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Reading Material

  • Pete's Model World
    Base Bashing - Today I've been working on the bases for the marksman & ambulance. I've used tamiya plastic items here both small and large as they are very sturdy, weigh ...
    14 hours ago
  • James Wappel Miniature Painting
    Rohan Begins! - The latest Army Painting series is well under way, with episode 3 nearly complete! This time around we have Rohan, and that means an exercise in paintin...
    22 hours ago
  • Azazel's Bitz Box.
    Squad: March! + Gender-Ambiguous Model Painting Challenge 2019 – Community Round-Up - Argentbadger, of The Bovine Overlord completed a group of models which safely qualify both as a squad as well as gender-ambiguous. They are Seishin, from M...
    1 day ago
  • Tale of Painters
    Showcase: Showcase: Shadowspear Word Bearer Chaos Greater Possesed - Look what I dragged out of the warp folks! This is not just possessed....this is *Greater* possessed.* More after the jump
    1 day ago
  • No Dice No Glory
    CAMPAIGN: Creating Firestorm Sicily - By Scott Grasse I am very excited to be talking about Firestorm Sicily which launches this weekend on May 25th. The notion of creating a Firestorm Italy ca...
    1 day ago
  • The Modelling News
    Winter is coming! - in book, material & weathering gear from AK Interactive this month - AK Interactive keeps on bringing out new ways to paint, weather, and enhance your models and dioramas. We have several new products in our preview from AK...
    1 day ago
  • Almost Perftec
    WIP: Space Marine Adventures for NOCF - Inking - Kinda missed the mark with them on the first pass, but I got out some other inks and fixed it up! Remember when I said trust me? -_- Shut up. I fixed 'em...
    2 days ago
  • Prot's War in the Warp
    ITC Tournament Considerations… Black, Gold or Blue? - I normally don’t do posts of me thinking out loud, but I wondered if I’d get any feedback. This year an ITC event has snuck up on me and I’m trying to figu...
    2 days ago
  • Wargaming with Barks
    Batman Began - So, last year I threw cash at the *Batman: Gotham City Chronicles* Kickstarter. This week I received boxes of plastic stuff, and it will occupy a fair bit ...
    2 days ago
  • MASSIVE VOODOO
    Workshop Roadmap 2019 - Update! - Hey fellow painters, already announced two weeks ago, the second half of 2019's workshop dates is online. I am already updating the enrollment and answer...
    3 days ago
  • Art and Musings of a Miniature Hobbyist
    MENG Model Sd.Kfz.182 King Tiger [WIP - Micro Paint Chips on selected areas of the Hull and Turret] - Ever been at a point when you're just sick of the sight of the model you're working on? Well, I get the feeling it's happening to me with the King Tiger. T...
    3 days ago
  • Crac des Chevaliers
    28mm Late War British - A British Vickers MMG team, 3" Mortar team and command group; Warlord 28mm. CdlT
    3 days ago
  • Breakthrough Assault
    Actung! Festung Europa Baby - When I build ’em, they don’t DARE break down.Panthro; Thundercat, Engineer, Visionary… just wish he’d designed the Panther D Keep…
    5 days ago
  • The Hammer of Wrath
    WIP: Dark Angels Primaris Army - Part 8: Azrael Conversion - The Supreme Grand Master goes primaris! We kitbashed a Belial for our Deathwing, now let's make a (mostly) plastic Azrael. Well, that old, tiny metal Az...
    5 days ago
  • Coloured Dust
    Painting "Snorri" (SBS) - I'm going back to painting after a few months break. For warming up, I chose a 54mm minaiture from Nocturna Models. I prepared it for painting a long tim...
    5 days ago
  • GMM Studios
    Elysian Air Cav Project Gallery - Hello out there! The Elysian airplane batch is all done, and for you today a gallery full of thick ladies to make a Mechanicum priest blush. This projec...
    6 days ago
  • Sproket's Small World
    Comming soon ‘Sproket does Troggoths’ Workshop at Element Games June 1 & 2 - Golden Demon may be all done and dusted but there’s no time to ease the pace as I’ve gone straight into workshop preparation mode! My ‘Sproket does Troggot...
    1 week ago
  • Arsies Studio, Miniature Painter
    Mortarion, Step by Step; Week 8 - My plan was to finish Mortarion this week, but It was impossible. One of the hardest miniatures I ever painted is fighting back against my efforts so I'll ...
    1 week ago
  • Gunpla by GoodGuyDan
    HG Kshatriya Start to Finish Part 3: Modifications is now live! - Part A Part B
    1 week ago
  • The Mighty Brush | Blog of a Miniature Painting Addict
    Dark Angels Painting Guide now available in the shop! - The latest PDF painting guide, How to Paint Dark Angels, is now available in the shop! I’ve had a lot of requests for this one so I hope you guys like it...
    2 weeks ago
  • 40k Hobby Blog
    DKoK Quartermaster WIP - I've had these models sitting in their little Forgeworld baggie for years. Now or never! The first step was laying down all of the base colors. I've add...
    2 weeks ago
  • Man vs Kit
    On Defaults - Lately, I’ve been thinking about default settings: what they say about who we think matters and their impact on the market. They may be contributing to ...
    3 weeks 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...
    4 weeks ago
  • Skarach's world
    M-72 - Red Army, Berlin?, 1945? M-72 build – Part 1:Introduction M-72 build – Part 2:Assembly M-72 build – Part 3:Painting M-72 build – Part 4:Weathering Advertis...
    4 weeks ago
  • Scale Model Soup
    We visit Mosquitocon 2019 - Once again the boys at IPMS New Jersey did a great job putting on the first show of the season here in the Northeast. Here are some of my favorite entries ...
    5 weeks ago
  • Behind Enemy Lines Podcast
    Great War AAR - ANZAC Rifle Company vs. German Infanterie Kompany - *-with Ryan* A few weeks back, Patrick and I met up at our local club TCOW to get in our first game of Great War, and although we had a few hiccups rule...
    5 weeks ago
  • FichtenFoo
    Completed » Three Cyberpunk Street Facades in 1/6 Scale - After designing the Clyde.A and sending the files to my laser-cutting vendor for production, and because my youngest daughter was watching a lot of miniatu...
    5 weeks ago
  • MiniArmour
    Tiger I – Part 1: Construction - If there is one important tank, that I have never built, it is Tiger. Given that I have been building models for the past almost 15 years, it surprises me...
    1 month ago
  • Nicholas Sagan's Progress Report | Projects and Experiments in Time and Space
    Studio Scale Nebulon B underway - Advertisements
    2 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...
    2 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...
    2 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...
    2 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...
    3 months ago
  • Defiant Workshop
    Firefly Adventures Painted -
    4 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...
    10 months ago
  • Covering Fire!
    Canadian Infantry vs US Tanks in Hasty Attack - Sherry Atkinson roars "Open Fire!" As Canadian AT guns shred US tanks crested on a nearby hill Game 1 of the Lords of War de-escalation tournament was 90 ...
    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 ...
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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...
    3 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...
    7 years ago
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