SWEDISH INVASION!! ft.

[@jc7997aj]

Alex strikes me as a "warrior in a garden" like he was probably an elite soldier whose bagged several world despots and and has a body count that'd make a Kardashian blush. But he's found mini painting as a way to keep the demons at bay. He might just be the world's deadliest mini painter.

[@52Miniatures]

I'm afraid that's classified

[@milgram12]

That’s why he was sent back in time.

[@bishopscatacomb9217]

He has a specific set of skills…Mini painting makes the ghosts and screams fade out and stills his mind!

[@TheEnd]

I’ve never met Alex in person but you can tell he’s good people, thanks for a fun episode my guys!

[@garyjenson1326]

Some creators I only watch what directly relates to what I'm doing. Your 3 channels, I watch every video, which I think is a testament to my good taste.))

[@noquedaniuno]

I remember my first @52miniatures video ever... it was about using pigments on some dwarf cannon operators in order to get them to "blend" with the base... i started doing that on all my bases as i a started painting. Thank you Alex, you are an inspiration in my hobby travel!

[@ScytheNoire]

Love Alex's channel. First time I watched a video there, I knew it was different. The quality was that of a professional, and the story telling made it seem like an episode, like we were invited into a moment in this life. He is easily tops when it comes to video quality in the miniature painting KZbin community. I love when he does different things, like when there was the community library, or the Idols of Torment diorama, or the Space Marine visiting The Shire.

[@GermanNightmare1976]

What a wholesome time with y'all! Thanks for spending some time with me.

[@haveguitar]

Very nice to Alex here, fellow swede here who really enjoys his channel as well as yours… always fun to watch.😊

[@chicagohobbyhero]

I'm thinking 52 miniatures as he tries to do at least one a week, 52 weeks in a year. Great to get to know him more, thanks for making the trip and all you do!

[@el_super_laser]

lmao 😂 with the Experimental Plumbers. you guys are amazing. Thanks for recording these. I spend most of my day alone (all days) so listening to people I can relate is amazing. Stay safe brothers.

[@isisnmagic1812]

I love watching all your guys channels, and after listening to the trapped under plastic podcast, I have loved catching up with all the KZbin videos, this one was fun to watch .

[@markfrommontana]

I was surprised to hear Alex talk about not feeling all that confident about his writing ability and skills while he was in school. His scripts are superb.

[@ricardosimoes2507]

I started watching Alex because Miniac did a video about his favorite channels and featured 52 Miniatures there. I think his unique style, both painting and making the actual videos, are the best part of his channel. Apart from awesome content (which a lot of people deliver), him and Miniac are in a different level qualitywise. There are no other channels that have all the aspects of the hobby so well represented (painting, storytelling, video production, variety...).

[@rhag1394]

Great episode! Alex makes the impression of being a fantastic dude based on what I've seen of his own channel. Really interesting takes on making youtube content as well

[@BonsaiNut]

Here’s why I think there are so many details in models now….the average painter likes to dry brush to make the model better on top of their base coat or slap chop. Lots of details are better for the dry brushing strokes so that the dry brushing adds more to the paint job by hitting more ridges and adding more paint and making it pop more with those edge highlights

[@rmhtexas5982]

When Alex said, 'yes, Dave,' did anyone else immediately say, 'Open the cargo bay doors, Hal...'

[@woah77]

On fixing lawn mowers, last year I bought a new lawn mower and the safeties were just making it terrible to use, so I pulled open the safeties and bypassed one, and it's worked like a charm ever since. I didn't exactly know what I was doing, but knew enough

[@dirby89]

Glad my random comment was used in the opener 😂 I’ve made it in life. Great show as always!

[@CrimsonTusk]

Love to see Alex here, i share his philosophy for minis. Also agree with Jon about the new Snikrot. I like the new sculpt, but the old was brimming with character.

[@erikbraun473]

The 52 miniatures channel name stories are the stuff of legend

[@EmanLeerton]

You should try putting your guest to one side rather than in the middle so they're not turning side to side. Make your guest feel at home rather than simply in your home. Just a thought. Stoked you had Alex on!

[@oleww50]

Agreed, I miss the old setup in the basement around the table. I think it was more cosy and inviting better all round.

[@lolaldanee2743]

Amazing guest 🎉

[@DaronSchmit]

I agree with liking "learning process videos". It's arguably more useful to know how a person arrived at their process as it is to know what their process is.

[@ethancoatney727]

I know I've successfully lived another week and it wasn't all a fever dream when I get a new episode of TUP!

[@jasonrhome710]

Smelling salts may still be used by doctors. Several years back I almost passed out after getting blood drawn for standard labs, me and needles have never played well together, and the nurse brought out the salts to perk me back up. It was a bit of a trip to use something I'd only ever read or heard about in various stories.

[@nicolastousignant9160]

When he said "the american store" i was half expecting someone to reply with "the Embassy?"

[@hanasununhamunagoyum]

The boys seeing if they're going to weird out Alex and he rolls with it smooth as tendies.

[@miniaturestash]

That was a great conversation this week. Thanks for all Alex all the hard hitting question but what are his favorite chicken tenders?

[@joshpotter9261]

If Alex had let us know he was coming, I could have gotten him a visit to Ral Partha and Iron Wind Metals production facilities

[@DeliciousCornbread]

Jon being a Milwaukee guy only furthers my respect for him. You can pry my cordless impact from my cold dead hands.

[@aroncheek5092]

Some of my paint shaking implements are pebbles from my garden 😊

[@djsaunter]

Great guest appearance

[@cabe_bedlam]

Loving the origin story!

[@sebastianpatterson7248]

I'm looking to do something similar. Did you coat all of the foam with mod podge or anything and what type of paint did you ultimately use to cover it?

[@mandzakminiatures]

ah yes, pewter wizard holding a crystal ball. I wish I still had mine haha

[@zramirez5471]

53:42 finally Alex pulls back the curtain!

[@zramirez5471]

48:00 What I have discovered in the last year is that by choosing a color scheme for the most involved model first - preferably a 4 color scheme - I get to test the color scheme out, but then on every other unit, I only use 3 of the 4 colors, so everything ties in, but I can vary values on top of the partial color coordination so no single unit feels out of place while also providing the opportunity to play a little with the scheme.

[@markgnepper5636]

Great stuff friends 👏 👍

[@wikisome]

This is all of my favorite miniature content creators in one spot...well no vincy v so almost all my favorites.

[@jordanwilliams998]

It's funny because I'm pretty sure early on in my return to warhammer/painting. I watched a TM video with Sam as well. At the time I was like who TF is this guy with the AMSR brush licking... And now I'm here, 10 spilled GW pots and 7800 brush licks later.

[@DimenGaming]

Alex we have the dew out in every coop and ica now! 😅

[@jamienm42]

This was a great chat - I think philosopher plumbers could be a runaway youtube hit. well - i'd watch it anyways. glad luke at GGS has landed on his feet.

[@tabletop-mini-showcase]

In regards to the 'eavy metal style, when I was painting my Escher gang (which is only 10 models) I noticed the minis on the box art were most probably painted by 2 different people as 5 had NMM type elements whereas the other 5 had TMM elements, so if even 10 minis would take way to long for a single artist to do within a reasonable amount of time that is a definite indication that trying to paint to that standard in a reasonable amount ourselves is just setting the bar way too high. I still tried to make mine look as good as I could but I didn't sweat over shizzle that can only be seen under magnification cause well, who gives a funk about things no one will ever really see with the naked eye... and I wouldn't want to be so protective of the paint jobs that I never play with them.

[@benbradbury1044]

Funny hearing refer to Welland Ontario, Niagara's asshole, as an interesting place...

[@JPGotrokkits]

Hamilton is even worse.

[@janviggoneubergjohansen]

#andamovie love comunity!! Alex is so calm. Love all of you..

[@ripstein86]

Troy and Abed in the moooorning!

[@gekalskip]

jeez that intro music is so good, anyone got a name of the band?

[@Vorpal_Wit]

My condolences to James. This will be an absence felt dearly for a long time to come.

[@jimmycunningham8484]

Mountain Dew Zero Code Red!? Take my money, now.

[@ScytheNoire]

Mall of America has never been the biggest. Canada has the West Edmonton Mall and it's always been bigger.

[@PaintHandDan]

Morning Gents!! "Firs- ...aw, damnit" 😅GG's Renmomo

[@tomcooper8217]

@52Miniatures surely its cause the soul wars box has 52 miniatures in it and that was your first vid.

[@aroncheek5092]

😂😂 winging it

[@regnarissad]

the mall of america is the biggest mall in america but doesnt even reach top ten of the world, and Canada has the biggest on North America

[@Lakrizzer]

Alex talk better english than 99% of all english men!

[@johndonovan2911]

Its super weird that you are facing the camera instead of each other

[@TylerProvick]

As a normal hobbyist painting without a deadline I hate detail on detail on detail. Bonus hate points if the detail is muddy or unclear so I don't even know what the sculptor was trying to sculpt, bonus bonus hate points if it's obvious the sculptor *also* didn't know what they were trying to sculpt beyond "detail" Conquest minis, especially the Nords, are terrible for this. Lots of detail does well with washes and drybrushing, edge highlighting and contrast. People get scared and confused trying to place an edge highlight on a smoothly rounded surface.

[@nbell63]

Don't eat Alex's candies!! 😲 (Scandiwegians do evil things with sweets!)

[@MikoajJedrzejewski]

Deluge 😅 Swedes are experienced in these matters

[@heikkitakainen1600]

Jon do the lord of the rings wizard of the coast card please please please❤

[@terrencemiltner1005]

Are you old men? Have you started to see the appeal of historical minis games? And if you don't like detail on detail minis, be sure and point out the mini lines you really like for the right level of details for you.

[@sixtwentysix]

When will the soyface 😮screencap end? Bring the meteor down.

[@shadowlingg7553]

I had some old display thingy and painted it black. DONT .. dude that dust is just like Fuking kill me now. I didnt want to display dust. If you are not some cleaning err maniac ;) that dust off when walks in morning nad dust off when walks off at the end of day then it is just Dust display cabinet. Funny thing is I learned later that there is nowdays a lot of funny paints that makes your old stuff look good and even older etc. Whole new hobbyy to explore actly..

[@theboredtrucker3898]

Ugh the diet dews are atrocious

[@theezekarion164]

Why do all the Foreign people make me sleepy when they talk? It's a curse I swear

[@chasoepoch]

Ugh, that guy. No chemistry, so boring to listen to that voice.

[@theanimaster]

“Biggest Mall in the World”? - Fellas… let me tell you about a little backwater country (by western ‘standards’) called Thailand that has malls that have been blowing America out of the water for DECADES… One has a full water park on top, another has a zoo… it’s just crazy. I mean, choose your pick of ANY mall in Southeast Asia…