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Jon is always like “this is super fast and simple until I can’t help myself anymore and start my edge highlights.”

First we start wit two little circles ... then add some guidelines ... and then we draw the entire owl. Simple

That’s quite an interesting - and very good looking - method. I would love to see you paint ten Termagants, and try to actually stop at a “tabletop ready” stage. It would give a good idea of how viable it is as an army painting technique.

for someone like me, painting all those layers carefully will take ten times as long as sticking on some contrast/speedpaint and tidying it up. A similar effect to this could be achieved quickly by applying some colourful washes over the base layers. yet, i really liked your previous paint jobs using undershading and they also seemed quicker - i especially preferred suck cut and slapchop 2.0

This does look like a interesting and expandable method. I'd like to see a video that builds on this. i.e. "How to decide the under-colour for my Smash Chop" that kind of thing.

"Hi, it's Vince with Smash Chop. You're gonna be in a great mood all day, cause you're going to be smashing your troubles away."

I am barely able to Slap Chop at this point. This looks like some kind of Masterclass disguised as an introduction.

i think we lost the point of slap chop and speed painting here

This is not a beginner tutorial but rather a new reworking of an already cool idea, that makes it cooler still. This tutorial assumes much knowledge and brush control that you just won't have if you just started so if that's your situation, do you best, you'll get there. Practice makes perfect folks 👍

Ninjon's projects and ideas always seem goofy at first, and always end up looking incredible. There's always a point where I think "that will look terrible" and one where I'm like "well, that's pretty great actually".

This is just painting. love you

Again more and more fine art techniques are making their way into the hobby. Its great.

Your airbrushed base coat is a more controlled version of the “Murray method “ the Table Top Time produces, both methods produce an awesome aesthetic, just one is controlled and the other is chaotically controlled

I just wanted to drop a comment that I absolutely love your channel. I enjoy the tips and also the philosophy of just enjoying the process. Additionally, your camera presence is great and you articulate your concepts very well. Keep up the good work!

I was bored of painting my tyranids in the same old boring method and you just inspired me to try this and actually improve. As you say in the video as great and tabletop ready as slap chop is, it's not quite the challenge, but this? This is fantastic, so eye-catching and honestly looks a ton of fun. Thanks bud!

This is exactly like how fine artist and digital artists start their paintings. You are just creating undertones and cohesive theming!!!

“Cringe worthy name…”. Calls his SmashChop.

Holy cow, that's a super cool technique. Thank you Mr. Ninjon. I will try it on my bugs!

Most important things I've learned watching this video: More in shadow - thinner paint More in highlight - thicker paint Deepest shadow - ignore When another surface meets another - leave a line in between unpainted

I restarted painting after 30 years thanks to Ninjon videos - the first attempt should go in the trascan but the positive attitude of his videos and tutorials keep me on the grind! Thanks Jon!

The best part about slap chop is that the system tells you when you're done. There's no second guessing or overworking an area. All these slap chop but with extra steps systems lack this

Really enjoying seeing this style progress over various videos - definitely looking to try it out!

Im really happy that I followed Jon from the beginning and get to see his journey and discoveries. Its very inspiring and really interesting.

So this method doesn’t take only two steps, it’s not easy nor carefree, it actually requires skill to be painted to a good standard, it requires an airbrush… what dies it have to do with slap chop?

Looks good! I was a little surprised to see 26 (?) bottles of paint/pigments on the table at the end. That seems like a lot! (I know how fond you are of paints). I wonder... do I use this many paints on my projects? I'm going to lay them out at the end like this and see.

I love this super colorful method of painting! Can you show us how this can be done for a more human-looking model where there's a good amount of skin? I'd be curious how that'd work out too! Thanks!!

This was a great watch, thanks! I think a video talking through how you picked out those undertone colors and why you placed them where you did would be awesome and go a long way towards applying this method to other color schemes. For example my current Tyranids army scheme has a dark brown/black skin tone w/ brighter carapace colors (Hive Fleet Kronos) so I'm not sure what my undertones would be.

This looks amazing! I love the colours and your exploration over the process was top stuff

So essentially it's "smash" colors together for an undercoat, and then give it a "pass" of layered paint. The "smash pass" method!

I like this, but it still seems kinda complicated and airbrush-reliant for speed painting. Here's how I'd simplify it: 1. Base coat white. You can do the zenithal stuff if you want. 2. Contrast paint your shadow color over the whole model. Skip the multi-color thing, unless you really have a good idea for it; for Tyranids, maybe the carapace and the rest can be separate colors, but not necessary. 3. Proceed with the midtone the same way as seen in the video. Having the same colors for all the shadows will tie everything nicely together. 4. (Optional) Grab a drybrush and just go over all the most important bits: for Tyranids, this should mainly be the carapace, you can do that all with one color easily. 5. Finish off by doing any important details. This way you cut out all the tedious edge highlight work. You also don't need an airbrush to lay down the shadow colors with decent transitions; though I suppose you could maybe do that by blending the contrast paints too.

*7 steps later* "Yep, it's just two steps!"

I would like to see an example of this system on a human model.

@Ninjon This is a really awesome idea, it would be great to see a video exploring those starting colours, like why did you choose red purple and pink. Also looking at different results you can achieve on non organic Vs organic models with the same technique... votan Vs nids or space marines and orcs... really love these technique style tutorials rather than simple here's how I paint a lictor recipes.

Starting to think Jon can read my mind. Every time I hit a hobby roadblock in how I want to paint something Jon comes out with a video with exactly what I’m looking for. It’s both amazing and terrifying…

You posted this just in time. I've wanted to begin painting my Sylvaneth army for a couple weeks now, and I just couldn't start because I didn't know exactly how to achieve the result I want. I think this video just gave me the answer. Thanks for posting this, I'll try Smash Chop soon!

Very nice, the base colours give the mini a lot of life, good painting!

If every video you made from now on was just using this scheme on a new mini each video, I would watch every single one all the way through multiple times, 10/10 no notes.

Great video! But my god how does he paint so fast? Jon will be like "and this highlight step took about 15 minutes" and it would probably take me well over an hour lol.

I won’t lie Jon, I’ve been sitting on a BIG back log of these pesky bugs for a long time now, but I haven’t been able to settle on a colour scheme that I can be happy with. After watching your video however you’ve persuaded me with that beautiful voice of yours, I feel more motivated than ever with your technique to finally tackle my bug problem. I’d just like to say thank you and keep doing an amazing job, look forward to see what you come up with next.

Thanks. Im glad you finished with quick summary of the method. You used more steps for your bad boy so i.was getting confused. But smash chop seems not so hard over all and pretty flexible. I think ill try it some day ;)

Amazing result. I've been in a hobby rut recently and this has inspired me to pick up a brush again. Thank you!

Thanks for sharing that! I really like the idea of this approach, It looks like it really popped on the ridges of the carapace. I bet it would really bring out some contrast on something with feathered wings as well

This is one of the best ideas I've come across for a long while! Excited to give it a try!

"Smash Chop" sounds like a food truck that takes itself too seriously.

Thanks again for your videos. As D&D painter, I really enjoy the range of techniques you're showing lately. Cause Im not painting an army Im painting an endless stream of minis. None of them the same look or style.

This is very Murray-like. That said it contains plenty of tidbits and details that make it seem even more approachable.

Really cool, just a little question, how do you get the pigment to stick to the base and not fall off everytime you give it a little tap ?

As someone who loves bright colours, I loved watching this video, Jon, and seeing how those colours were initially 'smashed' onto the model at the start, then even as you applied the neutral colours that I usually reserve for only the essential details that really need them to look right, it was fascinating to see how they were still glowing through from underneath, still very much visible and present. This video and this method has made me look at those neutral colours in a new light (sorry, not sorry for the pun) and I am really looking forward to finding the right model to trying it out on! I also can't leave a comment without mentioning your excellent teaching chops (oops, another pun), as in every video you manage to consistently convery so much information in such a short amount of time in such an easy to understand way, always hitting just the right tone (there's another one!) - you never talk down to your audience, nor do you treat them/us as if we already have a high level of expertise. This is why novices like myself and my 18 yr old daughter keep coming back to watch and learn! Speaking of my kid, while on holiday this summer in the Loire Valley (we live in Brittany so it wasn't that far to go), we visited la Musée de l'Art Moderne et Fontevraud, a National Monument of France, it has a large collection, including paintings and sculptures. It was absolutely fascinating as each piece was accompanied by a detailed explanation of how and why it was painted or sculpted, and what was the aim of the artist, and so on. There were some paintings that were painted as miniatures that were so small yet so incredibly detailed, I'm sure most of us from the hobby would have been impressed by the sheer level of skill involved. There was also a temporary exhibition of Rembrandrant's etchings - I hadn't even known much about his side of his work before this visit - and you could buy a plastic magnifying glass for 50 centimes - well worth it! - that allowed you to examine each one in more detail. As many weren't much larger than a KZfaq thumbnail, this was an essential piece of equipment and I suggest that it may be useful to sell these or give them out at shows like Adepticon and WarhammerFest for use when viewing the Golden Demon cabinets? They're exactly the same as those found in the boardgame MicroMacro:Crime City, by the war, for those that are familiar with it :-) But the main reason that I'm writing about the visit is to tell you that while my kid and I did spend hours enjoying the incredible art by some of the best European artists of the early 20th Century, I also have to admit that we also spent much of that time carefully examining their paint strokes, and their use of light and shade, how an artist used a single highlight in a painting that was almost completely browns and blacks to convey light and movement. We looked at how they used colours or negative space or didn't apply any paint to their canvas in an area to make use of negative space... Even when looking at paintings that we really didn't like at all, we were often still able to learn something from the skill of the artist and see something that we could take home and apply to our miniature painting. My kid went back to the gîte (house) where we were staying and was painting every spare minute that she had! Now she's converted her boyfriend to the hobby and he's just bought his first set of GW minis to paint, managing to flip the usual script :-D Take that, haters!

beautiful work! love this method, seeing a lot more value in using darker colors where you'd usually highlight!

The AUDACITY to call the BEST scene of 28 WEEKS later.... 28 "DAYS" later, Jon I'm insulted. 😂Great video Jon, model turned out great as always.

This is such a brilliant video. And I can't wait to try to paint just like you've demonstrated in this video. But I am really challenged in trying to visualise how to do this with the colours that I want to use

I think this suffers in one of the aspects that make slap chop often so effective. Whilst the different parts are shaded, the body itself doesn't throw shadow (which the zenithal highlight normally creates). Bc of that there is very little contrast in brightness... The model gets the "awesome pain job on the toy" kinda look . Still an awesome paintjob tho! I also think this could be mitigated by spraying the colours directional like light sources, maybe even with the brighter ones from above.

Nids are definitely one of the cases where brighter recesses make sense, on the plating that it. I nature the newer materials will be the brightest and then dull over time so the more exposed edges would be darker.

Honestly at this point, just call it "Crash Ding Bang Boom" It'll have the same amount of meaning.

I'm always grateful when you share your techniques. Thank you for smashing and chopping.

I love the dichotomy of fast baseline and openness to layering ;) thanks !

Whatever technique you are using Ninjon you are a great painter. Thank you for sharing.

I have a feeling Opus could speed this up with wet dry-brushing on instead of careful meticulous work.

I've got my 1st ever airbrush. I have some cheap eBay Nids. And now? Thanks to this, I've got some inspiration on techniques to practice. THANKS!

The final product looks amazing! I'm always learning something here.

Great vid. A lot of really great ideas in there. Thanks!

This seems like a neat way to piant. It’s a little to complicated for a beginner though and therefore not a substitute to slapchop in the effort/result ratio 🤷‍♂️

Hi , av been painting minis since the early 80's and it's your vids that keep me interested, cheers and keep up the great content 👍

I'd love to see this technique demonstrated on a smaller unit model like a gaunt. What a fantastic method.

That cthulhu crab turned out great!! Smash chop is intriguing as a method and would be perfectly applicable with rattle cans instead of airbrush as well. I'll revisit this if I come across a suitable project.

I just recently took a class that used a similar concept of color theroy where we painteded everything in shadow blue, everything the sun would have touched in tue past red and everything that was being hit by the light (from above) in yellow then painted over it with a thin coat of a random color we chose at the beginning of class. You have basically taken it a couple stepps futher by adding hilights and some more detail.

I really, really like how this model came out. Perfecto.

This has inspired me to change how I paint my tyranids, I think I can adopt some of the techniques of smash chop to make them pop

You know my man, you can make a quick paint job look like a not so quick one. Good work as always.

Wow! Great video, I love this idea and look forward to trying it out. I am a slow painter so anything to increase productivity is welcome.

Great technique. Makes me want to pick up a brush again!

The bright shadows with dark base coat /layer looks amazing

This is great Jon, thank you. I'm going to try this out on some monsters for my D&D campaign.

Bro I love your energy and sense of humor. Never change, my dude. Big fan, stay well.

I love this! What a cool idea. I’m definitely going to try this soon. It’s also an amazing updated take on Hive Fleet Behemoth.

That end result looks absolutely stunning

Love you Jon! Awesome work, as always ❤

I dig the mini, and the colors on the tyranid, and the new smashity choppity, and the add, and the tip about two main bright colors blending a mini all together… definitely doing that right now lol

I could care less what the silly names are, every time one of yall come up with a new system and can explain the sience behind it so clearly and yet remain entertaining, you take the hobby to another level. Thank you for your time and effort!

SmashChop in this video: *This isn’t even my final form!*

What i love most about your YT Chanel is your Origin Story! ;) Aaaaand your are a quiet the inspiring miniatures painter. I have to say that i really got better after paying more attention and use some of the concepts you talk about. Edit: And you are funny. A Joe-Pesci-in-Goodfellas-kind-of-funny!

Hey, great video - you're a highlight to my KZfaq feed! Could you talk us through how you selected your smash colours? Would love to understand what your thought process was.

I really hope a lot of newer painters take on this method. Its got so many points of learning contained within it... just hope they see that it can help them become better painters

This is awesome - will be trying this for sure

I love this method. I used it to paint an Ahriman for one of my friends awhile ago after I watched your space dwarf inspired by Craftworld Studio video. I'm going to paint Magnus in the same way for him too

Awesome. I'm going to try this

Great tutorial. Amazing paint job.

I did something like this for a lava dragon, once. Bright red and yellow base coat, then over with black in what was basically a heavy dry brush.

How do you get a smooth zenithal? I swear no matter what I use or do the white speckles

What is that little bottle shaker and where can i get one?

Great video, and a great result. But I do have a question as a result. (How) would this work on a human(oid) mini? The bright colours are perfect as an 'undercoat' for alien creatures, but (how) does it translate to less pronounced colours in humans or orks? Maybe a could topic for a future smash chop video? Edit: I see now that I am not the only one to ask this question. Sorry about the repetition.

After watching this video I decided I want to test this method on my own nids and I finally came up with a color scheme I think I will enjoy!

Thank you for promoting a painting technique that isn't hidden behind a product wall.

Dude i saw your undercoating videos and I knew- this is the way. The Rabbit Samurai in particular- it occurred to me that shadows are not black, they are just dark. Why not undercoat with a color in mind as opposed to just throwing color over black primer? Great work, thanks!

Ninjon paints Summoned Skull in attack position

Looks great! Would love to see how you approah it on something less organic, perhaps with armour and cloth.

I don’t think this would be even remotely quick for a lot of people. That’s pretty precise brush work. Only reason ninjon can do it quickly is because he is a pro

Definitely hitting on something here! Not sure if the application applies to every model, but something to use when the model has some internal glow, color that needs to show. I wonder what a 10 man of necron warriors would looks like?

This video was super helpful 😁 i painted my first Nid in a long time and whanted to evolv my old scheme. I whanted a intresting underton of Dark purpul on the skin and a red on the scales the go over with Green on tje skin and brown on the scales. But my first try didemt go as I whanted 😂 and then the day after this video pops up and man did it help as it was the efect i whamted for my scheme so thank you Ninjon this help me so mutch 🙏 Also realy like your videos alway intresting and fun to watch i learn something new everytime 🙂