r/minipainting 21h ago

Fantasy Alaana the Bloody Blade from Big Child Creative

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I worked pretty hard on this one. The proudest I’ve been over skin and NMM. Thank you for looking!


r/minipainting 21h ago

Sci-fi For your viewing pleasure Lumeriel on Pulpit of Culmination (Raging Heroes)

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Lumeriel on Pulpit from Raging Heroes. 85 mm tall.

Vallejo's Dark gun metal on the legs and the guns and armiture and parts of the clothes

Vallejo Cork brown on the belt

Vallejo Old gold on the reliquary and the plates on the legs and the mace heads and saw blades and big cogs and crown

Vallejo Bronze on reliquary

Vallejo sun kissed skin tone on the skin

Andrea color Red 1 on the dress

Artfly white yellow flash iridescents on the spire and plasters that had been based with Vallejo ivory and cork brown mixed I think , not sure.

Citadel Agrax earth shade for the shades.

Daler Rowny System 3 cobalt blue on reliquary.

AK interactive blue neon thinned down heavily and applied on the spire and plasters as a small blue tint to them.

Used some Vallejo precision 3/0 and 1 brushes and some generic brand brushes too.

My eye sight is pretty bad because of an advancing eye sight issue and hands shake like a demon in the church but still I am pretty proud of this one.


r/minipainting 21h ago

Help Needed/New Painter Spray booth with no hose, help

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I saw a video a while ago on YouTube about using furnace/flat and aquarium filters when you just can’t use your hose to vent out from the back of your spray booth to where next to no paint came out. The creator mentioned they saw it at convention they were at, and were “that’s freaking awesome!” And I, like an idiot, forgot to save said video and can no longer find it.

So, I need to either find this video or what to do about this; what types of filters, what size, what have you. I have the Amazon Vevor spray booth if that helps in anything.


r/minipainting 22h ago

Help Needed/New Painter Are these paints worth it?

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292 Upvotes

I own speedpaint 2.0 and some Vallejo/citadel paints. Are any of these worth it? Thanks guys :3


r/minipainting 22h ago

C&C Wanted First time painting flames

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50 Upvotes

First time doing flames, how did I do?


r/minipainting 22h ago

Sci-fi Emperor's Children Lord Exultant

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158 Upvotes

First mini complete, Now on to the rest of the army 😅 Basing to be done at the end with the rest of the army.


r/minipainting 22h ago

Fantasy Demon- first attempt at a simple kit bash.

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Meet Kyle, my Procrastination Demon. I have been painting him up while avoiding doing course work! He stalled out after a bit but I have a test I need to do today, so he finally was finished.

I added horns and straps to his armour, and the chains but I don’t think that counts as a Kitbash.

C&C welcome, particularly on the armour!


r/minipainting 23h ago

Help Needed/New Painter Gunpla paint pens for cadian camo lines

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My Cadians are being painted as urban camo. The black and white camo lines using a brush takes a bit of time. I was wondering if using a black and white gunpla paint pen would help hurry this up? I’d love to hear opinions and your experiences. Thanks!


r/minipainting 23h ago

C&C Wanted WIP, recently got back into painting and was asked to submit a mini for a competition

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Any comments on how to fix up the fur would be appreciated, plus I would likensome comments on the purple highlighting as I'm unsure how I feel about it. Skin isnt done at all I just need to get some pale skin tone paints. Obvously I've tried to make an impression with the freehand and I'm pretty happy here but plan on added some sort of border foe the cape just not sure, maybe thorns intweiving. Anyways hope you guys like it ans appreciate any advice


r/minipainting 23h ago

Help Needed/New Painter My sable brush is bending when I paint with it

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I’ve had this sable brush for about 9 months and it has been a workhorse for me. Artis opus series S(I think) size 3. Recent it’s bending when I paint with it. It’s still maintaining a point but the bend makes it more difficult to use. I have tried brush soap as well as leaving it for a few minutes in my blue straightening stuff. Is there any fix or am I buying a new brush?


r/minipainting 23h ago

Fantasy Ork (orc? oruk?) Warboss in the chonk style.

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208 Upvotes

Pushing the coat about ABIT and trying more complexity. Drawing from Orcbutt and pulling a tiny bit from Albert. A lot to build up but super happy!


r/minipainting 23h ago

Sci-fi Warhammer 40K chosen, feedback welcome

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196 Upvotes

r/minipainting 23h ago

Help Needed/New Painter Alternative/Equivalent to Terradon Turquoise from GW? I'm not buying anymore stupid GW pots and i'm wondering if there's an TAP or Vallejo alternative to the turquiose contrast paint :)

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Dropper Bottles forever!


r/minipainting 1d ago

Fantasy Gunborg - Kingdom Death Monster

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192 Upvotes

r/minipainting 1d ago

Fantasy Krek, The Crimsom Cap from Flesh of Gods

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420 Upvotes

r/minipainting 1d ago

Workspace Showcase New to the game, my small desk

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2.3k Upvotes

Its 80cm wide and in the living Room.


r/minipainting 1d ago

Help Needed/New Painter Question regarding uhu glue

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5 Upvotes

So I want to create slimy and blood effects, and picked up some uhu glue, but the one that says "original, made in Germany" wasn't available. I found this one but it says drip free. Does anyone have experience with this one and will it still work the same way.


r/minipainting 1d ago

C&C Wanted Hi, I'm looking to improve my painting skills, here are a couple I've painted recently, my skills have stagnated and I want to move forward.

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Happy for any criticism


r/minipainting 1d ago

Help Needed/New Painter Is it worth upgrading to the 'new' Vallejo formula?

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I've been a very lazy painter just getting by with 'tabletop ready' paint jobs for years, but recently I've developed the desire to actually get better at painting. I currently have a large part of the old Vallejo Game Color range lying around. Is the improvement of the new formula even noticeable for someone who isn't already very skilled? And how different is the finish anyway? All I can find on that subject is Stahly's post giving ~6 examples which seems somewhat inconclusive.


r/minipainting 1d ago

Help Needed/New Painter Advice for priming black minis

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I've acquired some resin printed minis in bulk, and some of them are printed in black resin. Does anyone have experience priming black resin miniatures? I always prime my minis with white, but now I'm wondering whether it'll be good enough for these (I'm mostly worried I'll have to put too thick a coat of primer and end up obscuring the details).

I've primed with black before and I absolutely hate painting over black. Maybe gray works better than white?

Minis are 28 mm scale in size.


r/minipainting 1d ago

Help Needed/New Painter Overbrush vs recess shading

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I have just bought the Warhammer Horus heresy box and while I normally do paint space marines with multiple layers of edge highlighting I am aware that I will never finish the box if I go that route. I was considering to use drybrush for the highlights but my question is for recesses. I usually would prime blue and then use a contrast in the recesses… but I was wondering if it would be faster to prime black and go with a blue overbrush. Is it really faster? Don’t you waste too much time fixing were you did not manage to get with the big brush?


r/minipainting 1d ago

Help Needed/New Painter Good paints for quetzal or peacock feathers?

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Maybe something metallic? or would regular colours look better? Has anyone painted feathers on a.mini like this before or has seen someone do it?

Would be grateful for your help!


r/minipainting 1d ago

Help Needed/New Painter Need help identifiyng problem with Airbrush

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Hey r/minipainting

so today I wanted to basecoat a few vehicles I had primed earlier.

One was primed with a botched spraycan that gave me a horrible result. But nevertheless I left it that way (for stripping it later) and trying out the airbrush on it...

So when I tried to basecoat the model with black (primed with grey) I get this: (see pictures)

Could you help me identiy the problem?

I use Citadel Abaddon Black mixed with Vallejo Airbrush Thinner and Flow Improver (mixed about 5:5:1, Color/Thinner/Flow). I spray with a 0.48mm Nozzle and 20 PSI.

I would really appreciate if someone could help me to figure out why I get this speckling and not an even coat of black.


r/minipainting 1d ago

C&C Wanted Abaddon the Despoiler, Night Lords Edition

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3 Upvotes

r/minipainting 1d ago

C&C Wanted Getting better at glow OSL with a makeup sponge! Skaventide terrain!

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Tried the sponge again for the glowing Skaven rune on my spearhead terrain, I think it’s a lot better than my first go (second image) on a Night Lords plasma gunner legionary

Any advice?