Stahly

The mysterious masked Stahly is the founder and mastermind of Tale of Painters. Hailing from Craftworld Germany, he has been walking the Path of the Warhammer Collector since childhood. Over the decades, he has painted multiple armies and countless warbands and miniatures. When he's not painting miniatures or working on his library of hand-painted colour swatches, he's testing the latest paints, tools and model kits with German precision and a no non-sense attitude.
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Venerable Dreadnought body complete

Finished the hull and glued the Dreadnought together. I’m moving now to the arms. Painting is very exhausting at the moment because it’s really hot in Germany. My fellow readers from the US may laugh about temperatures of 30 °C (86 °F) but it makes...
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Editorial

The Army Painter Colour Primers

As you’ve probably noticed from my tutorial, I extensively use Army Painter Colour Primers. They are a huge time saver. Today I published an in-depth review of them on Brückenkopf in case you haven’t already checked out. It’s in German, but maybe my english-speaking visitors...
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Eldar Guardian Batch finished

I’m back at home and finished the three Guardians I took to my parents. After this little Eldar intermezzo I’m going to continue work on the Venerable Dreadnought. After the Dreadnought there will be seven more Guardians, a weapon platform and a Warlock of course.
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Eldar Guardians almost finished

I’ve worked on them like mad in the last few days, and they are almost done except for some mistakes that need to be corrected and the rim of the base. I’m still at my parents’ house, so sorry for the bad picture quality. You...
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Tutorial: How to paint Sanguinary Guard

Cheers, as promised the tutorial about how I painted my Sanguinary Guard. As in my popular Blood Angel tutorial, I paint the armour in a easy techniques like drybrushing and washing and finish off the model by crisp detail work. 1. Prime the model with...
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Some Eldar Guardians

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I’m staying at my parents this week. However I took paints, brushes and some Guardians with me 🙂 So far I painted the bases and shaded the armour on this batch.
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Showcase: Sanguinary Guard

Painted these two Sanguinary Guard for fun. A tutorial will follow later this week! I think the Glaive Encarmaine turned out quite cool and the deep purplish red makes the models more round thant the turquoise blades of the ‘Eavy Metal version.
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