Miniatures
How a Warhammer miniature is actually made
From concept art to the sprue on your desk, and why there is a faint line running across your model's face that nobody at the factory could have prevented.
Miniatures
The Citadel paint ranges, explained
Base, Layer, Shade, Contrast, Dry, Technical. Six words on the lids that tell you nothing, and what Games Workshop says each range is actually for.
Also on the bench
Miniatures
Meet the eighteen primarchs
A beginner's introduction to the Emperor's sons: a short piece on each of the eighteen we are allowed to know about, in legion order, gaps included.
Miniatures
Miniature scale, and why nobody will tell you what it is
28mm, 32mm, heroic, true scale. I went looking for an authority on what those mean and found hobby blogs quoting each other. That absence is the honest answer.
Off-cuts
- Renamed the blog. Subjects are tags now, so the next obsession costs one word.Miniatures
- Spent an evening finding out the paint industry is lukewarm about priming plastic.Paints
- Third attempt at the gold. The edge highlight was always the problem.WIP
- Two weeks with a wet palette: the paint lasts, the sponge does not.Tools