painting miniatures

Welcome Back Hobby Maniac’s, Robbie B, is here to tickle your paint brushes with GeeDubs’ newest additions to it’s paint line; the new technicals!

If you’re tired of wandering in the hobby jungle not feeling fulfilled, checkout Max’s guide to getting out of that hobby rut and being a hobby champion!

This week we answer the question; what paints do we use as a studio and why! Warcouncil is a hobby centered podcast for miniature enthusiasts!

Greetings flesh beings, come see the true glory of the Mechanicum and welcome the Omnissiah as your faction in 30k!

I was asked on Twitter how I paint faces, so here’s a tutorial covering a basic human male face.

Would you like to know how to paint faces so that they look more realistic? With this step by step tutorial you can learn how.

Drybrushing is the easiest form of highlighting when you are painting miniatures, and this how-to tutorial will show you how easy it is!

Chaos Dragon Ogres are spectacular and large monsters that add a great look and punch to any Warhammer Warriors of Chaos or Legion of Chaos army.

When you want to add a little power of The Warp to your forces of Chaos what could be better than a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch? I heavily converted the standard Games Workshop Daemon Prince model in order to add something unique to my collection. After completing the conversion work for this project as shown […]

Max Dubois here with another bro-ginner’s guide to painting. This one is about line painting, which is the best way known to man to get your army from bare plastic to blazing and painted on the table in no time.  There’s also a DIY project for you to try out! First off, what’s line painting. […]

Who wants daemon engines? Sure we all do! I just added a third Fiend to my Chaos Space Marine army, this one’s a Forgefiend with all plasma.I already painted a Maulerfiend and a Forgefiend with autocannons a couple years ago so I thought I’d round out the triad of doom with an all ectoplasma Fiend. […]

GW currently sells no Ork Skorcha kit, but if you’d like to have this hunk of burning love in your Ork horde it’s fairly simple to build one from existing Games Workshop plastic kits.A good place to start is the Ork Wartrakk kit. The current list price is $27.25 US so this won’t hurt your […]

Do you know where your brush has been?Greetings fellow wargamers!  Caleb with White Metal Games here!You can’t paint a miniature without hear about the  quality of the kolinsky-sable line of brushes.  Generally speaking these are thought of as a Roles Royce of painting brushes.  But then I began to ask myself . . . why is that […]

If you have a large modeling backlog and like to get a lot of models painted in a short time, then quick batch painting methods are a tool for conquering that pile of kits. Here’s how I painted forty models in about fifteen hours.Keep in mind these were never intended to be extreme high quality […]

Burn baby burn!  How to make those engines pop on the table!Hey guys, Caleb with White Metal Games here. I recently had a chance to work on a Storm Eagle for a client.  Like it’s baby brother, the Eagle has some impressive looking Vtrol engines on it with some kicking afterburners! The client expressed an […]

The plastic Vindicator is a fun model to work on and to field in games of Warhammer 40,000. I had more than a little painting and converting fun with three of them for my Chaos Space Marines.Painting tank squadrons so that they appear to belong together is a great way to make them look like […]

Many Warhammer 40,000 hobbyists are excited about the new Codex Space Marines and related models so this week I thought I’d provide some tips for painting the Space Marine Stormtalon.The Stormtalon is a handy little flyer that can also hover and dish out quite a bit of firepower for its size. Painting it can be […]

Big Mek Stompas require a bit of converting to the standard Stompa kit. They make for a fun hobby project that when finished will provide an Ork army with a massive amount of dakka. In a recent article I showed how I converted a Big Mek Stompa, this article will focus on painting it. The […]