Today we gather together four miniature painters who have all be painting Horus Heresy models as of late. Some of them are deep into the game and some are just getting started. But all of them paint amazingly, and they all have skills to show off.
The Painters
Spencer from Spen’s Painting
I first became…
How Do You Get Started in the Hobby Side of Bolt Action?
Getting started with any miniatures games hobby is going to have its challenges, but there’s something that’s unique to historical wargaming that you don’t run into with something like Warhammer 40k. With Warhammer, very few people are going to be complaining that your…
Building Armies in Bolt Action: A Primer
Guest Post by Troy from Sonic Sledgehammer Studio
If there's one question that comes up more often in Bolt Action groups even more than "How do I paint my army?" it might well be "How do I build my army?" If you're someone already familiar with how squads,…
I am thrilled to interview Troy from Sonic Sledgehammer Studios, because it was Sonic Sledgehammer's YouTube channel that got me out of a major hobby rut and convinced me to get into historical wargaming.
One of the things that I like best about Sonic Sledgehammer is that the videos are incredibly accessible. They are…
I'll admit it. I am not a great painter. I have been part of the wargaming hobby for thirty years, and my painting ebbs and flows--some years it's really good and some years it's not so good.
This is not because I don't try to improve. Probably the #1 YouTube videos that…
Maybe you've always wanted to dabble in historicals, but they've seemed so hard to get into. Maybe you're a life long 28mm player and historicals' 15mm and 6mm scale has scared you away. Maybe you don't feel you have the same freedom with a historical army that you have with a fantasy or science fiction…
There are a hundred miniature painting YouTubers out there--I've even dabbled in it myself--and I clearly can't talk about all of them. But the list that I've compiled below is the group of miniature painting YouTubers that I watch the most and from which I've gained the most insight. Some of them are more accessible…