The Magic of Recess Shading
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"Surf the wave of crispy lines all the way to sexy model town." That deserves some kind of award.
I read this right when he said this
Scott: “I’m currently working on a SoB kill team.”
GW: “Imma bout to ruin this man’s whooole day.”
naw, as an SoB player, that new killteam at the very least has virtually no overlap with existing SoB and IMO it looks not great...
@@thejesusaurus6573 Crazy how people know the team isn't great without knowing a single rule
@@DragonKnight7166 He talks about looks you donut
@@thejesusaurus6573 it looks like a bunch of nurses fighting shitty tron cosplayers smh
@@daluckygit8019 the only good thing about that kit are the bits. I like all the scrolls and cool weapons. Apart from that the faces and poses are bad and the armor looks like they are trying to go for an armored unarmored look that achieved neither of those goals.
This technique is amazing. I've had a discussion with my friend who's also learning how to paint historical figures properly and we came to the conclusion that you could, in theory, do the bare minimum work by shading the figure with an airbrush and then outline all the small details with this method and end up with a fairly presentable result.
Agreed!
Uncle night shift! Nice to see you here!
Any chance we get a collab video? Could be a super fun challenge there's so many techniques that we can learn from each other.
Oh my god it's uncle Night Shift!
“Who uploads a miniature painting video at 4 in the morning?”
Scott: “Oh boy, 4 AM!”
Hahaha I was just about to say something about that
I'm in the UK so it was in the late morning.
I caught him last time he posted at 4am, like, at least we share one thing in common.
Recess shading is one of the best ways of trying to create dimensions for older models that don't lend themselves to shading and highlighting particularly well.
Scott: "Use as many points of contact as you can." /Me: "Great tip, but not everyone may know what that means."
Scott>demonstrates points of contact for painting. This is one of my favorite instructional painting videos ever, let alone being one of your best. Great work. And I am always grateful to learn something while you paint non-GW work!
Tutorials have to be repetitive and repeat points often and its nice when someone who does them realises this.
First of all - yay infinity models!
Second - One tool that i found is quite helpful with recess shading is gunpla markers (they have one with a TINY tip for armor lining). You get the same effect but without fear of putting paint around the model. Yeah, you can't do advance tech with it but if you need a lot of armor panels lined quickly - that's a great tool.
don't those markers, much like the black line ink, require the model to be gloss varnished first?
@@Sammo212 that's a good question that i don't have an answer to :) I've tried them on my unvarnished models and they do work. Although some colors required multiple passes to be fully covered. Just don't push marker to hard. The tip is so tiny that it goes through the paint layers and when you pull it is starts removing paint.
@Bearded Lynx And it doesn't necessarily have to be gunpla-branded markers - if you go to an art store or hobby story, you might just find fine-tipped ink markers that do the same job. For precision, I'm talking about the 0.5 mm tips or finer.
The gunpla liners (glass bottle with a paint brush in the topper; enamel) also work extremely well and can go a little bit deeper than the markers.
@@cfeduke Those are the ones I think they generally use on gloss finish because you clean then with a q-tip and spirits?
I know it's not the primary focus of the video, but it's really cool to see Miniac paint an Infinity model!!!
Yeah! I definitely want to see more
I love how ordered and structured your how-to videos are. Even if it's something i've been doing for a while, it's so good to see it broken down the way you do my dude.
Video is 2 hours old... Comment is 2 days old.. what
@@theloganpresley time is an illusion?
@@woodendforager3240 oh god
Alright, my man... you sold me on it! A blackwash is my GO-TO, but for the first time I'm really seeing how effective targeted recess shading can be at getting a crispy result with clear separation and contrast. As always, you break it down in such a logical way.
I'm glad the video can be helpful, Crafsman!
After you talked about the glossiness of metallics my next question was "can I just do a gloss coat, shade, then matte coat" but then you answered it immediately so I now no longer need to type here and ask that.. yea...
Also more infinity models please, they're awesome.
omg that tip to just flatten the brush to get a sharp point was just so genius! I've always been trying to twirl the brush into a sharp point but that tip was just so low key smart!
I love how you lay out multiple options for the task at hand. Gives me 0 excuses to not try.
Hearing you say reppousoir just made my day Scott.
I love seeing the zoomed in parts with you painting. So many videos have the mini so far away you can’t see clearly what is being done. Thank you.
Reducing the surface tension with a glossy coat, like you did with the Sister of Battle, is my favourite method of recess shading.
yes. Thank you so much for finally painting an Infinity miniature :)
I wanted to dedicate this comment to how much I love the outro. I've long been a fan of hardcore music and I've got the tight pants and band tees to prove it. The Miniac outro really gets me fucking psyched to paint minis and hone the techniques shown in the videos.
Cheers!
That's what we call in armor painting "panel lining" and it's amazing.
My favorite technique is using oil wash for that.
I was thinking the same thing. This is a common practice in armor modeling to make details pop through heightened contrast. And I remember figuring out to do this on minis way back when. What's old is new again. Maybe dry brushing models will become cool again some day 😁 And oils and enamels are definitely worth learning to use for shading recesses.
Thanks for painting an Infinity model! They have such great detail for their size. I will try to be more patient when edge highlighting my Yu Jing army. Great work love the channel.
Yay for Infinity!
I love the fact that you painted an infinity miniature for this video, apart from being the perfect mini for the subject we need more infinity!
Absolutely!
One of the absolute best videos I’ve ever seen on miniature painting.
Infinity miniatures are an absolute pleasure to paint. The definition is insane on those bad boys.
Scott: "I've been working on recently.."
Me: "BEARD!"
Scott: "Killteam.."
Me: :(
Good to see sci-fi minis. It would be great to see Infinity minis on the channel, they seem to be fun to paint!
Yeah, these comments are on point. It may not be terribly exciting for a solid, seasoned content creator like yourself, but I have learnt so much from you and this channel. You have an incredible skill in teaching others, and this is coming from someone who has never done well in highschool and has failed post secondary schooling no less than thrice. It takes exceptional skill and talent to teach me anything. Not that I am unintelligent or anything, just don't learn the way most people seem to.
Love it Scott. Great reminder of an easy way to make my models stand out more. I always forget this step and often feel like something is missing.
Nice to see ASOIAF and Infinity, finally getting to some modern wargame design :)
A point on practice: One of the hardest lessons for me to learn was that not every mini needs to be a masterpiece and it's perfectly fine to completely screw up a paint job. The first time you try anything, you're probably going to suck at it... but when you're trying something new, the experience you get and the lessons you learn from that practice are way more valuable than that one specific mini.
When you start to 'get good' you also start to play it safe, you stop trying new things because you know what works to produce a decent final result... but that's when you stop improving and growing as a painter.
Basically, give yourself permission to suck, because every bad paint job teaches you ways to make the next one better.
7:07 "Surf the wave of crispy lines all the way to sexy model town."
Awesome. Pure lyrical skills. 👍😂😎
Scott goes academic about a really basic part of painting. Great stuff Scott, even I forget these things. Great stuff, again.
I tend to use a old synthetic brush with a very prominent hook on it for any sort of armour panel lines, not necessarily all recesses though. I find the hooked tip just locks into the crack if you do it from right angle and speeds up the process a whole lot! inks + with acrylic is my go to!
I come from a gunpla background and I brought the glass pen technique from it to line highlights, weathering and recess shading in my warhammer models
i use oil washes for my recess painting and the capillarity + the fact that i know i can erase or soften anything i put in the model makes the process super enjoyable and easy, the only downside is the odorless mineral spirit because i don't want to open my window on winter but luckily winter is finishing here on the southern hemisphere. Definetly a big recommend for those that want to dabble with oil paints and want to start simple.
It's interesting to see how things come around. in the 90's-00, this was called "blacklining", now it's "recess shading" :) I've always been a fan of the technique, it does add another level of detail with minimal effort. Nice vid!
Reaper created liner paints specifically for this purpose over 25 years ago. But then miniature painters decided it was too basic a technique and shit all over it until the next generation of miniature painters “discovered” this technique again.
I remember starting painting in 95 and reading a magazine article about blacklining. After a while I started using darker colors or other paints watered down to "blackline" with color. Then I noticed with thinned paints that multiple varied thin layers of "blacklining" could create an effect that is called today layering. Painting is really a discovery of different tricks.
He ain't lying folks.
Recess shading and taking time to add one extra layer of extreme highlights goes a long way towards a better looking mini.
Recess shading in particular has a very instantly gratifying effect when done.
As someone that just got their first mini paints delivered today, this will be very helpful. Great vid Scott!
Every once in a while I watch your outro first to get me pumped for the actual content.
You can also use masking to cover parts of a model you really don't want to make mistakes on. Laying down a line of masking tape can let you really get a crispy solid line when framing and recess shading without fear of making that mistake to the incredible blend you are worried about.
I loved that calming part at 7:55 "You and this mini". This is why I started painting and why I love to do that.
Couple people asking about the panel liner I was using on the SoB model: geni.us/1D1KM
I knew the second I saw the applicatior. C'mon man, just do a Gundam Kit. You're sooooo close. Lol
I just started watching this video, so I don't know if it's mentioned or not, but this is something I did naturally, coming from Gundam models before I got into miniatures. Panel-lining in the Gundam model community is a universally used technique, which is basically recess shading, but for miniature models of giant robots.
There are so many cool techniques that can be learned from different styles of hobbies/crafting, and I would love to see more cross over between the communities. I've seen some awesome videos from Millennial Model Mayhem, but I think there is still much more to be explored!
This is essentially adding "ambient occlusion" to the model. Self-shadowing is a lot weaker on an object this small compared to the full-scale counterpart it's supposed to represent. Areas of high occlusion also tend to overlap with where dirt collects, as complex shapes of close proximity both occlude light and make it easy for debris to collect, and hard for it to escape or be rubbed off.
"This is your mini without recess shading..."
Strange I don't remember painting that mini, or sending it to Miniac?!
This answered a lot of questions about painting that I didn't know how to ask. Thankyou
The transition into spa-like meditation got me lol
Another video? Another week? Thank you so much Scott! Great vid with some good advices for this kind of job!!
I really got a lot out of this one, Scott. While I really enjoy the direction your videos have evolved over time, this one does feel a like a bit of a return to some of your earlier, less flashy, nuts-and-bolts how-to's, which I always felt were super useful and inspiring. Thanks for a great body of work that continues to grow and improve over time!
Great video! Can't wait to practice my reshesh shading now.
Missed an awesome opportunity to put the Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy theme song for THAT moment 😂. Great content as always
Today is my birthday and scott prepared the best possible gift: a new video!
Great comparative breakdown. Will have to share this!
Yeaaah infinity models are beautiful
Recess shading or blacklining with oils is something you should've covered. The way oils thinned with mineral spirit/white spirit just explodes and goes into the recesses is pure magic. Turns a 15-20 min process with acrylics a 90 second process with thinned oils.
Enamel washes are good too especially if you like grim dark style. I just cover the whole model then clean off the wash where I don’t want it with white spirits and cotton buds
@@Jason-gq8fo that's for washing. If you place the enamel or oil exactly where you want the lining (in other words, pin washing) that's unbelievablely efficient for blacklining/recess shading as compared to acrylics in my opinion.
@@RachitModi you're right, but I felt like if I covered the enamel idea, people assume oils behave in a similar way. I suppose I can be explicit next time.
Sweet early morning video to watch with breakfast!
Thanks for the tutorial Scott.
Did... Did Scott just painted an Infinity Model? 😍
Great presentation. Well done, quite skillful
Super happy with your recent content. :o Keep up the good works
That montage at 9:00 was amazing and I need more of that in my life. I felt the weight of all my problems lift away
Dang those colors look good.
This video is inspiring and relaxing.
Seeing you paint Infinity minis is nice. Thanks for this video Scott.💪🎨
Very informative as always!
After watching the latest episode of Tairped Oondah Plerstuc, recess shading was the one thing you guys talked about that I wasn't doing yet. I started immediately and even went back and lined my last few models and holy shit what a difference! I'm glad you followed up with a more detailed video on the subject. Thanks man!
This was really great and informative, one of your best videos ever IMO! Thanks a lot for making it!
YES SCOT. Been waiting for this vid 👌🏼
Great vid Scott! I love recess shading with GW contrast paints. I find it works great for me.
Thank you for making this video! The more techniques that I can learn the better!
Miniac you just broke the internet by painting Infinity models!
Thanks for mentioning broken toad. I had never heard of them and just ordered a set of brushes.
Geeat tutorial Scott, thank you!! These videos are extremely valuable. Best line, "Let's paint some cracks!"
Great video. I learn heaps. Thank you
Thanks, did not know I needed this.
Great video really answered the feedback I received. 👍
Awesome Video!!!!Awesome Creation!!!!
Great explanation on the difference of recess shading vs using washes to accomplish the same thing and how it can differ based on the paint its washing over.
I was on my way to painting a Black Templar army when I realised that, although I thought I would be happy to slam out my army and get the hundreds of dollars of plastic done and finished, I wasn't enjoying the actual painting process and I needed a challenge. I decided to scrap the all black paint and go all white with painted recesses. I'm enjoying the all the line work and I'm going to be a much better painter in the end.
Cool video. Thanks for the tips!
I find Vallejo Air Colors to also have good flow and opacity. I use black for recess shading and painting details such as iris and/or pupils. Little to no thinning is required as they are made for airbrush and come pre-thinned.
Great video.
Thanks Scott it's been a while since I had a good laugh and undead crabs did the trick
I feel the same when I recess shade a mini as when I ink a drawing. It's risky dingoes because mistakes are so visible, and I always feel like I'm cheating a little putting on contour lines because I have been dissuaded from using contour lines in certain kinds of art, being told it's a sign of you not being good enough at forming volumes with your chosen medium and then contour lines can be used as a crutch.
The thing is with almost all minis and a lot of other artwork, contour lines and recess shading is absolutely the style and something we WANT.
And you're right the feeling when we do it and it goes well is so good and satisfying, even for me as a newbie painter.
It just tightens everything right up, it's sæxæ.
Love your videos! After quite a bit of personal resistance, I recently used oil washes to do some targeted recess shading on some storm troopers. It was super easy and gave a super clean look. You should give it a try!
I love the zen bit!
I recently experimented with Tamiya Panel liner on my Tau. It worked spectacularly. just dab the line with the application brush, and it flows across the line. repeat until, all the panels are lined. any mistakes can be cleaned with enamel remover.
spot on dude. thank you!
This also explains why Mr two coats often says to stay away from recesses during certain parts
I think this is what a lot of my models need.
Thanks for the crispy vid.
Heck yeah, more Infinity love
Holy shit, Infinity! Wooooo!
Sweet! Scott is painting some infinity models!
MINIAC AND INFINITY IN THE SAME VIDEO
I cracked my screen clicking this.
This is the most zen video you have ever made.
hell yeah, infinity
I love recess shading, I use oil washes as it is easy to clean when batch painting and adds lots of depth to a model
Keep a damp brush handle and use it to quickly remove any mistakes. You have 5-10 seconds in which to do so. Just rub the damp brush on the surface, quickly rinse and repeat until it's done.
thank you
Good video Scott, but I've seen this done with oil paints and it is much more easier and beginner friendly. The best part with oil is the slow drying time so you can erase slip ups with miniral spirit.