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Video: The complete guide to glazing.

🕑 Added 2024-01-13 19:31:51 +0000 UTC

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Nigel Binghamton

Hey if you ever have a moment - an idea for a fundamentals video that would be really helpful (at least for myself) would just be simply your use of your palette, how you prep the paints, thinning them, etc etc I’ve signed up for the Patreon after watching your ultramarines eavy video probably 15+ times on YouTube. Reading now here you use the baking paper is incredibly helpful. I’m going to try that today. Also your corner shot of your paint on your palette in all your videos is so helpful as well. But anyways, perhaps the baking paper will solve my issue but I’m constantly struggling with thinning paints down too much to try to mimic your palette. To the point where they get a bit runny when applying highlights or seemingly most of the pigment is lost. Also having watched a number of your other videos as well it seems like in some recipes you’ll talk about thinning a paint down 50/50 with water for the right color/consistency. I’ve always assumed that is on top of the normal thin down everyone is supposed to do on base paints to begin with (that all GW tutorials always teach you) right? Now it’s gotten me wondering if you ever really thin down your base paints before applying - with this knowledge of the baking sheet - or if you just use an incredibly small amount of paint on your brush. Anyways - know this is prob a very basic question for the majority of subs you have so no worries either way. simply a suggestion/question! Truly after spending days/hours watching so many different people’s videos yours are truly by far the most helpful!!

Tom Grierson

Great video and really helpful!

Claude Chiarot

Hi, great video! I've been trying to use this technics with so so results, but now I understand how ti works and what to do. Thanks!

Jay Tjandra

Amazing video, super helpful. Would love to see more content like this about the fundamentals of painting to help along the journey. :)

Grzegorz Kałuża

Thank you!! I finally understand 😭

xavier miotke

your comment help me a lot, because I can't have the consistency show on video and now I will try it

L B

This is great Dave and something I can really struggle with at times as a beginner. Mainly getting the mixing right. It would have been nice to have a follow along exercise at the end just to put the theory into practice, but I appreciate time is always tight... :)

Jacob

This video was hands down the best vid I’ve seen that explains glazing to myself. I’m still super new to painting. Would be so keen if more videos for different painting techniques if time permitted every now and then. I just got so much out of this one and it made my last 2 models look miles better than my previous ones. I think also before I was almost applying a wash rather than a strategic glaze. Put way too much paint in my bristles and expected results too quickly.

Pawlu

Happy to say that by simply switching to baking paper I managed to achieve better results with glazing. My man! I am so glad I subbed!

Infernal Brush

It's the palette paper I use. Instead of using the paper that comes with the redgrass palette I instead cut my own from baking paper. Specifically reynolds baking parchment, but most baking paper works the same. It's far cheaper and works much better imo.

Pawlu

I have an even more basic question to ask, why is the paint so runny on your palette? I use the RGG one, I am baffled how yours looks!

rhys vokes

tried a common variety non stick white baking parchment, what a difference! now i can actually replicate a part of one of your video's ( how the paint looks on the pallet ;) ) love you work is inspiring, keep it up

HybridPanda

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calikingsos

Yeah I usually glaze down from the mid tone as mentioned, to create the initial gradients. Ok that makes sense that my thinner glazes are coming out chalky with my weaker glazes, its because I'm not building enough layers. Im actually using your Blood Angel video as a basis for my Kill Team, and I wasnt understanding why I was getting the "chalk" effect. Thank you very much for the input.

Infernal Brush

I would perhaps instead try the second method of layering up and then glazing down with a darker colour as I showed in the video. Are you trying to create the initial gradients on the miniature? It sounds like you have the correct consistency to begin with but you aren't building up enough layers to get rid of the chalky/inconsistent finish. You will need to apply more layers of the glaze and then glaze the midtone/basecoat back over the transitions to smooth them further. Some amount of back and forth with glazing is often required especially when there is a large difference of value or hue.

calikingsos

Great video. I have a question if you dont mind. There are times when im glazing and it comes out chalky and there is no color shift. Is that from not having enough paint in the glaze ? I put 2 drops of medium, and add paint until i can get the glaze to be as dark as possible while still being transparent. Is this wrong ?

Warfanattic

Amazing video! Great examples and easy to understand!

Infernal Brush

Yes, although it's a bit more difficult as the pigment/flakes are much larger with most metallics. Vallejo Model Air Silver has pretty fine pigment so it works much better with this from past experience.

Darmon Ruben

Great video. But i still have a question : is it possible to glaze using true metallic paint like vallejo silver ?

Steve Murzin

This was very helpful. Im still having some trouble getting my transitions smooth but they are certainly getting better. It seems that when i do the highlight lining/edging I get a tiny little ball at the tip of my brush. Can for the life of me figure it out but it seems to dry as soon as i get to the mini.

Botteu

Pure gold Dave 👌✨

Chris Richardson

Excellent video - and very timely as I am currently trying to glaze some squigs and doing it quite badly.

Kevin Groch

This is amazing! Thank you, I will reference this post often. I have trouble glazing lighter colors and appreciate that you addressed this!

Richard Perrin

This is the video I’ve been waiting for. Thank you so much for this!! Love the fundamentals idea - being good at painting is all about practice but this type of content helps give us the building blocks to start with, love it!

Richard T

Brilliant video Dave. Really explains it very well. The big game changer for me will be the DAMP paper towel.

Miiiiiike

I’m having audio issues on the Patreon app. Any chance for a YpuTube upload?

Jon Granville

So excited to see this mate.

alex hollands

Very comprehensive and well made video.

Nate Shaughnessy

Extremely helpful thanks Dave!

Alexandre Benyahia

This is such an indepth yet consise explanation. Thanks a lot Dave !

John Fields

Great video, I learned a couple of things I am going to try out on my next mini.

rhys vokes

I will keep my eye out for some ( im gonna try the brown i have at home) Im not sure how long it took you do this type of video against a normal one but, it is very well put together

Patrick Collins

This is awesome, you actually helped me understand glazing a year or so ago by showing which direction to go with the simple demo on your glove, this video has answered so many questions I had, cheers Dave.

Régis Effinger

Amazing video as always ! They got better each time. Cheers

Niels Smed

Thank you so much! Been thinking about writting to you about glazing - 'cause your glaze skills are just off the charts!

Infernal Brush

Liquitex also make a heavy body matt glaze medium as well as some others like Winsor and Newton.

Infernal Brush

It's very concentrated requires thinning with water. 1 tub is equivalent to hundreds of bottles of vallejo glaze medium or lahmiun. You can also get it in smaller tubes. Just make sure to get matt not gloss. Vallejo glaze medium is a good alternative if that's easier to get.

Brendan Dougherty

Also, is the glaze medium worth paying £17 for? It’s hard to get in Australia haha

Infernal Brush

I use Reynolds Baking Parchment but many other brands of baking paper also work. In my opinion it outperforms the paper that comes with the palette as well as being much much cheaper.

Brendan Dougherty

Great explanation and guide. I love that it got to the point and explained everything quickly and clearly. So glad to see this, I asked about it before so I can’t wait to give it a few watches. One request for future guides like this; perhaps a small practice exercise for us to follow along with? So we can compare with your results and try to work on improvements. Looking forward to the next one.

rhys vokes

ive realised i need more water in my wet pallete but just wondering what paper you use? as it doesnt look like the stuff you get in the red grass wet pallete

rhys vokes

a fantastic video, clear and concise,especially for those like myself that are getting back into painting after a long hiatus ( i started with 2nd Ed) the quality/editing has gone up a notch as always keep up the good work!

SHOGUN40k

Amazing video!

Hellglazer Painting

Absolutely fantastic video with brilliant explainations! Love this.

Collin N Jones

Best guide to glazing I've seen. Awesome job tackling all the common problems people run into and not glossing over anything! Wondering if you could do an instructional video on gap filling a miniature with milliput or greenstuff after the separate parts have been painted and glued together? There are some models I've been working on that need to be painted in subassemblies but don't look finished after because of this.

Matthieu Fricker

That’s amazing ! This will be my glazing guide :)

Ramon Oliver Sanchez

Impressive!

Infernal Brush

Yeah if you think of it as stacking overlapping layers of transparent colour you should progressively be covering less area as you work towards the area of more intensity.

b3

Amazing content as always! One question: I remember seeing a video a while back about glazing (I think it was an old video from the Warhammer youtube channel) where it was said that you should always start each glaze layer closer to the point where the colours meet than the last layer. Is that something you have in mind when glazing?

Andrew Steel (CMDante)

Brilliantly thorough, yet succinct coverage of the topic - looking forward to more of this series!

Craig Parent

I get it. Thanks for the reply.

Infernal Brush

This one might be uploaded to YouTube eventually. Unfortunately I'm in a difficult position because when I uploaded there people were sharing the links publicly or stealing the videos and uploading them to other sites. Most other miniature painting patreons now only upload here as well. I understand perhaps it isn't ideal but I hope that one day Patreon will make some kind of app that makes it easier as it's still a fairly new feature.

Ariel Sasinsky

Great video! Thanks!

Darran

Nice format. Looking forward to the next in the series

VVenture

Awesome video dude. Definitely the best editing work you’ve done on a video so far! A tip for anyone practicing glazing. Say you’re wanting to glaze shading on an Ork’s skin, when you do, make sure to leave one arm, or leg, or at least some part of the miniature’s skin (like one arm or leg) bare with no glazing. Why? Because the first few glazes are so small that you might feel like there’s no visible difference if you glaze all of the skin, which can make you inpatient, which can cause you to mess up. By always having a basecoat to reference, you’ll immediately see the small differences as you build up the shading.