I Painted the Space Marine 2 Collectors Statue!

[@RealJahzir]

One thing I appreciate about your videos is that they give me the confidence to blindly stumble into my own painting and modeling journey.

[@jeremysmith4183]

You are right I found his videos and was like I can paint a 100 dollar figure and not mess it up

[@benstephenson8988]

The theme of not overthinking the paint job is just what I needed to hear, I’ve been bogged down in a project and definitely overthinking it. I love your work and videos!

[@SeerIbarelyknowher]

True. If you think too much you can convince yourself to not do something you really want to do.

[@DimMak73]

Hey John, I wanted to give you a tip on brush control when it comes to larger scale things. I’ve been a canvas and Moral Painter for many years and although my Instagram might not share a lot of that work, since I’ve gotten into miniatures I might have some insight that could help. You brought up Bob Ross right after you had talked about the lack of brush control. He is a perfect example. If you ever watch a Bob Ross video look where he’s holding the paintbrush. There are a lot of occasions where when he is painting something he is holding the brush further back almost all the way to the end. You see this technique in a lot of oil, canvas painters. On certain mediums, this will actually help create Fluid brushstrokes. This isn’t the case for every situation, but I think it will be something fun to experiment with in the future when it comes to larger scale, things like this. I hope this information helps.

[@adambairsto6642]

Dude, you make it seem so easy to paint. Unbelievable art. You need a slayer sword, go win one. You're a natural

[@cosmostammer]

a natural with a hell of a lot of practice and experience

[@ThePropSlayer]

I’ll make you one!

[@raxxor18]

I had to go back to your oldest videos to compare where you started from. You were a good painter back then, but this is magnificent. All of your choices seem right and they are executed perfectly.

[@DanT100]

I don’t think there’s a painter on KZbin with the same progress Jon’s made since he started

[@Trezan]

Good thing you got those socks instead of the N64. They came in clutch!

[@MJSherwood]

Maybe your local GW store would window display it for a temp amount of time. I'd sure love to see it in the window

[@Latefoxpictures]

INCREDIBLE!!!!! I am FIRST in line if he sells this. I'd buy it and display it behind glass for all my 40K folks!!!! UNREAL.

[@kookieslayer]

Man, what a great result! Just having fun while painting it's why we all started doing this! It's hard to remember sometimes with all the social media pressure to always do great work... but more often than not, if you just paint to enjoy it, the good results will come by itself.

[@SummaPlusANumberGrrr]

I usually don't like complimenting by comparison, but man it is crazy how much more life and vibrancy your approach brought into this model than even someone like the master Sergio Calvo!

[@scrimdog3328]

Fkn hell man! Looks spot on. Actually better for us the audience to see how you blend and mess around with your paint with it being so big. Great edit to. 👍

[@johndavis6280]

I always love seeing your fearless use of color. It really.makes for some unique pieces!

[@fatal-flaw10]

As absolutely awesome as that work is, and it truly is, I can't get over that Dirty Down snot and gore! Can't wait to buy those.

[@Gigstar0]

Think this is my favourite video you've ever done. I've always been too worried about perfection but I'm just gonna Yolo my miniatures, worst case I can just strip and start again, it's all part of becoming better! Titus model looks amazing.

[@kevinshoulars1170]

As an aside, a new batch of Hexengarde buildings is about to hit Kickstarter.

[@tinytitanminiatures]

Great to see you got an unpainted one to establish your own style with it. Now you have areally unique piece. Nice work!

[@AbouTheMagnanimus]

There really is something special about the optical mixing of yellows and oranges over blue.

[@danielc-s8056]

You outdid yourself with this piece. It's real art. Bravo

[@sorenentwistle25]

I need more intros with the vortex mixer like this

[@leonardneubeck1003]

This looks so amazing. I will definitely try this technique ❤

[@RottenPainter]

Excellent, I didn’t think much of the model until the paint started, well done, you’ve really levelled up this last year, glad to see you’re FDM printing at last too.

[@kingkreaghan]

Wonderfully magnificent! Love the sculpture.

[@GiddyFoxGaming]

I think this is just how creatures in the 41st millennium hug Great work, friend! Looks SO good! Love the color from purple to blue so much

[@davidperry733]

Jon, you killed it. Now play the game so you can get killed, over and over. Great work.

[@BelIa42]

New approach for my next mini... play this video on repeat throughout painting to remind myself to have fun and not let details and perfectionism take it away. I'm so bad with enjoying painting and having fun which is ruining the whole experience for me. So, I hope that I get enough courage to "blindly stumble" into my next project and have fun :) Great result! Also, googly eyes make everything better. I love that intro!

[@javierrevellosanchez4010]

I think this might be your best work yet. It's astonishing.

[@verpine3534]

Very impressive! I love those snot-gore effects. This also makes me want to send you one of the large, unpainted McFarlane Space Marine or Necron figures to see what you would do with that.

[@Airier]

Wish you could enter that into Golden Demon. Edit: 17:40 I stand corrected. :)

[@figureartout]

Wicked paint job Jon

[@billdefranza4927]

This looks SOOOO impressive. Nice job, Jon!

[@spectralcanvasimages]

Hey @Ninjon, I'm sure you already know this but I found out fdm printers create a TON of micro plastic fibers that get over and into EVERYTHING from doing some resin and fdm printer comparison research. Allot of folks tend to overlook this part of printing with fdm printers, you can't ever get rid of these micro plastic fibers while the fumes from resin can dissipate if I'm remembering everything correctly. I know you have some pets that you let into your hobby space, so I just thought I'd mention it.

[@pbkobold]

Raw PLA and PETG are pretty benign as long as you have HEPA-ish air filtration / circulation. Glass fiber (GF) and carbon fiber (CF) fillers might be what you're thinking of. It does seem like those fibers get everywhere and I would not use GF/CF filament in hobbyist context. I'd take PLA/PETG over resin fumes printing in my house any day though.

[@ThePropSlayer]

K. Just wanna say, you have a beautiful…backyard? Whatever that green background is while you’re priming, it’s fantastic

[@karlmoore1837]

Looks great, one of the better ones I've seen painted.

[@chrisjohnson3185]

WOW! If I wasn't a fan before, this certainly sealed it! What an inspiration you are Sir!!!!

[@Ogrekin]

Love the look of it Ninjon. You always impress me. I will stumble into my own current project with less trepidation.

[@motwaaagh]

Now this was you just painting for a video and you weren't even trying hard I wonder what this would look like if you would actually put 100% of your effort into it and not just for video. You are awesome as always. I'm glad you had fun with painting this bigature.

[@Zen0ku]

Amazing work as normal!!! This has to be the best looking statue out there!!

[@Bloodthirstier]

This is a timely video. I finished my first old world unit after I got boggled down with details etc and then just decided to roll with it and it came out beautiful

[@thedrmurchindise]

Jon you're my favorite painter to follow. You fuckin rule dude.

[@Redvision44]

Loved the intro, as someone who puts googly eyes on everything I got a kick out of it.

[@jakeshortt2479]

Aw man, I really liked it before the last ink/contrast layers of yellow/magenta/blue(?) It looked so clean!

[@skyt.5384]

This is absolutely beautiful work! 100/10 man as always!

[@wardoge]

Super sweet paint job

[@stuff6218]

It'd be great if GW would release big display models like this for each army for every new edition of the game.

[@utgar131]

One of the best intros yet!

[@korbendallas71]

Lovely work man , def your best yet. Nailed it completely.

[@TheScottishPsycho]

Absolutely fantastic!

[@argyristsoukatos4093]

Amazing and inspiring. Thank you!

[@argoth231]

You're yhe second painter I've watched doing one. And I love your take on it

[@bradymartin5647]

I was just wishing I had something similar, dug out some older paint and shook till my arms were sore, had to manually stir my liberator gold...

[@Bishop0151]

Daaaaaaaaammn, that came together nice! I'm getting the impression from more than one source that perhaps I stress about the details too much. Perhaps I need to be a little braver, and try loosening up.

[@J-Teg]

Wow. Awesome project!

[@hanskneesun123]

The last few shots with black background make it look like an illustration, love it!

[@raincitysumo]

Ninjon entering his impressionist era.

[@Jambobist]

Very Sergio Calvo style in approach and outcome, like it!

[@Kromgar1337]

Protip: Acrylics in resin don't work well as the liquid messes with the resin curing. Use alcohol inks instead or pigment powders made for dying resin

[@irontiger33]

Love your work man. This is super sick.

[@Elfeeta]

This looks amazing!

[@jackperry4203]

man, large scale stuff is so much easier in some ways - normal minis I always try to squeeze what I do on larger stuff into a smaller pallet... big stuff seems to paint faster and is just easier in some ways. Either way - BEAUTIFUL work on that piece! I'm envious you got one of those!!!

[@Coraxery]

I'm loving those SoFlats, I have most the range now in dropper bottles. :)

[@kendrickwhite4868]

Bro called out Sergio with his gaudy marble and gold base comment 😂 looks good

[@patrickmchugh948]

Looks awesome!

[@JeremyErb-jx5yi]

Thank you for making my day with that intro 😅

[@PoulEbbe]

You are amazing, Jon!

[@jc7997aj]

I used an old towel to work on a large piece. Also put that on a cutting mat so you can easily rotate as needed.

[@JPGotrokkits]

Im surprised Verko's Vault isn't knocking down your door to get this one.

[@jodyovsiew3671]

Fantastic job man!

[@adamjanssen7865]

Wake up honey, a new Ninjon video just dropped.

[@GameDelay]

I don't know what I just saw, but those first 30 seconds were enough to get a like and a comment from me.

[@robyounce644]

Jon I loved the entry video

[@stylnox]

Says he has no idea what he is doing. proceeds to make an absolute work of art.

[@jostonpowell1346]

Looks great Jon, wonder how using oils for highlights into shadows for a more smooth blend would look. But either way you did a fantastic job painting a scale you don't have much experience with

[@AlbertoMartinez765]

Fantastic!

[@thorstienn2317]

Everything I watch one of touch videos, I a. Amazed how far the talent has progressed. This was EASILY, a GD back when I last attended a Games Day. Now, it's a barely a tutorial 😢

[@DaHobbles]

That intro 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@potatotemplarthe7th116]

I’d love to see a tutorial on how you paint tutorial with the same vibrant shadows of your armies

[@ChrisOsberg]

I was so afraid for the leg slot, going into the UV flashlight shot.

[@doiroco98]

Absolute masterpiece!! 🔥🔥

[@SamBrownBaudot]

What, the introduction? This was posted less than 1 minute after the 18-minute video was posted. Unless you've discovered an 18x viewing speed hidden in KZbin...

[@hanskneesun123]

@@SamBrownBaudot 1st!

[@doiroco98]

@@SamBrownBaudot Yeah! Of course i mean the introduction, those letters at the begining are out of this world!!!! And by the way, you can skip to the end to see the result, so you don't need to watch the whole video to see how good the paint job is! :D

[@Easy_Mode_Minis]

It looks like he Stuck first and showed no Mercy ;)

[@PeachyPixel28]

11/10 intro

[@ricgus3]

I noticed I was not subbed! Loved this video and the philosophy you talked about. Now subbed ❤😊

[@envynemo4170]

Polymakwr polyterra PLA is amazing filament to use for making terrain and I uave found that the polyterra PLA takes less prep for painting then other brands of pla and have tried.

[@Batfan83]

Bruh that is definitely demon worthy

[@magmalicker]

Fantastic. 👍👍

[@tsunamiTMNT]

I would watch Gundam videos 👍

[@karstedt9987]

I would have gone Goblin Green on that base.

[@dan64nerd]

Think you should have called this vid I painted space marine 2 collector's statue Great paint job though man

[@VivaLaJam26]

This looks awesome! What is that wet pallet by the way? I remember you showing it off a while ago but couldn’t for the life of me what video that was.

[@edimusprime]

I fucking love your videos man

[@knightzix_01]

why not try a gundam it might be a learning experience in its own right YOu might get some gundam hobbyist To check you out

[@anakin50137]

I'm a Gunpla builder that found Jon's channel when I was looking for ways to paint my kits when I couldn't bring my airbrush with me to university

[@matthijspuppels8119]

Thanks ❤

[@Wijkert]

4:07 socks are more useful than a N64 confirmed!

[@rupertbrink7514]

been a minute since I’ve seen your vids, looking svelte my man!

[@EwokOverlord]

awesome.

[@madMARTYNmarsh1981]

How do you get on with those flip-top caps for Pro Acryl, Jon? I have tried the standard cap and the pointy twist-off version. They are both very wasteful of paint (shake the bottle, take off the lid, or twist it open, depending on which version of cap and paint immediately spills everywhere. It annoys me) so I'm looking at the flip-top cap, but I don't want to spend more money (I have all of their paints so it won't be cheap as I'm in the UK) if the same problem persists. As always, great work on the model. Yourself, Vince, and Scott, are my main inspirations in this hobby... which is my only hobby 😂

[@rump438]

Ninjon buddy man to man you gotta get some grass seed down.

[@PKBratney]

Already no longer using P3? Or was the opener shot before you received your sample?

[@southpaw2144]

Great video! Huge fan. Are the PLA prints viable? Meaning are they durable enough to withstand priming/painting/gaming? Really interested in getting into 3D printing but without all of the harmful VOCs . Amazing work as always.

[@jumpstarthobbies]

Shots fired at Sergio's base. lmao

[@Jambobist]

Well he's clearly been watching some Sergio videos with the techniques he used in this paintjob, must be on his mind!

[@maxperry4978]

Do you by chance have a link for that paint shaker? (I did look on Amazon but not sure the differences other than price lol) I didnt even know they existed till now so thank you for that i usually use ball bearings but that looked way more effective or maybe it was just the music lol