Painting Warhammer Like This has Stolen My Sanity

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0:00 VINCYCON
1:44 Gear for Try Hard Mode
3:12 Universal Shadow Color & Layering Approach
5:37 WOOD
10:00 Non Metallic Metal
12:33 Skull and Bones
14:36 Truth of Golden Demon & Final Reveal

[-Westfold-]

Jon going all-in for that Golden Demon. Me: "What is he doing?" Morpheus: "He's beginning to believe..."

[hillmath]

“The gradual transitions from one color to another is gradual” wise words of wisdom! 6:39

[RECTANGLE]

I know it’s not even close to the point of the video, but I gotta commend your bit of the ad where you talked about reusing the container. Pure, ecologically friendly, salesmanship.

[Kapuchu]

These videos are honestly my favourite of mine. They're not guides, but they always help me learn a little bit about how to improve something of my own. All while they are so much more entertaining than a mere guide :D

[meatybtz]

I totally agree with your conclusion. I decided to enter a competition and was drawn to a Wrama-Hordes miniature. Something I don't play. I bought it because I liked the size of the model and I like the model itself. It was a werewolf thing. I wanted to do something "completely different". I didn't win. I didn't even really get any accolades from it. But it remains, one of my favorite models that I've ever painted. I tried new things, new ideas, new challenges on the model. I decided he should have a lot of body hair on the non-wolf fur parts. Like your classic wolf-man idea. How to paint that? How to give the impression of a hairy body, not fur, hair. It has these spike growths popping out of it's skin. I thought, that's great. It's like mutation. So the skin should be angry, raw, sore, around them. I had to figure out how I wanted to do that. I use all kinds of new efforts and techniques. Made the leather armor seem rough and his metal armor I decided to make look lacquered. I still pull it out sometimes just to look at it. To enjoy it. I did new things, things I would likely never do for a table top army. But this model had an entirely different purpose and I could just go for it.

[kithpendragon]

Thanks for doing videos on smaller parts of larger projects! I know the algorithm doesn't encourage these, but they're just as valuable (or more!) as a few minutes of drilling the basics can be. We see lots of videos where dozens of hours are compressed into a short time, and lots more where the project *should* have taken dozens of hours but wasn't taken to completion because it wouldn't have made the shooting schedule. This messes with our expectations for the hobby, and leaves out a lot of the important details. Longer projects like this one should be shown in more parts and with longer videos, just like this.

[DkK]

I truly do enjoy videos where there is more passion behind them. You can tell when a creator is doing something they love, or a specific passion project vs having to release something on a schedule. Keep it up!

[SummaPlusANumberGrrr]

the metal on the shoulderguard is nothing short of breath-taking! Would love to see a in depth look at achieving that type of NMM steel

[DrGreening]

Heavily invested in this Golden Daemon project. I hope to see the whole project!

[Omegaterrain]

This is just the kind of video I needed today. Especially your final remarks. I'm currently working on my first diorama I'm entering into a painting competition (LVO) and sure, it's been stressful, but it's been beneficial to my progress as a painter and extremely rewarding.

[dwarrenmsp]

Always great to see the Midwest YouTube Painting All-Stars come together like the Justice League.

[kingkreaghan]

It's just an incredible paint job! I can not wait to see more of the unit together! Makes me want to paint, which is always the point!

[zorminster]

Jon, great video as always! Watching this, one of the things I *really* appreciate about your videos is how you don't usually get hyper zoomed in on a specific technique the way Vinny V does. His videos are hugely helpful, but I really love watching your videos and almost always picking up another great little nugget because your videos typically have a larger scope. I feel like they really offer a little something for everyone, regardless our progress along our painting progression. This time, it was you noting how stippling is particularly helpful to avoid layer lines on curved surfaces- a real 'aha!' moment for me

[jefff]

look at all them metal shirts. Untergang, Taake, Bolt Thrower, just so far.

[Olsnappy]

That looks amazing. I am no where close to this talented but seeing these videos pushes me to keep at it.

[cheeseduck]

Love watching your golden demon videos. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the piece coming together

[aaronbono]

Awesome job! I will never paint at that level, I prefer to do a really good job on lots of crafting things rather than an excellent job on one - I will never have the patience to spend that much time on it. So it's really fun seeing others do it - I can enjoy from the back seat.

[tay]

I want to echo your thoughts on entering contests.
Not only will trying your best improve your skills, but just having that deadline looming gives you more motivation to finish projects. Also, at some point that stress turns into fun.
You get 'in the zone' and just start slinging paint and the time just disappears.

[philipjackson]

I'm so looking forward to seeing the final diorama. You really knocked this first model out of the park mate.
Some interesting points you mentioned about painting the first model.
Can't wait for the Vincey Con .
Have a great Christmas and New year mate.

[inigomontoya]

I love this series pertaining to your diorama. I can't wait to see the next video!