How to Paint An Army You'll Be Proud Of

[@jacobbalensiefer3846]

Honestly I like the approach of “I paint an army in a way that gets the most out of the hobby” rather than “paint lots fast”. Sometimes it’s fun to just watch someone paint and hear some commentary. Don’t feel pressured to make every video about something new. 👍

[@kaidenggsjsjjenf]

Love how Jon keeps trying to convince himself he’s speed painting an entire army in every other video and then can’t help himself and starts doing 4 layers of highlights on the skin and only does like 4 miniatures 😂

[@dmeep]

all my paintschemes start of with 5-8 steps and end up having 20-35...

[@philgee486]

Truth!

[@Habitt5253]

I feel attacked by this comment.

[@JettHinde]

​@@Habitt5253it wasn't directed at you bud, so that's abit wild

[@Lodorn]

Hey, he did do half of what he wanted :P

[@strohslights4996]

Despite recent disability you are one of the few creators that can get me out of my funk and working on my massive pile of gray, Not sure what it is but you always make me feel like I can knock some minis out from my pile of 10s of 1000s. With the extent of my nerve damage I found that 3D printing is one of the few things I can do so for the better part of 3 years I have had 2-6 printers running each day without assembling a single army. When I look at my mountain of shame its over whelming but then I put you on and I feel like I can knock a few minis out. Thank you.

[@PartnersofMachino]

Maybe the printing is part of the hobby, bah. Whatever brings the joy.

[@stiffbristles8771]

I dunno what this will do the algorithm (or your sanity) but I’d be quite happy if you just painted your Skaven in every video from now until they’re all finished

[@AlexCopeMusic]

Oh boy. They look great! The bold saturated colours work really well and will totally make this stand out! Please paint the big gun dude next

[@cake-diver8991]

Your understanding and approach to colour theory is inspiring

[@theandf]

"You're not going to just slap a bunch of Contrast paints all over" -- WRONG. It's exactly what I would do if I were to buy this box. Which I won't, 'cause my pile of shame is large enough already 😅

[@theandf]

Boy are these new Skaven nice though. But NO! I... must... resist...

[@curtisbruton732]

I just bought a full GSC army of 2x old CP, 2xBattleforce, 2x new CP, and the HQ's. This video has given me inspiration on how I can paint the amount of units and still keep it fresh. I'll definitely be watching this again

[@amabbett]

These really are varied interesting and unique. Love the scheme and different from drab rats. Amazing and inspiring

[@filipkovacec5759]

Rats look amazing! Big like for the different robes and skin/fur colors :)

[@StichzUndead]

Yeah the rain here has been crazy lately. As a fellow MN basement dweller, i hope the flooding wasn't too bad

[@bassistcz]

I'd love to see Jon paint some Quar models!

[@lancepowell7037]

I love the ragtag 3 color scheme. Going to steal that idea for my own rats! Yes-yessss!

[@d3d1ns1de8]

I'm just glad to hear I'm on the right track learning; painting my first army custodes; I tried multiple methods for the scheme I wanted to do and settled on layering. I liked how it looks best. I tried the direct color, metallics, and such but layering seemed to get the best look. So layering for the scheme and just doing metallics on other areas. It's been a fun process and I'm enjoying it just 8+ hrs per model is painful and once I start painting I can't get myself to put the paint brush down until the model is complete. Still need to do basing but I think I will do that separately to keep on doing the focus on one method at a time.

[@denniswijker7162]

I have terrible ADD, and finishing an army has pretty much never worked out for me. I've just bought the new Blood Angels box, and I'm HOPING to all hell I can focus for long enough to finish it before my brain decides to fuck off and do something else. It's really hard, because I really enjoy painting, but I also really need to be inspired and in the correct mindspace AND have ample time to do so.

[@diannaarcher1774]

Love the vid! As always, great info and advice. On a different note, have you considered using paint pens for simple quick stuff? I just watched Jazza's new video on some paint pens and was impressed by the speed and coverage of the markers! I wouldn't use them "hero" or competition pieces obviously, but for fast simple things the markers seem legit! Maybe chech out the video, it's titled "Ohuhu's new PAINT markers? NOT what I expected..." New paints/toys to try out.

[@DamianHibbard]

I'm loving the technique & colour selection system used for the skin. Definitely going to try that on my next models.

[@mrbigphil22]

Paint whatever you want brother, something bigger would be kool though! Great video and awesome looking paint job as always!

[@Surge7-hs63k]

They look so good!!!!!!!!!!! Can you paint Rat Ogres next, and make the green gemstones really pop like a fluecent green bright lightning power!!!

[@owenbalcer2077]

I haven’t seen anyone do something cool with those rat ogres yet, I’m sure you would make them look incredible!

[@KevinoftheCosmos]

Jon. What the heck?! Those look insanely good. I'm so pumped to get to my ratz right now.

[@emdee0014]

These look really good Jon. I'm planning on starting Skaven with the new set also. This is nice motivation because it is daunting to think about painting a "horde" army. Great work.

[@yurisei6732]

This is a tutorial on how to aspire to paint an army you'll be proud of. I don't see myself ever finishing that army at this level of detail.

[@Wijkert]

These sculpts are great! Might be my favorite ones from the new box.

[@darbydolan4655]

These are fantastic!! Super inspiring! Would love to see a series of videos of you painting up this army!!

[@sinisterplank3113]

I really love the look of that basing scheme. Not owning a 3d printer, I'm stuck with some of the more widely accessible "basing bits" kits out there, and most of them are just not a good fit for rank and file basing. I've got a few boxes of the Gamer's Grass basing bits, and the bits are just too big to be viable on the smaller bases without a lot of work. I'd love it if there was an easy to get box of those smaller cobble stone pieces to buy.

[@RyngsRaccoon]

If you want my input, I would like to see the Grey Seer painted. Don't stop there, and paint all the Skaven!

[@grommthemans]

I'd love to see my favorite golden demon winner paint some rat ogres, my favorite models from the new box!

[@eddansintel]

Great looking Rats! I think Rat Ogres would be awesome for the next video!

[@Gravehaven007]

Amazing Jon!

[@T_3rR4h]

An, awesome work. Your channel is getting so big & so many tips that it would be handy if you were to pin some links to your previous videos as you're going through techniques and such. Keep up the awesome work

[@OneShard]

Outstanding!

[@andreaskarlsson6352]

Beautiful 🎉

[@grindamadurin]

The chair-spin gets me everytime

[@Gar_Lik]

The blood on the risers theme went crazy

[@legionnaireminis]

Dude these look so great cant wait to see how the rest come out

[@svelle37]

Hey Jon, what putty did you use on the bases where you stick the basing bits into?

[@Razurik001]

when army painting I like to reward me after doing a lot of batch painting, so usually I'll do 10 guys for X units then I get a bigger piece and work on it as I find character or monster more fun to do than infantry. So next up, the lord on the big rat ?

[@Grayhammer]

Do you ever record games you play? I bet a bunch of people would like to see you play and nerd out throwing dice!

[@OniGanon]

Shadows normally shouldn't be desaturated; rather it's the opposite. It's direct light that desaturates. Shadows increase saturation, but darkens the tone and changes the hue (typically making it cooler, depending on the environment).

[@kingpeter9569]

Paint some ogryns or perhaps a Titus ultramarine with a big hammer for space marine 2.

[@liamroche1295]

They look swell man

[@danielcrandell7533]

Speed paint it all, then come back for highlights. I love the rats

[@theLohan]

R'Ogre is my vore for the next! Thanks for the Vids!

[@ulrichwacken]

georgeous paint job! I'd like to see some Rat Ogre Action please :)

[@brianmartin6275]

What did you use on the bases to stick the floor tiles to bases

[@Dsisiv]

Pretty sure that's milliput

[@kevinpope9014]

Dang, those look so good. Nice job!

[@shannybug666]

Do the Claw Lord on Gnaw Beast!

[@alrob2387]

Nice army Jon i have, more than 5000 points of old metal skaven, i wanna use a similar scheme, but any tip or link to old video for Wood colors is my weakness

[@ManlyPHall-ce8dc]

Army painter is the way 😂

[@Alex-vt3ft]

What's the putty used to adhere the bits to the bases? Is that just modelling epoxy?

[@TheTelexer]

Those look so good!

[@Keram-io8hv]

So painting skaven is basically giving them normal skin and then painting fur separatedly?

[@OldDog.NewTricks]

Do a big one!

[@daFunkyUnit]

At 1:55, what is Ninjon pressing the terrain bits into? Is that Milliput?

[@rockycaroozo]

This is good.

[@Engehaugen82]

Wow

[@Jays_gaming1]

what is contrast paint ?

[@alexanderhukriede5651]

Hey Ninjon theres a few times where you use paints and i dont see you mentioning their name or showing which one it is like @1103 where your painting the chain mail on the rat. Did i miss something? what is that paint called? Also what did you use to paint the tails? When you say mid tone gray whenever your painting the base what paints are those I dont know what im looking for.

[@Thornbeard]

All of these content creators chickened out and painted the easiest miniatures the Skaven side of the box.

[@koz1138]

Here's a vote for the Grey Seer next.

[@Nosveri]

Which brushes do you use?

[@alexrenxa7700]

Haha i just got the funny idea to buy a bunch of skaven to paint and use them for tokens in my MTG rat decks 😆😆

[@peterlageri4177]

I see a new "The Rat Pack" coming up. First Vince Venturella and now Jon. Who's next?

[@brianbrinegar6086]

I noticed you are still using P3 paints (as am I), I can't find them anywhere! Do you have a source?

[@jonasandersson1296]

paint a ogre or the grey seer, everyone and their mother put out a video painting the mounted hero

[@3ratsinatrenchcoat605]

This is amazing work. I've been really struggling to figure out an army scheme for weeks now cos ultimately I'm not happy with my current one and this just.blew my mind. Please paint rat ogres. They are the best

[@oscarholloway4443]

This painting tutorial stuff is great, keep it up, but what I wanna know, is how i can keep my goddam paintbrushes from drying out within a week. Any tips?

[@Camulation777]

rat ogre next plz

[@Ryan-gc9om]

Hey Ninjon, been watching for a long time, love your videos. Do you take requests ? If not no biggie, but if so I’m looking to paint a kill team from the new fallout factions game in a way similar to fallout cover art, flat colours, retro-future style with heavy contrast and black lines. Do you have any idea how to make this work ? A video would be even better! Cheers anyway hope everything’s good.

[@sharkhead606]

Paint a big Ogre Ninjon!

[@selightfritz642]

I vote rat ogre!

[@Kitbash.Carnage]

❤❤❤

[@TheRealLachlan]

Ill wait untill theres thousands of excess boxes they can't give away

[@WillCalwell]

An albino rat would look good in the next unit.

[@GlossRabban]

Rat Ogre please.

[@patticusfinch139]

Rats, we’re rats, we’re the rats… we pray at night, we stalk at night, we’re the rats

[@willsuttie3683]

Dude.. home insurance...

[@nongmar8783]

How to afford anything form Gw ?

[@Felsworn5121]

Rat Ogre gets my vote.

[@papazoulou9326]

15:05 To quote a TW youtuber : "OGRES MY LORDE OGRES MY LORDE OGRES MY LORDE OGRES MY LORDE OGRES MY LORDE OGRES MY LORDE OGRES MY LORDE"

[@Bluecho4]

Agreed.

[@ijmbvck]

I see way to little ogor painting videos. I could really use some advice.

[@mscorbenic]

Amazing result! I would love to see those Rag Ogors painted with these kind of schemes.

[@gideonhockenbarger6078]

Agreed. I'd like to start painting my Tyranids army, and although I'm already stealing your scheme for my Parasite of Mortrex, I'd like to see how you tackle a mid-sized monster with this method.

[@amandaroach595]

Thanks I needed to hear that “pick on technique to focus on with army project so you can get good at it” sigh….i don’t know why that wasn’t so obvious, however I’m new to this hobby and I feel like a sponge that has gotten WAY to full and often feel like I’m just trying to figure out how to do ALL the techniques right away! By far, best advice I’ve heard…well that and the advice “just have fun with it” 😊 Thanks! Can’t wait to see what you do next! I would like to see a character so I can see how you change up your style for the bigger dudes that lead.

[@thereisnosaurus1]

I've been painting armies for about 25 years now on and off. Every army I've done since my early twenties I've picked a particular thing I wanted to focus on nailing for that army. My last army was heresy Salamanders and I wanted to learn how to use multiple oil washes to get some smooth polychromatic shading down, aiming to get a look close to the colour plates in the heresy books. The army before that was yellow sisters of battle which was all about setting up a bright yellow that looked rich and multi-toned without taking a million years, also branching out into mass producing putty rolled bases. Before that I did nighthaunt, learning how to make smooth gradients look good. Pick something you really want to nail, try a few things with that specifically until you've got it looking great, then you can just fill in the rest in whatever way feels comfy. At the end, even if everything isn't perfect, that one thing you nailed will give you an anchor to be proud of and a new skill to be comfy with!

[@BarokaiRein]

Meanwhile Vince is watching this, looking at his seven billion armies painted to display standard and wondering if he needs seven billion and one armies painted to-

[@michaelstrange2285]

Skaven on the painting table and there just happens to be water/flood damage in the basement? I'd get some extra large rat traps, pronto! Good luck with the repairs. The models look great, as always.

[@TheNaussica]

lets goooo new ninjon video, oh what a day, what a lovely day!

[@mindyfranke5279]

Great scheme; I loved the different colors of skintones and the varied cloths you chose. They are different enough to look ragtag but still be cohesive. Very nice, indeed.

[@wintermute4978]

Those Skaven are stunning Jon. I'd like to see you paint the Ratling Warpblaster next. It's my favourite mini from this release. Sorry to hear about the basement. I hope it's easy to sort out.

[@StuartGCCowan]

Can your leader rat riding the larger rat have a base like a Hamster cage? Like toilet paper, toilet paper rolls, small wood chips. Basically like a kids first pet that his parents helped him set up.

[@AngryOrc]

I really like the army scheme. The rough and scavenged look to it brings it together despite not being a uniform color. I'm stealing this idea for my orks. 😁

[@sstankfish]

I'll keep saying it, but your intro is still so good. At this point, it's also classic. Amazazing.

[@neem377]

Time for my cyclical tax to GW tnoy lose mybright to dopamine

[@Bapa_nada]

0:17 me immidiately after hearing that: glory glory man united xd

[@sstankfish]

Can't stress how important it is to keep your batches at a reasonable amount for you. I was painting the miniatures for Zombicide: Dead or Alive, and would get burnt out just in one group of 8 zombies, rushing the details on the last step(s), my paint job suffering for it. Moving forward, I had to drop it down to groups of 4, and maybe if I get more efficient/patient with my painting, I will be able to go back up to 8.

[@sonomirko]

Looks way more detailed than everything I ever paint. And I am fine with that. Great Job, Ninjon. Thank you for inspiring me.

[@edbrooke75]

I’m pretty new to painting. So far I’ve just done a spearhead for idoneth Deepkin. One of the hardest things for me to accept is that I need to try new things even if they’re going to not look good the first time I try it. For example, my thrall did not turn out well. But I learned some things and by the time I got to my shark, it’s been my best painted model.

[@a.k3arns561]

Would be great to see a video about painting white. I’m a new painter and decided to pick white scars as my chapter and yeah…. It’s taking some time hahah

[@FlesHBoX]

While watching this, something triggered a weird idea in my head. I wonder if you could use nothing but black and white, mixing various shades of grey to create a black and white photo effect with a mini. And then, if that turns out decently, slap some speedpaint on top and see how that works out.

[@jefff3023]

I've been trying your flesh tone formulas out on my clanrats. I figured every 5 I'd try out a new color scheme. I'm 4 schemes in now. My favorite so far is the Burnt Red / Ratskin Flesh / Luminous Flesh (I substituted Flayed One Flesh here). Least favorite is the one you mixed the Red Rougue and Knorne Red. It came out EXTREMELY pink for some reason. I could't find any of that Game Color Purple you had in another scheme at my LGS so I tweaked that recipe. Went Terrestial Titan Purple, Dark Warm Grey and Vampyric Flesh. Came out pretty interesting. And the Barak-Nar/Mocca Skin/Pastel Pink came out pretty good too.

[@dragonsgreedgaming3500]

PAINT THE GREY SEER! Clanrats look awesome!