I switched to using oils exclusively about 2 years ago, and I agree: I'm never going back to acrylics. ;) I find they're so much easier to work with, actually, and much less stressful and zen. It's surprisingly fast to just kind of blob on colors to block in volumes, then go back with a dry blending brush and move it around to blend and smooth. I generally follow Wappel's methods, with a few tweaks here and there. Great to see more folks trying them out.

I love this! Truly fantastic stuff. I'm primarily a scale modeler and I use oils for weathering effects and to push highlights and shadows on my models but its incredible to see what you can do from the ground up with oils. Love it

You are totally right ! since 2-3 years Im addicted to oil paints ,was searching after a crimsonfists painting tutorial and found an oil approach by Vince Venturella ,and after that ended up with James Wappel. I regret nothing, it is so hard for me to go back to acrylics ,sometimes I think that it would be impossible to go back to acrylcs. You are talking from the deepest of my Oilpainter soul. Thanks for this video ,it feels so good, knowing that more people are working with oils :)

Great video! Subscribed. I am teaching myself oils and love working with them, but for army scale games I keep going back to acrylic paint. I still have a long way to go with oils, so I am sure that is part of it.

This is amazing to watch and inspiring.

Wow! Interessting ✌🏽 would love to see a speed painting vid

very cool to see a different method and style. 35 years ago, all i had was little vials of Testors oil paints. But the paint type didnt matter - I didn't have a clue what I was doing hehe.

OK, as someone who only has experience with painting with acrylics, that ease of blending is absolutely insane and really something I struggle with! Guess I'll have to try some oil paints then.

I would also like to see a speed painting tutorial. This is really beautiful.

Great result. What I have struggled the most in oils is actually the thinning of it.

Oils are awesome. I started using them for basic washes but I'd like to get some colours and try using them for more elements of my miniatures

This is how we painted all our minis decades ago.

Sounds like something I could use for the terrain, but not for minis. Not at the moment. Convenience and fast drying of acrylics is essential for me since I have no dedicated work station and kids who love to contribute.

excellent, very inspiring

Wonderful video! Does anyone have a rundown on cleanup materials and workload behind safe handling? What do you do with solvents you clean brushes with? How do you store handle and dispose? Would love to get into oils just not sure how to setup the boring cleanup part.

It's really cool.

Thanks for the great video! How does your blending brush not take paint off the model? When I’ve tried this it seems like I can barley touch the paint before I’m just removing it. Is the brush as dry as possible? (No spirits?)

This is amazing, I'm hoping there are more tutorials coming!

I would add brilliant yellow pale form Williamsburg as another very useful paint (and all GAmblin radiants but this is adding much more costs)

Id like to see a mid range sustem. Not necessarily speed paint but just a nice tabletop ready version.

The temptation is so high, thank you for the video and the advice on learning to be okay with sucking again

When you’re blending, are you using a brush dampened with your spirits, or is the brush completely dry? I’m an acrylic painter, but I’m really interested in oil painting. Also, do you use a varnish after your done to set the paints, if you intend to game with the models?

Nice recommandations. ❤ is there a particular magenta you use?

I love the idea of oils however I find that using them for miniatures often leaves unwanted texture/brushmarks. Do I need a softer brush for blending?

Do you prime the models beforehand? Or straight on with the pre wash?

I have bought paints you recommended, they are awesome, can you tell me what to buy next? Thank you.

This may seem a stupid question: but did you undercoat with acrylics or go straight for the oil glaze? But it does it does look great.

This is still one of my favourite mini painting videos to watch. I do have a question: as someone whos proficient in both oil and acrylic, for what reasons do you swtich between these mediums?

What would you use to strip oils from a mini if you wanted to give them a different paintjob later on for whatever reason?

Interesting, i've never though of oil paints as being a quick and easy way of painting, especialy the non metalic metals look way quicker, I'd like to see what a 45-60 minute oil paint vs acrilic can do. There is a children's rhyme in french "La peinture à l'huile. C'est bien difficile. Mais c'est bien plus beau. Que la peinture à l'eau." translates to: Oil paint is hard, but it looks better than water paint. So I've had a deep seeded fear of oilpaints since childhood 😄.

Wow mate, this is fantastic! I bought some cheapo oil paints for making washes, might give this a try on a mini Im not bothered about messing up 🤘

Interesting video. I started to dabble with oil paints and was blown away how easy it is to get smooth blends and will definitely explore further. I have a question for you though. You did not mention whether you primed your miniature. I am 3D printing and I think the porous surface of the miniature might be enough to paint directly on them without priming first. What do you think?

Great video. You mention Wappel and I notice your style here is similar to his in that the whole figure is painted with a very limited palette with only minor variation between parts (e.g. pants and wings are both green/blue). This prioritizes dramatic lighting and is a great style yet I wonder if one could also fully oil- paint a figure to look like 'eavy metal style with strong separation between parts, high contrast edge highlights etc.

What kind of primer and varnish do you use for oil paints?

Very informative. Subscribers: +1. One thing I notice, in this video only, as I have yet to watch any others, is that your painting is very stylised, even cartoonish. Many miniature painters paint this way, and its use can depend on the final purpose one has for the miniature; display, gaming, competition, etc. I do not have a problem with this, however, as a long time wargamer in many genres, I much prefer, in general, the realistic look for miniatures. That is, the accurate depictions of material based lighting and textures - as in the Historical area of wargaming/military simulation - well, at least for the most part we do not see many stylised painting schemes. Maybe this is something you could discuss, if you haven't already - or better yet, present a similar video in which you tackle oil painting in a realistic style. Cheers.

Promising channel subscribed

What about the thickness of the paint? two thin coats and all that to keep the surface even?

I just started painting and trying to absorb as much know-how as possible, have you tried CMYK colors instead of red-yellow-blue? Your model here looks really vibrant, it gives me confidence to explore this oil-paint route rather than just sticking to acrylics, although I'm sure the skill is what I am mostly seeing here. Anyway, thanks for the inspiration.

I have been wanting to try oils paints for a while. This has definitely inspired me to give them a try. One concern I have is if I mess up really bad. With acrylics if that happens I can always just hit the reset button with green goo etc. Is there something like that for oil paints?

I don't use them much because of solvent exposure. My painting area has limited air flow, especially in winter. I'd use them more with a better spot. I'm sure a little white spirit won't kill me, but I'm uncomfortable with chronic exposure and I want to be painting for a long time to come! I use oil washes with a respirator and the window open. Painting for hours wearing a respirator is... tiring. I've tried Gamblin's "Solvent-Free Fluid" medium, but it's very glossy.

I still have a set of water suitable oils, I might try this. edit; it went terrible do NOT use water suitable oils they took like 2 months to dry. I since went out and bought classic high grade artist grade oils and they are fantastic to work with and dry in only 2 or 3 days.

Is there a type of brush or specific quality you want in a blending brush?

What are some oil paint brands you recommend for miniatures?

Nice! But raw lineseed oil shouldn't be a better thinner for oils? Some said it's the best,at least on canvas pictures.

I struggle painting with oils especially because I didn t get it to dry in acceptable time. It seems that your oils are drying really quick. Do you have Tips too Enhancer the dringlich time?

How low did it take to complete one of these Models without drying time?

Painting miniatures with oil paints can be quite costly, but the investment is undoubtedly worth it. When it comes to choosing a medium for painting miniatures, oil paints reign supreme. Their results are unparalleled, far surpassing the outcomes achieved with standard acrylic paints. Once you have honed your skills with oil paints, there is simply no going back. Believe me, as someone who adores working with oil paints, the ability to seamlessly blend colors is truly remarkable.

so when you were painting this was the paint diluted with the schminke?

Okay I need to buy your recommended start palette now I’ve been working so hard to find a style I like for some slaanesh units and I realize now you just can’t do what I wanna do well with acrylics and oil would be better

Did you undercoat the models first or paint directly on the plastic?

I used to paint with oils years ago until I switched to acrylics in the 90's. I think I'll stay with acryllis for now.

My painting space is in my bedroom and that’s all I have what’s the solution for the smell?

Was the mini primed grey or you literally pre-glazed over the plastic?

It's possible to aply wash oil on miniatures without primer ?

So no primer with these paints?

Where are you going to get worn out kolinsky brushes if you're not using acrylics? :)

I really wished some KZfaqr would show alternative techniques with oil some day. The “Wappel” style does look great, and I’m sure it’s creatively fulfilling, but it also leads to models that can be difficult to read and textures that are too smooth. In classical painting, oils can be used for much more precise techniques and solvents are not the main medium to fluidity the paint, I really wished one day someone would explore different avenues better adapted to more detailed models.

Yeah....I can't do that...I'm just starting to learn to paint and acrylics are hard enough.

Forget oil paints and toxic solvents - use water soluble oils. All the benefits, with a soap and water cleanup.

Stelling eller Creas?

I've tried oils a bit. It's much harder than KZfaqrs make it look. I think if it like airbrushing. It's a whole new skill.

wouldn't you want cmyk colors instead of ultramarine and red?

I was doing oils only miniatures for a little while but I kind of sucked at it. I could never understand the timing of painting with oils. how long to allow oils to set before moving to the next step. Sometimes I would apply a paint on a area, work on it with a highlight and rub off the top layer exposing the primer underneath. Also my skills were not that good. Like if I looked up a tutorial on how to paint a display quality skin, for example, I would want to follow the steps in acrylic on how to paint any object but the oils tutorials most people paint all over the mini with seeming the same color before going back to that spot of interest with a different color. It's the ADHD of mini painting. This put me at a disadvantage because I want to watch a video on how to do a higher level skin techniques, or any technique for that matter, which they used acrylics and I am using the medium of oils, it always caused a mess and work I was never happy with. Also the fine texture was hard to pull off with oils compared to oils, it is easy to grab a color and do crosshatching, stippling, or micro scratching but oils would want to blend rather than apply the texture. Sorry for the rant. I painted some ok stuff with oils, even better when I mixed oils and acrylics. Also preglazing with the Egyptian Violet , is a bad idea, I've had to strip miniatures many times because of that color is way too strong as a stain color.

Abteiling 502 oils are specifically made for painting miniatures and are amazing In my opinion but oils in general have helped me progress and also highly recommend

finally a kin soul =D

Non toxic oil paints?

Oils are great for washes but it’s just too time consuming when you are painting 100+ models with oil paint.

Why isn't everyone using Oil paint? I mean, I think you answered the question with the cash register noise just before. Picking up one color of artist grade oil paint is a much bigger investment than an acrylic miniature paint, and anything less than artist-grade will leave you with some grittiness to your paintjob, limiting you to washes and grimdark paintjobs. Even made-for-purpose miniature oil paints like Abteilung are both expensive and on the lower end of Artist Grade quality. With that said, I highly recommend experimenting with oils. Even a $15 set of cheapo 1oz no-name oil paints will work for weathering, where the chunky pigments don't matter or enhance the effect.

Im surprised anyone would find oil painting hard or time consuming. I mean, Bob Ross showed the world 30 years ago how easy and fast it is.

Kinda think that none of the misconceptions are not really misconceptions. >expensive Not beyond first glance and many people buy tens-hundreds of acrylic paints anyway, which is not required with artist grade paint >take ages to dry Drying within a day or two is considered "ages" compared to mini paints. I don't think this is really a problem but it is orders of magnitudes longer than acrylic. >Difficult to use Really, oils are wheeled out on warhammer youtube quite often as a quick way to wash or panel line. A number of these have also made "smooth blends" tutorials. No, I don't think there is a misconception that oils are "hard", its mostly that oils are simply not considered at all, and when they are it is not for doing the heavy lifting part of painting. If there is a difficulty to use it is paint mixing/mixing theory as mini painters in general use horrible sausage paint that doesn't mix well so it needs to be learned from scratch

Gotta make sure your ventilation is up to snuff or wear a respirator and keep family/pets out of your space when working with this stuff. A great tool, just keep safety top priority.

ONE DAY OF DRYING? no..... Stop that's a big problem no.