HOW TO PAINT WHITE: A Step-By-Step Guide
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- This recipe, is perfect for painters of all levels who want to know the secrets to achieving a beautiful, smooth, cold white on their miniatures without the use of an airbrush.
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In this video I will lead you through step-by-step the process I use in order to achieve flawlessly smooth white without the need of an airbrush.
Perfect for painting anything from White Scars Space Marines to Star Wars Imperial Troopers and everything in-between.
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Very easy to follow and very informative, thanks!
One observation from me, it seems like shading the white with the various greys is time consuming. Do you feel like this recipe for painting white is fairly quick or would you suggest a different method to paint many models quickly?
@@shimomurai So, I've found this is the least frustrating way I've found to get a silky smooth white. Other approaches may be quicker but they always end up having to compromise the end result.
That said, if you have an airbrush you can increase the speed of this by priming white, base coating it all in celestra grey and then zenithal with ulthuan grey.
Then you can just do the recess shades of dawnstone and eshin and finish with the highlight of white
thats my batch method for armies and believe me, you can get damn quick at doing that.
And it still looks amazing at the end :D
It was very good offers an easy alternative to white. Your white and yellow recipe are really amazing and easy to reproduce in my opinion. I'd be interested in seeing your take on black.
Any thoughts how you would modify thus for epic scale white scars? I'm thinking prime vallejo white primer, base coat ulthuan grey... then maybe 1-2 recess shades pure white highlight?? Epic painters advise maximise contrast so I guess shadows more darker greys. I was originally gonna try the white contrast or a thinned grey or black wash bur do you find the thinned paint easier to control for shade?
I clicked like as soon as I saw the White Scars Primaris. So clean, so crisp.
White is always challenge. It's not quite as unforgiving as yellow in my experience, but it comes with a whole different challenge: it can look like a light grey instead. Using greys to shade the recesses instead of a wash or contrast is a cool trick. It's essentially the old way of doing things as I understand it. Apparently the 'Eavy Metal painters used to thin down black for panel lining before Nuln Oil became a thing.
Personally I've always had a lot of success with Corax and Apothecary White. Although, Corax needs a little dash of Lahmian Medium to work its magic.
You have no idea how much I needed to learn this. Thank you
Seconded!
I love this format. Would love to see other ones covering all the base colours. Keep the good work brother!
The greatest painting channel for sure.
One of the best tutorial for the white painting. Thank you for the video!
Thank you
The main thing really is to never use pure white until the very last highlight
Thanks for watching, hope you enjoy the rest of the channel
As always on point! Some of the steps where we'll known but you you bring it to the point explaining the way to an convincing white 😊
I needed this thanks buddy.
Thanks for this guide! Great info. Just getting back into painting myself.
Perfect step-by-step tutorial! Thank you!
Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Very good - definitely a keeper! On my white Tyranids I go in reverse essentially. I start with grey seer spray and then pre-shade the whole model in nuln oil + drucci violet. Then use a base of Rakarth Flesh (avoiding the recesses) layer of palid wych flesh and edge highlight of white scar.
Perfect timing with the release od the new Apothecary 🙌🏻 just received my Leviathan box so your tutorials will always be helpful as they always are
Another awesome guide, thank you!
Speaking of which, I've recently painted a Battle Sister in white armour and the overall result looked good to me, but I thought I might have used a way too dark grey as my base coat... your video confirmed my guess 👍🏻
And of course I'll go buy a white primer ASAP 😂
Really beautiful painting
After watching this tutorial I can see why your model was on the cover of White Dwarf. The finished part looks great! This was very helpful as I now have a guide for this color. Thanks for sharing this.
Brilliant video!
Again outstanding!
Awesome! White has always been a difficult color for me. This definitely will help!
Thank you
Really glad to hear you found it helpful
I’ve found this method consistently delivers a quality result. So, for me that takes the frustration out of it. When you know something works, it doesn’t seem so bad anymore 👍
Funny enough it's not far off from what I do. I still learned alot and think your method is awesome, thank you for the help and I can't wait to see some more.
Just in time for me to start white armour on my cadians, awesome as usual!
Very nice👍🏻
Awesome!
Some of the best content on UA-cam honestly
Thank you
Really appreciate it :)
Keep them coming 😊
Dude, i love your Videos. As someone who is new to mini painting, your tutorials are god damn world class.
Great video 🙌🏻
Really great content, love the way you teach and showcase your steps. Thank you
Very true
thanks very much, really glad you're enjoying the channel
Really cool tutorial.
Man i was torn on painting my bolters white. I think im sold on at least trying. White with orange/or stegadon green hazard stripe. Past month or so of your videos have been super helpful for restarting my first army
New subscriber and fascinated with you videos. Your techniques always achieve such amazing results. They are new to me as I am reentering the hobby after a long sabbatical and I have to rebuild my skills while getting used to the extreme evolution of material and kit variety. I had been building 1/72 and 1/48 scale aircraft priming and painting with airbrush. You mention priming in black, I do see people using that but have not tried it. I do have one bronze statue ( with very strong detail), I will attempt shortly, have you or any of your subscriber's done a total bronze look? In the interim I am going to follow your recommendations on priming specific areas based on final color
I wish I saw this video before i started paintng my White Scars 😅. Very informative, next time I have some white marines to paint I'll have to try this.
Thank you making these videos
Thanks for watching, really glad you’re finding them helpful 👍
This is also another easy to follow tutorial it does have I think a few extra steps as compared to the yellow one, which is understandable with a colour like white your essentially working with shades and values and not hues. And I do see what you mean by the camera playing tricks, but I think if seen in person the mind sort of blurs the lines and sells the illusion of white in the end after seeing the pure white edge highlights. Instead of registering it as grey so I think that's essentially the lesson here with white, is that you are really selling the illusion of white not white itself. ❤
Very nice work
I think two things were super good in this video those tips at the very start the "Painting white rules", Why make your life harder! Too true, and at 3:25 where you talk about you changing some of the levels with the picture to make things work better, your super honest with the audience, and telling them why you did something. I really like this as a guide but still think I hate painting white, but I am surprised that ulthanwan grey is the midtone its already super bright
Off white then Pro Acryl Bold Titanium White works great for me.
Brilliant to start with an off-white. I never would've considered that.
Finding your videos incredibly helpful. I'm curious: when do you use washes vs. thin paint? Something on this would be helpful.
The first guide I ever used to learn white was from a lotr warhammer magazine in like 2005ish that suggested using a black primer on Gandalf the White and Saruman. 2 Saruman and 4 Gandalf's later I realised it'd be easier if I just didn't prime it black and how to use greys to layer because the rest of the guide was literally 'just slap on white' and no other steps and had more detail in how to paint the beard than the white which ended up being more of a cream colour thanks to the black base. Had to learn the hard way and I gave up on guides back then because of it. Guides like this hopefully help new starters learn much better and us old guard refresh or update our techniques. I just try not to paint white tbh, but sometimes you need a lot of white
I was going to comment on your reddit post a few days ago asking if you could please do a tutorial for painting white (Why did no one warn me when I picked White Scars as my first army?!). Perfect timing!
Excellent video on how to paint white. Since everyone is asking about the equipment youre using, I would like to know what paint rack you use for your citadel paints if you would be kind enough to share. I noticed them at 1:00 into the video.
Hi! If you had to use shade on Baltazar Gold from GW would you use Seraphim Sepia or Agrax Earthshade? Thx
Came here for the giveaway, but now I would love to see how to make an osl on top of white armour like this.
Great stuff
Thank you, glad you like it
And thank you for supporting the channel as a member 🙏
How did you do the metal in this particular example? Looks like a Bronze colour that's washed then drybrushed with a silver?
Would like to see a tutorial for the metals you painted in this video
Can You show us how to fix smears and other mistakes when we mess up?
Your content is still top knotch! Keep up the good work!
Is there any way to use Zenithal or Slap Chop for white armor?
Enjoying the channel. I have a problem though maybe you can help. When I paint vehicles I have to handle it while painting and sometimes I like it messes up the finish. How do you handle and maneuver it without the model getting little hairs, dust, and blemishes in the finish?
What are you using to hold the model?
I had no idea how hard white was until I chose to start a biel tan army😢. This is a great tutorial
THank you, you are helping me to upgrade my skills from crayon to paintbrush :)
Haha
To be fair, seeing a mini coloured using crayons would be cool 🤣
Really glad you’re enjoying the channel though and the guides are helping you improve 👍
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides for sure they are.
Question on the block you are holding to hold the mini. What is that and how are you attaching it to the mini?
I’ve always just held the base of the mini.
What do you use to take it off the mini when done?
Great question
It’s easier to show you than type it, so please give this a watch.
ua-cam.com/video/KxF8t6k39cE/v-deo.htmlsi=SHEUzP7X_dFYHS0_
There’s a chapter called “paint handles”
Hope it helps
thanks for this. quick question but what are the little scaffolding you use
Thank you
To hold the pieces for painting I just use a piece of wire in a cork as a painting handle
Give this a watch, and jump to the chapter for Painting Handles
ua-cam.com/video/KxF8t6k39cE/v-deo.html
That explains it better
Please can you tell me what the gold is you have used ?
I'd love to know that bronzed metal recipe used on the exhausts
I’ll stick it on the list for a recipe video
But if you can’t wait for that, you’ll find it was the recipe I used in this video 😉
ua-cam.com/video/SZzZ9EOD9wI/v-deo.html
really cool. a bit off-topic question here. Can i ask Which colors and technique did you use for the metahallics? Thank you in advance
Thanks man
I’m going to be adding some metallics recipes to this playlist soon, but if you can’t wait, this backpack has the same metallics as I used in this video 😉
ua-cam.com/video/SZzZ9EOD9wI/v-deo.html
super thank you very much. Kind words!@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides
i am glad i only have one white model to paint. i wouldn't want to do an entire army this way.. i think i would take another 20 years to paint the rest of my models XD but seriously, this helps a ton.
It’s really not as bad as you might think.
Once you get in the swing of it, it’s pretty straightforward
Thanks for watching 👍
I do have a question regarding volumes. I want to try learning how to paint with volumes.
Ive bascially got red sorted, but with white. Would you use the same colours you used in this video?
White and black are basically the bane of me as its hard to paint them with volumes but also make it so they still register as white and black. And not grey
OK, for volume painting the short answer is, yes. Use the same colours listed here for white.
Longer answer
However, as you will have found with painting red, the key for volume painting, is the transitions between those colours in order to form smooth blends.
In this video, I opted for the "easier" approach of harsher shadows.
For the volumes, you're going to need to introduce intermediate steps between each colour.
So, rather than jumping from one colour to the next, you'll mix a small amount of the next colour into the one you're currently using and apply that, then a bit more and repeat.
So you soften the visible steps between the colours.
I should probably do a video on volumes, as it's easier to show than write
I hope this gives you the gist though?
I'd love to see a video guide of yours on volumes 🔝
Ffs, I had just decided to paint my Tyranids as leviathan paint scheme instead of my custom deep red skin and bright WHITE carapace. Now this is making me rethink the option…
Bright white carapace would look amazing though.
Just saying 😉
What primer did you use in this video? I’m creating a army in Star Wars legion and I’m playing republic, so there’s gonna be a lot of white.
I use Vallejo surface primer.
In this case it was White surface primer
elementgames.co.uk/paints-hobby-and-scenery/paints-washes-etc/vallejo-paints/surface-primers/vallejo-polyurethane-primer-white-60ml-x6?d=10493
Awesome thanks 👍
How to paint white - Don't
I paint white starting from a cool blue + white mixture, love the videos :D I hate painting white...
haha it's true.
to paint "white" dont paint it white
pale grey, cream, pale blue etc... but not white :)
cool blue for a very cold white is a great way for sure.
but dont hate it. Just try and find a way which works for you.
Why not try this recipe and see if it helps you like painting white a little more?
You never know ;)
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides - No hate :D If I get another apo model to paint for someone I'll try it. Love your videos - I'll try out the yellow on a spess mahrine. I usually do a pink base coat for yellow.
@@ganave cool, let me know how you get on.
I’ve tried the link under coat for yellow but for me it produces too orange a result for my personal taste
i guess i'll stick with a white base layer, a controlled Soulblight Grey wash, and a white highlight for my white. i think that i would go mad if i tried your method even though it looks great.
All about finding what works best for you man. 👍
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides i find that watching high skill videos like yours always teaches me something that end up helping me improve :)
Soon I might be ready to move on from the shackles of Soulblight Grey! 😄
What I find difficult is shading loose clothing without getting odd hard edges. Something you don't have to worry about in this video. I use washes and drybrushing , but this can lead to rough textures.
OK, so the colours used for painting white clothing is the same but you're right the application is different.
You still start from your midtone colour and then you add the grey into the bottom of the folds. Then you have to create a transition or blend up the sides of the fold from your grey up to your midtone. This is done by adding thin layers of increasingly brighter / lighter paint. I generally will add the lighter colour I'm wanting to get to, to the darker colour I'm moving from, in increasingly larger amounts until it is the same as the end colour.
By which I mean paint your grey into the bottom of the fold, then for the next layer add a small amount of the midtone colour into your grey to make a slightly lighter colour. Add a thin layer of that leaving some of the grey still showing at the bottom. Next layer, add a little more midtone into your grey mix and apply a thin layer but leave some of the two previous layers showing. And so on. Then for the highlights it's the same process but in reverse.
You start with the midtone and add increasingly larger amounts of your highlight colour and work from the middle of the fold up to the top.
Now, you can make things easier on yourself and instead of having to mix custom shades each time you can use ready mixed colours instead, as most companies already make gradients of colours for this purpose and when you add them as thin layers they make a decent transition without the need for the mixing.
For white cloaks these colours work well for the steps
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I'm planning on making a fundamentals video on painting transitions and blending, so I'll be sure to include white in that as an example
Hope this helps in the meantime
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuidesThis video is from 9 months ago, your comment is from hours ago and it's so full of information that I hope you understand how grateful we are and how helpful you are being to us. I'm a guy who just started painting minis and I joined a contest for noobs, I'm bringing a white space marine and your videos have inspired me and terrified me from the very beginning, I can't express into words how much I like you! I wish you would publish a mini painting ebook with pictures and different styles, brush tips, paint tips, all of it. Thank you again!
Thank you, I'm so glad to hear you're find my channel helpful. I do try and reply to as many comments and questions as I can. So if there is everything anything you would like to ask, please do post a comment and I'll do my best to help :)
Just build up to a bright grey from a dark grey. It will look white compared to everything else.
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I would still like to know how to paint on more of white color for base. I get the idea of using grey, but it's just not the same to me. White is the paint color I struggle with the most...
no problem. If you want a pure white paint which is easy to paint with, then my recommendation is
White Star from Two Thin Coats, it's the best white I've found
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@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides thank you! For some reason whenever I paint white, it's hard for me to get it smooth, and it always gets chalky even with me thinning it and try all sorts of things. Is this because the pigment?
@@user-tm1zn9wy6c generally speaking yes. The pigment for white at a molecular level is chunky and as a result when it’s made into a paste it wants to clump up.
I’m no chemist, but that’s my crude understanding.
Now, some newer paints have crazy other ingredients to help combat that and the Two Thin Coats one is the best I’ve found so far.
Another alternative is to go with a white ink. This is great if you’re wanting to do glowing runes and want a pure white in grooves.
Ink isn’t good at layering like a paint though, but good at edge highlights
So hope that helps a bit more
Red next?
Do you have a patreon or do you just use youtube? Thinking of getting a membership when i get paid
Thank you.
No, I dont have a patreon. I like people to have full access to my guides for free.
Of course, for those people who see the value in what I put out and kindly want to help support this, then I'd really appreciate them becoming a channel member :)
Would also love one in black, Have a world eaters army and just the thought that I will just base paint them black and cover details in red, is not clicking for me... there's something more that I can do with the black 😅
Can I recommend "how to paint camouflage "
In this case cant i just airbrush the entire model white, then paint in the rest?
you can airbrush the base coat ulthuan grey over the white primer, absolutely!
I purposely dont use an airbrush in my videos so that people can see clean smooth results are possible with just a hand brush.
But if you've got an airbrush, you use it mate, for sure
I got army painter Matt white. I learned how to avoid making my minis chalky
Edit: nevermind, I got dragon red
I've been trying to paint with ultan grey. Please could i get some itps because ive had to strip the part im painting 3 times. It always looks terrible. No matter how thin i get it always starts to clog details and make texture. I'm absolutely defeated.
Have you watched my paint thinning video? That’s the consistency I use.
Or, if you’re really struggling you could brush on with the air brush version of Ulthuan grey
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@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides Thank you for the advice and i will make sure to use it. I think i may have found my issue tho.
I never knew i had to mix the bottle for longer than around 20 sec. But if i find no luck ill makes sure to skip the hassle and buy the air version.
One more question tho, I have a Redgrassgames wet palette so i'm not sure if you know what i speak of but does a sheet have a time before it is unusable?
By that i mean, can sheets become damp for so long that they become faulty?
if so, that might be another contestant in my issues.
@@Itz2Cat ah yeah, Ulthuan does need a good shake, as most greys and whites do, to make sure that pigment is fully mixed. Otherwise you’ll basically just be painting with a pale medium.
In terms of the Redgrass palette, I’m really sorry I don’t know.
I don’t have one and I’ve never tried one.
However, I’m sure someone else on here may be able to help you?
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides Quick Update: Bought the air version. Whole different paint. Smooth, zero texture, zero clogging details. Amazing. Thank you!
I have an even easier method. Basecoat Kantor blue spray white from above with a rattlecan or airbrush.
It is absolutely mind boggling how many scientific advancements we have made yet we still can't make white paint that works 😂
Is there even a decent white primer? I have had horrible experiences with Citadel and AP white primers
My go to is Vallejo surface primer but I use that through an airbrush.
Rattle can wise, I used to get good results from motorcar brands of plastic primer.
Specifically, here in the UK a brand called Halfords did a lovely white spray. Cheap too
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides
Thank you for the advice. I dont own an airbrush yet, so I will look out for a motorcar rattle can primer here in germany. Great tip
@@alternate3787 no problem
Just make sure it clearly says it is a primer for plastic 👍
I have a white wash paint. Can/how would I use this? Bought the wrong paint 😂
Which paint have you bought? :)
Vallejo game colour ink white
OK, cool.
Well, that is perfect for the final edge highlighting, as a pure white.
Thank you!
>Click "*Brushstroke* painting guides" for how to paint white.
>Wait for the airbrush to come out.
>It never does.
>Click Like for a good video.
Thank you
Yeah, I do try and make the effort to show how good results can be achieved WITHOUT an airbrushing.
My thoughts being the recipes can easily be applied by airbrush too, if people have them. But a sign of a good recipe is one which doesn't need one
Thanks for watching :)
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides All sarcasm aside, they're great tools. I just don't have a proper space in my home to set up and use one conveniently. So it's much appreciated whenever I find a video about something that's hard to do with a brush that doesn't just boil down to "don't use a brush."
See also all those "How to get two hive tyrants out of one box!" videos that boil down to "3D print most of a second hive tyrant"
@@phoenixdragoon haha yeah, I know just what you mean.
Well, this is the channel for you then man, cos my vids are airbrush free*
*except the Warmaster Titan cos that had to be done on a deadline for GW article
biggest lesson learned.... SUB ASSEMBLY!.. i am doing white armor on my sister squad and pffftt... hard work..
I was curious but it became obvious that you were not doing white but grey. Back in the 90's I did an Apothecary, metal using the original Citadel paints. The ones in the taller straight pots that you see Cote D' Arms use now. It was a metal miniature which I primed black, then painted three layers of white. The result is a paint job that still has not worn through and makes the Apothecary bright and shiny on the battle field. The marine that is the beacon for the continuation of the Marine Gene Seed. So no, I don't think grey with white trim is a good white. It is grey. But personal taste and aesthetic applies because this is everyone's hobby. Just saying
Hey, thanks for commenting. I get what you’re saying but the problem with painting something pure white is it is then impossible to highlight it and that’s not how real white objects look.
If you look at a large object which is white, it is not pure white all over. It is in fact a series of different grey tones as shadows from the light bouncing off it effect its surface and only the tiniest highlights on it are pure white.
So, in order to paint a true scale representation of a “white” surface we actually have to paint in tones of grey and our brain then interprets it as being a white object because that’s how real white objects look to us.
All that said, at the end of the day, if you get results you like then that is all that matters. Your hobby, you do you.
Thanks for watching 👍
🍑smooth
So its not white its Ulthuan grey.
absolutely
pure white should be kept for the final edge highlights.
to paint something to look "white" you actually need to paint it as shades of grey :)
I've never understood why people have a hard time painting white
I think the main problem is just that people start with pure white and then have nowhere to highlight up to.
That and the fact they probably start with GW’s whites and they just don’t work.
Yeah, I really think this needs to go darker for the recess shading. The finished product just looks like white contrast paint over a light grey base, something I could do in 10 seconds.
Hey no problem
If you can get a matching result to this in 10 seconds using contrast paint, then do that 👍