3 Essential Beginners Techniques & Tips to paint your Warhammer | Duncan Rhodes
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- In this tutorial, we show you three essential techniques/ tips for beginners when painting your miniatures. Whether you like to paint Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, Warhammer the Old World, the Horus Heresy, Conquest, Fallout, Star Wars, Warlord's Bolt Action, these techniques are an important part of developing your miniature painting fundamentals and they will be useful through out your painting hobby journey. We first take a look at Dryrushing including how to easily fix any mistakes, then Edge Highlighting and how to practice itand finally, although not necessarily a technique per say, but really important and often overlooked, Brush Care. Nail these, and you will be well on your way to creating great looking miniatures and armies.
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I really appreciate moments where mini painters stress how they adapt to mistakes. I think for some people, it's very hard to come to those kinds of conclusions on their own and end up getting discouraged. So when you went back and corrected the dry brush, i thought it was a really great standout moment.
Oh man. Learning to just blend or fuzz mistakes was a game changer for me.
There's no mistakes, only happy accidents.
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The best warhammer painting channel!
Using the sprue for edge highlighting practice is a fantastic idea! Definitely going to be doing that in the future. Excellent vid
Glad it was helpful!
Every time I feel like I'm getting a grasp on the beginner basics I find there's so much more to learn😂
A neverending mixture of excitement and anxiety
Duncan, your painting tutorials are the most thoughtful, clearly explained, and best photographed (no muddy, fuzzy, or bad angles!). Thanks very much.
Wow, thank you! And you are very welcome. We all work hard to try and make the best tutorials we can so that everyone can follow along.
7:26 80s tv show montage music where the hero gets the thing done. Nice.
Love straightforward videos like this, IMO Duncan is like the Bob Vila of Mini Painting
19:58 Dear lord, Duncan! So tender, so caring with Citadel's brushes, then you dunk an Artis Opus brush into the water and do _THAT_ to it!
Also, regarding esp. that Masters brushsoap is to put some of the lather or suds that remain after cleaning a handful of brushes into your water cup after a long painting session. It reacts interestingly to the leftover paint and kinda coagulates it into itself!
Luckily, it was an old brush 😅
I’m still relatively new to the hobby, maybe about a year of experience painting now, but I still have a really hard time edge highlighting, it always feels like my hands are too shaky or I put too much pressure on the brush stroke and get way too thick a line, but I’m going to keep trying to nail the technique. Practicing with the sprue never occurred to me. Thanks Duncan, this video is helpful!
Resting your elbows is key here. It makes a world of difference. If your elbows rest on a table and arent mid-air or under the table edge, you eliminate easily 60% of the wobbly effect. Make sure to get enough paint in the belly and like Duncan mentioned, the consistency is important. Ow and, there really is no substitute for experience in this thing. Techniques makes things easier, but practice makes things nicer. Keep going, I know you can do it :) .
@@draadhaaithanks for the advice! Definitely learning bracing myself helps a lot, especially with my overly shaky hands hahaha. Cheers!!
I'm glad you brought up taking good care and cleaning your brushes. I still have a set of the red handled Citadel ones (!) I use regularly, and only because I've kept them clean and use those plastic caps.
the brush care advice is really useful, thanks
Our pleasure
Great video. You’re an asset to the hobby!
I appreciate that!
These techniques are great and thank you for taking the time to explain each one so thoroughly!
Glad it was helpful!
As I said in person you taught me so much. Even as someone whose been painting for a couple years now these videos are still useful. Just thanks, mate. You've done so much for our community and I thank you again and again
Practicing edge highlighting on the sprue is something I am going to try 🤩 Brilliant!
It definitely helps 👍
Holy crap I just got to the dry brushing step of some bases yesterday, just for this video to come out! Fantastic!
I will support this video with a comment, It was really interesting and useful for a newbie like me
Best painting channel! I hope to see more Conquest models in the future! The Sorcerer Kings marble elephant would be really cool!
Great suggestion!
By Sigmar Duncan! You’ve really gotten a lot of use out of that brush soap. I can believe that’s 6-7 years of use. It’s money well spent I’ve put a dent in my tub of soap over two years and I can’t imagine cleaning my brushes without it.
Great video , been taking a break from the hobby building my art studio but I’m going to save this video for when I finally get back to it. Very useful!
Once with an order of miniature hobby products I received a free silicone brush cleaner puck to put in the bottom of my water cup to help when rinsing paint out of the bristles during painting. The puck is VERY thin and the texture nubs on it's surface are extremely short as well (varying from 0.5mm to maybe 2.5mm). When cleaning my brushes after a painting session, I like to take that puck out, get my bristles wet and move them around in the brush soap, and then lightly swish them around on the surface of the puck (with a few droplets of water on it of course) to massage the soap around in the bristles to more thoroughly clean the paint out.
This works a little better and faster to me than just swishing the brushes directly in the brush soap and rinsing over and over, and has greatly helped get paint out deeper into the bristles close to the ferule. I've been doing this for maybe half a year at this point and haven't noticed any increased wear and tear on my brushes or any other problems. At the same time though, I am only just now getting my hands on quality sable brushes and haven't been using + cleaning them for long enough to determine if this practice is still safe for those or not. So YMMV.
Definitely enjoy all these paintings videos and brush maintenance is definitely worth while you save money to spend on Warhammer it's self not all the brushes from incorrect use
Thank you , DRPA .
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Love you Duncan :)
Ah…thanks 😀
Great stuff
Awesome video! Great theme music too 😊
Glad you liked it! It was fun to choose 🤘
Would love to see a video exploring artis opus style of dry brushing (using a non absorbent material to remove the paint and allowing moisture in the brush) and the older way like you use. More just to see if you see a difference.
Cleaning paint brushe's one of the things I do when it comes to drybrushing before painting a model vehicle. Soap works well for this technique.
Great tip!
wish i had seen a video like this when i started lol
Oof. I attempted my first highlights tonight and it was okay but not so great. I will have to use your sprue idea to practice before I attempt my next.
I just keep telling myself that practice makes perfect, and I can’t hold it against myself if my first few look crummy because I’m on my way to being a better painter.
Thank you for all of these tips and in general videos Duncan, definitely improved my painting. I am looking for ways to paint some divine (white / white yellow ) weapons / effects? any tips? I mostly still use citadel paints, trying to get that white angelic look for some of my sisters of battle.
I try so hard but i always end up with paint in the ferrule and then my wife shouts "What are you swearing at ?"
great video
Thanks!
My son has put me on to you. He has some talent and I want to learn. However I am not talking about painting war hammer figures. I am talking about learning to paint The Silver Bayonet figures. You guys know that there is a world of miniatures outside of gw right? 😄 I will watch and hopefully learn.
Great video, thanks for the advice. I keep getting so disheartened when edge highlighting my black power armour, I find it really difficult to find the right consistency of paint, usually it’s too thin so it’s more of a watery smudge
Practice on an old sprue. The consistency will come with a little practice
I am now realizing I did everything that I shouldn’t have done when taking care of my brush
Small tip: if you have brushes you forgot to clean and it's really dried use a bath isopropyl alcohol for about 20 minutes then follow Duncan's advice for cleaning them.
Great tip. Cheers for sharing 👍
Completely off-topic, but has anyone ever told you you look kind of like Tony Hawk?
Hi Duncan! Thanks for another wonderful tutorial. I really like these essential techniques videos.
One question, what should I do when I make mistakes over a drybrushed part? For instance, say I drybrushed Imperial Fist power armour with very light yellow, and later made a mistake while painting the trim with black. After covering that black with yellow, should I drybrush that area again and risk touching other parts painted in different basecoat colours, or edge highlight instead?
Thanks for your tips and techniques, have a nice day!
Please, please, please do a video for an imperial knight!
Question: Any tips on highligting the edges of a bone armor? For example on deathwing knights?
i got some test space mirines to paint so im gonna try on them
Go for it
any reason you use/prefer a flat brush vs. round for dry brushing?
"A good workman never blames his tools" Never heard of it.
"A bad workman always blames his tools" is what I've heard of.
A good workman will look after his tools keeping them useful for as long as possible.
Hi Duncan! channel is awesome, when you can could you please make a video about the Vallejo Strike? As players who enjoy the hobby we sometimes forget all the workers who labor to make all the games, minis, and paints that make it possible. A private equity firm bought out Vallejo and is hollowing out the company and putting the poor employees at risk. The Vallejo workers just like all the people who make our hobby possible deserve our support and the help of the content creators and influencers who make a living from it to spread the work and stand with them. All the printers, the warehouse workers, manufacturing techs, the paint techs, etc... all of them deserve a fair wage and safe work environment. Really hoping you will make a short video supporting them and sending out the call to all D&D youtubers to do the same. Thanks!
Does using a medium, like a glazing medium, work for thinning the paint for edge highlighting or should you go directly to water?
Either or will work. Medium works better with blending or glazing. Water is perfect for highlighting. It’s just personal choice 😊
My dry brush highlights end up looking like chalky paint and not clean like yours. What am I doing wrong?
Love your vids btw ❤
There may be a couple things. There is probably a little too much paint on your brush or when you're dry brushing, you may be pushing down too hard on the model. Also, if you get streaks, it may be that your brush isn't 100% dry ie. you may have just washed the brush and not dried it properly. Try these and see if it helps. 😊
Any helpful tips for deathwing armour ive tried loads and it never looks good
Henry was here
I am a complete beginner and looking to grow my knowledge as I paint my eternals, any help be great.
How long should I leave it dry after one layer of paint?
How do you understand that a professional is working?
Everything looks obvious and very simple, but you can't do it)
But only practice and perseverance will help here. And a large supply of paint remover
do you need to thin your paints before you drybrush?
Duncan looks like he just rolled out of bed hahaha
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Thanks
wow.. theres some bass coming out of that voice on this one! haha🤣
No wetting the drybrush at all?
I don't know if pronounce DRPA as Doctor PA or Derpa
Nice tip regarding edge Highlighting! Would you recommend the use of Mediums like Lahmian Medium to dillute the paint for edge highlighting? How about adding Flow Improvers?
You can fi you want. But water works just fine in my experience 👍
The number of brushes ive destroyed 😅 and now I know why my brushes keep bananering
A more offside tip: if you are painting red and then is about to paint white, its very difficult to completely rid the brush of any red paint , and the slightest red contamination will show up in the white. However, you can offset this by first working in a lot of blue paint in the brush, clean it and then paint the white.
Also, Im not a fan of edge highlights - the technique was developed by GW to sell more models since the models they painted are for the box art, with the thought that the more details you can see the more they will sell. But edge highlights, especially the exaggerated ones shown here do not look natural or realistic. Go for surface highlights instead and edge highlights a lot more sparingly for a better looking result. That said, it is a good technique to master, no question about that.
You very clearly died a little inside when you rolled that brush ferrule in the orange paint!
Yup lol
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72 views in 5 mins, Duncan fell off
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I'm just getting started with miniature painting, and saying your videos are helping a lot would be an understatement. 🤌🙏