At this time I have reason to believe that Broken Anvil the company might not be able to fulfill their promises to their consumers. I would be wary of investing into their products until they prove to the community that they can keep their commitments.

"Surf the wave of crispy lines all the way to sexy model town." That deserves some kind of award.

Scott: “I’m currently working on a SoB kill team.” GW: “Imma bout to ruin this man’s whooole day.”

First of all - yay infinity models! Second - One tool that i found is quite helpful with recess shading is gunpla markers (they have one with a TINY tip for armor lining). You get the same effect but without fear of putting paint around the model. Yeah, you can't do advance tech with it but if you need a lot of armor panels lined quickly - that's a great tool.

This technique is amazing. I've had a discussion with my friend who's also learning how to paint historical figures properly and we came to the conclusion that you could, in theory, do the bare minimum work by shading the figure with an airbrush and then outline all the small details with this method and end up with a fairly presentable result.

Recess shading is one of the best ways of trying to create dimensions for older models that don't lend themselves to shading and highlighting particularly well.

I love how ordered and structured your how-to videos are. Even if it's something i've been doing for a while, it's so good to see it broken down the way you do my dude.

“Who uploads a miniature painting video at 4 in the morning?” Scott: “Oh boy, 4 AM!”

I know it's not the primary focus of the video, but it's really cool to see Miniac paint an Infinity model!!!

Scott: "Use as many points of contact as you can." /Me: "Great tip, but not everyone may know what that means." Scott>demonstrates points of contact for painting. This is one of my favorite instructional painting videos ever, let alone being one of your best. Great work. And I am always grateful to learn something while you paint non-GW work!

After you talked about the glossiness of metallics my next question was "can I just do a gloss coat, shade, then matte coat" but then you answered it immediately so I now no longer need to type here and ask that.. yea... Also more infinity models please, they're awesome.

Alright, my man... you sold me on it! A blackwash is my GO-TO, but for the first time I'm really seeing how effective targeted recess shading can be at getting a crispy result with clear separation and contrast. As always, you break it down in such a logical way.

omg that tip to just flatten the brush to get a sharp point was just so genius! I've always been trying to twirl the brush into a sharp point but that tip was just so low key smart!

I love how you lay out multiple options for the task at hand. Gives me 0 excuses to not try.

yes. Thank you so much for finally painting an Infinity miniature :)

Yay for Infinity!

Reducing the surface tension with a glossy coat, like you did with the Sister of Battle, is my favourite method of recess shading.

That's what we call in armor painting "panel lining" and it's amazing. My favorite technique is using oil wash for that.

Hearing you say reppousoir just made my day Scott.

I love seeing the zoomed in parts with you painting. So many videos have the mini so far away you can’t see clearly what is being done. Thank you.

Couple people asking about the panel liner I was using on the SoB model: geni.us/1D1KM

Thanks for painting an Infinity model! They have such great detail for their size. I will try to be more patient when edge highlighting my Yu Jing army. Great work love the channel.

I wanted to dedicate this comment to how much I love the outro. I've long been a fan of hardcore music and I've got the tight pants and band tees to prove it. The Miniac outro really gets me fucking psyched to paint minis and hone the techniques shown in the videos. Cheers!

One of the absolute best videos I’ve ever seen on miniature painting.

It's interesting to see how things come around. in the 90's-00, this was called "blacklining", now it's "recess shading" :) I've always been a fan of the technique, it does add another level of detail with minimal effort. Nice vid!

I love the fact that you painted an infinity miniature for this video, apart from being the perfect mini for the subject we need more infinity!

A point on practice: One of the hardest lessons for me to learn was that not every mini needs to be a masterpiece and it's perfectly fine to completely screw up a paint job. The first time you try anything, you're probably going to suck at it... but when you're trying something new, the experience you get and the lessons you learn from that practice are way more valuable than that one specific mini. When you start to 'get good' you also start to play it safe, you stop trying new things because you know what works to produce a decent final result... but that's when you stop improving and growing as a painter. Basically, give yourself permission to suck, because every bad paint job teaches you ways to make the next one better.

Recess shading or blacklining with oils is something you should've covered. The way oils thinned with mineral spirit/white spirit just explodes and goes into the recesses is pure magic. Turns a 15-20 min process with acrylics a 90 second process with thinned oils.

Good to see sci-fi minis. It would be great to see Infinity minis on the channel, they seem to be fun to paint!

Love it Scott. Great reminder of an easy way to make my models stand out more. I always forget this step and often feel like something is missing.

As someone that just got their first mini paints delivered today, this will be very helpful. Great vid Scott!

Sweet early morning video to watch with breakfast!

I tend to use a old synthetic brush with a very prominent hook on it for any sort of armour panel lines, not necessarily all recesses though. I find the hooked tip just locks into the crack if you do it from right angle and speeds up the process a whole lot! inks + with acrylic is my go to!

Nice to see ASOIAF and Infinity, finally getting to some modern wargame design :)

i use oil washes for my recess painting and the capillarity + the fact that i know i can erase or soften anything i put in the model makes the process super enjoyable and easy, the only downside is the odorless mineral spirit because i don't want to open my window on winter but luckily winter is finishing here on the southern hemisphere. Definetly a big recommend for those that want to dabble with oil paints and want to start simple.

Yeah, these comments are on point. It may not be terribly exciting for a solid, seasoned content creator like yourself, but I have learnt so much from you and this channel. You have an incredible skill in teaching others, and this is coming from someone who has never done well in highschool and has failed post secondary schooling no less than thrice. It takes exceptional skill and talent to teach me anything. Not that I am unintelligent or anything, just don't learn the way most people seem to.

Infinity miniatures are an absolute pleasure to paint. The definition is insane on those bad boys.

Scott goes academic about a really basic part of painting. Great stuff Scott, even I forget these things. Great stuff, again.

I loved that calming part at 7:55 "You and this mini". This is why I started painting and why I love to do that.

I come from a gunpla background and I brought the glass pen technique from it to line highlights, weathering and recess shading in my warhammer models

Every once in a while I watch your outro first to get me pumped for the actual content.

This answered a lot of questions about painting that I didn't know how to ask. Thankyou

He ain't lying folks. Recess shading and taking time to add one extra layer of extreme highlights goes a long way towards a better looking mini. Recess shading in particular has a very instantly gratifying effect when done.

I really got a lot out of this one, Scott. While I really enjoy the direction your videos have evolved over time, this one does feel a like a bit of a return to some of your earlier, less flashy, nuts-and-bolts how-to's, which I always felt were super useful and inspiring. Thanks for a great body of work that continues to grow and improve over time!

I just started watching this video, so I don't know if it's mentioned or not, but this is something I did naturally, coming from Gundam models before I got into miniatures. Panel-lining in the Gundam model community is a universally used technique, which is basically recess shading, but for miniature models of giant robots. There are so many cool techniques that can be learned from different styles of hobbies/crafting, and I would love to see more cross over between the communities. I've seen some awesome videos from Millennial Model Mayhem, but I think there is still much more to be explored!

Yeaaah infinity models are beautiful

Today is my birthday and scott prepared the best possible gift: a new video!

You can also use masking to cover parts of a model you really don't want to make mistakes on. Laying down a line of masking tape can let you really get a crispy solid line when framing and recess shading without fear of making that mistake to the incredible blend you are worried about.

7:07 "Surf the wave of crispy lines all the way to sexy model town." Awesome. Pure lyrical skills. 👍😂😎

This is essentially adding "ambient occlusion" to the model. Self-shadowing is a lot weaker on an object this small compared to the full-scale counterpart it's supposed to represent. Areas of high occlusion also tend to overlap with where dirt collects, as complex shapes of close proximity both occlude light and make it easy for debris to collect, and hard for it to escape or be rubbed off.

That montage at 9:00 was amazing and I need more of that in my life. I felt the weight of all my problems lift away

The transition into spa-like meditation got me lol

Thanks for mentioning broken toad. I had never heard of them and just ordered a set of brushes.

Scott: "I've been working on recently.." Me: "BEARD!" Scott: "Killteam.." Me: :(

Another video? Another week? Thank you so much Scott! Great vid with some good advices for this kind of job!!

I think this is what a lot of my models need.

I recently experimented with Tamiya Panel liner on my Tau. It worked spectacularly. just dab the line with the application brush, and it flows across the line. repeat until, all the panels are lined. any mistakes can be cleaned with enamel remover.

Missed an awesome opportunity to put the Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy theme song for THAT moment 😂. Great content as always

Great explanation on the difference of recess shading vs using washes to accomplish the same thing and how it can differ based on the paint its washing over.

Good video Scott, but I've seen this done with oil paints and it is much more easier and beginner friendly. The best part with oil is the slow drying time so you can erase slip ups with miniral spirit.

hell yeah, infinity

I find Vallejo Air Colors to also have good flow and opacity. I use black for recess shading and painting details such as iris and/or pupils. Little to no thinning is required as they are made for airbrush and come pre-thinned.

Thanks Scott it's been a while since I had a good laugh and undead crabs did the trick

I was on my way to painting a Black Templar army when I realised that, although I thought I would be happy to slam out my army and get the hundreds of dollars of plastic done and finished, I wasn't enjoying the actual painting process and I needed a challenge. I decided to scrap the all black paint and go all white with painted recesses. I'm enjoying the all the line work and I'm going to be a much better painter in the end.

Dang those colors look good. This video is inspiring and relaxing. Seeing you paint Infinity minis is nice. Thanks for this video Scott.💪🎨

Miniac you just broke the internet by painting Infinity models!

After watching the latest episode of Tairped Oondah Plerstuc, recess shading was the one thing you guys talked about that I wasn't doing yet. I started immediately and even went back and lined my last few models and holy shit what a difference! I'm glad you followed up with a more detailed video on the subject. Thanks man!

"This is your mini without recess shading..." Strange I don't remember painting that mini, or sending it to Miniac?!

You've taught me so much with your videos, you're like my 'eavy metal Bob Ross

I love recess shading, I use oil washes as it is easy to clean when batch painting and adds lots of depth to a model

I feel the same when I recess shade a mini as when I ink a drawing. It's risky dingoes because mistakes are so visible, and I always feel like I'm cheating a little putting on contour lines because I have been dissuaded from using contour lines in certain kinds of art, being told it's a sign of you not being good enough at forming volumes with your chosen medium and then contour lines can be used as a crutch. The thing is with almost all minis and a lot of other artwork, contour lines and recess shading is absolutely the style and something we WANT. And you're right the feeling when we do it and it goes well is so good and satisfying, even for me as a newbie painter. It just tightens everything right up, it's sæxæ.

Geeat tutorial Scott, thank you!! These videos are extremely valuable. Best line, "Let's paint some cracks!"

Thanks for the tutorial Scott.

This might be the horniest video in all of mini painting and I am here for it. Beautiful work Scott!

As a Commission Painter, I do agree that gloss, ink, then matte is usually the way I go. In some cases I WANT the ink/contrast/wash to stain the mini to obtain the end color I'm after. Say, Bone colored armor on Deathwing. I get the recess shade and overall color in 1 step. Keep up the good work!

This is the most zen video you have ever made.

Heck yeah, more Infinity love

Did... Did Scott just painted an Infinity Model? 😍

Keep a damp brush handle and use it to quickly remove any mistakes. You have 5-10 seconds in which to do so. Just rub the damp brush on the surface, quickly rinse and repeat until it's done.

I love the zen bit!

Sweet! Scott is painting some infinity models!

My favorite recess shading paint is actually equal parts ink, glaze medium, and flow aid. I've found that's what works best for me, both for flow and for fixing mistakes. Because this mixture takes a while to dry, I can come back in with a wet brush and clean up the mess before it sets.

Another thing to add is that you can apply a wash after recess shading, it'll make the deepest recesses darker and help create a blend between the shade and base colour.

Great comparative breakdown. Will have to share this!

What about using panel liner instead? Just make sure the provided brush isn't too loaded, so it won't flood onto your model accidently and it works great. Not to mention that you can generally clean things up (oil based) if things go sideways on you. The capillary action means you barely have to move the brush to fill your recesses, just keep it on the edge, and it will flow along the edge for you. Works great, with much less effort/thought than painting them all by hand. A gloss coat can help with flow.

Great video! Can't wait to practice my reshesh shading now.

MINIAC AND INFINITY IN THE SAME VIDEO I cracked my screen clicking this.

This also explains why Mr two coats often says to stay away from recesses during certain parts

Nuln oil GLOSS is great for rcess shading. Also gloss varnish before inking recesses.

Small tip: this can also be called "Dark-lining". Mini painter Rhonda Bender, on the Bird With a Brush blog, calls it this and has a written issue on the topic that complements this video well.

Holy shit, Infinity! Wooooo!

I’m a panel liner heathen. I get the same effect in seconds with Tamiya’s Panel Line Accent Color. Works like a charm and can also add some extra depth to colors like a wash (with more control to only be near and inside the recesses). U ever tried them? I just recently started combining techniques I’ve learned from Gunpla and Miniatures

oil pin washes are a godsend just one little dab of the brush will flow in to the whole recess takes miniates to pin wash minis then it takes hrs to dry a good stoping point

Woo, Infinity!

Great presentation. Well done, quite skillful

Thanks for the crispy vid.

mindful mini painting, video idea rite there

Pannel liner is fantastic, working on a commission at the moment and its definitely made it viable for time investment

Infinity! Finally!

Love your videos! After quite a bit of personal resistance, I recently used oil washes to do some targeted recess shading on some storm troopers. It was super easy and gave a super clean look. You should give it a try!