Step-By-Step Painting Tutorials

David Stann
Jan 7
2 min read

Updated: Jan 9

I'm thinking of launching a new video series, sometime this year, that will show how I build and paint a variety of model kits. These would be step-by-step tutorials with little to nothing left out. I wanted to start this last year, but I just couldn't manage to fit it in.

I am nowhere near the best painter out there. I've never won any awards and I've only been painting on/off for a few years, but I'm hoping these tutorials will be of value to beginner to intermediate-level painters. We need to find a way to get more people interested in the hobby and maybe this will help in some very small way.

Over the past couple of months, I've watched my wife, who has never painted a model in her life, suddenly become a painting machine. She's pretty good too! I'm proud of her and so amazed at what she has done in such a short period! It only took a minimal amount of guidance and some feedback to get her started. Now she's totally hooked. Wait until you see the Kong she's currently painting! 🙂

Anyway...I'll be starting with our Kong Armature Kit first, but after that, I'll be revisiting some old favorites as well as kits put out by other producers. Many of the techniques I use on these kits will be transferrable to others. Here are just a few of the kits that I currently own and would like to do tutorials on (in no particular order):

Horizon's T-rex, Raptor, Spitter, & Brachiosaur, Frankenstein's Monster, Creature from The Black Lagoon.
StannArts: Kong, Bruce the Shark, Frankenstein's Lab Kit, Tusken Raider, Tauntaun, Dewback, any new kits we release.
(1:24) Darth Vader's Tie Fighter, 1:24 X-Wing
1:6 Scale R2-D2 and C-3PO
1:6 Trog (Banshee Studios)
Many more (hopefully)

I think that's a pretty nice variety to start out with. I will attempt to have at least 2 kits going concurrently each month. This will be a lot of additional work, so I'm going to have to put these behind a paywall. It'll be less than $10.00 p/month though. That's not too unreasonable...is it?

Below are some pics of kits that I've painted over the years. Some of them are pretty old - hopefully I'll be able to do a little better the second time around.

How interested would you be in a painting tutorial subscription from StannArts?