Review: Green Stuff World Metal Colors
Green Stuff World produces a lot of interesting specialist paints, including fluorescent and “chameleon” colour-shifting paints. Now they expanded their paint range with a set of acrylic metallic paints, including coloured metallics like red, violet, green and blue. Non-toxic and suitable for both paint- and…
Review: The Army Painter Dungeons & Dragons Paint Sets
We continue with our series of The Army Painter reviews with a look at two of their licensed Warpaints paint sets: The Dungeons & Dragons Adventurers and Monster paint sets, designed to compliment Wizards of the Coast’s and Gale Force 9’s Nolzur’s Marvelous Miniatures. These…
Review: The Army Painter Warpaints #2 – Washes, Metallics and Effect paints
Here we go, part two of our epic review of The Army Painter’s Warpaints range, the most comprehevise Warpaints review on the web! In part one, we took a look at each of their 96 acrylic paints, this time, we see how their metallics, Quickshade…
Review: The Army Painter Warpaints #1 – Acrylic Paints
In this epic two-part review we’ll take a look at the complete Warpaints paints range from The Army Painter. Yes, you read it right, for this review we will test every single colour, 124 paints in total. In part 1 we start with the 96 regular acrylic…
Review: Cass Art Sable Brushes
I was mooching around Islington in London the other day with a friend and we stumbled across this art shop called Cass Art. I was looking through their brushes and I noticed the Windsor and Newton Brushes were on offer, but I couldn’t find them,…
Review: INSTAR Paint Range
Instar has reached out and sent me a selection of their paints to review. In this review I want to answer these questions. 1. What is Instar? 2. What is the paint like to use? 3. How much? 4. Are the colour matching claims accurate?…
Review: Citadel Munitorum Varnish
rubs off the edges easily. Thus, varnishing is essential. It’s surprising that it took Games Workshop so long to come up with a successor for their Purity Seal spray varnish. Munitorum Varnish is supposed to have “a semi-matt or satin finish that is very much like the natural sheen of the paint itself” – let’s see whether it lives up to its promise.
Chat: No point crying over spilt paint
I joined the unenviable club of spilt wash at the weekend. I’m an optimist, I’ve aways considered my paint pots half full and not half empty so I decided to turn this “tragedy” into a positive. See what I came up after the jump. Available…
Review: The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver
Here on Tale of Painters we have produced lots of tutorials explaining how to paint your miniatures, but we’ve never explained how to clean and look after your brushes. In this review I explain what brush cleaner and preserver is and I’ll give you the…
Chat: Daylight Lamps for Painting
Look at how dark and dingy my paint area is. The other day on my Facebook account, I asked everyone what lighting they use to paint to. The resounding answer was daylight bulbs. I was getting examples ranging from £20 to £105 in the comments….

















