How to Start Painting Miniatures with ZERO Experience
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- čas přidán 21. 05. 2024
- This is a tutorial for beginners on how to paint miniatures. If you are new to miniature painting or warhammer, this guide will help you start this hobby so you can paint some great models yourself!
Miniature painting is a hobby where you are in control. That's why I love it, you can fix anything you want and do whatever you want. Even though the sky is the limit when it comes to painting models, there are certain techniques and certain knowledge that will help you get started on your way. Learning these fundamentals in this complete guide to painting minis will be useful for sure!
This tutorial should be a great resource to not only help you get started on your miniature painting journey, but to also paint to a very solid standard. It doesn't matter if you are painting just for fun, for a game or competition - some techniques are usable for all of these cases.
I have selected several miniatures to show you variety of techniques - there is a very round miniature without too many details (Charizard). Then there is Emelda from Warhammer quest: Cursed City, which has perhaps too many details. The last miniature is spider man from Marvel Crisis Protocol, which is a bit round but also has some details. All of the mentioned techniques should cover the start of your painting journey. If you are looking for a way on how to start painting miniatures, this is indeed THE tutorial for you!
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I am painting miniatures for warhammer, age of sigmar, marvel crisis protocol, D&D and much more! Whether it is superhero miniatures, heroic characters or space marines, I will paint them! If you are looking for some sweet miniature painting tutorials or warhammer hobby content in general, this is the right channel for you!
Charizard miniature is 3D printer from Thingiverse - credit goes to Patrickart
Chapters:
00:00 Who is this for?
0:14 What should you paint?
0:48 Assembly
2:29 What to do with bases
3:35 How to prime your miniatures
4:59 Tools you need to paint minis
5:30 Which brushes can you use?
5:49 Paints for miniatures
6:06 What is a wet palette?
6:57 Basecoating miniatures
13:22 Shading miniatures
14:51 Lamps for miniature painting
15:15 Blacklining
16:13 Fixing mistakes
18:02 Highlighting and details
18:18 What is drybrushing?
18:51 What is edge highlighting?
19:34 How to glaze
22:04 Example of a mistake
22:54 Painting eyes
24:33 Philosophy of Miniature Painting
25:11 Why do you highlight the edges?
25:34 Details
27:28 Finishing the bases
27:59 Special tricks for gaming minis - Jak na to + styl
This video took me over 3 weeks with over 100 hours of work to put together. If you appreciate the effort, consider subscribing! 👊
100hr? Omg... I will not ask how many hours it took to achieve that kind of quality of paitning..
Subbed!
Subbed, liked and marathonning all your videos.
As a complete beginner that will be painting my first miniature in December, your videos are proving incredibly helpful!
Concise, to the point with examples.
Great content.
worth every sub! congrats
Awesome video and very clear explanations! Thank you!
Absolute best first guide i've ever seen
Thank you!
Agreed!
Agreed. I’m just getting into the hobby because I miss painting on canvas. Well… my house, my painting area, and my time are much more constricted from before. Not to mention the price of canvas is 400% more than it used to be! If I wanted to paint a bunch of postage stamp pictures, it would be great, but seriously, who does that?
Thank you so much for the comprehensive tutorial. It makes a world of difference!
Damn man, I can see why this video took you so long. Probably the best beginners guides I've seen!
I just want to say this is the best beginner's guide for painting. It's direct to the point, no unnecessary joking around, and very practical tips in all the phases of painting.
Thank you very much for this! I now have the courage to try and paint!
I'm painting for 5 years now, but i'll never be able to explain the basics that well. Good job Zumikito! I'll recommend this video to my freinds for sure.
I am so happy to hear that :)
I'm about to start painting for the first time and I have found this video to be by far the best one I have found online you actually covered everything step by step in an understandable way and your other videos have been a big help also, thank you for what you do.
I love that you show the mixing of the paint and how thin you really go with oyur painting. This helps to understand the video more and the principles behind the technics. Other people I watched just said theyy go thin and I couldn't really tell what they meant
Been watching your videos for a good long while now and just wanted to say I love your painting style and videos. Super approachable videos that make you want to paint afterwards rather than be intimidated.
That means a lot to me, thank you!
same here, well said!
Such a great overview! Thanks for presenting in this way
Always a pleasure to see your videos. Great step by step summary.
I just found your channel today and particularly this video I just wanted to say Thank you! You made it easy and simple to follow. Great content and please keep up the great work!
All the hard work definitely paid off, great guide!
This is a marvelous guide my friend! I really like the structure and the way you guide each step!!
I wish I found your guide sooner
Really an amazing guide!
Love your work!!!
Wow! Best guide I've seen. Everything in one place and well demonstrated. Thank you !
I finished painting my first mini thanks to the help of this guide. It came out in a way I'm very proud of, thank you so much for making these!
Such a great guide for beginners! Thanks man!
Amazing video. Simple but it covers so much. Really good job! Also the minis looks amazing.
Awesome video, I'm getting back into painting after taking a long hiatus, this is exactly what I needed!
I am coming back to the hobby after a long break and watching a lot of videos and this was the best basics/refresher I've seen. You're work is amazing and you are now my "go - to" for painting advice and have already subscribed. Also your beard is almost as awesome as mine!!! 😁
This is probably my favorite video you've done, not only is it super informative every time I go back and watch it, it's nice and long so I can watch it and just listen lol
I am considering this as a hobby and this content is phenomenal. I really appreciate the effort to produce this video!
Awesome tutorial ! Thanks my friend.
So good! Thank you!!
I seriously LOVE your painting style! The vibrant colors and shades match are very aesthetically appealing to me!
Your videos are great - easily the best I've found on CZcams. My painting has improved so much already. Thank you.
Thank you very much man, I'm starting with this hooby with my D&D minis and a guide like this helps me alot.
Thank you for the hard work and the wonderful video. I am trying to get the hang of it and I appreciate all of the tips. It is a wonderful tutorial.
I've just got started in painting minis myself and although I've watched a lot of tutorial videos, this is the one I keep coming back to. Simple and clear instructions about several great techniques.
Best explained tutorial on mini painting. Thank you.
I am about to paint my very first miniature and I already watched a looot of videos. But yours are by far the most informative and most fun to watch. I feel like I learned more by watching a hand full of your videos than spending days watching other youtubers!
Really appreciate your work here! Thanks and greetings from Germany!
Amazing video, I've recently gotten back into painting and came across this whilst looking for a quick guide
Great video! You inspire me so much!
You killed the game with your videos 🙏 I finally understand highlights and others things after tons of videos
This video was so much more helpful and informative than the video i first used to learn how to paint minis. Ive been painting minis for a while and i cant wait to compare my old minis to my new ones after ive used what youve shown, so thank you so much
I've been watching already hundreds of videos (literal) from many different CZcamsrs to start painting (vacations, watching on the ⛱️). Boy this guide is awesome.
I love your videos, your coverage and your "to the point" attitude is the best.
kudos!
this is just PHENOMENAL such amazing work and so much talent thank you for the top tier entertainment!
I've watched a lot of painting tutorials over time and this was a particularly great one. Lots of great tips, several different sample models, and you despite being a 30 minute video, all your points were still made conisely (you just had a lot of points to make!). Great job, I will be sticking around for more!
Very very helpful m8. Thanks alot for your work and detailed explainment. Iam pretty new to this hobby and iam watching alot vids atm. Again, thanks alot!!!
Best comprehensive video on painting for beginners. All techniques without fancy names and explained in the simplest way. Congratulations!
Thank you for this video I really enjoyed how you tackled three different miniatures and really showed the difference in styles and techniques in your advice. If I had this 37 years ago when I started painting miniatures I would be Picasso today. Unfortunately I’m now just getting back into the hobby in my late 40s and your video here has really helped me relax into it. I’m going to be learning airbrushing too so more messing up but that’s OK. Be well be you
Thanks for this amazing tutorial :)
This was very well done. I'm sending new mini painters straight to this video from now on.
If I ever have to introduce somebody to the hobby, I will show them Brent's beginner video and this one, so they have a stressless and smooth entry. Very well done!!! You can clearly see all the work, time and dedication that went into this project.
Great video. Well explained. Thanks!
This was a great video. I’ve painted on and off for many years but have gotten more serious about painting miniatures in my board games. Wish I’d had this to watch years ago.
Excellent video!!! Great resume!!
Great stuff, these kinds of guides are a wonderful resource for the community! I also thought you're choice of minis here was fun and refreshing! 😁
Haha I tried my best to choose variation to show different techniques instead of space marine 3 times :) thanks!
This guide is one of the best I've scene. Fantastic vid!
I appreciate it 🙌
There are many paint tutorials out there. This one is certainly among the very best. Kudos!
Thank you!
This is the best beginner's video for miniature painting I've seen. I am now using it to introduce people to the hobby and being a foreigner myself, I love that your English is heavily accented like mine. Kudos!
Awesome guide!!
Great video, thank you. I've been painting forever, but now my son is showing an interest, and this video does a really great job of the basics of brush painting that I wish I had known (and could see) when I started. You've managed to show the good old fashioned basics here that are so easy to lose with everything else these days (oils, inks, airbrush, even contrast paints etc...). So well done, and thank you again.
Amazing guide to start painting. Thank you very much.
The beard grows longer and so does your passion for the hobby. Dunno if you remember me in comments under your first videos, but anyway, thanks and warm greets.
I do! You have been with me for some time already! :) Thank you
I've subscribed to your channel because this particular video (I've watched a couple others) is essential, in my humble opinion, for people wanting to start painting miniatures, maybe not as a full-featured tutorial but as a very wide guide of principles and (for me the most important and valuable part) giving a clear image of what are you going to find when you start painting miniatures.
The only think I miss in this video, which can be seen in some of the takes like the belly of the Charizard, is miniature surface preparation to make sure all surfaces are smooth and regular so relatively large areas of single colors with no texture do not reveal flaws in the manufacturing process. I've been painting for a long time (not as well as you, not by a VERY LONG shot, you're a very good artist) and one of the things that clearly improved my results, since I was not able to spend a lot in high quality miniatures, was surface preparation. In short, filling and sanding surfaces.
Of course, now with 3D printing the surfaces are usually very good already, and for some high quality injected models even mold lines are barely visible, but I have spent quite a good amount of time preparing the surfaces of lesser quality miniatures so they appeared much better than they were at first.
I understand that this video could not stop at those details, and I've seen your miniatures and you do some surface preparation or you are AN EXTREMELY GOOD painter and can disguise some surface flaws and blemishes with your paint (I can't, I'm not that good 🤣), so don't take this as a negative criticism of the video, which is GREAT, it's just it's something I missed and that took me some time to learn when I first started painting a veeeeery long ago.
Nice video, really, I liked it VERY much 😊
Best Turtorial for beginners. Thank you a lot for spending your time in this great Video. Give us more 👍🏻
Zumikito you are the best! Even if I am not a beginner painter your material helps me to get more people into the hobby. Thanks! Keep doing what you do
Happy to hear that!
This helps a lot for me since I’ve just got into painting warhammer models with my orks and it’s better to practice on multiple model units before character models for practice as I’m wanting to do as good as I can for my character models
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
Just sent this to my Son, as he want's to start painting Miniatures.
I told him your videos helped me a lot and you are a great guy and produce great video's.
Very useful!! Thanks a lot!!
Very good video!. Perfect example on how to approach to painting miniatures from the begining to the end. Thumbs up!
Glad you liked it!
naprosto úžasné video, moc díky - asi nejlepší video pro začátečníky co jsem viděl
Wow! This video is chock full of excellent content. You really leave no stone unturned. Definitely a must-watch for anyone new to the hobby. I may start giving this video a shoutout in my own tutorial vids since I'm targeting beginners. Really amazing work!
Thank you!
Another top notch video my friend, slaying it!
Thank you!
Best beginners guide and I've watched a lot of them
Very good video. I'm trying to get into painting miniatures cause my goal is to one day paint my Dark Souls board game miniatures in a way, they look as close to their in-game models. But before I touch them, I want to be sure of my skills, so I'm going to start by practicing on Warhammer miniatures then hopefully within some number of months I can the Dark Souls duders. This video helped a ton and I'll be sure to refer to it often. Thank you soooo much.
excellent video, much appreciated
You are a great tutor!
biggest tip i can give while learning, watch not only this guide, but maybe 4 or 5, because everyone has different techniques, and some work flows and painting techniques might fit your work style or aesthetics better
Es el video mejor explicado y más motivador que he visto en yt ❤
Thank god your channel is a thing 🙌 I'm doing my 1st paints on some 40k necrons and astarties and I feel like I've got a much better idea on where to start 😀
Hell yea!
I really needed a refresh after 20 something year ... Ty I subscribed cause I am painting armies again
Really helpfull and awsome👍
what an amazing tutorial learned so much thank you
Glad you found it helpful!
Firstly, incredible video. Secondly, you have such mastery that it is easy to forget these things are an inch tall. Minblowing.
Supreme quality thanks
Brilliant video.....saved it for what I'm sure will be many re-watches.
Not really a beginner any more but I still find a lot of useful information out of this video. This is a great guide, thank you for uploading this!
It's my pleasure!
I like a sharizard! 🥰🐶
Great job! The only thing I would change is the order of the "before" and "after" results. Usually the things "before" are on the left and the things "after" on the right.
That is a good point! Hopefully it's not all that confusing since it's visible what stage is the miniature at. I will keep that in mind 👌
Great work! Could you do one on the amount of layers needed to get good coverage? Most painters make videos that seem to be one and done, but usually I get poor results and blame it on my paint consistency( too thick or too thin)
I'm not a beginner but I watched it entirely, great job 👏
You are the chad, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
My pleasure!
Thanks a lot i just got back to painting
Great video dude!
Thank you!
Thanks for the tips. I paint Nolzur minis for D&D with Army painter stuff and use some Citadel metallics which Army dosent have. Im also using the Citadel mini holder to some degree. And whys theres a lack of brass metallic colors? Gold, silver even bronze and copper are easier to find. Brass color FYI is the color usually found on trumpets, tubas etc. Copper with zinc gives brass, copper with tin gives bronze.
26:49: _"Somehow Warhammer miniatures don't have eyebrows..."_
Lol! I have totally never noticed this. In the grim darkness of the far future, there are no eyebrows!
it was very interesting! Thank you!:)
Glad you like it :)
An extremely valuable video for new members of the miniature painting community 🫶 Job well done, sir!
So glad my colleague showed me this. I was so afraid to get my first W40K miniature that I will mess up the paint job but you explained it perfectly. Now I cant wait to get my hands on it :D
When it comes to painting bases i tend to do the model first and base after when it's for army painting with the texture paints, since I find it to add some more "realism" when you accidentally get some (read, SOME) of the texture paint on the shoes and stuff which kinda makes it look like there's some dirt and shit that's been kicked up on the feet/boots/whatevs while, you know, fighting an other army.
I'm not really into painting, but I bought the Hero Quest Board Game, and it comes with almost 40 miniatures! Thanks for the video! I'll do my best!
I cannot believe you're in Pilipintados!
Can't wait to see more of your content!
I am everywhere haha, thank you!
this video is very useful to me 。thank you
Thank you very much
this video is so amazing
Great video :)
I wish had this movie on beginning of my journey with painting miniatures