So I got around to painting my Savage Orc Warboss and thought I would expand on my tips from my post yesterday. Bear in mind that this miniature will get the full treatment, going up to Level 4 (Hero Level). I have defined this to include full sha…
Greetings shipmates, while painting the latest batch of the Flecktarn Guard I mused "wouldn’t it be useful to just take a few photos as I went so that I can show people how to achieve this sort of thing rather than just telling them". Then I grabbed the camera and went for it! Hence, here I present Pirate Viking Painting’s guide to painting Flecktarn style camouflage. Note that I said "
Section (Pc): WorldWorksGames’ Dwarven ‘Diorama’ – Dressing the ‘Big Wall’
Starting to ‘Dress’ the ‘Big Wall’ …
Dressings on foamcore (3 mm, 2 levels) …
Section (Pb): WorldWorksGames’ Dwarven ‘Diorama’ – base tiles
Went for a few more til…
This is a large photo guide to the work in progress on the GHQ modern tanks. I am experimenting with dust/mud weathering on the rubber tyres.
Given the small size of 6mm wheels I am looking for something that looks good in the t…
Over the weekend I picked up some Vampire Counts Vargheists from my FLGS (Dropzone Games) and set to work adding some techno bitz, most of them from the Dark Eldar Talos kit. With a few sessions of greenstuff application I ended up with these three ‘Ch…
As per usual – another lurch in direction.At the moment we are starting to playtest Battlegroup: Fall of the Reich or BG:FotR – the thrid book in the Battlegroup series (if you don’t count the new mini-rulebook).I have wanted (for ages) to create a dec…
Hey guys! According to public demand I prepared a tutorial for making Chaos Space Marine Nurgle Daemon Faces ^^. Oki let’s begin. For this sculpting piece I used:-Clay Shapers-Sculpti…
So if you are like me and got into Dust recently but would like those really nice cards that come with Dust Tactics, you must be asking yourself, “I wish I had those”. I spent some time looking around for alternatives but finally came across one which …
Time for the second part of the Tau Sun Shark Tutorial. Today we will be discussing the detail finish after the painted camouflage. Boys let’s get to it. After we have the camo done its time for details. I st…
Section (Oc): Fat Dragon Games’ Castle Winterhawk Church, With Enhancements – Transparencies
Part (ii):Sealing
More text to follow (clicky-for-biggy) …
The sealants, at this time
(1 – Hair spray, 2 – Vallejo satin varnish, 3 – MP gloss varnish…
Fat Dragon Games’ Castle Winterhawk Church, With Enhancements
A little teaser, of the experiments, for one of the enhancements 
Section (Ob): Fat Dragon Games’ Castle Winterhawk Church, With Enhancements – Update
There we go … all printed and mounted, and ready for cutting and scoring …
A couple of vidcaps, from the video …
Now to take some more video 
Th…
Yesterday I have showed you the Sun Shark Bomber. Today I would like to show you how I went about painting this little aircraft. The first step was to paint the mod…
Section (Oa): Fat Dragon Games’ Castle Winterhawk Church, With Enhancements – Introduction
I have been working, for sometime, on how I should create my video tutorials, on gaming papercraft. After many attempts, fine-tunings and failures, it is clear…
(L): Kitbashing Caelum Calauticum for Warhammer 40k
WIPpy …
I have a distaste for painting zombies, and as a Vampire Counts player this is something of a handicap when it comes to painting an army.A while ago I found a good recipe for painting zombies, and painted two up, with a more speeded up technique. I pos…
In the Spring of 987 the countries of the Loa peninsula made ready for war. Armies were replenished and more mages hired in Eskelin, Kurinthia Malohad, Riata and Zamba. Heroes also emerged in Eskelin, Riata and Sortium. All nations chose to keep the me…
Posting for Sam who has been busy with Nurgle…oh wait was infected by Papa Nurgle. Its been really busy at work and I fell prey to Nurgle’s plans, yet again! Just recovered from some flu thingy and am back to painting and some converting. Also plan t…
Now that I’ve been modeling miniatures on various types of bases across multiple game systems over the last few years I’ve finally found a basic basing solution that I am really happpy with. I’ve used all of the following with success over time:1…
Dark Ages England, World War II’s Eastern Front…and Trollbloods? What do they have in common?…they could all use some wattle fencing! In my effort to create some more “do it yourself” terrain for Saga(Dark Ages Skirmish Game), I have pl…
I came across this open letter from Henry Hyde (editor of BattleGames and soon to be editor of Miniature Wargames/Incorporating Battlegames) over on the SFSFW Yahoo Group in which Henry gives his views on Non-Historical Content in MW.I …
I recently received my super-awesome kit, the Leviathan Crusader by Dreamforge Games! I got mine through Mark’s Kickstarter Campaign, and have a few more weapons on the way in shipping phase 2.| When the kit arrived, I just couldn’t make up my mind as to which kind of sword I wanted the model to have, [...]
Greetings one and all. Today was one of my maintenance days and somewhere along the line realised that what I ought to do was take some pictures and share my tips for protecting one of the most expensive consumables we use. Brushes.
Same brush, top …
So following on from my Windsor and Newton Series 7 brush review I posted some time ago, it got me thinking.
If I can go years not realizing there was a difference between synthetic and natural brushes, what other gems of knowledge do the pros know th…
Originally intended for the WSS magazine but I was unaware of their policy of only publishing previously unseen painted work (which makes sense), but which also instantly ruled out anything I could contribute with on a painting level. It would be ridic…