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With many years of painting miniatures on commission, I've picked up a few principles that I return to when painting details. Condensed into a few tips and hobby recommendations, these should give you a jumpstart into the finer points of miniature painting.

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Pastels with Geoff Coughlin Options, options, and more options! Here is just another option that you can choose to use to simply and quickly weather your model subjects and in this entry in you SMN Techniques Bank we’ll be looking at how to weather a 1:72 scale Hawker Hunter FGA.Mk.9. This piece contains 3 slightly […]

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A free PDF download on how to model water. Learn tips and tricks for making a rippling sea with inexpensive materials, sculpting and painting Celluclary or instant papier-mâché, and creating realistic waves using fast and simple techniques.

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a hand holding a gold ring with the words 3 steps to success how to mask canopies

There are parts of an aircraft model where you can get away with mistakes. The canopy is never one of them. Spots of glue or squiggly framework on clear parts can spoil a model more surely than anything. But if you’ve ever loused one up, you are in excellent company. That’s why you read so many articles and tips about it. Here are three of the most common — and reliable — ways of masking a canopy for painting.

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Looking for way to add rocks, mountains and cliff faces to your model railway. On a budget? Here's a dirt cheap technique to create ultra realistic rocks.

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IMO, airbrushing a squiggle pattern randomly over a kit still looks too uniform, regardless of how ‘random’ you try to make it. … And it takes too bloody long on a large kit such as a 1/32 Ju-88! Enter the Scotch Brite masking technique which came about after I had been looking at pro airbrushing...

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