and Strange Days carry a sort of cigarette stained metal feeling.
Cigarette stained sure is right. I think the thing with genres is that... well... we just like to put things in genres for some reason. I don’t really know why. We could just say “here is a story about a future”
"Wet neon" is such a brilliant way to describe it.
Well worded sir !
Been enjoying your content lately. I brushed into your stuff a few years ago when I was doing more D&D minis but lately I hadn’t been watching much in this vein. Your dry sense of humor is just perfect. Commensurate to the extra effort of using your non standard painting style on smaller than usual minis in a harder than it sounds quantity I figured I’d take the extra effort of making a comment. Thank you so much!
The opening chapter of Count Zero is above and beyond my favorite chapter of any Gibson book ever, hands down. It works nearly entirely on it's own, and I can practically quote the opening for memory. Great video!
There is a lot of memorable stuff in Gibsons books. Thanks T
Me, two hours into a project: I still have no idea what colours I'm painting.
52 Minis: I'm going to watch all these movies and read all these books before I decide what colours I'm going to use.
Fabulous work!
Ha ha! Yeah. Also “52 Minis still isn’t done while most have already finished off three or four videos” 😂
Fear not:
That's the art school way. Artists often let materials speak to them.
That's what separate a mini painter and an artist: a mini painter wants a formula to make your models look good and dogmatically follows that while someone more artistically inclined (That doesn't make a mini painter minded person any worse, let's make it clear) may stop at some point and look at the mini and think what the mini is asking for.
I really paint very few minis but when I do it's not a one way process but a back and forth, a conversation between a shape, a set of colors and me.
And anything else but that is others' shenanigans. Inspiration, tutorials, theories... in the end the best way is your OWN way 🙃
I'm Australian but lived in Stockholm (Kungsholmen) during the 90s for 3 years so I absolutely love any exterior shots that make it into your vids. And back then I remember these quaint lil shops with a treasure trove of secondhand pop culture goodness, this shop reminded me of a awesome lil comic/book shop around Slussen. And I love this tale of inspiration, research and the application of it.
Thanks Matt! Some of those shops are still about but they are not as many. Sort of like record stores... going from smelling of stale cigarette smoke they now smell of high price tags..
"Stripping paint is a messy business and can ultimately stain your floor, much like a Cyberpunk crime scene". Alex, I could listen to a an audio only podcast of your work with as much enthusiasm as I watch your videos. Brilliant commentary, as usual. Two thumbs up.. one for your script and the other for your cinematography. I am also pleased with "the overall Cyberpunk vibe".
Thank you humbly Mark! I am enjoying making these type videos, regardless of the time they take. The stains on the floor in the other hand... well I’m glad I’ve got a less delicate floor in the new studio :)
Ghost in the Shell is a masterpeice. And the anarchy of 16:32 warmed my little (cyber)punk heart.
Thanks B! And I mean... I always have this urge to do that with the wet palette.. all those orderly blobs of paint just waiting to meet each other...
The 20 minutes felt more like 10.
Love your work.
Especially that you always try to tell a story instead of going with a simple tutorial or how to.
Thanks M! I hope to do a mix of both, but these videos are definitely fun to create
I feel so well educated on cyberpunk now. Thank you for another beautiful video!
My pleasure B, I'm glad you enjoyed the vid :)
Boylei and 52Miniatures… Twisted minds and soothing voiles… Storylines and inspiration…
*voices
I like your description of the "bar in Chicago". Living in Chicago...I can tell you that I've visited that bar many a time 'back in the day'. Brings back great memories. Thank you.
Ha ha! I’m glad you survived!
The time and effort put into these minis was well worth it. They look fantastic.
Thank you!
The ASMR beat-poet cadence of your voiceover, the videographic style, and the demonstration of such excellent talent, make this video excellently soothing and engaging.
Thanks Rob, I appreciate it :)
These look absolutely incredible. I love the idea of the master color giving them a common theme without requiring the same colors one each miniature. I think I’ll try the same thing with the next adventuring party I paint up.
Thank you Bill, and good luck if you do try this :)
I love it all. The flash and blatant attack on the senses from the garish outfits and colors really sales the theme. The Mantic apes are cool models. Great work!
Thanks Cory! Terrible mini to try and clean up. That soft plastic. But the ape was cool!
Normally, i don't watch your videos all the way through, because i'm convinced you are in love with the art of speaking, the subtle art of dramatic pauses, and your own voice. However, this was good, and the research you put in, was well worth the effort.
This was the strangest combination of an insult to someone you've never met and a compliment. Quite the achievement.
@@52Miniatures There is no normal. I would take that as a compliment, because i really enjoyed this episode. :)
Every time you release a new video it feels like a master class in both the hobby and filmmaking 🙇♂️
Well thank you CC, I humbly appreciate it.
The sequence at @1:00 ... the lighting!! Genius. So evocative of any movie scene set in a cyberpunk/dystopian work ... shadow with glimpses of light streaming in. You style my good man, is nothing short of *chefs kiss*
Well thank you K! I do try :) and I appreciate that you noticed.
Your approach to painting models is so interesting. I liked your ideas for sourcing stories to make the painting process consistent and have a theory you follow throughout. It's a nice change.
Thanks L, I'm glad to hear it.
Listening to this with headphones, I can hear the enviroment you recorded your voice over work in and it has this amazing reverb to it that most audio people would dream to replicate. Another great video and story telling. Keep up the amazing work!
Hah! Thank GK. I'm actually really wanting to get rid of that reverb, just haven't gotten to it :) But thank you.
The biggest problem with TH-cam is that some of the best channels get the least love this is a great example
Well thanks B, I appreciate it.
I am subscribed to Rhystic Studies even though I have never played magic the gathering, nor do I plan too, but his videos are just so beautifully put together that it becomes an art form. This channel the second channel that gave me that feeling, but I do paint minis, so you have an unfair advantage :P.
Well thank you M, I'm glad for the unfair advantage :)
Another brilliant video.
That violet filter you see in Ghost In The Shell was also what I imagined went into "The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel." Not just static, which is bright and chaotic, but sort of heavy and leaden pressing down on everyone like a weight.
Thanks! Yeah, Gibson has a way with setting moods :)
I love how you draw inspo from more traditional means such as books and films vs what most of us do, the internet. It really champions the origins of our nerdy love. Kudos, man!
Thank Louie! Books I think is the biggest difference, I mean it could be audiobooks. But inspirational material that gets filtered through ones own thoughts and not visually hammered in straight away :)
Finally, I have been waiting for this for weeks! Thank you for calming, entertaining and inspiring us with your videos!
Thanks K! And my pleasure. I’m glad you like the videos.
I think the disparate colors work well in the end too. They do come off as a rag tag group kind of just wearing what they can/want. Thanks for the video : )
My pleasure. It did turn out better than I thought. Halfway I was doubtful, but in the end all the little details tied things together somehow.
Probably a very minor thing to notice given the sheer volume of information you went through in the video; but the effect of adjusting the focus on the group shot of the gang at the end was fantastic. It did a great job of highlighting each of the models while still keeping them all in context as a group
Great to hear, thank you.
I showed a good friend your chanell and just in time a notification pops up. In my browser I was the first to like the video which gave me a nice feeling. :) High quality storytelling and footage as always, thank you very much!
Thanks L! First is always first :)
Your work makes me happy, calm, and peaceful. Thank you.
My pleasure and thank you 🙏
I run a Cyberpunk game and have been wanting to get minis made for this game. I thank you for the direction and a way to make them look better for the game.
Nice Martin, thank you and good luck!
Been a cyberpunk fan for so long and hearing you cover my favourite books and movies was so cool! The minis look amazing!
Great to hear Pete, thanks!
I really, REALLY love the commitment to experimentation, color theory, pushing your boundaries, and unity. The technical description of the process from color wheel to color matching and mixing, is very informative and interesting to me. Thank you!
Thanks Shane! And my pleasure :)
The models came out great. Personally I really think captured the essence of a cyberpunk character!
Thanks E! I'm glad to hear it.
Fate has shown me this video, which is great. Recently I have been buying and painting many different miniatures and miniature buildings to run a Cyberpunk DnD, and this has given me a good bit of insight. I've got the Escher gang and a load of other minis, so thank you for some inspiration on how I might go about painting some of them!
Well, that was a very nice thing of fate to do! I wish you good luck with the Eschers.
Such nice storytelling for the theme! And the basics of tinting colours is something logical, yet a new sensation! Thank you!
Thank you Astrid!
These turned out great. You don't expect cyberpunk ruffians to have a sense of fashion, but you gave them one!
Thanks L! 🙏
Your videos feel like watching a documentation about our hobby. They are incredible quality.
Well thank you K, I appreciate it.
At aproximatly minute 9:00 i had forgotten this video was about miniatures. you are a great story teller. keep up the marvolous work. thank you sir.
Well thank you, I truly appreciate it Nick
Your content is a feast for the brain.
Aesthetic, informative and relaxing.. It's just so satisfying to watch.
Thanks B! I appreciate it greatly.
Seeing as you have some cyberpunk crews already painted up now, you should pick up the rule book for Reality’s Edge. It’s another miniatures agnostic skirmish game published by osprey, but specifically with a cyberpunk setting. Haven’t had a chance to play it yet because of pandemic, but it looks like fun game. Great paint jobs btw!
I’ve heard about it! Thanks for the tip :)
Osprey is great, Gaslands is a work of art and excellent play value, both in game and noodling with toy cars.
I really enjoyed this video, thank you for your insights on how to bring Cyberpunk to the tabletop and the pros/cons of Mother Colour in a palette. It was a great watch!
Thanks Kyle, I'm glad to hear it :)
Worth the wait for this, a great video as ever. Cyberpunk always reminds me of the Deus Ex games too, especially the first one.
Thanks Michael, I’m glad to hear it.
Pushing the action key in front of the piano in Deus Ex (1st one) so protagonist plays like 7 notes of the main menu song.
Dat feeling 💖
Great analysis of the cyberpunk esthetic. And a nice demonstration of how to use inspiration to not just copy, but to dig deeper and create an experiment for yourself that will teach you so much more than just copying!
Thank you C, I haven’t thought about it like that, but it does ring true.
Very nice! I had a similar experience with painting like this, but I ended up only doing my shadows tinted with purple/violet. The results weren't as nice as yours but it was a huge shortcut on a more limited palette. Love watching you talk about painting, Cheers!
Thanks K, I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one messing around with violet all over the place :)
You taking us on those journeys is really a joyfull experience. Thank you.
And I really love Gibson's and Dick's work. Though praised, in Dicks Case posthumously, nevertheless underappreciated in terms of cultural impact, I believe.
Thanks Marco, and yeah, if you ask me... culture is what we have that has the highest value.
@@52Miniatures absolutely
Akira is one of my favourite films ever! It’s cool to see you inspired by it
There is so much great stuff out there it sometimes astounds me that we actually get things done every now and again.
I love the cyberpunk aestethics and you did really great job with it. Very informative too, as always.
It's great seeing a new video from you. Dont worry about the sound. Just keep painting and spoil us with great vids. You rule.
Regards
Danskjävel
Thanks D, yeah one step at a time. If I would fix everything I want to fix in this space it would take months before videos where being created. I'd rather do videos and take it slow with the fixing.
Your kit bashes turned out great! I especially like the use of Necron bits, I'm definitely going to try the same with my Eschers.
The ape is totally legit cyberpunk: the result of a megacorp's genetic engineering program, or maybe an escapee from a brain augmentation experiment. All suitably grim cyberpunk back stories. 😎
True! Mind altered ape. I it’s missing a cigarette hanging on the lip though. Thanks S!
Stunning work on these. Absolutely loved this one mate, really interesting video and well presented as always.
Thanks mate! I’m glad you liked them :)
I Really love the color research you do! Every video you make, makes me look differently at my own painting. Thank you very much, please keep it up!
Thank you 🙏
I love these type of videos so much. They are great as both inspiration and entertainment!
Thanks V! I appreciate it.
And @6:30 starts talking about lighting! Bravo good man, I must get my cyberpunk stuff out of the cupboard one of these days!
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Alex: OMG! I'll never paint ten miniatures at once again!
Me: I only have nine horde armies. I wonder if I should get another one?
Great video as always :)
Please do, your horde's are great source material for my videos :) Hah
Thank you! Love how you studied cyberpunk before developing your color scheme. Also, it helped me to better understand mother color and its benefits.
My pleasure Patrick and thank you :)
Simply incredible!
I know that many miniatures take a long time painting but as a final result it is very impressive.
Congratulations, another great video.
Thanks Leandro! I'm glad the effort I put in has been appreciated by many. Myself too :)
I awoke hours early today - apparently in order to watch this vid. Mother Colours, like Mother Sauces, remind me that I still have so much to learn. I am grateful that you force marched through the entire 10 figures and all of the colours! Fantastic work as always - both the minis and the overall production. Totally worth the loss of sleep (I can hear Mako in my head - "Time enough for sleep in the grave") Cheers!
Thanks H! I mean in retrospect I'm glad I did all the 10 because of how they all look in a group. And it enforced my theme so to speak. But man was it a lot of work :)
I love your story.... I mean I started watching your channel because of the painting but it became so much more. Thank you for making it sooo interesting!
My pleasure B, and thank you. I appreciate it.
The mother colour idea is something I was just about to try out. Nice to know there's a name for it, and it's been tried before.
Nice! Try a bit of a google search, I’m sure there is more to it that my brief experiment.
I loved the research you put into your colour scheme
Great choices of sources both books and movies!! Im dating myself but I remember reading or watching them all. I think you pretty much nailed it, the tone. Fav first sentence of any novel, "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." -Neuromancer
Aye, that is a great mood setting sentence. Thanks Michael!
I dont know if this video was meant to be as entertaining as I found it but had me chuckling all the way through
I do try :)
@@52Miniatures keep up the amazing work
I think the mother colour works best with either a primary colour or with a very light highlight colour e.g. mixing a bone colour into your paints to create the highlight can look very different to if you use white. I think with secondary colours the pigments sometimes interact in unexpected ways.
With mixed pigment paints it can certainly react very varied. A sense of “brown” instead of violet was quite often the case.
Any fear that the move to the new studio would change for the worse your output has been thoroughly squashed. Fantastic video. Just keep doing it.
Glad to hear it Max! Thanks :)
shadowrun and neuromancer will be forever in my heart
I hear you :)
Very interesting to see the whole creative process, instead of just the brush strokes. Thank you for that!
I’m glad you liked that. Thanks A
It's a hard vibe to get right, but you hit it hard. Neuromancer is my personal favorite, but your pool of inspiration is rich and deep. Sky the color of a television tuned to static.
Hah, it truly is. That is a great opening mood setter :) Thank Scott!
I love how colourful things can get with the Cyberpunk style. Especially with the orange, that turned out really well as awalys Alex ^^
And oh boy... Han solo, I doubt I'll look at him the same next time I watch Star Wars with friends... thanks xd
Also Ghost in the Shell, classic, a true man of culture I see!
Ha ha! Han Solo in a parallel dystopian universe, with an ape sidekick instead of the walking carpet 😂 no offense Chewie. Thanks A!
@@52Miniatures Oh lord I can picture it already, Chewie the Ape and Han the Pimp...thanks x'd
And you're welcome Alex! ^^
Great video, great looking miniatures. I really enjoy all the research, thought and introspection involved in your painting projects and it makes for very interesting videos! SOme of the best painting content on TH-cam!
Thank you Terry, I appreciate it greatly.
First of all, welcome back! Hope you had fun on your vacation. Secondly, what a great idea with the mother colour. I don't think I'd be able to pull it off just yet, but it worked so well in your case. Although, as a big cyberpunk genre fan the only thing I was wating to see were some brightly chromatic implants screaming at me with a combination of 80s kitsch and loud rock and roll energy. Still, very cool looking group that will definetly stand out on the table. Bravo!
Thanks :) The vacation was over way to fast and then work and the more to the new place has been dictating my life. Finally getting this video out was a great thing. I hope things will just move on a little more smoothly now :)
@@52Miniatures vacation is always too short. I had two months off and it just disappeared. I managed to paint 4 models in that time... so yeah, I'd say you're doing great!
Brilliant kit-bash as well as colour schemes - great job!
Thanks Kim! I'm glad you liked it :)
A fantastic video! Ghost in the Shell is my favourite movie of all time, I love it! I really enjoyed your story of being inspired by it and other things to paint your gang. Really brilliant. Well done and thank you.
Thank you Peter, I appreciate it.
Another great production. I really enjoyed your idea of using the transparency layer on the colour wheel. Excellent idea.
Thank you Orland, it was an interesting way to see what happens to colours when blended.
I see that Peter Hamilton collection. Yesss. You know what's up
I've got one waiting but have yet to read it. There was a bunch of cyberpunk books to get through first :)
Another great video. I particularly enjoyed that shot of the whole band where you slowly panned the focus back through the party highlighting different groups of the troops as the focus shifted.
I think cyberpunk is sort of one of those “you know it when you see it” genres. It feels very samey samey when you picture it in your mind’s eye, but when you actually look at visual examples it’s quite amorphous as far as genre aesthetics go. For example Star Wars is decidedly not cyberpunk, but the visual of a Jedi Knight (see: space samurai) pursuing a bounty Hunter through the industrial and neon lit underground of Couriscant, their equally neon lightsaber ablaze feels far more aesthetically cyberpunk than the decidedly cyberpunk Matrix’s mid nineties New York night shots.
Yeah, we (humans) are funny with the need for putting labels on stuff. We could just say "this is a story about a future".. instead there is space opera, cyberpunk, post apocalyptic... all these genres to make us feel more in control.
Amazing work. Your viewpoint continues to inspire. One of these days I'll be able to apply inspiration from other sources other than whats been provided in the *insert game here* cannon. Thanks for the continued content.
Thanks Dan, I appreciate it humbly.
Incredible video! Thank you for this! The fact that the opening was at the bookstore, fantastic way to start a video!
Thanks S! I wish I could visit that bookstore for every video :)
they look great. For future reference though while members of a gang may not dress the same, they do tend to wear the colors of their gangs or carry items that have the color or symbol of the gang on them,
Maybe they all have the same tattoo we just can see it. Or a really cool secret handshake.
@@52Miniatures could be, it is the future
3:30 I recommend letting the mini's soak for a while (you can leave them in as long as you want) with the lit closed. That way the IPA doesn't evaporate as much since you need to scrub less. An old toothbrush also works wonders. Either that or a ultra sonic cleaner, but that is more of a luxury item as in that it's not essential.
EDIT: also IPA can be used multiple times. Eventually it get saturated with paint. If you will leave it to settle, the paint will sink to the bottom and you can reuse the IPA by pouring it (or using a syringe if you want to be need) in a new pot. This way you don't waste much which is nice for your wallet and the environment.
I’ll be more patient next time! 😂 It did work out rather nice in the end. I agree, a sonic cleaner is a bit of a luxury item... if I striped a lot it would probably be worth it but just the mini now and again... I’d rather just scrub.
They fit the cyberpunk colors great.
Thanks D!
Excellent video, love the colour scheme(s) and individuality of the miniatures.
Thanks T!
I literally got a box of Escher gangers the other day for my birthday. Escher really fit punk the best I find from warhammer
I'm really glad I got to paint them, I've been eying them for a long time.
Given the number of cyberpunk minis I've had to paint lately, it's interesting to see someone else's take on how to do them.
Nice :)
Those figures turned out so cool! I always enjoy hearing your thoughts on genre and aesthetic (with the bonus of more book recommendations). Hope the new space is still treating you well.
Thanks S! Getting used to the new space. Lots of stuff ness to be fixed but I’ll work with what I’ve got for now :)
Great, now I want to try this out myself. I live the just new age grime feel the models gave off.
Great to hear David, thank you.
They are amazing! What inspirational work--man I want to paint right now!
Awesome, I'm very glad to hear that. Thanks Mattie
Amazing work! Great job on the final result of your miniatures.... also love the text and video edition!
Thanks V! I appreciate it!
Splendid video! Really enjoyed how they looked out together as a result of kitbashing - gotta try it eventually.
Thanks E!
Really fascinated by your process in this, there's definitely a lot to experiment with after watching this.
I’m glad to hear that. It’s what I hope the videos push... not specifics but general inspiration to get on with what’s on the painting desk :)
Thak you for sharing your experience with this. You gave me a lot of great ideas. I am gong to have to pick up some violet and make some cyberpunk minis.
Oh. My. Grok!
Inspiring. Thanks for your quick lesson on mother colors. I am trying that this week, for sure.
My pleasure Bo!
I considered cyberpunk-ish Eshers. But my sister convinced me to glam rock girls. With leopard print, outlandish hairstyles and makeup. They are still my favourite. Even if it took a month to paint. :)
Sounds like fun minis :) Great to hear.
I just love listening to your creative process. Also I'm envious. Great video!
Well thanks K, as always :)
Thinking about it again, when I worked on creating a board and miniatures for the cyberpunk skirmish game Reality's Edge, I realised that all the focus should be on the scene or the diorama, with its lighting, architecture etc. The figures themselves were nondescript, as you point out. Their colours are all reflected light, or the light of their devices, as they exist in a shadow world, both metaphorically and literally. p.s. For me, the best cyberpunk writing is in William Gibson's short story collection Burning Chrome, particularly the stories New Rose Hotel, Dogfight and Burning Chrome.
Agreed. I mean, it’s basically wearing what we are wearing. Just add more neon. I did appreciate all the films though, there is a lot of one color approach, and most wear different colours to create something more visible.
Love your painterly approach. Lovely palette mate.
Thanks Nathan!
Love neuromancer, and ghost in the shell is a personal favorite as well. Excellent pulls for miniatures!
Indeed!
So cool! Cyberpunk is my personal nerd wheelhouse more than fantasy or space-based scifi, so I’m so happy to see it explored on your show. I also have a set of the Necromunda Eschers in my (pile of shame) collection, and I’d love to find other gang kits with that street fashion-meets-combat energy for kitbashing options.
To talk about cyberpunk media specifically, the genre has changed a lot since the 80s, since what we rebel against in corporate society has also changed since the 80s. I strongly recommend Autonomous by Annalee Newitz as a book, Psycho Pass as an anime and The Red Strings Club as a game for modern works that reflect some of the current-day discussion points of the genre.
Thanks for the tip, I will most certainly check it out. As you say, most of my inspiration is "dated" pieces in a way. Something I really like. Almost like transporting the 80's into the future and adding some neon on the way. It would be intresting to read something written later.
thank you! Cyberpunk is something I've always been fascinated with, but scared to dive into! This helps break it down and show its not impossible to break into!
Another great video under your belt!
Thanks C! And I’m glad to hear the video inspired.
The Mother Color is something I wish to try...it has slowly gained some traction in my own painting development. This was quite helpful to illustrate the advantages to going forward.
Thanks for that
And of course,
Cheers!
Thanks Ard! I'm glad to hear it. Good luck!
@@52Miniatures You, Sir...are very welcome.
If you have a 3d printer, Anvilindustries does a range of cyberpunk minis STL files.
You can even get a discount through their patreon
Yes! Love their stuff :) Both resin and stl files.