Painting Tutorials on YouTube

What I always liked the most about the White Dwarf and smilar hobby magazines were the various painting tutorials. But I don't really want to pay 7 EUR per month for Games Workshop's ad zine (I hope this is going to change with the WD revamp) for some beginner tutorials and instructions on how to use GW's hobby tools. Other magazines like the German Tabletop Insider are published two times, maybe three times a year and most tutorials on the internet lack the quality of their printed counterparts. In a nutshell: I love painting and hobby tutorials, I want quality and I want it for free.

After some research I found some outstanding tutorials on miniature painting on YouTube. I want to introduce two dedicated tutorial channels with some of their best video tutorials.


Lester Bursley from AwesomePaintJob.com

Lester Bursley has literally dozens of tutorials on painting various Space Marine chapter colours. In his YouTube channel he also gives advice about handling airbrush tools which I find very useful. Watch this awesome video on how to paint Blood Ravens Space Marines.

BuyPainted

BuyPainted is the other YouTube channel focusing on tutorials. What I like about those tutorials is, that there are plenty of tutorials on painting vehicles and miniature bases. In this brand new video the guy from BuyPainted (sorry, I couldn't find his name) paints the Interrogator Chaplain from the Dark Vengeance starter box.

I've spent hours over hours watching those tutorials (a few of them even twice) and can't wait to get my hands on an airbrush pistol myself now! Have fun with the videos!

Resumé time... and some TV!

This blog exists for a little over a month now, and I'm surprised that people are actually interested in my writing and photos. Google tells me that people look for galleries and want to read tutorials, especially on painting Skaven and Nurgle - so, there is going to be more of this in the future. The article on our Gaming Day has been the most read one on this blog so far - that's no surprise, since Korbi pretty much literally posted the link in every German and Austrian gaming forum. Thanks for that, and also thanks to Jody, the Frontline Gamer, who encouraged me to start this blog in the first place.

Right now, I'm working on a few blog posts on board and card games I own. After this, there are going to be some galleries and tutorials about Infinity scenery like cardboard containers, buildings from Sarisa Precision and other manufacturers (I'm trying to take a lot of photos at our gaming club tonight). Maybe, I'll even dust off my ever-work-in-progress Eldar and write something about those 'oomies with da silly 'elmets ;-)

I'm excited! Thanks to all for reading my blog and giving me feedback. Or, considering my international readership: Thanks a lot, vielen Dank, merci beaucoup, Большое спасибо, grazie mille and kiitos!

And now for something completely different: Another episode of Wil Wheatons "Tabletop"! This time, with the German board game classic "The Settlers of Catan".

Watch this: Wil Wheaton's "Table Top"

I highly recommend you to watch the first episode of Table Top by Wil Wheaton:

Wil Wheaton and guests, Sean Plott (host of “Day9TV”, a Starcraft II dedicated webcast on how to be a better gamer), Grant Imahara (host of Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters”), and Jenna Busch (geek blogger, writer and host) play Small World!

The show is really entertaining as well as helpful to understand the game mechanics of Small World. I can hardly wait to watch the upcoming episodes.