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Just in case you missed it

The Blood Angels Video is also online! More in depth videos and PDF will be uploaded gradually as I finish editing them.

2020-08-18 10:48:10 +0000 UTC View Post

August Update and Q&A

Some of you had questions about my light setup for painting and taking pictures and other general questions about how I set up my workspace. Also adressing things that happened during the last few ...

Full NMM Necrons - Defining Shapes and Volumes

First Part of the Full NMM Necron Series. In Part 2 we will talk about OSL and ambient lights in general, as we paint the glow on the rifle.  

2020-08-18 10:38:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Necron Immortals - 4 - The Bases

Showing a quick approach to bases - including plasticcard, creating bulletholes/corroded steel and weathered groundplates and creating interesting effects with fluo pigments!

2020-06-26 20:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Necron Immortals - 3 - Energy Blade and Glow Effects

 Showing you how to build up intense light effects with various approaches and different paints like Citadel Contrast and Vallejo Fluo Colors. Diving into simple OSL theory - as a lot of you h...

Necron Immortals - 2 - Weapon Casings

Showing you my approach to interesting weapon casings on light and dark colors - working in various textures and contrast effects. This is my vision of how weapons should look like that were burrie...

Necron Immortals - 1 - Metal Variants

 Part one of my "9th Edition Style" Necrons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi2sxWkqW24

Explo...

Simple Gold NMM (Khorne Berserker)

I had many requests to reupload this video as it had a bit of music in it by accident and got taken down by copy right claim. So I redubbed the parts and edited it down into a more coherent tutoria...

The Wurmspat - Building a Swamp Base

Trying to give you another weapon in your basebuilding arsenal - building a base from single stones and different elements. Talking about composition of course, planning and how to create interesti...

Tor Garadon Armor - Last Part

UPDATE: AUDIO FIXED! 

One last rodeo with the armor, to adjust some parts I was not happy with. Talking about how similar value colors can be used to our advantage and showing how to do ...

Ogroid Myrmidon Part 4 - The Shield

Going through establishing an interesting baselayer, showing how I do metallics, rust and general weathering. And we are doing a freehand and I also explain how to best plan your freehands! Hope yo...

Iron Warrior Warsmith - Kitbash and Resculpt

Did this resculpt of an Iron Warrior to document the start of a new project! Going to start filming the painting soon and I am really excited for this. Hopefully my thoughts and reasons behind what...

Tor Garadon - The Cloak

Next video - Painting Tor Garadon's cloak! I wanted a color that would complementary contrast versus the yellow of the armor, but at the same time have a hint of the classic red cloak in there, so ...

Video Index updated

Since Patreon's UI is less than optimal to browse in general and even more so when looking for a specific thing I made an index of all available Videos a while ago. That index has been updated agai...

The Basing of St. Katherine

I finally received the custom made wooden plinth I ordered for this project and was able to start on it. So here is the first video for the diorama. 

I am tring to show you how I tackle ...

Ogroid Myrmidon - Part 3: The Face

Here is the next PArt for the Ogroid MYrmidon, taking a closer look at how to paint the face!

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Ogroid Myrmidon Skintone Color Decissions

Giving a little insight on how I decided on the colors I wanted to use on the inside. Walking you through my innitial ideas, where and why I pick my target colors and how I ended up with a color sw...

Ogroid Myrmidon Masterclass - Part 2: The Skintones

Here is the next part! I will shortly upload the Video about color choices. As always, let me know if you have any questions!

 2020-03-16 18:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Crisis Protocol - Captain America: Painting a Fancy Shield

Trying to play with light and warm/cold contrast here, exploring the difference it can make on the same color (white and red in this case).

It was fun to develop the scheme and the reflection...

Youtube Prerelease: Ogroid Myrmidon Part 1: Intro and Basebuilding

Here is the first part of the Ogroid Myrmidon painting series!

Compositional thoughts about the base and simple storytelling, as well as how to build the base and create ground texture with...

Sisters of Battle - Cheat Sheet #1 (PDF)

Like I said, I will make sure that there is at least 1 PDF upload per Month and then compile them all into the painting guides when everything is covered. So here is the first one!

I am als...

Sisters of Battle Cloaks

Trying a bit of a non.traditional approach to sisters - also talking about paint consistency and when/why you want to switch it up, as well as creating smoothness with washes.

Stay tuned for ...

Tor Garadon - The Armor

First painting Video for Tor - The intention here was to work with desaturated shadows and saturated lights. It gives a very interesting reflection/metallic effect for the armor:

2020-01-07 12:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Tor Garadon Part 1 - The Base

Here is the first video of Tor Garadon - building the base and giving you insights to my thoughts when i build scenic bases and how I think they can support features and dynamics of a character. 2019-12-30 15:55:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Lord of Blights - PDF Painting Guide

Sorry for the delay, but now here it is in all it's 25 Pages glory! 

If you have any questions or feel like something is missing, let me know!

The Rifle Part 2: Rifle Markings and Hazard Stripes Cable

Finishing up Candy Chan's rifle with a Company logo and scratched up markings for that extra story telling and detail that makes our pieces come to life. Adding some interesting features to the cab...

The Rifle Part 1: Main Colors, Texture, Composition

We are going to block in the main gradients of the white underside and then work on these gradients with a brush, scratch up and batter the gun a bit, so it looks like an actual item and not a toy ...

Candy Chan - Reflective Bikini Top and Color Swatches

 In this video we are going to look at reflective material and how to analyze reference material and create color swatches from it. You will see that it helps to chose colors for your painting...

November Update 1

I am working on filming and editing the next videos - I should be able to release the next 3 during the next week and then I want to try and release one more as soon as that one is done too. I am g...

Prerelease: My Trip to the Everchosen Finals

This prerelease video details my trip to the finals of Everchosen at Warhammer World.

mainly a VLog, but also giving my thoughts on what I could have done better while preparing the entry. 2019-11-06 19:55:52 +0000 UTC View Post