Sunday, August 01, 2010
I have often thought of putting together some armies in 1/72 plastic—the Crimea is one I’m considering—but I’ve always found painting them difficult. I have a hard time keeping the paint on them. Here’s some advice on prepping and painting plastic figures.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Tabletop Titans has a tutorial on using inks on a white base to create a sort of “watercolor” look to your figures. I very much like the look and am trying to decide on what unpainted project I could use the technique. Actually, I’ve been thinking about getting some of those woodland creatures figures and doing a “Mouseguard” game. The watercolor look would be just right for that.
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Tuesday, June 08, 2010
The Ultimate Model Paint Conversion Chart is an interactive chart that lets you find equivalent paint colors between different manufacturers’ lines of paints. It also lets you generate a pdf of your chart to take to the store.
Useful.
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
The Itinerant Wargamer blog has an article on speed painting horses.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
The Massive Voodoo Blog has nice photo tutorial on painting blood.
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Monday, May 03, 2010
Gaming Brouhaha has an excellent article discussing various types of paints, inks and primers.
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Saturday, May 01, 2010
Some good advice on the care and feeding of brushes.
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
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Friday, April 16, 2010
Got a miniature or two you want painted? Free Mini Painting will do it for you for the cost of postage.
Seriously.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
The Non Metal Metallics painting craze having run its course, those Golden Demon painters now are working their way back to new techniques for metallic paints. Here’s a tutorial on painting in true metal metallics.
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Poll #3:
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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.
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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