Check out our top 25 best miniatures products and supplies to keep an eye out for this holiday season to help you hobby smarter, and save some cash!
Now is the time to pick up all those hobby products and supplies you’ve been eyeing up! Whether you need some modeling supplies, want to learn 3D printing, or just want a product to make your miniatures hobby easier, our list of the best is worth checking out!
If 25 items aren’t enough, you can check out our full list of the best miniatures products and hobby supplies here. But for those of you who just want the highlights, these are the way to go! Let’s check it out.
Top 25 Best Miniatures Products & Hobby Supplies
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What is on sale exactly? Well, it changes day by day from the looks of it. Be sure to check back over the holidays into the New Year for the latest sales and specials.
Best Miniatures Products & Hobby SuppliesFor The Paint Table:
TUTORIAL: Make your own light halo for under $50
- Light Halo (featured above)– Tutorial With Parts List
- Overhead Triple Bright Lamp– I use two of these on my hobby table.
TUTORIAL: Cleaning Models With The Ultrasonic Model Cleaner (large)
- Ultrasonic model cleaner (Featured Above) Quickly clean parts and tools
- 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.
TUTORIAL: Best Mixer Shaker for Wargames Miniatures Paints
- “Vortex” Heavy-duty paint mixer (Featured Above) is more fun than it should be. We recently found this cheaper alternative as well that may be worth checking out here.
REVIEW: Spray Booth With LED Lights Black Spray Booth
- Gamer Black Dual Fan Spray Booth – Just like the booth above, but has two fans, and comes in a slick color!
- Affordable Spray Booth – Masters original upgraded with LEDs so you can see better!
- Indoor Filters For Spray Booth– Keeps your hobby airspace clean if you’ll be priming and airbrushing a bunch.
REVIEW: Keep Your Posture While Hobbying: Razer Iskur Chair
- Razer Iskur Gaming Chair – This new chair is the real deal whether you are hobbying, gaming, or working on the computer is has all the support you need!
- Cheat at applying decals: Micro Sol/Set- Never have trouble with Decals again! TUTORIAL: Don’t Suck At Applying Transfers & Decals Anymore
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)
- Tamiya Extra-Thin Cement Quick-Setting– Great for ETB and all those “sliced” plastic model characters
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.
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Green Stuff is hands down the best for freehand sculpting just about anything
REVIEW: Bomb Wicks VS Citadel & Winsor Newton Brushes
- Bomb Wicks & Igniter Paintbrushes for Miniatures – 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 Custom Bases
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.
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.
- Anycubic Mono X Printer seems to be the new favorite of miniature hobbyists.
3D Printing Supplies:
- Anycubic Wash & Cure Station (previous design)
- New Anycubic Wash & Cure Station Large Capacity (above)
- Resin filter & funnel: Strain out uncured bits of resin from your printer vat or from your IPA baths.
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 Evolution Airbrush (Lightweight Aluminium)
Tooty No-Name Compressor REVIEW: More Than a Beginner Airbrush Compressor
- Tooty No-Name Compressor– This is a solid overall compressor that comes with an air reservoir if your airbrush didn’t come with one.
Miniature Figure Storage
TUTORIAL: Store Your Larger Miniatures Safely Too!
- 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
That does it for our list of the best miniatures products and hobby supplies! We also tried to include as many tutorials for you as well. That way you can see if they are actually what you’re looking for before spending your hobby dollars!
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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.
