While about 2/3rds of my CIS army is 3d printed due to my entering the game just at the point when everything was out of stock before the new edition this model is newly acquired and built. This was not a joyous process for me as while the parts fit and instructions were really good, 105 pieces was about 100 pieces more than what I like to put together. I do not enjoy the build process at all and this was too much. I will not be assembling another one. However that aside onc

Recently I have been handed 7 BB teams to paint up for a regular customer who has become a BB player and after painting the first - Beastmen - I thought I might do a couple of painting guides on some of the rest. First up is Khemri. As usual I primed dark but this time mixed some dark brown primer with the black so it would not be quite as cold black a basefor the shadows. Then straight to the airbrush to spray in the bones. These were done in desert yellow, dark sand and the

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

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...

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...

Having recently been introduced to Frostgrave using an ad hoc crew I decided that before I played a proper campaign I would print and...

Following Part I which dealt with black armoured Imperials https://www.firstcommissionpainting.co.uk/blog-old this blog covers their...

As a commission painter time is literally money, well not literally but painting stuff reasonably quickly to a decent standard is...

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...

Ever since seeing Peter Conelly's illustrations of Ancient Myceneans in his book 'The Greek Armies' published way back in 1977 they have...