Ive mixed up some of your techniques. I prime in white and then paint the mud wash featured in some old vids of yours! I then use the speed paints and it works perfectly! The best way to paint rank and file for good quick table top results
Literally just the other day someone asked about this on the Army Painter Fan Page on FB and I suggested that perhaps they recommend to you a video idea of US Troops done only with Speedpaints 🤣
@@SonicSledgehammerStudioI’m the guilty party here! That was me😂. Thanks for doing this video right as I was asking and needing it. Your talent is amazing sir! Thanks for all the videos, you constantly help me out and I appreciate it!
Fantastic! I love your guides and your timing for speed-painting BA figures is perfect, as I am just starting in the hobby. I would love to see a US airborne (M42 D-day scheme) and Waffen SS in this series as well! Thanks for all these wonderful guides!
@SonicSledgehammerStudios just curious, is this the same scheme u used on the United States infantry squad from Marcher: Empires at War? I saw the photos on MyMIniFactory and was curious about the paint scheme you used
Fine work once again. A whole company of lads painted like that would look fairly striking, I think. Unsolicited Geardo nitpick - the chinstrap on the rear of the helmet should be khaki webbing - only the front strap (for the helmet liner) was leather. Still very fine work in any case. Cheers!
Ah, nuts! I always forget that rear strap! Somehow I only ever think of the chin strap being canvas, and completely forget the rear one. I don't mind it being pointed out, I just wish I'd remember it next time! 😂
Ah, nuts! I always forget that rear strap! Somehow I only ever think of the chin strap being canvas, and completely forget the rear one. I don't mind it being pointed out, I just wish I'd remember it next time! 😂
Again a very good tutorial. You mention several times that it doesn't quite resemble the historic colours in some areas, where would you not use the speed paints but use regular acrylics?
If I were aiming for accuracy, I'd swap out the speed paints entirely and just use acrylics. Mixing and matching them on the same miniature doesn't quite work style-wise, I find.
I have a dumb question. How do you keep your hydro paper from drying out on your wet pallet? Mine is always drying out while I paint and I can't figure out why
Hopefully you've got the sponge sheet underneath the paper? Remember that they aren't meant to stay wet indefinitely, but you should definitely be able to paint a few miniatures without it going dry. Keep a dropper bottle of water handy and put a few drops in at the corners of the sponge sheet intermittently, refresh the water level in there. Make sure the sponge is good and wet before you put your paper down on it, too.
For the burnished metal parts i use dark gun metal from the new game color range. It's a wonderful color for that, in my opinion. And thanks for the video. Little question, what are you doing when you must overpaint a xpress color? I've ordered the starterset and i'm testing it on an ambush starterset of mantics empire of dust. I'm using copper brown and mystic blue mostly. And i couldn't overpaint the colors. Is that normal? I don't know exactly why the contrasts/speedpaints/xpresscolors are the way to go. 😅 Enough, time to get some schnitzels. Best greetings from tyrol. 🤙🏻
It's a combination of the rising heat in my room under the lights (uh-oh, summer's gonna suck) and the texture from the drybrushing. You could just paint from a white primer and get rid of that, or a little touch of medium will help mitigate it a bit.
So then, my wish list for the old speed painting techniques are many and diverse, ie/ US Airborne, US Infantry (Winter), Italian Bersaglieri, German Panzer Grenadiers (Winter), German Fallschirmjager, British Paratroopers, Commonwealth Infantry (Pacific War Zone), Japanese Infantry (Army), Deutsche Afrika Korps, 8th Army & Finnish troops! You know just to keep you out of mischief like and not because my pile of shame includes all of these armies for Bolt Action and also many types of WW2 vehicles for each army...
Sonic weird request, could you do some models from Infinity the game or 3d prints similar to Infinity models 🤔? ( with some slapchoppy action ) Thanks for awesome videos still 🥰
There's a video using Contrast on a cyberpunk-themed miniature a while back, he's very bright yellow - hard to miss the thumbnail if you search 'cyberpunk' on the channel here! I have to admit I'm not a fan of the Infinity miniatures so those specifically aren't going to show up on the channel, but that guide might have some useful suggestions.
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Love that pencil trick at the end! Gonna give it a go
The Vallejo Xpress Speed Paints do a good job and I am impressed with the color of the jacket as it looks very authentic. Thanks for sharing this.
Love it! We're going to need the bolt action late war airborne next 😉
Ive mixed up some of your techniques. I prime in white and then paint the mud wash featured in some old vids of yours! I then use the speed paints and it works perfectly! The best way to paint rank and file for good quick table top results
Thank you , Troy .
🐺 Loupis Canis .
Very sharp looking!
Literally just the other day someone asked about this on the Army Painter Fan Page on FB and I suggested that perhaps they recommend to you a video idea of US Troops done only with Speedpaints 🤣
I'd kinda resigned myself to the fact that once I'd done the German Grenadiers, everyone else was going to need a swing at bat. 😂
@@SonicSledgehammerStudioI’m the guilty party here! That was me😂. Thanks for doing this video right as I was asking and needing it. Your talent is amazing sir! Thanks for all the videos, you constantly help me out and I appreciate it!
Thanks for replying on my post and also pointing out to me the release of this video. I appreciate your help! @richardrussell7082
This is great!! Now I’m about to paint the newest battle of the bulge starter set from warlord- how do I do the white uniforms with speed paint??
Fantastic! I love your guides and your timing for speed-painting BA figures is perfect, as I am just starting in the hobby. I would love to see a US airborne (M42 D-day scheme) and Waffen SS in this series as well! Thanks for all these wonderful guides!
@SonicSledgehammerStudios just curious, is this the same scheme u used on the United States infantry squad from Marcher: Empires at War? I saw the photos on MyMIniFactory and was curious about the paint scheme you used
This will be a very useful series for my friends who want to play bolt action but are intimidated by painting!
Another great one,
Looks cool. 👍
Fine work once again. A whole company of lads painted like that would look fairly striking, I think. Unsolicited Geardo nitpick - the chinstrap on the rear of the helmet should be khaki webbing - only the front strap (for the helmet liner) was leather. Still very fine work in any case. Cheers!
Ah, nuts! I always forget that rear strap! Somehow I only ever think of the chin strap being canvas, and completely forget the rear one. I don't mind it being pointed out, I just wish I'd remember it next time! 😂
Ah, nuts! I always forget that rear strap! Somehow I only ever think of the chin strap being canvas, and completely forget the rear one. I don't mind it being pointed out, I just wish I'd remember it next time! 😂
Love your tuto !
What would be your recommended recipe for Aly's Brown Liquid now with some of the changes to Army Painter and Citadel washes lately?
Again a very good tutorial.
You mention several times that it doesn't quite resemble the historic colours in some areas, where would you not use the speed paints but use regular acrylics?
If I were aiming for accuracy, I'd swap out the speed paints entirely and just use acrylics. Mixing and matching them on the same miniature doesn't quite work style-wise, I find.
I have a dumb question. How do you keep your hydro paper from drying out on your wet pallet? Mine is always drying out while I paint and I can't figure out why
Hopefully you've got the sponge sheet underneath the paper? Remember that they aren't meant to stay wet indefinitely, but you should definitely be able to paint a few miniatures without it going dry. Keep a dropper bottle of water handy and put a few drops in at the corners of the sponge sheet intermittently, refresh the water level in there. Make sure the sponge is good and wet before you put your paper down on it, too.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I'll give the dropper bottle a try. That's where it starts drying out is the edges. Thanks for the advice!
Yh this my problem as well haven't been able to finish any bolt action or warhammer because of wet palette drying up all the time.
For the burnished metal parts i use dark gun metal from the new game color range. It's a wonderful color for that, in my opinion. And thanks for the video.
Little question, what are you doing when you must overpaint a xpress color? I've ordered the starterset and i'm testing it on an ambush starterset of mantics empire of dust. I'm using copper brown and mystic blue mostly. And i couldn't overpaint the colors. Is that normal? I don't know exactly why the contrasts/speedpaints/xpresscolors are the way to go. 😅
Enough, time to get some schnitzels.
Best greetings from tyrol. 🤙🏻
Theres a weird grainy finish on the xpress colors that looks really off
It's a combination of the rising heat in my room under the lights (uh-oh, summer's gonna suck) and the texture from the drybrushing. You could just paint from a white primer and get rid of that, or a little touch of medium will help mitigate it a bit.
Soviet infantry? I’ve done most of mine already with contrast but wouldn’t mind seeing how you do it
So then, my wish list for the old speed painting techniques are many and diverse, ie/ US Airborne, US Infantry (Winter), Italian Bersaglieri, German Panzer Grenadiers (Winter), German Fallschirmjager, British Paratroopers, Commonwealth Infantry (Pacific War Zone), Japanese Infantry (Army), Deutsche Afrika Korps, 8th Army & Finnish troops! You know just to keep you out of mischief like and not because my pile of shame includes all of these armies for Bolt Action and also many types of WW2 vehicles for each army...
2B or not 2B? 😛
Sonic weird request, could you do some models from Infinity the game or 3d prints similar to Infinity models 🤔? ( with some slapchoppy action )
Thanks for awesome videos still 🥰
There's a video using Contrast on a cyberpunk-themed miniature a while back, he's very bright yellow - hard to miss the thumbnail if you search 'cyberpunk' on the channel here! I have to admit I'm not a fan of the Infinity miniatures so those specifically aren't going to show up on the channel, but that guide might have some useful suggestions.