I've been painting miniatures and creating terrain pieces for a long time - and have learned quite a bit during that time.
Riders of Rohan diorama - click for full-size.
In This Section:
- How the times have changed! - Cell phone cameras have come a long, long way!
- Gallery: Science Fiction - A gallery of sci-fi miniatures I've painted over the years
- Gallery: Terrain and Buildings - A gallery of terrain and buildings, mostly scratch-built
- Hobbiton in New Zealand - Pictures from my visit to Hobbiton in early 2019
- Gallery: Scratch-built foam tower - Some pictures of a tower I scratch-built out of foam bits
- Terrain Boards with Grids - How I added grid lines to my terrain boards
- Making Thatch Roofs - How to scratch-build thatched (grass) roofs for your houses
- Cardboard Walls Experiment - Testing some ideas to make walls from cardboard
- More Miscellaneous Terrain - Some terrain tiles and more ruins!
- Misc. Scatch-Built Terrain Pieces - Quick pics of various scratch-built terrain pieces - a house, a lumber pile, and modular stone walls
- Painting Guide: Reaper Dwarves - In this article I'll detail my method for painting a set of three Dwarven Axemen (28mm) from Reaper - from start to finish.
- Painted WW2 US Infantry Miniatures - A couple pics of some US Infantry I painted
- Workbench: Palisade and modular wooden wall corners - Quick couple pics of a palisade and wooden wall corners under construction
- Workbench: Half-timber house, Warzone Infantry - Work in progress on a half-timber house terrain piece, and some Warzone infantry.
- Making "Ruin Corners" - Small terrain pieces featuring the ruined corners of buildings
- Modular Wooden Walls - How to make modular wooden walls using old CDs
- Miniatures Photography 101 - Some tips on how to photograph miniatures
- Making Paper Log Cabins - With some photoshop work I created my own printed paper photo-realistic cabin!
- Mechwarrior/Generic Sci-Fi Strategic Rules - Adding a strategic level to a Mechwarrior battles
- My Painting Technique - I painted a batch of Warchest miniatures as made a little tutorial out of it.
- Cheap and Easy Miniature Storage - This article shows you how to make pretty decent storage boxes on the cheap.
- Gallery: Fantasy/Medieval - Just a few of the fantasy/medieval miniatures I've painted over the years.
- Making Terrain Boards for Wargames - This is an article that will detail my method (and experiments) with modular terrain boards.
- Building a Castle - In which I attempt to make a castle using Hirt Arts molds.
- Making Bases for Miniatures - This is an older article I did on how I make the bases for my miniatures - not all need a base like this - but most do. The end result is attractive, stable and pretty durable.