Stahly (Tale of Painters)

Game Color review is up!

Finally, my review of the new Game Color range is up! This is longest video review I've ever done, and I've worked over a month on it. This video nearly broke me, and with all the filming, experimenting, and editing, I estimate it took more than 25 hours to produce... anyways, hope you enjoy it ;)

Tomorrow evening I'll ...

Weekly update

Happy new year! Traditionally Garfy and I share our recaps of the past year with a showcase post of all the models we painted. Yesterday I shared my recap, and I also talk about what made last year so special for me and the overwhelming support from the hobby company, and, of course your patrons! So grateful, without you I wo...

Happy new year!

I spent the festive days over at my parents place, but I brought my Tactical Support Squad with me and made some good progress. As you can see, I wasn't able to finish them in 2022, but most of the work is done now, just need to fill in a few details. Hope you have a great 2023 and thank you so much for your support!!!

Weekly update

I hope you all enjoyed a few festive days with your loved ones, and if not, my thoughts go out to you! I stayed a few days at my parents and played lots of board games with my siblings, but now I'm back for some end of the year hobbying :)

This week, Garfy shared his painted Ghoul King, the new limited edition Boxing da...

Next up: Tactical Support Squad

So, I finished all the fences from Kill Team: Moroch and thus completed the first half of the terrain in the box, but before I paint the other half, I'm gonna slot in a quick Tactical Support Squad for my Sons of Horus. Can't wait to paint these, just love the new Mk6 models. I wonder if I can finish the squad by the end of t...

Weekly update

It's Christmas soon, which means there are no new releases from Games Workshop right now, so we're taking it easy and working our way through our backlog.

Garfy will be sharing the final units of his Leagues of Votann army with you over the festive period as he finishes painting his Sundered Fate set, and then there's a...

Review: New Vallejo Game Color range (sneak peek)

As I wrote in my last post, I'll postpone my Game Color review until next year. It'd probably be better for the YouTube algorithm to finish the video this week, but it's just too stressful and Vallejo is having supply problems anyway, so they aren't really available except for a few outlets in Spain.

But since the scrip...

Weekly update

This week we've scheduled two posts, Garfy shared a few pictures and guides for his amazing Great Unclean One. Fantastic model, fantastic paint job, fantastic photography. And for the weekend, I planned a secret Christmas themed review.

On other ends, I'm still working on my review of the new Vallejo Game Color range (s...

Kill Zone Moroch painting

So, I finally finished the three Alpha Legion models for my Kill Team, and decided to take a break from them before I paint the final two models, and get some terrain done. Here is the landing pad from the Kill Team: Moroch box set, was quite fun to paint. Just a zenithal primer, drybrushing and pigments, so relaxing! Hope to...

Weekly update

With a delay comes this week's update. Garfy is busy working on his copy of Sundered Fate, while I started preparations on my next paint range review, which will be the new Vallejo Game Color range. 

Reviewing the third paint range in a video format in a row is quite intense. As a rule of thumb, 1 minute of finishe...

Ultimate Sprue Cutter & Nippers guide V1.0

This month's Patreon freebie is a roundup of 8 pairs of hobby nippers from cheap to high end, including Citadel's new Fine Detail Cutters. Make sure to check it out, you would be amazed how much difference a high quality pair of nippers can make.

Next month's freebie will be a tutorial for painting my Alpha Legion Kill ...

High-res Vallejo Xpress Color swatch

Today my review of the Vallejo's Xpress Color range goes online, so I thought it would be nice to share the hand-painted comparison sheet in its original higher resolution with you :)

4% off everything at our partner Taschengelddieb

I'm pleased to announce that our partner Taschengelddieb from Germany is offering a 4% discount code exclusively for Tale of Painters Patreon supporters!

The code will change every month, so I will update this post accordingly. Send me a message if the code doesn't work or the post hasn't been updated yet.

The cod...

Weekly update

Another busy week on Tale of Painters. Yesterday I posted my Sons of Horus Contemptor Dreadnought, tomorrow, Garfy will share some more models of his Leagues of Votann collection. 

In the meantime, I'm working hard on my video review for Vallejo's Xpress Colors, and hope to have it edited by the weekend :)

Fo...

Painting update

I realised I haven't posted a painting update for a while. I'm super busy with testing and reviewing all these new paint ranges (Two Thin Coats, Vallejo Xpress & Game Color), so my painting is quite slow, PLUS those Chaos Space Marine models are massive time sinks. They'll make for a nice tutorial though ;)

So yeah,...

Weekly update

This week is all about the Cadians. I painted one of the new models for a tutorial which I will share on Tale of Painters on Sunday, a PDF version will be exclusively available to Aspect Warrior & above tiers tomorrow :)

There will also be coming something for Warcry on Saturday, and since I've finished my review of...

Two Thin Coats comparison sheet high-res version

My Two Thin Coats review goes live today, and as a little Patreon bonus, you can download the uncompressed high-res version here from the attachments. Enjoy! :)

Weekly Update

First, a warm welcome to all new patrons, great to have you here!

This week we have a fantastic showcase and painting guide for the new Goff Rocker Christmas model, and for the weekend, I hope to finish my Two Thin Coats review in time. The video will be over 13 minutes long, it's a very labour-intensive video, as I fea...

Cadian tutorial model & Two Thin Coats

Hobby-wise, I took a break from painting my Chaos Space Marine Kill Team this week, and painted one of the new Cadian Shock Troopers for an upcoming tutorial.

By now, I also received my set of Two Thin Coats paints from Duncan Rhodes, and in fact, while I used Model Color & Citadel for the armour and fatigues, I pai...

Weekly update

Yesterday Garfy shared more of his Leagues of Votann models, the post includes also a handy size comparison of both Votann vehicles with a few other models and tanks. Later this week I'm going to share photos of my Raven Guard Kill Team, and for the weekend I've planned a review I'm not able to talk about yet... it might feat...

Painting Alpha Legion

Last couple of days I've been working on a batch of Alpha Legion CSM for my Traitor Legionaries Kill Team. The new Chaos Marine models are sooo detailed, they really take a while. About midway through, hope to finish them by the end of next week. I'm photographing every step for a tutorial, I guess it might become a Patreon e...

How to paint grimdark Raven Guard (masterclass tutorial)

This is November's Aspect Warrior exclusive goodie, a detailed 17-page PDF tutorial for painting my Raven Guard Primaris Infiltrator Kill Team. Perfect for Raven Guard of all eras, be it Heresy, classic Firstborn, or Primaris! Hope you like it. Any questions, or found a mistake/something unclear? Please leave a comment below!...

Weekly update

The posting frequency is speeding up, as Garfy finished painting his Leagues of Votann models for now, so expect a lot of showcase posts over the next couple weeks! 

Me, I'm pretty busy preparing the next couple reviews and videos. Duncan Rhode's Two Thin Coat paints have arrived, and I already gave them a try. Ver...

Polaris Con, cosplay & painting

This week I haven't had much time for painting, I made a start on a batch of three Alpha Legion models for my Traitor Astartes Kill Team, but as you can see, they are in a pretty early stage. That's mainly because I was attending the Polaris Convention in Hamburg, Germany, this weekend. It was mainly a gaming and anime con, b...

Weekly update

Last weekend we had a content EXPLOSION with a quick review of Chronicle Cards' Kickstarter brushes, my Underworlds: Gnarlwood review plus my Greedy Gold Colour Primer video review. Phew!

This week will be a bit more quiet as I started work on reviewing the new Xpress Colors from Vallejo, Duncan Rhode's Two Thin Coats p...

Watch my new video early!

Hey guys, you can watch my new video early, it's a review of The Army Painter's new Greedy Gold Colour Primer of which I'm quite fond of. I finished editing just a couple of minutes before, and I guess it will go live for all on Sunday. Enjoy!

Weekly ToP update

Hey guys, we're still on a slower 2 posts per week schedule, but behind the scenes, I'm preparing a lot of content, so the pace will pick up soon!

I'm just working on a new video review for the Army Painter's Greedy Gold primer, which is pretty good, should be out this weekend, I'll try to post it a bit earlier here on ...

Contemptor Painting

How are you doing? I made some good progress on my Sons of Horus Contemptor Dreadnough, really nice model to paint.

I'm still waiting for some shipments from GW, with have been stuck in customs. I wanted to prepare an in-depth review for the new Citadel tools for today, but I guess you have to wait a bit longer for that...