8 MORE Overlooked Miniature Painting Hobby Tips!
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- Ready for the exciting sequel to the world of hobby tools? In this sequel we look at 8 more hobby tips to streamline your miniature painting life!
The State of Play outlines 8 more overlooked Miniature Painting Hobby Tips that will take your 40k terrain or Warhammer miniature experience to the next, next level.
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00:00 Intro
00:53 Two Pots of Water
01:41 Hand Sanitiser
02:14 Thinned PVA Glue
02:58 More Oil for Less
04:48 Super Fine Brushes
06:21 Your Home Printer
07:39 Tamiya Weathering
08:46 Cleaning Wipes
09:45 Outro & More Links
#HobbyTips #hobbytools #warhammer40k #MiniaturePainting #TabletopGaming #ModelPainting #PaintingEquipment #vallejopaints #citadelpaints #akinteractive #tamiya 
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A great way to do mud is to mix some really rough pigment (cheap, non sparkly eyeshadow works good) into just a little bit of medium so it's sticky but still crumbly. Mush that against your stuff, let it be, and you keep that gritty texture of dried mud.
Oh that’s inspired! But you’re determined to keep me in that make-up aisle aren’t you! 😜
A collection of pragmatic and sensible tips, clearly presented. The world needs more of this. Thanks.
The world needs more of a lot of things. I’m not 100% certain that alcohol soaked baby wipes are one of them but boy, does it make for a great cleanup!! 🤣🤣
For Liquidtex Matte Medium it can be picked up in the US at almost any arts and crafts store. Michael's is where I tend to pick up mine.
Thanks for that! I’m not familiar with US stores so didn’t even know where to start!
Some fantastic ideas...even if I once again feel attacked about my cutting mat. You are guilting me into replacing it. Such pressure, but the tips were worth it. Cheers!
Yes, I will now keep making derogatory remarks about your cutting mat. Next time, I may even mention you specifically by name. I will tell the world that of all the cutting mats, yours is by far the most like the Texas Hacksaw massacre. 🤣
Nice tips, it's not often I see one of these videos and it actually has stuff I've not heard over and over again.
My tip is for Revell Contacta Professional Liquid Glue. Stick a pin down the applicator tube and it stops it from clogging up between uses, you don't have to store it upright as it totally seals it shut and it also works should you lose the blue cap. I've had my glue since the 90's and it's still going strong.
Oh man, that’s a genius tip!
Those are some really good tips. The hand sanitiser one was a light bulb moment.
With regard to mixing thinners etc, I've been using a few drops of glycerin, I don't understand it, but I was told it breaks up surface tension and gives a better finish.
Glycerin will work yes. It’s just a bit more expensive and much better for making jelly! 🤣
Dish soap works too and Pledge floor polish.
I recommend a pack of dry artist pastels as substitute for Tamiya weathering palette or eyeshadow.
I have loads of those I use for dry pigments. The tamiya stuff is very different on application
Some cosmetic acrylic finger decals are great for animal prints for your escher gangers.
What brand of water slide transfer paper were you using? Most I have tried failed.
They’re called Hayes. I put a link in the description. Three thin coats of varnish on the paper after printing and before using seemed to work well. Could be the paper, the varnish…who knows in this hobby. Sometimes things don’t work just because the world thinks you wore the wrong shoes that day! 🤣😀
P.s. You want me to spend more time in the makeup aisle buying nail art! 😜👍🏼
Another tip for the wipes is they make great "tarps,curtains,other fabrics" on terrain. Just soak in pva water mix, scrunch to desired shape and hey presto. Just get cheap ones that don't have teddy bear embossing on them
But I like my tarps with teddy bear branding on them! 🤣🤣 👍🏼
Interaction with videos via likes & comments, I hear, help a channel grow. Yours deserves to be seen. You're very analytical and straight-forward; I know plenty of other hobbyists need to see your brilliance.
You should write a letter to some of the bosses I’ve had over the years!! 🤣🤣
@@thestateofplay2023 are you saying your video genius is all just a facade?! Or the bosses couldn't see the incredible potential?!
@@sstankfish probably both. Certainly the latter!! 🤣
Great tips, as always. Keep up the great work! Production quality and content are top notch.
I’ll try! Thanks Mate!
I've recently started using a silicone poppet fidget toy (the bubble wrap simulator thing) as a dry pallet when using contrast paints. its little domes make perfect little wells for mixing colors and when your done you just let it dry and pop out the plug of paint.
Yeah, I saw that doing the rounds. Problem is the wells are quite small for mixing a decent amount of paint and you can’t really find a white one anywhere. I don’t really want to be mixing paints in a coloured fidget popper. I’d never know what the actual colour was.👍🏼😀
Man I love this Channel.
And you’re now my favourite commenter!
The waterslide decals are such an intresting idea, im planning on graffiti on city scape walls for zombicide and marvel crisis protocol. Thank you for the tip! Im trying to learn more about it now.
Yeah, freehanding graffiti isn’t my strength so I looked for a way to ‘cheat’!!
DENTAL BRACKETS!
I use the pointy end to scoop Pigment or Scoop and spread texture-paints, To poke push and scrape where I cant reach and a Knife would cause damage. The String-End can be used to polish surfaces and detect unevenness when cleaning up mold-lines and sprue-gate connections.
Oh brilliant! Gotta get me some of those!
Awesome & informative as always!
☺️ Many thanks!!
Absolutely great video, some great tips I didn’t even think of!!
Thank you! I appreciate it!
Excellent, thanks!
My pleasure!
some really great tips, ty
Cheers Jay!
You got me to subscribe with this video. Nicely done! The lamian medium mix is slick (I also use a similar thing by leaving dabs of it on my palette and I dot my brush with it as I paint.
It’s always nice to meet another like-minded person!! Welcome!!
One word: Excellent!
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wow great idea with those eye shades!
Great for evenings out too!
I also buy distilled water and use that exclusively for my painting and air brushing
Yeah, once I discovered my terrible limescale filled water was causing issues it was amazing how things changed!
Another great video! Very helpful. Thanks
Diluted acrylic matte medium makes a great adhesive for scenic elements rather than pva, I find. Good for: static grass, ground foam, sand, etc.
I’ve never tried that but considering it’s just an acrylic polymer binder it makes a lot of sense!
Brilliant tips and video! Will definitely be trying some of these out! My hack is using shot glasses as painting handles. Can get anywhere from 10-50 in a pack, along with some blutac it makes for great and inexpensive handles when batch painting.
You mean those plastic shot glasses that come in a big pack? At first I read it as REAL shot glasses and wondered why you weren’t using them for Tequila! Great tip!
@@thestateofplay2023 Yeah exactly those! You can get different heights/quantity/quality ones - but they're available in most supermarkets, just have to keep an eye out for them. I've got something like 30 painting handles on the go for less than £5! And it it breaks, no worries.
Cool! I’ll keep 25 handles on the go and put Rum in the last 5. That way, if my paint job is terrible, I won’t care anyway! 👍🏼
In the ball-jointed doll community, we use chalk pastels for blush or eyeshadow when painting the doll faces. I haven't tried yet, but I imagine a similar technique could also be used for makeup on miniatures as well. You use a craft blade to gently scrape off a small amount, ensuring the texture is fine, and then use a brush to gently apply. It's then affixed with a spray sealant.
Years ago before fine detail brushes were widely available as now, cat whiskers were used to paint eyelashes. For finer control, tape the whisker to a brush. Obviously don't go forcefully plucking whiskers from your cat, but if you find one laying about, why not try it?
Welcome! Yes, we tend to use those pastels as pigment powders for realistic dirt and dust. I usually stick the full pastel in a small coffee grinder then pour into a small jar.
And for detail brushes, save the poor cats!! You can use Nail Art brushes which are great and no whiskers need to be harmed! 👍🏼🤣🤣
@@thestateofplay2023 Hey if that whisker is on the floor, it's up for grabs! hahah
@@DemonicSpoon I’d be crawling around on the floor for hours. Needle. haystack! 🤣
Do you have the floor images? They look great. My latest fav trick is you can use kids/magic sand that come in really small containers (hobbycraft in the UK) and if you mix that into cheap craft paint with a blob of PVA you get a great really nice fine texture. They also come in funky colours and have used this with superglue to look like different materials.
I’m planning on doing a Patreon sometime so I can distribute all the digital files I create. And I have so many of them!
Love the sand tip! Here’s another, Tesco sell really big bags of coloured kids sand cheaper than Hobbycraft! Because nothing EVER stays in the sand pit!! 😜
Genius with the flow improver 👍
Good trick that one!
I have definitely used a cheap eyeshadow palette for shading on miniatures! I'm sure it's basically the same thing, just more expensive because it's more skin safe. Just make sure you don't use the shimmery ones, other wise you have a lot of baby wipes to use.
The shimmery one would moon cool with colour changing paints!
Finally something to do with all that hand sanitizer!
Had to come back and watch this again because I had forgotten a few bits but the alcohol gel one is my favourite tip.
🤣 You must have ended up with as much sanitiser as me!
@thestateofplay2023 Yeah! My GF is an ODP (scrub nurse) in theatres at our hospital. I think we could run a bath with it!
😳🤣 we had a problem ordering in the very beginning so my wife ordered from every place thinking none might arrive due to stock.
It all arrived. 🫣
Great video. Subbed!
Thanks! Welcome to the team!
Loving the tips series! As someone that seems to have tried a lot of unusual things in the hobby, have you ever tried one of the panel liner tools? They look like a fountain pen, but work like a quill, dipping into a highly liquid ink & then dropping along recesses. I keep seeing them when I try to find Tamiya panel liner & really want to know how well they work!
Hey! They’re great but they’re weird. I used to do WW2 tanks years ago and yes it worked. But… when tamiya brought out the panel liner bottles with the integrated pointy brush it became a little redundant. Why would I dip that in the pot when the brush was already there. It was a great tool for enamels and oils, in its day, but has been superseded by easier tools. And considering you can wipe off enamel and oil with spirit really easily you didn’t really need to be that neat.
Good video! Some of these I already use or a variant of them. Thanks!
Awesome! Thanks!
I dont really use oil paints because the flammable bit and have a little that i dont want to get ahold of the medium. My tip is using gouache paint in a similar manner people use streaking grime. Coat the mini and then reactivate it with water on a sponge, brush, piece of shirt etc and wipe it from the raised edges. I think its just opaque water color.
Want to practice trying to legit paint with it more because i bought the set that comes in cakes and you wet to use. I like the idea of wasting less paint by just being able to reactivate it later. Come back a week later to my dried out pallete and pick up with the same mix I was using kind of stuff. Life gets in the way. Issue I have is if I reactivate it on the model I get tide marks. Was hoping it would be a blending hack, but havent figured out the magic sauce yet.
CC minis did the first mini video I saw on gouache and James Gurney uses it a ton in 2D art.
I have a set of acrylic gouache but they don’t reactivate sadly. I did watch a video a while back about standard gouache but never got around to testing. As you say, life gets in the way! 🤣👍🏼
The Range ... just saying. They have an art department and stock Winsor and Newton products so no deliver fees and the one near me has a huge selection of Oils and brushes. I always have a look at their pastels as well which can make great pigment powder.
Yeah they only have the Winton line or the Artisan line near me. Which personally are terrible for thinned washes - pigment soup! You can’t beat professional artist oils for superfine pigments and super smooth washes. But price….
On the pastel thing though - I hear ya!!
Edit: Just went online. The Range do have W&N Artist oils at £5.99 to £10.99. Very good price! Still, 32 colours would come to £200. 🫣
@@thestateofplay2023 assuming you want all 200 colours 😂 I'm happy with Black and Brown for now.
Yup, I’m greedy. And a cheapskate! 🤣🤣
Spread wipes and rip em a little and mask surfaces to airbrush for marble effects.
Or keep the wipes and spray Montana Marble Effect direct from a rattle can…😜
@@thestateofplay2023 i hadn’t heard of that before, that’s pretty neat!
Great video. I'm going to be trying out Tamiya weathering stuff.
Yes, great for Saturday nights out. Oh!? You meant on your models. My bad.
@@thestateofplay2023 no fella. I'm wearing the crap out of them. The Tyrant is going to be fecking rocking the whole Ziggy Stardust look.
Toothpicks. Useful for most things and they are cheap.
Need to unclog something? Toothpicks. Need to put a little bit of super glue from you very big bottle on a tiny surface? Toothpicks. Want to make subassembly? Toothpicks. Need some easy to build fences or paths? Toothpicks. Need to stir your paints in your old bottle? Toothpicks. Want to make a macabre display of heads on spikes either as scenery or just to paint them more easily? Toothpicks. Got some snacks stuck between your teeth? Toothpicks.
Haha. Reading through that I was thinking “teeth”, and you did not disappoint at the end!! Totally agree. Toothpicks and Blu Tack are the two most underrated hobby tools.
Absolutely brilliant as always. Have learnt 7 new tips there. The only one I have used for a while are the Tamiya pallets. If you ever had the interest could you do a video on brushes ? Takes ages to decide on something that decent but doesn’t cost the same as a leviathon box set 😂. Been looking at rosemary and co but would love your advise/opinion on them
Hey Mr S! My go to brushes have always been Raphael 8404. I always had bad luck with Windsor and Newton as they have annoying hairs that would stick out.
However, recently I have started to migrate to Rosemary and co. As their brushes are top notch. In fact, they make the Artis Opis brushes.
Best tip is to buy one Raphael 8404 and one Rosemary Series 33 and try both. See which you prefer.
@@thestateofplay2023 I’ve had the series 33 in my basket for a while. Trying to decide if that’s the way to go. Thank you as always 😊 might order them today and see how I get on
My philosophy always goes like this; the brush only helps the painter, the painter makes the difference AND you can’t test what you don’t have. 👍🏼
Great video! Really liked the Lamian tip. Would you be so kind to specify the water amount compared to the 5 drops of medium + 2 drops of flow improver? 🚀
It’s really a personal preference on how you like your medium to behave. I like mine to work like Lahmium so I generally work 90% water to 10% medium.
Awesome
But enough about me. What about the video? 🤣🤣
When you use the pro acryl glaze and wash medium, is that similar to the liquitex glazing medium?
Yes very similar. But the pro acryl version is light years ahead
More hobby thing to buy. Yei!1!!🎉
Who doesn’t love buying more hobby things! 😂
I have a dozen pallets of my lady's old unused eyeshadows I use for weathering and texturing it's the same thing as my tamya far as I can tell
I KNEW IT!!!
@@thestateofplay2023 ask around your female friends and there more than happy to give them away I've got a metallic blue green that makes for amazing corrosion on copper and brass colors
It would have to be friends. The wife would kill me for using hers!
@@thestateofplay2023 ask her for old ones she doesn't use and ask her to ask her friends definitely don't use her good ones rofl
Fake eyelashes make pretty good long grass tufts.
Pretty expensive tufts though! 🤣🤣
Where is the original of this video? How much water was in that second pot for the layman’s medium? (Yes I watched your ink mixing video first, 😉 gonna call it layman’s for ever now)
It’s in the first 8 hobby tools video under the two water pots section on my channel. But if you aim for 75ml water, 5 ml matte medium and 1ml of optional flow aid…
it really makes me wonder if the Tamiya weathering pigments are just cheap, low quality eyeshadow colours 🤔
I think that goes for a lot of hobby products. Ammo Oilbrushers look just like mascara. Pigments work just like face powders. 🤣🤣 Nail polish is just glossy acrylic. 🤣
@@thestateofplay2023 lol that reminds me - I painted my first miniature with nail polish 😂
Oh wow, really? How’d it look?
@@thestateofplay2023 Shiny. But it didn't chip at all for a few years, considering I had it on my key chain.
This is my first exposure to your channel. Looks solid. A note: you need a Mic. I can barely hear you. It's affecting an otherwise very professional looking presentation.
Thanks Austin. I have a mic, pretty hard to record without one 🤣. And audio is mastered to where RUclips tells me it should be. -12db and -20db. I’ve gone for -15. Can I ask where you’re watching? Phone, computer, Tv?
@@thestateofplay2023 RUclips on a Mac. I usually watch content at 3 to 5 bars. At 5 bars your audio is barely there. Switching to similar content creators (and a few dissimilar), 5 is either good or a touch too loud.
I thought the audio was from an onboard / built-in mic on the camera.
No it’s from a RODE mic on the camera half a metre away. Ok I’ll try to bump it up. I’ll have to find a happy balance because a previous comment told me it was too loud and pierced their eardrums… I personally always found most RUclipsrs way too loud which makes the ads even louder!! 😀
@@thestateofplay2023 Sounds fine here
Nice video! Cant recommend Tamiya stuff enough for our hobby!! Did you try out panel liner and their gunpla markers?
Panel liners yes. Gunpla markers I couldn’t actually find a justification for or I’d have grabbed them too!! 😀
Another great video with very good ideas, now go and get those false eye lashes as they would look great on you 😊
Thanks Frank! Eyelashes have been ordered! 🥹
I love this vid
Well now you’re just giving me future performance anxiety….
@@thestateofplay2023 Nope m8, sorry. the performance anxiety is all you ;0)
I've been painting 43years so I've made nearly all the mistakes and muddle through to answers to most. This is still a vid I should have been able to look at 40yrs ago, I blame you
@@philgee486 40 years ago it would have been a black and white article in White Dwarf issue minus 60!
I may have a full head of hair still but I’m knocking on 37 years in this hobby myself. My first Minis were Ral Partha painted with Humbrol tin pots. 😜
@@thestateofplay2023 Exactly the same, a pack of Ral Partha kobolds painted Afrika Korps desert yellow to play the first D&D scenario in the box, small hobby world!
I was 17 and no, I don't have a full head of hair....
1:04 can I sub airbrush flow improver with some retarder I already have?
Retarder extends drying time whereas flow improver changes the fluidity of the paint. So sadly no. You can however use a drop of dish soap which is also a flow improver. Mix it with a bit of water and add it. Stir slowly so you don’t make bubbles. 👍🏼
@@thestateofplay2023 Thanks for the response! Much appreciated. Ill give it a go!
Nice ideas indeed!
Now, concerning the audio in your video you might wanna amp it up a bit during editing, maybe?
Thanks! Interesting on the audio. It’s set to exactly where RUclips tells me to put it. I also thought RUclips levels the audio up or down after upload but I guess not. I’ll see what I can do!
@@thestateofplay2023 TBH, I am not familiar with any post process that RUclips applies to uploaded videos.
The audio in this one seemed to me a bit lower than other videos tested simultaneously. Also, there seemed to be large fluctuations between min and max audio level.
@@faidon90125 that’s weird as I didn’t change anything between videos.
why not just mix the IPA with the PVA?
Couple of reasons. Without a lab coat and serous measuring equipment the PVA can just turn to goop.
I found that although the alcohol should evaporate quicker it took much longer to dry.
Thirdly it’s the most expensive way to do it. Flow improver is cheaper than IPA. And I like to keep the IPA for airbrush cleaning and well, just cleaning.
and finally, it’s flammable. Not that I base near naked flames but I might. Sometime. 🤣
you try eye makeup on yourself too‽ i thought i was the only one! 😜
How else do we test it….😜
You talk about mixing "4 or 5 big drops of matte medium, and 1 or 2 drops of flow improver" into water to make your "Layman's Medium", but you don't say how much water to mix them with! If you're going to include measurements, please include measurements for all ingredients. Please and thank you.
You don’t need to be that accurate. You’re aiming for it to look like Lahmian Medium. Like a milky water. But it’s basically about 75ml water, 5ml matte medium and a few drops of flow aid.
So if this is the squeal... when's the reboot?
Like most reboots, in about 20 years. Same actors, grey hair, and some baton passing younger cast thrown in. 😜😀
I mean really, do you actually need to buy 12 shades of brown paint?
Eh? I don’t have 12 shades of brown. If you’re referring to the Instant Colours in the background then with those, in the dropper, every colour looks brown. Proper bottle design flaw with those paints.
All of a sudden I feel like an asshole for using distilled water this whole time.
I’m just lazy and look for cheats, so don’t feel bad. 😜👍🏼