In this video I’ll be painting up one of the House Goliath gangers from Necromunda Underhive. The Goliath’s standard colour is red and I went with a bright green for the chemicals they use to add a bit of contrast. If you’ve not tried the game yet, we highly recommend it. A full list of… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Necromunda Goliath’
With the launch of the Shadowspear boxed game, Chaos Space Marine players and new acolytes were blessed with two new Obliterator miniatures. Gone were the hunched and funny looking Obliterators of old, to be replaced with two superb miniatures, that looked intimidating rather than looking like they had a bad back and were crawling about… More How to: Paint Obliterators
This video is a quick and easy method of painting blue cloaks using two colours and a shade. It doesn’t really matter which blue you choose, the principles are the same. This is an ideal method for any miniatures as it’s all about the cloak. A list of paints can be found below the video:… More Video ‘How to: Paint Blue Cloaks’
The first of the Sisters of Battle/Orders Militant has arrived! Sister Superior Amalia Novena was released on Warhammer Day. It would have been rude not to paint her straight away, as the miniature is superb. There’s a lot of great details, and with the pictures released of some of the future Sisters of Battle releases,… More Video ‘How to: Paint Sister Superior Amalia Novena’
Continuing the tutorials on fantasy and RPG type miniatures, this is a very quick tutorial on how to paint plate armour. It’s used on miniatures from historical games like Saga through to sci fi games like Warhammer 40k, but this quick and easy method should have it looking great for the tabletop. Although I used… More Video ‘How to: Paint Plate Armour’
In this short video, I’ll be painting up one of the alternate heads for Abaddon the Despoiler. If you’ve used the masked head, or will be using it, this handy tutorial will get it looking great for the tabletop. A full list of paints is below the video: Paints Citadel Averland Sunset Citadel Yriel Yellow… More Video ‘How to: Paint Abaddon’s Mask Head’
Continuing the tutorials on fantasy and RPG type miniatures, this is a very quick tutorial on how to paint chain mail, chainmail, or mail, depending on how you want to say it. It’s used on miniatures from historical games like Saga through to sci fi games like Warhammer 40k, but this quick and easy method… More Video ‘How to: Paint Chain Mail’
In this video I’ll be painting up a Black Legion Terminator Champion to get him looking great for the tabletop. If you’ve not seen the new Chaos Space Marine Terminators you should give them a look, they’re really dynamic and have lots of superb details. I decided on Purple for his sword, as it ties… More Video ‘How to: Paint Black Legion Terminators’
In the first of the fantasy/dungeon crawler/rpg videos, I’ll be taking you through a quick and easy way of painting iron barred doors. As the line of sight blocker in corridors, tunnels and rooms, they look good with a lick of paint, and the Mantic Games Dungeon Saga ones are no exception. I used a… More Video ‘How to: Paint Iron Barred Doors’
In this video I’ll be painting up Vex Machinator, the Lord Discordant. For this video I’ll only be painting up Vex himself, as the Helstalker is a separate model in it’s own right. I’ll be painting him up in the Black Legion colours and uploading another video of the Helstalker in the coming weeks. A… More Video ‘How to: Paint Vex Machinator, Lord Discordant
In the first of the fantasy/dungeon crawler/rpg videos, I’ll be taking you through a quick and easy way of painting wooden doors. As the line of sight blocker in corridors, tunnels and rooms, they look good with a lick of paint, and the Mantic Games Dungeon Saga ones are no exception. I used a limited… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Wooden Door’
In this video I’ll be painting up the Chaos Space Marine Dark Apostle. It’s a stunning miniature with plenty of details that make it a stunning piece for any Chaos Space Marine Army. I’ll be painting him up in the Black Legion colours. A full list of paints used can be found below the video:… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Black Legion Dark Apostle’
Even the Warmaster needs something to stand on when taking on the Imperium. What better than the corpse of a Loyalist Space Marine? In this video I’ll be taking you through how I painted the base for Abaddon the Despoiler who was painted up for a video a while ago. I’ve linked the Abaddon video… More Video ‘How to: Paint Abaddon the Despoiler’s base’
With the release of Games Workshop’s new Chaos Space Marines came a new Dark Apostle miniature. I loved the original, but the finecast on mine seemed to become brittle, and eventually I became sick of gluing pieces of him back on and binned him. Being plastic, the new one suffers with none of those problems,… More How to: Paint a Dark Disciple
In this video I’ll be painting up the Venomcrawler from the Shadowspear boxed set. The model itself is pretty big and has a heap of detail on it, so painting it up takes a lot longer than the video is, the black, flesh and gold took up the longest time, but the end result is… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Black Legion Venomcrawler
Recently, two teams from Brush and Boltgun took part in the Throne of Skulls: Doubles weekend at Warhammer World in Nottingham. This is the tale of how Adam and Dave, aka. the Astra Militarum team ’21 Command Points!’ got on…. So what is it? The Throne of Skulls: Doubles tournament weekends are held fairly regularly… More Brush and Boltgun: Tournament Report. B&B at the Doubles!
It’s the third and probably not final part of the Black Legion/Chaos Space Marine painting techniques. If you’ve not read any so far, why not check out the part one and part two. Topknots If there’s one thing Chaos Space Marines love it’s a good topknot. For the Black Legion, I’ve been painting them all… More Black Legion/Chaos Space Marine painting techniques, part 3
In this video I’ll be showing you how you can paint a Dark Disciple so it’ll look great on your tabletop. He comes with the Dark Apostle and is one of two that I’ll be painting up. The other Disciple will be painted up for the blog. A full list of paints can be found… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Dark Disciple’
Welcome to the next big thing in fantasy gaming! Or at least that’s my opinion. At Brush and Boltgun, we love Saga and have been awaiting a Fantasy version of it since it was hinted in the Saga II Rulebook, with pictures of Chaos Dwarfs and demons in what we thought was going to be… More A Quick Look- Saga: Age of Magic
In this video I’ll be painting up one of the Greater Possessed miniatures from the Shadowspear boxed set. With these basic techniques you should be able to get your Greater Possessed painted up and looking great on your tabletop. I’ll be working on a fair few of the miniatures from Shadowspear and new Chaos Space… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Black Legion Greater Possessed’
It’s a Bank Holiday Bonus video. In this video I’ll be showing you how to paint a quick and easy tempered/scorched metal effect. I tend to use this on my meltaguns, and from the picture on the video you can see the effects on two Sons of Horus Breachers. This can be done over a… More Video ‘How to: Paint a quick and easy Tempered Metal Effect’
Two months on from my last post, what have I achieved? The answer, not very much! There has definitely been a lot of work, unfortunately mainly in my office and not on this army. That said, I am now in a perfect position to start up with a true batch painting schedule. Why, I hear… More Army Challenge: Seven Years War Prussians pt.2
In this video I’ll be covering how to paint a Lamenters Primaris Eliminator, but thought the camouflage pattern could be useful for any miniatures, modern warfare games, etc, and not just for Warhammer 40,000. The camo pattern is shown on its own video from earlier this year. The miniature is one from the Shadowspear boxed… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Lamenters’ Eliminator’
If you haven’t seen the first part of the series, you can check out Black Legion/Chaos Space Marine painting techniques, part 1. At the moment I’m working on a ten man assault squad for the Black Legion, so this post is focussing on their weapons, the idea being that there will be a bolter squad… More Black Legion/Chaos Space Marine painting techniques, part 2
In this video I’ll be painting up one of the new obliterator miniatures. With these basic techniques you should be able to get your obliterators painted up and looking great on your tabletop. I’ll be working on a fair few of the miniatures from Shadowspear and new Chaos Space Marine miniatures over the next few… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Black Legion Obliterator’
With the release of the new Chaos Space Marine kits, my focus obviously shifted from everything else that I need to do, onto the Warmaster’s forces. The techniques I’ll be covering in these posts are all on Black Legion, but the processes can be used for a number of different forces. I’ve used all these… More Black Legion/Chaos Space Marine painting techniques
In this video I’ll be painting up the new Abaddon the Despoiler miniature that was released recently. In this video I’m just painting up Abaddon and not his base, I’ll be doing that over the next couple of weeks. Also, it’ll be painted up to fit with the rest of the Black Legion miniatures I’m… More Video ‘How to: Paint Abaddon the Despoiler’
In this, the third and final part of Valdus Hammerhand, we’ll be looking at a few more techniques used to paint him up. The previous part can be found here. Dracoth skin, single tone For the Dracoth’s skin I wanted something that looked reasonable, but not too detailed. The rest of the miniature is well… More Valdus Hammerhand, part 3
In this video I’ll be painting up a Black Legion Chaos Space Marine. It’s been built from parts of the Chaos Space Marine superb multi-part kit which was released a couple of weeks ago. I’ll be working on a fair few of the miniatures from Shadowspear and new Chaos Space Marine range over the next… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Black Legion Chaos Space Marine’
This is an older post from 2017 that we’ve recently copied across from the old site. With some of the newer Nurgle and undead miniatures coming out recently I thought it’d be a good time to repost it. Enjoy! On a lot of miniatures, you get the opportunity to paint the grotesque and gory, which… More How to: Paint gore and open wounds on Death Guard, Pox Walkers and Zombies