Episode Details

Lots of us have at some point fantasised about turning our hobbies into our job, but what does it really take to make money painting Warhammer? In this episode, we discuss professional commission painting miniatures and the skills you’ll need to pull it off. Expect to learn from James on how he started a commission painting business, and how the industry has changed over 10 years of running it. The struggles and successes Joe has seen from managing over 90 professional Warhammer painters, and George’s experience as a full time artist and what lessons he had to learn to make it work. 

Also in this episode, we share our hobby updates over the past week, including painting custom sculpted Night Lords miniatures and a Guardians of the Covenant army, and of course our hobby hacks! 

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0:00:00 Trailer
0:00:50 Joe’s musings
0:11:12 James’ mistake 
0:14:09 The floor is lava
0:19:48 First time commission painting
0:30:22 “You can’t make it your job”
0:36:52 Resenting professional painters
0:44:08 How the industry has changed 
0:49:54 How to make money from painting
0:53:57 The hardest things
0:59:36 When are you ready? 
1:14:49 Hobby Hacks

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Paint Perspective is a miniature painting podcast brought to you by Siege Studios, featuring James Otero (Siege founder & CEO) & Paul Kidd (Studio office team member). Each week, our co-hosts discuss a new topic from the point of view of people who work in the miniature painting industry.

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