How to Paint An Army You'll Be Proud Of

Love how Jon keeps trying to convince himself he’s speed painting an entire army in every other video and then can’t help himself and starts doing 4 layers of highlights on the skin and only does like 4 miniatures 😂

Honestly I like the approach of “I paint an army in a way that gets the most out of the hobby” rather than “paint lots fast”. Sometimes it’s fun to just watch someone paint and hear some commentary. Don’t feel pressured to make every video about something new. 👍

15:05 To quote a TW youtuber : "OGRES MY LORDE OGRES MY LORDE OGRES MY LORDE OGRES MY LORDE OGRES MY LORDE OGRES MY LORDE OGRES MY LORDE"

Despite recent disability you are one of the few creators that can get me out of my funk and working on my massive pile of gray, Not sure what it is but you always make me feel like I can knock some minis out from my pile of 10s of 1000s. With the extent of my nerve damage I found that 3D printing is one of the few things I can do so for the better part of 3 years I have had 2-6 printers running each day without assembling a single army. When I look at my mountain of shame its over whelming but then I put you on and I feel like I can knock a few minis out. Thank you.

Amazing result! I would love to see those Rag Ogors painted with these kind of schemes.

Thanks I needed to hear that “pick on technique to focus on with army project so you can get good at it” sigh….i don’t know why that wasn’t so obvious, however I’m new to this hobby and I feel like a sponge that has gotten WAY to full and often feel like I’m just trying to figure out how to do ALL the techniques right away! By far, best advice I’ve heard…well that and the advice “just have fun with it” 😊 Thanks! Can’t wait to see what you do next! I would like to see a character so I can see how you change up your style for the bigger dudes that lead.

Great scheme; I loved the different colors of skintones and the varied cloths you chose. They are different enough to look ragtag but still be cohesive. Very nice, indeed.

Those Skaven are stunning Jon. I'd like to see you paint the Ratling Warpblaster next. It's my favourite mini from this release. Sorry to hear about the basement. I hope it's easy to sort out.

Skaven on the painting table and there just happens to be water/flood damage in the basement? I'd get some extra large rat traps, pronto! Good luck with the repairs. The models look great, as always.

Thanks Ninjon for making all the videos. I feel like I’m on a wave length with you and I’ll be painting my army very soon. It’s been really helpful for my painting phase now with the hobby.

Great video!! I am currently listening to your Podcast while getting back into the hobby and heard you and Scott talking about what people watching on youtube want to see. For me, it is just watching you paint (whatever) and enjoying your voiceover. It is just relaxing to watch and motivates me (and probably others as well) to keep hobbying. Dont need anything else. So please keep up the awesome content and thank you, I love it!

"You're not going to just slap a bunch of Contrast paints all over" -- WRONG. It's exactly what I would do if I were to buy this box. Which I won't, 'cause my pile of shame is large enough already 😅

Meanwhile Vince is watching this, looking at his seven billion armies painted to display standard and wondering if he needs seven billion and one armies painted to-

I just bought a full GSC army of 2x old CP, 2xBattleforce, 2x new CP, and the HQ's. This video has given me inspiration on how I can paint the amount of units and still keep it fresh. I'll definitely be watching this again

Can your leader rat riding the larger rat have a base like a Hamster cage? Like toilet paper, toilet paper rolls, small wood chips. Basically like a kids first pet that his parents helped him set up.

Looks way more detailed than everything I ever paint. And I am fine with that. Great Job, Ninjon. Thank you for inspiring me.

I'm just glad to hear I'm on the right track learning; painting my first army custodes; I tried multiple methods for the scheme I wanted to do and settled on layering. I liked how it looks best. I tried the direct color, metallics, and such but layering seemed to get the best look. So layering for the scheme and just doing metallics on other areas. It's been a fun process and I'm enjoying it just 8+ hrs per model is painful and once I start painting I can't get myself to put the paint brush down until the model is complete. Still need to do basing but I think I will do that separately to keep on doing the focus on one method at a time.

Been trying to get stuff done and this video is helping. Thanks Jon, fighting the grey harder than ever.

I feel like key really is to focus on using techniques you enjoy doing (with the possibility of adding one to practice), making incremental progress, and failing forward (like your tip with the scratches on the wet blending). You will finish if you enjoy the process and set achievable goals for the time you have at the painting table.

lets goooo new ninjon video, oh what a day, what a lovely day!