Save more money for models, and make your own free Warhammer art posters from the things you already buy from Games Workshop!
This is a guest hobby/game aides upgrade tutorial from EllTee to show you how to class up our hobby corners on the cheap.
Ok, so you finally have your hobby space, beats lab, game room, etc., set up just the way you like it. But your roommate, spouse, significant other, or hobby cat still doesn’t like it.
What do you do?
Free Warhammer Art Posters For Your Walls!
You may have noticed Games Workshop starter boxes often use art prints on thick card stock as a separator between the rulebooks and sprues in their larger boxes. This one came from Shadowspear.
Conveniently it’s just slightly smaller than this 11”x17” frame from Hobby Lobby, which retails for around $20, but you can definitely find easy deals online from Amazon and more.
Americanflat 2 Pack – 11×17 Picture Frames – Made for Legal Sized Paper
Amazon even has a deal on a frame two-pack with flat borders that looks pretty stylish here.
This picture of a Stormcast was a “freebie” with three others for spending a certain amount at GW stores over a year span. I don’t remember exactly what I bought, but I’m sure it’s still in my pile of grey shame. This particular frame was $10 at Target.
It’s a little less fancy and uses acrylic, while the one from Hobby Lobby uses glass. The most important thing for both is that the frames are solid black.
If the pictures are a hair too big, then you can trim the edges down to fit using either a big paper cutter or scissors and a steady hand. My challenge for these prints was the opposite… The prints were too small, and you could see the brown cardboard from the backing material.
Now the “proper” way (i.e., expensive) to mount pictures is to use matting to make a perfectly sized box inside the frame all around the picture. But we need to save our money here for more grey plastic, so we’re going to take the “good enough for hobby work” solution.
Easy Framing 101: Priming the Backing Black
Using black spray paint, spray the cardboard backing that comes with the frame black. You only need to do the edges because the rest of the cardboard is going to be covered by the picture.
It was pretty windy outside, so I put rocks in the middle of the cardboard to keep it from blowing away. While you wait for it to dry, attach any mounting hardware necessary to the frames themselves.
After the paint dries, place the frames face down and center the prints. Since the picture will be “loose” inside the frame after mounting, I used masking tape to hold the print nice and centered. Celestant-Prime’s print went all the way to the edge, so I taped it directly to the frame in a few places.
The Shadowspear print was pretty snug already, so I just put a loop of tape on the back center so it would stick to the cardboard backing once it was in place.
Mounting complete. The Shadowspear print looks like it fits perfectly now. Celestant-Prime looks a bit off with the white border but is still solid.
The final product is on the wall and ready to go! All for just the price of a cheap frame (well, not including the box, but you needed the plastic, so…)
This has been a relatively easy trick you can pull off with all of your favorite artworks that GW hands out from time to time.
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