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As originally featured in Carpe Noctem's online magazine "The Invocation" Issue #3
Happy holidays all!
I hope everyone is staying warm during these cold months and keeping busy. While I normally am an outdoors person myself, winter is a perfect time to sit down and practice your various...
📷 How to improve your miniature photography 📷
Hello fellow hobbyists! In this article I will try to show how you can easily improve your miniature photography with minimum expenses and simple effort.
The tutorial is meant to be from a layman to other laymen. I have no photography knowledge...
Why Snow Basing? Well it all started when I first joined CN. I'd just completed my Winged Vampire Lord (for the thread click here) for my Games Workshop's Brotherhood of the Brush Painting competition.
Many of you fell in love with the model, but more importantly, as many fell in love with...
This tutorial was originally featured in Carpe Noctem's Invocation Magazine.
The names of the paints used have been replaced with newer citadel paint equivalents, with old paint names referenced in brackets.
As an army, our minions use all sorts of weapons, many of them are med of steel and...
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I saw some posts with tutorials and various painting techniques, so I decided I also share my experiences. I would like to describe two ways of making rust effects I use.
Please note some of the colours have since been updated, old =...
Introduction
Hi everyone!
As I finally got my apartment all set up and ready to go, I found an old folder of mine that I’ve been compiling articles and anything painting related. I’ve had this folder since I was a freshman in college and it’s helped me come a ways in the painting aspect of the...
Hideous Hues and Petrifying Pigments - A Beastly Guide to Monstrous Skin
Painting skin can sometimes be a tricky business, particularly when it comes to the ghoulish delights that the Vampire Counts or Soulblight Gravelords have to offer. A model’s skin is often a big focal point, so getting it...
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Long time ago I was experimenting a lot with getting just the right combination for painting patina / verdigris on my models - and that was before Nihilakh Oxide was a thing. Eventually I got the thing right, wrote down the recipe and...
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Alright, now first off some of you and I hope it's very few indeed. What I mean by prep is what you do to your models before glue even touches them. Then a whole collection of thoughts and tips from someone with 20-some years experience...
The Art of Greenstuffing - Sculpting basics by Johnny B
This article was originally featured in Carpe Noctem's Invocation Magazine.
This article is aimed at green stuff users in general but hopefully everyone will be able to take something useful from it. Instead of writing some rambling...
This tutorial was originally featured in Carpe Noctem's Invocation Magazine.
The names of the paints used have been replaced with newer citadel paint equivalents, with old paint names referenced in brackets at the start of each section.
Wherever an undead army marches, death will always...
It is a rare Vampire Counts army indeed that goes to war without skeletons bolstering its ranks. Be it wight, skeleton or the odd jutting splint of bone on a zombie, every vampire counts general needs to know how to paint what makes the fundamentals of the army itself.
= Step 1 =
Water down...
People, online and in-person, have asked me several times about the technique I use for my ethereal models and it's deeply flattering.
I'm almost embarrassed, however, to admit how dang easy it is to do!
People see my Banshees, or whatever and assume that something which looks so striking (at...