My name is Lyla Mev and I'm the mini witch! I create beginner guides to miniature painting, easy-to-follow guides on miniature painting techniques like layering and glazing, and paint Warhammer models!
The ever-present pit of "I must make every mini revolutionary!" It's a dangerous one! Thanks for the reminder that it really only matters if I'm happy with it.
I love this conversion. I don't get the whining about reconning lore, GW has been doing it for years. It's not like they're suddenly making every Custodes female and it's nice to see a non hyper sexualized female unit.
Im not an expert but i would recomend you to but an oil wash which for panel lining and sprrad nicely along recesses and has a very good pigmantation 😊
I painted minis for a year with dollar store paints until I finally broke down and bought some mini paint. (Valejo) night and day difference but solid advice, I shouldn't buy another brand thinking that's the secret sauce.
I think P3 paint line is pulling on the memories people had of their first release with warmachine (RIP). I do like the idea of getting one or two paint colors of a line to test out how it works before a larger investment.
I always enjoy your videos and find myself wanting them to be longer. I'm not trying to say you should make longer videos, just that I really like your content and wish I had more to consume! Keep on keepin' on!
I tried army painter new line and in my opinion are not worth it at all, where i live i can get vallejo bottles for 2,5€, so its way cheaper than this and to me way better
Why do women always push all male factions to include females but flip their shit if anyone wants to do the same with female only factions? How is this not blatant sexism? It's crazy how women cry so much about sexism and have no problem with being sexist.
As a long-time user of the P3 paints, I am glad to see them returning, and I am getting them through their Kickstarter. But this was not a case of shiny new paint, but a chance to restock on colors I like and have not been able to get recently and get some new colors from that line. And practice is always the best route to getting better at any skill.
I agree with not buying a complete new range, just because. But trying out new stuff and learning different tools and angles to solve hobby problems keeps painting engaging and that's when I'm learning best.
Painted my first mini yesterday and definitely over the skin it some because i accidentally used my non thinned Agrax Earthshafe. The final mini still looks pretty good, but it definitely looks dirtier than originally intended. Works for an Ogre though
Thanks for adressing the mesogynistic point of 'sisters of silence'. I mean, yes now women can be there, but they cant speak up? Its again a dream of patriarchy reproduced. Amazing paint job btw. The male breast plate with exagurated male tit-muscles already has enough space for womens breasts 😂
I like to lay down the paper into the wet palette and than turn in around and lay it down again starting in the middle. Then i remove the water on top with a paper towel. This gives me a nice moist paper without thinning the paint down to much.
I'm trying to get into miniature painting using acrylics. As a kid I used to paint models with enamels. Am I right in assuming that when letting each color dry as you paint your "pyramid" that this whole process can take many hours to achieve a final result for just one article of clothing/armor on each miniature? What size miniatures are you using in your videos? I'm trying to paint 28mm figures. Do you work on several different miniatures at the same time while others are drying? Thanks for any help given. Oh, by the way, I love your channel.
When i started back in the day and switched from model masters model paint (did model airplanes before wargaming and liked the brand) to citadel (the old screw cap pots) i found i did not get the best results. Switched to vallejo game colour and got far better results out of it. Since then i use a mix of vallejo and army painter mainly with some reaper paints i collected in various ways but never bought them myself. Works fine for the way i paint.
Honestly I just got dry brushing and over brushing to a place where I enjoy my results changing my paints would likely set back my progress significantly. Glazing and highlighting smoothly are my next big goal, and after that the new paints I’ll probably buy will be inks because I enjoy speed paints and pin washing and that seems like good direction to head in my painting skills. But even then I have so many paints I can’t really justify more until I try working more with what I have.
100% agree that we should not buy into the hype of a product based on social media influences. I feel like I had this happen with Two thin coats. They are fine paints but don't add anything new to my collection. They are not used very often. On the flipside, trying out Scale75 paints was the opposite for me. They clicked in my brain and I didn't realise how much I was fighting my reaper paints. This is why I went all in on the latest Scale75 Kickstarter as I know I love their paints. I certainly think that we should try out a few paints from a range before diving in headfirst
Lyla, do you believe this also applies on the transition between acrylic to single coat (express, contrasts...) paints? I mean, with some practice, a set of express paints won't make me paint faster? Loved the video ❤
Great video and it matches my experience as well. I made a step up from craft paints to Vallejo Game color years ago and there was a period where my painting was meh because it didn’t have the same properties. Now I will only buy paints to fill niches or if I have an unsatisfactory color. Still looking for a nice orange.
I recently came back to miniature painting after a years-long layoff and realized that a lot of my old paints were no good and had to buy all-new ones. I used to use Vallejo but only one shop sells them in my area and half the colors are routinely out of stock, so I started testing every other brand. I could get my hands on. What I found is pretty much what Lyla said. Two Thin Coats, Citadel, AK, the new Army Painter Fanatic, and Pro Acryl are all really good. I'm sure everyone will have their own preference, but you really can't go wrong with any of them and likewise none of them are going to suddenly make your minis look like golden demon winners. The closest I found to a game changer was Golden So Flat, but that has more to do with how they save me time by covering so well, rather than the end product looking radically different. I definitely wouldn't recommend that people buy massive amounts of paint every time something new gets released. All that said, if you're unhappy with a specific color from one paint line, it is a good idea to test something similar from another brand because you might well find a better option for that color. No paint line is perfect across the board and a little experimenting can really elevate the strength of your paint collection where blind loyalty to one brand can hold it back.
Vallejo for ever, I know how they work, what they can do what they can't do, the proportions to mix to lighten and darken, how they change with washes. I'd have to learn that all over again.
Hi, one tip (maybe) I learned the hard way: Don't use the bubble-back technique - for me this somehow always end up with tried paint somewhere on the seal and the same "bubble" problem you described there. I got myself a set of small cheap metal cups where I premix my paints in - it's neater and I can try the color using a brush before also. I have to clean the whole front of the AB otherwise. Also if you get constantly tried paint on your tip when doing detail-work even after you turned down the PSI and did go for the "perfect" consistency of paint for it you might want to add a bit of retarder (flow improver) instead of thinner and instead of constantly pinching away the paint it might be easier to point away from you model and give it a bigger pull on the trigger so that a lot more of fresh paint goes over the tip (this will clean it to of partially dried paint).
I've painted with Scale 75 for 8 years. At the beginning they didn't worked as I expected. So I worked on understanding the paints and what techniques to use with them. After a while I got pretty fast and good. At the beginning of the year I switched to ak 3rd gen and it was a well thought decision as I knew what other properties I wanted in a paint.
I am basically locked into citadel due to where I live. I can get army painter but their speed version left me angry due to their greens. So Citadel it is for me. Maybe make a vid on how to strip an old model so one can practice?
@@alexbrown1930 agreed, but I find this isn't even necessary. Picking one brand and using the paints you already own is better than finding a better color from another brand, because the "bottleneck" is you, not the paints. Just my 2 cents of course.
@@theandf Some examples I have encountered: Citadel's Texture Paints are the best paint at creating textured bases. Army Painter is the best colored metallics. Golden makes the best fluorescent acrylics.
@@alexbrown1930 I don't disagree, what I mean is that (IMO) is for later. The reality is that practice is better than, say, buying a specific paint because it's best in class. Mastering what you already own is probably better than buying a new metallic paint. I'm not disputing that some metallics from some brands are better, though overall I think Lyla is right: most brands these days are "good enough" for everyone.
@theandf oh, I totally get that. I have been using Citadel paints for over 20 years, and have transitioned over the last couple years almost exclusively to Army Painter and Two Thin Coats brands, except for some niche Citadel(Agrax Earthshade, Seraphim Sepia shade, and Skeleton Horde Contrast, plus textures and technicals), and some specialty paints.
In this case, what is bananas is that the kickstarter requires a massive commitment to get interesting colors. I bet there'll be P3 paints I'll want to use, but I can't imagine spending hundreds of dollars and another shelf or three.
this is what I needed to hear, thank you. I am taking my Scale 75 and I will be working on volumes and glazing instead of jumping into p3 again. (except maybe black coal. that color is unique and great)
