Dude I hope you keep this up, unless it’s making you unhappy. You have tried the hardest techniques in the hobby for your first attempt. My friend who has been painting for 20years (like myself) tried nmm and gave up after two sessions. Your work with thinning paint is very good. If I was teaching a friend I would suggest base coats with shadows and highlights if I wanted to push them.
Good for you! A great first mini! You need a miniature handle/holder. You can go the cheap route and grab poster tack and stick your mini to the cap of of a large pill bottle or something similar in size. Or purchase a proper one; there are many options out there. Games Workshop has ones that are spring loaded to clamp your mini...I prefer those. Keep your wet palette well hydrated and keep painting...you'll be surprised at how fast you sharpen your skills. Watch tips and tricks videos but don't forget to experiment. I found many techniques on my own.
I don't understand the regret mate, you did an excellent job for a first attempt (and you gained a new sub)! Don't let the claim of "painting minis is actually easy" shown by seasoned mini painters bring you down, people painting 24/7 for years think they remember how it was when they were noobs, but it's a "spoiled memory"! 😄 It's a journey, it will have discouraging lows and extremely satisfying highs, and most importantly, it's YOUR journey. You don't have to conform to someone else's "standards", you can go your way and that's the beauty of the entire hobby in my opinion... I for example never use wet palettes (cause I can't do it, I've tried multiple times and never got the hang of it), I don't do the "zenithal thing", I hate painting minis in more than one session (cause if I leave a mini incomplete, the chance for me to never pick it up again is extremely high), so I tend to paint em in a single seat, if it start to take more than 2 hours, I fell like something's wrong 😂 when other people feel lost if they don't spend at least 4 days on a single model but I don't feel like this disqualifies me as a mini painter since I'm able to generally achieve what satisfies me and/or what I'm asked to... Do it as you enjoy it the most, don't stress too much on the outcome of your first mini pain jobs and, most important, have a ton of fun (just my two cents 😉)!!
Welcome to the hobby, my friend! Your first mini looks great and you can be really proud! Great video too! (But man, you went all in on your equipment :D I wouldn't recommend doing that at all)
As someone who's been building models and painting miniatures for about 20 years now, I'd like to give you an advise: work smarter, not harder - that means: buy yourself a paint-handle. Reduces risk of dropping the miniature to almost zero, prevents smudges/fingerprints in the paint, provides a proper grip if you need to reach awkward spots on the mini - and mostly, if you paint more often, your left hand will thank you too. This one simple, cheap and reliable tool will make this hobby SO MUCH more fun. Oh and BTW you've slipped into my UA-cam auto-play while I was painting a mini - that's good timing I suppose.
Just starting out myself a few months ago. Best investments I have found are a wet pallet, a good brush to start with is the citadel layer brush $10-12 and good paints. Citadel, Vallejo, pro acryl. Got an airbrush but figured learning the basics and color theory are the priority. Don’t put to much pressure on yourself. If you’re having fun in the process it’s well worth the investment imo
Hi, Thank you for publishing this video! I can tell you, I feel your pain. I started really trying to get better at painting minis around last June. I pieced together a bunch of paints. I already had some, but I have been building more as time has passed. I can say my favorites are Pro Acryl, but I have some from a bunch of different brands. It really was difficult (and still is) when I first started. The hardest (with a regular brush) part for me was thinning the paints and learning how to use a wet pallet. Air brushing has its own difficulties. Right now, I am really trying to focus on my brush control to reduce the times I make stray marks on areas I have already painted. But over the last couple of months, I have begun to notice some improvement. I even entered one of minis into a paint challenge. It was fun especially because in addition to being my first challenge, it was also the first time I really tried to do some highlighting and shading. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate you putting yourself out there like that. We all start somewhere and even Ninjon and Squidmar probably had difficulty starting out. Please keep painting and sharing your work so we can all enjoy your journey and progress together.
Good video! Get a painting handle to put your mini on it’ll make the process of painting easier. Wet blending is quite an advanced technique so well done for attempting that, after 20 odd years I still use layering shades and washes, with more practice I think you’ll get there quite quickly
Hey that was an interesting Video. I am not a Pro painter by any means but i wanna give you some tips on how to learn without getting to frustrated. Because you took a lot of effort on your first mini. Short Story before: I started the hobby when i was 14 and bought some middle earth strategie battle minis on a flee market because i thought it looked cool. it was very cheap. I was shit and used the tutorials on the magazines that where there. They started with basic techniques. Nothing like wetblending and that stuff. My Paint was shit and my tools also but i was very happy. Then i went to colledge and did not have time and space for the hobby so i tried to improve on my other hobby. Drawing. Several years had gone by and i picked up the hobby again when i was 27. i still had a lot of unpainted minis. Instead of using tutorials this time i tried using my gained knowledge on art with the minis. They where way better out of the gate. Even tough i had not painted a mini for 7 or 8 Years. After that i tried looking up how other painters do stuff and tried implementing a technique at a time. I was way faster in learning because i could focus on one technique and the results where also more satisfing as i saw how it worked. When i watched your video it was very painfull because i thought to myself: Why do you use all these advanced techniques that are very hard to use? Why make it more painfull than it has to be? Why start non metalic on your first mini? I also never used a wet pallet and maybe i should but you put in so much time and money for one mini. My respect. However i had the feeling you got very exhausted . And it took you several session. Yes it takes me several session too and maybe 1-3 weeks depending on the mini now and how satisfied i am but at least i am satisfied with the results now. I still can't get these nice eyes though. So my tipp if you want to continue is that you start with the basics like basecoating, highlithing and shadows and try to master 1 technique at a time. I also reccomend buying a pack of dungeons and lasers minies as they are very good quality and even cheaper than that mini you had. Then you can practice much better and go to minis you actualy wanna paint great with all the knowledge you have gained. And don't hate on your old stuff. You where learning. O still have my shitty painted goblins from lord of the rings and when i see them i am reminded of my great progress. They look way worse than your mini btw XD. Hope that will help you a bit. Feel like people wanna do everything at once when starting a new thing.
How is this a bad attempt? Any first mini painting is always a good flood of experience, and considering how you handicapped yourself not using a mini holder the end results was 100x better than my first painted mini. Looking at the issues you have with the paint, I would say you either got a box of bad paint that might have split or even dried up in storage. Probably buying a fresh set from a game/hobby shop would be safer choice. Please do get a mini holder, the more secure it is and comfortable for you to hold on to it REALLY helps boost your confidence and stability, remember that your brush hand shakes and holding your mini like that also causes it to shake even more.
Im not sure why your friend recommended GWs spray paints AND an airbrush, you can get a huge bottle of Vallejo primer that will last literal years for the cost of on can of spray, and priming with your airbrush is so much better. Citadel's spary paints aren't even primers they are just coloured sprays.
Well, unless you are a trained artist, your first attempts will be meh, regardless of how much "you should know before starting" videos you watch - brush/motor skills or paint thinning cann't really translate well over the screen. I've watched mini content for 3 months before starting and first one was still meh - that's why I painted around 100 models for Zombicide over 2 months afterwards - only practice will get you where you want to be. Either way, good luck!
Not sure the point of this video is about trying to save money or that getting into the hobby if the hobby is expensive? But for beginners you don’t need rattle cans or air brushes. Get £1 set of cheap synthetic brushes a £1 set of make up brushes and pick up a black and white paint pot and a set of army painter speed paints. Waaaaaaay cheaper and a great way to get used to how to practice how to use a brush. Slapchop it’s your friend
Dude I hope you keep this up, unless it’s making you unhappy. You have tried the hardest techniques in the hobby for your first attempt. My friend who has been painting for 20years (like myself) tried nmm and gave up after two sessions. Your work with thinning paint is very good. If I was teaching a friend I would suggest base coats with shadows and highlights if I wanted to push them.
Good for you! A great first mini!
You need a miniature handle/holder. You can go the cheap route and grab poster tack and stick your mini to the cap of of a large pill bottle or something similar in size. Or purchase a proper one; there are many options out there. Games Workshop has ones that are spring loaded to clamp your mini...I prefer those.
Keep your wet palette well hydrated and keep painting...you'll be surprised at how fast you sharpen your skills. Watch tips and tricks videos but don't forget to experiment. I found many techniques on my own.
I don't understand the regret mate, you did an excellent job for a first attempt (and you gained a new sub)!
Don't let the claim of "painting minis is actually easy" shown by seasoned mini painters bring you down, people painting 24/7 for years think they remember how it was when they were noobs, but it's a "spoiled memory"! 😄
It's a journey, it will have discouraging lows and extremely satisfying highs, and most importantly, it's YOUR journey.
You don't have to conform to someone else's "standards", you can go your way and that's the beauty of the entire hobby in my opinion...
I for example never use wet palettes (cause I can't do it, I've tried multiple times and never got the hang of it), I don't do the "zenithal thing", I hate painting minis in more than one session (cause if I leave a mini incomplete, the chance for me to never pick it up again is extremely high), so I tend to paint em in a single seat, if it start to take more than 2 hours, I fell like something's wrong 😂
when other people feel lost if they don't spend at least 4 days on a single model but I don't feel like this disqualifies me as a mini painter since I'm able to generally achieve what satisfies me and/or what I'm asked to...
Do it as you enjoy it the most, don't stress too much on the outcome of your first mini pain jobs and, most important, have a ton of fun (just my two cents 😉)!!
Welcome to the hobby, my friend! Your first mini looks great and you can be really proud! Great video too!
(But man, you went all in on your equipment :D I wouldn't recommend doing that at all)
As someone who's been building models and painting miniatures for about 20 years now, I'd like to give you an advise: work smarter, not harder - that means: buy yourself a paint-handle. Reduces risk of dropping the miniature to almost zero, prevents smudges/fingerprints in the paint, provides a proper grip if you need to reach awkward spots on the mini - and mostly, if you paint more often, your left hand will thank you too.
This one simple, cheap and reliable tool will make this hobby SO MUCH more fun.
Oh and BTW you've slipped into my UA-cam auto-play while I was painting a mini - that's good timing I suppose.
Just starting out myself a few months ago. Best investments I have found are a wet pallet, a good brush to start with is the citadel layer brush $10-12 and good paints. Citadel, Vallejo, pro acryl. Got an airbrush but figured learning the basics and color theory are the priority. Don’t put to much pressure on yourself. If you’re having fun in the process it’s well worth the investment imo
Hi, Thank you for publishing this video! I can tell you, I feel your pain. I started really trying to get better at painting minis around last June. I pieced together a bunch of paints. I already had some, but I have been building more as time has passed. I can say my favorites are Pro Acryl, but I have some from a bunch of different brands. It really was difficult (and still is) when I first started. The hardest (with a regular brush) part for me was thinning the paints and learning how to use a wet pallet. Air brushing has its own difficulties. Right now, I am really trying to focus on my brush control to reduce the times I make stray marks on areas I have already painted. But over the last couple of months, I have begun to notice some improvement. I even entered one of minis into a paint challenge. It was fun especially because in addition to being my first challenge, it was also the first time I really tried to do some highlighting and shading. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate you putting yourself out there like that. We all start somewhere and even Ninjon and Squidmar probably had difficulty starting out. Please keep painting and sharing your work so we can all enjoy your journey and progress together.
Good video! Get a painting handle to put your mini on it’ll make the process of painting easier. Wet blending is quite an advanced technique so well done for attempting that, after 20 odd years I still use layering shades and washes, with more practice I think you’ll get there quite quickly
Hey that was an interesting Video. I am not a Pro painter by any means but i wanna give you some tips on how to learn without getting to frustrated. Because you took a lot of effort on your first mini. Short Story before: I started the hobby when i was 14 and bought some middle earth strategie battle minis on a flee market because i thought it looked cool. it was very cheap. I was shit and used the tutorials on the magazines that where there. They started with basic techniques. Nothing like wetblending and that stuff. My Paint was shit and my tools also but i was very happy. Then i went to colledge and did not have time and space for the hobby so i tried to improve on my other hobby. Drawing. Several years had gone by and i picked up the hobby again when i was 27. i still had a lot of unpainted minis. Instead of using tutorials this time i tried using my gained knowledge on art with the minis. They where way better out of the gate. Even tough i had not painted a mini for 7 or 8 Years. After that i tried looking up how other painters do stuff and tried implementing a technique at a time. I was way faster in learning because i could focus on one technique and the results where also more satisfing as i saw how it worked. When i watched your video it was very painfull because i thought to myself: Why do you use all these advanced techniques that are very hard to use? Why make it more painfull than it has to be? Why start non metalic on your first mini? I also never used a wet pallet and maybe i should but you put in so much time and money for one mini. My respect. However i had the feeling you got very exhausted . And it took you several session. Yes it takes me several session too and maybe 1-3 weeks depending on the mini now and how satisfied i am but at least i am satisfied with the results now. I still can't get these nice eyes though. So my tipp if you want to continue is that you start with the basics like basecoating, highlithing and shadows and try to master 1 technique at a time. I also reccomend buying a pack of dungeons and lasers minies as they are very good quality and even cheaper than that mini you had. Then you can practice much better and go to minis you actualy wanna paint great with all the knowledge you have gained. And don't hate on your old stuff. You where learning. O still have my shitty painted goblins from lord of the rings and when i see them i am reminded of my great progress. They look way worse than your mini btw XD. Hope that will help you a bit. Feel like people wanna do everything at once when starting a new thing.
Hi. you need a handle or something similar...you will be way more confident as you can hold your miniature with force and with various angles.
How is this a bad attempt? Any first mini painting is always a good flood of experience, and considering how you handicapped yourself not using a mini holder the end results was 100x better than my first painted mini.
Looking at the issues you have with the paint, I would say you either got a box of bad paint that might have split or even dried up in storage. Probably buying a fresh set from a game/hobby shop would be safer choice.
Please do get a mini holder, the more secure it is and comfortable for you to hold on to it REALLY helps boost your confidence and stability, remember that your brush hand shakes and holding your mini like that also causes it to shake even more.
Im not sure why your friend recommended GWs spray paints AND an airbrush, you can get a huge bottle of Vallejo primer that will last literal years for the cost of on can of spray, and priming with your airbrush is so much better. Citadel's spary paints aren't even primers they are just coloured sprays.
12:50 i just spent an hour on half a sword
Well, unless you are a trained artist, your first attempts will be meh, regardless of how much "you should know before starting" videos you watch - brush/motor skills or paint thinning cann't really translate well over the screen. I've watched mini content for 3 months before starting and first one was still meh - that's why I painted around 100 models for Zombicide over 2 months afterwards - only practice will get you where you want to be. Either way, good luck!
Not sure the point of this video is about trying to save money or that getting into the hobby if the hobby is expensive? But for beginners you don’t need rattle cans or air brushes. Get £1 set of cheap synthetic brushes a £1 set of make up brushes and pick up a black and white paint pot and a set of army painter speed paints. Waaaaaaay cheaper and a great way to get used to how to practice how to use a brush. Slapchop it’s your friend
This is not good advice, some people like to have theyre expensive minis to look good