JW Mini Painting Brings Tabletop Worlds to Life, One Brushstroke at a Time

Josh has been running JW Mini Painting since 2016, and he has stayed busy almost nonstop. In that entire stretch, he says he has only had a 3 day span with no projects, and he is very grateful for the work that is available to him. His commissions range from classic miniatures to larger scale models, across genres like Blood Bowl, historical settings, and board games

What makes his work stand out is the blend of craft and curiosity. Josh takes on everything from clean tabletop ready paint jobs to ambitious pieces with advanced blending and detail work. When the canvas is big enough, he even paints a detailed mural directly onto a miniature, treating each surface like a chance to experiment and level up

A big part of JW Mini Painting is how deeply Josh is embedded in the community he serves. He is an avid Blood Bowl player, known in the NAF community as Jogrenaut. The NAF is a nonprofit worldwide ranking for tabletop Blood Bowl games, and Josh travels frequently for tournaments. He was in Budapest last year for Eurobowl, and he has traveled around the US for Blood Bowl events in places like Dollywood in Tennessee, Ohio, Pensacola, Alabama, and Louisiana. Locally, he plays in leagues at Dogs of War in Palm Bay and Brevard Game Lounge in Rockledge

That community involvement is not just about showing up, it is about contributing. Since 2018, Josh has painted the main team for the charity auction at Chaos Cup. He also painted a prize miniature for the Ogrehio tournament last year, and he continues to support charity efforts through his work. About Chaos Cup, he says they raised over 8,000 dollars last year in the charity tournament with my work and a lot of raffle donations from others

Josh’s interests go beyond Blood Bowl, too. He nerds out on DnD and Eurogames, naming favorites like Castles of Burgundy, Trajan, and Viticulture. You might also find him playing online, sometimes on Blood Bowl 3, but more often on fumbbl.com. He shares his latest projects on Facebook and Instagram, and occasionally in other communities like Discord and 40k groups, with a mindset he sums up simply: share with an open mind and a positive outlook, and be willing to take the criticism

Even as a side business, JW Mini Painting has a real reach. Josh has shipped commissions all over the US, and the furthest he has ever shipped a commission team was Australia. For him, the why is as important as the finished result. He says he likes to use the gift he was given to provide a means of happiness, describing the joy on both sides of the commission. As an artist, he is happy while breathing life into a miniature, and as he puts it, for someone who is solely a gamer, they are happy when they receive the finished piece. It is a symbiotic means of providing joy in a world that can always use more

Next up, Josh is heading to more tournaments, including Amorical Cup in Detroit and Zlurpee Bowl in Indianapolis, continuing the same pattern that has powered JW Mini Painting from day one: show up, paint hard, stay involved, and keep raising the bar every time