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    The Sticky Thread: Links to Tips, Threads & Tutorials.

    8. Photography Tutorials and discussions on photographing your miniatures as well as post-processing images and creating multiviews/collages. Tips & Tutorials: Photographing: Photographing miniatures is easier than they made you believe! - The classic miniature photography with just one lamp...
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    The Sticky Thread: Links to Tips, Threads & Tutorials.

    7. Step by steps More extensive step by steps in creating an entire figure, diorama or terrain. Also links to some sites that carry tutorials Ultimate guide to painting your first miniature - everything you need to know - by Squidmar (video) How to paint with Ref 70.246 Wehrmacht Unteroffizier...
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    The Sticky Thread: Links to Tips, Threads & Tutorials.

    6. Basing, groundwork Tips and ideas for creating bases, plinths and groundwork including snow- and watereffects. Tips & Tutorials: Easy Warhammer Bases for Beginners - Basic Warhammer Bases (video tut) Autumn bases - by Chest of Colors Artificial water by Andrea Miniatures (video tutorial)...
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    The Sticky Thread: Links to Tips, Threads & Tutorials.

    5. Technique Everything about the technical aspects of painting as well as how people have achieved things like freehand, weathering, gems and woodgrain. Tips & Tutorials: Basics: General Info about Paints, Thinning, and Brush Control by Jenova (more good beginner and intermediary level...
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    The Sticky Thread: Links to Tips, Threads & Tutorials.

    4. Colour, value and light About getting the miniature to come to life through the use of colours, highlighting, midtones and shadows. Also the imitation of a lightsource and how light works on different textures like metals and cloth. Articles with reference photos included. Tips & Tutorials...
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    The Sticky Thread: Links to Tips, Threads & Tutorials.

    3. Sculpting This part covers all aspects of sculpting miniatures. Selection of tools and putties, tutorials on technique and anatomy. Tips & Tutorials: Information about scales etc. from Wikipedia "YES! IT IS EASY TO SCULPT A MONSTER!" by Jacques-Alexandre Gillois "HEAD OF A WHAT?" by...
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    The Sticky Thread: Links to Tips, Threads & Tutorials.

    2. Materials and prepping Links to threads and discussions on the topic of selecting tools, brushes, paints and primers as well as tips and tutorials on preparing your miniature before painting, including basic conversions and stripping miniatures of old paint. Tips & Tutorials: Pinning by...
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    The Sticky Thread: Links to Tips, Threads & Tutorials.

    1. Inspiration and other link collections A collection of general art and stock images sites as well as threads in different forums that can give inspiration and ideas for the creative aspect of painting or sculpting a miniature. CMON - Best place ever! CMON basics 1 and 2. ..and more on...
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    The Sticky Thread: Links to Tips, Threads & Tutorials.

    This thread gathers links to articles, threads, tips and inspirations for our hobby. I have structured it around all the different steps in making a miniature and will thus naturally start with materials, go through the different stages of choosing converting a miniature, painting it and then...
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    New guidelines when posting miniatures

    For voting and viewing convenience please limit yourself to a maximum of two or three separate postings of the <i>same</i> miniature or squad. Instead try doing vertical multiviews/montages of several images in an image editing program. Not only will this be more convenient when browsing the...
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    Michael Jackson dead in cardiac arrest

    http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-dies-death-dead-cardiac-arrest/ Not confirmed by any other source atm though. One might say a lot about old MJ, but for a period of time he was the king of pop.
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    The Sticky thread - submit links

    Ok. The ambition of this thread is for it to form the basis for an extensive forum-sticky. It has come from a discussion with Cedric (green stuff) and others that cmon has a wealth of resources that are not easily navigated. What I want is links to old threads on techniques, colours etc. that...
  13. Avelorn

    The future of browsing is here!

    http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/04/01 My mate works at Opera, he\'s really thrilled with this project! :)
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    Quick recipes (for food)

    Hi guys and gals! following the best sandwish thread that made me all hungry... :) What are your best recipes for quick cooking? I need to expand mine and are open to... most suggestions. My universal recipe right now: 2 dl of macaronies in some kind of cooking.. vessel. Preferable not a...
  15. Avelorn

    Article: The Lords of Skoog

    Some very nice miniatures there! :) I like almost all of the Naismith sculpts. Natalya has done some really nice painting as well. You really should have her pimp your stuff in her gallery! :)
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    How about Africa, darling?

    Just saw this. Can I get a collective \"awww...\"? ;)
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    Something you can get mad-off!

    Yes that is a pathetic pun! http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081212/bs_nm/us_madoff_arrest The website (madoff.com) describes Madoff himself as having \"a personal interest in maintaining the unblemished record of value, fair-dealing, and high ethical standards that has always been the firm\'s...
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    Happy birthday Tim, you freak!

    You\'re getting old!
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    The Postman

    The Kevin Costner one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119925/ Not \"Il postino\" that is without doubt a great movie. So what do you think? I saw it the day before yesterday for the first time... so I\'m basically tapping into the ten year old discussion now! lol
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    Crap... so that\'s where my money\'s going to go...

    http://www.coolminiornot.com/204609 Do I like it? Yeah...
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