Is SLAPCHOP the Future of Speed Painting Warhammer?! — Transcript

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3. 0:03recently a newfangled fad has hit the
4. 0:06streets something known in the mini
5. 0:07painting community and Slap Shop local
6. 0:10Nottingham authorities claim that the
7. 0:12viral video that's endangering our
8. 0:14children has been brought on by one Rob
9. 0:17the honest war game hey
10. 0:24hey from The Slap Chop Union to make
11. 0:26sure you pan your Jews as we know Mr
12. 0:30Valley Joe of the valley Joe Corporation
13. 0:33is threatening to withhold the zero zero
14. 0:36one paint and so if you don't pay your
15. 0:39dues we can't collectively bargain for
16. 0:41better pain so they'll be talking about
17. 0:44slap Chopper on your videos like some of
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22. 0:56I should have known let this be a lesson
23. 0:58to all of you never trust a man with
24. 1:01honest in his name
25. 1:03[Music]
26. 1:12hey everybody how's it going you know
27. 1:15lately I've been thinking an awful lot
28. 1:16about speed painting how it's an art in
29. 1:20and of itself you're trying to always
30. 1:21find that perfect balance between
31. 1:23efficiency and quality and as the years
32. 1:26go by in my miniature painting Journey
33. 1:28I've realized that there probably is
34. 1:30never going to be such thing as a
35. 1:32perfect speed painting system instead
36. 1:34it's about the experimentation process
37. 1:37trying a little bit of something new
38. 1:39maybe folding in something into your
39. 1:41process maybe replacing one thing with
40. 1:44another so at the end of the day your
41. 1:46system is more fine-tuned than it was at
42. 1:49the beginning so when I found out that
43. 1:50my buddy Rob the honest War gamer
44. 1:52introduced The Slap Chop system to the
45. 1:54world of miniature painting I figured I
46. 1:56need to try it myself and find out what
47. 1:58the hype was all about and if you don't
48. 2:00know who rob is he's a great content
49. 2:02creator that Focus is mostly on age of
50. 2:04Sigmar strategy tournament coverage and
51. 2:07all sorts of other content I'll link his
52. 2:10channel down below so you can check him
53. 2:11out do you mind if I have a bit of cake
54. 2:13uh this is my cake
55. 2:21I'm gonna give myself 15 minutes with
56. 2:24this method to finish one beaky Marine
57. 2:26so let's get to slapping what makes this
58. 2:28method seem to really work is the few
59. 2:31amount of steps and each has a very
60. 2:33specific Purpose By starting with the
61. 2:35black Prime and a gray xenophile from
62. 2:37above we set the volumes of the model so
63. 2:39later stages we don't need to worry
64. 2:41about our mid-tones and shadows I'm
65. 2:44covering the black primer with the gray
66. 2:45but the darkest areas will still be
67. 2:47fully black and we get to keep all the
68. 2:50crevices dark as well meaning all the
69. 2:52details of the model will be easy to
70. 2:54make out by the time we're finished so
71. 2:56far none of this stuff is groundbreaking
72. 2:58we've all seen black Prime and xenophil
73. 3:00before and usually I like to use white
74. 3:02from above for the xenophil but from
75. 3:04what I understand by using a light gray
76. 3:07we're actually setting the tone for all
77. 3:09of our mid sections while giving us a
78. 3:11little bit higher of a ceiling for
79. 3:13coming back in with white in the next
80. 3:15step so far this does seem efficient
81. 3:18especially if you're trying to paint an
82. 3:19entire Army fast the third step is the
83. 3:23Special Sauce in Slap Chop you simply
84. 3:25bust out your sexiest dry brushes and go
85. 3:28to town over the entire model in white
86. 3:31we're going to push all of the edges and
87. 3:33the brightest points near The Head and
88. 3:35Shoulders of the model so we can really
89. 3:37make those pop later on again I applaud
90. 3:40the efficiency here Edge highlighting is
91. 3:43both the most eye-catching and the most
92. 3:45time intensive parts of typical
93. 3:48miniature painting but by cracking them
94. 3:50out right now and going over them later
95. 3:52with paint we're still showing that
96. 3:54vibrancy over all the edges while saving
97. 3:56ourselves a buttload of time since I was
98. 3:59feeling way ahead of schedule on this
99. 4:01model I did take a small brush out and I
100. 4:03popped a few of the key details in that
101. 4:06white to make sure that they really were
102. 4:08fully opaque for the next step now the
103. 4:10first three steps of this process were
104. 4:12all to set the stage for our fourth and
105. 4:15final step and that is where Slap Chop
106. 4:17gets its name because we are going to
107. 4:20slap lap on contrast paint over this
108. 4:22entire model the shadows mid-tones and
109. 4:25highlights are all done with this step
110. 4:26as contrast is want to do however we've
111. 4:29laid the foundation to amplify that
112. 4:32effect even more and there really isn't
113. 4:34a whole lot to say here just paint a
114. 4:36thing move on to the next thing paint
115. 4:38that thing the trickiest part of this
116. 4:40whole Slap Chop process is making sure
117. 4:42you don't get your color on other
118. 4:45surfaces because if that green hits
119. 4:47something that isn't supposed to be
120. 4:49green you're going to have to live with
121. 4:50it or you're going to have to go back
122. 4:52through and paint that white over the
123. 4:55top again and then repaint your color
124. 4:57now because Slap Shop uses very little
125. 5:00to no airbrush work it does mean that
126. 5:02you are spending a fair bit of time
127. 5:03picking out every single detail by hand
128. 5:06if I was painting a model that had a lot
129. 5:09of different colors and details it would
130. 5:11certainly be efficient and great but
131. 5:13something that's largely one color like
132. 5:15this Marine here it may be faster just
133. 5:18to airbrush the thing this green just
134. 5:20start with but I do have to admit that
135. 5:22vibrant bright colors really do pop in
136. 5:25this style because we're not muddying
137. 5:27them down by putting on washes to add
138. 5:29Shadows or layers it's just pure Games
139. 5:33Workshop stereotypical box art style
140. 5:36bright vibrant color schemes and if you
141. 5:38like that style this laptop technique is
142. 5:42pretty darn good at it so we've
143. 5:44officially accomplished our goal of
144. 5:45painting this heresy Marine in 15
145. 5:48minutes or less but you didn't think we
146. 5:50were just gonna stop there did you now
147. 5:52that I've popped my Slap Chop Cherry
148. 5:54it's time for me to take what I've
149. 5:56learned here integrate some things that
150. 5:58I really like to do in my own version of
151. 6:00speed painting and see if we can come up
152. 6:01with a new and improved Slap Chop 2.0
153. 6:05that's right Rob
154. 6:06I'm the captain now I got myself one of
155. 6:09them new leagues of Voltron dwarves and
156. 6:11instead of priming him black I'm gonna
157. 6:13come in with a dark cherry-ish color I'm
158. 6:16priming with this warm color because his
159. 6:19armor is going to be orange in a warm
160. 6:21undertone should really kick it up a
161. 6:23notch next instead of hitting the model
162. 6:25from above with the neutral gray tone
163. 6:27I'm going with a light warm tone in this
164. 6:30yellowish beige again this is just to
165. 6:33reinforce the warmth of our shadow color
166. 6:35below each transparent contrast layer we
167. 6:38apply later over these will still show a
168. 6:41bit of that warmth underneath and then
169. 6:43we finish up our undercoats with that
170. 6:45same white dry brush As Seen On TV with
171. 6:48the OG Slap Chop I'm trying a heavy body
172. 6:51acrylic white here for the dry brush
173. 6:53just because I kind of was curious and
174. 6:55it is never a bad time to experiment in
175. 6:58the end this fancy artist heavy body
176. 7:00white really made no difference at all
177. 7:03so you go about your business with
178. 7:04whatever white you already have but now
179. 7:07we know and knowing is half the battle
180. 7:09other half's lasers we are ready to
181. 7:12start adding color to our Wii space
182. 7:14Adventurer here and up to this point I'm
183. 7:16on track to finish the model in the same
184. 7:18amount of time as our last but here's
185. 7:20where we're going to have some amount of
186. 7:21variation in our time to completion and
187. 7:23it really doesn't come from any of my
188. 7:25changes in the approach I'm taking to
189. 7:27painting the model but instead just how
190. 7:30much detail and gobbledygook crap in
191. 7:32different colors we have to use on this
192. 7:34model the good news is I've found that
193. 7:36models that have different variations
194. 7:38and textures a bunch of different kinds
195. 7:40of details and all sorts of different
196. 7:42cracks and crevices really benefit from
197. 7:44using contrast paint with a brush the
198. 7:46flip side of that coin is if you're
199. 7:48painting a big model with a lot of flat
200. 7:50or large round surfaces painting with
201. 7:53contrast can be in utter pain all I'm
202. 7:55saying is there's a reason why you don't
203. 7:56see people telling you to paint your
204. 7:58rhinos and land Raiders with contrast
205. 8:00paint and a paintbrush
206. 8:01[Music]
207. 8:03foreign
208. 8:04[Music]
209. 8:11contrast all over the surfaces I'm
210. 8:13feeling the slight but noticeable
211. 8:15difference in this paint job versus the
212. 8:17heresy Marine having that color interest
213. 8:19in the darker areas and keeping a warmth
214. 8:21in the xenopho Highlight leads to a less
215. 8:24drab look in the shadows and a more
216. 8:26vibrant clean look in all of the
217. 8:28brighter contrast paints that we're
218. 8:30using
219. 8:33[Music]
220. 8:34music hello
221. 8:38hello
222. 8:40[Music]
223. 8:47by the time I'm finished painting the
224. 8:49base on this model we're at just over 16
225. 8:52minutes to completion and this is fairly
226. 8:54respectable but our Slap Chop 2.0 paint
227. 8:57job isn't done just yet oh no I've got
228. 9:00one more trick up my sleeve and it'll
229. 9:02leave Rob in the dust all you got to do
230. 9:04is grab yourself a handful of light
231. 9:06pastel paints and we're gonna get to
232. 9:09work it's Easter basket time
233. 9:11we're dying eggs we are going to do some
234. 9:14Edge highlighting now I know what you're
235. 9:16thinking this is a speed paint job ain't
236. 9:18nobody got time for Edge highlighting
237. 9:20but hear me out I'm going to show you
238. 9:22why 10 minutes of edge highlighting
239. 9:24makes a world of difference if you do it
240. 9:27the proper speed painting way we are
241. 9:29just going to do one pass of edge
242. 9:32highlights starting with the most
243. 9:33important parts of the model first for
244. 9:36this guy it's his face in his orange
245. 9:38armor we're using bright off-white tones
246. 9:41so it makes an immediate impact without
247. 9:43deviating too far from the base colors
248. 9:46tone we're starting with the most
249. 9:47important bits because when you feel
250. 9:49you're ready to be done Edge
251. 9:50highlighting this model just say you're
252. 9:53done if you've done the face and the
253. 9:54armor he's gonna look awesome if I was
254. 9:57doing 50 of these little buggers I'd
255. 9:59only highlight the face and armor these
256. 10:02are the two areas that make the biggest
257. 10:03impact and they can be done in under
258. 10:05three minutes per model with a little
259. 10:07practice
260. 10:10I understand the Mantra around Slap Chop
261. 10:13is it's about getting all your army
262. 10:15painted quick so you can get to that
263. 10:17tournament and have your models painted
264. 10:18by the weekend or you can go to your DND
265. 10:21game this weekend and you can have all
266. 10:23the monsters ready for your party to
267. 10:25fight but there's two major reasons why
268. 10:27I think you should not ignore this step
269. 10:29first off the model is actually fully
270. 10:32painted before this step so you can go
271. 10:35play a game with them tomorrow you don't
272. 10:37need to do this step right away even
273. 10:39though it really won't take much time
274. 10:41you can do it at any point next I know
275. 10:45you want to get your stuff done fast but
276. 10:48if you do this step the amount of brush
277. 10:51control you will learn and how much you
278. 10:53will improve as a miniature painter will
279. 10:55be astounding by doing this over an
280. 10:57entire Army so not only can you get all
281. 11:00your stuff done fast you can actually
282. 11:02improve your skills as you go I'd be
283. 11:05remiss not to share some kind of a tip
284. 11:07in any of my videos they wouldn't take
285. 11:09you a little close closer up the rungs
286. 11:11of the ladder of becoming a better
287. 11:13miniature painter and as you do this
288. 11:15Edge highlighting you're going to get
289. 11:16faster and faster at it while your
290. 11:19quality improves you will know what
291. 11:21angle to hold the model at without even
292. 11:22thinking about it and you won't have to
293. 11:24stress about having half painted models
294. 11:26and rushing through this step because
295. 11:28they're already going to be table ready
296. 11:30before you knock out the highlighting so
297. 11:33Slap Shop 2.0 isn't a complete redesign
298. 11:36it's still close enough to the original
299. 11:37that I do have to pay my union dues in
300. 11:40order to process this video but I think
301. 11:43it's enough of an improvement I'm happy
302. 11:45to share with you all oh and if you want
303. 11:47there's even more quick steps you can
304. 11:49tack on to the end of this approach I
305. 11:51hadn't used my full 10 minutes in my
306. 11:53Edge highlighting so I grabbed a yellow
307. 11:55shade and hit all of the orange armor
308. 11:57really fast to pump up that vibrancy
309. 11:59even more so here we are a 15 minute
310. 12:02Slap Chop 1.0 heresy Marine versus a 26
311. 12:07minute Slap Chop 2.0 leagues of Ultron
312. 12:10I'm not saying my method is better maybe
313. 12:13time is your only concern and you need
314. 12:15to just get stuff done and have it look
315. 12:17pretty darn good in the process the
316. 12:19point of my experiment today was just
317. 12:21that to experiment we don't need to
318. 12:24create imaginary rules for ourselves in
319. 12:26miniature painting be Fearless try out
320. 12:29new techniques evolve your approach over
321. 12:31time and the quality of your painted
322. 12:33armies will grow with you Slap Chop 2.0
323. 12:36it's not the slap you want but it is the
324. 12:39slap you need thanks for getting slap
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