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There's an old John Blanche artwork that depicts some Imperial looking dudes in front of the Statue of Liberty. It was inside a giant cathedral. Love your execution!

resin needs to be poured in small lifts as it's exothermic when drying.

I really like how your marine has turned out, it has a great look. And while the problems you had with the resin must have been very frustrating it is useful to viewers like me to see even the setbacks when great pieces like this are created. Some videos give the impression that masterpieces just flow smoothly into existence and that's nothing like the experience of many average painters. Seeing that even good painters experience setbacks and importantly how they recover from them is just as important as any discussions of techniques.

Pretty sure some resins react badly with foam, even sealed with mod podge. A layer of UV resin cured over the base is often a good precaution to prevent this. Also for deeper pours you need a 48 or 72 hour setting resin to avoid too much heat.

Holy moly, what a throwback, love it. Through adversity we grow, and it looks to me like while your diorama may not have been what you originally envisioned, I think its brilliant and allows for a minimalistic story rather than being too busy.

Some where in the back of my head I seem to recall in the fluff that the Earth (Holy Terra) was a highly irradiated desert world. Nice diorama none the less.

That collection of Pratchett Books. Instant love!

I love using oils, dotting different hues and then blending with a dry brush I do a lot, and stippling larger panels gives beautiful effects and textured but still smooth transitions, but the dry brush motion I'd never thought to try. Now it's so obvious, a smooth creamy paint that doesn't dry quickly is the ideal paint to build up in patient layers, that's a lot of intermediate drying time but when painting large units or a whole force you just put each to the back of the queue and pick up the next. Shaping the volumes with seamless smooth blends is child's play, every act can have a do-over anyway, every sculpted edge is automatically highlighted according to the direction of your brushstrokes. For painting liveried space marines this is genius and a definitive step forward. Games workshop will need to find out how to get their new range of pre-thinned oil paints - "Contrast Cream" into ridiculously dumb little pots though. I think it may finally be balls (mixing balls...)

So in the end you made a charcharadon! Also this has a big fallout feeling!

I have a recipie for my 30k blood angels that im absolutely in love with. I airbrush my minis white with a primer, then I add contrast blood angels red, then I wash the details and recess with carronirg crimson, and then I dry brush with asgorath red dry. Finally, I add nuln oil to the lowest parts of the model, then sponge on some black and silver battle damage.

Depending on the resin, the reaction of polymerization can generate a lot of heat, which is why many creators who don't want to chance it just pour small layers. Other resins either react because of the UV light or have lower reaction rates (that's to say longer curing times) and don't generate that much heat all at once

Love the experiments with oils. Looking forward to seeing more more!

One of the best small dioramas I’ve seen. If you made more Warhammer dioramas that would be awesome

I love small dioramas like this, they offer so much to the viewer! Beautiful paintwork on the Marine as well.

Although accurate. Horus doing 'a bad thing' is very, very.. very much an understatement. Also youre diorama is skills are breathtakingly good.

I love the final result. Theres a wonderful nostalgic feel to it that captures the 40k art and image I grew up with. Just the right mix of oldhammer and middle hammer visuals. Theres a brush I've always seen referred to as a blender brush that's somewhat common in traditional oil painting. The idea isn't too dissimilar. Use the clean blender to soften edges and transitions in an oil painting. It's great for making particularly fluffy clouds.

I absolutely love your Christopher Walken style of talking and you are a world class mini painter sir! Saving this one!

That's some lovely corrosion

Beautiful! And always a pleasure just listening to you talk

Gotta love Dryhammer Dirty Gray!

Just when I thought I couldn't enjoy this channel more, I spy a shelf full of Terry Pratchett.

Wow, the atmosphere of this diorama is perfect for a grimdark setting. Bravo!

Happy you posted a new video of an awesome marine and diorama.

Your stuff is consistently great! Fantastic even! The realism to your paints and dioramas is beautiful, and your videos themselves are a work of art! This deserves more than 26,000 views. Keep up the good work!

Really cool. And i loved your weathering

My freind you alway come through with a film. You dont make videos on painting, you make short movies that inspire creativity. Thank you brother for all you do for us. Your films kick my day up to 11!

Wow, another brilliant video. What a great scene too. I remember it well, from my childhood when I watched Planet of the Apes for the first time. Has always been one of my fondest movie WTF? moments. And you'll be happy to know that I lingered in front of the oil paints section at my local hobby store today.....

Fantastic job Alex, never considered using oils for minis outside of pin washes on armor models etc. That's a cracking little diorama, looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.

Hey you missed a trick with the arctic theming, New York is a city where it snows in the winter so you could have put snow around the ruins and it wouldn't have been out of place.

Echoing what has been said before, most (all?) Resins have pour thicknesses, some in mm's thick. From resin tables to small displays they are often poured in layers after each cures. Great of you to recover and keep going!

Absolutely beautiful. Honestly, I think the failure on the first resin poor was a happy accident, because I really think that this Marine looks great in this setting. I think the subtle blue-green shadows of the armor contrast really nicely with the patina on the statue's remains.

Turned out fantastic yet again Alex.

All looks amazing, fun fact in warhammer the oceans of earth are all gone due to various things done by humans

I too have been using oils a lot and I have to say; my favorite paint to use thus far. It leaves an sublime colour on minis

The only thing I would point out is that in multiple places in the lore, especially in the first few Horus Heresy books, they mention that all of the oceans on Terra (Earth) had boiled away millennia before. Otherwise this is fantastic, great job.

Re sand: I've had some luck adding a little Instar Spectrum gold shift to beige tones, so it catches the light a little.

Great looking marine. Feet really look like they are splashing in that water.

The space marine looks awesome 👍👍

If you want to try a sand texture, I can recommend AK Interactive Light Sand. Will have to try out painting a model with oils only, it looks great!

On sharks being around in another 30,000 years, they've already been on earth longer than trees so it was a great choice!

Great end result! Really nice icy blue armor! What a shame initial pour failed. Would've been an amazing diorama!

As with every video of yours, I absolutely love this! I love the humour and I love the overall outcome. Definitely something I want to try in the future

Funny you mentioned the marines being like sharks, if you had made the lenses shiny black that would be a perfect Carcharodons Astra (space sharks) chapter scheme, red lines and all

What an interesting technique! Going to have to go to the crafts store, pick up some oils & give it a shot.

Alex, I always get so excited when I see a new video from you. This was absolutely fantastic. Shame the frozen underwater scene didn't work but I loved the gloss modpodge waves!

That was an interesting technique.

This was another great production, keep it up

gadzukes, I'm the second individual to remark upon this.

Great video Alex. Enjoyed as always.

Great result. Excellent colour scheme and effects on the Marine. Another top job 👍

It was cool to see that when you add the rust and other weathering to the marine, then the blues and greens reallypopped and looked great.

Amazing process and even more amazing end result. Makes me want to get into making dioramas myself. On that note, where could I look for small wood tiles like the one used in this video?

The base looks less like the ending of "Planet of the Apes" and more like the poster for "The Day After Tomorrow".

Fantastic use of oil paints! They can do so much more than just washing

You might enjoy James Wappel's oil painting technique, it is also reminiscent of dry brushing but all the mixing is usually done on the mini.

absolutely splendid

I hate that you had resin problems - if not for 'having ' to produce the base for the video I would have been sorely tempted to shelve this for another day (like when the sun goes cold!!) - enjoyed the 'new' oil painted marine! MORE!

Loved it just like the previous diorama!

That paint job on the marine is freaking awesome; like something from an Enki Bilal comic strip.

God damn you Alex! You always start with something weird, I always think that this time it’s not my type of project… and then I love it at the end. Bloody hell.

This diorama looked amazing. Videos like this make me want to try my hand at making a diorama as well :)

Oooh, the shark disappeared, too bad for him! Anyway, that's a nice small diorama, and very remins me of the end of the Planet of the Apes

Brilliant as always!

Youre one of my favorite painters!

masterpiece. I'm impressed.

ELF eyeshadow brushes make a great soft dry brush. Wonderful weathering and diorama. RIP zombie shark.

Evocative! Bravo Sir. While I was a little sad that we didn't get to see him trudging across the frozen depths, the second go looks great ⚡⚡⚡

Amazing model, the first base is so cool though, I would of had to of found a way to use it.

My personal opinion is that if the human race manages to survive for thirty thousand years, they may as well be aliens from our perspective today. That being said, if you are going to play at war and the strategies of war with miniatures on a tabletop, I say make it as extremely outlandish and far out as possible and whoever dreamt up the concept of WH40k I think had a superb idea!

Bravo! I love your honesty in story telling, such a refreshing thing these days.

Beautiful! I like this a lot.

Geeez this is cool!!! Well done as always.

I’m at 8:30 and the marine really has old school Carcharadon (Space Shark) vibes!

Great video. The marine and diorama turned out awesome. The technique you were using to paint is VERY similar to how my wife - a canvas oil painter - paints. Application with a "normal" brush, then blending with a large soft brush. She uses a brush type called a Round Mop. Very soft and great for blending. If you find the oils are drying out too quickly, you can thin with an oil medium (linseed oil, etc) instead of using mineral spirits.

This was so relaxing, thank you! Stunning Diorama/Paint job.

yeah i'm sorry about the resin fail. Resin is Exothermic and get exponentialy hot the more dense it is, also adding anything waterbased is a risky buissness.

Excellent work (play) as always Alex. Carry on 😉💕

I've just been experimenting with oil dry brushing too. This video gives me more confidence to go further. Thanks Alex.

i really like listening to the 30k audiobooks when i paint. many of them are really really good

Shame about the flash cure! But the final diorama is super nice. Sand looks great, got some really nice tips from that! :D

Enjoyed the video. Drybrushing oil sounds like a very interesting technique. Nice recovery of the diorama.

This is great!

this is awesome

Like making good fried potatoes, painting sand is deceptively tricky, but i thought you pulled it off beautifully. Cheers

so cool!

Nice work! Loved the final diorama. Drybrushing oil paints. Interesting idea. And it's hard to argue with the end result. That said, don't know if it's something for me. But it's stored in the box of tricks, so we'll see. (-:

One thing I've noticed people who use resin a lot do is coating all the surfaces with resin of where they are going to pour before hand. I think this helps stop the resin from causing bubbles on the surface. But what happened with yours is far more extreme than anything I've seen before, so a chemical reaction seems more probable.

Great video! As for the resin, you will need a product that's suitable for the pour depth you are trying to achieve. Most craft resin is made for only a depth of about 6 mm (1/4"). Beyond that it gets too hot. The thicker pour stuff takes a lot longer to cure. If you can't get the deep pour variety you may be able to put it in the freezer while curing, to combat the heat. It's been done successfully, but you should test it before you try that technique on something important.

Turned out great! Maybe even better than with the pour?

Damn, you're good, dude! Really good!

awesome video... again. and stunning diorama. thank you.

Even after the resin accident this turned out great :) nice job Alex! Might we see a cyberpunk/synthwave space marine diorama at some point?

A technique I like for doing this type of oil work is to start with a mixture of my darkest tone with a bit of thinner. I then pull from that pool as I add more of my highlight colour. By doing it this way as my colours get brighter they also have less thinner in them. Oil paint with less thinner sticks better to oils paint with more thinner (see thick over thin, fat over lean rules).

Great work and colour choices, dry oil brushing definitely is an interesting idea to consider.

so cool seeing the oil paint stuff :) feels like a renaissance for mini painting

very cool!

30,000 years into the future and nothing remains of ancient cultures on earth and yet all the symbolism remains. ... because Space Jesus has been kicking around since 5000 BCE and is a giant nerd for the Roman Empire.

Judging by the scale of the statue in relation to the space marine I'm guessing that he's in post-apocalyptic France

Hi Alex, strange work yours , some inspired from planet of the apes, but from the good old '70s. Looking at you working with the oil paints, makes me think that I still prefer acrylics