Painting Miniatures Guide

pogre · Dec 7, 2005

Added two new basing articles.

pogre · May 24, 2006

Added a lovely new step-by-step from the UK Rackham board.

Umbran · May 24, 2006

Excellent. Just as I'm about to shake the rust off what little skill I have for a project, I find this. Spiffy!

pogre · Jul 17, 2006

Added another step-by-step.

pogre · Jul 17, 2006

NMM Gold Recipe

From the amazing Ark of Rackham fame:
The colors I use for NMM Gold are Green Ochre 914 for the dark zones, Light Yellow 949 for the light zones and White 951 for the brightness.

BTW - the colors he is referring to are Vallejo Model color.

pogre · Jul 19, 2006

Added Totengraber's paint color database and TH's NMM recipes.

frankthedm · Jul 25, 2006

[sblock=Fast & Easy marble bases]Fast & Easy marble bases

Ever looked at marble tile and thought a base that looked like that would be great? Only to be stopped by the amount of work that it would take?

Perhaps it will take less work than you think....

There are 100s of cheap vinyl tiles on the market and many home supply stores do sell individual tiles. I have even found them in dollar stores.

You’ll need:

A 1’ square vinyl tile with adhesive backing.
A base, square bases will be the easiest to cut the tile for.
A marker or pen.
A Blade; razor, X-acto, box cutter etc.
A straight edge to guide the blade for a proper cut.
A small drill bit for insert holes
A painted mini to look good on the base.

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/846/marbletilegiit4.gif

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pogre · Jul 25, 2006

Added FranktheDM's marble bases to the links. Thanks Frank - I got to try that!

Herremann the Wise · Jul 26, 2006

Hi Pogre and fellow Painters,

The following by ***Mario Fuentes seems a worthy addition to your page:

Mario Fuentes - Basic Tutoral

It's on the Vallejo website and is a good basic painting tutorial that emphasises the importance of watering down your paints as well as other classic fundamentals. I highly recommend this.

***To get to the tutorial, you need to select your preferred language (English flag), select "Model Color" option), go to the bottom of the page and select the "introduction" link. A little awkward I know but it really is an excellent tutorial.

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise

PS: Mods, does this excellent thread deserve being stickied or what?

frankthedm · Jul 26, 2006

Herremann the Wise said:
***To get to the tutorial, you need to select your preferred language (English flag), select "Model Color" option), go to the bottom of the page and select the "introduction" link. A little awkward I know but it really is an excellent tutorial.

Actually, just right clicking on the link and "copy shortcut" worked for me

Direct link to english article

ttfxmedia.com/vallejo/cgi-bin/_modelis.asp?p1=ing&p2=modelcolortecnicas#modelcolortecnica01

Yes, Make this thread sticky!