Hobby Cheating 174 - How to Speed Paint Squigs to a High Quality 

Thanks Vince the info about the complementary colours I find particularly useful

Hey Vince. I'd like to expand a little on my question from todays Q&A. You're right in that Macca has indeed triggered a lot of discussion around painting styles. GW has the two styles, either Eavy Metal or FW, and these are two styles that developed over the last 30 years. There are many other styles though, and it does seem that at the moment the super high contrast styles are the only ones that get promoted; Golden Demon and Crystal Brush tend to favour these highly fantastical styles. I think maybe your subscribers might be interested to hear your take on the various other ways to paint, and at least finding out that there are other options. When I painted my first Imperial Guard tank, I was totally unaware that there were diffrerent styles, and I inadvertantly mixed styles together. I tried putting stark edge highlighting next to grunge and engine grease, and no surprises that it looked ridiculous. I value your opinions, and I'd love to hear your contribution to the discussion!

Vince, these videos are amazing... Wish I found them sooner when I started the hobby about 6 months ago, I'm learning and improving so much now. Keep up the amazing work.

Although you've touched on it in the past, it would be cool to see a video focusing on undershading using complimentary colour glazing, across a range of models/surfaces. Which combinations work best on which sorts of surfaces (skin, cloth, metals etc) Places you'd avoid this technique.....and so on.

You are such a great model painter and artist. Everytime I watch your content I get blowed away. Thanks for this. Started a Gitz army and am ready to gitz it.

As always, well presented. Great stuff

He's ready to go eat his enemies ra ra ra that part cracked me up 😁

Another great insight into getting great results quickly. One of your dog's was having a proper chobble in the background! :)

Great video, I especially like how vibrant the squig skin becomes after the Bloodletter glaze. Now that Bloodletter has been discontinued, what alternative can I use?

Amazing what a great idea.

M’y only comment would be that you should make an entire video on voicing different units 😬

i ve learned squiggies love their drybrushin 🤣

Nice he looks great and I'm getting ready to paint some squigs so awesome timing! Any tips on cave style basing? I've seen you do worked stone and concrete but don't recall anything cave related. I can do the paint but I cant decide on a good way to get a cave floor texture that reads right.

Nice. I like how the red glaze goes on over the wash, rather than washing over red, which dulls out the color. I’d like to try this method on my bloodletters.

Hi, While thinking about levels of saturation on a mini I wondered how would you aproach something that should resemble a black and white colourscheme (maybe like the Scale 75 Laurel and Hardy Bust although they are more sepia(-ish) than real black and white). Would that be an idea for an future video? As always a big thank you for your effeort bringing us every week a new awesome video!

Very helpful! Quick question: coule you simply airbrush your yellow and red glaze? For the green wash/shade, I feel airbrushing leaves less wash in the recesses.

Question instead of the usual black and white spray and a green wash, could you adapt the goblin tutorial and do a dark green spray, then a bone spray and finally a the drybrush with pale sand and then go straight to the red glaze or would the result be a bit too dark for it to look natural?

@complementary colours: i know, red and green result in brown. is that what you mean by desaturating red? using the green to make the shaded parts be more at the brown spectrum and have it appear as a darker red? @technique: tried that with a testmodel of mine an army painter red. did not turn out as expected. I'm either doing it wrong or the Army Painter paints are not made for this kind of mini painting... @squig: you touched the squig's nose with the brush, when painting the eyeballs. there's a white spot @11:46 near the eyesocket and the nose root.

Great video as always, Vince! What undershade would work better for skintones and bone colors? Namely I want to paint Godsworn Hunt but can't decide which variant will be better: 1) standard zenithal with some wash that is better suited for skin undershade; 2) same thing but also with some color shot underneath (green, red, brown, purple?); 3) warm zenithal with brounish wash; 4) some other variant that person without color theory knowledge (me) doesn't understand.

Hi Vince, any chance you're planning to do a speed painting Skaven video? Although I guess it's probably not much different to your army speed painting video so could be redundant.

Question lets say that instead midday my goblins and Squigs are fighting at midnight and instead of the sun its the full moon and the stars that is lighting the battlefield. would you use the same colors as here or perhaps maybe do a final glaze of blue or something like that?

Do you have a link to the other video you mentioned? You've got a lot and several of the titles look like they could be the one mentioned (one undercoating red with green).

Thanks Vince. Awesome video. It looks like you start with your standard zenithal highlight, is there a reason you didn't start with warm zenithal highlight (HC#123) and would that change the rest of the undershading process (i.e. green wash, yellow glaze)?

Hey Vince, about to get a big shipment of khorne daemons and will have lots of red to paint. Any tips on how to get a rich deep crimson colour? Not quite as vibrant but just slightly more towards the dark red/crimson/maroon spectrum?

Hey Vince. If you've got to paint a whole load of these fellas, why not do the bulk of them red entirely using the airbrush, much the same way as you did your Tzangores? You often talk about how much faster an airbrush can be, this seems like an ideal time to use it, since all of these colours can be airbrushed really quickly.

The squig looks hungry...I like it. :) Question: Why didn't you use the warm zenithal highlighting for the squig? Thank you as always!

If paints like the glazes from Citadel are OOP, do you preserve them just in case, or to do tend to use them until the pot is empty? I feel like you are the kind of person that would just use them whenever it feels like the right paint to you, but on the other hand you are also a content creator and OOP paints might come in handy someday.

So a magenta squig herd would require a brighter green as the undershade, correct? Would you still use lamenters yellow and pale sand for the other steps? Sorry, I'm a noob with colour theory.

thanks!!!