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Hi,

Cool Mini or Not has just released a new extensive DVD miniature painting guide by Natalya Melnik. She is the winner of two Golden Demon Slayer Swords, countless Golden Demons and most recently the 2010 Privateer Press Grand Master Painter!

- More than 13 hours of high quality 720p video covering advanced preparation techniques, painting faces, flesh, freehand and NMM.
- The longest tutorial available anywhere in a single package
- Watch as she paints GW Teclis from start to finish in over 20 hours, running at double speed in Chapter 4, complete with commentary with her thoughts on color choice and things to look out for when implementing her secrets.
- For intermediate to advanced painters.

English and Russian Soundtracks, menus in English. Multi-region DVD, NTSC. Viewable on PC and Mac computers with DVD players and DVD players and televisions that support NTSC. Translated in English with English voice over.



Available as a set of 4 DVDs http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/dvds/miniature-painting-secrets-with-natalya.html
or as a HD download http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/downloadables/miniature-painting-secrets-with-natalya-hd-download.html
each for the price of 49.99 $

I bought this 2 month's ago???

Very good btw, very thorough shoots. Only downside is her first language isnt english, and at some points I feel the explanation of what she is doing could be a bit more thorough. Worth a buy tho!

Why didn't you post it then ?
Is new to me and still front page news on CMON and deserves a thread.

Thank you so much for posting this. It was an excellent head's up that the DVD is back in stock. I've been waiting since it first came out... because it sold out so fast. I just placed my order, so hopefully I'm in before they sell out again.

lol i just assumed you already did , it's not often I get a scoop on the Krootster!

been out for 2 months, but they re-released it as a digital download. I think the downloads are high-res and the dvd's are standard def, so think carefully!

I haven't watched them all yet, but it is pretty good stuff, on par with Miniature Mentor vids.

I think we all know what the merchandising department was thinking with this one.

Good call!

Digital download maybe cool. Have to check it out.

I bought it last week. She's an awesome painter, but her style is just too much for me. In other tutorials I've seen, the painters are more structured applying the layers of paint. Looks like if Natalya would mix the colours directly on the mini. I've seen twice the parts of the dwarf skin and female barbarian skin, and I still don't know how she manages to match the colours again when she goes from one limb to another. Awesome. But I would say other tutorials are a bit easier to follow (basecoat: this colour, first light: this mix, first shadow: this mix, second light: this mix...).

She's truly an artist.

Erasoketa, what other tutorial would you recommend then, i was going to buy this, but if you recommend an more easier to follow tut i consider that one instead..

jim

The GW ones are not bad for a start. On this page you find 5 other ones: http://www.shop.battlefield-berlin.de/index.php/katalog/showarticles/10700-1-malanleitungen.html
The best and most detailed book on painting miniatures is a French one in French language, but I have to look up the title when I am back home.

Uriels_Flame wrote:I think we all know what the merchandising department was thinking with this one.

Yup...

Both this lass, and the wonderful Jennifer Haley...attractive, talented, and far-better painters than I could be in a dozen lifetimes!!!

It's just not fair!

Padre^.

i watched the preview and it looks like she uses oil paints. It would explain the glass (?) palatt she uses (can scrape off the dry paint with a scraper blade). If so, not too good for me. I use acrylics.

It aslo seems like oils because she has very little paint on the glass and mixes colours as she go's. Acrylic dries way too quick to do this.

Wouldnt mind watching it though.

Found the promised book name:
Le Grand Livre de la peinture sur figurine: http://www.tuttifrutti.fr/index.php?a=livre&idl=52&nom=grand-livre-de-la-peinture-sur-figurine-le
(about as big and large as the 40k rulebook with many pics and for acrylic paints)

OoieGoie wrote:i watched the preview and it looks like she uses oil paints. It would explain the glass (?) palatt she uses (can scrape off the dry paint with a scraper blade). If so, not too good for me. I use acrylics.

Good to know, can anyone confirm that?

Padre wrote:Both this lass, and the wonderful Jennifer Haley...attractive, talented, and far-better painters than I could be in a dozen lifetimes!!!

I don't know any other website where the inbuild dictionary explains "lass" meaning "Lascannon"

I recommend miniature mentor, thoroughly commentated and clear pics.

If she's wearing that top in the video, I'm going to have a very difficult time learning anything.

meh, saw this two months ago and didn't both posting it because frankly it is a pathetic attempt to use a large pair of breasts to get me to buy something. She ought to be thanked by women for just lowering the glass ceiling that little bit more. Way to go to get people to ignore your talent with a brush. Pathetic.

If it's oil, I'm out. I just buy the Hot Lead dvds.

Looks great, I think I'd rather get the HD download if it's a higher res video ..? anyone tried that version instead of the dvd? will it work streaming to an Apple TV box so I can watch it on the big tv?

That's Natalya? I've heard the name, but I've never seen a picture... Damn, she's got a great set of boobs.

oni wrote:That's Natalya? I've heard the name, but I've never seen a picture... Damn, she's got a great set of boobs.

They are using her boobs to sell the product.

like

Just the cover boys, she aint painting in the nude in the clips themselves lol. in fact, she doesnt speak english, and you don't really see much of her except her hands at all!

its all acrylic, no oils btw

MajorTom11 wrote:I recommend miniature mentor, thoroughly commentated and clear pics.

Here is the link to this product line: http://www.miniaturementor.com/painting_tutorials.html

BTW, should have guessed that a decolleté leads to nonrational off topic responses

MajorTom11 wrote:in fact, she doesnt speak english,

Ah, well. I might check out the Hot Lead series. I'm going to be traveling a lot in the next few months for business and was just thinking about some sort of hobby DVDs (Painting or Terrain) to get.

jimmy72nd wrote:Erasoketa, what other tutorial would you recommend then, i was going to buy this, but if you recommend an more easier to follow tut i consider that one instead..

jim

I've seen this one, Hot Lead and some from Miniature Mentors. I would say that Miniature Mentors explain better each step, although each miniature mentors tutorial covers less stuff, they are a bir specific. But I think they are worthy. Hot Lead is quite good too. I'm not a fan of the painting style of the artist, but the explanations are great, and it covers almost everything. Very good for the price.

But we can find in youtube Lbursley's tutorials too. They are not as comprehensive as this ones, but they are great for a very high tabletop standard and maybe more important, free!

OoieGoie wrote:i watched the preview and it looks like she uses oil paints. It would explain the glass (?) palatt she uses (can scrape off the dry paint with a scraper blade). If so, not too good for me. I use acrylics.

It aslo seems like oils because she has very little paint on the glass and mixes colours as she go's. Acrylic dries way too quick to do this.

Wouldnt mind watching it though.

She uses acrylics, and says the names while she is painting. Some of them are Citadel, some are Vallejo, and I think she also uses PPP and Reaper. She might be using some flow aid or that kind of products to delay the drying time (Hot Lead DVD has a brief explanation about this products and what they do).

MajorTom11 wrote:I recommend miniature mentor, thoroughly commentated and clear pics.

Probably their "Complete Guide" would be the best 1st buy. I like a lot the layering used in that video.




Edit: don't get me wrong guys, I'm glad with Natalya's DVD. I have the Monochrome tutorial by Jennifer Hayley for Miniature Mentors and it's ace too. Both make me think the same. Women and men painting style are completely different (about paint thinning, technique and so). They do beatiful things by instinct, we need more layered tutorials

Kroothawk wrote:Found the promised book name:
Le Grand Livre de la peinture sur figurine: http://www.tuttifrutti.fr/index.php?a=livre&idl=52&nom=grand-livre-de-la-peinture-sur-figurine-le
(about as big and large as the 40k rulebook with many pics and for acrylic paints)

That looks really good, and being a dirty Quebecer, French isn't a problem. You recommend it that strongly?

That book looks amazing. Any chance of buying it in Spanish or English?

Tough to find it, even in French Canadian Amazon... hot to aquire... hmmmm....

MajorTom11 wrote:That looks really good, and being a dirty Quebecer, French isn't a problem. You recommend it that strongly?

Absolutely. Best book by far on painting I have seen. As said 288 full colour pages with Codex size pages. Very practical oriented. Pages on painting wood, metal (NMM and with metallics), Dark Elf skin, rust (iron, bronce), transparent clothing, lighting. And acrylics only.

Haven't seen any DVD yet, so I don't know what is covered there. And I am certain that there is only a French version.

Kroothawk wrote:

MajorTom11 wrote:That looks really good, and being a dirty Quebecer, French isn't a problem. You recommend it that strongly?

Absolutely. Best book by far on painting I have seen. As said 288 full colour pages with Codex size pages. Very practical oriented. Pages on painting wood, metal (NMM and with metallics), Dark Elf skin, rust (iron, bronce), transparent clothing, lighting. And acrylics only.

Haven't seen any DVD yet, so I don't know what is covered there. And I am certain that there is only a French version.

So... Do you speak French? I mean: Did you just read it in French or you were able to enjoy the book even not speaking it?

I speak enough French to be able to understand what is written there, but it is far from perfect. Only looking at the pics wouldn't do though. But in your case: How close to Spanish is French, both are Latin languages after all.

Kroothawk wrote:I speak enough French to be able to understand what is written there, but it is far from perfect. Only looking at the pics wouldn't do though. But in your case: How close to Spanish is French, both are Latin languages after all.

Dammit, sadly they are not close enough xDD Thanks!