The Slapchop Technique! The Best way to Paint Miniatures Fast?

In this video we teach you how to Slapchop! Rob goes the through the technique in detail, using contrast paints over a drybrush to achieve a quick but effective paint job!

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[dkraytsberg]

We spend so much time with Rob being a sassy biscuit that we forget he's good at explaining things and making really good content. Great video man

[GoobertownHobbies]

We are here, and We are watching you.

[mrtomleighton]

I'd been going through a tough time lately. The books were dropping thick and fast and I was having to dedicate extra hours to the painting table just to make sure I wouldn't get evicted from Adepticon. As I was completing my 7th edge highlight of my Glutton's armour plate, my wife told me that I was spending too much time painting and she wasn't sure if she could make it work anymore. I didn't know where to turn. Then I discovered this video, learned the Slap Chop method, and within a day my entire Ogor army was done, and my marriage was saved. Thank you Mr Robert sir. I'll let you know if Adepticon evicts me.

[Ninjon]

"This is VAHLEYJO Gray, its a Light Gray, it works very well." Never change, Rob, never change

[supermoose]

This video single-handedly made me want to start painting minis. Not only because it’s an easy entry point, but because it really showed the creativity of the process, and how you could explore it without it being a super daunting thing.

[Luke-tdmm]

As someone with really bad tremors that wasnt an amazing painter before it got worse this technique got me back into painting and I really like the way they turn out. Ty for an awesome video

[Centurion_of_Terra]

This video is everything! Finally a painting video that didn’t bore me to death! Robs enthusiasm and explanations are just perfect! All painting tutorials should be like this

[chrispy]

Lost it at "Rub it on your hand so people know you paint stuff" 😂 Great content Rob and really useful video!

[BOMMovies]

Before this video and the countless other videos singing Slapchop praises, I would stare at my pile of unpainted silver and grey shame... some going back over 35 years. I would chip away at this pile with some models taking a month to paint.... Now with Slapchop my method of choice I just finished painting 8 models in a day and that for me is a miracle. Yes, I still focus on the unimportant and generally invisible details but the basics are completed in no time. Thank you, kind sir... I salute you!

[TheSilvercue]

I don’t game. Or paint. Yet here I am.

[RedHatRuss]

This is, somehow, one of the best painting videos I've ever seen for fast armies. Love it.

[gangsterspairofdice]

Slapchop expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in tweeting and painting, originating in Northern England around the beginning of the 21th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas by the quickest means possible. Slapchop Expressionist artists have sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality.

[ForTheOmnissiah]

I've always hated how contrast-painted miniatures look. I always wanted to do contrast paints to save time, but I really just don't like how they turn out (when done the way they're "intended"). This method looks more than passable, it looks fantastic! You just opened my world to contrast paints.

[TheRobertkelly]

Thank you. I've often wished I could learn from the legendary Turkish master painters. Now I can

[daverini]

This is both legit funny, and legit a good painting method! As someone who really doesn't love painting, and has a 6-month old kid, I don't have a ton of time to do complex painting stuff. I'm excited to try this out! Thanks Rob!

[reflexdogtraining]

OK for real... more videos like this, Rob... nailed the humor, quality and editing. Well done sir.

[shadowopsnate]

I've been using the Slapchop method for years but now I feel relieved and reinvigorated to have a name and wider understanding of what I've been doing. You have changed my life Rob!

[Thegreatwhitedevil]

Awesome video. Thank you for making such an awesome product so easy for beginners.

[mrpwnanator]

I thought this was going to be satire. I still laughed and added the first, and therefore, best paint, Valle-joe 001 white to my collection. I have not been disappointed. I look forward to the next installment of rob the honest painter.

[Clovermilk]

I used to get white fingers from wetblending everything, taking hours to paint even a Grot and me not being able to take care of my day job as a professional flutist. But now, since discovering #slapchop my fingers are back and so is the flutisting. Thank you slapchok!