Getting FASTER by getting BETTER at Miniature Painting: Deadwalker Zombies | Cursed City

In this video I am painting Deadwalker Zombies from the Cursed City Warhammer Quest box. As always we are trying to get these to a battle ready standard that will make your friends jealous and then we take a look at how to improve them even more with a few easy to learn steps.

0:00 Intro
1:15 Assembly
2:05 Thoughts on Priming
3:12 Basecolors
7:06 Highlighting
8:05 Shading
9:10 Undead Skin
10:30 Clothes
12:18 Details
13:38 Bases
16:14 Going beyond Tabletop Standard
20:45 Getting Better at Mini Painting & Turntable

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The BRUSHES I use, Raphael 8404, Size 1

MASTER'S BRUSH CLEANER (keeps your brushes alive!)

I got my Magnifying Glasses from a local electronics store (CONRAD) and they are as basic as it gets. There are some options on amazon:

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The AIRBRUSH I use - H&S INFINITY

OTHER AIRBRUSHES I can recommend

AIRBRUSH COMPRESSOR (SPARMAX TC-610H):
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CAMERAS I use (Panasonic GX80 for the painting segments and Panasonic G7 for the rest)

RODE Microphones

James Gurney - Color and Light (MAD inspiration for miniatures)

James Gurney - Imaginative Realism (even MADDER inspiration)

ELEMENT GAMES DOUBLE CRYSTALS REFERAL: CHR9186

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This channel is about painting miniatures for your warhammer, infinity, warmachine & d&d games, as well as age of sigmar and warhammer 40k. space marines, space wolves, sisters of battle, stormcast eternals, beastclaw raiders, mawtribes, cities of sigmar, chaos space marines. Also painting different scale models and miniature busts! How to paint NMM. How to paint warhammer, how to paint D&D figures.

[Gatrean]

"the five people that havent painted their box yet"

YOU UNDERESTIMATE OUR PILE OF SHAME

[deepone_toe]

Thanks for not just "speedpainting" the mniatures. Your shadowing with "Inks" and especially the part where you use magenta and turquoise for the dead skin ist very inspiring.

[longle]

It’s because your channel is underrated christoph, most ppl don’t want to learn to paint better, they just want to be entertained.

[kurthasedd]

The thing about painting mini's is the more minis you paint the faster you get, no short cuts, no giving up quality, you actually get faster AND better. I started off painting mini's for my Iron Hands for the Horus Heresy and I still go back and do up some models once in a while. When I started out I was doing one model at a rate of about 5-6 hours, now if I focused down one it's about 2 and a half hours for one and I'm using acrylic paints, oil paints, I'm using washes and glazes, and damage effects where as before I was just layering acrylics and slapping on nuln oil and I even get faster when I have more to do, I painted up 5 in about as many hours, so not only do I paint better, but I paint significantly faster when I have more on my table. But it's not a race. I like what I do, I'm a hobbyist not a consumer. I like sitting down, putting on a Godzilla movie and just painting in a poorly lit area for hours to the best of my abilities no matter how small or big the model. I think more people should be focused on that, these speed painting challenges are just that, a challenge. They try and make the models readable as what they should be when they're on the table and that's it, you have them on the table and they're usually just OK at the best of times.

Anyways tirade over, your minis look just fantastic, as far as I'm concerned it doesn't matter how old the kit is it's the person painting it and you as always Trov were able to make these models look great while showing us how to actually achieve a look similar to this in a simple, easy to understand way, keep it up

[angrysnailbug]

I was yelling at my screen "HOW IS THIS GUY SO GOOD" you make me angy, thank you

[JonSteitzer]

Absolutely stunning. You make incredible videos, but watching this I feel like I could actually follow along and try to make something like this too. Awesome content.

[IFGchannel]

Very informative. Your inclusion of the elapsed time for specific sections, the total painting time, and your commentary on what you would consider a satisfactory tabletop standard before refining the miniature are incredibly valuable. This serves as an excellent reference to gauge what can be accomplished within a given timeframe.

[doodleydoo]

The Vermeer girl with a pearl earring zombie is absolutely amazing! Love how it turned out

[Spoontoast]

The one in the yellow dress reminds me of the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring. The headwrap doesnt quite add up, but the blue with the yellow dress just screamed Girl with a Pearl Earring to me lol

[BullScrapPracEff]

In all honesty, this is about the only painting channel I can watch and enjoy.

[pauloceccon]

Great video, thanks for the tip at the end in reference to speed painting. The process should be relaxing almost a zen experience looking forward to next video

[dawick]

Arguably the best content on the internet for miniature painting. Lots of other great content but I think I learn more from Chris than anyone else.

[Jampire]

Speaking on your final thoughts, we have a saying in Jiu-jitsu: "slow is smooth, and smooth is fast". I believe this applies to painting also. Wonderful content as always, you're one of my favorites due to the quality you put out. Thank you.

[mcdanger]

Perfect timing! Looking to ignore my work emails for a while

[rooter]

I still haven't touched any content of Cursed City, just read the novel. Thanks for this video! Looking forward next miniatures from core box.

[ToppovDejungle]

Best painting channel I have found, top stuff. Learned so much.

[farnball]

Just starting to work on the CC zombies. Thank you very much for the wonderful tutorial! :)

[MagatsuNimura]

Even tho the video is full of great knowledge to use on our own miniatures, I think that my favorite part of the video is the final thought about getting better at painting and not focusing su much on speed, because by painting with the idea of getting better overall, you'll get faster too, but learning much more than drybrushing 12 miniatures in a row.

Anyways, amazing video, and amazing thoughts to go along with it.

[weatherthis]

Definitely nice to see someone actually give these minis the attention they deserve, and 3hrs lol that's speed painting time for me haha.

[eapleitez]

That is a great tip with the Contrast medium and inks. I'll need to add that to my armamentarium. Great content, as always