Painting your first miniature? Do THIS!

Have you ever been interested in painting your first ever miniature? This video covers the steps you should take to make your first ever miniature paint job look amazing. Perfect for warhammer & dungeons and dragons

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Emil On

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Painting miniatures for your warhammer & d&d games. Age of sigmar and warhammer 40k. Blood angels, Slaanesh, Death Guard, Space Marines, Space Wolves, Stormcast Eternals, painting scale models, miniature busts! How to paint NMM. How to paint warhammer, how to paint d&D figures.

[SquidmarMiniatures]

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[captainspaulding]

As a fairly new painter myself I would say an important mindset tip is to trust the process. Most minis don't look great until all the little steps are completed so don't be disheartened if your minis don't look amazing after a base coat

[darbizzlebacon]

I just painted my first miniatures last weekend. I just used paints I already had, which are not made for miniatures. They still turned out pretty well and I’m really proud of them. My wife has a friend who has been painting miniatures for years, when she saw the pictures of my first mini, she did not believe it was my first. I credit how well they look to channels like this one, teaching me everything I know before I had the courage to finally put paint on a mini. Thank you for all of these wonderful videos and I hope to learn more, and paint more.

[thomads]

Man Squidmar - UPGRADES UPGRADES UPGRADES, your cinematography, production values, narrative values, scriptwriting - you just keep improving yourself! KUDOS man, your dedication to the Job is commendeable!

[advcat]

After a long day of barely finishing the school day, it’s really nice to see a new squidmar video in my feed.

[Zenn_Chan]

That tip about putting your spray can into some warm water before use is brilliant. I tried to spray a model not long ago, and it came out awful and cracked, whiich subsequent googling told me was due to the cold. Would you consider doing an entire video on spray can usage? Everyone uses them, yet I so rarely see painting tutorials discuss it.

[JokeeGA]

I think one of the most difficult things to grasp, at least it is for me, is that you aren't painting the miniatures as you would an actual piece of armor, but rather painting a piece of armor as the light hitting it. Or to rephrase it more coherently, if you are painting a piece of armor red, you pick a red, and paint everything red. Then when you look at it, naturally, the things in the shadow will be darker, and the most exposed to light parts will be brighter. But with miniatures, you are painting that light on. So, if your armor is red, you need to pick a darker red to use for darker areas, and lighter red for the brighter areas, and then a brighter color still for highlights. I don't know if this is making sense. Basically, understand the difference between designing, and painting.

[jodyirl]

Painted my first miniatures last weekend and this channel was a huge help. I basically binge watched through a lot of your channel for 3 days before I got started. My first minis turned out far far better than I expect and I even experimented with light sources on them. Because of this channel I have found a new passion and I’m so thankful for the work you put into your videos.

[jbynwa]

Thanks to your videos, I've painted my first miniature in almost 20 years, a hobby I had forgotten how much I loved. Thank you for the content you make and inspiring me to pick this up again.

[dukeofdarlo]

Ahh yes, practically an award winning end result paintjob on a beginners painting tutorial, how surprising. Don't worry if yours doesn't look like this at first, most peoples 100th miniature won't even look like this.

[william]

Great video, as usual. Although, I have trouble finding who the target audience is.
As a beginner painter, I didn't know what a glaze, a wet pallet, a mid tone or even what specialised miniatures paints were, so would not have been able to follow without looking at tons of other ressources. I liked the separation of contrast and regular acrylic paint, but don't think it was necessary and would be overwhelming to someone new to the hobby. I believe everything was going way too fast for a beginner painter to follow. I'm not a beginner painter anymore, so my input might be wrong, but that still is my first impression of the video.
Hope you don't take my comment too harshly, I still liked the video and am just trying to be constructive❤

[drpbr]

I started painting back in 1995, and have only just started getting back into it after not painting for over 15 years.

I found this video a good refresher on technique, and certainly believe using acrylics is far better than the contrast method.

Now, back to painting up this D&D group 🙂

[gambiit]

if i ever got into this i would probably immediately choose contrast painting
The "automatic" shading of a black coat and white drybrush looks amazing, and can probably hide a lot of newbie mistakes

[ambcubing]

I just got back into painting after a break, and this is quite possibly one of my favourtie painting tutorials ever! :D

[MEchanicAL_LSTAR]

Been painting for a while and I think we seem to forget the little things that are just habits now like wetting the brush before adding paint to the brush is a step that other creators forget to mention. On that note ( and I know you use mainly dropper bottles) I’d also add to the video how to transfer paint from a pot to the pallet without overloading the brush and damaging the ferrule, or what type of brush is best suited to use for this rarely mentioned point.

[marcotitoguareschi]

Em, I was doing my miniatures priming phase and lol, it's fantastic your casual upload, love from Italy!

[maxxlofmer]

Great video Emil! Would you perhaps also consider doing a follow up video for intermediate painting? A: "so you've painted 20 minitatures and are ready for the next" step kind of thing?

[TheDainerss]

I don't care what anyone thinks, "crutch" or not, it is about the end results and if you are personally happy with them. Use whatever methods and paints do it for you. I think people should stop calling contrast colors crutches, it is all about the end results and the individual's personal enjoyment. I have seen some fantastic models that used contrast colors heavily. Like anything, it is about skill and every type of paint can be used to create professional results.

[zoomthom]

I've been painting for a long time but I've never painted a model before. I told my friend I was interested in getting into Warhammer and he bought me a Wraithknight. A pretty intimidating first model to paint but this video was uploaded at the perfect time! i just bought some primer for the model today :)

[alvinmarcus]

I pick up the game " Shadows of Brimstone"
So now I've picked up enough paint and other supplies to give it a go. And went ahead and grabbed a few other minis, not for gaming but just because their cool. Looking forward to it.
Don't guess 66 is to old to learn. 😂
Your videos help a lot. Now I'm going to paint.