Removing paint from miniatures - Miniature hobby guide

Article updated: 2020.11.23

Stripping paint off miniatures is useful when you want to remove a previous paintjob from your miniature. Sometimes you wish to change the paint scheme of the miniature or just get rid of the previous layers of paint. There are several ways to strip paint from your miniatures. I've collected my thought on removing paint from miniatures.

How to use brush-on liquid cyanoacrylate glue - Miniature hobby guide
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Article updated: 2020.09.09

Liquid cyanoacrylate glue is a useful addition to a lots of gaming related activities. Normal, gel-like Cyanoacrylate glue (CA glue) is known and used by every modeller as a superglue to attach different materials. However, during conversations I realized there are several people who don't know the benefits of brush-on liquid cyanoacrylate glues, so I collected some of my ideas.

How to use miniature varnish - Miniature hobby guide

Article updated: 2021.02.11

I've gathered information about miniature varnish, and varnishing miniatures. If you'd like to know how to varnish miniatures, or what is the best varnish for miniatures, this is the varnishing guide you need.

Contents

What is varnish?

Uses for varnish

Applying varnish on miniatures

Possible problems during varnishing

Frosting: How to prevent or fix frosting when you varnish miniatures

Stickiness: How to fix miniatures if the varnish remains sticky

Removing varnish from your miniatures

What is the best varnish for miniatures?

Questions - Varnishing miniatures

Resources - Miniature varnishing

Miniatures - Painting miniatures - Acrylic paints

These are the most important things you need to know if you use acrylic paints for painting your models.

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Stands for cardboard miniatures

Article updated: 2023.01.12

There are several games that use cardboard miniatures or cardboard scenery. If you have access to a printer, you can also create your own cardboard miniatures.

But then, these miniatures often won't stand in themselves (unless you create them specifically to include a stand).