Marco Frisoni / Not Just Mecha

Grail Reliquae, aka I feel like an idiot!

Every week I post pictures of my models on socials famous to crop and alter the quality of pictures and I never never ever thought to share them also here, where (theoretically) you can see them in their original size and quality!
So, yeah, I feel like an idiot...
Especially because if you are here you probably want to see every little detail and brushstroke... so again, you got the idea from the title lol!
Have a great week <3
ps: I'll keep you posted about the big bird on FB ...

Oldhammer & Old School Methods with a Modern Spin! REAL TIME 2/2

aaaaaaaand the second part! 

Oldhammer & Old School Methods with a Modern Spin! REAL TIME 1/2

It took a bit longer than expected, but I made it!
My pc definitely hates processing long videos and at the end I had to split the six hours of footage in two three hours video (now I know how Zack Snyder feels).
The airbrushing stage starts at 1:51:16 and I left the audio so you can understand better the intensity and frequency that I use when spraying fluid paints like inks.
As a bonus I whistle here and there, lol!
The second part with all the delicate brushwork is still in re-...

Oldhammer & Old School Methods with a Modern Spin!

See you at the PREMIERE!!! 😘
Old models, old methods and old techniques can still do wonders in the modern age of miniature painting, you just need to go deep into how and why they work to unlock their true potential 😉
Enjoy, drop a LIKE and share with the world!!!

PS! - The REAL TIME video will probably arrive a couple of hours late; it's about 6 hours long and it's taking ages to render and upload! Sorry for the inconvenience (but the wait is worth it on this one ;) ) !...

Future plans, hopes and their terrifying unknowns (lol, don't worry I'm a bit overdramatic!)

Hello guys! A quick, but super important service notice!

After a lot of thought I decided to make an experiment and change the posting schedule of the YouTube channel from weekly to every two weeks, for at least the rest of the year.

I like to deliver a fully painted project in every new video, without fillers or gimmicks, but a ton of stuff I love like high quality minis (yep, you have seen just the tip of the iceberg 😉), display and competition models, monsters, vehicles, bus...

Upgrading GW washes & Contrast paints techniques! In REAL TIME!

A little provocation for all those painters convinced that airbrushing unlocks secret powers and exclusive unfair techniques! Everything in the vast painting universe comes from the perfect humble brush!
I tend to become a bit…messianic when I read Dune, lol
Washes and contrast paints are still used in extremely simplistic ways, waaaaaaaaaaaay under their true potential: this is an interesting workflow for hardcore brush painter that don’t want to renounce to cool and extremely ef...

Upgrading GW washes & Contrast paints techniques!

A simple super-efficient acrylic workflow based on reimagined old school techniques, underpainting tricks and transparency effects… that turns the paintbrush into an airbrush!!!
Share and DROP a LIKE to jumpstart the video in the algorithm!  See you at the premiere! 😘

How to paint CLEAN models like a PRO! In REAL TIME!

In the YouTube video the process seems more a 50-50 acrylics-oil workflow but in the real time version you can see better how the acrylic part is extremely quick and sketchy meant only to support the brush work with the basic general blends.
If I have to put a label on this process I would say that's more a sketch & refine approach more than anything else, where colours are the main focus of every step!
Enjoy!

How to paint CLEAN models like a PRO & why paints and techniques don't matter

See you at the premiere 😘
This week we explore tips and tricks to paint smooth colourful models and why storytelling and a clear vision of the final result are more important than paints and techniques!
Share and LIKE to please the mighty algorithm and... because I'm really happy to know you like the videos 😁

Painting Forbidden Psalm with the REAL Zorn palette, in REAL TIME!

As often happens painting with oil colours and working with a limited palette in particular, the general workflow is extremely simple and intuitive, but what happens on the palette and the single brushstrokes contain a ton of information and subtle nuances that need to be seen in real time!
Thanks to the variety of models and different situations and the quantity of footage this is probably one of my best videos to go deeper into the oil painting flow 😉

Paint as a True Artist with the REAL Zorn palette!

5 gritty models, the Zorn limited palette used with a 100% brush workflow, a scheme inspired by one of the coolest skirmish games of the year and if you want to study every single brushstroke, more than 4 hours of footage in the real time version (plus, me having a ton of fun in the process XD). See you at the premiere!!! Share and drop a like!!!

Color Theory is the ultimate SPEED PAINTING tool! IN REAL TIME

I'm really proud of this video! The models belong to a humble screen unit destined to an endless cycle of horrible deaths 😅 but they gave me the chance to explore the cool topic of colour theory and environmental light (stuff that too often is considered important only for display and competition models) in army painting, using them not only as theoretic guidelines but also as proper tools to make the work quicker and more efficient. I really enjoyed the ride and I hope it will be useful t...

Color Theory is the ultimate SPEED PAINTING tool

NEW VIDEO OUT! See you at the premiere 😘 ▶ A ton of tips and tricks deeply rooted in color theory to obtain incredible results at incredible speed, in this case 20 models in 5 hours 😁 Enjoy and share with the world!!!

NEXT LEVEL Water Bases: my Kruleboyz' Swamp Bases

I always had a problem with classic water themed bases where the water floats in a magical bubble above ground 😅, so I found a cool, alternative solution that's also quick and easy to apply to large warbands and armies 😉!
Share with the world!!! See you at the premiere 😘

High quality speedpainting my Dominion Kruleboyz! In Real Time!

I'm having sooooo much fun painting these guys!
It's been a while since the last time I've been really hyped for an entire army (my Khador for Warmachine has been the last passion project in the army size) and  balancing efficiency  and quality on so many models is always a great challenge.
Since we have only a tiny part of the full army the work here is more like painting warbands but I think it's closer to what a standard hobbyist can and should do when working on large pro...

High quality speedpainting my Dominion Kruleboyz!

NEW VIDEO OUT! See you at the premiere 😘 Share with the world!
13 high quality models in 4 hours: a super efficient and rewarding process full of "dirty tricks" and information about paints and colour theory for my fist PERSONAL AoS army!!!
I can't wait to see your Kruleboyz 😁
See you there!

Painting NMM has never been so easy! In REAL TIME!

I’ll be honest, if you are following the recent oil painting series, this video is for sure the most basic for what concerns hand and brushstrokes BUT the deepest and most complex for what concerns painting with oils and the variety of cool stuff you can do with them, even before preparing the palette!
Enjoy 😘

Painting NMM has never been so easy!

See you at the premiere 😘
Thanks to the reboot of the oil painting series I can finally show you how I'm speed painting my O-12 army! After a good tuning of the preparatory stage and a couple of tests, now I can finish a model like this one in a little more than one hour, expanding my force every time I have a bit of spare time! 😁
Enjoy!

Mixing acrylics and oils to get the best of both! In Real Time!

My Cursed city needed a better final boss XD!
I love to use a 50-50 acrylics-oils approach on large beefy models;
the airbrush creates stable volumes and rich base tones in a matter of minutes and the easy, soft blends of oils take care of the finer modulations, textures and details with a minimal effort!
As an "opportunistic painter" I choose not to take sides and use the best of the two mediums :)

Mixing acrylics and oils to get the BEST of both! Soulblight Gravelords - Cursed City

“All is fair in love and miniature painting”
See you at the premiere!!! <3

Oil paints are GREAT for speed painting! in REAL TIME for Patrons!

New ideas and techniques to speed up the work on warbands and armies using only the paintbrush!
"Application & blending" are only the beginning and with this video I want to add new tools to your oil painters' toolbox;
handling lights and shadows at the same time, tmm, super soft blends for nmm reflections, stippling and textures and.... drybrushing... yes, drybrushing! But a drybrush that creates GLAZES! Yes, this is a dense video lol

Master brush speed painting using OILS! Ossiarch Bonereapers - Direchasm: Kainan's Reapers

Countdown to the NEW VIDEO!!!
If you have few tubes of oil paint you don’t need an airbrush to paint warbands and armies at light speed!
See you at the premiere, 19.15 Irish time 😁

Oil paints: miniature painting on EASY MODE & in real time!

I shied away from this topic for a while fearing the YT algorithm and the established power of acrylics but it's time to start shaking the system a bit more XD!
This video is probably the most practically useful of the real time series;
even in their simplicity the shape, vector and pressure of every single brushstroke make immediately a substantial difference here and watching the process in real time you can easily absorb everything you need to know about the oils' workflow!
Enjoy...

Oil paints: miniature painting on EASY MODE!

NEW VIDEO almost OUT! See you at the premiere 😘
A super beginner friendly overview of the beautiful process of painting miniatures with OIL PAINTS and the beginning of a revised and more regular series about this topic 😉

Speedpaint with Color Theory! In real time :)

I'm really glad I had the opportunity to expand and talk about all the stuff I had to left behind in the recent videos to give you the full picture of all my planning and scheming XD
Even with the extra information of the real time videos there's always a ton of context and little things that are lost between the table and the screen but I'm super happy with how of the Cursed City series turned out!
Enjoy!

Speedpaint with Color Theory! Soulblight Gravelords / Cursed City

Painting low level troops is definitely not the most exciting part of working on a boxed game or an army BUT they should share the quality of the main models to not spoil the look of the whole force... 🤔
luckily, we can solve this conundrum in record time with a clever application of colour theory and some dirty tricks 😉

Share with the world and see you at the premiere 😘

My new crazy workbench lights: Adam Savage’s Lamp

Countdown for the NEW VIDEO!!! See you at the premiere 😁
The “mystery” of my new lamps finally solved 💡, with all the details of their custom build, the exhaustive list of the materials used, where to find them in Europe and how I improved the original concept to better serve our miniature painting needs! 😉 

HQ speed painting - Soulblight Vampires in REAL TIME

In this video the colour blocking is so simple, quick and effective that the first part of the work, "pre wet palette" is quite short!
The good thing is that there is a lot more detailing than usual :) ... not because the models needed it, but because I was having a lot of fun, lol!
Enjoy!  

HIGH QUALITY speed painting - Soulblight Vampires

NEW VIDEO (almost) OUT 😁 See you later at the premiere!!!
Yet another totally different take on the speed painting theme with a ton of useful ideas and tricks to quickly (really, really quickly) paint in the usual high quality, vast hordes of little naked/half naked people (a strangely common scenario in our hobby 😅).
Enjoy, like, SUBSCRIBE and share with the world 😘

REAL TIME high quality speed painting! Zombies - Cursed City

A ton of speed painting ideas for your zombie hordes or wherever you need creepy, unhealthy skin tones, moody schemes and soft, free flowing transitions... IN REAL TIME :) !
The general idea is to quickly create the illusion of a lot of visual variety, still keeping everything under an uniform look and a cohesive mood.
A simple but strong underpainting of the sharp volumes was the key for the work on the Skeletons while here the main protagonists are oil paints and their ability to crea...