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Spring | Summer | Fall | Winter | Decaying Having Fun with Colour Here is a fantastic way to add more interest to your builds, vignettes or dioramas. Tools Technique Check out the article on Damp Effects and Pine Needles. Pro-tip Punches come in different scales. Leaf punches are available from:

Wet Coniferous Needles In Scale Using AK GLOSS VARNISH & Abteilung 502 Oils In addition to the leaf post using coffee filters seasonally coloured with acrylics and leaf punches for deciduous tree species, here is a coniferous effect. Static Grass 2 mm in length will work. Longer static grass needs to be cut to scale…

What every plastic scale modeller needs to know. Styrene Modelling Fundamentals That’s what I do… I build models and know things that most people don’t. Scale model kits are typically made from injection-moulded polystyrene and/or resin castings. Styrene hardness varies between kit manufacturers. Many aftermarket parts are made from brass photo-etched parts (PE), machined metal…

Explaining Scale Model Filters The purpose of a filter is not to necessarily change the base colour, rather give it a more realistic look. Think of that sparkling clean, not a speck of dust on it, brand new, black or white car in the automotive showroom you are about to buy. After driving it home,…

Understanding Oil Paint Rendering and the Oil Dot Process Oil Paint Rendering Taking Your Builds To The Next Level An Introduction by Michael Rinaldi Backstory In the past few years, as I produce more and more modelling articles, I came to realize there was always one step that I felt I was never fully explaining…

Reinventing the Wheel? Building on Other’s Experience and Skillsets Collective Knowledge and Learning Wet Palette Use № 2 From time to time we come across reference pictures of subject matter we want to recreate. Because they are very well done, we want to be able to emulate them in our own work. If we are…