Painting an ENTIRE Warhammer Army FAST with Slapchop!

[@tomdove3772]

I have a mountain of grey shame that is constantly getting bigger as I can't seem to assemble and paint my backlog before falling to new and shiny treasures. But your quick and easy technique will help me get through it quicker. 😉👍

[@PlagueDoctorGames]

I share both your pain & shame.

[@hodsmat]

I got back into LotR MESBG after many years and picked up the Pelennor Fields box set last year, but only got around to painting it last week) So far I've just primed them, but I'll most likely go and buy more LotR minis because my local shop is planning on putting them on clearance since no one is buying them... so my pile of shame will likely end up being pretty big, lol.

[@antigrav6004]

The only shame I have in box are robot models saved for a rainy day. All minis get built the same week.

[@chriswilson6486]

Quick suggestion for quick and easy skintone: once you've drybrushed and have the shading you want, all you need to do is use a flesh wash. From a table length you won't be able to tell and it can look just as good as using skin paints. The flesh wash will sink into the details, adding natural shadows, so you really don't even need to do eyes if you don't want to.

[@justfunk103]

Been watching you for years, had no idea you were into tabletop games until I started to get back into Warhammer 40k three months ago. Popped up on my recommended for minis. lol

[@ric1194]

Yes! You're the first youtuber I've watched that's finally told people the best way to drybrush! What an awesome thing to do my dude! Took me a few months to find out that way and when I did it makes such a huge difference!

[@danielhiggins8697]

My god I had no idea about the kitchen roll! I would get so annoyed with the models looking so chalky

[@justinvenable917]

Thanks for the tip about kitchen towels. I had been doing that sometimes.

[@sapatanque5881]

Kitchen roll and drybrush 🤯 instant subscribe

[@thecondorflyght8964]

Really awesome video. After seeing this, and the previous vid, I just went "right, I've gotta buy me one of those sets". I dont use contrast paints, but I used this drybrushing technique on my orcs, and gave them a few flesh and metal highlights, and they looked brilliant. You could always try a video where you do specific details, but only for the heroes.

[@hellvlad9497]

I own a 3d printer. Printing Minis has started to be a hobby on its own. My grey pile is in the hundreds

[@rannoch1454]

I have lots and lots of unpainted stuff and that is an understatement. The problem is, the rate of buying new stuff far, far exceeds the rate of painting the stuff I have. This is because I keep getting drawn into new, cool things that I want for my armies. Me and my friends have mostly grey armies but it doesn't hinder the immersion we feel when playing the game. We just play to have fun and I've begun to realise that the grey doesn't matter all that much to me at least. I prefer the building and playing to painting, because painting normally feels too slow and you spend hours on one small thing and it feels like nothing is getting achieved.

[@RotGolem]

I'm painting a Norman army (66 figures, including 12 cavalry and 6 command) and a Saxon army (again 66 figures, all infantry, including 6 command) for Lion Rampant 2nd Ed. Yes, they're all Victrix minis. 😁 Yet I primed all of them in light brown, overbrushed in sand, drybrushed in off-white, and did a rough edge highlight with watered down pure white for my own personal grisaille technique approach. Metallics will be done and shaded with regular acrylics, everything else in Contrast. If edge higlights or broad layers are required, my go-to recipe is a very light cold (pale turquoise or green) or warm tone (yellow) plus diluted Contrast of the underlying tone, then a glaze a very much diluted Contrast (6 to 1 ratio) of darker tone to smooth it out. Works wonders.

[@jpxstudios]

Im planning on doing a dark ages victrix project sometime this year when i defeat my backlog of napoleonics. This technique sounds awesome, would love to see them

[@terrainaholic]

VERY NICE!!!!! I like the application of the 3 layer dry brush added to the thinned paint!!!!! I'm a dry brusher by nature and it has strengths and weaknesses. This is a great way to quickly use its strengths and not try to dry brush small areas with color which is a pain!!!!!

[@cb175s]

I'm currently sitting on an entire ork army of 160 individual miniatures and several vehicles/ walkers. Lol I like painting but dread painting all of 5hem at the moment. Good video Thank you for sharing

[@DiscobiscuitUK1]

Thank you so much, first time someone has pointed out why using paper with my dry-brush was coming out chalky!

[@nickdavis5420]

Love how well the Vikings just blend in . I got a few starters I need too take care of but I’ve been doing miniatures for others .

[@R2DTARD]

Can't wait to see the finished lot and the transport hack 😀

[@Morhgoz]

Btw, get yourself some matte medium from craft store and then some airbrush paint thinning agent. 50/50 mix of them you can create contrast style paints for slapchop painting when you mix that mix with paints or acrylic inks on wet palette.

[@juddery]

I've just returned to the hobby after many years and I now have the entire Leviathan box set to paint and only 27 of those are even built yet, as well as still having numerous 5th edition 40k models to build and paint, that I never got around to back then. At least now my Son is 22 and he's helping with the process, as we went halves on the Leviathan set. It's actually been so long since I last painted that all of my Ciradel paints are solid blocks, so I've had to start buying new ones.

[@blakegreen82]

I watched one of your videos the other day and was thinking that you looked like the guy I used to watch back in the Skyrim days! I just realized it is you! I love you brother! I will sub and support your mini videos too! I hope you have some plans for the next elder scrolls games, but if not I understand and look forward to what you do! Glad I found your content again

[@NinjaTurtle-qh1xy]

To paint I have: a whole halfling army to paint for Mantics KoW, about 2300 points. About 2000 points of marauders (Orks) for Mantics firefight. A couple boxes of games workshop ork Klan's. Somewhere between 40-50 individual minis I've bought over time cos they're super cool, and will deffinately, maybe, probably get around to painting at some point. 3 commission jobs on hold, each of which between 5-10 models. Jeez I need to paint more...

[@NinjaTurtle-qh1xy]

Ooo I forgot about my dakka jet and bag of old space marines (about 60 of the little guys)

[@ukelele7457]

I have been playing warhammer for about 3/4 off a year and i am not proud of my pile of shame. I have almost an entire age of darkness box unpainted, a couple of loose AoS and 40k models that also needs painting and i am seriously thinking of buying the warhammer 40k elite edition.

[@erics745]

Most excellent !

[@hplitzko8477]

Great Video. What is the picture called at 1:10 by the way?

[@somerton4383]

Wow, looks so good!! I might have to make myself a Dunland army too :)

[@corneliapetersson6525]

i have 20 regulare infanterist, 12 special infatery/Cavalery and and a huge Corrector. they are for my nurgle armie in warhammer fantasy

[@Auriorium]

I have to paint: The starter set for LOTR so Mines of Moria, some reminants of Battle for Skull Pass the WHFB starter set, and Imperial Bastion and the rerelease of Space Hulk. I am saving that last one for when I can do good NMM.

[@stevejofthewoods6776]

Battle for skull pass is a legendary starter set tied up dwarfs and a pony drawn cart can't beat it lol

[@DizzWhazzUp]

Nice! I'm building and painting a Skaven army at the moment, and just before they were sold out for good I hoarded 3x boxes of Island of Blood. Mainly for the High Elves at the time, but even back then I had plans on Skaven some time in the future. So I assembled and painted all 120 clanrats in 1 big assembly line...... Safe to say it does burn you out a bit. Didn't quite get to time the whole thing, but it took WAY longer than 7,5 min/mini for sure! Even with slapchop I did put in more effort/details than needed, including painting the claws/teeth on all of them, as well as the eyes (white first, then fluorescent orange on top). Quite a process, but I finished and boy was that a great feeling! I've never finished an entire army before, so it got me excited!! Next up now is just a small batch of 40x Plague Monks! :D Great vid though! It's all the army speed painting bids that the community has made in the last 2-3 years that has really motived me to get my units/armies done too! Waiting in excitement for the basing follow-up! For the record I'd say some plain, slightly rocky base is good, with some dried grass-tufts, to represent the roxkyness of the hills in Rohan and the lands around it (ref the landscape when they're on their way to Helm's Deep)

[@lewiskearney3797]

For even better results when dry brushing use a dampening pad to keep your brush moist (see Artis Opus videos) 👌

[@Hoff_0313]

The foam games workshop used to pack finecast models with… put in a small bowl. Dampen foam… free dampening pad versus paying over $100 for “Artis Opus”. Imo artis opus is over priced and of average Walmart brush quality.

[@danielhiggins8697]

Minus 40 chainrasps, I have the entire Nighthaunt collection from the mortal realms magazine including multiples of some units. Basically every single Nighthaunt miniature including the Morris Engine and the Black coach. Plus multiple plastic scenery

[@5979sid]

I don't own a single miniature! Just love tour content, Danny!!

[@0shlem0]

Selfishly hoping for the snowy tundra bases since I have a Conquest army I'm planning on doing that with.

[@rea9247]

Great process for painting an army

[@WesternEchonewspaper]

I am currently working on a 20 metre long (ish) dioram of World History in miniature - I estimate I have about 3000 figures to paint - all 1/72 scale. The fun never stops!

[@andreaskarlsson6352]

Faster and better results process: #1 Spray everything in the most used colour in as bright nuance as possible. #2 Paint details such as metall or leather and add the variety you want (such as different clothes) #3 Dip in oil based shade that goes with the nuance you want. Done

[@chris6206]

Great info will be trying this as I’ve just started Lotr I’ll start with 10 👍😉

[@kosachilles2504]

Snowy terrain! Great video ☺️

[@vincenzorossi4828]

You earned a new subscriber.thanks mate!

[@1110JTR]

Love it! Huge fan of your older Skyrim videos and just stumbled across this!! This video is wonderfully put together!

[@Dirk_Daring]

personally, the bases of the color they are currently in my opinion are very nice and go very well with those miniatures

[@kajn3206]

I like to use similar only as a base, use dark gray then higlit white dry sand and air sand that from above and sped paint on a large part then all the details normal colors now unfortunately I already have a few boxes on my pile of shame now I want to finish some clones and wookies for Star wars legion 😍

[@db9635]

as a beginner, I got a pretty decent collection going. 80 miniatures (34 space marines & 46 necrons) all grey except for 9 not finished

[@duncankimmling6745]

If you use a Gray and White Spray Can you get a better Version and a faster one of you use the Grey Can at a 45° angel and the White Can Just from above

[@WulfRanger]

I have a pile of western minis, this will be a great help, but will be doing in browns due to all the leather and exposed skin

[@WulfRanger]

They look sepia toned photos with hand painted coloring, 100+ minis down to just giving individual touches in a day. Another 100+ to go after that

[@dthunt3r89]

I have the full dominion box, a set of chaos space marines, half of the age of sigmar starter box, and many more 3d printed minis to paint

[@piotrekjezewski5105]

Do we really need to contrast them, after this drybrushing?

[@goforitpainting]

Cool tutorial

[@reubenmarriott3414]

They look great, and are the victrix mini's?

[@southpaw5483]

Excellent video, thank you for the content and sharing;

[@NomadWolf]

I would paint some of them with the tundra and some of them with the snowy mountains as if they were coming out of the mountains onto a battlefield

[@Kijubei]

If I drybrush like you suggested (without a soft tissue), it is not dry! Its all wet and all over the miniture. I will give it another go, though.

[@RustyShackleford101]

Would you recommend this method to someone with hand tremors?

[@schreckpmc]

My unpainted miniatures are: 1/2 Dominion Box 1 Cursed City Box* 1 Blackstone Fortress Box* 1 Slaves to Darkness Starter Box* 4 edge of the universe boxes* 1 Kill Team Octarius* 1 War Cry Starter Box* 4 Mandrake Eldar Miniatures* * - Unopened

[@giuliodurante2572]

What miniatures are those that you're painting in the video?

[@bbtdltd8081]

I have 3 Razor Backs, Two Land Raiders, 2 Predators, about 180 Marines, 5 Ironclads , a Box of Tau from GW needing paint, A 8 model Character set, 16 Mouslings and 8 Yokai from Reaper wanting some pigment and now my greatest pile which is Corvus Belli Minis - 84 Defiance minis + scenery and of course the Megladorn, The Kaldstrom starter Box and expansions, The Red Veil Box and expansions, 1/2 The Crimson Stone Box and expansions, The JSA army box, the Coldfront Box and Expansions, the Spiral Core army Box, The Blackwind Box, Literally every Pan Oceania model from N3 through to N4 (over a hundred probably over 200) , Two drawers full of individual blisters, every Bootleg model, The Outrage and Betrayal character packs and ltd edition KohDahli, all of the Dire foes 1-11 3 minis or more each, all the Dire foes Alpha Beta Gamma etc, all of the Tags and remotes for Nomads, PanO, Aleph, 012 and Ariadna (about 20-30 dreadnought and HW team sized models) A Lux Umbra Equipe Mirage (75mm) and a stack of collectible/ltd edition minis from CB. I probably have the equivalent to about a 10th of that painted. The issue is we now have a baby and I lack any time to get painting done and I am primarily a painter and collector so I have a minimum level I want each model to hit - having an airbrush helps a lot but with the compressor able to wake up the baby the freaking universe has to align in a very specific way for me to be able to use it. TBH though these are all my treasures and I will continue to paint when I can and buy minis that I love the look of. I hate clean up and assembly it is by far the biggest time sink for me a I paint a lot of metal minis.

[@Titus_Vespasianus]

HapsburgerDonkey does a version of this that I think is the best I've seen so far...he primes white, washes them, then dry brushes...it's amazing...

[@CassyCat4]

When you showwed those Lord of the rings battle boxes I felt so called out lol

[@commandershepard7362]

i only got 4 painted orcs by now... well and a whole army (approximately 4000 pts) lined up for paintig ^^

[@stevejofthewoods6776]

30 ork boyz, a Warboss, 9 bikers and 10 grotz still all in there boxes from November. I won't mention the built stuff I'm working through

[@mitchcampbell4197]

Let's see stuff that I need built and painted? Yes

[@Y7SUF]

This guy teaches me better than my art teacher

[@TheHereticer]

1154 miniatures mostly boardgames War of the ring, and the old wow with expansions kdm and some others with minis but also a adepta sororitas army and a 3d printet vampier army for the 9th age.

[@fabianbockel5700]

Oh i am so incredibly happy to not be the worst....

[@mynamegtthunder]

I have three armies (Thousand Sons, Mordor, Seraphon), three BloodBowl teams (Humans, Orks and Skaven) and several boxes of necrons (Destroyers, heavy destroyers, Cryptek, Flayed Ones and Imortals).

[@Hughrom0920]

How would you recommend painting actual metals?

[@richardbarrie2]

snow bases with extra snow highlighting!!

[@kieran5476]

I've watched almost all of the videos on Your tabletop channel, I don't even own a miniature 😅 (Love the vids btw)

[@settratheimperishable7800]

I have: 20 Saurus Warriors, a set of 10 Primaris intercessors, a box of Fire Warriors, Commander Shadowsun, a broadside battlesuit, and an entire combat patrol Tau box unpainted…

[@colewebb9881]

My dry brushing doesn’t even look like dry brushing. It’s streaky, wet, and doesn’t really stick. How can I fix this?

[@heckinmemes6430]

Step 1) Spray black Step 2) Say it's a night fighting army. Done.

[@commissarkai1791]

I’m not accurate on numbers but I have an entire wardrobe in my room along with what was meant to be a display case but is now storage for unpainted minis.

[@tomparke2407]

I’d be interested to see what this would look like if instead of using a gray gradient paint undercoat you used a full brown instead. Some of the colours might fit with the undercoat a bit better. 🧐

[@ESOdanny]

It creates warmer undertones, works great for leather

[@Flamethrower1942]

Roughly over the years I'm ashamed to say I probably have about thousand miniatures unpainted 😱from various game systems. But the stuff I do have fully painted is the stuff I mainly play with.

[@mattjohnson2981]

I was wondering when you'd start painting 40k

[@BCEFilms]

I need to repaint and finish an entire High Elven army, 12 Knights of Rivendell along with the new Glorfindel and Elrond. I have an entire Isengard army that needs repainting as well as Moria and Minas Tirith. Too much work lol.

[@randifelix]

I have multiple DnD miniatures to paint, they're not ready, bc I have Dr. Who miniatures I need to finish which I bought after the DnD ones, but those aren't finished, bc I got a whole Seraphon army only primed and need to paint them, but they're not painted bc I have to assemble half of them still, but that's not finished bc I started my Star Wars Legion Emperial army. So yeah 😅

[@The_Regolino]

I hope you see this comment, how i can thin normal gw color to be used in slapchop?

[@minipaintingforyou]

8:33 only downward strokes? Forget slapchop, this method needs to be called hetfielding! 😂

[@AncientIrishCelt]

I recently completed a Guard army before the new minis came out. I'm building an infantry heavy army with the new models. One Vanquisher LR is the only mini not being "updated". So I've 80 shock troops, two command squads, a castellan, 4 armoured Sentinels, 4 field ordinance batteries, 5 bullgryns, 20 kasrkin and a Rogal Dorn. So 125 minis? I've painted 33 so far.

[@battleking6544]

-180 maronnen orcs -60 gondor soldiers -60 rohan soldiers -6 mordor trolls -50 riders of rohan -40 army of the dead -36 rangers -18 warg riders -4 nazgull on fellbeast -2 mumakills -72 dwarves -120 elves -120 uruk hai -17 heroes on horseback -25 heroes on foot -7 mounted villains -12 villains on foot -a full army of space wolfs -about 500 combined miniatures from all factions of star wars legion (+20 tanks) -a small army of khorne -shatterpoint starter set -and last but not least, a litteral mountain of 3d printed miniatures of all kind of settings and about 25 buildings

[@jonp3575]

ESO do you sell these?

[@crossbones8956]

Currently, getting together a Bolt Action 8th Army. I have 72 Desert Rats, 30 British Commonwealth, artillery plus crew,plus about 10 vehicles and crew. Right now, this may take me almost a year :/

[@ianburns1817]

What game are the mini from

[@ZendegiLeonard]

Great advice on the proper drybrush technique. Way to many advise paper towel. Um..unpainted miniature count? About 1500 across 40, WFB, LOTR, Necromunda, Adeptus Titanicus, BFG, Warmaster and various historicals.

[@603OutsiderDRE]

i just got started so sadly none yet, but i hope soon to have a mountain of plastic

[@fabianbockel5700]

So i have a LOT for war games and ttrpgs that i play... so atm i have 90 that are primed but not painted, 182 that are partially painted, 100+ that are just raw and... an uncomfortable amount of minis unbuild... lets just say the boxes with unit amounts on them go up to around 320... yes i have a problem. BUT I ALSO HAVE MINIS FOR BASICALLY ANY CAMPAIGN FOR DND

[@fabianbockel5700]

That isn't counting ones i want to repaint or that i hot from ebay that are just... shitty... Also i got most of them over years in sales and i barely pay more then 1-2€ per mini

[@fabianbockel5700]

To add to that i am pretty sure the unnumbered ones are 250-300 too and a lot of them are not small humanoids... but yeah i am very glad to have already found out that i won't get the pin of shame so I'm pretty happy about that.

[@arthursouza4326]

Currently I have about 200 minis waiting for painting

[@jimmybuko2065]

bro tbh, you should have painted the helmets and chainmail as well, the minis just look unfinished this way but I get what you were saying about the non reflective metal

[@olivermiller6084]

i nearly have 500 minis and more coming in the mail and those sets add up to over 200 minis

[@Popo-tz3rr]

My Backlog currently is 1 Repulsor Executioner 3 Repulsor 50 Primaris Space Marines of different kinds 2 Dreadnoughts 2 Knights 1 Great Unclean One 30 Plague Marines 20 Aeldari Guardians 1 Wraith Knight 1 Avatar of Khaine 1 Silent Kind 3 Doomsdark Arks 70 Necron Warriors 20 Immortals All Necrons from the Imperium and one more Indomitus Necron Part the release box of the Votann ive got issues

[@librarybear3419]

Lets see... I have Genestealers from old SC-box and half of the Shadowthrone, Pelennor Fields box that I picked up, zombies from 2021 Soulblight Battleforce and the Cursed City, Flesh Eater Courts from SC and Broken Realms and finally an unidentifiable amount of Nighthaunts. I like Undead armies, but they have been on my backburner for a while. I guess I need to practice my rare skin colours...

[@jonny_apocalypseii1051]

40 elves, , 20 numenorians, 24 riders of rohan, , 60 goblins,, 36 morannon orcs, 26 warriors of rohan, 24 warrior of minas tirith , 24 warriors of the dead, plus nearly every hero. ive gotten through the fellowship and most of the way done with the 40 elves. but a long way to go yet.

[@waniise1535]

I have 440 pox walkers, 17 plague marines, 1 biologus putrifier, Mortaring, Typhus, and a plague burst crawler. I also have tons of miniature and terrain for necromunda .

[@aatostikka]

only 1 chaos lord in terminator armor, kinda proud of myself

[@paintingwargames8587]

I have an Excel file with all my miniatures, scale and historical period or game. I have miniatures from 10mm to 54mm (old airfix, matchbox and Italeri). In total I have 9083 miniatures, I painted 2804 miniatures so... I need to paint 6279 miniatures, 1414 in 54mm.

[@calvanoni5443]

Buy a set of good make up brushes, they also seem to just last longer, & various ying sizes come in handy.

[@jackowens7636]

I have about 120 mini's that need painting

[@J.Panxer]

My Tau army is what I call "passive aggressive gray". Grey, Magenta, Gunmetal... Suck it, 3 color standard. You can also prime black, then prime gray over black, then drybrush a lighter gray/white. Should save you some time in the second bit.

[@stevenwhite7763]

8 Armies and hundreds of extra D&D figures.

[@richardkwiatkowski3047]

"10 guys?" How cute. I have probably 200 HH Space Marines......that's the very tiny tip of the iceberg.

[@Maritobi1988]

I think about 500 minatures are in my backlog, well at least 490 from all the miniatures i have are already painted.

[@Joshua-ow8hy]

Roughly about 135 models tau 10 fire warrior, 10 pathfinder, 9 steath suits, 1 darkstrider, 1 shadow sun, 2 cadre fierblades, 2 etherial, 1 ghost keel, 32 kroot carnivors, 1 devilfish, 1 hammerhead, 2 tau commanders, 2 broad side, 9 crisis suits, 2 keootox, 12 kroot hounds, a Seraphon start collecting box, and the into the dark kill team box, and all the drones that come with the tau boxes way to much to count. In my defense most of this is from a trade where I got a lot of tau to paint his army. I’m painting all of his stuff before touching mine.

[@alexgalbraithacoustic]

According to Figure Case (app), 1787 unpainted... :/ (I have painted 60 minis in the last 4 weeks so hoping to dig a hole in the POS soon!)