Painting Grimy Miniatures - [Warhammer] 

As usual Alex your natural, conversational, narrative, inner monologue type delivery is great.

I was close to have a heart attack when I saw the cutter touching your finger. Becarefull. Awesome conversitions and interesting paint job.

Stormcast Death Corp of Kreig…….. most Warhammer thing I’ve ever heard. Well done.

That early varnish and oil step is so effective. Thank you for sharing a technique I never considered. I may screw up my courage and try this.

I absolutely love your channel. Your style of videos and voice are so calming, but your models and techniques are always so visually amazing that I never get bored watching them. Amazing job as always 😊

They look awesome

I just love your commentary and subtle bits of humour throughout. As always, great video and great result.

Great video Alex.

Man your voice is so relaxing

Thank you so much Alex not only for this video but for giving me the inspiration & confidence to try oil washes for the first time, haven't painted in approximately 7 years and they weren't really 'a thing' back then the way they are now, your passion has reignited my love for our most therapeutic, meditative & rewarding hobby, I wish I could express my thanks in a more substantial way "but I being poor have only my gratitude, I lay this at your feet, tread softly" 🙏

Nice going!!!!

Bravo Alex thanks for another inspiring video

Great video Alex, love the crossover!!!

I've never seen someone kit bash miniatures together with just an exacto-knife and get such a successful result

Looks great!

Thank you. I really love your painting style.

Oil washes are a game changer ! Fantastic fast way to create contrast and gradients. Thanks for the video, again and the quiet chuckles...

+10 for oils. Also, cut up makeup sponges can be magic for removing oils on the raised areas.

I like grungy. Most of my minis are post apocalyptic minis, so grungy is the name of the game. I usually use washes and contrast paints to get the rusty, tarnished, dirty look (plus some cheap pigment dust made from crushed up colored chalks). I've been wanting to try oil washes, but with a small apartment and bad ventilation, I haven't thus far. Since it's summer I'm thinking about giving them a shot and painting outside to use them on some completed terrain (rundown shacks for my post apocalyptic games) for added effect.

Another reason why oil paints have their place in miniature painting, and this video proves that oils aren’t just for the historical bust painters! I have my collection of oils from years ago that I used a few times but never really stayed with (I was much younger then and GW had just released a new product called ‘inks’), but after the years and the outstanding videos by yourself and Luke at Geek Gaming (and black magic craft, tabletop witchcraft etc), I have come back to using oils again. It’s refreshing to see you use oils at the middle stages of painting and not the end like others do. Thank you for sharing this video with us!

I love the grit of your stormcast, the oil wash technique is definitely one to try. Thank you for sharing

Truly, you have gone from mastering the grim dark from darker hued colours and stepped into the light without sacrificing that grounding influence; I find the combination of techniques both fascinating and interesting, yet also adaptable to a mass paint scheme if so one desires. Kinda fascinating watching your scheme, seemingly start from wanting some more catchy rogues to take on a life of it's own within the owlcast.

Excellent work as always 52! It's so satisfying watching you rub those buds

Probably one of my favorite videos of yours! I really enjoy your army painting journeys.

Here in France,pro historical figure painters used the oil brand "BLOCKX",they told me it is the most ultra fine oil paint they prefered...I love OLD HOLLAND ,Mussini Schmincke ,Michael Harding and LEROUX too..

Glad you gotten them painted my friend. They look awesome

What is this? A follow up to the last video and so soon? Brilliant! Thanks for sharing this! These guys definitely go both ways, Fantasy or Sci/Fi.

Looks interesting might have to try this sometime

These look so good!

The end result looks so good, considering how easy the painting process was.

Love your videos, I accidentally had my settings to 1.25x speed for this video when I opened it. You sounded amazing though! I almost didn't notice until the very end.

As always beautiful production And a fantastic paint job. Thanks for all you do. much love from North Carolina

*orders Windsor and Newton oils starter set* Love these grimy (oildark? Atmospheric?) Chaps. Interesting oil wash usage at mid way point.

Great video! I hadn't thought of oil washing earlier in the process! Also, LOVE those shields. :)

I really like your content. So keep up the good work. Also I like that more and more painters promote the use of oil paints. They are such a cheap and easy way to create great results.

I love this series so much! It's inspired me to kitbash my own stormcasts, my printer is going to hate me this weekend 😂😂

Smashing!

Beautiful work as always!

Death Korps of Sig! :D

I love your painting skills and really enjoy your script writing ability 🙂

Great stuff friend 👏 👍 Loving your journey thanks for sharing

Will need to give oil colors a try.

Another quality video, tempting me to try oils...

I think this video, along with the previous one about the crossbow stormcast pavise trenchers, shows one of the more beautiful aspects of the hobby. I do not like the industrial-ish estethics you gave them with those 3d printed bodies and i don't think they fit the stormcast overall vibe, yet i still see them as beautifuly done miniatures and i admire the amount of creativity you put in them. I do not need to like the idea behind them to really enjoy looking at the whole process and the end result, and i think it's beautiful. :) Apart from that - top notch video, as always.

6:58 I like to make sure that the thinner is evaporated before speeding up the drying proces by using a fan (or hairdryer). Otherwise the air generated bij de fan can move the oil wash in places where you don't want it to go. Speeding up drying time can be done with air circulation, heat, mixing in a alkyd medium or letting some of the excess oil seep into a cardboard like you did in this video. One thing I have noticed is that having not enough oil medium in the paint (by creating a wash that is too thin for example), can make the pigment move out of the crevasses and fall apart. Thicker washes help prevent this issue.

I don't think I've seen a move convincing use of oil washes. It's usually a dirty down wash of brown or black, not several to match the colours of each area

The rebuild/scratchbuild of these is such a breath of fresh air to some originally awful sculpts, but the paint job is every bit as good, whether you're painting battleweary DKoK or battle believable stormcast

Great video! really love how your colors and highlights turned out! I had tried my firsts oil wash a few weeks ago and i think i may have put mine on too thick and didn't let it dry long enough. As it kind of just wiped off. So it was cool to see how you applied yours.

nice

Instead of using cotton swabs, try small make up brushes.. the ones from eye shadow and such.. the cotton tends to leave little bits of cotton on minis that can add unwanted texture unless promptly noticed and removed. great video BTW, I just recently did a similar thing with my battle sisters.

Oh Boy. Content.

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7:10 as long as the oils are dry, there is no need to varnish before continue painting with acrylics. In fact did that yesterday with no issue at all; can't even tell the difference. That being said varnishing can be handy if you don't want to wait until the oils are completely dry. If you decide to varnish I would still wait until the top layer is dry. Especially if the oil layer is thicker (which isn't the case with washes), you can run into issues if you varnish right after the application of the oils. Oils tend to have a satin finish and I know that you have a preference for matt finishes, so that is another reason to varnish.

Bro I love these!!

Brilliant video, loads of helpful tips, did you use artist oil paints or can any be used?

Hottest bud rubbing content on YT by far

Don’t mess with a guy on a buffalo.

"Revolutions are far more tricky". True, and no need for a revolution when there are gems like using that black spirally cotton bud. Note to self..must check if Muji ships to the US! Further note to self.. black cotton buds at Muji now sold out... how did that happen so damn quickly? ;) I've become a big fan of oil washes, so this was a welcome video to help me up my game a bit. Thanks, Alex.

Alex, are you working on a video on oils?

Why are your stormcast the only ones that actually look good to me?

I'm really glad to see you wearing a mask while working with oils. I feel like there's a tendency for people to downplay the health risks. It's more like hearing damage from loud noise exposure - you notice an acute symptom which seems to go away (being dizzy) but repeated exposure builds up a small amount of damage every time. No-one needs to suffer permanent memory impairment just for a slightly better way to wash miniatures.

Macro Frisoni, please go out of this video! :-D

You're wasting your life.