Marco is a modern master. He demonstrates a complete understanding of the art and science of his work while sharing deep pragmatic insights for painters of all skill levels. Meanwhile, he is able to react with elasticity and flexibility to any challenge that may arise.
Wooow. Yes, yes, yes. Thank you Marco. Thank you very much. It's here. A different approach to paint a Space Marine. Ink and oils, and the combination is awesome. A new world to experiment and discover.
Your content is literally in a league of its own. Nobody should touch a brush before having seen your videos first, you are literally saving us from hundreds of hours of frustration every time you post something. Well done Marco, impressive work.
My jaw literally dropped when you did the oil blend. I've got a little sample oil paint kit that I've been planning on using to do the washing, so I figured I'd only use a few colors but now I guess I'll be using the whole range. Bravo.
Thanks! I used to work a lot on gunpla (that's where the name of channel comes from!) and I have a passion fo tanks; painting all these different things at the same time the boundaries between the different modelling styles became blurry
You're quickly becoming my favourite youtube minipainter. You share so much knowledge, and so many ideas and techniques that just makes me itch wanting to try them out. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who's been painting minis for roughly 25 years now, though on and off admittedly.
As someone who builds models and 1/16 resin figures. Oil paints are the best tool for all kinds of effects. From rain marks to rust and rust streaking, to shadows and highlights. Glad you jumped on board!!!
You've inspired me to do a whole army using techniques I've picked up from your videos, using inks, using transparency and opacity to create different effects on my models. Truly a gift to this community!
my mother is a realistic oil painter on canvas and when i first started painting my 40k 15 years ago oil was the first things i used because of her... funny how mom's usually know whats best for you haha..
Years of painting and looking guides online, and this in by far in my top 3 styles. Veramente bravo, tecnica a parte i video sono fatti strabene, ben strutturati, terminologia perfetta, spiegazioni approfondite. TOP
Excellent work for a simple space marine! I like that tip about using thinned out Tamiya putty for a fine texture effect. He looks like he works for a living, nice a gritty and fairly real, no shiny boy there!
Your videos like these have given me the courage to start integrate oil paint in my miniature painting, and I was really happy with my first attempt. I've already learned from the experience and know that I'll be even better at this technique on future projects.
This video has really unlocked the power of oil paints for me. I was trying to use them like washes and found they didn't cover evenly on large flat surfaces. What I was missing was the techniques you used here, now that I have them....the power! Thanks for the video.
Goodness. I wish I had discovered you sooner in my painting hobby. I've been watching your videos for 3 days and you are one of the first painters, of all the ones I've watched, alongside Sorastro, that has a distinct and powerful approach to technique at the level of making minis painting an art form.
And just today I ordered a small number of oil paints with the plan to use them as washes and blacklining predominantly. Now my eyes are opened and I see I should have just ordered a whole lot more as the use of oils is unlimited. I can't wait to see what else you can do with them! Thanks so much Marco. Keep it up.
This! I love your approach to shadows and contrasts, but I can't, for the life of me, figure out what to do with 90% black models (Blood Angels Death Company in my case). One option is to make everything dinged / rusty / dirty / dusty, but the Blood Angels are described as one of the most aesthetic chapters taking pride in their beauty, which makes me want to keep weathering quite light and add interest with color contrasts between base tones and shadows. No idea, how to do that with black...
Good. God. Your videos are filled with practical techniques. I am torn between rewatching them to properly digest them or going on to the next to be further amazed!
Clearly you made a huuuugggeeee progress over the years, not only in terms of the quality of the videos but painting technique as well. You are my top 1 YT master :)
Absolutely amazing Marco! Once again proving why you are amongst my favourite painters on UA-cam. You have inspired me to start a project of one marine from every main chapter, all as realistic and weathered as possible 😊
My dude, your videos are the best of all the miniature painter UA-camrs I subscribe to. Always super informative and you, more than any other UA-camr, have added tons of new tools and techniques to my arsenal. 10/10
A very, very good introduction into oils, damn you Marco first it was enamels, now its oil! You're like a fearless iconoclast destroying the prejudices of us wargamers have against anything non-acrylic!
I've already watched this about 5 times. Definitely giving this a go as I've been meaning to paint some Fists for a few years but always found something to distract me from the horror of painting yellow armour! Keep up the good work, Marco. Discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago and it's fast become a favourite.
“At this point, it’s a pretty boring Space Marine”… whilst showing something better than I’ve ever managed 😂 I’m going to try to figure out an equivalent approach for Dark Angels colours… anyone have any thoughts for good colours/paints/inks?
You have blown my mind. I've already been experimenting with the oil washes and q tips and it has been a revelation. This technique will be fun to try. Thanks Marco
So let me start by saying I was a little leary, but that is one amazing looking Space Marine! I don't know how I'd never seen that trick with the plastic cement and putty but it really made the ceramite armor look convincing. It really all hit another level though when you started playing around with the oil paints; you've convinced me I should start incorporating oil paints into more of my projects.
Confusion at its best. Don't get me wrong, I mean it in the best way possible. What we see here is an effort to create so much noise to the point where one does not know if they are seeing shadows/battle damage/reflections etc, and that means more freedom = less stress. Well done, sir!
Whenever I think I've seen all your tricks, you amaze me again with your next clever technique. I learn so incredibly much from you about how to think outside the box when painting, and how your techniques are dictated by one's subject matter. Thank you so much for your insights! Cheers, and keep it up!
Hi Marco, I love the way you mix techniques with oil paints and acrylic paints. I want to see mor videos mixing this two techniques with oil paints. Thank you!!
So glad you have this channel Marco. Getting back into painting after a 20 year hiatus, and you have given me tons of inspiration and great ideas to work with. Might be the accent, you are the Da Vinci of miniature painting! Keep up the good work!
Haha practicing you techniques had me move from my typical painting and some Imperial Fists I was working on to really having fun painting some Death Guard. Now I'm going to have to go back to working on my Imperial Fists.
I always remember that at the end of the day it’s all about Grim Dark. Heavy combat,lots of smoke,blood,fire,dirt and all the the other things that come with war. This is my ideal Space Marine. Thanks for putty coating idea 🙏
This is great stuff Marco. Love how you explain and highlight these techniques. I’ve been experimenting a little with oils but have grown bolder after watching your stuff. Plan to do a lot more with it in upcoming projects.
Airbrush for alot of the base. It makes things alot easier. Thats the big one for me. If you havnt got one then its alot more difficult and time consuming.
Ok I'm sold! Picked up a 12 colour starter student oils set reduced to £3 at Hobbycraft and the quality is fine I use them a lot more subtly than you did on this figure - lack of confidence so far - but the effects are infinitely adjustable and with three colours transitions are the smoothest I've ever managed with any technique. I'm now genuinely speed painting an army of vampires and ghouls with ink colour blocking over Zenithal and then this to paint the unnatural flesh tones, tie it together with a couple of colours of oil paint washes and reveal the underlying colours with Qtips they look better than any of the test models I spent hours on with acrylics. Gamechanger
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM You're happy? You can imagine how happy I am, one day I'll get these smooth transitions with acrylic layering or glazing but right now I the bigger the area to tackle, the easier to blend, little bit of final highlighting, bit of subtle edge highlighting on hard panels (not something I do much of but it seems to accent this style nicely). You well deserve to be more widely viewed for this stuff, it's solid gold and the effects are totally achievable for anyone that pays attention
There are such a bunch of clever tricks and cleary explained (and seemingly rather easy to realize, at least when you are seen doing it…) in so few minutes in your videos in general, and on this video in particular...it’s just incredible, inspiring and pure delight to watch ! I wish I could put a million blue thumbs (I can at least make a donation =)...Keep going !
Again this is next level of miniature painting. I am always inspired by your every video. if Caravaggio was painting space marines it would be like this
Knocked it out of the park again, Marco! Showing that relatively easy/quick techniques can achieve amazing results when done properly. Looking forward to seeing you use oils to achieve a clean look too *hint hint Bravo and grazie!
This is a brilliant, brilliant tutorial, Marco. Thank you so much for posting it. My only complaint would be that now I want to go back and re-paint all my old Space Marines using this technique!
Comming from a art background I always Hated acrylic due to the lack of control and volume it give while painting, and oil is according to me so much nicer (on canvas) and using them as washes, filter and for blending is a pure joy to see! great work :D
You continue to amaze man! Your videos are so great! Don't worry about getting lots of videos out quickly. These high quality demonstrations at a comfortable pace are all I could ask for.
Another awesome video ... I love the technique with the putty and glue .. think I'll give that a shot on my glaive-wraiths to make them look old and haggard :D - Thank you Marco :D
For oil paints, the water miscible ones are really easiest to use in our hobby. I’m looking forward more oil videos: I recently started painting using exclusively Holbein Duo Aqua, and the results are really nice, even though the process is longer than when using a mix of acrylics and oils.
MarcoFrisoniNJM I honestly haven’t seen any difference in texture or behavior. Note however that I still use a medium to dilute - acetate and oil from Grumbacher, it gives a Matt finish - I don’t use straight water (the water is only for washing everything).
Excellent, I love your style. Question: when you use the brush to blend the oil, do you use the same brush from one section of the armor to another? You clean it between one section and another? Or do you use different brushes to melt different combinations of colors and not get contaminated?
Thanks! I use the same brush just unloading the excess of paint on a piece of kitchen towel. Only if I have to drastically change tones I clean or change the brush
"This is a pretty boring Space Marine"
thats already better than anything ive done
😂😂😂
I was thinking the EXACT same thing after he said it. I'd be more than happy with "a pretty boring Space Marine".
well he's an imperial fist
I did a literal LOL when he said that. "Boring" is definitely relative to your skill level!
X5
Marco is a modern master. He demonstrates a complete understanding of the art and science of his work while sharing deep pragmatic insights for painters of all skill levels. Meanwhile, he is able to react with elasticity and flexibility to any challenge that may arise.
Wooow. Yes, yes, yes. Thank you Marco. Thank you very much. It's here. A different approach to paint a Space Marine. Ink and oils, and the combination is awesome. A new world to experiment and discover.
You have really opened my mind to the world outside of the Games Workshop style of painting and building. Texturing the armour blew my mind!
Your content is literally in a league of its own. Nobody should touch a brush before having seen your videos first, you are literally saving us from hundreds of hours of frustration every time you post something. Well done Marco, impressive work.
My jaw literally dropped when you did the oil blend. I've got a little sample oil paint kit that I've been planning on using to do the washing, so I figured I'd only use a few colors but now I guess I'll be using the whole range. Bravo.
The oils can be very helpful, especially if you use them with flesh tones...the transitions are great with practice.
Blending with oils will be a revelation to you bud, they're amazing and dead easy to use unlike acrylics
I have never been so motivated or inspired by a tutorial before. Your openness and enthusiasm is hugely appreciated. Thank you, so so much!
Jeeeeez that's so freaking sick. I LOVE space marines done realistically.
The amount I learn from these is just incredible.
I'd love to see you work on something that is supposed to be "pretty" like an elf.
Yes please! That would be great!
Perhaps the new high elves when they're released?
@@Scaggler I said pretty. BURN! Those things are dreadful!
@@ZipZapRap1981 Battle cattle for the win
The only pretty elf is a dead elf ! - kind regards the Imperium
It's great to see more mini painters using the techniques common to armor, aircraft and gunpla. They can make some terrific realistic weathering
Thanks! I used to work a lot on gunpla (that's where the name of channel comes from!) and I have a passion fo tanks; painting all these different things at the same time the boundaries between the different modelling styles became blurry
You're quickly becoming my favourite youtube minipainter. You share so much knowledge, and so many ideas and techniques that just makes me itch wanting to try them out. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who's been painting minis for roughly 25 years now, though on and off admittedly.
As someone who builds models and 1/16 resin figures. Oil paints are the best tool for all kinds of effects. From rain marks to rust and rust streaking, to shadows and highlights. Glad you jumped on board!!!
You are a some kind of a God of Painting. This simple dots... This is the day when I am going to buy oils paints and inks. Thank you.
You've inspired me to do a whole army using techniques I've picked up from your videos, using inks, using transparency and opacity to create different effects on my models. Truly a gift to this community!
😍 I need to see the WIP and can't wait for the final result 😍
Man your tutorials are good. I have watched countless channels and yours is much more informative and insightful then any other by a huge margin.
my mother is a realistic oil painter on canvas and when i first started painting my 40k 15 years ago oil was the first things i used because of her... funny how mom's usually know whats best for you haha..
😁😁😁😁😁😁
Inspiring mastery: conceiving the result, multiple paint types, technique, and all clearly, enjoyably explained. Thank you!
Great work Marco! watched this video twenty plus times, and now I have my next army.
😁😍😁😍😁😍 Awesome!!!
Years of painting and looking guides online, and this in by far in my top 3 styles. Veramente bravo, tecnica a parte i video sono fatti strabene, ben strutturati, terminologia perfetta, spiegazioni approfondite. TOP
Grazie infinite!!! Davvero davvero di cuore!!!
So excited to see your approach to black
Love the use of oils and acrylic... amazing
Excellent work for a simple space marine! I like that tip about using thinned out Tamiya putty for a fine texture effect. He looks like he works for a living, nice a gritty and fairly real, no shiny boy there!
As I get older and my eyesight is getting worse I find your technique with washes/ink/oilwashes very helpfull.
Your videos like these have given me the courage to start integrate oil paint in my miniature painting, and I was really happy with my first attempt. I've already learned from the experience and know that I'll be even better at this technique on future projects.
@12:23 The shadow you create there doubles as a fantastic layer of carbon scoring from the jump pack. Bravissimo!
This video has really unlocked the power of oil paints for me. I was trying to use them like washes and found they didn't cover evenly on large flat surfaces. What I was missing was the techniques you used here, now that I have them....the power! Thanks for the video.
😁😁😁
Now I'm waiting Black Templar.
You say it.
Go for it!!
Cheers from Italy!
complete, consise, and amazing. love your work.. and your approach well done sir.
Goodness. I wish I had discovered you sooner in my painting hobby. I've been watching your videos for 3 days and you are one of the first painters, of all the ones I've watched, alongside Sorastro, that has a distinct and powerful approach to technique at the level of making minis painting an art form.
And just today I ordered a small number of oil paints with the plan to use them as washes and blacklining predominantly. Now my eyes are opened and I see I should have just ordered a whole lot more as the use of oils is unlimited. I can't wait to see what else you can do with them! Thanks so much Marco. Keep it up.
Would love to see your take on black armor. I've got a couple dozen Raven Guard that could use this kinda love
This! I love your approach to shadows and contrasts, but I can't, for the life of me, figure out what to do with 90% black models (Blood Angels Death Company in my case). One option is to make everything dinged / rusty / dirty / dusty, but the Blood Angels are described as one of the most aesthetic chapters taking pride in their beauty, which makes me want to keep weathering quite light and add interest with color contrasts between base tones and shadows. No idea, how to do that with black...
Your style is 100% my aesthetic. I can’t wait to paint some fists
😁😍😁
The expansion of oil is already happening lol our boi Squidmar was toying with them but he did shout you out as where he got the idea
Good. God. Your videos are filled with practical techniques. I am torn between rewatching them to properly digest them or going on to the next to be further amazed!
Clearly you made a huuuugggeeee progress over the years, not only in terms of the quality of the videos but painting technique as well. You are my top 1 YT master :)
Fantastic video, one of my favourites of yours.
Absolutely amazing Marco! Once again proving why you are amongst my favourite painters on UA-cam. You have inspired me to start a project of one marine from every main chapter, all as realistic and weathered as possible 😊
Thanks a million😁😊😁!!! And great project 😉
Thank you for the idea with weathering the mini with glue and putty. I wanna make a "Rust Marine" one day and will remember that info!
Dear Jeebus... appreciate you giving us a walkthrough of your process!!!
My dude, your videos are the best of all the miniature painter UA-camrs I subscribe to. Always super informative and you, more than any other UA-camr, have added tons of new tools and techniques to my arsenal. 10/10
A very, very good introduction into oils, damn you Marco first it was enamels, now its oil! You're like a fearless iconoclast destroying the prejudices of us wargamers have against anything non-acrylic!
I've already watched this about 5 times. Definitely giving this a go as I've been meaning to paint some Fists for a few years but always found something to distract me from the horror of painting yellow armour!
Keep up the good work, Marco. Discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago and it's fast become a favourite.
Painting god! You Sir are a great teacher, I get so much info from one 25min video
😍 Thanks!!!
Oh my god.. this is the Michelangelo of Miniature painting.. what a great Paint Job.. i push the like Button.. greetings from Vienna🇦🇹🇦🇹
😁😊😁 Thank you sooooo much!!!
Fantastic
That’s absolutely beautiful.
“At this point, it’s a pretty boring Space Marine”… whilst showing something better than I’ve ever managed 😂
I’m going to try to figure out an equivalent approach for Dark Angels colours… anyone have any thoughts for good colours/paints/inks?
Liking the video before starts because you know the quality of this channel and don't need to watch it to know that it will be awesome.
😍 Thank you for your trust!!!
You have blown my mind. I've already been experimenting with the oil washes and q tips and it has been a revelation. This technique will be fun to try. Thanks Marco
So let me start by saying I was a little leary, but that is one amazing looking Space Marine! I don't know how I'd never seen that trick with the plastic cement and putty but it really made the ceramite armor look convincing. It really all hit another level though when you started playing around with the oil paints; you've convinced me I should start incorporating oil paints into more of my projects.
Bravo Marco. A fantastic paint job and brilliantly explained techniques
This has really given me some motivation to paint the space marines I've got lying around.
Confusion at its best. Don't get me wrong, I mean it in the best way possible. What we see here is an effort to create so much noise to the point where one does not know if they are seeing shadows/battle damage/reflections etc, and that means more freedom = less stress. Well done, sir!
Marco that was a fantastic tutorial for working in oils. thank you so much!
Wow just wow I always thought of oil paints as being difficult to master you sir are legend 👍🏻
Whenever I think I've seen all your tricks, you amaze me again with your next clever technique. I learn so incredibly much from you about how to think outside the box when painting, and how your techniques are dictated by one's subject matter. Thank you so much for your insights! Cheers, and keep it up!
😍😁
Man your great please don’t stop people love you.
Amazing skills, now I know what to aspire to with my mini painting.
Great techniques you can apply on any miniature! Awesome!
Hi Marco, I love the way you mix techniques with oil paints and acrylic paints. I want to see mor videos mixing this two techniques with oil paints. Thank you!!
Thanks!!! You'll love this week's video
I love these results. Amazing work and really well explained
Using putty to give texture is just BRILLIANT
So glad you have this channel Marco. Getting back into painting after a 20 year hiatus, and you have given me tons of inspiration and great ideas to work with. Might be the accent, you are the Da Vinci of miniature painting! Keep up the good work!
😁😁😁 Thank you soooooo much!!!
Id love to see something like Iron Warriors or Guardians of the Covenant. The metallics in your grimdark style
Haha practicing you techniques had me move from my typical painting and some Imperial Fists I was working on to really having fun painting some Death Guard. Now I'm going to have to go back to working on my Imperial Fists.
Amazing techniques, thank you for sharing this knowledge in such an easy to grasp way
you are the best! I'm adpting this for my new SM army
Great Fist! Cant wait for you to do a Space Wolf!!
Incredible technique. Thanks for sharing!
I always remember that at the end of the day it’s all about Grim Dark. Heavy combat,lots of smoke,blood,fire,dirt and all the the other things that come with war. This is my ideal Space Marine. Thanks for putty coating idea 🙏
I would love to see a Night Lord version of this. Truly a Legion deserving of Grim-Darkness if ever there was one.
This is great stuff Marco. Love how you explain and highlight these techniques. I’ve been experimenting a little with oils but have grown bolder after watching your stuff. Plan to do a lot more with it in upcoming projects.
"How to paint Space Marines my way..
...Step 1: practice for years to become unbelievably good at painting."
😂😁😂
Airbrush for alot of the base. It makes things alot easier. Thats the big one for me. If you havnt got one then its alot more difficult and time consuming.
Ok I'm sold! Picked up a 12 colour starter student oils set reduced to £3 at Hobbycraft and the quality is fine
I use them a lot more subtly than you did on this figure - lack of confidence so far - but the effects are infinitely adjustable and with three colours transitions are the smoothest I've ever managed with any technique.
I'm now genuinely speed painting an army of vampires and ghouls with ink colour blocking over Zenithal and then this to paint the unnatural flesh tones, tie it together with a couple of colours of oil paint washes and reveal the underlying colours with Qtips they look better than any of the test models I spent hours on with acrylics. Gamechanger
😁😍😊😍😊 So happy!
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM You're happy? You can imagine how happy I am, one day I'll get these smooth transitions with acrylic layering or glazing but right now I the bigger the area to tackle, the easier to blend, little bit of final highlighting, bit of subtle edge highlighting on hard panels (not something I do much of but it seems to accent this style nicely). You well deserve to be more widely viewed for this stuff, it's solid gold and the effects are totally achievable for anyone that pays attention
There are such a bunch of clever tricks and cleary explained (and seemingly rather easy to realize, at least when you are seen doing it…) in so few minutes in your videos in general, and on this video in particular...it’s just incredible, inspiring and pure delight to watch ! I wish I could put a million blue thumbs (I can at least make a donation =)...Keep going !
Thanks a million buddy!!! I have no words 😊 I hope I expressed better how much I appreciate this in the email 😉
Again this is next level of miniature painting. I am always inspired by your every video. if Caravaggio was painting space marines it would be like this
😍😍😍 too kind 😊😉😊!!! Thanks
We need MOAR of this "series", Marco ;)
Love your work and especially your presentation style. Very easy to get into and very informative. Ciao.
Before any paint is added the base color of the power armour with the putty alone looks great. I think you have figured out the solution to white.
Pigments powder weathering is nonsense after this video! Thanks for sharing your exp Marco!
Mind is blown. Yet again!! Can't wait to paint with you in a few weeks!!!
Stunning work Marco. Great video as always.
Knocked it out of the park again, Marco! Showing that relatively easy/quick techniques can achieve amazing results when done properly. Looking forward to seeing you use oils to achieve a clean look too *hint hint Bravo and grazie!
This is a brilliant, brilliant tutorial, Marco. Thank you so much for posting it. My only complaint would be that now I want to go back and re-paint all my old Space Marines using this technique!
Love your oil tutorials! Very inspiring.
best spacemarine I have EVER seen
Comming from a art background I always Hated acrylic due to the lack of control and volume it give while painting, and oil is according to me so much nicer (on canvas) and using them as washes, filter and for blending is a pure joy to see! great work :D
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Another great video Marco! Absolutely rammed full of game changing techniques! Thank you!
Mind blown, Thanks again Marco you are the best on UA-cam.
3:37 "Gritty and Dirty..." This has become a catchphrase in my house :-) Great stuff Marco!
You continue to amaze man! Your videos are so great! Don't worry about getting lots of videos out quickly. These high quality demonstrations at a comfortable pace are all I could ask for.
Thank you sooo much!!! 😉😁😉!!!
Another awesome video ... I love the technique with the putty and glue .. think I'll give that a shot on my glaive-wraiths to make them look old and haggard :D - Thank you Marco :D
Great video, I had been thinking of trying oils for a while and you've sold me on it!!
This tutorial is gold. Good stuff Marco
For oil paints, the water miscible ones are really easiest to use in our hobby. I’m looking forward more oil videos: I recently started painting using exclusively Holbein Duo Aqua, and the results are really nice, even though the process is longer than when using a mix of acrylics and oils.
They are a good alternative but in general I prefer the properties of real oils and white spirit and how they move and blend over the acrylic layer
MarcoFrisoniNJM I honestly haven’t seen any difference in texture or behavior. Note however that I still use a medium to dilute - acetate and oil from Grumbacher, it gives a Matt finish - I don’t use straight water (the water is only for washing everything).
Excellent, I love your style. Question: when you use the brush to blend the oil, do you use the same brush from one section of the armor to another? You clean it between one section and another? Or do you use different brushes to melt different combinations of colors and not get contaminated?
Thanks! I use the same brush just unloading the excess of paint on a piece of kitchen towel. Only if I have to drastically change tones I clean or change the brush
Fantastic work. You're a god among mortals.
😂 Exaggerated!!! Thanks man!!!
Very awesome, keep it up, brother!
Thanks a million man 😁!!! And said from someone who loves Imperial Fists as you do is even more appreciated 😉😊😉
Great results and beautiful painting once again Marco
Simply Amazing