I still had a long ways to go, as I still found it a little difficult to get a small enough detail to the eyes, they often looked somewhat cartoon like if the eye went too large.Īlso, the ink process was quite lengthy and messy, the ink often running onto adjacent areas, and required tidying up once dry.
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Having mastered this basic technique, I gradually advanced and learned about dry-brushing, and using shading ink washes, and how to add detail effects to eyes, and belt buckles and such like. But it was a worth while exercise as it taught a sense of discipline to make a tidy and complete paint job. Learning about the need for a suitable undercoat, and then varnishing and making decorative bases, all were gradually incorporated into the final figure.īut still these early figures were mostly flat tones, with little or no shading or highlight, and basic detailing at best.
I currently use a range of paints from GW's citadel range, and also Foundry's own paint range, and Vallejo. This brought instantly better results, but I still had a long way to go.
This involved a switch to using GW's citadel range of water based acrylic paints. Initial attempts were poor and the smelly paints and thinners were unpleasant to work with.Īfter starting buying and reading White Dwarf magazine and the Citadel Journal of the time (late 80's), I gradually learned the GW way of painting. Having come from collecting and making Airfix model planes and tanks and painting them up with Humbrols enamel range of paints, I started using this approach for my figure painting. I started painting many years ago as a young teen-ager, and at that time, I was very happy to turn out, what I would now call basic paint jobs. In other words, I want my cake and eat it too! Most wargamers probably fall somewhere between these two extremes.įor myself, I enjoy the game play greatly, but want to do it with well painted figures, and preferably on a games table covered in well made terrain scenic items, so the whole display is visually appealing. At the other extreme, are those who are more collectors than wargamers and as such collect and paint figures to a high standard simply for their enjoyment of painting. To these players the game is more important than the figures themselves. From one extreme you will have those who almost loath painting and are quite happy to use bare metal unpainted figures to enjoy their favourite game. Of course, how important it is to the individual wargamer varies from person to person. Some posters for postering similar to posters for Necromunda.Painting miniature figures is an integral part of the wargaming hobby. The actual addition to this thread though, is this: Lots of "just getting started with terrain making" tutorials:Īnd of course the Wayback Machine has archived the old GW UK website tutorials on making buildings:Īnd some more, including how to make decent snow: Osprey hosts some very simple "printable terrain" pages which can act as decent templates for foamcore sheet cutting, or cardboard cutting, etc, for very basic ruins: As such, it spawned a similar trend in terrain resources. Thankfully, Frostgrave is thematically similar, and likewise is on a terrain-dense table.
If you post good stuff, I'll link it in here as well. Like I said, if you find something good, send me a PM and I'll put it up here. You can use black foamcore as was used in the images in the link, or white foamcore and color the walls as you see has a wonderful example here of what you can accomplish with a pringles can, cardboard and a classroom of kids that doesn't need your attentionĪny other/ new information and examples of building your own terrain will follow on here. Now your building walls actually look like walls. has a few images of where he glued these on foamboard.
Worth a read.ĭave Graffam from has a large selection of brilliant building you can use, both pre- and post meteor catastrophe. They discuss using Foamboard for creating your own buildings and using resources like wooden coffee stirrers and icecream sticks in a number of ingenious ways. If you don't want your stuff in here, let me know and I'll remove it.įirst off, there's the official resources that can be found in the Vault. If you want something in here, send me a message. For those who post here in this forum, expect to be quoted and tagged and your pictures used (with all due props). I want to create this thread as a resource where I'll link in all the good stuff for building Mordheim scenery.
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