Night shift: think of this as a beginner figuring things out Me who's been painting figures for 2 years and not able to get half as good results: 😐

Your "Low standards" blows away any figs I've done. Yours are beautiful. And yes, would be very interested in a full video dedicated to Figure painting.

The wash is not cavalry red, it’s the uncle’s heartblood. Because he gave these figures so much love.

Well done, they look fantastic!

The first figure took 4 days?! Whenever I watch your videos I keep having to remind myself it's not all in one sitting!

The Abraham Lincoln quote was his most famous words

Im a bit disappointed that you didn't put weld beads and cast iron texture on this figures pants.

I'm truly impressed with your figure painting especially since you have only painted four figures so far. Well done.

You are a natural artist and yes, I would love to see you do a dedicated to paint figures as you seem to be a natural at it.

Literally sitting here at work waiting for the video to drop - patience rewarded!

And I thought fridays couldn't get better

So many great ideas,my figures are more like a department store manequins. I love Friday now because of these videos,and your great tips and sense of humor!

Beautiful, man! Your videos are invaluable, and I appreciate you keeping them coming.

I love how he talks about how subpar he is while casually painting with a level of skill I will never achieve.

I always eat lunch a little faster on Friday! I finished the flesh tones on three of my figures, but I can’t wait to try some of these tricks on their uniforms, amazing job! I hope you feel better soon!

Now I am really proud to have been one of persons who pushes you to do figures. They looks very good.

You are one of the world's most talented artists! Yes, please do more figure videos, if my figures looked that good I would extremely proud and pleased.

Amazing...figuratively speaking! 😄 You inspire me to add more figures because they really bring a model to life.

They look great Martin. I'd love to see more on figures. (They're a huge weak point for me) Keep up the amazing work!

Well Mr, your work is amazing and I mean it. Even these figures are awesome. I enjoy your videos, your chipping methods, always inspiring me and I already learn a lot from 'em. I just started scale modeling so these vids are really something I can use to improve myself and last but not least they are funny and entertaining somehow I feel relaxed while I watching them 😊. So I just wanna thank, and please keep up the good work! 👊

Mr. NightShift, THE BOOTS!!! they came out outstanding. They stand out. Awesome job overall. Kudos to you...

I'm glad you've finally committed to figures they are the only thing missing from your builds and they look so good!

Amazing, as always! For the “little mistakes” you talk of, if you need to point those out to the viewers for them to see the mistakes, then you shouldn't worry to much about it. Even professional artist make little mistakes all the time, but they just acknowledge that most people will never see them and the rare ones that do probably won't be mad about it. It's part of the art. It's always a good time watching you build and paint models!

The Mr PRIMER surfacer 1000 is the primer made for resin/metal. It's one of the most powerful primers on the market. Not to be confused with the regular Mr surfacer. It only comes in 1000.

I feel like Uncle Nightshift could make anything look easy.

Very cool! This is a tutorial! The tips on painting the face is very helpful!

i think ALL of them look fantastic! PLEASE keep the vids coming... i'm learning a great deal

Yes yes yes!! A live stream video of painting a figure

Love all your tutorials, with each one I learn so much more and gain many ideas. You're very personable and bring fun into the hobby. You're very humble and not afraid to criticize yourself in a comical way which , in my opinion, entices many to look forward to your future videos. At least I sure do.

WOW !!! Yep, you nailed it on these figures... You actually have given me confidence enough to attempt this myself... Thank you...

Great show, thank you for walking us through your learning experience, I learned a great deal.

Amazing work! Most of people don't put so much attention to painting figures and you show that just spending more time allows to get very neat results even on the first figure! This just require selecting a good technique and patience.

I had to subscribe because you are really easy to listen to, are hugely talented and have a healthy streak of humour in your videos. I reckon if I can't learn by watching you paint in a smaller scale than I could ever dream of attempting, I never will lol!

I used to paint figures with Tamiya XF paints, but after Night shifts jagdtiger commander done in all vallejo, i need to rebuy all my tamiya colours in vallejo to improve my figures

The tank looks awesome! The figures look awesome! Can't wait until next week to see the diorama! It's going to be awesome! :)

The final result for these figures is brilliant, and are far from sub-par as you suggest! Your skills are amazing, no matter the subject you choose. I am not very successful with figure painting, but you have inspired me to persevere, and I will try some of the methods you share here. Yes! to a full tutorial on figure painting please Uncle. I am sure I am not the only one who would benefit from your techniques. Greetings from Australia!

Cracking video this week.. I really need to have a go at figures again! My last one looked terrible and put me off trying! Nothing ventured nothing gained so I think I'll try follow your way next - cheers

I would happily tune in for a live session. Very nice work.

Great video! I love how much life is added to a vehicle model with even just a single figure. Will try some of this on my next tank commander. One option for uniform patches and ranks are decals from companies like Echelon or Alliance Model Works.

Great results, Martin! I haaaaaaate doing figures! You make it look easy!

I’m having real trouble on skin. Just can’t get it right. You’re a real pro Martin. Love your channel!!!

wow, I started figure painting after your first vid (tho I painted some a few years ago) but as always you are easily way better :P so dont be so shy about your figure painting! Looks amazing as always! ;D

Another fantastic tutorial/video. I know I’m one of your patreons and I watched this already a week ago. But I felt I needed to just comment on this video again. Superb job Mah friend👍

Genius and patience. Congratulations

That's quite an improvement from your first figure! Well done!

So inspiring! Just got new AK 3rd gen paints for figurines and this is so timely

The result is outstanding- again! Keep up the great work 😀

Thank you, Uncle Night Shift! Because of these figure vids u made, I made one mine. My first choco chip fig for M1A1.

Dear Martin, Brilliant work!

Uncle Night Shift: I am not good at miniature painting! Everyone in the comments: You are great at miniature painting! Nice job with them, they look really nice and I was about to try that first black then white on highlighted parts before applying thin basecoat, but I think I will go for this approach presented by you. Would really like to see you make some WH40K miniatures, for example new Heavy Intercessors or Aggressors (or go old school with some Terminators), which are basically little walking tanks, and I think their armor can't really chip and rust, but who cares? A more military approach would be interesting to see with all those effects (although I am in love with my reddish brown painted Blood Ravens).

Your first figure was great, but these three guys are next level much more sharp and crisp! well done my friend

Brilliant results, just discovered the channel. Working my way through the videos…..amazing. Thanks for your time and effort in making these. Defo a more detailed figure painting tutorial 😀

Yeah, you should do more detailed figure painting! it's definitely a mysterious boundary for me to learn, your video makes me got some passion for it, well done.

Absolutely amazing! I can only hope to reach this LVL.

Hi Marti , that wzs a excellent tutorial, well done, I hope you are keeping well during these crazy times, best regards from Australia.

Great work yet again! Hope you feel better soon.

Great job and thank you for taking the time to show this kind of work. I learned from it and that is a good thing.

Very good tutorial (or if you prefer, learning video) that covers a lot of excellent painting points and techniques…and the 3 figures turned our remarkably well! Thanks for you time and effort, I really enjoyed your video.

Turned out great, figures it's Uncle after all. Color me impressed, and don't you brush off this praise! Tanks for another great video. All puns intended!

They look so life like! Well done!

Definitely love the figure painting. Amazing job!!!

Really good job! I used to do many figures in different scales, so I know what I'm talking about. Please, do some more!

I came over from Maniac's KZfaq page. I am very please that I came. Just Subed up and will watch. Great video

Great! Truly master！ I am so glad to seeing you painted such beautiful figures!Make me feel How wonderful the world is !

Woaouwww !!! Wonderful job as always. As we say in France : Bravo !

Fabulous work, as a always. You are far too humble. A technical note: The infantryman's rank insignia (if he's a technical sergeant, now known as a sergeant first class) should be three chevrons and two rockers, if a staff sergeant, three chevrons and one rocker. There is no device of any kind in the space between the bottom chevron and the top rocker. The patch on the figure appears to have something in that space that should be blank and it makes it look like there are four chevrons. (It also makes it look like there are two rockers, but one or two rockers are OK). Also, you've indicated you're not through with them, but they will need dirt, grease stains, water stains, and other marks on their clothing and also dirt on their hands and faces. Soldiers get into a remarkable number of substances that make them dirty in nearly uncountable ways. (Ask me how I know.) But I must repeat: fabulous work. You are a genius. With more experience I will be surprised that your figures aren't walking around and chatting with each other.

Scale model painter trys his hand at mini painting and records his first try. Makes a video tutorial that's better than 99pct of mini painting KZfaqrs with there vortex paint shakers out there. dude I've been following tutorials for years and this is up there with some of the best

I love the idea of a live stream. I do like the way you paint figures with the airbrush and I want to definitely try it also. I unusually do my figures faces with oils but I really like your method and the outcome. All the best uncle.

This guy is actually hilarious. Love the videos! Subscribed

Oh my god, okay, oh god it’s happening, everybody stay calm, night shift is back at it again with another awesome video, great!

They look incredible! Just like the pros in the hobby! Very well done!

Just beginning figures here. Very Informative and Cool. Thanx Again...

More weekends, courtesy of Night Shift. Thank you for consistent uploads.

WOW! amazing job for the 2nd 3rd and 4th try! excellent!

I would definitely say you are far better than a beginner. Looks great and thanks for the video

That was quite helpful, especially the skin/face portions.

Nice result! Well done

I would be interested in more videos about your figure painting just as a lot more modellers! :)

Really amazing, I love watching the process. Thanks for these videos.

I would love a tutorial on figures! I haven't had good luck with them no matter how many figure tutorials I read.

Yes please, more figures. Love your work fella, absolutely outstanding levels of detail.

great job you always make it look so easy

Looks awesome. All the best for You! ;)

Those figures look great. I'll be trying out that airbrushing technique on my next ones👍

That's awesome, i can't wait for result.

masking putty thas a new one for me ty man. and for paint tips also new to all this highlights lowlight shading i do polymer clay sculptors so need some painting tips.

My local hobby shop finally got tamiya putty and tamiya two part epoxy putty in stock after weeks of me waiting for it to arrvive! So now I'm going to try and do some real scale modeling

I think you’re too hard on yourself, those figures look totally awesome! Good job!!!

Awesome, phenomenal work my friend....keep them figures coming, just wait until you try those SS camouflage uniforms! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻🥇🏆🤜🏻🤛🏻

Great video!!! Like always. Very helpful and inspiring. I have a few miniatures an I was afraid of painting them. Now I will try it. Thanks!!!!

They look amazing to me…something to aspire too!! Great job..Chris

Fan freakin tastic! Also, glad you fixed the garrand...

Wow for only painting a couple of figures. You sir are very good. Nicely done. Hope you get better. Be safe

Amazing skills as always, would really appreciate more tutorials and a live stream sounds fantastic

thanks for taking time to do the tutorial.. really appreciate it and i learn alot too

Absolutely amazing work. Thank you for this video.

Nice one , next when u will paint figure try tu glaze shadows ( brush pass ) in direction toward to darkest place ( then u will get a smoother transition)

A couple of years ago I became interested in figure painting. Seems I liked the experience. It really is a system all it's own, using skills from several other styles. Your "first attempts" are fantastic. You were able to use your strengths with the airbrush to your advantage. I look foreword to your possible dedicated vid on figures.

one word: FANTASTIC!!! i 've got about 300 figures to paint and i like you to paint them :)

excellent painting !! I will try your technic !