Just like last year, this year, from the 1st of January to the 31st of March, Games Workshop Liverpool (okay, Warhammer Liverpool) are holding their annual March to War competition, where participants have to build 2019 points worth of miniatures, and paint 2019 points worth of miniatures. They can be from Warhammer 40,000 or Age… More March to War 2019
If you’ve not read part one of this tutorial, head here to see how to paint the armour. Skin The skin on the Space Wolves was done using only three colours, more if it was a face with a wound of some sort. On the model below (nicknamed John Bernthal) the skin was based with… More How to: Paint Space Wolf Primaris, part 2
In this, the final Ork skin video, I’ll be showing a quick and easy method of painting up an Ork Warboss’s skin to look great for the tabletop. I’ve started with the skin of the smallest – Grots (not counting snotlings as they’re more for comedic value), and worked up to a Warboss, so if… More Video ‘How to: Paint Ork Warboss Skin’
Happy New Year! Well it’s been a busy year for everyone, and sadly not wholly busy with hobby, but there’s been plenty of progress and plenty of good stuff. Rob After a having less hobby time than usual over the past few months, I didn’t think this year would have had as much progress as… More Brush and Boltgun 2018 Round Up
After two months of hard hobbying, how have we all got on with our Hobby Guilt challenges? Who has made progress, who has got distracted and who will be painting the same stuff well into 2019? The answer is, all of us, actually! If you would like to check our first post to see the… More Hobby Guilt Round-up 2018
In this video I’ll be painting up A Primaris Reiver for my Space Wolf Kill Team. It’s a pretty basic paint job, but looks great on the tabletop. The video starts with the miniature undercoated in Army Painter Wolf Grey (which is pretty much identical to Citadel Russ Grey – my eyes can’t tell the… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Space Wolf Primaris Reiver
Welcome to the first part of a short guide to show you how to paint up Space Wolves. The miniatures in this tutorial are all Space Marine Primaris Intercessors and Reivers, but the principles are the same if you are painting up normal sized Space Wolves. In this part, we’ll be covering the armour for… More How to: Paint Primaris Space Wolves, part 1
In this week’s short video, I’ll be showing a quick and easy method of painting up an Ork Nob’s flesh for the tabletop. With most ork armies there’s going to be a fair few Nobs, either leading boyz mobz, or in their own tough squads, so this quick (and easily variable) method is great for… More Video ‘How to: Paint Ork Nob Flesh
So here’s to another Hobby Guilt post. It’s nearly Christmas, the goose is getting fat and we still have a tonne of unpainted models! It’s Adam and Dave up again to attempt to show some progress towards the targets they set themselves at the start of November. If you want to see where they were… More Hobby Guilt- Post 7
Hello and welcome to another post on my continuous series about how to paint a Dark Angels Tactical Squad. You can find the rest of the posts in the drop down menu above. This week I’m looking at how to paint the eye lenses on the helmets of the tactical squad. There are many ways… More How To: Paint Dark Angels Tactical Squad (Lenses)
Welcome to another exciting (?) instalment of Hobby Guilt, where the chaps at the Brush and Boltgun try and work through some of the unbuilt and unpainted miniatures that litter our hobby spaces like dead leaves litter the streets at this time of year. Rob: Over the past two weeks there’s been limited hobby time,… More Hobby Guilt 2018 – Part 6
As a bit of a change from the greenskins, in this video I’ll be painting up one of my Space Wolf Kill Team. It’s a pretty basic paint job, but looks great on the tabletop. What does everyone think of the Primaris miniatures? It’s the first I’ve painted and I found it really nice to… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Primaris Space Wolf
So we are over half way along our Hobby Guilt period now. Everyone is working on very different armies and, as you may have seen, we are also prone to getting a little distracted! This week it is Dave and Adam’s turn to show what they have been working on. For their last update you… More Hobby Guilt- Post 5
Hello and welcome to another post on my continuous series about how to paint a Dark Angels Tactical Squad. You can find the rest of the posts in the drop down menu above. This week I am looking at how to paint the coils of plasma weapons. A popular method is to use OSL (object… More How To: Paint Dark Angels Tactical Squad (Plasma)
In this short video, I’ll be showing a quick and easy method of painting up an Ork’s skin for the tabletop. With most ork armies there’s going to be a lot of footsloggers, so this quick (and easily variable) method is great for getting them ready for battle. It is quick to do in batches… More Video ‘How to: Paint ork Skin’
Hello and welcome to another post in our lovingly titled Hobby Guilt series. If you haven’t been following along, it’s the time of year where we realise how many unpainted models we have and desperately try to paint them all. We then give you an overview of how we painted them so that you can… More Hobby Guilt 2018 – Part 4
For a project that was meant to finish mid-October, I have some explaining to do. Alas, with these things life and sometimes massive hobby distractions get in the way. In this case, It was definitely the former, ripping the spare room out and starting from scratch. Now that’s out the way, I am finally able… More Saga Sunday: Poles Apart 3. A Useable Force
In this short video, I’ll be showing a quick and easy method of painting up a Grot’s skin for your Ork army. With the Grots being the smallest bar snotlings, I like to get them looking pretty light and bright. This method is quick to do in batches and will have their skin looking good… More Video ‘How to: Paint Grot Skin’
Adam: This probably isn’t the most interesting Hobby Guilt post that will be going up across the next few weeks, but there has been some progress, after a fashion. With all my armies, I have always been a fan of large batches and going through everything in stages: Build everything, Undercoat Everything, Paint everything, Base… More Hobby Guilt Post 3
In this video, I’ll be showing how to paint a Death Skulls Meganob from start to finish. The techniques used are all easy to do, but combined together they’ll get your Meganobz looking great on the tabletop. If you wanted to, you could keep going on this model after I stop, adding stripes to wires,… More Video ‘How to: Paint an Ork Meganob’
It’s the second post for Hobby Guilt to show the progress we’ve made since the last time. This week it’s Rob and Mike showing off what they’ve been up to. Rob I started Hobby Guilt with US Airborne, Saga Anglo-Danes, and Orks, and as predicted, moved onto other things. These other things include Dead Man’s… More Hobby Guilt Part 2
A while ago, when I first heard of Great Escape Games’s Wild West miniature game, Dead Man’s Hand, I knew I’d love it before I’d even read the rules. Seems ridiculous, but sadly, I love Wild West films and a game in that setting was an immediate winner for me. I saw Mike and Adam… More TT Combat Wild West Scenery Review
In this video, I’ll be looking at a quick and easy method of painting the engines and exhausts for your ork vehicles. Each simple method can be used to varying degrees to achieve the look that you’re after, but it slightly grubby, or totally filthy and rusted. Details of paints and other relevant videos can… More Video ‘How to: Paint Ork Vehicle Engines and Exhausts’
Welcome to another annual edition of Hobby Guilt, where we’ve realised that we really do have too many miniatures that need painting. With Christmas imminent, and we hope the arrival of many more models, we thought it would be best to finish off some of the things we already have. So let’s see what we… More The Hobby Guilt 2018 – Part 1
This post was meant to be all about how to paint Stormcast Retributors, in a similar vein to the Liberators, Sequitors, etc that I’ve already covered. Firstly, I always start by spraying them with Retributor Armour, as I find the spray the best base colour. As usual, this post starts with them sprayed with Retributor… More How to: Paint Stormcast Retributors – featuring lumpy spray paint.
Carrying on from my previous post on painting horses, we continue to go for a quick and easy look, a gaming standard suitable for the battlefield. Last time we covered getting the base colours and highlights on the flesh, mane and tail. This time we are going to look at the detailing that really makes… More How to Paint: Quick and Easy Horses (Part 2 of 2)
Booo! Welcome to our special Hallowe’en post! As Hallowe’en was on a Wednesday this year, we thought it would be a good opportunity to post about some spooky miniatures or scenery we’ve been working on, to keep things on Ghosts and ghouls aplenty. Adam Asked to contribute something to our Halloween post was a… More The Brush and Boltgun Hallowe’en Special
In this video, I’ll be looking at a quick and easy method of painting damage, chipping and corrosion onto your ork vehicles. Each simple method can be used to varying degrees to achieve the level of damage that you want to your vehicles. Details of the paints used are listed below the video. How to… More Ork Vehicles: Damage, Chipping and Corrosion
When I started playing about with Orks again a few weeks ago, I couldn’t help but notice the number of bare plastic and undercoated boyz. I wanted to paint them up quickly, and was going to do just that, with a quick ‘how to:’ post and video. Instead, I became distracted. One of the greatest… More Kustomizationz: The Ork Shield-Wall
Hello and welcome to the continuation of my posts on how to paint Warhammer 40,000 Dark Angels. If you haven’t been keeping up, you can read the first post here. Today I’m going to demonstrate something that can often be quite difficult to get right, gold. This is a really quick method for getting good looking… More How To: Paint Dark Angels Tactical Squad (Gold Symbols)