Modeling & Painting Volume 1
Core Techniques

Do you paint miniatures for enjoyment, to sell, your collection, or for gaming purposes? Have you been painting for a while? Feel that you have your techniques down pat? Well, think again! While many of the techniques presented in this video are familiar to all of us who paint miniatures, this Privateer presentation will teach you some new tricks and refresh some of those that we don’t use very often. I have been painting miniatures for some thirty years and found myself riveted to this video and saying,”Gee, I never thought of doing it that way.”

The video begins by going over the basic tools and supplies that will be required for the successful completion of these three miniatures. Ron emphasizes safe modeling by repeating that tools should be used safely and not recklessly. He shows the proper way to assemble a miniature and advises on the use of scoring parts of the miniature to increase the surface area of the mating sections so that the glue, in this case Cyanoacrylate, will form a stronger bond. My first “Gee!” He also advises thatRead More