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BURN THEM WITH FIRE!

.. seriously though that looks pretty bad ass

Perfect, I was planning to paint those this weekend and couldn’t decide which parts should be metallic, that image really helps.

BrianDavion wrote:
on the "he likes knights" idea. I'm gonna toss out an insane idea... he's working for catalyst at camo specs online. they apparently do painting videos for battletech

That would be insane. Catalyst is in yet another scandal about ripping off their freelancers.

https://twitter.com/Brucedraws/status/1208395667883708416

Voss wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
on the "he likes knights" idea. I'm gonna toss out an insane idea... he's working for catalyst at camo specs online. they apparently do painting videos for battletech

That would be insane. Catalyst is in yet another scandal about ripping off their freelancers.

https://twitter.com/Brucedraws/status/1208395667883708416

well it seems CSO isn't even offically part of catalyst and is actually technicly just fan work (somehow I'm not suprised)

beast_gts wrote:
And his first non-GW paint job (shown on [url=https://twitter.com/Two_Thin_Coats/status/1212864449360678913]Twitter[url]) is - "Lannister troops for A Song of Ice and Fire"

Spoiler:

Oh man, that would be fantastic if he teamed up with CMON to do painting videos for A Song of Ice and Fire!
It is an incredible game with really nice miniatures that I've found very enjoyable to paint.

I'd love to see his tutorials. James Wappellious has done a bunch of tutorials for ASOIAF stuff, but half the time he is using oil paints and the other half the time he is just straight up using magic or something.

 Gallahad wrote:

beast_gts wrote:
And his first non-GW paint job (shown on [url=https://twitter.com/Two_Thin_Coats/status/1212864449360678913]Twitter[url]) is - "Lannister troops for A Song of Ice and Fire"

Spoiler:

Oh man, that would be fantastic if he teamed up with CMON to do painting videos for A Song of Ice and Fire!
It is an incredible game with really nice miniatures that I've found very enjoyable to paint.

I'd love to see his tutorials. James Wappellious has done a bunch of tutorials for ASOIAF stuff, but half the time he is using oil paints and the other half the time he is just straight up using magic or something.

I hope not, I know painters who did work for CMON. CMON like to "get the most" out of their painters.

honestly if he went independant and supported himself with a patreon page I might actually subscribe, something I've never done.

I will always remember him as the 2 Thin coats Meme guy. But that aside his painting tutorials have been the easiest 1 to fully watch through and not find my mind wandering off to a TV or phone app

He's been uploading more stuff since, showing off the things he probably couldn't share in the past due to contractual obligations. It will be fun to see what else he's going to share, as he's already mentioned having done FFG's Star Wars minis as well.

I don't think the fact he's been posting more historicals is a sign of any ties of Warlord, every time I've spoken to the guy he's seemed to be pretty big into historicals

 winnertakesall wrote:
I don't think the fact he's been posting more historicals is a sign of any ties of Warlord, every time I've spoken to the guy he's seemed to be pretty big into historicals

He noticed the shields I used in a conversion were from warlord hoplites

Some more fun updates from Duncan:

Bolt Action Germans: https://twitter.com/Two_Thin_Coats/status/1213206842710605825

Napoleonics: https://twitter.com/Two_Thin_Coats/status/1213542591721021444

AOS Free Guild: https://twitter.com/Two_Thin_Coats/status/1213930287635345409

And him looking forward to the Final Fantasy 7 remake, showing off a custom 7TV crew he did back in the day: https://twitter.com/Two_Thin_Coats/status/1213932611015495687

He's going to work for a company that makes cagoules.

Y'know... 2 thin coats...

*fetches coat*

BrianDavion wrote:
honestly if he went independant and supported himself with a patreon page I might actually subscribe, something I've never done.

Same here!

I'd pony up for something he starts up on Patreon...

Since he has a large following, I really think the smartest thing for him to do is to find a way to go into business for himself. A subscription style site, Patreon-esque, etc. He's one of the few guys in the industry whose name is already out there. People throw ridiculous sums of money at stupid kids playing video games on Twitch...so he should be able to swing at least a solid income just via patreon/fans/support, etc.

Maybe even team up with a few buddies and run a gaming site/painting tutorial page, etc.

He could easily pull 100k or more a year doing a patreon where he sits in his house and paints once a week on camera for people.

Or maybe just maybe, he has decided to get a proper real world job with a higher wage and a steady income and decent benefits.

Obispudkenobi wrote:
Or maybe just maybe, he has decided to get a proper real world job with a higher wage and a steady income and decent benefits.

Considering he's in the UK, more money would negate time off issues, etc.

a proper real world job

As opposed to made up job? I am fairly sure any job that pays you is a real job...

 auticus wrote:
He could easily pull 100k or more a year doing a patreon where he sits in his house and paints once a week on camera for people.

He could certainly do that for a good few years - his only upfront cost would be getting some good cameras and audio recording equipment - basically similar to what he's been working with at GW (which honestly I suspect is some half good constant lights; a good microphone and then pretty much any good solid video camera - even a DSLR with video or such).

The risk with that kind of business is you can kill it if you ever dare mention polities or do something stupid; but if all he does is paint and show people how to paint different miniatures he can certainly keep turning over really well. GW has actually done almost all the marketing for him - heck how many other staff can leave GW and generate pages of chatter on websites?! (granted there's a lot of really skilled designers who work for GW who likely just go unmentioned - so we never really know them like we do Duncan who has been front and centre in the social media and interaction for a few years - heck no one knew of him before he started in that role and yet he's been at GW for quite a few years).

Obispudkenobi wrote:
Or maybe just maybe, he has decided to get a proper real world job with a higher wage and a steady income and decent benefits.

Quite aside from odious assumptions about what a "real world job" is, his timing is utterly terrible if his goal is to gain employment in a traditional role/sector in the U.K..

For reasons I'm not allowed to reference, but which should be obvious.

Obispudkenobi wrote:
Or maybe just maybe, he has decided to get a proper real world job with a higher wage and a steady income and decent benefits.

If he can paint little toys to pay his mortgage - by all means he should!

I'm not sure what his education or his resume looks like but getting into some financial/marketing/cubicle job to pull an entry level salary would be a terrible move with the current momentum and following he has. He's also not in the US so I assume he's not paying too much for his medical coverage and benefits.

As I type this from my generic cubicle finance gig that pays my mortgage

Medical benefits are not unimportant in the U.K. though. Again, I can't go into why because of the heavy-handed no politics rule, but there are reasons why it's better to have BUPA than to have to rely on the NHS.

the biggest cost would be, beyond the inital cost of Cameras etc, the cost of hobby supplies, including miniatures, but Duncan's got a pretty high profile to the point where.. that might not be an issue because he'd likely be able to get sponserships. heck if Duncan went into busniess for himself that way, if I was running a smaller company that did mini's I'd happily offer him my mini's for his video simply because it'd be good advertising. I bet a lot of 40k players haven't heard of some of the other games out there.

You can easily run a bedroom studio with £100 worth of lights off Amazon, a smartphone and a tripod.

You don't need a grip truck to make videos about painting toy soldiers.

 lord marcus wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

 Stevefamine wrote:
RIP a good video series.

Nick and Peachy will still be making the video tutorials.

Peachys wooden and I haven't seen anything from Nick.

Kinda fascinating seeing stuff like this - I mean it's somewhat true, Duncan was somehow more engaging than the others. But the video and presentation quality are the same for all of them, as are the painting techniques and style (as it's all GW house-style and techniques). As will most of the scripts, to be fair - there's not much room for jokes or anything that isn't directly paint-related in them.

If you're following the tutorial, your mini is going to look exactly the same regardless of if Duncan or Peachy made the video. There's no loss to the core product of the tutorial itself there (no-one is arguing that Nick can't paint well, for example).

And yet, people will still be put off. And I agree the videos by the others never *felt* as good. It really shouldn't matter. But it does. Sort of.

(I wonder how many watch the videos just for entertainment / relaxation, with no intention of ever painting the minis in question?)

Actually there was definitely room for differences, as Peachy brought his style of white primer + washes method to the screen.

Which that said, I think Duncan was more charismatic in front of the camera, even though I probably learned more techniques I currently use from Peachy.

Looks like he's got something in mind, looking forward to finding out what it is

Duncan Rhodes @Two_Thin_Coats
To answer another question, I am definitely going to be staying in the industry and will tell you here what I'm getting up to once I'm ready to do so. It won't be long!

From the Twitter: https://twitter.com/Two_Thin_Coats/status/1218188424873742336

Well, look what just arrived in the mail, a large amount of video filming equipment...! #paintingeverything #gonerogue #staytuned

looks like those guessing he's going independant where right