Ultimate guide to Mediums, Thinners and Additives - HC 437

In this Hobby Cheating Tutorial, I take you through everything you've ever wanted to know about thinners, mediums, flow improver and drying retardents. These additives can be very valuable, but have some downsides as well. Let's navigate that and get you ready to paint your best!
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0:00 Intro
1:00 Basics of Paints
4:25 Thinner Medium
7:10 Flow Improver
12:15 Slow Dry
14:35 Others
16:20 Outro

[johncastellano]

Flow improver in the water cup is an excellent tip I've never thought of. Going to try it in my next painting session. Thnx Vince!

[rogeroverstreet]

This has to be one of your best videos, Vince. All of your videos are excellent but if you ever do a "Best Of" compliation, make sure you include this one. There are pieces of advise here that I have never thought of, or heard of, before. Adding a few few drops of flow improver to your paint water is brillant! Thank you for all of your work!

[RussellThornton-fz]

Mr. V, Thanks so much for your videos! They are helpful and easy to follow. Like having an artist on-call for questions. You are the first place I go when I have questions or want to see how to do things.

[corneliusperkins]

Fantastic, very helpful. I'd also love to learn about some other specific mediums, like metallic medium and "contrast" medium.

[kohlgoldsmith]

Thanks for de-mystifying these products. This goes a long way in explaining why my “glaze medium” seemed to just strangely affect the paints I was using it with. Good to know what it ACTUALLY might be composed of rather than magic juice.

[clarketron]

I don't usually go through comments, but I always appreciate you answering questions. For this video, there were so many good questions and answers that I found them almost as helpful as the video, almost worth making a part 2 video with them!

[evinoshea]

I wish I could have watched this video when I was a newer painter, there are so many useful lessons here.
The importance of matte medium for glazing was something that took me a long time to learn.

The flow improver tips were great, I used it immediately since I've been working on some freehand and it helped immensely.

Thank you for the great videos!

[nicholasmiller]

Loved seeing Huge Miniatures product as I love their stuff

[philgee]

Another great vid making the essentials part of folks thinking and not just trial and error

[ZeehcTunococ]

Another great Hobby Cheat. I always thought thinner medium and flow improver were the same thing. I wish I knew the difference earlier, since I think i ruined some of my paints by adding too much flow improver because they were getting too thick. Thank you for making the hobby better for everyone!

[howardcoates]

Thanks for this one Vince, now I have to watch it a couple times and make notes....

[dad.hobbies]

This has been super helpful. I've been really intimidated to purchase any additives because I wasn't really sure how it all worked

[joshuacook]

One thing I think you missed is glaze medium. A lot of people are sleeping on glaze medium. Yes, like thinner medium it is an acrylic medium, but it also contains a leveling agent. What is a leveling agent? It eliminates brush strokes and allows for glazing with nearly imperceptible boundaries. You can get color gradients that look as smooth as digital when wet blending over a base of glaze medium (a little retarder helps too). I picked up a bottle of vallejo glaze medium about 6 months ago on a whim. I was so surprized by how much I liked using it I have almost finished the bottle and a couple days ago I picked up an 8oz bottle of liquitex glaze medium.

[hugeminis]

Thanks for covering our paint additives in your video! I’m glad to see that you enjoy using them as part of your toolkit. Very useful information for anybody interested in pushing their skillset.
- Brinton

[jarlbeorn]

Sweet Apollo, that tip for flow improver in rinse water is genius. I have a big bottle of liquitex i bought years ago and have barely used any of so thats a great way to slowly use it and get value.

[kevinhayes]

Thank you for this great tutoria;….I finally understand flow improver for the first time. Your teaching is excellent and makes me understand things more clearly than ever before. Thanks very much for your time and efforts!

[MultiZegamer]

Hey Vince. First awesome video. Secondly I realized that you are one of the best painters. You made me realize I did not need to do NMM in a fanatical way to be a good painter.

Just for this you need to be praised.

[Elfeeta]

Love these technical videos as usual. Nice update from previous videos. Thanks, Vince!

[mikemike]

Very useful video. Lately I have been adding a bit of matte medium to my citadel paints on the wet palette. It helps me with having a consistent “matteness”when I switch between ranges on the same model e.g AK paint.

[_Cactus]

For such a helpful input I still waited on, thank you very much