Scales
Small craftinesses
Creating stampsWe haven't touched this topic concerning the stamps yet. Are there any examples of improvisations, perhaps you use or produce such tools?! Very often it is required to make the same details, the worst is when those are symmetrical – it is so hard to ideally repeat the same forms, especially when those are quite complicated....
Plasticine is our friend and comrade-in-armsI sculpted for clothee horses. I used plasticine, in general, I would like to say, that I use plasticine very often in modeling and I really recommend doing so. Not only for tails and crests, you can also use plasticine as a base for details and layers between separate flaunting or pending parts of ammunition or clothes....
Raised patterns in miniatures (part 1)I want to share with you the way how to manufacturing of relief pattern on a flat surface. I already use for a long time jeweller's wax for everyones "scratches" by needle. The way is very simple, it is visible on collages from photos. Jeweller's wax very firm, much more firmly, than wax of a usual candle. I...
Raised patterns in miniature (part 2)Almost every product requires making relief details and drawings. I mean three-dimensional drawing where the pressed ornament can be pressed onto the detail itself. The production technology is pretty much the same everywhere: flatten strap is stuck on to the surface of the detail and the picture itself is formed with...
History of military-historical miniature
Miniatures 40 mm size by wargame player's eyes. Review.When the Italian company "Mindstalkers" showed the first pictures of their new figure range, there was a lot of frothing going on on the forums. However, when it was announced that these figures would be in a new, 40mm scale they were met with a roar of indignation. Now ,there are more and more companies releasing...
Horse Miniature Sizes. Review.If there's one thing that most historical or fantasy armies have in common, it will be troops on horseback, also known as cavalry. You'd have to be an Orc or Goblin - or possibly a Dwarf or some other sort of vertically challenged creature, to do without. But while many manufacturers tend to produce figures in the same...
V.GazenbergerAt the St. Petersburg Museum of Military History, Artillery, and Signal Troops, an outstanding collection of figurines of Russian cavalry and infantry soldiers of the time of Nickolay the 1st and Alexander the 2nd invariably attracts one's attention. Many of the museum's visitors remember this collection lon after. The...