It's the return of the OnTableTop Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2025. It's Springtime, a period of the year all about renewal and regrowth. We're asking you to crack out your old, broken, badly painted (yet still awesome) projects and give them a new lease on life.

Have a look at some of the work that folks have been doing. You can get your hands on some great Dwarves, a Halfling bust and Sláine heads to battle on the tabletop. There are some inspriational projects here!

Ben grabs a quick catch-up with Duncan Rhodes to get an update on the Sir Coates Painting Masters being held at UK Games Expo this year. They discuss WHY you SHOULD think about giving it a go and maybe considering it as your first painting competition.

John reveals our finished Arnhem Bridge build that we put together for some of our community members so they could dive into some World War II games of Chain Of Command, running an epic Bridge Too Far scenario. We think the finished piece is quite impressive!

In this week's Community Spotlight, we have a look at the awesome painting you folks have been doing covering Seraphon, The Doomed and a big bunch of Burrows & Badgers goodness.

UK Games Expo recently announced its partnership with the Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy to bring a big new painting competition to the convention this year. The UKGE Painting Competition, the Sir Coates Painting Masters, is open to all – whether you’re a seasoned pro or a first-time painter, there’s a category for everyone.

Gerry interviews Duncan Rhodes about the upcoming UK Games Expo Painting Competition, the Sir Coates Painting Masters. They tell you EVERYTHING you need to know about the competition including the different categories, who will be judging and both veteran painters and newcomers can get involved.

John takes some of the new Titan Class Heavy Conveyor Ship sprues from the Fortune And Glory Starter Set for Dystopian Wars and blends them with his first Historical love, the Titanic and her sister ships. Commemorate the sinking of the Titanic with a look back at this VLOG from last year!

Join us this week for a look at a bunch of Sci-Fi awesomeness including Judge Dredd, a trip into the Fragged Universe and some Space Wolves!

Gerry sits down for an interview with Roger Yates, one of the co-owners of the Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy and a key judge of the Sir Coates Painting Masters being held at the UK Games Expo this year in just a few months. He explains why you should give it a go, regardless of skill level, and have some fun with the event!

In this week's Community Spotlight, we have a lot at some kitbashing for the weird world of Turnip28, a test paint scheme using the John Blanche paints and a train that has gone a little bit wrong...

Last year, we held TerrainFest 2024 and we've now picked the winner of this awesome competition. We thought we'd dive into the projects from this year and find out who won! The one lucky winner walks away with an awesome £300 voucher thanks to Wayland Games!

John introduces us to a project that he is currently working on for a weekend of World War 2 wargaming coming up in just two weeks! He and Warren have to build Arnhem Bridge, made famous from A Bridge Too Far and a tabletop of terrain, too.

Dive into this week's Community Spotlight and check out some World War II soldiers in 12mm, a bit of Marvel: Crisis Protocol and a deep dive into the world of The Silver Bayonet.

Venture into a bit of Fantasy awesomeness from this week with our Community Spotlight. We have barbarians, adventurers and painting an undead horde.

Dive into what popped up in the projects recently including some retro Space Marines, a BIG miniature for Armoured Clash and a Frostgrave warband of undead oddities.

Join John for a special video where he shows off the whole process of painting his Gundam models as part of a special display designed as a tribute to the 1995 series, Gundam Wing. He does off unboxing the figures, discussing the diorama and executing the final painting process.

In this week's Community Spotlight, we explore someone bringing an old game back to life, a nudge towards the world of Sludge and someone going nuts for World War II!

Check out some great painting on Oldhammer Space Orks and some new Warriors Of Rohan PLUS a pretty intensive build guide for you Gundam fans.

In this week's Community Spotlight, we explore some great post-apocalyptic heroes, a Shatterpoint story and stunning Horus Heresy-era painting.

Come and join us for another delve into the Projects to find the best of the best from the last week or so. We'll be getting stuck into lots of great-looking miniature wargaming painting and hobbying this week...

Join us this week for a look at Savage Core and some of the fantastic Atlanteans from that range alongside many, many versions of Conan and some fantastic War Rockets out of the black!

John shows off how to paint some of the 10mm Armoured Clash Infantry from the new Union faction by Warcradle Studios. In this painting tutorial, he is painting up some of the standard Union Federal Troopers that will form the backbone of your Armoured Clash army.

Get a look at some brilliant miniature painting from the community including one of our youngest hobbyists. We also have a project all about getting people into the hobby!

John shows you how to paint the awesome 10mm Lakota Super Heavy Engine from the newest Armoured Clash faction, the Union by Warcradle Studios. He dives into a tutorial and walkthrough on painting up that iconic Union blue and these techniques can then be taken and applied to other vehicles within the Union army.

Join us for another Community Spotlight where we're taking a look at some great 6mm American Civil War miniatures, a dive into the sewers with TMNT and some impressive ships that will be part of a much larger project.

In this week's Community Spotlight, we have a look at what the community have been up to building gorgeous terrain, invading alien armies and also the corpo forces that keep you under their boot!

Join us this year for an updated three four months of wargame terrain-building fun using our Project System! We hope TerrainFest 2024 will inspire and motivate you to elevate the quality of your gaming tables and that by the end of the three months, you won't be playing with shoebox houses and books stuffed under gaming mats!

Inspired by the Grimdark palette and Blanchitsu style of the masterful John Blanche, The Army Painter is now taking pre-orders for two sets of Masterclass paints that will get you painting miniatures to match Blanche's signature artwork.

John cracks open the new Speedpaint Markers from the folks at Deep-Cut Studio, made in conjunction with the team from The Army Painter. He shows off what you gets in the set as well as how they work on both a primed miniature and one of the Gundam kits.

Dive into this week's Community Spotlight and the first for 2025! We have a look at some fantastic villains, some great Ancient Greek monsters and a bit of Moonstone to kick off the year.

Join us to celebrate the OnTableTop Community as we dive into the Cult Of Games 2024 Community Awards. Please sit down, break your paints out and get stuck into some hobby as we go through some of the best projects and the community members who have brought them to life.

John dives into a painting tutorial showing you how to paint the 32mm Nanny miniature from the multi-award-winning Fantasy wargame Moonstone by the folks at Goblin King Games. Nanny is one of the brand new miniatures for The Shades in Moonstone so this might be a helpful guide!

In this week's Community Spotlight, we dive into a look at someone improving their painting techniques, a rather nice-smelling Roman Bakery and some Christmas-themed miniatures for a wintery clash.

In this week's Community Spotlight, we have a look at some excellent Soulblight Gravelords vampires, finish the fight with Halo and the Master Chief and then dive into an immense Victoriana-styled terrain project.

We dive into some amazing terrain projects from the community this week as part of the Community Spotlight and a set of Space Marines that take us back in time to an old PC game!

Join us this week for a bunch of awesome Oldhammer vibes with a bit of classic Ork terrain and some epic-scale armies. We also dive into a great Full Spectrum Dominance project where tiny armies are coming to life.

Armoured Clash from Warcradle Studios has been out for over a month now so we thought we'd dive into some of the painting going on in the community. There are some great painted miniatures out there for both the Crown and the Empire and maybe this will give you some inspiration when it comes to painting your own 10mm armies. 

Join John as he shows off how to paint the awesome new Cygnar Warjack, Deuce, from the latest Warmachine Starter Set by Steamforged Games. John goes through the process step by step of painting up your first Warjack and the techniques used here can be used across the rest of your Cygnar force.

Join us for this week's Community Spotlight as we get a look at some nostalgic Goblins sculpted by one of our community, the building of a Man Cave and some excellent-looking Skaven.

John shows off how to paint a Khador Razor Warjack from Steamforged Games' new Starter Set for Warmachine. John explains all of the steps that go into painting one of the Khador Warjacks for Warmachine and the techniques used here can be replicated on other miniatures from the Khador.

Join us this week for some awesome apes that are taking over the planet, a grimdark fighting pit and some fun terrain showcasing neat skills!