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Six-month milestone: painting slump, repairs and tabletop saves

Six-month milestone: painting slump, repairs and tabletop saves

I hit the six-month mark and had a slow week, finishing three minis and weighing a short break from painting. The work highlights common bench problems and practical fixes.

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Get commemorative Ull Zuru free with £100 Warhammer Stores spend

Get commemorative Ull Zuru free with £100 Warhammer Stores spend

Games Workshop will give away a commemorative Ull Zuru miniature at Warhammer Stores to customers who spend the local-cu...

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Musha Miniatures publishes beginner guide for mini painters

Musha Miniatures publishes beginner guide for mini painters

Musha Miniatures offers an evergreen beginner guide on brush control, thinning, basecoating, highlighting, basing, and c...

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Efficient batch miniature painting workflow for tabletop quality

Efficient batch miniature painting workflow for tabletop quality

Learn a fast, repeatable workflow to finish batches of miniatures to tabletop standard using staging, limited palettes, ...

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Army Painter staff finish Arena Challenge with fast force workflows

Army Painter staff finish Arena Challenge with fast force workflows

The Army Painter showcased five staff-painted Combat Patrol and Spearhead forces and shared fast, repeatable workflows. ...

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Choose and Care for Miniature Painting Brushes for Better Results

Choose and Care for Miniature Painting Brushes for Better Results

This concise guide explains how to choose between Kolinsky sable and high-quality synthetics, which brush sizes and shap...

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Color Theory Essentials for Miniature Painting: Practical Palette Planning

Color Theory Essentials for Miniature Painting: Practical Palette Planning

This primer translates core color theory into hands-on techniques for painters working on 28-54mm miniatures, focusing o...

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Compact Primer Boosts Miniature Painting Skills With Practical Workflow

Compact Primer Boosts Miniature Painting Skills With Practical Workflow

A compact, actionable primer lays out a step-by-step painting workflow designed to help painters preserve detail, speed ...

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Vallejo Unveils 80-Colour True Metallic Metal System for Miniatures

Vallejo Unveils 80-Colour True Metallic Metal System for Miniatures

Retailers listed Vallejo’s new True Metallic Metal (TMM) line, an 80-colour system arranged in 20 chromatic families wit...

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Complete Beginner Guide to Miniature Painting Workflow and Tools

Complete Beginner Guide to Miniature Painting Workflow and Tools

A comprehensive beginner guide lays out the full miniature painting workflow from choosing miniatures to intermediate te...

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BrushForge Android Launch Brings Paint Conversion to Google Play

BrushForge Android Launch Brings Paint Conversion to Google Play

A hobbyist developer announced on January 9, 2026 that BrushForge, a paint-tool app that began on iOS, is now available ...

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Top Miniature Painting Brushes Ranked for 2025, Expert Picks

Top Miniature Painting Brushes Ranked for 2025, Expert Picks

A comprehensive buyer guide lays out the top miniature painting brushes and sets for 2025, highlighting which tools deli...

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Photograph your miniatures like a pro - practical photo setup guide

Photograph your miniatures like a pro - practical photo setup guide

Learn step-by-step how to light, stage, shoot, and process miniature photos for contests, galleries, or social media. Ge...

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January Mystery Miniatures Deal: $145 Value Box for $56, Free $25 Gift

January Mystery Miniatures Deal: $145 Value Box for $56, Free $25 Gift

Mystery Miniatures ran a limited subscription offer giving first-time subscribers a roughly $145 retail-value box for ab...

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Top airbrush picks for miniatures - practical buying and setup advice

Top airbrush picks for miniatures - practical buying and setup advice

A practical roundup of recommended airbrushes for miniature painting and what each model does best. Includes pros, needl...

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Minarium launch simplifies finding print-ready STL miniatures online

Minarium launch simplifies finding print-ready STL miniatures online

Minarium launched a natural-language search for 3D STL miniatures on January 8, 2026, cutting time hunting for printable...

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C’tan Shard of the Nightbringer Sets Miniature Painting Tone

C’tan Shard of the Nightbringer Sets Miniature Painting Tone

Warhammer’s Nightbringer received two staff-painted showcases with full step-by-step techniques and colour notes; practi...

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Basilicanum grey pre-shade yields dirtier look on HoMM3 rogue

Basilicanum grey pre-shade yields dirtier look on HoMM3 rogue

I painted a Heroes of Might and Magic 3 rogue using a basilicanum grey pre-shade and thin glazes to keep natural shading...

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Simple undercoat trick speeds painting small raised details

Simple undercoat trick speeds painting small raised details

A community member posted a short technique tip on December 29, 2025, showing how undercoating small raised details earl...

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MiniCal Offers Maintained Global Calendar for Miniature Painting Events

MiniCal Offers Maintained Global Calendar for Miniature Painting Events

MiniCal now serves as a continuously updated global calendar listing miniature painting competitions, classes, and conve...

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Minarium launch brings natural-language search to STL miniature hunting

Minarium launch brings natural-language search to STL miniature hunting

Minarium launched January 8, 2026, offering an AI-powered natural-language search for print-ready STL miniatures. It hel...

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High-Resolution Safavid Miniature Resource Helps Painters Recreate Historic Techniques

High-Resolution Safavid Miniature Resource Helps Painters Recreate Historic Techniques

Bridging Cultures posted a detailed online entry on December 28, 2025, featuring a high-resolution image and teaching no...

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Painter reaches 24 of 365 mini goal with Bretonnian archers

Painter reaches 24 of 365 mini goal with Bretonnian archers

A hobbyist painted 24 minis toward a 365-mini year challenge. Progress updates keep momentum and offer practical tips fo...

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Vallejo and Ángel Giráldez launch BSL guide for metallic painting

Vallejo and Ángel Giráldez launch BSL guide for metallic painting

Vallejo and Ángel Giráldez produced a BSL-focused guide that pairs with an 80-color True Metallic Metal paint system. It...

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Sold-Out Maple Airbrush Class Offers Hands-On Introduction to Miniature Airbrushing

Sold-Out Maple Airbrush Class Offers Hands-On Introduction to Miniature Airbrushing

Maple Airbrush Supplies ran a sold-out, hands-on beginner airbrush class for miniatures, teaching core techniques and gi...

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Squidmar Open 2025 opens entries with major prizes and judges

Squidmar Open 2025 opens entries with major prizes and judges

Entries are open now through late January for the Squidmar Open 2025, featuring multiple categories, hobby gear prizes, ...

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Updated wet palette guide helps painters choose and maintain palettes

Updated wet palette guide helps painters choose and maintain palettes

A buyer-style wet palette guide updated December 26, 2025 compared popular systems and ranked them by portability and mo...

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New painter's LOTR minis spark community-led beginner advice wave

New painter's LOTR minis spark community-led beginner advice wave

A new painter shared finished Lord of the Rings: Journey in Middle-earth minis and received encouragement and practical ...

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Atomic Mass’s Path of the Worthy Painting Contest Returns to AdeptiCon

Atomic Mass’s Path of the Worthy Painting Contest Returns to AdeptiCon

AdeptiCon announced that The Path of the Worthy painting contest will return to AdeptiCon 2026, featuring four categorie...

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Army Painter Launches Beginner Building Bundle to Simplify Assembly

Army Painter Launches Beginner Building Bundle to Simplify Assembly

Army Painter released the Get Started Building Bundle on January 7, 2026, packaging essential assembly tools to lower th...

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