# Recommend an online guide to painting miniatures **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-an-online-guide-to-painting-miniatures/241083 "2004-04-20T19:46:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-an-online-guide-to-painting-miniatures/241083/1 "2004-04-20T19:46:32Z")
So to make my geekiness complete, I’ve decided to return to painting lead miniatures. I did it a little back in college, was never great at it, and eventually fell out of the hobby. But lately I’ve been itching to try my hand at it again. But I want to get pointers on how to make them look the best. Games Workshop has a great book, _How To Paint Citadel Miniatures_, that I’ve been looking to buy, but are there any good online resources for how-to’s, with plenty of graphics? Yes I’ve Googled but I’m only coming up with heavily text based sites. Can anyone recommend a good clean professional site for me? ---
**Author:** ![MMI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@MMI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MMI)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-an-online-guide-to-painting-miniatures/241083/2 "2004-04-20T20:04:25Z")
Reaper miniatures site has a few illustrated tips - how to paint eyes, faces, muscles etc ( [http://www.reapermini.com](http://www.reapermini.com) ). I think that somewhere on the Games Workshop website there are also some hints and what not ( [http://www.games-workshop.com](http://www.games-workshop.com) ) although most of their useful information is in magazines and stuff you have to pay for.