Painting in Miniature
The Value of Value in Miniature Painting
Paint a couple hundred Warhammer miniatures, and you’ll start to have some opinions on how a miniature should be PROPERLY painted. For myself, I’ve dialed in on two main tenets which guide all my miniature painting: There is, of course, some skill in speed painting, but today I’ll focus on the second point: the importance…
Read MorePainting in Miniature 6: Blood Bowl
I’ve talked before about how Games Workshop, despite the name, isn’t great at designing “games.” For all the work I put into my Warhammer armies, I’m not about to go recommend the actual game to anyone who doesn’t also want to paint the best miniatures on the market. However, Bloodbowl is a game that has…
Read MorePainting in Miniature 5: Finishing up Nurgle
Last month I posted my first fully painted Warhammer army, my Skaven. Hot on the heels of that post (and painted over roughly the same time period), here is my Nurgle army, also now a fully legal 2000 points! Check out the first half of my army HERE Much like my Skaven, I’ve got another 2000…
Read MorePainting in Miniature 4: Finishing up Skaven
I still haven’t caught up on photographing my backlog of painted models since I started this hobby, so these models are all about 2 years old. More importantly, they represent my first “completed” Warhammer army, including spells and special terrain…and it only took me 2 years to get there! Check out the first half of…
Read MorePainting in Miniature 3: An Underworlds Undertaking
I’m still working through photographing all the stuff I’ve painted over the last 3 years or so as I don’t see this new “paint tiny toys” hobby losing any steam. Today I look at a bunch of “war bands” that I’ve painted for the “actually pretty good” stand alone skirmish board game Warhammer: Underworlds. Warhammer:…
Read MorePainting in Miniature 2: Up Next, Nurgle
Two years ago (February, 2017 to be exact) I boldly went into one of the final unexplored (for myself) frontiers of nerdy-ass hobbies: I started painting miniatures. This series is an attempt to document the end results of the endless streams of time, effort, and, I suppose, cash that has gone into this hobby to…
Read MorePainting in Miniature 1: Starting out with Skaven
I suppose I’ve always been miniature-painting-curious–even all the way back to my first trip into a game shop in junior high. Unfortunately, none of my friends played games back then, so the cool-ass D&D manuals, ASL expansions, and metal minis waiting for a coat of paint would have to wait till adulthood. When I finally…
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