Prioritize painting over UA-cam, Instagram etc. I've lost so much time to just pointless fluff on social media that I probably could have finished a couple armies if I had used it on hobbying instead.
Have models dotted around, maybe some books and reference, take inspiration when you're not painting and you'll find yourself with a brush back in your hand in no time.
Number one have a painting space set up! It doesn't have to be huge, just a space where you have your stuff set up or a box where everything is ready to start off if you can't manage a space
I like seeing how Ciara tried something and it didn't work out. Not because I want people to fail, but because for me, I try things and they don't work, but on videos content creators rarely fail or f*%$ up. So it's refreshing to see someone take a risk, not work but have the honesty to still leave it in the video. As a hobby trial and error is a given, but not often seen. Excellent video, all the models look great!
@@BroadswordWargaming True. it does raise the question of "why do i paint?" and as i dont play the game i paint things to look nice - which means they take me an age. Very much what you alluded to at the end of your vid. Congrats on the wee one by the way.
Olly: I wanted to brush paint my skaven, as in the last video I noticed not everyone had an airbrush. Ciara: Lmao skill issue i'mma airbrush these shiny bird people
Actually amazing job here both of you, and I really enjoyed seeing Ciara's work with the airbrush - yeah not everybody has an airbrush, I get that, but the barrier to entry is so much lower that when I started using airbrushes so more people seem to be taking the plunge, and I always find it useful seeing how others use them - so, thanks 👍 You two have a lovely dynamic as well, it isn't that long since I found your channel but I always enjoy watching your content
Wonderful video. I really like that you're open about what didn't work and why you didn't like the particular approach. That's enormously helpful to others watching along!
They all look great. The weathering on the rats looks amazing. I think I need to get some of those Dirty Down paints. Spearhead is a great game. It's what Combat Patrol should have been.
Also, I was a stay at home dad for my two kids when they were young. I know how hard it is to find chunks of time to work on "fun" stuff! I really appreciated your thoughtful discussion around getting time in, and trying to keep focused on the fun and joy of painting. It sounded like you succeeded with that!
Ah. that exhausted manic energy and silly humor that comes with a newborn baby. I fondly remember those days... sort of. Its blurs together, honestly. I do recall there were lots of butchered songs altered to reference feeding and bathing, and many, many conversations about baby poop. My hobbying got put on hold for the first 18 months or so while dealing with that, so props to you guys for managing a business and a youtube channel while dealing with all that baby.
BABY! Wooo! We are so glad to hear you had a baby! 🤗 And so glad you said that you heat both the liquid and the model with the dirty down products... you have no idea how few people say that. We made a whole video on various ways to use it if you want to check it out. But yeah congrats that's great news much love from WAYPN
The paint jobs look amazing. Good on you for prioritizing enjoyment over arbitrary goals. And I do love push-fit models. They're not as "fun" for kitbashing and customizing, but they are such a breeze to assemble, and sometimes that can be really satisfying.
Congratulations on the new arrival. I feel your pain on the painting side of things having had (my wife) twins 8 months ago. I've been building my pile of shame consistently as it's the easiest thing to do when you've got a cheeky 30 min. Painting is a lot harder as I feel you need to be distraction free. Things do seem to get easier though 😊
A very loaded topic question indeed. Iv always imagined there is a motivating balance between hobby life and real life. Depending on the circumstances of personal life, when its something your really passionate about whether it is a new box set for a favorite army, a brand new game, or maybe a competition piece, youll find the right amount of time to want to do it whether thats more time to actually paint or just simply being faster with the time you have. And vice versa for personal life as well, congrats on the baby!! Obviously a baby is far more important than a simple hobby could ever be, even if its a business like yall have. But Im sure you guys would rather spend more time with your baby and be a family as opposed to hobby stuff so you set aside more time for the baby that is neccessary in those early months and years of their development, hobbying when you can find the time too. Although me personally, I have no babies or kids and that box would still take me like half a year to do lol
As a guy who takes about a month to paint 10 minis, yes enjoy the hobby. The moment I feel rushed to finish something, I don't paint as well as I want to and I resent it. I don't have any newborns but I do have a fairly full schedule, so I dedicate time to painting during weeknights, usually it's not more than an hour. I do have an intention to finish at least 1 completed mini by the end of every Sunday which keeps me on track without needing a strict timetable. The new sculpts are great, the amount of small details on the skaven models is fantastic. A friend and I split the Skaventide box, and I have the Skaven half. I'm hoping I can use the same models with swapping bases for W̶F̶B̶ The Old World, as I'd always decided if I got into Fantasy I'd pick Skaven, yes-yes.
Im hoping this will give me the kick up the rear to finally get around to painting my Dark Angels set. I enjoyed building/customizing them (especially the dreadnaught!), primed them in black but lost my bottle when it came to painting. I make other models (1/35 scale tanks mostly) and use Tamiya paint no problem but don't really know what to expect with the GW paint, on such small models. Hence my hesitation.
You guys are doing Great ❤, new babies are difficult to wrap your sleep deprived brains around the new family systems and routines. Thank you for the great content!
I tend to do 10-30 minute sessions for my painting. My biggest trick is to have the brushes out and ready, the models you want to work on on said desk, and most importantly? Your most commonly used paints right there, ready to go. This does require not only having a dedicated area to paint, but also for it to be safe for anyone else in the place (which is kind of hard with young ones and/or most types of pets - if you fish are getting into your paints, I suspect you've got bigger problems to worry about!)
I've never done this before, but for me, it seems easier to paint first and then build. As I can imagine over painting happens and then you need to go back and do touch-ups.
Paint all the Skavens and do the bases took me 14hours ish. No airbrush, jus primer and rest with brushes. It helps a lot, if you know, how you want to paint them, then its just about trusting the process
now i know how to use DD verdigris, thanks ! for your warpstone stuff, just add a layer of diluted warplightning green over the tesseract glow, it does wonders imo.
Fair play to you both. Work together, live together and kids, and you've not strangled each other. What's your secret? The world really really needs to know. I hope you both continue to have a happy and wonderful life.
Work smart! not hard! If you use techniques like slap chop, zenithal priming or undercoating with contrast or speed paints you can achieve good results for gaming and further extend them with traditional layering and edge highlighting when you're in the mood to torture yourself. Also there are several good recipies for alternate washes like marine juice or alys brown stuff (liquid) for shading entire miniatures.
For me - and to my standards - big boxes take 4 months / special releases like starter boxes take 2 / I can do a unit of 5 SM IN a week so I average about 20 normal size models / month. That’s M-F ROUGHLY 8 hours per day
15 chaos knights, 30 chaos warriors, 2 chaos lords on kark, 1 lord of foot. I spent about one and a half a year and spent about 250 hours of painting. I can't wait for it do be done. I paint every dude too the best of my ability. Every single dude. I feel ill sometimes but my army looks so good.
Here is how to paint an army in 10 minutes : 1) buy a custodes army. 2) buy a chaos black spray and a retributor gold spray 3) prime army with chaos black. 4) prime army with retributor gold frol further away. 5) wash army with nuln oil 6) wash army with reikland fleshshade. 7) congratulations. Your army is painted.
My feedback to Oliver is as follows, much like your tyranid army you always pick a white or greyish colour that makes the model seem unpainted and just lesser quality because of that choice, I would reccomend you avoid those colours entirely until you master them a bit better your armies looks a unpainted while Kieras look usually more than tabletop ready.
While I appreciate feedback, I like the scheme! I painted a few others and just did not want to do red or green. And I will note, I did finish the full spearheard! 😀
@@BroadswordWargaming Sometimes battle brother, quality trumps quantity, even if it is Skaven we are talking about, but I am a very nitpicky painter too 😅
@@BroadswordWargaming Thats the joke! Many Congrats! Ciara, you’ve done great with the limited time you got. Ollie, seriously, what’s with that red. Unsolicited advice from a father (whose done it twice with three): never feel bad about laying them snuggled up on the ground so you can do necessary chores like washing bottles. They won’t remember and will still love you four years later.
Lol, the blooper intro was great. Glad you went with the scheme you did for the rats. Spearhead is great and having painted armies for it is brilliant.
Do you have any tips for finding time to paint? If you do, drop them here so others can find them! :)
Prioritize painting over UA-cam, Instagram etc. I've lost so much time to just pointless fluff on social media that I probably could have finished a couple armies if I had used it on hobbying instead.
Having models and paint ready to go is usefull. I dont need to search for anything just start painting.
Have models dotted around, maybe some books and reference, take inspiration when you're not painting and you'll find yourself with a brush back in your hand in no time.
Having a dedicated painting space where everything is already set up really helps.
Number one have a painting space set up! It doesn't have to be huge, just a space where you have your stuff set up or a box where everything is ready to start off if you can't manage a space
A true Warhammer painter never finishes his project late, nor does he finish early. He finishes it precisely when he means to.
the giddy, baby-induced, sleep deprivation is hilarious. Love the emphasis on enjoying the hobby
Glad you liked it! That's the whole point right!? Sometimes we forget that and call it work instead. Boooo.
Ciara has come a long way in just a few years. It's been great seeing her painting skills progress.
I like seeing how Ciara tried something and it didn't work out. Not because I want people to fail, but because for me, I try things and they don't work, but on videos content creators rarely fail or f*%$ up. So it's refreshing to see someone take a risk, not work but have the honesty to still leave it in the video.
As a hobby trial and error is a given, but not often seen.
Excellent video, all the models look great!
I vowed to plough through this box on launch day and get loads of it done. I have finished a grand total of 5 clan rats.......and that's it.
That's better than zero clan rats! :)
@@BroadswordWargaming True. it does raise the question of "why do i paint?" and as i dont play the game i paint things to look nice - which means they take me an age. Very much what you alluded to at the end of your vid. Congrats on the wee one by the way.
If you hammer enough nails you’ll eventually get a house. Take your time and enjoy it.
@@stevexboxfriends7562 quality is important :)
Lol you guys have the best banter. Congrats on the newborn. Thats so wholesome 😊
Nice to see a more relaxed approach to painting and great to see the two of you in another video!
Commenting just because I really like you guys as a channel.
Ah, thanks so much!
Olly: I wanted to brush paint my skaven, as in the last video I noticed not everyone had an airbrush.
Ciara: Lmao skill issue i'mma airbrush these shiny bird people
You win some, you lose some haha. I tried.
Actually amazing job here both of you, and I really enjoyed seeing Ciara's work with the airbrush - yeah not everybody has an airbrush, I get that, but the barrier to entry is so much lower that when I started using airbrushes so more people seem to be taking the plunge, and I always find it useful seeing how others use them - so, thanks 👍
You two have a lovely dynamic as well, it isn't that long since I found your channel but I always enjoy watching your content
Wonderful video. I really like that you're open about what didn't work and why you didn't like the particular approach. That's enormously helpful to others watching along!
They all look great. The weathering on the rats looks amazing. I think I need to get some of those Dirty Down paints. Spearhead is a great game. It's what Combat Patrol should have been.
Definitely get some of the Dirty Down. It takes a while to get used to, but it's honestly amazing!
What dirty dowm products/ colours did you use in the Video? Rust, verdrigis and moss?
A Broadsword Wargaming video is always the high point of my week! 😁
Aw, that's good to hear. We don't get many out atm, but always trying!
@BroadswordWargaming it d oesn't have to be often, we understand the hustle. Just wanted you to know we appreciate you!
I love the chemistry you both share. It's so nice to see
Also, I was a stay at home dad for my two kids when they were young. I know how hard it is to find chunks of time to work on "fun" stuff! I really appreciated your thoughtful discussion around getting time in, and trying to keep focused on the fun and joy of painting. It sounded like you succeeded with that!
I know this video was a major slog at times for you guys, but it’s awesome to see everything finished! Love it! More box videos!
That intro was top tier sleep depraved silliness. 😅 great job with the painting too.
Yay more Ciara Chaos ❤❤
Ah. that exhausted manic energy and silly humor that comes with a newborn baby. I fondly remember those days... sort of. Its blurs together, honestly. I do recall there were lots of butchered songs altered to reference feeding and bathing, and many, many conversations about baby poop.
My hobbying got put on hold for the first 18 months or so while dealing with that, so props to you guys for managing a business and a youtube channel while dealing with all that baby.
To be fair, being new parents is a very good excuse for not speeding through painting new models
BABY! Wooo! We are so glad to hear you had a baby! 🤗
And so glad you said that you heat both the liquid and the model with the dirty down products... you have no idea how few people say that. We made a whole video on various ways to use it if you want to check it out. But yeah congrats that's great news much love from WAYPN
Love that you are chilling and enjoying the hobby!!
Well done! Loved the Intro!
Glad you enjoyed it
I love the fact that you both said that you have just taken your time and relaxing while doing this. It is a hobby and it should be relaxing.
The paint jobs look amazing. Good on you for prioritizing enjoyment over arbitrary goals. And I do love push-fit models. They're not as "fun" for kitbashing and customizing, but they are such a breeze to assemble, and sometimes that can be really satisfying.
When your ambition is infinite it takes infinite time 😂
Always the problem haha
Can we get a video on how the airbrushing was done on the prosecutors? They look rad.
Might be able to make that into a short, yeah!
I didn't know yall had a baby?! Congrats! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 And the figures came out so nice looking
Congratulations on the new arrival. I feel your pain on the painting side of things having had (my wife) twins 8 months ago. I've been building my pile of shame consistently as it's the easiest thing to do when you've got a cheeky 30 min. Painting is a lot harder as I feel you need to be distraction free. Things do seem to get easier though 😊
Painting skills for both of you guys has grown a lot of the years. Cool to see !
A very loaded topic question indeed. Iv always imagined there is a motivating balance between hobby life and real life. Depending on the circumstances of personal life, when its something your really passionate about whether it is a new box set for a favorite army, a brand new game, or maybe a competition piece, youll find the right amount of time to want to do it whether thats more time to actually paint or just simply being faster with the time you have. And vice versa for personal life as well, congrats on the baby!! Obviously a baby is far more important than a simple hobby could ever be, even if its a business like yall have. But Im sure you guys would rather spend more time with your baby and be a family as opposed to hobby stuff so you set aside more time for the baby that is neccessary in those early months and years of their development, hobbying when you can find the time too. Although me personally, I have no babies or kids and that box would still take me like half a year to do lol
That was a great video, and that's some serious painting output with a kid, in a month. Well done!
The minis looked fantastic especially them wings. Looks like you 2 had so much fun doing this vid😂😂😂
Great video 👌- Out of lots of big boxes I’ve only come close to finishing one, it’s nice to hear that’s ok and I’m not hobbying wrong 😔
It's a cracking box and it's VERY tempting for those new ratties inside.
As a guy who takes about a month to paint 10 minis, yes enjoy the hobby. The moment I feel rushed to finish something, I don't paint as well as I want to and I resent it. I don't have any newborns but I do have a fairly full schedule, so I dedicate time to painting during weeknights, usually it's not more than an hour. I do have an intention to finish at least 1 completed mini by the end of every Sunday which keeps me on track without needing a strict timetable.
The new sculpts are great, the amount of small details on the skaven models is fantastic. A friend and I split the Skaventide box, and I have the Skaven half. I'm hoping I can use the same models with swapping bases for W̶F̶B̶ The Old World, as I'd always decided if I got into Fantasy I'd pick Skaven, yes-yes.
Great video. Air brush is on the Christmas list now.
It's absolutely worth it. It is the best hobby tool I use.
The vid was properly skaven-tied 👍 think it was a good decision sticking to the grey colour scheme.
I agree that the Skaven went together a treat. The Stormcast Eternals needed their pegs cut off and even then a lot of sprue goo.
Hmm... judging by my unpainted Dominion, I'm going to say more than three years?
Stormcast theme looks really nice! Ratties as well.
Thanks!
Im hoping this will give me the kick up the rear to finally get around to painting my Dark Angels set.
I enjoyed building/customizing them (especially the dreadnaught!), primed them in black but lost my bottle when it came to painting. I make other models (1/35 scale tanks mostly) and use Tamiya paint no problem but don't really know what to expect with the GW paint, on such small models. Hence my hesitation.
You guys are doing Great ❤, new babies are difficult to wrap your sleep deprived brains around the new family systems and routines. Thank you for the great content!
fantastic! love your content!
Thank you!
Wooot woooot Broadsword paint montage 🎉🎉🎉
I tend to do 10-30 minute sessions for my painting. My biggest trick is to have the brushes out and ready, the models you want to work on on said desk, and most importantly? Your most commonly used paints right there, ready to go. This does require not only having a dedicated area to paint, but also for it to be safe for anyone else in the place (which is kind of hard with young ones and/or most types of pets - if you fish are getting into your paints, I suspect you've got bigger problems to worry about!)
Those Thumbnails get me everytime
They work a treat.
Thanks for the about preheating the mini & dirty down stuff. I’ll have to try that.
Loving your work and your attitude Ciara. Oh, and the other fellow too, I suppose. :P
Great video 👍
I think Ciara is my favourite streamer in the British Isles too.
I'm loving the sleep deprivation humor, it's wonderfull.
I likee how you highlighted your snakebite leather
I was super happy with the end result. I hadn't tried that combo before, but really happy with it!
Nice results for all the miniatures. Really like the bases on the Skaven though.
I've never done this before, but for me, it seems easier to paint first and then build. As I can imagine over painting happens and then you need to go back and do touch-ups.
Paint all the Skavens and do the bases took me 14hours ish. No airbrush, jus primer and rest with brushes. It helps a lot, if you know, how you want to paint them, then its just about trusting the process
now i know how to use DD verdigris, thanks !
for your warpstone stuff, just add a layer of diluted warplightning green over the tesseract glow, it does wonders imo.
love these guys
Fair play to you both. Work together, live together and kids, and you've not strangled each other. What's your secret? The world really really needs to know. I hope you both continue to have a happy and wonderful life.
congrades on the newest plague marine!
I still haven't finished painting my damn Leviathan box. Take as much time as you need!
Thank you , Broadsword .
🐺 Loupis Canis .
Welcome!
Work smart! not hard! If you use techniques like slap chop, zenithal priming or undercoating with contrast or speed paints you can achieve good results for gaming and further extend them with traditional layering and edge highlighting when you're in the mood to torture yourself. Also there are several good recipies for alternate washes like marine juice or alys brown stuff (liquid) for shading entire miniatures.
Newsh from ProAcryl might have been a good way to get that white in all of the wing recesses! Could be worth a try next time :D
Ice heard good things about newsh, I must take a look. I think I saw vince ventrilla using it on his skeletons.
@@toasthammer maybe a white oil wash?
For me - and to my standards - big boxes take 4 months / special releases like starter boxes take 2 / I can do a unit of 5 SM IN a week so I average about 20 normal size models / month. That’s M-F ROUGHLY 8 hours per day
Thanks guys, got Alarielle in the post today … my son is over the moon 🙏
Oh, nice! Posted that out yesterday morning. Woo.
Amazing guys. You two are adorable together lol.
I love the wings on the Stormcast :)
I got this box a couple of days after release and Ive only just finished the sig-marine half 😂 .
After following the books/lore for a couple of years I’ve bought my first 40k mini box this last weekend… I’m scared… lol
15 chaos knights, 30 chaos warriors, 2 chaos lords on kark, 1 lord of foot. I spent about one and a half a year and spent about 250 hours of painting. I can't wait for it do be done. I paint every dude too the best of my ability. Every single dude. I feel ill sometimes but my army looks so good.
theres enough pressure in life in general, we dont need to put pressure on painting these minis - yeah, i should take that to heart
Honestly, it's so true. I need to try and do it, too!
It took me like 4-5 weeks to paint the Stormcast half and i suck at painting xD (Also i'll never get over how pretty Ciara is)
Skaven are probably one of the best model ranges out there, find the SCEs so tedious
Here is how to paint an army in 10 minutes :
1) buy a custodes army.
2) buy a chaos black spray and a retributor gold spray
3) prime army with chaos black.
4) prime army with retributor gold frol further away.
5) wash army with nuln oil
6) wash army with reikland fleshshade.
7) congratulations. Your army is painted.
Considering that my Black Templar Army Box set I bought back in 2022 is still untouched, painting Warhammer takes a really long time
I am just now finishing the space marine part of my 8th edition starter... 😅 You will get to there someday.
My feedback to Oliver is as follows, much like your tyranid army you always pick a white or greyish colour that makes the model seem unpainted and just lesser quality because of that choice, I would reccomend you avoid those colours entirely until you master them a bit better your armies looks a unpainted while Kieras look usually more than tabletop ready.
While I appreciate feedback, I like the scheme! I painted a few others and just did not want to do red or green. And I will note, I did finish the full spearheard! 😀
@@BroadswordWargaming Sometimes battle brother, quality trumps quantity, even if it is Skaven we are talking about, but I am a very nitpicky painter too 😅
Y’all are recording this like there’s a bomb in the house about to go off. Are you being held hostage? Blink twice if somebody else is in the house.
We are being held hostage... by a newborn. It's basically a time bomb.
@@BroadswordWargaming Thats the joke! Many Congrats!
Ciara, you’ve done great with the limited time you got. Ollie, seriously, what’s with that red.
Unsolicited advice from a father (whose done it twice with three): never feel bad about laying them snuggled up on the ground so you can do necessary chores like washing bottles. They won’t remember and will still love you four years later.
Well, I've not finished my 40K 10th edition starter box yet. Or my 9th edition starter box. Or, for that matter, my 6th edition box... 😬
Takes my old self FOREVER to paint... lol But chipping away --- what is your recipe for the warpstone?
IT takes me weeks and months and years just to paint one box of space marine 😅😢...
You're not alone. Haha.
My wife hates clipping out and assembling minis and will put off doing it forever. She loves painting, though, so she will zoom through all that
Lol, the blooper intro was great. Glad you went with the scheme you did for the rats. Spearhead is great and having painted armies for it is brilliant.
good video
Thanks+
Really cool.
Paint 45 minutes every day you will be amazed how fast you get things done
3:55 me also dont have air bruss
Oddly enough I love Skaven, but I absolutely hate all Nurgle stuff in 40k.
One word, depends
well, i've painted 20 clan rats, 5 rats ogors and 6 jezzails so far since release
and i'm unemployed 😅
That's good progress though! Keep at it.
I dont see the bottle of french red wine...
It was beers again I think ha
why havent you painted two scaventide
More skaventide needed.
Wait, you don't need glue for the models? Does this apply to all AOS models now, or just these in particular?
Just these in particular.. but there are other sets that don't require glue. I think they'll end up having all models go that way though!
@@BroadswordWargaming As someone who has glued his fingers together on many occasions, I approve of this change.
everybody is just wanting to paint fast. take your time
I totally agree. Somewhere along the way, we've forgotten that it's all meant to be a hobby!
0:50 She's painting on her Twitch stream and you're painting on camera? But how does she stream if she hasn't a camera?
Yes yes
rats yes yes
gold boys sold sold ;] ;]
Do... do you have more then one tshirt for a game you dont play?
It was my t shirt!
Enjoyed the video but I am a Space Wolf Marine Man , so no thanks to AoS
Applying that thick blob of metallic hurts... Oh man, thin your paints
I do thin the paints, obviously. It's just a funny angle of the shot makes the watered paint look lobby.
The only time I get any real painting done is the week before a tournament, otherwise I might spend a month on a model or two.
Haha same. Nothing lights a fire more than a tournament. Is it really a tournament if you're not painting until 5am the night before?
@@BroadswordWargaming No, I don't think it counts otherwise! I've still never had to paint on the way to the event but it's been close a few times :)