RAY LAROSE · MINIATURES
The paints and steps behind each finished model, and the recipes I come back to.
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58 painted schemes 300 photos 44 recipes 162 paint matches
Rise is my text adventure, set in Hive Primus. You start in the Sump and climb towards Lord Helmawr. Free, in your browser, and played the old way: you type what you do.
Play Rise →The newest finished schemes, each with every paint and step.
Paint schemes for Warhammer 40k, Blood Bowl, Necromunda and Horus Heresy and more. Pick a game or an army to see how I painted it.
Miniature painting recipes for one part at a time, like armour, flesh and weapon, each a short list of steps you can follow at the desk.
162 Citadel colours matched to Vallejo, Pro Acryl and Two Thin Coats, by eye, with how close each match really is. Search any name from any brand.
Open the conversion chart →Four short recipes, in this order. Each one adds a single new skill.
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How I paint a Space Marine
10 stages, from the box to the table, with a photo at each step and the paints and recipes for each.
Start to finish
How I paint an Ork
11 stages, from the box to the table, with a photo at each step and the paints and recipes for each.
How I painted each model: the exact paints, the order they went on, and the finish they gave.
Methods I reuse across models - skin, metal, armour, cloth and the rest. Each step is one named paint, one technique and a note. Unless a step says otherwise, every recipe here starts on a primed model - the scheme that uses it usually says which colour.
The paints I actually own - every pot on my shelf, not a catalogue of what exists. This is what the schemes and recipes are painted with.
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Citadel colours matched to their closest Vallejo, Pro Acryl and Two Thin Coats equivalents, by eye, over time. Nothing here is a measured colour match - the dots say how close each one really is.
Still filling this in: 8 of the 112 colours used in the recipes here have no row yet. Mostly Vallejo. A blank means not mapped, not that no equivalent exists.
How close the match is:
near identical
usable
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4 how many of my recipes and schemes use it - tap one to see them
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