let me set the stage I'm driving to a Kill team tournament I'm super excited I've got
my kazarkan kill team they're not painted yet but I don't think that's going to be a problem
I think they'll let me play with unpainted models I pull into the parking lot I'm super super early
I go into register and oh no you are not allowed to game with unpainted Miniatures my dreams are
crushed I can't back out now Sean my Nemesis is in the tournament and I can't let him win frantically
I start thinking of a solution I gotta get these painted I'm looking for local hobby shops near
me that I can maybe get some paint maybe I can get these guys painted and as luck would have
it there is a local hobby shop I throw everything into my car and I tear off to that shop I might
just get to play today I throw open the doors and tragedy strikes I see nothing but comic
books and Magic the Gathering I do 10 laps in the store I'm looking under boxes I'm looking at all
the shelves but I can't find any hobby supplies finally I go up to the manager and I beg him do
you have any tools that I can buy to get these painted he thinks for a long second and those
seconds become hours as I'm waiting but finally he heads to the back and he comes out with three
three Dusty bottles of paint table top standard is three colors and up I might just get to game today
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okay maybe that scenario was a little bit silly but I really do want to paint these guys using
only three colors because recently I was painting my black Templar for a painting guide PDF on our
patreon by the way on our patreon we got painting guide PDS check it out and it turns out that I
use 21 colors to paint my black Templar the way I like to and that is a crazy amount of paint that's
like a hundred dollars worth of paint I bet I can still get my models to look really really
good without any of that nonsense I bet for nine dollars of paint I can get these guys really nice
the three colors I have to use are dark green light blue and bright orange I'm going to stretch
this limited palette as far as I possibly can when I mix these paints together I find that I have
about seven different colors which will hopefully be enough now I want to Zenith all these guys but
I want to keep with my theme of doing more with less so I don't want to use my airbrush that'll
just do a perfect job instead going back to my original story that little game store owner
used to play Warhammer fantasy and he lent me his almost empty cans of black and white spray primer
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speckly I haven't done a rattle can Prime in ages but it's probably good enough
if I was going to paint these up normally I would probably start with an airbrush base coat or
maybe some speed paints but I'm going back to the basics a brush on base coat keeping the paint some
what watery and transparent as yucky of the primer was the speckly white is the brightest color I
have so I have to take advantage of it these casual kin are super guard but still regular
soldiers so a nice leather brown will be a good fit for their boots belts and bags and this is
a new color the first mix of many and speaking of mixes I'm getting more and more into using
light colors they pop more on the battlefield and with the right amount of contrast which I won't be
able to achieve with my limited palette they can really draw the eye it's going to be a challenge
but I'm gonna try on the weapons I created a light green mix this is a bit too similar to the green
clothing but at least I can use the lighter colors to create some highlights and shadows and make the
guns look smooth like painted metal compared to the dark gritty clothing the light blue came in
handy for anything metal a watery glaze gave a cold tone that I could not get with a green or
orange a metallic would have been lovely but this cold blue tone will still provide some
nice contrast to the warmth of the green brown and tan the base coats are on and it's looking fine I
applied them a little heavier than I usually would have because I was trying to cover up some of the
speckly xenithal and it's all right if I had a black and white paint I could really make these
colors sing but as it is I have a lightish color and a darkish color and I'm gonna have to make do
with that the brownish paint is gonna have to do the work of a brown wash to outline the tan armor
panels the good exercise in making gradients watery paint does a good job of flowing into
cracks and edges but I'm not very good at it so a cheat is to do many many many thin layers going
back and forth between the brown and tan until everything is smooth smooth like beautiful rock
formations found in caves and speaking of caves the eons of battle patreon is the best place to
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goblin Rave cave perfect for games like kill team 40K or any other miniature war game I did the
same things on the clothing mixing my light blue into the dark green and doing some highlights I
did this sparingly it desaturated the green a lot and I wanted the brightest screen on the weapons
I ran into the same issue on the brown I couldn't highlight too much or else Brown to turn into tan
just like the armor The Limited palette forced me to be more creative and think harder about
my decisions man would I kill for a wash paint right now one dunk in agrax Earth shade and this
guy would look perfect it would give me some nice Shadows it would really get some contrast going it
would hide all the crimes my poor brush work but overall it's fine and I bet you're wondering why
on Earth did I pick bright orange as one of my colors the plasma glow this color May tan for me
but it's also the perfect way to make some bright saturated details not just on the plasma but also
on their chest buttons and helmet lenses having all natural colored clothing and armor makes for
a plain realistic looking Soldier but the crazy eye-catching highlights bring these bad boys back
to the wonderful over-the-top world of Warhammer 40K the light blue is close enough to White to do
some specular highlights little white dots here and there to show how shiny and reflective these
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much I rely on tools like contrast paint and speed paint and washes and the airbrush because these
models are taking forever to paint in fact I tie myself to see just how long each mini was taking I
love painting kill teams because it's just a small handful of models and I get to try something that
I would never build a whole Army of but the paint was slowing me down I guess 30 minutes isn't that
bad but it feels bad because I'm doing lots and lots of Base coating instead of my favorite things
to do which is highlighting and I'm finding it a little tricky to fix mistakes because of
how limited I am color wise but they are turning out okay some of these duders have unique details
on them like the camel cloak on this sniper specialist mixing more green in the brown made a
unique color only used on him Tan on the backpack with a brown wash over top with some tiger stripe
camo of tan running across his cloak this is an easy pattern to do with a nice sharp brush on his
inner cloak I glaze brown to add more variety and on the medic specialist light blue was the perfect
choice for his doctor mask and test tubes I wonder what he has in there I bet it's blood plasma and
Diet Mountain Dew it's time to tackle those bases usually I like to use a really contrasting color
in the bases to really make the models pop in this case I might not be able to because my
limited palette but you know what I mixed green and orange to make brown and mixed orange and
light blue to make tan what happens if I mix all three together it makes lentil soup green
yeah I guess I'm gonna have to try the Brick's got some light blue the ruined city they're
walking through is once really nice but to show the now war-torn aspects of it I wet Blended the
lentil soup green onto the piles of rubble then I re-highlighted the bricks with blue and then a
dry brushing of tan not a bad look and I achieved this with the same three colors I've been working
with all day now for the real tragedy of this limited palette it's time to paint the rim of
the base black and I don't have access to my favorite black paint 21985e Apple Barrel black
I guess I'll have to make do with the darkest color I have this green three colors and up they
are table top ready and it's only been 15 hours if I'm quick I might still make the tournaments
so what did I learn limiting myself to only three colors well I learned a lot I mentioned
before that my black Templars I used 21 different paints but it's actually not 21 different colors
because I used a lot of those different types of paints for convenience three different types of
red and ink for the airbrush a contrast paint to get my highlights and shadows quickly in
place and then in a couple of different acrylic paints just so that I didn't have to mix so much
so really lots and lots of colors give you convenience
these fellas were not convenient everything had to be brush work but they still turned out pretty
darn good I was able to push three colors really really far and I would be fine playing with these
on the tabletop they might not turn any heads at a tournaments but you know what paint isn't
added a process maybe I'll gloss coat these guys and then try out some oil paints to really get
that contrast back in there because what three colors really limited me with was value I could
only get as bright as my lightest color and I can only get as dark as my darkest color and
colors never really are that dark but it was still fun and it was still a really really interesting
Challenge and I definitely would not have painted these if I had access to my full range of paints
and thanks again to Cobalt keep for sponsoring this video I will definitely be putting these
suckers onto one of their magnet ready Army display cases and who knows I might find a
kill team tournament to transport these suckers to maybe after I've applied a couple of extra colors