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Painting miniatures for your warhammer & d&d games. Age of sigmar and warhammer 40k. Blood angels, Slaanesh, Death Guard, Space Marines, Space Wolves, Stormcast Eternals, painting scale models, miniature busts! How to paint NMM. How to paint warhammer, how to paint d&D figures.

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[@EVH_]

I've gotta say I disagree with Unclean One's hood thing. Pink and green is a great combo and looks really good together, whereas green and red looks like Christmas! Sometimes you don't want to go with opposite colours on the wheel but one that's close to the opposite, like how pink is to red. You also talked about models either being too desaturated or too saturated, but then you kind of did exactly that, going from a desaturated model to over saturated. Plus I think the pink stomach and red hood kind of clashed with how similar they are, made it harder to read.. Other than that nitpick, they all look amazing! such a cool video idea.

[@ribbon_dye]

Yeah I gotta agree with this. The red hood + Pink tummy made it all blend and it felt way oversaturated in red.

[@MarketResearchReading114]

Those colors are still good together, your problem is that big chain stores ruin the scheme by making christmas last 4 months+ before its even here.

[@fakewhiteman1]

I'm with you there. The GUO was pretty well painted. A few little things would make it better, but IDK if making the entire front of it a red color was the right move here.

[@Agastui]

💯 agree with this comment.

[@ellismccoy]

💯 agree with this comment

[@processseer6693]

Well, I liked the original paint job on the Sister much more. Yeah it was a little bit too desaturated but the reworked Sisters just looks gaudy to me. Just improving the face and weapon would have been enough. Maybe a few edge highlights to separate the different parts of the mini. But he essentially repainted it entirely.

[@eyflfla]

Agreed. Adding color to a monochrome scheme feels too much like repainting. I found the color swaps on the other models acceptable.

[@burnbobquist8999]

Jiep that was a sick color sheme and now she looks like a Blood Rose Sister of some sort. Definetly a new paint job and not an improvement, sadly. :(

[@sylermran]

it would of looked better if there was some more detail in the globs of red tbh

[@Almindale]

@@fylmriss salty much?

[@criticalcommenter]

Agreed. First sister was much better in my eyes

[@Marconius6]

For the Sister I would have liked to see you stick to the more muted, colder color scheme a bit more; the slightly spooky look she had with the grey armor and pale skin was pretty nice, I thought. I think you could have punched it up enough just by doing the weapons up (maybe with a light blue), and maybe adding a bit more contrast from the base. Plus you could have made the face a bit nicer, while still keeping that pale, blueish look.

[@siongriffith3948]

Completely agree I feel the the original paint wasn’t that bad just need some focal points to make it seem a little less muted

[@McCool117]

I was expecting something along the lines of Ebay Miniature Rescues, but was pleasantly caught off guard when you just started adding new layers of paint, instead of stripping it back to bare plastic. Very tastefully done, making the colour richer, while also still keeping some of the flavour of the original work done by the previous owners.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Happy you enjoyed it :)

[@jossypoo]

Agreed! I never thought about adding over top to tweak. This might just save me bunches on new ebay purchases.

[@DarkZergkill]

Hard disagree, most of the minis have nothing to do with the original paintjob anymore. "Art-Fixing" is a pretty low blow in general and people get rightly called out for it, so seeing it here is pretty disappointing. Even if bought from Ebay, taking others creative efforts and going "Imma make it soooo much better!" is just the cheapest self-wank while dunking on someone else' work. Not a good look for the channel really. :/

[@techbeef]

@@DarkZergkill Bro, go away. That's not what happened. The minis weren't sold as works of art, they were sold because they were no longer useful to the original owner. Not all minis are painted as art and pretending they are is absurd.

[@DarkZergkill]

​@@techbeef Sure "Bro", but its not about some status as "art" or not. Most people don't care if you call their work art, but they are still proud of what they made. Just completely painting over it and then going "See, I fixed your work!" is a cheap shot no matter how you look at it. There are better ways of showing people how to improve on their work without coming off as a snob. But you are right on one thing here, I am going to head out of this thread. Have a good one o/

[@TheColosiss]

All 4 of the new colors look great. That being said, I prefer the original color schemes of the Sister of Battle and the Great Unclean One. The new colors do look great and contrast very well, but in my opinion; the others fit more thematically for my eyes. They would look amazing for a D&D campaign; but I much prefer the grey scheme for the sisters armor and far more green and yellow on the Great Unclean one flesh. I would have ramped up the shading contrast with the sister and added more black and white. The Great Unclean One I would have gone more tried to drive home the decay. The 2nd and 3rd models look amazing though. I do prefer them more than the originals. All in all, very very awesome guys!!!

[@gregbross3052]

Love the tutorial on making basic paint jobs pop. For all the aspiring painters out there, if the "before" are more indicative of what your current stuff is like, YOU are awesome. I love Lukas and Emil's style, and great examples and techniques to draw inspiration from, but we all have to find our own voice eventually. Squidmar's is awesome, but that doesn't diminish yours/ours.

[@atillakarman9298]

That is well said!

[@BarokaiRein]

Not gonna lie that desaturated sister looked pretty awesome. I've never seen desaturated colour schemes where whoever painted it understands saturation well enough to paint a model that actually looks like you edited the colours out in post production. I'd love to see the army it was a part of because if all of them were colour graded that well it would be a really unique force to see. That said I understand why a lot of people would decide that it's too dark and dull.

[@مثاليفراغ]

Yep, she was better in "fadedgray"

[@poggestfrog]

the armour would've been better remaining like that but the warp effect and face was definitely a plus

[@ovan2190]

This was fun to watch, I like how you were positive towards the previous painters because they did a good job, and, didn't try to hide the work they did instead tried to push or improve on it. The great unclean one was the only one that had the biggest change and that was the hood, but that was about color choice which overall seems subjective and didn't feel like a bad thing. It was really cool to see what simple changes can do to a miniature and they're it's something a new painter like myself can learn from :)

[@99thTuesday]

No matter what intention I have when I start, I always end up with really muted colours. So the advice about making certain areas pop is appreciated.

[@Hobbyrepubliken]

I actually likes the Sister as it was before 🤷‍♀️

[@klug5916]

I like the way you don't try to undermind the efforts of very regular painters, to add all your skills and techniques, to make them improve. I find it interesting and bringing more ideas and reflection (about rethinking your minins with contrast and points of attraction) than just beginning from scratch (like Ebay miniature rescue). Good work, guys!

[@TrixAreForKicks]

I liked the sister of battle way more before. The repaint just looked like a mix of two saturated colours that does not fit well

[@jerondiovis6128]

Ogroid is just AMAZING. As for GUO, that hand tentacles were way better in original. Making them just flat red is not an improvement by no means.

[@Navtyr]

GUO was the only one i felt was better in the original than after. Sure, the undershading was needed and there could be more variation on the accessories, but i really didn't like the after version. The rest were great.

[@TGCleric]

As he said, more time would have made the specific execution of the tentacles better, but as a whole piece of color composition, the tentacles being red is much more striking, dramatic, and balanced composition than the original, which essentially just faded into the rest of the piece. Only the glossy varnish really served bring attention to it.

[@TwospotzArtAndCraft]

This was so fun to watch! I mean the basic paints we're good, they really suited the figures but by taking it just a few steps further they got even better! Thanks for sharing these little tweaks and hints with us.

[@andyseverance1519]

I was NOT prepared for that professional level Square Space ad

[@AdeptusImperium]

Watching your videos makes me realise how lonely I can feel while painting. I used to paint with my brother but since he got a new job he just doesn't have the time anymore, so he stopped. Kinda makes me feel a bit alone. But anyways! This was a great video as always, can't wait to see what you upload next with your warlord titan diorama!

[@mrWonkii]

This video was insanely useful for a amateur painter like me. I'll try to pump up my already painted miniatures with all the tips and tricks from this video

[@luuk341]

Just makes me appreciate the individuallity we all have when it comes to our models. I actually prefered the way the "Sister of Battle" was painted originally. I feel like a lot of us go a bit "overboard" for lack of a better term

[@SundowN101x]

I agree, I love the video but I liked the grimdark more unique looking sister of battle better

[@Qiinsr]

I agree with you i prefer the muted tones on the SoB.

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thank you for show how change up the contrast can make such a difference. This was very interesting and informative. Good job guys! 👍🏻

[@matttran7161]

You know you've made it big on KZbin when you can afford to hire Harry Potter to paint for you.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Lol, he's been employed for almost two year now haha ;)

[@theswedishwargamer]

you mean squarry squarrespace

[@salimosman8188]

🤣🤣🤣

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

@@theswedishwargamer of course , my bad

[@matttran7161]

@@SquidmarMiniatures wow, two years? I still remember when you first had him help you paint and people were making the first HP jokes.

[@Lukas_squidsquad]

That Lukas guy sure is handsome! He could probably replace squidmar at some point?🤷‍♂️ what u guys think?

[@vinterbjork4128]

Replace? His swag is already carrying this show! 😉

[@UnderMyThumb]

I'm ready for him to start his own channel and dump squidmar! It's cool though, you can hire squidmar if you want ;-)

[@Snacklord_Dennis]

He is a crazy good painter, I wish he would post more of his work on instagram 👀

[@Quintcy]

So good to se you upload, gives me lots of painting motivation 😁

[@okiwankinoki3107]

same

[@tillgeske401]

I really love how you two harmonise together. I really get the feeling how you tow are just passionate aboute the hobby and still vibe together. 👍❤️❤️

[@saschanielsen8348]

I love this. I think a wall many (including myself) hit is not knowing how to progress further. You painting on top of existing work shows a way to do just that. Lots of love to both of you.

[@That_Average_Nerd]

10:44 I actually think if for the bullman you were to color the runes up his arm holding the staff in a flame color gradient it would make it come off as when he's casting his powers his runes would glow and make a more dynamic coloration (similar to how it started out but brought to a higher quality standard)

[@gazimoff]

Thanks for the refresher! Im suffering a lot from the desaturation bug, so this video is perfect!

[@Pottan23]

Don't worry too much about it. If every minature pops out from the table, none of them do.

[@Llew2u]

Love this, it is great concept, physically show what a professional would do to make a model pop, I think just shows folk what to look for, really helps. Cheers.

[@TheMrFishnDucks]

Awesome paint jobs. As always your creativity shows in the paint jobs and adds. Looking forward to the next video. Keep up the good work.

[@ThePurpleFantum]

None of those models had awful original paint jobs, but you guys did a great job making them really pop. The Ogroid was really awesome, loved the fire glow on the hair.

[@dystopiate2205]

One of the most surprisingly helpful videos I've seen on this topic to date. I've cobbled together more than half my army carefully buying and curating a selection of minis I found on Ebay. Yet I've always felt like even some of the most well-painted minis always need something to push it across the finish line from good to masterpiece. This video not gave me a plethora of ideas for retouching and repainting, as well as how to better match all the minis so they look like they're all from the same detachment. Great episode!

[@Psychosurgeonpls]

ngl, i like the GUO better in its original paint job.. im no pro but his main feature is NOT his head and face its his gore and all you did was cloud it up in red and draw attention away from it, so now it doesnt register as gore but more "demonic tendrils" and you took all focus from the belly, THE main feature

[@Cyromantik]

Highlights first and glaze for glow? This is why I love this channel so much, I always learn something new!

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Wop wop 🥳🥳

[@cartouchator]

Is it rude to say sometimes I like Lukas' painting more than Emil's ? 🤣Lukas deserves a raise !

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

It would be weird if you always liked my paint jobs the most ;) its art and subjective, everyone prefers differently every time. and it changes over time

[@kevbrown3760]

Its clear that the Original Painter of the sister was trying to do grimdark style, it would have been nice to update the model while keeping the style, instead of throwing the baby out with the bath water. What you did looks nice, but you almost might as well paint a new model from scratch.

[@harryhamilton298]

I thought this was one of your better ones lately. It was a good way to show how to raise a mini another notch (or 2 or 3).

[@bunionsandcabbage6764]

Thank you for making this video. This is some of the stuff that is easy to miss when painting a mini start to finish

[@dualwieldsoftware]

I feel like I learned a lot from this video, as my paint jobs are much closer to your befores than your afters. Gotta pick more strategic focal points and play with saturation levels going forward. Awesome video :D

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Ťhat makes me so happy

[@clawhammr666]

I think these look excellent in the after, although I feel mixed on the Great Unclean One/Rotigus, feels a little strange to him to have him more caucasian/pinkskinned-ish infront, mainly since it's like that on the front, then green with the rest, otherwise keep up coming up with videos on the tips, I think I'm one of many that have a hard time making minis pop.

[@TheShelbyTheShelby]

I agree. I also feel unsure about the results of this guy. Especially because the hood was repainted 'because pink and green clash' and then his whole front was painted pink.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Hey mate, i understand the confusion. To clarify: The color pink itself wasn't any problem for me, i found that specific pink tone to clash with that specific green that i was working towards. There's many different type of green and pink tones, and some times a cold green and a cold pink might not be a perfect match. In the end, i do agree though, it would probably have been even better with maybe a pale white belly. But i'm really happy with what i managed and decided on in the spur of the moment - in one hour. :)

[@sebastiendesautels8567]

Amazing video... I juste love the concept. I love the way it shows how I could take my type of paint job to a next level! Thanks guys :) I want more of this!!!!!

[@stewarts8597]

just wonderful artistry, contrast is key and you two have really mastered that

[@heyy13]

I LOVE the ogre. I'm with everyone else on the sister though. But that ogre is fire! (no pun intended)

[@bloodzyAU]

I was in Melbourne for a Blood Bowl tournament last weekend and stopped in at House of War and saw your metal Thunderhawk in person! was a huge suprise. Man that store has some items in it. Awesome job on the TH, was awesome to see it.

[@styks6480]

Great vid! I'd love to see the Squid take on some Grey Knights.

[@TheOldViper22]

Quel plaisir de retrouver des vidéos plus longues et détaillées de votre processus de peinture 🤘

[@revanslacey]

The third one was an improvement but I preferred 1, 2, and 4 as they came. I didn't like the luminous green weapons. On the last one I didn't like the red hood and pink face - better contrast before.

[@rockybolick9646]

I wish you or Lukas would paint a whole „The Great Unclean one“. Would just love to see how it would turn out!

[@leebyrne7064]

I think the great unclean one actually looked better before

[@matthewclarkson8688]

Great content. Really valuable. Love to see more about analyzing a paint job and how to improve it. Thank you

[@s15Jackaroo]

This series was awesome! You should do more of these.

[@vee_tinymoose]

Great painting as usual, with a bonus enjoyable ad, and a pretty damn good HP job too!

[@MrWood-nc3bt]

A very good idea for a video. If you know what you're doing with brush/airbrush you can make minis pop in no time. I wish I had a bit of your abilities. So keep up with this cool channel. Can't wait for your next video. Greetings from Germany

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Hopefully you can try a few of these things on your minis, you just gotta be brave some times ☺️

[@noahbean7648]

I loved the energy and editing in this video! Great stuff!

[@Balyrion]

This is why I cannot sell minis on ebay. I would have considered the GUO one of my best paint jobs if it was mine. Also your ad reads are awesome, you go a great job of making them fun!

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

It was great for sure - just added my flair to it :)

[@KT-pv3kl]

@@SquidmarMiniatures should have changed the title of the Video to that then instead of claiming to "fix" anything you arbitrarily changed parts of the paintjob based on your own tastes and completely subjective parameters.

[@Snacklord_Dennis]

@@KT-pv3kl That's a pretty good definition to art and what every artist does 😂Can't wait to see GW put that on their boxes as a disclaimer

[@damienpatzlaff8432]

I will never not be jealous of the Vallejo Shelf Squidmar has

[@PsychGal1980]

The big scary guy looks a little bit like Raggedy Andy. But this video highlights exactly my issue… I’m a decent painter (might even say a good one), but i cant seem to “punch it” at the end. I feel like so many of my minis look well painted but “nothing special” in the end. All of these tips are great! Thanks for the fun and informative video guys.

[@antonioangeloviii4748]

wow great channel just discovered you. i used to collect orcs n goblins warhammer and orcs wh40k when i was younger,. still have both armies haha. but seeing your videos has rekindled the flame, to get them out again. and start collecting haha. ps. the reworked versions looked incredible. especially ogroid, sister of battle and unclean one.

[@KingKass2929]

Goddamn, dudes. Y'all killed it. The Ogroid in particular slays. 🔥🔥🔥

[@MoshTheBull]

I want that lamp in the background .... the video is nice as well..

[@ltjamescoopermason8685]

Superb work guys !

[@isisnmagic1812]

Great video, awesome to see Lukas get more video time long may it continue.

[@RobertMcCutcheon-cf9vn]

all of the minis looked fine. granted the looked amazing when you finished them

[@therealdonaldtrumpjr]

14:02 Find a woman that looks at you like Lucas looks at Squigmar.

[@jademyran282]

The editing in this video is just amazing!!

[@SilhanGaming]

Damn that Rotiggus would fit so hard in my army :O still missing this one fella in my Nurgle / DG army.

[@mai2015]

I really want to see emil flex his skills a little and do a vid where he paints a big model from start to finish at the highest standard he can

[@brokeboi6079]

It was worth it to watch the square space add

[@byeongcheol5610]

Is it wrong that I love all the content meanwhile looking forward to the SquareSpace ad? I feel like such a fangirl. 😍

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

It is right, 100%.

[@mrj494]

lots of paints on your wall. you dont use them all, all the time. how do you caretake your paints to keep them from settling? do you add anything to them weekly/monthly?.. place metal pellets in them, shake them routinely?

[@FigureFortress]

This was really interesting. Would love to see a video like this again.

[@therealdonaldtrumpjr]

I liked the original unclean one, had a 1980s look to it. New one looked ok, but like it had a bunch of blood spilled on it like in Carrie. The flayed exposed flesh just wouldn't be that healthy looking on anything related to Nurgle.

[@djdresden242]

so if you get stuff you want to strip the paint off, IPA works great to remove acrylics. oven cleaner for enamels.

[@chimobus2092]

I just wanna give a compliment to your ads you make anojing ads actually fun to watch :D

[@PinheadLarry0]

Man you should really finish that Great unclean one. I know the point of the video was just enhance it within an hour but, that was a great direction you were going.

[@DamianM90]

I love the changes you made to the minis and really like how you also respected the skill of the original painters, BUT I kind of disagree with your view on them being ‘fixed’. I personally like your style better, but I recon sometimes people want the slightly muted look as it can feel more realistic as opposed to the brighter flashes here and there. Overall, what you did was amazing, I just recon you have shifted the style rather than fixed them :)

[@TDZPearson]

That ogroid looks 👌 when lukas finished it!

[@newtybot]

Imagine spending a day working on your mini and you’re proud of it and then it shows up in this video a year or two later 😭 Not even dissing your work, just touching it up 😭😭

[@ACEsevaeron]

The great unclean one was way better before imo, the sister of battle a bit as well. But for the rest it looks awesome!

[@NornQueenKya]

Its fun revamping old stuff from ebay or swap meets. I've fixed up a lot of very expensive terrain doing that. Too much of an addict to resell it though...

[@glitchlessronin]

Hey Emil, Just a heads up, I seen this vid on my recommendation the other day when you uploaded it. But I have only just received the bell notification for this video today, don't know if that info helps or not. Just thought I might bring to your attentions. Keep up the solid work brother !

[@ozmanoshe]

GUO face still didn’t pop quite enough I thought, it sort of didn’t contrast enough with the red hood.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

If you want to try out the Squidmar Kolinsky miniature paint brushes we use in this video you can do so following this link: www.squidmar.com/latepledge

[@lanewhite5321]

love the vids

[@SkitZHitZ]

hey could you do a video, of buying pre ones painted from ebay and edge lightening them up and sending them back to the owners after you modified them who know you may find someone who seriously needs the money and can keep an amazing project also try using copic markers over top of silvers it gives then an amazing color effects

[@degzi]

enough with the grand reveal bollocks

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

@@degzi Only for you - we'll stop showing the final results in the future. I cant believe we didnt think of this sooner

[@Darthborg]

This was a good video. I enjoyed you fixing up other models that were done very well but adding the extra details only an expert can do.

[@timoses01]

Wow this was incredible!

[@MetallicHallucinations]

It’s like making everything into super sharp, ultra High Definition. Superb skills 👍

[@florentarlandis1209]

Me: paint a mini to the best of my habilities. Squidmar: let me show you how shit it looks next to what I can do!

[@sake3857]

The hood of the unclean one was like beautiful disgusting bubble-gum! I really liked it :.( but the rest is straight up fire!

[@Stevie28]

Awesome Stuff! Please more like this!

[@serpent4569]

I am looking at these videos just for The satisfaction they provide. To be honest I would start buying these once I would get older if The figurines still exist. My country doesn't have places where you could get products but the hobby is very satisfying nontheless. Thanks for looking on my Ted talk Tl;dr:Well done

[@kdhlkjhdlk]

I like how he doesn't follow his own advice. If you have saturation on every blue horror in your army, nobody will focus on anything. There's a reason you don't do saturated paint jobs on rank and file.

[@linfordhb1464]

The squarespace ads are actually the best

[@jakkes770]

I would love to see you take on a kraken or squid like miniature some time? Maybe something of your own creation. Even to the point of a Kraken breaking a pirate ship in half. I feel like you guys could really bring something like that too life, even in the form of a diorama.

[@nuckchorris3054]

not into this hobby whatsoever but find these videos fascinating

[@owlbearminiatures3429]

So glad I just woke up to see a new video up

[@xxSeanVxx]

Thats the best ad Ive ever seen

[@kilianfunk2459]

I love these type of videos. I would love to see more.

[@CharredDingleberry]

hey dude, I know you LOVE the Orks in 40k, so I was wondering if you could do another big project where there are a bunch of Orks and Gretchin shooting around a Squiggoth. that would be so dope. I'd buy it from you actually if you did that.

[@ShadowSpirit6666]

I must say, no offence here. But i liked the look of the sister before better. The dark grey tones worked well together. The red and green did not look good because it had such a strong contrast.

[@MrPendraeg]

This is my favourite video of yours i think. Really Cool. Sidequestion, where did you ge tthe "short-spout" bottles you have your citadel paints in?

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

I ordered from wish :)

[@thomasblennerhassett7223]

What a fantastic idea for a video! I love this, more!

[@elKONTEXO]

That was awesome, more like this pls!