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First video I consciously watch (I saw your highlight one before but quite randomly). I instinctly went to the same colors, except for the first layer : I directly use thunderhawk blue, because I don't have the patience to do a triple highlight on every single mini xD I'll remember for heroes tho. I also tried working with a first coat of basilicanum grey of GW contrasts, and it's interesting but I still have progress to make on that.
You may be the clearest, simplest, best teacher I have met. Now... I come from canvas painting, wood painting, bla bla bla, etc. Your video on thinking your paints made things clear. I keep forgetting precise action. Your video is a continuous help. Please keep making videos. You have so much to give.
Love this wee guide, the shot at the beginning of the video of the full model with this style of highlights was super crisp! Going to lovingly borrow that for my templar's combat patrol me thinks... 😁
Thank you. That mini is actually from a few years ago now, but I’ve not done any Templars more recently, but I still really like that mini. So, I figured why not show it as an example of the recipe in use. Does make me want to paint up some Templars now though 🤣 Let me know how you get on 👍
Nicely done James. These videos are great. As I watch and listen to it, I am removing seam lines from my first mini ( a Space Marine ) that Jon sent me. I will paint it in an dark grey / bronze theme, which will eventually be part of a small diorama for my book case.☺ Thanks for the useful information.
Yeah, the blue highlight is my fave highlight colour for black too. Probably why I decided to start with this recipe. I’ll do a “boring” standard grey highlight recipe too, just to give people the options
Hi Brushstroke, greetings from Germany. What metallic paints could you recommand instead of "Darkstar" paints?, because they are not available in my area and 80£ for free shipping are way to much to order them. Kind regards Mark L.
I decided to try this style on my black templars, as it actually looks really clean. It's also incredibly difficult to do a more realistic black, so I think it's gotta be this way for me. I would never be able to do volumetric black properly without even having practiced with other colours first. This is something I'm currently learning to do, with glazing to blend the layers together.
Yet another amazing video mate! It is incredible how soothing and easy going you make it feel. I'm always excited when I see a notification from you with a new video. Keep it up mate!! 😁
Since I'm part-way through kinda messing up the paint job on a kill-team of Iron Hands, this and your Paint Thinning video were very useful to me. I'm going to go back to basics and try out these techniques on a fresh-from-the-box model, I think, and if I can get it to work well then maybe this kill-team gets demoted to casualty models and I'll start again :D Always learning.
Not sure if anyone will see this question. The flat black looks like it shows highlights up quite well as you are working on the model. I wonder if once you are done the right type of varnish might make it look more vibrant?
Make a necrons guide too please, that'd be really helpful, I bet there is a lot of people who'd appreciate it except for me. Anyway, great videos, love your content, keep it up👍
Thanks man I’m actually planning on using some Necron warriors as minis to demonstrate metal recipes on. So, keep an eye out for some gunmetal, silver, gold etc Necrons coming your way soon 👍
Thanks! It was a great tutorial as usual. When are you dropping that tufts vid is what I want to know 🤔 😁 Oh and yes, please keep at it. Your content is very useful. I think you'd make a great master class.
Unless you deliberatley left them unpainted, on the round parts of the backpack (the vents) I would glaze Thunderhawk Blue in a small circle to form a specular highlight and then do an even smaller glaze of Fenrisian Grey within that.
Blue as a highlight color for black always looks good, but it isn't the only choice. You can similarly highlight black with teal, or brown, or purple. Or yellow, or magenta or....
Another great recipe video! Using Flat Black from Scale 75 gives a nice matte finish, and seems to be the paint you tend to use in other videos. Would you use a different base paint if you were going for a glossier finish?
Very reasonable question. The answer is simply because I batch prime a load of things at once and often way before I’ve decided how I’m going to paint the thing. By doing them all with a zenithal prime it means I have all options available to me when I come to decide how I want to paint it. In this case, I opted for a solid base coat and to not use the zenithal
Hi Brushstroke, I have a request. I want to paint Gray Knights and Custodes but I don't like covering my mini with 90% metallic paints. Non Metallic Metallic is way to much work. I am thinking maybe use a matte gray color for Gray Knights and brownish/yellowish color for Custodes? How would you do this if restricted to matte color for the main color?
Very reasonable question. The answer is simply because I batch prime a load of things at once and often way before I’ve decided how I’m going to paint the thing. By doing them all with a zenithal prime it means I have all options available to me when I come to decide how I want to paint it. In this case, I opted for a solid base coat and to not use the zenithal
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides ok so assuming i'm going for black as my main colour, should I just prime them black to begin with? If so would I need to change any of the steps you outlined here?
@@101Phase The black primer and the black you use to tidy up the mistakes must be the same paint. You will find that if you use different blacks they will be noticeably different.
Very reasonable question. The answer is simply because I batch prime a load of things at once and often way before I’ve decided how I’m going to paint the thing. By doing them all with a zenithal prime it means I have all options available to me when I come to decide how I want to paint it. In this case, I opted for a solid base coat and to not use the zenithal
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides Thank you for your reply. I just wanted a clarification on this subject because I didn't really understand the advantage or the technique of a zenithal in this case.
@@jj-icejoe6642 no problem. You do right to clarify, as it is a bit confusing. I can confirm, there’s no benefit to the end result from priming with a zenithal. Other than, it does help see the details easier. Which has helped me a few times see things I didn’t see when it wasn’t promed
You could certainly use these colours for drybrushing too. The end result may end up with more blue than you intended. However, if you cleaned up any over-brushing with the flat black, I’m sure you could still get a very good result
@@Elfollaburras40000 Oh I see now, sorry OK, zenithal priming is when you apply a lighter highlight over a darker colour from an angle above to form light and shadow areas on your model. In this case I have primed the whole black and then I have sprayed a light grey primer from a 45degree angle above to create the effect of light hitting the model. So it's grey from above and black on the bottom and in the recesses. I do this as my standard priming method because it gives me options on how I paint my minis. In this case though, the zenithal is completely unnecessary as I just paint it all over in a solid colour. I talk more about zenithal priming and how it can be used in my washes video Please give this a watch and in particular the part on zenithal at 20:47 czcams.com/video/mADYQQOH9a8/video.html Hope that helps
With the blue and black chosen it looks more like the Marine is blinged out with neon lights or you are looking at him with HUD goo all over him or under night vsion... Like it does not look natrual how black shines(Especlly when matte) at all. I mean it could be the materal under the black or it's cut sides which then would make sense but as shine it really doesn't. Then again you don't say you were using it for shine but as a high light and it does look cool though.
Edge highlighting is total madness. It's not realistic and it takes way too much time. Most black armored models I've seen using this method look like they are rimmed in neon lights. Buy an airbrush, learn how to zenithal prime. And learn how to properly make or use glazes.
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First video I consciously watch (I saw your highlight one before but quite randomly).
I instinctly went to the same colors, except for the first layer : I directly use thunderhawk blue, because I don't have the patience to do a triple highlight on every single mini xD I'll remember for heroes tho.
I also tried working with a first coat of basilicanum grey of GW contrasts, and it's interesting but I still have progress to make on that.
You may be the clearest, simplest, best teacher I have met. Now... I come from canvas painting, wood painting, bla bla bla, etc. Your video on thinking your paints made things clear. I keep forgetting precise action. Your video is a continuous help. Please keep making videos. You have so much to give.
Really nice and crisp 😊 great video
Love this wee guide, the shot at the beginning of the video of the full model with this style of highlights was super crisp! Going to lovingly borrow that for my templar's combat patrol me thinks... 😁
Thank you.
That mini is actually from a few years ago now, but I’ve not done any Templars more recently, but I still really like that mini. So, I figured why not show it as an example of the recipe in use.
Does make me want to paint up some Templars now though 🤣
Let me know how you get on 👍
Nicely done James. These videos are great. As I watch and listen to it, I am removing seam lines from my first mini ( a Space Marine ) that Jon sent me. I will paint it in an dark grey / bronze theme, which will eventually be part of a small diorama for my book case.☺ Thanks for the useful information.
Awesome!
Please send pics of how you get on
I’d love to see it 👍
Really enjoy the recipe videos. Motivational yet relaxing at the same time! Keep up the amazing work!
was planning on doing some Black Templars next this is perfect timing
Always been partial to blue / bluegrey myself, looks nicer than neutral imo (and nicer than the green that they currently use on Templars too)
Yeah, the blue highlight is my fave highlight colour for black too.
Probably why I decided to start with this recipe.
I’ll do a “boring” standard grey highlight recipe too, just to give people the options
Silver highlight is an other option?
@@natitolims7337 yes, silver works well too.
As well as purple, red or even green
Hi Brushstroke, greetings from Germany.
What metallic paints could you recommand instead of "Darkstar" paints?, because they are not available in my area and 80£ for free shipping are way to much to order them.
Kind regards
Mark L.
I decided to try this style on my black templars, as it actually looks really clean. It's also incredibly difficult to do a more realistic black, so I think it's gotta be this way for me. I would never be able to do volumetric black properly without even having practiced with other colours first. This is something I'm currently learning to do, with glazing to blend the layers together.
Yet another amazing video mate! It is incredible how soothing and easy going you make it feel. I'm always excited when I see a notification from you with a new video. Keep it up mate!! 😁
On to my 3rd army with Drukhari. Needed some guidance and wanted to say thanks! Worked out perfectly for what I wanted done.
Nice one
Really glad the recipe worked out well for you 👍
This is well-timed! I’m about to do exactly this blue-on-black for a unit of Namarti Reavers. Thanks!
Perfect timing. I have a dozen Wolfspear backpacks to paint black.
This was really helpful! I have learned a lot from your channel. Thanks for sharing your skills.
Very nice video. I learned a few things that will help me. Thanks :)
Thanks for watching, great to hear you found it useful
Since I'm part-way through kinda messing up the paint job on a kill-team of Iron Hands, this and your Paint Thinning video were very useful to me. I'm going to go back to basics and try out these techniques on a fresh-from-the-box model, I think, and if I can get it to work well then maybe this kill-team gets demoted to casualty models and I'll start again :D Always learning.
Beautiful design. i need to work on my edge highlighting. Dry brushing just isnt cutting it for me any more.
And the black+blue combo is amazing
I’ll try this on some Raven Guard!
It’ll work great for Raven Guard for sure 👍
Please please please Space Wolves style next!
New 40k blue space wolves or 30k grey space wolves?
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides 40k Space Wolves please as your 30k guide is already perfect!
I’d love to see this in red!
I’ll be doing a red recipe soon 👍
another great painting guide! this will be very helpful
Not sure if anyone will see this question. The flat black looks like it shows highlights up quite well as you are working on the model. I wonder if once you are done the right type of varnish might make it look more vibrant?
Would really nice to see your take on doing doing red. I'm a bit of a Order of the Bloody Rose fan so, of course, a bit of a fan of red.
Make a necrons guide too please, that'd be really helpful, I bet there is a lot of people who'd appreciate it except for me. Anyway, great videos, love your content, keep it up👍
Thanks man
I’m actually planning on using some Necron warriors as minis to demonstrate metal recipes on.
So, keep an eye out for some gunmetal, silver, gold etc Necrons coming your way soon 👍
Great video mate! Black is a nightmare colour to work with so this is really helpful :)
太漂亮了~~👍👍👍👍
Nice, was expecting Jacko, but this is better.
perfect video. Easiest subscribe i've ever done. cheers
👍. I will be using this method for sure.
Thanks! It was a great tutorial as usual.
When are you dropping that tufts vid is what I want to know 🤔 😁
Oh and yes, please keep at it. Your content is very useful. I think you'd make a great master class.
Smooth, 🍊smooth 😏
Unless you deliberatley left them unpainted, on the round parts of the backpack (the vents) I would glaze Thunderhawk Blue in a small circle to form a specular highlight and then do an even smaller glaze of Fenrisian Grey within that.
excellent work! really useful
I have only got to priming so far, but my plan is corvus black base and vallejo steel grey edge highlights
Awesome! Will be trying this 😄
This is perfect for Raven guard.
Absolutely
This makes for bad ass looking Raven Guard for sure
You are underrated
Thank you 🙏
Hi Brushstroke,
Could you, maybe make Toutorials, for other Chaos Space Marine Chapters, like Alpha Legion or maybe Death Guard?
Kind regards MarkL.
Death Guard is a great shout.
I’ve never painted one before and they’re really cool.
I think I even have a pack of plague marines somewhere too👍
Yes, I DO find this useful, than you very much! This is perfect for a xenomorph style scheme I'm planning for my nids army.
Perfect!
So glad it’s useful for you 👍
Blue as a highlight color for black always looks good, but it isn't the only choice.
You can similarly highlight black with teal, or brown, or purple. Or yellow, or magenta or....
I completely agree.
And I’ll be posting more recipes, as black is such a fun colour to do
Can your next video be about faces please! Love your channel
It’s not next in the schedule but I do have a faces video planned for sure
Another great recipe video!
Using Flat Black from Scale 75 gives a nice matte finish, and seems to be the paint you tend to use in other videos. Would you use a different base paint if you were going for a glossier finish?
I rly love your tutorials put please can you change the background sometime? Anyway thanks for your work and your tutorials, i found them very usefull
Hiya! nice video again!
Any chance to get a guide on warpaints (applied to the skin of models)?
Why did you zenthila highlight this? There is nothing visible of the highlighting after the opaque base coat?
Very reasonable question.
The answer is simply because I batch prime a load of things at once and often way before I’ve decided how I’m going to paint the thing.
By doing them all with a zenithal prime it means I have all options available to me when I come to decide how I want to paint it.
In this case, I opted for a solid base coat and to not use the zenithal
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides makes sense
Very nice
Which paint was used for those awesome metalics?
thanks. i've got some votann weapons to work on using this
Hi Brushstroke, I have a request. I want to paint Gray Knights and Custodes but I don't like covering my mini with 90% metallic paints. Non Metallic Metallic is way to much work. I am thinking maybe use a matte gray color for Gray Knights and brownish/yellowish color for Custodes? How would you do this if restricted to matte color for the main color?
Any idead if i wanna do red highlight instead?
May I ask why you start off with a grey/whiteish primer instead of just using black primer?
Very reasonable question.
The answer is simply because I batch prime a load of things at once and often way before I’ve decided how I’m going to paint the thing.
By doing them all with a zenithal prime it means I have all options available to me when I come to decide how I want to paint it.
In this case, I opted for a solid base coat and to not use the zenithal
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides ok so assuming i'm going for black as my main colour, should I just prime them black to begin with? If so would I need to change any of the steps you outlined here?
@@101Phase The black primer and the black you use to tidy up the mistakes must be the same paint. You will find that if you use different blacks they will be noticeably different.
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Why a zenithal to paint all in mat black ?
Very reasonable question.
The answer is simply because I batch prime a load of things at once and often way before I’ve decided how I’m going to paint the thing.
By doing them all with a zenithal prime it means I have all options available to me when I come to decide how I want to paint it.
In this case, I opted for a solid base coat and to not use the zenithal
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides Thank you for your reply. I just wanted a clarification on this subject because I didn't really understand the advantage or the technique of a zenithal in this case.
@@jj-icejoe6642 no problem. You do right to clarify, as it is a bit confusing.
I can confirm, there’s no benefit to the end result from priming with a zenithal.
Other than, it does help see the details easier. Which has helped me a few times see things I didn’t see when it wasn’t promed
Could this colour scheme been shown with a dry brush technique very well?
You could certainly use these colours for drybrushing too.
The end result may end up with more blue than you intended.
However, if you cleaned up any over-brushing with the flat black, I’m sure you could still get a very good result
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¿What is te zenithal?
sorry, I dont follow. Can you ask the question another way or perhaps tell the me the point in the video you are referring to?
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides1:36 is this part
@@Elfollaburras40000 Oh I see now, sorry
OK, zenithal priming is when you apply a lighter highlight over a darker colour from an angle above to form light and shadow areas on your model.
In this case I have primed the whole black and then I have sprayed a light grey primer from a 45degree angle above to create the effect of light hitting the model.
So it's grey from above and black on the bottom and in the recesses. I do this as my standard priming method because it gives me options on how I paint my minis.
In this case though, the zenithal is completely unnecessary as I just paint it all over in a solid colour.
I talk more about zenithal priming and how it can be used in my washes video
Please give this a watch and in particular the part on zenithal at 20:47
czcams.com/video/mADYQQOH9a8/video.html
Hope that helps
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides thanks for the information
With the blue and black chosen it looks more like the Marine is blinged out with neon lights or you are looking at him with HUD goo all over him or under night vsion... Like it does not look natrual how black shines(Especlly when matte) at all. I mean it could be the materal under the black or it's cut sides which then would make sense but as shine it really doesn't. Then again you don't say you were using it for shine but as a high light and it does look cool though.
Yeah, it’s a very stylised recipe, in no way intended to a real light source effect.
It mimics the Black Templar paint scheme GW use
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides Why call it and paint it as a highlight and not an accent?
@@GreenBlueWalkthroughprobably because the technique used is edge highlighting.
Edge highlighting is total madness. It's not realistic and it takes way too much time. Most black armored models I've seen using this method look like they are rimmed in neon lights. Buy an airbrush, learn how to zenithal prime. And learn how to properly make or use glazes.
what we need now its Glaziing4dummies tutorial