unfortunately there is no tutorial for the Incubi, but it's not airbrushed at all. It took way too much time to actually compose a guide for it, but for the most part, it's just about sketching and glazing
@@Zumikito My master, I was hoping you would enlighten me on how to paint the teal dark eldar miniature. Could you please create a video tutorial for this model? I am able to paint cleanly; however my transition on glazing and blending are very poor. I hope one day I can learn this from you.
the volumetric shading looks good, but at that point I think you hit the Display/Play divide. If you're handling these all the time and need to varnish them to protect them, that higher level of painting is overkill and a detriment to to gameplay - the nice thing about a flat paint job is that it looks good anywhere on the table. Volumetric shading tends to have an ideal angle.
I can't express just how much watching Zumikito's videos helps me alleviate stress in life (not to mention the trove of painting knowledge they are). If no one's got me, I know Zumikito's got me ❤
you are right, but he deserved his "under loved" status himself, when he got into his new studio, employed his friends/wife and then got anxious about the money which woulnd't be enough suddenly to the time befor ehis studio and his videos changed from great to product placement extreme
I totally agree about miniac his video about wet blending changed the way I paint forever. Love you too btw, I'm now an osl master thanks to you. so cheers mate!!
Love this video - nothing new but great to have it reiterated. Mostly I only paint models to play with but I've always tried to make them stand out a bit and I've always wanted to invent my own colour schemes and basing still adds loads to how they look.
Don't get me wrong : I have immense respect for the 'eavy metal team, they've brought a LOT of attention to mini painting through their striking box art and they know what they're doing to attract customers to purchase GW's products. But I completely agree that their style really misguided people in terms of how to handle lighting and shading. Your fourth point is really the most important !
Starting in the 90s where there were no UA-cam videos to watch, GW had a really annoying habit of painting guides which were four steps. Basecoat, wash, drybrush, and then step 4 would be an eavy metal picture. So many of us got stuck thinking we just had to drybrush better, not realising there were a ton of other techniques we were missing.
I mean, the 'eavy Metal style, and the more basic 'GW style' they teach in all the official 'how to paint' material, are intended for a specific purpose; looking good on a tabletop when playing a game and seen from a distance. They are very definitely not the same, mind you, the official box art was not painted in anything like the same process GW outlines, but the ultimate aim is the same; the box art has the additional requirement of looking good on box covers, whereas the painting instructions have to be able to be followed by a ten year old who has never touched a mini paint brush before. That's why it doesn't really include volumetric highlighting and everything has bold edge highlights; if you're looking at them from a couple of metres away, edge highlights are probably more effective at making the model look good than volumetric effects, even though they look way worse if you inspect the model up close. More subtle effects are more likely to get lost at distance on all but the largest models. The first model he shows as an example would look almost as good as the other two seen from a gaming table's distance away, because the flaws are just not really visible from that far away. You'd not be able to tell the difference between no. 2 and 3 at all.
You got into it through Miniac too?! Dude that's wild, because you two are channels I consistently follow and return to. I think this video definitely told me what I needed to be told: I actually do need to commit 20 hours to 60 Space Marines. I have to cross the brush control threshold.
Another informative, interesting, educational vid. Thoroughly enjoy your vids whilst learning something and -trying to- get better with the wee Sticks of Hair. Cheers.
I think you're right about the order that could be different. I think most painters learn those skills in the order you showed, but now that I have reached your 4th step, I kind of regret I spent so much time with the first three steps. Now I would value volumes and creativity way more than brush skills. You will acquire brush control eventually anyway during your journey. For example one of my favorite UA-camr is Ataraxia Painting - who I think is a friend of yours. She admits herself she has limited patience and a quite rough painting style, though her volumes, shadows and lights are through the roof and her minis look so good, even if they are not very well defined... which by the way is less true now because she improved her brush skills and in the same amount of time she is now able to paint very refined models.
I myself actually went from Step 1 to 4 but now I am having to go back to Step 2 and 3 because volume and shadows look good but edge highlights really add extra and I have issues keeping a clean surface.
Man, you made me feel old. I still have thos Incubi in metal. And they were far from my oldest ones and I am only now going into the direction of not-knocking-out-tt-standard-asap.
My first improvement was when I stop playing and painting for my armee, but started painting for fun. but after a nearly 18 years break, there are a lot of stuff I need to relearn. But patience and concentration went automatically with the age :)
Thanks man. This was very helpful. You got one more subscriber. I'm currently hovering around three I guess, moving onto four. But I have to practice more on one and two as well :)
And here... I realized. I just want to paint the army fast and get it to the table and have it all themed nicely and look interesting more than I want beautiful minis.
Last year I got 90 Tyrannids from a friend to paint. The frist ones were awful,, but with the last ones I am at a point near step 2. I will see what I can reach. I can see the steps, you told in your video.
I'm in an interesting situation right now. I've recently started painting (Warhammer) minis, only just finished a 5 man squad of intercessors, having only painted the 3 infernus marines from the "marines+paints set" before. So yeah, I'm new to the actual painting, but I have been consuming 40k and mini painting media for a long while before picking up a brush. And the interesting part is that while I absolutely applaud all these pro painted minis and recognise their beauty and the brilliance of their detail (the NMM, OSL, blending, shading etc)...I just like the box art style more? Maybe it's just because at the moment that's the only reasonable state I can reach with my minis, and it will change as I (hopefully) get better? Or maybe it's the cognitive dissonance of those amazing minies "trying to look too real" vs me knowing they are just pieces of plastic?? We shall see...
i think it could also be wildly different on what you do with the minis. when you do a composition with minis as an artpiece, i think it needs a vastly different approach to when painting minis to simply play with them. not only the time commitment to paint an entire army like that but also... some sort of visual overstimulation? when you have this one mini and its the most detailed mini ever and truely an artpiece, it kind of stands on its own wich makes it unique, but having an entire army of over the top detailed artpieces kind of gets old eventually or overstimulates you with visuals, while kind of devaluing what made the one mini a piece of art? i dont know. i can see how actually playing the game with your army is a lot more calm and focused if you have rather minimalistic paints on that dont distract too much. so as an example with the 3 in the video: yes the one on the left artistically is WAY better, but i think i would prefer using the one in the middle to actually play with on someones table
Excellent video on the natural progression of Mini painting. Also cant get enough of how unbelievably smooth your Golden Demon Incubi entry was. Did you also use stipple blending for the green armor?
I went for a process of refining my draftsmanship skills myself in order to draw better, so I'm interested to see how much of my pen control will translate inoto brush control.
To leave the GW boxart behind seems always as the biggest improvement. I think composition and color theory will help to improve very fast and it's a separate skill to learn while not sitting at the paint desk.
biggest Zumikito lore dump from this video was that Miniac was his Ninja Sensei. Indirectly. But he was. He initiated him into the Ninja way. That's some lore.
"It's about using 2D techniques on a 3D medium." That's what's so exciting about discovering these videos because it means I already have a wealth of knowledge I can draw upon form working in 2D. Every video I saw before discovering the whole, "I deny your lighting and substitute my own!" technique of just straight up painting everything yourself with layers, I was deeply confused by all of the other techniques which made it seem as though all of the fundemental principles of visual art I'd been learning didn't apply to painting minis for some reason. -- But since they do, I can pretty much just ignore all of the silly shortcuts and buzzwor techniques, treat my minis like blank canvases, and concentrate on those delectibly smooth transitions!
I learn best when there's a defined path. But, the mini painting community is very "whatever you want will be great", which is counter productive for me. I have been trying to focus more on the 1st and second steps recently, after trying to jump to the refinement stage got me frustrated with the hobby. This video was the validation of my blind path forward that I needed. Gracias senior.
My first 6 months of painting I didn’t have any lamps, magnifying stands, or painting handles. Just me raw dogging the paint with poor lighting, my naked eye, and handling the model with my big meaty hands.
I just bought nemesis board game, and want to paint the figures. I’m a complete noob, only painting I did is rhe walls in my house xd Where should I start ? What set do I buy ? Colours would be black, dark green and maybe blue. But I think this can be a calming hobby, not a side hustle 🫣
I'm not the best miniature painter I'm afraid and I'm nowhere near as good as this guy but if you do want to get good, get into napoleonics. There are so many miniatures per unit and the details are so intricate that you're going to get good very fast
@Zumikito Very accurate video. I'm currently wanting to move from Incubi #2 to #3. My Harlequin army is above tabletop standard but I definitely need to push shadows. How do you approach this on an already painted model?
My name isn’t Zumikito, but my advice is: You don’t. Most of us have a pile of unpainted minis, so there are tons of opportunities to practice new skills. Let your previous work stand as a record of your progress. Incubi #2 is still pretty damn good, and I’d rather have an amazing mini with a pretty good mini than just one amazing mini.
I recommend painting infinity. If someone have to improve painting skills. For me it was the best option bcs Infinity is hard to paiting its other scale them Wh40k models.
I gave up try harding and have embraced good enough. I dont have a pile of shame anymore and I have a bunch of painted minis that I really like. Embracing mediocrity has saved my hobby.
i agree on that for the most part. but it goes for most things in life really, tho the word mediocracy is kind of falsely seen as bad. i am a little tired of putting some sort of competition into everything. why is something AWESOME? because you compare it to not so awesome things and you have to realize that yes you can learn this and that and get better to a certain degree, there is a reason why with everything in life there are only a few people with the awesome stuff. if we could all just sit down playing guitar and practice long enough...we would all be claptons right? if we all just play soccer all day every day, we all become some soccer pro player right? but thats not how it works because there is one major point: talent. if you dont have a talent for x profession, you will NEVER achieve the awesome stuff no matter how long you practice or try. and that is OKAY. however it can lead to some very toxic and unrealistic thinking that you compare your stuff to some awesome stuff most people dont have either. you kind of devalue yourself and put stress on. most things in life for their intended purpose have diminishing returns at some point where you can get better easily until a certain point and from there on it is incredibly hard to become even slighly better because you reached your limit and from there on, you have talent or you dont. if you paint to create art, yeah maybe try harder. but if you just wanna do some nice paints because you want to play with your army, really good enough is good enough.
If I allowed to add - spend some extra time for cleaning mold lines and filling up gaps, even consider priming and revisiting "artefacts" after. There is no freaking way you can paint it over and look neat with physicals imperfections.
I paint since 20 year over 400 mini of various size and i barely get to your oldest incuby. I still can't manage to properly thin my paint and my brush strike even if I tried all the different of method and brush can only apply big ass crap. I think I watch iver 300 tutorial too...
Unconsciously incompetent - You don't know what you don't know, so you don't have a relative point to improve from. Consciously incompetent - You have a relative point. Therefore, you have somewhat of an idea of how you need to improve and what to aim for. Consciously competent - You know what you know and what you need to learn, so you know what to focus on. Unconsciously competent - You know it so well that it usually becomes a subconscious reflex after a while. You can do pretty good without really thinking about it. If these sound familiar, it's the 4 stages of learning, or 4 stages of improvement. The only thing I hate about the majority of unconsciously competent people is that they tend to have no clue how to explain something. To them, it sounds simple. To anyone else, it sounds like gibberish. A university tutor trying to teach pre-schoolers and not understanding why they don't get it, but you actually explained it fairly well and recognised that talking about complex stuff in a beginner video in a very complex way doesn't work. 😊
I've finished the whole video, and... thank you for confirming my thoughts. Practice makes perfect. I went out of the hobby and return to it so many times... every time, after some minis painted i feel confident, my brushstrokes are better and results are cleaner. Every time I start a mini after a long break, I mess it up to the point beyond recognition. But, you say there is hope! I think if I'll be consistent, I may develop some skills. So... wish me luck.
Personally, with one specific exception, I do not like how models look with painted on shadows, and I also do not like non-metallic metals. The exception to both of these, is when there is supposed to be a light source in the model itself, For example, Plasma weapons, Necron gauss weapons, Trazyn's pokeballs, something that's on fire. Stuff like that. When there is something that is an obvious light source, absolutely do those things, but not by adding shadow, but adding brightness. It's just an artistic preference.
And the morale of this video is... Never, EVER, buy Finecast!..... But more seriously, the sculpture of the mini itself will be determinant for the result.
So you’re saying if I just buy $80 Windsor and newton brushes I’ll get the best results? Bet.
Місяць тому
I'm a self-admitted trash-tier mini-painter, and very new to the whole process. But I decided if it's gonna look like junk, I'm gonna lean even harder into it, which luckily works for someone painting 40k Orkz with their scrap-metal aesthetic. It might look like trash, but it's still MY trash. :P
I love your videos but man, is it even feasible to do all this for army painting? 😅 I'm knee deep in models and my priority is speed, all the time. Because I wanna get the army to the table. I hope I can slow down one day and refine my "craft", since I've only been at it for a couple of years. But in the meantime I don't think I can in good conscience spend 30+ on a single model when any given army is over 80 models each (and I have like 5, only one painted and working on two others at the time)
It really wouldn't matter if you "knew" all of this before starting or not because you still wouldn't know how to apply it without hours and hours of practice.
"If you repeat something so long and so many times, its inevitable that you'll get really good" - Only part of the vid that I disagree with. If you're doing it wrong, it won't matter how many times you do it, you'll still suck. I've learned this the hard way many times in life.
This video is possible because of people like you. Support the channel and view extra tutorials on my Patreon!
👉 www.patreon.com/zumikito
Is there a tutorial on the teal dark eldar on the patreon and is it airbrushed at all?
unfortunately there is no tutorial for the Incubi, but it's not airbrushed at all. It took way too much time to actually compose a guide for it, but for the most part, it's just about sketching and glazing
@@Zumikito My master, I was hoping you would enlighten me on how to paint the teal dark eldar miniature. Could you please create a video tutorial for this model? I am able to paint cleanly; however my transition on glazing and blending are very poor. I hope one day I can learn this from you.
TL;DR drink your paint water
Almost done that a few times....wish pre workouts didn't have such vibrant colours
@@scottyboy6269 i can smell colours
Drink nuln oil
Wash your paintbrush in your texture paint
Use your paint to thin down your tea!
Don’t forget to dip your brush into your coffee mug afterwards
Many a paint hath been drunk and many a beverage hath been soiled by my brush
My biggest jump will be first picking up the brush ^_^
Been watching your tips for when I do so next weekish.
Good luck, keep expectations low and just enjoy the process!
the volumetric shading looks good, but at that point I think you hit the Display/Play divide. If you're handling these all the time and need to varnish them to protect them, that higher level of painting is overkill and a detriment to to gameplay - the nice thing about a flat paint job is that it looks good anywhere on the table. Volumetric shading tends to have an ideal angle.
You've got a really good point there. I think it's also about preference for a natural/realistic look vs a stylized look.
I can't express just how much watching Zumikito's videos helps me alleviate stress in life (not to mention the trove of painting knowledge they are). If no one's got me, I know Zumikito's got me ❤
I think minic got a lot of people into progressing our minis and Scott is so under loved in the community
he was the first youtuber I started following on mini painting.
you are right, but he deserved his "under loved" status himself, when he got into his new studio, employed his friends/wife and then got anxious about the money which woulnd't be enough suddenly to the time befor ehis studio and his videos changed from great to product placement extreme
I just started a Drukhari project + i love you content + it's snowing actually = blessed, thank you
1st: Holy WOW those are BEAUTIFUL.
2nd: Thank you for the tips.
This truly will be helpful to new painters to understand how to progress ! GG
I totally agree about miniac his video about wet blending changed the way I paint forever. Love you too btw, I'm now an osl master thanks to you. so cheers mate!!
This is almost exactly how I progressed! I think I'm wrestling with volumes and shading now. Thank you for the very helpful video!
Love this video - nothing new but great to have it reiterated. Mostly I only paint models to play with but I've always tried to make them stand out a bit and I've always wanted to invent my own colour schemes and basing still adds loads to how they look.
Just like Miniac was your on ramp to better painting, you were mine! ❤
That blue drukhari is flippin amazing
your way of explanation really let me see how this work, thank you
Don't get me wrong : I have immense respect for the 'eavy metal team, they've brought a LOT of attention to mini painting through their striking box art and they know what they're doing to attract customers to purchase GW's products. But I completely agree that their style really misguided people in terms of how to handle lighting and shading. Your fourth point is really the most important !
Starting in the 90s where there were no UA-cam videos to watch, GW had a really annoying habit of painting guides which were four steps. Basecoat, wash, drybrush, and then step 4 would be an eavy metal picture. So many of us got stuck thinking we just had to drybrush better, not realising there were a ton of other techniques we were missing.
I mean, the 'eavy Metal style, and the more basic 'GW style' they teach in all the official 'how to paint' material, are intended for a specific purpose; looking good on a tabletop when playing a game and seen from a distance. They are very definitely not the same, mind you, the official box art was not painted in anything like the same process GW outlines, but the ultimate aim is the same; the box art has the additional requirement of looking good on box covers, whereas the painting instructions have to be able to be followed by a ten year old who has never touched a mini paint brush before.
That's why it doesn't really include volumetric highlighting and everything has bold edge highlights; if you're looking at them from a couple of metres away, edge highlights are probably more effective at making the model look good than volumetric effects, even though they look way worse if you inspect the model up close. More subtle effects are more likely to get lost at distance on all but the largest models.
The first model he shows as an example would look almost as good as the other two seen from a gaming table's distance away, because the flaws are just not really visible from that far away. You'd not be able to tell the difference between no. 2 and 3 at all.
You got into it through Miniac too?! Dude that's wild, because you two are channels I consistently follow and return to.
I think this video definitely told me what I needed to be told: I actually do need to commit 20 hours to 60 Space Marines. I have to cross the brush control threshold.
Another informative, interesting, educational vid. Thoroughly enjoy your vids whilst learning something and -trying to- get better with the wee Sticks of Hair. Cheers.
Cute comment. I agree.
I think you're right about the order that could be different. I think most painters learn those skills in the order you showed, but now that I have reached your 4th step, I kind of regret I spent so much time with the first three steps. Now I would value volumes and creativity way more than brush skills. You will acquire brush control eventually anyway during your journey. For example one of my favorite UA-camr is Ataraxia Painting - who I think is a friend of yours. She admits herself she has limited patience and a quite rough painting style, though her volumes, shadows and lights are through the roof and her minis look so good, even if they are not very well defined... which by the way is less true now because she improved her brush skills and in the same amount of time she is now able to paint very refined models.
I myself actually went from Step 1 to 4 but now I am having to go back to Step 2 and 3 because volume and shadows look good but edge highlights really add extra and I have issues keeping a clean surface.
Very much agree with this progression and great to see what my next logical step should be
Man, you made me feel old. I still have thos Incubi in metal. And they were far from my oldest ones and I am only now going into the direction of not-knocking-out-tt-standard-asap.
What 'cho sayin', youngster? Why, even when I buy new Eldar minis, they're metal! Heck, all o' them fancy "Dark Eldar" didn't even exist in my day! 👴
My first improvement was when I stop playing and painting for my armee, but started painting for fun. but after a nearly 18 years break, there are a lot of stuff I need to relearn.
But patience and concentration went automatically with the age :)
Thanks man. This was very helpful. You got one more subscriber. I'm currently hovering around three I guess, moving onto four. But I have to practice more on one and two as well :)
I just try to learn something new on each painting project. It’s been working pretty good so far. I haven’t stagnated once in my progression.
Funny, miniac got you into the deeper end of mini painting, then you got ME into it.
And here... I realized. I just want to paint the army fast and get it to the table and have it all themed nicely and look interesting more than I want beautiful minis.
Awesome as usual !
Last year I got 90 Tyrannids from a friend to paint. The frist ones were awful,, but with the last ones I am at a point near step 2.
I will see what I can reach. I can see the steps, you told in your video.
you forgot step 0.5 taste the paint straight off your brush.
I'm in an interesting situation right now. I've recently started painting (Warhammer) minis, only just finished a 5 man squad of intercessors, having only painted the 3 infernus marines from the "marines+paints set" before. So yeah, I'm new to the actual painting, but I have been consuming 40k and mini painting media for a long while before picking up a brush. And the interesting part is that while I absolutely applaud all these pro painted minis and recognise their beauty and the brilliance of their detail (the NMM, OSL, blending, shading etc)...I just like the box art style more? Maybe it's just because at the moment that's the only reasonable state I can reach with my minis, and it will change as I (hopefully) get better? Or maybe it's the cognitive dissonance of those amazing minies "trying to look too real" vs me knowing they are just pieces of plastic?? We shall see...
i think it could also be wildly different on what you do with the minis. when you do a composition with minis as an artpiece, i think it needs a vastly different approach to when painting minis to simply play with them. not only the time commitment to paint an entire army like that but also... some sort of visual overstimulation? when you have this one mini and its the most detailed mini ever and truely an artpiece, it kind of stands on its own wich makes it unique, but having an entire army of over the top detailed artpieces kind of gets old eventually or overstimulates you with visuals, while kind of devaluing what made the one mini a piece of art? i dont know. i can see how actually playing the game with your army is a lot more calm and focused if you have rather minimalistic paints on that dont distract too much.
so as an example with the 3 in the video: yes the one on the left artistically is WAY better, but i think i would prefer using the one in the middle to actually play with on someones table
Excellent video on the natural progression of Mini painting. Also cant get enough of how unbelievably smooth your Golden Demon Incubi entry was. Did you also use stipple blending for the green armor?
THanks Dude great primer and reminders and road map! Sincerely, Mini PNTR LVL 2.2!
Would love to see your take on Trench Crusade minis!
I feel this channel gets more and more 18+ with every video 😂
Your Incubi is very nive. Could you share the paints you use for it? I wish to paint a full army in this scheme :)
As always. A magician. Almost time to start the Blood Angels… first time I’ll be painting I’ll not be caring how long a model takes. 🙏🏼
Great Vid Zumi🎉 thx!
I went for a process of refining my draftsmanship skills myself in order to draw better, so I'm interested to see how much of my pen control will translate inoto brush control.
I like the colour scheme on the old one more though haha
Fantastic video
To leave the GW boxart behind seems always as the biggest improvement.
I think composition and color theory will help to improve very fast and it's a separate skill to learn while not sitting at the paint desk.
Thank you for this video. I got a lot of eye rolls, because I took 5 to 10 hours for each of my ork boyz.
biggest Zumikito lore dump from this video was that Miniac was his Ninja Sensei. Indirectly. But he was. He initiated him into the Ninja way. That's some lore.
The Meepo soundbite was unexpected lol
"It's about using 2D techniques on a 3D medium."
That's what's so exciting about discovering these videos because it means I already have a wealth of knowledge I can draw upon form working in 2D.
Every video I saw before discovering the whole, "I deny your lighting and substitute my own!" technique of just straight up painting everything yourself with layers, I was deeply confused by all of the other techniques which made it seem as though all of the fundemental principles of visual art I'd been learning didn't apply to painting minis for some reason.
-- But since they do, I can pretty much just ignore all of the silly shortcuts and buzzwor techniques, treat my minis like blank canvases, and concentrate on those delectibly smooth transitions!
I learn best when there's a defined path. But, the mini painting community is very "whatever you want will be great", which is counter productive for me. I have been trying to focus more on the 1st and second steps recently, after trying to jump to the refinement stage got me frustrated with the hobby. This video was the validation of my blind path forward that I needed. Gracias senior.
Yo brother thanks!! I love that shirt where can I get one????
You first duder looked pretty aight
My first 6 months of painting I didn’t have any lamps, magnifying stands, or painting handles. Just me raw dogging the paint with poor lighting, my naked eye, and handling the model with my big meaty hands.
Described my setup
awesome Video! like usual!
That shirt is fantastic hahaha
I just bought nemesis board game, and want to paint the figures. I’m a complete noob, only painting I did is rhe walls in my house xd
Where should I start ? What set do I buy ? Colours would be black, dark green and maybe blue.
But I think this can be a calming hobby, not a side hustle 🫣
1-5-2 for me so far, working on cleanliness for 3 now.
BABE WAKE UP! Papa Zumikito dropped a new video
I'm not the best miniature painter I'm afraid and I'm nowhere near as good as this guy but if you do want to get good, get into napoleonics. There are so many miniatures per unit and the details are so intricate that you're going to get good very fast
The Overshading cartoon look is too much, in my opinion. Great painting, though, mate 😊
What is the name of the mini at 9:30 ? It's so catchy
@Zumikito Very accurate video. I'm currently wanting to move from Incubi #2 to #3. My Harlequin army is above tabletop standard but I definitely need to push shadows. How do you approach this on an already painted model?
My name isn’t Zumikito, but my advice is: You don’t. Most of us have a pile of unpainted minis, so there are tons of opportunities to practice new skills. Let your previous work stand as a record of your progress. Incubi #2 is still pretty damn good, and I’d rather have an amazing mini with a pretty good mini than just one amazing mini.
That's my problem it's an entire 3k army. I could do it with an airbrush but not while I'm in an apartment @@Gladius-XC
Hi! Where can I get that lady figure you were painting? Morigan iirc
I saw some on ebay
they are really expensive though
What would you recommend on refining the edge highlights to be smaller? I am a fellow drukhari so the minis are really small, or i am clueless haha
Is there a vidéo with white scars from’this one ?
Huh, now I don't feel like too much of crazy person on how much time I'm investing in my Risen army. Thanks! 👍
Seven words for our robot overlords. Seven.
Thanks =)
Fine cast. More like not so fine cast. What kind of product snaps while you lightly dry brush it?
I recommend painting infinity. If someone have to improve painting skills. For me it was the best option bcs Infinity is hard to paiting its other scale them Wh40k models.
God... I so f*** love your videos. I really missed you recently!
2:14 - I think you’re supposed to erase the back of the halo so his head is inside of it instead of behind.
I saw Miniac walking his dogs once.
My brush control is terrible. I don't think this is a thing I can fast track. Plus, I want the crazy gains, lets go!
I gave up try harding and have embraced good enough. I dont have a pile of shame anymore and I have a bunch of painted minis that I really like.
Embracing mediocrity has saved my hobby.
i agree on that for the most part. but it goes for most things in life really, tho the word mediocracy is kind of falsely seen as bad. i am a little tired of putting some sort of competition into everything. why is something AWESOME? because you compare it to not so awesome things and you have to realize that yes you can learn this and that and get better to a certain degree, there is a reason why with everything in life there are only a few people with the awesome stuff. if we could all just sit down playing guitar and practice long enough...we would all be claptons right? if we all just play soccer all day every day, we all become some soccer pro player right? but thats not how it works because there is one major point: talent.
if you dont have a talent for x profession, you will NEVER achieve the awesome stuff no matter how long you practice or try. and that is OKAY. however it can lead to some very toxic and unrealistic thinking that you compare your stuff to some awesome stuff most people dont have either. you kind of devalue yourself and put stress on.
most things in life for their intended purpose have diminishing returns at some point where you can get better easily until a certain point and from there on it is incredibly hard to become even slighly better because you reached your limit and from there on, you have talent or you dont. if you paint to create art, yeah maybe try harder. but if you just wanna do some nice paints because you want to play with your army, really good enough is good enough.
@ well said 👌🏻
Hey, I watch Miniac, too. I'll like this guy's video and sub!
If I allowed to add - spend some extra time for cleaning mold lines and filling up gaps, even consider priming and revisiting "artefacts" after. There is no freaking way you can paint it over and look neat with physicals imperfections.
I paint with my Night Vision goggles 😀
Wicked need some drukhari advice
It's a small job, but someone has to do it 😅
I paint since 20 year over 400 mini of various size and i barely get to your oldest incuby. I still can't manage to properly thin my paint and my brush strike even if I tried all the different of method and brush can only apply big ass crap. I think I watch iver 300 tutorial too...
You're right. Nobody should ever paint their minis black unless the lore insists on it.
I miss badab black
Skibidi black
Unconsciously incompetent - You don't know what you don't know, so you don't have a relative point to improve from.
Consciously incompetent - You have a relative point. Therefore, you have somewhat of an idea of how you need to improve and what to aim for.
Consciously competent - You know what you know and what you need to learn, so you know what to focus on.
Unconsciously competent - You know it so well that it usually becomes a subconscious reflex after a while. You can do pretty good without really thinking about it.
If these sound familiar, it's the 4 stages of learning, or 4 stages of improvement.
The only thing I hate about the majority of unconsciously competent people is that they tend to have no clue how to explain something. To them, it sounds simple. To anyone else, it sounds like gibberish. A university tutor trying to teach pre-schoolers and not understanding why they don't get it, but you actually explained it fairly well and recognised that talking about complex stuff in a beginner video in a very complex way doesn't work. 😊
The greatest intro of all time. I'm only 18 seconds in, while writing this comment, and I'm yours already!
I've finished the whole video, and... thank you for confirming my thoughts. Practice makes perfect. I went out of the hobby and return to it so many times... every time, after some minis painted i feel confident, my brushstrokes are better and results are cleaner. Every time I start a mini after a long break, I mess it up to the point beyond recognition. But, you say there is hope! I think if I'll be consistent, I may develop some skills. So... wish me luck.
Personally, with one specific exception, I do not like how models look with painted on shadows, and I also do not like non-metallic metals. The exception to both of these, is when there is supposed to be a light source in the model itself, For example, Plasma weapons, Necron gauss weapons, Trazyn's pokeballs, something that's on fire. Stuff like that. When there is something that is an obvious light source, absolutely do those things, but not by adding shadow, but adding brightness. It's just an artistic preference.
I'm getting the sense that Zumikito plays dota 2 and may have some dirt between his toes.
And the morale of this video is... Never, EVER, buy Finecast!..... But more seriously, the sculpture of the mini itself will be determinant for the result.
Are you one of Skari's patreons? Ah, the dark kin.
So you’re saying if I just buy $80 Windsor and newton brushes I’ll get the best results? Bet.
I'm a self-admitted trash-tier mini-painter, and very new to the whole process. But I decided if it's gonna look like junk, I'm gonna lean even harder into it, which luckily works for someone painting 40k Orkz with their scrap-metal aesthetic. It might look like trash, but it's still MY trash. :P
The second one looks the best. whole video to lie to yourself is crazy.
I think I prefer the 'Then' actually
20 hours per mini when you are “army paining” is absolutely bonkers 😂
Trench Crusade
Funny, I got steps 4 and 5 way before step 3
I love your videos but man, is it even feasible to do all this for army painting? 😅 I'm knee deep in models and my priority is speed, all the time. Because I wanna get the army to the table. I hope I can slow down one day and refine my "craft", since I've only been at it for a couple of years. But in the meantime I don't think I can in good conscience spend 30+ on a single model when any given army is over 80 models each (and I have like 5, only one painted and working on two others at the time)
It really wouldn't matter if you "knew" all of this before starting or not because you still wouldn't know how to apply it without hours and hours of practice.
Siahh... (I realize) ,time's going by so fast ; Zumikito, now has more white in his beard. We're getting older.
I was expecting the word "airbrush" to pop in at some point.
"If you repeat something so long and so many times, its inevitable that you'll get really good" - Only part of the vid that I disagree with. If you're doing it wrong, it won't matter how many times you do it, you'll still suck. I've learned this the hard way many times in life.
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Your earlier models look much better. Newer ones lack any texture.
0:07 who's gonna tell him?
...ok, I will. My brother, #3 does not look nearly as good as you seem to think it does.