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Painting Marble Effect for your Scenic Bases by Leonardo Archini

Painting a Marble Effect – A Madness I Tell You! Hi, my name is Leonardo Archini and when Jay asked ...
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A few words on painting tattoos by Florian Tuffskull

PAINTING TATTOOS Tattoos can help to create additional interest upon your painted skin-tone, especially when you have a naked body ...
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Banshee Workshop – a lesson in Colour by Steve Bodycomb

Banshee Workshop – the PRELUDE Did you hear the one about the politician, the gangster and the prostitute? No? Well ...
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ArtQuest 2017 – the Results are In!

ArtQuest 2017 – the PRELUDE It feels like an absolute age ago that we rather foolishly decided to create our ...
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Step by Step painting of Unnatural Skintone by M Giordana Fiordelmondo

Unnatural Skintone – the PRELUDE The Old Count is a release from Fer Miniatures sculpted by Romain Van Den Bogaert ...
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Horrors in the Night – Using Fluorescent Paints to Achieve Light Effects

It seems like I can’t stop painting in light and colour or at least I keep coming back to it ...
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Painting Worn Leather by David Soper

C-Girl Akito – Painting worn leather – the PRELUDE It’s time to get Akito down off the shelf and back ...
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WHAT THE FIGUREMENTORS TEAM HAS BEEN DOING – DECEMBER

DECEMBER’S WORK IN PROGRESS: The Prelude We wanted to share with all of you the projects we’ve been working on ...
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Creating Android Alas by Pascal Rooze

Android Alas – the PRELUDE Some of the best painters out there will tell you to plan ahead when doing ...
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Oscura (Queen of Spades) – An In-Depth Review (Kimera Models)

Oscura – the PRELUDE Oscura is a new release under the Domina range of figures from Kimera Models, based on ...
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Beauty and the Beast (Savage Beauty) – colaborative project with Arnau Lazaro and David Faust-Du Sablon

Beauty and the Beast – the PRELUDE The following article is a little different to what we have tried before, ...
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Peter Pan by 2nd Star Project

Peter Pan – the PRELUDE 1. It seems a long time since you first showed me the start of this ...
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OSL by Artem Romanov

Object Source Lighting (OSL) – the PRELUDE Hey-hey folks! Many people asked me about the Object Source Lighting (OSL) on ...
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WHAT THE FIGUREMENTORS TEAM HAS BEEN DOING – SEPTEMBER

SEPTEMBER’S WORK IN PROGRESS: The Prelude With the launch of the Illustrated Historical Artist magazine and our first painting competition, ...
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Painting the Storm Knight from Kingdom Death by Branislav B aka Paintguild!

Kingdom Death Storm Knight – the PRELUDE Kingdom Death (KD) has created a huge following in recent years. This year ...
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The Legend of Raistlin

Legend of Raistlin – the PRELUDE A flash of nostalgia – Raistlin Majere is one of my all time favourite ...
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The Illustrated Historical Artist Issue 2 coming SOON!

Hi everyone The gang and I are really proud of what is happening with Issue 2 of The Illustrated Historical ...
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A Step by Step Painting of Paganus – Aradia Miniatures Pt1 – Julien Reymond

Step by Step Painting of Paganus – the PRELUDE Technique: wet blending with acrylic (two little days of work) Hi, ...
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A Step by Step Guide to painting NMM for beginners by Sergey Gybin aka Ravenswood

NMM for beginners – the PRELUDE Hi my name is Sergey Gybin, some of you may know me as Ravenswood ...
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Creating the look of a worn leather texture with paint

Worn Leather Texture – the PRELUDE Lately I’ve been giving more attention to how I can create the look of different ...
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My Creative Process Behind my Latest Vignette – Regrowth

Regrowth – the PRELUDE I bought the Selvambi miniature from Aradia last october, I think. I really like the sculpt ...
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At Night They Howl (A Space Wolves diorama) – the complete process by Pawel Makuch

At Night They Howl (A Space Wolves diorama) – the PRELUDE Some time ago – at the beginning of “At ...
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Using graphite to enhance your true metal metallics with Lucas K Stine

True Metal Metallics – the PRELUDE The following is a somewhat succinct but hopefully informative piece about my use of ...
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The Illustrated Historical Artist Issue 1 – download for FREE!

Hey everyone The Illustrated Historical Artist Issue 1 this is really just a short post to announce that our very ...
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Trent Denison teaches us his Airbrush Technique

Airbrush Technique the PRELUDE I was very humbled when I was asked by Jay to put together an article for ...
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Let your Imagination Fly! by Stathis Mamais

Let your imagination fly – the PRELUDE My name is Stathis Mamais. I am 36 years old and I live ...
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The Legend of Hiroki by David Batista

The Legend of Hiroki – the PRELUDE Hello my friends and fellow figure painters, I present myself first of all; my ...
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War Daddy – An In-Depth Review (Life Miniatures)

War Daddy – the PRELUDE This is the first full figure release from Life Miniatures, sculpted by Sang-on Lee, War ...
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Sculpting hair, beards and other furs by Gregory Girault

Sculpting hair the PRELUDE As our collaboration with figurines.mag continues we are proud to present here in English for the ...
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Some thoughts on Non Metallic Metal (NMM) with Paolo di Poce

Non Metallic Metal – the PRELUDE Hello to all. This is my first tutorial I’ve written for this blog, and ...
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Golden Demon Classic 2017 – Show Report and Critique

Golden Demon Classic – The PRELUDE It was with mixed feelings and a lot of anticipation that I went to ...
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Napoleonic Dragoon by David “Bailey” Powell

Napoleonic Dragoon – the PRELUDE This article will present a walkthrough on the painting of a 54mm scale Napoleonic Dragoon using ...
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SMHB World War II Special Volume II

PRELUDE This World War II Special is the 22nd bookazine from Mr Black Publications, sees a collaboration with MJ Miniatures ...
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Painting Flesh Tones with Layered Glazes by David Soper Part 2

Painting Flesh Tones – the PRELUDE With Akito’s face painted, see Part 1 Painting Flesh Tones HERE, it was time to ...
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How to train your dragon – Creating the Award Winning Scene by Chris Suhre

How to Train your Dragon – the PRELUDE How to train your dragon actually came about almost through coincidence and ...
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Using Object Source Lighting to Create Ambience – “Shine a Light”

Object Source Lighting – the PRELUDE My newest piece Valaska Sin is both an exercise in working to a tight ...
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Non Metallic Metal a Guide by Jean-Marc Brisset

Non Metallic Metal – the PRELUDE I have admired Jean-Marc’s work for a long time and his NMM in particular ...
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THE FIGUREMENTORS TEAM HAVE BEEN DOING THIS – MAY

MAYS WORK IN PROGRESS: The Prelude THE FIGUREMENTORS TEAM has been particularly busy this month, so what exactly have we been ...
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Colour Contrast and it’s use in Dwarf vs Banshee Duel – by Andy Gillaspy

COLOUR CONTRAST the prelude I really enjoyed writing the previous article on the Blacksun Barbarian for figurementors and I offered ...
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Another Brick In The Wall, Building a Scenic Base, by Mary Profitt

PRELUDE Another Brick Another Brick In The Wall was Mary gentle’s Gold winning entry at Crystal Brush in 2015. I ...
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The ForgeWorld Warhound Titan painted by Slayer Sword Winning Richard Gray

PRELUDE The Warhound Titan is showing it’s age as a model kit. It’s tricky to build and is nowhere near ...
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Insights into Painting a Flat Figure by Award Winning Rick Taylor

Insights into Painting a Flat Figure – PRELUDE This is my first article for figurementors. I was approached by Jay ...
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Banshee Masterclass 2017 – Brighton UK, by Joe May

PRELUDE I was very disappointed when I initially enquired for a position on the London Banshee masterclass course. By the ...
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Remembering the Trail Blazers of Figure Painting No 1- Marion Ball

PRELUDE I think it is really important to remember and respect those master painters who were the trailblazers for our ...
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March’s Work in Progress

We’re back with another work in progress update to show you what the FigureMentors team has been up to. We’ve ...
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Painting Flesh Tones with Layered Glazes by David Soper

Painting Flesh Tones with Layered Glazes – PRELUDE I recently undertook something of a personal painting challenge when I decided ...
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Supporting Figurementors

Since Figurementors was published, we have worked hard to create and offer great content in line with Jay “Redrum” Martin’s ...
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Weekend Masterclass with Banshee – A Summary by Paul “Bully” Bullock

PRELUDE We will actually begin with the thoughts of another student, owner of RobotRocket Miniatures, figure painter and Eavier Metal ...
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Painting a Shiny Black (with Matte Paints)

Painting a Shiny Black – PRELUDE Black is one of the colours that many people find difficult to paint with ...
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Painting Black Power Armour by Giovanni Di Lena

Painting Black Power Armour – PRELUDE Hi all! About a couple of months ago Jason aka Redrum asked me if ...
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Step by Step Painting of a 54mm Saxon Warrior

Painting of a 54mm Saxon Warrior – PRELUDE I’m always excited to paint kits from Raúl García Latorre, one of ...
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Darkside Everywhere There Is! A study in OSL by Ant Con!

A study in OSL – PRELUDE I have grown to be good friends with Anthony otherwise known as Ant Con ...
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Painting the Butcher by Macca Chung

Painting the Butcher – PRELUDE Hello! Macca here and I am very happy to be contributing an article, I am a ...
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Painting the Black Sun Barbarian (with emphasis on NMM) – by Andy Gillaspy

Painting the Black Sun Barbarian – PRELUDE Hello Figurementor readers, a little while ago I spoke with David Powell one ...
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French Army Special Unit Dinassaut Vignette by the Award Winning Jose Brito

French Army Special Unit Dinassaut – PRELUDE Jose Brito is an inspiring Scale Modeller who has won awards around the ...
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January’s Work in Progress

We took a break in December to let everyone enjoy their holidays, but now we’re back and ready to share ...
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Defenders of Fort St Elmo, Malta 1565 by Ivan Cocker

Defenders of Fort St Elmo, Malta 1565 – PRELUDE So I had approached Ivan to write an article for the ...
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Ogre Brute – My thoughts on painting busts by Patryk Ciemiega

My thoughts on painting busts – PRELUDE Hey it is Jay here, I wanted to say a little about Patryk ...
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“Point of no Return” an insight by Pawel “Monstroys” Makuch!

“Point of no Return” – PRELUDE I have known Pawel known for quite a few years and I am always ...
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Ivan the Terrible – Freehand Technique using oils by Marc Mussat

Freehand Technique using oils – PRELUDE I have known of Marc Mussat‘s work for some time and got to see ...
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Knight of the Holy Sepulchre by David “Bailey” Powell

Knight of the Holy Sepulchre – PRELUDE This article will be a walk-through on my painting of a medieval knight on horseback. ...
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I See You by award winning Louis FantasyDemon Juanola

I See You – PRELUDE Hello everyone! My name is Luis Mendez Juanola, otherwise known as fantasydemon, I am 37 years ...
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“Before the Battle” Concept to Realisation by Kristian Simonsen

“Before the Battle” – PRELUDE A couple of months ago I set out to make a big piece to bring ...
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Step by Step Painting & Weathering a Yellow Armour on Orruk Megaboss

Painting & Weathering a Yellow Armour on Orruk Megaboss – PRELUDE Hey everyone I am so excited to have convinced ...
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Some Thoughts on Painting Luz (Nocturna Models) by Fausto Palumbo

Some Thoughts on Painting Luz – PRELUDE Coffee? Check Music? Check Relaxed mind? Check I’m ready for this! Hi guys! I’m ...
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Journey of the Demon King by Oliver “HonourGuard” Spath

Journey of the Demon King – PRELUDE Oliver is a figure painter from Esslingen in Southern Germany whose work I ...
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Creating Simple but Believable Water Effects with Matty Pearce

Creating Simple but Believable Water Effects – PRELUDE Hard at work Hi everyone, welcome to figurementors.com, my name is Matty ...
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Some insights on creating ambience by Raffaele Du Marteau

Some insights on creating ambience – PRELUDE Raffaele is a fantasy figure painter from Fidenza in Italy, I asked if ...
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A Step by Step for Painting Tartan Patterns

Painting Tartan Patterns – PRELUDE 54mm example piece showing the end result of this step by step. If painting designs ...
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Painting 1/9 scale bust facial skintone with Keigo Murakami

Painting 1/9 scale bust facial skintone – PRELUDE Keigo Murakami is a figure painter from Aichi in Japan, he is ...
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Viking Archer – Conversion and Paint by Alfonso Praolo

PRELUDE I have known Alfonso Praolo (an historical figure painter from Spain) for a couple of years now and although ...
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Building and Painting a GunPla (Gusion HG 1/144) with Emilio Miranda

PRELUDE Hi my name is Emilio Miranda, aka muffin/muffinlove on the web/forums as BlackCrab Studio. I’m a gunpla builder and painter ...
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Method for Painting Eyes on Busts (and smaller scales)

Method for Painting Eyes on Busts – SIMPLE BEGINNINGS Eyes can be tricky, but I’ve got a multi-step process that ...
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Character Design by award winning Concept Artist Mirko Failoni

Character Design – PRELUDE Mushroom Shaman WIP by Redrum As some of you would have seen recently I am currently ...
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A Tribute to the Majestic Kong by Antonio Leveque

When I was approached by Antonio to collaborate once again after his Pinnochio piece, I simply could not turn him ...
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A Beautiful Disaster (a Black Sailors Vignette) by Enrico Collenzini

A Beautiful Disaster – PRELUDE The birth of this project started when I saw for the first time this amazing ...
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“Californication” a step by step by Stavros Zouliatis

“Californication” – PRELUDE Hi, my name is Stavros Zouliatis and I’m a freelance sculptor. I started back in 2013 sculpting ...
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A tribute to the creator of Pinnochio, Carlo Collodi, by Antonio Leveque

At work During my long years of being a “modest” sculptor of figurines I began to realise more and more, ...
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Creating a “What If?” diorama with Yen Kwie Drenth

Creating a What If diorama – PRELUDE The main components I started out modelling in the late seventies, at about ...
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Kit Review – Barbarian and the Lost Princess (Black Sun Miniatures)

PRELUDE Black Sun Miniatures have been making a fair bit of noise since bursting on to the hobby scene, with a ...
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Sculpting a Fantasy Creature with Carmine Giugliano (THOR Creart) Final Part

Welcome to the final part of this little sbs, following on from Part 2 we will now be adding the ...
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A Few Thoughts on my Way of Painting Busts by Jason Zhou

Hi everyone, First all, I’d like to thank Jason Martin (Redrum) for inviting me to share some of my experience ...
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Sculpting a Fantasy Creature with Carmine Giugliano (Thor Creart) Part 2

So lets continue! In Part 1 I began by showing you how to build up the basic anatomy, volumes and movement ...
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My Experience Painting OSL

My Experience Painting OSL – PRELUDE Object-Source Lighting (OSL), is probably one of the most intimidating techniques in miniature painting ...
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