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Hi all,

I have made a video showing how I paint my alpha legion and get a metallic colour - the result is the below rhinos

The link is below:

https://youtu.be/OAhzFRRIv2U

Good news bad news type situation- apparently Amazon have delivered my new microphone so I should be able to get some narrative on this in the next few days - bad news is it's a cheapy microphone and my boring monotonous voice will put you to sleep watching it

Some constructive criticism:
1. Show the paint colors used up front. Maybe explain why you used a candy tint, and not some other ink/wash/whatever.
2. Show the finished model up front for a couple seconds, then go to the primer model and start.
3. You could have cut this video down to about 10 minutes if you had simply cut the 20 minutes of watching your hand go back and forth in front of the camera. Maybe show a couple seconds of starting the spray, and then the model before the next layer. If the technique is that important on each layer, then do something to emphasize that technique.
4. Find the focus on the camera, and lock it. Too many times the camera focused on your hand in front of the lens and blurred the background (auto focus is NOT your friend).
5. A small write up or some reason why you picked the colors or the reason why you sprayed them in a particular order would have been nice.
6. All that crap in the background? Get rid of it. Make a clean painting area, and try to get some lighting or a light box. This is a really great technique, but this step up was really too dark to see the transitions from the dark metallic silver, to the bright metallic silver, and then the candy coats. I could barely tell that the bottom half of the model was green, and the top half blue. Better lighting would show this contrast much more strongly!

For a first video, it's pretty good, and this is a very powerful, yet simple technique for painting Alpha Legion. Good job!

@Tamwulf - thank you very much, this is exactly what i was looking for, I will not be making loads of these videos only when people ask how I done this or that.

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