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First off, shut up! your model looks great! Will admit that base isnt your best work, but "not your best work" is still far above what the average hobbiest's best is! Not only that, but sculpting a "sand wave/rolling cloud of sand-dust" would be extreamly hard reguardless. Beyond that I'm sure you learned allot, even if it didnt turn out exactly how you wanted, which you'd be able to bring to your next model and continue to give many hobbiests inferiority complexes and blow us all away with another great model. I'm no basing expert, but if i had to guess, it would be the "bubbles" and the thickness of the rolling dust cloud that gave it that off feeling. Something like that IRL would get thinner towards the peek, coming to sharper ends (hard to do when using that as support) but more than that it would be semi transparent, letting a little light shine through, less towards the base, and more towards the tip. Clear resin, either as a mold or 3d printed, with a sandy colored tint, and maybe some sort of sandy colored mica powder mixed in to help tint, show sand particles inside, and knock down the transparancy would do the trick probably. A rough sanding to further knock down transparancy and help give texture, with very fine dirt to touch up the right places. Would avoid doing too much "uncovering" on the base as the wind and turbulance wouldnt dig too deep either, only really disturbing the first layers, though shrubbery and cacti are a good idea. Thats all just me mostly guessing to be fair however, so take it all with a grain of salt, or sand in this case
Nice! The thing about miniature painting is that new people start every day. I'm looking for a video on the types of acrylic paint & what they're used for. For example, what are tones & shades?
@@Miniac Well, I want to achieve the effect you captured into the video. With the silver layer to build up value and the red to colour it. Forgive me, I know I sound like a noob but I'm such a novice when it comes to painting minis. My plan is to use the same paints you used in this video to achieve the same effect (i hope). I was just worried that I don't have an air brush
@@thepaperwizard7381 no worries about the questions :) If you don't use an airbrush, it might look a little different, but not significantly. Go for it!
I am starting to paint miniatures and I am expecting a long bumpy road. This video definitely helps me to see some of the mistakes I make, even outside of face painting. Thank you!
Greatly appreciated how down to earth this video was. The RU-vid painter niche has been so filled with cringe click-bait and over dramatic nonsense. It has honestly made me stop watching most painting videos due to how unrealistic they have become. This was fantastic. Well done, and I will be watching all your videos that follow this format.
there wasnt really any techniques called out in this video. just more "how to paint it" its kind of nice to just be told "get a round blob and tap the nose to get a more real reading contour of the nose. Not directly (or specifically) with regards to faces but I'm still just starting out but i find so often content creators go over techniques that they use or suggest trying and while i get mileage varies depending on the person and what your painting i always feel like i don't really know what techniques to try to learn when or in what order. partially its just decision paralysis and i recognize that but after getting a base coat down and adding highlights like you did with this face where do you go from there? should I learn wet blending or feathering or focus on glazing or dry brushing. your boy needs a flow chart or something because i've got probably 1000+ points of base painted army already. your old technique videos are all awesome btw. i primed a sheet of plastic card just to try out a bunch of paints on and goof around with wet blending. love your stuff and appreciate your approach to content
I'd personally avoid confusing blending techniques until you really nail the basics: starting with your shadow as a basecoat and layering up from there. It's a surprisingly challenging technique and one that has so many applications outside of just layering. If you're looking to challenge yourself beyond that, trying painting parts of your model w/different textures or to appear as different materials. Make some leather look scratchy and worn. Make something look like silk/shiny metal. This will build on your layering skills in a big way.
i think that this is a great idea. I would love to play a lot of miniature games, especially the war games but I suck at assembling and painting models and it's such a barrier of entry to me. Removing that is such a good idea, but I think also having that as a side possibility would be great
The biggest improvement to my enjoyment of painting, and being happy with the results was stopping obsessing over them not looking like the Eavy Metal box art.
I think the two most important rules are 1. Thin your paints 2. Paint the majority of your model the primary colour first e.g. paint the majority of a blood angel red
Absolutely superb work! I rather like the desaturated greens, a nice change from just painting the character in basic brown and basic green like what has been done many times before. What is cooler, vampires or Wood Elves? Wood Elves, of course! When I first got into this hobby many, many suns and moons ago, I really wanted to have a Wood Elf army as was seen in 3rd edition Warhammer Fantasy, I really liked those Jes Goodwin sculpts but sadly I had no money, I was starting high school, and I had rather strict parents who did not like the hobby at all. It also really confused the hell out of them seeing me go from playing repetitive, mind rotting video games to wanting to paint and game with miniature soldiers and figuring out strategies and such but I understood this to be a good thing. I still paint on to this day, no regrets really.
