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I downloaded the new Blue Table Painting DVD that they are selling through MiniWarGaming. I’m a MWG Vault member so I can download all their video releases and figured I would give this a shot. BTP seems to get short shrift online for their painting and ‘style’ but I wanted to give this an honest shot to see how they do their videos.

I'll skip to my conclusions, you can read more at the link below...

Good: several good tips on speed painting to ‘tabletop quality’ on large quantities of models, lots of work showing how to choose and match colors, if you like drybrushing this is perfect

Bad: no showing how to paint vehicles like Rhinos, etc., camera work is sloppy, annoying voice from one of the demonstration artists, models are generally just ‘okay’ looking, no demonstration of painting Space Marine armor

Final Evaluation: If you want a way to get quick tabletop quality stuff, and you’re new and haven’t been indoctrinated into the GW style of painting, it can be a decent buy. Tabletop is BTP’s claim to fame and most of what they do, so it could be worth it. It’s definitely worth the $1 or whatever to join MWG for a week to download the video (and others). However, if you've already got a style of your own, are looking for anything advanced, or are looking for new techniques to make your models 'pop', give this one a miss.

Full review here if you want to read more: http://tinyplasticspacemen.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/review-blue-table-painting-basic-painting-techniques-dvd/

I got it free through a trial for MWG and it was worth it for free.

I found the drybrushing to actually be very helpful, I am familiar with drybrushing but I have never seen it used in that fashion. I would say it is really great for beginners but hey free is free for me at least.

Yeah for free, it's worth it for sure I know it's a 'basics' DVD but I think a lot more could have been put into it so it's not literally 'drybrush everything'. Maybe it's just my preference bias or something, but I've bought $20 DVD sets that had a lot more info in them, though - at least for my money.