As a geologist I love this walkthrough. Personally I loot my tiny crystals from work. Only true metalics and true crystals for me.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

I love this. :)

@questgivercyradis8462

2 жыл бұрын

Mineralogist here. The crystals came out pretty well. I get annoyed at sculptors who make 5 sided crystals though - GAH. That doesn't work! I also don't see TMM as actual true metallic because most metallic paint is made with mica, a silicate, not a metal. Just doesn't quite jive. Do have a collection of collected fun minerals to use as basing material; not everything is display worthy.... but pretty tiny fragments could be used on a base to be actual crystals at scale. Got topaz, toumaline, peridot, garnet.... heh.

@philgee486

2 жыл бұрын

@@questgivercyradis8462 Oooh minerals for basing....

@questgivercyradis8462

2 жыл бұрын

@@philgee486 I have a hard time seeing painted ones as proper, and tiny enough specimens can do the job if they're subtle. Also hard to resist picking up the lil' buggers so I need an excuse to do so >.>

@philgee486

2 жыл бұрын

@@questgivercyradis8462 Amen to that, I can resist anything but temptation, and exotic minerals for basing sounds awesome in itself

I'm working 12 hr days 6 days a week and my hobby time has dropped to a trickle. Vince is keeping that hobby flame lit in my heart while my pile of unpainted minis haunts my soul.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

It's okay, hobby time comes and goes, but the passion always remains, we're all on our own journey. :)

The entire hobby cheating playlist is like balm for my soul. It is unbelievably relaxing for me to watch you do awesome paint jobs and learn at the same time. Your love for the hobby is infectious and I thank you deeply for your commitment to making all these videos through the years. Cheers Vince!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Thats wonderful to hear and always happy to help.

I've found contrast paint pretty handy for doing crystals. You can do a very rough undershade and use the contrast as a power glaze to get your colour on. Only trick is to dry the model upside down so that the paint pools towards the top of the crystal so you keep your highlights and shadows. Plus the satin finish of contrast paints actually works towards the final product.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea! Love it.

I love waking up to a fresh Vincey V video

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Always happy to help.

Thank you Vince for your continued contribution to the hobby, and to my inspiration!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Nice terrain feature highlight that's not too hard and easily adjusted. Love your basing videos V!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Always happy to help. :)

Thank you for this awesome breakdown! I've always struggled with painting things like crystals and gems and this was very accessible

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

This was really helpful and well done. Thanks for sharing this!

Hi vince! so cool and well explained! Subscribed!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you! Glad you enjoyed sir. :)

first time seeing the RatCast properly. My god they're incredible.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, they are a really fun project.

I love the crystals. Great tutorial. I'll be working on warpstone here soon, I'll use this and the previous tutorial as guides :)

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

You got it. :)

That tip on the heavy body acrylic white is very underrated. I'll never go back to a different white after trying golden heavy body white.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

100%

crazy good timing with this video. I'm just starting to figure out how to glaze transitions and such. Much appreciated.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Needed to paint a crystal. Internal monologue goes, "I'm sure Vince V has a crystals video. Nah, no way, that is too specific".

Another awesome tutorial Vince! Thanks

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great update, thanks Vince

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

TY for this. I did the polar opposite and went dark bottoms to light tops, I find it a lot easier to do this for an army than glazing 30+ of these crystals x.x

It never gets boring watching you explain your techniques. I personally need a lot of repetition for something to stick. Coincidentally, I painted some gems last night which I'm fairly proud of and all during the process I had your videos in the back of my head. I have a request/suggestion for a video: Nails/claws. I know you have done horns and bones but I find nails are slightly different because they are translucent to a certain degree. Many thanks!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it! Always happy to help.

Awesome looking bases Vince! Maybe exploring colors series needs an addition. Blue green/teal/turquoise would be nice.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like something to add to the list. :)

I was about to paint a bunch of crystals. Excited to try this!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. :)

Crystals are a good entry lesson into understanding value.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agreed.

A Skig army definitely deserves bling🧡

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

That's right, only the finest for Skig. :)

Love it - a few months too late for my Tzeentchies though. I did not grasp the fact that they go top down dark to light. ^^ Thanks Vince as every week!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! :)

@s33n34

2 жыл бұрын

@@VinceVenturella just made me think… and I’m not sure how much content there is to it but I’d love to see a vid on how you approach research when you start sth you’ve never done. A bit like you’ve done here - I thought the same when I’d recently watched trovarions vid - 3 minutes on black. Like what is the approach, when to do it, how to break down photos etc. I sometimes tend to be overwhelmed when I look at pictures and try to do it myself…

Another lesson learned. Thanks.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

Great video!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Cool vid as always

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. :)

Great video Mr Vee! 🥰🐶

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. :)

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Thank You. :)

Not much taken with them on bases, bit exotic and I'm always striving to make my armies look like they're in the same place. That said I've a squad with a failed attempt at obsidian weapons I'll be getting back out again and as ever it's such a cogent, clever, well explained and now doable affect - everything Vince can be relied on for. Great vid ;0)

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks glad it was helpful all the same.

@philgee486

2 жыл бұрын

@@VinceVenturella It really was Vince, don't think for a second it hasn't added real technique to my painting of facets and transparencies. They crop up on all sorts of models and are so naturally prominent that not painting them convincingly just isn't an option.

Thank you! I was painting ice dragon's base and got frustrated! But now I know!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Always happy to help.

Love that you removed the tree from the stairs. The profile is so much better without it.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, that tree is nonsense.

Great work as usual! How did you get all that subtle colour variation in the earth on the bases, the realistic and dusty earth contrasts amazingly with the shiny crystals.

@keesm307

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure Vince's answer will be: pigment (powder). It is great for working in subtle base colors, and gives the very matt effect that you are describing.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Variation undershade (black to white), then multiple different brown/yellows. Then drybrush and washes, then pigments, then more controlled appication of glazes and a light drybrush. :)

Great Timing - Have been painting the Crystal Dragon by Mini Monster Mayhem and really struggling to get anything like a decent crystal effect - tried white mixed with silver over a light blue base looking for a kind of opalescent effect but highlighting in sliver or pure white doesnt work and to date have failed to get anything like a crystal effect. Will try a white wash and then reverse the shadows as per your tutorial but any advice would be gratefully recieved.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

It's really tough with something like a dragon, the right answer is to do each scale individually here with edge highlights, but that might literally drive you insane.

Great tutorial Vince! Any chance of getting a tutorial on how to paint those gorgeous pieces of NMM red armour? Thanks a lot!

@austinworwa3224

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/fHtkr7uej8vbns4.html

@Quercusilexballota

2 жыл бұрын

@@austinworwa3224 Somehow I overlooked this one. Thank you Austin!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Austin has you covered. :)

The way you explain it does make sense - but if I'm trying to imagine a ray of light passing through some semi-transparent object, then I'd expect more "shine through" at the narrow top and less at the bulky bottom. Because very little light will pass unhindered right through to the bottom, where it could "accumulate" (in terms of how we'd paint). The effect speaks for itself, I just have some difficulties wrapping my head around the reasoning for the approach. That is to say I'd intuitively try to inverse the gradient.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, the trick is the light will bounce around inside andd effectively "filter" to the lower part, basically, being refracted, some light escapes of course (otherwise, you wouldn't see it), but it's reduced. :)

Thanks Vince! It's great to have a clean, explained process that shows how to do these. I've noticed you go very dark with the dark sea blue. Would you always do it or what kind of flexibility do we have in our choice for the darkest color here? (I assume readability and pop dictate that we need "quite some" darkness?) What id this was a red, green or yellow crystal? Would you go as far as dark-reddish-brown, desaturated forest green and burnt amber, respectively? Since I'm at it, does the darkest color need to be saturated?

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

I would vary the color as appropriate for the crystal, if you're talking about something like yellow, you are generaly coming to a much lighter color like rust.

How would you go about painting a multi-faceted object (crystal, cosmic cube, crystallized light, etc.) with an internal glow? I can imagine going to brighter color in the center per facet but what about the top. Similarly, same question for a cylinder.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

So with a box (something with hard edges) you center the glow and darken toward the edge, then have a bright thin edge itself. For a cylinder, it's harder, but you have to effectively pick an angle and then do a hot core. If you look up how Arano Lazaro sith, he does this well.

Thanks Vince. Now I know how to paint crystals if I can ever find my way out of grimdark!!!!🤓

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the crystals are the only light in the grimdark. ;)

Really nice! Would you say this is more or less how you do it with bigger crystals? I’m currently planning how to expand my scatter terrain for AoS and warcry, and clusters of crystals seem like a sure card but I’m unsure how to make the big crystals look less plastic and more like glass!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I would follow basically the same thing with larger crystals. You can create a secondary reflection (i.e. a second travel over the length of the crystal from dark to light. , but you don't need to.

Hell yeah brother

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help. :)

Nice work on those shafts mate (my apologies for the juvenile joke) Wait what? I just noticed these guys are actually ratmen¡¡

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, my Ratcast. ;)

Brilliant minerals! Next do some Vespian Gas!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

That's going to be a tough one. :)

Great video as always vince, did you make these crystals or buy them?

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Bought them, they are 3D prints.

A tutorial on how you did the rest of that base would be awesome.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

It was bascially much likemy desert base - kzread.info/dash/bejne/gp94tKWQd6-zgLg.html

I'm doing some large crystal terrain for battle tech. All of the tops are flat rather that pointed like in this video. How might I treat the tops? The same as the white facets since the light would in theory hit the top?

@VinceVenturella

8 ай бұрын

So you could do the white top, you could also just do a fade across, where it starts at white and then goes along to your mid-tone on the opposite side.

In another video you use gloss varnish and mix it with titanium white to make the paint more smooth. Won't the matte varnish you use to coat the Rat Cast models dull the gloss varnish?

@VinceVenturella

6 ай бұрын

It will knock it down some, but in the end, you'll still get a good crystal, you can always alternate back and forth.

This may actually spur me to be brave enough to attempt crystals. They are indeed magical.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, happy to help. :)

how would you go about impurities or cracks inside crystals, gems, jewels, etc.? In reality they're rarely pure.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

So when you have cracks, they can effectively reset the refection. The crack will gather light and need a white line and will have a dark area beneath it.

Great tutorial! I was wondering if oil paints would be a good idea for painting those crystals (when drying time not taken into equation). Where did you take your crystals from?

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, oils can work great for this honestly, then you do the white lines once dry with acrylics or a second application of oils. They were 3D printed.

This video is very well timed! I'm just now working on some bottles that have crystal bases. Where did you get your crystals? I got mine from green stuff world, but did you do something else?

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

3D prints from myminifactory.

Vince please help me out! What advice would you give for a glowing crystal effect, i.e something that creates an OSL effect (like on your demon in the lighting video). Would you just have to paint the crystals close to white? Thank you master

@VinceVenturella

Жыл бұрын

No, I would do basically the same scheme, but it’s all about the ring of shadow, then the soft glaze of that color being cast around the area.

Awesome, I've been holding off on attempting something this for awhile but this guide made it feel a lot more manageable. Out of curiosity what did you use for the crystals? Did you make them out of sprue or something similar? I plan on doing some purple crystals for my KO as the underworld warband has them on the bases and I plan to continue it through.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

3D prints from My Mini Factory. :)

@wing459

2 жыл бұрын

@@VinceVenturella awesome, I'm looking to receive my first 3d printer in January so I'll have to take a look :)

I might have missed a video about the basing but what did you use to make the crystals? Another great video :)

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

In this case, I cheated a little as these are 3D prints. ;)

Cool!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Do you think a white over grey zenithaled crystal, combined with appropriate contrast paint through airbrush would speed up the beginning of this process? I just saw a video by Squidmar on this contrast painting technique and I'm wondering if it would work here. Either way, thanks for the technique. I need some crystals to paint now for my OPR robot legion, they look awesome!

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, you would need to be a little more specific with the white application, but you could do it.

How would I adapt this concept on a smaller scale with small crystals the Sequitors have on their belts?

@VinceVenturella

3 ай бұрын

I have a few videos on gems yes - this one is older and long, but still true - kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6uDsKenmMLcmNY.html&pp=gAQBiAQB

Is your army gunna be done for December PMP army month 😁? Hope you do a long armies on parade video for your new armies like you did a long time ago for your older ones.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

I want to eventually make one for this army for sure. :)

Hey vince, another great video. I saw your paint recipe for the rest of the bases in the comments, but what did you use to build up that mount? is it just modpog or something? the whole affect is really fantastic and wouldnt mind seeing how its done if there is another video where you talk about it more specifically.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what you mean by mount, do you mean the staircase thing? That is a bit from the Stormcast in the Dominion box.

@jeremyhauck960

2 жыл бұрын

@@VinceVenturella I meant mound. the texture of the earth.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeremyhauck960 Part of the 3D print. :)

@jeremyhauck960

2 жыл бұрын

@@VinceVenturellaI was worried that was the case. but thanks for letting me know! I really appreciate you responding.

Hi Vince. I haven't seen a Hobby Cheating pertaining to this but I may be wrong. I'd like to make little pools of gas (promethium) on some 40k bases. Do you know how to do that or maybe there is a product I'm unaware of that would help me make that rainbow effect?

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

The rainbow effect (like an oil spill) is one of the 5 effects I would ward people against, there really isn't anything that can do it directly, I don't want to be a buzz kill, but it's a really tough one.

So educational. How do you make the crystals? Are they made from sprues?

@naphaneal

2 жыл бұрын

that's one way. They could be bought ready-made.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

In this case, it was the ultimate cheat, they are 3D printed.

@naphaneal

2 жыл бұрын

@@VinceVenturella if you own a 3D printer a review video would be much appreciated

@ArmaGGon

2 жыл бұрын

@@VinceVenturella that was the other option I had in mind because of the other little crystals surrounding them.

I love basing but unfortunately they look great up to about 90% finished. Then some where after that I always mess them up. Could be to much experimenting lol.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Well, that's still okay, if you're learning, then that's a great thing. :)

Really cool ; How did you add those sculpts to the base - were do they come from ?

@AB-ik2nc

2 жыл бұрын

They are piece of sprue

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

THey are 3D prints. (base and crystals). :)

@AB-ik2nc

2 жыл бұрын

@@VinceVenturella Seriously?they looked like big chunck of sprue shaped and glued together

I'm literally like "How can i paint Sanguinius in crystal?" Last night as im making a diorama called The Ezekarion? Meeting of Abaddons Chosen on Vengful Spirit where Sanguinius will manafest in the form of a crystal. "MY MIND IS BLOWN!" 😆 Now for the "ExEcuTioN?"

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Always the trickiest part. :)

Uh, shiny things! 😊

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

SHINY!

Algorithm assist. Great tutorial.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Question from a non-player: what's a good gift to get for a friend who likes Warhammer? I don't know anything about his collection, but he has a lot of them.

@jherazob

2 жыл бұрын

Midwinter Minis just did a video on this, look it up

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Midwinter has a great video indeed, but in general, something like a new wet palette, a good light, a cutting matte, a quality brush set, all stuff like that.

Silly question that has nothing to do with the banning why did you choose redeemed skaven for your stormcast eternals is there a story behind it is there a role-playing story or did you just want to do this

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Skig, my priest of Sigmar was a character from Soulbound game with Mr Mephisto, and I wanted to expand that into an army. :) (Yes, I have a very large story written).

@ericdeutsch6707

2 жыл бұрын

@@VinceVenturella awesome I was just curious

Don’t forget to like and comment to appease the almighty algorithm 😁👍🏼❤️

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

All hail!

Last time I was this early my wife almost divorced me

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

bu-dum-tiss :)

I weirdly do not care one iota for bases....for regular miniatures. I care about them for sure for centerpiece miniatures, display miniatures, and anything that is to stand out. If you have a rank and file game, or unit of 10+ people, I think fancy bases only distract from the visual effect of the army, and hide the standout figures, especially in a large army game. Unpopular opinion, I know, but I'm not really disagreeing, and I appreciate the base lessons nevertheless.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

I get it, I love bases even for a big unit, often if for nothing else to create vertical distinctions in the height of the models (as humans aren't actually all the same height). ;) - but to each their own.

Really disappointed you decided to phone in your RatCast bases with common acrylics and not harvest the actual soul crystals of Hyshiian Lumineth that infest and corrupt our realms ... then again maybe you're just saving that for your next Crystal Demon Slayer entry. 🤔💖😉

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, have to be conservative with the souls.

cant hear ya again :(

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

This was recorded before the last one, should get better in the future, I don't always release in record order. :)

The camera has a hard time when there is a lot of white in the shot. I love to see you pallet, but I think the best way of showing it is on a different camera or not at all. I rather have a clearer picture of what you are doing compared to a shot with both you pallet and the mini.

@VinceVenturella

2 жыл бұрын

I'm trying some different items, but this was actually recorded before the last one. :)