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 Ghaz wrote:

 Stevefamine wrote:
RIP a good video series.

Nick and Peachy will still be making the video tutorials.

Peachys wooden and I haven't seen anything from Nick.

In his Voxcast he seems like the last person who’d want to be in any way ‘famous’ so I wonder if he’s hoping to return to some kind of anonymity within hobby circles.

I wish him well regardless!

Dread Master wrote:
I wouldn’t describe Duncan as charismatic. He seems like a nice kid. Found his niche, I think, with these tutorial videos. He seemed comfortable doing what he was doing, and he was definitely skilled, otherwise, just another guy in the hobby. I wish him well.

He's no Rob Symes, I'll give you that.

I just had a horrible panicky thought:

What if IP / Copyright law means they have to take down Duncan's videos?!?? O___O

nataliereed1984 wrote:
I just had a horrible panicky thought:

What if IP / Copyright law means they have to take down Duncan's videos?!?? O___O

Doubt it. Most employment contracts have a clause that stipulates that the employer owns the IP and copyright for all materials produced by the employee with company resources.

I had a thought at work, couldn’t read the notice from Duncan, could he be leaving GW (proper) and going to do the painting for FW and specialist studio? That would be fantastic.

 Theophony wrote:
I had a thought at work, couldn’t read the notice from Duncan, could he be leaving GW (proper) and going to do the painting for FW and specialist studio? That would be fantastic.

Not to sound snarky but does FW even produce anything anymore? Or at least enough to justify a painter?

The occasional titan arm and that weird SM tank don't really seem like something you need a guy working full time to paint.

 ScarletRose wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
I had a thought at work, couldn’t read the notice from Duncan, could he be leaving GW (proper) and going to do the painting for FW and specialist studio? That would be fantastic.

Not to sound snarky but does FW even produce anything anymore? Or at least enough to justify a painter?

The occasional titan arm and that weird SM tank don't really seem like something you need a guy working full time to paint.

FW is in charge of the specialist games and LOTR, also a quick "forgeworld" search on the warhammer community site should give you the answer.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/page/1/?s=forgeworld

Sad that Lord Duncan's out... I only knew paintings tutorial and 4chan memes of him but it made him a respectable man in the hobby world.

Best wishes to him, hopefully he'll land into warlord games!

Any idea why he left ?

 lord marcus wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

 Stevefamine wrote:
RIP a good video series.

Nick and Peachy will still be making the video tutorials.

Peachys wooden and I haven't seen anything from Nick.

Nick’s very natural, so I have high hopes for him.

Peachy is pretty good now too. People get better as they did more.

It's a shame Duncan is off, but warhammer tv will be fine.

Peachy is great with terrain and Nick is a solid runner up for Duncan. I watched a few since posting in the thread the other day. I'll stay subscribed but its no longer the first thing I want to check when I pull up youtube.

Im curious what Duncan does next

We should do a collection for him.

Update: https://twitter.com/i/status/1212349110122164224

Heya folks, Happy New Year! As it is now the 1st you will notice that my handle has changed to @Two_Thin_Coats for I am no longer working at GW... Some people have asked me what this means for this account, well I shall now tell you!

I will continue to tweet about wargaming and painting, but will be opening up those subjects more widely to encompass not only GW but also historicals and other games. It's going to become my hobby blog I think!

To answer another question, I am definitely going to be staying in the industry and will tell you here what I'm getting up to once I'm ready to do so. It won't be long!

Finally, I'd like to say again how amazed and humbled I am at the reaction from the community. I have heard so many stories of people getting into the hobby due to what we made and I'm so happy to have contributed in this way.

Interesting. Maybe he was hired by another company after all.

OMG... What if he was hired by Army Painter.

 oni wrote:
Interesting. Maybe he was hired by another company after all.

OMG... What if he was hired by Army Painter.

Warlord was the rumour, which seemed a bit far-fetched but then he specifically mentions historicals in his tweet...

And it would makes sense, what with all the former GW staff spread throughout Warlord.

beast_gts wrote:

 oni wrote:
Interesting. Maybe he was hired by another company after all.

OMG... What if he was hired by Army Painter.

Warlord was the rumour, which seemed a bit far-fetched but then he specifically mentions historicals in his tweet...

Being the painter forBeyond theGates of Antares could only help the game.

 oni wrote:
Interesting. Maybe he was hired by another company after all.

OMG... What if he was hired by Army Painter.

He said two thin coats not thirty.

He could even go it alone. He's got GW fame and the whole "two thin coats" and a pretty big following. Going on his own he could paint models from any company (including GW) whilst earning off a Patreon.

Whilst it might not be a long term thing it could certainly make someone with the right marketing and start up do pretty nicely; and he's certainly got the ball rolling in terms of marketing. One post on his twitter and he could have hundreds f £1 a month followers

 blood reaper wrote:

 oni wrote:
Interesting. Maybe he was hired by another company after all.

OMG... What if he was hired by Army Painter.

He said two thin coats not thirty.

Army painter actually makes some sense mind you. the problem with most of the names bandied about is that they don't really have much of a reason to do high end painting videos. GW is in a position that is unique, in that it teaches you how to paint GW models with GW paint, offical painting videos for other paint lines might be VERY good for those companies though as I know I tend toi buy a lotta GW paints because I know exactly how they'll look and how to get the effect I want

BrianDavion wrote:

 blood reaper wrote:

 oni wrote:
Interesting. Maybe he was hired by another company after all.

OMG... What if he was hired by Army Painter.

He said two thin coats not thirty.

Army painter actually makes some sense mind you. the problem with most of the names bandied about is that they don't really have much of a reason to do high end painting videos. GW is in a position that is unique, in that it teaches you how to paint GW models with GW paint, offical painting videos for other paint lines might be VERY good for those companies though as I know I tend toi buy a lotta GW paints because I know exactly how they'll look and how to get the effect I want

I agree- I've branched out into valleho etallics because they really are the best. (Look nowhere else for Bronze!) but all my other paints are GW for that very reason.

Carlovonsexron wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 blood reaper wrote:

 oni wrote:
Interesting. Maybe he was hired by another company after all.

OMG... What if he was hired by Army Painter.

He said two thin coats not thirty.

Army painter actually makes some sense mind you. the problem with most of the names bandied about is that they don't really have much of a reason to do high end painting videos. GW is in a position that is unique, in that it teaches you how to paint GW models with GW paint, offical painting videos for other paint lines might be VERY good for those companies though as I know I tend toi buy a lotta GW paints because I know exactly how they'll look and how to get the effect I want

I agree- I've branched out into valleho etallics because they really are the best. (Look nowhere else for Bronze!) but all my other paints are GW for that very reason.

right, part of that is because most non-GW painting videos.. in a word.. SUCK. they're almost always ones with a poor camera angle. the guy mumbles etc. they use a mix of paints, half the time they air brushes

My money is on warlord as he mentions historical, or an independent youtube thing.

Very curious.

While it could be true that it's Warlord Games or somesuch, I wouldn't necessarily read too much into the mention of "historicals" as such. Could he not simply have an interest in those personally? After all, he's well known for liking Knights, maybe he also likes, well, knights. Indeed, he says he'll be showing "not only GW, but also..". Purely WG-related work would not involve GW. It's obviously more his personal projects, or potentially work for a non-miniature company.

on the "he likes knights" idea. I'm gonna toss out an insane idea... he's working for catalyst at camo specs online. they apparently do painting videos for battletech

beast_gts wrote:
Warlord was the rumour, which seemed a bit far-fetched but then he specifically mentions historicals in his tweet...

He's into historical games as well as Fantasy/SF

And then there's this



Nerdy to the core, just like most of us here :-)

OM, thts amaing, and makes me like him so much more

And his first non-GW paint job (shown on Twitter) is - "Lannister troops for A Song of Ice and Fire"