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Thanks! Glad you liked it :) Yeah I love Reaper paints. I like the consistency straight out of the bottle more than the others. And they just dry in a really predictable way that makes them easy to paint with. Reaper definitely needs more love! And you can absolutely copy how I've painted her. That's part of why I put these videos up!

Yeah every layer dries before the next one. Otherwise they'd just mix together and the effect wouldn't work.

@@theplasticcanvas So this is days of painting then, as primer can take up to 24hrs to fully dry... ?

Thanks! Glad you liked it :) I just had a look at those minis. They look awesome. Would be heaps of fun to paint. Can't buy every game unfortunately but I'll keep an eye out for it. Have you played it yet? Is it good?

To be honest i only backed the game on kickstarter for the minis included in it. I had contacted the games developers and inquired if it was possible to just purchase the games core minis alo g with the stretch goals minis without the game components themselves and was told that was not possible.​@@theplasticcanvas

Thanks! Glad you liked the video. I won't be going back to Tainted Grail anytime soon because I've just started painting Oathsworn. But I did love painting it, so at some point I'm sure I'll go back and do some more!

I had fun painting them so hopefully you do too! I'd love to see how they end up looking. So if you're happy to, post them to Twitter or Instagram when you're done and tag me so I can check them out!

Thanks! Glad you liked it :)

Thanks for the comment. Glad you've found the videos useful! A little while back I also made a series called 'Anyone (Yes Anyone) Can Paint Miniatures'. You might find those useful. I've got them as a playlist, or you can just search them.

Thanks! Glad you liked it :)

Thanks! Yeah I think the dripping blood works well. Makes it look like they've just hacked someone apart and now you're next! Definitely doing more Trudvang minis. A video for the Forest Trolls comes out this Friday and I've just started working on Felerion (one of the characters).

@@theplasticcanvas Great to hear that! Can't wait! Regards 👍

Hey. Glad you liked the video. Yeah I'd do it exactly the same with other colours. So if you were doing brown, basecoat with a dark brown and then use a brown wash. Then go back to that same brown and highlight the full length of each hair. Then go to a lighter brown and highlight each hair again, but start a bit away from the base. Just keep doing that until you're painting just the tip of each hair with a really light brown.

@@theplasticcanvas thanks! That’s really helpful.

Thanks! Glad you liked it. I use The Army Painter Wargamer series. Most of the basecoating is with the 'character' sized brush and then highlighting and more precise bits are done with the 'insane detail' brush.

Which one would you like to see first?

@@theplasticcanvas I would like to see the trapper, doctor and hill billy, please

@@theplasticcanvas I like how you paint

I don't reckon I've washed a mini in about two years. I used to a bit when I first started painting, but I can only remember minis from one game ever going funny when priming so it's just not something that I ever think of or worry about anymore.

Thanks TP. Glad you liked it. Absolutely you can avoid mixing colours. I only mix when I don't have the colour that I need. So when I was painting the brown that's in between Ruddy Leader (which I accidentally labelled as Muddy Brown in the video) and Leather Brown, I needed to mix those two because I don't have the colour that's halfway between them. But if you can make the colours that you've got work, then go for it!

Glad you found the video useful!

That's what I was going for...

Hey Bobbler. Thanks for checking out my videos. Glad you liked them. I'll definitely do some killers at some point. Any in particular you'd like to see?

@@theplasticcanvas not in particular. I've only got the core set, but HOPEFULLY some expansions will be coming so it's all great for ideas you're giving us. Thanks a bunch! Keep up the good work 👍

Blight or doctor would be awesome to see!​@@theplasticcanvas

Hey Jacob. Thanks for the comment. Glad you enjoy the videos! I individually picked out each rivet because of how small they are. It's really hard to be that precise with drybrushing. If I drybrushed them, there would've been heaps of the metallic paint that ended up on the panels around them. So it was a little time consuming but I needed to do it that way so it didn't look messy.

Yeah it's strange that there doesn't seem to be one. I just did a search but most things that come up are either expanding foam, or the type of stuff that goes in a caulking gun. I mean that might be fine, but you don't really want to be getting out a caulking gun every time you want to base a mini! Try this link here. This is the closest looking thing that I've been able to find: www.walmart.com/ip/Xmarks-100ML-Wall-Repair-Paste-Mending-Agent-Waterproof-Kit-Crack-Nail-Agent-Professional-Gaps-Concrete-Repairing-Ointment-Gel/880399538

@@theplasticcanvas cheers!

Thanks! Glad you liked the video. I don't really watch the clock while painting...but...at a guess, each one is probably somewhere between an hour and an hour and half.

Haha. I hadn't noticed Zarina doing that. Happy accident - not for Claudette though!

Yeah I wondered if that would be a problem too but it hasn't. It's a pretty thin coat though. I definitely recommend a coat of varnish just in case!

Thanks! Glad you liked the video. Any killers in particular that you'd like to see?

@@theplasticcanvas Well lets start with the Poster boy himself. Trapper

​@@theplasticcanvasis it possible to Show you my work. Fibished the Trapper yesterday

Of course you can! Post it to Twitter or Instagram and tag me and I'll check it out. Twitter is @PlasticCanvas_ and Insta is theplasticcanvas

Thanks! Glad you liked it. I'm doing some survivors now and then some killers.

If I had any I'd happily do one!

Hey. Thanks so much for the comment. Glad you found the video useful! It's a really good, simple effect isn't it? I originally got the idea when I saw someone melting a clear acrylic rod to create the strands, but I didn't the stuff to do that with. So this was a good alternative!

@theplasticcanvas this is a great method. I was going back and forth with the idea originally of doing glue strands, but always seemed a bit to 'gooey' for blood. This works brilliantly!

Hey. Glad you like them! I did a zombie video a couple of years ago that uses the minis from Zombicide 2nd Ed. Here's the link - czcams.com/video/AjrG2Qln4Xo/video.html Hopefully that's helpful!

@@theplasticcanvas thanks. Will check this.

No sorry. I quickly painted him a while back off camera because my wife decided to swap to that character. So there wasn't time to do a video for it.

Ghosts?

Hey. So the reason I went with washes as opposed to speed paints etc is because the look that you get from washes specifically is grittier and less 'clean'. For zombies, or creatures from other horror games where I've used the same technique, that look that you get fits them perfectly.

I don't have any Contrast Paints or Speedpaints. How do they go with such small details? Can you paint precisely enough with them to be able to cleanly pick each detail out? From the videos I've watched they look like they'd flow too easily off of one detail onto another.

The game is called Gatefall

Thanks so much for the comment. Glad you've enjoyed them! Yeah the size of the Cleric Beast makes him pretty impressive out on the table. Good luck with yours!

Thanks so much. Glad you liked it!

Yeah but I don't have any and I'd rarely use them so I've never bothered getting them. Plus the washes give a 'grittier' look that I think suits Tainted Grail that you don't get from contrast paints.

Thanks! Glad you've found it useful. Yeah I've thought of doing that a few different times. Would you want the list broken into the different parts of the mini or just one list?

Yeah that's a good idea!

And I did that before I knew slap chop was a thing!

Hey. Depends what quality of brush you're after. I've had them for WAY longer than what I should've, but they were good when I first got them and they didn't cost much. So I think they're a perfect early set of brushes to have, or to compliment a higher quality set. But if you want a high quality brush, I'd look elsewhere. I'm going to pick up a few Windsor and Newton or Raphael brushes, but I'm going to keep these to use for the jobs that are a bit rougher on the brush e.g. applying washes or to really quickly slap on a base coat. Hope that helps!

Awesome. I'm glad you found the video useful!

Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully you can find a video out there that'll inspire you!

Thanks for the comment. Glad you liked it! Yeah I could definitely do a video for that. Just need to find a mini in my collection that would be good for it. And I don't think you want to see it every time I unload the brush (cos I'm a brush licker!) but I'll definitely keep an eye out for a mini that'll have lots of transitions.