Ok, so I last reviewed the MiniWargaming.com set of Painting Academy video's and I liked them. The DVD production was terrible and the music was worse. Now, alas, I have the "Hot Lead" 3 DVD set and it is AMAZING. The guy in the video, I will call him Lazlo, is amazing. The things he does with paint on a fig is crazy cool. And the video has great production value. The menu system is easy to use to drill down to what you want, or you can play through an entire subject area, or the whole DVD.
Lazlo is not a WH40K painter, or at least he doesn't paint army style. He paints individual figs amazingly well, and the techniques he shows are phenomenal. So while the approach isn't stylized for 40k, it suits anyone who wants to learn all the techniques and learn them well. he shows it all, by brushstroke in great light and with great explanations. You won't find a lot of "Missing Info" here. What you need to put great paint on mini's is here. He has a whole section on blending that, while a bit long and overdone, is great to learn how to soften and highlight different colors as well how to achieve the very subtle blending that makes a model POP. The section on Non-Metallic metallic is great, as is the gems chapter.
The good and the bad
The bad = not much, there is a section on advanced basing that seems weak, but all in all, this is great stuff presented very well with very high production quality. You can even tell where voice-overs were done after the video sessions to make it better. That means some effort went into the editing and mastering of the DVD.
If you need/want help with your mini painting, I don't think you have to look farther than this set of 3 DVDs.
Overall = A+. Well done!
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