The EASIEST Way To Paint Miniature Figures
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2022
- My friends, tonight we'll look at a figure painting technique so easy it feels like cheating! It's nothing new in the miniature painting world, but it might be a game-changer for armor and diorama modelers.
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I'm returning to modeling after an absence of 42 years--I'm now retired. Part of my career was as a technical trainer (electronics, computers, s/w, processes), and this session is close to being a masterpiece. I learned so much about a topic where my knowledge and skills are literally at zero. Broad expanses of armor, wings, and hulls are a piece of cake, but this stuff is a true art form, and I feel blessed by the skill level you bring to the subject. Your knowledge is excellent, but your presentation skills, especially with commentary, are outstanding. I had a little difficulty with the accent at first, but caught on quickly, and I liked this whole segment so much I had my wife watch it just for the sheer entertainment value, and even SHE loved it! Kind of like the first time I heard Led Zeppelin in 1968. I'm a fan!!! It comes across as a true labor of love Mr. Kovac!
ha ha right on. I cant draw or free hand / paint canvas at all but for some reason I can do models decent and im learning faster and getting better at then I thought I would. Because in life im a slow learner witch surprised me. It gets even funner the more you do it thus the better you get. I paint warhammer 40k myself but Im a history nerd so id love to do some tanks down the road. After the Ukraine counter offensive mybie a challenger 2 or leapord we will have to see ! Enjoy your retire ment 42 year is a hudge tour lol
Really well said, I am retired and more into historical or fantasy dioramas in 1:18th scale but don't have years of miniature painting experience. I can do horses because I spent much of my life around them, drawing them and collecting and painting models of them but, the human face is just impossible, so I am eager to try this method.
As a recently reborn modeler, I echo your comments entirely. Just started my first kit this century (literally). I wasn't going to include any figures, but seeing this makes me think I could give it a whirl.
Holy moly, that white paint on the black layer just adds a whole nother dimension to the figure and it just looks so freaking COOL
I find when pre-shading skin tones, if I use a dark red instead of black I get much more realistic shading.
I use Vallejo Back Red (I think) or Hull Red mixed with a drop of German Grey
Redess Brown
With regards to the zenithal highlight technique, I've found that using a very dark brown/coffee base coat and an eggshell/cotton highlight coat helps with the starkness of the effect. Essentially, it gives yo a warmer base to work with which makes both cloth (particularly what is supposed to be natural fibers) and skin look less dead.
I agree. I find the best colour for the base coat is simply a darker version of whatever the glaze/filter would be (so in this case, it would be a dark olive) and not actual black. As usual though, I can't argue with the results that Martin gets! :-)
I can see how that would be ideal, but using black and white primers is probably quicker and more efficient than specifically finding fitting primers for every single unique figure...
@@ArenBerberian you do not need to look for matching primer just add additional cover with darker base colour (e.g. base colour with black) and do the zenithal highlight with white/ white tinted with base colour. I do not think it is much more effort. Nevertheless, you may use it only for faces to remove the "sicknes" just use dark skin tone for a whole batch of heads in your army:) additionally drybrushing hairs is great way to highlight them effectively.
Great idea
I was thinking the same thing.
Gosh, If you ever do a diorama for this thing, I just feel it would fit best on a slope in a tall grass field, ever since the start of this build and seeing the turret so far tilted up I could just picture it. Doing something like a tall grass field would be a joy to see you figure out, as I've always wanted to do one of my own, and I really feel it would be an awesome change of pace.
I’m a figure painter 99% of the time but follow you. One thing I see that armour modellers forget when adding figures is that the shadow areas on each figure is individual. So there have bee tanks with crew gathered around ALL with the highlights in the same place per figure and NOT how light would strike each one differently. Think of the 5 on a dice, light coming at 45 degrees would hit differing sides if the 4 outer figures were all looking at the centre. 👍🏽
I love the fact that you're putting figures with your models now and you seem to be enjoying figure painting now which is a plus!
His skin looks literally gold
You make everything look easy in this hobby! But seriously, this is so helpful for painting figures. It’s so simple and looks like so much fun. :)
As a long-time minature painter, I recommend switching out the Tamiya flat white for a white acrylic ink. It will reduce speckling dramatically. I'm not a great airbrush painter, so I use it thinned 50:50 to be more forgiving, but that is not necessary.
I'll give this a go! Speckling can indeed be an issue.
I've found the opposite to be better and sticking with flat white thinning flat white 1:8 thinner at 28psi/1.8bar. The ink is too glossy which doesn't help with paint adhesion and doesn't build up as smooth a transition.
Specifically Liquitex white ink. Other brands I've used in the past have speckled just like paint. I think Liquitex uses much finer pigments.
+1 for Liquitex although it is not in anyway a robust color. It will rub off from handling even when dry.
In this particular case I'd say that the texture from the speckling actually gives it a more realistic look.
Looks awesome!
I've watched uploads from many very talented modellers and their subjects be they tanks, aircraft or buildings are magnificent but they let themselves down with human figures. They always seem to be overdone with heavy shading particularly on faces making them almost cartoonish.
You have no such problem!
That figure is a sheer delight to see.👍
Awesome work!
Can't wait to try this out
Wow. What an outcome! 😮
I absolutely love it!
Fantastic result! 👏
Fantastic job!
Awesome! I will try this!!
Awesome work
Bloody brilliant!
Excellent work, and thanks for sharing!
Beautiful.....what a great technique
Very nicely done
Just wow. Amazing job.
Such a joy to watch your videos
Very nice work 👏👏
Wow amazing, this looks so nice
Brilliant Video - Thanks for sharing this
This came out a few hours before I’m going to start brush painting my sr-71 crew. Perfect timing
Wow. Beautiful. Thanks as always for sharing!!
outstanding results!
Amazing - really love the mud and the glaze!
Great technique, good work!!!!
Amazing results
One word - AMAZING !!!
Great simplified method!
amazing result
Nice techniques....thanks for sharing.
Magic. Thankyou! And I liked the cork idea too!
Very nice technique 👌
I love how dynamical your work, and your channel is. You go all the way from spending 70hrs on chipping Tiger to basically speedpainting minis. Amazing that each of your models is not just "another one" but rather a journey to try and teach completely new techniques.
NICEEEE!!! Will try this one.
Hi Martin- this method looks awesome! Can't wait to try it!!!
Great result. I will definitely will try this out!
After many minis painting tutorials watched, I must admit this is one of the best and most pleasurable. I like the way you talk on the video. It has some storytelling in it. "Let's go on painting adventure. 12 minutes. You and me. No risk man, just fun"
Brilliant, what a perfect method you’ve introduced! Well done!
awesome work
Very well done. Thank you for the information.
Amazing results, keep going
I love this technique. So realistic.
Looks great mate! Well done 👍
Amazing technique.
love your figure painting videos. Please post more in the future
thank you 🙏
Lovely finish. Looks like a great technique 😘
Excellent job. I love the final results and thanks for sharing this.
wow.. amazing effect and results!!!
Superb video, Martin. Makes me want to paint some figures right away!
You do great work. Can't wait to try your technique for myself
Awesome job. Thank you for sharing!
fantastic job
Just what I needed! this is actually a nice way for painting anything with brushes :D Going to try it over the weekend
I sure enjoy listening to you!
Absolutely love it :) And perfect timing, as I'll be painting up some figures for a diorama soon as well haha. Also really puts into perspective how bloody huge tanks are....
Looks great and I will be trying it on my figures.
I would like to thank you, for showing us this method.
Tried it today, and it worked pretty well.
Never would have dared to paint in this way, but the result is surprising and looks very good.
Greetings from Belgium and thx for all your tutorials!
Brilliant!
Thank you!
Your modelling and painting techniques are amazing! I have learnt so much.
It looks amazing.
That's simply brilliant, and brilliantly simple
Very impressive, I may have to get back into model making, you've inspired me!
Great job 👏🏻
Love this method. Thanks for other amazing video!
Both fun, listening to youand watching your work. Great job. Thx
I've been getting ready to start tackling some figures myself. THANK YOU for putting this out. This will be a game changer for me!
Phenomenal! The results are amazing and work excellent here. Never have I seen green done this well. Thanks!
Beautiful technique !!!
Thank you !!!
I will subtly try this amazing!!!!
Super !!!
Fantastic technique I think it looks awesome
thanks for your tutorials Sir 🙏🏻
You’ve just solved my worries of figure painting 👌
Yay, fantastic video, I'll try the metod on my next figure, thank's!
Just get back to this material and it really really works ;) thanks :) you dont only show how it can be done in an easy and very effective way BUT its stops me from bitching all the time while painting 1/35 figures.
I just wanted to say that I enjoy every one of your videos and that they have helped me immensely in my builds. Some things that I thought I could never do you have made me understand how to and I have actually been able to pull the techniques off. Groundwork is an Achilles heel of mine and I will be doing one for a current build I have and I will be using your groundwork techniques step by step. Thanks for helping me and many others.
Very well explained.
You are a painting Wizard..! Amazing job Uncle.
Very timely for this one. Thanks.. good hints.
Perfect !!!! congrats .
Thanks for the video, I have a few kits that have included figures on the backlog and it’s nice to see how other people do their technique and learn something new
Thanks for the information. The figure looks great. I'm learning something from every figure painting video I watch. 👍👍
AMAZING JOB
Just got back in to painting and thank you so much as i have to relearn all this again 👍👍👍👍
Dude, I just want to say thank you for sharing all of your tips, and your modeling journey. See you in the next one.
Muh-friend...outstanding, as usual!
The best tutorial I found so far (and I was looking for one a lot)
Very nice job on the figure.
that mud is amazing
great technique thanks
I think I will totally copy that technique for my next figure
Fantastic result.It looks great.Compliment.
Nice technique👍
One cannot argue with the results, well done.