"Slap Chop technique" Topic

I would appear the the Slap Chop technique is gaining.

youtu.be/bH3WGHw9eDw

I've tried it. It's nice if you're a player and not a painter. Anyone try this on non GW minis?

Thanks for the tip, I'm going to try that out!

Didn't realise this was a new technique. I was doing something similar years ago with ink washes rather than contrast paints.

They look good, but kind of washed out, like pastels.

Think I'll stick to my method of many decades practice.

Oh, this is depressing. The man actually says out loud that you have to paint your army quickly before GW changes the rules again and takes it out of tournament competition.

I don't know how you could wargame, placing yourself at the mercy of a bunch of suits like that.

As for painting, it works fine for "non GW minis" if they are (say it with me now) MIN-I-A-TURES sculpted in much the GW exaggerated-detail style. So far, GW has been unable to copyright a style. It also works well on most 6mm. (At 2mm, just white prime and apply the paint.) That's for main colors: you'll have to go back with real paint and not a wash to pick out details.

DO NOT use Contrast paints on anything sculpted in the classic "toy soldier" style. On any reasonably flat surface, all you get is blotches and streaks. I was satisfied of that intellectually, but made the experiment once on an ATKM 54mm, just to be sure reason hadn't led me astray. Very sad, and repainted immediately.

(Prince Rupert, it may be "new" to the GW crowd, but some of us can remember Duke Seifried pushing in back in his Custom Cast/Heritage days, so it's got a good 40 years on it. Pretty much as soon as acrylic paints went on the market is my guess.)

(Prince Rupert, it may be "new" to the GW crowd, but some of us can remember Duke Seifried pushing in back in his Custom Cast/Heritage days, so it's got a good 40 years on it. Pretty much as soon as acrylic paints went on the market is my guess.)

Duke called it "Stain Painting". Just thinned down acrylics on white primed mini's. Worked great on 15mm massed armies. Also for 25mm fantasy with a bit of black lining.

I cranked out a lot of figs with that technique.

Kim

Kim

I was fortunate to once sit in on a Duke painting seminar.

Good technique. Stupid name.

Does this mean we can look forward to a "Shake Weighty" paint technique in the near future?

I was fortunate to once sit in on a Duke painting seminar.

HMS,

I'm from Dayton, Ohio where Duke started his wargaming business and store. When he moved to Texas and join Heritage Models I ran his store until he found a buyer.

Duke was a great innovator.

Kim

"Duke called it "Stain Painting". Just thinned down acrylics on white primed mini's."

And he sold bottles of paint half-full, telling everyone they were done that way so we could top off with water and "stain paint." His demos usually involved figures with cloaks or capes, and dimly-lit rooms.

I say again, the technique really does work--used properly and on suitable castings. The thing to remember is that it's just one more tool in the miniature painter's toolbox, and not the last word in painting in painting miniatures

What I found quite telling, was his comment, "…for just a few hours of painting." Initially, I thought he was getting the mini done in less than one hour, hoping it would be less than 30 minutes.

I guess if you can shave off an hour, or more, that is a good thing.

My painting style is block painting followed by brushing on The Dip/Magic Wash. These new techniques and paints, shave off some time, but not enough for me to invest in their new figure painting products.

I am not their target audience. Full stop. I am not a tournament gamer, either. I play to enjoy myself, first. If I win, great; if I lose, I at least had a great time gaming with my friends. I am not their target audience. Brick-wall stop! Cheers!

Who is this "Sheik Watie" after whom the painting style will be named? Is he related to Stand Watie? (I presume Slap Chop is related to Chop Chop of the Blackhawks? Or perhaps he's one of Fu Manchu's henchmen?)

Dumb name for an old painting technique. Like claiming one created a new " Roll Rail" a.k.a a wheel