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Painting, Sculpting & Modeling
Miniatures Painting Guide and FAQ
This document is presented to help the inexperienced miniatures painter get a grasp of the basics. Most answers given were collected from months of discussion on rec.games.miniatures and represent the experiences and tips of a great many people. The rest of the answers are Britt's, compiled from hours and hours of experimentation and practice.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/games/miniatures/painting-faq/
Miniature Painting.net
Dedicated to the hobby of painting miniatures made of pewter, resin or other casting materials.
http://miniature-painting.net/
The Miniature Painting Guild
Miniature Painting Guild, an online community for Fantasy and SciFi Minature Painters and Converters.
http://minipainting-guild.net/
Hot Lead Miniature Painting
Devoted to miniatures with basic and advanced painting topics and a gallery of award-winning miniatures.
http://hot-lead.org/
Online Miniature Painting and Modeling Guide
A step-by-stepguide to painting miniatures, and building scenery.
http://members.aol.com/drdresch/start.htm
Wizard's Paint Like a Pro Series (thx username)
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/pp/pp20010607a
Cool Mini or Not (thx Blade)
The Internet's largest gallery of painted miniatures, with a large repository of how-to articles on miniature painting.
http://www.coolminiornot.com/
Michigan Toy Soldier Instructional Videos http://www.michtoy.com/MTSCnewSite/videos/instructional_video.html
Steeldog Production Videos
We provide training DVDs with step-by-step instructions on painting Wargaming models in many scales including , 15mm, 20mm, 25mm, 28mm, 54mm and 120mm. The painting techniques can be applied to figures of all eras and genres including: Ancients , Medieval, Napoleonics, American Revolutionary War , American Civil War, WWI,warhammer 40,000 warhammer fantasy and many other types.
http://steeldog.info/
Miniature Accessories & Supplies
Games Workshop
http://store.us.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.us?do=List_Models&code=300810&orignav=300810&GameNav=300810
Epicast
http://www.epicast.com/
Scifi*Genre [bases] (thanks Malin Lug)
http://www.scifigenre.com/itemList.aspx?nSubCategoryID=135&nExpandToID=2489&sid=QSRYO0XPHGNSJPG
Scenery, Terrain, Props
Hirst Arts Fantasy Architecture Inc.
Build your own castles, dungeons and stone buildings for wargaming terrain, model railroads and model displays.
http://www.hirstarts.com
Woodland Scenics
is the world's leading manufacturer in the model railroading scenery industry. We provide you with a complete line of products to build a model railroad layout starting with the base and ending with finished landscape.
http://www.woodlandscenics.com/
World Works
Carboard - Adventures & Tools Model Sets
http://www.worldworksgames.com/
Pastimes on the Square new link!
We produce a hand-made line of scenery products for gaming, train layouts, school projects, dioramas, and anything else where you need realistic durable scenery products. Also a wide variety of D&D products.
http://www.pastimesonthesquare.com/
Armorcast
http://www.armorcast.com/
Tritex Games [uk]
http://www.tritex-games.co.uk/index.php?cPath=98_100
Image Hosting
Photobucket.com
is an image hosting and photo sharing service for users who want to host pictures and create free online photo albums.
http://www.photobucket.com/
ImageShack® - Hosting
ImageShack's mission is to provide an easy-to-use image hosting service for everyone. hosting. Need to transload an image? Resize Image? ...
www.imageshack.us/
ImageCave
Free Image Hosting and Photo SharingFree, fast and easy image hosting with 1GB of data transfer and 10MB of free storage. PNG, BMP, GIF and JPG formats permitted.
http://www.imagecave.com/ | |
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| | 12/09/2005 3:55 PM | Alert | Hot/Cold Water Method
For fixing bent miniature's parts
Hot/Cold Water Trick works but it has to be done properly and sometimes a few times...this is how it has worked for me:
Put pot of water to boil, while waiting grab a nice size container (so you can dunk the mini and probably your hand and hold it down) and fill it a ¼ of the way with ice then pour some cold water and let it sit...find a pair or pliers unless you are into burning yourself
Once the water starts getting bubbles at the bottom kill the flame and hold the culprit with the pliers and dunk the part (or entire mini but watch out for the base, it warps easy) in the water and wait accordingly:
Thin weapons: 20-25 seconds
Dire Bat wings: 60 seconds
Changing Ettin arms position: 120 seconds
The main idea is to get the center of the part you want to change soft, so use logic when timing things.
Now dunk the part/mini into the very cold water; you may want to hold the part to fix so it keeps the shape you want; it will almost instantly harden (even though the middle isn't depending on thickness) but you want to keep it there for a bit as well so it reaches the center and resets the plastic's memory.
Sometimes you may need to repeat this process a few times (usually between 2 and 3; just stick the mini in the freezer in between so it really cools down) because as time passes it reverts...repeating the process resets the plastic's memory nicely.
Good luck!...it DOES work.
A bit about Stripping Paint Off of Minis
http://www.maxminis.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14329
Taking Pictures of Miniatures
Thanks to arhurt for the links and the author(s) for the write up!
Model Photography, by dnaGRIM
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/130
How to really take good photos, by Pagan
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/101
Basic picture resizing and creation of multiple views, by GunjiNoKanrei
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/207
Photographing minis with just one lamp, by Honza
http://www.coolminiornot.com/go.php/go/articlephp/levels/99/expand/all? | |
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