How To Paint Miniatures

Whatever your skill level, you will learn the skills to improve your painting skills beyond what you thought you could ever do...

Beginners

Beginners to painting miniatures will learn to:

• Select the miniatures that will look the most impressive and fit your skill level of painting
• Get miniatures ready for painting by priming with the correct color for maximum impact
• Paint a single masterpiece or quickly paint an entire army
• Ink or "wash" miniatures to show stunning details you otherwise can't see.
• Drybrush miniatures to add contrast that reveals impressive details of a great miniature so it looks its best on any gaming table or display cabinet
• Add a nice base effect in 10 minutes to make your minis look their best
• Find the best deals on painting supplies and miniatures. Most miniature painters simply pay too much.

Painting Veterans

No matter how long I paint miniatures, I am always looking for ways to improve my skills. As I find these, through my own experimenting and from other sites, they get added to the site. Helpful things you will find here include:

• How to create impressive dioramas quickly with inexpensive materials
• Blackwashing techniques: Paint a decent-looking piece you can use in 30 minutes
• Learn basic color theory so you can pick colors that work well together for a realistic or high-impact color scheme.

This hobby has challenged me for 12 years. Putting on the first dabs of paint is still as exciting today as when I first started the hobby.