Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Kevin’s Miniatures and Hobby Table has a photo tutorial on painting a Games Workshop Lord of the Rings dwarf.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Kevin’s Miniatures and Hobby Table has a good article on painting horses. I have never been good at painting the beasts.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
From Iron Mitten, a nice photo essay on a painting guide for Tommies.
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Sunday, November 06, 2011
Path of the Outcast has a nice illustrated tutorial on mixing a base set of GW paints to come up with OTHER GW paints. For example: Chaos Black + Sunburst Yellow + Enchanted Blue = Scaly Green
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The Man Cave has an article on painting rust effects. Lots of good techniques here.
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Monday, August 15, 2011
The Hogs of War has a formula for making your own washes.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Massive Voodoo has some advice on painting something to look like burned wood.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Here’s a blog post with an interesting notion: polishing your miniatures before painting.
I have a tough enough time forcing myself to scrape off mold lines.
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
The Leadhead has a very nice article on getting started in airbrushing. Well worth the read.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2011
You don’t have to paint everything as though you were trying to win a Golden Demon. Here are a few tips on speed painting vehicles.
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Poll #3:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
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