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Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Seven Years War French Figures

18th Century,  25mm 28mm Figs,  Painting

Eye candy time. This nice site has some pictures of wonderfully painted Seven Years War French Army units. Specific regiments are listed, so, if you're like me, and need pictures for inspiration, this is a useful site.

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Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Castaway Arts Painting Guide

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Castaway Arts has a painting guide for a wide variety of figures that they produce, including Old Kingdom Egyptians, Sumerians, Ashanti Wars, Colonial Egyptian, Camel Nomads, Midianite Arabs, Hebrews and other bibicals.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Review of Renaissance Ink’s Flocking Gels

Painting

Dr. Faust's Painting Clinic has a review of Renaissance Ink's line of flocking gels and bases. The flocking gels in particular have intrigued me for some time; I've been wondering if they are, essentially, the same thing you can find in craft stores sold as acrylic gesso. I'm still not sure. I may order a tin of RI's stuff.

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Saturday, September 18, 2004

Painting Faces

Painting

Professional Painter Spencer Keen has this advice on painting faces on your wargames figures. Although it doesn't say so, the advice is clearly aimed at painting figures in the 25mm - 28mm scales.

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Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Terraining your bases.

25mm 28mm Figs,  Games Workshop,  Modeling,  Painting

Games Workshop has this tutorial on creating nicely terrained bases for your wargames figures. I think bases are an underappreciated part of the miniature wargaming hobby. A well-done base can make an average paint job look much better; conversely, a plain base can make even a top quality figure look average -- or worse. While this tutorial is aimed at GW's 25mm - 28mm singly based figures, you easily can use the principles for smaller scales on multiple figure bases.

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Friday, August 27, 2004

Painting Black

Painting

Some colors are just tough to paint. Blue's not one of them. Black, on the other hand, is. Finn Kisch has some advice and a very nice tutorial on painting black on your wargames miniatures.

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Sunday, August 22, 2004

Painting Red

Painting,  Warmachine

This painting tutorial describes the technique for painting large areas of red on a miniature wargames figure. As painters know, red can be a very difficult color to do. The figure used in this tutorial is a Warmachine Khador marauder warjack, from Privateer Press' Warmachine science-fantasy game.

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Friday, August 20, 2004

Black and White Priming Technique

Painting

Fons Libert has written a short article on a new method for priming your wargames figures -- do it in both black AND white. You'll have to read the article to see what he's getting at.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Teddy Bear Space Marines

Painting

You've got to see this one -- Teddy Bear Warhammer 40K Space Marines in 28mm.

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Monday, August 16, 2004

American Revolution Uniforms Guide

Painting

Here's a uniform guide to the American War of Independence in an unusual format. Rather than the usual Osprey-style painting guide, it is a chart that offers the colors for the coats, turnbacks, facing, cuffs, waistcoat, and pants. There are dozens of different AWI units here. I think that the American Revolution is a good period for beginning miniature wargamers to get into. The battles tended to be small, so you don't need a lot of figures. However, the uniforms are colorful and varied, so you have a lot of visual appeal. I've got a couple of good sized American and British armies in 15mm -- mostly the old Washington's Wars figures -- and am planning on joining a friend in painting 25mm armies soon.

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About the Miniature Wargaming Hobby

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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