How to Paint – Video

Elevator Pitch

Follow along with Matt as he paints a mini and learn some of the skills for mini painting.

This Craft Makes: 

This video will walk through painting a specific mini we have. Will have available the link to the 3d print files and list of supplies or the ability to buy a kit to paint with all the tools

Supplies: 

You will need:

  • Mini to paint
  • Paints – Colors we use: Purple, Red, Green, Yellow, Brown, White, Gold, Silver, Orange, Black, Blue. We use acrylics, but can use Reaper/Vallejo/Citadel if you want more traditional mini paints.
  • Brushes: We include 0, 00, 000
  • Water cup
  • Palette for mixing
  • Paper towels
  • Water
  • Small amount of dishsoap
  • holder cup

You may also want:

  • Wash – If not making your own, there are commercial washes available.
  • Splash mat
  • Clearcoat sealer

Steps to Make It – Script

  1. Welcome
  2. Kit option and go over materials.
  3. Painting
    1. Mount on holder cup
    2. Base layers
      1. Order matters – start deep and work outwar
      2. Paint order:
        1. Kilt/shoulders – Yellow
        2. Shirt – Purple
        3. Cloak – Red
        4. Skin – Green
        5. Horns – 1st Yellow, 2nd White
        6. Hair – Orange
        7. Weapon – Brown/Silver
        8. Accents – Silver/Gold/Blue
        9. Ground – Brown/Green/Gray
      3. 2 Layers with this paint, some may just need one.
    3. Wash – What is a wash and how to make/use
      1. Making – Mix a drop of dishsoap into a cup of water. Take 1-2 tsp of that water and mix in some drop of the black or brown paint into it. Should be very thin, but look opaque.
      2. Using a large brush, with the base coats are dry, brush the wash over the entire mini. It may look really dark, but let it settle and dry.
      3. May take 10-20 minutes or longer to dry, but let it get fully dry before continuing.
    4. Dry Brushing – What is dry brushing?
      1. Going to make highlights, lighter/brighter colors are most easily seen.
      2. Use mostly white and silver
      3. Dip the brush in paint, then wipe on the paper towels/paper until it stops leaving paint when you do
      4. Gently brush it over the area of the mini you want to highlight in that color. Should get a few streaks/highlights with the white.
      5. Other possibilities – Add highlight color to hair/skin. 
    5. Other highlights
      1. To add some brighter bits to the cloak/shirt/etc, can brush small amounts of the base color over the higher parts of them to add color highlights
    6. Touchups
      1. If you find some spots that you missed, touch up again.
    7. Sealer
      1. If you are going to be playing with it, seal it.
      2. Matte vs Gloss

Notes for Setup/Teardown

Brush types/sizes

Other paint discussion