How to improve your Miniatures in 50 seconds! 

I really love this series of videos where you breakdown steps you would take to “take the mini to the next level.” A lot of us newbies feel stuck as beginners and it’s nice to see simple things to focus on to improve. Thanks for what you do.

Digitally painting over the photo is so helpful and I've not seen anyone else do that

This video is great - even when seeing someone paint a good looking mini and having some knowledge from those more theory focused videos, it's really easy for someone learning how to paint to fall into this trap, where you are convinced you've followed the steps or general idea right, yet the mini looks underwhelming. What you are at this point, it's really hard to identify what might be the real problem and why the mini doesn't look as good as something another person painted. Your video illustrates the problem by upgrading it with a simple step of edge highlighting showing the best placement for those lines - after seeing that instead of all of this hazy mumbo jumbo of not knowing what went wrong, the mind just clears up. Thanks man, as always!

Man, Trovarion, you have been SLAYING it with the content lately -- I really appreciate all your hard work and hustle to push out and bring us content that we want/need and EVEN moreso content we didn't know we needed/wanted. KEEP IT GOING MAN!!!

Just finished my first miniature. Your videos are extremely helpful

Make it into a watermelon got it.

Initially I thought the original looked better but in the thumbnail your repaint looks much better, so I guess the scale matters :p

Chris I just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work and inspiration. I'm grateful for all the amazing content, and I'm looking forward to learning more from you. I recently subbed to your Patreon, and I'm happy to support where I can. I can imagine the youtube content career is tough but no matter what I've got nothing but love, admiration and support for you homie!!

Even if you did the improvements you gotta agree it already looked awsome

Yknow while that would look great on table top where contrast is exceptionally important, I would say though in this example your changes are EXTREMELY gaudy up close. But that's an important truth to know. Somethings simply look better from further away.

Wow! Super helpful

Edge highlights are the best way of ruining Ur realism, as soon as U add them they automatically look like a plastic action figure. I think they should only be used on areas which actually would have them in real life

hey i love ypu videos and the've really helped alot of us mini hobbyists! hope i can win a golden deamon like you someday! so inspirational!

Personally I think the original example looks best

i thought it could benefit from more blending. as it is now, it looks as though the paints werent even thinned.

It looks better without the edge highlights, in my opinion. I don't understand the fascination of highlighting every single panel edge.

I'm going to be real with you, your version looks way worse, what would have been better is if you watered down a mix of the black and the colour, glazed over the respective areas and then drybrushed the edges with some form of silver or gunmetal metallic.

I would’ve changed the black and purple to be more of a smooth transition

Edge highlighting every edge on space marines is horrible

tbh I don't think making everything super reflective makes it better. Sure you show of you skill more but marine armor is not suppose to be made out of aluminium. To each their own I guess

What is the longer video that this clip is from?

Which video is this clip taken from? I wanted to share it but feel like this is too abridged

Why are people not dry brushing highlights. The painted highlights looks painted not like reflections. 🤔

not second

and blue?

r/yesyesyesno

taking original gw plastic would also help. those bubbles are terrible

Makes it worse xd

not even 50 minutes

you were right about the edge highlights but when you re did all the surface highlights on the green you kinda ruined it