Cult Of Games XLBS: Our Top Painting Hacks & Tips! What Are Yours?
May 10, 2026 by crew
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Remember your paints by limiting your palette through units. It also helps with coherence through an army.
Happy Sunday!
I was getting Bioshock infinite vibes from that indie and the creator is called bishok so maybe an influence. loved the look of it
My 2 best painting hacks are
1. If you can afford it. Pay someone to do it for you
2. Buy Wofun or similar figures
As a “never again” commission painter, it always shocked me what people would pay to get their stuff painted. The more I didn’t want a project, the higher the price, and still no one passed. Weird. But it comes at a personal cost, too. Burnout is real. And painting someone else’s stuff all the time leaves little time to paint your own – or desire.
That’s why I no longer do commissions, no matter the price.
Great show. Well done to the GB winners.
Painting tips: Do a test model so you can sort out a scheme that you are happy with before starting on a large army. Also remember that quantity has a quality all its own. If you can put 100+ painted miniatures down on the table then they will look impressive and individual imperfections become invisible.
I liked Ben’s Magnus Pyke impression when he started talking about painting hacks
@brennon I agree with your friend . Paint with just an ordinary light bulb . 99% of the time you’ll be playing in badly lit clubs and halls so it makes perfect sense to paint under the same lighting conditions
I’ll watch this later but if the no.1 tip isn’t ’Drybrush the s**t out of it with Brainmatter Biege’ I’m going to kick off!😂
Happy SUNDAY…..I just follow the yarkshire gamer way of painting…….JUST F…… PAINT….works for me.
1. Wet palette. Absolute best thing I’ve bought. Not the ones offered by mini companies, but the art ones offered by Masterson – I’ve used one for probably two decades now.
2. Notes. I keep a diary of what colours I’ve used for all my projects; if I ever need to go back and add to a project, I have the brand and name of the colours used, and even blending formulas.
wet palette, good call.
HACK THE PLANET!
What? Not those kind of hacks? oh maaaan!
00:00 FEZ!
02:00 Robo-Gerry!
10:00 Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaales in Spaaaaaaaaaace
19:00 Omnipass!
27:17 Unpainted minis!
43:40 When did G’Wullu art on the boxes? All I remember is painted minis. And that’s back to 2dn edition 40k
51:30 Lighting is the most important thing ever!
54:00 who put the Vaseline on Justin camera? (Also, we see the greenscreen-phoning-it-in ;))
1:04:00 painting naked? that’s how you get the flu!
1:17:15 Get well soon Mr. Squirrel
Should have looted and ran away like a good goblin. I’ll remember that advice ben
Hurrah Happy Sunday o7
Sector ALIX looks amazing. I really don’t need to get into another game, but…
My only painting advice is: use whatever works. Lately my painting is a mix of speedpaints, traditional base color – wash – highlights, Dallimore-style triads…often all on the same model.
Thanks for the golden button! I am hoping to get Guards of Traitor’s Toll to the table soon, maybe even next weekend. Fingers crossed…
For painting a useful tip is to see what the manufacturers say about there range, in their online store GW give a good paragraph breakdown of what each type of paint is for as a for instance.
Also re 40K RPG so back in the day a mate used WFRP for an improvised Rogue Trader RPG 30ish yrs ago. I played a Navigator who were a big deal back then equivalent to a noble class. So I lorded it over the other characters and as I took the lead and as things went wrong I would kill the other characters that knew, failure not being looked upon favourably in the Imperium of man after all. Gribly nastys and Genestealer cults make a very plausible reason why we are suddenly losing some Imperial Guardsman and Traders, such a shame, but they did there duty to the Emperor 🙂