How to paint Deathskulls Death Skulls Ork Nob by Lester Bursley

[@admin8244]

Jaw dropping. Cant put into words just how amazing you paint.

[@nathantsprout8432]

This is a masterclass in ork painting. Genuinely inspirational. Thanks boss.

[@Helghast73]

Great job man, the length of hair on that black lining brush was nuts !

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Yup! It helps keep relatively straight lines. The long hair acts as a buffer if you have a bit of the shakes or drink way too much coffee like me.

[@HairyA55LYCAN]

Great job on this guy. I never would have thought on using other materials to paint with.. Such as the sponge you used. I really like the affect it had on the armor and axe!

[@therenwilliams1363]

Makes me want to paint some orks too. watched almost all your videos. Great to see the improvement, gives us all hope.

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoy the vids. It's a lot of work :)

[@ardeshirable]

I think this is easily the best paint job you've done via tutorial. Obviously you're more qualified to decide yourself, but from an avid watcher's perspective--It's the best.

[@TheBadadj]

Crackin vid Lester. Love Orks, always have ,always will, love painting them, even more now ,cheers.

[@07waylow]

awesome paint job Les love the smoke.

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

I love the Smokey Ink too! Great for when you need metal or anything to look dirty.

[@dannybabish8602]

Love to see your videos coming back. You always have the best tutorials in my opinion. I'd love to see you paint the other 4 ork clans, and a power klaw. It'd be interesting to see what you do

[@bogger3k]

I believe crackle medium is supposed to be mixed with the paint or applied over it to achieve the effect you were trying to get.

[@frankblaker8294]

Really useful, a big help. Thanks les, I’m glad you are out there.

[@SPBurt1]

Wow nice Nob..... Ork. Seriously great video and mini, learned a lot.

[@sircory1337]

Awesome video, Les, and great to see you back. Quite possibly one of the best looking orks I've seen. Makes my own attempts look bad by comparison. Now I've got to go paint up some orks.

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Thanks! Glad you liked it! I share so that you can watch and anything you like can be added to you skill set. Sharing is caring :)

[@lockhorntwo]

Your stuff is awesome. Keep it up. I found you on patreon. I used to paint mini's a million years ago. Nice to see your work with airbrush.

[@WarPainter]

This One Looks realy Nice . Nice colorflows and well set highlights. Liked the way you coloured the skin, This vid will help me improving for sure.

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@AvengerXOFXBlood]

Amazing video as usual dude. The way your hand looks when its fast-forwarding through highlighting stages is how my hand looks in real time lol. Wish I didn't have the shakes!

[@AvengerXOFXBlood]

Oh, and there's a part at around the 7.5 minute marker that lets me know you are still human hahaha

[@borgvrx00]

I've found applying a second coat of Vallejo crackle medium when the first coat reaches its tacky stage helps to get it to crack more.

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Nice, I'll have to try that!

[@COURAGEnHONOUR]

So many great techniques on show! Thanks for sharing them with us.

[@coolsskin]

This Ork looks Uber CooL man!!! And man i love that base to!!!

[@Diecastcomix]

Dude that was badass!! Thanks for the tips and the start to finish video!

[@graceanngonzalesp-k273]

Bro thank you for this. Learned a lot . Detailing is just awesome.

[@crimsondomas]

at 26:49 what kind of brush is that i love it.

[@WayoftheBrush]

Great vid! That lining brush looks like a syringe... for injecting color!

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Lol yeah I love that brush :)

[@58kirk]

Great video. Like the idea of black-lining, think it makes the detail pop more than wash. Like the brush you used, what was it.

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Thanks Kirk! I have made lining a part of my regular techniques. I put a link in the description for the liner brushes.

[@DomisWelten]

Damn, really good JOB! awesomepaintjob

[@raffaelepassarelli6444]

27:27 which brand/size of brush is that?

[@heribertoacevedo4801]

como siempre buen trabajo gracias por compartir tu conocimiento! GO ORCK GO ORCK!!

[@bavarianbrushnerd3776]

Great job, it helped me a lot on my own paintings!

[@scurvy786]

Thanks for the great the videos, Can you please share what brand of matte coat varnish you use and how many layers and do you thin it for use in the airbrush?

[@krapulakroko8537]

nice video this helps me when painting my first army love it

[@TheBradleyClarke]

How would you suggest doing some shading on the blue arm? Since on a usual (non painted) Ork Arm, I use different layers of green and paint closer and closer to the peaks with each lighter colour to give depth, but how would you do this with the blue arm whilst still using the goblin green to make it look like its worn off? Would you do as you did in the video and then be extra careful with a really fine brush and paint a slightly darker shade of blue in arm crevices that would be shaded? Awesome video, hope you can help me with my question (sorry for it being long winded)

[@Wild1chevy]

Do you have a separate set of brushes you use exclusively for metallic paints?

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Nope. I use all the same brushes for all my paints.

[@LordHypnogogue]

When are we going to see some Ork vehicles? I'd love to see you tackle a battlewagon.

[@Clone16165]

Awesome & inspiring as ever! And about time you showed up once more :)

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Lol I know. I will try not to stay away for months at a time.

[@skystudios2474]

What's the brand of putty you use the mask the mini white airbrushing specific areas?

[@Gunnvulcan]

Outstanding video. Good to see a post from you again.

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Thanks! Had to take a break to work on commission stuff as well as projects for Adepticon. All done so you will see more of me, sorry :P

[@alexsilin7472]

Man...you really AWESOME! BEST!

[@ichibanpainting]

Awesome video bro! Love it!

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

thanks Hugo-san!

[@ichibanpainting]

:)

[@0rreborre]

What model is that? I want to do a small Ork diorama in snow and I love the posture this model has, but the Ork Nobz box doesn't seem to include this model.

[@bluemoonminis]

very cool ....killer music track also

[@warped1626]

Thinned elmers glue works really well as a crackle medium

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Really?! I'll have to give that a go. Thanks for sharing!

[@kharndarko]

Why do you use a CD for a pallet, does it do something helpful/special, or just something on hand?

[@user-pe2mf5tg3h]

Dear Les, What size is the air brush in this .2? less?

[@masterofhens]

great paint mah man

[@WazziGaming]

Awesome vid! Good job!

[@Witchhunter33724]

What brushes are u using in this video??

[@nicokehoe4785]

Very nice tutorial as always thought ya vanished for awhile bummer the crackle stuff didnt work the way you hoped but came out great

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Thanks! Yeah I think it helps to show the mistakes I make and how I fix them.

[@roadytn]

Hey, what kind of brush is it that you used for the thin black lines? I absolutely need such a thing.

[@thomasrands5728]

What air brush do you use

[@creativephotographie]

Lester, What video editing software do you use? Was wondering how you get all the cool scripts, titles, and banners from your opening and throughout. Keep up the good work.

[@PunchinJeans]

Where do you get that model?

[@alicjakryca8022]

you should have used some matt varnish before applying magic blue followed by the cracke

[@danielhammer619]

heres a question. what kind of sponge do you use for that? i cant find sponges like that.

[@adamforster4123]

Looks like sponge from an old citadel carry case to me

[@aanler]

Couldn't you do the black-lining part by doing gloss varnish and then a black oil wash and then just Q-tip the surfaces clean? Or is that way more work? Or just doesn't give the desired result? :)

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

I have done the wash thing in many of my videos and sure it works but the lines are not as even and clean as applying them directly. It's a preference thing.

[@aanler]

awesomepaintjob Aye, that's what I thought, just had to ask to be sure. Thanks for the awesome video! :)

[@EvanSFTGT]

Love the videos, as always. Could you link or just direct me to the grey primer you used - I'm having trouble finding it, and I'm looking for a new primer to try out.

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Thanks! You can find them at webairbrushes. Go to the paint section and they are on the bottom. STYNYLREZ. Don't forget the coupon code :)

[@EvanSFTGT]

Thanks, Les! Definitely will, and pick up some other paints while I'm at it.

[@zumzin3119]

cool Tutorials, can you make a Tutorial about Dust Tactics/Warfare Miniatures?

[@ninoraisys3018]

Great tutorial dude. inspired me to paint Orks. What brush are you using at the end of the vid for the black & white highlights?

[@nikchristoforou3644]

Hey mate, whats 6:1 mix or Goblin Green are you doing 6 parts water, 1 part Goblin Green or vice versa?

[@KostasMiniatures]

Great video tutorial. After some time you are back. I want your opinion: A fantasy mini is better to have sharp hightlights or sharp edge highlight like you did on your video?

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Thanks! That really depends on you. If you try it and like the way it looks then there you go.

[@elitewargamingfactory1319]

Great work mate! I don't use Vallejo paints for my orks.. But this is the best scheme i have seen for Death Skull Orks, so think Ill start using them.. Especially the Magic Blue. Great job! BTW What brushes are you using?

[@Ebon_Wolf]

Haven't watched yet , I keep listening to the BADASS intro music

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

lol glad you like the tunes. Both of the looped songs are written and composed by myself and available for free download on Soundcloud. Just search for Lester Bursley there. The first song is called "Q" and the second is "Destruction".

[@purecringe4284]

Could make a video on Ork Boyz?

[@JH-ze9cn]

Good stuff man, thanks. If you have the time, show us how to paint a nob for each of the clans. Thanks!

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Thanks! I have 3 more clans on the list. If the ork vids get enough attention I will consider doing the rest. I believe there are 6-8 clans.

[@MrJayzilla101]

Excellent as always, but how long did the entire model take to paint start to finish including drying time? Cheers

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Thanks! About 1.5 hours. A hair dryer helps speed the drying.

[@MrJayzilla101]

thanks

[@akoni63]

Amazing.

[@holm76]

So have you stopped using oil washes now that you have that wicked lining brush? Oil washing can be quite messy with all the mineral spirits and the smell is awful.

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Oil washes have their uses. If I was doing an army I would most likely use oil or water color washes and reserve the lining for special guys.

[@dinesor]

what is the base material??

[@stevhnnn]

If you were to pick an airbrush from badger, only one to use forever if you had a choice which one would it be?

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Patriot 105 and the fine detail conversion. That thing is a tank!

[@stevhnnn]

Can you send me a link to the conversion? :(

[@stevhnnn]

Stephen Kenna www.amazon.com/Badger-Air-Brush-Company-Conversion-Model/dp/B004RM2HYY ????

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

thats it :)

[@stevhnnn]

yay! :D

[@Pertruabo]

Hi les so what do you think about the new primer?

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Hi! I would compare them to the Vallejo stuff except they dry more matte. If you plan on masking over anything use a can primer that will bite into the model. That's the only fall back of water based primers.

[@bogger3k]

awesomepaintjob I don't have problems usually with even those primers peeling off.

[@ernie1903]

Why not start with a darker green ?

[@jonfly101]

your freaking awesome at the paint job watching you paint makes me wanna get back into 40k but then i see the price

[@HighCalTV]

I don't know why, but goblin green is still one of my favorite colors!

[@Rishkar-Peema-Pants]

Perfection

[@forseti52]

I like how you show that you tired something and that effect did not work so you did another way this instead.

[@kimandersendk]

real nice

[@wfn3797]

Song name??

[@zumzin3119]

what a kind of colors did he uses? I dont mean a color itself, i mean a Firma of the colors. Cause his colors dont shines and i want it to. My colors make the figures shiny and i dont like it.

[@TheGorillaRadio]

Hi there. I thinks he uses Citadels, as he uses their names

[@Kiranode]

from what i can tell, and by the names i think he is using valejo paints, since they also have a air brush range. but, most colors are dupeable, just find a list and get the names, and do some searching, tinkering it to your liking. good luck painting!

[@robertrodriguez817]

This video Makes me want to paint some Ork's now

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Lets do et!

[@keshlalish5586]

is it just me or i can't seem to find good painting video anymore, it look like all my favorite youtuber stoped doing them. i liked buypainted and shnauzerface mini. happy i found this page but god damnit the 2nd last video was a year old hahaha

[@Dewoy1]

I dont really like the backside of his pants but other than that awesome paintjob no doubt the base alone was really nice too

[@bigderek9761]

Master Chief! In Halo 5 you're being hunted by a new Spartan!

[@user-pe2mf5tg3h]

Think you over due for a nid tutorial ;)

[@mechat-rex7379]

No way I'm ever gonna get that good.

[@padwicin01]

Superb, too much detail for a simple painter like me though lol

[@JamesLongTheDude]

GOBLIN GREEN

[@miketobin284]

Dude! You suck!!! Not the painting....fantastic, as always. I have to wait until September for my set of Ichiban brushes. They look comfortable and easy to use. Congrats on getting them right away and thanks for the heads-up about them. Made my pledge already. Keep up the wonderful work and vids.

[@LesterBursleyMiniatures]

Lol. The man gave them to me in person at Adepticon. Been using them for most of my brush work and so far so good :)

[@miketobin284]

awesomepaintjob Looked like it from the video :) can't wait to get my hands on a set. Been using the same GW brushes for about 5 years with great results...still point up, thanks to your tips on keeping them clean. I just wish I had the time to practice with my Badger Krome....sure would speed up the commission work! Love the videos.....

[@spruesandall-wargaming2205]

Really well painted but I think more people would watch through the entire video if you cut some of the footage of you paining, explaining what you are doing is okay but people don't want to spend 5 minutes watching you apply one coat. Other wise a good video

[@LenzTheMenz]

+SpruesAndAll -Wargaming Sorry for the late reply. As a viewer I actually enjoyed watching the whole process. Sometimes it bothers me when there is a time lapse and it looks COMPLETELY different - It makes me think ''hey wait, how?'' So I enjoyed seeing every step A to B. I do get where you are coming from it has its pros and cons!