painting miniatures

The new Apocalypse Warhammer 40,000 supplement release on July 13 may have you thinking about working on some large models to bolster your forces or add some cool large centerpieces to it.As mentioned in my article recently about my Chaos Renegade Stormblade conversion, this time I’m going to talk about my Adeptus Mechanicus themed Baneblade […]

I collect and paint all things Chaos, so after recently painting a Skull Cannon Of Khorne  I set about working on a Burning Chariot Of Tzeentch. This model has a lot of elements to it so I built it in subsections and then painted those separately to make it easier and faster to paint. The […]

With an Internet hobby handle like “Brass Scorpion” you’d probably expect that I might like the new Skull Cannon Of Khorne and you’d be correct. Though when first revealed this model drew a lot of criticism on game forums I think once you get it up close and start work on it you discover that […]

Da Ork Warbosses need a propa ride, but dem guys at Games Workshop still don’t make a model for it. Here’s a quick and fun way to give yer Orky chief da kinda ride he deserves. First, you’ll be needin’ a plastic Ork Warbike. One a da bikes from da current Ork Warbike plastic box […]

Two-stage edge highlighting is a technique that uses two similar paint colors, one brighter than the the other, to make it appear that the edges of a model are either catching light or glowing.Though I’ve used GW Necron models in my examples, the techniques described here are applicable to any models on which you wish […]

I’ve been doing a lot of lava theme basing for my Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 Chaos models recently. I’ve shown some here in previous articles, but I’ve as yet never done a full description on how to do the actual painting. This article will focus on painting lava step-by-step. And what better model to use […]

There’s more than one way to paint the disgusting flesh of a Plaguebearer. Spikey Bits’ MBG recently had a good article about how to do so quickly with an air brush. My article here is about some alternative ideas and techniques I like to use for getting a large number of models done with alacrity. […]

Necron Destroyer Lords are cool looking models and in tabletop 40K games they’re also a fun addition to an already nasty close combat unit like Canoptek Wraiths.Unfortunately, Games Workshop still does not make an all polystyrene plastic Destroyer Lord. They do still sell the old formerly metal upgrade bits in Finecast and they certainly look good, but […]

When you are painting different units for a single army you usually want them all to be easily identifiable as being part of the same army, yet different enough that each unit has its own distinctiveness.Here are a some hobby tips for achieving that goal. One simple way of making units look the same yet […]

Games Workshop has released a cool new Codex and tons of great new models for the Dark Angels both in multi-part sets and in the Dark Vengeance Warhammer 40,000 starter set.This article will focus on decorating ideas for the generic Space Marine models that are also used in Dark Angels armies to give them the […]

When the Forge World Nurgle Chaos Space Marine Sorcerer model was released a few years ago I immediately thought about putting it on a base larger than 25mm to help protect the fragile spear and banner.It also occurred to me that it was an opportunity to do something cool with a larger base to help […]