SPONGE PAINTING SPACE MARINES 

try with a slightly firmer sponge and find a good white as white is notoriously terrible at coverage. If in doubt try thinning your white with FW Titanium white ink rather than water.

Thanks dude. Means a lot!

Glad you enjoyed it!❤❤

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But is it the allowed kind of cheating? Or the traitorous/heretical one?

@bifidusrcp we'll allow it!

Fetch the sponge, brother!!! The HEAVY SPONGE!!!!

Work smart, not hard.

Yes mate. Appreciate you watching the vid!

What's your Instagram handle my dude. Would love to see your outcomes without gloss. I'm happy to be corrected.

@@medheadful No istagrame but there's plenty on my blog. luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/05/imperial-knight.html

And every shield is a transfer....luddite1811.blogspot.com/2023/06/anglo-normans.html

Looks awesome mate but I'd say there are consistency issues with the transfers on the larger knight. In the main it looks good but I think you should consider my suggestions. You want them to look painted on. SOME of your transfers do look painted on. Some I can clearly see the ring around then as well as some other issues. Tbh it's your hobby mate. Do transfers however you want. I don't mind. But if you want consistency in your results do it the way I suggested. If not, then that's cool to. Peace and love dude.

Just down to preference my dude

Great idea!

That...cracked me up😂😂😂😂

Yeah that's a classic combo and something I've seen before. Thanks for the visit!

If you're not in a real hurry, you can skip several of the gloss varnishes. Specifically right before the oil wash. A brush-on gloss varnish also works wonders with the decal step, and the power fist step. Use an old brush if you pick it up. BTW, despite what a people say, Mineral spirits will not remove acrylic washes, inks or speed paints unless they have not cured, so you'd have to let it set for a good couple of hours before applying oils/enamels, but that also saves spraying.

Most excellent really glad to hear it!

Check out my salamanders videos for colours dude❤❤❤

Nope

I mean, they're a must if you want them to look good. I did a whole video on this. You should check it out.

@@medheadful still not a must...I have painted miniatures for thirty years and building scale models for fourty years, competed and won with miniatures/models that have had decals put on a matt finish. There are lot of videos where decals are put on a matt finish and look great. That is what microset and microsol and other decalsolutions are for.

​@MrFreddie5150 ace. To be honest bro you can do it however you want. Makes zero difference to me. What's your Instagram. I'd love to check out your work.

Great to hear! I'd suggest having a look at my Death Guard tank vid where I go into a bit more detail about the transfers thing

@@medheadful alright! I watched it. So it has more to do with your techniques than anything else? I got a bit worried my transfers would fall off or something 😅

​@Lullefication putting a gloss varnish down first smooths the area first which allows the decal to sit flat. This way you avoid tiny airbubbles forming. If you place it over a satin or matt you're more likely to encounter tiny airbubbles. Matt varnish for example is bumpy by nature. That's what give it its unreflective nature. I want transfers to be seamless and to look painted on. A gloss varnish is the easiest way to achieve this.

@@medheadful oh, I get it! I poked holes on the small bubbles and applied micro sol. But that’s good to know! Thanks 😊

Give me an example of a mini.

40k scale warhound titan

@Morgan_Frost good question. If you're creating texture I'd consider a marble rattle can, but a sponge can also create a mottled effect. I'd explore different kinds if art sponges though.

Oh i was joking! I was trying to suggest the maddest model I could imagine for you to entirely underpaint with sponges 🧽

@@medheadful Human Wizard, Tyranid etc

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Oh yes!

That's great to hear!❤❤❤

Dunno. Haven't seen your models have i?

​@@medheadfulno, but even the Warhammer tutorial guys are just using water. 😅 Maybe lahmian medium and spray varnish after that. If you have a round surface like a SM shoulderpad and a notorious big decal like the iron warriors ones then the fancy items will make the work easier for sure! Nice work btw!

@Onkel_Ranger thanks. Link me to your Instagram and I can see how you do them. I'm happy to be proven wrong my friend.

​@@medheadfuldoes RU-vid autodelete imgur links? 🤔

@@Onkel_Ranger not a clue

I've literally just bought a chaos terminator for that purpose my dude

Agreed! Have just picked up some Templars and would love to figure out how to do this technique for them!

Just a different way to paint it

@@medheadful thanks! Im asking because when I brush on the contrasts, I can't get them not to leave streaks as they dry. Airbrushing seems more foolproof

​@czaczaja yeah that's correct.

This time with sponges

​@@medheadfulI'd love to see how you did the face, your style makes everything feel achievable to a novice painter

Sure man. Develop as you see fit. Just there as a starting point rather than anything definitive. I actively encourage you to develop it.

Just another way to do it right? No wrong or right way. My aim is just to show you another way. As for a 'better result' that entirely depends on what you're looking for. My main aim with these free tutorials is to give people ideas. I never said it would yield the BEST results.

@@medheadful I can appreciate that, and added battle damage/weathering with the sponge method is definitely the best bang for the buck. It's just like hey, do you want to do traditional blending/shading/highlighting and spend 10 hours for a single marine? Cool buy an airbrush. You can't/won't buy an airbrush? Alright here's slapchop and contrast paints. And when it comes to gradients with contrast zenithal priming gets it done without the chalky result of dry brushing, or the spattered coloring of sponging.

Thank you kindly

Thanks for the visit❤❤❤

Cool. Link me to your Instagram. Love to see your models and be proven wrong.

I'm also being genuine about that. I can get transfers to be seamless and look painted on. I do this using a combination of gloss varnish and decal products. The gloss varnish has the added benefit of protecting my paint job throughout this process. Please feel free to link me to any photos you have and would love to see a seamless transfer without these processes. Every day is a school day. Someone weeks ago linked me their models trying to prove that you could do it without gloss and there were consistency issues and the transfer had that horrible ring around them. As I say though, happy to be proven wrong!

@@medheadful Look for the Flesh tearer stuff at the bottom. All of the decals have been applied without prior varnishing. I only used Micro Sol and Micro set. I apply micro set to the surface, whilst its wet I apply the decal and use micro sol.

What flesh tearers stuff am I looking at mate? What's your @ on insta? You haven't linked me.

@@medheadful I'm @crimson_legacy_82

Is it better? Or is it a different result?

Rattle can gives a totally different result, doesn’t create this textured effect and will never give you the same amount of control over the transition.