How to Paint Miniatures: Book 4
By far, one of the best books available for Fantasy and Sci-Fi miniatures. If you don’t have a copy of this….GET ONE!!!! Coat D’Arms Paint available here: blackhat.co.uk
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5:32 pm on April 25th, 2009
Well thanks fore the tip about the book I bought them at Ebay the red one but there is also a bleu version. And fore a VERY cheap price
Keep up the good work.
11:23 am on May 29th, 2009
i have the full book on PDF. Give me your email and i will send it to you! it really is a fantastic book.
7:17 pm on June 10th, 2009
2nd edition is the way I remember 40k.
Mike Mcvey just led the team really well back then.
4:44 pm on June 16th, 2009
you havnt reviewed the rubish gw book with a new cover i want to know if its the same or just a differant front cover? you did say you would find out, im sorry if you have made a video about it but not been able to find
6:16 pm on June 16th, 2009
I still do not have a copy of the book yet. When I can locate one for less than five dollars, I will do a review for it.
4:27 pm on June 17th, 2009
hi kool I would love a copy of that PDF if you dont mind…
7:59 pm on July 7th, 2009
that book is from the 80ies
how are we supposed to get it without
timemachines haven´t been invented ^^
2:54 pm on July 27th, 2009
ebay is your friend…
2:55 pm on July 27th, 2009
i wouldet say mike better then nhalf of the evay metal now their way better then the older ones i think they have made gw alot better the past year !
4:07 pm on July 27th, 2009
there made by a french company now
2:20 am on October 30th, 2009
Very nice….I want one now. But I think you mean it is your most valuable tool, not your most invaluable. haha
6:51 pm on January 8th, 2010
agree that Mike is better than SOME of the Eavy Metal team, but I believe Darren Latham owns everyone. His celstial wizard is the best miniature I have ever seen
6:53 pm on January 8th, 2010
Well no cos invaluable means it is so valuable you can’t put a price on it
3:12 pm on January 15th, 2010
just so everyone knows, the new GW book is an improvement over their old one, but a lot of the material has been recycled. It covers the new line of paints, details a few more techniques, and their step by step has better looking models in it… after seeing what else is on the market, I’m not sorry I bought it necessarily, but it is inferior to what I’ve seen in these videos.
3:16 pm on January 15th, 2010
It appears you favour old GW painting techniques as opposed to the newer stuff Chris… why is that? I’ve always thought that there was too much of a colour contrast in the old stuff meaning it just looks unnaturally bright for example) whereas the newer stuff tends to lean more towards realistic lighting and surfaces. (although I still think that the million highlight lines on a Space Marine is ridiculous… light doesn’t hit every angle that sharply…)
10:59 am on January 18th, 2010
I agree with you on the brightness and color contrast, but I find that they are trying to be to dark, which is kind of, uh, not very appealing to me. The oldies have a nice charm.
2:13 am on January 19th, 2010
the darkness is probably due to the way events are consistently turning for the worse for the Human Imperium. Hive Fleet Hydra is awake, the Emperor has some fatal flaw with his throne, Eldrad is ‘lost’ to the Eldar, etc… I kind of feel that their painting is reflecting the ‘All hope is lost!’ feeling that 40k is turning towards. (I don’t play fantasy, but those still tend to be brighter models anyway.)
10:36 am on January 19th, 2010
No, Fantasy is having the same darker paint schemes…besides, the painting doesn’t reflect the background at all. A paint style can’t be influenced by background, that doesn’t make sense. GW is just going for a “realistic” feel.
2:53 am on January 30th, 2010
One reason GW has such high prices is because it costs tens of thousands of dollars to make one mold for one mini. After that however they can pump out minis like nobody’s business. However the fact that they are constantly updating minis just means they have to keep making molds. Personally I think they should just stick with what they have for a good long while, then maybe they could afford some price cuts.
5:27 pm on March 7th, 2010
@ AGproduction, you know that there is also the 40K version of that book? I have it also in my possesion and they are both asume!
11:49 am on March 12th, 2010
EPIC wasn’t 10mm, it was 6mm.
WARMASTER was 10mm.
Just being pedantic like
9:31 pm on March 24th, 2010
You should really look at some of the new white dwarfs the models are great
1:23 pm on April 2nd, 2010
@AGProductionsInc I own a copy of both, and I would say at least from MY experience, the newer book is a better book than the one with the Grey Knight on the cover. The Tanks book is also pretty good, although for that aspect the Forge World Masterclass is probably a better title (if a little more expensive).
Also, in regards to some of the newer GW painters, I would say Darren Latham and Keith Robertson are very good painters…Latham in particular (the new BA Sanguinor is his work).
5:28 pm on August 17th, 2010
I’d say Darren Latham is quite a nice painter, granted some of GWs miniatures are painted to a rush standard, but Latham’s freelance/ competition work is fantastic.
4:19 am on August 21st, 2010
fantastic!