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DipIt Explains Zenithal Highlighting: Top-Down Lighting for Miniatures

DipIt Explains Zenithal Highlighting: Top-Down Lighting for Miniatures

DipIt at The Army Painter breaks down zenithal highlighting, showing how top-down priming creates instant highlights and natural shadows to simplify basecoating and shading.

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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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Tidal Board Basing Guide: Dirt Layers, Failed Static Grass, Resin Tips

Tidal Board Basing Guide: Dirt Layers, Failed Static Grass, Resin Tips

A January 20, 2026 project entry documents a tidal weathered board build that layers dirt and dark washes, abandons stat...

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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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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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Tale of Painters' 11-in-1 V3.0 Adds 18 AK, 4 Army Painter Washes

Tale of Painters' 11-in-1 V3.0 Adds 18 AK, 4 Army Painter Washes

Stahly updated his 11-in-1 acrylic washes comparison to V3.0, adding 18 AK blue-cap washes and four washes from The Army...

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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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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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Community momentum builds in Analogue Hobbies painting challenge updates

Community momentum builds in Analogue Hobbies painting challenge updates

Analogue Hobbies posted participant milestone updates Jan 9–10, 2026, showing completed skirmish forces, unit progress a...

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One Nerdy Dad updates airbrush rankings for miniature painting, adds nozzle details

One Nerdy Dad updates airbrush rankings for miniature painting, adds nozzle details

One Nerdy Dad updated its airbrush buyers’ guide with nozzle specs, giving miniature painters clearer numbers to match a...

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Robert Karlsson Weekend Masterclass on Lighting, Focal Points and Colour Harmony

Robert Karlsson Weekend Masterclass on Lighting, Focal Points and Colour Harmony

Robert Karlsson's two-day masterclass is running at Black Sun Miniatures Painting Studio, giving painters advanced instr...

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Feldkaplan for Saints and Sinners: Army Painter Sets, Zenithal Undercoat, Clean Finishes

Feldkaplan for Saints and Sinners: Army Painter Sets, Zenithal Undercoat, Clean Finishes

A painter posted a Feldkaplan entry for PaintComp's "Saints and Sinners" showing a bright, clean finish using John Blanc...

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From Soviet Teen to Global Brand: Vladimir Zhilko’s Miniature Painting Journey

Vladimir Zhilko turned a teenage hobby into Old Guard Painters, a Kyiv studio that has painted over one million miniatur...

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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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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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Modular 6-Bottle 3D-Printed Paint Organizer Uses Dovetail Snapping Racks

Modular 6-Bottle 3D-Printed Paint Organizer Uses Dovetail Snapping Racks

A user posted a modular 6-bottle 3D-print organizer with dovetail snap racks so painters can snap modules together to ex...

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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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Entry Compendium Migrates Entries, Enables Password Recovery for 2025-26 Events

Entry Compendium Migrates Entries, Enables Password Recovery for 2025-26 Events

Entry Compendium migrated events, user accounts and entries to a rebuilt platform and enabled password recovery so compe...

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Reaper's Cal Arath trio offers narrative painting potential, $4.99 each

Reaper's Cal Arath trio offers narrative painting potential, $4.99 each

Reaper released a three-figure Cal Arath set in its January Bones Black wave, sculpted by Bobby Jackson; at $4.99 each t...

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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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Miniature Painters Share Easy Fixes to Rescue Icy Snow Basing

Miniature Painters Share Easy Fixes to Rescue Icy Snow Basing

A community thread rescued a botched icy snow base with quick fixes like ultra-fine bright-white flock, gloss varnish, w...

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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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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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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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Fantasy Elve Warriors V1 STL Files Launch on Kickstarter

Fantasy Elve Warriors V1 STL Files Launch on Kickstarter

Tinchen’s 3D Art launched the Fantasy Elve Warriors V1 – Minifigures Pinup STL Files Kickstarter campaign, offering high...

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Airbrushing Basics for Miniature Painters: Compressors, Airbrushes, Safety

Airbrushing Basics for Miniature Painters: Compressors, Airbrushes, Safety

Clear, practical steps to start airbrushing miniatures, focusing on compressor specs, airbrush choice, and safety essent...

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Alternative Armies Customers Hold Just Over 600,000 Unredeemed Reward Points

Alternative Armies Customers Hold Just Over 600,000 Unredeemed Reward Points

Alternative Armies customers are holding just over 600,000 unredeemed loyalty points that can be exchanged for discount ...

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