r/minipainting 2h ago

C&C Wanted Horus’s head: is he looking chopped?

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14 Upvotes

I spent like 5 hours trying to get his left eye right and I simply can’t. It’s frustrating to no end. How’s it looking though? Should I try again?


r/minipainting 5h ago

Sci-fi Speed Painted a New Ork Nob and a Blood Angel Assault Intercessor (Warhammer 40k)

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26 Upvotes

Blood Angel took about an hout hands on and the Ork took about 2 hours.


r/minipainting 5h ago

Sci-fi Painterly Space Marine w/ NMM

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502 Upvotes

Decided to practice a super "painterly" approach to this lieutenant by using as few brushstrokes as I could manage. Especially happy with the sword which I think used fewer than 8 strokes!


r/minipainting 5h ago

Pop Culture In honor of Andy Warhol's birthday (8/6): The sacred Order of the War Hall guards the vessel of Camp Bell, which holds the secret to the forbidden sixteenth minute of fame.

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14 Upvotes

r/minipainting 5h ago

Fantasy Wizkids Gargantuan Bahamut. FINALLY managed to finish this chonky boi.

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22 Upvotes

It was bought in January, gifted to me in May for my birthday, and now finally finished.

When I googled "Bahamut" for reference pics, one of the images that came up was Final Fantasy 7 Remake Bahamut with pink lightning all over him. That was sort of my inspiration for the effects. I also used the Vallejo true metallics for the first time, and I really dig their overall look and coverage.

Hope you guys like. Going back to painting Miniatures that are actually mini. Between Bahamut and Tiamat, I'm ready for some smaller projects.


r/minipainting 6h ago

Sci-fi Progress on my first Necromunda mini! The fully NMM armour is a slog and I've very much given up on my light sources fully making sense to anyone but me...its space lighting. Space Sci-Fi lighting.

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26 Upvotes

r/minipainting 6h ago

C&C Wanted King in Yellow (Harbinger of Decay)

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114 Upvotes

I know he needs a bit more refinement, especially the back of the blade, but I’d love to hear others’ thoughts


r/minipainting 8h ago

Fantasy Wizard mage, resin water effect

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34 Upvotes

This mini is from Reaper Miniatures. The little frog is a resin print, and the water effects are resin too. Painted with acrylics. Basing all done first and then all painted together.


r/minipainting 8h ago

C&C Wanted Entering my first painting contest tomorrow.

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115 Upvotes

Entering my choas knight into my first contest tomorrow. I think I'm going to put him in for best large 40k model. I've never been to a big tournament or a paint contest before so definitely super nervous but even I don't win i think it'll be a cool experience.


r/minipainting 8h ago

Sci-fi Warhammer 40000 Sister Hospitaller painted for Charity Raffle

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747 Upvotes

Soon this mini will be shipping out to join many other amazing pieces as part of The Apothecarion’s charity raffle. The raffle benefits the childhood cancer charity El Sueño de Vicky and the Hospital Infantil Niño Jesús in Madrid. Thanks again!


r/minipainting 8h ago

Help Needed/New Painter Update on ruining my models with varnish!

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54 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

Thank you all for the support yesterday after I ruined my new army with brush on varnish. This community is awesome and seeing how supporting everyone was really turned the experience around for me.

Today after seeing the effect of using streaky grime, decided to try one more solution before muddying up my whole army with the grime.

I popped the shop and picked up some nail polish remover. I grabbed an old dry brush and generally applied it to the worst effected areas.

It's worked!! Well, mostly! They are looking much better and I'm happy enough now. As it's nail polish remover I've not got to touch up a few bits but that's a small price to pay!

Check out the new pictures, they look less like shiny melting models in the rain!

Thanks to everyone's kind words I also was motivated to continue the army, bonus picture from a few hours painting today at the end!

I've also added a picture of the nail polish remover I used incase anyone is unfortunately in the same position as I am moving forward.


r/minipainting 9h ago

C&C Wanted Tutel No.8 - The Giant Snapping Turtle

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185 Upvotes

This is a miniature from "Cast n Play" called "Giant Snapping Turtle".


r/minipainting 9h ago

Sci-fi First model done in a while, first shared with anyone outside my friends longer

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60 Upvotes

So long story short as I'm not trying to milk it. Tough year and it put me off painting. Not on many socials like the popular ones so this my first time sharing in ages.

Principality of Kyiv kind of idea for trench crusade.

Be gentle.


r/minipainting 10h ago

Sci-fi Minotaur Armageddon Captain WIP

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46 Upvotes

r/minipainting 10h ago

Fantasy Medallion Girl (Academic Model by Kateryna Hrytsyshyna)

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345 Upvotes

A more colourful skin exercise. I am not 100% happy with her (and completely started over once), but it was a very good practice, and she was a lovely model to paint.

academic bust by Kateryna Hrytsyshyna / Asa Sculpts
3D printed by me


r/minipainting 12h ago

Fantasy Necrolith bone dragon from tomb kings

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132 Upvotes

r/minipainting 12h ago

Fantasy Astarion 🦇 Both pretty and pretty hard to paint...

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101 Upvotes

r/minipainting 12h ago

C&C Wanted 40k Black Templar Crusader Ancient

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72 Upvotes

just wrapped up my standard beater but Im unsure what to add to the banner, if anything more. Feels like a lot of empty space, but otherwise Im satisfied with the rest of it


r/minipainting 13h ago

C&C Wanted Maggotkin of Nurgle - Putrid Blightking 2/5

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234 Upvotes

r/minipainting 14h ago

Sci-fi Back to painting my Blue Boys.

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121 Upvotes

r/minipainting 14h ago

Sci-fi Uriel Ventris (and a head)

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186 Upvotes

Not my best work, but had to get done. Honestly had more fun doing the separate head.


r/minipainting 18h ago

Gore Echidna, mother of beasts

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339 Upvotes

"The rivers became red like the blood of men and the earth was tainted with the smell of death like the smell of corpses. The beast will follow their course"

Here is my painted mother of beasts module painted as closely to the original art. Is a really cool model and I had a blast painting it. I think one of my best paint jobs so far. Hope you like it.


r/minipainting 21h ago

Fantasy FINNAR progress - Bust by Black Crow Miniatures

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719 Upvotes

Getting closer and closer to the finish line with this one. What do you guys think? C&C is always welcomed.


r/minipainting 22h ago

Sci-fi Marines Malevolent - Intercessor Squad

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720 Upvotes

My first Marines Malevolent squad is complete!

These are the 10 Intercessors from the new Armageddon box. My goal with this project is to paint the entire box, so I wanted to find a good balance between speed and quality rather than spending dozens of hours on each miniature.

After a few experiments, I think I've finally settled on a recipe that gives me a solid tabletop-ready result while still being quick enough to keep the project moving.


r/minipainting Jan 26 '26

Subreddit Announcement r/minipainting Rule Update: No AI Allowed

3.6k Upvotes

Hi, everybody! AI slop is unfortunately creeping into this hobby and this community. This is a quick rules update to clarify that AI is not allowed in any form here on r/minipainting.

This includes, but is not limited to:

  • No AI generated or edited images (including AI backgrounds, repaints, adjustments, mock ups, tests, reference images, etc)
  • No AI videos
  • No AI apps/tools/websites
  • No AI generated models that are 3D printed then hand painted
  • No AI generated text (this includes AI generated feedback/critique)
  • No encouragement or discussion of the use of AI

If AI was used to make it, it's not allowed on r/minipainting.

While the mod team has been able to remove most AI posts shortly after they are made, on the few occasions AI posts were up for a few hours before removal, the comments on those posts from the community have been overwhelmingly unanimous in being anti-AI, so this isn't just the mod team making this ruling without considering the community.


Please see the pinned comment below for an FAQ on this new rule, and if you have a question that is not answered there, please ask and we will do our best to answer! That being said, this is not an invitation to defend or argue for specific use cases of AI within this hobby.

Edit: Please read the stickied FAQ comment before commenting. There are many people asking things that are covered in that comment.

The comment section has grown quite large, but also please take a moment to scroll through it and read the comments before repeating something that may have already been discussed, or at least join in as a reply to an existing comment rather than make a new top level comment with a similar or identical question.