How to paint an Ettin | Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures/Wizkids | Boxes of Shame

In this episode I try to paint the Ettin miniature from Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures from Wizkids!
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[@WePaintMinis]

They are not boxes of shame, they are piles of possibilities! Hehe. Great work friend.

[@DevsDice]

Thanks man! Also, I totally had missed to sub to your channel! Sorted now - sorry! :)

[@WePaintMinis]

@@DevsDice no worries at all. It's never expected sir, but very much appreciated.

[@DevsDice]

Of course man! Remember, I am a socialist Swede. I believe in a strong collective! ;)

[@christophermurray9777]

Well done. Jeff and Bob can wreak havoc now.

[@DevsDice]

Hahahahaha! Indeed! :)

[@MiniatureMarauder]

Looking good! looks like your all prepared for those upcoming warhammer giant models to paint!

[@DevsDice]

Haha! That's the plan... sort of! :)

[@NatesMiniatures]

Fantastic Ettin, have not painted a wizkids model before might have to pick Jeff and Bob up. Watched the whole thing and was entertained through it all you never seem to disappoint.

[@DevsDice]

Thanks Nate! Yeah this one was actually quite nice! :D

[@hostagegrenade743]

This is AWESOME! I painted my ettin around 2 weeks ago. Your paint skills are unbelieable

[@DevsDice]

Haha! Thank you very much! Like all of us I am still in practice :) Important thing is to enjoy it! :)

[@chrispeters5780]

Well done. I just bought this ettin this weekend, so it was helpful to watch what you chose to do. Thanks for posting.

[@DevsDice]

Thank you very much for taking the time to tell me! :) I really liked this model and painting this one! Have fun! :)

[@Miniocalypse]

Great video! Your painting has definitely leveled up. Ill be trying out this war paint theory the next time I’m challenged! Huzzaa! Keep painting them minis my good man!

[@DevsDice]

Cheers Jamie! Yeah I love having inks in one's arsenal. So good for tinting or whenever you need a punch of color! Thanks man, right back at you! :D

[@DripMinis]

Some really nice work here. Inspired me to paint my own Ettin. I pretty much used the same techniques, except I airbrushed the skin tones. Possibly the nicest figure I've done so far. Thanks for all the helpful vids!

[@DevsDice]

Thank you so much! Yeah honestly if I was a bit more confident with my airbrushing I would have used it for some blending on this one as well! No worries Jason! Thanks for taking the time to comment! :)

[@chrissagers9990]

THAT IS A VERY GOOD HAT

[@DevsDice]

Hahaha! Thanks Chris! 👍😂😜

[@LockwoodsWorkshop]

Great video!

[@DevsDice]

Thanks man! :)

[@pinkpulsepainting6704]

I should do a Box of Shame series with all my Reaper minis.. Would have videoes for more weeks than I care to admit :D Great idea to glaze over the skin to bring back the red-ness from the first layer :D

[@DevsDice]

Oh yes you should! It's a great way to get inspired to fight "the grey war" but also it can help and guide fellow painters out there. A win-win-situation! :) Thanks Nina, yeah I am somewhat happy with how the skin came out! Thanks for watching and commenting! :)

[@SkylighWillo]

Your painting is improving more and more with each video, keep it up 😄 As always a great video

[@NatesMiniatures]

ikr! I have also noticed the improvement to his painting, kinda wondering if this is indeed Leif we know! or an impostor!!!

[@DevsDice]

Thank you so much! Yeah I am trying :)

[@DevsDice]

@@NatesMiniatures Hahaha! Not you too! There is a whole joke at work about me being cloned and that number 4 is the best so far! 😂 Thanks though good people! Means a lot! ❤

[@williamporter7596]

Nice work on the skin shades, have to try that method myself soon.

[@DevsDice]

Thanks William! Yeah the only thing I have left that I want to try is to use some airbrushing to smooth out the transitions. We'll see when I have the guts to try! ;)

[@TitusVarus]

You're really inspiring me to try new painting stuff. I've always been okay at best, mostly just slapping a wash over some decent paintwork, maybe a little highlighting. I assume I'm getting more discerning as models I painted years ago that I thought were good now seem very subpar. I'm definitely going to be grabbing more Wizkids stuff. I think I burned out a while back because I kept trying to paint armies, and I'm not very good at that. I have High Elven, undead (in several flavours) dwarven, goblin, orc, space marine, and Roman. Not a single one is painted or completed to any decent degree. The larger Wizkids minis have really caught my eye though, and I enjoy painting them more. After watching your videos on the chromatic dragons I ordered several of them, and threw some metallic dragons in there too. I will have ALL the minis! Or a huge pile of shame. Either way I'm going to keep bingeing your videos, so keep up the good work!

[@DevsDice]

First off: thank you so much Antonius for the nice comment! It makes me happy to hear that my work inspires in some way. It's like air for me! 🤣 Regarding piles of shame, yeah I think I went from pile to boxes to well, not it's almost a small storage room. But hey, we're supposed to do something when we retire right? 😉 I can agree that the larger Wizkids models generally is of good quality, I just wish that they could get the small ones better! :D I hope that your painting goes well and remember that it is about having fun! 👍

[@EQ2Cordanim]

Great job on this guy (or guys?)...love seeing how your detailing and highlighting is improving as I go through all these in chronological order - once I get caught up and my basement renos are done and my paint station is done, I'd love to do a challenge with you on the same model - I'm sure we have something duplicated LOL - I don't have the camera setup, but could be fun just having a submission to compare to down the road :-)

[@DevsDice]

Thanks Kevin and that sounds like fun! 👍😊

[@EpicParsnips]

At 15:01 the middle image looks so cute in a way

[@DevsDice]

Hahahahaha! Well they do make a cute couple! :D

[@sionmarcsimpson7487]

PMSL "Jeff the ginger" lol

[@DevsDice]

Haha! Yeah improvisation at it's best right? 😂

[@sionmarcsimpson7487]

@@DevsDice Yep. Your awesome and love your Nordic proverbs lol

[@DevsDice]

Haha! Thank you very much! That makes me very happy! :D

[@sionmarcsimpson7487]

@@DevsDice Thanks for being so engaging with your fans too. Its refreshing to see. Im the guy that messaged about doing Father Dagon from Reaper Bones on your other video.

[@DevsDice]

Well, of course man! :) It's my pleasure, and yeah I will do Father Dagon eventually! You mean the Reaper model right? :D

[@GMAtank]

Great work. Thanks for the inspiration to give KZbin a try myself :)

[@DevsDice]

Seriously!? Wow! That's like amazing! :D

[@GMAtank]

@@DevsDice thanks! Check out my latest episode from Saturday where I painted the balor. I'm going to have to try the pit devil like the one you did! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pp2bo5qYnNqIr7s

[@ForrTheXP]

Great video Leif! Bob's weapon according to the stats is an axe. Though I always thought it was supposed to be a bone axe made from some big ass creature's thigh or hip bone despite that it still looks great as a scrap metal axe of some kind :3

[@DevsDice]

Oh yeah that makes sense! :D I wish that that part would have had a bit more "bone-like" definition cause now when you say it - of course its a hip bone! Haha! Live and learn! :D

[@ForrTheXP]

@@DevsDice Indeed. It still looks great regardless! It could be the scrap metal from a broken breastplate of a slain warrior too!

[@DevsDice]

There we go! That's great! Keeping that as the official story! :D

[@ForrTheXP]

@@DevsDice Glad I could help!

[@jameschaffee2871]

Great paint job. How tall is this figure?

[@DevsDice]

Thank you James! The figure stands from base to top of the club to ca 9 cm (3,5 inches) and from the base to top of head about 7,2 cm (2,75 inches).

[@hostagegrenade743]

Can you do blights? You choose of course. Just a request

[@DevsDice]

I will take it under consideration, I am fairly certain that I did see some in the "Boxes of Shame" :)

[@DevsDice]

Update! I have found them! Officially putting them on the backlog! :)

[@labibliotecadelilisburg5634]

Great job! I would like to know if you print the wizkids miniatures? Regards! Thanks a lot!

[@DevsDice]

Why thank you! If I print them? Like with a 3d printer? Nope. I don't have a 3d printer and even if I could I would find it unethical to do a recast/print. As long as I can I will try to support the various creators that make this hobby so wonderful! :)

[@labibliotecadelilisburg5634]

@@DevsDice Sorry! I have made a mistake! I wanted to know if you prime the miniature before painting it!

[@DevsDice]

Ah now I understand! Yes in this case I did a black primer first and then a so-called zenithal priming with white. This can also be called "dusting". This I do just to see the shapes more easily!

[@labibliotecadelilisburg5634]

@@DevsDice Perfect! Thank you very much!

[@DevsDice]

No problem! Happy to help! :)

[@DrJackJeckyl]

Something makes me want to lowball you on a copy of Radio Active Man #1... can't quite put my finger on it...

[@DevsDice]

Not entirely sure I understand what you are saying :D

[@hostagegrenade743]

Do anyone know about a discord or app where you can share your paintjobs

[@DevsDice]

Not sure, I know there are facebook groups and such, might look into that?

[@hostagegrenade743]

Devs & Dice Cool do you know the name?

[@johnharvath5278]

When are you going to paint a wizkids dragon?!!

[@DevsDice]

It will come, eventually! I have all of them. A bit scared of them to be honest :D But I will, I think that it will be a series essentially where I paint every dragon back to back :)

[@johnharvath5278]

@@DevsDice scared, the mighty Fin,I don't believe it. You have the best twist on painting miniatures than anyone else on the internet. I think it will be exciting to see what you make of them!👍

[@DevsDice]

Jesus, what have I done to deserve as supporting subs as you man. Thanks!

[@johnharvath5278]

@@DevsDice you are a damn good painter, weather you think so or not. People enjoy your style i being one of them. Don't even stop 🤘

[@DevsDice]

Thank you so much! I will try to remember that! :)

[@user-lc6hn9rm7y]

Сјајно офарбана фигура. Сјајно

[@DevsDice]

Hi! Sorry I don't read Serbian but with google translate I got this: "The shape of the figure is different. Really" So..yeah! I agree :D

[@user-lc6hn9rm7y]

@@DevsDice Hahaha, I wrote : Figure was painted marvelously, indeed! Google Translate messed it up :) I like your work, and I'm trying to learn something. Cheers!

[@mogwaiman6048]

It looks like a bone weapon in his left hand.

[@DevsDice]

True! Haha! Thanks for commenting! :)

[@SnoddiesHobbies]

WTF A HAT! You’re hiding your glorious hair under a HAT! Dislike.

[@DevsDice]

Oh Dave :) Yeah even I can wear hats every once and a while ;)