I just wanted to write "wait till valrak hears about this" 😂😂😂 The man indeed is the most stalwarth defender of the imperial fists ..dorn would be so proud
Because it’s true, there’s nothing wrong with using an airbrush if you have one but saying that if you want to paint yellow than you have to use an airbrush is just stupid and wrong
@@Fleewood52Honestly, a starter airbrush with a compressor literally cost like 2 boxes of GW miniatures and instantly upgrades your paintings. If you’re serious about the hobby i can’t reccommend it enough!
Me personally, pink primer, magenta ink from under, white ink zenethal, then Imperial Fist contrast, this is the way to get the best gradient, the magenta turns to orange for shadows.
Something I learned recently and then tested that has worked incredibly well is basing the mini or whatever you're painting in pink first and then painting the yellow over it. Works incredibly well and I find if I do it well enough I only need one or two layers of yellow for it to look nice and bright!
GW Customers: $350 patrol box... this is fine. In fact, I'll buy two boxes... actually, I may need extra so I'll buy three. Also GW Customers: $300 FOR AN AIRBRUSH IS RIDICULOUS! I only use $10 brushes from Amazon!
Best trick I learned for painting yellow, give it a pink undercoat. I'm serious. It sounds dumb, but it actually works. I've used everything from a light pink to a bubble gum pink and it all works great. Very little coverage issues with the yellow.
I was just about to comment the same thing! Its a super easy way to get an amazing yellow. These guys just don't like using contrast and wash paints though cause they really like to emphasize shadows.
Contrast paints have really helped so much with Yellow and Orange tones! First time trying them, I did a D&D Mini and it was just such a great feeling to finally get some vibrant easy yellow! And similar I've also struggled a ton for the orange for my Tau Army in the past, even if the orange doesn't fit the color perfectly, it's a way better base to start of than a coat of vallejo heavy orange (which is a salmon color but decently opague) with then like 3 coats of normal orange. And now it's a black to white (leaning on the white) basecoat to help gradients, one coat of orange contrast and one coat of my ususal orange color to bring the hue a bit more together (altho I'm not too worried about it as long as a unit has the same) So, to everyone who doesn't have an airbrush? just go the contrast route for you basecoat
I prime pink, go magenta from underneath, a white ink from above, and then IF contrast, it gives the magenta an orange colour for the shadows, you should try it (you don't have to use inks they just work better because they don't thicken up the model as much)
The white sponge texturing works really well on the tank, but not really on the space marines' armor. That said, that was a true masterclass in yellow painting. Phenomenal work overall.
My first army was/is Lamenters. I have never understood the fuss about yellow being difficult to paint. I just prime white, then put on a couple of thin coats of yellow. Use a decent yellow paint, I've recently switched to the Two Thin Coats Skulker Yellow, and it takes at most one or two more coats than any other color. White on the other hand is a pain, not because getting coverage is hard - that's about the same as yellow - it's just much harder to highlight/shade.
I only have citadel paints on hand, and although I don't usually paint lamenters, the fact they might be the only "good guys" in the Imperium and that they're actually trying to protect innocents (while usually the imperium is more about killing what's not human and not giving a shit as to how many civilians have to die as long as it works) made me want to paint the Kill Team starter set marines as Lamenters. The only thing I remember from the marines I finished is how tedious freehanding the checkers and chapter's heraldry was. For the yellow, I dunno, it looks fine, at worse I probably had to do a second or third thin coat too. Not that big of a deal.
I did a test using a pink base once and I found my final yellow to be way too dark. Do you use a pale/pastel pink? I think the one I used was Pixie Pink.
I never really knew what the fuzz was about. Even before I knew about the extremely easy way of painting yellow, which is undercoating the model pink, brown, orange or dark red, I simply used good yellow paints that covered over black. Proacryl yellow ochre and Warm Yellow simply work. Couple of thin coats over black, perfect coverage. Nowadays, I kinda just randomly swap between any of the colours I mentioned above as the undercoat and then airbrush a really thin version of whatever yellow I wanna do for ''free'' shading.
You guys have been such a treat to watch the last couple of years as i have slowly found my chapter for 40k. These videos have pushed me to really challenge myself to really put alot of effort into my minis.
man, I have an airbrush but I never use it because the process of setting it up and cleaning it down is this huge moment of resistance that tends to kill my hobby motivation.
Imperial Fists are my favorite! Agreed, not hard to paint at all. There's a half dozen very good videos on UA-cam to show you how to paint them well. This just adds to those. Thank you guys, you're awesome!
I find painting yellow to be one of those challenges that is just fun to do! Nothing better than getting your own recipe for it down! What worked for me was basing the model pink (Army painter spray) then a zenithal of white from the top, keeping just a BIIIIT of pink in the darker areas, then going over with Imperial Fist contrast. The pink under yellow gives off such a nice orange for the shadows!
Lucas, I love your painting videos. It's not "zenithal" if you are highlighting a base of white across all angles. Zenithal is just when there's a high light source, ala noon during the day, to exaggerate the contrast between lights and shadows (I don't think miniatures need zenithal priming. My 2 cents)
How to safely use and set up an airbrush in a tiny room without a window? I already got to shift hobby stuff onto my bed when I use my desk,and that has to be fit like a glove between my bed and my closet when it’s not in use
Buy a box fan. Buy an air filter. Cut holes in the two large faces the box fan came in. Put fan back in box. Tape air filter over inlet side of fan. Turn fan on.
Okay now I need to see Lukas paint some Dark Angels. Love both of your guys’ stuff, and your paint style is super cool to watch. Also isn’t the editor a great painter too?
As always of course these turned out beautiful. I myself haven’t tried airbrushes yet, and I’m also an army painter (batch painting as fast as possible with the best results possible) rather than someone who paints for painting competitions. So to keep things quick I prime red, zenithal white, overall coat of imperial fist yellow contrast paint, then highlight with a mix of white and averland sunset. I also do my trim red but that’s just my army’s scheme so I won’t go into details on that. For a contrast paint, Imperial Fist Yellow has amazing coverage and vibrancy, plus doing it over the red w white zenithal makes for beautiful color transitions with minimal effort
Currently painting orange/yellow minis (w/brush). In the first attempt, I used black primer, and it instantly made the job a nightmare. So i switched to Grey Seer primer (not even a great primer imo) and I had orange coverage in two thin coats. From orange, it's not hard to scale up to yellow.
Just started warhammer, love the yellow marines, I'm just winging it (haven't painted minis for 20 years) and they are turning out decent. Nothing near this quality - white primer, yellow paint, then i've been putting a light light light wash of different colors on top to make em pop and differentiate different units. It's not lore accurate, its not fancy, but it looks pretty cool to me (which is all that matters)
i really like how the yellow goes down with an airbrush. i've seen so many videos complaining how hard it is to paint yellow, and this came out perfectly
Idk, think I genuinely like mine more. Which surprises me considering I am a noob only on my first combat patrol painted so far. I could see a bit of improvement once I upgrade to a spray brush though and if I used a fancier metal and fluorescent paint. Not to mention pigments which I avoid because I lack an airbrush and am not sure how to handle them especially with varnishing them with a brush. The spray cans used right get close enough, but I did the black then pink and then white spray approach with imperial fist contrast and guilleman fleshshade approach in that order follow with a dry brush and it looks so nice with the orange blends into shadows it creates thank to the pink and imperial fist contrast combo. The spray can leaves just a very light amount of texture that helps sell it a bit more for me that the extremely smooth spray brush kinda looses from being so smooth.
Airbrush definitely makes things easier, but it's also a pretty significant cost, and either requires a lot of set-up and clean-up, or a dedicated space, which not everyone is going to be able to have. Sure, if someone is trying for professional level painting, an airbrush is a must-have. But I can't say that I necessarily recommend an airbrush for your average hobby painter. That said, it's also not that difficult to paint yellow without an airbrush. The trick is to start with a different color underneath. If I'm painting with a regular brush, I like to paint a light yellow-brown underneath, like Vallejo's heavy gold brown. Yellow goes over it much more easily, and you can achieve a nice, even coat. It's still going to be more coats than a more opaque color. That's always going to be the case. But with the right undercoat, you're looking at one or two more coats to get it right rather than ten times the work.
To go to the carpenter analogy, a good carpenter will probably have a ton of power tools in his garage/workspace. But your average person who just wants to do some woodworking is not going to be able to afford all of that equipment.
For anyone that doesn't want to use an airbrush, but still wants to be able to paint a good yellow: try a sponge! If you can't get a smooth finish, then just commit, and intentionally get a *rough* finish with a sponge. It really fits a good, grungy Imperial Fist.
Painting up some Saturnine terminators as Imp Fists. No issues. Id suggest to always either base the mini in pink ( stynylrez has a perfect option) or use the pink as a more invasive zenithal highlight before your yellow.
It looks cool, but I think the yellow should "pop" more. As for the red helmets they are all Sergeants or better? That would make an awesome fighting force... :)
Ok so i wasen't the only one beign "oh, so are all veteran of high rank?" since the change of meaning of the red helmet Also yea, the yellow is too "dark" or so feels for being iron fists
@@alessandroseverino8222 you're always allowed to make creative changes to your armies and paint jobs to make them stand out and be your own. It's even recommended by GW :)
Been painting imperial fists since reading "Space Marine" by Ian Watson in '93. Nothing easy is worth achieving or fighting for, that's why Imperial Fists are what they are (and successors of course). If anyone doesnt have an airbrush, defo dry brush and rust powder works until you can get one ✊🏻
I have an airbrush and must say that yellow and white are so easy with it. But because I am not so good with the airbrush yet, I tend to also paint with brushes a lot and my ork army squigs are yellow and I have painted all of them with brush and I can't say that it felt difficult at all. I wonder if Vallejo paints are good with yellows or if I did something else different to most painters.
I really love the way you paint @squidmarminiatures Couple questions: what ink would you use from below for a red recipe ? I also noticed you are reinforcing some of the recesses between the ice yellow stippling and the black stippling, would love to have more information on that.
@SquidmarMiniatures Please explain what is going on at 3:59. I see your putting yellow in a half cup of what. I don't think I have ever had a half cup of any sort of thinner when doing airbrushing and I am just curious what ratio of what is that. Thank you so much.
Those look great! Will definitely give that battle damage trick a try on my Dark Angels. Could you do a similar tutorial for proper bone *white* out of an airbrush? I'm looking to paint my Deathwing and considering grabbing ana airbrush, and would love a tutorial on properly bone white bone as opposed to the yellowed colour I often see.
Very cool results. I'm still not collecting GW crap though. But this will definitely come in handy for other models at some point; probably Infinity or Station Forge. Thanks Lukas. 👍
Yellow is fine as long as you do solid preshade and use airbrush. I myself also base the model in brown and then white zenithal with yellow inks afterwards. Can't be easier.
They can, if you spray a few minutes a day with non toxic paints you can spray anywhere. If you're scared, spray by an open window or under the kitchen fan.
get a cardbord box, spray for max 20minutes, have a window open. Use a respirator. If you have disposable income you can get a ventilated airbrush chamber
I already had a crappy air filter for our bedroom I just set on my desk, all the overspray gets sucked up and sticks to the carbon filter. Don’t think you need to spend hundreds on a kit!
My name is Steve and hearing you say "Steve, get an airbrush" literally two hours after I finally bit the bullet and bought an airbrush is absolutely wild.
Pretty cool how a relatively simple paint scheme can have such a cool impact on the table when you put them all together. Though I have to admit, it's só weird seing Imperial Spacemarines without the chest wings. It's like they went out bare chested.
Whilst I have an airbrush, and used it to paint my Imperial Fists for HH, I would love to see a guide on painting yellow well without an airbrush, because that's the answer almost everyone gives to that question - want to paint yellow? Use an airbrush. It's almost as much a hobby trope as calling nuln oil liquid talent at this point 😂 I think you guys could do such a video really, really well. I get that, for this video, the aim was to finish the project quickly, so the airbrush is a given - but maybe a future video?
Yellow is super easy to paint. I've never had a problem. I can do it over black, or grey, but I usually start with a dark brown. No streaks or pigment dragging, none of those issues that most people complain about.
What type of sponges do you guys use!? I feel like I could never find the kind with the right texture. They’re always way too fine or way too thick like a kitchen sponge.
I only just recently got back into painting minis and started with the infernus paint kit. I did one Ultramarine, one Black Templar and one Imperial Fist. Damn the IF was difficult.
Yellow is my least favorite color but I wanted a yellow kitchen for reasons that aren't important. I tried multiple brands and shades of yellow paint and it took a lot more effort that I imagined possible. No matter what paint I used, or how many layers, it was patchy, and there was always a weird cast. Someone suggested a warm grey primer, the yellow came out looking like snot. In the end I had to use a warm orange and sponge yellow over it. Never again.
Would you use this technique in the same order and same colours if I was using a citadel contrast yellow? I've got a tyranid combat patrol that I want to paint up like wasps really lean into the bug theme and I just wanted to do yellow for a change. The only difference was I was thinking a 3 stage Zenithul highlight so I was thinking a darker orange then a bone colour then a white, then obviously a contrast yellow. I was thinking this would work quite well, especially on the gaunts as there would be a lot of Shadow in under them. Then airbrush the carapace and scythes black I'm not too worried about overspray as I think it will kind of add to it, then a heavily dry brush the carapace edges White (but not the ridges running up the middle) then over again with the contrast yellow to get that black and yellow stripe effect
Ok well, this does it.. I'm now asking to be allowed to hang out with y'all to be taught how to paint. I'll get my own flight, my own hotel, food etc and I'll bring some cookies for a chance to learn how to paint from y'all in person.
Literally I used to complain all the time...until I got an airbrush, it's an absolute game changer 🤣 literally any colour is easy with an airbrush, I love it
Problem with yellow for me that I've never seen yellow shadows come to orange in real life. It usually comes to greenish, dirty yellow that is hard to replicate looking good
Back in the day, the 'Eavy Metal guys used to spray paint Imperial Fists models with Humbrol products, not GW paints. And we couldn't understand why our little Fists were so ugly. 😄
“We like to prime in black”. And it was in that moment that he fucked up. That is how you get green shadows. Better to use dark brown for shadows, pink for mid tone and white for highlights on a zenithal for yellow
To be fair, yellow is only difficult if you are painting over black. Also Honestly airbrushing is extremely easy to get into now. There are now amazing 40 dollar airbrushes now and you do not have to start with the most expensive compressor. You also do not need a spraying booth when using water-based acrylics.
I honestly would never paint light base coats without an airbrush. When I first started out with a dark angels/deathwing army it took legitimately 5-8 layers of brushed on bone paint to get good coverage, even over a zenithal prime. I get that an airbrush doesn’t work for everybody, but if you *really* can’t use one you gotta accept there’s just some schemes you shouldn’t do (at least without contrast paints)
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Got your wet palette in December, it's soooo much better than my old Army Painter one and has improved my painting overnight!
@Drakenholm happy it helped man 🥳🥳
Will the brushset ever return? It's been sold out for ages... 😭
Do you have a guide to how to use an airbrush?
@konkeyming1624 we're working on the MK2 :)
Rather than an airbrush, I usually just pour the paint into my mouth and spit it onto the minis. It’s a much more organic process if you ask me.
100%
Snorting and sneezing can give more precise control. Pinch one nostril for details.
I mean, if we're already licking your brushes then why not? 😜😜
@40-forty-plus we all do
Cadmium yellow is best for that.
WARNING: DO NOT PUT CADMIUM IN YOUR MOUTH
I AM TELLING DORN OF THIS HERESY! JUST YOU WAIT!
We'll I'm telling mom
@@SquidmarMiniatures not Erda!
I just wanted to write "wait till valrak hears about this" 😂😂😂
The man indeed is the most stalwarth defender of the imperial fists ..dorn would be so proud
@Valrak Drop the yellow painting tutorial already😂
I knew this comment would be here before I'd even looked.
As soon as you pulled out the airbrush I thought “someone will complain you used an airbrush”, and then you just went off lol! That was satisfying!
We've had it 🤣
Because it’s true, there’s nothing wrong with using an airbrush if you have one but saying that if you want to paint yellow than you have to use an airbrush is just stupid and wrong
@Fleewood52 just get an airbrush already and you'll never look back :)
Bought one for 40 bucks recently. Actually works really well and is enough. @@Fleewood52
@@Fleewood52Honestly, a starter airbrush with a compressor literally cost like 2 boxes of GW miniatures and instantly upgrades your paintings. If you’re serious about the hobby i can’t reccommend it enough!
In true Imperial Fist fashion, Lucas threw his psycher out of his army and into the bin.
Me personally, pink primer, magenta ink from under, white ink zenethal, then Imperial Fist contrast, this is the way to get the best gradient, the magenta turns to orange for shadows.
Imperial Fist is a fucking work horse of a paint, damn good.
@@dahSweep ikr
Goobertown did a great recipe that;s very similar :)
@thehandofdorn pink is the secret sauce of painting yellow
I love that you included a tank, it's a subject that you don't normally cover ans it's quite a different way of painting. Really cool army!
Something I learned recently and then tested that has worked incredibly well is basing the mini or whatever you're painting in pink first and then painting the yellow over it. Works incredibly well and I find if I do it well enough I only need one or two layers of yellow for it to look nice and bright!
Everyone mad at the airbrushing, I'm mad at the sponging.
GW Customers: $350 patrol box... this is fine. In fact, I'll buy two boxes... actually, I may need extra so I'll buy three.
Also GW Customers: $300 FOR AN AIRBRUSH IS RIDICULOUS! I only use $10 brushes from Amazon!
why mad about sponging
@@Americium-120 $10 for your brushes? You're splurging!
Best trick I learned for painting yellow, give it a pink undercoat. I'm serious. It sounds dumb, but it actually works. I've used everything from a light pink to a bubble gum pink and it all works great. Very little coverage issues with the yellow.
I prime white, slap 2 layers of imperial fist contrast and wash. They are super vibrant and yellow. Pigment saturation is godlike in IF yellow.
I was just about to comment the same thing! Its a super easy way to get an amazing yellow. These guys just don't like using contrast and wash paints though cause they really like to emphasize shadows.
Contrast paints have really helped so much with Yellow and Orange tones! First time trying them, I did a D&D Mini and it was just such a great feeling to finally get some vibrant easy yellow!
And similar I've also struggled a ton for the orange for my Tau Army in the past, even if the orange doesn't fit the color perfectly, it's a way better base to start of than a coat of vallejo heavy orange (which is a salmon color but decently opague) with then like 3 coats of normal orange. And now it's a black to white (leaning on the white) basecoat to help gradients, one coat of orange contrast and one coat of my ususal orange color to bring the hue a bit more together (altho I'm not too worried about it as long as a unit has the same)
So, to everyone who doesn't have an airbrush? just go the contrast route for you basecoat
imperial fist has a wash? or do u mena u put 2 layers of imperial fist then a wash?
@@Secultoo no only contrast
I prime pink, go magenta from underneath, a white ink from above, and then IF contrast, it gives the magenta an orange colour for the shadows, you should try it (you don't have to use inks they just work better because they don't thicken up the model as much)
The white sponge texturing works really well on the tank, but not really on the space marines' armor. That said, that was a true masterclass in yellow painting. Phenomenal work overall.
My first army was/is Lamenters. I have never understood the fuss about yellow being difficult to paint. I just prime white, then put on a couple of thin coats of yellow. Use a decent yellow paint, I've recently switched to the Two Thin Coats Skulker Yellow, and it takes at most one or two more coats than any other color.
White on the other hand is a pain, not because getting coverage is hard - that's about the same as yellow - it's just much harder to highlight/shade.
Oil paints are your friend when it comes to shading white.
I only have citadel paints on hand, and although I don't usually paint lamenters, the fact they might be the only "good guys" in the Imperium and that they're actually trying to protect innocents (while usually the imperium is more about killing what's not human and not giving a shit as to how many civilians have to die as long as it works) made me want to paint the Kill Team starter set marines as Lamenters. The only thing I remember from the marines I finished is how tedious freehanding the checkers and chapter's heraldry was. For the yellow, I dunno, it looks fine, at worse I probably had to do a second or third thin coat too. Not that big of a deal.
Every time I paint yellow minis I undercoat in pink, red in the shadows.
This is the way.
This is the way. Though I lean more magenta.
This is the way. Purply pink shadows up through a pale pink base, with white highlights, and then a glaze of ProAcryl Transparent Yellow.
This is how I do it. I have a friend that uses a dark beige with good results as well
I did a test using a pink base once and I found my final yellow to be way too dark. Do you use a pale/pastel pink? I think the one I used was Pixie Pink.
I never really knew what the fuzz was about. Even before I knew about the extremely easy way of painting yellow, which is undercoating the model pink, brown, orange or dark red, I simply used good yellow paints that covered over black.
Proacryl yellow ochre and Warm Yellow simply work. Couple of thin coats over black, perfect coverage. Nowadays, I kinda just randomly swap between any of the colours I mentioned above as the undercoat and then airbrush a really thin version of whatever yellow I wanna do for ''free'' shading.
I love Imperial Fists. I'm doing more soon.
I personally do pink undercoat, zenithal white, then transparent yellow over it all. Fab.
You guys have been such a treat to watch the last couple of years as i have slowly found my chapter for 40k. These videos have pushed me to really challenge myself to really put alot of effort into my minis.
man, I have an airbrush but I never use it because the process of setting it up and cleaning it down is this huge moment of resistance that tends to kill my hobby motivation.
Thank you for including the tank. You have bridged the gap between painting a single marine and painting something tank sized, and we needed this.
Imperial Fists are my favorite! Agreed, not hard to paint at all. There's a half dozen very good videos on UA-cam to show you how to paint them well. This just adds to those. Thank you guys, you're awesome!
I find painting yellow to be one of those challenges that is just fun to do! Nothing better than getting your own recipe for it down!
What worked for me was basing the model pink (Army painter spray) then a zenithal of white from the top, keeping just a BIIIIT of pink in the darker areas, then going over with Imperial Fist contrast. The pink under yellow gives off such a nice orange for the shadows!
I love the shot of you priming in the snow like IT'S NO BIGGIE
Lucas, I love your painting videos. It's not "zenithal" if you are highlighting a base of white across all angles. Zenithal is just when there's a high light source, ala noon during the day, to exaggerate the contrast between lights and shadows (I don't think miniatures need zenithal priming. My 2 cents)
I adore Lucas from day one. After the airbrush rant I fraggin‘ love him!
Brillant editing too, btw
How to safely use and set up an airbrush in a tiny room without a window? I already got to shift hobby stuff onto my bed when I use my desk,and that has to be fit like a glove between my bed and my closet when it’s not in use
Buy a box fan.
Buy an air filter.
Cut holes in the two large faces the box fan came in.
Put fan back in box.
Tape air filter over inlet side of fan.
Turn fan on.
Amazing tutorial! Just have a question, what’s the name of the ink you used for the shadows on the yellow armor? Thanks!
Your work is incredible. Congratz for the quality of the painting and for the videomaking!
Okay now I need to see Lukas paint some Dark Angels. Love both of your guys’ stuff, and your paint style is super cool to watch. Also isn’t the editor a great painter too?
IIRC he did some for the Leviathan box painting marathon!
As always of course these turned out beautiful. I myself haven’t tried airbrushes yet, and I’m also an army painter (batch painting as fast as possible with the best results possible) rather than someone who paints for painting competitions. So to keep things quick I prime red, zenithal white, overall coat of imperial fist yellow contrast paint, then highlight with a mix of white and averland sunset. I also do my trim red but that’s just my army’s scheme so I won’t go into details on that. For a contrast paint, Imperial Fist Yellow has amazing coverage and vibrancy, plus doing it over the red w white zenithal makes for beautiful color transitions with minimal effort
Awesome work! Great music and good energy. Love painting to these videos. It gives good tips and you feel you are not painting alone!
Currently painting orange/yellow minis (w/brush). In the first attempt, I used black primer, and it instantly made the job a nightmare. So i switched to Grey Seer primer (not even a great primer imo) and I had orange coverage in two thin coats. From orange, it's not hard to scale up to yellow.
Just started warhammer, love the yellow marines, I'm just winging it (haven't painted minis for 20 years) and they are turning out decent. Nothing near this quality - white primer, yellow paint, then i've been putting a light light light wash of different colors on top to make em pop and differentiate different units. It's not lore accurate, its not fancy, but it looks pretty cool to me (which is all that matters)
i really like how the yellow goes down with an airbrush. i've seen so many videos complaining how hard it is to paint yellow, and this came out perfectly
Idk, think I genuinely like mine more. Which surprises me considering I am a noob only on my first combat patrol painted so far. I could see a bit of improvement once I upgrade to a spray brush though and if I used a fancier metal and fluorescent paint. Not to mention pigments which I avoid because I lack an airbrush and am not sure how to handle them especially with varnishing them with a brush. The spray cans used right get close enough, but I did the black then pink and then white spray approach with imperial fist contrast and guilleman fleshshade approach in that order follow with a dry brush and it looks so nice with the orange blends into shadows it creates thank to the pink and imperial fist contrast combo. The spray can leaves just a very light amount of texture that helps sell it a bit more for me that the extremely smooth spray brush kinda looses from being so smooth.
These look incredible! I love the videos when you paint an army from start to finish. Really inspiring work
Airbrush definitely makes things easier, but it's also a pretty significant cost, and either requires a lot of set-up and clean-up, or a dedicated space, which not everyone is going to be able to have. Sure, if someone is trying for professional level painting, an airbrush is a must-have. But I can't say that I necessarily recommend an airbrush for your average hobby painter.
That said, it's also not that difficult to paint yellow without an airbrush. The trick is to start with a different color underneath. If I'm painting with a regular brush, I like to paint a light yellow-brown underneath, like Vallejo's heavy gold brown. Yellow goes over it much more easily, and you can achieve a nice, even coat. It's still going to be more coats than a more opaque color. That's always going to be the case. But with the right undercoat, you're looking at one or two more coats to get it right rather than ten times the work.
To go to the carpenter analogy, a good carpenter will probably have a ton of power tools in his garage/workspace. But your average person who just wants to do some woodworking is not going to be able to afford all of that equipment.
I prime with a pink rattlecan, slap a layer of white and then a single layer of Imperial Fist yellow. Job done (except for the details)
For anyone that doesn't want to use an airbrush, but still wants to be able to paint a good yellow: try a sponge!
If you can't get a smooth finish, then just commit, and intentionally get a *rough* finish with a sponge. It really fits a good, grungy Imperial Fist.
The brown ink for the shadows is what really cranked these to 10, crazy what a difference the saturated shadows make in really accenting the contrast.
What are the miniatures attached to when spray painting them with primer? What are they attached with?
I confirm for the turquoise ! I’m not a really good painter but glazing the shaved skin really changes the face !
Love Lucas's rant at not owning an airbrush...i was crying with laughter. Love these videos. Keep up the great work!
what perfect timing. i was just about to start painting my first mini of my imperial fists army :D
Painting up some Saturnine terminators as Imp Fists. No issues. Id suggest to always either base the mini in pink ( stynylrez has a perfect option) or use the pink as a more invasive zenithal highlight before your yellow.
Recently painted my entire Imperial Fists army with a pink drybrush undercoat, then the imperial fist contrast paint & it turned out really well!
It looks cool, but I think the yellow should "pop" more. As for the red helmets they are all Sergeants or better? That would make an awesome fighting force... :)
If you use sun yellow it will be more vibrant :)
Ok so i wasen't the only one beign "oh, so are all veteran of high rank?" since the change of meaning of the red helmet
Also yea, the yellow is too "dark" or so feels for being iron fists
@@alessandroseverino8222 you're always allowed to make creative changes to your armies and paint jobs to make them stand out and be your own. It's even recommended by GW :)
Amazing tutorial Lukas, might use this myself later, you really are a master painter!
Been painting imperial fists since reading "Space Marine" by Ian Watson in '93. Nothing easy is worth achieving or fighting for, that's why Imperial Fists are what they are (and successors of course). If anyone doesnt have an airbrush, defo dry brush and rust powder works until you can get one ✊🏻
They should have been lamenters
Bump so the squidmar guys have to paint lamenters with the chapter badge.
I guess they'll lament that decision
When will the wet pallet be restocked?
I love your usage of black for the purity seals. Gonna steal your idea.
I have an airbrush and must say that yellow and white are so easy with it. But because I am not so good with the airbrush yet, I tend to also paint with brushes a lot and my ork army squigs are yellow and I have painted all of them with brush and I can't say that it felt difficult at all. I wonder if Vallejo paints are good with yellows or if I did something else different to most painters.
I really love the way you paint @squidmarminiatures
Couple questions: what ink would you use from below for a red recipe ?
I also noticed you are reinforcing some of the recesses between the ice yellow stippling and the black stippling, would love to have more information on that.
relatable content. I've been painting some yellow minis for a board game and it is nnnnnot fun
@SquidmarMiniatures Please explain what is going on at 3:59. I see your putting yellow in a half cup of what. I don't think I have ever had a half cup of any sort of thinner when doing airbrushing and I am just curious what ratio of what is that. Thank you so much.
About 50/50, he just did a big batch for the whole army
Those look great! Will definitely give that battle damage trick a try on my Dark Angels. Could you do a similar tutorial for proper bone *white* out of an airbrush? I'm looking to paint my Deathwing and considering grabbing ana airbrush, and would love a tutorial on properly bone white bone as opposed to the yellowed colour I often see.
Very cool results. I'm still not collecting GW crap though. But this will definitely come in handy for other models at some point; probably Infinity or Station Forge. Thanks Lukas. 👍
getting an airbrush was the best decision I've made for my hobby uses
Sponge is like a cheat code, makes your models look so good.
Yellow is fine as long as you do solid preshade and use airbrush. I myself also base the model in brown and then white zenithal with yellow inks afterwards. Can't be easier.
The sad thing is most people can’t use airbrushes because they don’t have the right space. Anyone can use a brush
They can, if you spray a few minutes a day with non toxic paints you can spray anywhere. If you're scared, spray by an open window or under the kitchen fan.
get a cardbord box, spray for max 20minutes, have a window open. Use a respirator. If you have disposable income you can get a ventilated airbrush chamber
bruh, I just put a desk under one of the windows in my house and stick a box fan in the window. Got my jury rigged ventilated room lol
I already had a crappy air filter for our bedroom I just set on my desk, all the overspray gets sucked up and sticks to the carbon filter.
Don’t think you need to spend hundreds on a kit!
How would the result be if I would use a purple instead of a brown undercoat?
A bit more purple
My name is Steve and hearing you say "Steve, get an airbrush" literally two hours after I finally bit the bullet and bought an airbrush is absolutely wild.
Pretty cool how a relatively simple paint scheme can have such a cool impact on the table when you put them all together.
Though I have to admit, it's só weird seing Imperial Spacemarines without the chest wings. It's like they went out bare chested.
Yeah Steve, get an airbrush! :)
I never had a problem painting yellow marines back in the 90s... its called yellow automotive spraypaint. :D
Whilst I have an airbrush, and used it to paint my Imperial Fists for HH, I would love to see a guide on painting yellow well without an airbrush, because that's the answer almost everyone gives to that question - want to paint yellow? Use an airbrush. It's almost as much a hobby trope as calling nuln oil liquid talent at this point 😂
I think you guys could do such a video really, really well. I get that, for this video, the aim was to finish the project quickly, so the airbrush is a given - but maybe a future video?
Yellow is super easy to paint. I've never had a problem. I can do it over black, or grey, but I usually start with a dark brown. No streaks or pigment dragging, none of those issues that most people complain about.
Do dark angels next!
Can you use a white primer to paint zenithal or do you need to use a white paint specifically? Via airbrush BTW.
You're good 😊👍
I like how the red turret echoes the red helmets.
New challenge. Do more imperial fists, but you can only use brushes and citadel paints.
I have been waiting for this video for a long time Lucas the goat!
Very nice indeed 👌
Did I miss something? Did he remove all of the aquilas from the minis? Or do the come that way?
What type of sponges do you guys use!? I feel like I could never find the kind with the right texture. They’re always way too fine or way too thick like a kitchen sponge.
Kitchen sponges are awesome
I only just recently got back into painting minis and started with the infernus paint kit. I did one Ultramarine, one Black Templar and one Imperial Fist. Damn the IF was difficult.
This video was a rollercoast of emotion. STEVE just get an AIRBRUSH
@squidmarminiatures what size needle do you use in your airbrush normally ?
Most commonly a .4 in the squismar evolution. It's Soo good
Please do iron hands next up! Would be mega cool to see what you come up with
Yellow is my least favorite color but I wanted a yellow kitchen for reasons that aren't important. I tried multiple brands and shades of yellow paint and it took a lot more effort that I imagined possible. No matter what paint I used, or how many layers, it was patchy, and there was always a weird cast. Someone suggested a warm grey primer, the yellow came out looking like snot. In the end I had to use a warm orange and sponge yellow over it. Never again.
Would you use this technique in the same order and same colours if I was using a citadel contrast yellow?
I've got a tyranid combat patrol that I want to paint up like wasps really lean into the bug theme and I just wanted to do yellow for a change.
The only difference was I was thinking a 3 stage Zenithul highlight so I was thinking a darker orange then a bone colour then a white, then obviously a contrast yellow. I was thinking this would work quite well, especially on the gaunts as there would be a lot of Shadow in under them. Then airbrush the carapace and scythes black I'm not too worried about overspray as I think it will kind of add to it, then a heavily dry brush the carapace edges White (but not the ridges running up the middle) then over again with the contrast yellow to get that black and yellow stripe effect
Isn´t ceramite supposed to be a ceramic material, so, it does not rust? Eller har jag fel?
Ok well, this does it.. I'm now asking to be allowed to hang out with y'all to be taught how to paint. I'll get my own flight, my own hotel, food etc and I'll bring some cookies for a chance to learn how to paint from y'all in person.
Literally I used to complain all the time...until I got an airbrush, it's an absolute game changer 🤣 literally any colour is easy with an airbrush, I love it
Problem with yellow for me that I've never seen yellow shadows come to orange in real life. It usually comes to greenish, dirty yellow that is hard to replicate looking good
Oh, and turquoise for the hair and beard is an amazing tip, thank you dearly
Oh a new ad-drop with some paiting backdrop? Finally some good food
I just described this video to a friend of mine. "I am watching a Swedish man with fish tattoos scream about the colour yellow."
One layer of White Scar Primerch, one layer Flash Guys yellow… WITH A BRUSH!!! that’s all ya need to make it pop
So how did people paint Satisfying Yellows before airbrushing was major staple of the hobby?
What was the piano piece playing during the grand reveal?
What color white do you use for the highlights
White
Back in the day, the 'Eavy Metal guys used to spray paint Imperial Fists models with Humbrol products, not GW paints. And we couldn't understand why our little Fists were so ugly. 😄
“We like to prime in black”. And it was in that moment that he fucked up. That is how you get green shadows. Better to use dark brown for shadows, pink for mid tone and white for highlights on a zenithal for yellow
To be fair, yellow is only difficult if you are painting over black.
Also Honestly airbrushing is extremely easy to get into now. There are now amazing 40 dollar airbrushes now and you do not have to start with the most expensive compressor. You also do not need a spraying booth when using water-based acrylics.
I honestly would never paint light base coats without an airbrush. When I first started out with a dark angels/deathwing army it took legitimately 5-8 layers of brushed on bone paint to get good coverage, even over a zenithal prime. I get that an airbrush doesn’t work for everybody, but if you *really* can’t use one you gotta accept there’s just some schemes you shouldn’t do (at least without contrast paints)
fully agree, and to be honest even some colours of contrast paints like the yellows still look awful by brush
I've got an airbrush! I just never use it though, why are you guys always so right about us Steve's! Ok ok I will start using it
Nice job as always Lucas! Have you ever tried yeloow over a pink base coat? I hear that works well too,.
How to paint the hardest color Yellow
Step one primer in your miny
Step two slap yellow contrast paint on them
These look absolutely amazing!