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I know it is probably a noob question, but would love to see a video on how you take care of your brushes and make them last. Love the content man. Congrats on the growth this last year. Sorry to hear about your mum, but I’m sure she’d be proud knowing the enjoyment you bring to others with you content. Be blessed dude.
All questions are good questions. Never stop asking questions 👍 In terms of brushes, care etc Give this a watch ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-chBHaXh8iko.htmlsi=dg7h_7Vw4Vp403CQ
Great video - very methodical and well explained as always. I love these technique and recipe videos, it's a great way of finding things that I want to do or improve in my own projects. Things that I would find useful are faces, robes, flesh and weathering (organic stuff rather than battle damaged armour) - they're all things I need to do more of to improve! I'm thinking of doing some Ogor Gluttons as a side project to do just that.
Can’t promise I’ll be able to paint a Belisarius Cawl but I have got an Adeptus Mechanicus video, which has all the recipes I’d use to paint Belisarius, so please give that a watch ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yyDoQOnSTA0.html
I agree with @elijahmccain6862 a video about brush care and fixing split/hooked brushes would be awsome. Your videos are great man. Been such a big help already. Also love both long and short videos.
Thanks for taking the time to comment I do have a video which covers a lot of the basics on brush care and use which I think you'd find useful ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-chBHaXh8iko.html Look forward to hearing what you think to it
Do you have any tips for painting a brass cap badge on a Napoleonic shako cap? There’s very little moulded detail on my minis, and a blob of brass/gold on the black cap just looks like a blob of paint. Edge-lining with silver may help a little, but what colour is best to paint in some detail so the badge looks three-dimensional? Umber, Sienna, Black?
So, brass doesn't rust as it has no iron. Aged brass would become darker and develop blackening due to it's copper content oxidizing. So, I think the answer you're after is you would want to darken the recipe down and use a black wash instead of brown and not use the silver to brighten things but instead start with a darker brass tone to begin with
Find it quite difficult to paint with metals. The paint quickly becomes goopy and clogs the brush, and worse still, fills the details on the model. I’ve tried thinning with water, thinners, matt medium, etc, but nothing helps. Any hints appreciated.
You're not alone, it's a problem a lot of people have. When painting with metallics I find I need to increase the level of rinsing I do on my brush and the level of attention I give to the paint on my palette. What I mean by that is, as you've found the paint can become gloopy especially when you try and thin it down. That's because by thinning it down you've given the metal flecks more liquid to move around in. This is great for getting it smooth onto your mini, but on your palette, what it's doing is sinking to the bottom all the time and clumping up. So, you need to keep remixing it together to prevent this from happening and regularly flushing your brush so you're always working with the paint at its optimum. Another big factor is the brand of paint. Not all metallics are the same, far from it. The best overall brand for metallics I've found is Darkstar Minis. The main difference they have is the size of metal flecks in the paint. They are tiny. This helps hugely and makes them much easier to work with. They are lighter so they dont constantly want to sink and clump and that lightness means they distribute more evenly when you paint them on your mini. That smaller fleck is also more in scale with the min, meaning the result looks smoother and more shiny. As an added bonus, the bottles come with aggerators included, which makes mixing them much easier. One last thing, steer clear of craft paint metallics while you're learning. They are not meant for mini painting and have all the opposite characteristics of the Darkstar paints I've just described. Oh, finally. Use a wet palette. A lot of people will tell you cant / shouldnt use metallics on a wet palette. But thats nonsense. It really helps. Hopefully that helps a bit. If you need more help, feel free to message me on my socials
Thanks for the long response! Yes, I made the mistake of buying craft silver and copper: both are utterly hopeless for minis. I have a Daler-Rowney gold ink which is rather nice, but it congeals on the brush within minutes. Another favourite is Citadel Leadbelcher, which I use for gunmetal parts, but it’s as thick as treacle. Guess I’ll have to start using my wet palette again, especially now that the winter heating dries out the air so much.
@@sirrathersplendid4825I really love using the Vallejo metal color paints if you can get them...they're a bit pricey but I've used loads of different metallics and those are by far my absolute favorite
They are both bright silvers and pewter would certainly work great for this recipe if you don’t want to go and buy yet another paint (which I totally get) but Vallejo chrome is like no other silver paint. it’s so shiny and fluid, it’s crazy. You could use chrome to highlight pewter basically
Realized my primed Necrons were all primed with RB. Should I use some black templar or something on the bits that need to stay black before I follow this guide for the actual brass bits?
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides ho my apologies, i did search but i think i passed it, my bad. Thanks, you are awesome! Please continue to make videos 👍 (Edit: but will you make one about plasma gun coils specificly with your technique?)
@@Red.Diffraction.Studio ah, I see what you mean now. Yeah, I think I have some minis coming up which have plasma coils, so I’ll be sure to include the steps for it 👍
Love the video! I think having shorter videos is nice because I can watch it all at once instead of multiple trips. Great job on the video by the way! Keep it up! 👍(Would also love to see a glow effect tutorial)
Thank you. You’ll be pleased to hear there is a video in progress for painting the glow effect in three different colours. This blue, a green and a red. So hit that subscribe button and the bell and you’ll get told when it’s been posted 👍
The honest answer is it’s what I had to hand. But yeah, you’re right 40K minis on thumbnails gets clicks Still, it’s a great recipe and I use it all the time
❤❤❤ All your videos are not only educational but mesmerizing to watch you work. Each video I see more and more on how you work color theory, mixology, and approach to lighting. I've taken zero art classes, yet I feel more then prepared to paint my first army to a standard well past not embarrassing myself and towards being excited and proud of the minis. Love the 10 minute form. Mixology for hard colors is 11\7. Would be interested in a video to add to your hobby fundamentals of the color wheel and how to work it. What mixes with what. How to avoid making every mix brown 😄😄😄
Thank you for taking the time to comment🙏 I’m so glad you’re enjoying the channel and finding the videos useful. I’m especially pleased to hear you find my videos make you feel you can do it too. That’s what I really want this channel to be about, making mini painting less scary and daunting and making people feel “I can do that” 🙂 The colour theory / colour wheel video is a great suggestion and I’ll see what I can do. Have a wonderful New Year. And I hope you’ll keep watching through 2024? 👍
Thank you There is a glow video coming which will show how to do this glow in three different colours. So, make sure you’re subbed and click the bell to be told when that is posted 👍
Nicely done James. I find brush painting, very relaxing. I am not in a hurry and the models I build are for my enjoyment. I do give some away to great grandson's for birthdays.
I was actually a little worried 11 minutes was too much for just a single colour, but it's good to hear it wasn't. Always leave them wanting more, right? 🤣
Amazing Video, als always. I like your methodical descriptions and the inclusion of the references to the techniques at the beginning of your videos. I was hoping to get some details on how you did the glow. Are you going to upload a video on that as well?
Thanks for watching. Regarding the glow, yes absolutely! This brass video is the first in a series of 3 metal recipes; Brass, Aged Steel and Rich Gold all of which I've painted on Necrons. Each Necron also having a different glow colour - Blue, Green and Red. A video showing how to paint all three glow colours will then follow
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides thanks for taking the time to answer! I’m looking forward to these videos! Please keep your style of videos. Entertaining, educational and just great to watch.
