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Airbrushing My First Army & Making it Needlessly Hard
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Aug 14, 2024
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I've been trying to learn airbrushing
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this year and so far I've only focused
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on single Miniatures but I want to take
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it up to the next level and try and
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airbrush my first Army I've been
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painting a lot of Terminators recently
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and really enjoying it so I picked up
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the Deathwing Army set and started
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planning I can already hear someone
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saying that's not an army and you would
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be correct so I'm adding in some
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additional Terminators which we've got
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left over from previous videos that
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we've done boxes and bits and Bobs I'm
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using the ultra from harder and steam
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for all of this video I really love it
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as I already mentioned I've only really
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used it on single Miniatures so far so
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it's going to be interesting to see how
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it holds up painting armies I don't want
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to make life too easy for myself so I'm
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going to paint up my additional
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Terminators as peniton blades and then
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everything from the Deathwing box will
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be traditional Deathwing The Narrative
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of the Army I want to be the blades are
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getting into it quite chipped up maybe
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taking a bit of a battering then the
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Deathwing comes in to back them up so
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they'll be a little bit cleaner less
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Grime that kind of thing two armies in
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one but the same Army is I've
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technically done test models for these
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before so I'm just going to jump right
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in we're going to shoot back in times
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when I had short hair as well starting
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with the penitent blades I want these to
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feel like quite a unique fighting force
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so I'm dusting off my gk2 and printing
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some bits from great Studios just little
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crosses and some skulls candles that
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kind of thing hopefully they make them
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look a bit more different and decorated
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whil they were printing I drilled all
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the barrels and got to priming I decided
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to Prime with white first
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[Music]
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off then when that was dry did an all
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over coating of pink using squid pink
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from valo I think it is the pink that's
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from the rare range then go going in for
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the pre- shade with Tamia flat white I
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picked this up from Henry from Co paint
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I bloody love it I've been struggling
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with white inks and them reactivating a
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bit recently but swapping to the Tamia
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stuff I've had no issues I really really
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rate it thins down really nice and the
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Blends are just pristine they are solven
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based though which is one potential
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downside I've used this yellow method a
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lot and purist contrast through an
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airbrush the pink turning orange and the
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white turning yellow it feels like
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cheating it's it's just awesome it's by
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far my favorite way of doing it the
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airbrush is holding up great so far bit
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of tip drying here and there but I'd
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expected that using larger quantities of
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paint you know painting 10 Miniatures at
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a time instead of one I'm either
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stabbing the needle with a big brush as
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they suggest or giving the trigger full
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beans to clear any blockages my 3D bits
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had finished printing at this stage so
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washed and cured them and started
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sticking in one I did do some base
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Toppers as well but then I realized that
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I'd already glued my Terminators to the
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so back to painting by hand painting on
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the Move I've
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quartered five terminators so far and
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that's taken me about 3 and 1 half hours
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so yeah it's going to take a
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while and then it's time to shade them
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when I've done this previously adopted
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to glaze everything with a traditional
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paintbrush but I wanted to try and use
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the airbrush as much as POS possible so
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this time I'm opting for trying some
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masking putty this video is about
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airbrush in my first Army I want that
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airbrush look so let's give it a
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go it is really fun it's just time
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consuming and over time the putty
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succumbs to gravity and droops off I
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found that out the hard way having made
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up some leaving them overnight and then
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coming back into the office in the
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morning to just a big gooey putty mess
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on the bases I did mention it was timec
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consuming it's definitely a skill to
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match the putty up to the lines of the
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armor a skill I've yet to master I might
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at just I think you just really have to
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spend the time on it and use a scalpel
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to try and sort of make things as
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straight as
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possible so I've masked off and I've
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done test models for two Terminators
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using the AK paint mix results um I'm
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going to just completely sack them off
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and swap to uh game air and hope for the
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best more practice for them and the
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ratios and they just work better through
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an airbrush cuz they're designed for it
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I guess took me 20 minutes to do these
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two I've got after this 1 2 3 4 five six
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7even eight left these took 20 minutes
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so that's going to be like over an hour
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of of masking um which is quite a long
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time but it is a style I want to go for
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It's Tricky getting the lines perfectly
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straight well I don't think I'm going to
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spend any more time trying I get them
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perfectly straight I'll just try and
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cover it with weathering and I'm
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breaking Lo of these 3D printed bits as
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well um I think I'm just going to glue
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them back on potentially would have been
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easier to glaze but I know that I'm not
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good enough to get the finish that I
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want we
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[Music]
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go no substitute for putting the work in
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I got through my masking and airbrushing
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swapped to valo paint and had much
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better results I do really like the
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third gen AK acrylics through an
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airbrush you know I just haven't had as
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much practice with it I know a few
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people have said that they're a bit
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tricky through an airbrush so I just I
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just like things being a bit easier
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[Music]
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then I got stuck in blocking out the
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rest of the details giving everything a
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coat gloss varnish ready for a recess
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shade and I'm using a diluted Brown oil
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paint for that
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so I thought for quite a long time that
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I was going to streak and grime these
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guys and after finishing the airbrushing
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of the armor and seeing them from a
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distance I really liked how vibrant they
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were so I wanted to kind of leave that
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intact without dulling it down I've done
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an oil panel line and I'm really not Chu
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I think I diluted it a bit much so it's
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kind of like ran out of the recesses and
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just made the Finish look really muddy I
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know I can clean it up with some Spirits
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which is ex exactly what I'm going to do
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but I made up too much wash anyway and
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quite a lot of the spirits is um
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evaporated so I'm going to go in with a
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second coat which will hopefully stay
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Pok cuz it's a bit thicker and then get
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to clean it up but yeah not amazingly
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thrilled I knew this was the ugly stage
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like as soon as you gloss varness
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everything it it just looks awful and
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then you put your wash in and and mat
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over it so persistence hopefully we're
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okay but yeah any tips on oil
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washes let me know
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and then with that done I wanted to
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start on my Deathwing taking a long time
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so I wanted a bit of a refresher really
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and and just feel like I was making some
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progress elsewhere I'm pretty much
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following Henry's tutorial from Co with
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paint stick a link down in the
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description I swapped out thundia brown
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for chard Brown which is one of ao's air
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Paints the more I paint with an airbrush
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the more I realize I'm a fan of the
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convenience of air paints easy to get
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the ratios with the dropper bottles it
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it just saves time if I make an
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exception for anything it better be good
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and speaking of exceptions it's on to
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more Tamia paints and they're just so
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good through an airbrush I can't speak
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volumes to how good they are there isn't
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loads of footage on this section because
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it kind of just happen super quick I
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airbrushed the armor of all of my
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Deathwing 15 models in an hour and a
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half I might just think that's quick
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because I spent ages doing the split
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scheme quickly things all come together
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the test model that I did I kind of
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realized that I covered up too much of
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the brown in the shadows so I tried to
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use it a bit more sparingly few mistakes
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here and there but generally pretty
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happy the armor is the focal point of
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the army I think here and just like that
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it's done so using that endorphin rush
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from actually kind of doing something to
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an okay standard and reasonably quickly
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it's back to these split monstrosities
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metallic I'm in love with Val model air
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made for an airbrush but have a paper
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towel nearby to dab off some of that exj
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moisture I've generally moved back to
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Citadel Shades and contrast for shading
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metallics now I like that they're a bit
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shiny anything too matte isn't really
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the look that I I want to go for just
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kind of makes those metal colors look a
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bit flat and a bit weird reasonably easy
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basing scheme Luna desert wash and a dry
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brush and then I covered up half the
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base in mud to try and show that they'd
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been fighting for a while some Army
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painter tffs on there bit of contrast
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paint for the light things on the armor
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and we're
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done I'm looking at all these and this
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they starting to get there which is
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really cool and he put some transfers on
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M varnish them um I want to put some
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like do something with the fists some on
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the box are have like Checkers or
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Stripes quite like a red stripe or
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something like that is a bit of
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highlight maybe a green one so play
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around can use the airbrush for that the
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knights the more I look at them the less
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I like the the the cloaks uh capes
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tabards whatever I'm going to leave them
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for now and might repaint them I've
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reached out to uh some folks and asked
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for some feedback so my bad on that one
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I think I've tried to do it in a really
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sort of vibrant GW style lots of edge
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highlighting and pretty bright colors
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but the armor isn't like GW so it looks
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a bit looks a bit odd I don't know um
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final highlight color a bit too bright
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maybe so we'll see might leave them
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really I think I should repaint them but
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um yeah starting to realize there's
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going to be a part two to this video as
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well but um we'll cross that bridge when
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we get there but it's not over just been
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tallying up the points and I'm kind of
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in a weird no man's land at the moment
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and he suggested that I need to add a
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few more models to to try and get it
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towards 1,500 points so there's a few
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more to add to the list we've got B who
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I was going to be painting anyway a
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chaplain in Terminator armor and then I
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had a Ballista dreadnut and a brutalo
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dreadnut there's no way I'm going to get
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them finished in this video so uh I
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guess there will be a part two but we're
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not over yet what I am going to finish
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however is my death Terminators and my
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Knights repeat prescription for base
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coating all the details so I did most of
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that off camera gloss varnish and then
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it's time for some shading again I
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thought I'd try panel liner this time
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instead of oils similar results to the
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oils really unsure which one I like more
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it still required a bunch of cleanup was
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a little bit dirty and I had to go in
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with two layers anyway then when you go
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in with the second layer it doesn't flow
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around the model quite as easily so yeah
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tips tips on this super interested to
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see what people prefer to use panel
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liner or oil paints for recess shading
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or just doing it manually with a brush
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who knows transfers went on fine the old
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classic of microset microsol the shields
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were the trickiest with those long
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transfers but having that gloss varnish
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underneath made it doable I say it was
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tricky I still managed to get all of
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them on which which I'm quite happy with
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cut up varnish again and then that's the
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end of my airbrushing I sacked off the
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paintbrush sleeve for a pair of reverse
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grip tweezers they're awesome
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permanently closed so great for sponge
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chipping I did get on better with these
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I think the results are better then it's
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highlights metallics Etc just like last
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time I'm using a wet palette but I'm
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also making a note to either paint on my
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thumb or a hard palette to test
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consistency it's super interesting and
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I'm definitely finding it useful adding
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in that extra step I've noticed from
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this the majority of mistakes I was
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making were either from an overloaded
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brush or too thinner of paint mistakes
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are timec consuming to fix so testing my
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paint on a miniature like surface before
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I go on the miniature means I'm I'm not
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going to be surprised so I could
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immediately tell that some of the paint
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for the for the bolters that I was going
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to use was too thin but managed to fix
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it and then did it in like two coats
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instead of five
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woo starting off the basing in a similar
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way with Luna desert I sort of watered
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it down a bit more so it wasn't as
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crusty and then it was just a blob of of
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mud and a tuft instead of covering half
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of it there there is a difference
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between when wet ground and muddy ground
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I realized that I kind of grabbed them
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without really looking uh and found out
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the hard way that uh that I need to pay
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attention more so maybe I need to work
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on the basing a bit put some wet ground
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on the other ones instead of Muddy
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ground anyway and we are finally done I
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think it's at this stage like squid Mar
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says like Grand reveal but uh I'm not as
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good at painting and I don't have a
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smoke machine so we will say adequate
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reveal
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so that's it that's my first Army
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generally almost all painted I think my
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only real criticism of the ultra from
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harder and steam back is the stiffness
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of the trigger and it's such a minor
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gripe but it's something I've noticed
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with painting an army as opposed to a
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single miniature it is quite a stiff
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trigger because as a beginner you want
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you have to put conscious effort into
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pulling it back into the right position
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if you had a lighter trigger it would be
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easier to pull it back too far for
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example and then your Miniatures end up
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being a bit of a mess a light to trigger
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would however be more comfortable to use
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over a longer period of time at one or
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two occasions I had a bit of a sore hand
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or Dums it's it's barely even a
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complaint I think for the vast vast
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majority of people that are watching
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this video this airbrush will do you
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absolutely fine if you're say I don't
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know a commission painter or something
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like that you you might want to go up to
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the Evo which has a lighter trigger the
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exposed needle so you can clean it off
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easier without having to get a brush in
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there maybe the downside of the ultra is
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it's that good at teaching you the
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basics of airbrushing that you might
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feel like you out grow it quite quickly
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so this Army is uh lited with firsts and
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some silly mistakes which I'm going to
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point out to you cuz it's fun so these
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are the first two faces that I've of
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Space Marines I've actually ever painted
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so the first was a captain um in the the
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penitent blades and I I just kind of
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picked some paints that were close to me
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at the time and thought these will do so
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he kind of looks like he's made of wood
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or dead which which isn't really the
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effect that I was going for the uh the
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face on uh the Terminator in the
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Deathwing is is definitely better I use
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some specific flesh paints um and I
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thought why not we'll have a go at the
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eyes and could have been worse but it's
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it's not amazing that face is definitely
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better
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um so may maybe there'll be a video on
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on faces in the future definitely made
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some mistakes with the airbrushing as
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well generally on the legs of of the the
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Deathwing Knights I think I don't know
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specifically why I seem to do that but
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bit of over spray here and there that I
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tried to cover with some weathering
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anywh who that's enough waffling thank
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you very much for watching if you made
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