Warhammer is FINALLY Made for Painters

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0:00 Intro
1:24 Basing and Building Pitfalls
2:55 Every Model is a Puzzle
4:24 Turning Red Fur... Gray?
7:13 Cute Lil Rat Face
9:35 Meat Meets (download the app today!)
12:09 Olympic Record Blending
13:47 Write Down Your Recipes! (metals and weathering)
15:33 Final Detals that Make it POP
17:30 Grand Reveal and Thoughts on Army Painting

[shmurblurr]

Much prefer videos like this over the speed paint/gimmicky videos the algorithm wants. I like to just see a dude having fun, painting his minis. Keep up the great work, love your videos, man!

[beaverdam]

"Savagely ridiculed by all the other warhammerers" very true!!

[seanwmcinnes]

John, please keep this up! MANY of my favourite content creator mini painters seem like they aren't even painting minis anymore. I just wanna watch someone with sick skills paint a mini from start to finish. Please keep it up! Especially the colour palette box style video!!!!

[createdmanpainting]

Always a nice day when a Ninjon vid drops.

[gofur]

I'm painting minis for 15 years now and I played exactly 4 matches.

[clawhammr]

I prefer these high quality paint jobs to the speedpainting in x many hours/days, feels like more creators are moving to the latter, thanks for this and fantastic job on this overall.

[ResurrectedBrush]

Regarding always going one step brighter with highlights: One thing I always try to keep in mind is that my painting lights are WAY brighter than display/tabletop lights. So often what might look almost over the top under the painting lights really won't pop nearly as much under tabletop lights. When in doubt, I'll step away from the painting table and let my eyes adjust to normal lighting and then take another look at the model to see how I feel about the highlights.

[Wijkert]

09:03 fun to have a look at your color recipe plan.

[lovedeathdice]

Loving the longer shots of this episode! It's super enlightening to just watch the process and brushwork.

[Brettpw]

Paint more skaven in videos until they are all done. Then release a painting skaven movie. The spiffing Brit tells us this is the best way to beat the algorithm

[parallaxgames]

Idea for next video: The latest Battletech kickstarter has begun arriving for backers. It's something different than you usually do, it's at a different scale. A video on depicting the size of a five story robot at 6mm scale would be great.

[KK-nlkn]

Spearhead truly is a painters blesseing. This is by far the best army painting ive seen, from you, so far. Really feels like every model gets the attention it deserves this way and itll be such an accomplishment when its fully done. Fuck the algorithm this is great. I'd love more videos like this <3

[magetower]

I used put all the models together for an army before painting. I found this caused me to have issues as all I could ever see is a mountain of plastic. Now, I just assemble and paint one unit at a time. Works great!

Thanks for the video and sharing your time with us.

[gekalskip]

loving all the skaven stuff, these models are really next level, especially for all those different poses on the clanrats GW really deserves credit. The rat oger is awesome, but i would love to see a traditional brown one and how to make that look good, retro you know ;P

[AdamEllershaw]

I'm not really interested in Skaven but I absolutely love watching your process of starting with rich colourful shadows and working up from there. Your balance between discussion and just letting us watch you paint is perfect. This is flat-out the best style of minipainting tutorial video on youtube and you're the master of them. Your videos are always slick, educational and entertaining, and inspire me to try new things.

I like the idea you had in a recent TUP episode where you talked about painting a mini you'd been putting off until you were better.

[shyer]

Wow . This is exactly the kind of video I have been hoping to find. I will be watching and re-watching all videos like this many times over the next few months. Thank you!

[andrewphelan]

Have to say agree with just watching you paint amazingly is so great, and it is way more inspiring and with what you do it allows for the viewer to see what they like and use it as you do quite a lot of different techniques in very practical ways .

[brushborneminiatures]

I'm starting a Cities of Sigmar and I'm taking a lot from your journey with your spearhead. Doing a test model for color and process, thinking about composition of my basing and taking my time to give each piece the attention it needs to really shine on the battlefield have all been amazing tips! Thank you! I can't wait to see your Grey Seer painted!

[danmiller]

Really enjoying the slower take on painting up the army. Please keep it up with the skaven painting. Would love to see your full take on that half of the box

[miksi]

To paint rat to grey, first paint it white, and then paint it red, like in that song. After finished, paint the rat with brown... doh, obviously! Excellent work btw!