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Hey there guys! Missed me? Apologies for dropping off the grid for a while there, had to move house and get the family over to the UK so had a lot of stuff to sort out. The good news is that I now have a dedicated spot for painting (no need to move stuff about so I can just sit and paint...

I notice that even though with a holder (citadel paint pot), I still tend to touch parts of the mini while painting. The edges of the bolter, or the outer edges of the leg armor, or the rims of the jetpack boosters all lose their paint after sometime and I have to re-apply. Luckily, they are...

Hey guys! The time has finally come for me to venture into bases. I've got a couple of space marines who were "sacrificed" to practice and so I can practice on basing with these. Nothing fancy, the goal is just basic bases that I see on codexes (codices?) and such. So, what do I know about...

I had a half-day shift yesterday and dropped in my local GW to get a few pots of washes and paint. Finished my errands early so I figured I might as well take another look at my local HobbiCraft store. 15 minutes of browsing the brushes aisle and I was ready to leave when this employee walked...

I was just wondering if anyone has tried basecoating a Blood Angel mini (or any other such mini) by doing the black areas first? I was thinking what if I were to paint the black areas first (back of knee, groin, wrists, elbows, and maybe the eyes) and then slap on the red basecoat? At the...

I've not been having much luck with washes lately, and the sad fact is that most "recipes" I find call for a wash or two applied. Online tutorials show washes applied in great globs of liquid splattered all over the mini, is this the right way to do it? In fact, the Army Painter site...

I've just finished 6 minis. No, wait, they aren't even finished yet, I still have to do the aquila, the purity seal, the metallic tubes, and then put on the bolters. 10+ hours for this work. What am I doing wrong? I dilute my paints 1:1, and I did the basecoats in 4 coats. I work in an...

Hey guys! I got bored with all the moping around I've been doing so I decided to start fresh with two new space marines to be sacrificed to the gods of miniature painting. I thought I'd do two of them start-to-finish just to have a "final product" done on the table. Here are the two minis...

I was following the how-to thread of GW's Blood Angels and I basecoated my mini with blood red and then applied a "wash" of 1:1 dark flesh and varnish, diluted with 10x water (0.2ml + 0.2ml + 4.0 ml)... what I got was a nice wash effect but the really interesting effect was that my blood red...

I bought one of those cheap dry palettes from WHSmith that nice, deep areas for mixing paint. However, after a nice paint-practice session, I find that I am having trouble cleaning it (as opposed to a white tile that is easier to clean). Are there any secrets on cleaning palettes? I find that...

Is there some secret in putting on the green stuff? I've bought some from GW but I've always had trouble putting it on the mini -- it seems like it would rather stick to the putty knife than on the mini. Any beginner-tips appreciated! What I'm doing so far - I'd like to put some green stuff...

Hello guys! I've been scouting around the internet for helpful tutorial videos and so far I've found a few useful ones from YouTube, a nice local gamer lent me some of his videos, and I've finally found the cash to purchase all that is available from Miniature Mentor. So far, I like what I'm...

Can anyone recommend a quality paintbrush store/supplier in the UK? I'm hearing a lot about Reaper Kolinskys and W&N but I can't seem to find any here. A local WHSmith has some W&N but... not the fine ones I'm looking for. Thanks!

Okay, I know airbrushing is a valid technique in painting but for minis? I'm not slamming airbrushers here, but I feel that airbrushing a mini (aside from a primer) is cheating... like someone taking a gun to a knife fight. Having said that, I'm new enough to the hobby that I can admit that...

I'm usually a computer nerd and prefer to spend my money on PC games and PC upgrades. My games of choice include racing games from the arcadey NFS series to the realistic rFactor and GTR. Up to a month ago, I was burying myself up to the neck with Falcon 4 Allied Force, a flight simulator...

Hi guys! I've finished this space marine a few days ago. I'm not too happy with the textures and I need to work on my fine-brush control. I did this mini with lots of overbrushing, a base of blood red, baal red wash, dark flesh + chaos black wash, and then overbrush/drybrush blood red and a...

I've come across a couple of "how-to's" that say "wash with dark flesh" and so I went out and bought a bottle of it... only to realize it is paint and not a wash. Is there something I'm missing here? For example, in the how-to paint a space hulk, it says a wash of dark flesh and chaos black...

I was wondering if anyone knows that jumping lamp on the pixar logo? I was hoping to get one or two as my work light (the room light is orange-y colored) and the extendable, swivel-neck of the lamp would make it great to position the light as needed. I know one of my cousins used to have one...

Hello guys! I've just jumped into the WH40K world and bought myself a Space Marine Battleforce and a bunch of other stuff. I've really admired the pictures of the minis in the books and even though I know this comes with years of experience (and lots of talent), I want to paint to a standard...