Category Archives: Painting and Modelling
Living in the Pits
At the Joy of Six show earlier this year, someone asked if we had any photos of our 6mm Sunken Dwellings in use on a table. The answer was, no, we hadn’t – we had never found the time to … Continue reading
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Making Tracks
We promised to write an article on making track for our new 15mm Monorail cars, and here it is. As you’ll see, it’s a really straightforward process. The track itself is made from mini cable trunking – ours came from … Continue reading
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Starship Painting Guide #2
Robin of Rottenlead has posted the second part of his guide to painting spaceships on Youtube, so if you fancy a watch, here’s a selection of stills to whet your appetite and a link to the video. We linked to … Continue reading
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Starship Painting Guide
Our friend Robin Fitton, author of both Gruntz and Imperial Skies, has begun a series of starship painting guides on his Rottenlead blog. He’s featuring models from a number of manufacturers including ourselves. Part one, covering cleanup and prep, can … Continue reading
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A Tale of Contrast
I recently experimented with painting some 6mm vehicles using just Citadel’s new Contrast paints. I tried them out on some unreleased models – 6mm versions of the Prosperity army vehicles released a little while back in 15mm. I wrote up … Continue reading
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What lay beneath – part 1
I seem to be playing catchup with long abandoned 15mm building projects at the moment. So here is another one! Several years ago I had a bit of an accident whilst casting one of our advanced buildings. It certainly didn’t … Continue reading
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Mixing things up
Against all the odds there has actually been a bit more progress on my little 15mm township. Based on past performance this post is several years ahead of schedule. The majority of the buildings that I’m planning to use will … Continue reading
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Apathy, apathy, apathy…
Quite a while ago I painted a house and I was very happy with the results. Buoyed by the success I started on some more. And then. Well nothing really. Now obviously in wargaming terms four years between glue and … Continue reading
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A Very Desirable Property
Peter Hunt has sent us some pictures of his latest 2mm creation, Schloss Zenda. Over to him (or rather his alter ego, Hercule)… Gentlemen, Whilst strategists believe that the recent Bacterian offensive on Zenda was undertaken to provide support for … Continue reading
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A cracking good time…
As models go our very first 15mm building (B15-1001 – bunker) is particularly awkward to paint. It has a smooth and rounded surface. You can’t really dry brush it as it doesn’t have any edges to highlight. There are no … Continue reading
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