Sprue to Pitch

        Hello and welcome to another edition of my mini painting for beginners guide! Now that you have the base coats applied to your models the next step is to get shady! Now when I say get shady I'm not talking about being dishonest, I'm talking about the subtle art of applying shades to your models. Firstly what is shade exactly?  Shades or as some may call them inks or washes are specialized paints made to reach the recessed areas of a model to give the mini depth and shadows. Shades are essentially paint that has been watered down heavily to be a free flowing liquid with the viscosity of water.  By watering the paint down you reduce the pigment in the solution. This allows the shade to flow into cracks and recesses and settle. When I first got into mini painting I thought people actually painted all the tiny little blacks and browns in the details of models.  Chaos Warriors awaiting their first shade bath. It wasn't until ...

Hello, welcome and thanks for joining me for another edition of my how to paint minis for beginners series In our previous editions I've covered assembly, priming, and basecoating. It has just occured to me however that we haven't discussed one of the most important things when it comes to mini painting (especially blood bowl players), color selection. Choosing a kit ( a kit is a team's dedicated colors, IE Philadelphia Eagles are Silver and Midnight Green, NY Yankees pinstripe Blue, La Lakers Purple and Yellow) to match your team is no simple feat. You must consider a multitude of things, including the team race, what colors look good together as well as what colors you actually like. Take for example my Chaos Chosen Team. The main kit colors I chose were Mephiston Red and The Fang. You can see the two main colors expressed in the team coin. I main reason I chose these colors was because they matched the kit of the Chaos Chosen Team I played in my PS4 Blood Bow...