Painting an army over a Week - HC 308

In this Hobby Cheating Tutorial, I again tackle painting an army in less than a week. This time, I explore some new tactics to help you get your armies painted faster while still making them look good. Hope you enjoy!
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[@geteavnroc2250]

"You can paint your base rims any color, as long as its black." LMAO TOTALLY agree!

[@cyriltournier5784]

You misspelled goblin green ^^

[@freedom2663]

Yeah. I was wondering if I heard him wrong. XD

[@breakupgoogle4584]

I use Skavenblight Dinge. It looks good against green, concrete, and brown dirt.

[@VinceVenturella]

It's always black. :)

[@carstendich2906]

What about a t-shirt in the merch store with that slogan printed on.... 😁👍

[@PyromancerRift]

The foolproof version is to use a yellow ink after the red undertone and the light tan highlight. You can't cover too much with it and it's glorious.

[@myramini188]

Tom's 'sabbatical' is actually just winning tournaments and trolling Vince.

[@VinceVenturella]

So it seems. :)

[@ODA204SBD9]

I was physically moved when you black-rimmed that base. Can we get a black base-rimming montage sometime?

[@VinceVenturella]

That would be top shelf content.

[@magnusmillerwilson]

Amazing. Thanks for walking through this in such detail!

[@Seydon31]

Very efficient painting methods, sooo inspiring. Really helps me to stay focused, grab my brushes and get back to "work"! Many thx.

[@VinceVenturella]

Wonderful! Always happy to help.

[@IdolsHextech]

just watched two videos, lovely stuff - this is exactly my sort of painting. Not afraid to spend time as long as it's in the right places. Look forward to going through all your videos.

[@VinceVenturella]

Thanks so much 😊 Glad to have you along on the hobby journey. :)

[@m22152]

Another great video vince, the easy edge highlights look lovely

[@VinceVenturella]

Thanks 👍

[@rhag1394]

And another fantastic army is done! I was looking forward to this clip. Tyler was clearly quite overwhelmed with the gift you guys made him. Thank you for sharing the process of painting the army! You made yellow look easy ;)

[@VinceVenturella]

It really can be. :)

[@kevinhayes517]

Great tutorial with lots of tips to absorb over the next few weeks. Thanks so much for your teaching, especially with a bad back….hope it gets better quickly.

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad it was helpful! All better now, but I apprecaite it. :)

[@markxivlxii1390]

Great video and awesome army choice. There is so much to unpack for me in these 25 minutes (technique, color choice, recipes etc) that Ill need to watch a dozen more times. I always learn something new on multiple viewings. Looking forward to the Mawkrusha vid......

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you, always happy to help. :)

[@MarioInfantesyoutube]

Absolutely loved this video! Thanks for your work!

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@OldManRogers]

A true labour of love for your friend. Extra respect for working through injury but take care of yourself Mr V!

[@VinceVenturella]

It was a rough week, but all better now. :)

[@havok100]

Super cute. I followed the same steps for my own Jawz! A little confirmation of knowledge is nice once in a while. Thanks for the great video.

[@VinceVenturella]

Always happy to help. :)

[@guineapigsith699]

magnificent as always. love these army paint videos

[@VinceVenturella]

I wasn't expecting to do two this year. :)

[@guineapigsith699]

@@VinceVenturella Hey man far as I'm concerned they're top notch amazing infotainment. Any new take is really valuable, like doing the yellow. I'm planning a wood elf army. I want to get a "sunlight shining through the canopy" look for the cloaks. I'm thinking thinking zenithal prime red, orange, white, then yellow (ink?), then the green as a contrast type glaze (ink again?), finally a deep blue oil for the shadows and a warm white oil for the highlights. I could do with your guidance. Am I thinking about this right?

[@ruddendave]

Dude I'm so sorry to hear about your injury, wishing you a speedy recovery!

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you, all better now. :)

[@emilymegan40]

The Tom cameo - priceless! What a beautiful gesture and army!

[@VinceVenturella]

WHen Tom was here visiting while I was finishing this, I knew there was no other option. ;)

[@crazyhorse-us3ng]

Awesome work, You are my hobby hero for doing this.

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you sir, couldn't have done it without you. :)

[@chrissteadman4614]

What a hugely useful vid', thanks Vince. There are lots of tips that I'll be trying, but that yellow recipe is so timely - I was just trying to figure out how to paint a squad of yellow robots for Stargrave.

[@VinceVenturella]

Awesome, always happy to help. :)

[@tonyslab4839]

Great ep - will be applying these ideas to finish painting my craftworld eldar army. Looking fwd to the next one !

[@VinceVenturella]

Awesome, always happy to help. :)

[@hurinironfoot6865]

Thanks for this one. I have been having a hard time getting a project done for a friend and this is inspiring me to get back to it

[@VinceVenturella]

Awesome. :)

[@gordon5082]

Vince: "I have back pain that prevents me from sitting and painting models." Mortals: "I need to lay down and rest." Vince: paints 8 hours.

[@peterfiser]

My thoughts also.

[@VinceVenturella]

Can't stop, won't stop.

[@dustinasche]

For Vince, 8 hour painting sessions is taking it easy.

[@emilydowd-arrow3751]

I LOL’d the entire time AND got many great tips and ideas. You’re a master, Vince. And you’re getting amusingly cheeky. 👍👍😂

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@travislankford9254]

I was looking forward to these once I heard about the donation for Tyler. Love this format but also understand why it is an incredibly rare piece of content due to the scope. I love how every step is broken down but skills and techniques that can transfer to any paint scheme are highlighted (e.g. the use of a limited palette). I wonder if you could expand on that piece of content and do other videos along those lines such as "(whatever the proper name for the limited palette is) for Basic SCE/whatever other faction" or maybe color theory around if you chose this as your primary color this is how you go about choosing those select few other paints. Keep up the awesome work and love the cliffhanger at the end!

[@VinceVenturella]

Yeah, these are always massive projects, and I love the videos, but I do need to find someway to get at the same thing, but in a more reasonable way. :)

[@maizetoken377]

That yellow looks *so* good!

[@brainstorm8778]

You have literally demonstrated the colour scheme, approach and freehand I was looking for, for my 40k army :)

[@VinceVenturella]

Awesome, happy to help. :)

[@phil0nius]

Your videos are pure gold. Keep up the good work :)

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad you like them! Always happy to help.

[@jamesgoodsell1678]

‘Get schwifty with it’ made me laugh out loud! Excellent video Vince, learned so much for painting my CoS army.

[@VinceVenturella]

Happy to help. :)

[@battlefocus1715]

Great vid Vince - you’ve inspired me to give a few different things a try

[@VinceVenturella]

Fantastic!

[@clawhammr666]

Excellent work, hope your back is healing quickly, I just realized last time I used grime I just went in straight with spirit, not whipe on dry, explains why it came out weirdly brighter then before.

[@VinceVenturella]

All better and yep, the key is the dry wipe to start. :)

[@mrsoylentgreen79]

A great 'how to paint yellow' vid! The orks look awesome. Thank you Vince!

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad you liked it!

[@jimyoyoma8956]

Excellent guide and a very cool army. Tempting to give this a go

[@VinceVenturella]

Awesome, always happy to help. :)

[@vincemincevince]

the army looks so great vince ❤

[@ElGoddardo]

Never have I seen a more relatable thumbnail - nice job Vince!

[@VinceVenturella]

Indeed. :)

[@MightyMax2756]

This is a great hobby cheating best of video. It puts so many techniques on display, and shows a great overall process for painting an army

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you, always happy to help.

[@illuminatidorito4029]

Respirator, extremely toxic... 😅 hehe will start using one, ive only now gotten into airbrush and never heard or thought about it until now... Thanks for the life saving tip, and great army!!

[@MrElliptific]

So motivating. Thank you!

[@VinceVenturella]

Always happy to help. :)

[@dkraytsberg91]

Love this. Paint tech is fun to follow, and your video making skills are also improving. Super good. Would love to see some sort of roundup of enamel products, as there are always so many to choose from. Again, great work! Ps hope your back is better now

[@VinceVenturella]

I'm all better now and I'll add it to the list.

[@GunslingerGarage]

Thank you for this. I'm just about to start an Ironjawz army and this is exactly what I've been looking for

[@VinceVenturella]

Excellent.

[@TheMiniaturesPaintbrush]

Awesome video, I have quite a bit of 40k orcs and I was thinking about yellow armor, this will come in handy, thank you!

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad I could help!

[@SomeBlackDude26]

Incredible. That quality in 5 days is astonishing. I'm sure it was 40ish hours but impressive nonetheless. Your expertise shines through in an amazing way.

[@Kamuboyz]

The orc skin is some kind of magic! Looks awesome in a moment 😍

[@VinceVenturella]

It's great, I was very happy with how it came out.

[@4trialsin]

Great video. Love the grime dark style

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you!

[@sstinger0137]

Great content. Will be trying to leverage learnings here for the Tyranids that I have way too many of

[@VinceVenturella]

You got this!

[@LordChumbley]

Definitely gonna use these techniques. Thanks

[@VinceVenturella]

Great! Happy to help. :)

[@vincenzogatta8955]

beautiful work Vince :)

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you. :)

[@Antheraws]

Messed up my back. Don't worry I only painted 8 hours. Good ol' Jack Daniels helped me out with that one.

[@shitstormbringer]

Amazing, Vince

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you. :)

[@peterlageri4177]

The Hobby Cheating videos have certainly improved in presentation, style and humour over the years. I think a big change came after you had Jon, Scott and Sam over for a week-end. I like how you how talk into the camera at the start and those funny little intermezzos. Good humour on that "so you think you are done?" Best Regards Peter Rasch Lageri, Denmark.

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you, and you're not wrong, those guys have inspired me over the past two years. :)

[@TheGImp1214]

I love these videos so much. Going to actually try the fec video

[@VinceVenturella]

Awesome. :)

[@wing459]

Vince: "watch me get a whole army done in a week" Me: "watch me do a whole 10 Necron Warriors in two" Out of curiosity, do you thin your varnishes when using them through the airbrush? I've got AK matte varnish for my airbrush but I honestly just never get around to using it out of trepidation of getting the settings/consistency right and then just keep spending money on spray cans instead.

[@Questioningbasics]

Me: Watch me do an whole Intercessor in seven

[@Mikey__R]

Watch me paint a paladin by November!

[@sushimandaddi]

I do thin it through the airbrush but you cant really mess it up just don't put on too much. You just want to thin it so it will spray evenly though the airbrush

[@Mikey__R]

@@sushimandaddi agreed, varnish is fairly forgiving of dilution ratios. And being transparent, you don't need to worry so much about overspray.

[@brkfstfd]

I think I heard him say once or twice that he thins everything that goes through the airbrush. :)

[@KP-ek7qu]

Great stuff, looking forward to see the painting of the cabbage 😁

[@VinceVenturella]

It will be fun for sure. :)

[@GoldenRogueMinis]

im pumped to see the big boy get done!!

[@VinceVenturella]

It's going to be fun next week for sure. :)

[@notnubilous3804]

"It's now time to ruin the project" Ah yes, I am familiar with this step.

[@VinceVenturella]

The most fun step.

[@theoadamsiv7844]

i love the new camera setup!

[@VinceVenturella]

Thanks, you'll see many changes, I'm trying lots of different angles and set-ups to see what works.

[@Teofreyz]

I just wanted to drop a big thank you. I decided to get into AoS and chose Ironjawz (because Waaagh and stuff), and I know that with my current painting skill level I wouldnt get nowhere close to the results Im getting with a video like this.

[@VinceVenturella]

Always happy to help. :)

[@Mikey__R]

Excellent cameo by Tom! I hope you're not in too much discomfort whilst you recover from your injury. My lumbar spine is made from cornflakes, any amount of sitting causes me pain. I've switched full time to standing desks.

[@VinceVenturella]

All recovered now, but I apprecaite it. :)

[@grafzahl3047]

Wonderful work and a fun video! As for the back pain, I feel your pain! I have been unable to sit and paint for 6 weeks due to 3 herniated discs at once. I would also be interested in how you paint other models. In our game group, for example, BattleTech is currently a topic, and I would also like to paint the small mechs well. However, this seems much more difficult than, for example, on the Godmachines of Adeptus Titanicus.

[@VinceVenturella]

You're not wrong. :)

[@mylesjohnson7351]

Good on you for saying wear a mask while using white sprit I see youtubers who airbrush lacquer paint with no mask on and use lacquer thinner to clean it with no mask

[@VinceVenturella]

Yeah, you don't mess around with enamels.

[@Lifewast3d]

I think I used a half a pot of streaking grime hosing down my gargants and Kragnos for my two nashcon lists. Videos like this from you and other KZbinrs are what enabled me to SpeedPaint them in time for the event.

[@VinceVenturella]

I saw the army, it looked very nice and I enjoyed your army sign, quite funny. :)

[@Lifewast3d]

​@@VinceVenturella Thanks, I really appreciate that. Nashcon was a fun event, and I am looking forward to going next year as well.

[@jorey4565]

Recently try all the Badger Stynylrez primer,all colors,works great (airbrush only)!! Superbe video !

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you!

[@markgnepper5636]

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you :)

[@buzzedaldrin7316]

They look awesome and you achieved more in a week than many of us would in months! Would definitely love to see a hobby cheating video that covers different streaking grime techniques.

[@VinceVenturella]

Sounds like something that should be on the list for sure. :)

[@JakeDogg-RIP]

Show Scotty how he should be painting his dark eldar! Well done Vincey vee! No excuses @Miniac! 😂😉🐶

[@VinceVenturella]

Gotta keep him motivated. ;)

[@JakeDogg-RIP]

@@VinceVenturella hopefully see another video from him soon(about his 40k army), last one feels like a couple months ago on the dark eldar army 😬😞

[@Wijkert]

4:36 have had great results with mixing about a 50/50 mix of AK ultra matt varnish into my inks. That way I save a step and I also don't need thinner for either. The end result is still a bit satin (which I like), but that can be easily tweaked by altering the ratio.

[@chicagohobbyhero]

Dat rim do..... oooh yeah... slower. Lol. Great work and great tips as always, looking forward to learning how to do a cabbage

[@VinceVenturella]

Next week is going to be a fun video for sure.

[@AzraelThanatos]

Reminds me so much of my initial blitz for an Empire force with Star Wars: Legion. I burned through it in just over a week along with the rebels and barricades in the starter box.

[@VinceVenturella]

Fantastic!

[@ironfiststudioandminiature2512]

"grabbed a big ugly brush and slapped that paint on, just get shwifty with it." Little Rick and Morty ☺️, amazing video!

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you, always happy to help. :)

[@TimothyNiederriter]

I liked this video for the take on yellow. Wish I could like it again after Vince mentioned getting schwifty with the brown paint.

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you. :)

[@juliosaramago]

Awesome as usual ;)

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you!

[@ForgottenStreams]

Those look so cool, better than the GW studio version. And I am surprised how yellow that yellow ochre and orange ink mix turned out. Great job!

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you. :)

[@johnbruce4004]

Absolutely top notch video. Both very helpful and super inspiring. Hope your back's improving. Question do you weather the lower body, legs, feet etc?

[@VinceVenturella]

Yep, they get the pigment and washes up on them as well as the sponge.

[@w4rmachine76]

You know it. Everyone loves rimming the base! 💪

[@VinceVenturella]

Exactly. :)

[@allenbenningfield3865]

I love this army.

[@VinceVenturella]

Thanks, this was a lot of fun. :)

[@thel1chking]

The pink for flesh is just genius

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you, happy to help. :)

[@Lodorn]

I'm sitting here in awe, taking weeks for a couple of boyz at a time...

[@VinceVenturella]

Well, hopefully this all helps out. :)

[@Lodorn]

@@VinceVenturella Oh, definitely. I'm a little concerned if I changed methods the army wouldn't look coherent anymore, though. x)

[@NightfallTH]

awesome style.

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you. :)

[@dannitz3280]

Really enjoyed this. I’m getting an airbrush for Christmas so I am going through a lot of your videos that feature it to learn. Any tips on taking this process but doing blue armor? Mainly with the under-shade.

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad it was helpful! Really anything can work for blue, a traditional black to white will work fine, but you can use something more exotic like a purple to ice yellow for some nice effects.

[@benzen69]

Panting caused extreme pain - I only managed to get eight hours in. You're a warrior!

[@VinceVenturella]

Always gotta keep fighting. :)

[@jamesn2830]

I love this channel

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you. :)

[@ThomasGallinari]

2:32 best airbrush sound ever

[@VinceVenturella]

:)

[@Whorabl3]

10/10 vid! So many cool little tips you through in; excited to see Maw Krusha tutorial. I have to say black rimming (inb4 rimming joke) a base is better than sex.

[@VinceVenturella]

i mean, especially after a project like this, it's wonderful. :)

[@itzyaboishannon]

You sir, are a beast.

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed. :)

[@christophermallon6458]

They look awsome

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you!

[@captainarf]

Great video, thanks Vince, I'm currently trying to speed paint up a Cities of Sigmar army, so plenty for me to learn from here! I have trouble getting the right consistency of paint for the kind of highlighting you were doing on the straps with Deck Tan, do you have any tips for getting it so it easily flows off the brush without going into the recesses?

[@VinceVenturella]

A few drops of flow improver will help you out.

[@matthewstone1362]

Love job BTW.👍

[@VinceVenturella]

:)

[@mikaelpettersson2052]

Excellent.

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you. :)

[@Dooxyftw]

I am sitting here trying to finish a 40k ork goff army.... and i am on like 6 month finish the starter box and on my storm boyz. Am trying to paint players on the skin tone and it takes forever. And i am bettering a depression so i only paint like 20 min to about 1-2 hour a week. and your result look so amazing for using so many tools. like airbrush and all that. :)

[@ashleys5285]

I am going to be saying "boop" when I'm painting my models now 😂

[@RedGeist]

I wonder if a certain Rantcast Bladelord will make an appearance in a HC episode Very much enjoyed this. Will be sending it over to my orruk playing friends.

[@VinceVenturella]

Oh, I am going to try to work him in somewhere. :)

[@hinti24]

I sue the exact same brush fur drybrushing. works like a charm 😜

[@VinceVenturella]

Yep, it's perfect. :)

[@SilentBob1219]

Great video! When you do your varnishes through the airbrush, do you thin them at all, if so how? Thanks again!

[@VinceVenturella]

Yep, everything is always thinned. A few drops of thinner basically 2-3 drops just to keep everything moving.

[@ProrokLebioda]

Great looking army! Hope Tylor will enjoy playing it! What takes you a week, took me almost 2 years... Got to practice more, I guess. Hopefully I'll finish painting my LRL to an acceptable standard in under a year...

[@VinceVenturella]

As long as you're painting, youre doing well.

[@tombombadil9338]

VMC Copper VMC Gold (3:1) 1/128 TSP GSW Copper Pigment 2 Drops Flow Improver.

[@VinceVenturella]

There you go. :)

[@clintonliem7561]

Amazing work Vince, as always. I really like this method and would love to do this for my ironjawz army but in blue armour. What would be the shadow colour/s for blue armour please? Would love to hear your suggestions. Would a red under tones/ shadow colour?

[@VinceVenturella]

Something like a deep purple, red or even black could all work, depending on the tone you wanted.

[@brokefun7545]

The Silvio reference in the beginning 🤌

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad you enjoyed.

[@Bodhiscott22]

Vince you are the best miniature painter I’ve ever seen! Do you make classes?

[@VinceVenturella]

I plan to return to some in person classes next year. No remote classes right now.

[@rodneyr5266]

Oh Tom, bringing in more work!

[@VinceVenturella]

He's a real jerk. ;)

[@seanditchfield5609]

Incredibly helpful video. If I were do do a similar scheme with red armour what colours would you use for the under shading? A dark brown maybe?

[@VinceVenturella]

A darker brown base up to the same warm ivory.

[@NapGod]

This is great the view of the whole process on the same models instead of discrete topics is super helpful. Dumb question: is there a real difference between airbrush Flow Improver and things like Flow Aid from liquitex?

[@VinceVenturella]

Nope, basically the same thing.

[@NapGod]

@@VinceVenturella thank you kindly