I love your tutorials, top-quality content. Many KZbin’s should learn from you. Your tutorials are properly structured, professionally narrated, informative and entertaining. Please continue the good work!
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
I appreciate that!
@teamkeogh Жыл бұрын
Agree 100%. Best miniature painting tutorials on KZbin.
@naughtiusmaximus12313 ай бұрын
God Bless your Grandpa, he sounds like he was a good man. Great advice for a little fella! Love the painting advice!
@loupiscanis9449 Жыл бұрын
Thank you , Troy . 🐺
@OneofInfinity. Жыл бұрын
Beautiful finish, I recently painted a couple of early 1/100 Panzer III's in the "Blitzkrieg scheme", I used a darker panzer grey and very lightly highlighted with lighter and lighter ratios of Luftwaffe ww2 uniform mixed with panzer grey.
@Anlushac11 Жыл бұрын
I build 1/35 armor and I watched this hoping to learn something I can apply to my kits. You did not disappoint. Thanks for the video.
@Farrelbf Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to produce these wonderful tutorials! I have trawled Utube long and hard in search of the ultimate guides to scale model painting and finishing and you sir are way above the rest🙏🏻 Never too complex or too detailed yet always astonishingly realistic your advice and methods are always possible to implement accurately and I can honestly say my game has significantly improved since following your posts😊 Definitely my go to channel for instruction!
@adamdews1728 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant as usual, my painting tip for rubber Road wheels or tyres is to mix 50/50 black and black/dark grey contrast paint, this then runs around the wheels quickly and helps prevent getting it on the hubs etc.
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
Good call! I'll have to give that a try next time.
@SPD3DPrinting Жыл бұрын
tanks for the tips! I am working on early war for Italians, Greeks and Germans. This was very helpful. A video on painting Italian vehicles in Europe would be fantastic.
@StaGusGbg Жыл бұрын
Wow, you have outdone yourself with this one 'sledge, that's really good. I love how the cold grey contrasts to the warm tones of the weathering. Great way of adding interest to a "boring" paintscheme.
@AF-kj2zl Жыл бұрын
The blue gray looks nice! Great video again!
@1_BhS5 ай бұрын
I find that you can get really cool metal textures by hand painting the base color (In this case the mechanics gray). It makes a more uneven coat and creates darker spots, which makes a more metal-like appearance.
@huwtindall7096 Жыл бұрын
Bloody great work. All the scale model aficionados would be jealous of your result. Mechanicus Std Grey is amazing as it's much bluer/lighter than the "official" RAL colours for German Grey. I bought a pot from vallejo and it's SOOOOOOOO dark it's almost black. I believe this is accurate colour wise BUT as we know on scale models you need to paint them lighter than actual colours given the scale impacts. With the tracks your video using Dryad Bark as the base coat changed my 40K and scale model hobby life. So good to get that brown/rust/dirt look onto a track before adding some silver/rubber depending on the track type.
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
After a shade and a bit of weathering I think it's pretty much perfect. It's a tough one to try and size up colours from black and white photos, of course, but German Grey for the armour just looks way dark compared to seeing tank crew in black uniforms.
@matiashideki2570 Жыл бұрын
Your grampa's quote made me instantly like the video! Love your tutorials cheers from Brazil!
@johnkelley9877 Жыл бұрын
I sprayed a Leman Russ tank with the Mechanicus Standard Grey a while back and I thought it was a great start to a Panzer Grey finish and watching your technique I will try it on a few Panzers I have. I especially like the blue grey dry brushing and the dirt effect on the running gear. Thanks for sharing this and I will certainly reference this tutorial again.
@zascar80 Жыл бұрын
I'm going to try this method on the big Cadian tanks, thanks for all your tips you help us a lot !!
@Hermitmaster Жыл бұрын
Another excellent video. Really enjoy your style...and then you paint tanks and I'm like YES! TANKS!
@Mittens_Gaming Жыл бұрын
Really lovely way to make the early war grey much more interesting!
@ARed-TailedHawk Жыл бұрын
Excellent as always. I love the slight bluish tone of the gray, and the restrained weathering. It all makes for a very realistic but acheivable method. I look forward to applying this to blitz Germans sometime.
@davidnandrin8825 Жыл бұрын
Wow, great job Mr. Sonic !
@RuthlessMojo Жыл бұрын
I have a ton of Flames of War German tanks to paint. I have 3 starter sets, 2 army boxes and a large amount of infantry to paint as well (I went on a spree). I'm a big WW2 buff (because of my grandfather) so collecting Flames of War was a no brainer. Germany's tanks were a huge reason why the German war machine was so devastating. The Panzer 3 & 4 and the Tiger were really impressive pieces of engineering. Still looking forward to your Italian builds.
@pfcsantiago8852 Жыл бұрын
Very nice, bit of Shakespeare too.
@thelonepainter4760 Жыл бұрын
Great job as always Troy! I love seeing you paint big miniatures from time to time.👍🏽👌
@igelkott255 Жыл бұрын
nice paint job! thanks for the tutorial. When I paint my tanks I like to leave the tracks and bogies as separate as I can so I can paint them separately and then glue them together afterwards. Sometimes though it isn't possible especially with prints.
@PatGilliland Жыл бұрын
Great tutorial, I have a bunch of early war kit to paint up.
@seorwulf10497 ай бұрын
Glad to hear your comments on the weathering especially rust, I cringe when I see the amount of rust etc is put on some models, as you said crews looked after their vehicles plus most vehicles were only a year or 2 old at that time. But also as you said each to their own if you are more interested in the cool factor then go for it
@SonicSledgehammerStudio7 ай бұрын
What's really interesting is seeing some of the difference between maintained vehicles in the field versus later, colour photographs from Vietnam showing US vehicles that'd been out in a high humidity environment. I couldn't believe just how *fast* some of the gear really did rust in the right conditions!
@justanothercaptain6566 Жыл бұрын
That tank paint job is Royal Canadian Armour Corp approved! Looks awesome! And you showed how easy that was! Thanks! 😂
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
I trust you'd be the expert on the subject, sir! ;D Much obliged!
@southaussielad2496 Жыл бұрын
The best in the business 💪 love your work mate
@theandf Жыл бұрын
Interesting as always. Though I must say, I saw some color (not colorized) photos, which you can google for, of early war German armor and it seems the "dunkelgrau" was actually quite darker, almost a black-grey, and not the lighter grey wargamers often use. It also seems *really* early war tanks had some sort of two-tone camouflage (something like brown on grey), which regrettably isn't too interesting to paint.
@stompie51 Жыл бұрын
Great review. Thanks.
@alessiodecarolis Жыл бұрын
A good example of early war's tanks, not as cool as the ambush scheme but neverthless you achieved an astounding result with really few paints. Valleijo's Panzer Aces are great, but logically painting with them it's needed an heavy drybrushing to lighten the tone.
@franciscoantoniopastor7024 Жыл бұрын
Absolutamente fantástico. Muchas gracias
@timothyyoung2962 Жыл бұрын
Man, I really like how that turned out. Not hard to do either, mostly dry brushing and some simple weathering.
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
It's easy to overthink the simple stuff, I find, but a little extra colour doesn't hurt!
@timothyyoung2962 Жыл бұрын
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio If I was really into the Astra Militarum I think I might do a whole force based around that simple color scheme and method.
@ChuckThatNorris Жыл бұрын
This looks soo good!! I want to redo all my Panzers now haha
@samellowery Жыл бұрын
Excellent as always thanks
@Jim-yk9if Жыл бұрын
Great tutorial!
@darioscomicschool111111 ай бұрын
So Great! Thank you!
@thepiratepenguin4465 Жыл бұрын
Very nice, it looks legit.
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
The 38t is one of my favourite tanks of the early war period. I've been looking forward to doing one on the channel for ages. :D
@TomT531 Жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@theministryofminiatures Жыл бұрын
Perfect, just what I needed, love your bolt Action stuff! Quick question though, if not mechanicus, would you recommend AP wolf grey or uniform grey? Thanks again and keep up the amazing work!
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
Uniform Grey would be the better choice; Wolf Grey is going to give you a very blue tank! 😅
@nickdavis5420 Жыл бұрын
Oh nice love it !
@andrewkennedy9134 Жыл бұрын
I really like this one sir...very good indeed. Im going to use this one my new imperial guard project for sure. Very nicely done. Do you use pigments and alcohol (not the consumptive kind, lol) in your weathering at all. A friend suggested I try using a very thin mix of IPA and Vallejo European Earth as a weathring wash over road wheels or similar. Im not sure if it would be as easy as the light drybrush you use?
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
I've never really had much luck with pigments, since by the time I varnish a miniature they seem to disappear, and I'm not about to go without varnishing stuff intended for the table! You could give it a try, but I haven't really all that much experience; I find the quick drybrush and buff does the job to my liking and doesn't need anything more than paint.
@andrewkennedy9134 Жыл бұрын
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio yeah....thats kind of what i was thinking. Ill likely skip the pigments as i also need the varnishing for game handling. Thanks.
@bosola7168 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video as always - you're really helping me get through my project without tearing my hair out. What would you recommend for the base colour and drybrush highlight for a Soviet T-34?
@monitor1862 Жыл бұрын
Your grandfather was right. I've always been pretty easily amused myself. It's fun to laugh.
@Castillo525 Жыл бұрын
Love your ww2 videos!
@gruppenfuhrer45 Жыл бұрын
Great job mate, and btw you sound like Roger Moore. 😊
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
Now that's high praise! 😂
@rafal19939 ай бұрын
Hey like always great tutorial. I have one question. Do you put a layer of varnish before drybrush ?
@marcpaget663610 ай бұрын
Hello. Thanks for this super efficient tutoriaL describing easy steps I tried it but struggled with kind of varnish to be used. I used Tamiya semi gloss but it reacted I think with the army painter wash you have mentioned. When you apply a varnish, which one are you using ?
@lesliebeilby-tipping6854 Жыл бұрын
Very nice model beautifully painted. Are you going to do some French tanks being used by the French?
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
French tanks are in the pipeline eventually. I really need to figure out a way to do them that isn't too complex - some of those patterns were insane!
@andreaspersson5639 Жыл бұрын
Oh, good, you did use German Grey on the Grey German vehicle 😛 (Great video, usual high quality, and also something I found interesting... I'm gonna start a 28mm ww2 army or five because of you, am I not?)
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
I get everybody into historicals eventually, one way or another... 😂
@andreaspersson5639 Жыл бұрын
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Oh, you're waaay too late to get me into historicals (my second wargame ever was Flames of War, back in... 2011, I think?). It's just, I've always considered ww2 to fit better in 15mm or even smaller, not in humongous 28mm (that is instead where I have my vikings and ancients and stuff).
@allbookedup8802 Жыл бұрын
Hi, long time viewer, first time commenter here. First off, thanks for the excellent videos. Second, a question/video idea - I just bought some Roman artillery and was wondering how you would go about painting large wooden surfaces such as the beams on an onager/catapult or the arms on a scorpion/bolt thrower. Any help would be appreciated - I can't find a decent tutorial for this anywhere!
@hidalgohouse3815 Жыл бұрын
Wait..how do I keep missing the part about the actual base coat before the wash..looks grey blue?
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
Because there is nothing between the primer and the wash. 😅 The Mechanicus Standard Grey primer *is* the base coat in this instance.
@ZAKKANWAKKAR Жыл бұрын
"Vell, it's OK but a bit large for my taste. I feel I would just be vlopping around inside of it and I could never park it outside ze Café Rene. If it's all ze same I will stick with my little tank."
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
Lieutenant Gruber? Sind Sie da? 😂
@majmarkbrown7816 Жыл бұрын
what resin brand did you use for your print?
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
This is Elegoo Water Washable grey.
@HyperEwok1 Жыл бұрын
Does Night Sky sell those physical minis through Etsy, or other platforms?
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
There's a page of links to licensed printers on Wargaming3D, but past a point you're probably better off just getting a plastic kit?
@rjlarose5271 Жыл бұрын
I always thought it was panzer grey and a brownish camo? Atleast thats what I thought it looked like is some of the images.
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Жыл бұрын
There are some photos with a basic brown camo, but from what I've gathered it seems that the pattern was relatively uncommon. Not totally unheard of, but not as often seen in the field as just straight grey.
@rjlarose5271 Жыл бұрын
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio thanks for the input. It was only in about 1/3rd of the images I saw so that makes a lot of sense. I might try painting that on some of the blitz tank destroyers when I get around to it.
@jpmangen Жыл бұрын
Beat up cheap foam brush work easily as the packing foam
@nikeethanatos4357 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like Roger Moore
@Krwekrw Жыл бұрын
Love LT vz. 38 best of Czechoslovakia!... in german hands :-( we just made germans stronger...