• Hobby Basics: A Beginner's Guide to Airbrushing

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    Hobby Basics: A Beginner's Guide to Airbrushing

    Why use an Airbrush at all? Painting with a model with a hand brush is standard, but if you want to level-up your paint finishes, or if you have a large model that take up too much time to hand paint, then airbrushing is a solution. Modern airbrushes and accessories have advanced to a point that even beginners will find it easy to get started. Though this article and the video below is aimed at the beginner modeller, we hope this...

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  • Hobby Basics: Scale model photography with your mobile phone

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    Hobby Basics: Scale model photography with your mobile phone

    Have you ever wanted to shoot photos of your precious model collection only to be totally disappointed with the results? Colors all wrong and muddy, focus on the background instead of the kit, light falling all wrong on the kit. With the quality of mobile phone cameras ever improving and inexpensive readily available LED lighting, quality scale model photography with your phone is actually not too difficult, provided you know a few basics. The most important element in photography is...

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  • Hobby Basics: Drybrushing

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    Hobby Basics: Drybrushing

    Getting realistic metal wear and making highlights stand out with a simple tried and true technique. One of the oldest techniques in the modellers tool of tricks is drybrushing. It is primarily used these days to simulate worn shiny metal. Track links for instance are constantly abraded by the surface that tanks roll on, wearing the contact points into bright shiny metal highlights. Other parts such as shovels, machine guns can benefit a lot from a little metal drybrushing. Drybrushing...

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  • Hobby Basics: Pin Washes

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    Hobby Basics: Pin Washes

    Weathering adds dimension, makes tiny details pop out and turns a plain model into a winner.

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