Very interesting pictures thank you for sharing. best regards from FRANCE

Damned good video. I've been looking for something like this for awhile. Thank you!

Your camera angle is terrible and the sound is horrible!! Anyone watching this cannot possibly see nor comprehend anything that is said!! What a complete waste of time making this, let alone watching it!!

great video thanks 👍

Would have been nice to have the goods take up the whole part of the screen instead of having the logos on the right side which don’t really add anything to the overall content. Watching this on a phone is painful :-)

Nice tutorial but are the oils thinned and with what kind of medium?

Zenithal priming really helps to plan highlights and shadows

semper fi, brother

41K views Mike! Not bad. You should set this up for payment. I am revisiting for my latest gig. Never hurts to rewatch before diving back into figure painting.

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all models are overdone with rust and chipping

You can't see anything , wast of my time

I've been using only acrylics for the base, mid's & high's for highlights & shadows. I use acrylic glaze medium to thin the highlights & shadows and wet blend (also using a liberal amounts of retarder). This method using oil looks to be much easier and more effective. I have seen videos of people using oils, but don't really do a great job explaining how to. I think now I understand it enough to give it a shot now. Although I think I might experiment with starting with a zenithal priming. Just to see how it turns out (I use "plastic army" men for my figure "mules" 🤓😜). Thank you Sir for sharing this video. It is very educational, easy to follow and helps to build a little confidence.

Is necessary a gloss varnish after the acrylic basecoat,for use the oils?

I have sent this vid to my playlist, email, FB page..... just so as not to lose it. Absolutely great tutorial and I will try it on my next figure. Thank you so much for sharing. Will share it on !!

Thank you very much for sharing

Freaking annoying people talking at the same time as Adam is explaining. So impolite

Thanks for such an interesting video!

If you're going to use Vallejo Model Color you really should check out Golden Fluid Acrylics. They come in about 70 colors and are sold by Blick and other art house stores. Golden pioneered acrylics for artists in the 50s and remains at the top of the field. You can check the whole line at Blick's web site. You'll notice the 1 oz bottles are mostly about $4.75 (but considerably larger than the Vallejo 17ml) but some are nearly twice that. The expensive paints have costly pigments and are usually made for mixing. They also come in a variety of opacity which could be invaluable for figure painting. The consistency of Golden Fluids is very much like Vallejo Model Color. They also sell their equivalent of Vallejo Model Air called Golden High Flow. High Flow has been my "go to" airbrush acrylic for two years and has no peer in the world of water based acrylics. (Golden Fluids, like Vallejo Model Color can be easily airbrushed if you have Airbrush Medium - just remember that the pigment load will be a little lower.) Like Vallejo Golden has a 100% acrylic polymer agent and hence is non-toxic and non-flammable. Mediums are available to extend drying time. Mr. Youngquist is quite right that acrylics will do about any job in modeling. He's also right about using decent brushes - not sure you'd need sable but if the brush is less than $5 it's not good enough. And I'd agree about sizes, although I find 00 useful along with 0, 1/0 and 2/0. BTW: Vallejo Model Color is also now sold by Blick for much lower prices than you'd find in any modeling place. Modelers pay a lot of extra money for the every increasing blizzard of paints and weathering products most of which is available at the art store in better quality and much less money. You can buy Sennelier Pigments - arguably the best oil paint maker in the business - for as low as $11 for 140 grams for the kind of pigments any modeler would use. Also thumbs up on auto primers - Brite Touch is enamel and is probably fine for a figure. I use black Duplicolor sandable & fillable lacquer thinner which is simply dynamite for handling slight scratches, gaps etc and costs about $5 for a 12oz can. Again, half the price of a model brand primer.

This is amazing instructional content. Feeling like I should have to pay to access the content. Too many tips/advice to mention them all. Thank you.

It's unfortunate that more people don't use oils for miniatures. Apparently people's attention span has been reduced to nothing and they can't wait for the drying time. And others just have a fear of using oil paints. Oils are so much more versatile and my results are always better. But look how few videos there are about oil painting miniature figures. Very unfortunate... As for this video it would have been much better if the videographer would have just shut the hell up. It's a major annoyance in watching an otherwise helpful video.

Thanks Dave, that was really helpful. I am just getting back in to modelling after a short 30 year gap! Some really useful advice and food for thought . Some of the basic things make so much sense when they are spelt out (I have been trying to fit dioramas to the base and it is good to hear that I am not alone in this ) Great use of cats in the presentation, especially the S.A.M. cat at the end with smoke coming out of it's butt, I might try and incorporate that in to a diorama with your permission ; )

From what I've seen they blow torch and mutilate historical artifacts by cutting them open. Not the place you should donate to.

Is this the person who made the dark tan filter ? If so. Who sells that line of product? I've been trying to track some of it down locally. And not having any luck. I've only seen it online so far.

Excellent video with some great information.

Hey Rob, Jeremy from eaglequest. Sorry we didn't get together at the end of the show, I cut out about 30 min before the end as my back was killing me. Anyhow, I was watching "Saving Pvt Ryan" yesterday and got the notion to do a dio of the ruined city in France at the last 3/4 of the movie. The part where they are getting ready for the krauts to enter the town. This would be a huge undertaking and I would expect 2 yrs at least. I picked up a Mini Art dio, that would get it started however the rest would be scratch built. Thoughts? idea's, and recommends. (want to get in on, would be a show winner/stopper time after time!) Could also include the bridge. Other than that I am pushing your book, writing reviews and such where I can. By the way, I picked up a copy, love it. wish I'd have gotten you to sign it, perhaps later. 469-994-8777 whenever you're in the big D call me and we'll get out on the town.

Can someone tell me how he builds or makes the base?

What color combo of oil paints will create dunkelgelb for my DAK figures shadows and highlights??

The last time I built a model was when I was about twelve. A plane of some sort. That was back in the 70s. Last year I thought I'd give it a go again, with my son. Got on KZbin to see what I could learn before spending a fortune, and MY GOD, look what you people can do ! The stuff Mike shows on this clip, I think is just amazing. To get that level of detail on a face that small ! Nice one mate. By the way. The plane I made when I was twelve, ended up having a hole drilled through one wing attached to ten feet of string, fuselage filled with petrol, and me and my mate having great fun twirling a very realistic burning bomber before the string let go and his mum's washing went up in flames. Looks like I'm going to be spending a fortune.

80 Percent of this video, Adam screws up caps and cleans things ....

Mike, Excellent work and a brilliant presentation. Thank you so much. The right mix of essential theory (context), goal (purpose) and practice (execution). I have been searching for a fortnight to find a step by step to understand face painting in oils and you have gone a hundred steps further. Lots to practice, lots to remember and a helluva lot of fun in improving the outcomes. Thank you for spending your time and effort in helping improve the skills and outcomes of many of us stumbling, bumbling wannabees! This is excellent motivation and proof we can all do better.

I have already watched this twice. Great vid Mike. Your style of presentation is much better than most out there. I agree; getting back into the hobby I need a slow drying medium to get the best results. Looking forward to giving the acrylic base with oil blending a try.

Awesome video wish the sound quality was better

Awesome tutorial...thank you! Question...can rubbing alcohol be used as a thinner for acrylics?

the videographer sounds like he has health problems...over weight etc...gross

Looks so much easier then doing acrylics... I will try this out, as it seems simple enough to follow. Thanks for Sharing

Very interesting and useful. Thanks for sharing!

that is quite the collection of tanks, the restored ones look beautifull.

I've never known why people paint figure with acrylic when the oil paint can make it more simple and better result

I've been searching for what seems like an age... I decide to get back into painting after losing my index finger and half my thumb on my painting hand in a accident last year, but decided if I was gonna. I was going to step up my game. I watched this, 2 hours on the brush and I'm seeing massive improvement. I'll never be great but wow...thank you ...

Dave, is there anywhere to find this PowerPoint?

Excellent!!! This is one of the best demo I have ever seen before. Thanks very much! By the way, please show us how to paint things mode of wood, leather, metal? Thanks again in advance.

I am quite surprised this great vid has only 3K visits even though it´s full of great advices.. respect !

What vehicle is this?

is there anyway that you can fix the screen by putting the person on the main screen and not off the screen .

Adam got some sick skills

Superb!

At last, somebody has shown the best way to do figures. Now we will see figures that have sheen to skin like humans are supposed to have. Acrylics have their place but cannot give you a lifelike color to flesh, leather or animals.

Wow what a GREAT presentation! So much valuable information! I'll have to re-watch and take notes. :~) Thanks for posting...much appreciated. I subscribed too!

Thank you for posting!! I had a really great time and thank you for giving me the floor and I look forward to the next convention.