Saturday, February 21, 2009
Here’s a page with cheap craft paint equivalents for the much more expensive Vallejo World War II colors.
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Paint triads are sets of three shades of a single color—a dark, medium and light. They’re great for layering colors on a figure, beginning with the dark, then painting the medium and finally, highlighting with the light. I have another variant: I base coat with the medium, then highlight. Finally, I use a wash of the dark color to get into the recesses. Works well.
Several of the main line figure companies offer paints that come in designated triads—Reaper and Wargames Foundry are among them. But Robert Waller has produced a neat web page showing blue triad combinations using craft paints like Decoart and Ceramcoat.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Paint triads are sets of three shades of a single color—a dark, medium and light. They’re great for layering colors on a figure, beginning with the dark, then painting the medium and finally, highlighting with the light. I have another variant: I base coat with the medium, then highlight. Finally, I use a wash of the dark color to get into the recesses. Works well.
Several of the main line figure companies offer paints that come in designated triads—Reaper and Wargames Foundry are among them. But Robert Waller has produced a neat web page showing red and orange triad combinations using craft paints like Decoart and Ceramcoat.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Paint triads are sets of three shades of a single color—a dark, medium and light. They’re great for layering colors on a figure, beginning with the dark, then painting the medium and finally, highlighting with the light. I have another variant: I base coat with the medium, then highlight. Finally, I use a wash of the dark color to get into the recesses. Works well.
Several of the main line figure companies offer paints that come in designated triads—Reaper and Wargames Foundry are among them. But Robert Waller has produced a neat web page showing brown and tan triad combinations using craft paints like Decoart and Ceramcoat.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Over at MacPhee’s Miniature Men, there’s a tutorial on painting a Roman Legionary with craft paints. While I’ve found the craft paints to be of varying quality, they DO have the advantage of being very cheap compared to the Games Workshop, Vallejo and other “miniatures specific” paints.
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Monday, November 03, 2008
The Tabletop Titans site has a photo tutorial on inking miniature wargames figures. Inking is a great technique—actually a great time saver.
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Monday, September 22, 2008
The Chest of Colors has a tutorial on painting a plastic Lord of the Rings Gondorian. The techniques used here are useful for a variety of periods and figures.
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Taking professional level photographs of miniatures requires the use of a light box. Here’s a tutorial on building a cheap light box from a cardboard box and tissue paper.
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Saturday, August 02, 2008
Here’s some advice on applying decals to your miniatures wargames figures.
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Brushes are obviously the most important tool in painting figures. Here’s an article with advice and information on the different types of brushes.
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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.
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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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