What do you think guys? Was two toning the miniature too much effort? Do tyranids even need underpainting? Has anyone started painting theirs yet? I’d love to see!

"Rim the Screamer Killer till he was satisfied" Don't know if I love the techniques or the double entendres better. Thanks!

Slappity Choppity! Videos like this are great for folks picking up Leviathan that want to just get them on the table. Keep it up!

Amazing, absolutely amazing. Very good painting and amazing figures!

Thank you for this series. I will definitely be using some of these techniques on mine. The whole time I was waiting for a wash or contrast over the bones but it never happened, and I think that is brilliant. Sometimes less really is more. I love the result. Well done.

Seems like you've nailed this method. I'll be borrowing this for my tyranids - great job dude!

For a bug, that guy is beautiful.

Looks great! And I love how you are experimenting with different methods of underpainting, it really shows that you are not limited to the greyscale "dogma" that was born with "slapchop". Doing underpainting in different tones, og just in two steps ratver than three can be perfectly viable, and you not even need it at all.

Super Effective, Congrats !!!

Awesome job and that is one cool mini 🙂

Great job ! To my taste the final result lacks a tiny bit of contrast overall, i think i would have used less white at the end of the drybrush step but its just personal taste. Keep up the nice slap chop content !!

Can you make a video with the neurotyrant would love to se how that would look 😁

Ah, thanks for showing some blending with speedpaint, looks really awesome. I hope to do highlights after my speedpaint layer (as opposed to drybush), to keep my finish preference. Would be great to see you try that style too (slap chop, speedpaint, then 1 colour highlight). Thanks for trying different base coat too, super interesting. I think the slap chop does look good 👍👍

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

Looks nice! I've been experimenting with learning slap chop a bit myself and I think what's missing there on the body is that there's not enough contrast between your darkest dark and lightest light. The ribcage really shows it off. Not sure if it's the drybrushing too heavy or the color choice. But experimenting and finding out is fun! Thanks for the great content and hope you enjoyed your one good weather day for the year.

This also seems very applicable to the Green and bonish white Hive fleet Tiamet.

I think the secret to slap chop is to do the dry brushing in batches. Get 10-15 minis assembled, prime, then slap chop the gray/white. Then paint the ones you want and have more ready to go next time you're in the chair

Excellent video - I've got 7,000 points of Nids, so it only seemed appropriate to grab Leviathan and... you know, get some more. They're an amazing army for speed painting & batch painting. Though, if you do go for them, spend ages choosing your scheme - you'll be painting a lot of it!

Reminder that when using speedpaints or contrast paints, to work from your darker colors to your lighter ones. Meaning you should do the purple before the skin tone. If you get the purple on the skin tone you’re screwed. Whereas if you do the purple first, and get some where the skin will eventually be, you can always clean it up with white or the primer color. And then the skin tone will be so light and translucent that it won’t matter even a little bit if you get some on the purple. This is a general rule for translucent paints. First do metallics. Then do you darkest speedpaint colors, and then finish with your lightest colors. This is show you avoid serious mistakes if brush control ever fails you.

Some slapchop users prefer to go straight to white from black let the contrast colors do their job , and make sure the brush isnt so loaded when you apply the drybrush, legitimately i suggest apllying a circle of the brush on the back part of your palm to make sure the paint is faint enough before hitting the model with it. Made a huge difference for me instead of solely using the paper towel .

Yes! Its a perfectly valid er reason

Seems like more effort than just using contrast paint.

If anyone wants to split their leviathan box, I’m interested in either half

Nice blending on the joints! I’m curious: have you noticed any cracking occurring with the v2 Speedpaints?

Nice to hear that slapchop and zombicide goes well together. I just bought the complete speedpaint set and have tons of zombicide miniatures waiting. Any tips and tricks?

Just a suggestion, list the paint you use in the description, helps for speedy reference.

Mh... maybe a drybrush of Pale Sand afterward to bump out the edges a little bit more?

What are those little crystals that you have on top of every paint so you can color them?

Just a reminder that the skin for hive fleet Leviathan is pink, rather than pale sand off white.

You were going in the opposite direction that you should be for dry brushing a zenithal. You should be brushing away from the recesses, not into them. Defeats the purpose of slapchop when you don't actually have any decent contrast. There's a reason there was no difference between your termagants. Slapchop is normally more significant, and doesn't require as many washing steps as you use.

What is the definition of "Slapchop Painting Technique" ?

Are you sponsoring by the army painter or something? Lol I’ve never seen anyone actually use army painter paints, they’re widely considered to be one of the worst ranges (outside of their speed paints obviously)

I think the skin needs more work, especially around the rib cage the paintjob feels really flat. Maybe it´s because of Howling Sand, but it feels like it doesnt create that much contrast with darker recesses. Looks more like a regular Pale sand colour.