The 'Grimdark' painting style is incredibly popular in Warhammer currently, but is it really the best way to paint? Is it just another fad? In this episode, we discuss the origins of the style and how it has changed over the years, our experience with it, and debunk some of the stigma around the gritty aesthetic and its affiliation with speed painting...

Also in this episode, we talk more about the 'pile of potential', hoarding paints, hobby contraptions and the dreaded drawer of doom! And as always, don't forget to stay to the end for our parting hobby hack!

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0:00:00 Intro
0:01:28 Kai…atin
0:02:58 The content we like
0:05:23 Hobby updates
0:08:05 Painting metallics
0:12:26 Paint shame
0:17:42 New formulas
0:19:41 Hobby contraptions
0:21:38 “Mini Cellar”
0:26:10 reduce your “pile of potential”
0:28:52 Improving your painting
0:37:09 Converted Ork Warlord
0:41:19 Why’s everyone doing Grimdark?
0:44:48 What is Grimdark?
0:49:50 has Grimdark changed?
0:55:15 ‘Clean’ Grimdark
1:01:45 Does Grimdark suit everything?
1:07:55 QOTW: ‘Drawer of Doom’
1:15:24 Hobby Hack

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Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

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Speed painting is a popular topic in the warhammer hobby, but can you still achieve high quality results In a short amount of time? In this week's episode, we challenged ourselves to speed painting miniatures for the #junestealercults challenge!

Expect to learn how we approach painting when we know we have limited time, and how that changes the decisions we make. How we were able to get the results we did on our miniatures and how we painted them, plus some hacks for efficiency and pointers on the corners you can cut along the way!

Also in this episode, Joe updates us on his personal projects, and we tackle our listeners comments, questions of the week and of course go through all of the community submissions for June's painting challenge! And, don't forget to stay to the end for our parting hobby hack on tackling dry tip when airbrushing!

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0:00:00 Trailer
0:00:22 Joe is back!
0:02:52 Hobby breaks
0:08:14 George’s Blood Angels
0:12:23 Building is a timesink
0:17:21 Joe’s Dark Angels
0:22:41 Paints changing formula
0:26:24 Social media pressure
0:32:22 “Pile of Potential
0:36:37 Main topic starts
0:39:20 James’ Abominant
0:43:29 Planning for limited time
0:47:56 Make time for details
0:52:15 Productivity hack
0:59:42 Speed shortcuts
1:01:32 George’s Brood Brothers
1:04:58 Painting for later
1:10:05 Joe’s Acolyte Hybrid
1:18:09 #JunestealerCults
1:22:15 July’s monthly challenge
1:23:03 Painting in the heat
1:29:15 Hobby Hack
1:37:45 Support the show!

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Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

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Army painting is a central pillar to this hobby, but certainly one that many of us struggle with. In this episode, Ben from our Warrior Workshop team joins us to discuss how he approaches painting some of the huge army painting projects he has worked on! Expect to learn tricks for staying motivated to finish your army throughout the process, and how to be more efficient when building, painting, and basing!

Plus, stay tuned for our new segment: Critique of the Week where we discuss miniatures painted by our community and offer feedback, as well as our question of the week and perhaps one of the all time greatest Paint Perspective Hobby Hacks!

Thanks to Ben for joining us on the show, you can check out his Blood Bowl podcast here: https://m.youtube.com/c/TheBoneheadPodcast

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0:00:00 Trailer
0:00:22 Ben from Warrior Workshop
0:03:01 Blood Bowl
0:07:05 Painting Orks
0:11:23 Adapting your painting style
0:13:00 How does the Airbrush benefit you?
0:18:27 Critique of the Week
0:26:28 Main topic starts
0:28:54 Planning
0:34:20 Staying motivated
0:45:52 Building armies faster
0:51:50 Are subassemblies faster?
0:53:50 Basing armies faster
0:58:23 The Wowstick
1:05:40 Competition Vs Army painting?
1:14:04 The best model holder
1:17:42 Support the show!

Support the Show.

Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

Follow us: @siegestudios / @paintperspectivepodcast

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts

Do you want to get better at miniature painting right now? This week’s episode of Paint Perspective is absolutely filled to the brim with painting tips, tricks and hacks that you can start doing right away to see instant results, and improve your models! Expect to learn: How to *correctly* use washes, James’ lightbulb moment that fundamentally changed how he paints, essential tricks to improve efficiency and quality at the same time, how to better experiment with colours, and how to make better choices for your highlights!

Also in this episode, we discuss our personal hobby updates, monthly painting challenges, our struggles and approach to social media in miniature painting, answer our listeners comments, question of the week, and of course, our closing hobby hack!

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0:00:00 The poll...
0:01:25 Finished Blood Angels
0:04:55 #Junestealercults
0:11:42 Get a FREE pdf tutorial!
0:12:05 Listeners comments
0:13:37 Basing materials?
0:16:14 Is Social media killing the hobby?
0:32:54 Main topic starts
0:33:47 Incorrectly using washes
0:37:53 Starting lighter
0:44:19 Getting paint smoother
0:55:27 Painting slower is faster
1:03:25 Changing your default
1:11:49 Choosing highlight colours
1:21:31 Gap filling
1:27:19 Hobby Hack
1:34:52 Support the show!

Support the Show.

Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

Follow us: @siegestudios / @paintperspectivepodcast

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts

Basing is something that is often an afterthought when it comes to the hobby, but as we know it can make all the difference between a good... or a great model!

In this episode, we share our tricks to improve your bases and make your models look better, with easy and simple methods, (and thought processes) that you can apply NOW.

We even drop some of our favourite tricks for efficiently basing a whole army from our experiences as commission painters!

Also in this episode, we catch up with Paul from the team who has been working hard on his hobby behind the scenes, discuss our listeners comments (with a feline theme), tackle our question of the week about the hardship of selling models, and of course our closing hobby hack!

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Chapters (main topic around 31 mins)
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:44 Paul’s hobby updates
0:10:17 Published on War Com
0:12:50 Paul the fashion icon
0:14:06 James’ hobby updates
0:20:33 Khorne Crocs
0:22:00 George's hobby updates
0:22:46 #JunestealerCults
0:31:02 Easy ways to IMPROVE your Warhammer bases…
0:32:00 Most efficient approach…
0:42:06 Avoid floating feet
0:48:06 EASY ways to add detail
1:56:40 Character basing
1:02:09 Basing materials
1:10:39 Question of the Week
1:18:19 Hobby Hack
1:21:01 Support the show!

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Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

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This week, we went to the biggest UK hobby games convention: UK Games Expo! In this episode we discuss our experiences at the event as both seasoned visitors and newcomers, share our tips for future attendees and share some fun stories from the weekend!

Also this week James shares some rare book finds, Joe continues to plan his Dark Angels army and of course review your submissions for #AdeptusMaychanicus! Don’t forget our question of the week, which tackles colour theory (and where to start) as well as a “wild” hobby hack on tank weathering!

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Links discussed in this episode:
Warboot: https://www.instagram.com/warbootuk/
Colour Forge Signature Series: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thecolourforge/signature-series-0

0:00:00 Intro
0:00:22 Painting Split Colour Space Marines
0:05:05 James LOST the bet
0:09:18 Warboot June!
0:15:29 RARE Warhammer book haul
0:30:35 Base rims… again
0:31:46 Vallejo rebrand
0:34:48 Paul Perspective
0:36:49 Podcast Reviews
0:37:41 UK Games Expo REVIEW
0:42:53 The Colour Forge stand
0:46:59 Meeting the listeners
0:50:49 George got tackled (nearly)
0:52:03 George got heckled (actually)
0:55:45 The UKGE experience
0:59:22 Hobby shopping
1:04:42 UKGE 2025...
1:09:28 #AdeptusMaychanicus
1:15:40 Question of the Week
1:21:35 Hobby Hack
1:23:51 Outro

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Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

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Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts

Paint Perspective Podcast episode 52, where we explain making a CUSTOM Space Marines chapter!

The Space Marines chapter created in this episode wouldn't be possible without our new Signature Series Spray Primer from Colour Forge, which you can get your hands on via Kickstart starting from May 31st!

Sign up at this link to be notified of the launch!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thecolourforge/signature-series-0

And learn more about Colour Forge below:
https://thecolourforge.com/
https://www.instagram.com/thecolourforge/

Referenced in this ep:
Paint your army FASTER (and better) https://youtu.be/u7Pl63fAq9A

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Everyone loves Space Marines, but codex chapters can be a little bit limiting. In this episode of Paint Perspective, we discuss how you can create your own custom chapter of Space Marines, that are fast and easy to paint, look fantastic, and suit your own personal style.

James shows us his 'Exemplars of Siege' which is his own home-brew chapter, and shares the exact methods he used to create them, so you can too!

Also in this episode, we respond to our listeners comments about the confusing names from Vallejo, answer our question of the week about finding motivation to finish projects, and of course share our parting hobby hack!

MAIN TOPIC around 30 mins
Colour Forge collab info around

0:00:00 Trailer
0:00:30 The BEST board game
0:02:08 Meet us at UKGE!
0:03:25 1 year of Paint Perspective
0:04:47 Joe’s new army
0:10:07 George finished a model!
0:12:28 Competition results
0:15:11 We got roasted
0:19:07 Vallejo paint names
0:23:36 Vagueness in Warhammer
0:30:06 Making a CUSTOM Space Marines Chapter
0:35:23 1: Colour scheme (Colour Forge info)
0:36:53 Colour Forge Signature Series reveal
0:44:07 How to test colours fast
0:49:39 2: Lore & narrative
0:55:44 3: Basing
0:58:27 4: Applying it to the army
1:04:53 TLDR Summary
1:06:47 The hardest part
1:10:51 How to find motivation?
1:16:25 Custom Transfers hack
1:19:19 Support the show!

Join in with our upcoming monthly painting challenges:

May - #AdeptusMaycanicus (Ad Mech)
June - #JunestealerCults (Genestealer Cults)
July - #Julegion (Horus Heresy)
August - #SolarAugzillia (Humans)
September - #TauSeptEmber (Tau)
October - #Orktober (Orks)
November - #Nidvember (Tyranids)
December - #Sanguinala (Anything red / holiday themed)

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Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

Follow us: @siegestudios / @paintperspectivepodcast

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts

This week we are joined by none other than Arbitor Ian! While you may be familiar with his expert lore videos on YouTube, we wanted to dive deeper into his takes on the hobby and painting… Expect to learn how Ian stays motivated to complete army projects as someone who does not enjoy painting, how lore knowledge can benefit the look of your models, overcoming painting failures, balancing your time with the hobby, and methods to enjoy your painting as much as possible!

Also stay tuned for our question of the week all about motivation, and where we find it in the hobby. As well as our closing hobby hack, where our guest drops a bombshell trick for assembling resin and metal miniatures!

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0:00:00 Trailer
0:00:30 Who is Arbitor Ian?
0:10:18 Is Warhammer Historical?
0:13:07 Ians intro to Warhammer
0:15:34 The three hobby pillars
0:18:19 Only gaming with painted models
0:21:04 “Painting is the thing I like the least”
0:23:33 Finding ways to enjoy painting
0:26:26 Biggest painting failures
0:28:36 How do you choose models?
0:31:21 Using lore for your own models
0:36:26 Balancing your hobby time
0:42:40 Ways to paint armies faster!
0:46:47 Maximise enjoying the hobby
0:53:13 discovering new styles of painting
0:58:56 Improving with every army
1:05:59 QOTW: Your biggest motivation to paint?
1:10:28 HH: Greenstuff & superglue trick!

Support the Show.

Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

Follow us: @siegestudios / @paintperspectivepodcast

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts