Those "Budgies" reference photos in your video were the birbiest birbs I ever did birbwatch. So rotund, chubby, and weirdly fluffy. Perfection. In all seriousness, thank you for this video, Ninjon.
I needed this. I went to college as a Fine Art major and the simple reminder to go fast, make the darks darker, and the lights lighter, is always good advice.
I’ve literally just painted what is probably my best mini ever, it took like 5hrs, my previous best took like 60hrs and half my army paint jobs took at least 10hrs per squad if not closer to 20hrs. My mind was blown when I stopped and actually noticed that. Still has me kinda puzzled but oh well, I’ll take the win I guess 😂 You’re absolutely right and this video will help so many people with this. Great work as always 😁❤️👍🏼
A budgie is a native bird from Australia that has been domesticated, budgie smugglers is an Australian term to describe speedos as it often looks like someone stuffed a budgie down their trunks
I've gotten so much better at speed painting over the years. Much of it is due to you and Marco. Getting oil paints and an airbrush have super helped there...and just learning better how to see where the light would be...
Budgie is a type of parakeet. You aren't wrong but the use of Bidgerigar is a wiki entry no one talks about. I have had bird people around me my whole life and heard the proper name used once by people that are fanatics about all types of birds and parakeets.
@@jamblpaints8453 No they are referred to as Budgies but are known to be part of the greater groupings. Many in the US are not acutely aware but many in the keeping are quick to point the differences and several will have lorikeet in their expanse of knowledge also. But use is so uncommon for anything but offical use even in bird care websites from both mentioned countries. Just saying the average person on the street is more likely to use the common expression. I knew I should have just said "thanks for the taxonomy lesson professor" and moved on with the sarcasm as the point more than how this obviously landed. Sorry that crossed a reply partially to not you also please don't take it as such intentionally. I have cross replied apparently upon hitting send and releasing the arrow already so this is my dual correction.
Such a cool little mini! I wish there were more minis that weren't all about killing stuff. My favourite thing about painting oldhammer is that they have so much character and have been sculpted with a sense of humour.
Think the word you're looking for is "whimsy" or looking for more whimsical lines of minis. Get out of the GW cult of gaming and step into the WORLD of tabletop gaming and there's plenty out there. Burrows and Badgers comes to mind immediately. Noble foxes, mercenary rabbits, mage moles...yeah, it's all there.
Been binging painting videos for a few weeks while saving up for paints. Best advice I've heard dealt with choosing one or two aspects to focus on, and the rest can be a simpler paint job. It helped me reorganize my plans for painting, and cut down on the ridiculous number of paints I was planning on getting.
Another video I needed just when I needed it. I get so bogged down with making sure each step is perfect before I move on and it, more often than not, kills a project for me before it really gets done. Thanks Jon, you genuinely keep me so motivated for mini painting.
Gorgeous paint job!! Thank you so much for painting our surly bird model 😁 This video is full of solid advice, and the results really speak for themselves. I especially like the cultivation of an "artist" mindset in your videos; the key to improvement is to practice a lot, and learn from each piece.
Budgie is a shortened name for the Budgerigar or common parakeet and is only found in Australia. Very cute little birbs too with lots of different colours. Hope that helps
Dude this is what i needed! I have 20 plaguebearers I've been dreading to paint but this is a huge help! I'll be doing this instead of batch painting like I planned
Make sure you check out that video from his library where he painted 120 zombies! I learned a ton watching that one and helped me immensely when I had to smash out 90 of my own!
I think also Ref gathering before hand is super important and laying them out in something like PureRef, will also help nail down the limited selection of colors on the palette. Great vid!
Budgie (Nound) Shor For budgerigar. A small Australian bird often kept as a pet. Budgie smugglers, small swimware that makes it look like you are keeping a small bird in your trunk to enhance your junk. Googele "budgerigar" to see the many colours this small brid comes in. I love your vids, love the 80s tape reference, love your approach to teaching painting.
I've been printing hundreds of prints but I've never bought a model until today. Thank you for the suggestion, the budgie will be my first bought model!
I am always in awe at the transformation from the bare model to the finished work of art. What a magnificent piece. Thanks for all you do. I may actually begin to work on my pile of shame.
budgie is a colloquial name for the common budgerigar, a small australian grasslands parrot which is most commonly known to americans as a parakeet. They make very good pets!
@@dotdotdotPaul All budgies are parakeets, but not all parakeets are budgies. Parakeet refers to a whole category of birds that includes cockatiels and many other types of small, long tailed parrot also (0v0)
I was going to snicker and say, oh I bet he didn't include other countries for the sale links!.. and you have.. so a heartfelt thank you for that!! Not all of us are from America :) I appreciate that
That sums up my painting style. I only disagree that you can learn mixing colors en passante with normal tabletop paints. The mixtures of many different pigments leads very often to strange results. I highly recommend pure pigment paints to avoid frustration.
you are so great, thanks a lot for this inspiring new content! I love those words "just watching painting-videos deosn't make you a better painter" just the truth and right on the spot. Thank you, really. I think most people really need the AHA-moment, when i think back to my starting days i was watching so many descriptions and i had to try everything several times before it really worked.
Great video. Amazing paintjob. I just recently had a "serious" chat with a fellow painter with me discussing the mentality of speed painting (with a purpose). When I fully decided that I'm painting for enjoyment, that's when I had more more fun painting. It's very liberating. On average, I can paint a 28-32mm to a decent quality within an hour. That gives me more time to do other stuff (i.e. work, chores, family time, gaming). You have put some of my thoughts into better words. Thanks.
best thing i learned from HobbyTube was Uncle Atom's 90/10 rule. Spend 10% of your time learning new things, and 90% of your time practicing the things you've learned. Helped with my tutorial paralysis where I felt like I needed to learn and study everything before I started painting.
I have has so many SO many AHAH moments realising what you and Scott had been going on about from your Podcast episodes and both your channels so like you mention, there is only so much watching you can do before applying it. Also, it needs to be considered that it also about smiles per mini in combination with hours per mini. The process is or can be an enjoyable part of the hobby.
Thank you for another great video for us newbies (still haven’t painted my first model yet due to the chaos that is home renovations). The final look was pretty damn amazing.
"Look at you. Look at all the time you wasted. You painted a small green man....well...at least your happy. I guess." Pretty much what I heard for years from family, and people, in general, who don't understand model building or figure painting. Or any form of creativity. 😔 They always see it as a waste of time better spent elsewhere. Often "elsewhere" that will make money, not enjoyment. 😏 I haven't been able to build models (my form of creativity) for nearly 2 years due to a temporary living situation. But watching you paint and create is a nice way for me to escape for a bit. Thank you for your videos, and your channel. 😊😎 Cheers, Excellence and Party on. 🤘🎸😎🥳🌈
Your most welcome! and great tips as for me I'm starting with just the primary and secondary colors, black, white and gold then mix as needed. As it's cheaper then just buying an entire range at once and faster then buying 1 at a time as needed. Also good point about when yoour not building an army you can now decate time to one model instead of like 30 of them.
It was so cool to watch that. Most of what you said have relation to agile methodologies, what I make a love of and pays for my paints. So many concepts you tapped: fail fast, Mvp, focus, getting to done... I loved it. Will start to think more and more how those things correlates
Budgie - Australian for Budgerigar, a small native parrot about the size of a canary over here that is often kept as a pet. And yeah, budgie smugglers are derived from the same bird.
It depends, I painted about 40 minis in a day for dungeons and dragons. They were better than the wizkids pre-paints but not tabletop standard. But its for D&D, monsters gonna die a lot! So i think its a skill to be able to adjust your speed:detail level depending on your needs
yea i agree that a lot of the time it depends on what you are painting. if youre painting something that is a dark/grimy environment, then its ok if the mini isnt perfect. if that makes sense!
This channel is pretty much taking the model past table level. This is for aspiring painting contest types. Pretty much goes without saying that getting great looking minis for the table for actual gaming takes well less than 4 hours.
@@percyblok6014 Yeah but there's almost zero 'tabletop standard' RUclips painters. It's always a single model to an insane standard or less often an army to an insane standard.
Budgie is a small native parrot in Australia. Budgie smugglers are bathers called this as it appears the wearer is smuggling budgies down the front of the bathers...
Damn, man, I dig the evolution that your channel went through, from somewhat goofy sidekick to really informative and fun to watch dude! It's a joy to watch and learn from your videos. Well done!
Thanks for this. I much prefer the mindset of painting for me rather than some award that is out of my reach. It’s a hobby that should be about self-improvement and enjoyment and this really comes across in your video.
The bigger factor in hobby paints going grey when mixed is many colours have white added for opacity. Different colours respond to this white differently. A yellow can take a lot more white than blue without showing much difference.
always look forward to a Jon vid, I'm a sucker for painting the details, and weathering the details and.... Now when I paint a unit of troops I pick two areas of the figure and give them most of the time, then I fill in the rest and if it still detracts too much I oil wash it downward. Units really come together with that shared definition
"think of all you could have done with your life...but you painted a little green space man." Ok I really didn't need an existential crisis at 9am today.
How much truth was in Daryl there at the end? "think of all you could have done with your life. But, uh, you painted a little green space man, so..hey man..I'm sure you're happy"
Ninjon x Cobramode?! This is the content I crave! I hope you do some more videos on Cobramode minis, because they are some of the best printable minis out there that aren't just your bog-standard fantasy or sci-fi designs. So much so that they're almost a little intimidating to paint.
With regards to highlights, one of the best things I've learned in ten years as a game dev is 'go too far then dial it back, don't try to inch upwards to where you think you need to be'. This is so broadly applicable. Whats an exaggerated form of whatever the thing is you're trying to do? Do that, learn about what happens when it's too much, make the reductions you need until its good and there you go. If you start from a conservative position you'll stop before you go far enough because you'll hit something that's good enough long before then
Get the bits you need to completely strip paint off a mini. This way you can sit down and tell yourself you are just practicing painting and will undo it all at the end. That way you can try new things and if they don't work, it literally doesn't matter. And if it looks "wow" at the end, you can just keep it!
Thanks for the video! I had a video suggestion, I've played with a couple acrylic brush pens, like ones with little foam brushes, and it turned out to be a really fun and helpful too for edge highlighting, even with shaky hands, and I'm curious about if you gave them a go. I might even give freehanding a go with them.
Hey Jon, this Video and the real reason why you don't paint your minis are really good. After the other video I painted 4 Miniatures in 4 Days and it felt really good. Not only did I achieve something but I tried new things in the process. I'm going to sprinkle in a "palate cleanser" mini in from time to time now.
That was incredible ! I can't say I'm confident enough to put my brush on Xpensive GW plastic to begin, so I just slap paint on cardboard & other cheap material instead
"If you can't see it, it wasn't worth painting it" is really a great general rule of thumb in the hobby, not just in this specific instance.
Those "Budgies" reference photos in your video were the birbiest birbs I ever did birbwatch. So rotund, chubby, and weirdly fluffy. Perfection. In all seriousness, thank you for this video, Ninjon.
I needed this. I went to college as a Fine Art major and the simple reminder to go fast, make the darks darker, and the lights lighter, is always good advice.
"Fail faster" is, by far, the most useful advice ever in the creative process!❤
I’ve literally just painted what is probably my best mini ever, it took like 5hrs, my previous best took like 60hrs and half my army paint jobs took at least 10hrs per squad if not closer to 20hrs.
My mind was blown when I stopped and actually noticed that. Still has me kinda puzzled but oh well, I’ll take the win I guess 😂
You’re absolutely right and this video will help so many people with this.
Great work as always 😁❤️👍🏼
A budgie is a native bird from Australia that has been domesticated, budgie smugglers is an Australian term to describe speedos as it often looks like someone stuffed a budgie down their trunks
I've gotten so much better at speed painting over the years. Much of it is due to you and Marco. Getting oil paints and an airbrush have super helped there...and just learning better how to see where the light would be...
I also like watching his videos. We have common hobbies.
Budgie = Budgerigar, small australian bird, you look like you're smuggling a budgie in your swimmers = Budgie Smugglers
Budgie is a type of parakeet. You aren't wrong but the use of Bidgerigar is a wiki entry no one talks about. I have had bird people around me my whole life and heard the proper name used once by people that are fanatics about all types of birds and parakeets.
@@rallyfeind Are you American? If you are, its probably because Parakeet is the US name for the bird.
@@jamblpaints8453 No they are referred to as Budgies but are known to be part of the greater groupings. Many in the US are not acutely aware but many in the keeping are quick to point the differences and several will have lorikeet in their expanse of knowledge also. But use is so uncommon for anything but offical use even in bird care websites from both mentioned countries. Just saying the average person on the street is more likely to use the common expression. I knew I should have just said "thanks for the taxonomy lesson professor" and moved on with the sarcasm as the point more than how this obviously landed.
Sorry that crossed a reply partially to not you also please don't take it as such intentionally. I have cross replied apparently upon hitting send and releasing the arrow already so this is my dual correction.
@@rallyfeind You're really overcomplicating things chief. OP was just saying where the word budgie came from
@@meepmop6 Thanks for explaining.
Such a cool little mini! I wish there were more minis that weren't all about killing stuff. My favourite thing about painting oldhammer is that they have so much character and have been sculpted with a sense of humour.
Plenty of minis that aren't about killing stuff, just look at companies that make display minis instead of ones that make games about killing stuff...
@@Remixersoloman care to share some companies?
@@hellodave93 I love the 3D prints from 'Great Grimoire', lots of detail and character and often not 'combat' focused
How is this any less about killing stuff than anything else with a weapon?
Think the word you're looking for is "whimsy" or looking for more whimsical lines of minis. Get out of the GW cult of gaming and step into the WORLD of tabletop gaming and there's plenty out there. Burrows and Badgers comes to mind immediately. Noble foxes, mercenary rabbits, mage moles...yeah, it's all there.
Been binging painting videos for a few weeks while saving up for paints. Best advice I've heard dealt with choosing one or two aspects to focus on, and the rest can be a simpler paint job.
It helped me reorganize my plans for painting, and cut down on the ridiculous number of paints I was planning on getting.
Another video I needed just when I needed it. I get so bogged down with making sure each step is perfect before I move on and it, more often than not, kills a project for me before it really gets done. Thanks Jon, you genuinely keep me so motivated for mini painting.
This little dude inspired me.. I bought him and painted him up. I love the end result!! Thanks Jon
Gorgeous paint job!! Thank you so much for painting our surly bird model 😁 This video is full of solid advice, and the results really speak for themselves. I especially like the cultivation of an "artist" mindset in your videos; the key to improvement is to practice a lot, and learn from each piece.
Budgie is a shortened name for the Budgerigar or common parakeet and is only found in Australia. Very cute little birbs too with lots of different colours. Hope that helps
Also, the term Budgie-Smuggler is derived from the Budgerigar. I'll leave it to your visual imagination to figure out how that confluence works.
And let us not forget the classic stoner rock band, Budgie
The heck is a parakeet? Oh, you mean a parrot. PS you only get green ones in the wild here, millions (literally) of them. The coloured ones are bred.
Awesome budgie! Beautifully crafted and beautifully crafted.
Dude this is what i needed! I have 20 plaguebearers I've been dreading to paint but this is a huge help! I'll be doing this instead of batch painting like I planned
Make sure you check out that video from his library where he painted 120 zombies! I learned a ton watching that one and helped me immensely when I had to smash out 90 of my own!
I think also Ref gathering before hand is super important and laying them out in something like PureRef, will also help nail down the limited selection of colors on the palette. Great vid!
Just started painting last month at the age of 25. You have been a huge help for me starting my journey. Keep up the good work!
Budgie (Nound) Shor For budgerigar. A small Australian bird often kept as a pet.
Budgie smugglers, small swimware that makes it look like you are keeping a small bird in your trunk to enhance your junk.
Googele "budgerigar" to see the many colours this small brid comes in.
I love your vids, love the 80s tape reference, love your approach to teaching painting.
I've been printing hundreds of prints but I've never bought a model until today. Thank you for the suggestion, the budgie will be my first bought model!
I am always in awe at the transformation from the bare model to the finished work of art. What a magnificent piece. Thanks for all you do. I may actually begin to work on my pile of shame.
This is such a good reminder to just enjoy the process.
budgie is a colloquial name for the common budgerigar, a small australian grasslands parrot which is most commonly known to americans as a parakeet. They make very good pets!
I knew it was a nickname for a parakeet, didn't know it came from "budgerigar"! TIL! :D
@@dotdotdotPaul All budgies are parakeets, but not all parakeets are budgies. Parakeet refers to a whole category of birds that includes cockatiels and many other types of small, long tailed parrot also (0v0)
TIL. :)
Amazing results for only 4 hours! And what a cute miniature 😍
When Ninjon uses “a few” paints to mix into more colors:
Traditional artists: *laughs in primary colors*
Truly appreciate your doing something that is, as you say, fun!
Your channel has always been great, but it's actually getting better too. Great stuff, great advice, and great analysis of purpose!
man, i can't wait to paint a warlord titan amazingly in under 4 hours!
I was going to snicker and say, oh I bet he didn't include other countries for the sale links!.. and you have.. so a heartfelt thank you for that!! Not all of us are from America :) I appreciate that
That sums up my painting style. I only disagree that you can learn mixing colors en passante with normal tabletop paints. The mixtures of many different pigments leads very often to strange results. I highly recommend pure pigment paints to avoid frustration.
you are so great, thanks a lot for this inspiring new content! I love those words "just watching painting-videos deosn't make you a better painter" just the truth and right on the spot. Thank you, really. I think most people really need the AHA-moment, when i think back to my starting days i was watching so many descriptions and i had to try everything several times before it really worked.
Another great one Jon, my wife would love that mini. Thanks again.
What an 80s rock sounding intro. I am in love
That bird pirate looks awesome. Love it.
My budgie of 10 years died recently. This was a great video, and what a great mini.
'You're not going to get better at painting minis just by watching videos'
I feel called out 😂
Budgie (same as in budgie smugglers) is short for budgerigar - a small type of Australian parrot. Some great points and tips in the video, thanks!
Great video. Amazing paintjob.
I just recently had a "serious" chat with a fellow painter with me discussing the mentality of speed painting (with a purpose).
When I fully decided that I'm painting for enjoyment, that's when I had more more fun painting. It's very liberating. On average, I can paint a 28-32mm to a decent quality within an hour. That gives me more time to do other stuff (i.e. work, chores, family time, gaming).
You have put some of my thoughts into better words. Thanks.
best thing i learned from HobbyTube was Uncle Atom's 90/10 rule. Spend 10% of your time learning new things, and 90% of your time practicing the things you've learned. Helped with my tutorial paralysis where I felt like I needed to learn and study everything before I started painting.
I have has so many SO many AHAH moments realising what you and Scott had been going on about from your Podcast episodes and both your channels so like you mention, there is only so much watching you can do before applying it.
Also, it needs to be considered that it also about smiles per mini in combination with hours per mini. The process is or can be an enjoyable part of the hobby.
Thank you for another great video for us newbies (still haven’t painted my first model yet due to the chaos that is home renovations). The final look was pretty damn amazing.
"Look at you. Look at all the time you wasted. You painted a small green man....well...at least your happy. I guess."
Pretty much what I heard for years from family, and people, in general, who don't understand model building or figure painting. Or any form of creativity. 😔
They always see it as a waste of time better spent elsewhere. Often "elsewhere" that will make money, not enjoyment. 😏
I haven't been able to build models (my form of creativity) for nearly 2 years due to a temporary living situation. But watching you paint and create is a nice way for me to escape for a bit.
Thank you for your videos, and your channel. 😊😎
Cheers, Excellence and Party on. 🤘🎸😎🥳🌈
Fantastic paint scheme. Spot on for the mini.
This is my favorite paint job you have done on the channel!
Speedpainting with oils would be awesome. Long time coming - you had great intro to them couple vids back!
Nice little bird
Good stuff - it's nice to see people acknowledge that for many of us, time is a factor.
Your most welcome! and great tips as for me I'm starting with just the primary and secondary colors, black, white and gold then mix as needed. As it's cheaper then just buying an entire range at once and faster then buying 1 at a time as needed. Also good point about when yoour not building an army you can now decate time to one model instead of like 30 of them.
cracking job on that little fella, loved the approach too
It was so cool to watch that. Most of what you said have relation to agile methodologies, what I make a love of and pays for my paints. So many concepts you tapped: fail fast, Mvp, focus, getting to done...
I loved it. Will start to think more and more how those things correlates
Budgie - Australian for Budgerigar, a small native parrot about the size of a canary over here that is often kept as a pet.
And yeah, budgie smugglers are derived from the same bird.
The start of this hit me right in the nostalgia
It depends, I painted about 40 minis in a day for dungeons and dragons. They were better than the wizkids pre-paints but not tabletop standard. But its for D&D, monsters gonna die a lot! So i think its a skill to be able to adjust your speed:detail level depending on your needs
yea i agree that a lot of the time it depends on what you are painting. if youre painting something that is a dark/grimy environment, then its ok if the mini isnt perfect. if that makes sense!
This channel is pretty much taking the model past table level. This is for aspiring painting contest types. Pretty much goes without saying that getting great looking minis for the table for actual gaming takes well less than 4 hours.
@@percyblok6014 Yeah but there's almost zero 'tabletop standard' RUclips painters. It's always a single model to an insane standard or less often an army to an insane standard.
Damn stick a pencil in it🤣. Nostalgia levels are off the charts. Great vid Ninjon 👌 keep it up.
So dang goooood. Thank you dude. Makes me wish Friday work day was over and I had a buttload of cash to buy a resin printer.
Wonderful stuff Jo. My nan and her sister had Budgies!! Percy, Billy and Joey!!!😂😂😂👍😉
Budgie is a small native parrot in Australia. Budgie smugglers are bathers called this as it appears the wearer is smuggling budgies down the front of the bathers...
Very well done Jon.
The amazing paintjob aside - as always - HOW AMAZING IS THAT MINI??? I love it!!!
Alpha Legion speed paint? Looks great Jon!! Thank you for taking your time and passion and sharing them with us!!!
I dont paint or own miniatures at all, and I love this channel.
I've always painted slow and horribly, watching your vids gives me so much hope I'll get better.
Love the channel and also ordered a Sonic Mighty 8K with your code. Thank You.
Don't try to be perfect, try tobe better than last time. True words!
Damn, man, I dig the evolution that your channel went through, from somewhat goofy sidekick to really informative and fun to watch dude! It's a joy to watch and learn from your videos. Well done!
Your painting is wicked. The skill level is nuts. Must be a lot of the hours to get to that level. Seeing all the paints and gear must cost a lot. Lol
Another great video Jon.
I always appreciate how motivating your videos are.
I really need the Darryl as Johnny from Cobra Kai style painting teacher, imparting his methods of painting on us students. Eagle Fang baby!!!
Bite like an eagle!
As an Australian, I can tell you that a budgie is short for budgerigar, which is a small bird. They're often kept as pets here.
Thanks for this. I much prefer the mindset of painting for me rather than some award that is out of my reach. It’s a hobby that should be about self-improvement and enjoyment and this really comes across in your video.
Great vid. The bird looks amazing as well.
Damn, that budgie really IS nice!
Lovely meeting you at Warhammer World, love your videos and will always watch your content! Take care Jon!
The bigger factor in hobby paints going grey when mixed is many colours have white added for opacity. Different colours respond to this white differently. A yellow can take a lot more white than blue without showing much difference.
always look forward to a Jon vid, I'm a sucker for painting the details, and weathering the details and....
Now when I paint a unit of troops I pick two areas of the figure and give them most of the time, then I fill in the rest and if it still detracts too much I oil wash it downward. Units really come together with that shared definition
That birdman came out awesome.
"think of all you could have done with your life...but you painted a little green space man." Ok I really didn't need an existential crisis at 9am today.
How much truth was in Daryl there at the end?
"think of all you could have done with your life. But, uh, you painted a little green space man, so..hey man..I'm sure you're happy"
Thank you Jon
Great message Jon!
Ninjon x Cobramode?! This is the content I crave!
I hope you do some more videos on Cobramode minis, because they are some of the best printable minis out there that aren't just your bog-standard fantasy or sci-fi designs. So much so that they're almost a little intimidating to paint.
Beautiful video my dude, love your philosophy with painting and how simply you lay it out, great work!
Beautiful job
Honestly, you are my painting guru. Please keep creating great content
Love the three questions. Tks man!
With regards to highlights, one of the best things I've learned in ten years as a game dev is 'go too far then dial it back, don't try to inch upwards to where you think you need to be'.
This is so broadly applicable. Whats an exaggerated form of whatever the thing is you're trying to do? Do that, learn about what happens when it's too much, make the reductions you need until its good and there you go. If you start from a conservative position you'll stop before you go far enough because you'll hit something that's good enough long before then
I love the focus on learning in this video!
Absolutely incredible paint work and the miniature is so cool Ninjon
You've helped me allot. Thank you for being such a positive pillar of the community.
Budgie smugglers comes from budgie, or budgerigar, small parrot in from Aus, one of the most common pet birds around the world
Budgie is Australian slang for Budgerigar. It's a relatively small bird native to Australia, also the term budgie smugglers is derived from budgie.
Get the bits you need to completely strip paint off a mini. This way you can sit down and tell yourself you are just practicing painting and will undo it all at the end. That way you can try new things and if they don't work, it literally doesn't matter. And if it looks "wow" at the end, you can just keep it!
Perfect advice. I couldn't agree more. This is nearly my exact process nowadays.
That is such a lovely paint job ... I absolutely love it.
"Fail fast" was perfect advice.
Thanks for the video!
I had a video suggestion, I've played with a couple acrylic brush pens, like ones with little foam brushes, and it turned out to be a really fun and helpful too for edge highlighting, even with shaky hands, and I'm curious about if you gave them a go. I might even give freehanding a go with them.
Hey Jon, this Video and the real reason why you don't paint your minis are really good. After the other video I painted 4 Miniatures in 4 Days and it felt really good. Not only did I achieve something but I tried new things in the process. I'm going to sprinkle in a "palate cleanser" mini in from time to time now.
Love that you have a new intro...keep up the awesome work
That was incredible !
I can't say I'm confident enough to put my brush on Xpensive GW plastic to begin, so I just slap paint on cardboard & other cheap material instead