How To: Paint Cloaks

Hey again everyone!  In this tutorial, I will be going over the steps needed to paint a nice striking cloak on your miniature.  This will include useful highlighting and shading techniques on to end up with smooth transitions and crisp edge highlights for your "cloth!"

Speed Painting Competition!

Hey all! I recently joined in a fun little speed painting competition that took place at my local Warhammer store as part of their 2-year anniversary. Click the link to see some more photos and my results!

Blades of Khorne Bloodreaver Skintones

Hey everyone. This post is just a WIP shot of my Blades of Khorne Bloodreaver unit. I wanted to focus specifically on the 3 different skintones I am using within the unit. Check out the post to see the paints I used!

WIP Stormcast Eternals Sequitor

Hey all! Today I'm posting some WIP shots of Stormcast Eternals Sequitor model from Games Workshop. I love this Sculpt! Has been a lot of fun to paint to far. 

Stay tuned for updates on Sequitors, as well as my progress on the Stormcast half of the Soul Wars box set - in addition to some Blades of Khorne models!

How To: Paint a Warrior of Minas Tirith

Welcome back everyone to my posts on painting miniatures from Games Workshop's LOTR line.

This tutorial will specifically focus on painting a nice and clean Warrior of Minas Tirith for use in your strategy battle games.

How To: Paint Human Skin

Hey everyone!  This tutorial will go over how to paint both lighter and darker human flesh-tones.  I'll be using a mixture of layering and glazing for this tutorial, as well as a combination of Citadel and Reaper paints.  These techniques and colors can be modified to give you a quick table-top quality figure all the way to a display piece, depending on the time you invest into your blends.

How To: Paint a Warrior of Rohan

Hey everyone.  With the release of the new Battle of Pelennor Fields box set, and new rules for the Middle Earth SBG, I wanted to go ahead and create some tutorials on painting the miniature line offered by Games Workshop!  This will be the first installment of my posts, which will hopefully include a number of armies and figures from the line.

Forge World Horus Heresy

Hey everyone! Here's the first finished model of some cool Forge World Horus Heresy models I've gotten recently on commission!

Be on the lookout for some more soon!

Here's a link to all 3 finished photos on my Facebook page!

Facebook Photos!

Arcadia Quest WIP

I've gotten a commission recently to paint a bunch of Heroes from Arcadia Quest! These models look awesome and are a ton of fun to paint!

I'll try to put up a tutorial on how to paint "Chibi" style eyes once I get to some models requiring an Iris if anyone is interested!

In the meantime here's some WIP shots of the first hero of the bunch! 

Facebook Link!

How To: Make and Paint a Scenic City Base

Hey everyone! This tutorial will show you step by step how to make and paint a scenic city base (just like the ones on my Pulp City commission pieces) for your miniature using some basic hobby tools and supplies.

Some pictures of "Arquero"

Hey everyone! Here are some pictures of the Arquero model I've been working on for a commission at Level 5. He is mounted on a Showcase level base made out of plasticard and small clay bricks, among other materials resembling an old city street scene.

How To: Paint Human Fleshtones and Faces

Hey everybody! In this tutorial I'll be explaining/showing how to paint faces, and more specifically female human flesh-tones. This tutorial will also go over "make up" effects to make your female model look more.....feminine lol. Look forward to a series of tutorials using this excellent model called "Riposte" from Pulp City including how to paint eyes, as well as red hair!

New Business and Page!

Hey everyone! I just wanted to let everyone know that I haven't disappeared! I'm currently working on starting up my own (official) commission painting business! I've obviously been painting miniatures for many years (I started around 10 years ago) and have been doing miniature commission painting since around 2012 on and off, but I've gotten the entrepreneurial bug and have decided to go all in with it! I'm currently working on getting my studio redesigned to be more functional, as well as work on a price sheet and new test models to help future customers price out potential commissions easier. I've also created a new Facebook page to help keep people updated if you want to check it out and give it a like! Thanks for reading again!

https://www.facebook.com/thepaintersroom

How To: Paint a Gaming Base Using GW Texture Paint

Hey everyone! This tutorial / picture overview will show you how to utilize GW's texture paint line along with some simple dry-brushing and washing to paint up a quick and easy gaming base for your army!

Review: Miniature Painting Secrets with Jen Haley DVDs

Hey everyone! In an attempt to make good on my promise to keep this blog updated I've decided to just go ahead and post up as much useful (and hopefully entertaining content) as possible over the next few days. This post will include a quick review, recap of the Miniature Painting Secrets with Jen Haley DVDs as well as pictures of a Soda Pop Squall model I personally painted following this DVD! Be sure to read on!

CMON Expo 2014

Hey guys! I figured I'd do a quick recap of the Cool Mini Or Not Expo that I attended this year back in late May. I've also included some pictures of my Crystal Brush entry that I sort of fell into!

Happy Holidays and a quick recap!

Hey people! Well it seems I certainly failed on keeping this blog updated as I had hoped. This year has been quiet crazy for me to say the least. I just recently graduated from university and am now on the job hunt! Over the next few days I'll try to be posting some updates related to small commission works or just models I've painted over the past year but never got the chance to post. I may also do a small recap of the CMON Expo I attended earlier this year as well. Thanks for tuning in and hopefully I can make good on my original plan! - In the meantime, here are some pictures of Ama No Zako from the Malifaux miniature line I painted as a quick table top gaming commission in July I believe. Happy Holidays and I hope your year was one to remember!

                             (Be sure to click the post to see a few more pics of Ama No Zako!)

Eldar Fire Dragons WIP - Finished Test Model

Hey everyone! I finally got around to finishing a test model for the Shrine of the Burning Lance Fire Dragons I'm painting up on commission. I'm pretty happy with how it is turning out. Here are a few pictures to keep you entertained, haha!

Eldar Fire Dragons WIP - Bases

Hey people! Just wanted to give you all a quick update on my Eldar Fire Dragons. I got the go ahead to paint them as the Shrine of the Burning Lance and I'm pretty stoked! I got them all primed up and have the bases about 95% done - the only thing left is to put some snow on them - but that will have to wait until the rest of the models are completely done. I'm hoping to have some orange on them by the end of tomorrow so expect another update soon.

Old CMON Model - Librarian Turmiel

Hey guys! I decided I would post up an old mini I painted a little over a year ago. I was trying my hand at a couple techniques with some new paints I had just acquired - including some NMM gold and some light source effects seen on the hand and grenades. The pictures don't quiet pick everything up (especially the shading/highlighting of the armor) but I'm happy with how it turned out for a test model, and even happier that it currently has an 8.3 rating. Sorry if the pictures are not quiet up to par as this was my old camera and light set up, but I figured some of you might still enjoy taking a look!

**Be sure to click the link below to see full size images.**

CMON Turmiel