![]() The sooner they finished a miniature and got it on the table, the sooner they would be back in the shop, looking for their next acquisition. Gamers and collectors needed a fast and efficient way to paint their miniatures. In some ways, that's how the Eavy Metal method of painting came about. In some cases, however, the only thing slowing down people's purchasing was how much money they had to spend, and how fast they could paint. and suddenly GW was selling quite a lot of minis. As you know, this was a fantastic business model. ![]() So GW started publishing rules for playing with entire armies of miniatures. a far cry from where White Dwarf's at now. After all, most D&D players only needed a single miniature to represent their character, and a DM might only need a handful of models. However, sales of individual miniatures as a business model was very limited in growth. GW / Citadel Miniatures was making the move away from being a game importer and distributor in the UK, to their new focus of creating miniatures. ![]() These are all things that we all take for granted nowadays, but back then we simply saw pics of completed minis in White Dwarf and Dragon magazine, and did our best to guess at the tools and techniques used, and somehow reverse engineer the process.īack in the 80's, we would stare at White Dwarf pages like these for hours, trying to figure out how the artists achieved various effects.Īnd then we'd end up with something like this. Now, I've mentioned before, I started mini painting back in the late eighties when there were very few published mini painting step-by-steps, no YouTube videos, no painting DVDs (or VHS tapes, for that matter), and no mini painting classes. However, there IS a happy medium between the two, and I would have to say that it's the Eavy Metal painting method / style, which was popularized by Games Workshop eons ago (and is more popular and refined than ever today). For others, it's simply a chore to be quickly gotten over with prior to playing a game. Duncan Rhodes always drinks his painting wash water after he finishes a model.įor some, mini painting is an art form. ![]()
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