ahahah, well we just recently started to make these SM videos, it's normal that YT is still a bit shy, concerning us XD but I want to get this channel to the top, so keep an eye on us!
Thanks you Pete, really appreciated ^___^ indeed, yellow is tricky above all because it's difficult to fix mistakes and keep a clean style with it! But I think it's rewarding! (congrats for your channel, I love to kitbash and you've inspired me many times!)
Thanks! I use a very cheap airbrush, a sparmax max3 with 0.35 nozzle, I think it's perfect for beginners and for those (like me) that use it only for very basic tasks ^^
First Midnight Gospel and now Trollhunters, you have excellent taste in Netflix's animated programming in addition to your fantastic painting skill, sir. I've been loving these videos! Can't wait to see more of them.
Very nice. It reminds me a lot of the Eavy Metal style I remember best from back in the mid 90's. Bright colours, clean lines. All it needs is some technicolour terrain around. It's interesting to see the evolution in techniques, and see modern techniques applied to a much older stye.
This is something else. I love the fresh approach to the "paint a mini" video genre. Not just another creator droning on (albeit a useful thing to hear) about this paint or that method. If you're taking requests, I'd love to see your take on the Inquisitor Kyria Draxus or Night Lords. Thanks and cheers!
Preston Keebler thanks, really appreciated! :) I really like night lords, but I confess I have never painted a chaos space marine before :O maybe after this first wave of loyalist marines, I can start with some heretic ones :D
your airbrush control has made my airbrush control look like the 3 stooges with a fire hose! that is freaking awesome oh im never going to paint yellow
Not only is your painting skills and choice of colors top-notch but the video editing really shines as well! Love the multiple angles and great lighting. This is easily a top3 painting channel here on youtube. And that is with some fierce competition. Well done man.
Thanks for your words, really appreciated! We do our best (I use "we" because all the editing part is made by my girlfriend XD), and it's rewarding to see your appreciations. As you correctly say, nowadays there are so many great painters here on YT, the average quality is awesome so it's motivating to see that our videos are gathering interest!
Dude your videos are awesome, no messing about, great editing, really enjoyable to watch! Also love how you flex on everyone by making your own brown rather than just using a brown 😂 keep up the great content!
Thanks Josh!! :D it's important to experiment with colors, some hues are perfect out of the pot, but some other need adjustments to look more interesting u__u and above all, I give a meaning to all the money spent in buying tons of colors XDXD
Just when I needed to see how to paint yellow :) These videos are a delight to watch. One thing I would say - give your finished model another turn or two on the turntable at the end, so we have enough time to really appreciate the end result! Wonderful stuff!
Holy moly ! Beautiful colour scheme ! Amazing painting skills and just a joy to watch! You give the top youtube minature painters a run for there money :) defo subscribed 👍 keep up the good work and you will go far
Thanks so much ^___^ I'm having such fun with these mini-videos and I see that subscribers are growing fast, I'm really proud of it! (I was even able to start to monetize, I've earned a tasty 2$ since Monday XDXD)
bravissimo come sempre, mi è piaciuto molto tra le altre cose la resa dell'oro, non è facile renderlo interessante in mezzo a tutto a quel giallo, almeno per me!
vero, infatti ero un po' dubbioso anche io u__u ho usato delle velature di viola per dare quel minimo di contrasto in più con l'armatura gialla, devo dire che sono servite!
Just built my very first WH40k model's today, the captain and the intercessors from the start collection elite box. I can't decide to paint them regular space marines, Iron Hands, or a custom chapter. I really like the idea of my own color scheme but having examples of space marines and IF's can be helpful seeing as ive never painted a mini either lol The one thing that suprised me was how small they are! Just seemed bigger on RU-vid
I've done a Space Wolf, but that video was the first one of this "series experiment" and many things were speeded up or just skipped u__u In fact I have a more detailed video about Space Wolves, but I haven't upload it yet because I didn't want to give a kind of deja-vu effect XD
I love this channel! I do feel like the contrast could have been pushed a little farther with minimal extra effort, however, and the solid white decal on (his) right shoulder pad feels unfinished. Otherwise, this is exceptionally clean and consistent work! Perfect for the design of the new Primaris marines. Keep it up!
I agree with you: I could have pushed farther with contrast glazes, I preferred not to exaggerate because I wanted to show an (almost) easy way to paint yellow armours, a fair mix between a good result without too much time spent on shades! Concerning decals, I get your point, in fact they look a bit unfinished but I have a tremendous fear of touching them XD Maybe, to improve them, they need some light grey glazes, in order to give them more tridimensionality (and match with the shoulder pads that have a bit of mid tones)!
Told you last video you were becoming one of my favourite painters on youtube and now is official. Awesome video, quality and editing. Putting the video-segments for each part is really helpful. Keep the good work please!! We can't get enough of this xD
Amazing work! its incredible how methodical you work and it makes me excited to paint again! could you list the materials you used to block out the colors on the shields?
Rhode thanks Rhode! I used a set of stencils made by fallout hobbies (www.fallouthobbies.com), they are useful for this kind of decoration! Of course, being the shield full of details, the stencils didn’t adapt perfectly to the surface so I had to fix some smudges with brush ^^
"Finished, not perfect" should be the mantra of any painter u__u you've done good job on your models, you are happy with it and this is all that matters :D the next miniatures will be better for sure, and so on!
Uh, how I know your struggle with decals! I love them, but on SM shoulder pads they are a nightmare :| in specific, I had to cut a bit them (4 little cuts on the 4 "angles" of the decal), otherwise they simply couldn't lay down without making horrible wrinkles!
I hope this comment finds you well. I am a huge imperial fists fan. I have been trying to find a way to paint a army of them for quite awhile and havent gotten a result I was satisfied with. However I found this video I absolutely love the way yours came out. I was wondering, did you prime the miniature with chaos black or mechanicus grey? Its hard to tell from the video. I also like to know how your Averland sunset came out looking more like Phalanx Yellow after base-coating? It just looks a lot brighter then it should be. Going from my experience. Was there any other colors you mixed with it? I saw you added airbrush flow improver but I dont think that would make it lighter would it? Sorry for the many questions. I just really like how you painted this. I hope you are doing well.
Hi, fellow Dornian! I always paint with a kind of dark chocolate primer (basically Rhinox Hide), there is not a specific reason for it, I just started to use it and I kept using it! About yellow, it's just averland sunset, airbrushed. I noticed that, in fact, also my local GW store staff asked me about that, and we discovered that my averland sunset (which is very old, basically first generation) is a bit different from actual ones, as GW slightly changed the formula meanwhile :\ probably, the fact that this video has been filmed under very bright light, increases a bit the brightness perception itself of the yellow, but it's just..normal Averland Sunset ^-^"
Thanks! This miniature in particular required 3 full days of painting (about 20 hours). Of course, not a process that could be made for a whole army, but I wanted to show you something worthy of your time XD
Could you also share thoughts on edge highlights? How do you place 2 edge highlights? How do you determine which spots deserve the 2nd highlight? I'm feeling a bit frustrated because I just can't seem to know how to improve my edge highlighting skills. Lastly, do you ever do battle damage? Curious how you would do it with such a neat style if at all.
Generally, for the second edge highlight I focus on the edges that I want to put on evidence, and I paint of those edges the section that I think it would reflect more light (like the vertex of a plate armour). For example, let's see the right arm: with the second highlight at first I observed the position of the arm, and I decided that the light would be reflected more on the central part of the arm, so I highlighted the edges to bring the lights on the center of the arm. If you notice, the edges of the arm are lighter at the center, reaching their highest brightness in the two vertex of that part of the armor (the vertex below and above the indomitus crusade decoration). Generally I look at the model and I just try to imagine where the lights would make the model looks better, giving priority to those part of the armor that are more visible: you don't need to work too much on the lower part of the backpack, but the more you are near the face of the miniature (the focal point), the more it's important to add contrast--> increase the lights. I think that a good approach to space marines armours, concerning highlights, is: highlight more the upper edges of the model, and of these edges, highlight more the part near to their vertex (or corners, angles, I don't know what term is better, my English is not good sorry T__T).
Looks amazing! Can someone tell me why my models basecoated with Averland look way more orange/brown than this seemingly more yellowish base? Reproducing this (as a novice, to be fair) I seem to get a more orange ochre looking mini.. thanks!
Amzing video man. I have a couple of questions. Do you always undercoat the minis black or is it certain colours? I'm a novice at it and am starting a small ultramarine force and got the macragge spray (hard to get sprays where I live cuz of shipping laws) and was wondering would it do the job if I undercoat with it and than apply a couple coats of the pot macragge blue for the basecoat? Or should I just get an airbrush and woosh away with the black? Thanks in advance and keep up the good work. Your videos are awesome! Hope to see all dem first founding marines :P
Hi Dimityr! The choice of the undercoat color is always a matter of personal tastes: many painters, for example, love to paint on a white base because it helps to paint with bright colors, but I prefer to paint with a very dark brown one because it helps me to "read" better the sculpt. This, sometimes, gives me more difficulties: in this specific model, it would have been easier to start with a white undercoat, because yellow is a bright color that has a very low coverage, so a white basecoat would have helped a lot. In your case, Maccrage spray is already made to function both as an undercoat and a basecoat, so I think that after you spray your smooth undercoat of maccrage blue, you can just paint over it without problems: after all, it is made to simplify your work, giving two steps with a single layer (undercoat and basecoat). If you want to speed up your paint, I think that you should just spray MB and then start immediately to work with washes or highlights :) airbrush can help for many things, but it is not essential: I use a very cheap one, because I use it only for very basic tasks (principally: basecoats and first shadow/light), if you want to invest some money to have a useful tool in your disposal, I suggest you to start with a low-profile one (for example, Sparmax is a good mix between price and versatility). Slowly but relentlessly I would like to make a video like these ones for all the 1st founding marines, and some famous successors (Crimson Fists, Red Scorpions, Flesh Tearers, Charcarodons, Iron Snakes!) ^^
@@DurginPaintForgeMiniatures Hey thanks for the answer man it clears things :). I will consider getting an airbrush. And again amazing videos I'm sure you'll do amazing with your future videos and I am looking forward to learning from them and chilling out with them ^^
Why so many talents in just one guy ??? That s not fair. Sculpting painting hoooooo you could let me got one no ? Ggrrr Very wondrrfull work as usual . but i prefer your dwarves. Let s do some space dwarves
eh my friend, we do what we can do: filming miniatures while painting is difficult! This format is meant to give a kind of "look around" of the painting process, I honestly don't think you would have the strength to bear 1-2 hours of video (that would be, however, 1/5 of the actual painting time required XD)
@@DurginPaintForgeMiniatures Oh Don't worry I completely understand that. Lol :-) It's a personal thing, my eyes aren't good enough to handle this type of camera work which is frustrating because I really like the way you paint stuff. :-)
Does anyone know what is this dark brown paint that is being used for "masking" the elements that are not being painted? For example on the shoulder pad trim before its painted white. Thanks!
Hi! It's just the primer I use, a mix between Vallejo German Brown primer and Vallejo Black primer. You can just use rhinox hide citadel, it's almost the same
@@DurginPaintForgeMiniatures Wasn't expecting an answer from the Maestro himself, but here we are :D Thanks! It did look very much like Rhinox, yeah. What was most surprising is that you used dark brown as a base for white. In relation to the face-painting-bit of the video, for example: I assume that after you were done with your skin tone you simply blocked out the rest of the head bits for convenience's sake. And that functioned as your basecoat for white...? Priming brown under white. Bold, that! ;) P.S. Your video got me excited to try painting yellow again after many failed attempts. Never expected plain old Averland Sunset to look as exciting as it does in your video. You have my gratitude!
@@DorianSoboltynski ahahah, maybe maestro is too much, but it's cool XD Well, I confess that the main reason behind that choice was about, ehm, "aesthetics": I thought that the mini would look cleaner and tidier to your eyes, visually speaking with all the non-painted surfaces "blocked"! I wanted you to focus on each part of the mini that I was painting without being distracted by messed-up surfaces u_u
@@DurginPaintForgeMiniatures Since it is a visual medium that you are conveying to us - that was the ABSOLUTELY correct choice to make! I wish more youtubers adopted this style and shared your insight. It is a very cool and effective way to draw attention. Props! Keep those videos coming, you are doing fantastic work. :)
As someone new, would you recommend Imperial Fists or Dark Angels. I do love the look of yellow though, just the fear from the comments about painting yellow is daunting. Great skills you have there.
AmazinglyGayPhil nice question. For sure, painting yellow and red is not easy, especially for a beginner, but there are plenty of ways to achieve a nice result without being a pro painter! I would suggest to make a try, and maybe to start with a more weathered style that allows you to make mistakes without compromising the result! II think that DA would be a more friendly chapter, for an absolute beginner u__u
@@DurginPaintForgeMiniatures thank you very much for the advice. Just yellow is a heck of a colour when done right :O ill try a test is it posaible to paint stip if i mess up my model ?
@@AmazinglyGayPhil of course, the path of a painter is full of projects that prematurely end in a wash of soap, to remove the traces of failed attempts XD
holly crap dude, i feel like ive just watched an audition tape for the heavy metal crew, this is on another level man great job. the video editing was really well put together as well looked so good.
@@shaunwhitehead2966 my inner metalhead me agrees with you, warmly. Unfortunately, this genre of music is the most decent one, concerning royalty-free songs :\ please endure, 'till this channel grows up, I'll become shamefully rich and I can pay Zakk Wylde to make the music for my videos ^_^"
@@DurginPaintForgeMiniatures I'm giving them a read through as we speak 😂 it would have been Black Templars after your last video but I'm painting up some Goff Orks too so wanted to avoid another black scheme 🤷🏻♂️ very interested in shading the yellow with the contrast paint through an Airbrush, never tried that before, anything I should try and look out for with that or fairly straight forward? I usually look to wet blend those types of shades so again I'm looking forward to trying something a bit new...
Really nice job bud. You make it look easy which it certainly isn't. I've been trying to get better at painting over the last year or so. I've definitely made progress. I really need to focus on skin, metals and freehand, your video offers great insight into all three, so thankyou.
Thank you Joel! What you see in these first videos, with some exception (I won't lie, freehands are not beginner-friendly), is not that difficult: the basic process behind many of my techniques is simple, I'm self-taught so I had to learn by "divide" the most tricky and technical parts into simple step, in order to understand them! The edge highlight is just straight lines, and despite with practice you'll learn how to make almost perfect lines with a single brushstroke and your hand will become firmer and firmer, you can achieve great result even if you are a beginner, because it's easy to fix errors. For the skin, for example, my process is pretty linear: basecoat, wash, then I only focus on the contrast light/dark, highlighting the volumes of the face. Once I'm happy with the bright/dark contrast, I use glazes to adjust the hue, in this case I used just red because I wanted to keep the skin simple, but usually I use also green, yellow and orange glazes to give the skin more interest. If you want to keep improving your painting, the best way is to learn how to divide complex techniques into simple steps, and above all (at least, this is my opinion) to train your hand to paint in a clean way.
Definitely one of the better Imperial Fist tutorials on here...and very fortuitous timing as I'm painting up some Imperial Fists this weekend. I never thought to use Reikland Fleshshade for the panel lining and I love the Iyanden Yellow/Gryph Hound Orange shading. That blends really nicely with the Averland Sunset and the panel line shading. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Thanks! I'm glad you like the process ^^ I hope it will be useful, glazing with contrast (diluted with their Contrast Medium) is easy, I think that they have a lot of potentials!
Can you share your thought process on the airbrush of the yellow armor glaze? What are you trying to hit and cover with airbrush? I understand its a subtle effect, and I can't really quite see where you airbrush the paint and then why you would also go back in with the brush
Of course! I wanted to add some subtle mid-tones to the armour, nothing too evident but just a kind of orange hue to give more depth to the yellow. I applied at first with airbrush some subtle layers in the areas where I wanted to add some shadows (like, for example, inner legs, the lower part of the knees and backpack etc). To be more accurate, I applied also some glazes with the same mix with brush, trying to add depth on the various plates of the armour!
I really love all that you did with the armor. And I did not see where you were going with that shield but I loved it! I hate to critique but I think you just went a little too thick with the lightning effect on the sword. It looks a little too flat like a decal rather than an effect. Just a little too broad and flat. Otherwise completely out of this world!
thanks for the feed! That was the first "enery effect" I attempted u__u I'm pretty happy with the graphic result by itself, but as you correctly point out, it's not perfectly integrated with the sword, I think that it would look better with an osl effect at the center of the sword that "follows" the energy, in order to give a more realistic look! The shield is just a style exercise, a little tribute to the vintage (kitsch) decoration of classic Eavy Metal/John Blanche style, glad you like it :D
That edge-highlighting was so good and detailed that I got exhausted just watching you. I'm a beginner when it comes to painting (long-time lore lover though) so seeing this is immensely helpful, fun and satisfying. Thank you, and keep up the incredible work!
Michael Feldman indeed, edge highlight might seem difficult and frustrating, but it’s kinda relaxing and easy: there is always a way to fix errors, it’s easy to achieve great results with this basic technique ^^ you only need a bit of patience, but it’s easy to control it. I find way more stressful to paint smooth transitions, where it’s way harder to fix mistakes so I have constantly (especially on last steps) that feels of “damn, if I ruin it now I will throw everything away!!” XD
There's a lot to be said for 'eavy metal style. Done well it is high end table top or display standard. It's what I like to do but usually add bits on the end like weathering and scratches and dirty to make it look more realistic. Nothing more I dislike than a fresh and clean decal sticker on the side of a miniature, dirty it up with nuln oil and scratches.
I understand your point, but a dirty decal on a perfectly clean paintjob would looks weird. This style is just a graphic exercise, let's say so, a kin of painting that is meant to enhance the sculpture of a miniature: after all, it is developed by a company, GW, to promote their products ^^ for sure it isn't realistic, it is not meant to be ^^ I can't wait to start to paint some "serious" projects, so you'll see how I developed this style with my personal view: these videos are made to start a long journey :D
@@DurginPaintForgeMiniatures Go To "Dave Dogge" on Instagram (there are only 3 posts and only one Dave Dogge in the entire world) and take a look at my ultramarines Primaris. I dirtied up the decals on the pauldrons etc and I think it looks 'right' on my first bash at doing 'eavy metal space marines
I'm working on it, principally I have two issue: I have not proper tools to register (but this is only a matter of saving some cash XD) and I have a bit of complex for my English, that is not properly awesome XD
I love th music though as well, but some dialogue would be good. One thing I would say I've noticed and for a OCD person like me is showing names if colours I even if it's a repeat. Example : in this video you add the wash to the recesses and then repaint yellow, was that the original yellow colour?
cpttalion78 yes, in that step I just fixed some stains and recesses with the basecoat color (Averland Sunset). Yellow is a very “delicate” color, so even being careful it’s impossible to avoid that the wash stains it a bit ^^ for this reason, I just restore with the basecoat color all the areas where the wash stained the armor!
@@DurginPaintForgeMiniatures I was just interested in an overall time in the description, breaking it out in the video i think would add a bit of clutter in the clean stlye that you have going on!
They are thick varnishes, so the best way is to dilute them a bit (with water) and airbrush them painting subtle layers. You can paint gloss varnish also using a normal brush, be only careful to dilute it or it's easy to have a too thick coat. About matt varnish, things become a bit more difficult: I tried to use Vallejo Matt Varnish or citadel Stormshield with brush, but the result was not good: they simply didn't manage to turn a surface into a matt surface. With airbrush, on the other hand, they work. I know that there are matt varnish that are designed to work with normal brushes, but I never tried them: I suggest airbrush if you have Vallejo Matt Varnish. About the use, they are helpful for many things: gloss varnish makes a surface smooth, so it helps to work with washes; matt varnish, instead, gives more grip to the colours so I found that it helps to work with glazes and layering. I use a lot matt varnish to work with true metallic colours: with it, I handle how much brightness of the metallic pigment I want to achieve, and it's really useful to paint textures with metallics (it's a bit difficult to explain, I'll show you in a next video)
Awesome format. I love the no nonsense commentary free videography with color and recipes in the description box with timestamps. It is a nice change of pace. Excellent job!
Thanks, James! Actually, I've almost finished to paint the Dark Angels character that will be soon uploaded :D so you only have to wait for a couple of days ;)
What brand, style, type of brushes are you using? I see your brushwork with pinpoint tips and such clean lines, I would like to invest in something the same or similar.
Hi Tim! I use Windsor&Newton series 7 brushes, the watercolour line (brushes of this line have longer and more flexible bristles). In general I use only two sizes: size1, for almost everything (you've seen in this video for example that I painted the pupils with this brush) and size 2 for washes and when I paint large surfaces :) They are expensive, but I think they worth every € spent on them.
Hi Ben! I gave a gloss coat to help the wash capillarity, but it was a "technical" step, made to achieve a result with washes as clean as possible: I didn't want to armour to have a glossy finish ^^ Moreover, painting with normal colours on a glossy surface is not ideal, because the colour doesn't have the same "grip" than a normal, matt surface. So, for these reasons, after I finished with washes, I had to "remove" the glossy finish because I didn't need it anymore, so I gave a matt varnish coat on the whole model. About contrast paint shading, I think that contrast paints are pretty awesome for shading: they have a good consistency to be airbrushed with no problem, and their specifics are almost perfect for glazing. I highly recommend them for this kind of work ^^
@@DurginPaintForgeMiniatures awesome thanks for the response, I'll definitely have a go. Actually using some of the ideas from your Black Templars Bladeguard for my Indomitus marines. Thanks for all the help and great videos, look forward to seeing many more.
