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Sanguinary Guard Power Sword

Sanguinary Guard Power Sword

So Here is Part one of the in depth videos of my Sanguinary Guard. In this guide I'll show you how to get a very high end result in a very short ammount of time with smooth gradients and a great crackling energy effect. Let me know what you think!

Stay tuned for the next parts as I finish editing them!

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Update #2

Update #2

Hey everyone! Currently working on the PDF and a series of videos for these two. I will upload them one by one as they are finished.
The goal was to try a few new metallics, as you probably saw in the Youtube video, but I also wanted to streamline my skintones/faces workflow. Let me know which Elements you would like to see first in a video ...

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Necron OSL Scheme

Quick reminder that there is a full video available on this patreon about how I painted this effective necron scheme that looks awesome both on diaplay pieces and armies!

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Developing a Mandrake Color Scheme!

Developing a Mandrake Color Scheme!

I really like the feeling of the new sculpts - the cloak change was weird, but I like the sharp angles and contrasts they allow. Tried something different with the sickle. Maybe everything needs more blood?

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Tuesday Update 1

Tuesday Update 1

Happy Tuesday!

Here is a little update about what I have been working on last week! Most of my time went into painting this Mandrake, some of you saw me do parts of it on the livestream. It's done in the pictures already except for the base and I am working on the video guide that will release here soon! Next up I will probably work on so...

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Saurus Warrior Full Painting Guide

Saurus Warrior Full Painting Guide

A lot of you were asking for a full guide including colors, so here we are! Some were also asking for how I did the base - which is already explained in the "Overgrown Ruins" Video.

Thanks a lot for your support and I hope you enjoy the video!

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Quick Necron OSL Scheme

Quick Necron OSL Scheme

This is part of a series of tutorials I want to do that focus more on schemes that take less or about an hour and focus more on effects and/or schemes that can be done effectively and won't even be too difficult to pull off in an army painting context. Please let me know if you like this concept! Thanks a lot for your Support!

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Overgrown Bases

Overgrown Bases

A Lot of people requested a video for how I did the base on my Saurus Warrior in the Techniques youtube video - unfortunately I didn't film that part, so I made a new video, using the same process and materials! Hope it's helpful!

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Deathwing Knight Full Video Guide

Deathwing Knight Full Video Guide

Full Guide for the Deathwing Knight! Check the description of the video for chapters if you are looking for painting advice on a particular part!

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3rd Edition Tyranids - Taking inspiration from 2D art

3rd Edition Tyranids - Taking inspiration from 2D art

Here's a video about my take on a 3rd edition Hive Fleet Behemot scheme. II'll explain my reasoning for how to pick colors and I'll walk you through all of the process of creating and painting this scheme from start to finish!

Let me kknow if you have any questions and I hope you'll enjoy it!

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Final Version of the Neuroloid Painting Guide!

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Neuroloid Video Guide

Neuroloid Video Guide

Full video guide for this little experiment is live now! I will add chapters tomorrow for better browsability, but I wanted to get the video out to you.

This was a lot of fun to do and a perfect mini to get back into painting and creating guides. Talking a lot about the principles of OSL in this video, as well as a bit of composition.&nbs...

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Neuroloid Painting Guide PDF

Neuroloid Painting Guide PDF

Hello Pigment Pushers!

I have been switching things around with how I record content to be able to do regular PDFs again. While this one is not done with the new process, which uses dedicated 4K pictures for better quality exclusively, it is still captured from 4K video, which is only a small downgrade. 

I am still dealing with...

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Dark Angels Bladeguard Part 2

Dark Angels Bladeguard Part 2

Here is the second part of the Deathwing inspired Bladeguard - Going into detail on the heraldry parts and the metals especially. It also includes the detailed instructions for how I did the Bolter and a relatively quick, pale face!

If you have any questions or requests, let me know!

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Grimdark Dark Angels Deathwing-style Bladeguard Part 1

Grimdark Dark Angels Deathwing-style Bladeguard Part 1

A lot of new faces due to the newest Youtube video, so first of all welcome and thanks a lot for the support! Don'T forget to join the discord at: https://discord.gg/e9Jpmw8nWQ if you haven't yet!  Apologies for the delay in upload of this bonus material, the kid has been...

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NMM Gold and Steel Elements

NMM Gold and Steel Elements

Finishing up the Metal Parts on my Mister of Battle - working on two different looks for steel and showing my new way to paint warm NMM gold!

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Super quick and awesome looking red highlights!

Super quick and awesome looking red highlights!

Quick way to paint red - tackling the problems of how to shade red and how to create highlights that don't look too pink or too orange!

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Painting a characterful Face & long, blackish hair

Painting a characterful Face & long, blackish hair

Painting the face of my Mister of Battle, focusing on saturation, luminousity and how to do a beard-shadow.

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Painting a Creme colored Armor & Black Corsett

Painting a Creme colored Armor & Black Corsett

Working on the main part of this kitbash, the armor - I always wanted to find a nice beige/creme armor that can be applied to a lot of different miniatures: sisters, stormcast, eldar, even marines.

Also painting a rich and deep blackish Corsett and talking a bit about how to tie paintjobs together by limiting your palette.

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Votann Ambient Light Version (Video)

Votann Ambient Light Version (Video)

In this version of the mini I wanted to dive deeper into something that gets requested a lot which is more extreme light situations and directional light. I added the artwork that inspired me with my original color choice - I deviated quite a bit while I was working on it, but I wanted to show you an example for how you can use  artworks as...

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Votann - Trans-Hyperian Alliance Scheme

Votann - Trans-Hyperian Alliance Scheme


This is a start to finish Tutorial for the paintjob shown in the picture. Whenever I can I will post complete videos instead of parts and I will add chapters to the video through the timeline for better browsability, so you can see what is in the video and skip ahead, if you don't want to watch any part or want to rewatch parts.

Here ...

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TEXTURE ONLY Ork (Video)

TEXTURE ONLY Ork (Video)



Painting this ork will be part of a couple of videos on techniques – so, here we are obviously focusing on texture and all the ways we can achieve texture and what it's strenghts and weaknesses are. And speaking of weaknesses another thing I hope this video series is going to illustrate is the point I am always making that you should n...

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Eldritch Omens CSM Part 3 - Face and internal OSL

Eldritch Omens CSM Part 3 - Face and internal OSL

video link: https://youtu.be/bizjoUu9nx0

Painting some otherworldly, cold skincolor and adding OSL from within the armor reflecting on it. Also talking about what happens when we have two lightsources hit the same object at the end of the video. 

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Eldritch Omens CSM Part 2: The Gold Trims

Eldritch Omens CSM Part 2: The Gold Trims

Showing how the gold evolved from an innitial idea to another, talking about general ideas, color choices and more for gold NMM!

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Eldritch Omens CSM Part 1: Armor

Eldritch Omens CSM Part 1: Armor

Painting Armor Patterns in a cold blue/black Pattern! Talking about where to place highlights, how luminosity works on miniatures and showing a couple of ways to blend together colors even when beginning with a more sketching style approach.

There will be some follow up videos to this, I want to finish editing the gold NMM trim by tomorrow...

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Sculpting FUR and HAIR for conversions!

Sculpting FUR and HAIR for conversions!

This has been requested for a while; Going into how I sculpt fur and showing 2 alternatives to my process. Also showing how to do long, flowing hair and I also worked on the giant belt buckle - so, complete package for all Space Wolf converters!

YOUTUBE Link: https://youtu.b...

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Placing Highlights - The Importance of Midtones!

Placing Highlights - The Importance of Midtones!

New Video up! In this one I talk about why it is important to place your midtones properly before you go on with placing highlights. This is one of the biggest obstacles in a painters journey and a crucial point to understand my painting process - I hope this clears up a few misconceptions! As always, let me know if you have any questions and do...

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HOW TO BLEND EVERYTHING

HOW TO BLEND EVERYTHING

This Video took a while to do, sorry you had to wait for it for a while and thanks a lot for your trust and continued support. I wanted to make this video as in depth and understandable as possible and it did go through a couple of ierations, that's why I couldn't work on a lot of other content, but the videos will be more regular now again.

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Small Update!

I am really sorry, but all content (Youtube, Patreon) is delayed by about a week. Came home from hollidays under the weather, sick the next day and still couldn't quite shake it yet. I also had to do my taxes this week  and we had workers here that damaged some of our bath-tiles, which they didn't want to fix and was a pain to get sorted. W...

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Ulfenwatch - Clothes!

Ulfenwatch - Clothes!

Creating a worn look and playing with saturation/desaturation and discoloration as well as texture!

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/6MjqvJ5Dxsc

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