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Containers for when you need to sideline that project you've been working on, or maybe just not lose the bits you're not ready for yet. [2 Aug 2024] |
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Using self-adhesive labels to identify your minis. [15 Jun 2024] |
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What happens when AI generates Women Warriors? [22 Apr 2023] |
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Can artificial intelligence create useful maps for wargamers? [19 Apr 2023] |
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Generating portraits using Deep Dream Generator. [28 Mar 2023] |
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Could artificial intelligence take a photo of an unpainted figure and produce a 'painted' result? [10 Feb 2023] |
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Not just improving a photo, but transforming it using artificial intelligence. [9 Feb 2023] |
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Need custom bases? [30 Aug 2021] |
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Sometimes, you have to take it apart, so you can put it back together again. [6 Jun 2019] |
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Painting Puppetswar's Stalingrad fountain. [9 Aug 2016] |
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Useful 3D models for concrete barriers. [27 Jul 2016] |
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Patrice Vittesse  paints a machinegun emplacement, and realizes he needs more... [1 Jun 2015] |
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Laconia Hobbies shows us how it is done. [1 Oct 2014] |
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Dervel  returns from Mexico with a new vision for making palm trees from scratch. [26 Jun 2012] |
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Volunteer  shares his techniques for painting, rigging and basing Age of Sail warships. [11 May 2012] |
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The modeler himself shows how he paints Guilford Courthouse in 40mm scale. [1 Dec 2010] |
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Painting a wargaming army is a completely different beast from painting a single miniature for display. [2 Nov 2010] |
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Beowulf  has been itching for a small Soviet project! [16 Sep 2010] |
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Does anyone else have trouble with the color green on microscale vehicles? [13 Sep 2010] |
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When evolved Newts happen upon a WWII comic... [17 May 2010] |
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Don't let the horses daunt you! [12 May 2010] |
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Hate having to scratchbuild your own masts? Not any more... [28 Oct 2009] |
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dampfpanzerwagon  makes an addition to his Flash Gordon collection. [15 Oct 2009] |
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The G Dog  couldn't say 'no' to this opportunity! [30 Jul 2009] |
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Our first Flintloque article. [22 Jul 2009] |
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Here's Suzi - before and after... [17 Jul 2009] |
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The painting of the Aeronef Moni. [9 Jul 2009] |
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Now that the 20mm Finns are painted, how to base them? [23 Jun 2009] |
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Sam shows how to paint a vehicle, starting with silver and gold. [15 Jun 2009] |
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Experimenting with an idea for storing 15mm figures and vehicles... [17 Apr 2009] |
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wodger  begins his series on how to paint a 15mm DBA army well, in a reasonable time frame. [30 Mar 2009] |
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Minidragon  been building and painting his own army for Flames of War for a while now. [16 Mar 2009] |
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When Patrice Vittesse  first saw these figures, he was dreading painting them... [12 Mar 2009] |
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With clean lines and not a lot of clutter, Minidragon  says these figures are a painter's dream! [5 Mar 2009] |
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The campaign in North Africa is one of combatpainter  's favorite historical WWII theaters to game and model. [2 Mar 2009] |
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Adam8472  takes inspiration from Doctor Who. [19 Feb 2009] |
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miscmini  likes the look of the Soviet KV-1 tank, and plunges into a project to paint three of them - plus a spare KV-2 turret! [8 Jan 2009] |
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Monkey Hanger  's motivation to paint Napoleonic ships returns! [28 Dec 2008] |
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Warcolours Painting Studio  paints "four characterful figures that seem to come directly from a vintage vampire movie..." [23 Oct 2008] |
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With the release of the Check Your 6! rules, Monkey Hanger  finds his interest in WWII air-combat gaming has rekindled. [13 Oct 2008] |
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After many years of resisting the urge to start a Napoleonic collection, Monkey Hanger  takes the plunge! [6 Oct 2008] |
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Mardaddy has an adventure with two Victorian science-fiction vessels. [24 Sep 2008] |
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How to use my 15mm figures for one ruleset without gluing them down to a set base size? [19 Sep 2008] |
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Cold Steel gives us advice, and we test it. [10 Sep 2008] |
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miscmini  builds, paints, and decals Reviresco's 1/144 scale Dewoitine D.510. [3 Sep 2008] |
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What flight stand for our Hurricanes? [27 Aug 2008] |
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miscmini  completes his work by applying decals, doing a bit of weathering, and coating the minis with a matte-finish. [26 Aug 2008] |
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Minidragon  finishes his Temple project by painting the kit he previously assembled. [14 Aug 2008] |
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If you want to magnetically store your 15mm vehicles, then you'd better add some steel! [12 Aug 2008] |
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One way to base Modern Pulp figures for a wide variety of environments. [11 Aug 2008] |
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Tony shows how he puts together and paints a Flash Gordon-inspired sci-fi pulp robot. [7 Aug 2008] |
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Mini-Dragon tackles hundreds of pre-cast pieces to build the Temple Entrance. [31 Jul 2008] |
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Beowulf  shows an easy and quick technique for British tanks in North Africa. [17 Jul 2008] |
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The Editor returns to paper modeling after a long absence. [2 Jul 2008] |
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Adam practices his white techniques on some Thugs. [11 Jun 2008] |
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Master Fighter combines a diecast T34/76 with pre-painted tank riders and accessories. [14 Mar 2008] |
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I supplied Stronty Girl  with some 'babes', and she did the rest... [12 Mar 2008] |
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Chocolate  finds his bluff is called! [5 Mar 2008] |
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Monkeylover  covers the basics for this WWII theater of war. [5 Feb 2008] |
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The goal is to build a series of gameboards covering Longstreet's Assault on the 2nd day of Gettysburg. [28 Jan 2008] |
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How Blind Old Hag  makes flight stands for 1/300 scale aircraft. [17 Jan 2008] |
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Jay Wirth  shows how using inks makes it easier to paint a 15mm scale army. [16 Jan 2008] |
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The G Dog  replicates a mortar schooner at Fort Jackson during the New Orleans campaign. [21 Dec 2007] |
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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] |
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Two of Hasslefree's Adventurers venture to Serbia... [12 Dec 2007] |
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It's back to pirates for Adam8472  ! [28 Nov 2007] |
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DJD Miniatures runs amok with a diorama of cavemen and the giant prehistoric armadillo! [27 Nov 2007] |
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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] |
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alizardincrimson2  sails to the Skeleton Seas, and finds inspiration as she goes. [31 Oct 2007] |
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DemosLaserCutDesigns  says these Possessed Zombies would lend themselves well to a zombie game based on the world of the Evil Dead movies. [30 Oct 2007] |
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Can the techniques used for painting giant sci-fi robots be applied to 15mm scale Russian tanks? [28 Aug 2007] |
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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] |
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When you have several hundred Marines that need painting, who do you call? [22 Aug 2007] |
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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] |
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Can any of these products cure the dreaded "wedding cake" effect? [16 Aug 2007] |
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The Editor dabbles with online printing. [5 Jul 2007] |
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Using pink stuff for basework. [28 Jun 2007] |
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Somehow, miscmini  finds himself in the Workbench with several 15mm scale Russian WWII fighters... [26 Jun 2007] |
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Damaged in an ocean crossing, Bay Area Yard's 1:600 scale U.S.S. Marmora finally appears in Workbench. [25 Jun 2007] |
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Adam gets to paint a cool figure, and then paint his dead counterpart. [13 Jun 2007] |
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These models gave Adam the perfect opportunity to experiment with Citadel's new Foundation paints. [2 May 2007] |
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Pete is back - this time, with early-war WWII Germans LMG teams. [1 May 2007] |
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combatpainter  explains a simple, quick, and effective way to base troops for Flames of War. [30 Apr 2007] |
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combatpainter  has been watching some documentaries lately set in the Western Desert, and was inspired to create this... [30 Mar 2007] |
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When combatpainter  criticized a recent Workbench entry, I challenged him to show that he could do better... [28 Feb 2007] |
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Having scratchbuilt a flying monitor, dampfpanzerwagon  now paints and bases the model. [7 Feb 2007] |
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Building a flying two-turret monitor from scratch, inspired by Space: 1889. [6 Feb 2007] |
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Adam loves Scorched Brown... [29 Jan 2007] |
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Mal Wright  experiments to find a better way to mount aircraft for wargaming. [22 Jan 2007] |
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Entry #1 in Scale Creep's Scavengers Design Contest - a complete 18th Century Fantasy game you can play on your refrigerator. [30 Nov 2006] |
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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] |
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Meet the Zombie Resistance Family! [20 Jul 2006] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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The Editor decides to explore a new army by first trying it in 6mm scale... [14 Nov 2003] |
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Thomas Reipe shows how to scratchbuild a master model, create the molds, and cast your own 1/600 scale ship. [4 Sep 2003] |
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What to do with time on your hands waiting for the convention to start? Alamo36t builds terrain... [11 Aug 2003] |
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Reader Ken Messenger shows his Victorian British figures from his workbench, and asks for input. [3 Sep 2002] |
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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] |
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Reader Alamo36t tells us how to paint 10mm scale ACW figures quickly and easily. [5 Mar 2002] |
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The Editor finally finishes that ironclad project he started back in '98... [28 Jul 2001] |
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Reader Mike Frang shares a method for keeping the paint jobs on your soft plastic figures. [28 Jul 2001] |
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The Editor does his best with a 1:2400 scale resin ironclad, and even messes around with some artist gel... [27 Jul 2001] |
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A quick-and-easy project - painting up Armorcast's Starter Trench Set. [10 Mar 2000] |
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Reader Brent R. Anderson reveals his techniques for constructing 15mm scale buildings using Sculpey. [7 Mar 2000] |