About Me

The first miniature I painted was a Space Marine from the second edition boxed set way back in 1996. I’m not going to lie, it looked horrible. My paint was too thick in places, too thin in others. I had no idea how to wash, how to highlight or anything really. It was frustrating, it even got to the point where I threw one of the final marine miniatures in a fit of range, of course given my luck he landed right in a tin of turpentine, as I was also doing a lot of scale aircraft building and painting at the time. This resulted in my very last space marine from that boxed set being a malformed lump of horror. I painted him anyway.

In spite of this painful introduction I kept at the hobby for years on end, with some breaks in between. As time marched inevitably on my painting skills improved inch by painful inch. Only in the era of Youtube did I sit down and teach myself how to paint for real. I’ve come a long way since then, but I’ve got much further to go before I achieve a level of quality that I’m happy with.

I paint for both wargaming (something of which I should do more often) and for display. While I’m mediocre at best compared to some of the brilliant artists on the internet, but my throughput is pretty good.

The purpose of this blog is to document my ongoing progress both as a painter and a wargamer, if you are taking time to read this, thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy my humble contribution to the massive body of work that is miniature painting.

I also have an underfed Youtube channel that you can check out if you’d like a few visual demonstrations of my work, though quality may vary. I am also interested in produce articles and painting guides in order to document the variety of skills that I have learned over the years.

In my real life I'm a mediocre software developer by trade with other interests in gaming and writing science fiction.