Ghazkull is genuinely one of the coolest Ork models out there, and the amount of painting possibilities you can do with him is honestly astonishing. Saw a few Ghazkulls online that have genuinely blown me away!
Just wanted to say thanks for giving credit for art and painted models that you put in your videos it shows just how in touch you are with the community
I do think the effect on the barrels turned out alright! However it feels less like a muzzle flash and more like the glow of the hot barrel to me. You could accentuate that by adding the effect over the first half of the barrels too!
As someone who is just getting into miniature painting thanks to Star Wars Legions (tried to stay away from Warhammer through my youth, but we all know that's where this is heading); I love your videos. Always informative, fun and the outcome is always incredible. Your enjoyment of this is evident, especially in this video, and its very contagious. It always makes me look forward to sitting down and try what I've been learning.
Iv been at it on and off over the years id say im still noob but Im getting better then I thought I could be. If you keep doing it I think its bound to happen. It even becomes more fun. Have fun.
I can't unsee Ghazkull rocking a quad car cigarette lighter. Maybe I'm just old because I doubt many will know what I'm referring to. Cool model and very informative as always.
Really liked this approach and the mindset behind it! Made me want to paint something this way just to try it out and see the result! Would love to see you show it off again on something with more curves and not as commonly seen looking as roughed up.
I love how you mention your inspiration for the style you're going for then proceed to elevate the style by showing more restrain in the scratchiness and the griminess. Your interpretation is full of intricacies without becoming overwhelming. Great Job!
Really love your casual style, and that you point out that you should have fun painting and always try things. You are an awesome painter and you should appreciate your work more I feel, as you're way way beyond this "will I be able to do this" threshold mate, your work is really inspiring Thank you, interesting way to look at painting!
I’ve recently stopped priming in black and instead use various browns, similar to this video. The tips in here Will really help me elevate my paint job! Great results!
This video has been a huge inspiration and huge influence on my beginner painting, also hugely helped getting over the mental block about not being able to get into every nook and cranny
I mean it isn't that significant because I am just one person. But I thought I should let you know that you are the last Warhammertuber that I am still subscribed to as the content has stayed top notch and you have also avoided any sort of drama. Nice one!
Rough, weathered, and textured is my favorite way of doing things most of the time, and this was a fun video to watch and get some more insight as to what I may be missing whenever I attempt to lay paint to mini. Turns out I miss lots of things, but that's what videos like these are for! Edge highlighting & scratches are the bane of my existence because no matter how much I try thinning or not thinning my paint, half the time I get big ugly splodges that make me frown.
I've tried this paint style on my own and I really like the way it makes my minis look. Just like Brent from Goobertown says, "paint bravely." I heard that and just decided to hack and slash, loved the results and have been working on refining it.
So many videos and channels focusing on the smoothest and creamiest of blending techniques, or how to slop shit on to get ‘em table ready. Subscribed because of this video. Glad to see more varied techniques on a mini video instead of wading through fine art and scale modeling videos to get other than eavy metal style. Love it
Could you do infinity and conquest miniature painting videos? Both games deserve more exposure on youtube, their models are gorgeous and you are insane at painting, perfect match :D. Love your content keep it up!😊
I like the way you speak about painting. The Exact same thing happened more than 100 years ago with modern vs classic painters. It's cool to see the same story happen on the miniature painting. Maybe that in 10 years we will let our miniatures in abbadon black to mimic Pierre Soulages paints!
This was a great video. I have noticed a lot of pro painters pain in this style and it never clicked for me. It’s very much the whole is more than the sum of its parts. When I look at it very closely it seems a little rough but when fading out it looks amazing. The mid tone glaze is truly magic for any painting style. I used to glaze in my highlights and now I kind of realize the glaze is more useful as a mid tone filter. There was a lot of things in this video that I would see and never really clicked for me. This really made me understand
Thanks for reminding us that there are many valid ways to paint and having fun is important part. I've been experimenting with a variation of this style but creating textures using over thinned paint and a big brush ( like a 6-8). The concept to have fun and pushing color combining base coating layering and weathering steps together and then detail and clean up steps together.
I appreciate your ability to break down your process and explain your techniques. You provide that great blend of quality miniature painting for the every day wargamer who doesn't want every model to be a display piece!
I really liked the sentiment at the end, that painting is minis is also about fun. Keep going Jon! Even if I didn't find the time to slay the grey, your videos keep me intrested in the hobby at least.
I am really into this style dark and dirty,”grimdark “ ,”war torn” and I am glad to see some more mainstream painter showing us how to paint this way. Love the video keep it up
Seeing the muzzles of the gun face on, they look like targets. Seeing them at an angle when you look at the front of the model the look amazing. Nice one.
I'm watching you since the beginning. I'm happy to see you develop. Love your cooperation with Miniac, and it's good to see your both channels not disturbing each other, and the friendly rivalry. I dig your sense of humor, and I think, that you're one of the most charismatic creator on YT (I'm not an expert, not watching plenty of creators, because most of them didn't suck me in). I want to say to you Great Work! Thanks for letting me enjoy it (for free - just this kind of comment).
Thank you for this, man. It's videos like this one that gave me the confidence to really improve my painting. And it paid off because I just won a local painting competition! Much love and thanks again for the quality content!
I wasn't sure how I felt about the muzzle flair but then you did the second pass wit the rotating shots it really draws your eye really nicely. Looks real nice.
I'm glad I saw this, just started on my Tau, it's my first army so I've never painted minis before. I already knew, though, that I didn't like the clean sterile look of Tau paint and much prefer the very gritty and war torn examples I've seen online, so this was a great little guide to help direct me properly!
I actually tried something very similar on cloth recently. Not perfect but still very satisfying for my limited skills. I feel vindicated seeing a great painter like you promoting this technique
This is exactly the kind of approach I use in digital painting I don't know why I didn't think of it before, actual lighting base colors for shadows instead of pure white or black for shading and highlights
I've recently adopted this messy painting style after watching a load of richard grays videos and have been having lots of fun with it. Its nice to see it here too and find that your experience with it is similar to mine.
Just wanted to drop by and just say that i'm learning a lot by watching your vids and i can't wait to try out some of the stuff i've seen you do. thanks and keep it up!
Stunning looking model! I wasn't convinced by the barrel glow idea at first when it was zoomed right in close, but fuck, it looked great on the final shots. Definitely going to try that technique. Superb as always! 🤘
For the barrels, and I can only recommend it because i've seen it done by people who love to go all out on overheated looking metallics, is to try a thin layer of purple and blue with some silver, to give it that strange transition that heat produces over metal (maybe that's more a flamethrower thing? I dunno..) ...other then that, I can say that this style is just the sort of crisp and in your face that I can really appreciate for a display model. will definitely try those brush scratchings.
Awesome Job, loved the result, with i could win that but cannot make the trip from Canada, Have been slaying the grey, thanks for the inspiration! A method where my shaking is an advantage!
I guess the choco taco thing is a big deal because you have to buy it from a scalper who's been stockpiling them in their freezer. So it's gonna be expensive and you really only have a short amount of time left in which you can buy one and still expect it to not have gone bad.
Absolutely great video! The knowledge and hard work encompassed in this video are barely ever surmountable! Thank you, Ninjon, for making this reality!!
Just painted my first GW model in months after painting mainly bust and smaller company minis. This look is what I was going for but didn't quite get there. But I'll be using this video for reference in future
Great model!. Also,the muzzle flair effect is taking me back to an old pickup truck where, as a bored, curious child I learned what a 'cigarette lighter' is.
The idea of getting good results and enjoying your painting by relaxing more is so true. Fussing about getting every last detail done "the right way" is a trap for a lot of us. The muzzle flash doesn't look bad either, but some smoke and/or flames from the barrels would really sell the idea they're churning out hot death. I know there's a few 3rd party companies that sell physical muzzle flashes for smaller stuff like bolters but I wouldn't be surprised if there's bigger ones suitable for artillery etc that would work on Ghazkull.
Damn I love this! More videos with this paint style please! If GW wasn't so expensive, you'd have inspired me to finally try my hand at painting minis!
Damn Jon... I hadn't watched any of your stuff in a while (took about a year off from painting) and I just wanted to say the quality of your videos has really improved. This was such a cool guide and I want to try this now with some of my bigger models I have yet to tackle. Not sure how it's gonna translate over to Craftworld Eldar, but I guess we'll see lol. Thanks for the video!
I like to paint large armies to a ‘high tabletop’ standard and find that using base colours, ink washing, and then a couple of highlights is fine. Blending is only for RPG character minis in my book. The idea of using blending on 100 to 200 models would put me off even starting! Your approach looks great.
This is so sick. My style of painting is “bad and barely coherent” but I did something similar recently with a Cursed City Mini and it was really nice to have a no pressure approach to painting a mini.
Sniffing glue fumes is the key
I agree 🙏
And snorting resin dust. Ultimate stimulant
I can't argue with that..... 😂😂😂
Petrol
🤤Mainlining mineral-spirits.
Ghazkull is genuinely one of the coolest Ork models out there, and the amount of painting possibilities you can do with him is honestly astonishing. Saw a few Ghazkulls online that have genuinely blown me away!
That cut from the thumbs up was just chef kiss
Just wanted to say thanks for giving credit for art and painted models that you put in your videos it shows just how in touch you are with the community
I do think the effect on the barrels turned out alright! However it feels less like a muzzle flash and more like the glow of the hot barrel to me. You could accentuate that by adding the effect over the first half of the barrels too!
Spot on. Ghaz needs a barrel change!
Same, go with the orange red overheated barrel effect... which would be a nice part of a video in of itself.
Agreed. It reads very well at a glance though.
I thought he'd be highlighting all over with the yellows and reds of the flashing weapons. Seems more like a warm glow as current, as the op said.
Exactly, I think it's a great thing to do if you wanna do fancy plasma effects but none of your army has access to fancy laser guns
The quick middle finger had me laughing out loud. That was fantastic physical comedy and editing. @ 14:42
As someone who is just getting into miniature painting thanks to Star Wars Legions (tried to stay away from Warhammer through my youth, but we all know that's where this is heading); I love your videos. Always informative, fun and the outcome is always incredible. Your enjoyment of this is evident, especially in this video, and its very contagious. It always makes me look forward to sitting down and try what I've been learning.
Iv been at it on and off over the years id say im still noob but Im getting better then I thought I could be. If you keep doing it I think its bound to happen. It even becomes more fun. Have fun.
I can't unsee Ghazkull rocking a quad car cigarette lighter. Maybe I'm just old because I doubt many will know what I'm referring to. Cool model and very informative as always.
Jon makes this look so easy lol
Really liked this approach and the mindset behind it! Made me want to paint something this way just to try it out and see the result!
Would love to see you show it off again on something with more curves and not as commonly seen looking as roughed up.
A very nice reminder to paint what like and how you like
I love how you mention your inspiration for the style you're going for then proceed to elevate the style by showing more restrain in the scratchiness and the griminess. Your interpretation is full of intricacies without becoming overwhelming. Great Job!
Thanks Jon. Your videos are very inspiring to me. I really love your style of presentation and choice of models. You rock. 🤘🏻
Really love your casual style, and that you point out that you should have fun painting and always try things. You are an awesome painter and you should appreciate your work more I feel, as you're way way beyond this "will I be able to do this" threshold mate, your work is really inspiring
Thank you, interesting way to look at painting!
I’ve recently stopped priming in black and instead use various browns, similar to this video. The tips in here Will really help me elevate my paint job! Great results!
Oh my god, I've been trying to paint in this style for ages, and someone's finally put it into words. Thank you!!
This video has been a huge inspiration and huge influence on my beginner painting, also hugely helped getting over the mental block about not being able to get into every nook and cranny
I mean it isn't that significant because I am just one person. But I thought I should let you know that you are the last Warhammertuber that I am still subscribed to as the content has stayed top notch and you have also avoided any sort of drama. Nice one!
Rough, weathered, and textured is my favorite way of doing things most of the time, and this was a fun video to watch and get some more insight as to what I may be missing whenever I attempt to lay paint to mini. Turns out I miss lots of things, but that's what videos like these are for! Edge highlighting & scratches are the bane of my existence because no matter how much I try thinning or not thinning my paint, half the time I get big ugly splodges that make me frown.
I've tried this paint style on my own and I really like the way it makes my minis look. Just like Brent from Goobertown says, "paint bravely." I heard that and just decided to hack and slash, loved the results and have been working on refining it.
Good thing that you credited the artists for the mini and the artwork.
I hope more YT people will do the same
This is probably the best video I've seen in the way of leveraging a small amount of painting for a big amount of result. You da man, Jon.
So many videos and channels focusing on the smoothest and creamiest of blending techniques, or how to slop shit on to get ‘em table ready.
Subscribed because of this video. Glad to see more varied techniques on a mini video instead of wading through fine art and scale modeling videos to get other than eavy metal style.
Love it
Could you do infinity and conquest miniature painting videos? Both games deserve more exposure on youtube, their models are gorgeous and you are insane at painting, perfect match :D. Love your content keep it up!😊
I find u inspiring to me. To do more mini painting and to improve. U are my favorite TH-camr. Thank you, seriously.
I like the way you speak about painting. The Exact same thing happened more than 100 years ago with modern vs classic painters. It's cool to see the same story happen on the miniature painting. Maybe that in 10 years we will let our miniatures in abbadon black to mimic Pierre Soulages paints!
This was a great video. I have noticed a lot of pro painters pain in this style and it never clicked for me. It’s very much the whole is more than the sum of its parts. When I look at it very closely it seems a little rough but when fading out it looks amazing. The mid tone glaze is truly magic for any painting style. I used to glaze in my highlights and now I kind of realize the glaze is more useful as a mid tone filter. There was a lot of things in this video that I would see and never really clicked for me. This really made me understand
He looks so gritty, I love it! Great job :) The claws are my favorite part. Makes me want to try this style this weekend. Thank you
Thanks for reminding us that there are many valid ways to paint and having fun is important part. I've been experimenting with a variation of this style but creating textures using over thinned paint and a big brush ( like a 6-8). The concept to have fun and pushing color combining base coating layering and weathering steps together and then detail and clean up steps together.
I appreciate your ability to break down your process and explain your techniques. You provide that great blend of quality miniature painting for the every day wargamer who doesn't want every model to be a display piece!
I love the effect on the barrel ! I always like when there are effects that make the mini more dynamic !
Jon, I’m a huge Ork fan, so you know I had to watch this one. I absolutely died laughing at your “thumbs up” after the muzzle flare segment.
14:42 got me. I think if you had each barrel at different stages of firing it would look a bit more interesting
yep, absolutely. love the attempt though, gotta learn new stuff by trying!
This.... yup....this
That muzzleflash effect is AWESOME
Great video and a lot of good reminders about the fundamentals. I'm particularly digging the tips on TMM.
I really liked the sentiment at the end, that painting is minis is also about fun.
Keep going Jon! Even if I didn't find the time to slay the grey, your videos keep me intrested in the hobby at least.
I am really into this style dark and dirty,”grimdark “ ,”war torn” and I am glad to see some more mainstream painter showing us how to paint this way. Love the video keep it up
Thanks!
I've been away a while, but back now, had forgotten how funny you are fella. Loved the double thumbs up to double eff you. Brilliant
Seeing the muzzles of the gun face on, they look like targets. Seeing them at an angle when you look at the front of the model the look amazing. Nice one.
30 seconds in and the intro alone deserves a like. You're amazing man, love the content!!!
I'm watching you since the beginning. I'm happy to see you develop. Love your cooperation with Miniac, and it's good to see your both channels not disturbing each other, and the friendly rivalry. I dig your sense of humor, and I think, that you're one of the most charismatic creator on YT (I'm not an expert, not watching plenty of creators, because most of them didn't suck me in). I want to say to you Great Work! Thanks for letting me enjoy it (for free - just this kind of comment).
I like the effect on the barrels. Definitely adds something to the model
Thank you for this, man. It's videos like this one that gave me the confidence to really improve my painting. And it paid off because I just won a local painting competition! Much love and thanks again for the quality content!
8 minutes in and this is already one of the best tutorials I've ever seen on mini painting! Well done NINJON!
I wasn't sure how I felt about the muzzle flair but then you did the second pass wit the rotating shots it really draws your eye really nicely. Looks real nice.
I'm glad I saw this, just started on my Tau, it's my first army so I've never painted minis before. I already knew, though, that I didn't like the clean sterile look of Tau paint and much prefer the very gritty and war torn examples I've seen online, so this was a great little guide to help direct me properly!
That model is something. I've been looking for an alternative to blending, so thanks for this, Jon.
Great insights here! Going to try this out on my backlog this weekend
10:20 that is definitley too much weathering on those black templars. They look like they gonna fall apart any second 😂
Dude I love the personality you bring to your videos, I lost it when you jump cut the twin birds😂 keep being awesome
Jon, that might be my favorite model from any of your videos. Fantastic job!
I can feel the fun and love from this mini. Love how you did this
I absolutely love how these dark metals and the scratches look, definitely gonna do this
I actually tried something very similar on cloth recently. Not perfect but still very satisfying for my limited skills. I feel vindicated seeing a great painter like you promoting this technique
This is exactly the kind of approach I use in digital painting I don't know why I didn't think of it before, actual lighting base colors for shadows instead of pure white or black for shading and highlights
Fantastic video! For the first shot at muzzle heat, it looks pretty dang good! Keep up the painting videos!
I've recently adopted this messy painting style after watching a load of richard grays videos and have been having lots of fun with it. Its nice to see it here too and find that your experience with it is similar to mine.
Great video and the muzzle looks like an after rather than a pre fire attack.
Great vid, love how you're adding artist credits to the GW stuff you show
I really really dig that process man. And the ideas and the fact that it was a breath of fresh air. Super cool result.
you are amazing, your painting is beautiful! Thanks for sharing your painting work
That looked like fun, and I love the end result of the armor, it all feels very naturalistic
I really liked how you mixed lighting and texture into the same steps, remind me of how Sergio Calvo works
14:30 I think this is a great idea (especially for orks) it just needed to be brighter in the middle
Awesome video! Really liked the lighting tips as well as the grimey metallics.
Just wanted to drop by and just say that i'm learning a lot by watching your vids and i can't wait to try out some of the stuff i've seen you do. thanks and keep it up!
The Muzzle flash looks super cool and good tip for just trying something new! thanks coach
Stunning looking model! I wasn't convinced by the barrel glow idea at first when it was zoomed right in close, but fuck, it looked great on the final shots. Definitely going to try that technique. Superb as always! 🤘
Hahahahahaha The Tumbs up/Finger flight is my favorite part of this video!
Love this painting style! And the barrels look cool!
Started painting with THICC layers and airbrush blending afterwards like the Spanish painters do. It’s hella fun and looks awesome
Great video, very inspring. I am definitely going to try this! Thanks and keep them coming!!
Excellent video as always. I'm always impressed by the results you achieve speedily!
It was kind of you to give Darrel the day off. He just works so hard for this channel to be a success. Great content, Jon! Thank you for the video.
Another good reason to be at Warhammer Fest. I may try this when entering the scrap build & paint challenge
I think this is my favorite paint job fro ninjon by a mile
For the barrels, and I can only recommend it because i've seen it done by people who love to go all out on overheated looking metallics, is to try a thin layer of purple and blue with some silver, to give it that strange transition that heat produces over metal (maybe that's more a flamethrower thing? I dunno..) ...other then that, I can say that this style is just the sort of crisp and in your face that I can really appreciate for a display model. will definitely try those brush scratchings.
The black armor going from a warm brown to cold greys is so interesting, I love it
Awesome Job, loved the result, with i could win that but cannot make the trip from Canada, Have been slaying the grey, thanks for the inspiration! A method where my shaking is an advantage!
I guess the choco taco thing is a big deal because you have to buy it from a scalper who's been stockpiling them in their freezer. So it's gonna be expensive and you really only have a short amount of time left in which you can buy one and still expect it to not have gone bad.
The double bird a nanosecond before the cut away after talking about criticism on the internet was *chef's kiss*! 😂😂😂
Love this approach! I've definitely been gravitating to a "less is more" approach to my painting recently. Lots of inspiration here!
Really enjoy you videos mate.
Love the humour.
Top tier.
Its so great and freeing to just paint without obsessing over details
I really like the result! Awesome job!
Absolutely great video! The knowledge and hard work encompassed in this video are barely ever surmountable! Thank you, Ninjon, for making this reality!!
Just painted my first GW model in months after painting mainly bust and smaller company minis. This look is what I was going for but didn't quite get there. But I'll be using this video for reference in future
I really like this style and I think your muzzle effect came out really cool. Makes me want to paint a big robot.
Great model!. Also,the muzzle flair effect is taking me back to an old pickup truck where, as a bored, curious child I learned what a 'cigarette lighter' is.
The idea of getting good results and enjoying your painting by relaxing more is so true. Fussing about getting every last detail done "the right way" is a trap for a lot of us.
The muzzle flash doesn't look bad either, but some smoke and/or flames from the barrels would really sell the idea they're churning out hot death. I know there's a few 3rd party companies that sell physical muzzle flashes for smaller stuff like bolters but I wouldn't be surprised if there's bigger ones suitable for artillery etc that would work on Ghazkull.
When done with my space dorfs i was planning on getting some greenskins done, going to give the a try for sure, looks great!
Damn I love this!
More videos with this paint style please!
If GW wasn't so expensive, you'd have inspired me to finally try my hand at painting minis!
Love this mini! Great job!
Damn Jon... I hadn't watched any of your stuff in a while (took about a year off from painting) and I just wanted to say the quality of your videos has really improved. This was such a cool guide and I want to try this now with some of my bigger models I have yet to tackle. Not sure how it's gonna translate over to Craftworld Eldar, but I guess we'll see lol. Thanks for the video!
I like to paint large armies to a ‘high tabletop’ standard and find that using base colours, ink washing, and then a couple of highlights is fine. Blending is only for RPG character minis in my book. The idea of using blending on 100 to 200 models would put me off even starting! Your approach looks great.
Mind blowing technique for the metallics, man
watch tons of your videos didn't even realize I wasn't subscribed. GL on 200k just keep reminding us absent minded.
This is a cool technique! I tried something similar but chickened out and painted over it.
Time to paint boldly!
This is so sick. My style of painting is “bad and barely coherent” but I did something similar recently with a Cursed City Mini and it was really nice to have a no pressure approach to painting a mini.