

Painting a Burrows and Badgers Routier Bulldog
Some of you will have read the first series of Batreps I made for the BaB Premier League featuring four crews, Pirate Rogues, Highlands Hillfolk, Freebeasts and Royalists. If you haven't, the first in the series can be found here ... https://www.firstcommissionpainting.co.uk/single-post/burrows-and-badgers-npl-game-1-royalists-v-hillfolk-tis-the-soldier-s-life-to-have-their-balmy-s and the others follow it. However I also decided that I would do exactly the same but with a
Nov 14, 2025


Star Wars Legion - Crashed X wing part 1
This crashed X wing does not belong to me but is one of the benefits of commission painting that such things as I would be unlikely to...
Jul 13, 2025


Legion Dewback - fast as poss paint...
Another in the series on 'painting stuff as fast as possible but to a good standard' but this time with a bit of a difference as these...
Jun 28, 2025


Frostgrave. "Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful"
Having recently been introduced to Frostgrave using an ad hoc crew I decided that before I played a proper campaign I would print and...
Jun 2, 2025


Beyond Light Speed painting - Imperials II
Following Part I which dealt with black armoured Imperials https://www.firstcommissionpainting.co.uk/blog-old this blog covers their...
Apr 12, 2025


Star Wars Legions painted at light speed* - The Dark Side.
As a commission painter time is literally money, well not literally but painting stuff reasonably quickly to a decent standard is...
Mar 30, 2025


Rogues, rapscallions and er...rabbits
As a commission painter I get a limited amount of time to paint my own minis so I have developed a method which speeds up the process...
Mar 2, 2025


Mycenean Tower Shields - speedy painting
Ever since seeing Peter Conelly's illustrations of Ancient Myceneans in his book 'The Greek Armies' published way back in 1977 they have...
Sep 24, 2024


Contrasting fortunes - Speedy Haqq...
This blog is a quick demo of my current technique for painting my own miniatures as quicly as possible to a standard I find acceptable...
Aug 3, 2024


The Tufty Club - making tufts for basing
If you are old enough to know what the original Tufty Club was congratulations for still being here with me! If you are not or reading...
Jul 13, 2024