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Hi, new subscriber here, channels like you encourage me to give myself a try to paint my board game minis. Since you asked: YES, I'd really like to see your prep process (priming and dry brushing) as well, please 😊

welcome back, congrats on the baby!

welcome back. i wondered where your channel was. and congratulations! my only comment on this is it would be interesting to find an "all over" diluted wash or speedpaint that serves at unifying on the model together. maybe a very thinned down soft tone or something?

I have a box of failed prints I primed white just to test colors I am not familiar with. I also glued a bunch to a tray to make a dry pallet.

I've only stumbled across your channel now, my friend. Having moved over to speedpaints, Its amazing to see them used in practice and in combination with each-other. I may have missed it, but what did you use for the axe shaft? That's a lovely brown

I like this format of painting. Thank you for sharing!

@1:21 Looks like Goober from Goobertown hobbies.

It would be really, really helpful if you showed the paint bottle or called out the specific color name during each step. 😬

Love this Minis , Great work !

Wow Looks Amazing ! What pensel do you use ? Great videos !

I stopped painting detailed eyes after watching Tabletop Minions video on why painters shouldn't paint eyes because in reality, you wouldn't really see that detail from that distance. TBH, most painted eyes look creepy because they're too large. Instead, he suggests putting shadows in that area, so that's what I do for heroes and humanoids. However, I do like to paint demons and enemies eyes a solid color such as yellow or red.

Do you mind adding the colors used in the discription.

Not a painting question but how did you make the speed paint 2.0 paint bottle an overlay for your thumbnail?

@chill mini paiting what color did you use for the base?

FWIW, for skin I usually use a regular acrylic paint and then hit it with an ink/shade for the shadows. I'm just never happy with the results from the speed paints (for skins). This helps differentiate from other browns/beige (or greens) aswell

what size brush were u using?

I find sometimes the shape of the model will compliment slap chop or not. Bigger, beefier minis (like a hill giant) seem to really work well.

Finally. Everyone keeps painting Warhammer figs with slap chop which works great. Thanks for putting this together.

I love watching videos like this - they give me tips, color schemes, and other thoughts as I approach my own. I particularly love them when they are painting something I have or can get. So, when I found this little series I was excited. Especially because you're so measured in your approach, honest in your own self-reflection, and ended up with solid looking results. But as I started to follow along with my own copies of these minis, I realized you don't actually show all the colors you used. In some cases, they're just there. For example, Brent's skin - when did you paint that? What color? And the other armor - you only talked about the bronze, but there's obviously other metallic colors you used. Would it be possible to just list out all the paints you used as part of the description?

The one thing I'll say about slapchop (with army painter speed paints) that I don't like, is that the black basecoat almost seems too strong in some areas (faces etc...). Ive begun to base coat in gray and then highlight with white. It makes makes the model a bit brighter and less "muddy", which I like.

Nice - Gonna try the highlight drybrush on the primer and then the thinner pigments on top. the bracers though! Didn't see the painting there

Thanks for this. I’m new to speed paints, and have the starter set plus a handful of others. I appreciate your mentioning how you mix your colors, it’s really helpful. I’m working on my dry brushing, it’s a lot harder than it looks. Keep up the good content.

How much do you thin your paints with medium?

He came out really good,

Yooo new video, I just subbed but I watched all your videos on the TV while I paint. My slapchop drybrushing didn't turn out the best but you inspire me to keep trying! 💜 Keep up the good work!

Green is similar to Gillie dew

I think part of it is managing expectations. We tend to be our own worst critics. Other painters’ minis look great, our own suck. Though some people are truly amazing, a lot of it is also in making it look better with editing (for YT/Insta). It’s been said by more than one RUclipsr, it’s not just me being paranoid. To improve your slapchop, I think you should look at the underpainting. Someone in your comments said to use gray and then white, and that will help. But also inspect the underpainting before you start painting. Make sure it looks good before you add speedpaints. Dana Howl has a great video about it (it’s her first video). That said, slapchopping produces slapchop results. Try speedpainting a mini that’s primed only white or light gray (you probably have already). Then place it next to a slapchopped one. You may find you love the idea of slapchop more than its results. But if you want to slapchop but want crisper results without layering afterwards, you could try doing exactly what you’re doing and then adding a drybrush highlight. Doing that will also mitigate some of the splotchiness that tends to come with speedpainting larger/flat surfaces. Then you can tie it together with a wash/shade if you like. This will probably also make the mini feel “more painted”. If you try it, see if you see what I mean 😁 If you want to layer after speedpainting, check out Andy at Mediocre Hobbies. He’s the king of reasonable effort and really great results 👍 I’m just one guy, but for me 20 minutes is the around the longest I’ll watch of a “random” painting video, that I watch out of curiosity or for inspiration. I’ll watch longer ones for research purposes however. So your really long videos are the reason I haven’t subscribed. That’s not to say you shouldn’t make those, however. You should make the videos that you want to make, otherwise YT will most likely become a burden. The best of luck with painting and YT!

As others have said, speed painting/contrast painting is designed for passable fast "slap chop" game ready mini's. ... Try using another paint line and experiment with glazing and blending. A good way to start that is to paint on some cheap minis/busts and experiment a little than do it on your miniatures.. that means no slap chop. ... I also suggest that the best method is to combine techniques so you slap chop some parts of the mini and use a light gray flat prime on others to build up with more traditional painting methods. I also start my faces and metallics with a white painted on prime (no zenithol highlighting). Suggested channels to watch for tips: "Lila Mev - The Mini Witch" (for painting technique) and "Ninjon" (for how to do fast but good)

That was super chill. Good vibes

Painted these minis with Speedpaint 2.0 for my 11-year-old niece. She DMs for her friends and uses them for heroes. They came out pretty good. I’d upload pics but not sure how to in RUclips comments. Anyway, your mini looks great! Thanks for this.

Just throwing this out there because you did it in part 2 and you did it on the female here again. You painted the top turndown of the boots like they are part of the pants.

I liked your editing, I think you hit the sweet spot in length. Maybe could be slightly longer, showing which paint you use, then showing a few strokes of each colour might be nice? I think your female model has charm, kind of picassoesque 😊 good on you for tryi go to paint eyes, I gave up long ago! 😄 Thanks for sharing your trials and tribulations! 👍

Keep at it. Keep learning. Keep having fun.

watching this video, things clicked for me. I have been speed painting using a rattle can xenithal primer. I was never quite sure if doing the dry brush of white/gray is better. I watch this video, and it all makes sense for me.

Ha! Here I am watching your vids thinking “I wish my slapchop got contrast like that!” Loving your videos. In one of your early vids you mentioned you were thinning the paints down because they were intended to go over white prime. I think you are onto something as I’ve noticed many of my colors seem darker than I expected (like you I’m priming black & dry brushing grey the white).

Noble Skin is definitely a disaster. Is there a way to recover/repaint that mini? Cause the model is awesome. The clothing I think looks good. Also: are these 3D prints? I think I can see the "texture" of the print in the close ups, or am I hallucinating? Final thought: I also struggle with eyes, but a few years ago I realized that it's ok not to paint them: just shading the eye sockets will give better results at a glance than poorly painted eyeballs -- try it, and you may be surprised!

The Kobold head is ace! I like these models a lot, except (gasp) Brent from Goobertown (I love the guy, I just don't like the mini haha). Re: the skin, maybe Speedpaints just aren't suitable for skins? The browns look good on satchels, pouches, belts, etc, and the greens are good too, but the "skin" colors are underwhelming to me so far. Maybe paint that part with traditional acrylics?

I didn’t catch it in your other videos, but are you dry brushing pure white before using be sped paints? I noticed that by going from back to grey to then bright white helps with the models not looking so…muddy? Or have too much black showing through.

Hi there, I think the skin/brown being flat issue is unfortunately a consequence of slapchop. You're adding skin tones over the grey/black areas which is going to dull down the skin to a colour somewhere between grey/orange/brown. Slapchop is great for creating variations in light and dark, but the use of greys and blacks desaturates the colours of the paint. Unfortunately, the best way to stop this would be to base the skin areas in a more saturated darker tone, something like a red/purple, and then drybrush white over, which will then get covered in the skin tone speed paint, However I appreciate that this then adds a whole basecoating step to slapchop which will impact the speed with which you can knock out painted models. The other option is to paint the mini with a slapchop method but then paint the skin (and any other areas you're not happy with) the "traditional" way of layering.

I'll base coat with contrast and use thin coats of regular paint to build up. You can glaze the skin colors or a a quicker option is dry brushing after your contrast is dry. Done go crazy but hit the raised areas you want to focus attention on. That still keeps painting quick but still defined

I’m enjoying this series.

Are you priming black then drybrushing white? If so, try prime black, heavy dry brush in a medium (dungeon/ash) grey (about as heavy as you've done the white on this model), then finish with a lighter dry brush in matt white. Looks like the model may be overall too white? Worth a shot. Also, treat yourself to a tube of UHU glue. Put a blob on there, use a cocktail stick to "string" it up to the weapons, leave it to half dry, then paint the glue with a blood colour.

Once you slap chop go back in with a brush and add more small solid highlights sparingly right next to where its darkest. I found this helps with defining things a bit better.

This video is a game-changer.

The skin on the first model looks like the speed paint hasnt really covered very well. This could be because the white is too stark for the speed paint to tint properly. I would suggest a 2nd coat of speed paint to get more coverage or alternatively zenithal with a warmer colour than just stark white. Another thing to try is to undercoat completely in a warm white, dont slap chop at all and see how the speed paints cover a solid colour and make the shadows rather than the zenithal making the shadows. If you want some inspiration an awesome youtuber is Sonic Sledgehammer Studio, simple schemes, no complex layering or highlighting but very effective.

it's funny how bad they are hahaha. But you just show the reality and keep learning :D, good work

Hey man, looks great. The point of "speed" paints is you get to play with painted minis. Stay chill n paint on🎉 Liked the run time, like the mistake commentary. Could even go 8 min with 1min of it being pictures You rock

Trow a wash over the shin after you paint it, then highlight/ dry brush with a bright white maybe toned w yellow. Then recoat? Might work, I'm not into the 2.0 line or I'd give it a shot for ya. Try it on failed print maybe