A warm welcome to all new Patrons 🙇🏻🙇🏻🙇🏻 I‘m still in Tokyo for this week, but I‘ll get back to you next week. in the meantime, here is the final model I painted before my vacation. A Zombie for my Blitz Bowl team. I went with subtle hues of purple for his skin, think it gie...
2023-04-10 15:36:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the delay, I‘m still struggling with the time difference 😅 I arrived in Tokyo safe & sound, and visited the new Warhammer Cafe flagship store in Akihabara. Very nice place, very spacious, and amaaazing displays. I‘m gonna do a video when I‘m home!
Anyways, this week, ...
2023-04-06 15:30:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday I shared a post about my Fell Bats, which also includes all the paint recipes I used. For Thursday, Garfy will share a showcase post for one of his latest painting endeavours, and for the weekend, I planned a tutorial for painting pale purple daemonic skin, taken from my Alpha Legion An...
2023-03-29 09:45:23 +0000 UTC View Post
So, last week I spent on painting two more Skellies for my Blitz Bowl team, and now I'm making a start on a Zombie. These were quite fun to paint, combining zenithal highlights and "slapchop" techniques with additional highlights and glazes. I recorded all steps for a future Patreon exclusive tut...
2023-03-27 21:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post
A lot of people seem to like my hand-painted colour swatches, and also asked me to combine them all into a single graphic covering all "one coat" paint ranges. So this is what I'll do! The graphic will feature ALL Contrast, Xpress Color, Dipping Inks, and the 49 colours from the Speedpaint 2.0 Me...
2023-03-25 16:59:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Bit of a slow week on the blog as I'm still recovering from all the work of the Speedpaint 2.0 video (check it out here: https://youtu.be/kTIRVX74u0g, it's pulling good numbers but really thought it would perform better) and ha...
2023-03-22 19:21:20 +0000 UTC View Post
So my Speedpaint 2.0 review is out, check it out here if you haven't already: https://taleofpainters.com/2023/03/review-the-army-painter-speedpaint-2-0-finally-fixed/ 2023-03-18 18:10:49 +0000 UTC View Post
So yesterday I shared my Tactical Support Squad, go check it out, and for Thursday, we'll have a retro Space Wolves showcase by Tom. I'm quite busy putting the finishing touches to my Speedpaint 2.0 video, which will be released on Saturday along with a written review.
Apart from that, I'm ...
2023-03-15 16:40:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, I'm still working on my Speedpaint 2.0 video (this will be one of my most laborious videos ever!) so I can't give you a sneak peek yet, but I thought it would be nice to put my video script on Patreon early, for those that are toying with the thought of preordering. Here are my thou...
2023-03-14 08:53:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I finished painting my Moroch terrain, and started two new projects. I assembled the remaining six models of my Undead Blitz Bowl team (I mounted them on temporary bases for painting). They are meant to compliment the test model for the Xpress Color review which you can see on the right...
2023-03-12 23:11:05 +0000 UTC View Post
A warm welcome to all new patrons! Yesterday I shared another of my Alpha Legion models, for Thursday, Garfy tries to have a post for his completed Warcry Bloodhunt box set, but he's quite busy. Fingers crossed he'll makes it, otherwise, we'll have it next week.
For the weekend, there'll be...
2023-03-08 23:48:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Here comes the Aspect Warrior exclusive for March: an updated & expanded version of my "grimdark" Sons of Horus tutorial. Apart from painting a MkVI Marine from start to finish, this one covers painting vehicles, caucasian skin, weapons, and lots of additional details like muzzle burn, the bu...
2023-03-07 09:57:44 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I'm painting the remaining two Kill Team Moroch pieces. I catched a cold, but I'm soldiering on. Just a few drybrushes and then some pigment weathering left to do!
Btw I'm putting the last finishing touches to this month's Patreon exclusive, the expanded & updated Sons of Horu...
2023-03-04 16:18:55 +0000 UTC View Post
So for this week we've only planned two posts as I'm busy working on the Speedpaint 2.0 review, Tom shared his Alpha Legions today (https://taleofpainters.com/2023/03/showcase-alpha-legion-...
2023-03-01 20:57:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hope you're doing good! Last couple of days I've been experimenting with Speedpaints 2.0 and also found the time to complete my unit of Fell Bats. Next up are the remaining two buildings from Kill Team Moroch, which I will record for a future tutorial :)
2023-02-27 20:33:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday we had a showcase post for Tom's Cadian 122nd Shock Trooper, tomorrow there'll be a post for Garfy's Flamers of Tzeentch, and for the weekend, there is a secret GW review planned.
I also started work on next month's Patreon exclusive, which will be a masterclass tutorial for my So...
2023-02-22 20:36:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to all new patrons, hope you're doing good :) I'm still working on my flock of Fell Bats, not much left to do now, just need to finish the edge highlight on the black areas, paint the eyes and do some refinement here and there. I also sprayed the remaining Moroch terrain, so these will be...
2023-02-20 23:43:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, just finished editing my new video. You can watch it early exclusively on Patreon, before I'll publish it on Saturday. Enjoy :)
2023-02-16 08:59:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday we shared a neat Genestealer Cults Nexos by Tom, and for tomorrow, Garfy has put together a showcase post of his Askurgan Trueblades from Warcry.
I'm happy to say that I pretty much finished my next YouTube video, which I'll publish on Saturday, but you will be watch it earlier he...
2023-02-15 20:36:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hope all is well! Last week I started work on the Fell Bats, quite fun to paint actually, different to what I usually paint. I want to keep them fairly black, with only a few subtle shades of grey, so I started by drybrushing them with Dark Reaper, Thunderhawk Blue and Warpaints Uniform Grey. Now...
2023-02-13 23:37:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Tale of Painters is finally back up and running. It seemed we outgrow our old server, which resulted in downtime and slow loading times. Over the last weekend, I had to download a backup (about 8 GB, over 12 years of content!) and reinstall it on a new server. After a few mishaps along the way I'...
2023-02-08 09:07:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Taleofpainters.com is finally back online since we broke our old server last week. The new webspace much faster and reliable, so at least it was good for something!
Anyways, here comes part II of my Ultimate Miniature Painting Guide, updated & expanded to cover Formula ...
2023-02-06 20:41:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Since my Sons of Horus Praetor is pretty much finished, I spent this week assembling a few new models. I built the remaining two buildings from my Kill Team: Moroch box, two more Death Korps test model to experiment for my Veteran Guardsmen Kill Team, and also a flock of Fell Bats. I noticed I ha...
2023-02-04 15:08:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This month I have been working hard to revise and improve my "ultimate" miniature paints guide. It contains my accumulated knowledge of over 1000 tested paints from all brands and will help you find the best paints for your painting style and avoid poor-quality paints.
Part 1 is alr...
2023-02-03 20:45:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Today Garfy shared his Tzeentch Fluxmaster, postponed from last week, go check it out. Unfortunately, taleofpainters.com has some hiccups today, hope the server is back to normal soon :/
Tomorrow, I have a review of Redgrass Creative's new Everlasting Wet Palette 2, and for the weekend, I p...
2023-02-01 19:34:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeah, the Praetor is almost done! Just need to do the final assembly and fix a few spots, then he's good to go! Next up will probably the remaining Moroch terrain :)
2023-01-29 23:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday, Garfy shared his Jade Obelisk warband (postponed from last week), with a couple of useful painting guides as well. For tomorrow, I planned a (semi-)exclusive look at wave 2 from Duncan Rhode's Two Thin Coats Kickstarter. Along with my new Game Color metallics, I'm really fond of this p...
2023-01-25 13:35:35 +0000 UTC View Post
A welcome to all new patrons! I'm making some good progress on my Praetor. I just love this model, and it's so much fun to paint! Hope to finish him next week :)
2023-01-22 15:37:26 +0000 UTC View Post
A warm welcome to all new patrons, thank you for your support! So for this week we have Tom, who posted his Alpha Legion Vigilator, and for Thursday, Garfy will share more of his Sundered Fate box set. I'm preparing a secret review for Saturday, so stay tuned for that.
I also started work o...
2023-01-17 23:19:37 +0000 UTC View Post
So the Tactical Support Squad for my Sons of Horus is almost complete, just need to roughen up the decals and add some pigments to the base. Hope to finish them tomorrow.
I also made a start on my Praetor. I assembled this model ages ago, and now I finally started painting :) Such a great s...
2023-01-14 11:02:56 +0000 UTC View Post