In this video, Jay and I crack open the Army Painter Precision Chipping Brush set and I try to do something it’s absolutely not marketed for: sponge paint an entire Space Marine like I’m some kind of “Jose Da Vinci.” I’m using the battle line/medium size and basically jamming paint on to see if it can act like a fast basecoat and highlight tool. The big immediate takeaway is the stiffness and the speckly texture—right away it behaves like a rough stipple/drybrush hybrid that naturally misses recesses, so you get a bit of “free value” because it just can’t reach into the shadows. As I build up blues (and yes, I’m absolutely Ricky Bobbying it and jumping colors), the patchiness starts to blend a bit. The big pro tip we found live: a tiny bit of moisture helps a lot, just like drybrushing—too dry gets grainy, too wet gets messy. But I’ll be honest: for a whole Space Marine, it wasn’t actually that fast, and precision is tough—faces, tight gaps, and controlled highlights are a struggle. My overall verdict is: you can do it, it doesn’t look horrible, but this sponge is really designed for chipping, and it shows. Next video, we’ll actually chip with it—because you don’t get everything in one video.