By Jonas Faering of The Army Painter Army Painter Battlefields XP: Tufts are a quick and easy way of adding that finishing touch to the bases of your models. They’re simple to use – check out this quick tutorial for yourself… 1: Our Warlord Games plastic Roman Legionary has been painted and is ready for…
By Dr Phil Hendry Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Preparation Part 3: Painting Part 4: ‘Dipping’ After ‘dipping’ comes basing. I do all my basing the same way, to create a unified look. First of all, I glue on a mixture of sand and fine grit in little patches. I paint the whole base with…
By Dr Phil Hendry Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Preparation Part 3: Painting Now it’s the part you’ve all been waiting for – time to apply the Army Painter Quick Shade, Strong Tone! Although commonly referred to as ‘The Dip’ I don’t actually dip my models into the can. I prefer to apply with a…
By Dr Phil Hendry Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Preparation Once all the preparation was done it was time to get on with the painting proper. First of all, I dry-brushed the chainmail with Citadel Mithril Silver, then touched up the white primer where my dry-brushing had strayed – as it inevitably does. Then it…
By Dr Phil Hendry Part 1: Introduction The first job was to clean off the casting vents, mould-lines, and any other ‘messy bits’. Not a bad job on Warlord’s figures – they’re usually very nice castings. One thing to bear in mind is that ‘The Dip’ is not discerning in what it shades – if…
Not long ago we held a Black Powder Open Day at Maelstrom Games’ Eye of the Storm venue. We were delighted when Warlord forum-dweller, Ubique Matt, dropped in with a big box of great-looking miniatures. Time for us to share the love and show them all off. There’s lots of fantastic miniatures to see here…
As part of the big English Civil Wars army Jonas painted up for Salute 2010 using all the different Colour Primers, one regiment was done up with the new Colour Primer: Crystal Blue. Look out for the pages of Wargames Illustrated for the full run down of the entire army project, but for now Jonas…
The chaps at Beasts of War have just been in touch to tell us they’ve published a spanking new video (not to be mistaken for other spanking videos…) on how John built and painted our new plastic Bolt Action German Infantry. Check the video out here!
We recently showed off Sascha’s Boadicea and bloody marvellous it was too! Now, it’s the turn of her enemy – the might of Imperial Rome. Feast your eyes on these spectacular paint jobs: Sascha just won’t let up with his spectacular brushwork. As you can see his choice of colour and smooth application make all…
Not content with running the WAMP painting competition for us recently, Dave ‘Undave’ Jackson has also found time to paint a unit of our plastic Praetorian Guard. Even better Dave explains how he did it in this painting guide. Undave acquired his first miniatures at age eleven and armed only with three pots of Humbrol…
Paul Sawyer