Stahly

Stahly lives in Craftworld Hamburg, located in the north of Germany. He has been involved with Warhammer since childhood and has painted several armies and countless warbands and kill teams over the decades. When he's not painting miniatures incredibly slowly, he's writing tutorials and testing the latest miniature paints, hobby tools and kits. He founded Tale of Painters to pass on his knowledge and bring inspiration to your hobby.
40k, Showcase

Showcase: Fire Prism of Saim-Hann

This is my Fire Prism, painted in my usual Saim-Hann scheme. As you see, the striking difference between the off the shelf model is the converted “old school” prism cannon. It looks more like the old model and I think it compliments the proportions of...
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Fantasy - The Old World

Gathering the rats

Thanks to the very few parts of the models I was able to put this regiment together in no time. What you see is actually the first half of a 40 rats strong horde that will push a Screaming Bell. On a provisional movement tray.
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40k, Fantasy - The Old World

Warlock finished, Skaven started

So I finished the Warlock yesterday which will be the last Eldar model I’m going to paint for the time beeing. I also varnished all my Eldar models that weren’t yet which means I can finally take some high quality pictures of my second Guardian...
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40k

Farseer finished, Warlock started

Seond week at work, again lots of overtime so I basically didn’t had any hobby time on weekdays except reading the new White Dwarf. Today I had a full afternoon for painting though and I finished the Farseer and started a Warlock by painting the...
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40k

Farseer painting update

Unfortunately a lot of overtime prevented me from doing any more work on the Farseer, but today I finally had the spare time for a lot of painting. What’s left to do is painting the head and correct any small mistakes I made on the...
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40k

Little strokes fell big oakes… or Farseers

Despite having to work until 8 PM I try to keep painting everyday even it is only half an hour. Since the last picture I finished the red areas, the black staff, the leather bags and straps and started basecoating the gold areas.
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Editorial

Having the work blues

When I started this blog I was eager to have a post almost everyday. In the last couple of months the number started to dwindle because of my graduation. Well, starting tomorrow, I will be working full time with lots of overtime likely. This is...
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