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Jun 27, 2026 / #building

How to make terrain glue

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Making Zines Is Easy with the Right Tools

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Mar 30, 2026 / #zine-making

Making Zines Is Easy with the Right Tools

Scoring, folding, saddle stitching, and Coptic binding—everything you need to know to start making your own zines and hand-bound books at home.

How to Paint Leather with Just Two Colors

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Mar 24, 2026 / #painting

How to Paint Leather with Just Two Colors

A quick two-color leather painting method using Satchel Brown and Serpent Bite Leather—stipple highlights for worn, realistic results in minutes.

Probably Not the Worst Chainmail Tutorial Ever

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Mar 19, 2026 / #chainmail

Probably Not the Worst Chainmail Tutorial Ever

Painting chainmail on Norman miniatures using speed paints, dry brushing, and Molotow Liquid Chrome—plus a nostalgia trip through my history of painting metal armor.

Scenic and Magnetic Movement Trays Part 1

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Feb 28, 2026 / #movement-trays

Scenic and Magnetic Movement Trays Part 1

Building scenic magnetic movement trays for Midgard using 3D printed bases, flexible steel sheets, and Vallejo mud texture—a practical tutorial on the whole process.

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Jan 21, 2026 / #lego

Simple Lego Minifig Bases for D&D

A quick experiment making bases for Lego minifigures to use in D&D games on standard battle mats.

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Jan 13, 2026 / #speed-painting

20 Minute Purple Robe

Speed painting a purple robe on a Dolmenwood Breggle using Moody Mauve, chunky stippled highlights, and learning to push contrast without overthinking it.

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Dec 14, 2025 / #dolmenwood

How to Create a Dolmenwood Character

A complete walkthrough of creating a Dolmenwood character—rolling stats, choosing a class, determining background, moon sign, and equipping your adventurer.

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Dec 5, 2025 / #terrain

The Best Snow Effect Ever

How to create incredible snow effects using crushed glass, realistic water, and fishing line icicles—nothing compares to this technique.

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Dec 3, 2025 / #terrain

Painting the Wood on The Love Shack

Using Marco Frisone's weathered wood recipe with contrast paints and dry brushing to create a grungy, well-used Love Shack objective marker.

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Nov 30, 2025 / #bookbinding

How to Marble Paper

Creating marbled paper covers for my wife's poetry book using traditional techniques with carrageenan, ink, and Kodak Photoflow.

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Nov 27, 2025 / #3d-printing

How I Clean My Resin 3D Prints

The secret to getting really clean 3D prints—patience, proper washing with ethanol, and letting everything fully dry before curing.

Painting an NMM Belt Buckle With Scale 75 Grays

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Nov 25, 2025 / #painting

Painting an NMM Belt Buckle With Scale 75 Grays

Continuing the leather belt with NMM buckles—using the full Kimera grayscale palette and thinking like a volumetric painter.

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Nov 24, 2025 / #leather

Painting a Leather Belt

Day one of taking painting seriously—following Richard Gray's leather belt tutorial and discovering that competition-level painting isn't as impossible as it seems.

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Nov 9, 2025 / #painting

Easy Mode Goblin Faces

How to make goblin faces really pop in about 8 minutes—teeth, gums, lips, and noses using just a busted up brush and basic techniques.

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Nov 8, 2025 / #painting

Goblin Skin Recipe

Quick tutorial on my goblin skin recipe—Shamrock Green speed paint over yellow and black, finished with Scale Color highlights.

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Oct 28, 2025 / #rust

The Jankiest Rust Tutorial Ever

Three methods for painting rust on 90 goblin spears—Dirty Down Rust, AK Interactive Rust Streaks, and the classic sponge technique. Plus why Dirty Down smells like pennies and cat piss.

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Oct 25, 2025 / #orcs

How to Paint Pale Orc Flesh

No-nonsense guide to grim dark pale orc skin using Pallid Wych Flesh, Bugman's Glow, and streaking grime—plus the spit effect secret.

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Oct 25, 2025 / #orcs

How to Paint Pale Orc Skin

No-nonsense guide to grim dark pale orc skin—Pallid Wych Flesh, Bugman's Glow, streaking grime. Plus the spit effect secret: UHU glue.

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Oct 14, 2025 / #glazing

How to Glaze for Fun and Profit

Late night glazing session finishing Mangler Squig skin—the consistency secrets, why you paint from shadow to highlight, and knowing what to focus on for army painting.

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Oct 13, 2025 / #tutorial

How to Paint Red - Airbrush vs Drybrush

Recreating Mangler Squig box art two ways—airbrush and drybrush. Same results, different tools. Plus why volumetric painting looks goofy on armies.

Vlog: How to Go from 0 Skills to Recaster

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Oct 10, 2025 / #resin-casting

Vlog: How to Go from 0 Skills to Recaster

One month of daily videos! Celebrating by finally casting the Chaos Toad I've had for years—silicone molds, first cast, and discovering my new hobby obsession.

How to Prepare Bases for an Entire Army Quickly and Cheaply

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Oct 4, 2025 / #basing

How to Prepare Bases for an Entire Army Quickly and Cheaply

250 bases in two hours with homemade basing material. Palette knife technique, finger cleaning, and the coffee grounds recipe.

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Sep 28, 2025 / #basing

Make Your Own Base Texture

DIY basing material recipe that costs almost nothing—spackle, baking soda, coffee grounds, and paint. Almost identical to expensive brand name stuff.

How to Strip Metal Models | Call to Arms Vlog Prep Day 1

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Sep 27, 2025 / #stripping

How to Strip Metal Models | Call to Arms Vlog Prep Day 1

Day one of tournament prep starts with stripping. 100% acetone, metal cup, hard bristled brush—getting eBay rescues ready for a new scheme.

How to Use Dirty Down Rust + Creating Blood & Gore - Part 2

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Sep 26, 2025 / #dirty-down

How to Use Dirty Down Rust + Creating Blood & Gore - Part 2

Dirty Down Rust reactivation, silver dry brush highlights, and getting disgustingly gory with UHU glue and Blood for the Blood God. Finger painting included.

Trench Crusade Bases & Weathering - Finishing our Warband Part 1

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Sep 26, 2025 / #trench-crusade

Trench Crusade Bases & Weathering - Finishing our Warband Part 1

Tamiya weathering masters, nilakh oxide disasters, fixing mistakes live, and why Brownish Decay is my new favorite paint (even though it stripped my silver).

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Sep 25, 2025 / #trench-crusade

How to Paint the Anchorite Shrine

Finishing Trench Crusade with the Anchorite Shrine—purple preshade for silver, aged wood recipe, and streaking grime magic on the Catherine wheel.

Paint a Trench Pilgrim Warband in 2 Hours

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Sep 24, 2025 / #trench-crusade

Paint a Trench Pilgrim Warband in 2 Hours

Fully painted Trench Crusade warband in 2 hours—speed paint silver, Blood Angels red contrast, Molotow liquid chrome, and the streaking grime magic.

Scratch Building a Wargame Board - Almost Ready for Paint

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Sep 23, 2025 / #terrain

Scratch Building a Wargame Board - Almost Ready for Paint

Gap filling with plaster of Paris, preserving the blister texture, talus for breaking panel lines, and the wetter water glue mix. Plus—fixed the dryer guilt-free.

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Sep 22, 2025 / #trench-crusade

How to Paint Trench Pilgrims Fast

Two methods for 15-minute Trench Crusade prisoners—oil paints vs streaking grime. Using an envelope as a palette because that's what was on my desk.

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Sep 21, 2025 / #trench-crusade

How to Paint Trench Crusade Communicant

Grim dark painting made easy—oil washes, modified Zorn palette, and blue-tinted skin that looks undead. Whole model in 20 minutes.

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Sep 17, 2025 / #dirty-down

Getting the Most Out of Dirty Down Moss

Day seven of the board project—the heat gun makes moss bubble up like magic, but watch out for that third-degree burn setting. Disaster and recovery.

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Sep 15, 2025 / #terrain

How to Turn Foam to Stone

Day five of terrain building—fixing visible foam cells with AK Natural Texture and getting everything looking like real stone.

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Sep 11, 2025 / #nmm

2 Color NMM Easy Peasy Style

Don't be intimidated by non-metallic metal—it's just poking your mini with watered-down paint. Here's my honest, messy, real-life approach to two-color NMM gold.