awesome! goal achieved!

hey, thats amazing! super glad we could inspire you! the chasseurs do look cool - and easy to get right, plus leaving room for creativity as well, basically the perfect paintjob.

coming soon (tm) to a youtube near you! ...we're hard at work, but these videos are hard work and take time sadly. I very much wish we could uphold a weekly schedule, but as is, we're glad to make a bi-monthly one... feel free to check the discord server if you want to stay up to date!

⁠@@4handsondeckdon’t stress you earned a sub and I will patiently wait as I’m sure everyone who loves battletech will. Keep up the great work!

I'm afraid that little pot in the video was all the black wash I had at hand... they didn't fit

You just need an empty tub, a _bunch_ of water, and some ink. You could probably crack open a few ballpoint pens for plenty.

@@Ishpeck huh... thanks for the suggestion! gotta try that some time. we've never dabbled in mixing our own paints so far....

There are lots'a youtubers who tell you how to make your own dip wash. It's pretty easy. Also: When y'all dumped the paint bottles in the dice tray, that was comedy gold.

Well, lets try to answer those questions as good as we can... 1) The easiest way is to not over-apply primer in the first place, of course. Very short tabs of the rattle can to only put on a thin layer until the whole miniature is covered. Of course, its always easy to answer 'how do I fix that mistake' with 'well, duh, don't make mistakes obviously!' - so to FIX it you kinda have to use drastic measures. Over here in germany, we usually use sterillium to remove any sort of paint from a miniature, including the primer. Its a type of rubbing alcohol, I'm not sure if ANY sort of rubbing alcohol works though - try it on a hard-to-see spot that you don't care about or one miniature that you think beyond saving. You need something thats JUST right - plenty of stuff will not only remove the paint, but also melt the plastic. Apply carefully and brush with a toothbrush until paint is removed, prime again (after cleaning and drying thoroughly, of course). 2) Keep the brushes in water while you're painting, so they never dry out to begin with - when you're done, wipe them off on a paper towel or piece of toilet paper. Always go with the direction of the bristles so they won't break or twist off. that said - this question is something that we've been struggling with ourselves, so our expertise might be limited here (Red even wanted to include a shout out to his fallen brushes, but could'nt find the right spot to fit it in the video)... that aside, there's obviously brush cleaner fluid, which works like the solutions above. except you're not worried about the plastic melting, you're worried about the brush breaking appart, since its bristles are usually glued in place. Again, experiment. As for tukayyid.... we're not sure if we'll end up doing something like that any time soon. For now, we kinda like our 'side theatre' things better, the huge, important main story battles can better be portrayed in books than on the tabletop - after all, wouldn't it be weird if the jade turkeys ended up winning their battle in our game? So we're still pondering how we'd do something like that.

I'm not really an expert myself. I can only say what works for me: - Start with the outer color. - Paint the outlines, beginning with the tip. - Fill it in with the same color - Wait for it to dry and then fill in the inner color. - Repeat the last step if you want to do more than one inner color Of course, if you wanna blend the colors, then you don't fill things in completely and paint them into each other while they're still wet... but I don't think that effort is necessary on flames that are supposed to look like a vehicle paintjob.

if its up to us, we get it done..... uhh... like, a few weeks ago. whoops. well, but its going to be done soon (tm)!

generally, you can just thin down dark paint to make a wash, yes. as long as its water based! you might need to apply a few layers of wash to get the same result, as 'normal' paint usually doesn't have the same amount of actual paint compared to other components, so diluting it will make it 'weaker' - which you want to an extend, yes, but it might be too much. only one way to find out - grab a brush and try!