About

What is BIG SHOOTA?

Created in 2005, BIG SHOOTA.COM started as an online journal of sorts in my pursuit of mastering the art of miniatures painting. I wanted to show people the steps in my learning process. My successes and my failures. My thought was it may be interesting to see somebody in the process of learning this art. Hopefully others would use it as inspiration for themselves to either improve their current level of work or continue on and keep trying when you feel like you just can’t get it right.

For the first 10 years or so, my focus was mainly on my Ork army for Warhammer40K. In that time, I had painted 100’s or orks to a slightly higher than table top level. I worked hard at giving more attention to the characters and they’ve become some of my favorite models. Roughly around 2017, my life went through some serious changes. My work changed (my wife and I went into business for ourselves), I picked up a second job (actually, switched my already second job to a different one), and eventually a third, after my wife and I started a second business. After 8 years of that, I’ve finally decided to force myself to make some time to return to one of my creative outlets just to decompress; miniature painting.

Much of what I post will be meandering, thoughts in the moment on my process and how I approach challenges, or things I have picked up along the way. I try, as much as I can, to remind myself to take pictures every step of the way. Sometimes I get too excited to finish a project and all the good will towards showing you how I do things goes right out the window. Sometimes, as I remember though, I’ll try to show you a process or way of thinking. Otherwise, it’s just me and my minis.

Updates will be as I can get to them, and honestly, may not always be hobby related, or, at least, this hobby.

Thanks for coming by and sticking around for the ending.

Cheers!