MINIATURE TEXTURE

Texture is an often unexplored path for miniature painters. In this video, I try to demonstrate all the forms of texture that I'm aware of on a death korps krieg bust!
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[@Miniac]

This model is a free download from thingiverse that you can 3D print at home: www.thingiverse.com/thing:3528140

[@omgitsbees]

Dumb question, but for those of us without a 3d printer, is there a service where we can have someone else 3d print this for us and ship it to us?

[@AshleyBlackwater]

@@omgitsbees There are lots of them, just google it for your location. Might need to ship from another country if yours doesn't happen to have one. just be wary of companies trying to overcharge, some are geared more towards industry and so will give you massive prices since its what they're used to, and others are intentionally being rip offs.

[@RPRsChannel]

Need a challenge, a challenge you wouldn't have thought of because it's just wrong? You might need a bust for this, a 28mm/32mm might be too small: Paint a mini (or parts of a mini...) with HAMMERITE. It might be too hard for you, I understand.

[@AshleyBlackwater]

@@RPRsChannel Is this a bot?

[@RPRsChannel]

@@AshleyBlackwater How would a bot answer this......"no" ?

[@del132]

Apparently, my favorite way to texture a mini is to finish painting it completely and then promptly drop it on the ground. It gives my minis that nice "ruined" look.

[@Virakotxa]

Oh, that's a beginner move... The Pro effect it's achieved by not letting the miniature fully dry, but wait to the perfect mordant stage. (Works better with glazed layers that cover the most of your miniature) then proceed to drop the mini on some carpet... (The dustier the better) You will appreciate the fibers and hairs fused at atomic level, giving it that desired furry finish we all love.

[@billdefranza4927]

You two are stealing my moves 😜

[@k03rnl42]

..also drybrushing is an often overlooked technique to soften blends or give objects a used, worn look ;)

[@Miniac]

Very good point!

[@larrymanns364]

I really love the kosher salt chipping effect! It adds that little extra bit of flavor when I lick my brushes clean Great video!

[@shogunnate7724]

As someone who works with leather, seeing those straps made me cringe. Not in a bad way. They look awesome. They also look like they need some oil to recondition them because they're cracking/dry rotting. Seriously, that looks very close to leather that hasn't been taken care of. Excellent work...even if it did give me a slight case of stroke face...🤣

[@mojake2k7]

Damn, that leather backpack looks insane on the end product.

[@HuggyBearx64]

:O a new miniac video!? **turns glasses upside down**

[@Miniac]

😂

[@Waneklap]

Sponges are really great tools for applying rough textured paint. I use them quite a lot when painting my military models for textures, mud, camo, wear and so on. Change the hold on your sponge every so often so you don't start to repeat a pattern, other than that it works really well.

[@nicholasvinkler1635]

And I kinda wish we could have an army of "minis" that scale. Could you imagine tables then?

[@kshatriya1414]

Nicholas Vinkler Chess board!

[@akamibobaby7872]

Darth Plagueis wdym, regular boards are 10x the size

[@thejonathan130]

Give GW another 10 years and that'll be the standard scale.

[@kshatriya1414]

Akamibo Baby A 40k themed chess set you dingus lol

[@dilophosaurussk4333]

*Floridaman beats his wife and children to death with a Titan, jumps out of window yelling "FOR THE EMPEROR!"*

[@questgivercyradis8462]

Lots of dashes or cross-hatching can make cloth textured! Even on a 28-32mm! Kinda like on the belt - but applied to other stuff. Want a satin sort of look? Mostly uni-directional dash marks with thin paint. Can build up highlights like that, stacking them. Want linen? Do bi-directional. Go at it with semi-thinned paint in one direction, then again opposite direction. Repeat with a lighter paint closer to the peaks. Repeat as necessary. Got a nice linen look on a 32mm scale halfling's apron like this and it looked fantastic. Also amazingly easy! Not needing to worry about smooth blends is pretty freeing, and lots of dash mark strokes are simple to repeat. It has turned into a lazy-mode habit that I just "shade with texturing" if I don't want to deal with a smooth blend. Or freehand a basic pattern - it hides so many flaws.

[@alangriffin8146]

I saw someone try cross hatching for the first time. He used too many lines that were too fat, so it didn’t have the intended effect, but it did make it look sort of shimmery, like satin. One of those accidents that turns out cool.

[@flipflopexe1655]

Your videos never get old and they help the day or night go by

[@sundrophawk8366]

Seeing you paint a death korps of Krieg model has made me the happiest little bean in the world. They are by far my favorite army and do not get enough publicity as they should

[@brianfoley4328]

Ha Ha Ha...after watching a whole lot of your excellent videos...and I don't say that lightly, your videos are brilliant. I've learned an amazing amount and I'm motivated to paint miniatures and busts because of your videos...but...finding the brushes you mention hasn't been easy...but finally I found a source in the UK...Ha Ha Ha...now I'm a happy camper....as a "by the way" my account is under my wife's name, hence Trish (she's a great wife).

[@-Diop-]

Thats is a sublime smooth 3d print

[@MrTekneekz]

This is awesome man! Both the print and the paint job are superb!

[@hellmau2352]

What a great versatile video Scott, thank you very much! No other content creators brings painting tutorials in a more fun way than you do, please, do not change your approach!

[@panzer-meister]

WOW, it's amazing painting ! I learned a lot from your painting technique. I'm happy that I could watch such as video. Thank you !!

[@WePaintMinis]

Beautiful work as always! Going to gave try these myself. Particularly like the cracked leather.

[@sebastiang.5032]

Top notch work. As always. You continue being an inspiration.

[@kaeskawood9020]

Modeling putty + plastic glue is a classic scale modeler's trick for texturing armor on tanks, and then you've got all those *other* tricks they have for things like weld seams, flame cuts, et cetera, soforth, that are both texture and additional sculpted detail.

[@JoshLikesFuzz]

This is one of the sickest minis I’ve ever seen. Love the channel, I’ve recently got back into the hobby as an aside to my model making and your vids are making me want to paint!

[@corneliusperkins7363]

Great video, and really nice work. I'd never seen the striping approach before, great effect. The only other two texture techniques I know about are: powders (usually weathering powders) - which wouldn't have fit this figure; and (hear me out) drybrushing. Drybrushing gets a lot of criticism, but I think it does a good job of creating a surface texture that reads well as cloth. Again, great video, keep it up.

[@ulgulu7433]

sweet mini, great paint job and awesome tutorial. Thanks Miniac!

[@NorthwestFilm]

I really enjoyed this video! Very informative and I will be coming back to watch this again!!

[@neilbrown2451]

Great video. Kujo does alot of stippling and using the zenithal highlight to get contrast. Got my some death corps primed and ready to go, so thanks for the inspiration 🤘

[@BeingFriends]

Fascinating! Always such good content! I’ve got a lot to learn from you! We are new to youtube, making mostly videos about Board Games, but I recently ordered a bunch of stuff so I can start painting!! Your content has been both super helpful and informing but also incredibly entertaining and high quality!

[@DisabledRat]

yees this is a long awaited and expected video. Thank you for this!

[@phillipchronister7035]

Great video, thanks for the tips. I also use paints like Typhus Corresion from Citadel that has grit in it. But I'm definitely going to try the hairspray and salt!

[@vanillaicecream5226]

This video is so helpful, thanks a bunch!

[@billdefranza4927]

3:10 the DRAMATIC sponge!

[@bitzbox]

Ah the hairspray technique. What a classic method. Your paint job on this guy looks superb!

[@evereybonifacio2745]

Awesome video! Learned a lot since I'll be getting into the hobby soon.

[@scottminis7782]

Awesome video. Think I will be trying some stipling effects

[@myrddraalhalfmen9524]

This video is just in time, i had been painting my Flesh Tearers sergeant and wanted him to have realistic weathering and battle damage.

[@TheMindBullets]

Hey man, I think we're all big fans of sticking it all the way to the end. Keep up the content!

[@MrLeifBeaver]

Nice paint job!!!

[@MetalCrushesRock]

Awesome video! Thanks for the shoutout Scott!

[@antiall-forever9855]

Hell ya. Came out looking killer! Love the hair spray idea.. will be trying that sometime. Hail!

[@Luna832]

Nigth Swift has great vidoes that go pretty deep into textures. Also he is a pretty new cannel!

[@MurderHoboRPG]

Looks super dope

[@KainMcnab]

I needed this video, thank you for the great videos.

[@speeeddemon]

Epic as always!

[@finkmonkeyful]

Nice work!

[@JohanCody]

One way to add a cast metal look on things like tanks and helmets is to take diluted drywall compound a stipple that on that mini. If you put too much on, it easily sands down. It's big in the scale modeling community, look up "modeling sand cast hull texture".

[@khanoclast]

+1 for hairspray chipping. I used that method on a weathered pickup truck I built. I simulated bubbly rust with glue dusted with baking soda, but I'll bet you could do the same thing with Aves thinned with alcohol, and stipple on a nice bumpy texture with an old brush or sponge.

[@thecraftingbrothers9448]

Great topic. Thanks for giving us mundane people hope for painting

[@rolandoricardoinfantastoro2642]

Es un fantástico tutorial Miniac...10/10...un coordial saludo desde Madrid, te sigo por tu canal.

[@dennisvolpe7805]

The hairspray technique was in an old white dwarf I had seen. It also showed how to paint speed lines and the bubbles acid look from mixing super glue and whites glue. Works great for acid amd burned hulls.

[@Chemclskinz]

Damn dude! That looks good!!

[@jostonpowell1346]

Backpack is amazing looking

[@albrnick]

Amazing!

[@user-ee9cz6mc1x]

I sometimes use texture medium, mostly for tyranid carapaces. I also use a mixture of arming putty and thin cement to get texture for armor pieces on bigger scale models like tanks. Applied directly on the plastic. that way it bonds really well with the plastic. It's a technique i learned from a youtuber named NightShift.

[@amyclarijs3967]

I was just thinking how nice it would be to have a new miniac video for during mu break. :)

[@crso6661]

Very good!

[@tobiasboh3370]

I use oil paints for texture sometimes, if you thin them "wrong" they sometimes dry very spotty, works very well for soot and mud.

[@chronicmaster7689]

When I saw the first blend I thought to myself, surely thats with an airbrush. I stand totally wrong and utterly in awe.

[@cyagen9782]

Finger paint that Guardsman Scott!

[@totally_not_a_troll]

The salt maneuver ended up looking amazing, wow

[@ollol4904]

helpful as always!!!(good vid)

[@nicholasvinkler1635]

Yaaaaaaay. New stuff from you is good.

[@antoniosordo7585]

Good work

[@eenis1281]

It’s pronounced death CORE not corpse Just like the marine corps (CORE)

[@VAB0L0]

So unlike the CORPSE emperor?

[@ChrisBadenoch]

Really nice job

[@dominicdo2719]

got this model printed and primed sitting on my work desk. Totally copying this colour scheme

[@Godonstilts]

Mate... Jazza just gave you a shout out on his channel - watch those subs of your soar!

[@rhincodrawn]

Jdjd just as soon as I place an order for genestealer cult, after debating the death korps.... you upload 😂 love ur vids dude, super motivating!!

[@guppyitsallgood]

That's the great thing with GSC tho, you can get some Death Korps models involved as well

[@matthewlindsay1046]

Recently discovered this channel and Scott. Man this is awesome. Scott's genuinely knowledgeably, funny, and entertaining to watch. Been painting for years but learned loads on a video binge. Instant sub! Love the work :D

[@zachdevenney1307]

Wow, great job on the bust, I really liked this one...mostly because I am a big fan of Imperial Army and it ain't no freaken tree or vampire!

[@GoobertownHobbies]

trees and vampires are pretty good tho... :-)

[@JayAndNightASMR]

I use a sponge lots especially with metallic paints

[@infinite13390]

Busts look like fun though, I'd like a new bust to paint. Only ever painted one when I was 14 that I got from a Gamesday (Kal Jericho) back in 2004. I was proud with that paint job. I like the idea of having more space to work with than on my normal 28 true scale minis (LOTR).

[@kendo5862]

That’s an epic sponge 🧽!

[@edvalsondan]

HI Scott, great video! I always enjoy watching your stuff and have gained a ton of help from you and so many others in the last 1-2 years as I have begun painting. I was wondering if you have ever done any paintings where you thought about or have added LED lighting effects? (I mean actual LED's, not just the incredible lighting effects you can accomplish) I am starting a project where I desperately want to ad a small LED for effect and have no clue where to go to get such a product that will work, nor what the basics may be to add something like that to the project. I would love to see a video that outlines some basics and possibly the process from beginning to end. Love your stuff!

[@brianfoley4328]

Another outstanding video...everything, the production, the music, the narrative and especially the technique. By the way...where can I get Raphael 8404 brushes ? Thanks so much...this is fun. I never considered figure/miniatures but this has motivated me to give it a shot.

[@lukefreeman828]

toothbrush as a painting tool blew my mind haha!

[@jasecarr8572]

The salt and hairspray thing kind of blew me away.

[@k03rnl42]

Great video and go-through of various weathering techniques! While the chipping on the gas-mask is odd considering the material (propably leather or rubber) it looks great! I often use very diluted brown paint to build up dust in recesses. I also use different kinds of varnish on some larger textures to have shiny paint contrasting with matte rubbed off chipping effects. Keep it up!

[@jeanhamilton3296]

He overdid the chipping both by making them too big, and by making too many chips. But it's fine if he likes it that way, I do too.

[@k03rnl42]

@@jeanhamilton3296 I like it too!

[@Scherdnr]

Scott said “nuance”! Do we drink? Is he going to drop society next? I’m on pins and needles!!

[@vought19]

Very nice. It appears that layaered chipping is gaining track these days (base, chipmedium, midone, chipmedium, topcoat). Would love to see you do this in a project.

[@penheretic]

So nice to see Logic taking up another hobbie

[@travisvance7736]

SEASALT IS BEST SALT! (video was great, can't wait for more)

[@hailhydra7959]

Impressive bust! 😉

[@viladsandersen8803]

Greatings Miniac, I have painted minis for about 6 months, and I really enjoy the hobby. - This model you have painted looks brutal! Is it possible for you to share the different paints and washes you have used for the coat and helmet? If not, thanks anyway for the truely good videos !

[@zandydandy4642]

Where do you get your music at @Miniac shits dope man.

[@scooby45247]

sometimes on metal parts ill use my exacto or sander to actually create scratches or dents.. it isnt using paint to create the effect but saves time since its now part of the miniature itself.. just remember that a little goes a LONG way and overdoing it means getting out the green stuff..

[@YADADADADADADAKABOOM]

An important thing to note about hairspray chipping: the hairspray has a limited amount of time that if can be chipped effectively, so dont try to reactivate the hairspray later on.

[@dolfinmagikpro]

Great tips and advice! Thank you! One quick question regarding the Chipping effect ... Do you have to use salt, or can you use sand, for instance? Or is it something about the salt that "activates" the hairspray? Keep up the great work!

[@justjake8873]

dolfinmagikpro I believe the salt he was using was more for the size of granules it has to get the result he wanted. Than anything to do with any chemical process involved

[@dinohunter6450]

That intro is sick though.

[@JaggedBrushStudios]

I've used a large flat brush to stipple as well, similar to what you'd use to drybrush. Set up your brush like you would drybrush, but actually stab lightly with the tips. Kinda what you said not to do 😂 Side question: Any recommendations on places to get high quality bust and figure stl to 3d print and paint? Not just your typical mini files. I've bought a couple but looking for more places to source for high quality files for resin printing intended for paint and display. Thanks. Love your stuff. You've been a big influence on me making my content.

[@MrPcharrison]

First of all wow! Beautifully done. Second I have the same wet palette as you. Wondering how much water you squeeze out of the sponge. I find that my paint drives faster then the home made one I used to use.

[@Miniac]

Use whatever works for you. It's possible that whatever sponge you use on your home made has a higher capacity for water and thus dries out more slowly.

[@paulburrow5178]

Cool video. Can you also use pigments to the weather ?

[@Miniac]

Yes, you can

[@ppablo8892]

Congrats man. U are god

[@astrozombiac3535]

Amazing how the glow on those goggles seem to follow you. Fantastic work, would love to see you paint more stuff this size...speaking of which, when are you going to paint that Mobieus statue?

[@Miniac]

I'm too scared

[@astrozombiac3535]

@@Miniac I can understand that. We all feel that way at times, but aren't you the one who says we should paint fearlessly? It is just paint. There's ways of fixing it. I think the only thing holding you back is your love of the character and wanting to do it and the statuette justice. I for one, as I'm sure all your followers, believe in you and your skills.

[@TheCimbrianBull]

Hey, Scott, remember to move that lawn!

[@EmanuelaleunamE]

*finished mini shots at the end* SIIIIIICK. \m/

[@freedoomed]

I just printed and painted this model! i didn't do as much detail as you did but the folks on reddit really seem to like my paint job! u/freedoomed

[@jacoblenton7886]

Stippling just gives me Vietnam veteran flashbacks of art class in year 9.

[@Totema1]

How do texture paints compare to these techniques in their look and effect?

[@ocydraws1274]

Nice

[@willjones1696]

What brush are you using in the stippling technique?

[@laurentdeckers9796]

Hello; Bravo for your tuto , it's is just the first time for me, you could texture and chip ( with salt ) . Your quite next about what i want to do , a real big Death Korp Krieg on 1/6 , of course i can find some pieces but from the rest i will have to do scratch buid which i never done..........Any recommendations will be welcomed . Greetings from France . Laurent Deckers