In this video I’ll be painting up a Black Legion Aspiring Champion. The miniature itself is part of the Chaos Space Marine Havocs box, but is much the same as the Aspiring Champions from the Chaos Space Marine box, or the Shadowspear box. An ace miniature. A full list of paints can be found below… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Black Legion Aspiring Champion’
In this short tutorial, I’ll be showing you a quick and easy method of how to paint brown leather. As a quick guide its ideal for RPG miniatures, or bulk painting the brown leather on an army’s infantry if there’s a lot of them. You can spend a lot more time on it, building up… More Video ‘How to: Paint Brown Leather’
In this video I’ll be painting up Yolanda Scorn, a bounty hunter from Necromunda Underhive. It’s one of the ‘hired guns’ miniatures from Forge World, and is a really nice miniature. If you’re into Necromunda, I’d recommend the pack. Expect the rest painted up in the coming months. A full list of paints can be… More Video ‘How to: Paint Yolanda Scorn, Bounty Hunter’
In the second sword blade tutorial, we’ll be painting up a purple blade. I use these myself on my Sons of Horus and Black Legion, as well as the odd plaguebearer weapon. It’s a really simple technique, and I like to give it a coat of gloss varnish afterward as it gives it a kind… More Video ‘How to: Paint Purple Sword Blades, Power Swords.
In this video I’ll be doing a real-time tutorial on how to paint a blue white sword blade, commonly used for power swords and force swords. Now you can take a lot longer on these to get the blending smoother, but this is a quick and easy method of getting them looking great for the… More Video ‘How to: Paint blue-white Sword Blades/Power Swords’
In this video I’ll be painting up Vex Machinator’s Helstalker from the Vex Machinator Lord Discordant miniature. The model itself is pretty big and has a heap of detail on it, so painting it up takes a lot more time than is shown on the video, the black and gold took up the most time,… More Video ‘How to: Paint Vex Machinator’s Helstalker’
In this post I’ll be painting a face with a different skintone. With the variety of skin tones you have available you can pick from any number and the principles will still be the same. The miniature in this video is one of the plastic Frostgrave Soldiers, with the head being from a different company,… More Video ‘How to: Paint Faces 2’
In this short start to finish video I’ll be showing how to paint the armour trim found on Chaos Space Marines, using a Black Legion Havoc. I’m just painting up one of the Pauldrons as a full miniature would be a very long video, but replicating these methods will get the armour trim on your… More Video ‘How to: Paint Black Legion Armour Trim’
Faces can really make a miniature stand out, so in this short video, I’ll be showing you how to paint one that will look great on the table top. The miniature used here is a fantasy elf (stuck to the base a long time ago so not certain which make. If you recognise it please… More Video ‘How to: Paint faces 1’
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’
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 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 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’
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
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’
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’
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’
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 video I’ll be covering how to paint DPM/camouflage. I’m painting this onto the cloaks of my Primaris Space Marine Eliminators, but thought the camouflage pattern could be useful for any miniatures, modern warfare games, etc, and not just for Warhammer 40,000. The full video for the Eliminator will be uploaded in the next… More Video ‘How to: Paint Eliminator Cloaks with Combat Soldier 95 DPM/Camouflage’
In this video I’ll be painting up the Master of Possession from the Warhammer 40,000 Shadowspear boxed set. It’s a stunning miniature, and when I saw it I had to paint it first. Last week’s fire and flames video was taken from this miniature, so I’ll link that in the video so if you want… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Black Legion Master of Possession’
In this short tutorial, I’ll be showing you a quick and easy method of painting fire and flames. I’m using the Master of Possession miniature from the new Warhammer 40,000 Shadowspear box as he has four burning skulls to demonstrate on. It’s a really limited palette, and the whole technique takes about 20 minutes to… More Video ‘How to: Paint Fire and Flames’
In this video, I’ll be talking through how I paint a Genestealer Cults Jackal Alphus from start to finish. To begin with he’s been sprayed with Citadel Zandri Dust and the video starts with him in that colour. I have a lot of Genestealer Cults miniatures, so if there’s any you’d like to see please… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Genestealer Cults Jackal Alpha
In this video, I’ll be talking through how I paint a Primaris Librarian from start to finish. To begin with he’s been sprayed with Citadel Averland Sunset and Macragge Blue and the video starts with him in that colour. Although I’m painting him as a Lamenters’ Librarian, it’s only the pauldron with the Chapter symbols… More Video ‘How to: Paint a Primaris Librarian
This video is a quick and easy method of painting wheels and tyres on ork vehicles, or any vehicles where you want a little corrosion on them. It uses a really small palette of colours but leaves the wheels looking great. I specifically use Vallejo Black and Vallejo German Grey on tyres because of their… More Video ‘How to: Paint weathered wheels/tyres’