ISSUE 9: Mar / Apr 2011

IN THIS ISSUE
ALL THE McVEY CONTEST ENTRIES
SHOW REPORTS, TUTORIALS
NEWS AND REVIEWS

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Contest
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Review
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Show Report
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Meet the Wamper
Well another issue is here and I wanted to start it off by saying Happy Birthday to ‘A Modellers
Paradise!’. To who? I hear you asking. Well the name may not mean much to most people but that was
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the name of the group that I started on 18th April 2005 in a dark corner of eBay. That group over the
years has changed and grown into a little place called Wamp; hopefully you’ve heard of that one!!
Life’s full of seemingly small decisions that can shape our future in bigger ways than we imagine.
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This was certainly one of those! I had recently got into miniature painting – trying to sell some (with
hindsight awful!) painted minis to earn a little extra cash. At the same time eBay introduced eBay 18
groups – a very basic forum set up to say the least (no sections just a list of threads and that was about Latest Release
it). I joined a modelling based group but after a few weeks it started dying off. Another member
suggested I start my own group (as I was the most active of this one) and so I did, leading to the
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cheesily titles ‘A Modellers Paradise’ (I have no idea where that name came from!!) But name aside
the group was setup and we started to gain members. It was a pretty small group – a few times there
were maybe 3 or 4 of us posting in any one week and I often considered closing the group down but
Contest
my own stubbornness at not failing kept it going. People like Talonicus, Lizcam, Eldintux, RogerB,
Matty1101, and Vern were all there in the early days and we started to grow a little. The monthly 29
contest started and we still run them today.
Show Report
We spent about 4 years on eBay before finally getting our own site and a new name that derived from
one we adopted on EBay. We had renamed the group Wargaming and Miniatures Paradise and from
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this we got the acronym W.A.M.P which we are all familiar with today (though it changed slightly to Wiki
Wargames and Miniature Painting). And thus Wamp as we know it today was born.
A Year was spent on the new site before moving on again to even more spanky software and that’s
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where we reside still today. We have so much more these days than we did back then. Things like the
Wamp Ladder, Gallery, Sponsored contests, charity drives and of course Portal magazine as well as the 36
upcoming WAMP2011 event. Most importantly (to me anyway) is we are starting to gain recognition
Threadomancy
as an important presence within the hobby. There are plenty of other sites that people see as more
fashionable than us, places like CMON, PB or Chest of Colours, indeed Wamp’s often the unpopular 44
kid in the corner but hell we do plenty for this hobby. We have the Wamp Ladder – the first rankings Tradepost
based format of its type. Little Angels – probably at the time the biggest miniature painting contest the
world had seen in terms of prizes and categories. We hold more contests than any other site (at least 2
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per month) for both prizes and just fun. We have this very magazine; the No1 free monthly magazine
dedicated to Miniature painting. We have the Minipainting Wiki – another first. Wamp has done
plenty and it continues to punch above it’s weight and do more for Miniature painting as a community
than many other sites will ever do. The future is bright too. We have more things coming up and we
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WAMP Founder and OGL
will continue to try and be innovative and creative with what a site can offer this hobby we love so Brett Johnson
much.
We also have something else that is always commented on by new people and our most proud Layout & Portal Editor
achievement. It’s something that was forged 6 years ago between a few like minded people – a friendly Shane Rozzell
and supportive community. Wamp really is the friendly Mini painting site and that’s something special.
Hope you enjoy this issue and if your attending Salute I wish you the best of luck. Here’s hoping Cover Image
Wamp can once again do well and win another Best In Show there.
Y’Sala & The Darkness
by Iacton, Studio McVey Contest
Brett Follow us on Winner
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News

First off I would like to wish a happy birthday and about is that many of the contest winning miniatures seen
many more to come. At last 2011 is starting to feel like a on and in all have a very good chance of
comfy pair of slippers which is beginning to show on the winning a show contest which is a true testament to the
forum with more posts from members old and new, keep talent we have on our site so to all those that are entering
them coming folks, they’re what makes us tick We’re also one of their miniatures in a show coming up, good luck and
getting into the show season, kicking off with Salute2011 in remember us when your famous
the next week or so. One of the things that I am really pleased

The Squire
Presale
The votes have been
cast and finally we
have a winner for the
first Crystal Brush
painting contest.
Congratulations to
Marike Reimer for
being chosen as the
overall winner with
her entry “Kraken
Priestess” (below).
Congratulations to
Jakob Rune Nielsen
for his “Duchess
Death” and Alfonso Giraldes for his “Dance, Morko, Dance!!!”. I am proud to announce the premier miniature for my company
The Crystal Stone Tower Miniatures: The Squire, which is available for
Brush has been presale through our Kickstarter project.
a controversial The Squire was sculpted in 1/35th scale (54mm) by Chris
contest, polarising Clayton and portrays the scene of a young man wielding his
many peoples master’s blade, a sword that is almost too heavy for him to
opinions mainly lift, to defend himself in battle. He stands 42mm tall and is a
because of internet multi part kit: body, arms and sword, dagger, torch, and base.
voting and the huge The figure will be cast in white metal while the base will be
sum of $13’000 done in resin.
offered up as cash
prizes for the first My name is Randy Shea, CreganTur on a few different
three places. miniature forums, and my goal for Stone Tower Miniatures
is to create unique and high quality miniatures that can be
If you want your say enjoyed by collectors and utilized by gamers. By partnering
or see what other with very talented sculptors I want to bring to life miniatures
people have said in that are easy to assemble, fun to paint, and unlike anything
the aftermath of the else out there.
competition follow
the links below. This exciting first release is just the beginning as I am already
designing characters for my next project which will be a series
WAMP of 32mm miniatures set in a dark steampunk world. The
Chest of Colours company website is currently being built and will be up before
Cool Mini or Not the end of the Kickstarter project, which, currently, is the
only way to order this miniature.
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Time for Eolith to NEWS FLASH!

rest... by SteveB [Link] has offered to sponsor the return air fare to the overall
winner of the Salute 2011 painting competition to the Crystal Brush 2012
With things as they are I have decided
that Eolith Miniatures will be resting
soon. I started Eolith mainly to
produce resin 54mm fantasy figures, a
marketplace that was emerging quite
nicely a couple of years back but one
that didn’t really endure. The bottom has
somewhat fallen out of it’s marketplace We’re ready to sponsor return air fare to the worthy winner of Salute 2011 painting
and larger companies than I have competition to Crystal Brush 2012. They don’t have to compete at the CB 2012 (it’d
stopped placing much investment in the be a bit odd not to after travelling all that way), but the prize is not transferable.
scale. For myself I noticed that every Closer to the date of CB2012, the prize winner finds out the price of the ticket and
54mm piece I put out sold worse than we reimburse them* - Chern An Ng, Director of [Link]
the last until we meet my last release, *This is due to airline restrictions mandating the person who paid for the ticket
Dracula and the kind of sales that make having to be present at the point of departure
you want to hold your chest and pray for
another breath...
I’ve left it a while to see how the
catalogue went with ongoing sales. In
the last few months sales have not even
been modest. Beyond selling a very
small number of resin zombie packs
this year Eolith has sold very little. I During 2011 WAMP will be Date Show
know there hasn’t been much in the way 14-05-11 South Devon Model
of release but the sales were dropping setting up it’s new display at Extravaganza
dramatically way before then and it had
04-06-11 Wamp 2011
reached a point where sculpting a figure various shows all around the
had to be something I wanted to do for 23-07-11 Figureworld 2011
pleasure as they were never going to UK. If you fancy attending one 20-11-11 Bugle Call 2011
pay me a wage.
of these shows and supporting More dates when arranged
There’s a little stock left in the cupboard
so anything you’re after you should pick WAMP then contact War
up quickly. I’ve already removed figures
that have run out from the online store. Griffon for more details.

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Stats Box
Portal Downloads 17015
Memberships 958
New Memebers this month 64
WAMP posts 127740
LADDER CHALLENGES Wiki Pages 98
Blogs 31
What is the Wamp Ladder?
Quite simply its a fun painting league. You challenge
another painter on the ladder to a ‘paint off’. Choose a
theme and have upto 6 weeks to complete your mini -
both your entries are then judged by fellow members - the
winner gains points and moves up the ladder. Its free to
use and you can challenge people to suit your ability.
The ladder can be found here. Newest Members
tommyswar Bohemond
Darklord vs Wag 11th May Rossco12 AndyS
Theme: space marine diorama with a barrell and a funny nathan notsomuchmichaelan...
metal thing no one really knows what it is Sheridan pattherat
kelleyel TheWaaagh
Simon.W vs Sparks BDub Mad Robot
dauvitius Endor
Theme: AOW Miniature vegel Stormgrad
technorat MarcoSkoll
MaGie vs ScottRadom
UberTek clam
Theme: AoW Contest Nuclearsquash Ironwulf
LOBO St. Anger
knott47 vs mercius
boothdom marta
Theme: Paint Off No Theme Aircav Grunt
DEL Ringil
Jens vs Vern JayeL Maximus
Theme: 54mm Andrea Pirate G.2 KalebDark
DrifterUK alim192
Waghorn41 vs Captain Sprout microcast rusto
Theme: Hisroical (WWII) 54mm or above albattros frenzic
juampepe2 jens
Captain Sprout vs Malebolgia aleks doomrunner72
Theme: One Bad Mutha DanJordan Daemonslave
TredHed mongo
TheBugKing vs ScottRadom Necron_99 danieljackson
Theme: The Executioner vs the Hooded Rider Benedicte mclimbin
MiniT monkeyking
TheBugKing vs MaGie Tigershark andy
Theme: It’s a Sewer Life spacelord Melvis
zombiearts Aldon
Pae vs Nameless Hobbit everwynd

Theme: McVey Mini pega Sonofthelion

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 It’s time to get another contest under-way and it’s the turn of Avatars of War. Returning for it’s
third year, the Avatars of War contest is always one of our most popular due to the fantastic painter
friendly miniatures they produce.
I’m sure you need no encouragement to enter
but to sweeten the deal how about a prize
The Deadline for entries
or two?
»» 1st - 5 Avatars of War Miniatures will be 27th April 2011
»» 2nd - 4 Avatars Of War Miniatures
»» 3rd - 3 Avatars Of War Miniatures
(Supporters deadline will be
30th April 2011)

The Rules
• You must be a Wamp Member to participate.
Membership is free and you may register here.
• You may enter as many times as you like but each
entry may only submit one photograph so if you need
more angles it MUST be a montage.
• Images must be no larger than 800 pixels wide by
2500 pixels high. (It is your responsibility to check
this).
• Any additional photographs of that entry will be
You may enter a single miniature, diorama full 300 piece battle scene - whatever removed.
you like as long as its inherently Avatars of War. • All entries must be new work. (New work is defined
as any entry not previously displayed on-line in a
Please folks make sure you read the rules (especially the new work one!!) completed state (You MAY enter pieces which have
been shown as a Work In Progress (WIP)).
I know there have been issues with prizes being delayed in the previous contest. I • You give Wamp and Avatars of War permission to
use your pictures for publicity (but you do retain
have asked for the prizes to be sent to me and I shall send them out to the winners.
ownership).
So there you are folks. Avatars of War are great mini’s to paint so hopefully we can • You may post pictures of WIP or final shots both here
and elsewhere.
get a good turn out once again and surpass the 16 entries we got last year.
• Judging will be decided by public vote.
As always any questions feel free to contact me. • Submissions must be posted to the Avatars of War
album here.
If you cant get hold of a mini post a thread up - there’s probably a few Wampers that
can spare one for a little cash or swapsies!
Review: If you have a product you would like us to review then contact us at portal@[Link]

Wamp Review: Maxmini AA Turret

REVIEWED BY DARKLORD
Manufacturer

MaxMini

Price

€27.00

Material
MaxMini have been producing
Resin accessories for a while but recently
have started moving into full pieces.
Contact The AA Turret forms part of their new
[Link]
range of Heavy Weapons.
The Turret comes in 10 pieces and is
Other Information cast in resin, a really solid one at that.
Can be mounted onto compatible The casting is superb, very sharp
vehicles. detailing and very little flashing. There
were a few bubbles on the edge of the
base piece but this seemed to be cast
in a different resin to the rest so may
be a one off. The pieces are solid - the
main body especially is one solid lump. Price wise the Turret is €27 which at first
With the weapon arms being separate glance may seem expensive to some
it allows for them to be rotated into a but your getting a lot of resin for that
position of your choosing. The whole price and so I would say value is about
thing mounts to the platform but has average.
been designed to be compatible with Overall its a well made piece that
vehicles from other companies ranges offers something a little different and its
allowing plenty of scope for using the compatibility with 28mm scale vehicles
turret in other ways. and miniatures means it offers a good
Assembly is straightforward with pieces scope of opportunities both on its own
possessing a round nub or hole and or as part of a larger piece.
the limited mould lines means its a very If your looking for this type of subject
quick process. you need not look past this.

Ratings
Quality: 9.5/10- Excellent casting, very Value 7/10 - about average value. A lot
little flashing or mould lines. of resin for the price.
Assembly 9/10 - very easy lug and Overall 8.6/10 - If your looking for a
socket joining. weapons platform, look no further.

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Military in Miniature (Aldershot BMSS) Show

Saturday 26th March saw
me once again up at silly
O’clock in the morning
for a two and a bit hour
drive with the WAMP
Display over the border
and across to Guildford
for the Aldershot BMSS
Show otherwise known as
Military in Miniature. The
show is deemed by many
to be the first figure show
of the year as earlier shows
have tended to be put on
by the IPMS and although
they have some figures are
mainly geared towards the
AFV and aircraft modeller.

A rriving at the venue was straight

forward enough although I
did suffer a few breakages due to all
the roundabouts and then the speed
bumps on the road leading past the
school which was the venue but nothing
drastic that a few minutes work with a
tube of super glue gel couldn’t fix (note
to self don’t put figures in the boot of the
car keep them on the back seats). Not
saying I arrived early but it was the first
time I have attended a show and helped
set up the hall, partly due apparently
to changes made on the organiser by
the school which seemed to continue
Show Report by throughout the day.
War Griffon Military in Miniature is a small show but
attendance also seemed to be down
this year and it was believed that this
may have been due to a clash of dates
with a toy show in London. None the
less it was a very friendly show and
WAMP was made very welcome, our
pitch was next to The Basement Forum
and the banter was prevalent whilst
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the day hadn’t turned up and when she did her excuse was
a puncture...With The Basement on one side of us the other
side was taken up by Celine from El Greco which meant bad
news for both Captain Sprouts wallet and my own.
Besides El Greco other traders included BNS Miniatures,
Western Miniatures (flat figures), Just Bases and Anarchy
Models along with a few others whose names escape me
(sorry). Anarchy Models is a Golden Demon winner and offers
a painting service but also on the day was offering airbrush
advice and allowing people the opportunity to have a try of
using an airbrush and I believe he was quite successful at
converting a few people to want to buy one at a future date.
The painting competition was well subscribed with an
excellent representation of models across the range of the
hobby and some 15 or so categories judged on the Open
System, Basement members had several awards and also
to WAMP/Basement Members with Elanlane taking several
gold’s and two gold’s for myself.
Unfortunately due to the school deciding to hold a basketball
match later in the afternoon the show had to end early but
otherwise was a very enjoyable day and we got to meet
Megazord _man and see some of his work on the display

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It’s Undave!

(some nice Orks, top of the previous

page, as well as the tank he has been
working on) but although Tadme48
says they attended on the day but he/
she failed to make themselves known
or bring anything along to go on the
display.
Definitely a show I would go to again
though. More photos from the show can
be found at Here.

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 Meet the Wampers

Profile: Eldintux

Real Name: Guy Oxley

Alias: Eldintux
Website: Numerous, most notably [Link]
[Link] & [Link]
Wamp member since: Erm the beginning (when was that
Brett?)
Bio: So you want to know about me - well you probably don’t
but I’m gonna tell you.
I am an ex-maths teacher and self labelled nerd. I love solving
problems, putting together computer programs or just working
out new ways of accomplishing tasks logically. It was because
of these talents I believe Brett (Darklord) approached me to
put together the original version of the WaMP forum.
But first and foremost I am a miniature painter. I have been
painting since the late 70’s. This love of painted miniatures
has developed out of a love for roleplaying games and D&D
in particular. These days I will paint almost anything, but still
regularly return to my love of the old Fantasy one off figures (I
must get back to the Grenadier Hill giant).
Oh and I’m quite severely colour blind :)
Paint, sculpt or game? Paint, but I do some conversions
and have been known to play occasionally
Favourite mini company? Too many to really choose, but
love the old sculpts, Grenadier or Ral Partha
Favourite sculpt? As with the company far too many. Let
me think, loved the Golden Dragon in the picture here by
Grenadier, or Dwarves some of the old Citadel Dwarves from
the 80’s
How long have you been in the hobby? On and off since
1977ish
How often do you visit Wamp? Less often now as I don’t
have an internet connection atm, but I will be back. When we
first started every day, now once every couple of days :)
Best thing about Wamp? The chance to discuss techniques
and view what people are doing. It’s such a friendly place.
Tell us something interesting about you? I’m interesting?
OK I know pi by heart to 23 decimal places.
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Painting of Belegast the Bloodthirsty

By Landreth

Hi!
This is my first “step by
step guide”. Sorry for any
language mistakes - my
English is far from good.
Here’s on WAMP many good
painters, so I decided to make
a guide with most difficult
techniques, I think it’ll be
more useful. As you know I I take Belegast the bloodthirsty from Red Box Games - fantastic
mini! I like the brutality of this character, he reminds me of Drune
was a NMM adept for some Celts (my favourite minis from Rackham). Why this mini? Well, it has
years but now I trying to paint a lot of details - metal, fur, wood, bones etc. So this is great base to
show how I paint all this parts.
realistic minis with metallics.

T o be honest I must say that it isn’t true step-by-step

guide. I paint all parts in the same time. Why? I have
a lot of ideas so i prefer to realize them instantly.
Stage 1
I applied two layers of R(Rackham) Dirty Leather. Then
I covered metal parts with Boltgun Metal. For skin I used
What we need to paint a mini Carmine Red, Flat Earth, Middlestone, Turquoise, Black
and Sunny Skintone all Vallejo. Torso: I started from mix
Brushes: from 3 to 00 (I work only with kolinsky brushes.)
of Flat Earth and Middlestone for base. Then i added more
Paints: Vallejo, Black, Carmine Red, Turquoise, Sunny
Middlestone and make first highlights. Next highlights
Skintone, Light Grey, Middlestone, Yellow Ochre, White,
made by adding Sunny skintone into the mix. But this skin
Vermillion, Copper. Rackham: Dirty Leather, Beastly Flesh
looks boring for me and i made a few glazes with Carmine
GW: Catachan green, Chestnut ink, Black ink, Red ink,
Red. Veins made with mix of Sunny Skintone + a bit of
Boltgun metal, Chainmail. Gamma (Russian company):
Middlestone, shaded with Flat Earth + Turquoise. Legs:
Bronze. Most of proportions was made “on the eye”.
Started from clear Black, then similar to the torso scheme,
Well, let’s begin! but most deep shadows I made black. All the highlights not
so bright as on torso, I stopped with mix of Middlestone and
I prepared and primed mini. I use black primer, not good
Sunny Skintone, 70/30 I think. Also there’s no red.
choice, but only which I find in stores. Grey primer is more
[Link]! Sorry for photos, I bought a new camera so all
pictures from second stage is much better than first one, but
still a bit different from each other.

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Stage 2 Beastly flesh. I made basic tone for sculls and bones with
Flat earth. Metal parts of the shield, belt and chains painted
I started to paint fur. Well, fur was always my weak point,
in Bronze(now chain painted with chainmail, but in next
but I tried to do my best. I began from 50/50 mix of black
stage I’ve changed my mind), the shield painted in mix of
and Dirty Leather, this is the most dark shadows. Then I do
Carmine red and Dirty Leather(I wanted it painted in red...
first highlights on fold by adding in mix some V Light grey,
but changed my mind later). Chainmail on the neck was
increasing its quantity to the highest points of folds.
painted in chainmail and washed with diluted Chestnut ink.
All the leather belts I painted in 50/50 mix of Flat earth and

Stage 3. But it seem a bit boring for me and I made a few glazes with
Beastly flesh in the areas of medium light. In the same way I
Fur again, when paint dried I made a few washes with very
did his boots, just added Beastly flesh in first highlight mix.
thinned V Turquoise to make fur a bit bluish. And, when all
Sculls and bones, I changed first basic tone with mix of
washes dried enough, I made final highlights individually
Catachan green and Flat Earth. Highlights made by adding
to every hair with Light grey and White. Yes, I know it’s not
in basic tone Sunny skintone and white, finished with almost
perfect, in future I’ll try to make a better fur:) Time to paint
clear white.
skirt and inner side of Belegast’s fur cloak. Base - Dirty
All brass parts was washed with 50/50 mix of Catachan
leather, for first highlights I made mix 50/50 Dirty leather
green and Turquoise. Also i made a wood texture on the
and Flat earth. Then just added more and more of Yellow
shield with Flat Earth and Yellow ochre.
ochre to 100% Yellow ochre on most highlighted areas. Also
I made a simple texture with a few strokes of Yellow ochre.

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Stage 4 and Torquoise. Don’t make smooth layer, just make lots of
different spots. I use brush for better control, but sponge
Leather belts was shaded with mix of Black, Dirty leather
also useful for this. Deep shadow made with mix of Dirty
and a bit of Carmine red. Then highlighted by adding more
leather and Vermillion. Note that the deep shadows are matt.
and more Sunny skintone. But those belts on the arms I
With clear black I made shadows under the spikes. To make
painted like the skirt, I think they should be bright. Brass
rust I used Beastly flesh and Vermillion. I made some spots
parts was shaded with diluted Copper, also I made deep
on the helmet with this mix, especially around the spikes.
shadows with Dirty leather and highlights with Chainmail,
Finally I highlighted spikes with Chainmail.
you may see differences on shield and belt.
Also I decided to repaint the inner side of cloak, make
Metal parts was highlighted with Chainmail and then I
it darker. Basic tone is mix of Black and Dirty leather,
added some splashes with chestnut ink. Let’s look on
highlighted with mix of Flat earth and Yellow ochre. I think
helmet. When inks dried I’ve restored highlights with
now it looks much better.
Chainmail. First shades I make with mix of Catachan green

Stage 5 I prefer to leave them clean. I made shadow on all bronze

parts with diluted Copper. It’s important to make transparent
I finished all metal parts. I added some scratches here and
layers. When paint dried I washed all these parts with
there. Chainmail was washed with Turquoise and then I
mix of Turquoise and Catachan green. Then I painted the
highlighted each ring with Chainmail. All skulls and bones
most dark areas with Dirty leather. The rivets was made
washed with very diluted mix of Flat earth and Chestnut
with Brass and Chainmail, and then washed with mix of
ink. All the ropes was done with Flat earth for basic tone
Turquoise and Catachan green.
and then highlighted by adding Sunny skintone and a bit
If you want to keep shield red here’s the scheme: basic tone
of White. Then i painted the runestones, basic tone is dark
is Carmine red, and then it was shaded with glazes with
grey - mix of Black and White. Then I made highlights with
Dirty leather and Black, then highlighted with Vermillion.
Light grey and Catachan green, final highlight is almost
white. Maybe it’s nice idea to soak this stones in blood, but

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Stage 6
Well, mini is almost finished,
time to work with details!
Horns was covered with
Black, then I began to make
highlights with Catachan
green, Sunny skintone and
White. The most bright part
is closest to the helmet.
Then I draw some lines with
Catachan green, Sunny
skintone and White to make
texture.
I repainted the shield. Basic
tone is Flat earth and a bit
of Beastly Flesh, highlighted
by adding Yellow ochre and
shaded with glazes of Dirty
leather and Black. Scratches
highlighted with mix of Flat
earth and White. Also I’ve
added some smudges with
Dirty leather. Wood texture on
the axe handle made with Flat
earth and Light grey.
Time to paint blood, with Red

ink I painted the shape of blood

splatters on the axe and shield,
then I added some Black ink and
made areas with coagulated blood.
Then I painted a few areas with
fresh blood with Vermillion and
then glazed them with Red ink.
I can’t make the base right now, I
don’t have wood for this. But, when
I find materials I’ll write an article
about basing
Cheers!

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WAMP Review: Dawnguard Destors

The Dawnguard Destors are a heavy

REVIEWED BY CREGAN TUR
calvary unit that are part of Privateer
Manufacturer Press’ most recent release. They’re
Privateer Press a fearsome looking group of steel-
encased knights riding heavily armored
Price
steeds. The box is a multi-part metal kit
that makes 5 mounted knights.
$99.99
The casting quality is very good- the
Material
pieces are all very clean with minimal
mold lines and a few very small gate
Metal
tags. The details are very crisp and I
can’t find even a hint of slag, a casting
Contact defect that plague some manufacturers. With how easy the knights are, it’s a
[Link] shame that the horses are so difficult
The knights are rather easy to assemble-
to assemble. Their bodies are cut
the arm joints fit snugly in the body and
Other Information apart lengthwise. Four of the sets are
you don’t have to worry about gap filling
the same, but the captain’s horse is
because the joints are covered by very
different- you can tell which one it is
large pauldrons. I did have some trouble
because that horse has a tail on the part
figuring out how to properly attach them
with the saddle. The two halves don’t
until I stared at the box artwork for a
fit together easily, so expect to spend
couple of minutes and realized that
a good amount of time filing and gap
the ones with filagree go over the left
filling to get these mounts together, but
shoulder. I would highly recommend
this is the most challenging part of the
pinning the arm with the lance-cannon
whole process. The heads and quivers
because of their weight. All of the lance-
are easy to attach once you complete
cannons had some bending to them,
the bodies.
some worse than others, and I believe
this is due to the vast amount of room
they can bounce around in the large
clamshell cases. The knights also fit
perfectly into their saddles.

Ratings
expensive kits available for the game.
Quality: 8 / 10, Minimal mold lines.
Overall: 7.3 / 10
Crisp details maintained on all parts.
Substantial variance in horse body This is a nice, high quality kit that will
pieces. require some work to assemble. The
price may be in line for Warmachine
Assembly: 7.5 / 10, Knights are very
players, but it’s a pricey purchase if
easy to assemble. Horses require a lot
you’re just a collector. These minis
of prep work to fit together.
boast good design and offer a good
Value: 6.5 / 10, This is one of the most canvas for painting.

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WAMP Review: Fane Knight Skeryth Issyen

REVIEWED BY CREGAN TUR

Manufacturer

Privateer Press

Price

$29.99
One of the newest miniatures released together very roughly, it will take a fair
by Privateer Press is the Fane Knight amount of filing and a little putty work Material
Skeryth Issyen, who is being released to get them to fit cleanly. The head fits
Metal
as a part of their Retribution of Scyrah. in place easier, but still requires a fair
This multi-part white metal kit contains amount of gap filling. The knight’s torso
2 different versions of the character, 1 is a little akward to place, I would highly Contact

mounted on a heavily armored horse, suggest pinning it in place- and it also [Link]
and the other on foot. requires some putty work to fill a small
gap along his spine. The head and Other Information
The horse comes in 3 pieces, 2 halves
lance arm fit into place easily, but as I
of the body and the head,, plus the
mentioned the lance itself was bent out
knight’s body, head, and lance. The
of shape.
standing version consists of body, head,
and hands gripping the lance. A 50mm
and 30mm slotta base are included.
The casts are clean with very few
mold lines and the details are crisp
and clean. The standing knight can be
assembled easily with very little prep
work. The mounted knight, however, is
a completely different issue.
The halves of the horse’s body fit

Ratings
Value: 7.5 / 10, Average price for larger
Quality: 8.5 / 10, Clean cast with crisp
Warmachine minis.
details. Design of horse assembly
doesn’t fit together well. Overall: 8 / 10, While this kit does
have some assembly issues they’re
Assembly: 8 / 10, Standing version
not horrible and they don’t affect the
of Knight fits together easily. Horse
detail or quality of the miniature. The
requires a good amount of filing and
details aren’t overdone so there are
gap filling. Bent spear can be difficult
some nice open areas for freehanding.
to straighten.
It seems like it would be a fun mini to
paint.

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BRrrrraaaiiins!
I’ll take a good look at Dark-Art Undead
Monster kit:
This kit comes with 3 head options and
REVIEWED BY NETEPETE the assembled mini consists of 5 pieces
Manufacturer
(head, arms x 2, torso, legs)
Dark art Studios Now it’s hard to take a big fat undead
monster mini with his guts hanging out
Price
too seriously here, but I’ll hold it to the
same standards as normal.
£10.00
Standing at about 64mm this mini is a Each of the heads is pretty unique, and
Material
lot of resin. Each piece on its own is there is even a Frankenstein looking
pretty cool. Some nice details and you head in the batch which is pretty cool.
Resin
can tell the sculptor has some talent.
The casting is not bad with some air The guts hang out of the fat belly and
Contact
bubbles, but a rotten flesh mini like this drip over the leg piece. The fatness
[Link] hides it well. hang over the belt and covers up the
seam to the legs pretty well. One
Other Information tiny spot had to be filed above the
Comes with three head options. skulls(that seemed a bit small) on
the left leg, but otherwise this was
a great joint fit for the body. The
head attached easy enough and
allowed it to be turned different
directions which is always nice.
The main problem I had with the
assembling this mini was in the
shoulder area where the arms
attached. The body is sculpted
in a sort of droopy fat, style and
the arms are really round and
muscular, making the transition
awkward. It would require a fair
amount of resculpting with GS/ to
get these to fit acceptably for me.

Assembled, the mini has some

Ratings Overall, this mini has its ups and downs. proportion issues as well. The legs are
Quality: 7 / 10 Fun mini for the theme though, that’s for rather short for the rest of the body.
sure. I can tell there is some talent in The detail on the legs is nice, with torn
Assembly: 6.5 / 10 muscles and ligaments hanging out.
what I believe is their first release. This
Value: 7 / 10 will hopefully be a building block for The hands are massive, and since he
better things to come. I’ll be looking to doesn’t carry a weapon, make for great
Overall: 7 / 10 SMASHING!
see how this young range advances with
each release.

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image Copyright © Games Workshop Limited 2000-2011

Show Report by Sunday 3rd April saw me on the road again and heading
War Griffon north out of Wales for the Forgeworld Open Day at
Warhammer World in Nottingham.

T hankfully this time it was a

start at a more reasonable
hour compared to some of the other
shows I have travelled for as I was
The journey up was nice and quiet and
I reached GW HQ with a bit of time to
spare before opening time, well that’s
what I thought anyway...true to FW &
attending as a visitor this time as GW organisation however the doors
opposed to an exhibitor. I haven’t been opened twenty minutes late and when
to a Forgeworld Open Day before as I arriving in the main hall I decided to
have always ended up being out of the stay in the retail stand queue as it was
country or elsewhere when the event is only the width of the hall at the time
held so this time I was looking forward and within 5 minutes of me joining the
to the day and meeting up with friends queue it had extended to the full length
during the day as well as all the new as well as the width and even into
goodies and news snippets that would Bugman’s at one stage. Chaos seems
be on offer, although I think it being to follow any event with Forgeworld or
Mothers Day as well stopped a lot of GW for some reason especially when
people attending. it concerns the retail side of things and
this day wasn’t much better.

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The retail stand Next stop was the raffle and painting competition entry
had two tills and stand (it was next in the line honest) During the day, they
one card reader had a good run with the raffle tickets, the prize being one of
so the queue for the new Phantom Titans, in fact they did that well they had
people paying by to do a panic shop for more raffle tickets and in total they
card was around 10 sold £1530 worth of tickets with the proceeds going to the
or 12 people which Tsunami fund.
meant that if you
wanted to pay with
cash you could
get ahead slightly.
“That’s not chaos
I hear you say.” No
it’s not I agree but
when I got to the
front to pay with cash for what I wanted it was discovered
that they were unable to find the show only boarding marine
so people could only pick up the Hellsmith and the marine
was announced as being in the hall about an hour after I
had been served, did I join the queue again? Hell no that
could wait until later.

The retail stand had stocks of the Wraithseer conversion

kit, the new Game Board Tile and the Phantom Titan, with
several people buying the new Titan at £360 just for the
body and then £50 for each arm they seemed to be selling
well but I am still undecided whether I want one or not. Also
on the retail was stocks of the new Eldar Lynx with the lance
or pulsar weapon option as well as the Shadow Spectres
Exarch and the Corsairs Conversion Kit, disappointing not
to have anything new from Warhammer Forge on the retail The painting competition was not very well supported and
stand though. only saw 26 entries in total but then there was only one
winner and all they received was the FW Open Day shield.
After spending the first hour in the retail queue my next stop
Would it make a difference if they offered a 1st, 2,nd and
was the Reservations table to collect my pre-order. They
3rd prize of some value or more trophies?? Who knows but
seemed to have got things right with regards to pre-orders
would it be worth them doing this? One thing I did notice
this time though, with pre-orders having been paid for in
later in the day was the judging system used...this really
advance it made a very big difference and I don’t think I saw
annoyed me to say the least, I wasn’t expecting to win as
more than two or three people waiting to collect their pre-
there was a few nice entries but the judging was carried
orders. Well done FW for getting that bit right.
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drill..) and consisted of picking up the figure having a quick main the Chaos Dwarfs aren’t being sculpted with those
glance and then putting it back on the shelf again which ridiculous stupid tall hats. There was also a painted version
meant judging each figure took all of about 30 seconds of the Dreadquake Mortar and a few of the Chaos Dwarf
max!! Smiths as well as Tamurkhan on the Dragon Toad which
would lead me to believe that it won’t be long before we see
Who won?
these for sale (fingers crossed).
That, I am pleased
to say was a WAMP
member known to
many UK painters as
Prawnpower (Conrad
Mynett) who took
first place with his
converted traitor death
rider.
That was the buying
bit out of the way so I
retired to car to drop
off my purchases and
pre-order then headed
to Bugman’s for a
coffee before doing the rounds of the cabinets of the design
teams, seating was at a premium with the staff being kept
busy and over a 30 minute wait for food so I got a coffee to
go and went for a walk and a chat with the design teams.
Warhammer Forge Design Team

Amongst the other cabinets on the WF design team tables

It seems a lot of the stuff on the stands and the cabinets are was a Great Taurus which looked very nice with the design
still work in progress and design team were very reluctant to team having a cow from a farmyard set on the table with a
commit to release dates despite things going to production pair of demon wings blue-tac’d to it and trying to convince
(also would tell what these are either) and some things that people it was the original prototype...Manaan’s Blades looks
were work in progress 3 years ago (that lovely dragon) are like it will be the
still work in progress now... next Empire unit to
hit the table and the
The book templates that they had on the table looked very
command figures
nice but this is also still work in progress although they are
look very nice, also
hoping that this will be a July release (he wouldn’t say which
a 3 figure unit called
July) which means it would need to be with the printers
“Castellen Engineer
at least 8 weeks before this date. With newsletters being
Tubal Falk all with
alternative weeks with Forgeworld newsletters it will be
lots of detail and
interesting to see how the releases pan out.
for new WIP on the
Besides the Chaos Dwarf engines/machines that were seen Chaos side (besides
at GD UK in September last year there were some very nice the Dwarfs) there
Chaos Dwarf Infernal Guard and it is nice to see that in the was Sayl The

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Faithless and Nightmaw Chaos Spawn and a Siege Giant to be Dark Eldar and in the display cabinets they had a
which is a conversion kit based on the GW plastic Giant that Raider with a Haywire Cannon and a new DE transport
looked very nice and tucked at the back of a cabinet was model that was WIP.
a two rather large WIP’s with a name thingy nearby titled
The Game Board Tile was shown in various paint jobs and
“Vermin Lord” which will be armed with some sort of long
looked quite nice, it integrates into the board nicely and it
spear and is perched on an arch so I dare say this will get
was said that it is hoped to release a whole range of these
the Skaven fans salivating in the gutters.
tiles to give gamers a choice, people certainly seemed to
Forgeworld Design Team like this tile on the day anyway and quite a few were sold.

The IG vehicle that

was mentioned
as being finished
prior to the day in
a newsletter was
on display with
two versions in the
cabinet, only difference between the two being one was
the production release the other the WIP, the name of the
vehicle being Imperial Crassus” and is supposed to carry
25 IG inside. The two in the cabinet had different exhausts
which would have been a nice option but is not going to be
and also the WIP version had a lot of nice texture on the
plates which has not been carried through to the production
model, shame because it would have been a nice change
and a challenge to painters.
The main focus was obviously on some of the new stuff I don’t think there was anything else new in the cabinets
that was being launched that day, with the Wraithseer being other than
shown in various poses and also a huge table showing the vehicle doors and
Phantom Titan with the Revenant and other walkers and shoulder pad/
figures on the table to allow you to see the size difference, weapon sets for
although I am still undecided on the model it did look very various chapters in
impressive with the others IA 9 & 10 and I am
around it. sure you will spot
IA11 is scheduled for around them in the photos
the end of the year and will in the main thread
be Eldar against IG, Space (link at the end)
Wolves and Elisians, it is A trip to
thought that the Wolves will Warhammer World
be based around Bran’s is always worth
company and if so will a visit as there is
probably include a lot of always something
Wolfen, some new models new on display
will appear for the IG but whether it is before
there will be no new releases you get into the
for the Elisians. IA12 is going hall on the way

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up the stairs or in the cabinets or the hall table themselves from the car park to the stairs/lift up to the main hall had the
with people coming from all over to play a game on one of studio display from GD 2009 (Wolves vs. Stealers/Tyranids)
the studio tables and the day was no exception with majority but unfortunately this could not be seen/photographed
of the tables in constant use throughout the day. When I properly because the area was unlit and the windows tinted.
first visited many years ago it was the rule of GW that as it
Altogether a very good day out and I would go again, only
was their premier venue then all figures used on the tables
thing that spoilt the day really was the journey back which
had to be painted with at least 3 colours, sadly this rule has
involved one and a half hours to travel 1 mile on the M42
seemed to be abolished and it was disappointing to see
and get off said motorway because they closed it and
whole armies of undercoated figures on the tables and not
diverted everybody and then £4 toll fee to use a very short
a painted figure amongst them but I guess the emphasis
stretch of the M6 to rejoin the M42 and don’t ask about the
these days is get them to buy and play the army before the
mustard/ketchup from my McDonalds when I stopped for a
next new must have army is released.
bite to eat...
The art display is currently in the museum which is being
All photos from the day can be found HERE.
closed for a month soon to renovate the roof amongst other
things and I hope they sort out the lighting up there as well
and it was nice to see some of the old models on display as
well as the newer ones. Cabinets around the main hall had
a good selection of figures and some of the previous demon
winner’s entries where in the cabinets at the stair area
before entering the main hall. The window at the entrance

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Games Day Diorama

Games Day is a gaming and painting convention held by A diorama is a depiction of an event or story. It could be
Games Workshop annually at various locations around the something like a battle scene, historical event or some else.
world. The event is seen as one of the major shows of the Dioramas usually feature several miniatures or props to help
year and the United Kingdom Games Day is the largest convey the event and are often mounted on larger bases than
manufacturer-specific event in the world. single miniatures.
History
Games Day began on a whim in 1975, when Games Recipe
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A term used in miniature painting to describe a certain mix
decided to hastily organize a gaming event in London to
of colours to achieve a set result. For example you may use
replace an independent event that had been cancelled for
a set recipe to paint NMM gold or Copper. The recipe allows
August that year.
painters to share their mixes with others that wish to emulate
Early Games Days were broad gaming events, incorporating their results.
board games, roleplay games and miniatures games, as
Games Workshop’s own range of games was in its infancy.
Sculpey
Content
A registered trademark of Polyform Products Company,
Games Day events will feature a variety of different areas of
Sculpey® is a brand of thermoplastic [sculpting medium].
interest for visitors including displays of upcoming releases,
Ideal for bulky sculpting projects, but with enough granular
demonstratiosn by ‘Eavy Metal, the design studio as well as
form to create even quite fine detail effects, Sculpey®’s main
stands from the Black Library, Forge World and White Dwarf. In
advantage over equivalents such as greenstuff, brownstuff
recent years, Games Workshop has invited licensees of their
and ProCreate® is that it is thermosetting, meaning that it will
intellectual property, such as THQ (designers of the Dawn
remain malleable until baked in an oven.
of War computer games series) and Fantasy Flight Games
(manufacturers of the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Sculpey’s manufacturers provide a number of free PDFs
roleplay games and related board and card games) to display giving tutorials for a range of projects and uses for Sculpey.
and demonstrate their wares.
Games Day UK 2010 was a first of its kind for allowing
licensees to sell products at Games Day.
Legend
Golden Demon
Link to page
The most popular element of every Games Day is probably the
Golden Demon, Games Workshop’s flagship painting contest Page doesn’t exist
that attracts painters from around the globe to compete for
the coveted Slayer Sword.

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Y’Sala & The Darkness

by Iacton, Studio McVey Contest Winner

I’m not really sure what happened with Y’Sala & The
Darkness, if I’m honest. I prepped up Isabella, and Y’Sala
for the Studio McVey competition, with the intention of
spending more time on Isabella initially. However, early
doors I couldn’t get my head around how I wanted the
base to look for her, and so I got on with Y’Sala and her
smoke demon instead. After a bit of jiggery pokery in the
assembly and test fitting stage - I’m quite heavy handed,
and many of the resin pieces that I own have lots of extra
metal and glue in them! - I got the piece primed in 4 parts.
I happened to have a weekend when the wife was working
when I started the painting process, and I had been
very tempted to do something in the vein of a Minotaur
that a friend on PB was painting i.e. underpainting in
colours and glazing base colours on after, so I tried it
out and immediately got heavily into the character of the
sculpt. From there the demon paint job was a bit of a blur
(painting it in one day!) and I went onto Y’Sala, who was a
very different proposition. Where the Darkness is all swirls
and organic shape, Y’Sala is all hard detail and smooth
clean lines, so I approached her in a much darker fashion,
with high contrast and a complimentary colour scheme
to the red/orange demon. The sparkly mesh thing behind
her head was borne out of wanting that to really draw the
eye to her eye line, with a cold sort of crystal/NMM idea
that I wanted to match into one end of her staff too, with
the fiery effect at the other end, again providing a strong
contrast. Once I had wrestled her for a while and got her
assembled and photographed I got some feedback for
her and most people came back with the same problems -
not enough focus and the 2 models were nice individually,
but weren’t really interacting. So I had to go back to the
model and do a lot of tweaking. The first thing that I did,
which really helped, was to increase the fiery tones on the
demon, especially the orange, and frame Y’Sala with the
orange cloud of her smoke demon. At the same time the
OSL effect and concentration of “heat” at the end of the
staff were increased, to better effect. Finally, I re-worked
her hair (which was blue/black previously) and her skin
tone was warmed slightly, whilst repainting her eyes
entirely. The finished model was what you now see, and
I’ve been bowled over by the positive feedback that I’ve
received since I posted her here and elsewhere. To have
finished ahead of the likes of Jens’ and Rusto’s work too is
quite humbling also.
This was really a model that I wasn’t sure I would enjoy at
the outset, grew to love as I painted, and finished up with
a piece that has probably given me the most pleasure
and the biggest boost that I’ve had since I’ve been in the
hobby! My thanks go to Ali and Mike too, as a comment
like “improvement on the studio scheme”, coming from
these two [absolute legends and personal painting
heroes], nearly made me fall off my stool!

Iacton.

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Lt Kara Black
by jens, Studio McVey Contest 2nd place

Paint and LovE

by rusto, Studio McVey Contest 3rd place

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Al-Vianna
by pae

Broga Hourigsen
by Twosoc

y’sidyra
by aphorys

Isabella
by Spellscape

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Ar-Fienel Female Conscript Terrorist

by Chameleon by Spellscape

Al-Vianna
by MaGie

fariel by
monkeyboy2769

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surfer
by monkeyboy2769 kara black
by monkeyboy2769

Broga Hourigsen
by DaveyBoy

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Isabella Seraphine Le Roux

by Iacton by Ringil

The Booze Brothers

by Darklord
Down the local!
bt ralfmetal

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Summer Knight hell rider bust - by “La ruota del tempo” 90mm bust
by Orki by trevis_11

El Hassyyun
by trevis_11

Orcnar Unmann
by Ulfgrimr

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A ‘people’s choice’ award will be given on

recognition of the piece that receives the most
votes from attendees.
WAMP2011 will centre around the
painting contest judged using the
Best in Show, People’s Choice and all category open system.
winners will each receive a high quality crystal
award. Categories are as follows:
Best In Show
In addition all entries attaining a sufficient mark 1. Single Figure
will receive a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Certificate.
2. Monster/vehicle
3. Group
Maelstrom Games will be offering £75 credit
and Gold trophy to the best Bane legion entry. 4. Large Scale
2 runners up will receive a silver and bronze
trophy respectively. 5. Diorama/Duel
6. Wamplings
7. International Online
Entry to all aspects of the
Each entry will be entered into a free prize draw.
event is free. Entry registration begins at 11am.

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Threadomancy

Threadomancy is where we look at some of the most

interesting and helpful post from the recent past.
Click on a title to go to the thread.

Painting Scrolls
Darklord: War Griffon:
Given their size could you not just put wavey lines rather
than straight vertical ones to avoid them becoming bar Edit-joe’s post is also a good idea- it’s something I’ve
Anyone got any advice on painting code? started doing too (although I tend to just use the same
those scrolls/seals you get on space colour, but make an obvious letter) - it seems to work a
RogerB: treat :)
marines? I mean the actual text - I just Don’t use pure black.
waghorn41:
end up with a bar code!! JoeK: Well, along similar lines to Joek’s I tend to do a splash/
If you look at old medieval books, you always see the first squiggle/letter about three times the size of the lines of ‘text’
letter given lots of lavish attention - different colours and which are then indicated by lines/dots and more squiggles
very big. Obviously I’m not going to be buggering up my in as fine a line as I can get (believe me, it’s difficult with a
eyes doing all that with a 28mm figure, but I do tend to add half inch brush but easier than the first letter in colour with
the small red square (or something like that) at the start - or a roller)
somewhere along the line - to make it stand out a bit.

Chameleon:
Mix a bit of the basecolour of the scroll in with black (or
scorched brown if you would prefer), thin it down to about
50:50 with water, add a touch of flow improver and the job
should be a good’un :-)

Improvising basing materials

Shane Rozzell: Captain Sprout:
Tabris: For sand I use what was called at our local pet shop If you collect some natural roots and twigs etc try boiling them
“Chinchilla sand” which translates as the finest grade sand before you use them it helps grim stuff growing on them and
Hello fellow wampers. Here in South they could get. Thankfully it pretty small grains so looks OK going a bit odd.
America commercial basing materials on miniatures. If you can’t get hold of any of this then Vallejo
pae:
do a sand paste and a pumice stone paste you mind find
are hard to find and like most stuff in useful. As for foliage if you can mail order any leaf stock then Tree bark makes really nice rocks, especially if it’s heavily
textured like the bark of pine trees.
this hobby i have to import it. It will take go native, you live in a great area so just keep looking, don’t
try to emulate what we can find locally use what you have.
some good time before i can get my I’m sure in a few weeks we’ll all be looking at your bases and
I need to find some good roots that I can make trees from.
Problem with living on the prairie is that there aren’t a whole
hands on some basing supplies so i wondering what you used and can we get it here
lot of decent plants to dig up. :-/
would like to get some suggestions on Iacton:
Vallejo sandy paste is great. If you mix in some normal sand
what readily available materials i can and static grass, you get superb textured mud too.
use to base my minis. Have you tried ground spices? Several spices are nicely
ground, and make your mini smell nice too! lol
I have the luck of having lots of trees
KittenCeleste:
and plants where i live, no groves I took a walk in the neighbourhood and surrounding woods.
or other big green areas but at least
Found sand, pebbles, roots, leaves (dry and smash them up,
places where i can find plants and you get freat foliage for bases).
small stones to use. I’m aware of Old technical things can be used for basing. Like remote
Darklord’s tutorial on the subject of controls, old cameras, mobile phones, etc. They all have bits
inside that can be stuck on a base.
using natural plants on the bases and
will sure try that. I also have some Bottle caps, wine corks, beads, bits of wire.. That’s all I can
think of at the mo’ :D
plastic plants from a aquarium store.
Happy hunting!
Right now i use a kind of aquarium Cregan Tur:
sand (in a rough translation: “fine Construction foam board can be used for a number of things-
I think Hinton showed how to make a brick wall with the stuff
beach sand”) on my bases and paint in one of WAMP’s first tutorial articles. Compressed cork
over it, but i find the grains too big for board is great for making rocks and the like. If you check you
DL’s tutorial on preserving flowers then almost anything in
using in the whole base and in the your backyard can be used for basing.
end they give the impression that the Another great material is to pick up rocks from people’s gravel
mini is standing in a lot of very small driveways. You can use cutting pliers to cut them into smaller
pieces to create small rocks for your bases.
pebbles and rocks. I think it’s ok for
a low tabletop standard but i want to For wires for industrial bases I’ve cut up and used old speaker
cables, the cable from an old USB device, phone cord... the
improve my basing. possibilities are really endless. I f you can look at anything
and imagine a way to use it, then you’ve found a new basing
So, what do you guys recommend? material.

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report from
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the latest news
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