Books
R. Aspland et al "Collecting and Painting Wargames Armies";
Games Workshop.
ISBN 1-872373-42-2
This book should be easy to come by via any retailer of GW products.
This is a nice book, but it should really be titled Collecting
and Painting Games Workshop Armies". The techniques,
painting, and examples are all exclusively GW paints, GW minis,
and GW armies. It's not a bad thing. On the contrary, their recommendations
are probably the best when using GW paints and hobby materials on
GW minis. For example, GW's current paints (Citadel Colour line)
are transparents, so priming in black is advisable for the more
oft-used colors and the book recommends it. If you own GW products
and you want a good reference, this is an excellent start. |
| R.H. Cabos "Modelling and Painting Figures", Osprey
Modelling Manuals, Volume 8; Accion Press.
The book gives some contact info:
http://www.ospreypublishing.com
:info@ospreydirectusa.com
ISBN 1-902579-23-2
Originally printed in 1998 and reprinted in 2000. It's kind of
funny because they have some old Sapce Marine figures in an example.
This one focuses more an individual figure and includes adapting
a figure, heavily converting (e.g. making a WWII guy into a Space
Pilot), anatomical considerations and such. |
| Sheperd Paine "Building and Painting Scale Figures",
Scale Modelling Handbook No. 13; Kalmbach Books.
I picked up my copy at my local Borders books, so it's pretty
easy to order/find.
ISBN 0-89024-069-8
Originally published in 1993, reprinted in 1994 and 1995. This
book is aimed at more competition-level painting, but it also
includes material on scratchbuilding, detailing, converting, painting
with oils, etc. This book also includes dioramas and groundwork.
I liked the info on pins and various types of glues. The author
did some professional work building models and such for Monogram
promotions and he's won lots of awards. |
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Specialty Techniques
Painting Links and Miniature Painters' Sites
- Fantasy Miniatures
Site - Holger Schmidt's site; includes a great
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(in English and German).
- Vallejo Model Color Painting
Guide - Click on "Miniature & Model Colors", then
"Model Color"; the guide is at the bottom of the page.
- Vallejo
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- The Painting FAQ
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- Jay's
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- Society
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- GW Gateway:
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- Fantasy
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painting, and some pictures to help you along.
- The Miniature Collecting and
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James Ballentine, list administrator, has a gallery of his own and
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- DragonPaint's
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- Hot
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along with a very good painting guide.
- Rob's Miniature Page:
Jedi Rob has some great paint jobs and conversions from several genres.
- The Swords of Chaos
The Ogre has a lot of Battletech info and an enormous gallery of his
mechs.
- Miniature-Painting.Net
Dominic's revamped page includes all sorts of useful information,
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- The Miniatures Collecting and
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- Thomas
Pope's Miniatures Page Thomas has galleries and lot of other information,
including a vast listing of miniatures by various companies.
- Julius's Page
Julius has a gallery and plans to add information on WFB and painting
tips.
- Matt's
Minis Matt's gallery and gaming information.
- Strategic Headquarters
Bob has sculpting and painting info along with a host of other
gaming and hobby material.
- Seven
Ravens Cat's painting service and gallery of example work.
- Goodwin's Painting Service
Deane's painting service and a large gallery of samples of his work.
- Bart's mini-painting site
Galleries of his work and the archive for the mini-painter mailing
list.
- The Fortified City of Karoath
Painting tips and a miniatures gallery (including Brett's Golden Demon
winning minis).
- Caution
- Wet Paint Kenneth's site has galleries and painting guides.
- Duckblind
Miniature Gallery Matthew Hunt's site -- "small but growing."
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2010-03-25
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