Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Whether you’re painting were-leopards, the skins on the backs of winged hussars,or just ordinary leopards, here’s a tutorial on producing great spotted results.
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
Laszlo Jakusovszky has a tutorial on painting fire. Now you can do justice to those flaming pigs models that you’ve had in a box for years.
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
The Hot Lead site has a tutorial on painting wood textures.
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Sunday, July 08, 2007
Painter extraordinaire Marike Reimer offers a tutorial on painting eyes on your figures. To be frank, it’s over the top and way too much for wargamers trying to paint armies. But maybe for a command stand ...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Rottenlead has a very nice pdf guide to painting Battletech figures. It’s done in a comic book format, complete with panels and dialog balloons. I look forward to more of these.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The DHC Wargames club has a page with photos and instructions on painting World War II SS camouflage patterns.
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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.
