5 Ways to paint Striking Scorpions, FAST!

[@cheeezPatrol]

Love that you described the colors and didn’t name them. Really makes following along much more relaxing. Thanks for the great vid!

[@GRGMiniatures]

Thank you!

[@KrullMaestaren]

They are all good for different reasons 😊 The 90s version bring back memories. While its hard to pick schemes, the goblin green and mars red bases were best in my opinion

[@GRGMiniatures]

Thanks, Patrik! That Martian grim dark chap is definitely the most popular I think. My personal eldar collection is all a little too clean to do that for my new scorpions,but I will have to find something to use that scheme on!

[@davidstone3698]

Love 1 and 5! Shocking from a 90s painter who now almost exclusively works in the grim and or dark style!

[@GRGMiniatures]

Nostalgia and grim awful fictional realities -- it's a heady mix 😂

[@calvinmeister7744]

#5 is exactly what I've been wanting to try! Great video 👍

[@GRGMiniatures]

Great! Go for it :)))

[@packe93]

Grim Sponge has to be my favourite, Neo Nineties close second. But your chromatic shadows never seizes to amaze. It's literally the meme of 1: Do weird base 2: Do another colour 3: ??? 4: Profit

[@GRGMiniatures]

:D It's definitely become a thing

[@electrictrojan6719]

I like the bone-coloured oil painted one. It has the eerie and otherworldly quality we've come to expect from Blanchitsu, and it was achieved with cheap Winton oils :)

[@GRGMiniatures]

Thanks you! I do have some better oil paints as well, but I don't use them nearly enough to warrant splashing out on a bunch of pricier ones.......yet.........

[@Ari91]

that video format was very enjoyable, much info in a short period of time, thanks!

[@GRGMiniatures]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@fleshbhones]

These look so good, especially the Chromatic look!

[@GRGMiniatures]

Thank you! I've got a bunch of stuff in my queue at the min, but the plastic scorpions might just jump the line a bit so I can refine that scheme a bit :D

[@battspaints]

'Say the line Graig!' '... Chromatic underpainting' 'yaaaaaaay!

[@GRGMiniatures]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@Sup3rH4ns]

Rather than using tweezers for things like sponging, I like to use surgical artery forceps - seems like a weird tool for the job, but it's one of those things I use all the time in mini painting. You can buy them very cheaply (maybe a couple of pounds if you look around) and in several shapes, (try searching for Forceps Artery Halstead Mosquito Curved for the variety I use) - or if you're lucky enough to have a friend or loved one who is a doctor/vet/dentist, they are typically treated as disposable tools (how I discovered their usefulness!). The thing that I think makes them super handy is that they have a scissor-type action and a ratchet on the handles - so really good for holding small pins when modelling, or small bits of sponge etc! Bit of a ramble about an unimportant point, but genuinely a very useful tool that no one seems to use!

[@GRGMiniatures]

Ooh, sounds interesting. I'll check them out, thanks!

[@SC1ENCEP1E]

Just got this box so handy video

[@GRGMiniatures]

Me too! I'll have to go back and reference this when I paint the new ones 😂

[@mikej3330]

Came here from your IG sir, thanks for the wonderful tutorial! I have to say u have a great voice for vids :)

[@GRGMiniatures]

Haha, I appreciate that, cheers!

[@Rehteal]

I've definitely found a near-necessity in putting two stainless steel hex nuts into a bottle of scale to really get that mixing going. Some dinky little ball bearings will absolutely not get the job done in a reasonable amount of time. I've heard putting them on a vibrating surface helps speed things up, but I don't own anything like that.

[@GRGMiniatures]

Yeah, something a bit heftier would certainly help, and my little vortex mixer does save me from getting tennis elbow trying to mix them. But the user experience is just not great, and I don't feel like they're so revolutionary they're worth the trouble to be honest. Why would I not just correctly thin regular acrylics instead?

[@Rehteal]

@@GRGMiniatures My best friend swears by them and he does competition-winning paintjobs, but as I've been told many-a-time, they require a lot of practice with their super dense pigmentation and irregular gel medium. They can make for excellent brush-on primer though. Oddly enough, the white alchemy has beautiful pigment, but dismal coverage. Mixing it with regular white has had excellent results though for a base layer beneath more of that same metallic. I've been making some Void Dragon Corsairs, and using a white metallic layer as the undercoat for some blood red speedpaint, as well as freehand patterns since the Void Dragons love their serpent designs all over their stuff, like the tricked out cars that you see. Except, you know, without the stupid cambered wheels, severed muffler, pointless spoiler, and black tinted windows. Actually they might have the tinted windows, come to think of it...

[@GRGMiniatures]

@Rehteal oh the Scale metallic paints are phenomenal, yeah. I use them all the time (including this video!) I haven't use their regular acrylics. But these new airbrush paints are the ones I'm not so keen on.

[@Rehteal]

@@GRGMiniatures Apparently they're rolling out a new kind of three pronged cap for their bottles which is a tier of absolute genius I haven't seen in some time. They're shaped so that you can set the bottles in a power drill to spin mix them, but without having to fasten the drill around the bottle.

[@flumpet38]

Love them all. I think the Zorn palette oil paint one is actually my favorite! FWIW, I recently did some Cities of Sigmar figures using some of the S75 drop paints followed by an enamel wash, and I didn't have any trouble with the adhesion when removing. It was over stynylrez primer and dried for days before I applied the enamels, so maybe cure time is a factor? Excellent work, as always!

[@GRGMiniatures]

Thank you! And good to know on the Drop Paint experience with enamels/longer drying. I figured drying time might have something to do with it, but honestly, I'm still hunting for reasons to like the Drop Paints -- potential convenience is spoiled by the crazy settling, so .... Ho hum, I have them now so I'm sure I'll find a place for them in my work at some point :)

[@anselmoffrisia2930]

These are great! Thanks for sharing!

[@GRGMiniatures]

Glad you like them!

[@oddkidbiker]

I'm giving the slap metal technique a go right now

[@aanler]

#5 is sweet

[@GRGMiniatures]

Cheers!

[@SweenyMarc]

1 doesn't do much for me, but I don't have nostalgia for those 90s paint schemes or bland flock bases. Really liked 2 and I think metallic base coats are not used nearly enough. 3 is a great colour scheme but it looks a bit chalky to my eye. 4 has some serious Predator vibes! Loved that one. 5 is easily my favourite, the red contrast in the basing really pushes it up a level as well as the over all paint job being excellent.

[@GRGMiniatures]

Thanks! And good spot on the Predator vibes. Take a look at the sneak peak of the underside of the base on that one for my notes....

[@BarryPilkinton]

I got these drop paints too and as you say they are OK. I’ve got a powerful vortex mixer and still can’t get them to mix properly. Combine that with white floaty things in the two bottles of airbrush cleaner and just not very happy 😢

[@GRGMiniatures]

Yeah, I had them on my fairly cheap vortex mixer for ages and ages and still had plenty of streaks of pigments. Usability is part of the product! I didn't get any of the cleaner, sorry to hear that was a bit of a disappointment too... :(

[@lieuwedewolf2476]

What kind of oil paint did you use?😊

[@GRGMiniatures]

Any kind of artist's oil paint will do! If you want to try but don't want to spend too much, I recommend the Windsor & Newton Winton series, but the Artist Oil range is higher quality if you want the good stuff. But as I say, just go to your nearest art shop and pick up some mid range oils to get started :)

[@lieuwedewolf2476]

@@GRGMiniatures Cheers!