I would wish Patrick well but based on his voice in this episode, I assume he left this world shortly after recording. So let me say what a wonderful part of the hobby Pat was - his contribution will not be forgotten. At least in heaven you can paint

My 10 year old daughter has recently taken an interest in miniature painting. I got her hooked when we painted up our Heroquest set together. I am glad to see that the hobby has become more inclusive and welcoming toward women. I am thankful that there is a growing community of female content creators and hobbyists that can help inspire and encourage my daughter to pursue her interests. Great show as all ways. Thank you.

Always worth listening to Dad. Love, Dad X

This hobby helps me relax and helps me keep what’s left of my mental health. I work front line ambulance so you can imagine how screwed up I can be some days. It’s great to hear others talk about the hobby and how it helps them out. Love the vid

Sent this episode to my mother, who has been a nerd since the early 1970s. She doesn't get an opportunity to hear from women in the hobby very often, and finds Rachel delightful. Stay awesome everyone.

This is the fourth episode of the Painting Phase I’ve watched and I must say that I’m extremely thrilled with the content you provide. Your chats are playful and funny, alway interesting, sometimes serious, often insightful and respectful of the subject at hand. Watching/listening reminds me of hanging out with good friends. I’ve always been left feeling good. I just wanted to say thank you

The Painting Phase has been so good for making me realise that, though every painter probably started painting for different reasons, we all now have very similar experiences with the hobby; the regulating of breath, the warped perception of time; the way that it calms the mind and engages a state of meditation, I'm fascinated! The fact that painting can be a very personal, solo element (unless, like me, you have a long-suffering partner who occasionally comes in and asks how things are coming along with 'the tiny space elves') means it's easy to lose touch with our little foibles and tics as we paint; turns out we're all the same, in many ways! Great show as always, chaps!

Loving the mentions of Druss and Legend. One of my favourite fantasy settings, Rek is my favourite fictional character.

I look forward to these podcast chats more than i looks forward to the next episode of tv series i like. Love the format, the pacing the randomness, just feels like being sat in the pub with a bunch of mates. Loving all the guests you have had on recently as well

Great interview! It's interesting to hear how Rachels experiences have differed from mine even though we exist in the same hobby sphere. Also, I'd highly recommend giving YT a go, it can be hard at times but it can be great way to push you to try out new techniques whilst helping out others in the process. Also, at 1:04:13 Pat sounded just like Emperor Palpatine

You guys are getting great variation in your guests with all kinds of different people from different backgrounds. It is really cool. Each guest has their own unique perspective. It feels like your format and setting is safe and comfortable for anyone to share their ideas. I'm sure there is a word for it, but it seems like you're good at encouraging people to just be themselves.

Another great guest and Rachel gave some brilliant Frank answers to some hard topics. I definitely think there's room for a 2nd chat purely on tips and pitfalls for content creation. I hope Salute went really well for everyone and hope to see some of you at Fest too!

Realy nice interview as always. Love to sit and paint while listening. Keep up the work😉😉

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who does the loud exhale while painting. My wife always kind of teases me when I do it

my wife and i watched spirited away last week, as it came up on a "films you have to watch before you die" list. bear in mind weve never watched anything remotely anime before and we both loved it. she even cried at one point. amazing film and lovely animations.

Great episode as usual. Love the chat about mental health and writing.

Yay, you asked my question ❤❤❤❤ Really nice answers too, thank you guys and gal ❤❤

Pat: I have a sore throat and wont talk much.... Everyone: okay, no problem. Get well soon mate. [Pat afterwards] 😂

The only thing in my mind after see this: All I need now is a Wargame board in the world of Princess Mononoke, a x-wing like game of Porco Rosso and a warband in warhammer in the style of Nausicaä. Thanks for the ideas.

what an amazing / genuine interview and wonderful guest. yall are onto something special here with this series. thank you so much for continuing to normalize and promote talking about mental health within our community. ❤

Awesome interview! Sending hobby love from America. Please keep these coming. You guys rock!

Love tuning in to these each week, good wholesome hobby content.

Love it! Throughly enjoyable to see Rach talk hobby!

An great episode as always! Keep up the amazing work!

You gents just keep getting great guests! Love it! Thanks for another great episode!

Great show. Rach seems an awesome ambassador for the hobby. As someone not really interested in Games Workshop any more, it would be great to see her talents applied to other miniature lines.

Excellent interview, as always, and a lovely introduction (for me) to Rachel who seems like a truly genuine person and a pleasure to talk to. Great job, guys. (And get better soon!)

Fantastic video. These are so good to listen to when I am painting.

I never understand the hate for Pallid Witch "Chalk". I love Pallid Witch Flesh and use it instead of any of the other whites. Maybe I'm the weird one. 😆

The Painting Phase ya’ll are a breath of fresh air for just a chat show. Don’t worry about hitting the Warhammer topics. Long live side bar!!!

Awesome as always guys!

Can relate to the mental health benefits of the hobby, as someone with a list as long as my arm of mental health conditions, I think I would have lost it years ago if it wasn't for the hobby. Also relate to the big exhale too lol

Fantastic to hear that you're persevering with writing! As someone who has tried and failed and tried again to write fiction more times than I can count, it's always a struggle to keep up the momentum needed. Keep going, and remember to celebrate the small successes!

Your plastic glue aint sticking, cos you didnt sand that part, just like resin, the plastic injection molding systems actually do have a tiny bit of mold release. :) Sand the models, specifically your molding lines, you will note most if not all build points are where molding lines are. :) Great ep

Another awesome guest :) Can’t believe Peach is the same age as me lol. Hobby (especially painting) is great for my mental health as well, echo what you and Rach said about it :)Enjoy Warhammer Fest!

Grave of the Fireflies is just sad, sad, and sadder. Unbelievably powerful film about those who fall between the cracks in wartime

Thanks for the consistently great content folks. Rachel makes some excellent points with a real world perspective that's very relatable 👍. Still feeding my son whilst watching the the vids at silly o'clock, thanks for helping me maintain my sanity!

Awesome episode. I really enjoyed Rach as a guest and the discussion of the different types of fantasy. I think the definition of " High Fantasy" vs "Low Fantasy" vs "Urban Fantasy” varies a lot from person to person. The definition I work from is: “High Fantasy” - magic, monsters and traditional fantasy races like orcs are an everyday accepted part of life. Somebody seeing a person doing a spell would not be more surprised by it than you and I would be seeing a really skilled glass blower. We might be surprised by the person's level of skill in a rare trade but it isn’t going to break our understanding of the universe. “Low Fantasy” - Magic, monsters and fantasy races exist but are extremely rare and /or secret. So it might take place in a medieval setting but it is close to the middle ages as they actually happened with plagues and people dying from infected hangnails. Maybe 1 magic sword or dragon exists but it is surprising to people as finding a magic sword would be IRL “Urban Fantasy” - Can be high or low fantasy but takes place in a modern or at least post industrial revolution setting. All 3 types can be great stories ….and awesome settings for wargames!

Patrick I love this new breathy voice. It’s absolutely magnificent.

Another Great Vid and guest , Great to see Rach on the show. Smashing it guys !

This video made me pause and then go on a restock of Runelord Brass (My boarding Actions terrain and Necrons both use it as a base!). Thanks for the heads up, Peachy!

Another fantastic show guys. You are really part of my KZfaq staple now. Lovely guest this week and super interesting to watch Rachel and fair play to her taking s9me tough questions

Really great chat! I love the focus Rach has on mental health, so refreshing for someone to bring that into the spotlight.

Hope you are feeling better by now Pat! Also thanks again for another awesome show, with a really interesting topic and guest! :-)

Hey! Was waiting for a new vid, to say it was brilliant meeting you all at Salute. I totally get where both Rachel and Pat are coming from with getting in the zone of painting. And I am in total agreement with the mental well being that the painting and hobby brings 😎🖖

This is an absolutely fantastic episode! Really important topics covered in a very natural way. Top job... hope Pat aka the whisp regains his voice! The Ant n Dec pun deserved more laughter!

I knew it! Hair of Influence (+2 CHA)

finally got to watch this, really enjoyable. Thanks.

Loved seeing her on the show, really enjoy the different perspectives too.

Great stuff!

Walked past someone selling guns out of their car in Nottingham once

I was watching this hoping someone would give Pat a Fisherman's Friend. I do love this format of free flowing conversation.

“Oh Warhammer Granny, what big Warhammer teeth you have!”

Another great show thank you lady and gents.Raising very interesting points in the hobby world Get well soon pat you sounded cool this show 🤭

It sucks that people can be so unpleasant on the internet. Just be nice. Great video again. Keep up the good work.

For plastic glue, you should try the stuff you apply with a brush from Tamiya or Plastruct or a similar brand that have methyl ethyl ketone as the active ingredient. Total game changer when it comes to building plastic models.

Another great video, thanks guys. Get well soon Pat

Great video - It is great to get feedback from a woman in the hobby (hopefully more will join). I subscribed to the Instagram feed - I wish I was that talented!

Another brilliant video

Thanks for sharing, and Ghibli is great as background sound when hobbying, another great guest. Annie from Bad Sqiddo games is lovely, too, as a thought for another guest.

If you want to start a "get Dan Abnett on the show" fund, I'll contribute.

This is a great conversation. Thank you all!

I do love the chat show ... it's long enough that I can put it on while painting!

Pat may not be able to speak but he can sure mouth breathe into the microphone like a champ. 😂

Love the episode so utterly cool that it came out today before i go put my entry into gd tomorow. You guys hyped me

I also have a Biscoff problem. Good choice! Brilliant episode of Sidetracked, yet again 👍

Great interview, I agree with Peachy on women in the industry. The more we have, the more talent, ideas, and gaming buddies we have.

Love that peachy is a fan of gemmel. I grew up on his books

Nice variety of guests now. And creepy pat in the corner 😂😂

There is a hasagawa plastic models of a ton of studio Ghibli stuff, they are incredible!!!

When Rachel said Grave of the Fireflies, I had the same reaction, don’t watch it. But it’s brilliant.

Really, really great answer re: Studio Ghibli on the create any mini question. Would absolutely love to see minis of San and her wolves from Princess Mononoke or an imperial knight sized Howl's Moving Castle :D

if you could get the author Josh Reynolds on your show, that would be amazing. he is my favorite Black Library author and he is also a former employee of workshop

Painting is so good for just "being". Great talk

I always watch... Just realized today it's been through the hubs account so I've now subscribed for real real.

There are some Studio Ghibli model kits you can buy. I got some at the museum in Tokyo, the Porco Rosso plane and some Nausicaa models too, can probably get the online somewhere

Apologies if it sounds ride but watching my moddle aged people talk about mini painting and the jobby is bloody inspiring. Helps me pick up a brush every day!

Keep on the awesome content ❤

Thank you for answering my question, studio Ghibli would be great. Always enjoyed watching Porco Rosso 🛩

Great chat with Rach, love seeing her stuff on Instagram. As a father of a five year old, I know the pain of being educated about Digraphs and Trigraphs.

I painted an Infinity miniature from the Defiance boardgame and I absolutely loved it. I was so proud of it. I took photos, ran them through some filters before posting them to my painting page on Facebook. The first comment was pointing out a MASSIVE mold line right down the front of the thigh, highlighted even more by the lighting in the photo. I was so gutted. On the subject of Infinity, I absolutely love Infinity. They're my favourite miniatures bar none and I really wanna sing their praises. But if you don't like building models, stick with Warhammer. Because if you stray outside of those amazing plastic kits, it's like the wild west when it comes to building miniatures.

I'm glad to hear everyone else misses really obvious spots on their minis too. I was painting some Gutrippaz recently and completely missed one of their right legs. No idea how it took so long for me to notice.

Two videos in one week?! You're spoiling us!

not watched this yet but commenting to boost engagement. looking forward to watching this latter on !

Another excellent video and The Warhammer Girl was a great guest. Hope Pat's feeling better! As for other potential female guests, I think it would be absolutely incredible if you guys could manage to get Trish Carden on the show. Besides having sculpted some of my all time favourite minis at Games Workshop and ForgeWorld (and an amazing sculpts at Footsore recently), I get the impression from the content on her socials that she'd make a fascinating guest with a ton of war stories from Games Workshop and the mini industry on the whole!

A great guest, the hobby is for anyone and the more the better.

Yay for superglue fans 😁

Plastic glue - wash the sprues with detergent, use extra thin cement.

EMA Model Supplies (London) their Plastic Weld is just as quick as super glue, I'm really amazed that so many people haven't heard of it, it's not new either

Is it runelord spray that’s going or the base paint as well?

Prime time chat. 😊👍

That Thomas the tank engine shirt is amazing. I wonder where Pat got it?

I do that sighing thing while painting as well! I thought I was the only one!!!

For Studio Ghibli miniatures, check out Nomnom Figures. They've made Catbus and Princess Mononoke models.

I've just had to jump on a comment quickly. I'm one of those podcast weirdos who occasionally watches a quick painting vid. listening to this episode when Peachy mentions reading to his lad, the diagraphs and being corrected is the story of my life. My twin girls are seven and they still do it to me 😂😂😂

Rach “To be fair” the warhammer girl 😂

hahhaha i can relate to so much on this Episode! The Emojis, missing Details posting and then seeing it

Painting in silence is incredibly relaxing. Zen edge highlighting is the new raking your temple stone garden 😂

Peachy, have you tried locktite ultra gel? Its superglue but slow drying so you can adjust pieces like with plastic glue.

Not familiar with Rachel but she was a great guest, good banter and great talk and it's always (or usually) good to talk more about mental health.