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Painting the Lord's House set
The huge Samurai Lord's House set is currently on the paint desk, and with only a few last pieces to complete, it seems a good moment to show you some tips and suggestions on how to paint everythi ...
2024-03-23
Painting the wooden sake cups
I've printed two versions of the new Wooden Sake Cup, and I've decided to paint one as a brand-new fresh wooden box, and the second as an older wooden box in darker colours.▲ Here's a gre ...
2023-12-20
Customer pics - a rural village shrine
Today we have some awesome customer pics to show you! This wonderfully natural and overgrown board was put together by Rob Didur, and shows great use of moss and lichen on pathways and buildings, to a ...
2023-11-16
Painting the samurai shops
For this painting guide, I'm just going to show you the basics of how the buildings were painted up, and then I'm going to assault you with plenty of reference photos of real shop interiors!
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2023-03-08
Painting the ruined hut
It's painting time, and for the new Ruined Hut model it's going to be useful to get some good real-life examples to use as reference photos.There are a few in the recent blog article about des ...
2022-12-06
Painting some wounded samurai
There's a new samurai terrain model to show off soon, but in the meantime I've been painting up some wounded samurai models, from Perry Miniatures. They've been mounted on 40mm clear bases ...
2022-11-21
Painting the shrine set
It's time for a painting blog, and today we're looking at the contents of the new Shrine Set!▲ With Japanese shrine buildings, you've got two main choices - you can either paint it in bri ...
2022-08-26
Making a bamboo forest
Today we're taking a closer look at the bamboo bases from the new Shrine Set, with a how-to guide on an easy way to create a thick bamboo forest for 28mm scale wargaming.
▲ This ...
2022-08-22
Painting the samurai dojo
The new Samurai Dojo is a large building, but surprisingly it paints up quite quickly, with a few simple techniques. The majority of your painting time will probably be spent on the interior and exter ...
2022-06-29
Painting the market stalls
It's time for a painting guide - this time it's for the new samurai market stalls set!
This is quite a long blog post, but it should contain lots of tips and real-life photos to make ...
2022-03-25
Some snowy terrain to inspire you!
A while back the lovely folks behind the new Eldfall Chronicles game got in touch, asking if they could use our samurai terrain to show off their awesome models. Of course I was happy to oblige, and s ...
2022-01-26
Painting the dice tower
It's been about 3 weeks since the Dice Tower Pagoda model was printed and assembled - sorry for the delay! You'll be happy to hear that both the Dice Tower AND the Sumo Ring have been fully pa ...
2021-10-27
Painting the Sumo Ring
The new Sumo Ring has been a great painting project this month - with some unique challenges and some wonderful sumo wrestler minis from Fish Creek 3D printed up and painted specially to match!
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2021-10-20
Painting the Temple Bell
With so many new models sitting on my paint desk, it's actually the most recently printed one that reaches the finish line first! The new Temple Bell model turned out to be the simplest of the 3 m ...
2021-10-13
Painting the pagoda
The new temple pagoda might be a very tall model, but you don't need to be daunted by painting it! With the liberal use of spray can undercoats, washes, and drybrushing, you can achieve very good ...
2021-08-12
Painting the samurai outer gate building
This is going to be a general guide to choosing a paint scheme for the Temple Outer Gate, rather than a detailed how-to guide. If you're keen to see the details of how this building was painted up ...
2021-06-11
Painting the samurai temple walls
The first decision you have to make is what colour you want to paint your temple walls! You've basically got two choices - brown or red?
£ Red-painted temple walls (and buildings) are rarer in ...
2021-03-27
Painting the fusion reactor
Here's a quick guide to painting the new Taui Fusion Reactor, with a super handy shortcut for saving some time on the base section!£ The base section was the first part to paint, and I saved som ...
2021-02-12
Samurai Pavises are available NOW!
The first new release of 2021 for you today - some wooden Samurai Pavises!
Samurai Pavises
Wooden pavises, or tate, were used by feudal-era infantry as protective shie ...
2021-01-13
Painting the samurai castle
It took only 3 days to paint the castle, inside and out, but those were looooong days!
Cheap spray cans can be used to do the bulk of the work, and then I used cheap acrylics to drybrush and ...
2020-12-11
Painting the Energy Monolith
The new Necrontyr Energy Monolith is coming very, very soon, and so it seems useful to jot down some notes on one way to paint this fairly large piece of terrain up!The most important thing to suggest ...
2020-07-23
Necrontyr Ruined Wall available NOW!
The first of some new Necrontyr items has just been added to the store. The Ruined Wall is available for download from today!!
Necrontyr Ruined Wall
£ The ruined wall sectio ...
2020-07-14
Terry Gaudet's STUNNING Necron World
Here's a very special video from Terry Gaudet, of his totally awesome Necron World table - featuring pretty much every design from our Necrontyr collection. Go look!!!!
Here are ...
2020-06-19
Samurai Sashimono Flags available NOW!
Look at that - only a few days after the release of the teahouse set (and what a fantastic response by you all - thanks!), we now have another little set of model accessories ready for release. The Sa ...
2020-05-03
Painting the samurai teahouse set
Well, the new samurai Teahouse Set is now fully painted, and ready for release tomorrow!! Oh, and what gorgeous photos I managed to pose for you! hehehe
But today we take a look at how you ca ...
2020-04-29
Taui Teleporter available NOW!
Our second design for the Taui sci-fi terrain range is now available for download - the Taui Teleporter!
Taui Teleporter
£ This hi-tech chunk of machinery is mostly a ...
2020-03-17
Cherry blossom trees : a How-To Guide
We have a new top-secret samurai terrain piece coming out soon, and I thought it would be a great time to finally model some cherry blossom trees to go with it. So here's a how-to guide, for which ...
2020-03-14
Painting a wrecked knight base
I recently bought a gorgeous Eldar Wraithknight model for my Warhammer 40,000 army, and since this will be a large centrepiece model for my collection, I decided to model up a detailed custom base for ...
2020-02-03
Samurai Card Box available NOW!
A cool little gaming accessory for you, the Samurai Card Box, is now officially available for download!
Samurai Card Box
£ Each box is a simple two-piece print, with the bot ...
2020-02-02
Painting and lighting the Taui landing pad
The Taui Landing Pad is about to be released, so here's a little painting guide on how it was painted!
Please note that although somebody with airbrushing skills could do an amazing job of smooth ...
2020-01-16
Painting tatami bases
Here's a quick step-by-step guide to painting tatami mat textures, for the new tatami mat bases set!£ 1. Fill in any gaps you don't want. I printed my bases in PLA, in multiple parts for eac ...
2019-10-11
Painting the castle corner tower
The new samurai castle corner tower has now been fully painted, and is due for release this week! Here's a little painting guide to painting up the whole tower in about 8~10 hours, fast and easy b ...
2019-09-24
Painting the samurai pond
Phew! Finally done! As a painting project, there was a lot to do here. There are so many different ways (many better, of course), but here's a painting diary of how I painted up the 2 new Samurai ...
2019-08-03
Painting the samurai farmhouses
Here's a painting guide on how to quickly paint up those lovely textured surfaces on the new samurai farmhouses, using simple drybrushing techniques and washes!
£ Before starting, all o ...
2019-07-04
Painting the rice paddy model
Rather strange blog for today... we're looking at the growing cycle of rice, and how you can model that on your terrain boards!
The rice paddy model from the samurai farmyard set comes in ...
2019-04-29
Painting the High Elf House
It's taken quite a while to paint up this new High Elf House & Tower model, mostly because I was a little scared at painting so many intricate windows!
This is a little step-by-step g ...
2019-03-02
Painting the samurai castle walls
Over the past few days the Japanese samurai castle walls have slowly been taking shape, and are now ready for release. But first, here's a quick guide to how mine were painted....
£ Some prep w ...
2018-12-24
Painting the Warp Portal
Our new kit, the Necrontyr Warp Portal, is finally complete and fully painted! We'll be releasing it just as soon as we've sorted through the photos and videos....While you wait, here's a ...
2018-11-08
Painting the stone walls
Just a single picture today... of the progress on the samurai walls!
Very happy with how well they came out after some quick drybrushing and washing.
In case anybody wants to duplica ...
2018-08-28
Painting the landing pad
With the Landing Pad assembled and glued together, I smoothed over the model with some 400 grit sandpaper and then filled the joins in the top surface with some wood filler. You can see that preparati ...
2018-04-26
Ned the Necron ready for duty
Since we'll soon be printing and selling finished 3D printable terrain models for the Necrontyr range, it seemed a good idea to grab a couple of Necron models to use for scale comparison purposes. ...
2018-01-04
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