You often come across people who are very talented in what they do, and often come across people who are generous in sharing their knowledge, but not everyone is both very talented and very generous in sharing that knowledge, so thank you very much for these videos.

I've watched dozens of your videos, and my new favorite line is "Oil paints are all about the wipey. Lots and lots of wipey wipey wipey." Thank you so much for putting out such informative but straightforward content!

"The skin is pretty flat" Looks more dynamic then any skin iv ever painted

Wow! Just amazingly informative and encouraging. I’m going to give it a shot. Thank you 😊

I've been looking forward to this video for weeks! Wappel has gotten me incredibly excited about painting with oils, and I couldn't wait to see how you used them here too.

Vince, this is the SINGLE BEST video I've seen anywhere on this subject - thank you!

Great Video as always Vince, thank you! It might just be KZfaq algorithms but I'm starting to notice a real resurgence of interest in using oils for miniature painting - it's great to see!!

Loved it! One of my fav vids of yours.

Vince, another informative vid. I have started using oils and found it fit my style of figure painting. I feel I achieve a better result now

Thanks again for sharing ! If you like oils, you should try Abteilung range. They are designed for miniature painting (less seed oil and adapted color range like a skin tones pack). I use them for oil washes but I just received my flesh tones pack because I wanted to give a try. Your video came at a wonderful moment 😉

Awesome vid, Vince. Please do tons more of this. It's like a whole new untapped world HC can explore! Also that free hand is really well done.

so i would like to say thank you. you have actually given me the confidence to try oils. cheers.

This has been such a useful video, huge thanks! Hoping to see more videos on oils from you as you have a great way of explaining things so they're easy to understand. Cheers!

I've watched this video probably 5 times now. It's so satisfying to work with oil paints. I've only done it once so far for a wooden barrel but it is a lot of fun!

Awesome! Thanks a lot for this one. Looks really easy and I'm sure I will give it a try in the future.

Love it! This was always the next video I was going to end up watching after the most recent oil tutorial

YES! SO MUCH YES! *grabs cup of tea and gets comfortable*

Another great video Vince! About using varnish as a save point I can't help but remember one of the early text only BBS games that said, "Remember player to save early and save often." Has a whole new meaning now. Thanks for sharing and stay safe!

Have read a lot of the comments made here about oils and how "fearful" some painters are. The main concern seems drying time, answer is get a food dehydrator and your oils that needed 48 hours plus to dry now only need about 8 to 12. You can also cure your acrylics in one. A food dehydrator is one appliance that goes up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit, safe for plastics, metal and resin figures or any small hobbies needing faster drying. Thank you Vince for your show and tell about oils. I have used them since the 70's and my oil tubes are still good. Back in the day your paint choices were 4: Testors enamels, Humbrol enamels, Railroad model paints and Oils. Art tube acrylics were thin and weepy ( the ones I found) and took many layers to get a good red. Acrylics have come along way and I like them for base coating faces, animals, leather items and then oils on top. My favorite "cheating" method is that I collect reference faces from magazines. Must have good natural color, have good highlights and shadows. Try to get hands also. Keep this organized in a binder and sooner or later a face on a figure will match your binder, a nice crutch. Cheers

Revisiting this video as I recently bought set of oil paints. I'm yet to paint a big model, but I did a lot of work in short amount of time on a cape. I have to say that I am impressed. I might've bought too bright Cadmium Red, but will what it should. I love how easily they blend. Thanks again for this tutorial!

recently started using oils, and they are so much fun to use, especially on large areas like cloaks and skin.

Vince, your the best teacher….. so good… I like all the Details on how to… with oils…. Skin tones you make look easy..! 😮🤠🙀👍🇺🇸 from Aiken South Carolina.

That is poetry given shape. Will have to try it some day.

Thank you so much for going into the details and all this amazing footage of blending work! That was what I was looking for, so motivating. I'm going to try this on some bootleg figures with lousy paintjob and try painting my own clay figures. Subbed. Thanks!

Great Video..very helpful! Thanks

You had me at whipey lol. Soonish I want to dabble into oils. Perfect video, thanks. I'm close to finishing my 1st bust from Robot Rocket Miniatures. I used all acrylic and for a novice I think its turning out good, I'll have to throw it out on the forum when finished. Been getting buzz from the other forums on progress pics. Always a pleasure being a subscriber to your channel!

Been looking forward to this one. I struggle with skin tones and this should help a lot

Genuinely you de-mystified oils. Excellent (and humorous) presentation. Thanks.

Fantastic video.😀😀👍👍👏🏻👏🏻

I enjoyed this so much Vince! I was giggling throughout with the moob painting! This poor guy looks like he needs to see a dermatologist and a liver specialist. He's looks jaundiced to me! But, I did learn, and I always remember more when the teaching is done with a sense of humor! Thank you! Lisa

A glazed neutral tone tile or a pane of glass with a neutral colored paper glued to the back make for a great pallete .pick a size that will fit in a gallon ziplock and save those paints that don't suffer from a short drying time.

Vince. Seriously. This is the best video you’ve done. I am dabbling in the oils and this is very very good. I like James, but this is easier to follow and you hit so many questions I had. Unbelievable. Get out of my head you devil. Liking and sharing.

Wow. The first segment, about mixing your own flesh tones, was amazing.

Been wanting to add oils to my arsenal for some time now. Thanks for explaining it so a NEWB can follow.

Super inspiring! I have the same model with a very basic skin tone. I'll be trying this for sure. Thanks for the detailed video!

Thank you for a great tutorial, please do more videos on using oil paints for miniature painting. I know this will seem like a silly question, when you talked about varnishing after the oil paint was dry, are you using the same varnish that you use for acrylic paint? Thanks again for the great tutorial, keep them comming!

I , for one, would love to see this on 28mm miniatures. I was literally thinking about getting better skin tones today and this showed up in my feed.

When I use a plate like that, or a little container of wash, I use a bit of blue tac to stop it moving around on my desk.

Awesome, thanks for this one Vince! :-D

I'd love to see you do this with an Ork character. Ghaz skin with oils tutorial? 😁

Fantastic vid Vince, I've been fascinated by oil paintings ever since I went to the Guild Hall art gallery a few years ago, and here's me no idea I could use it with my mini's! If your ever in London you should visit it, it's a bit of a hidden gem and free!

Great video!

Super cool! I will need to use oils for upcoming Sons of Behemat.

It may be because I haven't watched that many video's yet, but hearing Vince say "homeboy" at 15:55 made me laugh out loud.

Dude, that giant’s skin looked fantastic just after your zinethal!

This so inspired me to start trying oil paints. He’s like the more aggressive defiant Bob Ross of the miniature world.

Excellent tutorial answers a lot of questions for a novice

Hello Vince, thank you for yet another informative and inspiring video! I just tried oil paints for the first time and am loving the results! A few questions I couldn't find covered anywhere online. 1. Since it can take over a day. How can I know when oil paint is dry/cured? Is it just a matter of time or are there any visual/tactile hints that it has finished curing? 2. How long do you wait before spray varnishing oil paint? 3. Do you varnish oil paint before adding additional layers of acrylic paint?

That base skin, painted with an airbrush, before applying any ink at all, it's already better than any "final product" I have ever achieved... Encouraging to think all there is to learn ahead! ... If you think about it with the right mindset...

Thanks, Bob.

I suggest a Glass Palette to you. Red Grass Games or even better New Wave® POSH®. I suggest grey instead of clear or white so see the hues correctly

Starts using oil paints and immediately starts channeling Bob Ross; "just putting them where they seem they'll be fun" - I love it ^^ Also, reverse drybrusing does seem like a fun way to paint

You can use a 4 X 6 index card placed inside of a disposable plastic sandwich as a small pallet. When the paint is done, you remove and re-use the index card in the next sandwich bag.

Thank you as always. I woulld like to see how you paint wood like you can see on the club he is holding! :)

wonderful

Hey Vince! I wanted to say thanks for all of the information that you pass along. Personally you have really been a wealth of knowledge to the point that I am finally working on the models I have been collecting and building over the years and have deiced to jump into the deep end and incorporate oils into this initial endeavor because - like you say and I have finally accepted and internalized - you cant ruin a model. I have been struggling with oils and because I think my touch is too heavy, how much pressure are you exerting on the oils, 2 hairs and some air or something else? Thank you so much again!

You make it look so easy . Now I get to collect more paint hehehe

Thanks for another amazing video Vince! Can you tell me which brands do you recommend for brushes when working with oils? which ones are yours? Also, what about the mineral spirits? is the mona lisa better? Sometimes they tend to have a strong smell, i dont know about different brands, here in my country is kind of limited the selection, but any guide can help me a lot. Thanks again! There is a brand called Abteilung 502, that are special oil paints made for miniatures and kits, that even dry faster i believe, do you now about them? Would be great if you would do a review :) Thanks again

Thanks for this amazing tutorial Vince. I'm gonna attempt to do an ogre skin on a bust. Maybe acrylics for the rest of the details.

Great video. Please people, listen to Vince and do not forget to smooth your moob shadow. Thanks in advance.

I use an old food dehydrator to dry my oils overnight.

Wow amazing. When you started slathering on that white paint to his nipples I got nervous for a moment you weren't going to be able to bring it back but then you did! I'd particularly love to see how you did that tree branch he's holding. I like how I do wood but I don't get it nearly as good as you, yours has such a great variety of color to it. I think I see inktense wood in the more yellowy bits but even if that's true getting it so rich is a lot harder said than done. Would also love to see how you did the skull on the end of his club. I've been doing similar stuff to a lot of people to get bone color but the skull on the end of his club looks so much more like old skulls that have been sitting out in the forest and are picked clean. Fantastic work as always~!

Great video Vince. I have never used oils and a bit hesitant to try due to needing to learn how to mix, clean, and apply it all it's forms like acrylic. I am still learning a lot about acrylic and mixing colors. Do you reference color mix charts for a particular color?

Vince just found this video and I am excited to start using oils. Do you have a video that shows how you got the mini to the stage before you start using the oils? From doing the zenithal and base coats.

Useful as always

Awesome stuff I am really enjoying your series on oil painting! Is an color base coat always necessary for working with oils? I understand that some of the oil colors are transparent, is this why we can’t just apply them over a primed model?

I mean - I always knew that large scale models (fleshy bits) generally are painted using oils - but *** mind blown *** Holy crap! ... I'm almost tempted - no I'm not actually going to do it - to throw all my hundreds and hundreds of acrylics in the trash and start over new ... lol

hi vince! thank you for all the great videos! long time listener, first time caller here. Quick question and the answer may be obvious but given the opacity of oil paints, what are the benefits of starting off on zenithal based mini (other than using the zenithal as a guide for lighting effects)?

I started painting using Bob Ross' videos. I find oil paints a lot less intimidating than acrylics. So much less stress. So much more forgiving.

The first models I ever painted was a unit of ultramarines but all I had was testors paints. They took so long to paint because of the same reason oils take forever, drying. I never knew about ceiling layers down with varnish. And I definitely didn't have a Zen relaxed experience. I'm really tempted to go drop 5 Franklins at my local art supply store on some oils now that I have seem what is possible. After watching what you did with skin tones, with this wonderful troll. I wonder do you ever use oils on smaller 28 mm models? Or smaller?

Great video, but it's odd; I've been painting canvases for decades and I use synthetic brushes for acrylics and sable for oils! On minis I only use sable, except for dry brushing.

Great video! I've been contemplating getting oils. Wondering what you would suggest. I have a few larger minis (greek gods, demons, etc...) and I want to go a bit higher than my normal tabletop ready standard. I've been debating between Scale75's Heavy bodied Acrylics and Oil paints. Price isn't an issue. I just don't want to get both if they end up occupying the same space. Consider my skill level to be average. All things considered, what would you suggest? Or is there significant room for both in my arsenal? Appreciate you taking the time to answer all the questions you get!

Thanks Vince - your efforts have moved the needle of mini painting knowledge forward instrumentally. A big Q - why ever paint in acrylics instead of oils?

I just bought some oils and Windsor and Newton Sansodor (brush cleaner) and a few mig oilbrushers. Perfect timing. Thank you. To apply(free hand) a tattoo would you wait till it is dry or blend in some dark green or blue while the flesh tone is wet? Edit: moooooooob

Another great video. One question; In a previous video you mentioned that the brush you blend the colours with needed to be dry with no white spirit but here you're using a tiny bit that is left after the "wipey wipey". Why the different method?

Moar oil paints tutorials please! I've just started to using them. Looks like they start to be popular around again in wargaming world.

This was a revelation for me. Atm I'm just printing and building a big winged creature and I've been giving a lot of thought as to how I was going to paint him and thanks to this video I now know. One question Vince, what type of varnish goes on first? Acrylic or enamel? I don't remember hearing you say

Great viddy! Sorry if someone has asked this. Do you prefer Satin or Matt surfaces when varnishing between steps?

I loved this video, i am interested in trying this out but i still have some questions. Do you always start with a base coat of acrylics first and sealed them before starting with the oils? Or is it possible to just jump in and use oils right away on top of primer? If it's recommended to have acrylics first, what's the reason behind it? Mostly to have a base coat or is it to make the oils faster to work with because they might have some transparency to them that let's the base coat underneath show through? What if i used contrast paints or speed paints as the base coat instead of a full traditional base coat? Would that help and speed the process so i can start with the oils part of the paint job?

Oil paints, the original wet blending. Oils need more love, very underrated.

im just about to venture into oils after near 30 years with acrylics, looks so wrong just splodging colours on and blending on the mini, you do great helpful videos tho so thank you

Hi Vince, I’m acceptable with acrylics but am about to paint unimportant models entirely with oils for the first time soon for learning and fun. I notice some people put some relevant acrylic colour basecoats first, whereas others put oil straight over a standard zenithal. Any indications as to which colours you would put a coloured acrylic base under first? Cheers!

Thanks for this tutorial Vince. I do have a question though. Not about oil paints. I just need a little advice on very small faces. I’m currently painting GCT studios miniatures for Bushido. I love the figs but the faces are so small and highly detailed and delicate. The first time, I found, because it’s such a small area, even with thinning the paints, it tended to “cake”. I’ve used flow aid recently which helps but wondered to your knowledge if the is a paint product the is very translucent or a technique that would help?. Many thanks Andy

Do you varnish with matt or gloss varnish, over the dry oils, when you want to then use acrylic paints over the varnish?

ALWAYS smooth your moob shadows.

Vince: Could use you use an acrylic wash like say Agrax Earthshade as part of the acrylic underpainting then seal, then apply oils? Or with this method do you not recommend using acrylic washes?

Very interesting video - thanks Vince! µI haven't used oils at all and am in the target audience that needed to see all of the small steps. ;) Just to clarify: you're callnig this a "substractive" process because you are removing color from where it is (and a bit from the mini overall), right? (It's a weird word for me - even if it is what it is called by the masses and the experts - because we see what you are doing is essentially moving that paint around. ;) Oh, one more question: you said typically 24h to dry is what we should expect. I take it that was in-between layers. I usually like to let the paint "cure" a little more than it "just" needs to before varnishing (whether for save point or final mini sealing). Would you extend that duration for that purpose, or still consider that the usual 24h-ish is OK?

You should really try water-miscible oils. Holbein duo aqua, when used with water only, will dry to a nice matte finish. They remain workable for about 24 hours, so you still get the advantages of slow-drying, and the painting process is just the same. Note I’m not saying you yourself should change anything, your clearly confortable painting with classic oils, but I feel presenting them would really help hobbyists getting into oils. It’s nice to know you can just use water and your same old brushes, without having to deal with toxic thinner.

Great tutorial as I am going to try oils instead of acrylics due to the reasons you show. Question…many oil tutorials say to wait and let that “layer” dry before adding the next paint. You show blending immediately…am confused.

I was kinda disappointed the first time I painted a cloak with oil, cause the result seemed very meh, a couple of days later when the extreme shinyness dulled down a bit, it looked great, still needs a satin or matte varnish but I'll definitely going to use that again for space marine captain cloaks and for sm banners, maybe even normal shading on powerarmor

Hi Vince! I know this is an older video but I’m wanting to explore oil paints. When it comes to minis how strictly don you follow the various oil paint rules like “fat over lean”, “thick over thin” etc? And for example knowing it’s fully cured before varnishing?

Vince, am I guessing on preparation, can I use Gesso thinned to hand prime, and oil wash ink rubbed off for zenithal recess?

Vince, any plans for maybe doing a Frazetta style skin/composition?

yo at 20:39 he brought out some cool whip on the nip lmao

Ha. Clearly a fan of Bob Ross given your presentation😄

I love my oils, and I use them almost exclusively now, but while the blending is a non-factor, I have trouble with getting real sharp lines. The blending also tends to de-saturate things, so everything I paint in oil always seems to come off "creamier" and with less "pop" than with the acrylics. Any tips on sharpness and saturation?

Hi Vince, I know this is an older video, but I recently got into oil paints in a big way, and came back to this video for some tips (of which there were many!) I do have one question though, is there a way to do an oil wash over parts painted in oil? When I've tried to do it, either the oil paint underneath gets erased, or everything just sort of splodges together.

Awesome work. What Varnish do you use? I do always paint jobs I am satisfied with but the varnishing ruined so many models ... Please give me a hint. Thank you very much.

Wow that was awesome - moobs and all haha! Do you ever use oils for free hand work?

Hi, just what i was looking for. Exiting and look way easier then when i use acrylic. Im about to try to paint figurine with oil paint. I like to know can i still use acrylic for base paint then use oil on top of it? Then if i seal everthing can i add some touch of acrylic on top of all that?