This is the BEST Way to SLAPCHOP!?

so you want to take your model from Gray to sleigh as fast as you can while still keeping decent quality let's talk about slack top the best techniques tricks and products to get you and your miniature to the table faster quickly what is Slap Chop Slap Chop as coined by Rob the honest wargamer is actually a technique that has been around for years and I mean years [Music] good for us it's the combination of xenothal highlighting with translucent paints to add color to our previously applied highlights and shadows the hope is that this will give us a higher quality model at a far faster rate than other speed painting techniques here's what you'll need a miniature a domed brush a dry palette like this one from redgrass games black gray and white paint white artist acrylic paint a paper towel and some transparent paints we want a dry palette as we want to work with paint on the dryer side your domed brush should be tightly packed and short bristled I like a domed brush because it doesn't leave harsh streaks like a flat brush tends to do first we'll start with the classic Slap Chop technique one paint your model black my primer is black so that's a great bonus for me two add in your mid-tone gray we want to use this gray specifically because it is halfway between our black and white if this is going to be a regular technique for you then go out and buy a mid-tone gray for me I'm mixing one on my palette spread your paint onto your palette and then load your brush by placing the head onto the puddle of paint and rolling it in a circular motion spreading out our paint will help make sure we don't waste paint by loading too much paint onto your brush and then having to wipe away so much of it on the paper towel we want to remove approximately eighty percent of the paint from your brush onto the paper towel this small amount of paint that's left on your brush is what's going to allow us to highlight those raised edges you'll know you've removed enough paint when you push against your paper towel with hard pressure and you can hardly see any paint from your brush on the paper towel so seriously remove more paint than you think you should and focus more on multiple layers instead of a single application three once the paint is properly loaded pull your brush downward on your model pulling your brush downwards helps highlight the areas that would naturally be hit by the Sun but we also want to get any flat areas from the top as well in short brush down across but be very cautious of painting upwards I recommend starting with a light touch to get the feel for your brush the harder your pressure the more paint you will apply and the deeper into the recesses you will apply your paint so use a heavy hand on areas you need to but in general go light [Music] a quick tip do not get your domed brush wet or if you do dry it thoroughly if there is water in your brush then water could mix with your paint and then you won't be dry brushing anymore 4. repeat the previous step but with white paint again use a very light hand focusing on the top half of the model remember that our eyes are automatically drawn to the brightest part of the figure so Focus your white on the most important elements 5. repeat the previous step using an acrylic or artist white paint only hitting the very top edges of the model when I first started this I wasn't expecting the artist's white to make that big of a difference but it definitely does before we go on to applying our translucent paint I have a few experiments I want to do first was a black model with a white dry brush my theory was that by removing the gray step I could speed up my paint application instead creating a smoother gradation by applying varying degrees of white through the pressure of my brush however that's not really what happened instead the time I saved by skipping the gray step was eaten up by my attempts of creating that same gradation with just white paint the results the contrast is quite severe even with my attempts at building up that slow gradation and that contrast definitely showed through my colors making her look more like a statue than a human woman second is experimenting using a colored base color I'm painting the whole model a deep blue then creating a middle color then dry Russian the same as before up to my pure artist White then it's translucent paint on top here is what the colored version and a black Vision look like side by side there is a difference but across the table you won't be able to tell third is a white base and washes first was applying a wash over the whole model but because of the flowing fabric it did not go well if my model was more heavily textured then this might have been great but for this model not a good choice for round two I focused my black wash on the textured and detailed areas then feathered out the edges of the wash with a damp brush to prevent coffee staining instead of just pitching this Blue version I'm going to see if I can salvage it I have decided to create a paint color similar to the mid-tone that appears on my model and then dry brushing from there up to my pure white surprisingly I really like how it looks the wash sunk into the recesses as expected but I was able to blend out those ugly harsh puddles with my dry brush and actually created a pretty smooth gradation the takeaway most of your models will look great with the classic slap trap but there are a few instances where you could do better if you want to do Grim dark then black white over top if you're not so worried about contrast instead of wanting to just pick up the details and focus on color then the wash with dry brush over top will be perfect I like the wash and dry brush better than just the wash in the detailed areas because the dark wash still tinted the white causing the vibrancy in my colors to diminish I suppose you could still do a dark wash in the detailed areas but I highly recommend dry brushing over top like I did in my previous example so now that we have our base layers figured out what's next let's talk about translucent paint there are three translucent paints I tried in this video contrast paints speed paints and inks contrast paints are the standard for this laptop method but I was pretty unhappy with them when applying them with a brush They Were Somehow too opaque and pulled in the recesses too much this is particularly Troublesome in large open areas like the skirt of this dress I even tried to wipe away the excess to lessen the pooling and it still didn't work as well as I wanted to we've already added in the shadows VR arsenital highlights we don't need the paint to sink into the recesses and darken those areas even further however creating a 50 50 mixture of contrast paint and contrast medium created something far less opaque than I liked a lot better it still pulled quite a bit but it left a more even tint across the model as a whole the Army paints were far less opaque than my contrast paints I also thought that the Army paints left a far more even coverage compared to the contrast paints my favorite translucent paint actually came as a bit of a surprise scale 75 intensity set these colors are intense and do need to be thinned but they don't sink egregiously into the recesses leave an even pass of color and work especially well on areas like the fabric that I was having so much trouble with with the contrast paints I've also found inks to just be a lot more versatile overall just remember that a little bit goes a very long way thank you if you like the idea of working with translucent paints then be sure to check out this video right here where I talk about using translucent paints with your airbrush [Music]

Channel: Lyla Mev - The Mini Witch

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Length: 9min 21sec (561 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 16 2022