SMASH CHOP - It's Slapchop but actually looks good 

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Jon is always like “this is super fast and simple until I can’t help myself anymore and start my edge highlights.”

First we start wit two little circles ... then add some guidelines ... and then we draw the entire owl. Simple

"Hi, it's Vince with Smash Chop. You're gonna be in a great mood all day, cause you're going to be smashing your troubles away."

for someone like me, painting all those layers carefully will take ten times as long as sticking on some contrast/speedpaint and tidying it up. A similar effect to this could be achieved quickly by applying some colourful washes over the base layers. yet, i really liked your previous paint jobs using undershading and they also seemed quicker - i especially preferred suck cut and slapchop 2.0

That’s quite an interesting - and very good looking - method. I would love to see you paint ten Termagants, and try to actually stop at a “tabletop ready” stage. It would give a good idea of how viable it is as an army painting technique.

i think we lost the point of slap chop and speed painting here

Your airbrushed base coat is a more controlled version of the “Murray method “ the Table Top Time produces, both methods produce an awesome aesthetic, just one is controlled and the other is chaotically controlled

This does look like a interesting and expandable method. I'd like to see a video that builds on this. i.e. "How to decide the under-colour for my Smash Chop" that kind of thing.

This is not a beginner tutorial but rather a new reworking of an already cool idea, that makes it cooler still. This tutorial assumes much knowledge and brush control that you just won't have if you just started so if that's your situation, do you best, you'll get there. Practice makes perfect folks 👍

Ninjon's projects and ideas always seem goofy at first, and always end up looking incredible. There's always a point where I think "that will look terrible" and one where I'm like "well, that's pretty great actually".

This is just painting. love you

This is exactly like how fine artist and digital artists start their paintings. You are just creating undertones and cohesive theming!!!

Again more and more fine art techniques are making their way into the hobby. Its great.

Most important things I've learned watching this video: More in shadow - thinner paint More in highlight - thicker paint Deepest shadow - ignore When another surface meets another - leave a line in between unpainted

I just wanted to drop a comment that I absolutely love your channel. I enjoy the tips and also the philosophy of just enjoying the process. Additionally, your camera presence is great and you articulate your concepts very well. Keep up the good work!

The best part about slap chop is that the system tells you when you're done. There's no second guessing or overworking an area. All these slap chop but with extra steps systems lack this

I was bored of painting my tyranids in the same old boring method and you just inspired me to try this and actually improve. As you say in the video as great and tabletop ready as slap chop is, it's not quite the challenge, but this? This is fantastic, so eye-catching and honestly looks a ton of fun. Thanks bud!

Holy cow, that's a super cool technique. Thank you Mr. Ninjon. I will try it on my bugs!

I would like to see an example of this system on a human model.

This looks amazing! I love the colours and your exploration over the process was top stuff

If every video you made from now on was just using this scheme on a new mini each video, I would watch every single one all the way through multiple times, 10/10 no notes.

Really enjoying seeing this style progress over various videos - definitely looking to try it out!

Looks good! I was a little surprised to see 26 (?) bottles of paint/pigments on the table at the end. That seems like a lot! (I know how fond you are of paints). I wonder... do I use this many paints on my projects? I'm going to lay them out at the end like this and see.

I restarted painting after 30 years thanks to Ninjon videos - the first attempt should go in the trascan but the positive attitude of his videos and tutorials keep me on the grind! Thanks Jon!

I love the dichotomy of fast baseline and openness to layering ;) thanks !

Im really happy that I followed Jon from the beginning and get to see his journey and discoveries. Its very inspiring and really interesting.

So essentially it's "smash" colors together for an undercoat, and then give it a "pass" of layered paint. The "smash pass" method!

I love this super colorful method of painting! Can you show us how this can be done for a more human-looking model where there's a good amount of skin? I'd be curious how that'd work out too! Thanks!!

Great tutorial. Amazing paint job.

Very nice, the base colours give the mini a lot of life, good painting!

I'm always grateful when you share your techniques. Thank you for smashing and chopping.

Thank you for another great review!

@Ninjon I love your videos. Thanks!

The final product looks amazing! I'm always learning something here.

Awesome. I'm going to try this

Great vid. A lot of really great ideas in there. Thanks!

Amazing job as always

Amazing result. I've been in a hobby rut recently and this has inspired me to pick up a brush again. Thank you!

Love this video, I think your color choice (placement and saturation) in the ‘color blast’ section is key for this method!! I’d like to see you elaborate more on this in a future video. Thanks again

This is awesome - will be trying this for sure

Excellent travaille. Merci !

beautiful work! love this method, seeing a lot more value in using darker colors where you'd usually highlight!

This was a great watch, thanks! I think a video talking through how you picked out those undertone colors and why you placed them where you did would be awesome and go a long way towards applying this method to other color schemes. For example my current Tyranids army scheme has a dark brown/black skin tone w/ brighter carapace colors (Hive Fleet Kronos) so I'm not sure what my undertones would be.

@Ninjon This is a really awesome idea, it would be great to see a video exploring those starting colours, like why did you choose red purple and pink. Also looking at different results you can achieve on non organic Vs organic models with the same technique... votan Vs nids or space marines and orcs... really love these technique style tutorials rather than simple here's how I paint a lictor recipes.

The bright shadows with dark base coat /layer looks amazing

This is very Murray-like. That said it contains plenty of tidbits and details that make it seem even more approachable.

I am barely able to Slap Chop at this point. This looks like some kind of Masterclass disguised as an introduction.

Whatever technique you are using Ninjon you are a great painter. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks. Im glad you finished with quick summary of the method. You used more steps for your bad boy so i.was getting confused. But smash chop seems not so hard over all and pretty flexible. I think ill try it some day ;)

Love you Jon! Awesome work, as always ❤

Great video! Hope you have a good weekend man!

Wow! I love this style

I have a feeling Opus could speed this up with wet dry-brushing on instead of careful meticulous work.

That end result looks absolutely stunning

Thanks for sharing that! I really like the idea of this approach, It looks like it really popped on the ridges of the carapace. I bet it would really bring out some contrast on something with feathered wings as well

I won’t lie Jon, I’ve been sitting on a BIG back log of these pesky bugs for a long time now, but I haven’t been able to settle on a colour scheme that I can be happy with. After watching your video however you’ve persuaded me with that beautiful voice of yours, I feel more motivated than ever with your technique to finally tackle my bug problem. I’d just like to say thank you and keep doing an amazing job, look forward to see what you come up with next.

This is one of the best ideas I've come across for a long while! Excited to give it a try!

love the colors

That’s absolutely amazing, gotta give this a go

Ninjon paints Summoned Skull in attack position

Excellent video and beautiful job!

Bro I love your energy and sense of humor. Never change, my dude. Big fan, stay well.

I really, really like how this model came out. Perfecto.

Great technique. Makes me want to pick up a brush again!

Offfttt looks great mate, keep it up!

Thank you for promoting a painting technique that isn't hidden behind a product wall.

This is such a brilliant video. And I can't wait to try to paint just like you've demonstrated in this video. But I am really challenged in trying to visualise how to do this with the colours that I want to use

You posted this just in time. I've wanted to begin painting my Sylvaneth army for a couple weeks now, and I just couldn't start because I didn't know exactly how to achieve the result I want. I think this video just gave me the answer. Thanks for posting this, I'll try Smash Chop soon!

Great video! But my god how does he paint so fast? Jon will be like "and this highlight step took about 15 minutes" and it would probably take me well over an hour lol.

Nids are definitely one of the cases where brighter recesses make sense, on the plating that it. I nature the newer materials will be the brightest and then dull over time so the more exposed edges would be darker.

Starting to think Jon can read my mind. Every time I hit a hobby roadblock in how I want to paint something Jon comes out with a video with exactly what I’m looking for. It’s both amazing and terrifying…

Really cool, just a little question, how do you get the pigment to stick to the base and not fall off everytime you give it a little tap ?

Definitely going to try this one out.

This looks like so much fun!

Honestly at this point, just call it "Crash Ding Bang Boom" It'll have the same amount of meaning.

Hi , av been painting minis since the early 80's and it's your vids that keep me interested, cheers and keep up the great content 👍

Great video!

I love the goggly eyes on the vortex mixer!

As someone who loves bright colours, I loved watching this video, Jon, and seeing how those colours were initially 'smashed' onto the model at the start, then even as you applied the neutral colours that I usually reserve for only the essential details that really need them to look right, it was fascinating to see how they were still glowing through from underneath, still very much visible and present. This video and this method has made me look at those neutral colours in a new light (sorry, not sorry for the pun) and I am really looking forward to finding the right model to trying it out on! I also can't leave a comment without mentioning your excellent teaching chops (oops, another pun), as in every video you manage to consistently convery so much information in such a short amount of time in such an easy to understand way, always hitting just the right tone (there's another one!) - you never talk down to your audience, nor do you treat them/us as if we already have a high level of expertise. This is why novices like myself and my 18 yr old daughter keep coming back to watch and learn! Speaking of my kid, while on holiday this summer in the Loire Valley (we live in Brittany so it wasn't that far to go), we visited la Musée de l'Art Moderne et Fontevraud, a National Monument of France, it has a large collection, including paintings and sculptures. It was absolutely fascinating as each piece was accompanied by a detailed explanation of how and why it was painted or sculpted, and what was the aim of the artist, and so on. There were some paintings that were painted as miniatures that were so small yet so incredibly detailed, I'm sure most of us from the hobby would have been impressed by the sheer level of skill involved. There was also a temporary exhibition of Rembrandrant's etchings - I hadn't even known much about his side of his work before this visit - and you could buy a plastic magnifying glass for 50 centimes - well worth it! - that allowed you to examine each one in more detail. As many weren't much larger than a RU-vid thumbnail, this was an essential piece of equipment and I suggest that it may be useful to sell these or give them out at shows like Adepticon and WarhammerFest for use when viewing the Golden Demon cabinets? They're exactly the same as those found in the boardgame MicroMacro:Crime City, by the war, for those that are familiar with it :-) But the main reason that I'm writing about the visit is to tell you that while my kid and I did spend hours enjoying the incredible art by some of the best European artists of the early 20th Century, I also have to admit that we also spent much of that time carefully examining their paint strokes, and their use of light and shade, how an artist used a single highlight in a painting that was almost completely browns and blacks to convey light and movement. We looked at how they used colours or negative space or didn't apply any paint to their canvas in an area to make use of negative space... Even when looking at paintings that we really didn't like at all, we were often still able to learn something from the skill of the artist and see something that we could take home and apply to our miniature painting. My kid went back to the gîte (house) where we were staying and was painting every spare minute that she had! Now she's converted her boyfriend to the hobby and he's just bought his first set of GW minis to paint, managing to flip the usual script :-D Take that, haters!

Nice job, interesting technique

Looks awesome

Looks great! Would love to see how you approah it on something less organic, perhaps with armour and cloth.

Your bases always look amazing

great paint job bro

Thanks again for your videos. As D&D painter, I really enjoy the range of techniques you're showing lately. Cause Im not painting an army Im painting an endless stream of minis. None of them the same look or style.

Wow! really good Ninjon. so inspirational

Great video and great method ;)

Wow! Great video, I love this idea and look forward to trying it out. I am a slow painter so anything to increase productivity is welcome.

Bloody awesome !

Cool as always 👍

that was a very cool video (as always), however I strongly believe those tentacles are very elaborate mustach

I've got my 1st ever airbrush. I have some cheap eBay Nids. And now? Thanks to this, I've got some inspiration on techniques to practice. THANKS!

This is great Jon, thank you. I'm going to try this out on some monsters for my D&D campaign.

What i love most about your YT Chanel is your Origin Story! ;) Aaaaand your are a quiet the inspiring miniatures painter. I have to say that i really got better after paying more attention and use some of the concepts you talk about. Edit: And you are funny. A Joe-Pesci-in-Goodfellas-kind-of-funny!

The AUDACITY to call the BEST scene of 28 WEEKS later.... 28 "DAYS" later, Jon I'm insulted. 😂Great video Jon, model turned out great as always.

I just recently took a class that used a similar concept of color theroy where we painteded everything in shadow blue, everything the sun would have touched in tue past red and everything that was being hit by the light (from above) in yellow then painted over it with a thin coat of a random color we chose at the beginning of class. You have basically taken it a couple stepps futher by adding hilights and some more detail.

Hey, great video - you're a highlight to my RU-vid feed! Could you talk us through how you selected your smash colours? Would love to understand what your thought process was.

This looks super cool and fun

I did something like this for a lava dragon, once. Bright red and yellow base coat, then over with black in what was basically a heavy dry brush.