Best basing tip ever! I can't believe that I've passed up basing so many miniatures, when this simple flag stone method is an option. I'm forever grateful!
If you want a slight variation, use cork board instead of card and rip it instead of cut it. A quick spray in primer and a quick dry brush of a base and then highlight color and viola! I get asked with stunning regularity where I bought my bases and/or are they 3D printed and people are shocked that theyre just cork and paint.
If you can get hold of thin craft foam, you can use it instead of card. That way, you can roll a ball of kitchen foil or a rock over the foam before cutting it in to tiles. This can give you a rough texture on the tiles.
@@MidwinterMinis I can tell you enjoyed it haha. This is perfect timing also, I just built a screaming bell and saw the Sigmar Lied teaser trailer earlier today. Can't wait for more ratbois!
I dont paint anymore, but coming back here after ages to watch this video, it feels so good to exist in a world that does not require anything from me for a few minutes. It's really a holiday, just chill and watch some guy paint minis, thanks
Wonderful video, I use vallejo beige red for my rat skin. Another couple cheats are using the brown primer washed with agrax for the fur on my clanrats, which saves tones of time, and also using a nice muddy base scheme (vallejo russian mud) so you dont have to spend too much time on the legs/feet of your rats. Would love to see more Skaven content in the future!
Woah. TH-cam’s tariffs for content creators are shamefully low. 😢 Love your painting tutorials, Guy. They were instrumental in getting me started. It’d be a tremendous pity to lose them.
Hi Guy, You could try Monument Hobbies Newsh. Acrylic based, mix with your normal acrylic paint to colour it. Paint stays workable for approx 20 minutes, fully dry in about an hour, depending on the ratio you use. You get a similar effect to Streaking Grime but without the need for special cleaners, toxic fumes or having to leave it for 24 hours. I love using it, Artis Opus did a great review of it recently.
Love the results on it for such low effort and how the green/ magic S symbol looks. Seeing as MWM discovered Streaking Grime, imagine if he starts doing Oil Wash tutorials 😍😍
Great tutorial! Can’t wait for the range refresh so I can continue my Skaven army, yes-yes! Just a life-saving tip for anyone cautious that the streaking grime or spirits may reactivate or remove your paint: gloss varnish your mini before you cover it in grime!
I do a mix of Khorne red and increasing amounts of wraithbone from GW to get pink skin. I think it was Byron on Artis Opus channel that drybrushed a Mega Gargant using those two that made me use it. Khorne red covers well and then just apply the blend on top! :)
@@MidwinterMinisby my reckoning, the last "Here are some Warhammer units, here's how to paint them" video you did was 6 months ago (with the Salamanders)
Colour Forge has some amazing products, their Standard Grey is the only spray that actually matches Citadel's Mechanicus Standard Grey; I'll definitely be using your link when I need to restock
Loved the Skaven voice! Pale Flesh from Vallejo's Malefic Flesh set is my go to for ratty tails and pale squigs. The rest of the set is really nice too.
Been experimenting with Skaven recently. To get a really good ratty pink(especially on the tails). Start with a deep magenta/purple contrast paint(like warlord purple), then coat the unrecessed areas with brown-rose mixed with 1/4 bit pink. Then finally bright pink mixed with light grey as a highlight.
For the ray skin color there is this one company I think there meant for dnd but I use them for warhammer. The company is called prismatic paints and the color is pale flesh. Try it out and you can tell me if you like it or not!
As for pink-like skin a friend of mine uses a formula: 5 drops of flesh pink, 3 drops of off-white and 1 drop od rich red and one drop of water. It looks great on his minis.
Recently, I painted a skaven battleforce of 88 minis. This is pretty close to the paint scheme I used for the infantry, except I used homemade dip wash, and it was even faster! When you're painting 40 clanrats and 40 plague monks, speedpainting is the only option.
11:26 the foam wedges for makeup (don't know the proper name) are a bit better than q-tips because they don't leave fuzz behind. They are slightly more expensive, but they also last longer, so the marginal costs isn't that much higher
I'm sure someone's mentioned it already but there is a citadel paint called Ratskin flesh! its a base colour and quite warm, almost orange so your supposed to layer on lighter skin tones
This is the exact opposite of how I painted my (very few) plaguemonks.... I decided to slow paint them, one at a time, doing my best with every single one..... I did it as sort of a learning experience, "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." kind of thing.
For me, I was never been able to find good out of bottle colour for flesh, so ending up mixing any light purple with Vallejo skin tone. Then basically adding a bit more skin tone to the mix for highlights
Great ratties, man-Guy! If you get fed up with the cotton whisps I found the little eyeshadow sponges are pretty cheap for a pack of many and with a little wash-squeeze out in spirits after can be re-used a couple of times
Skaven are so fun. Also, I anxiously wait the day of the great spraying. The day colour forge delivers to the US. I need a good salamanders green primer.
If you use an extractor fan/ airbrush booth be very careful with the thinner cleaning as the fumes have been known to combust when put through the fan.
@MidwinterMinis Thanks Guy! After years of being drawn to the little ratmen, I've finally decided to pick some up and jump in to AOS, so the timing here is perfect. (and yes, I'm aware they're getting a glow-up with AOS 4) Side note: I just learned about Pro Acrylic NEWSH and would love to see another video in this style using that instead of the oils as a comparison.
The old Vallejo Game Colour Range had a "Rosy Skintone". Perhaps that might have worked. (I'm just trying to get around with the new Game Colour Range bit after bit, while my old Bottles get empty. And I have to find out, if I can look for an entire new Solution for my Battlesisters, since Vallejo premiered a new line of Model Colours as well....)
Yes prices are crazy and still going north , I'm really not sure about using cans of primer as a permanent solution to priming mini's, I stopped using cans a few years ago when I got my airbrush. Cans are good if you're traveling and taking mini's with you
@@MidwinterMinisAh everyone makes mistakes. Though the unfortunate thing is GW discontinued Cryptek Armorshade like a year or two ago, so I reckon anyone who wants to borrow from this video is gonna have to approximate it
I had over 15k points of em in the old old world (b4 AoS) but now alas i have nothing. Anyhoo a trick i used on all mine was black noses and dwarf flesh tails. Nice work..
Golden Dawn? Hey thanks I I've got the same box, unpainted. A few of the Rats I converted for a Necromunda gang. I'd love to see you vamp up some Skaven to Space Rat Warriors!
9:15 Oil washes? 9:24 Ah, streaking grime is cool as well. I do like oil washes just because color variety is easy and usually cheap, and it scales really well. A small amount of oil paint is enough for an army or more. Streaking grime is great if you don't want to mix and figure out ratios.
Guy has to voice act EVERY Skaven EVER! Also I LOVE this! I'm more a Skryre guy but I would have loved to bid on this if it wasn't already over $400CAD :D I'll be tucking the link for this video away for when I get back at my Skaven!
Guy's rat voice is giving his grimdark voice a run for it's money! Yes-yes!
Thanks bud!
@@MidwinterMinis It was legitimately really good!
More, "a scamper for it's money". 😄
@@MidwinterMinisI actually hadn't realised it wasn't an official trailer or something O_O
WAIT, that was Guy? It sounded so official I assumed it was from some trailer.
I LOVE SKAVEN
Yes yes yes
Rats, rats, we're the rats.
YES
Yes-yes
Best basing tip ever! I can't believe that I've passed up basing so many miniatures, when this simple flag stone method is an option. I'm forever grateful!
It's almost criminally easy!
Completely agree 👍
If you want a slight variation, use cork board instead of card and rip it instead of cut it. A quick spray in primer and a quick dry brush of a base and then highlight color and viola! I get asked with stunning regularity where I bought my bases and/or are they 3D printed and people are shocked that theyre just cork and paint.
If you can get hold of thin craft foam, you can use it instead of card. That way, you can roll a ball of kitchen foil or a rock over the foam before cutting it in to tiles. This can give you a rough texture on the tiles.
Just need to find the giant rat who makes all of da rulez
Just need to find that damn rat who train's all these Karate Reptiles...
And see what kind of mischief we can get ourselves up to!
Guy, that intro was excellent!
Thanks so much! It was a lot of fun
@@MidwinterMinis I can tell you enjoyed it haha. This is perfect timing also, I just built a screaming bell and saw the Sigmar Lied teaser trailer earlier today. Can't wait for more ratbois!
That arcane 90's knowledge got you a like from me lmao.
Slate digital?
@@thomasrobertson4213 it's just the cool S, every Gen Xer and Millennial (and a lot of Gen Z) who went through public school in the US knows it
I was there when the ancient knowledge was loosed on the world
10:38 instructions unclear, dipped my AirPods in mineral spirits 😔
Oh shit your the guy who kitbashed a maurader from doom eternal with a slaughter priest
@@trash_bandit2479 Yup, that's me 👌
That skaven with the super 's' made me laugh way more than it should have
i really wanna see guy play in a ttrpg with a ratman character now, that intro was so good!!!
I dont paint anymore, but coming back here after ages to watch this video, it feels so good to exist in a world that does not require anything from me for a few minutes. It's really a holiday, just chill and watch some guy paint minis, thanks
Got any spare bits?
Guy's painting Skaven!?
OUR DAY HAS COME!!
DOOM DAY!
in this video the man-thing gives good-great painting tips on rat-things for the great horned rat! yes yes very good video!
The dedication at the beginning made coffee come out of my nose. Thanks for that. 😂
Wonderful video, I use vallejo beige red for my rat skin.
Another couple cheats are using the brown primer washed with agrax for the fur on my clanrats, which saves tones of time, and also using a nice muddy base scheme (vallejo russian mud) so you dont have to spend too much time on the legs/feet of your rats.
Would love to see more Skaven content in the future!
Nice! One for my shopping list :)
These look fantastic. Thank you for doing more of these starter boxes. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
How convenient...I just brought out all of my neglected Skaven horde to finally paint/finish painting to them. (Queue in John Stewart) "Do Gooo oon!"
Woah. TH-cam’s tariffs for content creators are shamefully low. 😢 Love your painting tutorials, Guy. They were instrumental in getting me started. It’d be a tremendous pity to lose them.
so simple yet so dark and elegant for new and returning painters... thank u so much for making these videos keep up the great work
Hi Guy, You could try Monument Hobbies Newsh. Acrylic based, mix with your normal acrylic paint to colour it. Paint stays workable for approx 20 minutes, fully dry in about an hour, depending on the ratio you use. You get a similar effect to Streaking Grime but without the need for special cleaners, toxic fumes or having to leave it for 24 hours. I love using it, Artis Opus did a great review of it recently.
Love the results on it for such low effort and how the green/ magic S symbol looks.
Seeing as MWM discovered Streaking Grime, imagine if he starts doing Oil Wash tutorials 😍😍
I LOVE SKAVEN SO MUCH. That intro was insane!
Great tutorial! Can’t wait for the range refresh so I can continue my Skaven army, yes-yes!
Just a life-saving tip for anyone cautious that the streaking grime or spirits may reactivate or remove your paint: gloss varnish your mini before you cover it in grime!
I never liked how "modern" Skaven have all their fur covered up. My early edition metal blood bowl skaven team have some lovely texture.
that was a hell of a intro!
If I ever start a second army, this will be it. That intro has convinced me.
Good timing for this with Skaven being announced as the big bad in the next AOS edition
Watch-play Skaven is all fun and games until you begin to think-ponder like them and can't stop-cease, yes-yes!
Aye, that MWM upload schedule be a cruel mistress,
but she does indeed deliver.
I've only ever put out videos when they're ready, I'd hate to rush it and make something I don't like :) I hope the wait was worth it
Loved the "arcane knowledge from the mid-90's" bit! 😆You never fail to make me laugh after a long day. Cheers mate, keep it up!
I do a mix of Khorne red and increasing amounts of wraithbone from GW to get pink skin. I think it was Byron on Artis Opus channel that drybrushed a Mega Gargant using those two that made me use it. Khorne red covers well and then just apply the blend on top! :)
The ratkin from kings of war make great proxies for these. They’re cheaper and look as good if not better
That's a really good shout!
I also want to get a few Mantic games models, specifically their sci-fi range, namely some Mauraders and the Plague
The Bronze Age was the 3rd best age in history
FINALLY ! I had boxes for years and i had no idea how to paint them. Thanks !
Gods that intro text really spooked me.
10/10
How long have I been waiting for the return of the old tube Midwinter minis. Guy, you are the best!❤
I mean... I didn't go anywhere? Haha
@@MidwinterMinisby my reckoning, the last "Here are some Warhammer units, here's how to paint them" video you did was 6 months ago (with the Salamanders)
@@abefaerber7994 Awwww, does HeroQuest not count? :(
Totally agree, feels back to MWM roots. Need more of this Guy!
Colour Forge has some amazing products, their Standard Grey is the only spray that actually matches Citadel's Mechanicus Standard Grey; I'll definitely be using your link when I need to restock
Made me super nostalgic for your start collecting 40k series!
5:30 The flumph pink from the dnd army painter set looks pretty close to that. Might actually be a little to pink lol.
Loved the music in this one, also always been a big fan of streaking grime. Looks great on high detail miniatures.
RATS, WE'RE RATS, WE ARE THE RATS
@8:26 You were
correct originally, Canoptek Alloy is a metallic paint and Cryptek Armorshade Gloss is what you used as a wash.
Ahaaa! I knew I wasn't crazy, haha
Great video and painting tutorial, timely and great steps to get an army on the table.
Loved the Skaven voice! Pale Flesh from Vallejo's Malefic Flesh set is my go to for ratty tails and pale squigs. The rest of the set is really nice too.
Absolute brilliance! This video is a beacon of creativity in a sea of content.💞
Loving the intro and the timing! I'm about to start painting a Kill Team of Skaven proxies for Blooded.
I met you at warhammer world for an anniversary a year or two ago. Still love the vids.
Love the "S" thingy we all drew in middle school at 9:10
The Skaven look fantastic, but honestly the thing that’s gonna stick with me is the popsicle stick palette. What an amazing and innovative idea!
I think this might be your best work yet, Guy! So happy the Old World is bringing back WFB!
I recently learned you can make a gorgeous bronze by base coating silver or any gray metal, then using a sepia wash
Nice suggestion!
Been experimenting with Skaven recently. To get a really good ratty pink(especially on the tails). Start with a deep magenta/purple contrast paint(like warlord purple), then coat the unrecessed areas with brown-rose mixed with 1/4 bit pink. Then finally bright pink mixed with light grey as a highlight.
That intro was wonderful, it's a shame another friend in my playgroup has 'dibs-ed' the Rat Mech
Cheers matey!
For the ray skin color there is this one company I think there meant for dnd but I use them for warhammer. The company is called prismatic paints and the color is pale flesh. Try it out and you can tell me if you like it or not!
As for pink-like skin a friend of mine uses a formula: 5 drops of flesh pink, 3 drops of off-white and 1 drop od rich red and one drop of water. It looks great on his minis.
Perfect use of the cool S
That's awesome. I've been looking inspiration for my skaven. Think I've got it.
Recently, I painted a skaven battleforce of 88 minis. This is pretty close to the paint scheme I used for the infantry, except I used homemade dip wash, and it was even faster! When you're painting 40 clanrats and 40 plague monks, speedpainting is the only option.
This was good to watch. Nice job
11:26 the foam wedges for makeup (don't know the proper name) are a bit better than q-tips because they don't leave fuzz behind. They are slightly more expensive, but they also last longer, so the marginal costs isn't that much higher
Nice to see the TT combat paints, i have been really impressed with them
Pro Acryl Beige Red is a near perfect match for your rat skin color! They are my go-to for any mini painting I do
I'm sure someone's mentioned it already but there is a citadel paint called Ratskin flesh! its a base colour and quite warm, almost orange so your supposed to layer on lighter skin tones
This is the exact opposite of how I painted my (very few) plaguemonks.... I decided to slow paint them, one at a time, doing my best with every single one..... I did it as sort of a learning experience, "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." kind of thing.
For me, I was never been able to find good out of bottle colour for flesh, so ending up mixing any light purple with Vallejo skin tone. Then basically adding a bit more skin tone to the mix for highlights
For those without an airbrush, you could attempt to bring out the green color in the warpstone by stippling instead.
Love warhammer fantasy content!
Great ratties, man-Guy! If you get fed up with the cotton whisps I found the little eyeshadow sponges are pretty cheap for a pack of many and with a little wash-squeeze out in spirits after can be re-used a couple of times
The skaven look how I imagined the rats of Redwall would look.
RATS RATS RATS RATS RATS. IVE BEEN WAITING 3 YEARS
Aaah, that's only a thousand days ;)
Skaven are so fun. Also, I anxiously wait the day of the great spraying. The day colour forge delivers to the US. I need a good salamanders green primer.
Nice, this is really great but quick army painting!
Looks great! Well done!
While I prefer going bright and obnoxious for my Skaven, it was still great to see you paint up these lovely rat-os!
What a coincidence! I just bought a mixed lot of WHFB Skaven on ebay yesterday.
If you use an extractor fan/ airbrush booth be very careful with the thinner cleaning as the fumes have been known to combust when put through the fan.
thanks for the tips with the green flame
I'll show this video to my skaven friend!
- Do you mean you friend who likes skavens?
- ... Yes-yes, of course.
I really wish Colour Forge expands outside the UK soon, their spray can primers are great but it's hard to get hold of them outside Europe.
omg I am bidding on ebay and then see this video. it is you!
The minis are so beautiful.
Vallejo salmon rose might make a good rat skin colour. Great paint job too.
Great work as always Guy
Thanks mate!
A timely vid considering the coming of new Skaven this summer. A great grimdark finish and something to keep an eye on!
my rat skin recipe is rakarth flesh with thinned red wash, gives a cool grey pinkish skin tone, and you double wash the tails to make them extra pink
@MidwinterMinis Thanks Guy! After years of being drawn to the little ratmen, I've finally decided to pick some up and jump in to AOS, so the timing here is perfect. (and yes, I'm aware they're getting a glow-up with AOS 4)
Side note: I just learned about Pro Acrylic NEWSH and would love to see another video in this style using that instead of the oils as a comparison.
Well id didnt see this coming. Great stuff!
My go to for rat skin is wraithbone and magos purple
OooO! That sounds like it would look amazing
The old Vallejo Game Colour Range had a "Rosy Skintone". Perhaps that might have worked. (I'm just trying to get around with the new Game Colour Range bit after bit, while my old Bottles get empty. And I have to find out, if I can look for an entire new Solution for my Battlesisters, since Vallejo premiered a new line of Model Colours as well....)
Yes prices are crazy and still going north , I'm really not sure about using cans of primer as a permanent solution to priming mini's, I stopped using cans a few years ago when I got my airbrush. Cans are good if you're traveling and taking mini's with you
More more, yes yes. More more want need!
I use Army Painter Barbarian Flesh as an out of the pot pinkish skin color. Works great!
OH! That IS quite a good one!
OHMYGOD, I've been basing my sisters army with Sprue flagstones, this is soooo much easier!!
nice job!
as far as paints that look like that skin you were asking about, Pro Acryl Pale Pink is a good one.
Nice! Just when I was planning to build a rat crew for Mordheim. This will be really useful 😊
8:22 Canoptek Alloy is a metallic layer paint, I don't think that'd be the shade. Were you using Cryptek Armorshade?
I do indeed! Haha
@@MidwinterMinisAh everyone makes mistakes. Though the unfortunate thing is GW discontinued Cryptek Armorshade like a year or two ago, so I reckon anyone who wants to borrow from this video is gonna have to approximate it
10/10 - best rat boys. By far my favorite faction :)
That intro was amazing! I was thinking about kitbashing the basic troops into Sanctioned Xenos Guardsmen for 40K.
Thank you! Yeah, I've heard the shoulder width is the same for Skaven and Cadians... it's almost like it was made to be!
I had over 15k points of em in the old old world (b4 AoS) but now alas i have nothing.
Anyhoo a trick i used on all mine was black noses and dwarf flesh tails.
Nice work..
Guven it’s probably ghost’s best album opener, i wonder if a tobias forge skull makeup/cardinal drag skaven could be thematically encompassed.
Golden Dawn? Hey thanks I I've got the same box, unpainted. A few of the Rats I converted for a Necromunda gang. I'd love to see you vamp up some Skaven to Space Rat Warriors!
9:15 Oil washes?
9:24 Ah, streaking grime is cool as well.
I do like oil washes just because color variety is easy and usually cheap, and it scales really well. A small amount of oil paint is enough for an army or more. Streaking grime is great if you don't want to mix and figure out ratios.
Guy has to voice act EVERY Skaven EVER! Also I LOVE this! I'm more a Skryre guy but I would have loved to bid on this if it wasn't already over $400CAD :D
I'll be tucking the link for this video away for when I get back at my Skaven!