Top Tips
Quick-fire hobby hacks and professional advice. From airbrushing secrets to simple basing techniques, these tips are designed to improve your painting speed and quality.
Day Three
"In this hands-on Painting Class you will learn the fundamentals of using the GW Citadel Contrast paint! Applying these highly pigmented colors correctly will allow you to paint non-metallic metal and armor faster than ever before. An absolute must if you need to paint a big number of Miniatures using NMM fast or struggle with painting large surfaces like Armor in general! For Beginners and Intermediate Painters. All Miniatures + Training pieces included. Necessary Material List: https://tinyurl.com/adepticon2022
Day Two
Non metallic metal (NMM) is a complex technique that can become simple if you know how to approach it. I will teach you about the basics and the more in depth. You will learn how to approach light, how to understand the highlights and how to create an convincing NMM effect. Special equipment needed: Bring your own paints (Black, White, Yellow, Blue, Green) and paint brushes (a size 0-1 will be fine).
Day One
I want to start these articles off with what I was hoping to get out of the event, how it went and what I think I can take away from it and use going forward. Wet blending is the fastest way to get paint on your model. Join industry expert Aaron Lovejoy as he teaches you the techniques he uses everyday to paint both armies and display pieces. You will learn 4 different ways to wet blend, so no matter what situation you get into you will always be able to blend like a champ! This is a hands on class so bring a good brush (size 1 Raphael 8404)…
Lens cloths & Blue-Tac
Ok how do lens cloths and Blue-Tac find their way into a top tips article on a table top games hobby site? Well notwithstanding the fact that I wear glasses and I need them to keep said glasses clean they can also be really useful when you are using an airbrush. Or at least I’ve found that they can be really useful and this is what I want to share with you. At Adepticon (2016) I picked up a couple of new airbrushes with the intention of really getting to grips with using them. My first project with them as a Reaper Mountain Troll but in true ‘getting a bit…
Picking a paint scheme
Picking a paint scheme
Holding models whilst painting
When I started painting I didn’t really understand the need not be putting your fingers all over your freshly painted miniatures. It was all about getting things painted as fast as I could so I could use them. But when I started taking a bit more care with my painting I started to notice marks on the minis caused by the way I was handling them. And that was when I stared to look at different way to get around this issue. There are loads of different things you can use but this is what I find myself doing when holding models whilst painting. I get bags of corks ether…
Cleaning your brushes
cleaning your brushes
Dropper Pot Paint Labels
This is a solution to a problem of my own making. To save a bit of space I keep my Vallejo paints in an MDF rack stood on top of my desk. It’s a great way to store them and there are lots of companies out there making this type of rack so they are easy to find. But not all my paints are in a dropper pot. But I have found is that over time the label on the paint pot rubs off and the more you use a particular paint the quicker it rubs off. Not a problem in and of itself but it can be an issue…
Bottling Inspiration
I come up with ideas all the time for new and fanciful projects, be it colour schemes for models or some weird and wonderful scratch build or conversion. But if I don’t do anything about it by the time I get round to doing anything all I can remember is that I had a really good idea, but I’ve no idea what it was. So to aid a failing memory I have a couple of suggestions. My way of bottling inspiration First up there is the old school option and that is to write them down on a piece of paper or better yet in a note book, as and…
Transporting my Russian Coalition
Transporting my Russian Coalition
