Born Painting Miniatures

I recently took on the task of completely redoing this Imperial Knight. It came to me well painted in a very traditional blue and gold color scheme but when he broke, I figured it was time for an overhaul.  So I popped it apart and in the Simple Green it went.  The knight was previously a Knight Paladin with double battle cannon and reaper chain sword.  A Knight Gallant seems to be more of what I will use on the table top so I built up the power gauntlet.  Also to keep him cheap but swappable, I magnetized the heavy stubber on.    After a few rounds of stripping off the old paint, the knight was ready to be primed.  I started with airbrushing the entire thing in black primer.  The under detail/ mechanical bits were airbrushed with grey, silver and nuln oil.  I later did edge highlighting and brushed on more nuln oil.  For the armor, I airbrushed target raised areas with elysian green and then the same but mixed with yello...

How to strip paint from miniatures  This poor trooper came to me covered in chalky textured paint. This can be the result of spray priming from too far away, using old paint or any number of other spray issues. Clearly sometimes miniatures need repainted.  This could be due to a model crisis like the one seen above or perhaps it's just time to give them a fresh look.  Stripping paint is a task that can be super easy but can also come with fear of damaging those expensive miniatures.  Below is the step by step method that I used on the storm troopers and seems to be the tried and true method for stripping paint from models.  Before we begin I should start with a few warnings:  Gloves are recommended.  I didn't use them and the chemical left my hands a bit dry and irritated. Follow product safety guidelines. Tools required for paint stripping  - Simple Green cleaner -  I've used other chemicals in the past such as Pinesol but t...

Hi all - as promised I am bringing to you my experience having attended the Michigan GT 40k team event this past weekend.  My friend Chris played Hawkshroud Warhammer 40K: Imperial Knight Warden  and I played a Catachan battalion based on the guy wearing flak armor with muscles bulging from the Warhammer 40k Astra Militarum Catachan Command Squad  . Our Team was named Krastellan Defenders. You can check out my video on Catachan combos here:   Chris and I put a bit of work into his models the night before the event by adding basing and cleaning up some edges.  I ended up fixing his airbrush and he wrote a back story for the army and printed off army lists.  I was glad to see some familiar faces at the event - Team Channel 4 News, Team Bad Decisions and others I recognized having attended Buckeye Battles.  Since I've been doing more and more airbrushing, I picked up an airbrush stand from Badger. Now on to the games!! Round 1, we...