Lots of us have at some point fantasised about turning our hobbies into our job, but what does it really take to make money painting Warhammer? In this episode, we discuss professional commission painting miniatures and the skills you’ll need to pull it off. Expect to learn from James on how he started a commission painting business, and how the industry has changed over 10 years of running it. The struggles and successes Joe has seen from managing over 90 professional Warhammer painters, and George’s experience as a full time artist and what lessons he had to learn to make it work. 

Also in this episode, we share our hobby updates over the past week, including painting custom sculpted Night Lords miniatures and a Guardians of the Covenant army, and of course our hobby hacks! 

ONYX PAINTING LAMP ➡️ https://shorturl.at/ryBEG
PATREON ➡️ https://shorturl.at/tCIKU 

Job applications: https://siegestudios.co.uk/jobs/

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0:00:00 Trailer
0:00:50 Joe’s musings
0:11:12 James’ mistake 
0:14:09 The floor is lava
0:19:48 First time commission painting
0:30:22 “You can’t make it your job”
0:36:52 Resenting professional painters
0:44:08 How the industry has changed 
0:49:54 How to make money from painting
0:53:57 The hardest things
0:59:36 When are you ready? 
1:14:49 Hobby Hacks

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Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

Follow us: @siegestudios / @paintperspectivepodcast

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts

There's lots of ways to improve your Warhammer painting, but what about ones that don’t involve any brushes at all? In this episode, we discuss one of the most overlooked parts of miniature painting: building and cleaning your Warhammer models. Stay tuned for hacks on how to do a better job, the tools we recommend, things to avoid and why it will make your paint jobs look better!

Also in this episode, it’s time for the community submissions for our monthly painting challenge: #catachanuary and we will be showcasing some of our favourites (and the best rule bends). 

Siege Scenics: https://www.instagram.com/siegescenics/

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MERCH ➡️ https://shorturl.at/GOTkW

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0:00:00 Trailer

0:01:05 Hobby updates 

0:07:54 Siege Scenics

0:10:03 Is building models boring?

0:20:02 Cleaning and prep

0:31:31 Why it IMPROVES your painting 

0:36:15 How to enjoy it more

0:43:15 Converting and kit-bashing 

0:44:58 The BEST hobby tools! 

0:50:45 Paul missed the memo

0:57:33 #Catachanuary 

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Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

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Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts

There’s nothing we love more than painting Warhammer miniatures, but what about those times where it’s not so much fun? This week, we discuss how to get back to enjoying miniature painting when it’s at its hardest, and how to tackle frustration, lack of motivation and self doubt… Expect to learn how we keep cool when challenged by projects, the most fun techniques you can use to relax, creating the best mindset and confidence around painting and much more! 

Also in this episode, we answer our listeners question of the week on choosing alternative colours and colour schemes, how to pick your paints, and of course share our hobby hacks! 

PATREON ➡️ https://shorturl.at/tCIKU 
ONYX PAINTING LAMP ➡️ https://shorturl.at/ryBEG

RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS ➡️ https://shorturl.at/N9k7P
DISCORD ➡️ https://shorturl.at/bwM68
MERCH ➡️ https://shorturl.at/GOTkW

0:00:00 Trailer
0:00:47 Painting cavalier marshal 
0:03:43 Painting Lhykis 
0:05:42 Painting Death Guard
0:15:53 How to ENJOY Painting… 
0:20:16 Navigating ‘frustration’ in painting
0:25:00 Keeping cool
0:28:51 MORE enjoyable techniques 
0:34:11 Tackling self doubt 
0:46:36 Best ‘bang for buck’ activities 
1:01:00 Getting Inspiration 
1:04:52 QOTW: Colour choices 
1:09:40 Hobby Hacks! 

Support the show

Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

Follow us: @siegestudios / @paintperspectivepodcast

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts

We always love painting new miniatures from Games Workshop, but can the challenge sometimes be a little too tough? In this episode, we discuss the new Phoenix Lord releases of Aeldari for Warhammer 40k and the teams experience painting the miniatures and importantly, why they were such a challenge! 

Also in this episode, we discuss the new reveals from the Las Vegas Open (LVO), answer our question of the week about planning projects and of course share with you our parting Hobby Hack! 

PATREON ➡️ https://shorturl.at/tCIKU 
ONYX PAINTING LAMP ➡️ https://shorturl.at/ryBEG

RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS ➡️ https://shorturl.at/N9k7P
DISCORD ➡️ https://shorturl.at/bwM68
MERCH ➡️ https://shorturl.at/GOTkW

0:00:00 Trailer 
0:00:54 New year new challenge 
0:04:10 Non metallic metal
0:14:20 AD PATREON SILVER
0:15:15 Blood Angels update
0:21:41 The problem with NEW AELDARI 
0:35:27 AD ONYX
0:36:33 what did this teach you 
0:44:30 Other Aeldari models 
0:49:38 New EMPERORS CHILDREN
0:54:33 New Cadian command squad 
0:56:06 AD PATREON GOLD
0:56:38 The BEST new GW reveals
0:59:58 QOTW: Planning projects 
1:05:04 Hobby Hacks 

Support the show

Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

Follow us: @siegestudios / @paintperspectivepodcast

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts

Every miniature painter dreams of winning a Golden Demon trophy, but very few have won more than this week’s guest Mark Lifton!

In this episode, you’ll learn Marks important lessons from winning at Golden Demon, his advice for how you can enter a miniature painting competition, what separates his entries from everyone else, and why miniatures are not the same in photos as reality...

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DISCORD ➡️ https://shorturl.at/bwM68
MERCH ➡️ https://shorturl.at/GOTkW

0:00:00 Trailer
0:00:39 Where did it all start?
0:07:17 Instagram Vs reality 
0:09:56 miniature painting competitions 
0:15:13 Why should you enter? 
0:18:36 Iron Skull 2025  
0:20:20 Keeping up with the standard 
0:23:52 Is modelling overlooked?
0:29:28 How do you learn to kit bash? 
0:35:46 Creating engaging duels 
0:43:05 Lessons learned from competing 
0:53:02 Picking a category 
1:02:22 How do you judge painting? 
1:11:25 Hobby Hacks

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Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

Follow us: @siegestudios / @paintperspectivepodcast

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts

Theres lots of techniques, methods and products for painting Warhammer, but theres one technique we’ve always been unsure about… Oil paints. In this episode, George details his latest painting challenge where he put scale modelling techniques to the challenge on a small scale miniature. Expect to learn why we were wrong about using oil paints, how to use them on your project, why they can save you lots of time and where they can be used in display level painting.

Also in this episode, we showcase our community submissions for Decembers monthly painting challenge, discuss the latest new Warhammer miniature reveals and of course share our hobby hacks! 

ONYX PAINTING LAMP ➡️ https://shorturl.at/ryBEG
PATREON ➡️ https://shorturl.at/tCIKU
CUSTOM SERVICE ➡️ https://shorturl.at/kGH79

DISCORD ➡️ https://shorturl.at/bwM68
MERCH ➡️ https://shorturl.at/GOTkW
FREE PDF TUTORIAL ➡️ https://shorturl.at/Ovdy4

Recommended guide by @FlyingSModels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEG6Db3A04E&list=LL&index=8&t=223s

0:00:00 Trailer
0:02:00 Guardians of the Covenant
0:04:23 Painting with metallics 
0:08:06 Airbrush primer problems
0:11:36 Airbrushing metallics 
0:17:18 I was WRONG about oil paints
0:24:55 The miniature I painted 
0:26:04 Will it change how you paint? 
0:27:53 Blending is so EASY
0:33:27 Why oils are faster and easier
0:36:02 The cons…
0:39:48 What I learned 
0:45:34 Warhammer oil paint guide
0:54:42 Using oils for other textures 
0:59:52 Highlighting with oil paints 
1:01:52 George got played 
1:03:20 #Sanguinala 
1:11:17 New Fulgrim model! 
1:15:24 Head Vs Helmet
1:18:20 New basing bits 
1:20:30 New Horus Heresy model
1:23:24 Hobby Hack - Edge Highlighting 
1:29:34 Patreon Post show trailer 

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Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

Follow us: @siegestudios / @paintperspectivepodcast

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts

Are you ready to step up your miniature painting in 2025? Happy new year to you all! In this episode, we discuss our miniature painting goals from last year and what we were (and were not) able to achieve, how we improved as painters and importantly what lessons we learned. Learning from our shortcomings, we also set our goals for 2025 and how we plan to achieve them so we can get the most from the hobby! 

Setting goals can be hugely beneficial to improvement so we strongly encourage you all to do the same, and share them with us in the comments… Also in this episode, we share some important podcasts updates/plans for the year, finally reveal our monthly painting challenges for 2025 and of course share our hobby hacks! 

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PATREON ➡️ https://shorturl.at/tCIKU 
ONYX PAINTING LAMP ➡️ https://shorturl.at/ryBEG

0:00:00 Trailer
0:00:35 Monday episodes 
0:02:40 New merch!
0:04:07 loose ends 
0:10:36 Did we hit our 2024 goals?
0:12:38 James’ goals last year
0:23:55 Joe’s goals last year
0:29:03 George’s goals last year
0:35:50 How did we do?
0:37:08 How you improved in 2024
0:44:16 Setting goals for 2025 
0:54:52 Painting competitions 
1:00:25 Army plans 
1:07:10 2025 Siege Monthly Challenges 
1:16:40 Hobby Hacks 

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Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

Follow us: @siegestudios / @paintperspectivepodcast

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts

It's the 2024 Paint Perspective Christmas Special! In this episode, all four of our hosts have gotten together for the very first time to pitch their 40k movies, but this time with a twist... 

Also in this episode, we have some very exciting announcements about our new limited Paint Perspective merch, our plans for the podcast in 2025 and of course is tradition we share our parting hobby hack!

LIMITED PAINT PERSPECTIVE HOODIE ➡️ https://siegestudios.co.uk/product/paint-perspective-hoodie/

PATREON ➡️ https://shorturl.at/tCIKU 
ONYX PAINTING LAMP ➡️ https://shorturl.at/ryBEG

0:00:00 Trailer
0:00:36 The whole squad! 
0:03:47 Pin vise recognition 
0:05:00 Limited Merch Drop 
0:09:49 2025 Announcement 
0:11:49 Secret Santa
0:18:13 40K Christmas Movies 
0:20:23 Gremlins
0:27:28 Home Alone 
0:32:31 Elf
0:38:50 The Grinch 
0:46:41 Who won?
0:47:57 Die Hard
0:50:08 Other movie ideas
0:58:37 Hobby Hacks 

Support the show

Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

Follow us: @siegestudios / @paintperspectivepodcast

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts

You all know we're huge fans of Warhammer and Games Workshop miniatures, but what about all those other manufacturers and war-games? In this episode, we discuss our favourite 'non GW' miniatures, why we love them and how they can actually make you a better miniature painter! 

Also in this episode, we discuss what manufacturers should be doing to make our lives easier with miniature design, cover the latest news and of course share our hobby hacks! 

ONYX PAINTING LAMP ➡️ https://shorturl.at/ryBEG
PATREON ➡️ https://shorturl.at/tCIKU
MERCH ➡️ https://shorturl.at/GOTkW
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ELEMENT GAMES: http://bit.ly/2ltN9KV
RUNESCAPE BOARD GAME: https://shorturl.at/WwhG8

0:00:00 Trailer 
0:00:33 Joe’s vindication 
0:17:38 Why you should NOT paint 40k
0:21:17 Board game miniatures 
0:31:44 Other Wargames 
0:34:24 Do you love the IP?
0:36:44  Why you’ll be a BETTER painter
0:40:22 QUALITY of miniatures 
0:48:36 Key takeaways…
0:48:35 RuneScape Shadow of Elvarg 
0:53:38 The News! 
1:01:05 Question of the Week
1:06:59 Hobby Hacks
1:12:01 Post show trailer 

Support the show

Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

Follow us: @siegestudios / @paintperspectivepodcast

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts

Lord of the Rings is back! In this episode we discuss the new edition of the Middle Earth Strategy Battle and all of the miniatures which we have painted for its release. Expect to learn James' struggles with the resin casts, how we tackled painting the models, how Games Workshop have stepped up the quality of their sprue design, how we would speed paint the box set, and much more! 

Also in this episode, we answer our listeners miniature painting questions in our first Patreon Q&A, share our advice for stripping miniatures from eBay, and of course share our hobby hacks! 

GET THE SET HERE (affiliate link) ➡️ https://shorturl.at/mY5oW

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MERCH ➡️ https://shorturl.at/GOTkW
RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS ➡️ https://shorturl.at/N9k7P

0:00:00 Trailer
0:00:34 Painting updates 
0:12:04 MIDDLE EARTH BOX SET
0:13:51 The sprues 
0:21:47 Painting the miniatures 
0:26:13 Was MESBG dying? 
0:28:37 The resin miniatures 
0:42:18 The rules
0:47:40 Q&A 
0:48:10 Prepping for Golden Demon 
0:50:28 Battle damage colours 
0:52:45 2025 Hobby goals 
0:57:12 Non GW miniatures 
1:00:40 Painting Faces 
1:06:25 Warhammer Metal Album
1:09:47 Question of the Week 
1:14:22 Hobby Hacks

Support the show

Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO), Joe Hart (Siege Ops Manager) and George Coleman (Siege Content Creator & Commission Painter). Each week, our three co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

Follow us: @siegestudios / @paintperspectivepodcast

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SiegeStudios/podcasts