Amazon Prime Day is here, so check out all the deals that are happening right now on home necessities, and hobby products like these…
Amazon Prime Day is an event where shoppers will find all sorts of money-saving deals on the website. It’s a special one-day event where anyone with a Prime subscription can get all sorts of deals.
Of course, We’ve thrown up our own hobby recommendations for every brand on and off Amazon below that you definitely do not want to miss!
Amazon Prime Day Deals on Over a 1000 Items
What is on sale exactly? Well, all kinds of stuff! We don’t know everything just yet, but we’ll preview some of the big deals and hobby stuff that you may be interested in the most!
The best deals seem to be for Prime members only, so if you haven’t signed up you can get a free 30-day trial right now even, and you’re good for speedy Amazon deliveries for at least a month!
Featured Prime Day Deals:
- Blink Mini smart security camera: Save $15 on this cool system
- Amazon Echo Show 5: These are $35 off.
- Amazon Echo devices: Almost all the Echo devices are on sale.
- New Amazon Echo (two-pack): You save $40 on this deal.
- New Amazon Echo Dot 2020 (two-pack): Save $25 on the 2 pack.
Quick Links For Big Prime Day Discounts:
- Gaming deals: PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch all getting discounts
- Laptop deals: PCs and MacBooks are both being discounted
- TV deals: You can shop early for 4K smart TVs as they are already getting discounts
- Headphone deals: Tons of headphones and speakers are going on sale
- Phone Deals: both old and new models will be on sale.
- Tablet Deals: Whether you want an iPad or Samsung you can grab some deals
- Wearables Deals: Everything from Smartwatches to Fitness Trackers will be loaded with deals
- Smart Home Deals: If you have to buy stuff for the house, might as well get it on sale
- Camera Deals: Home security systems are running up to 30% off
- Home & Kitchen Deals: If you’ve been holding out for home appliances now is the time to buy
Asmodee Games Prime Day Deals
Are you a fan of games like Catan, Star Wars Legion, X-Wing, Armada, Fallout, and more? You’ll want to check out the incredible savings available from Amazon while they run this deal!
One of the best deals we’ve seen so far is this Marvel Crisis Protocol Starter set for $36 off Retail. If you love the Marvel movies MCP is the new best game you’re not playing right now!
Marvel Crisis Protocol Starter Set
Heck at this price it’s prob worth buying two just for the terrain!
Almost all of their board games and some X-Wing miniatures are on sale (up to 40% even)! If you’ve been looking to pick up some new board games don’t miss out on these sales!
Shop Asmodee’s Latest Bargains
Get Your Favorite Black Library Books Cheap on Audible!
You can see this is quite the sweet deal if you want to listen to podcasts or books! Especially if you’re traveling, this is perfect to help pass the time. Here’s everything you get even at the cheaper price:
- 1 credit a month to pick ANY title from our entire premium selection—to keep forever!
- Stream or download 1,000s of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals in the Plus Catalog.
- No commitments. Cancel anytime and keep all your purchased titles.
Click Here To Sign up For the Discount!
If you’ve never used Audible before, the credits are really cool. You get a free book a month, on top of all the streaming stuff, that you get to keep. So just with this, you’ll get three Black Library books to keep, which is just cheaper than they actually cost.
Recommended Hobby Essentials:
We have quite a large list of hobby essentials to make your hobby that much better and easier! Check out the links below to see how many hobby dollars you can save during this Prime day!
TUTORIAL: Make your own light halo for under $50
Products For The Hobby Table
- Ultrasonic model cleaner. Quickly clean parts and tools
- Light Halo (featured above)– Tutorial With Parts List
- Overhead Triple Bright Lamp– I use two of these on my hobby table.
- Smaller Ultrasonic cleaner– Both ultrasonic model cleaners are sweet at saving you time with a hands-free way of washing the chemicals off of your resin pieces.
REVIEW: Take Your Models Anywhere with This Mobile Hobby Table
- Dx Racer Chair– A good chair is something you don’t want to skip out on if you find yourself at the hobby desk. This is what Rob uses himself.
- Gunnar Glasses- Protect From Harmful Blue Light, great for those harsh painting lights and computer monitor
- Purple Pad makes any chair better – hobbying takes a lot out of you and this pad is great for long hours in the chair.
- Ott Light Portable Light with No Clamps– perfect for on the go light for your projects
TUTORIAL: Cleaning Models With The Ultrasonic Model Cleaner (large)
- “Vortex” Heavy-duty paint mixer is more fun than it should be
- Mr. Polisher for trimming mold lines– Resin and plastic injections still come with mold lines that are visible after paint. Take it all off with Mr. Polisher
- Refilling Paint Water Pot– If you’re painting with a bunch of different colors, you can save yourself the trips of dumping water with the press of a button.
TUTORIAL: Best Mixer Shaker for Wargames Miniatures Paints
- Masters Airbrush Spray Booth With LED Lights- remove harmful particles from the air, and still be able to see your models!
- Gamer Black Dual Fan Spray Booth – Just like the booth above, but has two fans, and comes in a slick color!
- Amazon 11×17 Poster Frame 2 Pack for Warhammer starter box inserts.
- Mobile Hobby Table- mobile dedicated hobby table you can use anywhere.
REVIEW:Spray Booth With LED Lights Black Spray Booth (New Product)
- Indoor Filters For Spray Booth– Keeps your hobby airspace clean if you’ll be priming and airbrushing a bunch.
- Wet Pallet (small)– If you’re tired of wasting your paints by watching them dry as you work on your models, it’s time to grab a wet pallet.
Hobby Supplies to Pick Up
TUTORIAL: Transferring Citadel Paints to Dropper Bottles: Decant
- 15ml Dropper Bottles– Swap the Citadel paint pots with these dropper bottles and keep them from drying out.
- 30ml Dropper Bottles (for contrast and large pots)
- Shoe Holder For Spray Can Storage– store your spray cans out of sight behind a door!
- Matte Coat In Any Conditions: Rust-Oleum Dead Flat Spray– Never ruin a miniature again! TUTORIAL: Remove Dust & Fix Matte Coat Crazing/Frosting
- Dead Flat Testors Lusterless Replacement
REVIEW: Take Better Pictures of Your Minis With These
- Vallejo Plastic putty for gap filling– Green Stuff has its uses, but this is awesome for filling in small cracks and crevices between bits.
- Tamiya Extra-Thin Cement Quick-Setting– Great for ETB and all those “sliced” plastic model characters
- Testors Liquid Cement For Plastics
- Selfie Light for Miniatures– works great for taking pics of your minis for posting to social media.
- Cheesecloth- for making Camo cloaks for miniatures. TUTORIAL: Shockingly Easy: Make Camo Cloaks For Your Miniatures
TUTORIAL: Easy Lift-Off- Great for lifting paint off of minis you want to restore
- Testors Easy Lift Off Stripper (ELO)– A must-have if you’re restoring a model or bringing some older ones up to speed.
- Hobby Holder– GW’s handles are great if you buy them all. This product is a one-stop solution to most miniature sizes.
- Metallic Sharpie Markers For Painting– Great for quick trimming details on smaller models like shoulder pads/Titanicus
- Cheat at applying decals: Micro Sol/Set- Never have trouble with Decals again! TUTORIAL: Don’t Suck At Applying Transfers & Decals Anymore!
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Winsor Newton Cleaner removes dried paint– This cleaner does not play. You will need to use it with metal or glass containers it will eat plastic!
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Jentastic Brush Goop Conditioner after each use– Invented by a lady, but strong enough to protect and condition your brushes!
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Shapers Brushes for filling gaps with putties– If you’re doing high-detail work on a conversion and need to fill gaps with plastic putty or green stuff.
- Cheap Paint Brushes
- High-Quality Sable Paint Brushes
REVIEW: Bomb Wicks VS Citadel & Winsor Newton Brushes
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Green Stuff is hands down the best for freehand sculpting just about anything
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Sculpting Set this a great set for doing all that sculpting with green stuff above TUTORIAL: Sculpting Detail on Miniatures is Easy
- Dremel Tool Set – Variable Speed, great set for working with resin miniatures and terrain!
- 2″ low stick masking tape for marking off 40k new board sizes on existing mats TUTORIAL: Easy Fix For New 40k Table Sizes!
- Tentacle & Tube Maker: Must have for converters, the clear version rocks!
- Bomb Wicks & Igniter miniature paintbrushes– Some of the best brushes I’ve ever used and reasonably priced as well.
- Resin Sand– Helps to build up texture around scenic basing bits to flat plastic beveled bases. TUTORIAL: Beginner’s Guide To Making Bases With Pumice
- Refilling Paint Water Pot
- Hand Sized Pin Vice
- Drill Bits For Magnets
TUTORIAL: This Product Changes Everything!
- Mr. Hobby Multi-Black Weathering– one of the easiest ways to get great dirty, grimy weathering on your painted models.
- Ground Brown Mr. Hobby Weathering
- Mr. Hobby Weathering Stain Brown
- White Wash Mr. Hobby Weathering
- Mr. Hobby Weathering Solvent– for cutting back the weathering solution.
3D Printers Are Great For Miniatures
TUTORIAL: Learn 3D Printing Today
These days it’s even easier for hobbyists to source and print bits, perhaps more so than any of us had thought. The undeniable allure is that it’s not too expensive for any person to get into 3D printing in order to monetize and/or supplement their hobby.
3D Printers:
ANYCUBIC Photon UV LCD 3D Printer (left) and Photon S (right). Image theSLAchannel
- Anycubic photon S 3D printer is magic for minis.
- Anycubic Photon is pretty affordable and easy to use.
- New Anycubic Wash & Cure Station is here! Now you can wash and cure your 3d prints super easy in one single unit! Just detach your build plate from your Photon printer and attach it to the wash station, then dry and cure!
- Anycubic Photon Mono
- Elegoo Mars has pretty high marks as well from folks.
Recommended Airbrushes & Supplies
Harder & Steenbeck Evolution Airbrush (left) and Colani (right) REVIEW: High-End Airbrushes
- H&S Colani Airbrush– Amazing quality for the price.
- H&S Ultra Airbrush Probably one of the best “starting airbrushes” on the market.
- H&S Evolution Airbrush (Lightweight Aluminium)
- H&S Evolution Airbrush (Chrome finish)
- Badger Patriot 105
- Iwata Eclipse Airbrush– An awesome airbrush to get you started.
- GSI Creos .18 Super fine Airbrush Great for the smallest of details.
Tooty No-Name Compressor REVIEW: More Than a Beginner Airbrush Compressor
- Sparmax Compressor– Name Brand Super Heavy duty and quiet.
- Tooty No-Name Compressor– This is a solid overall compressor that comes with an air reservoir if your airbrush didn’t come with one.
- Aspire Compressor
- Vallejo Airbrush Flow Improver Makes Airbrushing EASY!
- Vallejo Airbrush Thinner Thinner is great for getting your paints to the right consistency.
- Iwata Airbrush Lube – keep your metals lubed up!
- Grex Airbrush Cleaner – The second you buy an airbrush, you should also invest in some cleaner.
- Goose Neck Bottle for Cleaning AB– Clean your AB from every angle with high-powered water!
- Tamiya Masking Tape For Miniatures: 18mm Large 10mm Medium 6mm Small
Miniature Figure Storage
TUTORIAL: Store Your Miniatures Safely For Under $20
- Collapsible Tournament Push Cart– This thing is MONEY. You can roll up to the tournament, pull out your minis, collapse this thing and tuck it under the table.
- Clear Case For Miniatures 15″x 17″, 6″ Tall
- Project Cart With 6 Cases for Miniatures 12″x12″ 2″-1/2“
REVIEW: Pack & Roll Foldable Tournament Cart
- Steel Sheet (For Clear Cases)- use as a base for something to magnetize your minis to.
- 3M Double Sided Mounted Table (For Steel Sheets)
- 10 Adhesive Magnetic Sheets 8.5″ x 11″ 20 mil Magnet Peel & Stick– If you want a peel-off magnet sheet for your minis to stick to, this is perfect.
TUTORIAL: Store Your Larger Miniatures Safely Too!
- Sterlite Bins x12 – You can put a metal sheet in the bottom of these and throw your minis with magnetized bases inside!
- Hobby Bags – You can never have enough transportable bags to keep your hobby supplies in one spot
- Large Acid-Free Cases- Perfect for miniatures like Magnus, Mortarion, Beetle Lady and more.
- LED Set For IKEA Case
- 3 Outlet Remote to control multiple sets of lights, devices, fans, etc…
Titanicus Hobby Gear
TUTORIAL: Magnetize Your Adeptus Titanicus Command Terminals
With all of these supplies covered, what’s been your best purchase so far on Amazon? What are you’re looking to pick up this Prime Day?
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About the Author: Rob Baer
