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Hello again everyone! I have a small update for you here, this time it's a few techniques to help speed things up. I would ...

This article does not fall easily into any of the categories.  It’s a little bit of modification and a little bit of scenario building.  Blend together for a little pisky magic.  This isn’t a “How to do it,” it’s a “How I did it”.  I’ll also attempt to record my thought processes, including ideas I rejected.  I hope there may be something here to inspire your own projects.
 
Paints used were Vallejo acrylics where I had the right colours or old tubes of various artists’ acrylics when I didn’t.  Undercoat was a car spray undercoat.  Photography was the best I could manage with my Pentax Optio 550 compact.
 
I write my own Advanced Dungeons and Dragons campaign, and I wanted our party of adventurers to meet some pixies, or, as they are known in Cornwall, pixys, pisgys or piskys.  The nearest match to what I envisaged was Reaper’s #2445 “Fairies”.  I waited four weeks for an English supplier who said he’d ordered them for me, then cancelled that, and ordered them direct, waiting another two ...

The first camera I used for miniature photography didn't have a white balance setting so I thought I'd experiment to see how different backgrounds affect the outcome of the ...

Hi this article is for taking the paint off the metal models so you could begin a new paint job.I got this tip from a friend and have tested it several ...

Just so you know how I work, I live in the desert so even wet pallets dry out too fast. I always mix paints into these little snap top pots. That way I can keep the paint wet, pull paint out of the ...

The Grey Wolf
The Author is grateful for the help and support of all people participating in discussion of this mini at all stages of painting. In particular I would like to express my gratitude to Denis, aka Bad Russian Guy, without whom this article probably would never be written and Yurii, aka Skeeve, responsible for English translation and editing of this text.
Instead of Introduction
To start it all, for my minis I am using Citadel Color paints (GW). A number of people were asking whether is possible to use paints by other manufacturers. The simple answer is yes, it is possible. Andrea, Racham and Vallejo brands are as good as GW and are successfully used by many miniature painters. If you prefer paints by Vallejo you might want to use the table of correspondence between GW and Vallejo here. ...

 
Part 2 CoolMiniOrNot Picture Posting Etiquette and Tips
Okay hello again and welcome to the second part of my beginners articles.
So you've put your picture of your model up onto CMON but you keep seeing all of these fancy submissions with multiple views of the same image but from different angles, for example things like this:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/152522You ...

Hi thereThis article will be about my idea for Ogre hut with removable roof and accessible interior.You will need:- insulation foam- Apoxie Sculpt - some plastic bags- magic tape- plasticard or wire- knife ...

For my first article I will be showing you how I make my post apocalyptic slime bases.Examples

Ingredients:I use...40mm Privateer ...