Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this video, I dive into one of the most fascinating and slightly unsettling questions facing tabletop wargamers and miniature painters today: will AI eventually paint our miniatures for us? The idea came from a message I received from Evangelos Georgopoulos, who raised the possibility that rapidly advancing colour 3D printing and AI-assisted tools could change the hobby forever.
Together we’ll explore how 3D printing has evolved, where colour-print technology is heading, and how AI is starting to shape everything from sculpting to painting. Could fully painted, ready-to-play models become so common and so affordable that traditional brushwork begins to fade away? Or are painters simply too stubborn, too creative, and too in love with the craft to be replaced?
I also touch on the “AI slop” problem, how it might bleed into the physical world, and whether wargamers will accept machine-painted minis in the same way social media accepts machine-made images. This is a huge topic, full of excitement and worry in equal measure—so let’s unpack it together.
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In this video, I dive into one of the most fascinating and slightly unsettling questions facing tabletop wargamers and miniature painters today: will AI eventually paint our miniatures for us? The idea came from a message I received from Evangelos Georgopoulos, who raised the possibility that rapidly advancing colour 3D printing and AI-assisted tools could change the hobby forever.
Together we’ll explore how 3D printing has evolved, where colour-print technology is heading, and how AI is starting to shape everything from sculpting to painting. Could fully painted, ready-to-play models become so common and so affordable that traditional brushwork begins to fade away? Or are painters simply too stubborn, too creative, and too in love with the craft to be replaced?
I also touch on the “AI slop” problem, how it might bleed into the physical world, and whether wargamers will accept machine-painted minis in the same way social media accepts machine-made images. This is a huge topic, full of excitement and worry in equal measure—so let’s unpack it together.
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