A personal project, born from a love of this craft

What this is

A hand-curated directory of studios and painters who take commission work on miniatures, mostly Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar and Dungeons & Dragons figures, alongside the creators whose tutorials and videos taught me most of what I know. The goal is simple: to bring visibility to people doing exceptional work with a brush. Nobody pays to be listed here, and nobody pays to rank higher.

Who runs it

Just me. I review every studio and every image myself, by eye. Commissioning a painted army is a high-trust purchase: you send someone your models and hundreds of pounds for work you cannot inspect until it arrives. So I would rather stand behind a short list I genuinely believe in than publish a long one I do not. When this site recommends a studio, a person stands behind that.

How a studio earns a place

Before a studio appears here, I check for the same things every time:

• A real, current portfolio of genuinely well-painted miniatures. The grid is only as good as its weakest photo, so the work has to hold up next to everything around it.
• A live studio with a working site or shop and a real way to commission them, not a dormant account.
• Physical miniatures the studio actually painted. No stock imagery, no renders, and no AI-generated pictures posing as painted models.
• The honest, legible signals a buyer needs up front: the games and factions they paint, rough pricing, turnaround and whether they are currently open.

My promise on images

A photograph of a painted miniature belongs to the person who painted and shot it. I treat it that way. Every image in these galleries is published under a licence given in writing by its creator, and I keep my side of that deal simple and generous:

• Credit and a link on every appearance: the painter's name and their site or socials, always.
• The creator keeps every right. The licence is non-exclusive; it is permission, never a transfer.
• Revocable at any time. One message and the image comes down within five working days.
• Images are only ever cropped, resized or converted for layout. No compositing, no edits, and never used to train AI models.
• Never re-used in advertising or marketing without asking separately, each time.

I never host Games Workshop's official art, box art or renders. Only real miniatures painted by the studios and creators themselves.