A "different" kind of tutorial

[Mrgfinger]

Hi, I am new here and just wanted to share some interesting tutorials I have decided to make.
I am not an expert painter by any means, but I have learned a few things by trial and error that I thought would be useful to beginners. My goal is to make miniature painting as fun as possible for beginners and inject a little humor into the process.
This video is my view on the use of craft paint.
http://tipsforbadpainters.com/1/post/2015/09/crapoopsi-meant-craft-paint.html

 

[Mrgfinger]

I am quite willing to concede that maybe Coolminiornot may not be the best place to post videos geared towards beginners using adolescent stupid humor, since most of you here are already professional painters and fairly serious about the art form.
So, does anybody know how to get these kinds of videos to the people they might be helpful to?

 

[MAXXxxx]

So, does anybody know how to get these kinds of videos to the people they might be helpful to?

not sure if they will be helpful. Based on the 2 videos I've seen, they were not really helpful.
- in the first calling other's paintjobs shit is not a helpful tutorial (and doing the 'joke' in there with anyone over the age of 6 is more painful than funny)
- the wet-palette would be good, but the whole micro and such is not needed. When the parchment paper curls up simply turn it over to the other side and it will be flat


but to your question I can only tell: the usual places:
- Facebook groups where the theme is painting especially for beginner groups
- Twitter
- tumblr
- pinterest
- basically any of the hip, social, app-based sites
- Youtube channels (who do promoting people videos for a % of 'income', no idea if one for painting tutorials exists or not)
- gaming/painting forums (like dakka, warseer or smaller local ones). Even if a tutorial is about basic things it's not bad to have it (just no infantile ones please)
- seeking ad. from miniwargaming, BoW or similar ones.

The biggest chance I think is with FB groups/tumblr amongst those.

 

[Mrgfinger]

I suppose gaming forums would be more appropriate. Part of the reason for starting these is that on the very rare occasions I get to play with other Gamers (I have to drive 2.5 hours to get to the closest store to play a tournament), I noticed that they play with unpainted models a lot of the time. So I wanted to encourage people who didn't care what their models look like to get back into the painting part of the hobby.
Sorry the point was lost in the crappy paint episode. I was trying to encourage people to use quality paint, not just because it makes the models look better, but because it is more FUN to paint with good paint.
Fortunately, I am not trying to generate income or use the videos for business purposes, so I don't care about advertising really. I am just trying to help beginners take the frustration out of painting.
Thanks for taking the time to look, Maxxx.

 

[MAXXxxx]

I was trying to encourage people to use quality paint, not just because it makes the models look better, but because it is more FUN to paint with good paint....

I don't agree with the first part. Altough it depends on the manufacturer, but some craft paints can be pretty good on models too. Agree with the second part though, much less hassle so more fun.

I am just trying to help beginners take the frustration out of painting.

To be honest for this I found 2 things that help:
- good brushes (much more important than model paints)
- get all models basecoated as fast as possible (meaning spray for most SM-s for example) and stop. It's not difficult to get the basecoat done. and if done relatively cleanly it'll already look good. Then if someone wants to go further a simple wash on all models (or even dipping).

The problem is, that everyone wants to get a display standard without practice or work. And because everyone knows they are not there yet, they don't even start. I had a few fellow players like that.
In reality basecoating a unit of 10 takes about 4 evenings (1-2 hours/evening), so 1 unit/week is easy to do without burn out.

This army: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-...Y/o9ZbNu_PmeQ/s1200-Ic42/NemetTel%2520126.jpg
(closeup on some FW-s: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-..._Firewarriors%2520%2528tomeggyartott%2529.JPG )
took a total of 2 months(some evenings during the week, some weekend hours) and has basecoat + wash + 1 or 2 drybrush. Only on the vehicles was AB used for speeding up the painting.

 

[Kalidane]

I am quite willing to concede that maybe Coolminiornot may not be the best place to post videos geared towards beginners using adolescent stupid humor, since most of you here are already professional painters and fairly serious about the art form.
So, does anybody know how to get these kinds of videos to the people they might be helpful to?

A lot of very experienced people do post comments, you're right.

An invisible number of beginners read without posting. They'll probably enjoy your video. The "invisible majority" perhaps.

 

[Mrgfinger]

Thanks Kalidane, I hadn't thought of that.
Maxxx, oddly enough, my next few videos were going to include brushes and basecoating. I had the same idea as you mentioned, as far as basecoating a lot of models quickly.