Try this next time you paint hair on miniatures!

There's so many different way of painting hair on miniatures - so whats the best? I'm going through 4 different ways of painting hair on warhammer, busts, miniatures and scale miniatures and talk about the principle behind these techniques. Great if you want to learn more about painting miniatures.

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Emil On

Painting miniatures for your warhammer & d&d games. Age of sigmar and warhammer 40k. Space Marines, Space Wolves, Stormcast Eternals, beastclaw raiders, ogor mawtribes, cities of sigmar, chaos space marines, painting scale models, miniature busts! How to paint NMM. How to paint warhammer, how to paint d&D figures.

[abcdodd]

Art lessons: magnificent. Causal plasma pistol on desk: priceless.

[davedogge]

If you're painting a mini of Star Trek's Jean Luc Picard there is one way of painting hair.

[theultrasmurf]

that space marine is amazing but with that hair looks so much better

[arazlam]

As someone who's painted alot of skeletons, dead things, and bald guys this will help out tremendously :) thanks squidmar!

[leeor]

Last time I was this early games workshops prices were fair!

[SithZero]

YES! im watching this video to get an idea because im going to paint the Bearded Yell! what a treat and coincidence that that bust showed up in this vid!

[BLiiNKentertainment]

As someone who's just about to paint a load of eldar heads, with sexy top knots and such, this is exactly what I needed to see!

[tristanlapoint]

Great video! Another good reference for painting hair on miniatures is anime and manga as the art uses simplified/generalized highlights for hair that translates well to miniatures.

[SuyePhoto]

So excited to paint all the busts from the Kickstarter 😍😍

[szendroib]

Great video Emil! I'm happy that we got a real painting video again after a long time, and it is a great topic.

[MadoraFu]

I want that third mini really badly, what is it? :O Beautiful video as always, so much appreciated!

[alucard]

Simple and great - instantly improved how I paint, particularly quick hair. Thanks.

[ChromeDrakeGaming]

I've been pondering how to paint the hair on that first sculpt for yonks. You've just unlocked it for me! Thanks very much Squidmar.

[napper]

I have only just got back into painting Warhammer 40k mini's, after a 15 year break. and i have forgotten how hard it is. but loving the learning curve of coming back into the hobby.

[MedicMatt]

Emil if you ever take on students I'm moving! My wife and I are going to get started painting miniatures as a fun pastime, and these videos are amazing! Much love from the states brother!

[altomadison]

Thanks for the tips! Your skills are through the roof!

[ModelMinutes]

Great! Thanks for this - will be using this when I do my figure painting (or elements of)

[dougsundseth]

For really clean examples of idealized hair with interesting lighting, look at advertisements for hair coloring and hair care products.

[srsgoblin]

The thing you kind of touch on without specifically mentioning it while painting the hair on the Marine is the concept of the Golden Angle. I'm sure you and most others here know the idea but for those that don't, it's simply the concept of "which angle this miniature looks best from."

Painting the highlights based on how light would reflect in it while viewed from this angle is usually gonna give you the best result.

[thewierdpaintbrush]

Howto paint hair: cut it of and paint the mini bald