Hobby Cheating 192 - Speed Painting Base Coats (No Airbrush) 

I have found many of your videos useful to date. But you have no idea how much just clicked for me with this one. Thanks.

Even if you paint something awesome by accident, you still painted something awesome. I actually set aside the anxiety today and painted bravely.

“Geeeet outta here.” Lol, you’re the best, dude, always appreciate your candor and your kindness, man. Thank u for the hard work and effort you put into creating content for all us plebs. (We’re not all plebs, I know - only speaking for myself lol.)

A great video demo'ing just how fast a person can be and still get aspirational results, along with interesting commentary on the painting process vs what is considered the norm. Great timing on this upload as well, thanks vince!

Really inspiring video, thank you ! I'm struggling to have proper contrast on my minis and I feel your tutorials are a goldmine of information.

can't tell you how much these, and other paint videos have helped me. I'm still learning and trying to get better, but they've helped me understand what i need to work on. Thank you.

Hey man, thank you for providing this resource to use humble wargamers. You are a fantastic artist, and for you to make these and put on RU-vid is really amazing

Thank you Vince! bewteen this video and the PMP are helping me to learn a different way of painting other than the basecoat+washed+highlight , hopefully later this year I will be able to challenge myself to get more tools in the painting toolbox and get a different painted army under my belt. Very insightful and useful.

This would be more than enough to get my miniatures on table. I'll definitely give it a try. Thank you for this whole serie. :)

Thank you for showing how to paint on zenithal priming!!! This is an eye opener for me!

Hey :) I’m a recent subscriber, I love your videos. This one in particular really spoke to me; I’m back into painting minis after about 15 years away from the hobby, but I have spend a lot of time with traditional 2d art, and this type of technique is right up my alley. You paint beautifully and your teaching style is superb; can’t wait to experiment with this style. Thank you!

Vince! This video is extremely liberating. Thanks for showing that I don't need to always be fussing about every little thing. I may give this a whirl with some black armor.

This is excellent and fired me up. Cant wait to work on this method, thanks for sharing

This video spoke to me on so many levels. I think your comments on confidence and fear of laying on the paint really hit a note. I am glad I was finally able to find the time to watch some of your videos

Thank you for this! I have been trying to glaze a space marine I to a satin type armor. For days. This was the push I needed to stop worrying and have fun. I grabbed some warcolours marine 5 and 3 and did the shoulder pads. 10 minutes of work and it looks way better than what I had been doing. Most fun. I have had painting in awhile. Especially with warcolours. They have been a bit difficult to use. I went for it straight out of the bottle and it worked well. Thanks!

Wow very impressive and most useful "beginner" tutorial I've watched in a while! Sometimes it pays off to re-learn basics in a different way and this is all this video is about, thanks for the great tip!

Great video and such an invogorating approach. Will definitely try to implement this more into my own painting

This is a superb example of painting, "on the miniature" very inspirational stuff, thanks!

That was magic! You're a WIZARD Vince...

You are a hell of a teacher Vince, I've said it before, I have been painting models on and off for 40 years and I have learned more in the last 18 months watching you than at any other time, many thanks and keep up the amazing work.

If there is a limit to how much one person can blow your mind, Vince exceeds it without fear or hesitation, thank you Vince!

A revolutionary video to me, as a painter trapped in the GW layer style. I wonder how to free myself from those chains. Great work.

Will have to try this....BTW this is one of our most Bob Rossian video "You are the master of the model!" "There is no pity in this dojo"....Loved it!

I was hoping you'd get around to this eventually. I own an airbrush but since moving into an apartment that has walls thinner than tissue paper using it hasn't been an option, so having a method like this helps a lot!

Thanks for this video vince! The amount of time you did this in😂.. Also loved the "you are the master of the model, it does not master you". Have to put that on a paper and pin it to my wall😂

the most amazing thing about your video is that it actually works when you try it home :) I have been binge watching your quick tips and I can't thank you enough for your review of daler & rowney inks It ended a 25 years battle with white color

You are the master of the model..... outstanding attitude

I began using Zenithal as a guideline for my dark/light colors and only smooth the transitions. I only use shade paints for undersides and absolute shadows anymore. This seems like a more advanced methodology of mine. I'll try it out! cheers for your vids man.

Outstanding tutorial,you are great.many thanks

great video Vince. you mention trying to get people to feel less fear about trying these techniques but from my experience the issue was and is that spending a good amount of money on a "hero" model that we want to look good causes fear in the possibility of ruining the model. I have found that my best looking painted models are the ones that i got cheap and often didnt particularly enjoy painting. i lost the fear simply because they were cheaper/didnt care much for the model. For me the other part of dont fear the painting is trusting ones own ability and accept that the outcome may not be "great" but to learn from it. The cost of the models for me personally is a big influence on this as if the model didnt cost much i dont feel i have "wasted" much in learning and improving. keep up the great work as they are fantastic.

Great technique it conveys a lot to us experienced painters and new people.

Great tutorial! I use oils a lot and this is pretty much how I put down my initial layers!

The so-called 'base' painting you accomplish here, to me seems startlingly close to a fully layered paint scheme. A most impressive display!

This kind of epitomizes why I prefer the base shade highlight method: it's consistent and fairly objective. Your method looks great, probably better than anything I'll ever do, but it's very subjective and arbitrary. As a painter (and as a person in general) I thrive on reliable, mechanistic methods. For instance I have a recipe for my Custodes I really like. It's like a mathematical function that I can feed whatever I want into and be confident I'll like the result. This sort of method causes me to suffer a short circuit.

That was awesome. I’m a beginner painter and putting down the base layers is really hard as I mess it up and get paint on areas where it shouldn’t be. I will definitely be trying this. I did laugh when you said “I’m going a bit slower”. I don’t know how it would be possible to go any faster.

You are the Bob Ross of minipainting, Vince!

I like how you measure models in terms of their relative size to an orge. "This model is a 1.5 Larry. This model is a 2 Larry."

As someone who is coming in from pumpkin carving/sculpting I can absolutely relate to this style of painting. Sounds weird, but with pumpkin sculpting you get all of the different shades by shaving down at different depths. If you make a mistake, go too deep, you can't really correct it. The best option is to roll with it and keep moving, blending that mistake into your piece. Your wet blending style definitely caters to this ideaology, and the results are great.

"Stop painting everything 4 times". I learned to wetblend on one of your vids some time ago. Great effect and fast. Through some force of habit I keep going back to basecoating and thin layers. Then a fig takes forever, and I get frustrated, AND it doesn't look as good as the wetblended fig. I know this is probably a repeat topic for you, but thanks for posting. Great reminder to 'paint without fear' and learn from the screwups.

started not so long ago painting like this after watching a similar video with sam lenz and holy balls this was a game changer for me

Great video, I really enjoyed it. I just tried this on a cloak, and to be honest, I screwed it up pretty bad haha. Some parts I wanted to be lighter stayed dark and some dark areas became much lighter than I intended. I'm a relatively new painter, so this is nothing new for me. I really like the concept of this style of painting though, and I will be able to do it well one day :)

This looks much more fun than the old prime with airbrush, base coat with airbrush, apply the wash, tidy up after wash and then edge highlights and details which is the typical procedure with space marines painting. In fact it would be great to see someone do this style of painting on a space marine; if Bruce Lee did miniatures painting this is exactly the style of painting he would employ.

I wish I had learned this sooner. It’s hard to unlearn things that have become habit

Thanks for this great video, this is exactly what I'm trying to learn and this helps a lot.

One thing I noticed that wasn’t verbalized (yet obvious) is having your paints on the pallet BEFORE starting. My analysis paralysis kicks in with “what should I use now” that slows me down. Embrace the Bob Ross spirit!

This is profound and I will try to see if I can find back to it: 24:00 - 24:13. Finding back to where one just paints and see what happens. Focus on the journey not the end. If every brush stroke must be perfect then one gets nowhere. Relax and enjoy the ride. I will try and take this with me.

HAAAA really "their arnt any contrast paints on the market, maybe when your watching" gd man did you ever nail that one!! ps this is the best way of painting ive ever seen, going to have to try this now

This video is EXACTLY what I needed! Thanks Vince! I have one question: I finished up a Keeper of Secrets today and the large draping cloth was very difficult to paint without leaving brushstrokes. After adding additive, the paint would run even when I only added enough for the paint to level. Any tips?

I love You(-r approach)!

This should be in the beginners playlist

tried it yesterday on a small model and holy fuck, this changed everything o.0 thank you so much

This is so cool! absolutely gonna try this out with the night haunt im working on atm. would you use a similar technique for nmm?

"Here, in the studio, in competitions, if a paint job can master you, then it is the enemy. An enemy deserves no mercy. FINISH IT!"

Moin! An awesome Video, thanks for that. But this is an hard and difficult Video. Most off the showing techniques, i didnt learned at all. I think i will use the "traditionel way" to paint my miniatures. And in a few years, maybe, i can try this ;). Grettings Ruberius

This is awesome and just what I needed! I started the hobby when AOS first launched but have barely painted because psyched myself out too much. I finally got an airbrush and am having fun with it and have the painting bug. Helps kill every stroke has to be so perfect and right approach. Thanks for this! Also what is the color/brand of blue you used on the loin cloth part of the leg fabric?

I'm an inexperienced painter (of any medium), but got out the paints to get a couple minis ready for a board game. I tend to watch too many videos and psych myself out before painting. I stumbled across this video and figured I'd give it a shot. I'm only 30 min into my mini, but I'm very pleased with the results. And it was the most fun I've had painting because it felt so much more relaxed with quicker results. Thank for a great video. Question: Could you use this style for painting metallic/sci-fi armor? Would you change anything up for more organic or softer materials (flesh, cloth, wood, etc) versus like colder, harder materials like metal? I hope that makes sense.

This tutorial boggles my mind. It's a lesson you'd give to someone starting from zero. But it involves a mix of feathering, wet blending, and other tricky techniques applied in rapid succession based on snap judgment. I've been painting for a few months, am not great at blending, and this looks like magic to me. Is this like watching a kid carry a conversation in French? Would I be a master blender if I'd started off just pulling colors into each others without much regard for how to put them together?

If I were to do this with Vallejo Model Color would it be adviseable to add a drop of Vallejo Model Color Dryretarder to each drop of paint? VMC dries quite fast on me but I'd rather not have to go on out and buy a new paint range as I already have a lot of VMC.

Great video. Very informative. Need to ask though, it almost sounds like you are reshaping the tip with your mouth, is that correct? If so are you worried about paint residue? If not, without wetting the brush, how do you keep a sharp point?

Hi Vince, any follow ups planned to this video? Like next steps after the wet blend basecoat? I discovered I really love wetblending and these paints and recently picked up the entire pro acryl line. So far I've been pretty happy with what I've done so far, but am curious what your preferred method of finishing this style of model is

Vince, I enjoyed as usual. I have some advice and I want to ask you for a favor. First the advise: do you have any idea of the time, engineering, and money was used in the design of a beer bottle. How comfortable it feels to hold in your hand is no accident. I epoxy the top back on the bottle and attach models with a drop of ca glue. A blade tip pops it of when done painting. The favor: could you please do a video on painting glowing coals and fire/flames? Thank you!

Im very interested in such technique of painting, but is it possible to achive such effect with gw or vallejo paints? I remember that they dry kinda diffetently and afraid to pull coat of unfinished paint with new strokes of brush in attemts to achive blends.

Question i have previously seen your snow tutorial. But i wanted to know lets say you wanted to make a diorama where maybe either a caravan or a line of people where walking through deep snow the kind that´s halfway up your shin to close to your knees, in the middle of winter. How would you create the effect of deep snow, i am especially thinking of the waves and ripples we usually see in deep snow. And what of the trench, holes? the part of the snow where the people have already walked? I could imagine it might be using some foam and either cut some holes in it or a squire trench and then apply the snowmixture with an old brush? But i don´t know.. Also since we are dealing with a lot of white here would it make the diorama more interesting to maybe add some black...ish rocks or something like that is to simulate a large rock or something poking through the snow?

Thanks for the video. I try to transition from the gw method. When youbuse shades?

Ok, if there was a religious experience tied to a painting revelation, this was as close as it comes for me :) I love your ongoing series. The single biggest factor in improving my meager painting skills. Quick Q; What are you using for the wet pallet?

Hey Vince! I just wanted to let you know that of all you're videos this one has had the greatest impact on me. I would love if you could make a new video that reiterates the themes of this video.

Hi Vince, I've been considering Proacryl but already own scale 75 paints, is there enough difference to make it worth trying them? I live in UK and have been reluctant to ship from US.

The mechanics of this method are fast and easy I agree but the knowledge level is high. You must know about shadows, highlights, gradients and you must have experience in painting to know how to blend it together from a color theory standpoint. You did put black in the right spots of the skin to simulate the shadows of his muscles and lighter tones at the right positions where an above light source would reflect from. You know where the colors need to have hard edges separating them and where a smooth transition is right. How on earth would you know that if you were just starting out painting models? You either need talent, a good instructor or experience. Without any of those this method will fail a new painter horrendously.

Thanks for the video. Will try this out but it seems quite hard. Practice makes perfect I guess :) Is this a method you would use if you where speed painting a unit of say 12 models at the same time? Or would you just paint them one by one?

This is really great, thanks for the tutorial, I have a question though and I have searched through a million comments below and not found the answer but what is this model? I'm new to wargaming.

Hey Vince, I'm a little late to the party but as a fairly-new painter this video was basically a painting epiphany for me. What you did was basecoat a model 3x larger than any of my models in 20 minutes and it looks better with nicer contrast than any of my finished models that take me several hours. Consider my mind blown. Thank you for doing this video (and all your others). I do have a few quick questions about the rest of your painting process though. Since your base coat basically took you 20 minutes, how much more time would you generally spend during the refining phase? This was a character model, so I imagine much longer than normal. How about if it were just tabletop quality, or just a generic guardsman etc.? Your completed basecoat already looked great to me so what are you spending most of your time refining (beyond smoothing out blends with glazes)? It's just hard for me to visualize since your completed basecoat already looks nicer than my finished models. Thank you again. I'm watching the video again so it will really sink in.

So after that you would do like, glazes to smooth out transtiitons and such?

Hey Vince. I tried this approach - very fun! I found it tricky to make the lightest colours look smooth - "gaps" started appearing in the paint, and after I could see a sort of texture in the paint from brush strokes. Any tips? Cheers. I was mainly using F&G colours, highlight was Moonray flesh over Cokum Copper.

Hey Vince! A bit of a silly question ; but is there any occasion in which you don’t zenithal prime your minis?

again vince knocks it out of the park with a fanstastic video. One question tho, is there a way to get such a good zenithal prime without an airbrush? :/ ive tried the drybrush method but its not great.

Are vallejo model colour paints of suitable thickness to use this technique? You say it needs to be thicker than usual but I dont know what usual is. I understand its difficult to describe paint consistency, but do you have a picture of perhaps, some painted lines over a piece of paper with black text so we can see the translucency and "runny-ness" of the paint? Thanks Vince. Eager to give this a try, probably over a wolf or a bear first.

Great video as always! Do you think you could do this on a vehicle with large flat surfaces, like a tank?

Did I hear more sass than usual? :p I've been sorta bumbling towards this lately. Good to have some helpful reference material as I stumble onwards.

Thanks for sharing. It bears similarities with the style of Jeremie Bonament Teboul. If you have seen his DVD tutorials, what did you think if them? Keep fighting the grey, you are very inspirational.

I'm a beginner. Do you have the initial steps on how you primered it? It looks like you did a cool shadow effect before you began this video with basecoating. Great work, very impressive!

Wtf I love this style of painting flesh

What did you use for the deeper blue on the cloak? It seemed like an ink almost

Amazing work! But where did you get that devil mini?! Love the design.

Is the idea behind wiping the brush on the towel to make sure the paint doesn't get thin by cleaning the brush with water? How fast will this wear out your brush?

If we are not licking the brush should we be cleaning it at those points?

Which paint brand do you recommend taste-wise? Love your videos!

Hey Vince, IIRC you've mentioned in your Product Reviews earlier that you would recommend new painters to start with something like Vallejo or Army Painter over something like Warcolors or Scale 75, which are a bit more difficult to use. Did you change your opinion?

Assuming I have only painted the 'traditional' way, can you think of a good model to practice this style of painting on? Also, what does 'pulling up' the paint mean?

Finally figured it out. You sound like Hiccup from how to train your dragon

How much are your paints thinned in this video? If they are even thinned at all, I see lots of people use the drops straight from the pot. But then I question whether they pre-thinned them in the pot.

So don't thin the paints at all? Or is it brand dependent?

The more I watch these, the more I realize my next supply run will involve shopping around for better brushes.

Welp that seem intimidating. Might try it on the sigmar banshes with all that cloth.

For now I've only been using citadel colours and even with retarder they dry way too fast on the miniature. Guess the dry air in a heated room in winter doesn't help either.

This one is a real eye opener...

Do you use this technique on your smaller models as well?

Amazing video Vince!! I believe this one is my favorite so far, keep posting more about this technique please!! i remember a dvd i saw long time ago from Jeremie Bonamant , he wetblended in a similar way than you did, did you by chance learned this technique in one of his workshops? i ask because i never learned it completely from his dvd, and your video is more detailed. Please keep posting more :)

Cracking content as usual vince. Also , where did the pmp community go ?

Would you use this technique for comp? It looks great for busting out troops.

How does this style of painting apply to a space marine and armor.