I knew someone would let me know almost immediately. :D

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio We can't help ourselves, just any opportunity to blurt out random nerd knowledge

That’s a great book. Aaron Dembski-Bowden is an excellent author.

Not quite. You can get used to food minus salt after salt. What ends up happenign is the taste of food comes back. Takes about two weeks. Downside is the first time you have salt again, even small amounts, all you can taste is salt. See salt works by activating your taste buds on contact so you don't actually need to put much in. But most folk slowly increase their salt intake because the effect wears off. Hence why going salt free for two weeks is great. You get back to base and then you can start with small amounts of salt. But when you go back you can go salt free and food still tastes great. Of course if you suggest this to folk who eat salt they don't believe you and will refuse to even attempt it. You can get a sample though by simply not salting your food. Serve it and then before a mounthful drop a crystal on your tongue and bang you have salted food taste for a while. Yep you don't even need to put salt in your food or even cook with it to get it to work!

@@kudosbudo drop a crystal on your tongue?

It's all style choice in the end, right? I do like a really sharp highlight on armour so they're visible at gaming distance, but for the most part I don't mind cutting corners. Army painting is a different discipline to replicating the box art!

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Absolutely right. I am totally on board with short cuts, hobby cheating and happy little accidents. An art teacher years ago told me, "The first rule of art is that there are no rules." And he was right, as long as the result feels good. And anything as personal as miniature painting is definitely an art. 👍

It's something I don't think I'd ever have thought of myself, either! It wasn't until seeing someone use an old scrap of primed card for the same that it hit me how simple that is. 😅

I happened on it entirely by accident a few years ago when looking for something to wipe off my drybrush on when I'd run out of paper towel. There was a rough old bit of card I'd been priming on, and what do you know? :D

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Pure awesome gold! Thank you for the happy accident! Cheers 🍻

It's all just about putting paint in the right place, in the end!

Thank you! Cheers!

Because it Is.Theres nothing bad about that. Its good even to mention it, because when you are new to the hobby, this simple style is what you are searching for and a great way to achieve OK looking army fast, without burning out or getting overwhelmed. Noob way NO! But newbie way for sure.

Excellent choice on Sisters! :D

I am seriously looking forward to them. Some of the madness of Space Marines cranked up to 11? Oh yes!

Glad to hear that it helped to call back to an earlier problem, at least!

Glad to hear it! I do like the simple stuff when it works. :D

Thank you kindly!

It's almost like the real trick is in knowing which technique to use and when. ;D

I've only seen a few people make such statements about drybrushing and they rarely post any of their work, which explains a lot.

Good ol' Corax White! It's not a pure white, there's a very slight blue tint to it, but that helps the white settle over just about any colour beneath.

Gotta ring fence the weird little cliques that pop up around what you're 'allowed' to do with your hobby, right?

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio absolutely, if it works, it's not 'wrong'.

A layer of Stirland Mud, then a heavy drybrush of Golgfag Brown and a lighter drybrush of Tyrant Skull. Tufts and you're done!

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thank you :)!

Yup! Ranger uniforms were basically the same as regular infantry. All you'll need is the right decals, if you're adding those to your troops.

The short answer is that it's almost always a lot less effort to paint a miniature once it's assembled. It lets you hold a miniature by the base for a start, and trying to paint something in parts means finding a way to hold those pieces individually while you're working on them, coupled then with the need to glue them together afterwards. In all my years of painting I can still point to less than ten examples of something I needed to paint in sub-assemblies to get to every detail; for the most part, it's just not necessary.

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Awesome, thank you!

Vehicles benefit from exactly the same method, yup! As for Repentia, they're on the cards when I pick up a little more for my own Sisters force. :D

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thanks so much for replying. Can't wait to see the video when it comes!

A light grey or even white brush-on primer would be better than straight black. It'll make it much easier to paint the bright red over top!

The trouble is that it's a different thing for just about every miniature; collecting all the little tips and tricks as one video would almost be just itemizing the list of tools and goo-gaws on my desk. It's something I've thought about, but I'd need to find a way to pare it down to 'most useful' in some way.

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio fair point. I was just curious as I think most people tend to look for the bigger stuff like the brushes or paints but seem to overlook "easier" stuff to do first

The decal sheets come in the box with the miniatures. :D

Stirland Mud, then drybrush Golgfag Brown and Tyrant Skull. A couple of tufts and you're done. The texture paints are a brilliant time saver if you don't mind quick and simple.

This is all just straight off my phone!

Corvus Black is just a fraction darker, but the end result won't be massively different. You could also mix a touch of black into the Necromancer Cloak if you're feeling it needs to be brought down a little. Alternatively, there's also Vallejo German Grey (995) which is probably the closest match.

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio awesome, touch of matt black in there probably the way I'll go! Thanks man :)

I find (and it is in how you view it) that AP Necromancer Cloak has a bit of a brown tone to it

I think there's a common misconception that drybrushing is always going to look rough. Just a fraction more work and you can use it as the basis for some pretty effective highlighting, even if you want it to look 'smooth'. No point in fretting that you can't paint a straight line when you're just getting started, I figure!

Personally, I'd prefer to put Agrax over them so they're not quite so dark. I've seen Nuln Oil over red and it can work, but it's really a matter of preference over what's 'right.'

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Cheers! Always a pleasure to get Your opinion on. Keep up the good work!

Ordinarily, it's either a case you want to have slightly less paint on your brush, or change the angle you're approaching the edge at. You'll want so little paint on your brush that you need to go over the area four or five times to get a visible hard edge. Otherwise, if you're still getting chalky areas, go back once you're finished your drybrush with some of your base colour again to tidy up and it'll be sorted once you shade everything.

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio great, I find that when Im Dry brushing it looks like some tiny little flecks of colour dust are coming of and sticking to my model. Thanks very much for the help bud, I’ll try better angles a much less paint!

Given the amount of trim that the Chaos Marines have, I'd honestly not do a great deal to the black, myself. It's mostly there to make the gold stand out! You could try this to get a little variation in tone before you go nuts on the gold, though.

Stirland Mud, then drybrush Golgfag Brown and Tyrant Skull. A couple of tufts and it's done.

I've never had it be a problem. If your paint separates and you start getting spread of the metallic flakes, just give it a quick mix on your palette again and away you go. As for the flakes settling through the membrane and into the sponge beneath? Never had it happen in about two years of using this palette, so... I dunno!

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio this is another reason why I like your vids. You always take the time to respond to your viewers. On the original issue, don't we all know about paint separation. Whatever happens to my rakhart flesh every time I let it sit straight up baffles me. Lol Still, it's interesting to see these diverse points. Some people I saw online would legit exterminatus you for putting metallics on wet palette. I bet those people are the same as those dissing dry brushing.

Yes you are!