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.
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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]
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| Title | Description |
| 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] |
| Jasta Braune - SMS Hamburg-Class Gunships | dampfpanzerwagon makes models of models of models... [14 Feb 2008] |
| WWII North Africa Painting Guide - The Basics | Monkeylover covers the basics for this WWII theater of war. [5 Feb 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] |
| 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 the Peter Pig Mortar Schooner |  A R Garbee replicates a mortar schooner at Fort Jackson during the New Orleans campaign. [21 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| Painting the Fiat Torpedo 508 CM | Warcolours Miniature Painting Studio paints the Fiat Torpedoe Militaire, an Italian utility vehicle during WWII. [24 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| Adam Paints Hasslefree's Ray | Adam gets to paint a cool figure, and then paint his dead counterpart. [13 Jun 2007] |
| Eureka's Kung Fu Schoolgirls | fieldarchy paints Eureka's anime heroines. [30 May 2007] |
| Three Adventurers from Hasslefree | Paul Baker of Brush Strokes tackles three female adventurers from Hasslefree. [9 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| Obelisk's GangStars at Blue Table | Blue Table paints up three packs of Obelisk Miniatures' GangStars. [22 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] |
| 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] |
| Maddogs and Englishmen... | Lonewolf dcc paints his favorite from Hasslefree's Zombie Hunter range. [21 Dec 2006] |
| Three Pirate Ladies | fieldarchy of Meg's Miniatures paints three pirates from Bronze Age Miniatures. [19 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] |
| 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] |
| Anyone Seen My Puck? | Lonewolf dcc returns to show us how he painted Hasslefree's Jess zombie-fighter. [23 Aug 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 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 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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 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] |
| Celts and Romans in 6mm | Robert Brown of Friar Barb Painting Service takes on two entire 6mm armies. [3 Jan 2003] |
| Ack, Help! - Victorian British | Reader Ken Messenger shows his Victorian British figures from his workbench, and asks for input. [3 Sep 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] |
| Painting 10mm ACW Figures in 7 Steps | Reader Alamo36t tells us how to paint 10mm scale ACW figures quickly and easily. [5 Mar 2002] |
| 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] |
| Painting Up the Armorcast Trench System | A quick-and-easy project - painting up Armorcast's Starter Trench Set. [10 Mar 2000] |
| Resin Craters | Three sizes of battlefield craters from Tactical Conflict Systems [10 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] |
| Scatch-Built Houses in 15mm Scale | Reader Brent R. Anderson reveals his techniques for constructing 15mm scale buildings using Sculpey. [7 Mar 2000] |