I'd been going through a tough time lately. The books were dropping thick and fast and I was having to dedicate extra hours to the painting table just to make sure I wouldn't get evicted from Adepticon. As I was completing my 7th edge highlight of my Glutton's armour plate, my wife told me that I was spending too much time painting and she wasn't sure if she could make it work anymore. I didn't know where to turn. Then I discovered this video, learned the Slap Chop method, and within a day my entire Ogor army was done, and my marriage was saved. Thank you Mr Robert sir. I'll let you know if Adepticon evicts me.
So no going back to painting that 7th edge highlight and spending 20 plus hours on a single shield then? New video Title “How to save a Marriage with SlapChop.”
This video single-handedly made me want to start painting minis. Not only because it’s an easy entry point, but because it really showed the creativity of the process, and how you could explore it without it being a super daunting thing.
@@Upsideround I did! Painted a Jade Obelisk Warband, using mostly slapchop. I'm going to explore more layering based techniques with my next project (the free Seraphon). The video worked.
As someone with really bad tremors that wasnt an amazing painter before it got worse this technique got me back into painting and I really like the way they turn out. Ty for an awesome video
I have really annoying random physical ‘ tics’. I can be in the middle of painting and everything is going well and boom my shoulders have to adjust and it ruins my work 😂
Hey I have tremors too, nice to know there a few of us out there! I really enjoy painting using an airbrush and more "grimdark" style with solvents etc. It's much more fun too !
Come on, its well known how well the English pronounce funny foreign words properly, my father-in-law still pronounces pâté properly, payt, and dont get him started on fa-jeet-as.
This video is everything! Finally a painting video that didn’t bore me to death! Robs enthusiasm and explanations are just perfect! All painting tutorials should be like this
I've always hated how contrast-painted miniatures look. I always wanted to do contrast paints to save time, but I really just don't like how they turn out (when done the way they're "intended"). This method looks more than passable, it looks fantastic! You just opened my world to contrast paints.
As someone who's not painter, but still wants my miniatures to 'pop', this looks like the perfect compromise for me! Thank you for the great tutorial!!
Before this video and the countless other videos singing Slapchop praises, I would stare at my pile of unpainted silver and grey shame... some going back over 35 years. I would chip away at this pile with some models taking a month to paint.... Now with Slapchop my method of choice I just finished painting 8 models in a day and that for me is a miracle. Yes, I still focus on the unimportant and generally invisible details but the basics are completed in no time. Thank you, kind sir... I salute you!
This is both legit funny, and legit a good painting method! As someone who really doesn't love painting, and has a 6-month old kid, I don't have a ton of time to do complex painting stuff. I'm excited to try this out! Thanks Rob!
I've been using the Slapchop method for years but now I feel relieved and reinvigorated to have a name and wider understanding of what I've been doing. You have changed my life Rob!
This method is truly amazing. It worked for me immediately and helped me get over my crippling fear of making mistakes painting. Very simple and low skill required. After drybrushing it's basically like filling in a coloring book picture!
Slapchop expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in tweeting and painting, originating in Northern England around the beginning of the 21th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas by the quickest means possible. Slapchop Expressionist artists have sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality.
The SlapChop modern expressionism painting style really comes alive when the mini is engaged in the throes of battle. The emotional response is fully realized by the viewer of such works and not forced. The viewer is given the Freedom to feel one’s true emotions.
Nice, this is the speedpaint secret that has been used for a while now! Before contrasts and speed paints, this was used to fast paint with washes, inks and glazes! Great vid
Amazing video!!! i have lots of friends ( just 3) who struggle painting their miniatures, this should help them putting those minis on the table and stop ruining my immersion. Thank you Rob!.
I used to get white fingers from wetblending everything, taking hours to paint even a Grot and me not being able to take care of my day job as a professional flutist. But now, since discovering #slapchop my fingers are back and so is the flutisting. Thank you slapchok!
I just stumbled across this video after ages of watching a bunch of detailed ways on how to paint minis with different techniques of varying difficulty, depressed and sad that I'll never finish my board game miniatures because of the time an amature like me has to spend painting. After seeing this, for the first time in a year I finally feel like I want to get painting again, using these paints and this technique! Explained in a perfectly easy and humorous way! Thank you so so much!
@@TheHonestWargamer My soul shrivels up a little bit more every time I hear it said like that. Not that I'm doing the ll = y pronunciation myself, but that J... it hurts.
I thought this was going to be satire. I still laughed and added the first, and therefore, best paint, Valle-joe 001 white to my collection. I have not been disappointed. I look forward to the next installment of rob the honest painter.
Ok my god this is cool! If been a traditional artist for years and when my hubby and I got into DnD a little over a year ago I started painting minis, but struggled with the techniques. He saw this and showed me and I NEED to try this method! Thank you for this video!!!
Glorious! I too have started to paint on my hands to make sure people know I’m a cool person! In all seriousness though fantastic content here, the plaguemarine especially looks great.
Brilliant tutorial! I've been doing something similar but with a base of: Wraithbone spray - Aggrax Earthshade all over - Wraithbone drybrush. Slightly warmer base for the contrasts.
"I'm so proud of my army, it took me 2 years to paint it all, but it was totally worth it. By the way, yours looks pretty cool too, how much did it take to paint it all?" "Oh... I just painted it while I was traveling on the train to come here."
This technique has changed my paint game for the better. I’m getting better results in a fraction of the time. I’ve watched other videos and applied some variants, but this is where it all started. Thank you. Sincerely.
How, how……how did you do it, i am speechless 🤷🏻♂️. In all honesty, a really Great video. Gonna try this technique on something myself in the future. Slapchop rules
Great video. Loved the slightly tongue in cheekness of it but also that it showed really how simple it is to get a well painted model ready for the tabletop. Looking forward to the next one
More in the NEAR future, thank you very much, if you’d be so kind, good sir. Much obliged. 😊 Although not revolutionary, you do present it so well, I’m instantly looking at my printed pile of resin and see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, whilst expecting to have a jolly good ride getting there! As some of your illustrious Tube compatriots say: Paint bravely!
Bro this is amazing. I consider myself more of a painter/modeller hobbyist but techniques like this are incredible. Would love to see videos on your 3d printer etc
I hate painting, but I love Warhammer. This has been the most inspirational video on painting I've ever seen. I may actually paint something now. Thank you, Rob. Sincerely, your humble UA-cam Thug.
This is the best video i've seen in a while! I learned new things, for example did not know that vallejo white was the first paint ever before watching this. Thanks Rob!
I have struggled with shading to the point that I had stopped enjoying my painting. I love this! I have painted three mini's today using this technique and the new Speed paints. This has helped me so much.
I'm so glad I found this video. I've been doing army painters speed painting technique for a few months but I'm honestly just garbage at painting and was disappointed with the results. This has given me hope that all my creative ideas can still come to fruition!
Whenever I feel an overwhelming sense of hopelessness when it comes to painting yet another mini I remember your journey to the monastery and the ancient wisdom you learned there and how you so generously decided to share with the world and I just slap and chop the living hell out of my minis who has been mocking me from their pile of shame for far too long. Thanks!
Okay this may be your greatest ever video Rob. Really solid stuff and a great easy access video for new players and hobbyists. As with everything we can tend to over complicate things this I think is an invaluable video and way to paint for new members of the community. Well done.
I havent painted models for over 20 years as I was awful but bit the bullet after watching this great video and so far so good my Western legends miniatures (which are tiny and intimidating)are actually coming out semi passable. Thank you for sharing
Genuinely interested in giving this a try -- a big barrier for me when painting is set-up time, such a faff getting everything ready to go, but this is such a simple method for some great results.
Great use of contrast paints and great way to get minis done fast. One thing I've notice when working with contrast paints tho, they tend to pool a lot more when thined with water. Because of that I tend to not use a wet pallet for contrast paints (sometime they also seep into the sponge, which is annoying), and I thin them with contrast medium instead. It's a bit more expensive, but you really don't need much of it to thin it the way you want.
Fantastic Rob! Thanks for sharing the knowledge of the #slapchop. This will carry me a long way to completing a backlog of minis so I can get playing some AOS!
I've always been struggling to understand how dry brushing works, but until youtube I never even knew what the effect was and how it was supposed to be done. And this video does it in exactly the kind of detail I needed to understand it, because most tend to brush over it (ha ha).
Two years later, and this is still good fun! How anyone missed the satire in this I will never know. I have started painting the back of my hand, even if I haven't touched a mini in weeks. I gives me massive painting cred at the flgs :)
I’m true to my word! This week I’ve learned how to use the Anycubic Mono X that Rob uses and I’ve printed a 2k Fyreslayers army and most of a Idoneth army. Just need to find a good alternative sculpt for the Allopex. Slap chopping away at the IDK now.
Just found this channel and I'm inpressed because it doesn't take you for a fool but at the same as being really good for day one beginners who've never pained a model in their life. I've been in the Warhammer hobby for almost thirty years and I still make mistakes and I'm definitely still learning so this is great. Cheers👏🖖🍻Scott Reede. 😉✊
"Just rub it on your hand so people know you paint stuff. That way people know that you're a cool person." "Vallejo white is actually a really good paint to use because it's literally 001." You just kept cracking me up this entire video. Thanks for "simplifying" miniature painting in a way my monkey brain could understand. And you're funny as hell man! Earned a sub from me, cheers!
Even if this was "too much effort" for me, you convinced me that I'd be willing to paint my minis with just a bit more corner cutting! Thank you so much!
Bro this man is a fudging legend, someone give him an Oscar for that!!! Loved the video Rob and thanks to you I to will be using the slap chop technique ✌🏽
With myself being new (1yr) to the hobby, and plus having a new 1yo just now learning to walk, getting into trouble, ect, ect, I am pooped at end of day and thought id never get to play a tabletop game or have time for the tabletop/miniture painting hobby. You good sir have allowed me to continue pursuing the hobby and quickly get decent results without the upper class "i have a airbrush xeno technique " 😆 Yes I know it's a basic result and yes I will try new techniques in the future but atm you have allowed me a average painter at best to get my 1st tabletop game (cursed city) on its way to completion. Thank you and good luck on your future content endeavours good sir 👍
I absolutely love that you've brought up the make-up brushes, incredible usefulness vs price, you can really up you painting game by using these as compared to the "drybrushes" offered by g-dub or army painter, I urge anyone who just likes to drybrush and call it a day to use these, you don't need to spend crazy money on just getting stuff #done
Wow! 400 comments! Thank you for everything you do Rob! This was the first non-standard method taught to me at a FLGS a long time ago, with watered down paints and inks. I love it because I can really appreciate the sculpts revealed in the dry brushing. I’ve used just white and found if the paint is watered down I can get the grey effect and then the edge with a bit more paint but it’s too variable to so I’ll use the grey paint and second white from now on. Also, as I’ve gotten older and my eyesight is, well, I find it much easier to see the details and paint “in the lines”. Love this, love you, and Nathan and the rest!
Great video with some cheeky humour in there ;) I use a very similar method over top of Zenithal highlighted models, but never thought of over top of dry-brushed! BRING ON THE SLAPCHOP!!!
I'm completely brand new to miniature painting, and this is by far and away the best, most useful, and fun 'how to' videos I've seen. Thanks so much! I haven't looked yet, but I hope you've got plenty more :-)
I’ve already been using a similar technique, but rattle can zenithal rather than drybrushing. I’m definitely going to try a two pass drybrush now, there’s a definite step up in texture!
@@TheHonestWargamer Have you tried varying the undercoat and dry brush colours? I’ve been starting to play around with starting Zandri Dust or Mechanicus Standard Grey and working up from there instead of black.
This was a legit good video. I like the presentation and probably legit learned how to get better results with contrasts lol. I actually watch the painting dudes and this one was genuinely fun. Hope you do more.
Thanks Rob! I can't wait to try this. I REALLY want to get into painting, but my reality is that I just don't have the time to paint whole armies. Your slap chop method is going to make it posible for me to play with a painted army AND occasionally take the time to do detailed painting, when it suits me ! Any chance you can cover how to make contrast/speed paints from regular paints? It'd be a great help, rather than investing in a whole new set of paints.
We spend so much time with Rob being a sassy biscuit that we forget he's good at explaining things and making really good content. Great video man
If you don't want me at my sassy you don't deserve me at my explainy
Lol sassy biscuit is a beautiful phrase
We are here, and We are watching you.
YASSSSSSSSS.
Fancy seeing this guy here! I've painted many many hours of models to your videos
I'd been going through a tough time lately. The books were dropping thick and fast and I was having to dedicate extra hours to the painting table just to make sure I wouldn't get evicted from Adepticon. As I was completing my 7th edge highlight of my Glutton's armour plate, my wife told me that I was spending too much time painting and she wasn't sure if she could make it work anymore. I didn't know where to turn. Then I discovered this video, learned the Slap Chop method, and within a day my entire Ogor army was done, and my marriage was saved. Thank you Mr Robert sir. I'll let you know if Adepticon evicts me.
Hahahahahabahababahahababhaa
Lmao
Well obviously you have to go all out on the Gluttons!
So no going back to painting that 7th edge highlight and spending 20 plus hours on a single shield then?
New video Title “How to save a Marriage with SlapChop.”
@@OgreOnSprue Exactly, no shame lol.
This video single-handedly made me want to start painting minis. Not only because it’s an easy entry point, but because it really showed the creativity of the process, and how you could explore it without it being a super daunting thing.
Hope you give it a try. You will be surprised how good it can look. Reaper makes a great "Learn to Paint" kit for new painters.
@@Upsideround I did! Painted a Jade Obelisk Warband, using mostly slapchop. I'm going to explore more layering based techniques with my next project (the free Seraphon). The video worked.
@@0supermoose804 keep up the good work! try all kinds of different shades and colors. You only get better with time and experimentation
As someone with really bad tremors that wasnt an amazing painter before it got worse this technique got me back into painting and I really like the way they turn out. Ty for an awesome video
I have really annoying random physical ‘ tics’. I can be in the middle of painting and everything is going well and boom my shoulders have to adjust and it ruins my work 😂
I find painting while tired and no caffeine for the day settles my tremors before painting. 2am painting sessions are also relaxing
Hey I have tremors too, nice to know there a few of us out there! I really enjoy painting using an airbrush and more "grimdark" style with solvents etc. It's much more fun too !
Lost it at "Rub it on your hand so people know you paint stuff" 😂 Great content Rob and really useful video!
Its true though. if I want clean hands I wear a latex glove on my left.
i lost it at "vel eh jo". This video is a masterpiece.
Awh thanks xxxx
Come on, its well known how well the English pronounce funny foreign words properly, my father-in-law still pronounces pâté properly, payt, and dont get him started on fa-jeet-as.
"This is VAHLEYJO Gray, its a Light Gray, it works very well." Never change, Rob, never change
Oh a celebrity. Hi babe
That pronunciation almost made me turn off the video and flip my desk... xD
I didn't have to scroll far for someone to point this out. Lmao
This video is everything! Finally a painting video that didn’t bore me to death! Robs enthusiasm and explanations are just perfect! All painting tutorials should be like this
Thanks baby
I've always hated how contrast-painted miniatures look. I always wanted to do contrast paints to save time, but I really just don't like how they turn out (when done the way they're "intended"). This method looks more than passable, it looks fantastic! You just opened my world to contrast paints.
This is, somehow, one of the best painting videos I've ever seen for fast armies. Love it.
Thanks Russ
OK for real... more videos like this, Rob... nailed the humor, quality and editing. Well done sir.
On it
Thank you. I've often wished I could learn from the legendary Turkish master painters. Now I can
They are kind and make good tea
As someone who's not painter, but still wants my miniatures to 'pop', this looks like the perfect compromise for me!
Thank you for the great tutorial!!
Before this video and the countless other videos singing Slapchop praises, I would stare at my pile of unpainted silver and grey shame... some going back over 35 years. I would chip away at this pile with some models taking a month to paint.... Now with Slapchop my method of choice I just finished painting 8 models in a day and that for me is a miracle. Yes, I still focus on the unimportant and generally invisible details but the basics are completed in no time. Thank you, kind sir... I salute you!
I'm happy for you
This is both legit funny, and legit a good painting method! As someone who really doesn't love painting, and has a 6-month old kid, I don't have a ton of time to do complex painting stuff. I'm excited to try this out! Thanks Rob!
Oh man please tag me in pics
I've been using the Slapchop method for years but now I feel relieved and reinvigorated to have a name and wider understanding of what I've been doing. You have changed my life Rob!
This method is truly amazing. It worked for me immediately and helped me get over my crippling fear of making mistakes painting. Very simple and low skill required. After drybrushing it's basically like filling in a coloring book picture!
Slapchop expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in tweeting and painting, originating in Northern England around the beginning of the 21th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas by the quickest means possible. Slapchop Expressionist artists have sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality.
I've screencapped this
By a complete coincidence it looks remarkably like the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article on expressionism.
Hahaha, this comment is fkn GOLD!
The SlapChop modern expressionism painting style really comes alive when the mini is engaged in the throes of battle. The emotional response is fully realized by the viewer of such works and not forced. The viewer is given the Freedom to feel one’s true emotions.
Nice, this is the speedpaint secret that has been used for a while now! Before contrasts and speed paints, this was used to fast paint with washes, inks and glazes! Great vid
Amazing video!!! i have lots of friends ( just 3) who struggle painting their miniatures, this should help them putting those minis on the table and stop ruining my immersion. Thank you Rob!.
I only have 3 friends too!!! We should be friends
@@TheHonestWargamer I thought we couldn`t be friends since im a youtube Thug, BEST DAY EVER!
I used to get white fingers from wetblending everything, taking hours to paint even a Grot and me not being able to take care of my day job as a professional flutist. But now, since discovering #slapchop my fingers are back and so is the flutisting. Thank you slapchok!
Great to have a video that is friendly to the common painter - thank you Rob!
Happy to help
I just stumbled across this video after ages of watching a bunch of detailed ways on how to paint minis with different techniques of varying difficulty, depressed and sad that I'll never finish my board game miniatures because of the time an amature like me has to spend painting.
After seeing this, for the first time in a year I finally feel like I want to get painting again, using these paints and this technique!
Explained in a perfectly easy and humorous way! Thank you so so much!
Perfect blend of humor and information, that was so good man! Great gift to the community
This is amazing Rob! You're killing me with the Vallejo pronunciation lol
Hahahah I can't wait for actual painters to get this triggered
@@TheHonestWargamer My soul shrivels up a little bit more every time I hear it said like that. Not that I'm doing the ll = y pronunciation myself, but that J... it hurts.
9:10 "Blanco". 🙂
I'm spanish, and you pronounced it really well, @The Honest Wargamer
I don’t game. Or paint. Yet here I am.
Cute x
You madlad
Me too
find a store near you, they often do games and wouldn’t mind showing you how to play im sure
Better start slappin and choppin and pew pewin on the table top. The game needs you.
I thought this was going to be satire. I still laughed and added the first, and therefore, best paint, Valle-joe 001 white to my collection. I have not been disappointed. I look forward to the next installment of rob the honest painter.
Awesome video. Thank you for making such an awesome product so easy for beginners.
You're so welcome!
Ok my god this is cool! If been a traditional artist for years and when my hubby and I got into DnD a little over a year ago I started painting minis, but struggled with the techniques. He saw this and showed me and I NEED to try this method! Thank you for this video!!!
That is awesome!
Glorious!
I too have started to paint on my hands to make sure people know I’m a cool person! In all seriousness though fantastic content here, the plaguemarine especially looks great.
Thanks Alex. I can do paint throughs easy
One of The Best and fun tutorials out there. Wish this was a thing when i started painting two years ago. Thank you for this gem
Happy to help
Brilliant tutorial! I've been doing something similar but with a base of: Wraithbone spray - Aggrax Earthshade all over - Wraithbone drybrush. Slightly warmer base for the contrasts.
Sounds cool!! The muddy chop?
@@TheHonestWargamer The mud chop sounds like a euphemism for butt sex.
I've had a similar method I've used for ghosts before -- black base, grey over-base, wash with Athonian Camoshade, drybrush ghost grey.
Before I used wetbrush and was sad all the time. Then I found this video, and now I'm happy all the time. Thank you Mr. Slapchop Rob
MY PLEASURE BABE
"I'm so proud of my army, it took me 2 years to paint it all, but it was totally worth it. By the way, yours looks pretty cool too, how much did it take to paint it all?"
"Oh... I just painted it while I was traveling on the train to come here."
This technique has changed my paint game for the better. I’m getting better results in a fraction of the time. I’ve watched other videos and applied some variants, but this is where it all started. Thank you. Sincerely.
How, how……how did you do it, i am speechless 🤷🏻♂️. In all honesty, a really Great video. Gonna try this technique on something myself in the future. Slapchop rules
You can do it!
Legitimately laughed out loud a couple of times. I asked what this method was a while back and now I know! Thanks for the great video.
Thats all I can ask for
Awesome. Great resource for painters and memeologists. Very wholesome and great linking to other resources online.
Thanks you babe
Slapchop changed my life!
now i got time to go out and meet my friends again that i havent seen in years.
Thank you Slapchop!
This tutorial saved my saurus knights… and my life. Thank you slap chop. Thank you Rob.
NEXT STAGE. GLITTER CHOP
@@TheHonestWargamer GLITTER OR DEATH.
Great video. Loved the slightly tongue in cheekness of it but also that it showed really how simple it is to get a well painted model ready for the tabletop. Looking forward to the next one
I'm glad cause I ain't a pro
More in the NEAR future, thank you very much, if you’d be so kind, good sir. Much obliged. 😊 Although not revolutionary, you do present it so well, I’m instantly looking at my printed pile of resin and see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, whilst expecting to have a jolly good ride getting there! As some of your illustrious Tube compatriots say: Paint bravely!
Good luck buddy and thanks!!
Man I gotta get me a ‘valley-joe’ number one paint!
Excellent video sir, well done.
Its the best
Bro this is amazing. I consider myself more of a painter/modeller hobbyist but techniques like this are incredible.
Would love to see videos on your 3d printer etc
What a great way to start the day. You sir are a scholar and a gentleman.
Thanks babe
I hate painting, but I love Warhammer. This has been the most inspirational video on painting I've ever seen. I may actually paint something now. Thank you, Rob. Sincerely, your humble UA-cam Thug.
LETS GET TO IT
This is the best video i've seen in a while! I learned new things, for example did not know that vallejo white was the first paint ever before watching this. Thanks Rob!
We grow as a group
Dude, this was brilliant!! I’m gonna have to try this on some new project. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
HAPPY TO HELP YOU BABE
This is easily the greatest painting tutorial/motivating I have ever watched. Thank youuuu
Happy you liked it Johnny
Rob, thanks for the slapchop vid, the hype is now real.
Get Slapping chop daddy
I had to check (multiple times) to make sure this wasn't an April Fools video.
Excellent video, and supremely entertaining. Subbed
HEY thanks
if you painted that death guard lord you HAVE to do a guide it looks incredible 😮 can't wait to see more painting videos!
If?? Yeah baby. All of them
I have struggled with shading to the point that I had stopped enjoying my painting. I love this! I have painted three mini's today using this technique and the new Speed paints. This has helped me so much.
I'm so glad I found this video. I've been doing army painters speed painting technique for a few months but I'm honestly just garbage at painting and was disappointed with the results. This has given me hope that all my creative ideas can still come to fruition!
Good luck bud
Whenever I feel an overwhelming sense of hopelessness when it comes to painting yet another mini I remember your journey to the monastery and the ancient wisdom you learned there and how you so generously decided to share with the world and I just slap and chop the living hell out of my minis who has been mocking me from their pile of shame for far too long. Thanks!
Okay this may be your greatest ever video Rob.
Really solid stuff and a great easy access video for new players and hobbyists.
As with everything we can tend to over complicate things this I think is an invaluable video and way to paint for new members of the community.
Well done.
Thanks babe
I havent painted models for over 20 years as I was awful but bit the bullet after watching this great video and so far so good my Western legends miniatures (which are tiny and intimidating)are actually coming out semi passable. Thank you for sharing
Yeah, this is such a well produced video. Great painting advice too!
Thanks nick!
lmao! this was such a fun video! Subbed and looking forward to see more
Oh thanks!
Loved it - great resource for narrative painters 🙂
#narrativegamers
Genuinely interested in giving this a try -- a big barrier for me when painting is set-up time, such a faff getting everything ready to go, but this is such a simple method for some great results.
Great use of contrast paints and great way to get minis done fast. One thing I've notice when working with contrast paints tho, they tend to pool a lot more when thined with water. Because of that I tend to not use a wet pallet for contrast paints (sometime they also seep into the sponge, which is annoying), and I thin them with contrast medium instead. It's a bit more expensive, but you really don't need much of it to thin it the way you want.
All good points thanks. I'm going to just paint like this for a while so I'll try other tutorials
You can use a paper towel to wick off excess paint. All the fancy painters do it :-)
Who is this handsome man. I’m getting better at painting just by looking at him. Thank you Ron.
THANKS CUTIE
I just wish I'd seen this before Adepticon.
For realz, awesome practical painting guide. You're a hobby hero. 👍
Awesome job! This is an amazing place to start as a new beginner. Thanks for sharing with the community!
You're very welcome!
Fantastic Rob! Thanks for sharing the knowledge of the #slapchop. This will carry me a long way to completing a backlog of minis so I can get playing some AOS!
Be like the monks
I've always been struggling to understand how dry brushing works, but until youtube I never even knew what the effect was and how it was supposed to be done.
And this video does it in exactly the kind of detail I needed to understand it, because most tend to brush over it (ha ha).
This tutorial just made my day! Well done mate
Omg, like thats all i needed to hear. Thanks
Two years later, and this is still good fun! How anyone missed the satire in this I will never know.
I have started painting the back of my hand, even if I haven't touched a mini in weeks.
I gives me massive painting cred at the flgs :)
FLGS CRED
Finally a paint tutorial any one can achieve. Thanks mate!!!
Easy peasy. Let's get slapping
Bam! Slap Chop hits critical. Well done, finally a fantastic technique to get things done.
Great video! Rob’s philosophy has convinced me to buy a resin 3D printer. I’m going to be slap chopping every army in AOS.
OMG YES
I’m true to my word! This week I’ve learned how to use the Anycubic Mono X that Rob uses and I’ve printed a 2k Fyreslayers army and most of a Idoneth army. Just need to find a good alternative sculpt for the Allopex. Slap chopping away at the IDK now.
Great Guy, Best Method. Painting like a Pro via SLAPCHOP , Thank Rob and Grot Gang!
Excellent video, great explanation Rob. You’ve inspired me to try this on my 40K orks
works so well on them. ive done the same
Just found this channel and I'm inpressed because it doesn't take you for a fool but at the same as being really good for day one beginners who've never pained a model in their life. I've been in the Warhammer hobby for almost thirty years and I still make mistakes and I'm definitely still learning so this is great. Cheers👏🖖🍻Scott Reede. 😉✊
THANKS BUDDY
"Just rub it on your hand so people know you paint stuff. That way people know that you're a cool person."
"Vallejo white is actually a really good paint to use because it's literally 001."
You just kept cracking me up this entire video. Thanks for "simplifying" miniature painting in a way my monkey brain could understand. And you're funny as hell man! Earned a sub from me, cheers!
Anytime babe x
Even if this was "too much effort" for me, you convinced me that I'd be willing to paint my minis with just a bit more corner cutting! Thank you so much!
Bro this man is a fudging legend, someone give him an Oscar for that!!! Loved the video Rob and thanks to you I to will be using the slap chop technique ✌🏽
Let me see when you do
@@TheHonestWargamer will do m8
With myself being new (1yr) to the hobby, and plus having a new 1yo just now learning to walk, getting into trouble, ect, ect, I am pooped at end of day and thought id never get to play a tabletop game or have time for the tabletop/miniture painting hobby.
You good sir have allowed me to continue pursuing the hobby and quickly get decent results without the upper class "i have a airbrush xeno technique " 😆
Yes I know it's a basic result and yes I will try new techniques in the future but atm you have allowed me a average painter at best to get my 1st tabletop game (cursed city) on its way to completion. Thank you and good luck on your future content endeavours good sir 👍
Awh! Have a great life and enjoy the hobby and your time. Congrats on the little one
I absolutely love that you've brought up the make-up brushes, incredible usefulness vs price, you can really up you painting game by using these as compared to the "drybrushes" offered by g-dub or army painter, I urge anyone who just likes to drybrush and call it a day to use these, you don't need to spend crazy money on just getting stuff #done
Yeah thats the goal hahaha
Makeup brushes are so good that it actually feels insulting to see how much artist Opus wants for their dry brush range
@@stevehall364 You get a nice box 🤣🤣🤣
Love it! Just subscribed, please make more tutorials, this was humorous, fun, and the result looks great!
Will do bud
Wow! 400 comments! Thank you for everything you do Rob! This was the first non-standard method taught to me at a FLGS a long time ago, with watered down paints and inks. I love it because I can really appreciate the sculpts revealed in the dry brushing. I’ve used just white and found if the paint is watered down I can get the grey effect and then the edge with a bit more paint but it’s too variable to so I’ll use the grey paint and second white from now on. Also, as I’ve gotten older and my eyesight is, well, I find it much easier to see the details and paint “in the lines”. Love this, love you, and Nathan and the rest!
OH MAN THANKS. love ya back
Great video with some cheeky humour in there ;) I use a very similar method over top of Zenithal highlighted models, but never thought of over top of dry-brushed! BRING ON THE SLAPCHOP!!!
"...Magic Energy Ball... It's pretty intense."
Image caught me off-guard, so I Lol'd.
Thanks a lot, your video help me a lot in my returning painting miniatures after a long time ^^
So happy for you. Have a great time
This is such an amazing tutorial. You really are evolving in all aspects of this hobby. Congrats 💪💪💪
Lots of love from Greece
MALAKA
I've started to paint my hands so people know I'm a painter and leave food on my hands too so people know I'm a cook! Thanks Robert!
Subbed for slapchop! Started doing similar years ago, but at the time, had to use inks or thinned paints. This is SO much better.
Let us know how it goes
I'm completely brand new to miniature painting, and this is by far and away the best, most useful, and fun 'how to' videos I've seen. Thanks so much! I haven't looked yet, but I hope you've got plenty more :-)
I’ve already been using a similar technique, but rattle can zenithal rather than drybrushing.
I’m definitely going to try a two pass drybrush now, there’s a definite step up in texture!
Let me know!!!
@@TheHonestWargamer Have you tried varying the undercoat and dry brush colours? I’ve been starting to play around with starting Zandri Dust or Mechanicus Standard Grey and working up from there instead of black.
Thanks for sharing. I've been painting a little while and learning some things myself, but this taught me a lot.. thanks
This was a legit good video. I like the presentation and probably legit learned how to get better results with contrasts lol. I actually watch the painting dudes and this one was genuinely fun. Hope you do more.
Thanks jerome
It’s almost finished looking with just the drybrush. Smoooooth.
thats my favourite stage
I haven’t started painting anything yet, but your videos are fun to watch and easy to follow! Thanks. Subbed
I think that this has changed my life. Thanks Rob, now I feel like I have a strategy to attack my piles of shame!
Amazing stuff! Excited to see more
Thanks a ton!
Wonderful video! May the UA-cam algorithm bless it!
I pray we catch the winds
Thanks Rob! I can't wait to try this. I REALLY want to get into painting, but my reality is that I just don't have the time to paint whole armies. Your slap chop method is going to make it posible for me to play with a painted army AND occasionally take the time to do detailed painting, when it suits me !
Any chance you can cover how to make contrast/speed paints from regular paints? It'd be a great help, rather than investing in a whole new set of paints.
FOR YEARS! FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS......God I needed this video.