Save Money on Miniature Painting with THIS trick!

We all have learned about primary colors. Can you use just these 3 colors to paint miniatures from beginning to the end? To answer that question, we need to go into color theory!

Primary paints are considered to be red, blue and yellow...BUT ARE THEY? In today's video we are gonna experiment with primary paints and find out whether you can use them to paint entire miniatures from beginning to the end while enjoying wide colourful spectrum of all colours.

Miniature painters usually stack so many paints that they are not even able to use all of them (which is certainly my case), but can you save some money by using...just 3 paints? With some color theory in miniature painting, hopefully!

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[Dripstodes]

Zumikito: i will paint a model using only 3 paints





Space marine players: two

[smnb]

This dude be painting better with 3 colours than I do with my entire S75 paint range.
I feel so sad, but inspired!

[dougsundseth]

I mean, you can use the heavy body artists' acrylics, but you can also use Golden Fluid Acrylics, Golden High-Flow Fluid Acrylics, Liquitex Acrylic Gouache, and at least a dozen other lines of fluid acrylic artists' paints. Note that

1) Gloss paints are inherently higher saturation, because there is less surface scattering.
2) You can find anything from gloss to dead flat (Golden SoFlat, for instance) in artists acrylics.

[Smilomaniac]

I taught myself how to make skin tones from the five paints and did pretty well. Thing is, it wastes a ton of paint, takes a long time and it's not consistent. Just buying the tone you need is far superior in the end, unless you WANT to try and mix your own colors for the challenge.

[Henry-lkpm]

You are now in my top 3 of the miniature painting youtube content creators. I’m learning more from your 5 minute stuff than i am from a £5 sub to a very well know mini painting Patreon! Keep up the excellent work Chris.

[memyself]

Here is proof that learning can be fun, and isn't that the reason we take up hobbies? Finally, someone shows me what to do with the Kimera set sitting on my shelf. Thank you, sir, for all your videos. You got style.

[DervishD]

This video is probably one of my favourites from your channel because many years ago, last time I stopped painting and retook the hobby again, quite an amount of my paints went… well, let's say stale. I had to throw them away, and I did not buy new bottles for most of the colors, since I bought them for a single mini the first time. Right now I have a very reduced set of paints for the hobby, just primary colors, secondary colors, a couple for add light and shadow, black and white (well, off-white). I also have a couple helper colors I like, but overall I don't think I have more than a dozen bottles now.

This said, I'm not very good at color mixing. Well, I can more or less get the color I want by mixing primaries, secondaries, helpers, etc. but REPRODUCING that mix is an entirely different matter. I lack that talent, clearly. I really struggle when I have to reproduce on my palette something I only see already dry on the mini, sometimes I match it but most of the time I don't.

Why am I telling you all this? Because you mentioned in another video that high quality painters, like you, make people like me hate the hobby and stop painting. And in my case, this video nearly had me throwing away all my tools and unpainted minis 😆Damn, Simon, you are VERY VERY VERY GOOD at color handling, I don't think I can even go near your talent no matter how much I practice.

Jaw dropping video, really, you're incredibly talented. And learning from you has made me loving my hobby even more, so I'm not quitting even after watching amazing videos like this. Keep doing such high quality videos.

[orkinho]

I appriciate the joy in these videos. Really lifts the spirit.

[hewlett-packardlovecraft]

Always a treat to see one of your videos waiting for me when I hop on YT. Just the other day a buddy of mine was griping about not having enough paints to do anything with- gonna go shove this video in front of his eyes. Your uploads cover such a vast array of topics, I'm always able to pick out one of yours as a counterpoint to whatever subject they're grumbling about. Keep making us better painters, good sir- and have a great weekend.

[enochdarkk]

Awesome video. I dont have every color paint.. so color theory is definitely some thing I need to master. I think everyone should, it will make us better painters in the long run.

[s.h-d]

Dude, you are the epitome of creativity for me. Hell of a painter and an amusing way of sharing your vast knowledge.

[robertlong]

I've just started doing this as a hobby and you make it look so easy

[gomezzara_creative]

I freaking spill my coffee with those drawings hahaha! Your humor is 10/10. Once again, thank you so much for the great content! I really love the approach from this one!

[dan_zehner]

Great video (and epic beard!)! I'm glad you made the distinction between additive and subtractive color theory.

[thekartoeffel]

Just noticed, that your channel had a massive growth. Not long ago and you had something about 7000. Congrats, you deserved it. And thank you for content helping me to get a better painter!

[oldragnar]

I love not only the content of your videos but either your editing style and script. You are very good in both

[SuperSeel]

I love your videos man. This one hit home for me. I think I have like 18 paints and 4 washes and I always thought I needed more after watching the pros (that’s you 👍🏻) paint, but I’m gonna give this a shot! Thanks again

[vincentjackson]

All your videos are absolutely gold my friend! Love the humor too!

[davidhayes]

you said "because of boring science stuff" and I took that personally

[FHangya]

The more vids I watch, the better their quality! This is so great! Thanks for them :) <3