Painting and Modeling

This is where you can find all the articles related to painting, modeling and converting miniatures and terrain. If you try one of my ideas out, let me know about it, I'd really like to see it. If you've got a tip that I don't know, I'd be eager to hear it.

06/03/11 Dark Eldar Ravager.

05/27/11 Flying Stands.

05/13/11 Dark Eldar Progress: Talos Chain Flails.

05/06/11 Dark Eldar Progress: Sybarites.

04/29/11 Dark Eldar Progress: Haemonculi.

04/15/11 New Look Armies, part 2.

04/07/11 New Look Armies, part 1.

04/01/11 My second attempt at a Venom conversion.

03/24/11 Visual Inspiration: Painting, part 2.

03/18/11 Visual Inspiration: Painting, part 1.

01/27/11 Marble-effect painting tutorial.

01/21/11 My conversion for a Dark Eldar Venom.

12/23/10 Making your own barbed wire.

12/03/10 Painting Ravenwing Bikers. Fast.

11/18/10 Assembly-Line Procedures to get the Boys in Bone done.

11/11/10 SENMM Gold Tutorial .

10/28/10 Sky-Earth NMM Chrome tutorial.

10/07/10 More Beautiful Inspiration for conversions.

09/29/10 Some Beautiful Inspiration for conversions.

07/23/10 Mind if I drop in?Scratch-building a Mycetic Spore pod for my Tyranid army.

05/07/10 Painting my DeathWing Dreadnaught.

02/26/10 How to find a good paintbrush and how to keep it in good shape.

02/05/10 The final paintscheme for my Deathwing army, this time for real!

10/29/09 A plan to get me started on painting. I love it when a plan comes together. Let's see if I can make that happen with this one.

10/23/09 DeathWing Paint Scheme final Okay, I'm finally pleased with my new paint scheme, and it's easier that I thought it would be.

10/16/09 Is this my new DeathWing paint scheme? This is better, and I've got some ideas to improve it, but I'm still not sure this is The One for me.

05/29/09 Painting Better and Faster This is a process for quickly painting up an army to beyond the "gaming standard."

05/21/09 Painting Tips Here's a number of tips I've picked up through the years to make models look better.

05/08/09 Non-Metallic Metals! Time to try out this style of painting with a test figure for my DeathWing army.

04/30/09 Paint Stripping! Out with the old (paint) and in with the new (paint.)

04/10/09 Wow, check out those models! Looking for inspiration for painting my new Deathwing army.

10/24/08 Getting it Done, part two: planning out a totally new Tau army, for a totally new reason.

10/10/08 So, how're those Tau coming along?

6/20/08 How is my Tau army progressing?

04/24/08 More Weapons Manufacturing! Sculpting Missile Pods.

04/10/08 Painting _Individual_ models before you take them off the sprue

04/03/08 Painting models before you take them off the sprue

03/27/08 Making time for painting

11/22/07 Sniper Drone Team assembly and review.

11/08/07 Simple Tau-Themed Terrain: Generator Tower.

10/11/07 Progress Report.

10/04/07 Sculpting Missile Pods.

09/27/07 Stick it to 'em! Magnetizing models.

07/18/07 Getting it done: finishing the last of my first batch of Tau.

07/05/07 Finishing up the first part of my Tau: Painting and how to get it done.

03/22/07 Camouflage Pirahna and a Crisis Suit, finishing the Combat Patrol!

02/22/07 Posing and Painting the Commander

02/14/07 Continuing the Combat Patrol

02/9/07 Beginning in the beginning. Getting ready for a Combat Patrol for the Greater Good!

01/31/07 The Tau army Crisis Test (Broadside, too) Let's see if I can make them look like Crisis (or Broadside!) Battlesuits!

01/17/07 I can't see the forest for all these trees! A terrain project for really big trees.

01/11/07 Paint Scheme testing in progress, will a Shas'la please volunteer to report to bay 12?

01/03/07 Stealth Crisis! We've got a Stealth Crisis!

12/07/06 Finishing the Table!

11/29/06 Setting the Table (or something)

11/23/06 If you build it they will game!

11/16/06 One table to rule them all!

07/20/06 Get the Flock out of here! Basing the Swarm, and making it faster!

06/22/06 How do you paint 140+ Gaunts?

05/25/06 You brought HOW MANY bugs? Constrictor Swarm, Week 1

04/27/06 Back to Basics?

01/06/06The best of both worlds, how to get your army done quickly, but also make it look good!

12/30/05Mag-Neato! How to get your army to stick around!

11/04/05I don't think the Orkin man can help with bugs of this size...

09/02/05 check out my Terrain Tracks with some Styrofoam bunkers and a ruined building!

08/25/05 New Paint Scheme! Have I found the Holy Grail of miniature painting for gamers?

08/05/05 Chasing Daemons!

04/28/05 Arachnid Warriors

04/22/05 Multi-Talon-ted

04/07/05 Identifying Equipment

02/23/05 Fantasy Army Progress Report, take 4! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, let's hope it's not a train!

02/17/05 Fantasy Army Progress Report, take 3! It's getting down to the wire!

02/10/05 Fantasy Army Progress Report, take 2! What did I get done, what is still left to do?

02/02/05 Fantasy Army Progress Report What did I get done, what is still left to do?

12/29/04 The making of Jack Skellington The making of Jack Skellington as a 40k Character, and modeling in general.

11/17/04 Building Buildings! Part one of urban terrain making made easy

11/03/04 How to make creepier Tyranids, and a lot of them: The history and making of the Stalker and it's subsequent bio-strains Fun and creepy conversions for your bugs!

08/11/04 Bug Update, part 2 How much did I get done in one week of painting Tyranids?

08/04/04 Bug Update I'm updating the paint of my Tyranid army and I've given myself a short deadline!

07/14/04 Playing in the Mud How to make some swampy terrain that really has character!

07/07/04 Forests and Hills How to make some good looking terrain easily!

06/22/04 Knight Study Take a look at my newly painted Knights and the tutorial about how I painted them.

06/16/04 Blacklining "I keep seeing little black lines." "Have you seen a doctor?" "Nope, just little black lines."

06/09/04 The Terrainmaker Portable Stonehenge

03/17/04 Painting Effectively Or How green is your Gobbo and how long did it take to do that?

02/25/04 Paint Like a Heretic! Effective and efficient painting, maybe I will get all this stuff painted before I die!

02/04/04 Who put the dip in dip-de-dip-de-dip? I'm painting my Tyranids for Seattle and I'm trying a new method.

11/19/03 Achieving Goals Getting motivated and holding yourself accountable, or How am I going to paint all those Gobbos?

10/29/03 Tunnels and Caves What you don't know can hurt you, which is half the fun!

07/09/03 Getting It Done

03/19/03 How to Paint Better in Every Way

08/19/02 New Tyranid Paint Scheme

05/27/02 Alternate Terrain

05/13/02 Spidery Tyranids

02/11/02 Conversions

01/16/02 Fast Terrain

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