How to Paint a Realistic Rust Effect for Miniatures (Tutorial)

by | Jul 11, 2018

Shadespire is a great game. It's also really easy to paint up a warband for it since some of them are only 3 models, like these Stormcast Eternals - Steelheart's Champions. The fun part with that is it's a great time to experiment with painting techniques, to try...

Making Your Own Custom Bolt Action Dice Cheap and Easy

by | Jun 20, 2018

A year or so ago I came to the conclusion that I wanted to try some historical wargaming. It all started when I found my grandfather’s yearbook of his service on the second USS Yorktown during World War II (long story short, the first Yorktown was sunk at the...

Learn the Feathering Painting Technique for Blending on Miniatures

by | May 9, 2018

There are a handful of ways to go about blending on your miniatures. The feathering paint technique is just one of them. It also happens to be my favorite technique and I'll explain why. If you want to skip through the explanations then jump on down. What is...

Realistically Wrapped Weapon Grips

by | Feb 28, 2018

I've used string before on bows, though that's a much more subtle use than you're going to see today. The idea here is to wrap an entire weapon grip such as a long axe shaft in this case, though you could easily apply it to sword hilts, terrain columns, large...

How I Made Some DIY Terrain with Plaster (Trees)

by | Feb 26, 2018

Once you have a lot of (more or less) nicely painted minis, dice and counters, and a decimated forest of rulebooks, it's time to get some terrain. Of course you could just use whatever junk you have lying around, but after a while you tend to want something that looks...