SUPPLY LIST: Creating Dimension with Grayscale

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Welcome to our third miniature painting supply list for Mini Primetime, hosted by the incredibly-humorous Will Friedle.

This episode features Babs Tarr learning how to work with grayscale to give your character the illusion of dimension, as well as exploring how to create a believable color family within a limited grayscale palette. Watch the video below to see how it’s done.

To paint your own Yasha miniature like Ian Phillips of Iron Tusk Miniature Painting, you’ll need the following paints. You can pick up your own Mighty Nein miniature set, which includes Yasha, right now at shop.critrole.com or wherever Steamforged minis are sold.

And now, on to Ian’s suggested supply list!

Yasha painted by Ian at Iron Tusk Painting

BRUSHES

Use your own judgement as to which brush will fit your needs. Everyone approaches mini painting differently. Ian suggests the Wargames Mega Brush set as they offer a wide variety of brushes (pretty much everything you’d need) in one set.

However, if you need a more affordable option, just make sure you have a brush for dry-brushing, a brush for detail work, and a brush for highlights.

PAINTING HANDLES

Mini painting handles are far from necessary for your mini painting needs, though some painters do find painting with them makes the hobby easier. Like almost everything involving mini painting, this is very much up to what works for you. Before purchasing one, it may be a good idea to visit your local hobby store and try one out before you buy one.

However, if you want to use the exact same mini painting handles as Ian and Will, they use either the Hobby Holder or the Citadel Painting handle.

PAINT LIST

ALL METAL PARTS

• Shining Silver (Army Painter)

SKIN

• Mummy Robes (Army Painter)
• Flesh Wash (Army Painter)
• Amarth Blue (Scale75 F&G) – Lower lip tattoo line

HAIR

• Night Shade Purple (Reaper)
• Dusky Skin Shade (Reaper) and Dusky Skin (Reaper)
• Miskatonic Grey (Scale75 F&G) – Wet-blended for highlights
• Amarth Blue (Scale75 F&G) – Hair ribbons

CLOTHING

• Innsmouth Blue (Scale75 F&G) – Also used for the blue feathers on top of clothing along with Blue Tone Wash (Army Painter).
• Amarth Blue (Scale75 F&G)
• Dark Tone Wash (Army Painter)

BOOTS

• Rlyeh Grey (Scale75 F&G)
• Innsmouth Blue (Scale75 F&G)

PANTS & TOP ARMOR

• Miskatonic Grey (Scale75 F&G)

EYES

• Menoth White Highlight (Privateer Press)
• Dragon Black (Reaper)
• Dark Tone (Wash) (Army Painter) – Used to give a smokey eyes makeup effect

Though we have a lot of paints listed here, we want to remind you to follow your art heart. The paints listed above are merely the ones we used, but this is your mini, so use whatever paints you would like.

Next week’s episode will feature the one and only Marisha Ray learning how to create natural looking color fades, or ombré effects. She’ll be painting her character, Beauregard, our favorite smooth-talking monk.

Thank you to our first time sponsor, Willingblam’s Lone Star Bidets, for their luxurious support of this episode. And don’t forget, with Willingblam’s Lone Star Bidets, you can blast the shit out your ass with the rage of a true Texan.

Mini Primetime airs every Wednesday on youtube.com/criticalrole.

*This article was a collaboration with our dear friend and Mini Primetime writer, Matt Key.