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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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Kingdom Death Storm Knight - the PRELUDE Kingdom Death (KD) has created a huge following in recent years. This year ...
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Legend of Raistlin - the PRELUDE A flash of nostalgia - Raistlin Majere is one of my all time favourite ...
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Hi everyone The gang and I are really proud of what is happening with Issue 2 of The Illustrated Historical ...
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Step by Step Painting of Paganus - the PRELUDE Technique: wet blending with acrylic (two little days of work) Hi, ...
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NMM for beginners - the PRELUDE Hi my name is Sergey Gybin, some of you may know me as Ravenswood ...
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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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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 PRELUDE Some time ago - at the beginning of "At ...
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True Metal Metallics - the PRELUDE The following is a somewhat succinct but hopefully informative piece about my use of ...
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Hey everyone The Illustrated Historical Artist Issue 1 this is really just a short post to announce that our very ...
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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 – the PRELUDE My name is Stathis Mamais. I am 36 years old and I live ...
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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 - the PRELUDE This is the first full figure release from Life Miniatures, sculpted by Sang-on Lee, War ...
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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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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 - The PRELUDE It was with mixed feelings and a lot of anticipation that I went to ...
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Napoleonic Dragoon - the PRELUDE This article will present a walkthrough on the painting of a 54mm scale Napoleonic Dragoon using ...
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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 - 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 - the PRELUDE How to train your dragon actually came about almost through coincidence and ...
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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 - the PRELUDE I have admired Jean-Marc's work for a long time and his NMM in particular ...
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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 the prelude I really enjoyed writing the previous article on the Blacksun Barbarian for figurementors and I offered ...
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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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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 - PRELUDE  This is my first article for figurementors. I was approached by Jay ...
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PRELUDE I was very disappointed when I initially enquired for a position on the London Banshee masterclass course. By the ...
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PRELUDE I think it is really important to remember and respect those master painters who were the trailblazers for our ...
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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 - PRELUDE I recently undertook something of a personal painting challenge when I decided ...
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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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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 - PRELUDE Black is one of the colours that many people find difficult to paint with ...
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Painting Black Power Armour - PRELUDE Hi all! About a couple of months ago Jason aka Redrum asked me if ...
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Painting of a 54mm Saxon Warrior - PRELUDE I'm always excited to paint kits from Raúl García Latorre, one of ...
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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 - 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 - PRELUDE Hello Figurementor readers, a little while ago I spoke with David Powell one ...
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French Army Special Unit Dinassaut - PRELUDE Jose Brito is an inspiring Scale Modeller who has won awards around the ...
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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 - PRELUDE So I had approached Ivan to write an article for the ...
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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" - PRELUDE I have known Pawel known for quite a few years and I am always ...
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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 - PRELUDE This article will be a walk-through on my painting of a medieval knight on horseback.  ...
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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" - PRELUDE A couple of months ago I set out to make a big piece to bring ...
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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 - 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 - PRELUDE Oliver is a figure painter from Esslingen in Southern Germany whose work I ...
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Creating Simple but Believable Water Effects - PRELUDE Hi everyone, welcome to figurementors.com, my name is Matty Pearce and some ...
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Some insights on creating ambience - PRELUDE Raffaele is a fantasy figure painter from Fidenza in Italy, I asked if ...
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Painting Tartan Patterns - PRELUDE If painting designs on your figures makes you nervous, taking on a tartan might seem ...
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Painting 1/9 scale bust facial skintone - PRELUDE Keigo Murakami is a figure painter from Aichi in Japan, he is ...
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PRELUDE I have known Alfonso Praolo (an historical figure painter from Spain) for a couple of years now and although ...
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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 - SIMPLE BEGINNINGS Eyes can be tricky, but I’ve got a multi-step process that ...
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Character Design - PRELUDE As some of you would have seen recently I am currently painting the Mushroom Shaman from ...
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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 - PRELUDE The birth of this project started when I saw for the first time this amazing ...
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"Californication" - PRELUDE Hi, my name is Stavros Zouliatis and I'm a freelance sculptor. I started back in 2013 sculpting ...
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During my long years of being a "modest" sculptor of figurines I began to realise more and more, frozen snapshots ...
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Creating a What If diorama - PRELUDE I started out modelling in the late seventies, at about 10 years old, ...
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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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Welcome to the final part of this little sbs, following on from Part 2 we will now be adding the ...
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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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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 - PRELUDE Object-Source Lighting (OSL), is probably one of the most intimidating techniques in miniature painting ...
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"Welcome to the first of a three part series on sculpting. Carmine Giugliano will talk us through the general steps ...
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Painting Orc skin - PRELUDE A few years back I painted an Orc standard bearer from Forgeworld who I christened ...
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Skintone painting - INTRODUCTION Hi painters! First of all the boring thing, presentations and all that stuff. My name is Aythami ...
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A Monotone vignette - PRELUDE Hi everyone my name is Enrico and Jason approached me recently about sharing some of ...
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 A LITTLE INTRO Hi fellow modellers! I first wrote this for Jason when he wrote for Legion of the Cow, ...
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Hello, my name is David Arroba and I am passionate about painting figures. I am from Spain and I am ...
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Painting regular skin can be tough, but it is something that is covered in numerous other tutorials. So instead I’d ...
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INITIAL PROCESSES First of all, after preparing the bust cleaning the casting lines and sanding softly, you have to put ...
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Hello! I want to tell you some words about oils paints and some words about palette. I know that not ...
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