OIL PAINTS for miniatures -ULTIMATE beginner guide
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Today we talk about OIL PAINTS for miniature painting! We'll see and bust all the common myths and misconceptions about oils with a lot of practical examples and exercises.
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Need to suddenly drop your painting session to help with a fussy baby and hours later come back to a still workable blend? Boom! Oil paints.
That's a huuuuuuuuge bonus!!!
What colours do you feed the baby with? And is it permanent?
stay away from the heavy metals and stick with the earth pigments. They have more fiber and less cancer.@@terrydactyl2077
People love talking about the amazing blending properties of oil paints, but I would also like to mention that they are very good for „classic mini painting techniques“. Edge highlighting with oil paints is such a joy, because the consistency and flow is always the same. Also just a bit of paint on your brush lasts forever, no more constantly going back to your palette and cleaning the brush all the time. Painting with oils is not scary at all, go for it :)
so true man
do you have to use spesific types so the pigments are small enough?
@@philipjacobsen6550when you buy oil paints it always says on the tube how well they cover. Sometimes you want more transparent paint, and sometimes a paint that covers extremely well (like for edge highlighting).
Artists who share, are artists who care! Thanks for taking the time and effort to make this for us.
It's really, really a pleasure!!! 😁
Yesterday i bought some oil paints and magically, the day after, there is an awesome video from Marco explaining how to use them.
😁😁😁 Perfect timing!!!
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM Hey are the water mixable Windsor & Newton oils the same, I bought a few tubes and realized afterwards that these were something different.
@@afternoondelight6322 Windsor and Newton water mixable oils are a student grade paint. So are the Winton paints that he is using. They have less of a pigment load than artist grade paints. They are cheaper and not quite as much of a pop as artist grades will give you. I think both are a valid options for miniatures, especially if you are new to oils. Try the water mixable oils and then upgrade if you like them. I been using nothing but oils for 10 years.
@@rmorris4598 WIll the water mixable oils work as pin washes too, or does that only work when using mineral spirits?
As an American I enjoy listening to you speak. Your videos are very helpful. Thank you for what you do.
This. Was. Amazing
I've never, ever considered being a Patreon for anything but I'm seriously considering it. Fantastic stuff mate.
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I've watched this video very carefully, and it gives many important tips, and DEBUNKS some VERY COMMON and prevalent misconceptions, namely: 1) you HAVE to varnish acrylic coats before applying oils and mineral spirits... 2) mineral spirits WILL attack acrylic coats... 3) you CAN'T paint acrylics over coats of oils... these are all FALSE, as Marco points out time after time in his videos. If you watch most other videos about using oils on miniature painting, you see these misconceptions repeated time and time again. If they were true, I think using oils would be very troublesome indeed. It's good to have someone who actually knows what they're talking about. ;) Anyways, you CAN varmish acrylic coats before applying oils as it helps the flow (as Marco shows), but what do you think acrylic varnishes are made of, eh?
Marco I know you don't like rules that are set in stone and prefer that the artist learn how to use these variables to their advantage instead of using them as a crutch. That being said for people just starting on the journey with oils, is there a guideline for how long to wait between using an oil wash and removing the excess (dry time?)
Three years later and your video is still inspiring. Great work Marco.
Also consider separating brushes between light and dark colours. This assist in keeping the lighter colours unpoluted. Especially yellows
If you cannot get access to odourless white spirit, use baby oil. We use it in the studio with 10-12 students and there is no smell and it cleans brushes and dilutes washes just as well :)
Hi Sam, I'm just trawling through Marco's comment section at the mo and stumbled upon your potential gem of info. Does baby oil reactivate oil paints in a similar way to white spirit? I'm interested as I've dabbled in oil painting, however I've been trying to use non toxic products wherever I can (like experimenting with lavender oil as a drying agent, it kinda worked and my miniature smelt great as well, haha). Cheers
@@MaleficMadeMiniaturesunfortunate that they did not respond. I'm interested in this, have you tested it since?
I've been encouraged to try oils a few months ago, and lately I've been experimenting with using a 100% oil workflow on my minis haha. I've started incorporating canvas techniques and adapting them to minis to see how well they work; stuff like "staining the canvas" with a base tone, doing a value sketch prior to applying colors, etc. It's been quite the journey but it's so fun and satisfying when you find a technique that works for you and produces unique results! Thanks a lot for the inspiration and the great tips as always :D
As a newer painter interested in broadening my skills, this was incredibly helpful. Your clear and enthusiastic instructions and advice made me think I might actually be able to use oils to up the quality of my final product. Thank you, my friend.
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I think the myth surrounding white spirit and Acryic comes from people using turpentine instead of white spirit and/or people applying the oil wash before the acyric paint underneath has had 24 hours to dry
I can totally confirm from surveying people during workshops and classes that 99% of the time you discover they where using turpentine 😅
Marco, as always, your videos have taught me more about painting then any other source (book or video). Thank you once again. Please continue the excellent work you already do.
As an artist I view oils as the only valid medium. Acrylics are just plastic.;) but for my props and costume construction... Acrylics are faster and more convenient. I have the luxury of having the highest quality oil paints in my studio. For small figures. Especially faces. Old Holland in my estimation is the highest quality paint available. The cost of a small tube will shock but will last a very long time.
I needed this vid. The clear laying out of a simple practical setup that works, and why helps.
It may seem simple or obvious but I've changed how I work and it really helps.
Watching it (just after the Wurmspat too) one thing really leaps out, it's important Marco.
I understand the need to produce well constructed, well edited, professional quality vids. They represent you and the project, they need to be this great, they need the specific structured content in order to be teaching using a remote media.
BUT Marco that section at the end of just watching you paint, just play around with tones, transitions, blends on the figure was marvellous, it had an enormous value to my oilwork in itself.
Sometimes as well as absorbing the theory and the approach you just need to also see it at work too. That leg transformed five or six times, it was like watching really good closeup magic. I needed to see that by using just tiny amounts of paint I can do that to keep refining and just overpaint mistaken choices of colour into the better results I'd hoped for. Seems obvious but to a less confident painter it was transforming. So long as I just use sheens of new paint and don't ever cake it!
I've a hand tremor from a spinal issue and I need to fix and rework my stuff a lot. The love of painting really doesn't suit it!
Frustration and disappointment makes me put down my brush a lot.
You teaching me a much more forgiving technique is an extraordinary gift mate.
Please seriously consider a new class of vid, mark the category clearly to separate them from the main brand, but please just show us you painting. Whatever you're doing, and of course competition entries and other stuff needs to be private but you've said in the past you paint every day - please show us as much as you can stand to of it. As the painter you are I don't think the extraordinary value of it to learners would occur to you.
Don't worry about the editing - it's the brushstrokes
Don't worry about skipping the stuff where setting up the camera to cover another part of the process would waste time and be a pain.
Just dump out all you can stand to, marked clearly as unedited, raw footage and entirely separate from your tutorial work.
Putting them behind the patreon wall like you did with the Wurmspat would keep it from distorting outside impressions of the brand. We're all already sold on the Marco project!
Please Marco, we just need to see and learn from/get inspired by the everyday magic.
Plus I now have three glass palettes that came out of picture frames from the charity shop (had to burn the pictures of kittens as shepherdesses though so the binman wouldn't ever see them). That also means I can lay my bits of paper under them with previous successful tones and transitions to use as reference targets. From now on I'll record them on strips cut to fit across the palette!
Practical evolution of my table by the power of NJM
😁😁😁 Awesome! It can definitely be a thing to implement on Patreon; UA-cam and the majority of UA-cam users look for short, extremely focused videos but it can be cool on another platform. I'm thinking more to a steaming format, maybe on Twitch and record the session at the same time...
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM yes, more Marco live streams is must!
I totally agree. Ive watched all your videos but the most I learned from you with oils is youy brush strokes and palette. James Wappel does a lot of work with oils as well in a long 3+ hour format he initially started on UA-cam but moved to twitch because of the difficulty with live streaming. All he does now is live stream his painting session, then posts recordings of it for his patreon supporters and sometimes to UA-cam to build up his audience. You both work very differently with oils. It's especially neat to see the different styles.
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM Please do it Marco, there's so much to be learned from watching you develop the effects and it's also a huge inspiration to just go for it. Twitch might really be the right place, UA-cam is great for what it does best but when that's not the case then we'll just follow the magic
Allwyn: thank you for taking the time and effort to express it so well! I very much agree, and hope to enjoy more MarcoTime!
I went from Gunpla and ofc using an airbrush and lacquer to doing some battletech. And fuck I hate acrylics. They are slow to apint with get on my titts on the wet palet when they start becomming coloured water and who in gods name thought gel mediums were ever a good idea? But oils are lovely evenI can use them. I mean can the highlights and blends get even easier?
Thanks for this video, it has a lot of good information and gave me the courage to try them in my models! Greetings from Colombia !
"Discovered" oil paints a year ago. Now I cannot work without them. Excellent for blending, weathering etc. Very realistic results - when I don't get overly excited and over do it. Thank you for a lovely video, Marco. Saluti dal Carso.
Great video as usual! Using oils is a lot of fun, but there is a lot to learn and get used to when you first start out. To those that are interested in learning more I would also suggest watching Dmitry Fesechko's videos, and in his comment section he answers a lot of questions about which paints to try etc.
Thank you Marco for putting these videos out every week.
Thanks!!! Oh yeah, totally agree, Dmitry is an absolute master with oils. I learned the basics from Kirill Kanaev and Danilo Cartacci and if you find any of their videos and real life workshops they are pure gold
Thank you, you are encourage me to start pinting my miniatures :)!
This video makes me want to go get some oil paints and start testing it out. A friend uses them for washing, but it would be interesting to try out painting a mini with them, especially the blending from dark to light on armour plates. There's a big box of space marines coming soon that needs their blue.
I have watched many, many videos about painting models and minis with oils, and this video is the most helpful and informative. Thank you! I feel much more confident about getting oily now. :)
Oils are making a comeback in a lot of ways. I just started with a set of Williamsburg oils and their quality is amazing. So far really enjoy how easy blending is compared to acrylics. Oils for establishing initial blends, and inks for deeper saturation is a great combo.
Thank you very much. You are just as skilled at composing videos as you are at painting. Almost every question I could think of, you anticipated.
Yes!!! Saving to my playlist! Thank you for being amazing.
Marco, without doubt your best video to date! Well done!
Two corrections: 40-50+ years ago were "oil and enamel". 40 till now have been oils and acrylic! The tri-layer style of painting was in regular use in the Wargaming hobby 40+ years ago - as is evidenced by photos in Military Modeling and Miniature Wargaming magazines.
Do you have any experience with water mixable oils? I expect they behave differently when heavily thinned but are obviously easier to work with for brush separation and cleanup.
I tried only mid tiers lines but in general I don't like them 😅 their behaviour is not 100% the same
Thank you for the information great video.👍
When I learned to paint figures, I learned with oils, as there was a great figure painter in my area who used them. I find them much easier to use and think about than acrylics. It's much easier for me to blend nice skin tones using oils than trying to glaze and blend and layer acrylics.
Very interesting video. Thank you 😊. If I would take only 3 or 4 different oil colors to test them, which ones would you recommend ?
Thanks!!! I would definitely go with a CMYK "kit" that will make you able to mix anything else; phthalo blue green shade, quinacridone magenta, cadmium yellow medium + black & white that are both super cheap!
Do you need to varnish the oil layer before applying acrylic paints on top?
There are no compatibility issues when oils are dry so you don't need to varnish 😊
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM Thanks for the quick reply, Marco. Do you usually wait about 48 hours for a full cure?
Hi great video! Just wondering where can I buy this mini (female archer) or it's name? Its exactly what I've been looking for! TIA
Thanks!!! It's a Kingdom Death model from one of the Echoes of Death expansions
what would be your go to ration of thinning medium and paint?
i know i can differ between paints, but im currently struggling with the right consistency ^^
Dilution and consistency are very subjective and mostly a matter of personal taste when painting in layers with oil paint! I usually work with heavy body, high density acrylics so I tend to keep my oils in that same range of thickness (more or less as they are from the tube, with just a bit of thinner to break the initial stiffness!). In general thicker paint grabs better the surface and it's easier to control, blend and move around as you want
Hmm... In Spain we have "trementina", but also "aguarrás"... But they are not the same...?
im wondering the same...white spirit i think it´s aguarrás
@@Maxinkaiser Internet solved it... Apparently they are the same. They are a product of coniferous tree extracts... But Mineral Spirit it's made from petroleum. Sooo... We were all wrong. :))
This would be by far the best video you've done. Shame it wasn't around in the 70's when all we could get to paint models was Humbrol gloss enamels (at least where I lived). Going to have a go at this tomorrow after work. Cheers mate.
Found you after watching James Wappel streaming, and you both have me ridiculously excited to try out oils. The thought of not blending against the clock has always kept me in the layering camp. Thank you so much for the info!
Also, your voice is 😍😍😍
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Damn, you found out we were trying to steal your secrets!! Great video. I'm gonna get more oiled up than a Turkish wrestler and go hit my minis with some of that. Loved the bit where you showed application on the skin. Top man. Sure and begorah. Have a good weekend.
P.s. what was the model girl you were painting?
Figure is from Kingdom Death: Monster, she's included in the Echoes of Death 2 set.
Hi Marco, great video thank you. One question: how do you "seal" the miniatures when you are done? do you use varnish or just wait 2 weeks till the paints dry :)?
I never seal my models 😁 Oil paint in particular is extremely, crazily tough, that's why we have so many old paintings in museums! But if you really need a coat of varnish, when the paint is dry there are no compatibility issues even with water based paints
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM came here to ask the same thing! Thanks for the tutorials dude!
5:44 hi about this paint brands, what’s your take on scalecolor Floww line? There are like no reviews and info about them. Are they any good or totally not worth the money and time?
Hi! I tried them and they land on the low tiers of oil paints; good for washes and weathering but not great for proper painting. Stick to the art store for oils 😉
Here in Argentina mineral spirits is "aguarras" pretty similar to the Italian vertion
thanks for This video. like i said in a previous comment, i want to start using oil paint. with this video, i have all i need to start! thanks a lot !!!! i will use in my next bloodbowl team ( the ork and black ork team by greebo game :) ) i will paint it in yellow/orange tone for armor so oil paint will be a good alternitive for acrylique paint.
I am using oils more and more and wow I love them!! they are amazing! I mostly block in colours in acrylics then finish off in oils. It is perfect :) just takes a bit to dry depending how much paint is on it and room temp/time of year. Can take one - three days to dry. But it is worth it.
Cool, you just save me so much money!
I have ton of oil paint for cosplay weathering, i definitely try to do some wash with it !
very educational. But as an amateur oil painter its weird to see oil paint being smeared on plastic figurines and not canvas ..
Thanks Marco! I'm only here for the secrets. 😂😂😂
I've used oils for canvas, but im glad i found this because I always wondered if i could use my traditional supplies for my plastic mini addiction. I didnt catch this though, do you thin the oils for washes using solvent or oil medium?
99,9% of the time I just use solvent for washes. I add the oil medium mostly for fine glazes an localised transparency effects!
I realy need to get my workstation up!! Ithcing fingers every time i watch a video. Love your videos and thank you for sharing your experiences.
The one thing I think I missed from this video is talk of drying time. How long do you need to leave the oil paints before you can varnish, paint over it with arcylics, etc? Is it faster if you're just using it for panel lining? I've heard things like "you can varnish the next day" to "don't touch it for a week after using an oil wash" so i'm not sure what the truth is there haha.
That's the exactly same question I have
Grazie bellissimi video pieni di cose da imparare grazie ancora!
Oils provide a push - pull oportunity
After watching your great video. I just went out and bought some oil paints.
😂😊😂 Awesome!
I love oil paints. I literally use everything painting miniatures. I'm more on the historical side of things. And i will never go away from oils. And yes i use Vallejo acrylics for specific things
Excellent video! I would be interested in more info about enamel paints.
Once again, super helpful!
My Kimera Kolors are finally on the way, I've wanted them since I saw your first video on them, and I am going to give oil a shot too.
I was thinking about starting out with an "old school" RBY triad + burnt umber because I will be trying skintones first, or maybe a Zorn palette, but I was wondering if you think CMY+brown for convenience would be even better for a "starter pack"?
Always thankful!
Maybe something else completely?
I can highly recommend this video on limited oil palettes: ua-cam.com/video/DYGi18U4D4M/v-deo.html
You can mix the majority of colors using this method, but since different pigments have different properties, you may want to add some more paints to your palette over time such as bright orange that's more vibrant out of the tube than a mix of red and yellow paints.
Where did you buy them? they are always out of stock!!!
😁😊😁 Awesome! Go definitely with CMY, Black and White and my favourites Burnt Umber and Payne's Grey; you can paint almost every with this colours having a lot of fun 😉
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM Awesome, thank you!
Slowed down the video as you said but i couldnt concentrate because i didnt mute it and had to laugh because your talking sounds hilarious!
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Wonderful tutorial and you have a very nice accent as well. Many thanks Marco.
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Another issue with Turpentine is that it smells like death mixed with Pine Sol... so better use mineral spirits.
An odd request, perhaps... I found that I instinctively avoid using magenta opting to go for warmer tones, and I think it holds me back. Partly it is probably because that I don’t know how to how to leverage magenta alongside other colours. I can see that you consistently use magenta - can you point me to some resource that shows how magenta fits/interacts in alongside other pigments?
I work with the CMY system in mind so magenta is one of my primary tones, that's why it's always present on my table and I constantly use it in mixes and transparency effects.
Check again my video about advance colour theory and the subtractive system, that's the key to understand the use of magenta (that most of the times is much better than red!)
ua-cam.com/video/SI127pDPsK0/v-deo.html
What's your opinion on Old Holland colors? Ever try them?
Never had the chance!
Awesome video!
I'm just getting into oil washds and some hits and misses. I'm using Schmincke Medium 1 as thinner and it eats right through acrylic paint, if not varnished beforehand (no matter how long they dried) It sometines even chips varnished paints.
Did you ever encounter such a problem or have any suggestions?
What about... water soluble oil paints? Any good in our hobby?
I don't like them... I tried only mid range water based oils but I in genera l found their behaviour quite different and not equally satisfying
Started using enamel paints recently and been wanting to try using oil paints but was too afraid. But this video is giving me more confidence in using them so I'm gonna get some tomorrow! Thank you so much for this video!
Oh that was excellent Marco , I’ve painted pictures in oils for a few years , but never dare to try them on my minis . You have given me the confidence to have a go. Please can we have more vids on this subject🙏🏻
Thanks man, I started painting my 2000 point army Ork army with oils because of your Blanchitsu series. Lots of love from Sligo !
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Grande, iscritto subito Al canale....viviamo anche nella stessa cittaá xD
😁😁😁 Grande!!! Da quanto sei a Dublino? Io solo da un anno, prima ero a Sligo sulla costa ovest
I am a beginner and I've gotten my shaders and drybrushing, and layering, and highlighting down. Just learned about oils so now am watching your vid. Learning is fun! But so is painting after you learn.
Ciao Marco!ma il white spirit è semplice acquaragia?posso prenderla al ferramenta o mi consigli prodotti da modellismo?
Ciao! Sì, semplice acquaragia! Io uso la più economica acquaragia inodore che trovo dal ferramenta 😅 Quelle da negozio di belle arti sono più raffinate e hanno qualche impurità in meno, ma per le miniature se ne usano quantità microscopiche e la maggior parte va per pulire i pennelli tra un tono e l'altro, quindi una economica basta e avanza!
Perfect timing! This is a wonderful video, thank you for it.
Seeing the full process for the Kingdom Death model was especially helpful to see this in practice; the theory isn't particularly new to me, but it's so helpful to see something actually getting worked back and forth. It was also nice to see you do something more involved for skin; I mostly see you do quicker stylized approaches for gaming models, so this was great! Plenty more Kingdom Death stuff I'm sure you could paint, at very least the rest of that box :D
Being able to actually watch you do the whole process of the legs was a HUGE help, and exactly what I was looking for! I think for people that know how, just showing a few steps is enough, but for a beginner to this kind of blending that kind of detailed exampling is absolutely critical. Glad I became a patreon!
😍😍😍 thanks a million!!! For everything 😁😁😁
Thanks Marco, your channel is a gem! fantastic!!
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Just found your channel. Bing watching them all! You are a fantastic artist and teacher. I love your techniques! Can't wait to put them to work on my miniatures. 👍👍👍
😍😍😍😍 Thanks a million man!!!
IIRC you cannot use acrylics over oils... is this correct?
😅 No, it's a urban legend! When white spirit is evaporated and oils are dry to the touch you can totally use again acrylics (and I do this in a ton of my videos!)
Hey, awesome video! I have one question though, after you've finished painting a model with oils do you varnish them?
And if so, what's your preferred method?
In any case, I'm definitely going to give oils a try now!
Wow!I have watched like days worth of videos about oils but never fully understood the hole thing.But after your video i am finally enlightened.I dunno why your video was a breakthrought in understanding this it is probably your thick accent :D.
Keep it up man!Don't really sub to channels but you earned it!
I was allreaddy hooked on the whole idea of painting with oils but you Marco, you reeled me in :). Im just wandering what would be a good range of colors to start with. Seeing some colors are really high priced like for example WINSOR & NEWTON - 1214089 Artists olieverf 37ml cadmium oranje for 26.60 euro (30.34 usd more or less), would the Abteilung 502 be a good and cheaper option perhaps? I see you use Molotow Black, is it correct to presume it is a suitable replacement for the well known Vallejo, Citadel, Armypainter, etc... primers? Thx, keep up the awesome work and we all appreciate the huge amount of time you putt in to make these video's :) ;). You are the Yoda to this young padowan :)
For me a good entry set for any kind of new paints is made by: primary tones (and secondary colours if you want), black and white, burnt umber, raw sienna, magenta and Payne's Grey because I love the tone 😁
Oh yeah all the Molotow One4All line is great for priming and base works; they are made for street and mural art so they are extremely resistant and great in the airbrush!
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM I adore your video's and they have sparked a new creative curiosity in me, thank you Marco. I have a question along the same lines as above, looking to put an entry set of W&N together, if it's not too much trouble, what are the names of the colours I should get for both ranges, the Winsor and artists'? I'm stuck on a couple, for instance do I want Permanent Magenta or just Magenta in the Artist's range, or the Permanent Rose or Magenta in the Winsor..
Probably too busy to read notes on old posts but can't decide if I should get the Winsor nNewton set or Schmincke College Oil Set (16 x 35ml) 🤔 thoughts?
No I'm not!!! 😁
They are both good choices, I would go with the cheaper/the one you can buy locally
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM ah, just bought some then saw this. Split the difference as found winsor newton do an Artist set. Tubes are only 20ml rather than standard 37ml, but you get 10 main colours at the really good quality and picked it up for £30 👌 thanks for input though.
Started with oil paints, after 3 days in a warm room i still can activation the paint. It is very satisfying. Thank you
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Hi Marco, great video, I really want to try oils as soon as possible now, I'll grab some of them to start experimenting really soon. I have a question though, can I eventually speed the dry process with an hairdryer?
Hi! Thanks a million!!!
About the hairdryer, well, yes and no 😅 but I have a whole video precisely about this topic 😉: ua-cam.com/video/Qi5nIwvgzhw/v-deo.html
Hi Marco, what are your thoughts on Gamblin Artist's Oil Paints? Are they good for miniature painting?
They are crazily good (and sadly in my area crazily expensive 😅)!
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM Of course, with oil paints, you definitely get what you pay for as far as pigment quality and concentration goes.
Awesome guide but I have a question. My local store has the Winsor and Newton Artisan Studio Set and it is described as a water mixable oil color set. Do you have any experience with this kind of product? Could you use it in all the ways you described in the video but use water instead of white spirit/thinner to make washes, thin and remove paint? Thanks!!
Thanks! In general I don't like water based oil paints because they don't have the full spectrum of properties or 100% the same behaviour of real oils
Alright, thank you for your answer:-)
Where I live, Th Schmincke Norma are cheaper than W&N Artist. Are they a good Paint ore is the Mussini Line a lot better Quality?
That are incredible paints! Norma and Mussini have the same top tier quality; the main difference is that Norma tones are more opaque (better for our kind of works) and the Mussini line is more transparent
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM Thank you for the Fast Answer! for most tones, Norma Paints are around half the Price than the Mussini or W&N ARtist Line, so i will stick with them.
This really helps me a lot
Thank you so much Marco!!! I,m very excited about use this techniques to improve my miniature painting level. This was the video I was waiting for... You´ve nailed it!! Big THANKS!! I do not understadn very well the differencies between the different thiners, petroleum and so other liquids, but It´s a languaje matter, I´sure.
In the sponge/q-tip section, you showed the black brush for precise work, what is it called? a pointer brush?
It's a make up tool, but I don't know it's precise name... I'll check asking my wife 😅
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM ohhh! Thanks dude! knowing its makeup brush, i can narrow it down too.
Do you guys use any varnish after oil paiting the mini ?
I don't use any varnish at the end! A coat of varnish kills the natural finish of the paint plus dry oil paint is extremely tough (that's why we have so many paintings in museums 😁) so it doesn't need any extra protection
Thank you very much ! You save my life and you show me is LOT more easier i was thinking :D I will go play with my oil over my little soldiers !
Awesome 😊!!! After the last few videos I noticed an increasing interest around oils and I want to do more 100% proper oil painting on the channel. Give me your feedback after some experiments 😊!
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM Well so far i need to play with the dilution before i can put some better feedback. But to just work like you do, make nice transition et let me feel really proud of my work and i am (now!) able to do exactly what i have in mind. I will check other of your tutorial. Your way to teach + looking you work at the same time is really perfect !
I'm in your tubez, stealin your sekrits! Seriously, this is above and beyond helpful. Thank you!!
Thanks for the video :) I have used winton for oil washes but found painting with them frustrating. This video convinced me to buy some artist M. Graham paint I can buy locally. WOW what a difference! The artist oil is smooth and silky and blends on the model so much easier! Using oils are actually fun now :)
Absolutely FAN-TAS-TIC !! Kinda revelation to me... shall try this absolutely !! HURRAH for Marco !!
Amazing video man! I’m just starting out using abteilung paints myself for my minis. Thank you!
Many thanks from a modeller who’s just launching into oil washes 👌😎 fred
Excellent video, was waiting for you to make a video about using oil paints with mini's
Really good video m8, gonna go home and paint with my oils directly after work :-)
Awesome tutorial! 😃 if we wanted to put another coat of acrylic do we need to do something Or just wait until dry?
Thanks!!! You can safely go back to acrylics when oils are dry 😊
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM thanks a lot! Your vids are awesome and your oil tutorials are amazing and beginner friendly! 😃
There's an old saying that goes something like this:
"Those who can't do, teach."
You have proven that to be false!
Two questions, Marco,
Do Turpentine based thinners affect acrylic layers under the oils?
Is AK Interactive's Odorless Thinner safe for acrylics?
I bought Aguarras in Spain and I've noticed that different bottles have affected my paint differently (even though they're all called the same thing), even ruined my acrylic work. I'd really appreciate answers from a pro here. Thank you.
Great video, any opinions on water mixable oils?
Thanks!!! I tried only mid quality water mixable oils but in general I don't like them; their behaviour is not completely the same and you don't have the same results
This was an amazing video! I've just started using oil paints in my miniature painting. What kind of finishes or varnishes do you use? I love the shiny oil "sheen" that occurs after the oil paints dry. I'm making Blood Angel Death Company and the black shine from the oils looks great. Would you recommend a Hight Gloss / Satin (Medium) / or Matt finish - or maybe some combination? I want to preserve the looks as much as possible. Cheers!
Great video Marco! Could you elaborate more on the paint consistency for when painting only with oils? Maby a future video. I seem to struggle to get a good creamy consistency, it end up very streaky even with opace colours. Thanks!
I keep coming back to this video just to hear you say that oils exist since before the Middle Age and they’re still the gold standard. As an art historian I definitely still have my biases and cling to the idea that they only go on canvases and wood, but thanks to you I keep forcing myself to use this wonderful tool for our Tiny hobby. Thanks again!