Consider Vallejo or Greenstuff World chameleon/color shift paints. They are best applied on top of a gloss black coat with an airbrush, but I've used a brush as well. That is how I do my Harlequins and it really emphasizes the movement and shifting nature of the miniatures.
The physics of iridescence usually involve multiple-beam interferometry, this amounts to a mixture of light reflected from the surface combining with light reflected from another layer below the surface.
yeah this is correct, in oil painting you can use multiple layers of high hue low opacity colors that are mixed in a thick medium and layer them to slowly build up something similar but obviously not useful for warhammer lol.
...in short the paint job on the supercar involves many layers and there really is no short-cut. The reason that the layer of clear coat improves the effect so much, I suspect, is that it reflects a little bit of the light giving some interference.
But the different colors of iridescence change as you move, or as the iridescent object moves. The effect is increased by the stereoscopic effect of both your eyes seeing slightly different colors at the same time due to their slightly different viewing angles of the reflected iridescent surface. So the smaller the object, or the further away from it you are, the less stereoscopic color variation you will see. When the object isn't moving, the only color variations will come from the curves and angles of the object.
This channel could become my favorite channel, even with the boomer production value. Or maybe because of it? Joking aside, it's nice to hear you Carl again talk nerd and fun stuff, i'm all in for it!
Hi Carl. I can highly recommend the Green Stuff World colour shift paints, especially through an airbrush. They get a really similar effect for the fraction of a price and look suitably alien. My brother used some for his necrons and they look very aesthetically pleasing and futuristic. Glad to see youre enjoying the Warhammer with us fellow nerds and looking forward to you, AZ and Nick getting your painting on. All the best
Been watching your content since I was a kid. I'm not too much into politics now, but I'm a massive 40k fan, so it's very weird in a good way to hear you talk about miniatures. Very cool!
I've been waching Sargon for donkeys years and didn't know he was into Warhammer. I thought he was just into obscure RPGs and also Cyberpunk pen and paper RPG and WH40K videogames.
For future reference, the easiest way to get great metalics is to mix paint with silver ink (for instance, a small amount of sepia paint to make gold). It goes on as easy as a wash and with really great coverage.
As someone with a fondness for building and then dreading to paint, this is giving me a good idea on how to try out different colors and mixtures then just what is out there for the miniature hobby as is. I'm going to start dry-brushing my chaos knight with a metallic to get back into the swing of things again, after that I can probably try out one of these wacky products or something similar to it, good to see and share your hobby life Carl.
Love it! My brother was trying to do colored metallics on his Eldar like 10+ years ago. Hasn’t really done anything more with warhammer since then. Just sent him this vid. Love the “weird nail stuff” looks awesome!
I always pictured Eldar with bright colors, almost indulgently bright. Iridescent was a new idea though! I like the concept, but it feels more like something you would see on Necrons. Great paint work though!
The paints you are looking for are usually called colour shift or chameleon paints. As for 'ardcoat, it's just gloss varnish, you can get a far bigger bottle for basically the same price GW charges at your local art supply store. (You'd be looking for an acrylic gloss varnish.) Something else that might be worth trying is a proper chrome, like molotow chrome (comes in marker and refill, which can be applied with brush). Then you could coat that with contrast or Tamiya clear or something, though I haven't tried this so I can't guarantee it would work. The powder stuff is sone form of iridescent pigment, though I'm unsure where to source it cheaper as I frankly haven't seen it before this video.
Before you even mentioned the nail powder, I was going to suggest it.🤣 I saw someone use it on some cosplay stuff once and it turned out really good. Glad i kept watching and glad you tried it.
Another vote for Turbo Dork paints from me. A wide range of colors and even the opalescent effect you might want without dry pigment all over your table
There's a brand, a craft brand. Called Folkart. And it has a line called Color Shift. I've been using it in lieu of the iridescent paints for miniature painting. It's cheap, and it's got a huge variety of effects and colour pairings. I highly recommend it, and the best way to apply it is to dry brush over a gloss black, or gloss dark coloured surface. It's really cheap and the bottles are three times the size of a typical paint pot.
Great video! I had wanted to look into getting that metallic effect when I originally started painting a Battle for Macragge starter set! What neat "progress" video. Small comment on the audio/video: it seems the audio is desynced by a bit.
For this effect I would suggest looking into Colourshift paints. Amongst others, Vallejo has a range called The Shifters, or Greenstuffworld's Colourshift, does this effect as well.
I'm thinking that this would probably look cool on Tyranids too. Like on their carpaces to simulate the insectoid look of real world beetles, scarabs and certain kinds of flies.
I did something similar for my Tyranids actually. Something you could also try is priming them in a glossy black spray and use the Vallejo Color Shifter paints. They do a great job for this effect. There’s a few different sets to look through, but I think the Galaxy Dust set has that green to purple look you might want
I'm surprised at how good that nail stuff looks on an Eldar. The colors you used for the first model really pop and it catches the eye first but that purple keeps your attention. What colors are you using for the details?
That you are able to paint a really good looking iridescent armor shows how skilled you are with paints. And honestly id say the one you painted manually looks really good too.
Hey Carl. I haven't personally used them yet but Greenstuff World makes some color shift paints that look like they might do what you are trying to achieve. I've seen some guys use them to paint Battletech cockpits to great effect.
From my understanding, pearlescence is done through microscopic silicate beads, so the smaller the better. There are probably cheaper nail paints that are just as nice. Main downside is that if you're getting the goo instead of the powder, it's enamel and is harder to remove. Small chunk glitter might make some nice metallic shine with weathering, but I'd probably steer clear of anything that isn't powder-powder if you want that proper colour change luster. Also, of course eldar look good with girl paint.
Love art, love painting too. Would love to paint some of these or something similar but realistically I wouldn’t have the time to dedicate to them at the moment, so for now I’ll watch you do it. Your painting skills have come on nicely, impressive. Well done Sargon 🎉
Good effort! As others have mentioned green stuff world's chameleon paints and Vallejo's colour shift probably will give you a similar but more refined/controllable outcome. Really looking forward to seeing more!
Get an airbrush, try using contrasts (or other "speed paint" brands) through it. For metallics there are some "Green Stuff World" iridescent paints that also go through an airbrush and give that shimmer. You just apply a satin or gloss coat over it for whatever shine you want. Nice work, very interesting experimentation.
Been getting into the 40lore a lot the last two years. Watched some game play don't think it's for me and painting myself doesn't seem to interest me actually but I love seeing others do it. Good stuff.
All table top miniature games are boring as hell. Lore is always cool until the company buys you out and nukes your work. Astarties and itehatts device as an example
If you want opal like colors try using mod podge high gloss and mix in some black diamond epoxy pigment powder. Nail polish also works but will likely yellow faster since it's not a long term hardener.
Hey Carl, long time mini painter here. Iridescent/Pearlescent is very difficult to do well on models. What I'd humbly suggest to you is that less is more as while one model looks great, a table full may not be so hot. :) But I think you have something here if you keep it to specific armor parts rather then the entire model. If you're looking to do these sorts of colours, you should start with a black undercoat, then a thin coat of silver then the iridescent on top. This will allow more of the light to re-pass through, amplifying the effect. This varies by the medium, but should give a nice effect. Also, you can get a more "gem" like quality if you only paint say, the center of the armor panels with silver, leaving the sides in black, making those more dull, adding a rounded effect to the armor plates. Big fan of yours by the way! Let me know if it works out!
Additionally, the body suit parts that aren't big bulky armor could be painted grey or some other drab colour to help draw attention to the main focus, the iridescence. Or better yet, a solid white helm with the iridescent paint used to highlight the eyes, sort of like warpaint. That might work out really, really nice.
@@Rundvelt That's some great advice - I was going to suggest too that a combination of matt and iridescent armour parts would add some variety and stop the army looking like too much of a big shiny (and seemingly expensive to paint) blob.
@@WraithOfMan Yeah, a prism grav tank would look bad ass if the squares on the "wings" were iridescent with an off white/wraithbone base. Highlights on the prism itself with like a really light blue on the edges with the iridesecent would look amazing IMO.
Thanks for sharing! I've used the Vallejo color shifting paint for iridescent carapaces on insects and alike. Perhaps that could be a product you may want to check out. 🤷♂️ At any rate, keep the videos coming!
I found with opalessence effects to use metalic silver ink as the medium, and add a tiny amount of your metallic shimmer pigment to the mix. The flow is normally maintained and you really don't need much pigment to get interesting colour effects because the ink is already a metallics medium. Try it also with the vivid colour ranges of contrast paints as silver ink is a great base medium for a variety of wierd mixes.
There are a ton of different powders you can try, not just the colourshifting ones, and most of them have one thing in common - they are different varieties of *mica* powder with tints applied to them. I use them in resin casting: in transparent resin, a small amount creates a scintillating effect, while larger amounts make for a swirly metalloid look, like many dice for roleplaying. There are even ones that can change colour depending on temperature, though that probably wouldn’t be of much interest for miniatures. And if you buy larger amounts, and not from specialty nail decoration stores, it’s much cheaper. I think I got colourshifting ones for around £6/35 grams, and sets of monocolour mica in a variety, about 30-40 vials of 5g each for under 20 quid.
Models looks great! I would try to work on the focusing of your camera or better lighting for your model shots, it was hard to make out the details, at least on my end. Looking forward to more happy nerd stuff!
Woohoo!!!! More Carl content. Honestly, I am glad to see you posting videos on 40k. I am considering doing this AND a gaming channel on Rumble since that seems like fertile ground
I'm 35 and I painted my first warhammer last week. Always walked past the shop as a kid always wanted to try. Not sure I'd ever get round to playing 40k but I enjoy painting them.
I like that look Carl, will be excited to see an army look with this. I have been painting my Age of Sigmar Lumineth Realmlords in a Pearlescent effect and while its a lot of work it looks cool. Keep trying.
I’ve an unpainted eldar army too because I’m constantly not sure what colours to use. Much appreciate this. It’d look pretty good as detail on the soulstones too.
Damn, you're giving me lots of ideas for some magical shit on 3D models that I recently ordered, and maybe some of the ones that I already have. Might give a Vindictor Prime a shield or spear tip like that.
Not sure it would be to your liking, but I did a base purple metallic, and covered it with a thin copper metallic. Mostly it looks purple, but then when the light catches the copper it flashes that bright orangey color. Really picks up on all the details that are catching the light. Might not be the effect you're after. Also should note, it was cheap acrylic craft paints as well, not the fancy stuff.
If you want to keep using flakes and powders you should try to find transparent ones as they work on black and white base paint and have different effects depending on the base paint. This is what midwinter uses. I have several and it creates cool effects for my chaos knight army and for vehicles in my friends car wars game.
I used similar flakes for a thousand sons kill team. I found that less is more. I had a tea sieve and picked out the largest flakes, and used army painter quickshades (very glossy washes, ard coat should be similar) to a fix the flakes to the surface like a decal. I found that some flakes really like a contrasting base colour, but most like either black or dark version of their colour. I also tried some colour shifting pigments. if I had to do it again I would just get the vallejo shifters. Buy once, cry once. But I found a similar technique to you mix with gloss varnish and apply over gloss black. If you over pigment the mix you'll loose some of the shifting so go for less pigment more coats.
Eldar, a species that fell to the lowest levels of societal degradation and excess. Forcing a portion of the population to resist by separating themselves to find meaning and purpose in paths that improve the self and the society as a whole. Sounds somewhat familiar. 😅
I've just subscribed, and expecting to be greeted with the view of many a pond, to realise the channel has nothing to do with ponds and it's associated wildlife, but just... pondering on who decided to use such a thought with the distinct lack of ponds.
Tamiya clear paints range can be very good. It works best with an airbrush but if you start with a black undercoat; give it a heavy drybrush with your preferred silver colour, then apply the clear paint liberally, you should get a great effect!
The powder that you got can be dusted on directly on a surface that has a dry layer of ardcoat on it. Dust it on, then dust it off with a dry soft paintbrush. The effect is glossing that way.
I was just thinking (while painting old bretonninans) that man, a lot of people I follow seems to also like miniature hobbying. And would tou know, that secobd Sargon drops an announcement video of this new channel. Instant sub 👍 also very cool coloured metallics eldar
I am old, female and have never been into DoD or WoW or anything, but i would listen to you read the phone book. I love doing a bunch of crafts though so this was super interesting.
I'm not into warhammer or anything like that, but I love painting models, so this is good fun for me. I'd maybe just look at nail polish, like regular nail polish, not paint additives. Not sure how well they interact with other paint, but I know you can get some very fancy premade nail polishes.
Others have mentioned the colorshift paints, so I'll just mention that the Eldar are one of the best armies in 40k for these paints thanks to all their vehicles having large curved surfaces, which helps with the effect, the more light the mini can reflect the better. One thing I've found with metallic paints is that airbrushing a metallic is leagues above putting it on with a brush. The difference in reflectiveness is massive. Nobody's mentioned Turbodork yet, they have nice lines of metallic/colorshift paints.
Looks cool! Not entirely related, but I've always thought about using clear plastic discs as bases rather than putting terrain around the feet of the model. It's always struck my brain wrong that a boulder will just move along with the unit spongebob-style
One of my favorite things that I did on my marines was use glow crystal powder that I ground up for the chambers of their plasma weapons with a necron green under coat and used some ardcoat as a glue and dusted the chambers. A bunch of work grinding the powder down with a mortar pestle but I love the effect.
Eldar are squishy (😘), but I commend your excellent efforts at making them look cool. Really excited to follow this new channel of yours. The wife and kid play too, so they will enjoy watching them with me. Good luck!
WAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!! ORKZ IZ ‘ERE, ORKZ IZ BEST!!! On a serious note. Good to see a passion project Carl. I’ve always been a bit more into the lore of 40K. But one day I swear I’ll paint my Ork minis.
Always love one When one of the UA-camrs I follow name drops another. Keep watching, Midwinter minis Guy has some of the best glamor shots on his finished models and a good eye for color for someone who's color blind.
If you're going for that car look, well, that's a result of subsurface scattering. You can create this by first painting it to your tastes, then adding a 'clear' coat. It doesn't need to be perfectly clear, as experimenting will prove out. Anyway, the purpose is to allow for light to penetrate the 'clear' coat, reflect off of your desired paint job, then that light is scattered by the 'clear' coat on the way back out (hence the quotations marks) to produce the subsurface scattering effect. You can also reverse the process but the top coat must be translucent and any base coat (under the 'clear' coat) will be used to determine the main color of the reflected light. So if the base is gold, followed by the 'clear' coat, followed by a translucent purple, (or the 'clear' coat is a translucent purple) you can get the effect of golden light illuminating purple armor from within. But boy is it finicky. It's recommended that you test this out, especially with respect to the thickness of the coat, before you attempt to paint your model. Depending on the material used, the coat may need to be thin or thick to get the desired effect. So experimentation (with exact documentation) is key. You can't really wing it. Off topic, but I know you've noticed that language degenerates from Right to Left BUT did you notice that this degeneration isn't chaotic, but ordered? It aligns with the same heuristic the social sciences use to 'measure the measure' of their data. I figured you might have noticed that much if not already, then soon. So if I could lend a hand: for this reason the degeneration of the Left's language and categories is less to do with hedonistic liberalism and anti-modernist prejudices and more to do with them simply universalizing (and moralizing) the measure of the data they believe is 'most true'. The Right does the same thing with their 'most true' measures too, both conservatives and libertarians. That's what distinguishes them, in fact. 'Everything is sexist, everything is racist and you've got to point it all out,' becomes, 'Everything is Nominal, everything is Ordinal and you've got to point it all out.' The cheaper insight is that, 'The Right seeks to be more right while the Left seeks to be less wrong.' To be 'more right' is to categorize with fewer exceptions and outliers by EXCLUDING them through greater precision in the definition. To be 'less wrong' is to categorize with fewer exceptions and outliers by INCLUDING them through greater imprecision in the definition. Both processes are endless, yet that's how their capital T Truth-seeking differs fundamentally. And I could go on and on.
Nice to see you doing relaxing and more gaming stuff for us to see, Sargon, also great work on the models ! If you do more DnD, think about doind a "no meta-gaming" or "always in character" to avoid too much 'tism from Arch, Vee is the role model player!
You're looking for color shift paints. Greenstuff World, Turbo Dork and Vallejo make lines of them. Gloss black primer, many very thin airbrushed layers 👍
Vallejo makes some pre-made Iridescent paints, called "The Shifters." They're quite nice and formulated for miniatures and model cars. Green Stuff World also has some formulated for miniatures. Another company that does these is "Turbo Dork" and I suggest all of them. But yeah you have it spot on -- they're basically gloss varnish with flakes.
when using these kind of flakes/powders/paints, prime in gloss black with the powder you should be able to just rub it into the surface of the primer then seal it with ard coat, its more like buffing it in vs mixing this should give you a really smooth and glossy finish like the photos on the product page
Good to see you here Carl. Never been hugely into 40k but was always fascinated by the lore. MOAR content. Also, MOAR dinosaurs also :D.
Dinoes huh?
Same here. The lore is so incredibly *dark* and extensive. Super interesting even tho I have no interest in actually playing the game.
Consider Vallejo or Greenstuff World chameleon/color shift paints. They are best applied on top of a gloss black coat with an airbrush, but I've used a brush as well. That is how I do my Harlequins and it really emphasizes the movement and shifting nature of the miniatures.
I was just about to suggest this
Same 😀
I've quite enjoyed using shifter paint. I've got a set of Vallejo brand. It's fairly subtle though.
You got there before me,also basecoat your model black
Yup, used colour shift formy Chaos Marine army. Way easier than my attempts with nail products.
Always fun when you have to explain to the missus why you have several batches of colorful nail polish in your hobby room. 😂
The physics of iridescence usually involve multiple-beam interferometry, this amounts to a mixture of light reflected from the surface combining with light reflected from another layer below the surface.
yeah this is correct, in oil painting you can use multiple layers of high hue low opacity colors that are mixed in a thick medium and layer them to slowly build up something similar but obviously not useful for warhammer lol.
...in short the paint job on the supercar involves many layers and there really is no short-cut.
The reason that the layer of clear coat improves the effect so much, I suspect, is that it reflects a little bit of the light giving some interference.
But the different colors of iridescence change as you move, or as the iridescent object moves. The effect is increased by the stereoscopic effect of both your eyes seeing slightly different colors at the same time due to their slightly different viewing angles of the reflected iridescent surface.
So the smaller the object, or the further away from it you are, the less stereoscopic color variation you will see. When the object isn't moving, the only color variations will come from the curves and angles of the object.
Nice work, Carl.
Your painting is really coming on in leaps and bounds.
Praise the Omnissiah! Love 40K and been listening to Carl since 2015. Now both two of my favorite things are combining!
As someone 'trying' to get into painting miniatures, it is fun to see other's efforts and learning process!
This channel could become my favorite channel, even with the boomer production value. Or maybe because of it? Joking aside, it's nice to hear you Carl again talk nerd and fun stuff, i'm all in for it!
Hi Carl. I can highly recommend the Green Stuff World colour shift paints, especially through an airbrush. They get a really similar effect for the fraction of a price and look suitably alien. My brother used some for his necrons and they look very aesthetically pleasing and futuristic. Glad to see youre enjoying the Warhammer with us fellow nerds and looking forward to you, AZ and Nick getting your painting on. All the best
Been watching your content since I was a kid.
I'm not too much into politics now, but I'm a massive 40k fan, so it's very weird in a good way to hear you talk about miniatures.
Very cool!
I've been waching Sargon for donkeys years and didn't know he was into Warhammer. I thought he was just into obscure RPGs and also Cyberpunk pen and paper RPG and WH40K videogames.
For future reference, the easiest way to get great metalics is to mix paint with silver ink (for instance, a small amount of sepia paint to make gold). It goes on as easy as a wash and with really great coverage.
As someone with a fondness for building and then dreading to paint, this is giving me a good idea on how to try out different colors and mixtures then just what is out there for the miniature hobby as is. I'm going to start dry-brushing my chaos knight with a metallic to get back into the swing of things again, after that I can probably try out one of these wacky products or something similar to it, good to see and share your hobby life Carl.
The Natural evoloution of the thinkery.
You look good, Carl. I'm glad to see you doing well and enjoying your hobbies.
Love it! My brother was trying to do colored metallics on his Eldar like 10+ years ago. Hasn’t really done anything more with warhammer since then. Just sent him this vid. Love the “weird nail stuff” looks awesome!
When will you be painting some commie t’au?
Turbo Dork has some great iridescent paint.
I always pictured Eldar with bright colors, almost indulgently bright. Iridescent was a new idea though! I like the concept, but it feels more like something you would see on Necrons. Great paint work though!
The paints you are looking for are usually called colour shift or chameleon paints. As for 'ardcoat, it's just gloss varnish, you can get a far bigger bottle for basically the same price GW charges at your local art supply store. (You'd be looking for an acrylic gloss varnish.)
Something else that might be worth trying is a proper chrome, like molotow chrome (comes in marker and refill, which can be applied with brush). Then you could coat that with contrast or Tamiya clear or something, though I haven't tried this so I can't guarantee it would work.
The powder stuff is sone form of iridescent pigment, though I'm unsure where to source it cheaper as I frankly haven't seen it before this video.
Before you even mentioned the nail powder, I was going to suggest it.🤣 I saw someone use it on some cosplay stuff once and it turned out really good. Glad i kept watching and glad you tried it.
The shiny blue comes out looking rather crystalline -- which, I have to say, really works for me. It feels properly alien.
Another vote for Turbo Dork paints from me. A wide range of colors and even the opalescent effect you might want without dry pigment all over your table
There's a brand, a craft brand. Called Folkart. And it has a line called Color Shift.
I've been using it in lieu of the iridescent paints for miniature painting. It's cheap, and it's got a huge variety of effects and colour pairings.
I highly recommend it, and the best way to apply it is to dry brush over a gloss black, or gloss dark coloured surface.
It's really cheap and the bottles are three times the size of a typical paint pot.
I was thinking of doing exactly this and now I will take the plunge. Thanks man. Keep up the good work
Great video! I had wanted to look into getting that metallic effect when I originally started painting a Battle for Macragge starter set! What neat "progress" video. Small comment on the audio/video: it seems the audio is desynced by a bit.
For this effect I would suggest looking into Colourshift paints. Amongst others, Vallejo has a range called The Shifters, or Greenstuffworld's Colourshift, does this effect as well.
Keep up the great work Carl! Like others have mentioned in the comments, vallejo has color shift paint that can be airbrushed on for this same effect.
It's good to see you having fun Carl ☺️
I'm thinking that this would probably look cool on Tyranids too. Like on their carpaces to simulate the insectoid look of real world beetles, scarabs and certain kinds of flies.
I did something similar for my Tyranids actually. Something you could also try is priming them in a glossy black spray and use the Vallejo Color Shifter paints. They do a great job for this effect. There’s a few different sets to look through, but I think the Galaxy Dust set has that green to purple look you might want
I'm surprised at how good that nail stuff looks on an Eldar. The colors you used for the first model really pop and it catches the eye first but that purple keeps your attention. What colors are you using for the details?
That you are able to paint a really good looking iridescent armor shows how skilled you are with paints. And honestly id say the one you painted manually looks really good too.
Hey Carl. I haven't personally used them yet but Greenstuff World makes some color shift paints that look like they might do what you are trying to achieve. I've seen some guys use them to paint Battletech cockpits to great effect.
Sargon 40K Channel, signed up
I loved their terrain rollers, not sure if they still make them, but they are bloody handy
my dad made greenstuff into kilts for his guardsmen. won a contest with them, too.
Yeah came here to say this, their Holographic line of paints on their own website should do what he wants.
I've been using martian green from Greenstuff World for heresy era iron hands, works wonders
From my understanding, pearlescence is done through microscopic silicate beads, so the smaller the better. There are probably cheaper nail paints that are just as nice. Main downside is that if you're getting the goo instead of the powder, it's enamel and is harder to remove. Small chunk glitter might make some nice metallic shine with weathering, but I'd probably steer clear of anything that isn't powder-powder if you want that proper colour change luster.
Also, of course eldar look good with girl paint.
Love art, love painting too. Would love to paint some of these or something similar but realistically I wouldn’t have the time to dedicate to them at the moment, so for now I’ll watch you do it.
Your painting skills have come on nicely, impressive.
Well done Sargon 🎉
Good effort! As others have mentioned green stuff world's chameleon paints and Vallejo's colour shift probably will give you a similar but more refined/controllable outcome.
Really looking forward to seeing more!
Get an airbrush, try using contrasts (or other "speed paint" brands) through it.
For metallics there are some "Green Stuff World" iridescent paints that also go through an airbrush and give that shimmer. You just apply a satin or gloss coat over it for whatever shine you want.
Nice work, very interesting experimentation.
I use Stormshield for tabards and cloth like stuff. Hardcoat works well for your armor. Both protect the model pretty well too.
Been getting into the 40lore a lot the last two years. Watched some game play don't think it's for me and painting myself doesn't seem to interest me actually but I love seeing others do it. Good stuff.
All table top miniature games are boring as hell.
Lore is always cool until the company buys you out and nukes your work.
Astarties and itehatts device as an example
If you want opal like colors try using mod podge high gloss and mix in some black diamond epoxy pigment powder. Nail polish also works but will likely yellow faster since it's not a long term hardener.
Hey Carl, long time mini painter here. Iridescent/Pearlescent is very difficult to do well on models. What I'd humbly suggest to you is that less is more as while one model looks great, a table full may not be so hot. :) But I think you have something here if you keep it to specific armor parts rather then the entire model.
If you're looking to do these sorts of colours, you should start with a black undercoat, then a thin coat of silver then the iridescent on top. This will allow more of the light to re-pass through, amplifying the effect. This varies by the medium, but should give a nice effect. Also, you can get a more "gem" like quality if you only paint say, the center of the armor panels with silver, leaving the sides in black, making those more dull, adding a rounded effect to the armor plates.
Big fan of yours by the way! Let me know if it works out!
Additionally, the body suit parts that aren't big bulky armor could be painted grey or some other drab colour to help draw attention to the main focus, the iridescence. Or better yet, a solid white helm with the iridescent paint used to highlight the eyes, sort of like warpaint. That might work out really, really nice.
@@Rundvelt That's some great advice - I was going to suggest too that a combination of matt and iridescent armour parts would add some variety and stop the army looking like too much of a big shiny (and seemingly expensive to paint) blob.
@@WraithOfMan Yeah, a prism grav tank would look bad ass if the squares on the "wings" were iridescent with an off white/wraithbone base. Highlights on the prism itself with like a really light blue on the edges with the iridesecent would look amazing IMO.
Looking good Carl. Can't wait to meet you again next live event.
Thanks for sharing! I've used the Vallejo color shifting paint for iridescent carapaces on insects and alike. Perhaps that could be a product you may want to check out. 🤷♂️ At any rate, keep the videos coming!
I JUST started experimenting with this exact thing. I bought The Shifters Space Dust paint set by Vallejo.
I found with opalessence effects to use metalic silver ink as the medium, and add a tiny amount of your metallic shimmer pigment to the mix. The flow is normally maintained and you really don't need much pigment to get interesting colour effects because the ink is already a metallics medium.
Try it also with the vivid colour ranges of contrast paints as silver ink is a great base medium for a variety of wierd mixes.
That is fucking sick. Your painting is brilliant man. For tabletop you are king.
There are a ton of different powders you can try, not just the colourshifting ones, and most of them have one thing in common - they are different varieties of *mica* powder with tints applied to them. I use them in resin casting: in transparent resin, a small amount creates a scintillating effect, while larger amounts make for a swirly metalloid look, like many dice for roleplaying. There are even ones that can change colour depending on temperature, though that probably wouldn’t be of much interest for miniatures. And if you buy larger amounts, and not from specialty nail decoration stores, it’s much cheaper. I think I got colourshifting ones for around £6/35 grams, and sets of monocolour mica in a variety, about 30-40 vials of 5g each for under 20 quid.
Models looks great! I would try to work on the focusing of your camera or better lighting for your model shots, it was hard to make out the details, at least on my end. Looking forward to more happy nerd stuff!
6:00 aww those nails came out gorgeous!!!
Woohoo!!!! More Carl content.
Honestly, I am glad to see you posting videos on 40k. I am considering doing this AND a gaming channel on Rumble since that seems like fertile ground
The blotchiness of the flakes seems actually like a perfect effect for tyranids.
I'm 35 and I painted my first warhammer last week. Always walked past the shop as a kid always wanted to try.
Not sure I'd ever get round to playing 40k but I enjoy painting them.
I like that look Carl, will be excited to see an army look with this. I have been painting my Age of Sigmar Lumineth Realmlords in a Pearlescent effect and while its a lot of work it looks cool. Keep trying.
I’ve been painting vehicles for 30 years, a large portion of that was custom.
I’ve an unpainted eldar army too because I’m constantly not sure what colours to use. Much appreciate this. It’d look pretty good as detail on the soulstones too.
Ford Mystichrome Eldar! Looks terrific.
Damn, you're giving me lots of ideas for some magical shit on 3D models that I recently ordered, and maybe some of the ones that I already have.
Might give a Vindictor Prime a shield or spear tip like that.
Not sure it would be to your liking, but I did a base purple metallic, and covered it with a thin copper metallic. Mostly it looks purple, but then when the light catches the copper it flashes that bright orangey color. Really picks up on all the details that are catching the light. Might not be the effect you're after.
Also should note, it was cheap acrylic craft paints as well, not the fancy stuff.
If you want to keep using flakes and powders you should try to find transparent ones as they work on black and white base paint and have different effects depending on the base paint. This is what midwinter uses. I have several and it creates cool effects for my chaos knight army and for vehicles in my friends car wars game.
This is the kind of wholesome content I’ve been looking for.
Got into 40k a bit because of Darktide and you Sargon.
Happy to be here.
This is awesome. Brings back done 2014 vibes.
I used similar flakes for a thousand sons kill team. I found that less is more. I had a tea sieve and picked out the largest flakes, and used army painter quickshades (very glossy washes, ard coat should be similar) to a fix the flakes to the surface like a decal. I found that some flakes really like a contrasting base colour, but most like either black or dark version of their colour.
I also tried some colour shifting pigments. if I had to do it again I would just get the vallejo shifters. Buy once, cry once. But I found a similar technique to you mix with gloss varnish and apply over gloss black. If you over pigment the mix you'll loose some of the shifting so go for less pigment more coats.
Eldar, a species that fell to the lowest levels of societal degradation and excess.
Forcing a portion of the population to resist by separating themselves to find meaning and purpose in paths that improve the self and the society as a whole.
Sounds somewhat familiar. 😅
Painting is so much fun.
I love the lore not into the TT and painting but man you got talent, those space elves look awesome !!
I've just subscribed, and expecting to be greeted with the view of many a pond, to realise the channel has nothing to do with ponds and it's associated wildlife, but just... pondering on who decided to use such a thought with the distinct lack of ponds.
Tamiya clear paints range can be very good. It works best with an airbrush but if you start with a black undercoat; give it a heavy drybrush with your preferred silver colour, then apply the clear paint liberally, you should get a great effect!
Loving this Carl, you are going in a good direction.
The powder that you got can be dusted on directly on a surface that has a dry layer of ardcoat on it.
Dust it on, then dust it off with a dry soft paintbrush. The effect is glossing that way.
I was just thinking (while painting old bretonninans) that man, a lot of people I follow seems to also like miniature hobbying. And would tou know, that secobd Sargon drops an announcement video of this new channel.
Instant sub 👍 also very cool coloured metallics eldar
I am old, female and have never been into DoD or WoW or anything, but i would listen to you read the phone book. I love doing a bunch of crafts though so this was super interesting.
I'm not into warhammer or anything like that, but I love painting models, so this is good fun for me.
I'd maybe just look at nail polish, like regular nail polish, not paint additives. Not sure how well they interact with other paint, but I know you can get some very fancy premade nail polishes.
Others have mentioned the colorshift paints, so I'll just mention that the Eldar are one of the best armies in 40k for these paints thanks to all their vehicles having large curved surfaces, which helps with the effect, the more light the mini can reflect the better.
One thing I've found with metallic paints is that airbrushing a metallic is leagues above putting it on with a brush. The difference in reflectiveness is massive.
Nobody's mentioned Turbodork yet, they have nice lines of metallic/colorshift paints.
Love the scheme, it put me in mind of a dark eldar kabal more than craft world eldar. Or perhaps a tzeench or slaneshi warband
Looks cool! Not entirely related, but I've always thought about using clear plastic discs as bases rather than putting terrain around the feet of the model. It's always struck my brain wrong that a boulder will just move along with the unit spongebob-style
Love the Eldar, they were always my favourite ❤
I feel like I have stepped into an alternate universe of sargon content where gamergate never happened.
As others have suggested: Vallejo chameleon/color shift paints. Vallejo is supreme. Costly, but worth every penny.
Turbo Dork paints my dude. Nice to see you doing some hobby stuff 40K has been my jam for 25+ years
Good tip with the nail powder. I’ll have to try that now.
I like the lore, I enjoy seeing other people's paint work.
I'm trying to figure out a new way of funding a game
One of my favorite things that I did on my marines was use glow crystal powder that I ground up for the chambers of their plasma weapons with a necron green under coat and used some ardcoat as a glue and dusted the chambers. A bunch of work grinding the powder down with a mortar pestle but I love the effect.
Eldar are squishy (😘), but I commend your excellent efforts at making them look cool. Really excited to follow this new channel of yours. The wife and kid play too, so they will enjoy watching them with me. Good luck!
WAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!! ORKZ IZ ‘ERE, ORKZ IZ BEST!!!
On a serious note. Good to see a passion project Carl. I’ve always been a bit more into the lore of 40K. But one day I swear I’ll paint my Ork minis.
hi NERD! :P
What's your favourite faction in Warhammer 40k?
Actually could you do a top 5 list on your favourite factions of 40k?
I'm here for the nerd shit. Thank you.
Great work. Iridescence is magical when it turns out right. 🙂
Always love one When one of the UA-camrs I follow name drops another. Keep watching, Midwinter minis Guy has some of the best glamor shots on his finished models and a good eye for color for someone who's color blind.
Hardcoat is a gloss varnish and storm shield is a mat varnish. Looking good!
If you're going for that car look, well, that's a result of subsurface scattering.
You can create this by first painting it to your tastes, then adding a 'clear' coat. It doesn't need to be perfectly clear, as experimenting will prove out. Anyway, the purpose is to allow for light to penetrate the 'clear' coat, reflect off of your desired paint job, then that light is scattered by the 'clear' coat on the way back out (hence the quotations marks) to produce the subsurface scattering effect.
You can also reverse the process but the top coat must be translucent and any base coat (under the 'clear' coat) will be used to determine the main color of the reflected light. So if the base is gold, followed by the 'clear' coat, followed by a translucent purple, (or the 'clear' coat is a translucent purple) you can get the effect of golden light illuminating purple armor from within. But boy is it finicky.
It's recommended that you test this out, especially with respect to the thickness of the coat, before you attempt to paint your model. Depending on the material used, the coat may need to be thin or thick to get the desired effect. So experimentation (with exact documentation) is key. You can't really wing it.
Off topic, but I know you've noticed that language degenerates from Right to Left BUT did you notice that this degeneration isn't chaotic, but ordered? It aligns with the same heuristic the social sciences use to 'measure the measure' of their data. I figured you might have noticed that much if not already, then soon. So if I could lend a hand: for this reason the degeneration of the Left's language and categories is less to do with hedonistic liberalism and anti-modernist prejudices and more to do with them simply universalizing (and moralizing) the measure of the data they believe is 'most true'. The Right does the same thing with their 'most true' measures too, both conservatives and libertarians. That's what distinguishes them, in fact.
'Everything is sexist, everything is racist and you've got to point it all out,' becomes, 'Everything is Nominal, everything is Ordinal and you've got to point it all out.'
The cheaper insight is that, 'The Right seeks to be more right while the Left seeks to be less wrong.'
To be 'more right' is to categorize with fewer exceptions and outliers by EXCLUDING them through greater precision in the definition.
To be 'less wrong' is to categorize with fewer exceptions and outliers by INCLUDING them through greater imprecision in the definition.
Both processes are endless, yet that's how their capital T Truth-seeking differs fundamentally. And I could go on and on.
Nice to see you doing relaxing and more gaming stuff for us to see, Sargon, also great work on the models !
If you do more DnD, think about doind a "no meta-gaming" or "always in character" to avoid too much 'tism from Arch, Vee is the role model player!
You're looking for color shift paints. Greenstuff World, Turbo Dork and Vallejo make lines of them. Gloss black primer, many very thin airbrushed layers 👍
Looking forward to seeing your work 👍🏻
Hi Carl, the best location for Eldar and Chaos worshippers is in the bin mate.
They are painted well though good job
Hey Carl! I would recommend Darth Blue paint from Green Stuff World... it may be a bit too dark, but i think it could work well!
Vallejo makes some pre-made Iridescent paints, called "The Shifters." They're quite nice and formulated for miniatures and model cars. Green Stuff World also has some formulated for miniatures. Another company that does these is "Turbo Dork" and I suggest all of them.
But yeah you have it spot on -- they're basically gloss varnish with flakes.
great to see this channel starting up
Nicely done. Looks awesome.
when using these kind of flakes/powders/paints, prime in gloss black
with the powder you should be able to just rub it into the surface of the primer then seal it with ard coat, its more like buffing it in vs mixing
this should give you a really smooth and glossy finish like the photos on the product page