Workbench
Workbench is where the Editor does his best to assemble, paint, and prepare some of the products sent to us here at The Miniatures Page.
He may be more of a perfectionist than you are - or he may be less of one! He's not trying to prescribe the One Right Way. He's just trying to describe how one guy happens to do it.
If you would like to write a Workbench article, or if you are a manufacturer and would like your products featured in Workbench, please view the FAQ.
210,736 hits since 19 Mar 2000
©1994-2008 Bill Armintrout
Comments or corrections?
OTHER ARTICLES
MiniDragon's Spaceship Tutorial
People have been asking 
Minidragon 
for a while now if he would be willing to put together a tutorial to explain and show how he paint his spaceships. [18 Mar 2008]
OTHER ARTICLES | |
|---|---|
| Title | Description |
| GASO.LINE's 1/48th Scale T34/76 with Russian Tank Riders | Master Fighter combines a diecast T34/76 with pre-painted tank riders and accessories. [14 Mar 2008] |
| Painting Hasslefree's Not Hot Fuzz Nick & Sam |  the Editor  tackles two subjects from his favorite sculptor. [13 Mar 2008] |
| Painting Copplestone Castings' Corporate Babes | I supplied  Stronty Girl with some 'babes', and she did the rest... [12 Mar 2008] |
| A Sumerian Four-Ass Chariot |  the fighting chef finds his bluff is called! [5 Mar 2008] |
| Web Space Station by CyborgTruckerUSA | CyborgTruckerUSA "expands his knowledge" by venturing onto the high frontier. [19 Feb 2008] |
| The Editor Paints a 15mm Giant Bearman | the Editor sets a benchmark (of sorts) in painting animals. [18 Feb 2008] |
| Jasta Braune - SMS Hamburg-Class Gunships | dampfpanzerwagon makes models of models of models... [14 Feb 2008] |
| Quickdeath by CyborgTruckerUSA | CyborgTruckerUSA takes inspiration from Masters of the Universe when painting these mutant cats. [13 Feb 2008] |
| Tree Base from Wooden Wheel & Clay | Basing an inexpensive tree with a toy wheel and some clay. [11 Feb 2008] |
| Painting Gashonock the Retiring | fernandopainting  shows us how they do things down in Sri Lanka... [8 Feb 2008] |
| Orcs from Sri Lanka! | The Foundry Orcs - or Ogres, if you prefer - return from Fernando Enterprises in Sri Lanka! [7 Feb 2008] |
| Painting the Damned | Vanth SpiritWalker tackles a Daemonic Centaur from the Chronopia miniatures line. [6 Feb 2008] |
| WWII North Africa Painting Guide - The Basics | Monkeylover covers the basics for this WWII theater of war. [5 Feb 2008] |
| Flock & Turfing My Terrain Tiles | Something new in the world of flock? [4 Feb 2008] |
| "Tentacles Away!" with Flex-Sculpy |  Dances With Words experiments with better tentacle material... [1 Feb 2008] |
| Dancing with Greenstuff | Dances With Words demonstrates how anyone can get in on sculpting for fun... [30 Jan 2008] |
| The Orc Slayers Painted! | PhilGreg Painters comes to the rescue, picking up an assignment that another painter dropped... [29 Jan 2008] |
| Building Little Round Top | The goal is to build a series of gameboards covering Longstreet's Assault on the 2nd day of Gettysburg. [28 Jan 2008] |
| Terrain Tiles from Vinyl Floor Tiles | the Editor takes  Cold Steel 's advice. [21 Jan 2008] |
| Blind Old Hag's Do-It-Yourself Flight Stands | How Blind Old Hag makes flight stands for 1/300 scale aircraft. [17 Jan 2008] |
| Jay Wirth Paints 15mm Crusaders for DBA | Jay Wirth shows how using inks makes it easier to paint a 15mm scale army. [16 Jan 2008] |
| Building 28mm Sci-Fi Trees |  A R Garbee needs big honking trees - large enough to stop the Bugs! [15 Jan 2008] |
| The Greater Pumpkin Head | finbob tackles the greatest of pumpkin monsters! [28 Dec 2007] |
| Pumpkin'Eads As Painted by OldGrenadier | Magically animated pumpkins - but are they necessarily evil? [26 Dec 2007] |
| Christmas Figures from Amazon Miniatures | These are not the seasonal figures that you might give your mother to put on the shelf! [25 Dec 2007] |
| Not Just Any Christmas Elves! | alizardincrimson2 finds out what happens when Elves go bad... [25 Dec 2007] |
| Tree Bases with DAS Clay (Again) | Will "embedding" improve the treebases? [24 Dec 2007] |
| Building the Peter Pig Mortar Schooner | A R Garbee replicates a mortar schooner at Fort Jackson during the New Orleans campaign. [21 Dec 2007] |
| The Torch from 100K: Freak Show |  RobH demonstrates an easy technique, using washes. [20 Dec 2007] |
| Tree Bases from DAS Clay | Is DAS Clay sturdy enough to mold tree bases from? [18 Dec 2007] |
| Beowulf Paints 15mm Peter Pig Soviet MG Teams | Beowulf proves that you don't need to be a master painter or invest hundreds of hours working to get good results. [13 Dec 2007] |
| ZorzSERBIA Paints Hasslefree's Ken & Kendra | Two of Hasslefree's Adventurers venture to Serbia... [12 Dec 2007] |
| Stripping Paint from Resin Miniatures | miscmini's preferred method for stripping paint from resin and plastic models. [11 Dec 2007] |
| From Flower to Sapling? | Can a plastic flower become a wargaming shrub? Or maybe a small tree? [10 Dec 2007] |
| Adam Paints Three More Pirates | It's back to pirates for Adam8472 ! [28 Nov 2007] |
| Cavemen & Giant Armadillos! | DJD Miniatures runs amok with a diorama of cavemen and the giant prehistoric armadillo! [27 Nov 2007] |
| Dreamblade Repainted | Hundvig is not a real big fan of pre-painted minis, and he positively despises randomly-packed "collectable" ones - so why is he writing this article? [7 Nov 2007] |
| Zombies on the Workbench |  Chogokin encounters the Walking Dead. [6 Nov 2007] |
| Dentatus: A Chance to Paint Something Scary? |  Dentatus paints a couple of mean-looking mutant-type villains from the far future. [4 Nov 2007] |
| Black Cat Bases' Vampire Queen | alizardincrimson2 sails to the Skeleton Seas, and finds inspiration as she goes. [31 Oct 2007] |
| A Couple That is Possessed Together, Stays Together | CyborgTruckerUSA says these Possessed Zombies would lend themselves well to a zombie game based on the world of the Evil Dead movies. [30 Oct 2007] |
| An Ogre "Quickie" | fieldarchy shows the difference between a "quickie" paint job and more advanced work. [24 Oct 2007] |
| Adam Paints Heresy's Ghouls | Adam8472 says "goody!" to three ghouls. [23 Oct 2007] |
| Boris the Fighter | fieldarchy goes for the sickly and unhealthy look... [18 Oct 2007] |
| Mathias Paints a Giant Tomb Worm | mathias finds that a giant grave worm is "right up his alley." [16 Oct 2007] |
| An Ancient Menace: Necrovores! | CyborgTruckerUSA gets to paint out-of-production figures he never thought he'd see again. [15 Oct 2007] |
| Libby Gort! | alizardincrimson2 takes Hasslefree's Libby in a whole new direction... [11 Oct 2007] |
| Painting the Fiat Torpedo 508 CM | Warcolours Miniature Painting Studio paints the Fiat Torpedoe Militaire, an Italian utility vehicle during WWII. [24 Sep 2007] |
| Mercenary's Herdstone | the Editor paints a Herdstone. [3 Sep 2007] |
| Painting Peter Pig's T26 | Can the techniques used for painting giant sci-fi robots be applied to 15mm scale Russian tanks? [28 Aug 2007] |
| Waggas! | Though Crunch-Waffle says they are supposed to be brown, fieldarchy enjoys painting Waggas in a variety of colors... [27 Aug 2007] |
| The Army for Bill: The Ancient Britons | The Army for Bill was a collective project in which TMP'ers came together to jointly paint an Ancients army for yours truly. [24 Aug 2007] |
| The Crucible Principate Army Project | Can one army be painted by two painting services - one domestic, and one overseas? [23 Aug 2007] |
| Marines to the Ukraine! | When you have several hundred Marines that need painting, who do you call? [22 Aug 2007] |
| Painting Battle Honour's NKVD Command | We may be sending these WWII Russian figures off to Vancouver for painting, but they'll eventually reach Thailand - because that's where DJD Miniatures conducts operations... [21 Aug 2007] |
| Building the Langton Anglo-Dutch British 1st Rate |  Virtualscratchbuilder is a big fan of the Age of Sail, and these ships really speak to him - he loves transitional eras, and the Anglo-Dutch Wars was one of those. [20 Aug 2007] |
| 15mm Base Contouring Round-Up: Four Materials | Can any of these products cure the dreaded "wedding cake" effect? [16 Aug 2007] |
| Adam Paints Some DemonBlade Soldiery | Adam uses stark highlighting for a 'cartoony' style with these DemonBlade figures. [14 Aug 2007] |
| Painting 1/2400 ACW Ironclads from Tumbling Dice |  McKinstry is a naval wargamer who likes the smaller scales, so who better to show us how to paint small-scale ironclads? [13 Aug 2007] |
| A Story of One Ghorgor-Bey | Ana from Chest of Colors undertakes a daunting subject: Ghorgor-Bey [9 Aug 2007] |
| Building the Langton Miniatures Capitana | Virtualscratchbuilder proves himself a fan of splintered oars, crashing beakheads, and drummers yelling "come'mon, you scurves! The Captain wants to go water skiing, so pull harder!" [6 Aug 2007] |
| alizardincrimson2 Does Bronze Age's Female Gladiators | alizardincrimson2 steps into the arena with two gladiators from Bronze Age Miniatures... [1 Aug 2007] |
| Playing with Renaissance Ink's Flocking Gels | The Editor experiments with two of the flocking gel products from Renaissance Ink. [30 Jul 2007] |
| Want to Paint Some Simian Legionnaires? | the fighting chef answers the call and paints TMP's final unit of Simian Legionaires... [24 Jul 2007] |
| Staples Online Printing & Web Binding | The Editor dabbles with online printing. [5 Jul 2007] |
| U.S.S. Amphitrite in 1/600 Scale | Virtualscratchbuilder builds Merrimack/Old Glory Shipyard's 1/600 scale USS Amphitrite. [2 Jul 2007] |
| Basing with DryDex Spackling | Using pink stuff for basework. [28 Jun 2007] |
| Miscmini Paints AIM's 15mm Polikarpov I-16 | Somehow, miscmini finds himself in the Workbench with several 15mm scale Russian WWII fighters... [26 Jun 2007] |
| U.S.S. Marmora Tinclad | Damaged in an ocean crossing, Bay Area Yard's 1:600 scale U.S.S. Marmora finally appears in Workbench. [25 Jun 2007] |
| United Colours of Pig Iron |  NBFGH with Attitude explores the versatility of Pig Iron's infantry. [19 Jun 2007] |
| Adam Paints Hasslefree's Ray | Adam gets to paint a cool figure, and then paint his dead counterpart. [13 Jun 2007] |
| Blue Table Paints Two Simian Javelin Corps | Jay at Blue Table Painting comes to the rescue, and paints a dozen javelin-wielding apes from Hundred Kingdoms. [12 Jun 2007] |
| Dread Pirate Garness Does Trollbloods | Persevering over Death Itself,  Dread Pirate Garness brings us his latest painting odyssey... [11 Jun 2007] |
| Eureka's Kung Fu Schoolgirls | fieldarchy paints Eureka's anime heroines. [30 May 2007] |
| IDTV: Converting a Mercurian Maculator | Iron Dream Tournament V needed something that looked infernal, science-fictionesque, original, and big... [15 May 2007] |
| alizardincrimson2 Does the Legion of Everblight | alizardincrimson2 paints up our first Hordes starter set. [14 May 2007] |
| Three Adventurers from Hasslefree | Paul Baker of Brush Strokes tackles three female adventurers from Hasslefree. [9 May 2007] |
| Shadowforge's Tribal Command | fieldarchy of Meg's Miniatures seeks a compromise between natural tones and bright colors, as she paints up Shadowforge's Tribal Command. [3 May 2007] |
| Adam Paints Some Parroom Adventurers | These models gave Adam the perfect opportunity to experiment with Citadel's new Foundation paints. [2 May 2007] |
| Pete Paints 15mm Early War German LMG Teams | Pete is back - this time, with early-war WWII Germans LMG teams. [1 May 2007] |
| CombatPainter Does FoW Bases |  combatpainter explains a simple, quick, and effective way to base troops for Flames of War. [30 Apr 2007] |
| Germy Paints Splintered Light's 15mm Halfling Cavalry | After a five-year hiatus, Mr Germy Bugger shows us he can still run a production line... [27 Apr 2007] |
| CombatPainter Makes a Barbed Wire Section | combatpainter has been watching some documentaries lately set in the Western Desert, and was inspired to create this... [30 Mar 2007] |
| Painting Assassin's Sir Plate — A Study in Metallic Technique | Assassin's Sir Plate provides an excellent opportunity to look at the subject of painting with metallics. [27 Mar 2007] |
| Igwarg Paints the Mighty Armies Barbarians | IGWARG paints Mongoose's Barbarian Army Set - a complete Mighty Armies boxed army. [26 Mar 2007] |
| Robots to Smash! | When you feel like smashing robots, where can you find enough of them? [6 Mar 2007] |
| Building Langton's 1/1200 Scale U.S.S. Cumberland | David Conyers of Aire Brush Painting Service tells how he builds and paints 1/1200 scale ACW ship. [5 Mar 2007] |
| Painting Ninja Magic's Tiko Destroyer | Zen Ghost makes use of mirrored surfaces in painting this Tiko Destroyer from Ninja Magic. [2 Mar 2007] |
| The Tao of Painting Smaller Scales | While painting Minifigs' N-scale WWII Russians, Rodrick Campbell of Highlander Studios introduces us to his method for smaller scale figures. [1 Mar 2007] |
| Combatpainter Does Battlefront's 15mm Kubelwagens | When combatpainter criticized a recent Workbench entry, I challenged him to show that he could do better...  [28 Feb 2007] |
| 15mm Blemmyes from East Riding | Saber6 says, "I can do better than that!" Let's see how he does with these 15mm Blemmyes from East Riding Miniatures. [27 Feb 2007] |
| Bronze Age's Wasteland Mutants at Blue Table | Is Blue Table Painting Service a match for ten giant, four-armed mutants? [26 Feb 2007] |
| Experimenting with SketchUp | When Ran The Cid says "SketchUp," the Editor listens... [23 Feb 2007] |
| Obelisk's GangStars at Blue Table | Blue Table paints up three packs of Obelisk Miniatures' GangStars. [22 Feb 2007] |
| Iron Wind Metal's Boneyard Express | Our first video workbench! [21 Feb 2007] |
| Can These Minis Be Saved? Episode III | The Spacefarers are covered with some kind of lead disease! [19 Feb 2007] |
| Laser-Cut Bases for Grav Vehicles | The Editor tries a simpler solution for grav vehicle basing. [12 Feb 2007] |
| Painting the USS Meade | Having scratchbuilt a flying monitor, dampfpanzerwagon now paints and bases the model. [7 Feb 2007] |
| Scratchbuilding a VSF USS Meade | Building a flying two-turret monitor from scratch, inspired by Space: 1889. [6 Feb 2007] |
| Eve of Destruction | Lonewolf dcc paints another of Hasslefree's adventurers. [5 Feb 2007] |
| Going Non-Traditional with U'lanThe, Amazon Champion | fieldarchy follows her inspiration... [1 Feb 2007] |
| Pete Paints Splintered Light's 15mm Halfling Warders |  Patrice Vittesse of Pete Scholey's Painting Service tackles the smallest 15mm figures he's ever painted... [31 Jan 2007] |
| Adam Paints Some Lady Pirates | Adam loves Scorched Brown... [29 Jan 2007] |
| Basing Small-Scale Aircraft for Wargames |  Mal Wright experiments to find a better way to mount aircraft for wargaming. [22 Jan 2007] |
| Thunderbolt Mountain's New Wood Elf Champion - Part III | spooktalker goes to new lengths to appropriately base the Wood Elf Champion. [29 Dec 2006] |
| Maddogs and Englishmen... | Lonewolf dcc paints his favorite from Hasslefree's Zombie Hunter range. [21 Dec 2006] |
| Adam Paints a Couple of Duelling Wizards | Adam of Pro Painted Miniatures takes on a diorama set - duelling wizards! [20 Dec 2006] |
| Three Pirate Ladies | fieldarchy of Meg's Miniatures paints three pirates from Bronze Age Miniatures. [19 Dec 2006] |
| Thomas Pope's Orcs! At 12 O'clock | Entry #4 in Scale Creep's Scavengers Design Contest - as plastic forks become the means of death in fantasy skies... [5 Dec 2006] |
| Krimso's Dragon Landscape | Entry #3 in Scale Creep's Scavengers Design Contest - as a father-and-son team venture into a land of Dragons and Mutants... [4 Dec 2006] |
| Timlillig's Astrohunt | Entry #2 in Scale Creep's Scavengers Design Contest - big game hunting in a heavily populated asteroid belt. [1 Dec 2006] |
| Andrew Walter's Franklin's Sea | Entry #1 in Scale Creep's Scavengers Design Contest - a complete 18th Century Fantasy game you can play on your refrigerator. [30 Nov 2006] |
| Thunderbolt Mountain's New Wood Elf Champion - Part II | Painting the mounted figure, to match the figure on foot! [22 Nov 2006] |
| Thunderbolt Mountain's New Wood Elf Champion | In this ambitious article, spooktalker paints the Wood Elf Champion, then the mounted version of the same figure, and lastly, makes a scenic display for them both! [11 Oct 2006] |
| Heavy Gear: Northern Guard Recon Squad | Jake Staines of Eviscerate tackles a squad pack for Heavy Gear. [8 Sep 2006] |
| The Orcs from Nin-Gonost | Steve Skutell of Hoard Painting Service paints the orcs from the Nin Gonost dungeon game. [7 Sep 2006] |
| Battlefront's BA-6 Armored Car | Dave Bennett of Lone Star Historical Miniatures paints up some WWII Soviet armored cars for TMP - and demonstrated how to use chalk for weathering. [6 Sep 2006] |
| The $2 Planet | What can you do with those cheap Christmas decorations? Well, the sky isn't the limit... [5 Sep 2006] |
| It Started With Grandfather... | The Editor was browsing on eBay one day... [28 Aug 2006] |
| Painting Lyria, Female Centaur | Minidragon focuses on "horsey-bits," hair, and bow as he shares how he painted the centaur from Elmore Masterworks Set #1. [24 Aug 2006] |
| Anyone Seen My Puck? | Lonewolf dcc returns to show us how he painted Hasslefree's Jess zombie-fighter. [23 Aug 2006] |
| Powered-Armour Libby | Holger Schmidt of Fantasy Miniatures jumps at the chance to paint Hasslefree's Powered-armour Libby. [16 Aug 2006] |
| Necron Monolith Diary |  Mardaddy of Mardaddy Paints experiments with color-shifting paints on a pair of Necron Monoliths. [7 Aug 2006] |
| Painting the Nin-Gonost Heroes | Raven Painting tackles the "hero" figures from the Nîn-Gonost boardgame. [26 Jul 2006] |
| Building the Veh-Deh-Merd Express | If your tournament is inspired by John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, you've got to have a train! [21 Jul 2006] |
| The Zombie Resistance Family Project | Meet the Zombie Resistance Family! [20 Jul 2006] |
| I Once Knew a Girl Called Maria... | Lonewolf dcc explains step-by-step how he painted Hasslefree's Maria adventurer. [11 Jul 2006] |
| A Dungeon in Plaster | The Editor builds his own dungeon. [6 Jun 2006] |
| Adam Paints Some Vendel Hill Trolls | Adam's preconceptions come face-to-face with Vendel's Hill Trolls... [9 May 2006] |
| Making Zed | Sometimes, you've just got to have that special figure... [28 Apr 2006] |
| Around the World in 80 Days | Everyone has a pile of shame - miniatures that you were all hot to get, had big plans for, and then never did anything with... [20 Mar 2006] |
| Last Painter Standing II: BattleTech | Ten painters begin - but only one can be the Last Painter Standing! [7 Mar 2006] |
| Making 28mm Scale Roads in Memory of Ian Weekley | combatpainter shows how to make roads, using the formula of the late Ian Weekley. [25 Feb 2006] |
| Rednecks On The Road To Iron Dream Tournament 4 | Can NBFGH with Attitude make an army of Rednecks for Iron Dream Tournament 4 from only four poses? [21 Feb 2006] |
| Building a Simple Data Set for Army Builder 3 | Learning how to set up a new game system for use with Army Builder, the army design software from Lone Wolf. [20 Feb 2006] |
| A Soviet T-28 in 28mm | Neil Burt of Troop of Shewe tackles the Soviet T-28 in 28mm scale from Force of Arms. [10 Feb 2006] |
| The Alpha 54mm Painting Contest | Five finalists are in the painting rounds of the Alpha 54mm Painting Contest (sponsored by Alpha Miniatures). Who will prove themselves masters of painting 54mm scale Ancients? [24 Jan 2006] |
| Printing & Binding from PDF | The Editor learns about downloading, printing, and binding a ruleset. [23 Jan 2006] |
| Orcs to Sri Lanka! | Can a wargamer find happiness by taking his treasured (but dusty) unpainted figures and sending them halfway around the world? [12 Jan 2006] |
| Printing Scenario Maps with Poster Software | You've got a scenario map, and you need to create some hills. Is there some way to just print out the map in very large scale, so you can trace the outline of the hills you need to build? The Editor finds out... [29 Sep 2005] |
| Painting 28mm "Birdmen" | John Morris of Mystic Spirals paints these out-of-production fantasy avians for TMP. [15 Jun 2005] |
| Painting a Dark Sword Chick in Chain Mail | Minidragon takes on one of the Elmore Masterworks figures. [14 Jun 2005] |
| Bartella and the Neanderthals | Scurvy's mission: Convert and paint 8 Reaper Neanderthals into a Cyberpunk/Sci-Fi gang of future 'hop heads,' using common wargaming supplies. [23 May 2005] |
| R and R's Basing Method | The basing technique which was taught to  Monkey Hanger by Mr Rudd. [16 May 2005] |
| An Impatient (and Cheap) Idiot's Guide to Assembling and Painting Bugs |  TheMackster shows his quick-and-dirty way to paint up the Warrior Bugs from Starship Troopers. [7 May 2005] |
| Assembling a Warrior Bug from Starship Troopers | The Editor puts together some Warrior Bugs from the Starship Troopers boxed set. [21 Apr 2005] |
| My Anti-Procrastination Weekend | It was finally time to finish that Haunted Unit, the one that hung on the edge of the worktable month after month, but never went to battle! [19 Apr 2005] |
| Can This Mini Be Saved? Part II | What's wrong with Americ-Ann, and can she be saved? [16 Apr 2005] |
| Can These Minis Be Saved? | There is a lot of confusion about just what is lead rot, and what can be done about it. Therefore, we're launching a series of occasional articles to display "problem" miniatures, and ask for your diagnosis... [23 Nov 2004] |
| Visiting with Steve | While driving across the country, the Editor was fortunate enough to be invited in by Steve Smith - and a wargaming tour was in order! [9 Nov 2004] |
| The Empires Review Contest | It's the first review contest - ten gamers, five teams, four objectives, and your votes will determine which team wins the reviewing prize! [23 Aug 2004] |
| A Hexon Board for Ogre | The Editor uses the Hexon II system to build a science-fiction battlefield. [14 Apr 2004] |
| Storage Cabinets Project | The Editor tries a new storage solution for his Ogre models. [9 Apr 2004] |
| Painting the Panzer IIIG for Barbarossa | Miniatures of Chesapeake volunteers to paint up a set of 15mm scale German armor (from Battlefront) for our Barbarossa campaign. [11 Jan 2004] |
| 6mm Sumerians from Irregular | The Editor decides to explore a new army by first trying it in 6mm scale... [14 Nov 2003] |
| Painting Two Simian Javelin Corps | J. Ira Monroe of Bwana Art Studio paints two units of the Simian Javelin Corps. [26 Oct 2003] |
| Painting a Simian Messenger | Cathy Hamaker of The Painter's Den shows how to paint a Simian Messenger. [22 Oct 2003] |
| Last Painter Standing | Eleven Finalists have embarked on a grueling 9-month, 9-round contest of their painting skills. After each round, the readers of TMP will vote somebody out of the contest - until there is only one painter remaining! [16 Oct 2003] |
| Painting the Simian Legion | Five contestants tackle the ultimate contest of painting technique - identical units of figures, identical painting schemes! Who will be voted as best of the best?! [6 Oct 2003] |
| Fun with Lurkers | The Editor unwinds between "big" projects by painting something fun and easy... [18 Sep 2003] |
| Painting a Simian Caesar | Lee Olson of Pewter Illusions tackles Caesar Octavian, commander of our Simian Army. [8 Sep 2003] |
| Scratchbuilding the Karlsruhe Köeln Class Light Cruiser | Thomas Reipe shows how to scratchbuild a master model, create the molds, and cast your own 1/600 scale ship. [4 Sep 2003] |
| Painting the Simian Senators | Ramiro Peira of PaintingPRO - the only painting service in South America - paints a Simian Senator for TMP. [30 Aug 2003] |
| Assembling and Painting a Giant Gor | Golden Demon-winning painter Joseph Wiedeman (of Mini-Dragon) assembles and paints the Great Gor, largest model in the Simian Army (Hundred Kingdoms). [24 Aug 2003] |
| Assembling and Painting a Simian Centurion | Matt Gubser of Prophet Miniatures paints the Simian Centurion for our Hundred Kingdoms project. [22 Aug 2003] |
| Painting Battle Honours' Early-War Soviet Command | Dave Woodward of Ever Victorious Miniatures paints Battle Honours' early-war Soviet command set. [20 Aug 2003] |
| Building Your Own Afghan Village | What to do with time on your hands waiting for the convention to start? Alamo36t builds terrain... [11 Aug 2003] |
| Igwarg Paints His Prize Army | Reader Igwarg won an entire Hobby Products 15mm Demonworld Orc starter army - now he's painting it! [7 Aug 2003] |
| Celts and Romans in 6mm | Robert Brown of Friar Barb Painting Service takes on two entire 6mm armies. [3 Jan 2003] |
| Making Your Own Miniature Bricks | Reader Kevin Crider shows how to make miniature bricks with inexpensive materials. [15 Dec 2002] |
| Cheap Buys: Snowball Ornaments | The Editor finds a gaming use for cheap Christmas ornaments... [1 Dec 2002] |
| Painting Hobby Products' Bat with Flamethrower | To complete the final unit in our Demonworld Dwarf Army, we're sponsoring a painting contest! [30 Sep 2002] |
| Ack, Help! - Victorian British | Reader Ken Messenger shows his Victorian British figures from his workbench, and asks for input. [3 Sep 2002] |
| Painting Hobby Products' Dwarven Miners | 4 Demons Painting takes on a painting project for TMP, painting up a set of 15mm scale Dwarven Miners from Hobby Products. [19 Aug 2002] |
| Painting Black Tree's Soviet Character Set | Friar Barb's Painting Monastery - an historical painting service - takes on a set of WWII Russian "character" figures in 28mm scale. [6 Jul 2002] |
| Building Force of Arm's Early-War Soviet AT Gun | George Barnard of Warpaint assembles, paints and bases Force of Arms' 45mm Soviet anti-tank gun - the standard AT gun of Soviet forces in the first part of WWII. [6 Jul 2002] |
| Assembling and Painting GW's MkIVb Predator | Leland R. Erickson of Miniatures Dressed to Kill takes on Games Workshop's upcoming release: the MkIVb Predator. [1 Jul 2002] |
| Painting Hobby Products' Rock Giant | When we wanted something big and powerful for our Demonworld Dwarven Army, Bwana Art Studio volunteered to paint up a Rock Giant. [26 Jun 2002] |
| Painting Hobby Products' Orc Slayers | Deane P. Goodwin of Goodwin's Painting Services takes on a "wild" set of Dwarves - the Orc Slayers. [19 Jun 2002] |
| The Demonworld Project: Painting the Leaders | Our Demonworld army needs a leader, so professional artist Gary Leitzell comes on board to paint Argam Rustbeard (commander) and Thorbal (fire priest). [14 Jun 2002] |
| Painting Hobby Products' Dwarven Crossbowmen | The Demonworld Dwarf Army Painting Project continues with unit #2 - Dwarf Crossbow Archers, as painted by Old Guard Painters. [12 Jun 2002] |
| Making Maps with Campaign Cartographer 2 | The Editor finds out what it takes to make fantasy campaign maps using Campaign Cartographer 2, a map-making software package. [28 Mar 2002] |
| Painting 10mm ACW Figures in 7 Steps | Reader Alamo36t tells us how to paint 10mm scale ACW figures quickly and easily. [5 Mar 2002] |
| Paint My Demon! | The editor sends a demon to a painting service. [20 Dec 2001] |
| Building Future War's Heavy Transporter | The Editor makes a few mistakes, learns a new basing technique, and ends up with some unusual gaming models. [20 Nov 2001] |
| Painting and Basing Irregular's 2mm Sci-Fi | Reader James Marshall shows how practical 2mm science fiction wargaming is - low cost and easy to paint up! [12 Nov 2001] |
| Making Pig's Monitor | The Editor finally finishes that ironclad project he started back in '98... [28 Jul 2001] |
| A Technique for Chip-less Plastics | Reader Mike Frang shares a method for keeping the paint jobs on your soft plastic figures. [28 Jul 2001] |
| Making Panzerschiffe's Monitor | The Editor does his best with a 1:2400 scale resin ironclad, and even messes around with some artist gel... [27 Jul 2001] |
| The $1 Gaming Tray | Ever wanted a gaming tray to organize your armies before a game, or to store the "dead" pile? [26 Jul 2001] |
| Flinging Fish Eggs | Now that Evil Gong has given us 15mm scale Fishmen, how do we paint them? The Editor takes a stab at a Fishmen Artillery unit. [4 Mar 2001] |
| The $1 Gretchinmobile | What can you do with a $1 vehicle? The Editor steps up to the plate and takes a stab at painting the model we reported on last week. [17 Mar 2000] |
| Painting Up the Armorcast Trench System | A quick-and-easy project - painting up Armorcast's Starter Trench Set. [10 Mar 2000] |
| Bring on the Osario 4000! | The Editor takes on a 1/300 scale grav tank from Scotia. [10 Mar 2000] |
| Painting an Infernal Horde | The editor amazes himself while painting some 6mm-ish Horde figures for Global Games' Inferno. [10 Mar 2000] |
| Going 3D With Moondragon | The Editor Undertakes 3D Space Combat. [10 Mar 2000] |
| Starships, Painted Fast | The editor messes around with a fast-painting method, on some 1/3000 scale starships from Brigade Models. [10 Mar 2000] |
| Adobe Buildings from Foam? | These structures, made of a light but durable urethane foam, have been sent to us by Epicast. [10 Mar 2000] |
| Resin Rocks | Tactical Conflict Systems lets the Editor paint rocks! [10 Mar 2000] |
| Resin Craters | Three sizes of battlefield craters from Tactical Conflict Systems [10 Mar 2000] |
| Building the Janus VII | The Editor takes on Reviresco's microscale Janus VII. [10 Mar 2000] |
| More 25mm Earthworks from TCS | The Editor paints up some 25mm Plank Earthworks. [9 Mar 2000] |
| 25mm Hut from TCS | This hut has a removeable roof! From Tactical Conflict Systems. [9 Mar 2000] |
| 25mm Bridge from TCS | Another easy project - a bridge from Tactical Conflict Systems. [9 Mar 2000] |
| Brick Ruins in Resin | A set of ruined brick walls in "15-20mm" scale from Tactical Conflict Systems. [9 Mar 2000] |
| 25mm Earthworks from TCS | Speaking of "amazing," painting up these 25mm terrain pieces from TCS is amazingly easy. [9 Mar 2000] |
| Stumped! | A two-step painting process that puts stumps on your tabletop. [7 Mar 2000] |
| A Scratch-Built Missile Site in 1/285th Scale | The Editor takes household junk and hobby store supplies to create this simple missile site. [7 Mar 2000] |
| Back to the Rebellion! | The Editor paints up some 10mm scale Cybrid Vindicator scout hovertanks, from Starsiege: Rebellion. [7 Mar 2000] |
| Scatch-Built Houses in 15mm Scale | Reader Brent R. Anderson reveals his techniques for constructing 15mm scale buildings using Sculpey. [7 Mar 2000] |
| Starships, Painted Fast - Part II | The editor continues to mess around with rapid-painting techniques, this time on some Silent Death starships. [7 Mar 2000] |
| The Imperial Obsidian Tank | Sci-fi war in a larger scale - a look at the 10mm vehicles for Starsiege: Rebellion. (Roughly twice the scale of Battletech, for instance.) [7 Mar 2000] |
| A SMITE from Star Blazers! | The Editor "starts out small" with this ship from the Star Blazers! product line. [7 Mar 2000] |
| Building a Three-Decker Spacecraft | The Editor moves up to a medium-sized ship in the Star Blazers! product line - the Gamilon Trideck Carrier. [7 Mar 2000] |
| "S" Stands For "Battleship" | The Editor concludes his small Gamilon fleet by building the S-Type Battleship. [6 Mar 2000] |