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Mastering The Basics: skulls, bones, horns & leather on Miniatures

Squidmar Miniatures

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If you ever painted a Warhammer figure or fantasy scale model you've painted Skulls, Bones, Horns and Leather. This tutorial helps you improve the look of your next painting project with a few quick tips how to improve your D&D figures, bugbears or Warhammer figures!

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Painting miniatures for your warhammer & d&d games. Age of sigmar and warhammer 40k. Space Marines, Space Wolves, Stormcast Eternals, beastclaw raiders, ogor mawtribes, cities of sigmar, chaos space marines, painting scale models, miniature busts! How to paint NMM. How to paint warhammer, how to paint d&D figures.

20 Comments

@SquidmarMiniatures Creator 6 years ago (edited) Pinned

🖌🎨 You can now get the Paint sets, Wet Palette and Airbrush here🎨🖌
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@LootStudios 6 years ago

Great video Emil! We are happy that you like our minis and thanks a lot for sharing this awesome content :)

@serslipslots3518 3 years ago

2 years later printing my first loot studio miniature from the welcome pack

@firofiore6638 6 years ago

Majin Buu is the T H I C K E S T character in all of Dragon Ball

@ezekielellis7471 6 years ago

Hey Squidmar, just wanted to thank you for being a inspiration to some of us newer guys; I think I can say, I honestly joined painting minis especially my army of death guard because you and some other youtubers like Miniac are inspirations to just go out and do it! My minis aren’t as good as yours yet but maybe one day...?! Lol thanks again! Looking forward to your next video man!

@jimhavoc 5 years ago

I've subscribed to Loot for a few months. The miniatures are great!

@emilywilliams6108 5 years ago

After decades away from painting miniatures I've recently become interested again and finding you videos has been absolutely fantastic. You have such enthusiasm for what you do and it shows in your work. Thank you for being Alan inspiration to get back to what I used to love

@seanmcgrath2049 4 years ago

This video popped up in my feed and I figured I might as well absorb another method for painting horns... I did a double-take when I heard Emil say "...under the name 'Loot'..." I've been subscribed to both sides of Loot Studios for over nine months now 😂 Blew my mind to randomly have this "up-and-coming" new independent 3D sculptor mentioned and sponsor a video and realize that the video is two years old, haha.

@TalRohan 6 months ago

dig that goblin beat
great little tutorial thanks for sharing

@lip4973 4 years ago

I could watch you paint the entire thing while listning to your thought process. Perfekt att somna till.

@emilviuff2514 6 years ago

In case people wanna know what the smooth beat is, it's Yomoti - Fansipan. Awesome vid Emil, a good useful guide for both beginners and people venturing into new areas of miniature painting.

@Spike-hl2mw 6 years ago

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@joegkushner 5 years ago

Loved that intro line. "If you've ever painted a Games Workshop miniature...." Skulls for the skull throne!

@IsaacLinkletter 6 years ago

This is such a great tutorial, Emil! Any chance we could get a video on doing intricate artwork on shoulderpads and banners?

@Friday_WasTaken 5 years ago

those shadings really do make them colours POHP :) <3

@K5TRL_x 6 years ago

Just as I was thinking "How would I do the leather on my Catachans?" this video pops up into my feed! Great timing! :D

@borna1231 6 years ago

Thanks for another great video! Sorry if you already know this, but here´s a photoshop tip: When coloring over the zenithal highlited photo in photoshop, try setting the brush mode to "Color". That preserves the value structure of the image below, but just changes the hue. I think it might give you much more realistic photoshop sketches of your models. Again, apologies if you are aware of this already!

@EmKooi93 4 years ago

I know this is a bit late to the party, but Picking painting back up again and wanting to delve deeper into more techniques this video helps tremendously. This is the first one I have seen that actually tells and shows you where to put the highlight paint.