Apply Thin Coats & Improve your miniature painting | Warhammer | Duncan Rhodes

The real challenge here is to get the right amount thinness of the paint, since each paint had different amount of texture

A moment of silence for the marine sacrificed to the one-thick-coat!

I love how Duncan's one thick coat is still thinner than most people's first thick coat.

Dear duncan , Thank you for doing this. I'm 40 but only started painting last year bc i've always been bad at art. Even after watching alot of your tutorials, i always feel im not doing it right. But now i have a guide to go back to everytime i need it. You are the best.

Thanks for watching. We hope you all enjoyed this one. It's always good to revisit the fundamentals. If you enjoyed this tutorial feel free to Subscribe to the Channel, leave a Like, and above all else, leave a Comment below to appease the true God of Chaos, the YouTube Algorithm and of course, always remember to Thin Your Paints and Apply Two Thin Coats!

Parts 1 and 2 were a terrifying glimpse into the methods of Duncan's alternate universe, evil counterpart - Duncan't Streets. Thank goodness we live in the Twothincoatsverse.

This is such a good video, people always just say "thin your paints until they are like milk" but what are we talking? full fat? semi skimmed? skimmed? cornish double cream? its correct but a difficult thing to quantify. This video can now stand as a resource for people to compare the actual results they are getting using their paints to know which way they need to know, you really are the king of thinning paints Duncan.

Great video, thanks! Some timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:08 Thin your paints, what does it mean? 2:02 Part 1 - One thick coat 4:55 Part 2 - Tons of thin coats 8:38 Part 3 - The sweet spot 13:08 The result

One tip I've heard for thinness of base paints is that if you thin it down and paint a big line of it along your palette, the paint should kind of retract inward on itself, like it goes from a solid line to a few broken up blobs. Supposedly that means that when you put it on the model it will shrink as the water evaporates which ensures a smoother and less clogged paintjob. I don't know if that's true or not but it seems to work for me.

I love videos like this I would love to see more technique videos, especially brush handling.

Love the intro, the self awareness and the humor. Even as an "advanced" painter, I find this video enjoyable.

This is awesome - would you consider doing something like this focusing on metallics? I've struggled thinning Leadbelcher/runelord brass to the right consistency especially since they don't behave quite the same!

You where the first person I tried to learn to paint my Death Korps of Krieg kill team. I'm so thankful for the 2 thin coats it's made all the difference for a beginner. Another thanks for the list of paints in order, save so much time.

I actually liked how the first super thin coat looked gives the impression of a dude who's been fighting for so long without support that the paint is going away and the ceramite is showing with some details it could look really good

Thank you so much for this video, you hear so so so many times to “thin your paints” but no one ever really wants to show you either how to nor what sort of consistency you should be looking for so this kinda video makes it become so much easier

These kinds of videos are great. It's way more important to learn how to recover from screwing something up than it is learning how not to screw up in the first place.

Duncan, buddy, I was horrified when I first heard the news of your career change. I am glad to see that was for naught. As a primarily 40k painter (years of watching/learning - months of actually doing) you were the face of that aspect of the hobby to myself and many others. Glad to see that you still are, and now I can see you apply the skill to many other things besides 40k. Thank you for continuing to share your expertise! Hail Lord Duncan and hail DRPA!

Nearly every video ive watched about painting has explained how to thin your paint, but never to quite the extent that I fully understood what exactly i was looking for. This video has definitely helped me fully grasp what im looking for when thinning my paint and a better way to find it as well So thank you :D

perfect timing, im just settling into an evening painting my lizards and ive always struggled with paint consitency Mr Thincoats himself show us the way

It's hard to overstate just how helpful this is to see. Thinning paints is a step that is mentioned often but offhandedly, and I really struggled to understand exactly why my results were so all over the place and different from videos I was watching. It's extraordinarily helpful to have all three identical minis with the same paint color one after the other to really highlight exactly what the differences are, and how they affect the final result. The reality was that as a new painter I wasn't thinning consistently and was mixing in coats that were too thick with coats that were too thin. Having an experienced painter simply admit that the best results come from knowing the "feel" of the paint, which comes from practice, explains a lot. When other tutorials make it sound so easy, it only makes it that more frustrating that my results were so disappointing. This video has been a huge relief, and very educational.