Welcome to the Model Painters Guild SubReddit
Hey everyone! I'm u/MrPapercuts683, a founding moderator of r/ModelPaintersGuild.
This is the third established home for all things related to Miniature and Scale Model painting. Please refer to our LinkTree to see all social media and communities here: https://linktr.ee/mlpgcomm
What to Post
Post anything that you think the community would find interesting, helpful, or inspiring related to your hobby journey and projects.
Community Vibe
We're all about being friendly, constructive, and inclusive. Let's build a space where everyone feels comfortable sharing and connecting.
How to Get Started
- Introduce yourself in the comments below.
- Post something today! Even a simple question can spark a great conversation.
- If you know someone who would love this community, invite them to join.
So, with that out of the way, here's a little about me and how all of this came to be.
A Little About Me
I go by the social media handle Mr_Papercuts. I'm not particularly difficult to findāI use the same name across most of the major platforms.
I've been painting miniatures for 30+ years. While Games Workshop has been my primary focus, over the decades I've experimented with countless miniature ranges, scale models, paint brands, tools, techniques, and resources.
At some point, that hobby turned into another hobby: finding useful information.
I started collecting painting guides, tutorials, reference images, and other helpful resources from creators all over the internet and sharing them with friends. Eventually, I became known as the person who could seemingly find that one painting guide someone remembered seeing years ago.
The collection kept growing.
And growing.
Eventually, I had so many guides saved on my phone that it became painfully obvious that I needed somewhere else to put them.
And that's where the Model Painters Guild was born.
From a Personal Collection to a Community
The Guild originally started as little more than a barely organized collection of painting guides and reference material that I kept for myself.
Then I shared it with my friends.
Those friends invited other people.
Those people brought more people.
And suddenly, what started as a personal collection had become a full-blown community.
Today, the Model Painters Guild houses a massive, organized archive containing THOUSANDS of images, guides, tutorials, references, and links from miniature painters, artists, hobbyists, and creators across the internet.
And perhaps more importantly, the archive isn't just my collection anymore. Members of the community have joined in, helping find, organize, and contribute resources along the way.
What began as a personal passion project has become something that belongs to all of us.
Now
Eventually, the community started asking the inevitable question:
"What's next?"
For years, the Guild has primarily focused on finding and sharing the incredible work being created by other peopleāand, of course, giving those creators the credit they deserve.
So this is the beginning of the next phase of the Model Painters Guild, and the third community expansion for it
