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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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Back to Paper Modeling - with the Hoverfly

The Editor returns to paper modeling after a long absence. [2 Jul 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]
WWII North Africa Painting Guide - The Basics	Monkeylover covers the basics for this WWII theater of war. [5 Feb 2008]
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]
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]
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]
15mm Base Contouring Round-Up: Four Materials	Can any of these products cure the dreaded "wedding cake" effect? [16 Aug 2007]
Staples Online Printing & Web Binding	The Editor dabbles with online printing. [5 Jul 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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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]
Painting Battle Honours' Early-War Soviet Command	Dave Woodward of Ever Victorious Miniatures paints Battle Honours' early-war Soviet command set. [20 Aug 2003]
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]
Resin Craters	Three sizes of battlefield craters from Tactical Conflict Systems [10 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]

Workbench

Back to Paper Modeling - with the Hoverfly

OTHER ARTICLES

GASO.LINE's 1/48th Scale T34/76 with Russian Tank Riders

WWII North Africa Painting Guide - The Basics

Beowulf Paints 15mm Peter Pig Soviet MG Teams

Painting the Fiat Torpedo 508 CM

Painting Peter Pig's T26

Marines to the Ukraine!

Painting Battle Honour's NKVD Command

15mm Base Contouring Round-Up: Four Materials

Staples Online Printing & Web Binding

Pete Paints 15mm Early War German LMG Teams

CombatPainter Does FoW Bases

CombatPainter Makes a Barbed Wire Section

The Tao of Painting Smaller Scales

Combatpainter Does Battlefront's 15mm Kubelwagens

Battlefront's BA-6 Armored Car

A Soviet T-28 in 28mm

Printing Scenario Maps with Poster Software

Painting the Panzer IIIG for Barbarossa

Painting Battle Honours' Early-War Soviet Command

Painting Black Tree's Soviet Character Set

Building Force of Arm's Early-War Soviet AT Gun

Resin Craters

Brick Ruins in Resin

Scatch-Built Houses in 15mm Scale