Painting

Like some of you, I got into painting miniatures because I play a tabletop wargame. In my case, I play Warhammer. All of us want a perfect looking army, but sometimes we just want to get our minis painted just so we can go out and play with them. I lack the skill to paint miniatures at the level that Golden Demon winners paint, but I don't really need to paint at that level because I just want to have a decent looking army. If you feel the same way, then this guide is for you. I'll be painting a high elf seaguard champion in this guide, but a lot of the techniques in this tutorial are equally valid for most other infantry type models. If not...stick around, you might learn something new =) Throughout the tutorial, I will be telling you to do certain things that go against what most painting guides and tutorials tell you, but remember the aim of this tutorial is to make decent looking miniatures in a minimum amount of time. These things will have a *** next to them in the tutorial. Anyways...on to the tutorial.


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I just found an awesome technique for shading. It's called blacklining. What you do is go down to a stationary store, ask for a overhead projection ...

Painting Urban Camo (on some UW Marines)

At the end of 2004 Urban Mammoth finally released the first minis for their new skirmish system Urban War. Urban War is settled in the same universe as VOID and so it was only logical for me to start a viridian combat team. I started to paint some minis almost immediately and because of the urban setting of the game I went for an urban camo scheme again. But as I would have to paint only a few minis for Urban War I decided to put some more work into this camo scheme and started to search the Œnet for some inspiration. In the end I came up with this scheme, which was slightly inspired by the computer game Splinter Cell.

More pics of the finished minis can be found in my Urban War'-gallery. As usual for me all colors are Reaper ProPaints unless otherwise noted.









Step 1:

As the minis will be quite dark in the end I started ...

Trick to realise easy NMM

I Suppose that I'm not the first to imagine this trick...
If you want to realise a good NMM the difficulty is to put highlights. So a easy trick consist ...

NOTE This article was written by Yannick degiovani, all issues concerning reproduction and use of this article should be ...

Wet Palette

Well, this is my first attempt at an article; I thought I would share my idea for a wet palette. I have seen articles that talk about using a blister pack, but you can’t hold a lot of different paint on one. I came up with an easy stackable plan. So with out further ado… Ginny’s mini’s stackable wet palettes.


Items needed
Wet palette paper
Sponges (I used compressed sponges)
Round stackable containers, I found these at my local craft store and at ...

Ethnic Skintones


Okay, before I even begin with any info on this delicate article, let
me say a few things:
I have no intention to seem racially insensitive, so I’ve lightened up
on any kind of humorous remark.
If I unintentionally offend someone, please excuse my ignorance and let
me change the offending remark.
We are all one people of this earth, let’s try to get along!!

Intro:

Okay, so here’s how this is going to work, I can’t make a mini for
every ethnicity I cover here (mostly because there are none.. let’s get
some more ethnic minis manufacturers!!). So, what I’ve done is scour
the web for pictures of a typical person of that particular ethnicity.
I’ve given a picture of a man and a woman, because in pretty much every
culture, women are lighter skinned than men are. Below the pictures,
I’ve made some color swatches. I’ll try and convert them to Vallejo
mixes (sorry, GW people can’t come up with these with only around 6
flesh colors!!), but you can also just compare and contrast. Also, I’ve
tried to give enough swatches so that you can select three consecutive
swatches to choose your own range, because variations in skin color can
be seen even in families.

Now, you may wonder why different people’s skin is different colors.
Well, there are only certain factors that control skin color.
Everyone’s skin is basically the same, but what colors it is a black
pigment called melanin. Again, everyone has melanin in his or her skin
(except those who suffer from Albinism) but genetically people are born
with more or less. Melanin is released by exposure to the sun and
hormones, and it is concentrated in freckles and moles. Obviously, if
you were to look at a map of the world with color swatches in certain
areas you’d see people in cloudy climates have lighter skin, and people
in sunny areas have darker skin. This is because more melanin helps
absorb the sun, so it should come as no surprise that people with dark ...

Please pardon my form (or lack thereof) this is my first shot at a written how-to type thing.

Trees made ...

Hi everyone.
Here's a quick tutorial on painting your bases to look like HOT LAVA.....
Thanks to Scott at Groundforge for the base.(Well worth checking out).www.groundforge.co.uk/ ...