Unlocked goal recap, a glimpse into volumes 2 and 3, and final goals to wrap up the campaign!
about 1 year ago – Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 02:32:20 PM

The last couple of days have been absolutely crazy with new people coming to the campaign from every direction, so let's welcome everyone who has recently joined the campaign and do a quick recap what we have accomplished since the start!

So far, we have unlocked the following additional goals:

Free for everyone

• One month subscription to the Grimdark Compendium by Kendon Oates, which will be delivered via a coupon code that you will be able to activate whenever you want after the campaign ends.

Volume 1

• Spot UV printing for the cover.
• One additional tutorial by the amazing David Arroba on a figure chosen by the community from our small range of three miniatures.

Volume 2

• Spot UV printing for the cover.
• One additional tutorial, again by David Arroba, on a figure chosen by the community from OPR's incredible range.
• One additional tutorial by sculptor and painter extraordinaire Alex Muñoz on a Seraphon warrior.
• One additional tutorial by the talented Josh Harris on an Age of Sigmar orruk, showcasing his signature magenta OSL.
• Not unlocked yet but coming up very soon, one additional tutorial by my friend Jaime de Garnica teaching how to paint black and white, and sepia style figures similar to Zombicide: Night of the Living Dead.
• 8 extra pages to include additional tips and tricks in some of the tutorials, as well as include squad photos wherever they make sense to show how the figures from the tutorial will look like as a group.

Volume 3

• Spot UV printing for the cover.
• One additional tutorial by Kendon Oates on a figure chosen by the community from OPR's range.
• One additional tutorial by Henry Steele from Cult of Paint on a terminator model showcasing his amazing oil filtering technique (see video below).
• One additional tutorial by the legend Rodrigo H. Chacón on a Sylvaneth model, displaying different ways of incorporating visual and tactile textures on your models.
• Not unlocked yet but coming up very soon, another tutorial by Rodrigo on the same subject, showing even more ways to make your models come to life through all kinds of textures.
• 8 extra pages with tips, tricks and squad photos.

The most ever funded miniature painting book campaign in Kickstarter, the original Minipedia  by Scale75, reached 475k on their final day of the campaign. Do we dare to dream?

And last but not least, I'd like to show you a few mockups from some tutorials that I've been laying out over the last few weeks, I really hope you like how they are turning out! Please keep in mind these are not 100% final yet, they need small adjustments for printing, as well as filling out the colors in the little boxes, and a couple more details to be finished.

Thank you for your incredible support so far, I honestly can't wait to get these books ready for you and see the amazing projects you paint, be them your existing or new wargaming armies, your boardgames, or a collection of minis for a roleplaying campaign!

Helio

French edition, goals unlocked, and even more new goals!
about 1 year ago – Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 08:20:41 AM

First off, let's discuss some good news from all our French speaking backers.

I have carefully considered it and decided that we will 100% do the French translation, just like we are doing the Spanish translation, regardless of the amount of backers that we get. It simply makes sense to me to find ways to reward the amazing interest and support that you have all shown and I feel this is one of the things that I can do that is just right.

The minimum print run we need to do is 500 copies of each book, so there will be a lot of copies left unless we have quite a few more backers who want their copies in French, so I do have a favour to ask:

If you have any friends or colleagues who may be interested in getting these books in French, please share the campaign with them so we can avoid keeping a bunch of books gathering dust in a warehouse somewhere at some point down the line.

Now onwards to more content for everyone!

You have smashed through our last community goal, going almost 200 Instagram followers over the original target in just a couple of days. That's amazing and it means Kendon Oates from the Grimdark Compendium will be doing a tutorial on a figure from One Page Rules chosen by you!

We have unlocked another stretch goal that I was honestly super excited about, the first one is an extra tutorial for Volume 2 and another one for Volume 3.

First off, my friend Alejandro Muñoz will be doing a Kroxigor and some Seraphon warriors for Volume 2. He's better known for his outstanding talent as a digital sculptor (in fact, he sculpted Adama for this very project!), but he also happens to be one of the most talented army painters I know. You can see some of his work on his Instagram account right here, although you'll have to scroll through plenty of renders of his 3D sculpts first, among which you'll find some absolutely incredible pieces.

Next up, Henry Steele from Cult of Paint will be doing a Deathwing Terminator for Volume 3 using oil dot filtering. Whether you are already familiar with his subtle, realistic approach to 40k or you are finding about him just now, I'm sure you'll enjoy this one. I have come to know him as a really thoughtful painter who is never afraid of experimenting and trying new things, and has a way of explaining things that really resonates with me, so I truly hope you'll find this tutorial as educational as I've found the rest of his work.

At 350k we will unlock two additional, all new tutorials:

For Volume 2, the amazing Josh Harris, also known as orc.butt in social media, will be teaching us how to paint one of his signature magenta-lit, monochromatic Orruks; and for volume 3 the incredible Rodrigo H. Chacón will show how to incorporate visual and tactile textures into your miniatures using some Sylvaneth models perfectly suited for the task. Below you will find a sample of the kind of thing he aims to teach us, keep in mind that's not the actual model for the tutorial though, same as Josh's who will be painted another model following the same scheme.

I really hope we can reach this one, because I'm personally super excited to get to do the layout for these new tutorials and have a chance to try my hand at following them, I feel my own Chaos army would look killer in one of these schemes!

This would bring the total number of artists involved in the project to a whopping and absolutely insane 38 painters one of whom is also a sculptor, 2 sculptors,  3 character designers, 1 graphic designer, 1 video editor and myself coordinating the whole team to make sure we can all work towards the same goal, which is making the best possible painting books for everyone to enjoy!

Book content, new video out, goals unlocked, and now what?
about 1 year ago – Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 10:01:24 AM

Hi everyone!

What an incredible last couple of days! Lot's of progresss, and there's more to come! But let's not get ahead of ourselves: First off, we are super close to unlocking the third and final community goal. To get there we just need to reach 2500 Instagram followers, and we are only 112 short. Once we do, you will be able to choose the figure for a new tutorial for Volume 3. If you haven't already, you can follow the project on Instagram right here:

Instagram

While you are at it, you can also participate in a giveaway from our amazing collaborator Moses Yao, who is giving away the figures he painted for the books. You can find the rules of the giveaway on this Instagram post.

And these are some of the cool models from Volume 2 I still hadn't shown you yet, including the very same figures from the giveaway in question:

Additionally, I'd like to show you some very unique figures that will be featured in Volume 3 as well. The stormcast have been lightly weathered with enamels; the chaos warriors have been painted using a combination of graphite pencils, fluor pigments, and more; the Kratos tank features every technique you may need to properly weather a vehicle, and the orruk is painted using pigment powders from ground pastels no less!

Last but not least, I'd like to feature a few of the creators who made some amazing videos about the project.

Zumikito has just released a video following Volume 2's tutorial by Javier García and Andrea Macías but painting 20 (yes, you read right, twenty!) Cities of Sigmar models instead of the Unmade, you can watch it here (don't forget to give him a like if you actually like it, it will help the project tremendously!):

Jay from Eons of Battle did something similar, painting an amazing Adeptus Arbites kill team following Will Hahn's space marine tutorial, you can find it here:

Alex from 52 Miniatures helps a friend who had never ever painted a miniature before paint her first mini following his tutorial with his typical calm, reflexive approach right here:

And last but not least, I wanted to include the video by Trovarion, which isn't directly related to a tutorial from the books, but it provides really interesting insights into why he joined our little project in the first place, and demonstrates his amazing depiction of incredible Warhammer artwork by Adrian Smith in miniature form. You should go watch it too!

And that's all for today!

...or is it?

There are more stretch goals coming. I may or may not have reached agreements with a couple more amazing collaborators and I can't wait to tell you all about it. But enough for today! Stay tuned during the next couple of days for more news on this regard!

Helio

What an amazing first week! Community goals, collaborations, French edition, and more!
about 1 year ago – Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 01:34:59 PM

First off, I must be completely honest with all of you: Not even in my wildest dreams I imagined you will band together to support this project in the amazing way that you have. For that I have only two words:

Thank you

It truly means the world to me that each and every one of you decided to support the project in the way that you have, and I pledge to you that I will devote every last ounce of my energy and dedication to deliver the best books that I can possibly put together. You will probably read this a lot more times, I won't stop repeating it until you have your books at home.

Also, this is a great time to apologise to any of you that may have waited for a reply to a comment or message a little bit long. I have personally replied to each and everyone of you as honestly and thoughtfully as possible, but this takes a little bit of time in some cases. I am doing my best to keep up with all the comments, messages, and everything else here and on social media but please excuse me if sometimes I take a few hours to get back to you. I'm running the whole campaign on my own, and it gets a bit crazy at times!

French edition

As you may know, we are working with the outstanding Seyni N'Diaye and Clément Trincat to make two very cool tutorials, one on the Lord of Hubris for Volume 2 by Seyni and one on a battered Star Wars AT-ST for Volume 3 by Seyni.

You may not know they work at Wargame Spirit Studio though. We are partnering with them to make the French edition a reality, and their amazing contribution will lower the amount of French backers required from 400 to 350. Additionally, I will personally assume an extra risk and lower it even further to account for French speaking backers from other countries, down to 250 backers from France to unlock the translation. As you can see in the community tab right here, we are steadily approaching the halfway point so I'm confident we will hit the target before the campaign is over!

Community goals

We have met our first two community goals, and we are very close to meeting the third. What this means is that we have some extra tutorials for the books, which is awesome, and you will get to pick which figures we use after the campaign is over, which is even more awesome if you ask me!

The extra tutorial for Volume 1 will be on one of our figures, and you will get to decide which one we use. It will be done by my dear friend and amazingly talented painter David Arroba, who was the first painter to join me in this quest to make great painting books and will showcase the highest quality paintjob we will feature in Volume 1. Our idea is that it will serve as an inspirational piece that you can slowly work towards by following all the other tutorials and advice in the book.

For Volumes 2 and 3, we have a collaboration with the guys from One Page Rules. As the name suggests, they make wargames with rules that fit in only one page, and more importantly they have an amazing catalog with an incredible amount of figures that they publish monthly through Patreon.

The extra tutorial for Volume 2 will also be done by David Arroba (he's truly one of a kind. You may think I am a little bit biased because he's my friend, but the judges at Golden Demon shared my opinion and awarded him gold. Twice!)

Last but not least, the extra tutorial for Volume 3 will be done by none other than Kendon Oates from the Grimdark Compendium, and will serve as a nice and easy introduction to the style in case you are not familiar with it, as well as a way of warming up for his four other tutorials featured in the same book which go a lot more in depth into different techniques and materials to get your minis looking amazing. Just in case you are not familiar with his work, here are a couple of his pieces:

This one is not unlocked yet though, although we are very close! To unlock it, we need to reach 2500 followers in the project's Instagram account:

You can find it here, we are only missing 259 followers right now so I think this one will be unlocked really fast!

And now what?

I have a few things prepared to make the books even better. Check out the new stretch goals to see what cool additions I am already making to the books, and some of what lies ahead. I hope you are as excited as I am for these!

Miniature Painting Made Easy Vol 3 Gallery
about 1 year ago – Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 09:07:47 AM