If you want some history on the mounted Gamling...it's mine; I painted it when I was in year 3 and it was my first ever metal mini balister. (Jack bought it and my entire collection (two IKEA trophy cabinets worth)) of me and has been putting them to good use - it's nice to see them being loved and painted properly! Great work and enjoyed the video (the commentary was comical too 😂!)
Well now I feel bad for erasing part of your childhood! Haha. But he’s going to a good home with a collector! Was a great experience to put a new spin on him.
@@MSPaints by all means erase it....it's been documented it's rise from year 3 child paint of the early 2000s to professional standard and it looks so much better for it! Great work and I'm just glad to see my collection rares and shite paint jobs are getting the love they deserved! (I promise you my painting for better after that! The Rohan collection was my first!)
Not gonna lie, I'm watching this auction, but for real I would never repaint these, they are great! Loved this video man, it really speaks to my kind of hobby :)
@@MSPaints that would be great man, I’m sure I’ll make it over there at some point as well. I missed out on that HH event, but sooner or later I need to make a visit to give Luke and Ollie a hard time :)
I just (kind of) got into this. I listed a trio of minis on eBay a few days ago. No luck yet. No bidders. But I wanted to try and sell minis as a way to ease my growing pile of painted minis, since I don't play any miniature games. Currently, I have plans for - if I can get them looking right, to make a listing for a small squad of Armageddon Steel Legion proxies.
I live in Norfolk and in Great Yarmouth there is a shop and 90% of its business is selling and buying second hand minis. It’s always an exciting day when you plan a trip to that shop as he turn over of models is fairly high you always get a surprise
I'm Norfolk based too and 40 mins from Yarmouth. Which shop do you mean as I'm always looking out for older models to slap a bad paint job on. I can see Wyldstorm and Norfolk Boardgames are close together. Cheers.
Love your stuff. Refreshing hearing a youtuber who likes metal models, i only got back into the hobby this year after a 6 or 7 year break only to find all my old friends and every youtuber just hates metal models and thinks old hand sculpted stuff with character is horrible and not precise enough... Love the tips and techniques you show are actually useful and doable for an average painter like me who just wants it to be relaxing.
Man... you are literally the first person to make me NOT click through a sponsors advert haha I love that puppet, great voice acting too lol Also really enjoyed the interview with wardaddy miniatures, very cool ;)
fun Balrog fact, a friend and his colleague working on LOTR had 6 weeks or less to make the Balrog. Originally an aussie outfit had the contract for a year and experimented with a physics program to mimic real fire and smoke but couldn't turn it into a viable humanoid in time. The two guys slept at Weta and were purchased new undies as they didn't have time for laundry.
Works for both. I made a joke about starting a channel called ms paints and was relentlessly harassed by a friend to do it, because it’s a genius play on words to be fair
There is something very cathartic about restoring old school metal minis. My ultrasonic cleaner is buzzing away in the background polishing some Lord of the Rings stuff that was stuck together with UHU as I watch this!
@@MSPaints haha horrid stuff, goes like stringy cheese in an acetone bath. Good to see some Middle Earth on your channel as I'm not into any other miniatures but it's too niche for most content creators to bother with!
Absolutely stunningly filmed and narrated. Love the realism, love the dry humour, love the words and the voice, love the film composition, love the paintjob. Stellar.
I 💯 % enjoyed this format. Picking a topic and then adding guest interviews... with your personal one on one style.... Fauxing best concept I've seen this year... but then I'm a noob after 40 yrs...😆 cheers my friend... MORE MORE MORE.
My only complaint about WarDaddy Miniatures, Having previously bought a LOTR Miniature. Is not the quality, which is of a high standard, But the absolutely diabolical price of postage. £25 for postage of a mini strikes me as an easy and disengenous way of tacking on an additional markup
Where are you based mate? Postage overseas ain't cheap even if it was a single mini. Sometimes I even lose money on postage. And please remember postage and packing covers packing materials too. Boxes, tape, padding etc. You'd end up paying a hell of a lot more if I used Ebays global shipping programme. Of course if you are UK based then there has clearly been a mix up. Send me a message on my insta if this is the case and I'll try sort it.
I always get into my own head when painting. The "I must paint well" creeps in so I would never commission paint. The metal models always hold a charm. New ones are better but feel a little clinical where as the old minis have the sculpter's personality.
11:50 - Try making the original Treebeard metal figure, and come back to me saying you love metal figures 😂 I don't mind metal on 1-2 piece models, but I prefer the 3d printed resin or gw-style plastic above all else.
Another good video and a good experiment. Good work on the sales, I've tried this in the past and not had much luck, but I think you have the correct attitude: don't spend too much time on them. One thing I noticed is that you used Citadel's textured paints, have you tried Vallejo's texture paste? You get far more for the price than the GW stuff.
@@MSPaints my mate just found some haldirs elves at an op shop and passed them on to me, can't wait to tackle them, thankfully I can wet blend here in Australia, much cooler and won't dry up
I always feel bad for you guys across the pond when it nears 40 C; I live in Arizona (in the Sonoran Desert) where it is consistently above that all Summer...but we have A/C and it's a dry heat.
Has me really tempted to give it a go. Do still want to give youtube a go but at the moment I'm hesitant. Doing this might be better for me for something to do and a bit of money coming in. Also I still haven't watched resident evil (anyone else that reads that is gonna be so fucking confused 😂) will put it on while i'm knocking out my lotr stuff lol
Askanamerican sending this entire video wondering why the hell you're complaining about 40° which is just barely above freezing in Fahrenheit. Your English you use the metric system so 40° it's over 100° Fahrenheit. That crap sucks I live in Florida and the heat or high humidity makes it miserable but it makes it heats survivable. I have been hospitalized what's heatstroke and about 140 f of 70c
I’ve been commission painting for the last 3 years and enjoyed every single commission I’ve ever painted. It’s never been a struggle for me luckily! I know I’m an exception though :) I do mostly Middle-earth though, so I’ll go check these listings out and repaint them if I win ;p you can then see them on one of my hobby vlogs later 😂
The only issue with advertising them at the end of the video is that now isn't a fair test, I'm sure they sold easy peasy just from the fanbase wanting a wee piece of RU-vid glory.
I tend to paint fire in that manner because I often want the flame to look sooty and filthy, like it's kicking out smoke, so light to dark works in that sense too.
Realy enioy these episodes you create when you interview people and get boots on the ground to see what they do. Would be to easy to just do a Skype call. Realy value this kind of content!!
Really nice collaboration, also i'm with you on metal minis, maybe a bit harder to get together and if they fall they shatter like glass, but when i hear people talking about them being harder to paint i often wonder what the hell they're talking about. Great work.
I have a FLGS that sells used warhammer from fully painted, to ancient metal bits and models still unassembled. I'm blessed, bits for 10 cents, metal models for 2-5 per model depending on condition. Brothers grim in Selden, NY
I've been doing a huge commission for a loooong time now. Everytime I take a break to paint a model for me I feel rushed and guilty that I'm not doing the commission. It sucks, I reckon this sort of thing is the way to go, especially as I like putting time into getting them look real nice whic isn't really too beneficial when commissioning.
its all good m8, we got that "studio ghibli cluttered room" ocd. man you even make your ads watchable and enjoyable. I love your content and love and miss health and safety frog.
As usual Dave an informative video but as you know or should I am up to my ass in Green, various shades of it on 60 Boyz. Cheers matey keep hydrated that is my motto.
Totally agree with the last comment. Very interesting subject and certainly something to think about or the future. Just need to get my painting speed up. Thanks for that Dave.
Personally I love to rescue and repair all kinds of stuff! I generally don't even make pocket money turning them around, but it's nice to have a hobby that largely breaks even
Funny you doing this video. I just bought a small bundle of stuff this morning and was planning on painting and selling what I don't want with the hopes of making what I want free.
Love buying bulk job lots but just haven't had any chances to grab any decent lots as prices have just been driven so high with people expecting retail (or more) for even unpainted and poorly painted used product. You really have to find that one seller that simply wants it gone, preferably someone that will even go 10% to 20% below the BIN on an offer.
This is a great video! I am really considering trying this out as a sideline project. Thanks for the video. I love your channel, I watch and listen to it on an almost daily basis during work and long stretches of painting.
Did some painting for friends, and its hard to please. My style at the time was factory fresh and to the letter, so I painted an Emperor's Champion for my friends Ultramarine army for his birthday. However, proper EC's have black armour, not chapter colours, so it got bitched about. I also painted his Land Raider, but I put the sponsons on the rear ports, because I liked that look. Nah, a week after getting it, he'd swapped them around. Also did a Leman Russ for another friend, but my camo scheme was more blocky and I painted all the rivets. He had no problem at all, but others didn't like this (the guy still wanted me to paint other IG stuff) I couldn't do commission painting after that, and I fell out of the hobby until recently. People's standards are too varied. Even at the moment, I have a shelf full of grey marines, and I can't decide on a chapter to paint them....but the Necrons....that I hate for being bland.....I can knock them out like nothing as I've made a scheme that's just easy....
Just paint how you want to paint mate and list it for sale... if someone likes it they buy it, happy days, they cant really bitch wjen they get it as they buy it how they saw it! Main reason I prefer this method over commission work. Although you do still get the odd whinger.
This is so cool and so fresh. I love the human interest and story of a hobbyist. You're also great on the interview, this reminds me of the first couple years of the Enormocast in style and realness.
@@MSPaints right on. I think it's a gap in the online hobby / mini space. A sort of video conversational dive with various people, prominent and not doing cool things. Maybe a niche you can carve out?
