From Basics to Finished: Painting Your First WWII US Rangers [How I Paint Things]

[@jamesfirth-haydon7381]

I love your painting videos. Each one is like a little treasure pot of awesomeness. Very welcome it was to come home and see this on a cold, gloomy UK day.

[@CrippleX]

This is comprehensive and so well made. Videos like these are why you are the best channel on KZbin.

[@ZAKKANWAKKAR]

"You want us to land by boat, scale a cliff and do what?" "Did I also mention people will be shooting at you?"

[@zakaryperrin7126]

Thank you for going deep into thinning paints!

[@TomD-o2l]

Great job on the Rangers! I enjoy your videos, you have inspired me to paint miniatures and I thank you.

[@johnkelley9877]

Another great basic painting tutorial! I am learning a lot of new techniques in these videos. Thanks for sharing these.

[@Marshal976]

Rangers Lead the Way!! Looks fantastic mate, well done.

[@irishtom30]

Still haven't played a game of 3rd edition, but I should be soon. Your channel is keeping me hyped for Bolt Action!

[@diyfireking]

How awesome, such a nice painting 👍👍

[@ShaunTame-re5us]

What a good guide and what a good result! Thank you.

[@Matt-md5yt]

Awesome ranger, you have painted

[@BethorInvictus]

what a lovely beginners tutorial!

[@KasperovRussiov]

Great video! Would love to see a how to paint on French tanks sometime

[@miked6335]

I'd be interested in what size brushes you use. When I paint 1/72 figures I use a 5/0 brush to paint small areas like faces, hands, canteens, etc.. Brushes this small get gummed up pretty quick. But you seem to use large brushes for everything but only get paint on the tip when painting small areas.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

For the most part, I use a size 2 for basecoating things like jackets and trousers, and then a size 1 for most everything else. As long as a brush keeps its tip, you can get away with using much bigger brushes than you'd expect, and they don't dry out as quickly while you're trying to highlight smaller areas.

[@miked6335]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thanks for the quick reply. I'm going to give that a try. I have nothing to lose except maybe a little detail if I have I to repaint.

[@dariostabletopbastelecke4846]

Thanks!

[@HasteHobbies]

You have such a great camera angle, how and where is your camera mounted?

[@mettsnafu3897]

Which brushes did you use ???

[@Thunderplunk]

Nice one! On the subject of "Brown Violet", I don't think it was even a translation issue - I remember asking a Spanish friend what colour they thought "marrón violeta" was and they were surprised as anyone that it turned out to be green, so I really have no idea where Vallejo got it from.

[@HeadHunterSix]

Because it's from the German in this particular case, rather than Spanish. (That is to say, Vallejo translated the English translation of the original German term)

[@Phonx-TV]

I'm wondering how you would paint this model up using the speedpaint 2.0 range and do they colour match the fanatic range?

[@kraziel]

You keep saying "on the painting guide" this and that. What painting guide are you refering to?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Whoops! Didn't realize I hadn't actually mentioned in this one. There's a painting guide and a digital version of it for the starter set which I'm _mostly_ working from for these.

[@kraziel]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio oh! From Bolt Action, you say? Thanks

[@miguelfaust]

those pants are MODEL M43 hbt, they are green :)

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

@@miguelfaust Yup, as I mentioned. However, a lot of the Warlord images show them in brown, and for a single pocket's difference it's worth looking at the options.

[@Vorpal_Wit]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I actually like the look of the earlier brown pants. The late war American uniforms started looked plain and uninteresting after a while. I can only take so much faded O.D. Green.

[@HacksawsHobbyBunker]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I think you were really on to something in an earlier vid when you shaved the pockets to correct the issue for the wool trousers. I ended up doing that on mine, I think its a small detail but it keeps the lads from looking like they are wearing some manner of mutated P37 Battledress pants. I would suggest the same for Warlord but they likely dont give a fig what I say. I suspect nobody should. Cheers!