painting with the worlds blackest paint

painting with the worlds blackest paint - MUSOU black

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I love trying new paints! The new BLACKEST BLACK paint - Musou black is this crazy paint that makes things look like a black hole. It's probably one of the craziest thing i've ever seen in terms of paint. Well, check out the video to see me compare it to the other classics we use for our hobby - Vallejo, Army Painter, Montana, Citadel etc. It's supposedly darker than Vanta Black and Black 2.0.
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Painting miniatures for your warhammer & d&d games. Age of sigmar and warhammer 40k. Space Marines, Space Wolves, Stormcast Eternals, beastclaw raiders, ogor mawtribes, cities of sigmar, chaos space marines, painting scale models, miniature busts! How to paint NMM. How to paint warhammer, how to paint d&D figures.

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@SquidmarMiniatures 3 жыл бұрын

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@Music70783 3 жыл бұрын

I love you squid

@SquidmarMiniatures 3 жыл бұрын

@@Music70783 Love you too!

@dr.minotaurus4344 3 жыл бұрын

@Squidmar Miniatures love your stuff, I have picked the hobby again thanks to you and was looking for some new brushes. Do you deliver the brushes to Japan and if so do you know how long would take?

@RPRsChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Why paint your fingers and hands when you can use "Engångshandskar vinyl, 100 st" 99SEK, from Clas Ohlson.

@MrMakwa 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Squidmar, love the vid! How/where do I get the paint? I did a bit of research and I can't seem to get it.

@trolleymouse 3 жыл бұрын

I think the most important takeaway from this is that you can now use Vallejo black as an edge highlight ...

@DemonikNord 3 жыл бұрын

It's like you haven't unlocked that character yet

@pisuter3564 3 жыл бұрын

Lego Star Wars be like

@f0rdgamer Жыл бұрын

My first thought was “well that’s how you make a full set of Primarchs, for the two unknown you just pick a good but vague silhouette and paint with the blackest black.”

@srsgoblin 3 жыл бұрын

The Musou black mini straight up looks like a photoshopped silhouette. Like, "who's that Pokémon? Haha it's actually literally just a black shadow."

@wdarkk 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for being like the only person I've seen so far who tested Musou black with varnish.

@thesensenetcollective5378 3 жыл бұрын

Yes thank you so much for this! I just got into 3d printing and am looking for the darkest black possible, but I'm making jewelry so it needs some durability. I'm so happy that you also showed it with the matte varnish since it's imperative I seal my paint. Love your videos and your website! Referral links to products are in my Amazon cart!

@canary8212 3 жыл бұрын

This is perfect for scary marines. You basecoat ultra-black then just add a red glow to the eyes.

@Deimos0 3 жыл бұрын

Raven Guard or straight up have Corax painted with it :D even the Night Lords would $hit their pants

@TheBarbarianBear 3 жыл бұрын

The Blackest Templars

@xureality 3 жыл бұрын

With the slightest hint of pure white edge highlighting. it adds that extra flavor of edge.

@Tastylettuce12 3 жыл бұрын

do you know how badass a legion of the damned would be with this?

@Mornomgir 3 жыл бұрын

there you go! "shadow legion"

@BlackMagicCraftOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

"Black as midnight, black as pitch, blacker than the foulest witch...."

@crips2668 3 жыл бұрын

Even blacker than Black Magic Craft? *hmmm*

@BullScrapPracEff 3 жыл бұрын

Blix get back in your cage...

@jessesteinberg6028 3 жыл бұрын

Legend!

@theaterofthemini 3 жыл бұрын

EPIC film.

@fabmax41 3 жыл бұрын

Blix!

@lowtone 3 жыл бұрын

Would love to see how the Musou black plays when mixed with other colours.

@ml6158 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's what I was expecting, such an underwhelming video lol

@iggiboi2501 3 жыл бұрын

@@ml6158 shut up

@xjunkxyrdxdog89 3 жыл бұрын

@@iggiboi2501 imagine being so sensitive that you get mad at people for having an opinion. Wild.

@iggiboi2501 3 жыл бұрын

@@xjunkxyrdxdog89 ow sry pls accept my apology /srs

@iggiboi2501 3 жыл бұрын

@One Decent Machinist my god I apologized stop coming for me

@MrZog1000 3 жыл бұрын

Off the top of my head I have at least 323 paints, I may have a problem..

@SquidmarMiniatures 3 жыл бұрын

You're the first one, but you pretty much double me! :D

@guysblues 3 жыл бұрын

Why am I not surprised? :D

@andrewamann2821 3 жыл бұрын

How is that a problem? If it's actually sorted so you can find stuff readily, that's a beautiful state of affairs...

@damianjonsson1688 3 жыл бұрын

I wish lol. Paint is so expensive XD

@myminiitch3693 3 жыл бұрын

We need a follow up where you properly paint a model and experiment with its uses!

@jtwernbold 3 жыл бұрын

614 miniature paints. Yep, I have a problem. - 450 Reaper - 118 Vallejo - 15 Citadel - 6 Army Painter washes - 25 Daler-Rowney inks Coming soon: - 62 Pro Acryl paints

@maritza8825 3 жыл бұрын

You have so many paints you stopped using colors and now your just using random words lol..

@wds-net 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting that only about 2% of your collection is Citadel. Would love to see your setup, cheers!

@jonashenriksson2182 3 жыл бұрын

"Lukas, come check this out!" Every video I´m watching from now on I´ll imagine Lukas sitting silent in a corner, waiting just in case you need his input for something. It´ll make the videos roughly 2% more enjoyable for me I think! :D

@SquidmarMiniatures 3 жыл бұрын

I really think you should haha

@mrheisenberg83 3 жыл бұрын

First off: You sir, are a brave man for spraying the blackest black while wearing the whitest sweater. Second: I also like to use the MDF bases from Kromlech. They are good!

@TechnoGhosty 3 жыл бұрын

Mosou black makes every other black paint look like a dark grey, thats crazy! Mosou also just looks like a unlockable character

@morelrenaud2339 3 жыл бұрын

Still brighter than my future

@argowen 3 жыл бұрын

I'd be interested to see what a zenithal highlight looks like over the musou, I'm assuming you'd see the white (obviously) then it just fades to nothing lol

@Snacklord_Dennis 3 жыл бұрын

Squidmar is the new Black

@pablocamargo8744 3 жыл бұрын

MUSOU Black is brighter than my future.

@simonviper85 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine a c'tan shard of the nightbringer with musou black and just a bit of highlight and glowing eyes

@drfishynoooo9960 3 жыл бұрын

Really curious to see how the Musou undercoat affected the final look of a completed mini.

@kaneworsnop1007 3 жыл бұрын

If it's that hard to see details, it wouldn't be workable as an undercoat. It would be good to see it used for black areas on a finished mini, I mean instead of painting black with dark grey and shading with black, you could probably use one of the other blacks and shade with this black.

@theshadowling1 3 жыл бұрын

@@kaneworsnop1007 imagine it being used on something like a mandrake from the Dark Eldar. Deep, pitch black with green highlights on the flames

@adog6495 3 жыл бұрын

@@theshadowling1 or Raven guard marine

@Ren95 3 жыл бұрын

@@theshadowling1 One of my first thoughts, could look absolutely rad

@PaulMurrayCanberra 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like it's to fragile to paint on top of, unless you varnish it.

@Gonothing 3 жыл бұрын

please use the musou black in some practical mini painting applications! I'd love to see how it looks as some shadows or, as you said, an army of void miniatures!

@Gingerbread22 3 жыл бұрын

I really want to see it used too. My thought was having a secondary character in musou black creeping up on a primary character. When he showed all the minis in the black box, I thought it was missing!

@stevenstaubach1061 3 жыл бұрын

I think using this for engine vents, or recesses that are meant to be cavities would probably be ideal both because it will not see much wear from handling, while also providing a sense of depth. Very cool; I will definitely have to pick some up!

@bl3993 3 жыл бұрын

To quote Nathan Explosion: "we will make it blacker then the blackest black times infinity."

@ScytheNoire 3 жыл бұрын

Now let's see it used in a creative way.

@thth-sv4bt 3 жыл бұрын

Okay, so I have about 106 paints that were made specifically for minis (that is, they were produced by citadel, vallejo etc.) ,a pack of 10 cheap acrylics, 12 oil paints, one primer from vallejo, 5 enamel rattle cans, 2 refills for molotow (which I use as a primer), three pots of artistic ink, two dropper bottles of alcohol inks, and two pigments which I use for washes. So combined, it's about 151 painting utilities for miniatures.

@Tremadog102 3 жыл бұрын

I've had an Eldar/Aeldari army on the backburner for a long time and they are going to be painted in the Ulthwe black and bone scheme. I'm considering making the armour fairly glossy black but trying this Musou paint for the robes. It would probably give them a pretty interesting contrast despite being mostly black.

@Astronometric 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see the Musou black used in an actual pant job! It would be interesting to see how it layers and contrasts with other colours!

@heimirsindri21 3 жыл бұрын

Props to Squidmar to edit out all the models with the musou black and photoshop a void in there

@alecsmall4409 3 жыл бұрын

A Raven Guard Space Marine In this would be amazing.

@KnarbMakes 3 жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie. I didn't see the musou black mini when u put it in the black box. I thought u had a weird gap when u framed the shot, and only realized the miniature is there in later shots.

@bryal7811 3 жыл бұрын

Musou black + mirror paint for the most extreme contrast. Can't wait to use this paint in dioramas with reflective eyes in a dark forest.

@derraldlosey1118 2 жыл бұрын

It would be interesting to see a comparison between this and black 3.0. Not just color but properties of how it works for minis.

@TattooedTabletop 3 жыл бұрын

Please tell me you attempted a zenithal highlight! I would love to see what that does on the Musou black and how the contrast would look! 👌

@haydengittins2836 3 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly. A zenithal with this could be really cool

@JannPoo 3 жыл бұрын

Zenital lightning with the brightest white on musou black. Or also drybrush with the brightest white.

@ArtisticTomahawk 3 жыл бұрын

Yeeees I was thinking this the whole time. I want to see someone use it in a full painted model

@VaultBoy13 3 жыл бұрын

A zenithal would likely result in little particles getting on most of the miniature (even if you're trying to avoid painting those areas). Just a matte coat boosts the visibility by quite a bit. I think you need to do more of a reverse zenithal. Prime it with the lighter color, then spray at like 45 from the bottom of the miniature to hit the underside with black shadows. Dry brushing would probably have a similar issue. You're going to get a bunch of that lighter paint on everything. Even a very thin amount of paint is going to be a big shift in the reflectivity. Edge highlighting, since you'd be controlling exactly where it goes with a brush, would probably be the only way to really keep the deep black while having the edges pop.

@clavicularius 3 жыл бұрын

How about a vallejo model black as a zenithal and then some edge lighting?

@azerel83 3 жыл бұрын

Probably one of the best hobby vids I've watched in ages, cheers.

@rushthewash 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta love the way you built up the story telling on it all. Very interesting video!

@gregmccormack5709 3 жыл бұрын

That color is insane! literally turns the mini into a shadow.

@adog6495 3 жыл бұрын

Finally a paint fit for the Raven guard

@codyludwig5100 2 жыл бұрын

THE AIRBRUSH AT 4:20 !! You cheeky devil

@Chaoslizard 3 жыл бұрын

Dude, great video. Cool models too! I'd love to see you follow through on some of these ideas. Using the musou black as super dark shadows on a bust or something, a creature transforming from inky shadow into full color... Really cool!

@AzraelThanatos 3 жыл бұрын

You know, this could also be quite fun for a space marine force or other one with a high amount of flat panels. Or Batman...just for the look there. With either Black 2.0 or 3.0 a friend of mine had done some artwork with that was rather cool. He'd originally been doing some line art where it was a normal and a high gloss version of the same paint, and he moved to a few with the Black 2.0 or 3.0...not sure which he used for them, but it was over a year ago when I saw them, rather simple ways to make a very cool looking thing. With the older stuff, I'd seen him do it. Take a good flat black (he also did some with white paints), and prime the surface. He used the expensive plywood for the back for it and attached the things to hang it before painting. Then he took the image he wanted on it and used the computer to print out a stencil of it after scanning it in and carefully putting it over the wood and spraying on the other paint with an airbrush (Originally, he'd used gloss, but with some switched to the crazy blacks for some). Then he'd use a stamp of his signature in an opposing color (White for black ones/black for white ones) in the corner before sealing it. They looked awesome...unfortunately, with the lockdowns and everything, I haven't seen him since everything started...he was one of the players in the AL group I'd been in.

@iamalpharius3959 3 жыл бұрын

Wow that would be great for painting and adding holes. Thats really good

@Jarethenator 3 жыл бұрын

Dude is out here painting in a long sleeve white shirt. What an absolute mad-lad.

@sheenPROductions 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent choice for black history month👌

@PainterIdeas 3 жыл бұрын

131and counting :D I'd totally use this Musou black to half cloak, with a bright transition, some space ships. Might work, even better if you can use some white dots on top of it for stars.

@splittedspark1675 3 жыл бұрын

Dipyourcar used musou black with star like stuff :D Maybe wanna check that out

@Maxmillion77 3 жыл бұрын

Love those Titanforge miniatures, they have my pledge 👍

@justmewill1 3 жыл бұрын

I used to have necrons myself but your work is just art

@patrickbateman69420 2 жыл бұрын

That Musou Black is awesome 👌

@RaiderAvian 3 жыл бұрын

The musou black makes the miniature look like you have not unlocked the character yet. That is amazing!

@Vast3.14 3 жыл бұрын

This is an amazing color. I can imagine doing some really cool effects with mouso.

@justanothercaptain6566 3 жыл бұрын

I have a serious problem, I have 282 bottles on my desk from Vallejo, Army Painter, and Citadel. My daughter teases me and says my hobby is "collecting paint bottles" LOL. I love Army Painter's black. Nice video! Nice video.

@Nomadx83 Жыл бұрын

Musou black is art by itself

@MegamanZero410 3 жыл бұрын

I’m really looking forward to some unique miniature paint job with that paint, I would love to see a hyper contrasted figure almost fell shade style with it.

@janbiela8596 3 жыл бұрын

Finally, a color I can shade black with.

@stefanhoover9888 3 жыл бұрын

Great video👍 can’t wait for thunder hawk 😁

@markgnepper5636 3 жыл бұрын

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

@jasonrhome710 3 жыл бұрын

That's nuts!

@Clone16165 3 жыл бұрын

After 25 years in the hobby easily over 400 (pots of) paint. No regrets.

@youdontneedtoseehisidentif4939 3 жыл бұрын

I think we've found the colour that Hotblack Desiato's ship was painted o_O

@leewat3742 3 жыл бұрын

Good call on that, but the buttons on the control panels inside could be seen so they must have had varnish applied after painting :)

@drakeye2366 3 жыл бұрын

Being dead is tax deductible, after all

@samurijder9550 3 жыл бұрын

Let's bring this comment up to 42 likes and stop there. Just because.

@davenoon5139 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought...

@PaulMurrayCanberra 3 жыл бұрын

It's, like, so black.

@VinegarAndSaltedFries 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. That mini was so black. I really want to create creepy sinister shadows trying to get someone with that black it’s so great.

@PaulMurrayCanberra 3 жыл бұрын

D&D player here. Seems like a quick way to create minis that are meant to be invisible - an alternative to buying clear plastic versions of a character. Since nothing in real life is actually that black, not even shadows or the night sky, you can't use it to paint objects, but you can use it for voids. Might be handy for painting spiderwebs, for instance. Magical effects. The inside of an open chest leading to a pocket plane. Voids in horrors from the forbidden dimensions. The inside of the mouths of a gibbering mouther. Since it's fragile, a mask-and-spray technique might work nicely.

@abmong 3 жыл бұрын

The Musou Black would look cool on a Hexwraith or other spectral units. Dry brush a fluorescent colour on it as highlight could make a cool looking spectral effect against a black background.

@GhostofSkyrim 3 жыл бұрын

11:13 You can see the black box is literally projecting a shadow on to his face. That's insane.

@kylahislop6212 3 жыл бұрын

Wow. I really want to use this in a project now

@renefrias3982 3 жыл бұрын

That black is insane.

@ArtisticTomahawk 3 жыл бұрын

A lictor coming out of the shadows. Infiltrators or snipers revealing themselves. A bunch of cool effects can be had SQUID! DO THE DO MAN! Show us what is possible! :)

@Kufunninapuh Жыл бұрын

I imagined a t-shirt this black when I was nine. I thought it would make me look completely 2D and I'm glad I got that confirmed some 23 years later. I also remember spray painting a chaos black base for the first time and I was blown away by how much that improved the look of a mini. Might still be the best paint job I ever managed, just wanted some player tokens for TTRPG campaign and realized I like writing and planing a lot better i guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@sheolsheep6168 3 жыл бұрын

Musou black turns every mini into an unlockable character Or one with missing textures

@RoyAmkreutz 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. That mussou black would be awesome on a battlefleet Gothic ship. Imagine it on a black surface... 'so where did my miniature go?' Lol

@ClayHales 3 жыл бұрын

That first comparison around the 5 minute mark on the turn table was crazy. The Musou black figure had like a black nimbus around it.

@KabinMiniatures 3 жыл бұрын

50 shades of black, huh? That Musou was intense!

@taylord6043 3 жыл бұрын

Omg tyvm for makin a vid while workin on the thunderhawk thought we’d have to wait months. Lol

@screamingrobot773 3 жыл бұрын

Now I know what to use for my base rims

@Lafalabki 3 жыл бұрын

Musou black like a unlock hero

@QuestionReason 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see you paint a Void Beast of some kind in the way you mentioned. Stepping through the void and becoming visible. Or maybe something like a Nebula Dragon. A mousou black dragon, with stars and galaxies. So many options!

@offroadturkey 3 жыл бұрын

The was the best “subscribed to me” plug I’ve ever seen haha!

@novashnova1232 3 жыл бұрын

This would be amazing for shading

@marccrockett7645 2 жыл бұрын

A small terrain with this paint could be awesome, have little raised parts and put "floating" platforms throughout. Could even have little holes and led lights throughout for a spacy effect while keeping the endless pitch black look.

@GatecrasherPod 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. I have the Black 3.0 I was gonna use for my Kingdom Death models. Now I'm thinking of that new new

@roy3458 3 жыл бұрын

id really love to see this with some lighting effects painted on it.

@tylercox9302 3 жыл бұрын

9 and a mixer I am brand new to painting figures and love it

@Sygless Жыл бұрын

I think the blade of the sword really cool.

@hansjohannsen6722 3 жыл бұрын

New sub! Good idea,lol. Nice vids to boot.

@jtyler3196 3 жыл бұрын

Just placed my order!

@morellethisme3799 3 жыл бұрын

Counted this week, so far about 200 dropper bottles and 30 ish citadel pots. And some pigments and mud/watter effects. Than about 50-80 cheap acrylic paint tubes and all kinds of primers. Was just looking into how to properly store it. Printing the needed racks will take me about 3 weeks fulltime printing.

@Grieva-SeeD- 3 жыл бұрын

165 paints here. About 100 GW ones then the rest are a mix of Vallejo, Green Stuff world, ProAcryl, Nocturna and a couple of Army Painter. It is me and my wife so that is between us 😁

@RetroTeddyBear Жыл бұрын

It was crazy seeing the antishine matte varnish actually make the black 3.0 paint I had glossier

@melllvar 3 жыл бұрын

That was cool, but also helpful to see the ranking of the other blacks. I know I would love to see a video of your go to base palette of paints. (I may have missed it if you've already done one but didn't see it in a search.) Miniatures and modelling have so many base colour variations and sure you can't mix for fluorescents and metallics, but if you had to pick 12 or maybe even 24 colours from various brands in your paint arsenal what would they be? Sort of in the way you might have a go to set for watercolours. It would be super helpful to fill any gaps in my ever growing paint collection.

@tylero8595 2 жыл бұрын

Mosou black is substantially darker than 3.0. By a factor of 2 or 3 times blacker. Ive sprayed 5 coats of each with my airbrush and the Mosou is way, way, way blacker. Ive painted with 3.0 for the last year and thought it was great. Saw these videos a couple weeks ago and ordered the mosou. Immediately saw the difference.

@Healcraft 3 жыл бұрын

Blacks seem to be the first to be sold out constantly. One shop I order from in canada is constantly out of black vallejo primer, model, game, air, mecha, everything. Also Abaddon black is great for putting metallics over to cover it :)

@joecoulson2904 3 жыл бұрын

It could actually be really useful giving the illusion of a deep pit or something

@poliestotico 3 жыл бұрын

A good follow up video would be to see applications of this outside priming, some nice ideas come up!

@TalkingGIJoe 7 ай бұрын

you can see the difference straight away!

@maximillianhovar5877 3 жыл бұрын

I thought about doing this for stealth units and maybe playing around with glad to see someone else try it first

@MateuszPetkiewicz 3 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering how it would look like with some neon-color thin details on Musou black

@GreenBlueWalkthrough 3 жыл бұрын

That is really black like stealth aircraft are just a bit more black than that. It would be so good on stealth models, just remember to accent some parts for contrast. Also good to know Vallejo Black is the second most black!

@VinceVenturella 3 жыл бұрын

Great video brother, very interesting. Since the question was asked, I have 881 paints in ready access at my painting desk. ;)

@SquidmarMiniatures 3 жыл бұрын

I thought it would be past thousands haha. I think you're in second place so far 😁

@VinceVenturella 3 жыл бұрын

@@SquidmarMiniatures Darn it, I knew I should have also counted my box of overflow paints I don't keep at my desk, that would easily be another 100 paints. I could've been a contender. ;)

@SquidmarMiniatures 3 жыл бұрын

Haha its very likely you'll be nr1🤯😁

@tftf60 3 жыл бұрын

Damn, OK now I have to buy more paints... Scale75 collectors box looks fine right now.

@mathewfrance5165 3 жыл бұрын

I wanna see the musou mini get some regular colors added to it. Curious what it would do with the visibility of everything having "empty" segments

@TJ_Bosolo 3 жыл бұрын

That black could be awesome for some silhouette effects in a diorama, I'm thinking ninja's

@RicardoKugo 3 жыл бұрын

That blackest black could be a realy cool effect for a mini of a shadow monster. Making it always look like a silhouette even tho it phyicically has the 3D details