Speed Painting With All The Hacks

Speed painting Warhammer miniatures with 6 of my favourite hacks. These 6 hacks can help get your tournament lists from grey to tabletop ready in no time at all.

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[ruaridhmackenzie]

Model choice might be a hack too, painting 'monsters' always seems to go faster than folk in uniforms.

[KnarbMakes]

Thats a ton of models, must feel nice to get them ready and playable so fast. Fantastic

[MisterTroglodyte]

“Out jumped the goblins, big goblins, great ugly-looking goblins, lots of goblins, before you could say ‘rocks and blocks.’” …or ‘faces and bases, ’ apparently. 😁 Amazing results for how quickly they were turned out!

[HipposHobbyHours]

They look so good for a speedpaintjob! I will remember the sharpie for highlighting, great tip!

[czaere]

Also great techniques for anyone dealing with some visual impairments who still wants to continue on in the hobby. I feel like I could still field an army that I painted myself with these techniques.

[leonk.]

Great to see LOTR minis in your videos 😊.

Goblintown is such a great army in game and to speed paint. I've also painted almost my whole army within a weekend

[HacksawsHobbyBunker]

The more I see of the Speedpaints, the more I like them. Fine work on the army!

[rckmth]

Built my first diorama in a few hours one night with a handful of your scenics. Looks so good considering I have no idea what I'm doing with ground cover but it just works! Love love love the base ready.

Also... Love u pickle!

[HeadCannonPrime]

You absolutely NAILED the speed painting technique here. As soon as these are available in the full range, I'm getting one.

[charleslatora]

Most excellent video. Beginner painter here. Lots of great help here. Thanks.

[otee]

Lots of people saying 'clothing' will make it immediately more complicated.

Sure, a bit, but not necessarily so much. The point is, choosing your colour range wisely.

I did some "space bugs" this way, dozends and dozends of critters with carpace, flesh and bone/claws in different colours etc.

I primed them darkish grey, basecoated in a pale sand/white from the top(to retain some shadowing), as this was closest to their dominant flesh tone.
Then went on and did all the carpace in a gray/violet tone and then bone/claw in a light red on all.

Finally I used a violett/reddish contrast-/wash over everything.

Similar some "desert scifi troopers" one khaki base, and even two different brown tones for leather (boots/belts) and canvas (backpacks, officers jacket, pouches) and a fleshtone to pick out hands and faces.

Just pick colours matching together and use a wash-/contrast-/speedpaint that blends it together, and a drybrush/rub to highlight.

Don't work 'per mini' work 'per colour' and use the lathes as a fabrication belt. Don't think, just go from left to right.

It's speedpainting to a tabletop standard, not a showcase army.

BTW you can mix your own 'wash/contrast/speedpaint' using acrylic medium and a regular paint.

[elstonation]

I really enjoyed that one. More like this please

[no.minis]

I love that you encourage basic flocking for basing too. I think too many people put way too much time and money into bases when the minis should be the star of the show.

[hobsonjones]

HA! I do the dry sand / beige dry brushing over everything (except metal) bit! Brilliant.

[MrBizteck]

I'll admit I use a very light drybrush of an off white on all my models to make them pop a bit. Glad to see someone else do the same!!

[DMR-SK]

if you add a little bit of fairy liquid to your contrast it helps with that surface tension. I learned that recently.

[Perram]

Awesome set of tips! I use most of them already. Especially the off-white dry brush as a universal highlight. My high elf armies for Kings of War all use that trick.

[hinterlandr]

I wish I could bloody do this with my Grenadiers. Solid process, subbed!

[DMR-SK]

if you add a little bit of fairy liquid to your contrast it helps with that surface tension. I learned that recently. Not sure if this is what you were talking about, but it helps to "break the surface tension" which makes them easier to use.

[MentatOfDune]

This is exactly what I want these paints for, knocking out armies quick to play the games. I can then put my (limited) time into small passion projects or Hero characters etc.