The Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy
Welcome to the Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy, the place to learn how to paint your favourite miniatures with regular, in-depth and highly detailed tutorials, painting challenges, courses, give-aways and best of all, a thriving community of amazing Academy Members!
LATEST TUTORIALS
This Week's Tutorials
Master Chief - Halo Flashpoint

Our first tutorial of the week is the most famous Spartan-II of all, the Master Chief from Mantic Games’ Halo Flashpoint. Genetically enhanced and armed with an Elite’s type 1 energy sword, this super soldier is the ultimate weapon against the Covenant and a loyal soldier of the United Nations Space Command. . The thing to consider is that he is one of the most iconic characters in computer gaming history, and with that comes a bit of pressure, so in this video, we help you choose the right colours to help you get him looking the part.
- A discussion on selecting and creating a green for his armour.
- How to pick out the smaller details of his armour, such as the undersuit.
- How to paint the iconic gold visor.
- A fun and easy way of painting the blades of his energy sword.
Converting A Nurgle Possessed Tank
With a new Death Guard codex on the way, we thought it would be fun to explore some of the possiblilities available to a tank commander of Nurgle, and one of those is to welcome the Grandfather himself to bless the tank with one of his children.
- How to create Daemonic tentacles and claws splitting their way out from the armour, complete with a peek at a a fleshy mass behind.
- Useful bits and pieces to pick up, along with great pointers as to how to use them.
- An easy way of creating boils and eyes.
- How to chain shut the hatches to prevent the Daemon from escaping.
- How to texture armour surfaces to make them feel like they are being corroded.

What is the Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy?
The Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy, or DRPA for short, is a Membership site where you can come and learn to paint your favourite miniatures. Whether you are a beginner or even an experienced miniature painter, the Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy will teach you all the techniques you need to know and give you the confidence to paint any miniature you desire.
Want to know which miniatures we’ve made tutorials for? Then just click the link below!
enjoy these sample tutorials
This is just a small taster of the video tutorials we have on the site. We will be adding new, exclusive content every week that can only be found right here for our members. We will be covering all manner of miniatures, techniques and advice, everything to help you improve your painting skills. Check out the full list of videos and a gallery of the tutorials on the site by clicking the link below.
Tutorial of the Month!
Karacnos Assault Tank





Our tutorial of the week is the brand new Karacnos Assault Tank of the Mechanicum from Games Workshop’s Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. Based upon the Triaros Armoured Conveyor Chassis and festooned with additional weaponry, this tank is a devastating long-range support platform armed with radiological warheads, perfect for clearing organic life from planets.
We painted our model in the Xana II colour scheme which features a very high contrast between an aged bone and dark metal, so it is important that you start in the right way and look for appropriate sub-assemblies.
- The important sub-assemblies that we recommend to allow access to all the details and to help out with getting a strong start on the model.
- What undercoat colours to use to make the early stages a breeze.
- How to paint the aged bone coloured armour plating
- How to create a time-worn dark metal trim.
- How to work your way through the complex machinery that features across the entire model.
- When to start putting together sub-assemblies to help with the weathering process, but also to not make it difficult to access all areas of the model.
- How to weather the model to make it look like it’s seen action, including the use of enamel paints for a realistic rust effect.
Check out the gallery below for a sample of our 400+ Tutorials
WHY BECOME A MEMBER

FULL PAINTING TUTORIALS
Whether you want to paint a single figure, a vehicle, a monster or even a piece of scenery and not to mention new techniques, you will find an in-depth tutorial here just for you.

NEW CONTENT EVERY WEEK
Every week we will be adding brand new content for Members only. Whether it's video painting tutorials, blog posts and online painting guides, you can be sure you'll always have something to both help and inspire you.

WE HAVE A DUNCAN
With over 10 years experience, running painting seminars all around the world and hundreds of video tutorials under his belt, there is no one better to both teach and give you the confidence to achieve the results you've always dreamed of.

£3.99 PER MONTH
That's about the same price as a really nice cup of coffee. Not too bad for expertly produced painting tutorials and tons of inspiration.

MONTHLY PAINTING CHALLENGES
Every month we host a fun painting challenge on our Forum where Academy Members can show off their amazing work and get both inspired and motivated by an amazing community of hobbyists. The winners get an exclusive DRPA Pin badge and an hour online hang out with Duncan where they can ask any questions they want or just simply hang out and paint.

COURSES
The latest addition to the Academy is Courses! Here we host full, in-depth courses that will, over time, cover various, large subjects starting with a full course for beginners - The Fundamentals of Miniature Painting.

MONTHLY GIVE AWAYS
Every month we have a give away for a lucky Academy Member. Prizes in the past have ranged from an amazing core sets like Leviathan to an Airbrush from Harder and Steenbeck.
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Thanks
Dunc & Rog