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
Emperor's Children Tormentor of the Konstricus

Our tutorial of the week returns to a more advanced style, which focuses on higher-skilled techniques to deliver a great nostalgic colour scheme of the Emperor’s Children, the Konstrictus. This scheme is most famous for the deep purple tones and sharp edge highlights, with a pale pink secondary colour contrasting fantastically and made famous by the original metal Slaanesh Chaos Space Marines of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. The scheme features a high contrast between very dark and very light segments of the armour, so you need to consider this when building and priming the miniature.
- What undercoat colours to use to ensure the all-important smooth basecoats.
- How to paint a sumptuously dark suit of Power Armour, including highlights to give it an almost lacquered sheen.
- How to paint a pale purply-pink hued tone for the lighter parts of the armour.
- Guidance on painting metallics without the use of a wash to allow greater control when shading.
- How to pick out smaller colourful details such as the pink plume and jade green eyes.
- Throughout, we give detailed tuition that goes beyond our usual guides to show how you can challenge yourself to get a result you will be proud of.




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!
Elementalist & Frog Familiar





Our second new tutorial, this video keeps us in the world of Warhammer as we peer into the new Empire of Man Elementalist and his frog companion. These miniatures are absolutely festooned with details and are a great example of raw magical power in a world before the colleges of magic taught mages to refine and hone their skills with the winds of magic! These models appear very complicated, and it can be hard to know where to begin, so in this video, we break it down into easily approachable steps.
- How to start out by painting the greens of the frog familiar’s skin.
- A step-by-step walk-through of the complex layers of clothing and equipment on the Elementalist.
- What details are shared by both miniatures so they can be painted efficiently and at the same time.
- How to paint the autumnal leaves upon the Elementalists’ back.
- A step-by-step guide to painting petrified wood.
- How to complete the models with all the fun details, including an amber crystal, the frog’s eyes, and a glass beaker filled with bubbling liquid.
These miniatures are amazing, and whilst the guide is quite specific, it is full of interesting techniques that can be applied to all sorts of woodland creatures and shows how to approach intimidating details.
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