Saturday, July 19, 2008
Dr. Faust has a tutorial on painting a Games Workshop Eldar Fire Prism model. It has lots of great tips for painting any larger mechanical model.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The Curdled Milk site has a tutorial on painting using liquid masks. The idea is that you use the masks to prevent paint from getting in areas that will need to be glued.
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Ever wonder which Vallejo color matches Citadels’ Snakebite Leather? Or which Delta Ceramcoat matches Privateer’s Khador Red? Here’s a website that shows you virtual paint chips and matches the different brands and colors. It’s a great resource for wargames miniatures painters.
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Monday, May 05, 2008
The OddBattles Site has as nice article on the author’s efforts to paint plastic army men.
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Dipping figures in a polyurethane stain is one of the best ways to speed your figure painting. In this case, the author blocked out the colors on the figures and then dipped in Army Painter Quick Shade. You can get the same effect with furniture stain, or by diluting some color with a water and Future Floor polish mix.
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Librarium Online has a guide to painting a white space marine figure. The techniques used, however, could be used for a lot of different projects: Austrians with their white jackets, guys in togas ...
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Saturday, February 09, 2008
The New York Public Library Images collection has an amazing collection of the uniforms of Russian armed forces from 960 - 1900. Most are in color. All are useful.
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
Who needs Osprey Books? The New York Public Library has a gorgeous set of color plates of the uniforms of the Ancient Roman Army.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The Perry’s Heroes Site offers a photographic guide to painting Waffen SS pea dot camo patterns.
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
The New York Public Library’s digital holdings have an amazing collection of color plates of British uniforms from 1066 - 1900. These are great painting guides.
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Poll #1:
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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