This is exactly I was looking for. Thank you!

I'm fine with the price of GW miniatures. The market has shows time and again that they have priced them correctly as people keep buying them and their profit grows every year. If people are priced out of GW, there are plenty of other alternatives out there. Not every product is for everybody. GW is the Kleenex/Bandaid of the miniature wargames industry. With the brand recognition comes the ability to set their prices for the market in a way that reflects their brand. There are plenty of cars that are made on the exact same line and with similar parts as another, but they charge a much higher price because of the brand.

After only a few years of experience I come to the conclusion that organic brushes are highly overrated. That might be different if you have more experience, do competition professionally, do commissions etcetera. But for painting myself something decent that I am happy with I dont really need more than synthetic watercolor brushes, these rock

The other nice thing about Tamiya Extra Thin - it's actually thin enough that rather than applying it to a surface and then pushing on the mated piece, you can put the pieces together and just touch the brush to the gap. The plastic cement will wick into the gap and bond the surfaces without you having to worry about putting the pieces together just right in time.

See, I'd do the opposite recommendation for newbies: What is so good about Proacryl is that you need basically no thinning at all, so it's far harder to end up with an overtextured mess because you underthinned or you ended up building a glaze by mistake. But if I need a max illuminator for a purple, I am not going to find it in ProAcryl. You also don't quite mention what I consider the biggest negatives of both. ProAcryl has issues binding to some primers, and if overthinned, it has some really bad properties. On the other hand, the problem of the Warpaints is that they sacrifice intensity for coverage, so some of the colors are just really disappointing. The reds and yellows? yuck. But for intensity, when ProAcryl doesn't go far enough, we have Atom or AK. The Proacryl Bold Pyrrole Red is fantastic, but the Atom Pure Red? extremely competitive, and a slightly different color too.

Aged like milk? :)

Reviewing wet pallets and not mentioning game envy wet pallets is a huge miss. . Imho the best wet pallet made

I use both the Redgrass XL Pallett and the Army Painter Palette Small; the AP is useful for travelling but is nowhere near as good as the Redgrass, which is amazing, and the membranes are excellent; you can use them over and over again. Especially if you clean them off before the paint cures...I have literally gotten months out of a single membrane; being airtight means that it will keep the paint fresh for ages, depending on the weather conditions, even here in Australia...

60 bucks for a fancy fountain pen? Looking at my pen collection I can tell you: these are rookie numbers...

Thank you so much!!! Great video, we're glad you enjoy our painting tools ❤

Sprue Goo has been a thing since the 1970s.

I've used a wall tile. Gloss shiny white. Wipe clean almost

Being able to reuse the redgrass wet palette membranes is a point of pride. I paint every day, and I made one last the entire summer. Even got a dedicated retired makeup brush for gently removing paint.

Beautiful work and deff some warbikes or some custom grot biker type minis

You’re mad not re-using the membrane papers. Takes a minute to wash the paint off when I’m cleaning out my water pot and it’s good as new 🙃

Regarding Sprue Goo, I've also found it incredibly helpful for some daintier models where even with plastic glue, I can't get the milimeter thin wrist to stick to the virtually non-existent contact point some minis like Malifaux or a handful of Marvel miniatures want to rely on. Just giving it that tiny bit of extra thickness that makes it weight bearing.

I think we can all agree that humus is the sleeper hit MVP of this year in hobbying and painting. Happy holidays fellow humus devotees!

super video!!! Thancks!!!

The little growl at the end of "Domain" made me go weak at the knees 😍. Fantastic video and I totally agree on the Redgrass wet pallet. I love my Painter Lite one. I have also recently go some Sable brushed from a local art store to compare to synthetic.

Those "sillicone palettes every painter talk about" are stress relief toys :p my kids get lot of them in kindergarden And for budget wet palette: i love my GSW palette.

I'm also a huge fan of the Gorilla Glue Gel, especially in the precision dispenser. Because it keeps the air out, a bottle can last me over a month after opening. I had been using Tamiya white bottle (regular?) for a long time and just started using the thin (green) formulation a few months ago. It's great for flowing into tiny seams and cracks after something has already been cemented. I'm also thinking about experimenting with Sprue Goo this coming year - opinions seem really divided, but it looks to be a fantastic gap filler.

I use the reusable papers for my Painter v2 more than ten times each and I think they are great. I have the luxury of a large laundry room sink near my painting station so it's real easy to wash them off, especially if you don't let the paint dry (but it will still come of with some light rubbing, I just use my fingers).

Maybe we could get Squidmare to hook you up with some of his HandS models. Also if you'd like a good trigger (pistol) type airbrush for larger models or terrain Id highly reccommend the Black Widow. Comes from Harbkr Freight paid about 80$ for mine. Well worth it for the price and comes with .3 and .5 mm needles. ProTip: you can have the equivalent of spruegoo with UV resin if you're into 3d printing. Great gap filler.

Honestly, I kind of like that that army painter pallet is not air tight. I have accidentally forgotten to crack my redgrass one enough when I was done and came back a few weeks later to mold 😢

Great video as usual, I've been meaning to make some sprue goo. Only thing i would being considerate of the eco-friendliness of some suggestions. If all your subscribers buy 500 'disposable' cups thats a hell of a lot of cups going to landfill. Just a thought :)

I really appreciate that you clearly disclosed how you acquired these products and any factors that might contribute to a bias.

I used one of the RG papers for about a year and for like 400-500h of painting. It was stained all over and started to be "crunchy" when I changed it. But it worked "fine" though it tended to let "too much" water through by the end. Recently switched to a new sheet, and it does not water down my paint as much. So there is something to changing the paper every now-and-then. But it can be re-used for a long-long time

This is great.

This was indeed very helpful. I really need a better light for mobile painting. So I'll happy wait for the Redgrass kickstarter. This could be exactly what I need.

For airbrushes i would like to see some ghaleeri and know your opinion on their durability or clog prone on their special nozzle

I looooooooooooooove sqrspc

I am VERY interested in painting portably. Definitely a video I look forward to.

Actually, I do like the way you have split it up. And for once, a portable section. I have been 3D printing paint holders for that very reason.

For the Testors non-toxic plastic cement (which I also use), I highly recommend the Testors Precision Gluing Tips. They just slip right on the end of the tube. I don't even take them off if I'm leaving the tube on my work desk, I just slip the white cap over the end of the tip. I make sprue goo using the Testors non-toxic, but I do it on demand - I have the plastic shavings left over, or shave some more from a sprue. I put some Testors cement on the seam, and then sprinkle the plastic shavings over. Then tap them off, finally using my tools, pack the shavings down into the glue and wipe away the rest. However, I often don't need to do this - using the Citadel mould line remover (particularly the rounded tip) I can actually close up most of them up by scraping at an angle across the ago several times, then scraping at the same angle.

The Exemplar Wet Palette is another great wet palette. They're paper is on par with Redgrass Gen 1 paper

That servo-skull is thirteen times more expensive than the 36-compartment "foot" popper I got at 5 below...

Hey Dana, I just picked up the GSI-Creos/Mr. Hobby PS-270 0.2mm (same body and swappable to 0.3mm PS-289. Highly recommended. It was $70 and performs beautifully. Might be a good idea for an airbrush review. Shoots as well as my Iwata for half the price. Really, really impressed. Good video otherwise and thanks for always being transparent about affiliates and folks that give you swag. Happy holidays!

As someone whose fanfiction turned from "I can knock this out in a few months" to "it's been an entire year and I'm nowhere close to finished", I completely understand and empathize with projects that ballooned beyond their original scope.

If you want a good alternative to the other wet palettes, I really love the Game Envy Examplar. Good features, looks good, and great price

Great video as always, but I have to ask, whats that D&D box set next to the warhammer box? I don't recognize it and I try to pride myself on that. It looks like a 3/3.5 era so early 2000s but googling is failing me.

Please sell hummus lids or hummus on your website. That would be funny.

Thanx Dana, nice seeing you again.

Great review of very useful hobby products, now go get yourself some cake!

Please review some cheaper airbrush kits!

ca. 6:38 : On the other hand you pay just an Euro for the Silicon Palet all the cool kids talked about. So: Does this realy sound reasonable in any kind?

I'd love to see you review the Harder & Steenbeck ULTRA 2024. It's an "introductory" airbrush, but it seems like it has the chops to go further.

Dana about to break 100k!!

On the topic of superglue, I figure I can speak a little bit. Since I've mostly worked with metal models, and have done a bunch of testing different types for the sake of settling discussions/disagreements with others. Gel superglue is 100% my standard go to for basic "create strong bond of X to Y". Very much stronger than thinner types. However, it is worth noting that it's actually SLOWER to dry. Rather than quicker. But it's a stronger bond overall. And if you have a big gap, it does indeed work well to fill in large gaps. Worth throwing in as a footnote as well, I figure most might know this, but just in case. Gel superglue likes to have a bit of... grit to dig into, for lack of a better term. Doesn't matter for Siocast, but for metal, I've found that kind of lightly scoring a crosshatch pattern into contacting surfaces with an exacto knife (Or whatever kind of hobby knife one has) helps to get a stronger bond. That being said, I do still use thin liquid superglue for some more niche applications. I know people tend to go for greenstuff for gap filling. But I've found that, with a thin superglue and a needle applicator add on, thin superglue can be a great way to get tricky/tiny gaps filled. Since the glue is so thin, it tends to run to fill the gap pretty well. And a light sprinkle of baking soda over it as an accelerator hardens the filled in gap very nicely. Gel is great, but it's thick enough that sometimes working it into tight spots without messing up a model might not be feasible. So yeah. Gel superglue = core bonding glue. Liquid superglue = small gap filler and reinforcing tricky spots.

To bring up another kind of wet palette. I backed the Game Envy kickstarter earlier this year to gain a second palette and I really don't regret it, I enjoy the standard size and the storage container to put brushes and a small dry palette is really nice.

Nice video. Thanks for the honest reviews.