Painting Sons of Behemat - Mega-Gargants and Gargants for Age of Sigmar

Games Workshop’s Mega-Gargants are insane. They’re not actually that big — but they are crammed with detail. We did two along with some regular gargants (remember when we used to think the Warhammer Giant was large?) as part of a Sons of Behemat miniature painting service gig.

Here they are doing the Right Stuff walk.

Paintedfigs is a commission miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Infinity Wargame Miniature Painting Service

The level of detail on Infinity miniatures is always increasing. Personally, I feel it has hit a point of diminishing returns, but it does work out in our favor as a miniature painting service when minis become annoying hard to paint… that’s our whole business model!

These are some highlights from a large and quite varied set of mostly newer, Infinity miniatures. WE did the miniature painting service on this order at Exhibition quality.

Paintedfigs is a commission miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Painting Daughters of Khaine - Age of Sigmar

We got very lucky with this Daughters of Khaine miniature painting service commission - the client threw the official scheme out the window! Instead, he had picked out a palette from World of Warcraft. We had to figure out the implementation, but he gave us a great set of colors to work with.

The bright green pools / blood / glow really bring the army together. These Daughters of Khaine miniatures for Age of Sigmar were painted to Showcase.

Paintedfigs is a commission miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Painting Hordes Trollbloods

Been a while since we’ve done some Privateer Press painting - I hope the pandemic hasn’t messed them around too much. We got these Trollbloods from a gentleman in Switzerland who has always been a big fan of all things Hordes and Warmachine. He’s been coming to our miniature painting service for years, and the latest work he’s had us work on were these Trollbloods.

This miniature painting service was done to Showcase and Exhibition quality.

Paintedfigs is a commission miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

A Classic Warhammer Fantasy Dwarfs Miniature Painting Commission

We recently had the good fortune to finish up a Classic, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Dwarf army. It’s strange for me to think of these as ‘classic,’ I suppose that’s just me showing my age.

What’s surprising about WHFB is that we see about as much interest in it as we see for Age of Sigmar. Part of this could be the model count - there always seems to be more miniatures to paint in a Warhammer Fantasy army. Down the road, we have a Lizardman army, and Forest Goblin army.

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

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More Sisters of Battle Painting

We are finishing up a pretty large Sisters of Battle right now. The colors are the stock black / red / white / gold and the synthesis is a delight. I hope you like these!

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

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A Bit Of Dreadfleet Miniature Painting Service

Nine years ago GW came out with Dreadfleet. It was a Warhammer Fantasy universe naval war game, coming out a time when there was no fantasy equivalent except Uncharted Seas, which didn’t have models anywhere near as impressive (and never matched). I had hoped it was a prelude to a Man-O-War type game reboot, but that never happened, sadly.

Here are some Dreadfleet miniatures we just finished a couple of weeks ago. Please not how distinctive each factions ships are — hints of what could have been.

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

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Weathering, Rust, Squalor: Painting Fallout Miniatures

Most of our paint jobs have a ‘squeaky clean’ look - even our tanks look like someone just peeled the plastic covers off them. This isn’t an accident: I always ask the painters to avoid applying any weathering unless it is in the instructions, or obvious given the context of the commission. This is because it is no problem to add weathering to a job — but a disaster to remove it.

However, most clients are happy to dispense with weathering, which means we don’t get to do it very often. For this reason, Fallout always an interesting change up for painters. Fallout is not just rust and paint wear - Fallout is full on squalor.

Here are some pieces from a large Fallout commission we finished recently. I’ve picked out the pieces with significant weathering to show how we handled it.

These were painted at a mix of quality levels. Hope you like them!

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

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Painting Tokens for Mage Knight

We’re getting more and more jobs to do board game tokens. Some come stock with their games, but others are 3d printed from third party vendors, often on Etsy.

Here are some tokens we did for Mage Knight. Each is about half the size of a regular 28mm figure.

There were all painted to Showcase Quality.

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Painting Classic Warhammer Chaos Trolls

I like to show off all the cool new minis, but a lot of what we get are people’s collections of older minis, sometimes quite old. Often its classic D&D and Ral Partha goodies, but we also get a lot of classic warhammer miniatures.

This is where I shine. Everyone’s like “what are these?!” “Ask him!” 50/50 chance it’s just stuff from about 20-25 years ago and I can usually answer. But, otherwise, its off to Solegends and Google.

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

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More Adeptus Mechanicus Warhammer 40k Miniature Painting Service

This is my favorite Adeptus Mechanicus commission. I’ve blogged earlier about the first round of minis, these are the reinforcements. Some Serberys Sulphurhounds, Raiders, and Sterilyzors (why would they want it spelled that way? Are flying dudes with flamers somehow lacking if they’re just called Sterilizers?).

The raiders are fantastic - total space cowboys. They just need cowboy hats and your done.

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

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Painting Sisters of Battle

We’ve been painting Sisters of Battle for some weeks now. Two armies, both huge. Here are some highlights from the first one.

The plastic battles sisters are pretty sweet. They are - somehow - elegant and brutal at the same time. They have grace, but none of the brittleness that Eldar have. They are very much an army of the Imperium.

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

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Green Tau!

They’re green. They’re Tau!

These were a mix of quality levels. Tau have a billion guns and the all magnetize well. The result, is a that our Tau battle suits all look like someone ran off with their hands. Instead, we magnetize all the options (though this does cost a bit extra).

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

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Painting Free Folk - CMON Game of Thrones

Finished up some Free Folk recently; Cave Dwellers, Skin Changers, Followers of the Bone. Here are some highlights.

There were all painted to Showcase Quality.

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Kickstarter Painting: Anno 1666

Anno 1666 is a Kickstarter board game set in 17th Century Vienna:

“It is the year of our Lord 1666. Emperor Leopold is dead. The election looms. European monarchs send their envoys to Vienna to participate. But the struggle for the Empire's future takes place not only at the noble courts. In Vienna's slums and alleys swashbucklers, musketeers and thugs wage a secret war on behalf of their powerful superiors.” [Board Game Geek]

We were commissioned by one of the creators to paint up a nice big set of these very characterful minis. My favorite in the Not-Leon. You can’t miss him.

There were all painted to Exhibition Quality.

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Prices Going Up

Our core rates have been unchanged for about 10 years. Unfortunately though, a lot of other other things have changed in that time:

• our wages have gone up, commensurate with skill and experience

• some materials and services have gone up, especially shipping

• figure complexity has boomed

I have always preferred to grow our output and sales, rather than just hike rates. However, there’s only so far that goes before putting off a price increase becomes unhealthy for the business - and 2020 has underlined this.

So we are raising our rates. Painting is going up by 10%, and Shipping is going up marginally. Depending on what happens with international shipping in the coming year, shipping may increase again. However, I don’t see painting rates changing again, for several years at least.

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Turquoise Thousand Sons!

We usually paint Thousand Sons miniatures in blue. For this miniature painting service project though we were given a turquoise reference with a more muted gold. Here are the results.

These were painted to Exhibition Quality [corrected. This originally said ‘Showcase’]. Hope you like them!

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

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Painting Adeptus Titanicus

We’ve been doing a little Adeptus Titanicus here and there. Not as much as we expected given the hype when the game launched (also — TITANS. What's not to like?!), but enough to have more than a passing familiarity with the work.

Here are some Titanicus miniatures we’ve painted - mostly for Lucas, our shipper in Illinois :) .

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

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Crab Men, Shark Men, and Clam Men - Painting Wrath of Kings

Wrath of Kings is a game sadly out of print now. I know nothing about it, except that the sculpts are unique, excellent, and they have an undersea faction. We landed a miniature painting commission to work on some and here’s what we did.

These were all painted to Showcase Quailty.

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Slaanesh Daemons, Painted to Our Highest Quality

Every now and then someone says “paint ALL of them at Exhibition.” Here’s what that kind of miniature painting commission looks like - a Slaanesh Daemon army done entirely and Exhibition Quality.

I cannot think of enough good things to say about the sculpts, so I will shut up and leave you with that.

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

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