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Find out more from our list of the best hobby products for miniatures by jumping to any of the sections below, or dig in from the beginning!

• Paints, Paintbrushes & Hobby Supplies
• Airbrushes, Compressors, & Supplies For Miniatures
• Building, Magnetizing, & Modeling Supplies
• Miniature Painting Supplies & Accessories
• Basing, & Detailing Miniatures
• Miniature Hobby Supplies For Your Table & Office
• Storing Your Minaitures
• Restoring Old Miniatures
• The Best Marvel Crisis Protocol Aides & Accessories
• More Tabletop Miniatures Hobby Guides & Lists You Might Like!

Best Hobby Supplies & Tools for Painting Tabletop Miniatures, Wargames Models

Ready to level up your hobby game? Whether you’re a new hobbyist just dipping your toes into painting miniatures or a veteran pro looking to upgrade your arsenal, having the right hobby tools is a game-changer. Think of it like gearing up for an epic quest—you wouldn’t face a dragon with a rusty dagger, right?

So, grab your cutting mats and get comfy because we’re about to run down the must-have hobby supplies that’ll make your miniatures and models shine brighter than freshly polished Space Marine armor. 

Paints, Paintbrushes & Hobby Supplies For Painting Miniatures

Painting miniatures is a fun way to get creative and relax, but before you start, make sure you’ve got all the tools and materials you need. You’ll need brushes, paints, hobby tools, and any other accessories necessary for the type of minatures painting you want to do.

Paint Bottles & Supplies

TUTORIAL: Transferring Citadel Paints to Dropper Bottles: Decant

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Paint Brushes

REVIEW: Bomb Wicks VS Citadel & Winsor Newton Brushes

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• Bomb Wicks & Igniter Paintbrushes for Miniatures are some of the best brushes I’ve ever used, and they’re reasonably priced.
• High-Quality Sable Paint Brushes -If you want to take our game to the next level, the Game Envy Sable Brushes will do just that! They are more expensive than synthetic but are of a much higher quality.
• Artis Opus—Many of the best painters love their brushes. They are expensive but these high high-quality tools are some of the best hobby supplies for painting miniatures around. 
• Winsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Brushes– they have a wide range of brushes for all levels of painters!
• The Army Painter Brushes– They have a huge range of brushes, from beginner sets to expert-level brushes! No matter your painting level, they have something for you.

Airbrushes, Compressors, & Supplies For Miniatures

Airbrushing is a cool technique that uses special hobby tools and accessories to create awesome effects and speed up your technique for painting miniatures. Hobbyists love it, but it does require investing in stuff like an airbrush, special paints, stencils, and other gear.

To help you get into airbrushing, we’ve put together a bunch of how-to tutorials.  They are designed to walk you through the whole airbrushing process, from choosing the right equipment or tools to mastering the techniques for painting awesome-looking miniatures!

Airbrushes

Harder & Steenbeck Evolution Airbrush (left) and Colani (right)  REVIEW: High-End Airbrushes

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• H&S Colani Airbrush– Amazing quality for the price.
• H&S Ultra Airbrush– is Probably one of the best “starting airbrushes” on the market.
• H&S Evolution Airbrush (Lightweight Aluminium)

The New H&S Ultra 2024: REVIEW: Best Airbrush For Painting Miniatures Around $100 

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• 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.

Airbrush Compressors, Accessories, and Supplies for Miniature Hobby Painting

Tooty No-Name Compressor REVIEW: More Than a Beginner Airbrush Compressor

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• Timbertech Compressor- Compressor and Airbrush Bundle has good reviews at an affordable price.
• Rooty Tooty– A smaller version of the Tooty with a unique external fan and cooling system with good reviews.
• Tooty No-Name Compressor– This is a solid overall compressor that comes with an air reservoir if your airbrush didn’t come with one.
• Sparmax Compressor–  Name Brand Super Heavy duty and quiet.
• Aspire Compressor 

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• 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

REVIEW: Spray Booth With LED Lights  Black Spray Booth (New Product)

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• 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!
  
• Affordable Spray Booth – One of the cheapest so far, and the one we review above.
• Indoor Filters For Spray Booth– Keeps your hobby airspace clean if you’ll be priming and airbrushing a bunch.

Building, Magnetizing, & Modeling Supplies For Miniature Hobby Painting

Preparing your miniatures before you paint them is important to ensure that they turn out the way you want. This could include using a range of additional hobby supplies and accessories, such as a sturdy hobby holder to manipulate the miniature carefully, files to smooth out rough surfaces, or mold line removers to eliminate any unwanted mold lines that might interfere with painting. 

Building & Modeling  Accessories / Supplies For Painting Miniatures

Basing, & Detailing Miniatures:

You know, basing is like giving your miniatures their own little stage to shine on. It’s all about creating a cool setting for your mini to stand on and bring it to life. A killer base can really take your mini to a whole new level, making it more than just a plain ol’ figure on display.

Basing Materials

TUTORIAL: Beginner’s Guide To Making Bases With Pumice

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• Resin Sand– Helps to build up texture around scenic basing bits to flat plastic beveled bases.
• Realistic Leaves for Miniatures Bases and Dioramas– You get five different colors in the set, so you can make it basically any season you want for the bases of your miniatures!
• Gamers Grass- premade tufts and bases for your miniatures come in a ton of varieties, styles, and colors.
• Updated Movement Tray Sizes- perfect for Warhammer The Old World
• Themed Resin Bases- perfect for Warhammer The Old World

• Square & Rectangle Base Blanks- perfect for Warhammer The Old World
• Base Converters- perfect for Warhammer The Old World
• Pre-cut magnets- these stickers that work great for resin-based miniatures. Squad Marks has them all the way up to 50mm, but generally, you don’t need too much over that size.
• Custom Resin Bases For Miniatures- Don’t miss hundreds of designs available all under one roof from Elrik’s hobbies.

Miniature Hobby Supplies For Your Table & Office:

Let’s talk about transforming your workspace into the ultimate hobby haven. Imagine having all your essential hobby tools and accessories for painting miniatures neatly organized and within arm’s reach, ready to unleash your creative genius. From precision brushes that feel like an extension of your hand to cutting mats that save your desk from a gluey apocalypse, this section covers all the must-haves and more!

Supplies For Your Hobby Space

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• Dx Racer Chair—If you find yourself at the hobby desk, you don’t want to skip out on a good chair. 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.
• Monument Hobbies EVO GoBag- Has enough room for all your paints and lights and is a portable work surface. Unboxing & Review Article
• Cutting Mat- a great way to protect your working surface.
• Amazon 11×17 Poster Frame 2 Pack works perfectly for Warhammer starter box inserts.
• Mobile Hobby Table- mobile dedicated hobby table you can use anywhere.

Best Lights For Painting & Hobbying

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• Light Halo– Tutorial With Parts List
• Overhead Triple Bright Lamp– I used two of the older model of this on my hobby table.  Amazon recommends this brand now, and it has a pretty good rating with over 2,000 reviews.
• Cheap $20 Lamp for Painting & Hobbying on Miniatures- Breaks down and fits in the Mounument Hobbies Go Bag. It has excellent reviews (4.5 stars with over 9,900 reviews), is insanely portable, and can be dimmed.
• Selfie Light for Miniatures– works great for taking pics of your minis for posting to social media.

$20 Hobby Light REVIEW: Lamapat Light Perfect For EVO Bag

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• Game Envy LUCENT Art Hobby Light For Miniatures– For a quality hobby light, this is an excellent price and less than Rob paid for his overhead desk lights. Spikey Bits readers, you can get 10% off this great deal by using the discount code SPIKEY when ordering!
• Neatfi XL 2,200 Lumens LED Task Lamp This is Rob’s favorite lamp right now, as it has all the features you could want!

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Storing Your Minaitures

Alright, fellow tabletop generals, let’s talk about the unsung heroes of our hobby: miniature storage products. We all know the pain of tangled miniatures and missing pieces that make you feel like Thanos just snapped half your collection away. But fear not! With the right storage solutions, you can keep your beloved miniatures safe, organized, and ready for action.

Miniature Storage Options

TUTORIAL: Store Your Miniatures Safely For Under $20

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• Monument Hobbies: GoBag EVO From the looks of it, this bag may be the right size to not only carry your paints but give you a place for the hobby as well.
• 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

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• Steel Sheet (For Clear Cases)- use as a base for something to magnetize your minis to.
• 3M Double Sided Mounted Table (For Steel Sheets)
• 25mm-60mm pre-cut magnetized bases from Squad Marks  These work great for standard shapes of flat bottom resin bases.10% OFF Enter Promo Code SPIKEYBITS
• Base Magnets From the Magnet Baron They have all kinds of sizes to choose from.  Use coupon code Spikey10off to get 5% off your next order with them!
• 10 Adhesive Magnetic Sheets 8.5″ x 11″ 20 mil Magnet Peel & Stick—This is perfect if you want a peel-off magnet sheet for your minis to stick to.

TUTORIAL: Store Your Larger Miniatures Safely, Too!

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• 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

TUTORIAL: How To Magnetize Resin & Plastic Bases For Miniatures

• 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…

Restoring Old Miniatures

Got a box of old minis collecting dust? Fear not, because this section is all about breathing new life into those beloved models. We’ll guide you through the essential supplies needed to restore your miniatures to their former glory.

Think specialized cleaning solutions, fine-tipped brushes for delicate details, and the best primers to refresh those faded surfaces.

Restoring Models

TUTORIAL: Easy Lift-Off- Great for lifting paint off of minis you want to restore

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• Testors Easy Lift-Off Stripper (ELO)– A must-have if you’re restoring a model or bringing some older ones up to speed.
• Ultrasonic model cleaner. Quickly clean parts and hobby tools for miniatures.
• Smaller Ultrasonic Cleaner Both ultrasonic model cleaners are sweet and save you time with a hands-free way of washing the chemicals off your resin pieces
• Winsor Newton Cleaner removes dried paint– This cleaner does not play. You will need to use it in metal or glass containers, and it will eat plastic! 

TUTORIAL: Cleaning Models With The Ultrasonic Model Cleaner (large)

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• Dettol is a concentrated antiseptic that some people have used for minis. 
• Nail Polish Remover is a common method for many hobbyists. However, it’s far harder than Testors!
• Simple Green is a disinfectant that some people use for stripping minis, but we haven’t tried it yet.
• Castrol Super Clean is an automotive degreaser that can be found quite easily.
• Biostrip 20 is a water-based paint remover made initially for brick.

• Army Painter Primers– some of the best around
• Testors Model Master Spray Primers & Lacquer- Can be used in most conditions but are hard to color match.
• Airbrush Primers- Monument Hobbies has great primers to use in the airbrush if that is your thing, or the weather forces you inside.

TUTORIAL: Vanishing or Sealing Your Miniatures.

The Best Marvel Crisis Protocol Aides & Accessories

Here is our list of  Marvel Crisis Protocol aides and accessories to take your game from ordinary to extraordinary. Whether you’re organizing your tokens, measuring those crucial movements, or adding a touch of personal flair, these hobby tools will help you play like a pro.

These are also great for games like Star Wars Shatterpoint too!

TUTORIAL: Accessories, Storage & Organization for Marvel Crisis Protocol

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• Artbin cases great for all your MCP needs
• Artbin super satchel version perfect for holding basically everything you need
• Artbin double-deep for terrain and models
• Coin collection box for tokens and objectives
• Mats by Mars makes awesome Marvel Crisis Protocol playmats
• CogOTwo for tokens and templates (UK based)
• Muse On Minis for tokens and templates (US based)
• Document Tubes are perfect for storing and transporting the playmats
• Pencil case for rulers and such
• Penny sleeves for character cards

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• Resealable bags for team tactics cards & roster builds
• 4×6 hard plastic top loaders for character cards
• Chess clock for game time
• Magnets for the bottom of your bases
• Sheet metal to magnetize your minis in the case
• Double-sided tape to hold the sheet metal down
• Game Mat EU Makes awesome pre-painted terrain

More Tabletop Miniatures Hobby Guides & Lists You Might Like!

If you’re diving into the world tabletop miniatures, having a few good hobby guides can be a game-changer. These guides cover everything from painting techniques to terrain, ensuring your miniatures look spectacular on the battlefield.

Here are a few must-reads:

• Our Library of How To Paint Warhammer Tutorials
• More on Airbrushing Miniatures
• Lights& Accessories for Painting Miniatures
• Best Acrylic Paints for Tabletop Miniatures & Models
• Miniature Storage Cases & Transport Options
• Best Tabletop Gaming Terrain For Warhammer 40k & More
• Best Magnet Sizes For Warhammer 40k Models
• Exclusive Hobby Discounts & Coupon Codes
• Recommended Tabletop Hobby Supplies

Thank you for checking out our comprehensive list of the best tabletop hobby products, tools, and supplies for painting miniatures like Warhammer. We hope you found this guide helpful in discovering essential hobby supplies and accessories to enhance your miniature painting and wargaming experience.

Whether you’re a veteran hobbyist or just starting out, investing in quality tools and products can make a significant difference in the quality of your work.

If you can’t find what you’re looking for after browsing all these products, or maybe you have a hot tip on a product that deserves a future review? Let us know in the comments below!

What’s been your best purchase from all these essential hobby supplies and accessories for painting wargaming miniatures we covered? Do you have any other hobby recommendations?

About the Author: Rob Baer

Rob Baer

Job Title: Managing Editor

Founded Spikey Bits in 2009

Socials: Rob Baer on Facebook and @catdaddymbg on X

About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.  Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including the Adepticon Team Tournament and American Team Tournaments, and is on a first-name basis with almost every major company in the space.

He’s all gaming all the time. With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. He advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.

While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1908s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.

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