I stumbled upon “slap chop” painting a few years ago by accident and only later realized that it was called that. It’s one of my preferred painting methods

I really like this technique for beginners. I've been painting for 35 years and it took many years to get any decent results. This is great for armies of skeletons and stuff.

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Thanks you for watching!

@maxducoudray

10 ай бұрын

I like this technique in general! After being a hobby gamer for nearly 45 years, I’ve learned that I hate painting. It’s just not fun for me so I don’t want to get better if that means it takes longer. A fast effective method is amazing for those of us who love minis but not the process of painting them.

@Dice_Dish

10 ай бұрын

Agreed the gray armor ever grows at my house.

@davidmorris9287

6 ай бұрын

love this technique for all my demon models and ogres haha

Smash that like button people! Let's keep the craft in dungeon craft : ) Excellent short form video on slap chopping. I'm in my first few months of painting and after many hours of youtube research, this summarizes the method that I've decided to use to paint unprimed models. When I have bought preprimed wizkids ones, I just roll with their white primer. It takes me a lot longer than 15 minutes to do this process, but I'm still learning.

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@Dice_Dish

10 ай бұрын

I started painting 10 years ago. I spent this weekend painting a single mini over 10 hours. But she turned out beautiful. I have a hard time speed painting. This video was very helpful.

@matthewmcguigan4293

10 ай бұрын

@@Dice_Dish any tips for a new painter?

Puttin' the Craft back into Dungeon Craft! You've even convinced my wife that painting minis isn't as intimidating as she thought - now I'm going to hide my brushes - lol 🤣

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Cool. I hope she discovers the joy of painting.

@matthewmcguigan4293

10 ай бұрын

I'm slowly working towards having my wife learn to paint minis. She's already a good artist so it shouldn't be a stretch.

@Wraithing

10 ай бұрын

@@matthewmcguigan4293 ahh, persuasion in action! Need to resort to the prosecco or the good whisky - 'cause, 'candy's dandy but liquor's quicker!' (Now was that Ogden Nash, or Willy Wonka) 😉 Joking aside, it sounds like a great plan. Two pairs of hands will get through full armies or dungeons of minis so much quicker and it's good to work on things together. Better than just dropping-off, drooling and snoring in front of the TV. 😁

I haven’t tried speed paint yet, but I’ve seen this technique and I’m definitely wanting to try it! The mini looks great!

@wingusryu8289

10 ай бұрын

Yes, looks like the Prof has given me a homework assignment. Oh no! my wallet!

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Love this kind of content! A lot of people just can't be bothered to paint their minis, wether it is for roleplay or their army. But really, this shows that with a minimum of effort you can make something that will stand out on the table!

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@Dice_Dish

10 ай бұрын

Speed paints are helpful. I struggle because I want to practice diff techniques all the time. I spend hours on a mini that should only take me one.

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

@@Dice_Dish I often buy 2-3 of the same model so I can practice.

Everyone's going on about the craft in Dungeon Craft. Just here to let you know we're also anxiously awaiting the DUNGEON. Always love your stuff. You've been a big inspiration and guide as I jumped into the OSR and started up some OSE for family.

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

The Lost City is coming and will be worth the wait.

@matthewmcguigan4293

10 ай бұрын

You got trader Joe just a few days ago... Lol

Love Speed Paints and Slapchop. This method has allowed me to actually get minis done for my players and look great at the same time. Nice video and nice job on the mini!

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

PDM putting the Craft back in DungeonCraft! I love to see it! I need to do this with my anachrony mech minis

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Good luck! Show them off on the FB group!

Good short video about slapchopping, kind of needed it been looking for one that wasnt twenty minutes long

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Exactly!

Thanks for reminding me to quit slacking off and paint my damn minis!

Slap Chop is really great for both beginners and those who are speed/batch painting a lot of miniatures, most likely for miniature war games.

Underpainting (or SlapChop as the internet has taken to calling it) is a very old painting technique. super easy to learn and do. You can do your initial coat in different colors besides gray to come up with different effects, for example if you wanted to start with a base Olive color and drybrush up your highlights, your skin tones will have a much more natural look. you could do the same with purples for darker completions as well. I typically don''t go full black as I feel it overpowers the colors too much, I work with medium grays and brighten from there. But every mini is an experiment and you should try different things. it's the journey that makes the artist.

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Good advice.

@matthewmcguigan4293

10 ай бұрын

I am having fun doing wild and unnatural paint jobs... I have yet to paint a player character because I'm still intimidated by trying to get skin tones right and smaller scale. I'll keep your tips in mind.

Um. Wow. This might be a complete game changer for my table top! That is amazing! Literally for YEARS, I have had a mountain of minis that have remained unpainted because I thought I didn't have the time!

this is how I prep my kids' minis for painting! Thanks for sharing ProfDM!

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Love using slapchop. It has completely changed my painting process.

Quick and easy with really convincing results, the best thing about playing tabletop is you do NOT need to spend so much time on every detail at painting minis because you won't even see them at the table without picking up the mini! The overall cool looking effect and consistency is what you need. Also a tip for priming/basing minis: you may use dark grey instead of black and very light grey instead of white while basing and/or highlighting (I do it myself and IMO it is better :D )

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Good tips!

Nice to see another painting video. Didn't know I missed seeing them until now.

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Orcs on the way.

Brilliant video and a great technique. I started using this last year and have virtually no unpainted miniatures left!

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Cool!

@tomwatkin

10 ай бұрын

@@DUNGEONCRAFT1 Now I need to buy more minis!!

As always, I love your focus on quick and good looking results for your crafts. Thanks for the video professor!

Excellent crafting video, Professor!

Thanks Professor! I love your painting and crafting lessons!

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Thank YOU for watching!

Awesome. I have never painted a mini before. This was super fun!

Speed paints are great. My other go-to is to prime white, use washes or speed paints, then once it dries do a head to toe dark wash to shade and unify the colors. Optional quick highlight after that, like you did.

One tip if you are worried about staying within lines is paint the light colors first, then do darker and darker. Dark will hide the light mistakes.

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Good advice!

@matthewmcguigan4293

10 ай бұрын

Good idea. I'll try that next time!

Ty Professor! You make all aspects of our hobby very accessible! Lowering that intimidating barrier to entry! Great job as always! But you left off one important detail...that was a "+1 Brush of Inspiration" not a simple synthetic from hobby lobby!

Putting the craft in Dungeon Craft today!

Slap chop is great for beginners and kids. My young son didn't much enjoy miniature painting until I thought him slap chop. Now he loves painting his figs. I enjoy the technique very much so. A couple pointers...Spend a lot of time getting those grey and white dry brush steps in good. A good quality large makeup brush works well. Don't use a paper towel to take the paint off. You'll create a lot of texture on the miniatures from strands of paper towel that will get on the miniature. Use a texture pallet instead. Also, slap chop doesn't work well on flat surfaces, it works best on textures surfaces. Thankfully, most of Fantasy models are highly textured. For flat surfaces you want to mix in other techniques such as layering and glazing. Lastly, after doing slap chop go in a do some highlights (as shown in the video). It really helps take the model to another level.

Awesome tutorial! Thank you for helping us with the hobby!

I started using the slap chop technique about a year ago and now it’s all I use. Like you mentioned, I like to do a highlight layer of white dry brush after the gray, but essentially the same method. Table ready in very little time. Love it.

I've been speed painting an army of gnolls, and they turned out excellent for spending so little time on them. I'm really impressed with the results.

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching this video! When I released it, it bombed. But it continues to grow more popular. Which is cool, because I like crafting vids.

Imma share this to my board game buddies with flat grey miniatures!

I have no need to do more involved painting, and just want table ready for my stuff. This is very helpful. Thank you. I plan to take my newbie group through a painting day (I printed them miniatures of their characters). I already have the Army Painter Speed Paint 2 starter set, too, so this will be a great way to bring them into painting as well.

Great job. Love to see more like this.

I was an early adopter of the speed paint/highlight combo, and recommend it. The highlights add quite a bit to the model, and can be done later when you have time. However, Prof. DM missed a step. When you're done with a model you should protect it with a matte or dullcoat clear spray. (Although I suppose one could argue that's technically not part of painting a figure.) p.s. Hey, DB, have fun on your holiday! 😁

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

I did forget! Next time!

I love these videos!!! This is what started me on this channel.

Great work, we love to see it. 🎉

awesome work!, and the details eally elevate the work!

I just got a speedpaint set yesterday. Just in time. Thanks Professor DM!

If I could like this video twice, I would.

really enjoyed this video. hope to see more like this! plz?!……

Nice tutorial! I like seeing everybody's different ways of painting things. Army painter has some great primers washes and paints 👍 I also like Creature caster I have a ton of their minis. Including the pre-order for their new Warrior Dragon.

I love Creature Caster! Phenomenal models!!

I'm glad you covered this method. I just recently found out about it and I'm Loving it. It's perfect for my needs. My minis don't need to be perfect, just not grey. I'm thinking about seeing what I can do with thinned down craft paint overtop of the slap chop method to save on cost.

I haven't painted a miniature in about thirty years now. I'm much more theater of the mind and don't usually feel the need for visual aids. But this technique looks so straightforward that I'm tempted to give it a go sometime. Thanks for sharing this.

Bravo. That was very efficient

Funny, I just fell into the speed paints rabbit hole about two weeks ago, after getting a resin printer. Now my basement is starting to fill up with minis that almost look like they’ve been painted by someone with a hint of talent!

You make it look so easy! 😮

I have been slap chopping for about a year now. I love it, a quick way to get good looking miniatures on the table.

That's pretty much how I do it nowadays 👍🏻 I had like a 10 years hyatus on mini painting, then the contrast / speedpaint technology brought me back in during the pandemic, and I totally love it.

This is awesome, and super helpful! I’ve always been mildly intimidated about getting minis due to having to paint them!

Great video! Minis, like most works of art, are never finished but abandoned. You can spend as much or as little time on them as you want... the secret is that you just put paint on it until you're personally happy, and then you're done!

@grueti21

5 ай бұрын

perfection is achieved if there is nothing you can leave out not if there is nothing to add anymore.

You touched on some of my favorite painting channels. I wish there were more overlap between my D&D creator favs and my painting favs. T

Awesome dude! Love the painting vids.

I have been wanting to get into painting minis now that I have UDT. Just planning to use for fights. I prefer mostly theater of the mind, but battles with painted minis adds some excitement. I have been looking at the Speedpaints as I am not too picky, just something quick and decent. Looks like I have a my project over thanksgiving and christmas break

Not interested in miniatures, still watching to the end for the outroooooo. And I was not disappointed 🤣

Good stuff PDM. Some motivation to get caught up on my miniature backlog

Thank u. This is exactly what I wanted.

Wow, i never seen something this kind of stuff to be that simple!

Some people give the Slapchop method crap, but if you want to get some minis done fast and on the table it's a great method to use and has basic steps that are great for beginners. Plus, you can always lavish on more detail, like highlights, later and experiment with more subtle gradients using various grays and whites (or even other colors) and lighter dry brushing to really build up the transitional effects. But if you just want to get some dudes on the table for everyone's PCs to fight, it's the way to go..

Easy, fast, clear. Outstanding :)

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

7 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

Thank you sm for this prof!!!!!!

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

Great video!

Awesome! Thank you! Edit: it’d be great to see how you set yourself up to paint. Kind of a mis en place for modeling, as it seems there’s a not insignificant amount of setup to have all your paints and tools and table ready to go. Anyone can tell there’s a lot of experience behind this video. Although, if the channel already has a video like that, could I ask that a link be included in future painting or modeling videos? For example, while I can’t speak for everyone, but when the channel has kind of alluded to “how to setup” in TTRPG reviews, I always appreciate it (especially when minimalist is appropriate). Either way, thank you again. Love me some DungeonCraft!

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

I'll show you in the next video. Thanks for the suggestion!

I love slapchop, thanks to it even my butter hands can paint something decent.

I'm a fan of Vallejo Xpress Color paint. I don't even bother with "slapchop" I just spray paint white and then brush on Vallejo Xpress Color as aproporiate. Looks amazing.

Awesome!!

Slapchop! From Warhammer to D&D! First saw it demo'd on The Honest Wargamer's Channel

Yes!! Massive. Thank you. I love this content // may it garner you billions of views // keep up the good work good sir // the internet sends electronic hugs // thanks again.

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. Please share it!

T h a n k y o u ❤

Thanks! Gonna try this technique and see if I can reduce my pile of shame.😅

Super cool, PDM! I'm gonna check out Creature Casters

Thanks for another great video. I love that you show what and where you used each paint color. Super useful. Are the "speed" paints you used closer to shade or contrast or somewhere in between? Also just wanted to say Hello, KZread algorithm! Treat this video with kindness please.

I followed this video from my first slap chop paint job

The white coat could also have been done as a zenithal prime. You cover the entire thing with the black primer first. Then you go over that with a white or at least a lighter colored primer only from the direction that light would fall on it (you of course decide where that is). This tends to make a big difference in your final results.

Nice stuff

Thanks

I want to also call out the channel @GirlPainting. I learned everything i learned decades ago by watching her channel! Great to see some crafting vids PDM!

PDM inspires DMs and players to pick up a brush and enhance their games!

I love that PDM is so properly "grognard" that he thinks Creature Caster is a "new company."

Yay painting

Cool

I think slap chop is a great way to get into painting and honestly its looks nice on the table, but I think it should be used as a stepping stone to learning how to paint miniature properly, I kind of use slap chop for minis where the series doesn't use very much detail in them, like for instance the final girl minis, but when you have games where the miniatures use good quality minis with sharp details then I will always go full out on them, like Oathsworn or an awaken realms game.

What do I think? I think I love AP's Speedpaints and the "Slap Chop" technique. I'm a boardgame painter, and I love how fast I can get really great results. I've never done much highlighting, but you've inspired me to try it out. Also, I think I'll try a non-speedpaint for blood-effects the next time. It looks great! :)

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

8 ай бұрын

Thank you SO much for watching this. It did not get a lot of views.

Oh no! Deathbringer MIA!

Will there be a Dua Lipa miniature to accompany Deathbringer in the future? I'm sure we'd all enjoy that! ;)

I always needed too long for my board game minis so i didn't really started for the most games. Now i don't have an excuse to not paint them. Slap chop has a decent outcome.

Slapchop. So easy a professor can do it. 😂😂

Very cool I use reaper paints but I also do not paint a lot anymore

Yummy comment for the algorithm. edit: this does make me want to convert from digital to miniatures.

I like painting well enough but just don't have the time. It takes months for me to get anything done using traditional methods but I can knock out a bunch of minions over a lunch break with the slap chop method.

@twentysides

10 ай бұрын

And just as you said in your video, if you go over heavily with a mid gray first and then lighter with a linen white you can get edges and highlights that really pop. And that blood red looks fantastic!

Do i need particular paints or would i be able to thin vallejo paints to get that same flow

Question, Professor: Which houserule do you prefer? Combine STR and CON into "Brawn"? Or splitting DEX into two: Agility (for AC, Stealth, Reflex Saves) and Dexterity (for ranged/finesse attks, slight of hand, lockpicking, etc) ? Appreciate your thoughts.

Deathbringer needs a parody of Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” called “Decapitating.”

My friend used to swear by airbrushing. Said it saved him hundreds of hours, and his results ran from great to spectacular.

What kind of paint or technique are you using for the thin paint over the grey tones?

Hi! I'm new at painting minis and I'd like to save as much money as possible. What do you recommend me to use instead of speed paints as a cheaper option? Maybe acrylic mixed with other chemicals? Thank you in advance

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

2 ай бұрын

They are the cheapest option. Acrylic paints are ink mixed with medium. Goobertown Hobbies, another KZread channel, has lots of videos on how to make your own. BUT...it's a process of trial and error and you will spend more money on ink and medium than you will by just buying the starter speed paints.

Edit: my guess was a miss but hey at least I'm first. Hello everyone Is that Relg from MCDM in the thumbnail? (I cannot restrain myself from commenting before I watch and find out)

Currently remodeling a room in my house for printing and want to start painting my own mini's. Do you recommend clear coating the slap chopped mini's?

@DUNGEONCRAFT1

Ай бұрын

Depends on if they are showpieces or practical play pieces. If you expect players to handle them, I'd use Army Painter Quickshade, then a Matt spray.

@exxarkuun891

Ай бұрын

@@DUNGEONCRAFT1 thanks for the quick reply. Sounds great that's what I'll go with then since most will be play pieces

@exxarkuun891

Ай бұрын

@@DUNGEONCRAFT1 sorry just another quick question I was going to paint a faulty dragon mini as my first paint but I just used cheap rustoleum primer and it seems to rub off on my skin almost like chalk when I touch it. Do I need to get army painter or like colour forge primer and if I do will it adhere to the resin better?