Painting Board Game Bits: Tzolk'in The Mayan Calendar Gears

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Full disclaimer: I am very new to painting and this is just one of many possible ways you could paint these amazing Tzolk'in gears. Feel free to mix and match with paints/brushes/products you already have, and personalise the colour palette! If I can do it, you can do it!
**Note that I didn't paint the very centre of the gears to ensure that the paint didn't jam up the turning mechanism.**
Paints:
Vallejo Black
MSP Paints Bleached Linen
Vallejo Game Extra Opaque Heavy Goldbrown
Vallejo Game Extra Opaque Heavy Brown
Vallejo Game Colour Turquiose
Vallejo Game Colour Jade Green
Vallejo Violet
Citadel Contrast Blood Angels Red
Citadel Layer Runefang Steel
Other Materials:
Army Painter: Basing - Battlefield Field Grass
Tamiya Cement Glue
Tweezers
Brushes:
Cheap brushes for priming
Artis opus 2, 000 for line work
Artis opus D for dry brushing
Link to STL file I used for 3D printing monuments:
www.cgtrader.c...
Other options for purchasing:
www.etsy.com/s...
For more game info on Tzolk'in the Mayan Calendar: boardgamegeek....
Thanks for stopping by to watch this Painting Board Games Bits video! We're Amy & Maggie aka ThinkerThemer. We're an Australian couple with two very different perspectives of what makes a great board game - Amy (Thinker) is all about the mechanics and enjoys tight, competitive games, and Maggie (Themer) is all about the storytelling and the theme of the game, and the 'world' that the designer is trying to create. Subscribe to our channel to hear us talk about these two elements of a game, and how well integrated we feel these are in delivering a cohesive and wonderful game experience.
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@johngoodwin9606 3 года назад

Wow. Super impressed. I've never painted, but this is a big motivation to start.

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

You can definitely do it!!! One lockdown hobby I will not be giving up...

@uptheirons6353 3 года назад

Wanted to thank you for sharing your insights on painting your Tzolk'in gears. I broke down and finally painted mine over the weekend and love the results. Thank you for your tips and tricks and be willing to share what you have learned through experience.

@shawnmincer8231 3 года назад

Looks fantastic! Color choices are great. Really good idea to have some varied/mixed content on the videos. Feels nice to have both games and games related topics in one place.

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

Thanks Shawn! We weren't planning to do this video but posted a photo on Facebook and got lots of questions so thought to put this together. Certainly more comfortable talking about games than painting!! :D

@shawnmincer8231 3 года назад

@@ThinkerThemer LOL, the best i could do would be a "How NOT to Paint" video. You did a nice job with this.

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

@@shawnmincer8231 hahaha I'm sure that is not true... like I said, if I can do it literally anyone can lol. 😊

@DanHughescoraquest 3 года назад

Love Tzolk'in, and beautiful work on the gears!

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

Thank you Dan!! Have you painted yours?

@canderson5469 3 года назад

Gorgeous work! Thank you for sharing your tips 😀

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

Are you going to start painting??? I'll pack them in the island supplies

@canderson5469 3 года назад

@@ThinkerThemer I don’t know if I am ready to go down that rabbit hole yet, but definitely pack supplies for retirement island!

@jonaskissling8343 3 года назад

...and of course you are a fellow mini painter too. Your chanel gets better and better :-) please continue posting these!

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

Thank you for the feedback Jonas! I wasn't intending to do this actually but a few people asked for how I painted it so I pieced together the footage!! What are you working on? :)

@jonaskissling8343 3 года назад

@@ThinkerThemerthe last figures I painted were for Mice and Mystics. The desire to paint comes and goes. Maybe the cold days will bring it back. What are some figures you painted? I've seen Bloodrage minis...

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

@@jonaskissling8343 yes I started painting in our winter and it certainly makes the days go quickly. The Mice and Mystics minis are so cool! ...yes I am very very slowly working my way through Blood Rage and then I have Rising Sun. The only other game piece I've done is the Tekenu obelisk and before that I was just practising on other minis before I was brave enough to touch our precious games! I also have the Anachrony mechs waiting for me but NMM is an elusive skill I can't quite master yet... 😅

@jonaskissling8343 3 года назад

@@ThinkerThemer oh my! NMM is intimidating! If you dont know his chanel already, you should check out Sorastro here on youtube. He does a great job in explaining things (f.ex. NMM), the video quality is superb and he is using his own music for the vids. Bur be carefull, his voice is hypnotic! :-D I completely understand you, I'm always scared to put color on my board game minis 😱

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

@@jonaskissling8343 I absolutely do! He is fantastic!

@fredcabr 3 года назад

Great job! Thanks for sharing!

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

Thanks so much Fred!

@deanlowdon8381 2 года назад

Looks awesome!! 🙂

@herrsteppsch29 3 года назад

absolutely amazing!!

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

Thank you Herr!!! Appreciate you taking the time to comment 😊

@AaronAndSusie 3 года назад

Great job!

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

Thank you! ☺

@sairam71 3 года назад

Super cool!

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

Thank you! ☺

@kennyv.2189 3 года назад

Wow! Well done, looks amazing. (Hopefully it helps you enjoy the game more when you have to play it 😉)

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

Hahahahahaha soooo true - you have a good memory 😁

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

Can you be both in awe of a game and respect it deeply without finding it overly fun? 🤔

@kennyv.2189 3 года назад

@@ThinkerThemer Hmmm.. Yes, definitely. I feel the same way about Gloomhaven actually. I haven't tried Tzolkin yet, or any T game for that matter! I'm having a hard time deciding between Tekhenu and Teotihuacan - which do you think has the more replayability/lasting appeal? I'm leaning Teotihuacan due to the expansion adding assymetric player powers, which is my jam.

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

@@kennyv.2189 we did love Tekhenu but if we had to buy one it would 100% be Teotihuacan. It is super unique with the dice placement / evolution and it comes together a bit better than Tekhenu. Having said that though, we really like Tekhenu as 2 player but tend to play Teo with 3 or 4.

@kennyv.2189 3 года назад

@@ThinkerThemer Have you had a chance to try Tawantinsuyu yet? I'm just watching JonGetsGames video on it now, looks great! I'd love to hear both of your takes on this game when you get a chance to play it, especially in regard to the T games and how it ranks with them. I'm certainly leaning Teotihuacan, but this is the same price and looks like a lot of juicy decisions to make all game!

@kipthecourtjester 3 года назад

Thank you!!

@stewste4316 Год назад

wow

@jonathanleach383 7 месяцев назад

Hey Amy is it possible to remove the gears to paint if they are already attached to the board? Or did you paint them when they were attached? Thanks!

@shawnpolluch3510 2 года назад

Wow that looks great! Do you guys run a discord or patreon? I had to move out to the countryside with my mom after my father passing from suicide. I’m looking for an online community to play games with and you ladies have great taste in games so I would imagine your community does too.

@ThinkerThemer 2 года назад

Hi Shawn, we are very sorry to hear of your father's passing. It's nice that you're able to be there for your mom. We do have a small but lovely community on discord. It's linked to youtube via RU-vid channel memberships (similar to patreon). If you join and then link your discord to your youtube (via setting - connections) it automatically appears. Thanks for asking!

@Razorgirl 3 года назад

Nice! I've started getting stuff together to paint my set. Great to see how someone else approached it. Beautiful end product! How do you store it all?

@HumbaHarry1 3 года назад

Looks awesome!! I am currently thinking of gold colors, such as retributor armor and liberator gold mixed with a smaragd green. What do you think? are the gold colors too thick for the fine details?

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

Ooo they could be a little thick... plus I think gold always goes better with a brown undercoat so could be a bit tricky!! I think if you have a small enough brush and a lot of patience 😅 Thanks for the kind words Mike!

@joyabbott2051 3 года назад

Wonderful job! Do you have any still up-close photos of the central cog? I’d love to see it with it moving.

@bruceschlickbernd8475 3 года назад

Did the gears mesh smoothly after painting? I did a set of gears for a friend and found I pretty much had to sand the paint back off the gears where they contact each other for them to rotate properly. Going to do my own game now that I have some inserts for the centers of the gears (the stickers just look wrong once the gears are painted).

@ThinkerThemer 3 года назад

Hi Bruce! I haven't had any trouble turning them but it was a fairly light coat and only of primer rather than paint so maybe that helped? I also made sure not to paint in the centre hole so it could turn there too (and you don't see it anyway). You're a good friend to do it for someone else!!! Enjoy painting your set ☺

@thelankygameruk7787 2 года назад

I've considered painting my cogs as well but not sure how to start. The cogs in my version are pretty much permanently attached to the board so I would need to 'break' them to start the process. That's OK I guess but the problem then is reattaching them when the job is finished. And so, I have never taken the plunge.