Since the approach is pretty much the same to dipping with Army Painter stuff, could you do a sort of “paint off” between the two ways of painting? It would be fun to see some of the less painterly people of BoW having a go at that (Maybe Darrell vs. somebody else) and see what they can come up with in a specified amount of time. I think I would change the blue for a red tone for more effect from wash shading (black / brown works better on red than black / brown on blue). Also, a careful drybrush/overbrush… Read more »

Another 3 Colours Up? Unpossible!

Good to see another painting vid from you John.

Nice to see anther painting video 😀 hope to see one for the elfs and undead!
BTw where is the cheapist place to get the 72 box val model colour set? best i have seen it was around £129

I definitely think it’s a good idea for a series of painting schemes for the KoW range

good to see another painting vid 🙂 I’ll just have to wait now for the damned youtube to process it a little bit for a better quality…

Great technique, it’s how I do most of my core units. The only thing I would have done is use brown army painter primer to cut down on antihero step. That way you would have only the metals, blue and face to do.

Would love to see more videos for each mantic army

I can see that I’m not the only one thinking Army Painter here. Their colour primers and quickshades areawesome ifyou want a guick and easy colour scheme and the whole army on the table and ready to fight in virtually no time. My friend is starting a Necron force and he’s thinking metalic primer, some metalic details, strongtone guickshade, some highlighting and maybe drybrushing. I think he’s gonna have pretty good looking army in maybe two days after getting the whole package. 😀 Even though I think this vid is great. The scheme isn’t very complicated and shows that even… Read more »

Good to see some more painting vids. Could you possibly go the next step and show finishing the model? Mostly clear coating, sealing, and your preferences on how to get the model finished for play. I’ve had trouble putting clear coats on in the past and have ruined my paint job. I’ve gotten to the point of having a collection of models I don’t want to touch because they haven’t been sealed but I don’t want to screw up the work I’ve done with a cloudy clear coat.

Damn that’s so easy lol, got a ton of Mantic stuff coming from the weekend deal, this actually helped a lot John. More ‘3 Colours up’ yes please!

Fantastic quality as always, John.

The only thing I’ do differently would be use a few more browns, just to break it up a bit. And maybe use green instead of blue, but that’s just personal taste.

Wow after that wash dried it looked great!
I was unsure on how it was gonna look before it dried. Definitely am gonna pick up some of these paints and models.

Do all of you use such large brushes? my prefered size is about an 8th of that one maybe. 00 000 sizes

Its great to see another painting Vid after so long. More vids please John. 🙂

This looks like an effective and fast way to get units on the table quickly. I’d love to see a block of these guys together. They would look superb for relatively little effort. Id also agree with using a coloured primer. Doesn’t have to be army painter, many manufacturers sell coloured matte paint that would be good.

good stuff quick tip for Johns constant focusing problem – once you get the position of focus worked out for the spare hands, take a pencil and mark an “x” immediately underneath the models position – this way you can quickly relocate it into focus whenever necessary, no matter how much you’ve moved it around =D (granted this technique works best when the model stays at the same height in the spare hands, rather than being twisted about the place, but it would still help cut down on John moving things the wrong way off screen when he’s trying to… Read more »

This is pretty much the steps I use in painting my armies. I then go back and highlight the models in the front row and any heroes/ characters I may be painting.

yet another great vid,tnx i would like to add that if you paint the model as in the vid and leave them “unfinished” you can go back after and add more levels to the model -hight light the boots,gloves,dry brush ect. ( if you planing on going back and adding levels you may want to thin down your base coat ) even if you are playing wth the model Unfinished it should last until you are able to step it up…as long as your not dropping them off the table,or rolling them like dice! this way you get a base… Read more »

thank you John for the video.

I would like to see 3 styles of videos…
1: Basic paint, quick and easy enough for even Darrel to have a go at it 😀
2: More of an advanced style for the Heroes and Characters
3: Competition level almost… something that once a month focuses on specific techniques and how to get the best results out of them… (i know for a fact I love washes but have never even tried a glaze or an ink… and could not pick them out even if someone was holding a sign telling me to pick this example :P)

I like the paint job you did on the dwarf. But I must say I was surprised that you left the eyes black.

John, you should be banned from fantasy games for painting a dwarfs face with elf flesh!!!

No, seriousily, nice video and thanks a lot for mantic weekend

What was the mini primed with John?

i would like to see a 3 colours up fo mantic elves please 🙂 i really like there elves, and mabye you could use it additionally as a tutorial for usinf white underdoats

Nice balance between speed and quality

Yeah a 3UP would be quite helpful to all who ordered some over the weekend <3 ya John! ;D