How to Paint Your Army in a WEEKEND! 

Thank you everyone for the amazing support! To address a question I’m getting a lot: No, I don’t varnish before or after the enamels or oils steps. I’ve not had any issues with them pulling up acrylics, separating, or flowing correctly. You certainly can do this, but I’ve never found a need 👍

I love that these people's "speed painting" experiments look 10x better than my laboriously long 2 year army project.

11:08 Wait wait wait... Skeletons KILL people?!?! I've got one of those hanging out inside me!!!

Meanwhile at the Scott's secret base: "How to Fail Horribly in 2 days. And more"

Dude, what a responsible comment about your spouse and their consent to such a time investment. Major respect!

"I have been feeding myself a steady diet of lies" Step 1 is the most important step!

Imagine how Scott feels right now

Jon: Includes Tendies. Scott: Doesn't include Tendies. Jon: creates a visually stunning fully painted army. Scott: has some base-coating done. COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT

This is truly the only speedpaint vid on the internet that matters. You planned, adjusted for problems, and had extra steps at the ready to improve the look of the models if you had the time. This is a fantastic front to back on how speedpainting should be done

Love the enamels! Great vid Jon!

My wife locks me in the basement and makes me paint her models. I can't get mine painted. :(

Dude not only did you completely destroy miniac, your army looks masterfully and painstakingly done rather than a speed paint. Liked. Subbed. Favorited. And will also likely steal this scheme.

“We need to get this thing done” Followed immediately by a Durex ad. Noice.

I usually associate streaking grim and rust effects with the "grim dark" / "blanchetsu"(sp?) Style and a majority of the time everything feels over desaturated. However, I love the pops of green you put over everything and how you went through to bring back highlights. In my opinion you got the grim dark, with the magical and did it all in methodical time frame. A+, your army is better than scotts :)

"Why spend time making more mistakes?" and that's why my figures are still not painted!

That sax is going to haunt my dreams

I really like that step one was to talk with your partner - it's considerate and shows priorities to aspects of life outside the hobby

I've watched this video around 4 times while I'm painting my Fyreslayers and its been really helpful and motivating. The music ain't half bad either.

Speaking as someone who's just been getting into miniatures and painting over the past year, watching your process in this video has been catalytic. Your approach is orderly while at the same time allowing lots of stopping for self-critique and dynamic adaptation. I think the real gold, though, is in the range and ease of technique you demonstrate. You cover tricks for metallics, blood, glows, basing, weathering, and highlighting, and none of it requires any intimidating brushwork or setup. Fantastic job; I'm keeping my eye on you. :)

That turquoise oil was a pro gamer move.

"Or make a sculpture of vin diesel out of ham" Liked. "Step 1: I got approval from my wife" Subscribed.

Looks sick my dude!!!! Now you just have to play~ Would love to see you and Scott throw down on some Warhammer!

I honestly can't believe you've never painted a full army before because this was easily one of the best speed painting videos and more importantly, speed painting results, I've seen

This is my first ever Ninjon video and I am ALL IN!

The army looks so good, damn! Those teal oil accents are amazing!

The real lesson here is that what Scott needed to master most in fact isn't PAINTING, it's TIME MANAGEMENT, and PREP.

I’ve watched this at least 10 times in 2 days...10 years in the hobby and you can still learn so much. Subscribed, thank you for a massive inspiration boost.

Hey Jon I just wanted to reach out with my appreciation. I used many of these techniques to paint a bonereapers army in a weekend and made top five in best painting voting at a GT with an army I assembled & painted in under a week. Tremendous video and I wish you continued success

I recently started using the Streaking Grime + spirit reduction technique and it's such a game changer. It feels like the mini painting scene is still largely fixated on acrylics so it's always nice to see people with a platform spread the word about enamels and oils. I can't paint without them now.

I watched this before Miniac's video, you're welcome :D

Sculpting Vin Diesel out of ham sounds like a fun job! 😁😂🤣😁

That fluorecent green glow looks absolutely amazing!

The end made me laugh so hard :D

Damn, that is a hell of a paint job for two days.

That white paint and airbrush for a glow effect is a great hack.

Bone and glowing green were excellent choices for a speed paint ,their very forgiving.

What an amazing looking army! I defenitly understand the feeling of a completed army. I used to buy secind and Tyranids again and again never taking the time to paint them, before I knew it I had 12 000 points of unpainted bugs. I used the qurantine time in my area to paint that whole thing to a standard that was pleasing to me in a good three weeks of 10 hours painting a day. X.x

70+ Models in 3 days looking better than my 1 Model in 3 days

That streaking grime had a fantastic effect! Great job Jon.

You know, there would have been a cheat code for this, Jon. "Custodes"

Vince Venturella: 2000points? Hold my beer

Man, your vids are not popping on my damn feed! Now with that said, I'm posting only 6 minutes into the video to say that I need 2 days of mental prep work just to be able to not lose my time going into places hard to reach. Just that takes an incredible amount of my army painting time, and I know is just a mental barrier, but boy is it hard for me to not care about that xD Aaand I finished the video, so I'm gonna finish the comment. I was thinking that just 2 days for all that was too much (I don't know if even the great Vince can pull this kind of thing off too often) but hell, you did it man, and I think that you hit the spot with the final washes of crimson and camoshade, and also the bright osl gems and the blood effects. It is exactly as you said, it adds up more tonal variation and life to the usually "flatter" speedpaints. Amazing job, for real.

I love the bugman’s glow cloth it looks awesome

Watching the oil spread out was so satisfying, especially in recessed areas, like it was painting itself.

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Whats this music? I really enjoyed it fits perfectly to some painting!

dude that army looks absolutely mega! The air brush was clutch for the glow, which really made it pop

12:40 I like to think that jon is just drinking the pickle juice behind him for sustenance

"I don't make mistakes, I just use more secret techniques"

"I bet his army is like 7 models", heeeeeee, you are not far :) Your facecam looked really clean, is that a green screen behind you or is the camera like 20 cm away from your face ?

That blood splat trick was pretty sweet

I like the no-nonsense approach he uses.

Where'd you get those paint racks? Been seeing a lot ones MDF ones, but I wanted something tall like yours.

ELECTRONS!!! Just wanted to be the first negative comment on this video!

1 year later and this video still gets me super hyped to get to batch/army painting

Step 1 spoke directly to my soul

"I had all of quarantine to paint my army but I did it in 2 days cause reasons"

Two things: Starting with the positive, man it was satisfying watching your video after Miniacs pathetic attempt at sploshing red and silver over his models! ;) The green effect really tied everything together, and each step after that was just icing on the cake for me. To the bad/neutral stuff: The seperated left/right audio in the skit didn't really work for me (i'm on headphones), it might make more sense if both people were shown on the screen at the same time? I appreciate the effort to split the audio, but I feel the regular output would be sufficient! But eh, it was short, so didn't ruin anything for me. :-)

He takes the Citadel color and moves it to a dropper bottle. I love this guy. This is what everyone should be doing.

I dont think Ive hated the models or style of any AOS army more since they came out than I have with the Bonereapers, but these.... these made my downstairs all tingly. what a paintjob.

Cool and since we re boycotting AK interactive from now on, all we need is a good alternative to streaking grime...

How to paint your army in a weekend: Step 1: don't. Step 2: enjoy the process. Step 3: do your research. step 4: thin yo paints. step 5: take your time. step 6: clean yo brushes.

Wow, this colour scheme with the green light effect looks really good.

What a baller! Painting this many models to this standard is pretty significant!

Every single one of these were amazing! I love the big juggernaut skele boy!!!!

Every time I see Ninjon's intro I imagine that he knocks over the exact same bottles of paint every time he starts.

I am very glad Scott suggested this video, it was great!

FINALLY. A RU-vidr who paints how I paint. You’ve earned a sub, friendo.

holy crap those minis look INCREDIBALLS!!!!!

I love that as you tell us to not flood the model, you fold the model. Makes the video more enjoyable and definitely is something you should lean into.

Grandchildren in 40 years: Fu*ing Legend!

Funny thing is for most Armies 2000 Points is several dozen Models, meanwhile the Bigboi Titan Owners are chuckling(to hide the pain of buying a $500 Chicken-Dog-Walker) at us because for them it's somewhere around 1-12 Models

Dude you're so freaking good at this. I've been painting for about a year and everything I saw here was new

SLAY the GRAY!!!! this should be your motto!

That oil tip. Absolutely majestic. Also great choice on that background music. Keep churning out content!

This has quickly become my favorite painting channel hahaha

This has become my new favourite YT channel. I’ve learned so much watching this and most of the stuff are things I feel I can learn to do myself.

I've never watched a video that makes me want to diversify my paint collection with not just different brands, but different kinds of paints more than this!

The glowing gems are really amazing. Same as the Bone-tithe Nexus you did.

Love the Streaking Grime!

This army looks fantastic. I watch a lot of Ninjon videos, and sometimes I don't love the different big batch paint jobs, but this looks so great! Watching the oil paint run into the crevices was so satisfying, the blood effect looks so good, and the green pop brings it all together so well!

The bones ....Just...it looks so simple and still is better than anything i could achieve 😳😲

Jon give yourself a pat on the back.. incredible work !

i thought it was super nice of you and very heart warming, that you gave that little chicken a brief cameo and shout out in this one. kudos on the video and they proper shout out to you chicken tenddies.

Step 1 is the most important. Love it!

Epic looking army

Man what an undertaking. I'm painting my Old Dominion army right now. Spent four days and only painted 27 models. No where near to the level of his result either. I'm so spent and still have a slew of gray to finish.

@4:32 Duncan Rhodes sheds two thin coats of tears!

SLAY THE GRAY! Sick title for Army paint challenges!!!

Mate, as always, you are Clean, scientific, Methodical. U bring the science to this, time n motion, fluid , i could rant all day, u are capo de tutti cappo! Much love mate.

I can’t believe this video is almost 1 year old!!!! Great job jon !!!!

Thanks Jon! This MIGHT just make me open up that box full of greys this weekend...

Holy shit that turquoise oiling technique is a game changer.

Not sure if you'll see this Ninjon but I much appreciate the song Vampire you are playing in this vid. Its been my background noise for when I'm building/painting models in 40k since starting last year. I never get tired of it honestly haha

It's cool how many of these special "tricks" are basic stuff used on Gundams. I don't even do minis but I've really gotten into mini videos because I think there's a lot of techniques that can cross over between the two hobbies that usually doesn't.

Oh don't mind me I'm just here for the fourth time watching this video just marveling at how badass your army is.

Best painting video I think I’ve ever seen

Ok, that was just the pep talk I needed. I'm gonna finish those Blood Knights

3 Videos in, and he already slayed the Miniac! Welcome to RU-vid man, great video, can't wait to see more of your content.

that oil paint idea. I love it.