Hobby Cheating 127 - How to Wet Blend 

I've been poking at the wet blending technique for a while, with very little success (aside from oils). I think this is the first video I've come across that demonstrates how to get the most out of Vallejo's retarder medium. I have renewed confidence to try! Thank you very much, Vince.

"mixing the paint on your miniature" - this changed the way I understand wet blending, cant wait to try it again, hopefully with more success now

Thanks for this, Vince. You are my go-to pro!

Once again you produced the best video on youtube reguarding this topic. Thanks a lot!

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👍👍 As usual...incredibly useful and effective. And delivered in a straight forward way. Thanks Again👍👍

I'm a fairly new painter finally someone who said what I was thinking about washes...there's a place for them where they look good but people use them as a crutch to skip blending too often

Thanks Vince for all your helpful advice

nice one. i REALLY think everyone should try this. it's easy, you almost can't mess up too badly, and it's fun to push the paint around and see those transitions start to appear

Why does RU-vid do this? been watch videos like this for years and now it decided to recommend this amazing channel!! Dam you RU-vid!!!

That Miskatonic Grey is gorgeous! I'm a total sucker for grey tones. I'm going to have to get some.

Very helpful, thank you.

Really appreciated this, thank you

Thank you so much for all of your videos! I have watched almost all of your Hobby Cheating ones. I am a noob to this. I bought the Star Wars Legion starter set and started painting, got frustrated, quit, then started again. Anyway, loved your Jungle base video. That is what got me back in to painting them again. I would be interested in seeing you paint the Stormtroopers from the starter set (and maybe even Darth Vader too). I always hear how hard white is to paint with, so of course, I picked some of the hardest things to paint first. I honestly thought they would be easy (when I started), since they were just black and white. I kind of have an idea of how I want to paint them now. I have them based, about to start washing them, but I think I am going to attempt to do some blending on one of them.

Thank you for the excellent tutorial dude

The Unsolved Mystery (In Search Of) Nemoy reference got me slamming that like button.

Man if your channel didn't exist my painting would be way, way worse. Thanks again Vince!

Great video as always Vince. Wet blending is one of those techniques that seems super scary but you really demystify it. I'd love to see a video on OSL at some point in the near future.

Great tutorial fella

Hey Vince, realise you are off enjoying yourself atm but when you do get a minute you may like to look into what I consider to be a really good find from the 'classic' art world. The product in question is a white acrylic paint from Schmincke, PRIMAcryl Titanium White, Now I totally agree that Warcolour white is amazingly good along with the majority of that range but the Schmincke was recommended to me along with a very bold statement that once you use this gear you'll never want to use another white again and I must say the more I use this stuff the less inclined I am to reach for any other white unless of course I am basing or painting terrain.I'd love to hear your thoughts on it if you have already used it. If you havent and want to try it out and find it difficult to obtain Stateside then let me know and I'll pick up a tube for you and pop it in the mail. Enjoy Adepticon, good luck with your entries- I am about to hop over to Crystal Brush and have a perusal!

That huge drop of water on the brush gives me anxiety :D Thanks for another awesome tutorial!

Hi Vince, thanks for another great video. You mentioned ideas for future coverage. Could you expand on the colour transitions, you mentioned there going from a white to a blue. It would be really helpful to me to see you do that. Thanks for reading.

Oh cool, glad to see this video came up after that Age of Sigmar facebook group post, not surprised that more people requested though!

I have a question, a little off topic but you mention it is nearly all your videos. How would you zenthinal highlight/prime a vehicle, like a Landraider or Land Speeder? Or would it be a totally different way of priming?

What products do you use to prime and zenithal with? I am using vallejo primers and it tends to rub off

Don't wash cloaks; yes, I have found out how difficult that is! Duly noted, thanks!

Hey Vince I know this is an older video. My question is to do with the Warcolours mixing white(titanium dioxide) and mixing black(black iron oxide), have you used these yet? If so what are your thoughts? Could I basically use these as a substitute to HBA or are they essentially the same thing anyways? I got them out of curiosity, but I’m kind of at a loss as to how to use them. It says they are meant to mix while keeping the mixed color saturated for tonal variation. Basically what I’m getting at is could I just wet blend with them and use the tones for my shadows and highlights?

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Great video Vince...can you do the same thing with some darker colors? For me the colors you used where really hard to see or almost the same. Thank you so much...and thanks for sharing...

A little off-topic but do you find there’s any difference in the actual paint formula between Scale75 and it’s Fantasy range? Or does it act the same just different color palettes? Thanks and your content is immensely appreciated!

Vince do you think you would show a wet blending tutorial with more easy to see colors besides white and grey?

Wow i look at this like 12 this video help a lote thanks

Because the paint is going on rather thickly, how do you avoid brush strokes? I'm trying this on a large flat shield now, and I'm getting some brush strokes as I lay the paint down...

I have another? For you what kind of brushes to use If I have any more questions in the future would that be OK

As a user suggestion, because I'm really struggling with this: I tried to nmm paint the scales armour skirt of High Elven Warriors, but their scales are extremely tiny to the point where I was wondering if it's possible at all. I got so frustrated that I painted them over with metal colur. :( Could you do a short video on how to nmm very small areas?

Hi Vince, I tried wet blending with the Vallejo retarder, but it has a horrible consistency that prevents the paint from flowing, and creates nasty brush strokes. Have you tried retarders from any other manufacturers, that might have a more fluid consistency? I'm considering buying the one from Scale75, but it's tough to tell whether or not another product would have the same issue. Thanks!

@4:38 while painting the booty Thanks for the helpful vid, vince (;

I do 1/35 scale I’m Starting up again

Am I just blind or is it kinda difficult to see you doing a blending tutorial with white paint on a light grey zenithal?

I've gotta ask... could you have chosen a worse color set to demonstrate this on...? By the end of the video it is barely discernable what is actually wet blended, and what is just your ambient light casting shadows. Unfortunately this makes what could have been really useful information almost useless, as we can't actually tell what is done by the paint. At the very least the lighting would need to be better so the blending could be more pronounced... or maybe just use better colors.

I appreciate the effort, but those colors are terrible for the example.

Can’t see shit on your model