Showcase: Dark Angels Deathwing Bladeguard Veterans
Today’s post is going to be a little different. You might have noticed I’m painting a different project every week. These weekly deadlines have been beneficial to my productivity and I thought it might be interesting to follow this week’s project a day at a…
Review: Crypt Hunters (Warhammer board game)
Today I’m gonna do an unboxing and review of Crypt Hunters, one of the games in the third wave of retail exclusive Warhammer board games, along with Space Marine Adventures: Rise of the Orks and Blitz Bowl Season 2. Crypt Hunters is a two-player game that…
ToP Tip: Make your own Wet Palette
A Wet Palette stops your paint drying out. It’s really useful if you like mixing colours and it’s a real benefit if you paint in warm conditions. You can buy ready made Wet Palettes with refill sheets and those all work great but you really…
Showcase: Underworlds Spiteclaw’s Swarm Hungering Skaven
Hey there, I started my next painting project, Spiteclaw’s Swarm for Warhammer Underworlds. I really love Skaven, they’re one of my favourite Fantasy / Age of Sigmar factions. I’ve owned a rather large Fantasy army that I sold, I painted some Skaven for Blood Bowl / Blitz Bowl,…
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Showcase: Necromunda Escher Ganger by Rich
Hi all, Rich here back with some hobby progress after a slow summer for hobbying. A friend suggested we start playing Necromunda which sounded like a lot of fun to me so I picked my gang; House Eschers and painted this ganger as my test…
Showcase: Primal Lair terrain for Beastgrave
I saw a hobby phrase on Twitter the other day and it summed up this week’s painting project perfectly. Have you heard of ‘palette cleanser’? It’s a play on ‘palate cleanser’ (a neutral-flavored food or drink that removes food residue from the tongue allowing one to more accurately assess a new flavour). Well ‘palette cleanser’ is the hobby equivalent and in this context it refers to a quick and easy painting project to clear the way for another painting project. After the jump I’ll talk about how I painted this set.
Showcase: Necromunda Goliath Gang #2 (with paint recipes)
Here are the latest five models for my growing Goliath Gang for Necromunda, including a mix of modern plastic sculpts, resin Forge World upgrade parts and even some classic metal Juves. These were a blast to paint and don’t look that out of place with…
ToP Tip: Stahly’s favourite 3 green paints
Today we kick off a new series on Tale of Painters: ToP tips. Hobby hacks and advice from Garfy’s and Stahly’s combined hobby experience of over 45 years. In this post, I’m gonna talk about my favourite three green paints. I own over 400 paints…
Showcase: Necrons from Indomitus by Arkaan
Hello, it’s Arkaan here. Today I’m happy to present my approach to the Necrons force from Indomitus in box art style. Doing all of these models in a limited amount of time was a bit new to me, in terms of painting batch painting that didn’t bore…
















