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!
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LATEST TUTORIALS
This Week's Tutorials
Grand Cathay Jade Warrior

Our tutorial of the week explores the professional soldiers of Grand Cathay from Games Workshop’s Warhammer: The Old World and what it takes to look the part of a Jade Warrior. The Jade Warriors wear complex lamellar armour, which can be tricky to paint unless you approach it in the correct way. In this video, we show you a neat and easy way to paint it.
- How to approach painting lamellar armour to make painting it quick and easy.
- How to paint the iconic jade of the Jade Warriors.
- A detailed look at painting the skin and eyes of a Cathayan soldier.
- How to optionally highlight all the details with a note on which are the most important in case you are looking to paint your miniatures quickly.




Our second tutorial this week delves into the apocalyptic world of Trench Crusade and explores the religious zealots of the Trench Pilgrims faction! Trench Crusade has an iconic style about it, and in this video, we explore it by pushing Duncan out of his comfort zone.
- A great place to start to lean into the iconic grimdark colour palette.
- A close look at the use of enamel paint to give a grubby textured look, thanks to the use of cotton buds.
- How to keep your paints safe when using these materials.
- A great way of painting really gross-looking flesh.
- A thoughtful look at the process of bringing various techniques together so as to not cause any problems as you approach completion.
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!
Prince Vhordrai, Lord of the Crimson Keep





Our tutorial of the month returns to the nightmarish Realm of Death from Games Workshop’s Warhammer Age of Sigmar taking sight of one of the most prolific servants of Nagash, Prince Vhodrai. Sat atop the decaying form of a once noble Draconith, now rotten almost beyond recognition, and armed with the Bloodlance, Vhodrai is a deadly opponent to all who challenge him.
This is a very intimidating model at first glance, and it can be hard to know where to start, but like any big miniature, this can be tackled by breaking it down into smaller steps.
- What sub-assemblies we recommend to allow you to break the model down into bite-sized chunks.
- Our advice on a psychological trick to help you keep your momentum for the project and see its completion.
- How to paint the Undead Draconith green skin, including all the various tonal variations.
- A detailed look at the use of washes to create blends between colours.
- How to paint all of the disgusting details such as ribs, muscles and guts.
- When and where it is best to tackle the scenic details on the base.
- A fun and easy way of painting Vhordrai’s blood red, metallic armour.
- How to create an ancient appearance for the gold metals.
- A great way to paint vampiric skin.
- How to add the finishing touches, such as verdigris and blood.
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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SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

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Thanks
Dunc & Rog