Make your hobby work stand out! Whether you’re a casual enthusiast or a passionate professional, making your work stand out is important. After all, there’s nothing worse than spending hours on a project only to have it look like everyone else’s.
One way to make your work stand out is by using miniature and modeling special effects. By adding these special touches, you can take your work to the next level and make it truly unique.
There are endless ways to add special effects to your work. Below you’ll find articles with ideas, inspiration, and methods for adding special effects to your models and miniatures.
OSL Painting Tool for Miniatures
Explore object-source lighting on three practice figurines. Move the light, compare grayscale and paint maps, and use real painting examples to plan your next glow effect.
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How to Paint a Glowing Lightning Effect (OSL Practice Drill for Miniatures)
Ever want a miniature sword to look like it’s glowing with energy? A lightsaber or lightning power sword of some sort, perhaps. Or maybe you want understand how to paint an object glow effects but don’t know where to start.…
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Comic Style Miniatures: How This Color Blind Artist Paints!
Colorblind painter Neil Amswych developed a comic-book miniature style built on bold color, black ink, hard shadows, and deliberate outlines. Here are 15 lessons from his Hellboy and Reichbusters miniatures.
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How to Paint Stone Ruin Bases for Miniatures (Tutorial)
Are you looking for a fast and easy way to paint a stone base? The base of a miniature adds a huge amount of atmosphere to a model. Stone or cracked rocky terrain is a common motif in a lot…
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How to Paint a Cracked Base in 5 Minutes (Tutorial)
The cracked earth effect is a great way to add some depth to your miniatures. It can be used for all sorts of ideas, from lava effects, ice and dried desert scenes. The base of a model adds key scenery…
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3 Popular Uses for Dry Brushing Miniatures (Tips)
Dry brushing is an essential miniature painting technique because it has so many uses in the hobby. It’s also one of the easiest methods to learn, which makes it popular among both novice and experienced painters. Whether you’re painting minis…
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How to Shade Panel Lines and Recesses with Watercolor (Fast and Simple)
Are you looking for a fast and easy way to paint the armor panel lines on your miniatures? The thin, narrow panel lines you find on miniatures like Gunpla, Warhammer 40k armored units, or military scale model vehicles, aren’t easy…
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JoyToy Warhammer 40k Action Figure Toy Photography (Gregory Culley)
Dive into the grimdark universe of Warhammer 40k with the precision of a skilled Inquisitor as we explore the exhilarating world of miniature photography featuring the stellar line of JoyToy action figures. This guide will expose you to the basic…
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My Favorite Citadel Technical Paint and How to Use Astrogranite Debris (Review)
The US Moon landing in 1969 first gave us a real view of what Warhammer 40k xenomorphs may have seen as they prepared for the invasion of Terra. Whether by human eye or bio-electrical organs, the visible otherworldly landscape is…
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How to Paint Necrons Fast and Easy (Photo Tutorials)
How do you paint Necrons? Necrons are a science fictional race of aliens that you can play in the tabletop miniatures game in the Games Workshop Warhammer 40,000 Universe. The Necron line of miniatures are unique and highly-detailed sculpts that…
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