Bb Miniatures

Golden Daemon Update - Ivory refined

Im back with a little update following the last session and anaylsis of the Off-White armour of the White Scars Dreadnought. Adjusting the values to more mimic the sample of the pottery and photoshop mock-up I made. Having that open while figuring out the values on the carapace was essential to avoid running into the problem of creating too much bright value. Starting off with 4-5 very thin glazes of the brighter #5 value which is the off step from Ivory, just to tone things down. Then its ba...

Flesh-Eater Courts Vampire Update

Hey everyone, this past week I was sent the new Flesh Eater Courts army box and what arrived was a really surprising line-up of new undead ghouls, vampires, and bat-like cavalry which would turn even the bravest of the old world running for the hills (fear checks plenty!) I was excited in particular of the new Winged Vampire as he's truly a stunning piece with wonderful anatomy to paint. So much in fact that I just had a drop everyone I was painting to give him a couple of days under my brush...

Troggoth King - Monsters Skin pt.1

This tutorial covers the painting of the new Troggoth King minature from Games Workshop. A new multi part model series tutorial starting with the Trolls Skin.

Paint List:

Rhinox Hide(GW), Burnt Umber(AK), Deep Forest Skin(VMC), Dark Green(AK), Red Leather(VMC), Burnt Orange(AK), Sunny Skin Tone(AK), Grimy Grey(AK), Dark Sea Blue(AK).

Chapters:

0:17 Introduction

7:31 Sketching the Skin

32:55 Airbrush Glazing

37:19 Brush Refinement...

Legions Imperialis! Model Review & White Scars painting guide

Games Workshop has kindly sent me a review copy of Legions Imperialis to assemble and paint. Here is my review, thoughts, and of course how you can paint them as the White Scars legion!

Paint List:

Dark Green Grey(AK), Ivory (AK), Green Sky(AK), Blood Red(AK), Old Rose(AK), Exhaust Manifold(VMC), Elven Gold(S75).

Enamel Wargame Washes AK:

Dark Green Grey, Blue Grey, Green, Dark Brown Rust

Uhaan Solban - The road to GD.

A couple of months back I previewed my entry build for Golden Daemon with this White Scars Dreadnought positioned in a sitting meditation pose. Now it's time to get in gear and start painting it! This will follow my scheme of the ivory white, set over a heavily green tint as many of you are quite familiar with it right now. With the airbrush sketch set, I've now started to paint over it with the brush and take those colours towards refinement. 

Painting white is honestly always a b...

Legions Imperialis Update - From the Desk

For miniatures that are so small, they sure do take a lot of extra fine cuts of editing to get it right. What I'll have coming in next week's video is about getting my Vth legion White Scars down to 8mm. I share the recipe for getting these little sons of the great Khan looking their best, but also my notes on tackling an army project like this. From the working process, details to include and exclude when painting for the tabletop, making basing material that fits best to this scale and more...

Troggoth King is underway

I'm back From the Desk and what I can show you is the emergence of the new Troggoth King is underway as I start on his skin. Blocking in the brown and green bold areas with the airbrush to get some tones on the model, and then is straight to the brush. Painting large monster flesh is quite fun and filled with a lot of larger brush strokes and scratchy marks. Curing it between unifying layers to soften things up before going right back at it with more marks and more layers to build up the valu...

Freeguild Assassin

In this week’s tutorial, we take a step back to the Cities of Sigmar with the new Freeguilds Assassin miniature. Now unlike some previous projects like Morvenn Vahl and working from reference and using Photoshop to get our palette. This process is much more of a free-flowing, sketching, and working through to exercise our creative intuition. Showing a workflow that I present to follow a looser style of painting and steadily refining, along with insight into what is driving my creative decis...

Dark Angels Deathwing Dreadnought

This tutorial covers the painting of the new Space Marine Dreadnought initially released inside the new Leviathan 40k starter set.

Paint List:
Dark Green(AK), Pastel Green(AK), Caliban Green(GW), Arabic Shadow(S75), Vamperic Flesh(AK), Rhinox Hide(GW), Exhaust Manifold(VMC), Steel(VMC), Pastel Yellow(AK), Ivory(AK), Phalo Blue/red shade(Kimera).

Chapters:

0:17 Introduction

3:37 Airbrush panels

14:14 Basing Metallics

15:41 Placing Decals

18:48 Ename...

Update!

Last week didn’t start off to the greatest foot with technical gremlins not allowing the livestream to take place, but instead a surprise shift and a great turn of projects. First off is the new Box-Nought Dread from the 40k Leviathan set. This project is a nice return to remix some classic “scale model weathering” in with my current illustrative style which is great on the tabletop! Secondly we have the Assassin character from the new AoS Freeguilds Command Corps which was sent to me b...

From the Desk - Nathaniel Garro

My latest painting of Nathaniel Garro is nothing short of a good example of recovering from several disasters in the process. Behind this painting are layers of failures both in paint and mentally which almost left me to scrap this project entirely. So much of me was tempted to bin the project, refund my client and move on. I've said in the past that it's okay for artists to fail, and if you want to get better you gotta push till failure. And with those words, this project is a good example o...

Morvenn Vahl - Post project theory and references

In this latest tutorial I thought I would give my curriculum of tutorial videos a little change and do a more narrative change in delivering a post project talk on this latest piece of Morvenn Vahl, a sister of battle miniature from Games Workshop. In here I wanted to touch base and expand on lighting and volumetric painting theory which has been a focal point in a lot of my recent works this year. As well demonstrating a workflow in how I use references such as a picture of another work to s...

Morvenn Vahl

I'm happy to present you the finished piece of Morvenn Vahl, a sister of battle character from Games Workshop 40k universe that I painted as a commission. Even more pleased is that I'll be finally diving into the rest of the Sisters of Battle range with more characters coming in the near future. As much as I love space marines, and the silhouettes they create with the iconic armour. Painting imagery of the imperium with a feminine aspect is exciting. Combining the decorative armour, curves, a...

Content update 10/18

Hey everyone I just wanted to give you guys an update for this week and of course what’s coming down the pipeline. First off this week there is no new tutorial lined up. Over the weekend I was on a lil trip to Naniamo staying for 2 nights to attend the first annual Emerald Brush painting competition held by my friend and fellow student Ian! Being a guest judge, I was honoured to see over 60+ entries from locals and travellers across the west coast. Ranging from gaming 32mm, 90mm busts, vehi...

White Scars Space Marine

This full tutorial covers the process of painting a White Scars Space Marine set in the Horus Heresy. A big thank you to Mike, Radio Free Isstvan and all their listeners for requesting a painting tutorial centred around White, this one is for you!
Paint List:

Deep Forest Skin(VMC), Dark Green Grey(AK), Faded Green(AK), Ivory(AK), Sunny Skin Tone(AK), Burnt Red(AK), Blood Red(AK), Dead Red(AK), Teneberous Grey(AK), Field Grey(S75), Dubai Brown(S75)

Greyish Green and blue-grey en...

God Light

My latest iteration of the Space Marine had me take a new direction towards painting, both in a creative head space as well as visually in this lighting scheme. First and foremost, I’ve always placed the value of self-expression and enjoyment of the painting process above all else. I believe its where my best work stems from, and my enjoyment for whatever reason gets transferred best into the pain...

Space Marine Jump Pack Captain in Dark Angels Chapter

Warhammer Official has kindly sent me a preview copy of the new Space Marine Jump Pack Captain and I just had to jump on more Dark Angels to try out something completely new! This tutorial focuses on achieving a particular lighting scheme of "God Light", and embracing creative ideas that are not the usual to a miniature for the tabletop.

Paint List: Dark Green(AK), Pastel Green(AK), Dark Angels Green Contrast(GW), Sunny Skin Tone(AK), Ivory(AK), Dark Grey(AK), Gobi Brown(SC), English Un...

How to paint: Age of Sigmar Freeguild Marshal African Skintone pt.3

Moving toward the characters face we dive into creating an African Skintone. More face painting theory that involves areas we should define, how to mix a convincing darker complexion and finding contrast in these hues.

All paints are listed with the following brackets indicating the brand.

Scale Colour from Scale75: SC

Scale Artists from Scale75: SA

AK Interactive 3rd gen: AK

Kimera Kolour: KA

Burnt Sienna (SA), White, Black, Yellow Ochre(SA), Burnt Umber(A...

Coming change of the season

While I take a mini break from painting Morvenn Vahl, I’ve been sorting out some new recipes for Dark Angels on a couple of Primaris dudes in preparation for some new models coming my way. Now painting Space Marines honestly isn’t anything entirely new, and sometimes it can feel a bit repetitive. But this does give me an excuse to test out some new colour palettes that I’ve been feeling as of ...

How to paint: Age of Sigmar Freeguild Marshal Red & Gold Cloth pt.2

Continuing the Freeguild Marshal we have in part 2 the cloth details. I cover how we can create 2 distinct types of cloth, how to balance the colours of saturation and values depending on their location. As well how we can make distinctions between the Gold NMM and the Golden Cape.

Burnt Sienna (SA), White, Black, Japanese Brown(AK), Tenere Yellow(SC), Alderbaran Red(SC),  African Shadow(SC), Pastel Green(AK).

Chapters:

0:17 Introduction

16:46 Red textu...

Full of Experiments

The majority of my week has been locked into painting this Sisters of Battle Morvenn Vahl character. When I was about to paint and set up the camera on auto-pilot, I opted to be more free and experiment with some new approaches to painting and see how I learned through the painting. I felt in the moment that this model needed a new approach and one that I’m not so familiar with. There has been a T...

How to Paint - Tyranid Lictor

This weeks tutorial we take a flip from painting power armour, bolt guns, and metal to bring you the most alien-like species of the Warhammer 40k universe, the Tyranid Lictor! Games Workshop was ever so kind as to send me a preview copy of this kit in order to paint and present you with a full miniature painting tutorial.

Being a fully organic bio-weapon, it was a great palette cleanser from the careful blending, shape creating, value controlling realm of NMM, and I could turn my brus...

A Withdraw & Return

After a bit of creative searching and sorting things through mentally, I'm back to update you all on my latest projects of the Tyranid Lictor, Sigmar Marshal, and a revised and tuned scheme to my White Scars.

Freeguild Marshal - Green & Gold Armour pt.1

Following up the finished Freeguild Marshal that Games Workshop has sent to me as a preview copy to paint. Here is the beginning tutorial series on this very character. Even with coming off of the Lion with a lot of green and gold present on that model. I wanted to take this opportunity to show you a different approach to paint in these hues. Keep in mind that we are painting much smaller surfaces, so that it requires a different set of techniques. As well as new colours to work with, buildin...

Cities of Sigmar

Games Workshop has been kind to send me a preview copy of the Cities of Sigmar army box to get creative and paint to my hearts content. Coming next week I’ll be kicking things off with the first part of painting this Freeguild Marshal. With a focus on the colour palette to help you all understand more of my thought and theory process. A new approach to help illustrate our lighting. Painting the yellow cape that doesn’t drive you insane. How I approached and painted his black skin. As well...

Something stirs in the shadows

Some new surprise tutorials are upon us coming soon! Games Workshop has been kind to send me a wholesome care package of pre-release goodies that have come just in time to give me a little creative break from painting Power Armour. These will be coming soon and are both featured in the 40k universe and the Mortal Realms! This does throw a bit of a wrench in the release dates of the White Scars revised tutorials, but please be patient as they are coming. Like a patient storm, it will arrive wh...

How to Paint Lion El Jonson Dark Angels the Sword pt.5

The 5th and FINAL tutorial of Lion El Jonson. How to paint his sword! It's an amazing feeling to wrap this project up, both on the painting desk as well as the video edit. I'm amazed at the reception of this model and what it has brought me creatively. I hope you enjoy this one and have lots of take aways to learn from in its process.

All paints are listed with the following brackets indicating the brand.

Scale Colour from Scale75: SC

Scale Artists from Scale75: SA

AK ...

The Ordu rides swiftly!

My latest 6 bikes to come off the painting desk & have been dispatched to a man worthy of the great Khan! Passion for the White Scars continues and even for myself the process is always a one of love and madness mixed in. Painting white is always a daunting task and just the challenge on keeping them clean through the process is difficult. Wear clean latex gloves while handling them on the desk and make sure that water cup is well away so no little splashes come into contact with them. In...

Lion El Jonson - Face of the First Son pt.4

In Part 4 we take on the Face of Lion El Jonson himself. How to paint skin with soft features and unify it with the rest of the model.

All paints are listed with the following brackets indicating the brand.

Scale Colour from Scale75: SC

Scale Artists from Scale75: SA

AK Interactive 3rd gen: AK

Kimera Kolour: KA

Red Ochre, Golden Flesh, Light Skin, Moss Green (SA)

Caucasian Skin (kimera)

Chapters:

0:17 Introduction

Lion El Jonson is Complete!

With him finished, I can invite you over to my gallery to view all the various angles I was able to capture with my camera. I hope you all have enjoyed the process and more importantly, looking forward in anticipation to the remaining tutorials which are coming in the weeks ahead! Fear not, there is still the face of the Lion, as well as his sword coming to Patreon!