Trying to Paint Space Wolves like Darren Latham
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Sep 15, 2022
Pat & Geoff try their hands at replicating the slapchop method of painting, specifically a Space Wolf tutorial by none other than Darren Latham. Check out the results and see if we got anywhere close! Darren's tutorial: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFLhwcLW/ #spacewolves #slapchop #darrenlatham #warhammer Help Support the channel with our affiliate links: https://elementgames.co.uk/?d=10835 Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/thepaintingphase/ https://www.instagram.com/pileofshamepaints/ https://www.instagram.com/geoffsavory/ Check out Faith and Damnation Hobby Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/14562… Contact us: thepaintingphase@gmail.com
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hello i'm patrick
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and i'm jeff
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and since we last were here as the whole
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world is probably aware
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our queen queen elizabeth ii sadly
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passed away
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we wish the new king
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being king charles iii
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all the best in his role as monarch of
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this country
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and i hope he carries on the tradition
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of his mother and also subscribes to
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this channel
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so then
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if you've been in this hobby long enough
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you're probably aware of the chap darren
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latham
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he is a paint he has been a painter for
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games workshop he's been a head painter
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for games workshop and is now one of
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their sculptors he still keeps his hands
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in with peyton and he still does it very
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very well in fact he's almost achieved
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would you say like god-like status i
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would say is
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as painters go i've got a cowboy cut out
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of him
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don't don't have the cardboard cut out
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too close to all the candles though
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otherwise you know
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fire risks and all that so a little
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while ago he put a video up on tick tock
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and instagram which was him attempting
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to paint a space wolf using dry brush
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and
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contrast method yeah is this the one
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that people refer to as slap chop slap
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chop yeah the honest wall gamer his
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video went uh well you're very popular
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and he sort of seems to have packaged up
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this painting technique and delivered it
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in like a very fun
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video it's quite funny because i used to
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use the expression slap chop but it was
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only where i dealt with people when i
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was a bouncer
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so this isn't it's not a 30 minute
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challenge but it's uh it's sort of like
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30 minute challenge but the clock's
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turned off because there's contrast
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involved so we can't we can't get that
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within 30 minutes because it's gonna
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need some drying time yes so we're going
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to take a speed painting technique and
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see if we can replicate it yeah
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i'm already feeling like i can't live up
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to the expectations of of darren
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set in already to be honest with you pat
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well
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we can but try absolutely
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you know i'm also i'm almost hoping i
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don't do anywhere near a good job of
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this because next thing you know a lot
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of space will follow me
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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all right i'm happy with my uh gracia
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there so i'm going to go on to uh yes on
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some white yeah not correct white
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no i mean sorry gw but
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it just can't happen
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oh you're going into the old makeup
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brush yeah i am going to go in with a
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small
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as long as i've got it clean for
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saturday night i'll be honest
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i mean i'm going to live to regret this
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but
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i think this looks really cool at the
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minute
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like i'm really happy with uh with how
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it looks yeah me too
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i don't want to get it on
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any of the uh
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any of the like leather elements
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because then that's all that dry
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brushing work is easy yeah it's gone
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that is for now so whilst
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it has been incredible fun doing all
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that dry brushing and building
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everything up it's now becoming a bit of
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a panic i'm uh
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having kittens now yeah yeah me too
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lulled into a false sense of security by
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the uh
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the abandonment of just dry brushing the
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miniature yeah right then so that's
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that's right we're back to it yeah
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so now grif charger gray proof charger
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gray slowly starting to take shape this
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is kind of like quite greeny bluey it is
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quite it's quite greeny blue i'm uh
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genuinely a little bit nervous about it
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i'm going with the idea that i'm hoping
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that uh the
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billion years that uh darren latham's
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been peak miniatures he knows what he's
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talking about you know what i'm not
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nervous about this anymore i have faith
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in the lathe
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[Music]
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right we have some grey marines now we
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do they're looking
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mildly space woolfest aren't they yeah i
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mean like
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not winning any golden demons anytime
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soon no mine doesn't look like dallas
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but it looks like a space wolf and you
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know if i have to i'll take that yeah
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you know so we'll see so anyway
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and now with some snake bite onto the
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pouches that's why it all i mean they do
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look very monotone at the moment so it's
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going to be nice to get a bit of color
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yeah absolutely right and i do love me
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some contrast
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and i i love snake bites
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yeah already he looks a bit more like a
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marine now
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mm-hmm
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you can see the cover of the uh the
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vatican post now senior member of staff
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at games workshop at salton car park by
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a man who shouted you made me start
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another bloody army inherited
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[Music]
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[Music]
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missed an ankle
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bendy bit in the background oh
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yes heresy
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[Laughter]
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so
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shall i go
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imperial fest
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oh
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i'm gonna do it
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it's gravel and sunset contrast all the
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way
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so i might go in with a second coat of
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that
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okay
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after that's dried
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um
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so
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[Music]
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[Music]
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um
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sport mode
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[Music]
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right then so that was good i enjoyed
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that
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you know what i uh i've had a whale over
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time yeah a
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new way of painting things i've never
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done like the
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so doing like a pre highlight has
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generally been like an airbrush thing
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yeah i've seen on youtube so i've never
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attempted it with a dry brush before in
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contrast paint but slap drop method
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great fun yeah yeah
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yeah we managed to slap chop method and
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actually no one was hurt in the process
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which is the main thing
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right should we have a look shall we
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cross them over
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we're crossing the streams absolutely
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right and mark each other's homework
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yeah you go first yes i really like this
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it's really lovely and neat i think um
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it's got more um
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it's got more of a subtlety through the
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mine i'm loving the the the ribbon on
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the uh on the belly armor on the belly
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hoses whatever you want to call it the
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under suit yeah really like it and face
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is lovely and crisp
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and
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i'm really really liking the pouches i
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think you've done an a1 job on that my
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man i think um
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shoulder pad but only because for a
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moment we try to yeah
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if i was to do it again yeah i tried i
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was like hey wouldn't it be a shame it's
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a shame not to get all of these
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highlights coming through so maybe i'll
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use some
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and peel off this contrast i should have
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just used avalon sunset and shaded it
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down afterwards like with fights like
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flesh or something yeah um
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thought you know hey maybe maybe for a
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split second
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try something that daryl hadn't thought
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of but he probably had thought of it
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and didn't do it for this reason that it
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doesn't look very good
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you you went off piste and it leads to
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it leads to painting avalanches
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so many snow plants
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but yeah leads to snow where good
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oh
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let's quit
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yeah i'm loving that man no i think
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that's really good thank you i think all
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of it looks good grenades look really
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well
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yeah i think
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again it's always what the show leads
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into is a pack of ten three or four feet
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away and i think they would be if i was
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on the other side of the table looking
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at that absolutely i'd be well happy
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with that
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yeah i think uh mr latham knows what
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he's talking about and he's
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um it
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as a method i think it it as a process i
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think it really works yeah yeah liking
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that man i think uh i think you may have
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pipped me there
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let's have a look at yours so
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immediately things that stand out red
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pack markings yeah i think they're
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awesome
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thank you um
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we
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used to play space wall i did use play
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space wool so i used to go with red
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markings a lot i always found
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black markings always look like they got
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a bit swallowed up with the armor i
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think yes yeah and i think on mine it's
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like they're there but like there's also
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quite a lot of the dark black on there
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so it's in darren's defense he may well
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have been putting them black markings on
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because they are actually the right
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markings for that unit yes as baseball
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player you know i've just owned my own
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thing and yeah maybe i shouldn't have or
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maybe it doesn't matter yeah yeah yeah i
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feel like the armor
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is kind of like maybe some of the
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highlights are peeking through a bit
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more on mine i think yeah that was
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because of the makeup brush you think it
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was like too good
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it might have been you know the makeup
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brush might have just been a bit too
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subtle yeah yeah
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maybe so that's interesting but like
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i love the the face and the eyes look
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wicked yeah facing the eyes look really
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good um
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and like yeah grenades and the gold i
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think your knife
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has turned out sort of better than mine
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yeah you had to
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you had a bit of a mare with the knife
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didn't you unfortunately which was a
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shame
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did the shading i just couldn't really
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make it work i think i was probably
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trying to put too much on
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um
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but yeah no i think it's uh
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it's uh yeah it's good
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it's good
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yeah i think i'm i'm gonna say you've
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got it and i'm gonna say you've got it
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on because i think you did a better job
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of nailing the highlights that i did
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i think you uh
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and yeah i think you did well with that
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the synthetic
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[Music]
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citadel uh dry brushes so yeah yeah swap
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to the small one for the last two
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um
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and really just tried to focus in on
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this highlight so maybe that served me
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well
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yeah well well done sir i'm uh i'm
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conceding to you on that one thank you
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very much i think that worked really
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well yeah i hope you enjoyed that um if
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you're thinking about painting space
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wolves now you've watched us do it um go
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and give the actual real video watch of
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darren latham's it's available on
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instagram and it's available on twitter
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as well yeah go and check out honest
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wargamer he's kind of like packaged up
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the slap chop sort of method oh he has
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some dj he's done so you've done a
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really great video about it i mean most
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people probably would have seen it
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already
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but yeah that's also worth a look if
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you're uh trying to get in the mindset
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of how best to do it yeah so thank you
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