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Rumble painting miniatures is one of the
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most relaxing and chilled parts of my
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and paint some badass from a far off
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getting toing and even people that have
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been doing it for a long long time it
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can be quite daunting offputting and
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stressful which is not great you don't
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that are awesome and make us all look
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give you lots of feedback which is good
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sometimes contradictory hopefully I'm
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not going to do that today and I give
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you some important tips in the process
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and beginning steps of painting
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miniatures uh this is not a list of you
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must do this more of a guideline because
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this is coming from a man who's been
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painting for years and has made every
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and talking about painting techniques
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now let's look at our first part of the
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miniature painting process which is I
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would probably argue quite important
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which is under coating it's also known
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as priming and spray coating it's the
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same thing you might hear lots of
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different terminologies but this is I
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would say quite key because it means you
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get some color onto your Miniatures um
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usually a solvent spray and that then
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gives the rest of the paint something to
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stick to without it it could rub off or
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flake off so it is key for most
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Miniatures to get an undercoat on there
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now the great thing about undercoating
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figures is if you pick a color this can
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speed up your painting process so if
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you've got a figure that's in armor um
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you can spray silver or gold if you've
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got a figure that's mainly red you can
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spray it red there's plenty of painting
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companies out there that Supply a vast
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array of colors whether that's AK color
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Forge Army painter Citadel uh they have
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a good selection um and you can pick
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from that and that will speed along the
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process like I said it's it's about
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picking the majority of the color on
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your model and then getting that on and
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then you can just pick out the other
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details as time goes on now sometimes
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you might not be flush with cash or you
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might only have one spray space for one
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spray paint or let alone the cost for
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one spray paint now I used to only have
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black and white when I first started in
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the Hobby and that was fine cuz if I was
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doing bright colors I'd spray them white
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if I was doing dark colors I'd spray
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them black if you can only get one I
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would suggest getting gray a nice
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standard sort of mid gray um there's
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plenty of companies that do different
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tones of gray but mechanic standard Gray
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from a citadel is the go-to so anything
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that looks similar to that because you
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can go dark quite quickly with it you
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can go light quite quickly with it if
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you have to paint yellow on a model and
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you're a black spray it's a bit harder
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if you want to paint black on a white
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and the co model it's a bit harder but
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as you can see we've we sprayed a
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multitude of figures here we got some
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that sprayed gray silver black you know
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there's a whole multitude of colors if
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you can get hold of other colors it just
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helps cuz it's about speed sometimes CU
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we don't have millions of hours in the
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day to sit there undercoating by hand
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speaking of which undercoating by hand
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that can be done uh it's a little bit
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more dubious and we're going to go into
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the base coating bit a bit more later on
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but if you don't have an undercoat or
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you don't have access to any kind of
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sprays whether you're too young for it
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or you just can't afford it getting a
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base paint and applying that over in a
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couple of thing coats will get you there
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as well it's probably not as good it
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will rub off as time goes on but it
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definitely gets the paint on the model
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also a word of warning when it comes to
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spraying Miniatures if it's too cold or
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too hot it can affect the end result so
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try and find a Tim of day that's like a
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nice warmth it's not too hot not too
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cold um unfortunately there'll be a few
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of you maybe watching this video now in
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really hot environments or really
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freezing cold environments that don't
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have that so in that case maybe base K
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by hand or even getting hold of an
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airbrush um airbrushing is something
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we're going to talk about in another
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video but airbrushing is quite useful
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cuz you can do it inside so now we look
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to undercoating priming spraying
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whatever you want to call it we're now
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going to move on to I would say a really
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good foundation of any painting and
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that's base coating base coating is this
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part of the painting where you get to
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block out all those colors get an idea
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of if the colors are going to work
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together um and then you're ready to
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move on to the next steps without base
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coating it just makes it very hard to do
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the next steps like shading and
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highlighting now there are paints that
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are specifically designed for base
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coating AK have an intense range which
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got a lot of pigment in it uh Citadel
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also have their base range as well and
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there's plenty of other companies out
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there that have similar variants of Bas
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paints uh Bas paints just have more
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pigment in so they cover better they're
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more opaque in their coverage um however
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I would recommend regardless of how
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designed the paint pot is or the style
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of paint you still need to thin it down
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you still need to do multiple thin coats
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and the reason for doing that is if you
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just use it straight from the part it'll
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be really thick it'll be really goopy it
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clug up your detail and you get loads of
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brush strokes and often brush hairs in
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the miniature and it just looks really
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unsightly when you come to doing any
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kind of Base coating layering Etc doing
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multiple thing coat
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is better because you get smoother
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coverage it doesn't clo up the detail as
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much it might seem like a bit longwinded
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like when I'm doing several coats but
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actually it just has a better finish so
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that's something to bear in mind when
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you're doing base coating now when it
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comes to thinning the paints down
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themselves uh there is a bit of a trick
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um there is no sort of like hard and
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fast rule when it comes to thinning
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paints down cuz sometimes you might use
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a layer paint to base coat CU it's the
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right tone sometimes you might use a
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base coat to highlight because it's the
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right kind of tone for the most part
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there's plenty of Base coats that cover
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most the colors you need but like I said
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they are thick so when you're thinning
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them onto the palette sometimes you have
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to judge it by feel um some like I say
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some Bas paints are just thinner than
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others that is just the way every paint
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every color is different and you will as
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time goes on as a painter you will get
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used to this um I could sit forever
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showing you a palette of every color
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possible but then there's new colors
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coming out the time and formulations get
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reformulated so the best hard and fast
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rule is just judge it by feel if it's if
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you start to see usually if you got like
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a white pette pad or like white palette
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paper if you start to see more of that
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white shown through it's probably too
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thin but that's not necessarily a bad
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thing it's better to have too thin a
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coat than too thick a coat cuz you can
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always add a second or a third um and I
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found like with undercoating like bright
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colors like pink over black um that
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needs more coats um painting yellow over
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black these are hell of a lot more coats
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and often goes green if you're not
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careful which is why we referred to in
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the spray coat section maybe using gray
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and there's less coats needed so
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sometimes getting that tone can help so
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the undercoat will help influence the
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base paint inside of things as well um
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but yeah thinning down takes a bit of
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time rule of thumb that I use two parts
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water one part paint uh that's nice and
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thin and sometimes you can always add a
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little bit more paint if it seems too
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thin but just take your time and maybe
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try on the base first before you apply
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on the actual model that's always a top
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tip as well just try it on your base
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wipe a little bit off on your thumb as
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long as you're not allergic to it and
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then start applying onto the model now
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one thing to remember about base coating
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is it's the initial step so if you're
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finding it's quite messy you've got like
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some red on a black belt or you've got
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like some armor color on the skin don't
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worry cuz you can tidy up this is the
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part where you can afford to be messy
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it's what we call the Ugly stage um and
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there are always sometimes later on that
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you you might find the ugly stage you
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might get multiple ugly stages it's got
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to get worse before it gets better
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accept that don't worry about it don't
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look at whatever someone else has put on
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the internet and gone look at this
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amazing model at base coating chances
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are they probably spent 14 hours base
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cutting that make it look super neat
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don't worry about it just take your time
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if you make mistakes you can tidy up at
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a later Point um and except like I said
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it's going to look ugly for a time it's
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fine as alluded to in the spray coat
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section um you can base coat by
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undercoat or prime by hand um again that
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is just following the same principles as
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we just talked about with the base
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coating still apply as a thin coat some
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paints like the AK ones I did find that
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I could use them straight from the part
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and they weren't too thick and goopy
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other times I did have to thin them
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again that's through experience um and
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getting to getting familiar with the
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range of paints that you got at hand so
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I think that's just the key thing get
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used to what you've got and then slowly
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add paint in as time goes on another
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thing you'll see when I'm painting as
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well with the footage that's going on
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the screen now is sometimes you might
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want to start with the lowest color and
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then build up so if we take the huntress
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uh who's riding her amazing looking
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Panther um I'll start with the skin
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first cuz that's the lowest texture then
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I'll move up to the purple armor get
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that old base coat to do a couple of
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coats of that then I'll pick the actual
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silver trim so a good tip and trick is
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to start the lower sections be messy and
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then you can neaten up as you pick up
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those race sections and just take your
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time and inevitably you'll probably find
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you get some purple on the skin again
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you have to tighten the back up that is
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just the war painting sometimes if
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you're going fast or you're a bit messy
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that will happen don't worry about it so
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you got your Miniatures undercoated
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they've now got some base coats on we
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want to get some definition on those and
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for that there are Shades there are
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plenty of companies that do a variety of
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different shades Citadel have Shades AK
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have deep Shades there's so many things
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you can even thin down paint so much
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that you can just run them into recesses
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what do Shades do well what they do is
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they go into the recesses they kind of
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add shadows and darkness to your
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Miniatures um which helps Punch Out
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definitions so then you're seeing the
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raised areas of the model you're seeing
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like all the details uh in those nooks
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and crannies and shades are just a
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really quick way and a cheaty way of
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getting all those things picked out with
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very minimal effort now there's plenty
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of people out there that want to sit and
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get like a bit of black really thin it
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down and then run into the cracks of
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space marine armor or a footman from the
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alliance you know you can run around all
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the recesses of that if you want to and
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get all those recesses defined by hand
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or you can just apply a shade all over
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there's multiple ways of doing Shades
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there's an all over shade there's
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picking out just sections so that is
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like an all over on the armor but just
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picking out the skin after or whatever
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now they are quite watery it is quite
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misleading uh when you first looking
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like what are these These are really
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watered down paints don't worry because
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that's the that's what they're designed
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for they're designed to just run across
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the model and then settle in the
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recesses now word of warning when this
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happens two things can happen they can
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just run straight in the recesses but
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then start to pull so you got to be
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mindful when they start to pull you
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might want to get a brush that's dry and
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just soak off some of that recess it's
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what I call washat just got to keep an
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eye on the model and make sure you're
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not getting some horrible puddles as you
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can potentially see on the shield here
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for the footman there's a bit of a
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dribble underneath the Line Design on
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the shield I've accepted that I'll tid
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it up later when I come to like layering
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and doing some tidying up that's fine
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that will happen again ugly stage we
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mentioned this another thing to bear in
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mind as well is Shades can sometimes dry
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blotchy on surface areas away if they're
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not thin enough or you want to thin them
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down they'll go in the cracks more but
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sometimes if they're a little bit
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thicker they will get a bit blotchy on
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surface areas like large surface areas
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so not great for tanks um great for
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things with lots of detail the other
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thing you'll find with Shades uh certain
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companies have shiny ones and certain
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companies have super matte ones
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sometimes if you're really lucky you get
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somewhere in the middle like a satin
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tone Citadel uh their current range of
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Shades dry quite shiny um which is great
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for armor it's great for leather if you
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want shiny leather and great for like
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oily skin or sweaty skin and stuff like
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that not so good for cloth and Bone if
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you want the bone to be quite dry um so
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sometimes you have to pick the shade for
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the task you wanted to do AK have deep
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Shades I really like deep Shades they
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kind of give a nice blend as well as
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they dry they're a little bit more
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viscous in their uh their in their
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makeup so they take a bit longer to dry
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but they they give a nice blend but they
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dry super matte perfect for cloth and
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hair and bone not so great if you want
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shiny armor so you might want to pick
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and choose what shade you use for
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certain elements uh and that's fine you
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know that's why you have so many
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different companies with so many
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different ranges of paint um and with
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the blotchy thing you can avoid that um
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by thinning the paint down more you can
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use water to thin down shades if you use
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too much water then it breaks the shade
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and you'll find you get weird sort of
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like white crust in the recesses so some
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companies Supply you with medium AK
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apply their deep shades with a deep
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shade medium if you thin it down with
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that it's just paint without pigment so
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it won't break the paint you won't get
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the cross but you can still thin it down
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if you use water 50/50 you're fine 6040
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water versus paint you're fine any more
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on that then there's a danger of it's
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starting to get a bit crusty in the
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cracks so that's when you want to start
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using the medium for that and that's the
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same for contrasts which we're going to
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move on to in a moment so contrasts this
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step uh has often been seen as its own
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way of painting miniatures um I see it
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as a extra tool for the toolbox your
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painting toolbox um you can paint
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Miniatures from scratch just using
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nothing but contrasts or Express paints
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or speed paints there's a few companies
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out there that do their own versions of
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them each with their own pros and cons
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the concept of these these these paints
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these contrast speed paints Express
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paints is they do multitude of things um
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when you apply over the model it's going
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to base coat the area it's going to
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shade the area and as it dries it pulls
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away from the edges and kind of
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highlights the area great he you know
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you just apply a color all over model
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and your figure's finished yes and no
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you will need to thin them down you will
15:09
need to be mindful about pooling um
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blotchy areas and stuff like that so
15:14
heavy textured models that are like fur
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or chain mail or dragon scales they're
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perfect for contrast cuz they got lots
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of texture for it to do its effects
15:25
large flat areas struggle a little bit
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more you need to really work on to
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applying those contrasts um there's lots
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of tones and colors this is why I say
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it's good to add to your toolbox of
15:34
painting it's not necessarily a whole
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painting process in its own right um so
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when you're using contrasts um maybe do
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it for the skin all over on a Model now
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if you take for example the model I'm
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painting here I'm going to use all
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contrast on this particular model um I'm
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going to paint all over the skin first
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of all with uh a brown tone gorun to fur
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here from Citadel um it is quite blotchy
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on the first coat then I'm going to add
15:57
other colors like the red for the robes
15:59
some blue for the
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trim looks great when you start getting
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highlights on it and you start adding
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other colors to it on its own it can
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certainly because it's large flat areas
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it can look a little bit bitty a little
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bit wishy-washy and a bit blotchy if you
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start adding more of the contrast to the
16:15
surface area it can get quite streaky as
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well but in places if you're quite
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tactical about it you can run into the
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cracks a bit more and then start to get
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a bit of definition um so sometimes once
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I've applied a couple of contrasts like
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on the red robes I might run some more
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into the recesses of the ropes which
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adds a bit more punch and a bit more
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contrast uh that's the other thing to
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bear in mind is you hear a lot of
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terminologies in painting like punch the
16:37
contrast out and use contrast paint so
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there's two terms there's a type of
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paint and also an effect which is like
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getting more punch at your color as well
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as using a weird thin down paint that
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does everything for you apparently Now
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when using contrast it's good to start
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of a light undercoat this really helps
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with like punching out those raised
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areas when it starts to dry and gives
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you a highlight um and also the colors
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work better with bright undercoats cuz
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they're more Punchy you can use them on
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other ones but they work better with
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bright undercoats you will see um it
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looks quite nice over Silvers as well if
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you want to like a nice cheeky metallic
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effect you can just get a contrast of
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your choice and apply it over a silver
17:15
undercoat or even a gold undercoat and
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it will look like a metallic because the
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metallic elements will show through CU
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it is quite
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translucent so you will get a lot of
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metallic element shown through so on the
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plane of this safe pilot um you will see
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it just gives it a nice copper effect uh
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which is really really good uh and that
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is very minimal effort maximum effect
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now when doing any kind of contrasts
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expect you're going to get one contrast
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paint onto another section by accident
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you know when we do Bas coating we're
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talking about base coating you apply
17:48
Color on it's going to be a bit messy
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it's got the ugly stage it's great you
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can always tie it back up with those Bas
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paints they're designed to be painted
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over they're pigment heavy contrast are
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quite translucent so if you make stage
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you have to repaint that section with
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your undercoat uh and usually there's a
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color that matches that so we use
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wraithbone as the undercoat spray
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there's a pot of wraithbone paint which
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you can then paint over that area but
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then it gets a bit weird because it gets
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streaky it's different to the undercoat
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it's not the same so once you start
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making mistakes with contrasts it gets a
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bit harder to recover it and to fix it
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which is why I don't think contrasts are
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super beginner friendly they're great is
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an extra tool for like skin or an effect
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like bone but relying on its paint and
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tie model it makes it hard especially
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when you got multiple colors as you can
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see on the model here where it's got
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Reds and blues and Browns and blacks
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once you start getting one of those
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colors on L area it's so hard to recover
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so bear that in mind when using
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contrasts so the last section of our
18:47
beginner guide is going to be touching
18:48
on layering now layering can sometimes
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be seen as an advanced technique I don't
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necessarily think so I mean if you're
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going for Blends and like effects then
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maybe you could argue it is for the for
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some of the basics it's actually just a
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basic technique of like making a color a
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bit lighter I have multiple ways of
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using layering sometimes after I've base
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coat the model and I've shaded the model
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I then get that base coat and layer back
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over the top only the raised areas so
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you still got some definition those
19:14
recesses of the shade so you're still
19:16
seeing the shade in the cracks another
19:18
way if you're starting from a black
19:19
undercoat for instance and you want
19:21
yellow you might start off with a dark
19:23
yellow and then go to a midtone yellow
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and then go to a really light yellow but
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you're painting those coats entirely
19:29
over the model in all the cracks in all
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the raised areas everything you just
19:32
completely tin in the entire model with
19:35
these different steps of yellows to
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eventually build up to a bright yellow
19:39
that is a nice way of layering a model
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because you could go with a light yellow
19:44
and spend 14 days base coating 140 coats
19:48
over that to try and get that bright
19:49
yellow which won't work because it would
19:51
just go green and look really weird and
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blotchy so layering is designed really
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as a tide up stage um and also the first
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step before you start doing any
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highlighting so if you've so with
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layering if you want to punch out the
20:04
colors a little bit more H let's take uh
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Jana here for instance we've got some
20:08
white on her and we've got some pink on
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her but we've coated all over those
20:12
sections with a dark shade so I'm going
20:14
to do is just get some white and I'm
20:16
just going to tied up the white areas
20:18
and I get some pink and tied up the pink
20:20
areas and that is just using the same
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col ey base coat with it's just again a
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thing coat and then just picking out
20:25
those raised areas but I'm not going
20:27
into the cracks I'm leaving that
20:28
slightly darker color in the cracks to
20:30
give some definition so it's not
20:31
highlighting as such it's just building
20:34
up another layer that's all you're doing
20:36
you don't have to be super skilled to do
20:37
this uh there's no like fine tips on a
20:40
brush and like steadying the hands and
20:41
holding your breath and years of muscle
20:43
memory required for this is just tidying
20:46
back up and weirdly when you are
20:49
layering and doing the ti up stage you
20:50
can get a nice sort of gradient from
20:54
just two colors which is a base coat and
20:56
a shade and then reapply the base Co
20:58
coat you get three tones from two colors
21:00
which is quite good now you'll find and
21:02
see that a lot of expert painters will
21:04
start with a dark tone and build up
21:06
multiple layers up to a really light
21:08
tone so let's take pink for example they
21:10
might start with a really really dark
21:11
magenta and build their way up to a
21:13
mid-tone pink all the way to a really
21:14
really bright fuchsia pink we're not
21:17
going to do that uh that that that is
21:19
definitely high-end painting and that's
21:21
something we can look at in another
21:23
video but with this one back to the ti
21:25
up stage you paint the pink your wash
21:28
the pink you tidy back up the pink nice
21:30
and easy and then if you do fancy it you
21:33
can then move on to the highlighting
21:35
after to pick out folds in the cloth but
21:37
yeah keep it simple uh don't over
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complicate it just use that one color to
21:41
reti it back up that is the point and
21:43
it's the same with the skin as you can
21:44
see on Jana you know we we base coated
21:47
the skin we shaded the skin we're just
21:48
using the same color just to pick out
21:50
the the key parts of a face like the
21:52
cheeks the nose the brow the fingers the
21:54
knuckles Etc it just adds a bit more
21:57
punch now when I refer to layer paints
21:59
as a technique there's also a range of
22:01
paints again Citadel have their range of
22:03
paints AK have a range of paints as well
22:06
their third gen stuff is really really
22:07
good for layering you don't always have
22:09
to use layer paints to layer you can use
22:12
them to shade you can use them to base
22:14
coat it's the same with base coats you
22:16
can use them to highlight I often pick
22:18
the color that works for me so sometimes
22:22
when I'm highlighting things or I'm
22:23
picking a tone I really like that color
22:26
and I will use that color as a base coat
22:29
or I I just need more coats of it that's
22:30
all um or slightly darker color
22:33
underneath before I use that um which
22:35
then goes in the AR but that's laring
22:37
peachy yes and no um so don't always
22:40
feel that I have to use this color
22:42
because it says bass or Intense or
22:44
whatever on the tub use a color that is
22:46
what you want to use for your skin or
22:49
your armor or your sword or whatever um
22:53
it just means youd need to do a couple
22:54
more layers or less depending on the
22:56
type of paint you're using there we are
22:58
with the layering discust we're now at
22:59
the end of our painting Journey for
23:02
beginners so hopefully there's been a
23:04
few things in here that's helped you out
23:05
whether you're a beginner getting back
23:06
into painting or just top tips for
23:08
anyone that's just you know unsure
23:10
sometimes about what all these things
23:11
mean because sometimes it can be quite
23:13
bewildering with all these different
23:14
terminologies and jargon that gets
23:16
thrown around um this is part one of a
23:18
three-part series part two will be in
23:20
coming soon and that is going to focus
23:22
on more intermediate to Advanced
23:23
Techniques such as highlighting dry
23:25
brushing using an airbrush Etc so do get
23:27
ready to check that out I hope you've
23:29
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