Hobby Hacks

Max Dubois here with a simple DIY Hobby project! I was recently tasked with building a display board for our Adepticon team army.  As I’ve mentioned elsewhere previously, I’m not quite familiar with terrain building, so this was new to me.  I’ve watched a bunch of terrain and scenery making videos on YouTube in the past, and […]

Meet Baphemut and his lovely concubine Cassandra.  I had had this design in mind for a long time and now it’s finally a reality.  I am well aware that I won’t be winning any Golden Daemon Awards anytime soon but I think this lay-out works well.   Together the happy couple will be playing the […]

Greetings everyone: I was going to post an article today about the differences between blending and the more common wet blending. I wanted to talk about this because although wet blending is a very common technique, no one out there (on the forums, etc) seemed to be talking about just basic BLENDING. To be clear, […]

In my final “Heavy Handed” post I thought I’d share my homemade artillery piece. I wanted the incredible firepower this contraption spits out (4 blast markers per turn) but didn’t really want to spend the money on the very expensive and bulky GW model.  So I started figuring out how to make my own. The […]

I noticed a lack of information on the true basics of basing, so, let’s give it a go. I’ll break this down into several parts so that it’s not overwhelming.  Any questions? Feel free to ask, and I’ll do my best to answer them while working through this series of articles. While this will lack […]

Hey guys, Rage of Khorne here from The Order of Chaos gaming society looking to paint up some banners for my loyalist Sons of Horus 30K army. This step by step tutorial focuses on black banners with white detailing and minimal colours but the process I use can be substituted for many other colour combos. Some other […]

An iconic tank design and (I would argue) THE iconic Space Marine chapter… If I had to pick one army as my “primary” force, it would have to be my Crimson Fist Space Marines. Even though my CFs are definitely my most painted army (compared to Eldar and Chaos, and my underdeveloped Dark Eldar, Ork, and […]

Did you ever realize, that no matter where you are (for the majority of the US and similar climate ranges) one can quite easily use this hobby tool quite effectively?Rather than spending a few hundred dollars getting a good, reliable setup for an airbrush (airbrush, compressor, and any other miscellaneous needles and additions necessary) or […]

 This article features a technique that turns ordinary looking plastic bases into simulated weathered brick. The actual hobby work shown in this article was done by a friend of mine named, Dave. I think it looks terrific and I hope you will as well.I noticed him working on this a few weeks ago while painting […]

Hello all!  My name is Thomas, and today I am going to talk about taking a conversion idea and making it a reality.  Many people have come to me about how I constantly make such cool looking models. I always tell them, its starts with an idea. Sometimes it takes a while to get that […]

Yup it’s true, a can of Pringles Potato Chips can help you paint better and save some bothersome clean-up time as well (plus they are tasty to boot)! Let’s take a closer look and see how it works. I really don’t have a lot of time to paint, and I suspect the same is true for a lot of […]

Hey it’s Moron, writing again. Here to solve a big problem with simple fix, the wobbly flier… I’ve gotten the Caestus Assault Ram from Forgeworld, awesome model, and fun rules, but this thing is a hefty chunk of resin. The flying stand can barely hold it up, and it is so wobbly, I get scared every time […]

Welcome to a new segment here on Spikey Bits called Back to Basics, and is authored by international Golden Demon competitor Volomir!Maybe some of his Golden Demon talent will rub off on all of us though his articles!Anyways lets give him a warm Spikey Bits welcome! -MBG Hello Spikey Bits! Let me introduce myself. My name is Rafael Garcia, a.k.a. […]

Got Paint? Well check out this article on erm, how to strip, by Red Stick Studios!  So, who hasn’t had one of these problems, or something similar? Test model that needs to be cleaned up, miniatures from ebay that have way too much paint on them, getting more skilled at painting and deciding to redo […]

Want to make your gaming buddies jealous of your organizational skills?Recently my buddy Ender posted up on BoLS about some 40k Gaming Aids he had made for Sixth Edition wound allocations and unit stats. Unfortunately he’s silly and forgot to link to the file itself for us to use!Eventually they did link it on BoLS, but I think […]

Save more money for minis. Clean your brushes, fool!Sure it sounds simple in theory, but how do you effectively clean your brushes? There are a ton of cleaning products out there, and I’ve found very few that actually seem to work without destroying the brush,  or even my hands in the process. But let’s face […]

This was a great post I spied over on No Turtles Allowed about improving your game.I think it’s a great read so I’m putting it on here for everyone.  This is written by my buddy “The Hod”, and hope you enjoy it. From The Hod I am writing this guide on how to improve your […]

Well it appears I may have impressed some folks with a few Work in Progress shots I put up last night on Facebook.I like posting quick pictures to Facebook using my phone, cause it’s easy to make a small catalog of what I’m working on without stopping every five seconds and setting up photo equipment etc. So […]