Miniature Wargaming: Hobby tips, tricks, techniques and useful tools

I'm going to add these as I think of them, as I'm currently brainstorming about it.

Quick and easy muzzle burn:

https://youtube.com/shorts/CGeeb3jU99k?si=aBQyjgC6UZt6nIpb

Note that you can adjust with any sepia, purple, and darker blue. I've done this effect with what i had available.

 

A good addition to the thread.

 

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT651afwb/

I love this dude's videos. I've watched the entire series that he's done on trogdor, but this one overlaps the most with what we do.

This guy creates and sculpts large models from baking clay. But his video style is extremely helpful when learning sculpting. I actually now know how to use a ball tool correctly because of this video.

And although I don't personally use an airbrush, this has given me some tone layering ideas. Working up from red to skin tone was something I had never considered before.

 

He makes it look so easy (but we all know that it isn't!). Very interesting.

 

The guy who has this channels works on a lot of dioramas, so there's a lot of ideas applicable to basing, kitbashing, painting and so on to be gleaned from his work.

 

His resin work is fantastic.

 

That's neat!

 

I certainly enjoy watching Boylei's vids, the 1:72 sci-fi Western town he made a while back in part inspired my own 10mm Dickensian Steampunk buildings for Armoured Clash. His scratchbuilds are a bit more heavy-duty than mine, but the general appearance and the tech he adds to his buildings are still worthy references I look back to when designing my own buildings.

 

Painting with yellow

Due to not being as dense in pigment as most other potted paints, yellow paint is often more transparent as a result, and applying it straight often means applying more layers of it than usual.

Therefore, you always have to treat yellow paint as if it was a contrast paint, which means it requires an opaque undertone, be it a beige, an orange, or even pink.

 

Harbor freight sells sculpting tools if you all didn't know. If you needed a cheap set sculpting or adding basing material to your models.

 

A very nice and quick kitbash, though unfortunately it won't age well given those new Marauders look very much to have wooden shields:


However, unless you already have a WoC force you'll likely be sourcing the shields and weapons from bitz sites anyway rather than purchasing a full Marauder Horseman box just for shields, and those sites should still have some older Marauder Horseman shields around for a while yet. Indeed, now that Dunc no longer works for GeeDubs he was free to openly mention bitz traders to get the shields from anyway.

 

There's plenty of other sources for round shields, including other manufacturers. I would recommend the round shields from Fireforge's Northmen Warriors as an alternative, just for example. The shields are plain but that just gives an opportunity to practice freehand or using transfers.

 

I'm just after the heads, if they are the same size as the old marauders. I dislike intensely the old head sculpts.