As someone very interested in getting into the hobby, I just wanna say thanks for this. It is overwhelming watching some creators do their thing with what is maybe 1000's of dollars worth of tools, e,quipment and paint. Watching someone with only a spray can, three ,colours and some brushes makes me feel more like it is something I can get into without much investment.
You really only need 7-10 colors, 1 can of primer and some cheap plastic brushes (like ModPodge). For years I painted next to a window as my light source, a piece of cardboard as my "cutting mat".
@Dorvuzak Uzn Yup. I have old dollar store brushes (when they had the good quality ones way back in the day), and they do the job just fine. I know I will never paint at a higher skill level than I have, so why be pretentious using expensive stuff that I will never get the quality out of? I will never win a painting competition of any kind, and I am at peace with that.
So you had two rattle cans of black and white, if you were really desperate for tones you could try spraying enough to form a puddle. Though probably not enough to paint the base black.
Poor DM here. You will NEVER get spraypaint used in that fashion to look good. Ever. DOn't bother, go to a Joe Anne fabrics, buy a 1 dollar bottle of black and a 1 dollar bottle of white.
Man I love this idea, I would LOVE to see more videos on even single models where you only have a couple of paints. What would be even cooler is if you grabbed 3-5 random paints and had to paint a model with those only.
Jay is the Warhammer bestie we all need in our life. [Dude, Your passion is infectious and it always feels like you are helping/hanging with a friend instead of "making content'. ]
I LOVE limitation challenges! Nothing gets the creative juices going than having to work around a whole new problem. More stuff like this, please! And I love the end result Jay! Honestly, they've got such an unexpected look, it really gives them some unique magic.
We had cobalt keep and the owner at a local shop and he had some display cases. We had the largest guy stand on it with one foot and no supports. The case didn't budge or crash let alone shatter. I got a few cases and I gotta say they are great
Maybe my pallet isn't sophisticated enough, but I liked the three color guards models better than the templar mini. Great video! I will have to check out your other offerings.
Cobalt Keep, what can I say? Nothing but absolute praise. There was a mix up with my order, not only did he get it straightened out, but went above and beyond, he has made me a life time customer for all my display and base needs. Painting handle. Here I come.
As someone new to the hobby I really appreciate what you talk about when it comes to paints and what their purposes are. Not many other folks talk about shading and shadows and layers and why they are adding colors to specific places on the mini for depth or contrast with such enthusiasm. These turned out fantastic and honestly this makes me want to see what I can do with just my AoS paint pack. You kept saying they were alright but they are way better than what I can do hah!
2:54 Eons of battle: “I’m getting more and more into using light colours.” Also Eons of battle: (Paints his space marines in the 2 lightest colours possible)
These guys actually look really good. I never would have guessed at the final product a limited number of starting paints. Looks very intentional to me. Cool challenge that goes a long way to helping build confidence for newer hobbyists that don't have extensive paint collections.
This was a great video. The pace and even the sponsorship advert was great. This kind of mini series about limited colour use has been great and really getting me thinking. Are you planning on creating a scene in your display box like you did with the Malifaux minis?
I really like the premise of your video. It inspired me to paint my next batch of figures with only the paints in the Army Painter Speedpaint Starter Set - granted, a lot more colors, but still enough of a constraint to make it fun and challenging.
Hey Jay haven't been watching you long, but you inspire me to paint during my low times, and I also learn so much from you as a beginner who only played in the 90's as a kid, and is just coming back 6 editions later. Keep up the good content
I love how Shawn and Nick have almost the same number of appearences on the channel but one is Jay's archnemesis and the other is nick (he likes to hump air). Love y'all
Love what you did I just got back into painting and I used 3 colors from an Apache model helicopter on a space marine it's not perfect but It gave me the confidence to go and get some more paint.
I'll be honest I think these are some of my favorite models that you've done so far. Something about the color scheme and the desaturated look it just evokes a more realistic feel
Thank you, thank you, thank you for using spray on zeni primer!!! Yes the airbrush is nice and it’s awesome to see the results! But rattle can is what most people use and it’s great to see someone more skilled at painting than me using the same techniques - because I get to learn how to be better and what’s possible with the tools available to me. Thank you again!
I got into 40k last year and I was already a painter on canvas so it was pretty easy to make the change to a miniature but the best advice I ever got is use a color wheel it will help any new painters the variations of colors you can make without having to buy each one individually
The best videos about miniature painting are these with a limited palette challenge, because it allows to get out of the classic color combinations and shade with black highlight with white. The result is always more colorful, creative, and SUPER coherent.
For anyone struggling with speckling out of a rattle can. Put the can in hot water for 5-10 minutes first and shake it really good. Makes a major difference, comes out much cleaner.
Necrons can be pretty easy to do with minimal paints. Prime them with black, drybrush everywhere with your metallic, paint in the green glowy bits, then can paint part of the gun handle with the same black again. Could paint the sigils with the green glow paint and call it done there. My real color scheme for warriors and other basic infantry only uses just 2 or 3 more colors than the ones above.
Nice job, Jay, with your kill team. I have a Horus Heresy army to paint. But I may focus on painting them, 10 models at a time, as if I were making several kill teams. It would motivate me to get going, and make sure I do a very good job painting them. Thanks for sharing this video with us. Keep up the great work you do.
Admittedly, I played in my first kill team tournament with Pathfinders I only used black (for both primer and base), red (for the armor), and gray (for details. They were not amazing, but they were my first models and it got the job done. Truly all you need to get the minis on the board! I’ve since added nuln oil, some blue lens paint and some gold for the gun bolts. It’s been fun to see them really come to life with each pass.
Every now and then they run Speedpaint drafts at my flgs. You get a "booster pack" with five pots and an unpainted mini, and you draft like in Magic (pick one, pass to the left) until you end up with five pots and a mini. Then you've got two hours using only the drafted paints to paint the drafted figure, at the end everyone votes for their favorite opponent, and the painter with the most votes wins one drafted paint pot from each other participant. One guy ended up with a poxwalker and only technical and basing pots, and I think that's the most handsome poxwalker I've ever seen.
Speaking of limited colours, how about trying out the Zorn palette? Its roughly what John Blanche used in a bunch of the old classic warhammer art (like the 3rd ed Black templar cover). Its only 4 paints: four paints : black, white, yellow ochre and vermillion red, and stretches out to a lot of colours, so could be interesting?
The hardest paintjob I've ever done was my undead bloodbowl team - I decided to do them in greyscale, like old Hammer Hooror movies, but with no drybrushing. I didn't use any out of the bottle greys, as many have blues, greens etc in them. So it was the wet pallet, a bottle of black, a bottle of white, a notepad and teseract glow to be a spot colour on the eyes. Took sooooo long.
Yooo does anyone know the name of the lamp at 6:30 it's such a simple but genius design. I've so many times had to have my fave so danm close to my current flexible desk lamp to try and get into a awkward spot on a mini and wished somehow I could see through it.
Serious quality video here... conceptually, fantastic... we 100% rely on more paints and literally necessity is the mother of invention and restrictions breed creativity.... Also.. to be fair... those models are baller and no one would ever say "oh yeah, these were done with 3 total paints"... nice job.
This is so cool! Would love a follow up where you add another 2-3 paints and see what you can do with like 6 paints; would be great for newbies like me to see a good inexpensive amount of paints to aim for
they look great! how did you decide on what colors to use? did you choose those 3 specificaly (and why) or was it random? i would love to see more random color limited pallette challenges. kill teams or 1 off models, have fun.
I really liked the piece of music you used during the Cobalt Keep spot. The painting was great too, don’t get me wrong, but yeah, that was a funky track.
I find rustoleum cans to be very effective to prime bases. Thats also where a lot of primer tends to go in the hobby so getting cans for dirt cheap is the way to go. I use the vallejo spray cans for my models. I bit pricey but better than GW or army painter prices. And the results are similar to better than the other two brands when it comes to a smooth finish
Light colours are the next level of painting. At a certain level people realize that they don't need to paint everything dark and grungy to make it look realistic, and that light colours work better in the dodgy lighting of dinning rooms and hobby stores.
There's easier ways to get a model done to tabletop standard with only 3 colors. Just do an OSL style model, light and dark. Say, your kasrkin are on a night mission, or inside a dark space Hulk or hive or whatever. Prime black, do a red or green or orange glow from one side of the model as if they're walking by emergency lighting or something. Then do some glazes or mild highlights on the dark side of the model to represent the moonlight or ambient light and give some contrast.
Usually, rosters not painted to battle ready standard incur 2VP penalty per game so 18VP max, as for painted roster you get additional 2VP so 20VP max.
That spray paint is for furniture, from the hardware store. It's no wonder it's garbage on minis. I use spray cans of primer from the hobby store all the time and it comes out fine.
Have you ever came back to these models? I`d love to see these guys with an oil wash and a little grime...just a lil highlight then and see what they have become... should be an epic reveal!
After watching this I just want even more to see Jay try to use Kimera colors and paint something, I wonder what he would think of them compared to other colors.
Jay’s the type of guy to arrive 15 hours early for an event
And than ask ,were is every one ?
Wow you posted this 15 hrs ago!
😊
But also he only started getting ready 16 hours ago😂😂
@@mranoraks5860 *where
you really tried the "Sam is the type of guy..." huh?
As someone very interested in getting into the hobby, I just wanna say thanks for this. It is overwhelming watching some creators do their thing with what is maybe 1000's of dollars worth of tools, e,quipment and paint. Watching someone with only a spray can, three ,colours and some brushes makes me feel more like it is something I can get into without much investment.
You really only need 7-10 colors, 1 can of primer and some cheap plastic brushes (like ModPodge). For years I painted next to a window as my light source, a piece of cardboard as my "cutting mat".
you should look up the blackstone fortress series by midwinterminis, he has tutorials for painting an entire board game with only 14 paints
Bruh you can paint your shit with actual craft paint. You don't need more than that, and a variety pack of Walmart brushes, that's it.
@Dorvuzak Uzn Yup. I have old dollar store brushes (when they had the good quality ones way back in the day), and they do the job just fine.
I know I will never paint at a higher skill level than I have, so why be pretentious using expensive stuff that I will never get the quality out of? I will never win a painting competition of any kind, and I am at peace with that.
Just do it man
So you had two rattle cans of black and white, if you were really desperate for tones you could try spraying enough to form a puddle. Though probably not enough to paint the base black.
Poor DM here. You will NEVER get spraypaint used in that fashion to look good. Ever. DOn't bother, go to a Joe Anne fabrics, buy a 1 dollar bottle of black and a 1 dollar bottle of white.
@Michael Roberts - yeah, no
Or use a tin can hanging over a lit candle, then take the soot to make lamp black pigment prison tattoo-style :)
Man I love this idea, I would LOVE to see more videos on even single models where you only have a couple of paints. What would be even cooler is if you grabbed 3-5 random paints and had to paint a model with those only.
A random paint roulette challenge! I'd watch 'em all, that seems like a concept that could keep things fresh for a very long time.
My heartrate went up a little in the first minute. That's one solid opening! :D
Jay is the Warhammer bestie we all need in our life.
[Dude, Your passion is infectious and it always feels like you are helping/hanging with a friend instead of "making content'. ]
I LOVE limitation challenges! Nothing gets the creative juices going than having to work around a whole new problem. More stuff like this, please! And I love the end result Jay! Honestly, they've got such an unexpected look, it really gives them some unique magic.
We had cobalt keep and the owner at a local shop and he had some display cases. We had the largest guy stand on it with one foot and no supports. The case didn't budge or crash let alone shatter. I got a few cases and I gotta say they are great
Maybe my pallet isn't sophisticated enough, but I liked the three color guards models better than the templar mini. Great video! I will have to check out your other offerings.
Cobalt Keep, what can I say? Nothing but absolute praise. There was a mix up with my order, not only did he get it straightened out, but went above and beyond, he has made me a life time customer for all my display and base needs. Painting handle. Here I come.
As someone new to the hobby I really appreciate what you talk about when it comes to paints and what their purposes are. Not many other folks talk about shading and shadows and layers and why they are adding colors to specific places on the mini for depth or contrast with such enthusiasm.
These turned out fantastic and honestly this makes me want to see what I can do with just my AoS paint pack. You kept saying they were alright but they are way better than what I can do hah!
I appreciate videos like this a lot, I only have about 9 colors total and this helped me understand how to use less to make more
They look good but think another video where you revist these to finish them off to your normal standard would be brillant !!!
Oh, that is a good idea! A sort of a step-by-step set of videos.
2:54 Eons of battle: “I’m getting more and more into using light colours.”
Also Eons of battle: (Paints his space marines in the 2 lightest colours possible)
These guys actually look really good. I never would have guessed at the final product a limited number of starting paints. Looks very intentional to me. Cool challenge that goes a long way to helping build confidence for newer hobbyists that don't have extensive paint collections.
This was a great video. The pace and even the sponsorship advert was great. This kind of mini series about limited colour use has been great and really getting me thinking.
Are you planning on creating a scene in your display box like you did with the Malifaux minis?
Is that "Smith Brothers Hobby Center" in Northridge at 0:31 ?
Shopkeep: "You're in luck! I found three colours."
You: "Oh my god, you're my saviour! ... Do you have any primer?"
Shopkeep: "Nope."
You: "Balls."
I really like the premise of your video. It inspired me to paint my next batch of figures with only the paints in the Army Painter Speedpaint Starter Set - granted, a lot more colors, but still enough of a constraint to make it fun and challenging.
Hey Jay haven't been watching you long, but you inspire me to paint during my low times, and I also learn so much from you as a beginner who only played in the 90's as a kid, and is just coming back 6 editions later. Keep up the good content
I love how Shawn and Nick have almost the same number of appearences on the channel but one is Jay's archnemesis and the other is nick (he likes to hump air). Love y'all
Love what you did I just got back into painting and I used 3 colors from an Apache model helicopter on a space marine it's not perfect but It gave me the confidence to go and get some more paint.
I'll be honest I think these are some of my favorite models that you've done so far. Something about the color scheme and the desaturated look it just evokes a more realistic feel
5:25 that segue was next-level!
That was a beautiful transition to the sponsor
Thank you, thank you, thank you for using spray on zeni primer!!! Yes the airbrush is nice and it’s awesome to see the results! But rattle can is what most people use and it’s great to see someone more skilled at painting than me using the same techniques - because I get to learn how to be better and what’s possible with the tools available to me. Thank you again!
No matter what you do, people will always ask "who is Sean?".
Sean is the Polkaroo of the Eons of Battleverse
Dude, your transition to the ad was so smooth, there are not enough o's to describe how smooth it was.
The pain of going to a hobby store and finding that it only has comics and magic is real.
Very clever and just goes to show what can be done. A follow up video showing us how you made them even better would be great.
I got into 40k last year and I was already a painter on canvas so it was pretty easy to make the change to a miniature but the best advice I ever got is use a color wheel it will help any new painters the variations of colors you can make without having to buy each one individually
The best videos about miniature painting are these with a limited palette challenge, because it allows to get out of the classic color combinations and shade with black highlight with white. The result is always more colorful, creative, and SUPER coherent.
For anyone struggling with speckling out of a rattle can. Put the can in hot water for 5-10 minutes first and shake it really good. Makes a major difference, comes out much cleaner.
Necrons can be pretty easy to do with minimal paints. Prime them with black, drybrush everywhere with your metallic, paint in the green glowy bits, then can paint part of the gun handle with the same black again. Could paint the sigils with the green glow paint and call it done there. My real color scheme for warriors and other basic infantry only uses just 2 or 3 more colors than the ones above.
You could do a followup using the same set of miniatures but with your full setup and briging that coloursceme to an extreme.
Great Video by the way.
Bro the the transition to the add for the bases was hilarious! Chefs kiss my friend chefs kiss
Nice job, Jay, with your kill team. I have a Horus Heresy army to paint. But I may focus on painting them, 10 models at a time, as if I were making several kill teams. It would motivate me to get going, and make sure I do a very good job painting them. Thanks for sharing this video with us. Keep up the great work you do.
That was a 10/10 intro
And that was a 10/10 ad transition
Admittedly, I played in my first kill team tournament with Pathfinders I only used black (for both primer and base), red (for the armor), and gray (for details. They were not amazing, but they were my first models and it got the job done. Truly all you need to get the minis on the board!
I’ve since added nuln oil, some blue lens paint and some gold for the gun bolts. It’s been fun to see them really come to life with each pass.
Every now and then they run Speedpaint drafts at my flgs. You get a "booster pack" with five pots and an unpainted mini, and you draft like in Magic (pick one, pass to the left) until you end up with five pots and a mini. Then you've got two hours using only the drafted paints to paint the drafted figure, at the end everyone votes for their favorite opponent, and the painter with the most votes wins one drafted paint pot from each other participant. One guy ended up with a poxwalker and only technical and basing pots, and I think that's the most handsome poxwalker I've ever seen.
Speaking of limited colours, how about trying out the Zorn palette? Its roughly what John Blanche used in a bunch of the old classic warhammer art (like the 3rd ed Black templar cover). Its only 4 paints: four paints : black, white, yellow ochre and vermillion red, and stretches out to a lot of colours, so could be interesting?
My favourite part was the, far from subtle, transition into the sponsor! hahahahah . JUST GREAT!
What is the model all the way to the left at 5:40? It’s so familiar but I can’t place my finger on it.
The hardest paintjob I've ever done was my undead bloodbowl team - I decided to do them in greyscale, like old Hammer Hooror movies, but with no drybrushing. I didn't use any out of the bottle greys, as many have blues, greens etc in them. So it was the wet pallet, a bottle of black, a bottle of white, a notepad and teseract glow to be a spot colour on the eyes. Took sooooo long.
Yooo does anyone know the name of the lamp at 6:30 it's such a simple but genius design. I've so many times had to have my fave so danm close to my current flexible desk lamp to try and get into a awkward spot on a mini and wished somehow I could see through it.
Was very impressed how well they came out.
Serious quality video here... conceptually, fantastic... we 100% rely on more paints and literally necessity is the mother of invention and restrictions breed creativity....
Also.. to be fair... those models are baller and no one would ever say "oh yeah, these were done with 3 total paints"... nice job.
OMG, you missed a spot on the Templar's cloak. Don't kill the messenger. On the edge, there....see it? 8:46
That segue into the sponsor was majestic. And I'm actually in the market for new display cases so win win.
This is so cool! Would love a follow up where you add another 2-3 paints and see what you can do with like 6 paints; would be great for newbies like me to see a good inexpensive amount of paints to aim for
they look great! how did you decide on what colors to use? did you choose those 3 specificaly (and why) or was it random? i would love to see more random color limited pallette challenges. kill teams or 1 off models, have fun.
How were those rustoleum paint+primer cans as primers? I would love to be able to use them instead of my existing rattlecan primers
I really liked the piece of music you used during the Cobalt Keep spot. The painting was great too, don’t get me wrong, but yeah, that was a funky track.
The suspense in the beginning
If you pick cyan, magenta, and yellow, and allow yourself black and white, your mixing can work very well with lots of options.
Crazy how well these came out.
Looks great Jay, better than most models I see at tournaments / hobby shops TBH. more than playable.
Honestly my go to for speed painting has been GSW dipping inks and finishing with AP speed paints if I feel like I want to blend or glaze something.
Yes those are battle ready to me great job and making us pixel artests proud!
Really good paint, beauty miniatures
And this is why you note where any arts & crafts stores are where you go to a tournament just in case.
So many luls in this one. I think the biggest is the hilarious troll of ending the video with deciding to add more colours onto the minis.
Damn I was looking for nice Kasrkin paint and I get this tutorial :D It was great test but I would love to see full equipment potential!
I find rustoleum cans to be very effective to prime bases. Thats also where a lot of primer tends to go in the hobby so getting cans for dirt cheap is the way to go. I use the vallejo spray cans for my models. I bit pricey but better than GW or army painter prices. And the results are similar to better than the other two brands when it comes to a smooth finish
Light colours are the next level of painting. At a certain level people realize that they don't need to paint everything dark and grungy to make it look realistic, and that light colours work better in the dodgy lighting of dinning rooms and hobby stores.
Great topic. I'm interested to see what other painters could do with a "3 paint challenge" video.
Sorry this may be mentioned in a previous video.
How does he make those stands for painting.
Look like wooden blocks
It is now my headcannon that medics and apothecaries carry mountain dew for their allies
Nice! Next Challenge 5 Paints, White, Yellow, Magenta, Blue and Black. With these everything should be possible.
What paints is he using
Oil paints are kick@$$, I recommend. They're super forgiving and easy to work with.
Hey, I use that color combo for my cadians too
Admittedly, I just use black templar and necron compound for the guns...
Is there any european substitute for CobaltKeep? I really like their product but i dont wanna spend 40+ euro on shipping and such
Crimes? If you think those are crimes, you have yet to see my work. Downright diabolical.
Wait how did you get those new kasrkin models?
10/10 Ad transition.
There's easier ways to get a model done to tabletop standard with only 3 colors.
Just do an OSL style model, light and dark. Say, your kasrkin are on a night mission, or inside a dark space Hulk or hive or whatever. Prime black, do a red or green or orange glow from one side of the model as if they're walking by emergency lighting or something. Then do some glazes or mild highlights on the dark side of the model to represent the moonlight or ambient light and give some contrast.
That was an excellent video for someone with a limited paint budget.
Usually, rosters not painted to battle ready standard incur 2VP penalty per game so 18VP max, as for painted roster you get additional 2VP so 20VP max.
That spray paint is for furniture, from the hardware store. It's no wonder it's garbage on minis. I use spray cans of primer from the hobby store all the time and it comes out fine.
Can those cobalt keep cavalry cases hold chaos knights
chaos knights stand on 170mm oval bases, which cobalt keep makes
Nice video. Curious how often you change that sponge. I'd love to see what's growing on it under a microscope, haha.
The segway to the sponsorship section was smooth as butter!
I think you painted more star wars rebels xD I like how they turned out, nice job!
Did you use cheap brushes to paint these? The Zhu ting ones I find are decent for the price and they look similar to your white brushes
I love how Jay's basecoat is 10x better thanmy highlighting, basecoat, shade.
You forgot the cheat code: Your primer counts as a paint.
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
You should do another video using only primary colours or Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. Plus black and white to darken or lighten the colours 👍🏻
Have you ever came back to these models? I`d love to see these guys with an oil wash and a little grime...just a lil highlight then and see what they have become... should be an epic reveal!
Great intro-- loved it
Is Sean the one who Jay battles for eons?
What army does you play
Really good challenge, the kill team turned out great!
I saw the vid and my first thought was "of course you can, if those colors are cyan magenta and yellow"
Jay is the master of sliding that patreon in the script
After watching this I just want even more to see Jay try to use Kimera colors and paint something, I wonder what he would think of them compared to other colors.
I'm definitely just an observer in 40k these days but really enjoy you channel ✌️
Do love these challenges. They are so much fun to do.
ok i spat out my drink when the manager of the shop showed up.