A collecting page for all the miniature painting-related posts and articles on The Warbard. Lots of eyecandy!
Back To Gaslands
We played a lot of Gaslands in 2020/2021 when COVID restrictions meant we couldn't game in person, because Gaslands is fairly simple to organize over…
Decals for 1/1200 Miniatures
Way back at the very end of 2020 I contacted Misc Minis about decals suitable for 1/1200 ship and aircraft miniatures. After a couple of rounds of…
The Workbench This Week, 28 March 2023
The workbench this week... is up and running in our new condo! We had an offer accepted at the beginning of February, got the keys ten days ago in…
Masts & Booms, Part Two
After doing the detailing of the JMS 3d printed ships, I pulled out the rest of my 1/1200 WW2 ships, all pewter from Figurehead, and added masts to…
The Workbench This Week, 27 Dec 2022
I've got the week between Christmas and New Years off entirely this year, so there's been a bit of painting going on. Mostly I've been working on the…
Folk Horror Miniatures
I tripped over this little Kickstarter earlier in 2022 for a dozen figures inspired by European folklore, Folk Horrors by Ana Polanšćak. They're…
Bloody Miniatures Company of Wolves
Finally finished the sixteen English Civil War 28mm figures from Bloody Miniatures' Release 1, The Company of Wolves. I did mine up a bit plainer…
Still Around… (and some Gaslands content!)
It's been a bit of an odd year for gaming, I've been having fairly regular games but not painting or building things on a consistent…
The Workbench This Week, 28 Feb 2022
Plague and megalomaniac idiot dictators waging unprovoked war on democracies and idiots honking in stupid pickup trucks... let us distract ourselves…
Bring Out Your Dead
These dead might be able to take themselves out, actually. Basing still to be determined but painting finished on my first fifteen figures of…
An End to 2021 At Last!
Personally and hobbywise, it's not been a terrible year, although it's been a bit low on the number of blog posts, overall. But for the rest...…
Deer God? Dear God!
I've been on a kick of assembling and basing figures in batches the last little while, and also (as you can tell) not been doing much of the ol'…
Links of Interest, 4 April 2021
Cement Saul is a fairly new YouTube channel that has been doing a bunch of interesting Gaslands-related videos. I especially like the video on…
A Paintbrush Rack from Scrap
I've always know that hanging paint brushes bristles down to dry was better for them, but never bothered doing anything about it. Recently my…
Gates for Gaslands, Part Five
Up next was the "GATE" lettering and giant numbers for the three numbered gates. Mid-project roundup. Rust basecoat on the big numbers, front…
Gates for Gaslands, Part Four
When we last saw our gates they were basecoated but stalled due to missing 3d printed parts. Those arrived, thanks to my brother's 3d printer, and I…
Links of Interest, 10 March 2021
A scattering of links for our first Links of Interest of 2021! More possible sources of small scale scenery are always welcome, and over on…
First Three Gaslands Cars Finished
Finished up my first three cars for Gaslands over the weekend, the two Barracudas and an Impala last seen in grey primer a little while…
Cars for Gaslands
We've had a couple more Gaslands-by-webcam sessions since Corey wrote up his how-to and that's inspired me to finally get the first few cars built up…
Resin Bases and Bits from Rain City Hobbies
I've talked up Rain City Hobbies on this blog before, but only for their very nice grass and flower tufts. They also do a huge range of resin bases,…
Links of Interest, 17 August 2020
Nice little sculpting tutorial on doing feathers in greenstuff from JuanHidalgo Miniatures. I really like short, approachable tutorials like this,…
Fifty (or so) Tiny Buildings
I've finished painting the last buildings of my first Brigade Models Small Scale Scenics order, before I start in on painting the buildings and…
Tiny Boats and Even Tinier Planes
When I did my first WW2 coastal order to Last Square back in November 2019, well over six months ago now, I added a pack of British…
New WW2 Tiny Boats
Latest batch of World War Two coastal naval vessels in 1/1200 scale is done and based. As with the previous vessels, these are all Figurehead from…
Forge of Ice Serpent Idol
Painted this guy up fairly quickly over a couple of days, after getting it a few weeks ago from Forge of Ice. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do the…
The Beast on the Moor
Rummaging through one of my boxes of random figures last week (as one does...) I came across one of the random Reaper fantasy figures I'd picked up…
17th Century Artillery Finally Finished
This pair of guns were ordered from The Assault Group as part of the insanely slow to arrive order of June-September 2017. I finished the artillery…
Loot From Bad Squiddo
Ordered a few things from the excellent and varied ranges of Bad Squiddo Games back in March; things took longer to get from the UK to here than I'm…
Dogs & Cats Living Together
(Or, The Workbench This Week, 12 April 2020, also known as the 43rd of Marprilay, Blursday the Somethingth of Pandemic) Strange times, faithful…
Tell the Bartender Your Troubles
Way back in December 2018 on Twitter, Bears Head Miniatures showed off pictures of their new Beholder-alike floating eye beastie, Narthoks the…
Tiny Ships Painted!
I finally have painted ships (well, boats, mostly) to go with the coastal terrain I've been showing off! All my 1:1200 naval stuff so far is from…
Links of Interest, 27 January 2020
First links of interest of the new year - and the new decade, come to that! Dana Howl has a fairly new YouTube channel that I discovered via…
Extremely Bad Dogs, Almost Finished
Most of the painting is finished on the various Reaper dogs last seen a few weeks ago, and they've painted up so nicely I'm going to show them off…
Colourful Cavalry, Part Two
Horses in colours other than brown! Armour in colours other than silver! Dogs and cats living together! Chaos and disorder! Well, something…
Colourful Cavalry: Armour as well as horses!
I've posted links to horse painting articles and tutorials before, including the exhaustive "horse of a different colour" series over at Trouble at…
Finished English Civil War Figures
Not the greatest photographs going, but so far the only ones I've gotten of all of my recently completed 28mm ECW figures all…
Happy New Year!
Slightly belated Happy New Year to all! After months of doing absolutely zilch on the gaming front I saw the year out in some style, at least,…
Back To Painting, Finally
I'm fairly sure the last time I touched a paintbrush was back in July. Maybe August. As posts here will show, all wargaming activity of any sort…
Pike In Blue
First unit of foot for my English Civil War project is done! 28mm pike from Warlord on 25mm wide bases. Click for larger. Ten pikemen, an…
ECW Mounted Commander
Got a couple of half decent photos of Warlord's Pike & Shotte Mounted Commander that I've got on my painting bench right now, along with a whole…
Lead Painters League 11 Gallery
I posted my Round 1 entry for the recently concluded Lead Painters League 11 (run over on the awesome Lead Adventure Forum) way back in mid-April but…
Links of Interest, 22 June 2017
A handful of links I thought were worth sharing this week. Historical Enterprises, Inc are a historical reenactors garb/costuming company with all…
The Workbench This Week, 12 June 2017
Much chaos in my non-gaming life, so time and brainpower to actually paint is kind of hard to come by, but this weekend I sat down and organized my…
The Workbench This Week, 21 April 2017
...is being relocated and cleaned up! Same room as before - our guest bedroom/office/workroom - but we've moved the shelf unit I used as a…
Lead Painting League 11, Round 1: Old Saber-tooth’s Clan
The Lead Adventure Forum runs a great painting contest about once a year called the Lead Painter's League. I've participated before but not for a…
In Which Painting Mojo Is Rediscovered
While I've built various bits of scenery over the last few months, the last figure I painted to completion was the massive Maghariba Guard TAG which…
Links of Interest, 24 Feb 2017
Last time I mentioned a couple of YouTube painters that had good series of to-the-point, well-edited painting videos. Victor Ques is another I should…
Maghariba Guard Finished!
Quiet month here on the Warbard, I've been busy in real life (terrible when that happens...) but getting some gaming and painting time in when I…
The Workbench This Weekend, 18 Sept 2016
I've been back to painting Infinity figures recently, after being distracted by some scenery for a bit. Over on the Official Infinity Forums…
Links of Interest, 15 September 2016
I've been spending some more time on YouTube recently, rummaging around the wargaming-related channels. I don't have the time or the patience for the…
Late Summer Painting
Spent the weekend off on what might be our last camping trip of the season and I've been busy doing lots of other non-wargaming things, as one tends…
A Mid-Summer Update
Awfully quiet around here for far too long, for which I apologize! I've actually been doing quite a bit of painting and a little bit of terrain…
The Workbench This Weekend, 7 May 2016
My girlfriend is out of town with friends so I've had a bachelor/wargamer weekend and gotten a lot done on my Infinity figures. The planters…
The Workbench This Week, 28 Feb 2016
A vast pile of bare pewter Haqqislam figures for Infinity, and a few in progress... Click for larger, as usual. It's been a quiet month here on…
The Workbench This Week, 23 Jan 2016
New paint rack in place, top right, and an Impudent Mortal elevator spread out across the bench. My Impudent Mortal order arrived last week, and…
The Workbench This Week, 9 Jan 2016
First post of the New Year! Happy New Year, hope 2015 was good and 2016 is at least as good. I spent the week between Christmas and New Year…
A Christmas Tree?
Various Reaper Bones figures for Blood Bowl, including a really massive feral treeman! Click for slightly larger. I'm going to be moving between…
The Workbench This Week, 4 November 2015
Quick and dirty late night snapshot of my workbench! Front and centre is a Reaper Bones troll (in white plastic still, hence kind of blown out…
Eureka’s Tachanka, Part Two
The Eureka tachanka itself (the wagon, that is) comes together fairly easily with a bit of patience and some test fitting. The main body is a single…
Impudent Mortal Paint Rack
I first heard of Impudent Mortal when Richard of TooFatLardies used two of their buildings to build himself a very nice brewery for WW2 gaming. Rich…
LInks of Interest, 5 Sept 2014
Just to prevent this place becoming all-Blood Bowl, all the time, some semi-random interesting links. Over on Lead Adventure Forum, I found the…
The Thugee’s Bronze
This sculpted bas-relief is by Bob Murch of Pulp Figures fame, and is included in his Mad Guru set of Thugee. I own most (possibly all, I've lost…
The Workbench This Week, 29 May 2014
Quick overhead snapshot of the painting bench recently. As you might have guessed from recent posts, I've been in a "clear the decks" sort of mood,…
The Workbench This Week, 8 April 2014
So I wound up missing Trumpeter Salute over in Vancouver not because work had shipped me out of town (which I was expecting, except the project is…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Nine
Second-to-last round of the 7th Lead Painters League over on the Lead Adventure Forum, and it's more Pulp Figures for me, with a cadre of suspicious…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Eight
Back to the Russian Civil War again this LPL round with some Copplestone 28mm Bolsheviks. I really like the whole Copplestone Back of Beyond range,…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Seven
Round Seven of the LPL is up, and here's my entry. These guys are 28mm U.S. Navy gunboat sailors from Pulp Figures. I used the famous movie The Sand…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Six
Over to fantasy figures for the first time in this LPL for me, with a team of Reaper dwarves. Lovely figures loaded with detail, as you'd expect from…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Five
Round Five of LPL7 was one of three Theme Rounds; this time the theme was "Historical Civil Wars". This fits perfectly into my ongoing Russian Civil…
Fancy Photo Setup (or not…)
After I was done taking photos of my Lead Painters League Round Five entry, I figured the setup I use might be of interest to others. So here's a…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Four
Last week's LPL entry moves from the Lost Worlds of Round Three to the mysterious corners of the Indian subcontinent with some 28mm Thuggee cultists,…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Three
More Pulp Figures goodness from last week's LPL round. This crew of underdressed primitives was started sometime last year, finished over the winter,…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Two
Round Two of the ten-week Lead Painters League over on Lead Adventure Forum didn't go so well for me, but at least the Blood Bowl dwarf team my…
The Workbench This Week, 27 April 2013
Much activity on my workbench this week, with a frankly intimidating number of figures under the paintbrush, along with some other stuff like a set…
Lead Painters League 7, Round One
Round One of Lead Adventure Forum's Lead Painters League 7 (LPL7) painting contest has wrapped up. The (non-mandatory) bonus theme for this opening…
Lead Painters League 7!
Over on my favourite wargaming forum ever, the Lead Adventure Forum (LAF), the approximately annual Lead Painters League painting contest has begun…
All Of Them
Doing final organization for my Trumpeter Salute Russian Civil War game this evening, I did something I've never actually done in the two years of…
The Workbench This Week, 3 April 2013
Even more chaotic than usual as I prep for Trumpeter Salute 2013 this coming weekend! Protected car festooned with Bolshie flags, and other random…
Trying A Wet Palette
I'd heard of "wet palette painting" before, but for no particular reason hadn't sought out information on the technique or looked into it at all.…
Full Production Mode
A quick look at my painting bench as a I get ready for Saturday's Russian Civil War game at GottaCon. On the right, 15 Bolsheviks, a mix of regulars…
How I Paint Russians
It seems "what colours do you use for WW1 Russian uniforms?" is one of those things that comes up again and again. I've been painting an awful lot of…
More Horse Painting Links
I've linked to articles on horse painting before, starting with an excellent and now-vanished GW article, but I've just discovered a huge series of…
Latest Addition to my Painting Bench
Part of the reason I haven't done much painting in the last several months has been the frankly depressing state of my painting bench. It had…
Cossacks, Dragons, Cavemen and Others…
I've had a bit of a slowdown in painting and general wargaming involvement lately; partly this is because I haven't had a game of anything in ages,…
Horse Painting
As I predicted when I linked to it, the very nice Games Workshop tutorial on painting horses has vanished from their website, which is a shame.…
Russian Civil War Sailors (and post #200!)
I speed-painted these guys in about two evenings back in March so they could add a bit of colour to the Russian Civil War game I ran at Trumpeter…
Armstrong-Whitworth Armoured Car, Finished
Finally got the Russian Civil War Armstrong-Whitworth Armoured Car from Copplestone completed and photographed. The new monitor and computer I set up…
Armstrong-Whitworth Armoured Car, Part Three
It's been a bit quiet around here lately, which is entirely due to the fact that I finally bought a new computer and have spent the last week setting…
Armstrong-Whitworth Armoured Car, Part Two
The first armoured car for my Russian Civil War forces now has wheels attached, and I did the first round of weathering with pastel chalk dust.…
Armstrong-Whitworth Armoured Car, Part One
My recent order to Copplestone Castings included the first armoured vehicle for my Russian Civil War forces, a very nice resin and metal 1/56th scale…
A Red Nieuport, Part Three
Got the star insignia finished up on the Bolshevik Nieuport 17. Some of the stars are a bit wonky, but frankly that's historically accurate — a lot…
A Red Nieuport, Part Two
Got started on the insignia for the Bolshevik Nieuport. This is going to involve at least six freehand red stars; to skip one pair I've decided to go…
A Red Nieuport, Part One
Having built the White Russians a SPAD (Parts One, Two, Three), it's time to build the Nieuport 17 for my Bolshevik forces! As I mentioned in my…
A SPAD for the Whites, Part Three
Finally swore the upper wing into place this evening. It's been years since I built a biplane model, I'd forgotten what a total bugger the struts and…
A SPAD for the Whites, Part Two
Inspired by this image from Wings Palette, I decided to give a bit of freehand a try. Via Wings Palette, a Russian SPAD 7 with a nifty…
A SPAD for the Whites, Part One
I should be working on finishing White Russian infantry, but I've allowed myself to become distracted by aircraft, specifically the SPAD 13 I wrote…
Flags & Banners from Greenstuff
This is not really a new idea, but it's one that I only twigged to in mid-2011, so it's fairly new to me. The idea of using greenstuff for flags and…
Minimal Maxim Basing
I've long been a fan of putting figures on the smallest bases they'll fit on and that'll keep them upright, when you're doing individual bases for…
A Few Painting Tutorials
Just a pair of painting tutorials today, linked to mostly so I can find them again when I need to refer to them! Coll Mini Or Not (CMON) has a…
The Reds Are Coming!
There's 43 Bolsheviks off my painting table and ready for action, finally! One Maxim MG crew, some officers and NCOs and a whole lot of ragged,…
Werewolf! Where wolf?
Ten whole days since my last post. Egads! Here, have a werewolf. This big hairy brute is from the Strange Aeons miniatures of Uncle Mike. He's a…
Pulpy Painting & Prep
I generally do figure prep (taking off moldlines and flash) and basic basing in fairly large batches, prime the whole batch, then tuck most of them…
LPL5 Week 10: Gunga Din (1939)
The final round of LAF's Lead Painters League 5 was another bonus round, this one "A Scene From The Movies", with bonus points for two teams and a…
LPL5 Week 9: The Horse Again, I’m Afraid
Week 9? There was no Week 9. Well, OK, there was, but it involved me running my ECW Parliamentarian Horse again, and them getting beaten.…
A Few Bolshies!
These guys started out as a Lead Painters League entry, but didn't get finished in time, and besides, I'd already run too many groups of riflemen in…
LPL5 Week 8: For God And Parliament!
For the 5th Lead Painters League's 8th Round, something entirely new from me: 28mm English Civil War/Thirty Years War cavalry! These are Warlord…
LPL5 Week 7: The Lewis Gun
"Whatever happens, we have got/the Lewis gun, and they do not" — with apologies to Mr. Kipling, of course. My LPL5 Week 7 entry was more Brigade…
LPL5 Week 6: White Russians!
No, not the (very tasty!) drink, but White Russian Rifles from sometime in the Russian Civil War; the figures are 28mm from Brigade Games and very…
LPL5 Week 5: Hunting von Lettow-Vorbek
Week Five of the LAF's Lead Painters League having just ended, here's my entry. This was one of the bonus theme weeks; the bonus theme this time was…
LPL5 Week 4: No new entry, sorry!
With getting ready for Trumpeter Salute taking up almost all of my gaming time the week before the convention, I didn't manage to get a new entry…
LPL5 Week 3: Lord M Hosts a Weekend
My Round Three entry for LAF's Lead Painters League, more Pulp Figures sculpts. This time it's the upper classes, with the PGJ-14 Upper Crust Swells…
LPL5 Week 2: Command On The Frontier
More goodness from the Lead Painters League, this time my Week Two entry, titled Command On The Frontier. The frontier in this case being the…
LPL5 Week 1: Lord M’s Household Staff
LPL5 Round 1 is over and Round 2 begun by the time you read this. The LPL format, for those of you not familiar, is ten week-long rounds, with…
An LPL3 Archive
As discussed in my last post on entering LAF's LPL5, here's all ten of the images from my 2009 LPL3 entries. I finished somewhere in the bottom third…