Always figured SlapChop was some fancy contrast method I’m too inexperienced to try. Sonic Sledgehammer being encouraging and proving me wrong as usual! You’re the Bob Ross of miniature painting!!
@@jherazob we'll see :D i bought some speed paints last year and will finally try out slap chop next month. Will probably paint some goliath gangers to practice the technique before i paint some grim guard and socratis from station forge miniatures
man this one hits me in the feels since right now I am Dog sitting a couple amazing little doggos. hope Pippin well. Commissar Pippin being the great Doggo to the Imperium of mankind
Cool mini, remember the old style commissars, it 's incredible you can achieve with these new paints. This figure would be a fine add to the new WGA's Space Nam plastic set.👍
I found that if you're getting cludgy results, just a tiny touch of water in your brush - not even a drop, just enough that the bristles are wet - doesn't hurt. Also, as much as possible - and same with any of these style of paints - keeping your brush moving in the same direction as much as you can will mitigate brushstrokes and tide marks.
I love this scheme so much, but I had a very different result trying to paint with the xpress colors in this video over my metal Mordians. They came out extremely splotchy and the xpress paint didn’t settle as easily as it does over plastic minis. I’m not sure if you’ve ever had this issue or why the model material would make any difference, but it is very frustrating. The same colors with the same slap chop look great on my new plastic Termagants but they look horrendous on metal models.😢
Metal miniatures - particularly older metal miniatures - tend not to have the same perfectly smooth surface that you'll get with plastic or printed resin. You'll see the same thing if you wash an old metal miniature heavily with something; the pits and imperfections in the surface will capture more of the pigment and stand out pretty starkly. You're better off to paint the classic stuff with traditional acrylics.
IF you don't like the term "slap chop," call it "glazing with extra steps," because that's all slap chop is. it's very common in the model-painting world, never really understood why it never caught on in wargaming miniature painting (something something, GW telling everyone how to paint so we'd buy their products, possibly...) 🤣
Show no mercy to heretics, but show kindness to Pippin ☺️❤
Always figured SlapChop was some fancy contrast method I’m too inexperienced to try. Sonic Sledgehammer being encouraging and proving me wrong as usual!
You’re the Bob Ross of miniature painting!!
@@jherazob well it is advanced in a way of brush control. overpaint an area and clean up can get really annoying
@@jherazob we'll see :D i bought some speed paints last year and will finally try out slap chop next month. Will probably paint some goliath gangers to practice the technique before i paint some grim guard and socratis from station forge miniatures
This looks so cool & helping a doggo in need at the same time.
Can't wait to paint this guy, he seems so much fun to paint. Thanks for spreading the word so I could find him the fundraiser. :)
It's nice seeing the different blacks from Citadel and Vallejo together and next to each other. Nice for suggesting different materials.
A Very Special Thank you , Troy .
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The figure looks great and I am impressed with how well the Vallejo Xpress colors work. Thanks for sharing this.
man this one hits me in the feels since right now I am Dog sitting a couple amazing little doggos. hope Pippin well. Commissar Pippin being the great Doggo to the Imperium of mankind
I've watched previous slapchop videos, but after seeing this one I *finally* get it! Perhaps I'm just dim, but you've parted the clouds!
this slapchop method is so amazing
Cool mini, remember the old style commissars, it 's incredible you can achieve with these new paints. This figure would be a fine add to the new WGA's Space Nam plastic set.👍
Yeah WGA's models are great. I wish I got into guards when the older dudes where still available lol
Thank you for the video. Threw in 5$ and will print and paint him ASAP. :)
Poor Pippin, I had to donate. Great model too!
I'm really impressed with Xpress colours. I will deffinitely pick up more when they arrive. Awesome painting video, as always!
Best wishes to Pippin. I lost my dog back in October and its very heart wrenching to lose a pet.
I've found that black lotus is a true black if you forget to shake it, and that tealy blue black if you do.
Ka Pi bro the leather looks good
It's almost like a really really, dark blue denim.
Very nice. I have some express paints and I do struggle to make them look as smooth as you and some other people I've seen get them
I found that if you're getting cludgy results, just a tiny touch of water in your brush - not even a drop, just enough that the bristles are wet - doesn't hurt. Also, as much as possible - and same with any of these style of paints - keeping your brush moving in the same direction as much as you can will mitigate brushstrokes and tide marks.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio thanks for that. I will give that a go
Love the bone sword pommel too 😉
It's the little things, right? 😂
Remember when commissar only had the red stripe
This model give me a slight DUNE 1994 vibe, when Patrick Stewart is carrying the Atreides pet pug into battle (while firing a machine gun)
Somehow this mini reminds me of Ciaphas Caine.
I can absolutely imagine Cain carrying a dog in a warzone because he's an alright kinda guy by 40k standards
Please try slapchop with big vehicles to see if it works for them
I love this scheme so much, but I had a very different result trying to paint with the xpress colors in this video over my metal Mordians. They came out extremely splotchy and the xpress paint didn’t settle as easily as it does over plastic minis. I’m not sure if you’ve ever had this issue or why the model material would make any difference, but it is very frustrating. The same colors with the same slap chop look great on my new plastic Termagants but they look horrendous on metal models.😢
Metal miniatures - particularly older metal miniatures - tend not to have the same perfectly smooth surface that you'll get with plastic or printed resin. You'll see the same thing if you wash an old metal miniature heavily with something; the pits and imperfections in the surface will capture more of the pigment and stand out pretty starkly. You're better off to paint the classic stuff with traditional acrylics.
Do you recommend stone golem grey as a colour to use or was it just a grey you had? I am trying to find a good grey for slapchop.
I quite like it, but it's not a strong necessity. Stone Golem, Dawnstone, pretty much any medium to light grey will work fine.
Can you paint wargames atlantic The Great War German Infantry? It'd be awesome 🤙
Dwarf skin gets much much darker for me. What am i doing wrong? I even tried to mix it with white but it was still way too dark...
You make this look far too easy!
skin tones? More like fur tones!
IF you don't like the term "slap chop," call it "glazing with extra steps," because that's all slap chop is. it's very common in the model-painting world, never really understood why it never caught on in wargaming miniature painting (something something, GW telling everyone how to paint so we'd buy their products, possibly...) 🤣