Painting Guides
Recipes, colour choices, and easy to follow techniques. Most of these are one model, start to finish, with the paints named.
30 guides.
Spicing up some relic blade tokens.
Finishing the Relic Blade cardboard tokens with a black paint marker around the edges and a dome of Mod Podge Dimensional Magic on each face.
Another easy way to paint faces
Yesterday's face was underpaint and glaze. Today's face is Sunny Skin Tone, one Army Painter Dark Tone wash, and a couple of dots for eyes — about ten minutes start to finish.
Highlighting black
Glazing up from Tenebris Gray to pearl gray for the dark panels — plus a sink ripping off the wall, another bout of sickness, and thoughts on a new Army Painter wet palette.
Making Zines Is Easy with the Right Tools
Scoring, folding, saddle stitching, and Coptic binding—everything you need to know to start making your own zines and hand-bound books at home.
How to Paint Leather with Just Two Colors
A quick two-color leather painting method using Satchel Brown and Serpent Bite Leather—stipple highlights for worn, realistic results in minutes.
Probably Not the Worst Chainmail Tutorial Ever
Painting chainmail on Norman miniatures using speed paints, dry brushing, and Molotow Liquid Chrome—plus a nostalgia trip through my history of painting metal armor.
Painting References: Maximus (Infinity)
Reference photos, box art, and painting guides for Maximus, Optimate Hexadome Legend from Corvus Belli's Infinity.
Painting Chaosy Green Marble
Painting the pale green marble crystal on my Children of Gomb entry—using Scale Color acrylics like oils, dirty purple water for tinting, and filbert brush blending.
How to Paint Talons & Toesies
Painting talons, claws, and toes on our custom daemon sculpt with scratchy brush techniques, plus tying the brass helmet back into the skin tones.
How to Paint Bronze Part 2
Finishing the brass/bronze metal helmet with layered drybrushing and patina effects to create a realistic forged metal look on the monolith bearer.
How to Paint Brass / Gold
Painting a brass helmet on our monolith bearer daemon using true metallic metals—base coat, wash, drybrush, and scratch techniques for a realistic forged metal look.
20 Minute Purple Robe
Speed painting a purple robe on a Dolmenwood Breggle using Moody Mauve, chunky stippled highlights, and learning to push contrast without overthinking it.
How to Create a Dolmenwood Character
A complete walkthrough of creating a Dolmenwood character—rolling stats, choosing a class, determining background, moon sign, and equipping your adventurer.
Painting Butcher Klaus Minicrate
Speed painting Butcher Klaus for a painting competition using Army Painter speed paints—getting a tabletop-ready model in one day.
How to Marble Paper
Creating marbled paper covers for my wife's poetry book using traditional techniques with carrageenan, ink, and Kodak Photoflow.
Painting an NMM Belt Buckle With Scale 75 Grays
Continuing the leather belt with NMM buckles—using the full Kimera grayscale palette and thinking like a volumetric painter.
Painting a Leather Belt
Day one of taking painting seriously—following Richard Gray's leather belt tutorial and discovering that competition-level painting isn't as impossible as it seems.
Easy Mode Goblin Faces
How to make goblin faces really pop in about 8 minutes—teeth, gums, lips, and noses using just a busted up brush and basic techniques.
Goblin Skin Recipe
Quick tutorial on my goblin skin recipe—Shamrock Green speed paint over yellow and black, finished with Scale Color highlights.
The Jankiest Rust Tutorial Ever
Three methods for painting rust on 90 goblin spears—Dirty Down Rust, AK Interactive Rust Streaks, and the classic sponge technique. Plus why Dirty Down smells like pennies and cat piss.
I Fixed My Contrast Paint Problems
The secret to contrast paints that nobody told me—use a synthetic brush! Thanks Jay for the tip that changed everything.
How to Paint Pale Orc Skin
No-nonsense guide to grim dark pale orc skin—Pallid Wych Flesh, Bugman's Glow, streaking grime. Plus the spit effect secret: UHU glue.
How to Glaze for Fun and Profit
Late night glazing session finishing Mangler Squig skin—the consistency secrets, why you paint from shadow to highlight, and knowing what to focus on for army painting.
How to Strip Metal Models | Call to Arms Vlog Prep Day 1
Day one of tournament prep starts with stripping. 100% acetone, metal cup, hard bristled brush—getting eBay rescues ready for a new scheme.
How to Use Dirty Down Rust + Creating Blood & Gore - Part 2
Dirty Down Rust reactivation, silver dry brush highlights, and getting disgustingly gory with UHU glue and Blood for the Blood God. Finger painting included.
Paint a Trench Pilgrim Warband in 2 Hours
Fully painted Trench Crusade warband in 2 hours—speed paint silver, Blood Angels red contrast, Molotow liquid chrome, and the streaking grime magic.
How to Paint Trench Pilgrims Fast
Two methods for 15-minute Trench Crusade prisoners—oil paints vs streaking grime. Using an envelope as a palette because that's what was on my desk.
How to Paint Trench Crusade Communicant
Grim dark painting made easy—oil washes, modified Zorn palette, and blue-tinted skin that looks undead. Whole model in 20 minutes.
Fixing a Bad Speed Paint Job
Day two—no plan, just making videos. Don't run from the robe you messed up. Sit back down, grab some blues, and make it look like Vivi from Final Fantasy.
2 Color NMM Easy Peasy Style
Don't be intimidated by non-metallic metal—it's just poking your mini with watered-down paint. Here's my honest, messy, real-life approach to two-color NMM gold.