The no fear thing is so important. I go to a local gaming store every Wednesday to paint as a way to support the store. Even though I have been painting for years, I am still an amateur, but a pretty good one. I have folks thag join me and whenever they say, "but what if I mess up?" I tell them, "Strip it. Paint over it. Try again. It is just plastic and paint. I mess up all the time."
@ddarroch9 awe! Thanks. I do a ton of hobbies and painting is probably the least stressful for that very reason. I mess up cutting a pattern for a sewing project that could mean I have ruined an entire piece of fabric. Screwing up a recipe means that I just wasted ingredients. But painting? The worst that can happen is I start again. I have my husband's entire Blood Bowl team that I started, hated how it was turning out, so I am just going to strip it and start again.
Number two is a reworded version of "thin your paints." I started painting minis in june of this. I started by watching every beginner tutorial I could find. I'd be willing to bet every one of them said something about thinning your paint. I think I finally fully unstood that in the last week while painting the forest dwarf that came with the Squidmar paint set. As for quality materials.. I was once told by a mentor, "sh!t in, sh!t out," if you use sub quality materials, you're going to produce sub quality work. At the very least, you're going to struggle to achieve mediocre results. One should definitely get the best quality one can afford. Great video.
I think thinning your paints only tells about half the truth and can be a bit misleading. Hopefully these steps make it more clear the process of thinning/loading the brush
@@SquidmarMiniatures so true. When I started using acrylic paint about 30 years ago, we didn't have UA-cam tutorials. I ruined a lot of paint by adding too much water.
A lot of hobby paints are already thin, and especially if you're using a wet palette, don't need to be thinned more if you're basecoating. So yeah, "thin your paints" is an oversimplification of a fundamental skill that deserves more than a perfunctory aphorism. There are three things you can control: 1) the consistency (how thin or thick) of the paint, 2) how hard you apply the brush and 3) the amount of paint on the brush. All three things are deceivingly complex skills to learn let alone master.
When i came back to the hobby i started with just few paints: black, white, green, red, blue and yellow. With them i was able to get 99% of colors i wanted by mixing them. Not only did it save me a lot of money by not buying 3 greens, but also this helped me understand how colors work much faster as i struggled with it before, so experimentation is the key
good advice that applies to other things as well. I'm a 3d artist, same rules apply. You don't need everything up front and there is lots of help to be found! Love you guys!
thats it I'm buying an airbrush. after 10 years painting I think I am at a very good level BUT I am one of the slowest painters I know, I hope it can be learnt alone tho Nice video !!
The last tip is actually legit. I was telling my buddies that with painting sometimes you just gotta send it. Go for it. Layer, blend, what have you. Just gotta try it
While I began painting, I watch a lot of tutorial and was scare not having enought patience. So for a try, I buy a bunch (a lot) of minis for low price and Army Painter Speedpaint kit. And, here I went. I enjoy painting, I try different "things". Having a magnifying glass hooked to my desk help me a lot. I've done mistake but I learn a lot since the last 2 years. I see how I improve my skill. And I know, I need to improve my brush control. Sometime, I make a break in my painting "job", to get it back later, not to get realy fed-up ;)
Couldn't agree more about tip #5! For every new army/project I start up, I make it my goal to try and learn one new technique. It doesn't even have to be something massive, it can be as simple as trying to use my airbrush more effectively. It has helped me improve greatly, and as a bonus, I feel a great sense of accomplishment after I am done!
MONUMENT hobbies paints! Some of the best on the market! I started with the old army painter and yeah, they were hard to work with, then I switched to Monument and WOW it is really night and day when I made the swap. I cannot recommend the company enough, so fun to work with
Yeah agreed, I love using them. I got into pro acryl after watching flameon and his legendary painting. I still use some of my citadel but tried to replace as many as I could.
@@kylekeenan3485 tbh most commonly available paint lines are really good. AK 3rd gen is great, old Vallejo model colour is mostly good (have not tried the new one), scale75 is great if you are experienced with it. Metallics on the other hand... Vallejo metal colour is the only choice for anything not gold.
Yeah, number 5 is my biggest pain it the ahh! Fear of failure is so big, I’m procrastinating for daaaays! 😅 Great video! I’ll start painting as soon as I come home.
Great tips! Wouldn't expected anything less 😉Cheat Code No.5 is probably the most important, not to be afraid to try new techniques which was & still is my biggest challenge 🖌
Re #5 Fear: It's so important to give yourself permission to be bad, cause bad = practice and practice is the only way to get better. I have this personal mantra "Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly" and I repeat this when I feel that perfection paralysis and fear kick in. Failure is learning, something is better than nothing, and willing yourself to be good without putting in work is not how you get better. I really wish someone had told me this in my teens when I stopped doing art thinking "I wasn't good" since that constant need for perfection just made me give up completely. Instead I lost out on nearly 2 decades of experience that would have made me a much better painter and artist. Don't let fear kill that creative spark inside.
Thanks for all of the tips. I recently discovered black basing and will never go back. I love the amount of control I have. I do some mini painting, but mostly I build plastic models (military and scifi). I base everything with Mr. Surfacer 1500 black, awesome stuff and can be sanded. Airbrush is a must as it helps build up the color more naturally. I am transferring theses techniques to painting minis and am very happy with the results. Again, great video and tips. My next goal is to start using wet pallets.
#5 10:13 I've recently gotten back into the hobby after about 16 years. I still have some of my old (metal!) minis and they are so poorly painted, I really want these new ones to be good. I've started and stopped so many times because of this exact reason. "If you're getting into this hobby and already bought your first minis kit, trust me in just a few weeks you'll have more minis than you can paint in your lifetime" me: turns around to my painting desk with a half painted Nighthaunt army on it with also 5 extra unopened boxes of minis of two different armies... Yeah, you've hit me right on the head there Emil, thank you for the reminder/push
Aproach without fear, a huge one. I just got an airbrush, did some painting on skin tones with some minis! Ya... it looked good half way through, but just over white blown out at the end, highlight color was too much and to broad, should just use a brush for that.... Oh well, next day, I just repaint them all a strong red base and start over! Airbrush is really thing layers so didn't even need to clean the old paint off, but you get the idea. Second days results came out better, and I'll probably do better in the future too. But this is because I do just try it if I want to. If it works... yay, it looks good. And I maybe know how to do that again. If not... yay, I learned something to avoid or what not to do, in future experimentation I'll know to avoid that. You learn more from failure than success, and if you're afraid of failure, you'll rarely gain much success either. If hand painting, you can wash the paint off a mini if it comes off badly if you only got one or two minis to paint. Or if doing thin coats just add a few more it might be fine. Now, if you're doing a timed present for someones birthday or something, sure, play it a little more safe (still not completely) but in general painting for yourself, all that matters is you enjoy it. If you mess it up, so what, you're back where you were when you started but with more experience at the worst. Now if you barely have any time, then it's a question of your goal, just get ok looking minis for a game maybe... but if you want to get better at painting, the mini itself, doesn't actually matter until you decide it does. A mini I paint means nothing, until I've finished painting and called it done, up till that point it's all just work to reach what I want, even if that involves messing it up and trying again. If you did a really good part of one step, that you really don't want to risk losing, try varnish layers in the middle to protect them, but even then if you start over you get a chance to try that good part again and make it so you can do that great bit consistently and not just occasionally. So ya, just stop, remember it don't matter if your mini gets ruined while painting, and just keep working as you want until you are happy with the end result. Also helps you not get as stressed with messed up brush strokes, fingerprints or smudges or dropping it and other things. Stuff happens, oh well, just make it work however you can in the end, it's all part of the experience.
Great Video. A few things that might help me improve and get better. Would still love to have the Option to paint with sonebody locally and Share Progress. Good work Emil.
On a side note about black primers, I've started using mr surfacer's enamel based primers and never looked back. Although enamels are not beginner friendly, there are also water based alternatives and both alternatives give excellent coverage and paint adhesion.
seeing Squidmar sucking on the paint brush always makes me tense up, the thought of potentially consuming cadmium, cobalt or chromium keeps me up at night
It should be mentioned that of December 2024, Vallejo factory workers are striking right now, so there is a good reason to boycott them right now and get some other paints.
As a person who has to wear a glove on his off hand while he paints because the oil on my hands takes paint ..RIGHT off ..watching ya'll paint bare handed gives me a twitch lol.
You're not alone but I usually just avoid touching the paint. I suspect this is the same thing known as pee hands in the prop industry, if you handle foam does it turn yellow? Also used to corrode my glasses when I was kid, would wreck the metal touching my face.
Hi guys amazing video as always, i think you forgot to put the warframe link in the description ! Thanks for helping me finding motivation to slaying the grey !
I'm glad with what you said about a cheap airbrush. I'm just gonna buy the cheaper stuff and then upgrade to the nicer ones down the road. I know the airbrush is a crucial tool for painting a lot of minis...and trust me....I have more than a lot of minis.
It's one of those things, where the fancy airbrushes are quite expensive, and even if its somewhat being "dumsnål", the steep price increase might hinder some from getting in at all. And I'd rather have people try than not getting one.
Tip to "get rid of the fear": Practice painting with 3D-printed minis. It takes a lot of insecurity away if you know that you can just print another one instead of having to pay 40 € for a replacement set. I printed a Space Marine to try out the standard Ultramarines scheme (only painted Tyranids for 20 years, so I have practically never painted any armor whatsoever) and it worked so well that now I am finally starting to paint the multi-thousands-of-points Space Marines army I got from the Conquest and Imperium collection magazine.
El cheapo helpful airbrushes can be found at Biltema, Clas Ohlson and Jula here in Sweden as well. They're basic but decent to just dip your tippytoes into the murky depths of the airbrush abyss.
I used to use a lot of white primer, but one thing i learned with experience, is that there is never really a moment where a white prime is better than black. If i want vibrancy i apply flat white over my black prime, but I always start from black.
Definitely learned something that is you have a second channel and it’s a tutorial channel I’m sorry to say this but I don’t know the next time I’ll see a video on this channel I’m off to watch every episode of the other
Hope you guys read this. (Feedback) This is great stuff. Love the stuff you guys do but, please paint game size minis!!! It's so much harder to paint smaller minis and when you show how smooth and easy it is to paint 70 mm it's a lie. Wish all of the painters would pain lt 25-28 mm. Thanks for all the content. Love the work you guys put into it.
My advice to avoid burnout when painting. Don’t go OTT on your troops, it’s not worth your time. HQs sure. I’ve wasted so much time doing all this zenithal stuff on my Ultramarines. The most tedious part imo of mini painting is getting the primary base paint on minis. Maxragg blue for Ums for instance. You ve got to get multiple even coats and you miss spots and the diluted paint takes ages and you need to do this to a squad of 10 and so on. Just spray the guy blue and it bypasses the largest and most tedious step. Want a zenithal highlight? Use a brighter blue and drybrish it on. The local Warhammer store does this. even they don’t get eavy metal on their grunts. Unless you’re a commission painter, save yourself the time. Think about it, It’ll give you time to play 40k. I got burnt out badly. I’ve still got the leviathan box to do (just the SM half) I’ve done 3 of the HQs this week. I don’t regret it. Sprayed it on then highlighted caledor sky.
A good 3d printer doesn't directly improve your painting, but it costs a little more than Warhammer starter box. You will end up saving you so much money if you intend to build armies, so you can afford more paints & tools in the long run.
1:20 what about gray?; isstill easy to do go like blacks and estill to go like yellows or white; and alos fine for contsrast or liek oder speed paints one coat solutions?
Im looking at geting a airbrush and have watched a lot of vidios on it. But im wondering in the normal airbrush and compressor from Biltema would be good enuthe for a beginner! Dose anyone (that knows what biltema is) have a opinion on this? All help is apreseated!
Do these things, and your models will look like you are a better painter than you are... and guess what? When you are done, and the result looks great, this IS how good a painter you are 🙂
I have an airbrush but my dog freaks out with it… she’s perfectly fine with fireworks and other loud things… but an airbrush is where she draws the line…
I think cheat code 6 was definately the most important in my learning curve, shitty brush + good paint is manageable but good brush + shitty paint is worse
Thank you. Getting over the fear is a huge mental barrier for a lot of people. I teach music and this is a concept I have to go over with every student. Do not be afraid to make mistakes. How are you going to learn to play your instrument if you're afraid to make mistakes?
Or. If you really cant afford a good air brush, maybe you get lucky because you watch Zumikito and Emil gifts you his awesome airbrush! Thank you still sir!
@@SquidmarMiniatures I'm sorry, but I triplechecked all the links there and couldn't find it. Maby I'm missing something. 1st link goes to Warframe, Second Link to ur website where I can only see the evolution 2024 which is 180€, the third link to the full gear where the Airbrush section links to a 77$ airbrush (german link is broken btw). The 10$ Airbrush is nowhere to be found...maby I'm just blind thou...can u give me a direct link or the name of the product? Thanks for the great videos and amazing content you make!!
so your advice is you need fancy paints and not so cheap brush because the results will be better, but suddenly a 10 dollar airbrush seems ok, what a joke...
I still have the old Paasche airbrush i bought back in the 80s. No internet to learn from. No product reviews. No tutorials. Nothing. Model building magazines lacked an idiot's guide to airbrushing. Oh, and I was running unthinned Testors enamel through a siphon airbrush. That didn't help. I haven't touched the thing since 1990.
Super, vidéo je découvre la chaîne suite à la démonstration de l’aero ultra squidmar et j’adore votre style. Dégouté de ne plus pouvoir acheter la black édition de l’evolution 😢😢
@ I hope, for the moment I equip myself with the classic 2 in 1 squidmar evolution. I will follow with interest the continuation of your collaboration. See you soon
Im currently still struggling with the og army painter 55 color kit. They friggin suck but the i like the color range so i tough it out. I have a few vajello and citadel colors and have recently tried a couple contrasts and it has opened up some new avenues for me. I so want a bigger set of the newer vajello model paints but in my current situation in disability limbo (cant work due to spinal injury) and have no income until they decide one way or another. I have an H&S airbrush but havent used it on my minis bc my current situation doesnt allow me to use it anywhere but my garage. But i am trying to improve and think i am compared to when i first got bit by the warhammer bug back in 2013 lol.
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The no fear thing is so important. I go to a local gaming store every Wednesday to paint as a way to support the store. Even though I have been painting for years, I am still an amateur, but a pretty good one. I have folks thag join me and whenever they say, "but what if I mess up?" I tell them, "Strip it. Paint over it. Try again. It is just plastic and paint. I mess up all the time."
You're a gem Kelly! I'm definitely one of those people who would ask that question. Thank you
@ddarroch9 awe! Thanks. I do a ton of hobbies and painting is probably the least stressful for that very reason. I mess up cutting a pattern for a sewing project that could mean I have ruined an entire piece of fabric. Screwing up a recipe means that I just wasted ingredients.
But painting? The worst that can happen is I start again. I have my husband's entire Blood Bowl team that I started, hated how it was turning out, so I am just going to strip it and start again.
Number two is a reworded version of "thin your paints." I started painting minis in june of this. I started by watching every beginner tutorial I could find. I'd be willing to bet every one of them said something about thinning your paint. I think I finally fully unstood that in the last week while painting the forest dwarf that came with the Squidmar paint set. As for quality materials.. I was once told by a mentor, "sh!t in, sh!t out," if you use sub quality materials, you're going to produce sub quality work. At the very least, you're going to struggle to achieve mediocre results. One should definitely get the best quality one can afford. Great video.
I think thinning your paints only tells about half the truth and can be a bit misleading. Hopefully these steps make it more clear the process of thinning/loading the brush
@@SquidmarMiniatures so true. When I started using acrylic paint about 30 years ago, we didn't have UA-cam tutorials.
I ruined a lot of paint by adding too much water.
A lot of hobby paints are already thin, and especially if you're using a wet palette, don't need to be thinned more if you're basecoating. So yeah, "thin your paints" is an oversimplification of a fundamental skill that deserves more than a perfunctory aphorism. There are three things you can control: 1) the consistency (how thin or thick) of the paint, 2) how hard you apply the brush and 3) the amount of paint on the brush. All three things are deceivingly complex skills to learn let alone master.
When i came back to the hobby i started with just few paints: black, white, green, red, blue and yellow. With them i was able to get 99% of colors i wanted by mixing them. Not only did it save me a lot of money by not buying 3 greens, but also this helped me understand how colors work much faster as i struggled with it before, so experimentation is the key
good advice that applies to other things as well.
I'm a 3d artist, same rules apply. You don't need everything up front and there is lots of help to be found!
Love you guys!
thats it I'm buying an airbrush. after 10 years painting I think I am at a very good level BUT I am one of the slowest painters I know, I hope it can be learnt alone tho
Nice video !!
i came back to the hobby (wh) after 22 years and OMG this video is a GODSEND THANK YOU ❤
I'm glad I'm not the only one who took more than a decade break in my hobby
2:44 "Old and shitty eyes...." I feel personally attacked!! 😂
More a self report than anything lol
I feel vindicated, rather than attacked ;-)
HAHA I was just about to post this same comment lol
The last tip is actually legit. I was telling my buddies that with painting sometimes you just gotta send it. Go for it. Layer, blend, what have you. Just gotta try it
While I began painting, I watch a lot of tutorial and was scare not having enought patience. So for a try, I buy a bunch (a lot) of minis for low price and Army Painter Speedpaint kit. And, here I went. I enjoy painting, I try different "things". Having a magnifying glass hooked to my desk help me a lot. I've done mistake but I learn a lot since the last 2 years. I see how I improve my skill. And I know, I need to improve my brush control. Sometime, I make a break in my painting "job", to get it back later, not to get realy fed-up ;)
Army Painter is great for new painters !!!
Couldn't agree more about tip #5! For every new army/project I start up, I make it my goal to try and learn one new technique. It doesn't even have to be something massive, it can be as simple as trying to use my airbrush more effectively. It has helped me improve greatly, and as a bonus, I feel a great sense of accomplishment after I am done!
Loved the highlight demo on the paper towels. I finally understood the concept
MONUMENT hobbies paints! Some of the best on the market! I started with the old army painter and yeah, they were hard to work with, then I switched to Monument and WOW it is really night and day when I made the swap. I cannot recommend the company enough, so fun to work with
Yeah agreed, I love using them. I got into pro acryl after watching flameon and his legendary painting. I still use some of my citadel but tried to replace as many as I could.
@@kylekeenan3485 tbh most commonly available paint lines are really good. AK 3rd gen is great, old Vallejo model colour is mostly good (have not tried the new one), scale75 is great if you are experienced with it. Metallics on the other hand... Vallejo metal colour is the only choice for anything not gold.
Playing the 1999 update as I watch this video - 2 amazing things combined. Thanks!
A surprising thing I didn't expect
As an aspiring contrast-paint wizard who is terrified of the idea of edge-highlighting, this was pretty helpful
Thanks for the vids, I have improved a lot since starting but I have so much to learn, but your vids give me the motivation to continue on
CC #5 "get rid of the fear" spoke to me, so thank you.
Yeah, number 5 is my biggest pain it the ahh! Fear of failure is so big, I’m procrastinating for daaaays! 😅 Great video! I’ll start painting as soon as I come home.
Great tips! Wouldn't expected anything less 😉Cheat Code No.5 is probably the most important, not to be afraid to try new techniques which was & still is my biggest challenge 🖌
Re #5 Fear: It's so important to give yourself permission to be bad, cause bad = practice and practice is the only way to get better. I have this personal mantra "Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly" and I repeat this when I feel that perfection paralysis and fear kick in. Failure is learning, something is better than nothing, and willing yourself to be good without putting in work is not how you get better. I really wish someone had told me this in my teens when I stopped doing art thinking "I wasn't good" since that constant need for perfection just made me give up completely. Instead I lost out on nearly 2 decades of experience that would have made me a much better painter and artist. Don't let fear kill that creative spark inside.
Thanks for all of the tips. I recently discovered black basing and will never go back. I love the amount of control I have. I do some mini painting, but mostly I build plastic models (military and scifi). I base everything with Mr. Surfacer 1500 black, awesome stuff and can be sanded. Airbrush is a must as it helps build up the color more naturally. I am transferring theses techniques to painting minis and am very happy with the results. Again, great video and tips. My next goal is to start using wet pallets.
good video, good advice... need to watch it again... lol. Keep up the good work Emil.
Truly a must watch video for beginners !
#5 10:13
I've recently gotten back into the hobby after about 16 years. I still have some of my old (metal!) minis and they are so poorly painted, I really want these new ones to be good.
I've started and stopped so many times because of this exact reason.
"If you're getting into this hobby and already bought your first minis kit, trust me in just a few weeks you'll have more minis than you can paint in your lifetime"
me: turns around to my painting desk with a half painted Nighthaunt army on it with also 5 extra unopened boxes of minis of two different armies...
Yeah, you've hit me right on the head there Emil, thank you for the reminder/push
I'm also a returner to the hobby and I like finally painting the old metal minis, though my heart stops every time I drop one.
I paint with cadmium and cobalt colours; I'm not putting my brush in my mouth. Ha.
But cadmium is delicious!
Smert!
Luckily I use lead based paint, so I'll be fine, right?
My Marie Cure brand glowing radon paints are safe though right?
@thurkelofwarwick926 yeah you should be fine. It's not like there is any history that says it will go badly for you... did your tooth just fall out?
Aproach without fear, a huge one. I just got an airbrush, did some painting on skin tones with some minis! Ya... it looked good half way through, but just over white blown out at the end, highlight color was too much and to broad, should just use a brush for that.... Oh well, next day, I just repaint them all a strong red base and start over! Airbrush is really thing layers so didn't even need to clean the old paint off, but you get the idea. Second days results came out better, and I'll probably do better in the future too. But this is because I do just try it if I want to. If it works... yay, it looks good. And I maybe know how to do that again. If not... yay, I learned something to avoid or what not to do, in future experimentation I'll know to avoid that. You learn more from failure than success, and if you're afraid of failure, you'll rarely gain much success either.
If hand painting, you can wash the paint off a mini if it comes off badly if you only got one or two minis to paint. Or if doing thin coats just add a few more it might be fine. Now, if you're doing a timed present for someones birthday or something, sure, play it a little more safe (still not completely) but in general painting for yourself, all that matters is you enjoy it. If you mess it up, so what, you're back where you were when you started but with more experience at the worst. Now if you barely have any time, then it's a question of your goal, just get ok looking minis for a game maybe... but if you want to get better at painting, the mini itself, doesn't actually matter until you decide it does. A mini I paint means nothing, until I've finished painting and called it done, up till that point it's all just work to reach what I want, even if that involves messing it up and trying again. If you did a really good part of one step, that you really don't want to risk losing, try varnish layers in the middle to protect them, but even then if you start over you get a chance to try that good part again and make it so you can do that great bit consistently and not just occasionally. So ya, just stop, remember it don't matter if your mini gets ruined while painting, and just keep working as you want until you are happy with the end result. Also helps you not get as stressed with messed up brush strokes, fingerprints or smudges or dropping it and other things. Stuff happens, oh well, just make it work however you can in the end, it's all part of the experience.
I definitely try to Emilate your techniques. Great channel. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
These is very good general advice to become good at something art related.
Really love your content keep it up
Great Video. A few things that might help me improve and get better. Would still love to have the Option to paint with sonebody locally and Share Progress. Good work Emil.
On a side note about black primers, I've started using mr surfacer's enamel based primers and never looked back. Although enamels are not beginner friendly, there are also water based alternatives and both alternatives give excellent coverage and paint adhesion.
seeing Squidmar sucking on the paint brush always makes me tense up, the thought of potentially consuming cadmium, cobalt or chromium keeps me up at night
It should be mentioned that of December 2024, Vallejo factory workers are striking right now, so there is a good reason to boycott them right now and get some other paints.
mega video, thank you for the fast tipps
I feel lile 3 and 4 deserve there own much longer video with multiple examples, they will help people improve the most.
Thanks for the vid, definitely will do some of these next time I’m painting.
As a person who has to wear a glove on his off hand while he paints because the oil on my hands takes paint ..RIGHT off ..watching ya'll paint bare handed gives me a twitch lol.
You're not alone but I usually just avoid touching the paint. I suspect this is the same thing known as pee hands in the prop industry, if you handle foam does it turn yellow? Also used to corrode my glasses when I was kid, would wreck the metal touching my face.
Do you try using some harsh ass dish soap to wash your hands? Works for me
Hi guys amazing video as always, i think you forgot to put the warframe link in the description ! Thanks for helping me finding motivation to slaying the grey !
It's in the top. Do you run AdBlock?:)
Oh, I regret not seeing sooner that you have your own sets of paints. My wife bought a couple of the new Army Painter sets for Christmas gift ...
The new fanatic line is supposedly better:)
I'm glad with what you said about a cheap airbrush. I'm just gonna buy the cheaper stuff and then upgrade to the nicer ones down the road. I know the airbrush is a crucial tool for painting a lot of minis...and trust me....I have more than a lot of minis.
It's one of those things, where the fancy airbrushes are quite expensive, and even if its somewhat being "dumsnål", the steep price increase might hinder some from getting in at all. And I'd rather have people try than not getting one.
@@SquidmarMiniatures props
I haven't undercoated in black for years now...😂 😂 I always undercoat in either white or grey with no issues.
What a coincidence. I am a beginner on painting miniatures and I like warframe.
Using a red-brown primer in stead of black gives the model a feel of warmth and grounded in reality as shadows are never black 😊
I use grey, going up or down scale from there is easy
I sometimes use a red primer because I paint a lot of yellow.
Is it me, or is Emil compensating the lack of Lukas in this video by several spot on Lukas impressions? :P
Emil casually calling the minis chest "a flat surface" and i was like:
"Geez...he really left the gentleman in the closet today" 😆
i need zenithal prime or an eye transplant, painting Be'lakor w/o Zenithal would've had he blind
Tip to "get rid of the fear": Practice painting with 3D-printed minis. It takes a lot of insecurity away if you know that you can just print another one instead of having to pay 40 € for a replacement set. I printed a Space Marine to try out the standard Ultramarines scheme (only painted Tyranids for 20 years, so I have practically never painted any armor whatsoever) and it worked so well that now I am finally starting to paint the multi-thousands-of-points Space Marines army I got from the Conquest and Imperium collection magazine.
Very solid tip.
El cheapo helpful airbrushes can be found at Biltema, Clas Ohlson and Jula here in Sweden as well. They're basic but decent to just dip your tippytoes into the murky depths of the airbrush abyss.
I've tried these airbrushes too. I prefer the yellow one showed in this video. Honestly the one available at Biltema etc is my least favorite:)
When I started out for paints I only bought color's gonna use for my army. Then just slowly over time I evently got all of them if not most.
You are an amazing painter! (😉)
I used to use a lot of white primer, but one thing i learned with experience, is that there is never really a moment where a white prime is better than black. If i want vibrancy i apply flat white over my black prime, but I always start from black.
What size and model paint brushes do you use please?
I mostly use M and L from the Squidmar set
Definitely learned something that is you have a second channel and it’s a tutorial channel I’m sorry to say this but I don’t know the next time I’ll see a video on this channel I’m off to watch every episode of the other
Have ordered your fantasy set from H&S - really looking forward to it arriving for Christmas - if H&S can deliver on time !!
is there a compressor recommended to go with that cheap airbrush?
Number one tip. Just enjoy the process, including your mistakes, they will make you better
"Old and shitty eyes..." - thanks, Emil, for adressing your 'older' viewers too
Hope you guys read this. (Feedback)
This is great stuff. Love the stuff you guys do but, please paint game size minis!!! It's so much harder to paint smaller minis and when you show how smooth and easy it is to paint 70 mm it's a lie. Wish all of the painters would pain lt 25-28 mm.
Thanks for all the content. Love the work you guys put into it.
My advice to avoid burnout when painting. Don’t go OTT on your troops, it’s not worth your time. HQs sure. I’ve wasted so much time doing all this zenithal stuff on my Ultramarines.
The most tedious part imo of mini painting is getting the primary base paint on minis. Maxragg blue for Ums for instance. You ve got to get multiple even coats and you miss spots and the diluted paint takes ages and you need to do this to a squad of 10 and so on. Just spray the guy blue and it bypasses the largest and most tedious step.
Want a zenithal highlight? Use a brighter blue and drybrish it on.
The local Warhammer store does this. even they don’t get eavy metal on their grunts.
Unless you’re a commission painter, save yourself the time. Think about it, It’ll give you time to play 40k.
I got burnt out badly. I’ve still got the leviathan box to do (just the SM half) I’ve done 3 of the HQs this week. I don’t regret it.
Sprayed it on then highlighted caledor sky.
A question about airbrushes: do you absolutely nweed to paint with it iwith a mask to not breath in paint particles?
Not if you are using water based acrylic paint. You do need to be in a well ventilated space when you use the airbrush cleaner though
@@vincegamer Thx man!
A good 3d printer doesn't directly improve your painting, but it costs a little more than Warhammer starter box. You will end up saving you so much money if you intend to build armies, so you can afford more paints & tools in the long run.
Fab vid 🔥
Will you do a Christmas discount for the paint sets?
Thanks, ive had an airbrush for 2 years and ive used it once. xD Im too damn afraid to use it. But il try haha
Καλά και ευτυχισμένα Χριστούγεννα εύχομαι σε όλους στο κανάλι.
Where do i get good but cheap airbrush compressors?
1:20 what about gray?;
isstill easy to do go like blacks and estill to go like yellows or white; and alos fine for contsrast or liek oder speed paints one coat solutions?
I think you meant freestyle not freebase, freebase is an 80s technique 😄
I see your wet pallet is sold out, will this be coming back out, and will it be available in the uk? Thanks keep up the great vids
Does anyone know where I can find the paint dispenser shelves/racks they have I want to buy some for my home but can’t find them anywhere online.
Im looking at geting a airbrush and have watched a lot of vidios on it. But im wondering in the normal airbrush and compressor from Biltema would be good enuthe for a beginner! Dose anyone (that knows what biltema is) have a opinion on this? All help is apreseated!
Does zenithal highlight count as white primer tho?
Zenithal 😅
it is going on the top edges, so the negative of having white in the shadow areas is negated.
Do these things, and your models will look like you are a better painter than you are... and guess what? When you are done, and the result looks great, this IS how good a painter you are 🙂
I saw dude who was legit painting Imperial Fists 40k army (yellow colour scheme( from black undercoat and he was like "dayum is that painful'
I have an airbrush but my dog freaks out with it… she’s perfectly fine with fireworks and other loud things… but an airbrush is where she draws the line…
Rip 😔 might be a high pitched sound you can't hear from it?
No way warframe sponsor :O
Pretty cool huh 😍
I think cheat code 6 was definately the most important in my learning curve, shitty brush + good paint is manageable but good brush + shitty paint is worse
I love your content, but I wondering where you stand on current situation with Vallejo and the workers strike? Especially as you work with them.
Thank you. Getting over the fear is a huge mental barrier for a lot of people. I teach music and this is a concept I have to go over with every student. Do not be afraid to make mistakes. How are you going to learn to play your instrument if you're afraid to make mistakes?
Or. If you really cant afford a good air brush, maybe you get lucky because you watch Zumikito and Emil gifts you his awesome airbrush!
Thank you still sir!
Where is the link to that cheap airbrush?? :O
Video description
@@SquidmarMiniatures I'm sorry, but I triplechecked all the links there and couldn't find it. Maby I'm missing something. 1st link goes to Warframe, Second Link to ur website where I can only see the evolution 2024 which is 180€, the third link to the full gear where the Airbrush section links to a 77$ airbrush (german link is broken btw). The 10$ Airbrush is nowhere to be found...maby I'm just blind thou...can u give me a direct link or the name of the product? Thanks for the great videos and amazing content you make!!
@@DreamTricking must have missed saving the description.ive updated again
@@SquidmarMiniatures lovely!
i dont see the link for warframe mini protoform
Watching this the day after I got my white primer👀
"moist" the new Squidmar word.....
so your advice is you need fancy paints and not so cheap brush because the results will be better, but suddenly a 10 dollar airbrush seems ok, what a joke...
Meanwhile I am over here spraying my minis grey
I primed white one time and didn't do it again without a damn good reason. All the white crevices made me feel like I had screwed up the paint job.
yes, i have old shitty eyes, but most importantly i paint like 90% with contrast paints :D Wraithbone primer will stay.
I'm still in Dum Snol ! 😂
That old eyes comment hurt my soul
I still have the old Paasche airbrush i bought back in the 80s. No internet to learn from. No product reviews. No tutorials. Nothing. Model building magazines lacked an idiot's guide to airbrushing. Oh, and I was running unthinned Testors enamel through a siphon airbrush. That didn't help. I haven't touched the thing since 1990.
HE SAID VALLEJO PERFECTLY
Super, vidéo je découvre la chaîne suite à la démonstration de l’aero ultra squidmar et j’adore votre style. Dégouté de ne plus pouvoir acheter la black édition de l’evolution 😢😢
Maybe in the future there will be some more variants
@ I hope, for the moment I equip myself with the classic 2 in 1 squidmar evolution. I will follow with interest the continuation of your collaboration. See you soon
8:35 “its a flat surface” I assure you it is not 😂
I miss the 24h challenged
Im currently still struggling with the og army painter 55 color kit. They friggin suck but the i like the color range so i tough it out. I have a few vajello and citadel colors and have recently tried a couple contrasts and it has opened up some new avenues for me. I so want a bigger set of the newer vajello model paints but in my current situation in disability limbo (cant work due to spinal injury) and have no income until they decide one way or another. I have an H&S airbrush but havent used it on my minis bc my current situation doesnt allow me to use it anywhere but my garage. But i am trying to improve and think i am compared to when i first got bit by the warhammer bug back in 2013 lol.
Lol warhammer in title, warframe in the video :D
Bit of both in the video I hope 🤣
Remove excess water by placing brush up to your elbow in the mouth...... ready to paint
Did Papa Laborc put you up to that hand slap
You don’t have to paint it black white or a grey is sometimes better