Sonic Sledgehammer Studio
Sonic Sledgehammer Studio
Simple, effective and fast painting tips and tricks for getting miniatures ready for battle in no time at all! How I Paint Things is a series of simple instructional videos designed to help the newcomer through some of the basics and demonstrate how the very simplest techniques can still give you some great results that're easily replicated. Aimed at the beginner to painting, there might be one or two tips or tricks that help even you old hands!
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I've watched this video a couple times by now and I kind of think about redoing my minis - they also were to be painted as horizon blue (with pants in different shade), but result was underwhelming. Well, practice makes a master
Nice
28mm?
Súper nice!
I've been wanting to paint my Guard in the colours of WW1 & 2 armies, and they are mostly mono colour, so this helps.
If you were doing decals on a marine, what order would you apply varnish and washes? Thanks
Apply them after the wash, but before any weathering and varnish. You want them under the varnish layer so they're protected.
You put the lime in the coconut and drank em bo up.... 😁
I absolutely love listening to you mate You were there for my first steps into the hobby many years ago, and I'd like to think I've moved on to more advanced techniques that the essential, but still incredibly awesome, stuff you teach us here. Listening to your voice is like therapy. Keep doing what you're doing.
My son was in town today and he got the raw ingredients for sonic tonic and also picked up some Pro acryl washes too. I'm interested to see if they're as good as the rest of the range. Thanks for the insightful video and it's good to see you back painting.
Hello young Skywalker!!! Great video as always! Question for you... have you ever thought about doing a video of your "Top Ten (or twelve) Go To Paints"? I know all miniatures vary and it's a personal choice with colors... BUT, I think it would be very interesting what you have to say and why these are your go to paints! - Tom
Gorrrr... not asking me anything difficult, then! 🤣 Honestly, my Top Ten would change from day to day, depending on what I was painting! I get what you mean about a broadly applicable set of super-useful paints, though. Might be worth exploring! Go get yourself some German Grey if you haven't already, though! ✌ Spoiler warning: That'd be top of any list!
Thank you for another enjoyable vid, and a great looking figure. May I ask whether you can varnish over the pencil highlighting?
You can, though I've never really felt it was necessary. It's very rare that it'll smudge off unless you're deliberately rubbing your thumb over your miniatures when you pick them up!
Thank you for taking the time to reply!
I like this tutorial because I was not sure how to paint WWI French Infantry. Thanks for sharing this and the model looks great!
Great video! I like the variety of blue grey.
Non! Le pantalons ROUGE!
These WGA minis are really good, plastic figures today are incredibly well detailed. I'vent never been a WWI uniforms' fan , perhaps bcz these ones seems a bit "goofy" respect some of WWII 's ones, such as the US Marines or '43 model, but I've to say that the colours are really Ok, when you paint a monochrome uniform, the different parts had to have diverse colours' gradations, to avoid the "toy soldiers"' effect.
Definitely saving this one for when I get around to some Hairy Ones myself. Gorgeous!
C'est Magnifique! He looks absolutely fantastic. Cheers! (Also it seems weird to mix something in the coconut and not include lime, but I trust your process)
Viva la France
For this blue uniform I wonder what it would look like if you shaded with a diluted blue constrast or speed paint instead. it would make the uniform pop a little more, but you would need to be careful as you would want to shade with marine juice for the non-blue parts. I know it it outside the purpose of the video, as you attempting speed and simplicity, but just a thought I wanted to bring up.
Nice Krieg lol. I wonder how they scale to the GW model .
No gas masks though?
Pour la France !
Thank you for doing this, I've got my eye on these Great War models from Wargames Atlantic. Will you do Germans, British, Russian too? and what did you use for the dirty, dusty look?. Great work looks really good.
The dusty effect is achieved during the basing stage; take a look in the description for colours and tips there. I've also already done Great War British, and there's more on the horizon as I find time.
@SonicSledgehammerStudio Great thank you! I'll take a look and look forward to the next one. Cheers!
A Very Special Thank you , Troy . 🐺Loupis Canis .
Plan on doing one for russian uniforms of ww1?
Eventually! Germans first, though.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio great to know. May I be so bold as to recommend reading material? Setting the east ablaze by Peter Hopkirk, great book on the russian civil war, central asia and siberia. Been getting into back of beyond so its something that might interest you.
Now I have to paint a box. Damn you and your sonic tonic!
Absolutely superb job here, Sledge ol' chap! I adore these miniatures and this uniform (impractical though it might seem at first glance!) and your paint job really does it justice!
Thanks
Brilliant as usual you talented bugger! Particularly love the mud staining, looks so realistic. I’m now a fan of Instar varnish too. I’ll be using Sledge Juice on my Warlord Dads Army crew soon,it offers a more subtle,smoother shade than others I’ve tried. Well done!
This varnish really makes the difference! 16:00
Currently filing off the face off of a metal mini (I have no dremel and I must ~scream~ file). Hobby videos like this keep me going. Thanks for the company!
Oh lord... you're a braver man than I!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Update: I have gone and bought a dremel...
Sonic tonic time! 13:13 (first time in History it is pronounced)
Awesome Frenchman, you have painted my friend.
No pasarán! ✊🏾
"On ne passe pas!"
Looks great for Necromunda and Gaslands!
Literal liquid cheatsheet - it turned my wraithbone primed mk. iv marines into 80% heresy death guard!
Have you tried a shading wash over a contrast layer instead of vice versa? Tried it on plenty of my models and it gives a very nice effect!
This video gave me inspiration for my upcoming robot army! Thank you!
🙏🙏🙏
I've got a whole load of board game figures this will be handy for and just so happened to have some empty 60ml bottles that were perfect for a batch. I've labelled mine "Sonic Sledgehammer's Sump-Water" 😂 Cheers for the recipe. Carry on being awesome and take care.
I very much like this video, I use it as reference whenever I need to do up a deathclaw
I believe all boots were brown. However other ranks were required to black them with polish and were issued them pre blacked. Officers kept them brown cos officers.
I guess I’m just a bit confused about what gets the matte varnish, and what gets the ultra matte varnish.
Impressive WOW!
Hi there - Really informative. Do you have a video on your process for the bases too? Thanks
Just tried it on a Krieg killteam I'm painting up, and holy moly am I in love!
Awesome.. I have a pile of Uruk Hai from childhood I need to paint and I think this would be the best way to do it!
I’m also afraid of use my nice brush.
Absolutely brilliant. I've used the marine juice on tons of things ever since i discovered it on your channel. I will now continue to use it. It really is a great universal wash. Sonic Tonic for the win!