Painting an entire miniature using The Army Painter's Speed Paints | WH40K | Salamander

[@NathanBest]

That came out MUCH better than I expected! I'm a big fan of the speedpaints over metallic bases too. Nice work and please keep finishing with the outtakes! 🤣

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Yeah caught me by surprise too! I think I’m a fan of things looking how they are supposed to look! And I think this ended up correct :-D still hate the colour in general though :-D when I stop messing up constantly I’ll stop including them at the end :-D thanks for watching!!

[@WillMauz]

Had my bro 3d print out a 24" Vulkan. I've been looking for the right green for a month! Thank you!!!

[@SaltySeadogKP14]

Love it! The Speed Paints are a very good tool in the arsenal. I did an army of Stormcast primed in Army Painter Plate Mail and then the colors were a 50/50 mix of Absolution Green and Magic Blue to make a deep teal color

[@NathanBest]

I need to Start playing with mixes like that. Should open up an entirely new world 🤓

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Oooh that sounds very cool. Tag me in if you use Instagram would love to see the outcome!

[@hamsunshine9394]

Thanks for the blast from the past with the reference of "turning itself on" at minute 3:30. Robert Palmer - I Didn't Mean To Turn You On

[@Firon07]

That green looks incredible, I definitely need to buy some to test it out.

[@Razyrazer]

My sets coming in july 9 cant wait your vids have sold me on them.

[@ragem8884]

I just bought the whole paint set as a first paint set that wasn't GW and I'm doing Salamanders and had no clue which colours to use thanks a ton man, looked amazing at the end

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Glad we could help!

[@TheAmazingArgi25]

If you can't pick between regular marines might I suggest speedpainting an Adeptus Custodes or a Gray Knight over metallic priming? I love their look (especially GK's blue-ish silver) and I think it would make for a very interesting video!

[@drayemerson1544]

This was super helpful! I've been trying out speed paints on my own Salamanders and it wasn't quite turning out the way I wanted and I guess I wasn't using enough of the speedpaint.

[@MC-kk8xu]

Looks great! Well done mate 👍

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Thank you!

[@TheSithsapwn]

Great video. The thing on is chest is an Aquila. For Salamander pouches, black, for other Space Marines, mainly brown. I really love the metallic and speedpaint on the gun. For the base, always lava bases for Salamanders, goes with the lore.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Oooooh lava bases! Good choice and thank you for the information and feedback!!! Happy painting

[@PalmerDemetrius]

Orc Green is one of my favorites out of the whole set. Cant see the problem with it. My top 5 would be Orc Green Magic Blue, Blood Red, Sand Golem and Dark Wood.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

I those 4 are my favourites too! Absolutely love the magic blue! I’m a fan it’s all subjective though, make for a boring world if we all wanted/loved the same thing!

[@Rookie40K]

Looks like a good color for Sons of Medusa.

[@Catandmiceproduction]

Please do Raven Guard with speed paints please!!!!! They are painted black but...not black...lol. BTW, love your channel for years!

[@MistahJ-dl3yz]

Loving the Speed Paint videos you've done. I've just got back into 40k after a 20yr absence, it's changed a lot, not just the game but the painting aspect also. Any chance you'd be able to paint a Marine up as a Crimson Fist? I think Cloudburst Blue looks the most likely speed paint to use? Thanks!

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Welcome back! We will see what we can do!

[@sweatilaa5325]

i'm quite the beginner, only done some 10 models over 5-6 months, and i find that the reactivation feature is really neat. when i eventually mess up, because i most certainly will, i can just get a wet brush and remove the speed paint without worrying about the rest of the paint job. i usually only use speed paints for faces, "annoying bits" and zombicide hero models that have too many tiny details making it impossible to paint traditionally, and being able to easily fix any error is really great. i also tend to use a light grey, Vallejo stonewall grey, mixed with some ice yellow (AK interactive) on the minis before i apply speed paint, i find that it gives a slightly darker yet warmer tone to the speed painted minis compared to flat white or slightly off white.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

This is excellent to hear! Using the “issue” to your advantage! You’ve done well to learn a tool so quick! Well done! Totally agree about zombicide. Think you are using this all well, those miniatures are really testing to paint. If you’ve not painted anything by GW id recommend picking something up just for fun! Especially after painting Zombicide you’re going to have a really nice time :-D

[@sweatilaa5325]

​@@WatchItPaintIt I actually started with one of those GW Primaris Marines sets where you get 3 minis, 1 horrible brush, 4 paints ,1 shade, and 1 texture paint. Good place to start I found, you get to see if you enjoy the hobby or not. Can recommend if you wanna introduce a friend (video review?). So now after a few more quick zombies I'll be getting some Space Marines I think, I like how chunky they are and easy to paint. Probably pre Primaris, they have a bit more character to them and some have beaky helmets included. Or do you guys have any good ideas maybe? Stormcast? Some other heroic scale brand?

[@CaptinCrofty]

speed paints awesome

[@PaPaCrazy87]

"Super easy barely an inconvenience" *gasp* "That's from the other thing"

[@WatchItPaintIt]

I’m going to need you to get all the way off my back about it

[@PaPaCrazy87]

Ohhhhh, let me get offa that thing

[@KrullMaestaren]

Regarding reactivation, I heard that speedpaint on top of speedpaint is fine as long as you are a bit gentle with the brush. Other normal paintbrands like Vallejo is supposed to work if you first mix a bit of speedpaint into them before you apply them on top of a speedpaint. Actually makes sense but got no speedpaints to try it out with. If this holds true, my guess is that you could thin your paint primarily with speedpaint and probably move on to regular mediums instead of water when you don't want more speedpaint properties. The aquilla could be any color and some chapters just have preferences but you should be able to get glorious results if you girst apply a highlight color with regular acrylics and then a darker, speedpaint on top of it. Maybe use that reactivation to your advantage and do some wet drybrushing on the top before you varnish the results :) Contrast and speedpaint is so similar but also so very different, tools in a toolbox

[@lucse3994]

Awesome, well done! Just started using my own speedpaints thanks to your channel. Quick question though; I've tried priming with matt white and wasn't super convinced. I might go your route with the wraithbone but I was also wondering what you think about a black primer with white drybrush on top as the undercoat? Would love to see a couple of the same mini's with different priming methods all painted next to each other.

[@HeadCannonPrime]

I know you love doing gold using silver and a layer of yellow speedpaint over. You have GOT TO TRY spray a model metallic GOLD and put Magic Blue or Highlord Blue over it. It makes a Metallic turquoise green like I have never seen before.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Time to add some gold primer to my basket! Thanks for the tip!

[@simonruche8250]

Hey, love the channel! Started painting only a month ago and only did about 10 miniatures. I was advise to go for speedpainting and I really love it. It's never really mentioned, but how long do you usually wait between two colors? I'm sure it depend on the color and how much paint you put but I want to have a raw idea. Thank you!

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Like you said it varies. I just wait till it looks dry. Or I don’t wait at all if the two colours don’t touch! I’d say on average 10 minutes is probably fine. But if it’s super thick you can see the pools are still wet for like 30 minutes!

[@MrKeech666]

Decals have an expired date? Well, I have many sheets of decals from 2nd edition and they are still prime! Did an Ultramarine Primaris (grim dark AF) last week and both shoulder insignia transferred just fine with water. 😎

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Thanks for letting me know this!! I wonder why mine crumble when I apply them :( something must have ruined them :( heat? I have no idea but mine are definitely damaged now

[@MrKeech666]

@@WatchItPaintIt I was thinking it's how they were stored. I was actually shocked last year when I took them out of storage and they transferred just fine; They were in an old Eldar guardians box down in my basement.

[@JadeHarleyCoffeeMug]

opinion 2: better to provide something that's too green than not green enough. blending that with a blue, yellow, or brown would probably get some rich effects

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Absolutely, I blend it with grey in another video and get a green that’s less saturated and more to my taste! But sometimes this bright green is the right green like for these salamanders! I think my problem is because it’s called “ork skin” and not “bright ass green”. Think coming from a background of knowing orks from the LoTR movies, this is NOT the colour of ork skin in my head :D

[@JedrzuGaming]

Do the imperial fists next pls

[@krisdurrant9503]

Just spray it army painter Green and your done. Rattle cans are the speed paint.

[@ronarion]

Pouches always brown or grey from the speed paints. you can even mix them a bit. I paint a whole Army of Salamanders with Speedpaints and the black on the pauldrons is a bit of my issue. i hope the new citadel contrast black might be a bit better. other than that speedpaints all the way

[@ronarion]

For silver either army painter silver or the silver from the vallejo metal colours and then palid bone^^

[@ronarion]

For the base why not black rocks with lava to resemble their homeworld

[@rick9663]

Thank you for the video. So even after it has dried the speedpaint can be reactivated again by a wet color being painted over the dry layer?

[@thequestbro]

I know this video is over a year old now, but please use marker sol and marker set on your decals then clear coat the mini. It "melts" the "clear" part of the decal and the varnish leaves it looking flat.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Good advice! Already been doing this! :) well at least the softener part. What is the market set for?

[@thequestbro]

@@WatchItPaintIt Keeps it in place forever.

[@farpointgamingdirect]

Ork Skin works much better over a zenithal prime topped off with some semigloss varnish to help it flow

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Interesting! I’ll try that out!

[@t.m9341]

How did you speed paint the head and dodge the eyes wtf

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Luck :-D I don’t always manage it and have to paint some white back in!

[@t.m9341]

@@WatchItPaintIt f(@,.O)f ffff!!

[@nuke2099]

Green looks a little splotchy to me in the finished part at the end. Maybe that is just me though.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

No it is a little, the downside of one coat quick paints on flat panels. But given the time….

[@mmerryweather6950]

those mold lines tho

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Yes!!! Did not notice til I was done. And now I’m mad :D

[@mmerryweather6950]

@@WatchItPaintIt still a fun watch, have a good weekend bud

[@JadeHarleyCoffeeMug]

i might just be a different sort of painter but i can't see myself disliking any paint based on its color alone. like we have effect paints for vomit and i'm still like "mm good hue and finish"

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Haha! I think you’re a normal sort of painter :-) I’m just not a fan of certain colours :D totally pointless disliking them and I’d still use them when they make sense :D

[@NightfallTH]

Seeing this video and comparing it to Mediocre Hobbies Horus Heresy Legion Quick painting Playlist (he is mostly using Contrast paints), I have to admit I'm shocked in how much better contrast paints appear than those speed paints. I've seen multiple Speed Paint videos and was always skeptical, but now with that kind of comparison and remembering what Dana Howl did... I have to say, never Army Painter paints and never those Speed Paints.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Very interesting! The first few marines I did we side by side to contrast versions and the difference was negligible to me! Like they look barely any different to my eyes except one costs less? Are you sure you aren’t comparing a better painter? :-D did you see the blood Angel and plague marine ones we did?

[@alexm8226]

The worst speedpaint ever is ORK FLESH contrast from citadel, Army Painter's Orc Skin is gold in comparison and that's all I have to say 😭😭😭😭

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Oh boy. I remember I bought the contrast paint for doing a bunch of orks. I used it once and wanted to cry :D never used it since :D you make a great point!

[@pdubb9754]

That green looks awful to me. Reminds me of the color of plastic toys from 50 years ago.

[@jjcc8379]

That might be why some people like it ...

[@WatchItPaintIt]

I wonder if that’s why I’ve slated it so much :-D I think it works really well hitting the required colour here but in a vacuum - 🤮

[@pdubb9754]

@@jjcc8379 Could be. I was thinking of the cheap plastic toys that break on Christmas day, leaving lifelong emotional scaring.

[@JadeHarleyCoffeeMug]

these are plastic toys!

[@pdubb9754]

@@JadeHarleyCoffeeMug Ironic, isn't it? :) But isn't the point to paint them to look like something other than a plastic toy?