10 Tips for Speed Painting Complex Minis (NO AIRBRUSH) - Featuring New Cities of Sigmar - HC 420

In this Hobby Cheating Tutorial, I take you through 10 tips for Speed painting complicated minis. Some miniatures such as the new Cities of Sigmar miniatures can seem really intimidating at first, but we can get these minis done fast and still have them look good!
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0:00 Intro
0:52 Painting Tips
8:27 Intermission
9:10 Additional Tips
12:08 Outro

[jamesgoodsell]

For me this is the best speed/army painting video I have ever seen bar none. A clear, concise and effective method that anyone can follow. Really grateful Vince, as someone with a young child and therefore time-poor, you’ve made me genuinely excited about painting my pile of grey again.

[PeachyPixel]

The great thing about practicing using texture for free details is that this skill will directly transfer to more painterly pieces.

[just_gut]

Great video, Vince. I think the important thing to remember is if you aren't trying to win a competition, perfect is the enemy of good. Even 'really good' can be the enemy of 'good'. Spend the time you save on your unit on your centerpiece(s), since those are what people are going to spend any amount of time looking closer. Also, know what is important to you. Vince pointed out the cloaks on the Fusilliers, but if you have something like Nighthaunt it may be the ghost parts rather than the cloak. If you have Bonesplitters, it might be the war paint or tattoos. Maybe basing is more your thing. Spend time on the elements that truly matter and just let the rest be good enough.

[naib_stilgar]

44 minutes??! You are a wizard Vince..

[supermoose]

I had no idea under-shading could make that much of a difference with normal acrylic paints. I always assumed it was a contrast/speedpaint technique. Super useful!

[Smygolf]

Do more videos like this please. This was great! This is the levels of paint I can actually learn from and apply in practice. I guess like many others I don't have the time or the skills to do the super quality stuff. Would love to see it done on other types of minis, like monster, animal, humanoids with a lot of skin etc.

[lucidiously]

This is some great advice! As someone who just started his Sisters of Battle army I've noticed I've been taking a lot of time painting up the basic models, but I was unsure how to speed up my process. These are exactly the kind of tips I needed!

[xnax]

I think this is the first time I see a speed painting method that I can actually see myself using. No special equipment, no ridiculous curing times, and it ends up looking painted rather than someone just blasted it with the mandatory 3 colours through an airbrush. As a bonus, your centerpiece models wont look out of place, since you can just take a higher quality approach using the same fundamentals. Excellent video!

[kennypalmer]

This makes me feel so much better about my current project. It’s my first army that will actually be complete and I’ve been doing speed painting and batch painting the entire army over the last 2 months. The blends aren’t super smooth, but I went with pink as my primary color to make the models look bright and look good from a few feet away. Up close it’s rough, but when grouped with 30 other models that look identical, you can’t see the rough layering. When painting them, you’re up close and personal with them so it can be hard to remember that it doesn’t have to be perfect up close

[EmbraCraig]

This is a Vince V video that feels like an Uncle Atom video.

Always great to hear a great painter give tips on quick army painting - love it 👍

[ZodiusXx]

Finding out I've naturally done all these steps really makes me feel accomplished as a painter. One other thing I've been doing which is a more time consuming (but definitely worth doing) is a gloss varnish, followed by a recess shading of black ink. It adds a cool comic book effect of black lining, with the hydrophobic properties of the gloss often creating these wonderful little black droplets or sketch lines with minimal effort, followed by a matte varnish. It adds about 5-10 mins for each model so would only recommenced it for a skirmish game (although after doing it for a while I can get that timing down to 2-4 mins).

Love your vids as always Vince (still waiting for the intro to turn into a full song though!)

[HooperTriplett]

Thanks - was about to start sweating those near-impossible faces, and your solution makes soooo much more sense.

[richardokeeffe]

“Sticky-outy bits”. Vince you’re an Absolute gem! Great video and info

[coryway]

Great to see a video like this. Not only educational but for me validating. As I was watching it, I was just nodding along, as that's what I'd do for each step. Often we find our own ways to cut corners and it is fantastic to see it broken down so clearly here. The beauty of this, too, is that at any time in the future, one can easily take those units and 2.0 areas. A model is only done when you say it is.

[spacedock]

Face technique is amazing. I'm definitely going to try that! 👍😃

[lorgoreva]

It's always so helpful, Vince. Thanks for all your great advice and hot takes and discussions on warhammer weekly

[Omegaterrain]

These are great tips Vince. I think I would add one more and that’s to make bases visually interesting by adding details such as grass tuffs, sprinkle on dry leaves, or use 3D printed plants. These elements don’t take a lot of time to incorporate and make a huge impact.

[Wijkert]

Your close up painting shots have become so much better over time, Vince!

[deliciousrelish]

Great info as always. Thanks for continuing to bring so much quality education to the youtubes.

[whiteboyfrik]

Awesome tips, ipm surely more of a gamer than a painter, so tips for getting things looking good enough for the tabletop in a reasonable enough amount of time comes great. Wishing you a great day Vince