If you’re at all interested in the miniatures and wargaming hobbies, then you’re going to need to get acquainted with glues. Almost every model requires some amount of glue, and the type of glue that you use will depend a great deal on the miniature you’re gluing. The best glue for miniatures in resin is…
If you've been paying attention to The Wargame Explorer this month, you'll have noticed that there's been a drop off in posts. It hasn't been because I haven't had enough to write about, and it hasn't been because I haven't had enough to paint. I've just been in a rut. For a while it seemed…
So you'll recall from my previous diorama that I have created a world in which the Mayflower was attacked by sea monsters and that the Pilgrims have become expert sea monster hunters. They have also built most of their structures from the remains of their wrecked vessels.
Also, the Indians that the Pilgrims meet, and…
Dioramas.
So, as I have mentioned, I have been captivated by the YouTube channel Boylei's Hobby Time. While he does a great many hobby projects, including a lot of Star Wars stuff, I'm most drawn to his Weird West. In these dioramas he makes, he creates a world in which the Old West, the Wild…
The idea of proxies in wargaming is really nothing new. Wargaming is itself a sort of proxying, using blocks of wood or pieces of plastic or chunks of metal to represent infantry and cavalry and artillery. Everything is just a symbol of something else.
But the place where proxying starts to cause a problem is…
Hobby motivation in the wargaming hobby can be hard sometimes. I know that I've experienced it a little in the face of the current war in Ukraine, as the whole situation has soured me to the thought of guns and tanks. (I had been working on a Death Korps of Krieg army and decided to…
11 Game-Changing Miniature Hobby Tools You Might Not Have Thought Of
We've all seen the lists of miniature hobby tools for wargamers, miniature painters, model makers, and hobby terrain makers, but there are some things that get left out of these lists because they're a little different.
I've been in the model making hobby since I…
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Will 3D printing kill off Games Workshop? The answer is simple: no, not if Games Workshop is smart. And Games Workshop has proven themselves to be quite smart in the past. I think that, while the face of the wargaming scene may change radically over the next ten years,…
Getting into miniature wargaming can seem daunting, with all the lore books and rulebooks and endless YouTube channels telling you this painting technique and that kitbashing method. Figuring out exactly what hobby tools for a miniature wargamer you need is often confusing.
This guide is going to give you the 8 must-have hobby tools for miniature…
I'll admit it. I am not a great painter. I have been part of the wargaming hobby for thirty years, and my painting ebbs and flows--some years it's really good and some years it's not so good.
This is not because I don't try to improve. Probably the #1 YouTube videos that…