Optimized! My Favorite Speedpaint Technique. 

The test mini was sculpted by Loot! Get him as a free STL file and check out the rest of the Journey to Nidavellir collection: bit.ly/JTN-Goober

Brent is the only person in the mini hobby who can say "You'll see... You'll ALL see!" without it sounding inherently ominous.

I have to say this slapchop method has brought me back to life as a painter. I have had piles and piles of unpainted grey minis taking up my closet for years because I just havent had time to give them all a "table top ready" paint job. But now with these speed paints I can spray paint a few minis I want to do before work, come home and actually paint 2-3 minis a night before bed and be satisfied with how they look. I am in love.

As a beginner painter, your channel is pure gold! Great video 🙂

Brent is the Bob Ross of mini painting. All the best from the UK.

Your clinical approach and personable demeanor always make your videos so therapeutic… and the feline proclivities are just too relatable 😂

I’m amazed how many new tips I learned from a single video

Your videos are healthy for my mind. Straight up. "Spending some extra time on the undercoat can really pay off." I really need to apply this the next time I get the paints out again.

I love the technical side of painting that you do in videos, its great to see all the variations in everything that can be done and the slap chop technique has given me a great confidence and love for painting miniatures. That miniature you painted is quite the handsome guy, i just cant figure out where I have seen him before 🙂

New Goobertown! Everything’s coming up Milhouse!

I really appreciate how thoroughly you test things. You've combined what most would make as 4 or 5 videos into one concise video, with enough detail for people to make informed decisions to suit their individual model's needs. You scienced our hobby again.

This video is so incredibly valuable to new hobby painters. You've saved me a TON of time, money and effort here. Thank you!

I applaud your video making skills and antics. Your ability to retain your trademark smile while slowly glancing over at your car cleaning their nether regions, and not breaking timing was pure gold.

I've only painted minis once in my life and this is inspirational. You make an impossible looking hobby so accessible. Thank you so much, I'm really looking forward to getting painting.

Really like the Army Painter speedpaint. The reactivation that everyone seems to complain about is its biggest plus side. Speedpaint then go over highlights with a thin white paint. The reactivation colours the white and looks great. Do it again on the highest highlights and it works again. Great results.

I am starting my journey into painting this week. You videos have been so much help in finding a starting place and what to do. I enjoy how you not only show us how to do something but also go slow enough to see what you are doing and the result of the technique you are applying. Thanks for the inspiration.

Great video! I've been doing some of my own tests and I've personally found the prime color to be the most important. You can change the entire tone and feel of a mini by using a colored primer. The "problem" with a black prime is that is sucks out the saturation of color, and really muddies some colors. For my Imperial Fists I've started using a pink prime, followed by a cream zenithal, a white drybrush, and then a contrast paint, and it's the fastest I've ever been able to get a decent looking lemon boy on the table. I think I would use brown primer for anything I wanted to have a "natural" look to them, a dark blue for any cold color scheme models, and either a magenta or dark red (depending on how bright I want the value of the end model) for anything I want to be a warm color scheme.

This is a neat way to undercoat. Especially since I don't really like how zenithals come out. Here is the method I have been playing with: 1. Prime grey 2. Black wash to add shadows 3. Dry brush white

You've done us all a great service with this extensive experimentation. I know how laborious it can be to cycle through different pigments and methods while cataloguing everything. Thank you so much.

I love the brown and tan undercoats. I feel like it changed whole look.

The amount of work you put into your videos blows me away.

A person probably needs to watch this a couple times to really decide what's best for them, but WOW, what a great in-depth analysis. Really the best I have seen looking at the dry brush method. KUDOS dude, a real winner of a video, thanks!

Dude, your presentation and facial expressions are amazing. I'm cautiously taking my first steps into mini painting and your channel just resonates down to my soul. You're so cool! Thanks for all your wonderful videos

This is the best video ever about how to prime the best way to paint with contrast or speedpaint ❤️❤️

I've watched a ton of painting videos on TY, but this one was totally stunning. Excellent, easy-to-read visuals, a good shot of gentle humour, and an absolute ton of useful information. Thank you SO MUCH! Goobertown Hobbies is going to be a new go-to, right next to Sorastro.

Clear, simple instruction. You sir, win the internet. Thank you.

This is a truly OUTSTANDING video! I taught art for over two decades, and this is about as good as it gets. I love how you cover all of the options, then recap what you've learned. I'll be checking out more of your videos!

The writing and facial expressions were on point for this video! Thanks for the fun, Brent!

Respect on your methodical approach. 'Now for me, your reputation is not from gossip… your reputation is fact. Is solid.'

"You'll see you'll all see" You got me hooked on speedpaint and now I'm gonna flip out when more is released and I'm gonna go OH OH MY GOD

I enjoy how relaxing your videos are while still maintaining an educational quality to them for the hobby. Always an inspiration!

Very helpful, thank you Brent. If I could only watch one mini painting channel it might be yours for the mix of helpful information and positive vibes. Oh and you've convinced me on grey step

Video's where you test stuff, like in this one, are my favorite!

I really quite appreciate your systematic approach to experimenting with the different undercoats, and the clear way in which you present the process and your findings. Thank you!

Brownchop and black->grey.z->white.db are probably my favorite. The tan middle step variant I think I'd need to see more of. But overall I like the warm undertone

When you do a comparison it is thorough and never boring, even with all the detail and variants included. Great video.

'Makeup brushes are for faces' - excerpt of notes from this video. Great channel!

Thank you so much for this. You are a treasure to our community.

When you're nearly done editing your longest video ever... And Brent sums it up with science in a quarter of the time 😅🔬🔬 You hero. A lot of our findings were very similar :). As a note if you missed one I think it's just simply *slowing down the grey drybrush* and going for high-quality, following dark grey/dark coloured primer (we also used brown). It really doesn't take too much longer than the normal drybrush (in comparison to total time added). With the normal white final step (also slowing just a tiny amount for quality) you elevate the technique's potential so much. Video is due soon, would love to see you try it out, plenty of theory to match your science 😅 Edit: Metallic tip is also worth considering, a little time added for notable improvement.

Nothing says "in my day job I know how to milk every bit of information out of a microtiter plate" quite like this video. Awesome.

Love having more systematic attention paid to this topic! You lightly touched on it, but i suspect the idea of a colored undercoat will be the next idea to make waves across the community in relation to this, you're the second person using browns for the undercoat, and the original grisaille painters used many others, in addition of the idea i've heard from multiple sources over years that undercoating a mini in purple gives you the best skintones you can get, so i suspect there's far more to explore in this topic in the future

Good lord, this is a useful resource for experimentation using a diversity of techniques and materials. Amazing! The video itself in visual supports, economy of description, and itemized elaboration of techniques with comparisons is a masterclass in how these kinds of tutorials should be produced.

Great work, Brent. I've come to similar conclusions in my own hobbying, so it's nice to see a step-by-step comparison to emphasize the points.

I can't tell if this guy is a complete sociopath with bodies in the freezer, or just an absolute legend with a presentation style and knowledge base second to none. I'd like to think it's the latter. Ive seen a few videos now and I really have a hard time believing just how much raw information is packed into such a small delivery package. Kudos. This channel is amazing. I have only a handful of minis and have commissioned a few to be painted; I'd love to someday get into the painting hobby, and if I do, you had better believe I'll be binging and studying all that this channel has to offer. If nothing else, the calm demeanor is worth the watch in and of itself. Thank you for your excellence.

I appreciate the effort to provide the most results in a digestible format. It helps to make some informed decisions for attacking the Pile of Shame.

Your videos are inspiring and a big part of the reason I decided to give miniature painting a shot. Thank you for your awesome content :) You're also just an awesome person who I respect a lot.

Every Goobertown video is a mini wonder! Brent is a real Prometheus, bringing wisdom to the world!

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🎨 Using a black and white undercoat with colors can result in a nice paint job. 01:23 🖌️ Makeup brushes and old synthetic paint brushes can be effective for dry brushing. 02:35 🎨 Type of brush matters more than the type of paint for dry brushing. 05:34 🖌️ Adding a gray dry brush step between black and white can create smoother transitions. 08:09 🎨 Gray xenithal primer with a white dry brush gives nice results, saving time and effort. 10:02 🎨 Thick or thin coats of color on the base coat doesn't matter much for contrast, as the undercoat does most of the work. 12:20 🖌️ The worst undercoat is a white primer, as mistakes are more visible and it lacks contrast and complexity. 14:13 🖌️ Brighter undercoats result in brighter painted models, and the gray xenathol spray is a faster alternative to a gray dry brush. 14:56 🖌️ Brown can be used as an alternative to gray for a sepia undercoat to achieve smooth transitions. 16:29 🎨 Slap Chop technique (black prime, gray/brown undercoat, white dry brush) is efficient and accessible for quick minis. Made with HARPA AI

I am addicted because of your voice. I don’t even paint minis but I might start now.

2:52 is a truly masterful transition

You nailed my preferred style. Black prime followed by heavy grey zenithal prime, followed by white dry brush. Ps. I do hate the term "slapchop" since I have taken college level art history and have painted grisaille for about 30 years.

Amazing Dwarf miniature! Great to showcase what you explained, so clear and precise. It'll help me alot to get more minis painted. Thank you Brent.

These types of scientific tests are what keeps me coming back to Goobertown. The "memorable tidbits" makes an excellent cheat sheet and summary! Excellent work on this project!

This is one of the most useful undercoat videos I've ever seen. Thank you for your efforts!

That face at 2:56 lol. Love your vids!

Thanks for taking the time to try out these fantastic things that I don't have the time/conditions to try, or even think of! It's always fun to learn about things from your vids, great stuff and keep'em coming!

Darth Maul make-up brush :) The way I see it, the French had 700 years to convince me to use the word "grisaille." I laughed so hard beer came out of my nose. And besides some hilarious asides, there is a ton of info here. I am going to enjoy watching it several times over.

Great video! I love these comparison ones. I'm still settling into a method for "slapchop" but this helps a bunch!

Love your systematic approach. I find that using something non porus to brush off most of the paint before dry brushing results in a much smoother finish. The paper towel sucks all the moisture from the brush and leaves the chalky-looking finish. Actually having a very slightly damp brush is best of all. Have a look at some of the videos from Artis Opus for some examples.

Great video, my favorite parts: - The tan zenithal looks great! - Scott dancing in the background

Aww Kitty's a good painting helper

Love your videos! Thanks for bringing me into world of Miniatures painting. I finally start my first army this year and it's Ultramarines :)

I love your test videos. They are always thorough and clear. And that dwarf is nice.

New Goobertown day. My favourite day!

"Goobs doesn't have to use the word Grisaille" - Treaty of Paris (1763)

I have been playing with a black, magenta, then white underpainting. Similar to the brown, it impacts the color filtering of the base coats. I can't really decide if it's better than just doing black grey white. I've also tried it with flesh tones : dark chocolate, to cinnamon to pale. That has an interesting effect as well.

I"m just here for the cats and Brent's hair. 😉 Seriously, love your vids! Love this!

Brent I think I speak for everyone when I say that I massively appreciate the amount of time and effort that goes into your videos. Painting dozens of models and variations takes a ton of time but the results speak for themselves, which is important in this hobby where so much advice given as fact is rather an opinion or personal preference.

700 years. The absolute best refute to all of the pearl clutchers about SlapChop I've ever heard! Brilliant Brent! Thank you for this!

At this point I think mini companies/sculptors are just making models of Brent so he'll post a video during the dry spells.

absolutely incredible resource for newbies like me thank you so much for the exhaustive hard work that you put into this and all the knowledge you shared the fact you disclose your professional connections to product recommendations is another level of class too

Love seeing more takes and techniques for speedpainting.

Really useful stuff! Don´t know when I will be speedpainting, but if I am, I am rewatching this video. One thing that can make speedpainting result a little bit boring is the black shadow color. The brown to tan under paint is nice for that! I think it would be interesting to experiment with some "reverse-zenithal" e.g. a different colour from below, and still a zenithal from above like usual, to get some different shadow colors in there. Could work fine with a drybrush - for example, do a regular zenithal, drybrush a dark red from down to up in areas where you want it, and then paint it green. It sounds good to me in theory, would it be good in practice though?

Thank you for all the effort you put into your videos and presenting your information/findings! Seeing all the variants is really, really helpful for figuring out how I would want to paint my models!

Liked the dark tone on the armour of the white over black very much gave a deeper tone to the armour

Always a joy. I admit, i've never been a fan of slap chop results. They always seem washed out to me. but a couple of those came out really nice.

I really appreciate you taking the time to trial and error out things like this, and show the results in a meaningful and objective way. I've never tried any brand of speed paints, but am curious and with your testing done I feel informed enough to make a strong first effort. Thank you!

I love how wholesome and informative this is. Great conclusions/takeaways.

Your memorable tidbits part nailed it. Don Suratos has a nice video where he does his zenithal with dry brushing layers, building up from a black prime to a dark grey to a light grey to a white, each time narrowing the light source (like in layering), and it comes out great with transparent paints after that. Putting a lot of work into the undercoating can make a huge difference.

So happy you’ve done this, thanks Brent

This video was awesome! I love that more people are starting to realize that the colour undercoat you use can have a major, though subtle, impact on the entire appearance of a project.

Instant subscribe when he Started dunking on the french

Your conclusion with bulleted points at the end of this video is some of the best work I've seen on just about any YoutTube video. WELL DONE.

I recently got some speedpaints. I like the process of black primer in the airbrush, add some white to mix a grey to zenithal, then white drybrush. I do have to note that the grey should be on the lighter side to get good color. It's amazing how dark speedpaints are over even a medium grey.

2:58 - That look, the "What the deuz...", priceless :D

Awesome. Really appreciate a thorough testing of technique.

Thank you for the effort that went into this.

That post-grin turn to the cat was brilliant.

Super useful as always, Brent - it's so nice that you try a range of things and offer evidence for your suggestions.

So few people are willing to do the work and make a concise simple presentation of it. Thanks for this as you've tested some of the methods I had in mind but hadn't done yet. Now I know what to do next!

Will try this on my next prints. Can not be grateful enough for this video and teachings

This is exactly the video I've been looking for as I've been playing around with various undercoating techniques and developing my core workflow. Thanks, Brent! I love the side-by-side comparisons, especially using the cheap craft acrylics, because I've always wondered about those!

This is an excellent video Brent! Informative and entertaining. It is very satisfying to be able to sit down in one session and have a nice mini completed, so I’m glad to see ways to improve the utility of transparent paints.

Awesome video. Great step-by-step walk through. Thanks. You worked you butt off with all of the variants.

Man, those Tidy Cat bins have a million uses!

Brent no one else on youtube paints in such bright vibrant colors as you. I have no idea how you do it but I love it.

I'm just getting into mini and model painting and I've got to say.. I appreciate the use of craft paints, Rustoleum, etc. I don't want to have to shell out a ton of money for something I'm just dabbing into*pun intended* so seeing cheaper alternatives and techniques to help me get into my own is wonderful. Thanks!

I have to agree. These type of videos are the best on you tube. I wish i had more time to do all this experimenting on my own, but being able to quickly see all these different techniques is valuable information.

Great, solid job. Lab for minis. Thanks friend!

Love how much value was provided in this vid! Thanks again, it was very helpful!