minis are small but they're not it's weird to think about but minis are really a small
reflection of larger things when i'm planning a paint job usually i'm focusing on doing a good job
picking all the right colors and deciding what audiobook i'm going to listen to
but maybe there is something to thinking about scale and trying to paint differently
worth a try video is sponsored by pash spiele more on them later hey guys jay here welcome to eons of
battle miniatures in this hobby come in a scale and what scale is that well it's mostly arbitrary
model airplanes often come in 1 100th scale games workshop likes to keep things interesting
with their one of a kind 28 millimeter chunky scale and games like mallophone infinity use
a very reasonable 32 millimeter scale scale with the models you can buy is pretty simple
because you just get what you get but it becomes really interesting when you look at 3d printing
all of a sudden any scale your heart desires is at your fingertips you just have to change
one number i first experienced the scale thing a million years ago before i really knew anything
about model scale fine scale or heroic scale with these models i grew up on 1d4chan and so when i
saw this cultist chan model on shapeways i had to get it the problem was it arrived in the correct
28 millimeter scale which meant it was basically two small paints later on i got another one that
was sold as a big cultist and that one was much easier to paint i don't often paint large things
but recently the perfect opportunity dropped from the sky or more correctly out of a ups fan
taking the models out of the box i saw this little dwarf and i thought ah neat a little
dwarf seems pretty average then i saw a bigger model and i saw way more things to appreciate
on the model the change in scale was really piquing my interest and then i saw this model
holy moly ravioli batman these three doors have caught me by surprise they're not my usual
painting thing but when the painting bug bites you don't ask questions you just make it happen these
models were provided by pasch spiele pash spiele is a company from germany that produces high
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like this dwarf they are happy to accept special orders and custom army projects as well although
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now i paint so many minis and there are so many great minis out there that i've never really had
a big push to get into larger models although one model i get asked to paint all the time is
the mcfarlane big space marine and this model it irks me because i kinda think it sucks this is a
scaled-up space marine and that is the end of it it's just a big space marine no extra details no
corrected anatomy no extra bells and whistles it's just big marine that space marine does not peak my
interest but this dwarf does i have for the first time really wanted to paint a larger figure i've
never really done it before but i feel like it might unlock a whole new perspective on painting
so the question i have is do i paint an ascending or descending order well i feel like ascending
will feel very natural starting with the quickest paint job and ending with the longest but i think
my instincts are leading me in the wrong direction because this project isn't about having three
dwarves it's more about learning and i feel like there's a lot more learning that can happen if i
go papa bear mama bear baby bear if i start with the huge dwarf huge dwarf oxymoron and do all of
my learning on him and then figure out how to translate what i learn onto the smaller figures
because i'm never giving up painting smaller figures that's my bread and butter but i still
want this guy to have a lot of value now armed with my battle plan it's time to get to painting
it's time to paint my first dwarf and my first big model i'm going to start with the big guy but
i'm going to go ahead and prime them all right now while i have the primer out i'm going to be using
the one primer to rule them all black primer just kidding but i do use black primer like 95
of the time for me it's really really convenient to have my shadows done from the very beginning so
it is time to get to airbrushing on a model this big there is a lot to prime i had to
refill my paintbrush twice usually one drop will do but not on this monster of a dwarf
and while i had my primer in my airbrush i decided to go ahead and prime the other two
the medium dwarf took only a few seconds to prime and the tiny dwarf took about one squirt
that took more primer than i was used to but i got him all ready to go and i'm not a big
fantasy person so i've only know one dwarf and that's gimli from lord of the rings so i guess
i'm gonna paint this guy like gimli and i think i'm gonna lay in all the colors with my airbrush
i base coat the door with a reddish brown i don't paint a lot of skin so this was a fun experiment
well it looks like my base coat is going to be chestnut brown because that's the one that
i could get to work through my airbrush but you know what i think it looks pretty good
and the name chestnut brown that sounds a little dwarfy to me so we're going to move on from there
now it was on to the exciting part airbrushing on the highlights i'm using my super fine harder and
steinbeck evolution airbrush and i probably pushed the colors too much but you know what
i like it this airbrush really let me get in there and paint his rosy cheeks and his big old schna's
then i began base coating throwing a bit of brown onto the barrel i wonder what's in there
probably some juice maybe milk taking another look at the skin i decided i could take it further
i threw a lighter pink into my airbrush and gave the muscles a few more squirts this helped but he
was looking a little plasticky so i put the original skin color back on my airbrush and
turned the pressure all the way down and then i speckled all over him this gave him a nice texture
and made him look a lot more alive i've been working on this dude's skin and it's really weird
working with this giant dwarf because i actually feel like real light and shadow is like helping
my paint job or at least i can see it usually on a little mini a lot like this little dwarf i would
just be blasting with light and creating all of my own highlights and shadows but now i almost have
to like double check and see what is the real world and what is my miniature but i think i've
got something kind of fun with this skin and i'm going to take it a little further with some washes
i applied the washes to all the creases in his skin painting a stripe on and then coming back
in with a damp brush and feathering it out not a traditional wash but not a traditional mini either
i base coated the pants gray and i liked this color so much that i threw it on the metal parts
of the barrel and then it dawned on me there he is now you might be asking wouldn't it have been
a better idea to paint the barrel before painting the gray stripes and that would be a better idea
painting something i've never painted before has completely thrown me off my rhythm but
let's work on that barrel i washed the wooden parts with a watery black paint in preparation
for going hard with the dry brushing the sculptor was nice enough to give a really
aggressive wood texture that took to dry brushing with a light brown beautifully
then i did a second much lighter dry brushing with a tan to make the wood look a little drier after
fixing the metal i gave it a dry brushing of some light grey i decided to not go with true metallic
metals because i feel like non-metallic will fit better in this silly dwarf's universe the barrel
turned out great it's really interesting painting this guy because everything is a little bit easier
because there's more room but everything takes a lot longer because there's so much more room
and it's really kind of an interesting thing to work on though i think next i'm going to
work on his beard but i'm not going to do dry brushing i think dry brushing would be cheating
i'm going to do layering i painted the recesses of his beard with brown and then highlighted
the top of each hair with a mixture of orange and brown because gimli is a redhead this took a long
time but it is his face the centerpiece of the model i wanted full control getting real close on
big dwarf and i'm noticing something the sculptor forgot about this guy has no nipples so i'm gonna
have to give him some myself now i believe in a bob ross episode he talked about painting nipples
and he said to make sure to make your nipples happy nipples so that is exactly what i'm gonna do
i went for it painting on a tiny dot that i could get rid of if i was unhappy with
the knit placement and then i made them bigger i put a darker dot in the middle and then softened
them i painted on a pink highlight color over top to blend his nips into his chest a little
bit look at them nips i think that looks pretty snazzy this guy is just about done
the only thing left to do is his eyes and i have a feeling these are gonna be the best
eyes i'm ever gonna paint because they're about 50 times bigger than the normal eyes i try to paint
i did the classic eyeball move of base coating with black paint and usually i just touched the
brush to the model but on this guy it took a proper too thin coat base coat
you know the thing about a dwarf he's got lifeless eyes black eyes like a doll's eyes
when he comes at ya doesn't seem to be living until he bites and then black eyes roll over white
i went in with my best paintbrush and painted on the whites of his eyes leaving a little of my
black showing on the edges believe it or not this is much easier on a model this big then came time
for the irises and gimli has brown eyes but 90 of this dwarf is brown so i thought blue would look
a lot more striking i started with a dark blue and then put on a few drops of light blue then finally
a drop of black to make the pupil and there was his crazy drunken dwarf eyes and finished
this model was a lot of fun to paint i think that this is the very first model i've ever painted
that did not have a weapon of some kind and the larger scale it didn't throw me off as much as
i thought it would i'm used to painting a lot of different things from pinning a lot of different
models and really with the more room i had to work on this guy it wasn't a matter of rediscovering
how to paint things it was just having more room to paint things that i'm used to painting
it was really a good time now i need to take what i've learned with this dwarf and apply it
to the smaller dwarves all right it's time to paint this little fella and i'm faced with a
very familiar and yet completely new situation i often paint the same thing over and over and over
i mean i basically painted a hundred of identical space marines but i'm gonna paint and literally
an identical model but it's a hundred percent different because look at how small he is so
let's see how this goes i started off the same way in fact everything really was about the
same a base coat of walnut brown a color made by dwarves four dwarfs then some highlights
which i applied much more sparingly as he's a little too small to snipe with my airbrush
then my final highlight which maybe made him a little bit too light it's
the correct order of operations but it might have overpowered him
but i corrected everything on the skin in the wash phase this was much more natural with the washes
it's almost like this is what they're designed to do at the scale they're designed to work in
i now have all the colors blocked in on little dwarf and he's turning out pretty good it's almost
a hilarious parody of big dwarf but now it's time to see if all of my steps from big dwarf will
translate to little dwarf it is working so far but let's see if i can keep it up
i then threw the same steps onto his little barrel first a black wash which i had to thin a lot more
than i did on the big one then a dry brushing and for this my army painter dry brush came in handy
it's a tiny chisel shape and lets me dry brush little areas like this without worrying about
getting paint where i don't want it next i did something i'm very familiar with i washed his
long hair and beard just like this dwarf i also washed my hair with dark brown acrylic paints
then i base coated his pants and metal parts with the same gray paint things were moving
much faster this time because everything was much smaller this time i was getting really
really close on the middle dwarf i decided now it was the perfect time for his nips i
broke out my fine detail brush and painted on to nipples just about done with the medium dwarf
and it's time to do the eyes and these eyes are a lot smaller and i don't know
if i'm going to be able to pull them off without a little performance enhancer
the same processes went into these eyes but this time i had to hold my breath black base coat white
highlights and then ever so carefully two blue dots this dwarf was classic painting i had to
drop a lot of detail because there was just not as much room on this guy but all my old tips and
tricks worked and this is the appropriate size for pushing around a gaming table it was really fun
translating the super detail onto this guy and now i'm gonna have to take what i've learned here and
apply it to the micro dwarf well it is finally time to paint this little tic-tac of a dwarf
this is gonna go great i'm sure this model is so small i cannot hold him and paint him at
the same time so i stuck him down to a painting handle using some poster putty then the world's
fastest base coating of walnut brown then for my highlight color i did a very careful spraying of
pink mostly only to the shoulders and arms then i washed the model and there was no careful shading
here just a good old-fashioned dunk i base coated his barrel with the same brown paint as usual but
this time it took about five seconds and so i went ahead and base coated everything else on
the model which took about five minutes in total unfortunately this guy might just be a hair
too small for me to freehand nipples and eyes on so bummer there but he is coming along real quick
probably because he's so darn small dry brushing was pretty much out of the question for this
guy he's just too small i had to use my fine detail brush and carefully apply highlights
his hair was particularly fun to do because finally his hairs were literally the size of hairs
and done painting this micro machine size dwarf was actually a surprising amount of fun in similar
way to finding all the details to paint on big dwarf i actually on this little guy i looked
at him as a whole and then decided what details i was going to keep because what he's like 10 lumps
that's all that makes up this little door but it was a surprising amount of fun i wouldn't mind
painting a lot of models at this scale because it takes no time i mean this guy took like maybe
30 minutes there's just there's just no room for anything and it's great 10 out of 10. well
it's time to see all three dwarves together look at these three fine fellas what an interesting
and rewarding project i can't say that i love dwarves they've always seemed a little lame to me
but these were fun to paint it was a wild ride painting one figure and then the same one again
and it was the same but different i think this is easily one of the best faces i've ever painted
i want to paint more big faces because i feel like it taught me so much about where things should go
and i can take that knowledge and apply it to the small figures i paint in the future
now you might have noticed that these models are not based and that is because i have thought of
the perfect way to display them i may need to build a base for this big boy one day but on
the medium and tiny dwarves i think they will display beautifully on his barrel i will glue
one here and then the last one here it's a little like a dwarvish russian nesting doll i love it
scale is an interesting thing i should push myself to experiment more with it you know what i want to
put out a challenge if this video gets 2 thousand likes i will paint a mcfarland space marine i
don't want to i won't be happy about it but i'll do it for science who knows maybe it'll make me
a better space marine painter i learned a lot painting these three dwarves and i would highly
recommend tackling a project like this 3d printing is amazing and i would suggest you go find a model
you love maybe something like a futuristic space soldier or a big titty magician something that'll
keep your interest and then get to painting afterwards you will have improved i guarantee it
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they have lots of cool models go check them out i hope you guys enjoyed this three dwarf scale
painting challenge as much as i did and now it's time for the real star of the show this week's
eob complete submissions we put out a challenge to our community to send us before and after
photos of their recently finished models to be immortalized in our videos if you want to join
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you can find in the description below or you can post it to instagram with the hashtag eob
complete without further ado let's look at and get inspired by what the folks have finished this week
a proxy necron nightbringer by robospark725 a space marine captain by just some guy a black
templar assault intercessor by boba fett ig 88 an imperial knight by huntron a necron immortal
by guanga a space marine captain by darth jig a groot bust by masterbuilder75 a scary dragon by
hot stuff some orc storm boys by comrade nostra a captain in terminator armor by katashi lucero
a corvus cabal cabalist by disco some bled bull vampire counts by sean the sheep a third party
captain by raymie 22 an orc mech on war bike by set sauna senpai a redemptor dreadnought
by purple spark alice a sanguinary guard by aldis a kit-bashed malal's demon by the brave
some necron wraiths by t bagger a true scale space marine by director supremace
a salamander's chaplain on dragon by tsa italian a penguin titan thug by gustavo s
a space marine fire strike servo turret by ho lit 27 a primaris infiltrator by ocho
a necron kryptek by the brush breaker and a bellicore by lonelydyno congratulations to
everyone for a job well done it's no small feat to get paint on minis and you all should feel really
proud nothing gets the hobby juices flowing like finishing a project and we all thank you
for sharing your work motivating us and the hobby community to paint our plastic thanks for sharing