Book collection to help put an end to the endless grey tide and make you proud of your miniatures.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
June progress report
about 1 month ago
– Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 08:59:42 AM
Hello everyone!
It's time for another update! Sorry it took a little bit longer than the past few ones, I felt I needed to finish a couple important bits before this one. Here's what I've been up to the past few weeks:
Volume 1
Revised all images for printing, everything should be good to go on that department. Only missing translation.
Volume 2
Same as Volume 1.
Volume 3
All tutorials finally done, please find a couple screenshots below! I'm also about 50% through revising images. It's still missing the coloured circles in some tutorials (which my graphic designer is taking care of at the moment), the index, and adjustments on the chapter headers, which I will put together as soon as I receive the file back form Adrián.
Overall progress in numbers*
Text editing: 100%
Photo editing: 100%
Layout: 100%
*Tutorials only.
I finally reached the dreaded 100% for the tutorials, which means this way of tracking progress is no longer useful. Since the last touches for Volume 3 shouldn't take long (the only reason they are not done yet is I had some issues with a set of photos that I've since resolved), starting from the next update I'll prepare a quick table to show how the translation is progressing. At this point, the vast majority of the content is completed in English, with a small portion of Volumes 1 and 3 completed in Spanish and missing the English translation, and about one third of the whole project is completed in French, with Seyni working on the French translation and myself working on the English and Spanish versions.
Onwards to some previews!
These last couple of tutorials are some of my favourites from Volume 3, and I hope you will enjoy them too as soon as the books finally make their way to you.
In the meantime, thank you for your continued patience and support, and I'll see you in the next update, likely with an estimation of how long it will take to translate everything and adjust it to the existing layout.
Cheers,
Helio
May progress report (again!)
about 2 months ago
– Thu, May 14, 2026 at 01:30:09 PM
Hello everyone!
Many of you have liked the previous update and expressed time and again how you'd rather have more frequent, shorter updates than longer, more spaced out ones so let's keep that going. Here's the current state:
Volume 1
Final layout done, missing translation and final printing adjustments.
Volume 2
Final layout done, missing translation and final printing adjustments.
Volume 3
Done: 22/24 tutorials
WIP: text editing for two short theory chapters.
Missing: layout, photos, and text editing for 2 tutorials; final review + integration (index, foreword); translation and final printing adjustments.
Overall progress in numbers*
Text editing: 97%
Photo editing: 97%
Layout: 97%
*Tutorials only: after we reach 100% here I'll still need to finalise indexes, chapter headers, translation and final print prep, but I don't have a good way of estimating that numerically.
This means we are getting closer and closer to the finish line.
My current estimation is that I will be able to finish the last two tutorials over the next two weeks, and it should take around one more week after that to wrap up the missing theory chapters from Volume 3.
After that, it's just translation and printing adjustments, and then I will be able to send the books to the printing company. Unfortunately I don't have a great way to estimate how long it will take me to translate everything. Initially I considered outsourcing the translation, but I've settled for doing it myself because the translation process will be a great opportunity to review everything once again in great detail, which should help me pick up any typos and small mistakes that I may have made along the way in spite of my best efforts not to do so.
Either way, I will try to provide an estimate once I've translated a few tutorials and have a closer idea of how long it should take.
As always, thank you for your kind understanding and support, and see you in the next update!
Helio
May 2025 progress report
2 months ago
– Fri, May 01, 2026 at 07:42:56 AM
Hello everyone!
I hope you are having a great Labour Day today! On my part, I'm really glad to report I'm slowly but surely approaching the completion of the books.
Over the last few days I've only completed a couple more tutorials, so this update won't be as long as others, but many of you have mentioned you'd rather have shorter and more frequent updates so I'll try and do that. Here's a quick summary of the status of the project:
Volume 1
Final layout done, missing translation and final printing adjustments.
Volume 2
Final layout done, missing translation and final printing adjustments.
Volume 3
Done: 20/24 tutorials
WIP: text editing for two short theory chapters.
Missing: layout, photos and text editing for 4 tutorials; final review + integration (index, foreword); translation and final printing adjustments.
Overall progress in numbers*
Text editing: 93%
Photo editing: 93%
Layout: 93%
*Tutorials only: after we reach 100% here I'll need to finalise indexes, chapter headers, translation and final print prep, but I don't have a good way of estimating that numerically.
I've finally caught up with text and photo editing on one side and layout on the other, so I'll be doing that concurrently from now on, which is why I don't have more work in progress material like I did before. I used to always be "in between" tutorials, with text edited for some, images for others, and so on, which did cause slight confusion at times regarding the actual progress of the project, but not anymore.
I hope I can finish the remaining four tutorials soon so I can send the entire Volume 3 file to Adrián, the graphic designer, to complete the colour circles and a few other professional adjustments, and then we'll be that much closer to the finish line.
See you in the next update, and as always, thank you for your patience and support!
Helio
April progress report
3 months ago
– Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 04:55:28 AM
Hello everyone!
The last couple of months have been very productive and I've been able to finish many different elements of the project. Let's quickly review them!
Volume 1
Final layout done, missing translation and final printing adjustments.
The now infamous 99% theory chapter is finally 100% done (I added the last few photos and details that were missing), all the tutorials were already done as you may know from prior updates, and now the techniques and basing chapters as well as the index and everything else are completed too.
The book was initially planned to have around 72 pages, but there were simply too many sections that we (David Arroba and myself) felt needed more detail to explain everything in an accessible, easy to understand way, and we ended up including a few slightly more advanced concepts and techniques that we feel may be very useful for everyone.
The final length of the book is a whooping 104 pages.
Volume 2
Final layout done, missing translation and final printing adjustments.
Volume 3
Done: 17/24 tutorials
WIP: layout for 2 tutorials (photos and text 100% ready), text editing for two short theory chapters.
Missing: layout, photos and text editing for 5 tutorials; final review + integration (index, foreword, chapter headers); translation and final printing adjustments.
Overall progress in numbers*
Text editing: 92%
Photo editing: 90%
Layout: 88%
*Tutorials only: after we reach 100% here I'll need to finalise indexes, chapter headers, translation and final print prep, but I don't have a good way of estimating that numerically.
Now time for some progress images for those more visually inclined, I hope you enjoy them!
possibly my favourite spread in the entire volume 3 so far!
And that's it for now! Without checking I think this update is even longer than the previous, which is only fair because it documents a slightly longer period. I hope you liked it! I found a process to capture the images for the update that allows for better quality without taking particularly long to load or export the files, so I'll be using that from now on, although I'm not entirely sure it will show through due to Kickstarter compressing the images down anyways.
From this point on I'll distribute my time between translating (as you may have noticed, Volume 1's pages are in still Spanish at this point, as that was easier for David Arroba to approve when I completed each section of the editing and layout), and the rest of the tutorials that I still need to edit and layout, and I'll be back with another update once I have something meaningful to show and some interesting news to share.
Thank you for your continued patience and support,
Helio
January progress report
6 months ago
– Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 04:35:27 AM
Hello there!
Over the last few weeks I've made some significant progress, so it's time to show you. Overall, and as it's sadly become a theme for this project, it's been a little bit slower than I'd hoped, but I find it's very meaningful nonetheless!
Volume 1
Done: Theory, 12/12 tutorials.
WIP: Basing, brush and airbrush techniques.
Missing: final review + integration (index, foreword).
Very little progress on this end I'm afraid, just a few edits on the basing chapter and the brush technique chapters but nothing final yet. I'm trying to work with the painter in charge of it to speed it up, I'm not completely sure what the issue is just yet, but we will resolve it in the best possible way in the coming weeks.
Volume 2
Done: 24/24 tutorials, index, review.
WIP: chapter headers (6 half pages in total, separating each "family" of tutorials by theme explaining the general approach to speedpainting of that particular family).
Missing: NOTHING!
This one is almost done except for finishing up the chapter headers! As you'll find in the images below, even the small circles with the paint colours have been filled out, which as it turns out was a fairly time intensive task. As soon as I'm done with the chapter headers, I'll send it over to the printer for final printing adjustments and we should be good to go.
Volume 3
Done: 9/24 tutorials
WIP: layout for 7 tutorials (photos and text 100% ready), layout and photo editing for 1 tutorial (text 100% ready), text editing for two short theory chapters.
Missing: layout, photos and text editing for 7 tutorials; final review +integration (index, foreword).
This one is the most delayed one at the moment, but also the one that is progressing faster. I've already worked through the majority of the trickiest tutorials, only 3 of the 7 that are missing are a little bit tricky while the other 4 should be quite straightforward to edit.
Overall progress in numbers (tutorials only*)
Text editing: 87%
Photo editing: 85%
Layout: 75%
While we haven't speed up as much as I would have liked with the incorporation of Adrián to help me with the layout, we've ironed out a lot of kinks in the process so it's possible we will indeed speed up a little bit in the next few weeks.
*Tutorials only: Please keep in mind when this reaches 100% I will still need some time to finalise the order of the tutorials, prepare the indexes, and a few more details before I can send the books to the printer. However, I don't have a good way of estimating that numerically and I feel this is nonetheless a great estimate to give you a rough idea of where the project sits at currently for those who would rather receive information numerically.
And now let's see a few images from the layout we've recently completed. I hope you are as excited about them as I am, especially about volume 2 which is almost done now!
I think this has been the largest update in terms of new layout in a while, which makes me very happy to be honest. I still have quite a lot of work ahead of me before I can finish the books, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and I've found a good rhythm that is working out almost as well as I expected even if a little bit slower than I'd hoped.
Thank you for your continued patience and support, and see you in the next update, sooner rather than later if everything goes according to plan!
