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Reading Material

  • Azazel's Bitz Box.
    4th Edition WHFB Night Goblin Cave Squigs and Hunters/Herders (Kev Adams) (1993, 2003?) (Neglected Model June ’19) - What? Who’s 5 editions behind? No, you’re 5 editions behind! What 26 years late? Speak up, sonny, I can’t hear you! Remember all that discussion on how man...
    2 hours ago
  • No Dice No Glory
    Historicon 2019: Blood, Plunder and Lancaster - Another Historicon is in the books. The 2019 installment was a blast and much different than the others I have attended. The new location and running a tou...
    2 hours ago
  • The Modelling News
    Get the message? A Brand new Hornisse/ Nashorn crew & Dispatch rider on the way from Stalingrad! - We know that Dragon put the "cart before the horse" when it omitted the dispatch rider from it's "Poland 1944 boxing of the Nashorn, but now Stalingrad br...
    2 hours ago
  • MASSIVE VOODOO
    NOVA OPEN 2019 - NOCF Raffle News! - Hey Jungle, unfortanetely I am not able to be present on this year's amazing event that will be the NOVA OPEN 2019 due the studio move and other variables ...
    7 hours ago
  • Breakthrough Assault
    Unboxing the D-Day Hobby League Box(es) - I recently posted up a picture on our Facebook feed of the contents of the Battlefront Hobby League kit, which…
    7 hours ago
  • Pete's Model World
    FV432 Gloss & Decals - I've now added the decals and a little bit of the detail painting after letting the gloss cure for a few days. I used the ones supplied in the conversion a...
    18 hours ago
  • Man vs Kit
    Trumpeter 1/32 MiG-3 build review - Sometimes you like a subject enough to put up with a frustrating kit. That’s what I expected from this one, but it turned out to be quite a delightful b...
    19 hours ago
  • Skarach's world
    BA-20M build – Part 2:Assembly - It went together pretty well, apart from the exhaust bracket – just a strip of brass which you are expected to bend into a complex shape with no pre-scorin...
    1 day ago
  • Tale of Painters
    Tale of Tuesdays: SpaceShrimp Month 1 - Champions of Death - Introducing the first of my BloodBowl team for Tale of Tuesdays! Champions of Death - Spaceshrimp flavour. So despite being a really easy going and playf...
    1 day ago
  • Wargaming with Barks
    Magnetic clear acrylic flight stands - I really didn't like the flight stands that came with these *Batman* drones, so I bought some magnetic clear acrylic ones from Back 2 Base-ix in Adelaide. ...
    1 day ago
  • Sproket's Small World
    Sproket's Troggoth Masterclass in Nottingham - Tickets are now available for my Troggoth Workshop in Nottingham 28 Sep – 29 Sep. You can book then on the Lead Belt Studio website HERE.
    1 day ago
  • Prot's War in the Warp
    Prot’s Quickie Batrep: Chaos Knights and Thousand Sons vs. Orks - I hope this post finds everyone doing well and destroying a slave world to the corpse god nearest you. (With Chaos Knights of course) In this episode I hop...
    1 day ago
  • James Wappel Miniature Painting
    A great Case - The large Carrying case from TableWar has proven to be handy for a number of things. I thought that the larger size would let me carry the bigger Creatu...
    3 days ago
  • Almost Perftec
    How To: Packaging For Shipping - So how do you pack something like this off for shipping? Glue and you know when you buy something from Ikea? keep those cardboard inserts ;) Spacers glu...
    4 days ago
  • Art and Musings of a Miniature Hobbyist
    MENG Model Sd.Kfz.182 King Tiger [WIP - Dust & Dirt Weathering on the Lower Hull, Tracks & Road Wheels] - Scale modelling work on the Meng Model 1/35 scale Sd.Kfz.182 King Tiger (Henschel Turret) has taken me on a long and convoluted journey, but the end is nig...
    4 days ago
  • Gunpla by GoodGuyDan
    HG MS-06RD-4 Zaku High Mobility Test Type - Introduction: Since MS-06RD-4 Zaku High Mobility Test Type is a mouthful I'm just going to be calling this one 'Aina's Zaku'. Because, while this specifi...
    5 days ago
  • Scale Model Soup
    When real life is as silly as a model - I often make fun of egg planes and their tank and ship siblings — I’m referring here to Meng’s World War Toons tanks and Warship Builder vessels — because ...
    5 days ago
  • Behind Enemy Lines Podcast
    CHOO CHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! - It's July and that can mean only one thing... *PANZERSCHRECK ROAD TRIP!!!* That's right, but this time, no scummy minivan for us! We're travelling in st...
    1 week ago
  • The Hammer of Wrath
    H.O.W. TO: Painting Deathwing Terminators - A guide to painting the First Company of the Dark Angels. Painting the Unforgiven's finest warriors can be easy following these simple steps. First, the...
    1 week ago
  • Covering Fire!
    German Grenadiers vs Brit Tanks in Encounter - A target rich environment! Game 3 of the Lords or War MW 109 pt tournament was against Craig and his Brits. As always the painting level for Craig's army ...
    1 week ago
  • The Mighty Brush | Blog of a Miniature Painting Addict
    How to photograph miniatures – updated - I’ve been asked a few times recently for information on how I photograph my models. I wrote an article on my setup back in 2015 but several things have c...
    1 week ago
  • Arsies Studio, Miniature Painter
    A bit more of the Aleph Army - Hi People. While in our Facebook at Hydra Studio we were unlocking slowly those minis, I choose to keep them a bit more and post there in a bigger batch. ...
    1 week ago
  • MiniArmour
    Torcan 2019 - Just a a quick memory from few days ago and visit to Torcan model show. Models, friends, etc. See all my pictures here.
    3 weeks ago
  • FichtenFoo
    Completed » Gaslands-Styled Hotwheels Cars - Last year I decided to do some Gaslands cars using Hotwheels cars I picked up. I still haven’t actually played the game, but repainting and modifying these...
    4 weeks ago
  • 40k Hobby Blog
    Horsa Glider WIP For Pegasus Bridge Game - This is terrain. Hugely annoying terrain to build. I think game day payoff will make it worth while. The bridge is built, and is an impressive kit by ...
    5 weeks ago
  • Sketchbook Gaming
    I'm getting closer to creating a better close combat system for Kill Team - It hit me like a freight train the other day, the close combat system I'd created and we were using had become this bloated monster in just four short mo...
    5 weeks ago
  • GMM Studios
    GMM's Giant Parade Part 1 - Freehand Covered Titans - (Hello out there! Recently BigRed over at Bell of Lost Souls asked me to do a couple of throwback articles to Titans I have done. Thought I would try and...
    1 month ago
  • Coloured Dust
    Painting "Onibi" (SBS) - Today I have for you 37 photos from the process of painting a bust of "Onibi" on a scale of 1:12 from Nuts Planet. I hope that this will be interesting re...
    1 month ago
  • Crac des Chevaliers
    28mm Late War British - A British Vickers MMG team, 3" Mortar team and command group; Warlord 28mm. CdlT
    1 month ago
  • Battleground Hobbies
    Sarissa World War Europe and Warlord Games Reinforcements for Bolt Action - [image: Sarissa LCVP and LCM]We picked up these Sarissa World War Europe LCVP and LCM to try out for an eventual landing assault on the Atlantic wall. [im...
    2 months ago
  • Nicholas Sagan's Progress Report | Projects and Experiments in Time and Space
    Studio Scale Nebulon B underway - Advertisements
    3 months ago
  • Jim's Models
    Flaws - There is no loftier goal in any endeavor than striving for perfection. But can any human being ever achieve perfection? I don’t know. That is a tough quest...
    4 months ago
  • Modelling Chronicles: Constructing the Past
    Young Miniatures Spitfire Pilot - Completion - So here we are with a completed model. It's an unusual and challenging piece but it's well worth it. I left it last time with all parts painted and I di...
    4 months ago
  • Haywire Painting
    Mollogs Warband (AKA "Alpha Legion Break") - Update! I'm taking a break from my tedious Alpha Legion (I hate Tactical Marines so much..) and I've painted up Mollogs Mob. I'll also use these guys for a...
    4 months ago
  • Doogs' Models
    Modeling Rabbit Holes - Around the modeling interwebs, it seems like everyone is suddenly kung-fu fighting about “basic modeling skills” and, honestly, I have no desire to join in...
    4 months ago
  • Defiant Workshop
    Firefly Adventures Painted -
    6 months ago
  • Airbrush & Analog Painting
    Showcase: Hector, prince of Troy - Hello everyone! In this article, I want to showcase my version of Hector by Young Miniatures . I spend a lot of time on the face and eyes, only by them bei...
    11 months ago
  • WWPD: Wargames, Board Games, RPGs, LCGs, and more!
    Watch the Mac Fam stream D&D Live on Twitch Tuesdays and Sundays! - If you want to hear the Steve and Sean O get real nerdy with Dungeons and Dragons, the team is now streaming games live! Check us out on our Twitch page at...
    1 year ago
  • davetaylorminiatures
    Things are rumbling along! - So, the launch of the Kickstarter for my book ARMIES & LEGIONS & HORDES went off with a bang! It funded in three hours, and has continued to go great gun...
    1 year ago
  • Fight Medic Painting and Photography
    - The big one! Spring break has arrived, and that means I have time to paint! Time to try and get 6 months of painting done in the next 5 days. So let's st...
    1 year ago
  • Lester Bursley Miniatures
    Motivation -
    1 year ago
  • Hobby Before I Die!
    Star Wars Legion - Tatooine Table - Part 11 - Slight detour from the Tatooine buildings... To help break the routine of carving foam, I decided I needed something a little different to model and pai...
    1 year ago
  • Random thoughts of a hobby butterfly
    ForestRambo - Let's talk Hunters! - Welcome to ForestRambo - An all Hunters blog. This blog was previously known as Random Thoughts of a Hobby Butterfly, but I have somewhat stumbled on a bit...
    1 year ago
  • The Triple Helix Project
    BMG: Playing Catch-up (Pt 2) - Hooo-boy! Now that I’m actually writing again, I’m super keen to get it all written up and ‘out into the wild’ as it were. As I mentioned in part 1 of ...
    2 years ago
  • fallout15mm
    99 Territory - Here’s a pic of the guard tower at the top of the freeway. I’m not going to glue it down, so I can re-use it as scatter terrain. I’m going to add a few m...
    2 years ago
  • Jim's Models
    My Thoughts on the Tamiya F4U-1D - I have some thoughts on the newly announced Tamiya kit.
    2 years ago
  • The Aviary
    - *Sip & Crafts for a Cause* *{Eat, Drink,& Get Crafty...for a reason}* *Let us help you Be The Good. When you purchase a ticket to one of our **Happy Hour...
    2 years ago
  • Master Models
    Renault 3.4 t AHN complete -
    2 years ago
  • Chickhammer
    Start of 30k: Sons of Horus - After much deliberation on my part, I've elected to do Sons of Horus as my 30k army. I've had some boxes sitting around for a while, just waiting to b...
    2 years ago
  • Angel GiraldeZ
    Sketches ON SALE - ON SALE http://www.ebay.es/itm/252634365959?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
    2 years ago
  • Rule 37
    X-Wing Showcase : Gold squadron Y-Wing repaint - Rule 34 : If you're leaving scorch marks, you need a bigger gun! After my failure at the 2016 French national championship (3 losses out of seven games) I ...
    2 years ago
  • elphilo's blog
    Update - Hey guys, normally I'd be posting about the upcoming Huzzah RTT but I've made a decision. In the next few months I'm going to close this blog and only post...
    2 years ago
  • I paint therefore I am
    I may have got the easiest light box set up with Ikea products! - I have been having trouble with the macro shots of miniature all the time, especially when I haven't finished and I don't want to pull out my Cannon just...
    2 years ago
  • 5th Dimension
    See you at Pigment Pirates Hamburg - [DE] Guten morgen Maler aus aller Welt, Ich habe lange überlegt wie ich es schreiben soll aber ich möchte es kurz und informativ halte: Weil viele von u...
    2 years ago
  • Miniature Tim
    Infinity Tables @ AdeptiCon 2016! - Just a quick post up to show everyone the tables that were played on at AdeptiCon this year for Infinity! The terrain at AdeptiCon for Infinity never...
    3 years ago
  • Secret Weapon Miniatures
    Painting Your Tablescapes Tiles - Damaged Urban - Part 1: Introduction & Materials Related: Clean Urban Tiles For this tutorial, I will keep things simple. Nonetheless, the tile will still look incredi...
    3 years ago
  • Equinox Painting
    Khorne Exalted Deathbringer - So I was going to paint him for eBay but I ended up spending a lot longer on him than planned so he turned out nicer than a quick job to auction. In other...
    3 years ago
  • The Painting Corps
    Maelstrom's Edge - Over the last couple of years, hobby time has been at a premium, and what time I've had has been dedicated to a project that I can say I'm very excited t...
    4 years ago
  • TheTryzna
    Awaken: Underwater Odyssey - now aviable - Hello everyone! Its two months allready since i pre-released the game on itch and few other places and took much needed break. During that time i ve been w...
    4 years ago
  • The Forays and Woes of an Average Hobbyist
    Stop... Hobby Time: I'm Back! - Hey all, Sorry for the week and a half- two week absence. I've just gotten off holidays and kind of getting back in the swing of real life. So between that...
    4 years ago
  • The Brush Brothers
    Fusilier - Hi, Today I have for you one of my panoceanian Fusiliers from operation icestorm - Infinity. MORE PHOTOS Thanks, Czys
    4 years ago
  • masterminis.net - where we learn to be a better painter!
    The Future of Games Workshop - Part 17: End Times - *The Future of Games Workshop - Part 17: End Times* You can find part 17 of our epic series about the future of Games Workshop *on our new blog.*<< Click...
    4 years ago
  • JAH Minis
    Painting: Captain Bartolo Montador, aka Broadsides Bart. - Hey everybody. For those who are not familiar with this sculpt, he is one of the Mercenary Pirates from Privateer Press' Warmachine game. In 2012, I was as...
    5 years ago
  • Where to See MST3k Episodes
    Where to see streaming full-length MST3k Episodes - Pilot: The Green Slime (lost) K01 Invaders from the Deep (lost) K02 Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars (lost) K03 Star Force: Fugitive Alien 2 (lost) K04 Gam...
    8 years ago
  • Daily Grind
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