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  • Banelegions Kaastaruk Step by Step Tutorial Part 1

    Banelegions Kaastaruk Step by Step Tutorial Part 1

    Kaastaruk is a hulking great beast from Maelstrom's cracking new Banelegions range. Over two parts I shall show you how I painted him and created his base.

    While he is 30mm scale he actually stands 54mm high to his horns so there is plenty of him! This first part will focus on the painting and the second part will cover creating and painting the base.
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  • Weathering Effects Tutorial

    Weathering Effects Tutorial

    I often get people complimenting my weathering effects so I thought I would write a little 'how to' about them.

    The piece I have chosen to paint is an AA Turret Platform from Max Mini

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  • Experiments in Miniature Painting Alchemy with Jester 666 Pt 1: Making Sticky Metallics

    You folks may or may not be aware but I am a big fan of Vallejo paints. I love them and use them almost exclusively for my miniature and model painting.

    My only gripe is with their metallics which are almost too good. Confused? Welcome to my world.

    Vallejo metallics like a lot of quality metallics from other acrylic paint manufactures contain very very very tiny metallic particles. This is great as you get a smooth shiny finish that doesn’t look cheap and glittery like...
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  • Painting a Starry Cloak

    Painting a Starry Cloak

    I have had a few questions about the cloak of the High Elf Mage from my last post. People wanted to which paints I use and how I went about getting the star effect. Well... Here is a quick guide to the best of my memory.

    I use almost almost exclusively paints made by Vallejo but any good model acrylics will do. Working from a base of the bare grey undercoat, I worked up a blend from a dark indigo at the top through to ultramarine blue at the bottom. I added a bit of blue and purpl...
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  • Experimenting with Gray

    Experimenting with Gray

    Gray Experiment For this experiment, I am painting Gandalf the Gray, from Games Workshop's Lord of the Rings line. I wanted to paint the overcloak a different, lighter, gray than the inner robes and hat, and I had two different ideas of how to go about painting gray, so I decided to try one method for the overcloak and the other for the inner robes and hat. The two are opposite methods, meaning their base and shadow colors compliment each other. Putting them together, therefore, on the same figur...
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  • Painting Verdigris

    Painting Verdigris

    Hi there, I still owe this forum a tutorial about how to make realistic drool(Gee, that sounds awful...) but in the meantime I got asked about how I created a verdigris effect after I posted a WIP around here. Bigmouth that I am, I promised a short tutorial as well. Well, I had already taken the photos, so here goes. This is my first tutorial, so if you have any comments or questions, do not hesitate to drop me a line. Some years ago I have tried to paint realistic verdigris several times...
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  • Macro Photography with a Digital SLR and Photoshop Post-Processing

    Macro Photography with a Digital SLR and Photoshop Post-Processing

    Here I'll give you step-by-step instructions for taking photos of your minituares and processing them in Photoshop.
    Materials Needed: 1. Digital SLR Camera 2. Tripod 3. Lightbox (you can make your own very cheaply by cutting "windows" in the sides of a box and covering them with tissue paper) 4. Three incandescent desk lamps, preferably with bendy necks (you can get away with just 2) 5. Sheet of WHITE paper (printer paper works best) - I use white to fascilitate Photoshop post-proce...
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  • Doing a simple industrial/mesh base

    Doing a simple industrial/mesh base

    Today I will show you a way to do some industrial/mesh bases for your miniatures. For this tutorial I took a round base from GW (but It will work on any other base). First of all you will be needing some tulle (or any similar plastic net), superglue, a base (of course), a scalpel and a pair of scissors. For painting the base I used, Black Dark Flesh (VMC) Tinny tin (VGC) Boltgun metal (GW) Gunmetal metal (VGC) Mithril silver (GW). Besides that I used three kinds of pigments, Orange rust (Forge wo...
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  • Weathering yellow

    Weathering yellow

    For my Bad Moon orks I start the yellow with Ilyaden Darsun over a black undercoat. I then wash with Devlan mud and repaint the area with Ilyaden darksun leaving Devlan mud where I want my shadows. Next step is to do a highlight using VMC Sand yellow. I use bright highlights for this step, it will look fine as soon as the weathering is done. So, now our yellow is ready for weathering!



    Step 1

    I start with VGC Dark Fleshtone and a spunge (I used one who...
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  • Game quality flock/grass

    Game quality flock/grass

    My first attempt at a tutorial “What the Flock?”: As an exile from the Independent Republic of Yorkshire (Don't knock us, we do have nuclear capability now, it was on radio 5 live) I am tighter than a Scotsman with all sence of generosity beaten out of him. So when it came to needing flock for my home made battle board (more on this later if this goes down well). I looked at static grass/flock from the likes of GW and woodland scenics. After the wife had brought me round I began to think about...
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