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Materials List
foam board
Popsicle sticks
PVA glue (white glue)
utility knife
fine sand
PAINTS
acrylic black
codex gray
bestial brown
graveyard earth
skull white

Step 1 Outline entrances and windows

The first step we have to do is simply outline or draw in the foam board the doors and the windows. Where you want you doors and windows to be placed at. To give more variety and uniqueness to your project, try to vary the sizes of your windows. Try to add one or two doors on your factory a large door or a garage door.

Step 2 Cut entrances and windows out

After outlining the whole picture of your factory of what is going to look like. Its time to cut the doors and windows that you have drawn. Carefully cut out the windows and doors. By taking care and doing this slowly you allow for better and smoother cutting. By doing this kind of cutting you will ultimately end up with crisper edges which will give you a look ten times better that it should be.

Step 3 Adding extra detail

When you have already cut all the windows and doors that you have drawn. It is time to add some more detail for the exterior part of the factory building. You are going to place another strip of foam board along the second story roof level and along each side of the front entrance. In this way, you are giving the factory building more added variety on it's exterior part. You already know that giving more variety to your projects is very good.

Step 4 Adding floors

After you have added some extra details to the exterior part of your factory building and all your windows and doors are already been cut off. Its time to add the floors. In creating the floor, begin by slicing out channels for the Popsicle sticks where you want your floors to go. Then simply glue in the Popsicle sticks. The next step is glue on your floors. This also braces the walls together.

You can also stick temporary pins through the outside walls into the floors to hold them in place while the glue dries. This also works well when gluing two walls together



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Matthew Glanfield is the webmaster for MiniWarGaming.com, a site that strives to provide useful resources to players of the Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K, and Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.
You can visit his website at http://www.miniwargaming.com

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/chaos-khorne-berserker-assembly.html http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/chaos-khorne-berserker-assembly.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Time to put together some Warhammer 40k Khorne Berserkers. Let’s get started

Materials list
clippers
plastic glue
file

Step 1 Read through instructions/codex

Just like in everything we are going to do, we should always start by reading and understanding the whole idea of what we are doing. For in reading, we easily know what we are the materials we are going to use and the most efficient and easy we are going to finished the job.
So in assembling your Khorne Berserker's you must read the whole context, instructions, and the codex to make sure that you are only going to use the right weapons for your Khorne Berserkers. That is the best you must do before assembling the parts so that you will taking them apart later if you do not like or you have mistaken attach a single part on the other parts.

Step 2 Glue legs

After you have read and understand the instructions or codex. Its time to gather all the parts and materials we are going to use. So that we can now start the assembling of the Chaos Khorne Berserkers
the first thing to do is glue the legs together. Once you have glued the legs, you will find out that some parts will come fully intact while others will not. So there is nothing to worry about that.

Step 3 glue torso

When you are finished with the legs, prepare the torso and then glue the torso together.

Step 4 Glue torso to legs

When you have your torso and legs already glued together. The next step is glue the torso to the legs. It is a good idea to slightly turn the torso to give variety to your figures.

Step 5 glue head

Now that the torso and the legs are already glued together. You are almost half way in finishing the figure we now completed the body the only part left is the head. So to completed the job, we have to glue the head to the body. On the first step, you have already pick your choice for the head. So simply glue the head.

Step 6 glue arms

As soon as the head is attached to the body, you have already to prepare the important part of them all the arms. This is also the the most important step. You must glue the correct arms to the figure. Make sure that you know what arms to attach because if you attach an arm that is not perfectly fit to the figure it will look awkward and ugly. You did not want your figure to look funny just because you did not put the right arms. So be sure on what you are doing.

Step 7 Glue shoulder pads

When you have already finished attaching all the body parts of your Chaos Khorne Berserker its time to attach the shoulder pads. Just simply glue the shoulder pads.
And there you have it.... You have now your Chaos Khorne Berserker.



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Matthew Glanfield is the webmaster for MiniWarGaming.com, a site that strives to provide useful resources to players of the Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K, and Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.
You can visit his website at http://www.miniwargaming.com

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/computers/games/chaos-possessed-assembly.html http://www.articletrader.com/computers/games/chaos-possessed-assembly.html Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Tools List
clippers
plastic glue
file

Step 1 Read instruction booklet

When you have purchased a chaos possessed kit. It is already included in the box the user manual, a guide on how to assemble your purchased chaos possessed. So before you proceed to assembling, make sure you go through the assembly booklet to see the parts you will be using so that you will not wasting some parts that are not needed. Also, go through the codex and make sure that you know beforehand the weapons that you will be needing and you will attach to your own chaos possessed models.

Step 2 Glue Legs

Now that you have already know what are the parts you needed and the weapons you are going to attach. Its time to start assembling the parts of your chaos possessed model, start by gluing the legs of your model together. The legs may be confusing at first because of the way they fit together, just make it sure that the legs are on the right place before you glue it together. One way to know if the legs are fit together is by close examination you will notice that only certain legs fit together. That is the time you glue them accordingly.

Step 3 Glue torso

When you have already find the perfect fit of the legs and already glued them accordingly, the next step is to glue the torso together. This will give you some confusions for it is easy to stick the torso together.

Step 4 Glue torso to legs

Prepare to attach the torso to the legs after you have glued the torso. Here's a simple tip; It is a very good idea to randomize the position of the torso on the legs. Turning it from left to right as desired.

Step 5 Glue head

When you have your desired model of chaos possessed half done. Its time to pick a head for your model. And then glue the selected head to your figure.

Step 6 Glue arms

Now that the legs and the torso are already attached as well as the head, this next step is to add the arms. To begin with, select arms as desired and glue them to your figure. In the case of possessed chaos space marines, the weaponry for their war gear consists of only a single close combat. That is why the arms that you will be choosing won't matter.

Step 7 Glue shoulder pads

You are almost done with the figure when you have already glued together the main parts of the chaos possessed. This time it is time to add accessories to it, the shoulder pads. This are paddings that will be attached to the shoulders of your chaos possessed. You may need to trim and clip off some of the spikes in the shoulders in order to make them fit on your model.

Step 8 Attach Power supply pack

You are one step closer in finishing your model. This will be the last piece of the puzzle that will give accomplishment to all, the Power supply pack. Glue the power supply pack on the back of your model. Due to the powers of chaos and random mutations, you'll see that some of these have wings growing from them.

Thats it!!! you have already finished you chaos possessed model.


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Matthew Glanfield is the webmaster for MiniWarGaming.com, a site that strives to provide useful resources to players of the Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K, and Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.
You can visit his website at http://www.miniwargaming.com

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/how-to-make-warhammer-textured-paint-for-terrain.html http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/how-to-make-warhammer-textured-paint-for-terrain.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Materials list
-container or small bucket
-stir stick
-sand
-styrofoam
-paint of any color

Step 1 select paint

The first thing we will do is picking or selecting the paint that you will be using, when you have the paint you going to get textured put in a pale. When you select the paint you must keep in mind the paints you are always using, now for that reason we usually use acrylic black paints. Because it is usually use a base coat using chaos black.

Step 2 Different types of texture

When you have already your selected paint its time to add texture. This can be done in so many ways. One way and the most common way of adding texture to your paint is to add fine sand to the paint. This can add varying amounts depending on how textured you want it. You will get a feel for it yourself if its time to stop the adding of sand to the paint.
The other way to add texture to your paint is by adding styrofoam bits. In doing this simply grind a piece of styrofoam into your paint.
Next gather your debris and bits. And pour it in the bucket with paint.
And there you have it. You have now your textured paint ready to use.



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Matthew Glanfield is the webmaster for MiniWarGaming.com, a site that strives to provide useful resources to players of the Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K, and Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.
You can visit his website at http://www.miniwargaming.com

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/how-to-make-warhammer-columns.html http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/how-to-make-warhammer-columns.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Materials List
-Polystyrene (styrofoam)
-utility knife
-fine sand paper
-soldering gun

Step 1 Cut a strip of styrofoam

Prepare the styrofoam that you will be needing in creating a column. Use a utility knife in cutting a strip of styrofoam. After cutting a strip of styrofoam, shape it into a cylinder.

Step 2 Sanding

When you have your strip of styrofoam ready, this time you have to sand away all the rough edges of your cylinder so that it will be smooth on both edges.

Step 3 Solder on grooves

When all the edges of your cylinder is already fine, its time to get your soldering gun, solder on grooves into the cylinder.

(Caution: The soldering gun gets extremely hot so take precaution while using it. It also creates fumes that will be dangerous to your health so its better to wear a mask or its best to do it near an open window or even outside.)

It is better to use a wooden stick to help keep your grooves strait. If you want to add more variety to your column you may choose to weather it by breaking off chunks around the column.
If you finish already weathering your column, you can also paint the column to add more beauty to it. It is better to base it with acrylic black, then a heavy dry brush with codex gray, and for the finale a light dry brush with skull white.
Avast!!! And there you have it your column that can be place anywhere on your terrain.


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Matthew Glanfield is the webmaster for MiniWarGaming.com, a site that strives to provide useful resources to players of the Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K, and Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.
You can visit his website at http://www.miniwargaming.com

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/a-miniwargaming-guide-to-good-warhammer-photos.html http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/a-miniwargaming-guide-to-good-warhammer-photos.html Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500
In photo you can change the whole thing, you can edit the photo before developing it so that it will look good or you just want it to be normal. In wargaming, the terrain may look great and perfect in real life but a poor photo will diminish any cool factor and dissolve the desire to take to take any more shots.

Whether your a professional photographer or just taking pictures for remembrance you can clearly see the difference between a good photo from a ordinary one.

Background

This will play a very important role in your photos it can be very crucial for this will give the story or plot of the whole picture. When you have a good background for your photos it is easy to say that you can have a pretty picture. When you have your subject placed in a place where there's a lot of trash, can you have a good background? That's not make sense at all, that is what we call poor background.
Well to understand more on getting the best background for your photos, we can take a crater as our object and be as our sample. We put a green ooze on the crater, then just place it in a plain white background, there is no uniqueness on it or there is no story that you can relate with. But you can clearly see the whole object which is the crater. Then put it again on a plain black background, you cannot clearly see the whole object because the background is dark. Which is more prefer to have a good background.

Lighting
When you have the perfect background, then the second important part of having a good quality photo is to have a good lighting. For this will enhance the beauty of your object. Just be sure and always look for a better place where you did not need the flash of your camera. When you are taking photo on a place with strong lights it is not necessary to use the flash of your camera. For this will result a shiny effects on your objects. Just select the places where you can use the flash of your camera for effects.

There are always options
“If there's a will there's a way” that is what the saying goes. Sometimes we thought of having a more beautiful photo but we do not have enough resources, there isn't enough lights for the lighting, there's too much clutter, or everything doesn't fit in the picture. We can use anything that we can see to be use in the picture so that we can have a quality photo.



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Matthew Glanfield is the webmaster for MiniWarGaming.com, a site that strives to provide useful resources to players of the Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K, and Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.
You can visit his website at http://www.miniwargaming.com

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/how-to-make-warhammer-crystals.html http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/how-to-make-warhammer-crystals.html Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Materials List
-sprues
-paint brush
-sanding paper
-PVA glue (white glue)
-assorted paints

Step 1 cutting your sprues

There is no need to buy sprues on the store just extra sprues that you can see in your working area. Cut off a few small pieces from them, just be sure that its pretty clean from its markings or numbers that was place on your sprues. Because sprues usually comes up with on it. Crystals with any markings on it specially numbers will look quite off. So just double check the sprues that you will use for your crystals.

Step 2 Sand and Shape

After you have your sprues already, begin sanding your sprues into crystal shaped pieces. Imagine that you will put your sprues on the bases of your warhammer miniature so the size will be quite small.

Step 3 Glue crystals to base

When you have your sprues sanded and shaped like crystals, glue a couple crystals to random areas of your base or anywhere you like. Crystals that are glued on an angle give your warhammer base an added touch that looks great.

Step 4 Glue sand

Next, brush on PVA glue (whit glue) onto the rest of your warhammer base and sprinkle on fine sand, and then after sprinkling shake off excess sand that did not stick onto the glue. Then leave it to dry for few minutes

Step 5 Painting crystals

When it is already dry, its time to paint your crystals. Begin by applying your first base coat of color to your crystals. Lets just use a liche purple color paint so that it will be easily recognized. Next, dry brush warlock purple, and then tentacle pink. After dry brushing, give it few more minutes to dry, after that add a wash blue ink. Make sure to water down the blue ink, otherwise it’ll saturate the crystal leaving you with no visible undercoats.

Step 6 Paint the sand (optional)

I f you have some time left and still want to add more beauty to your warhammer, this suggestion can be done. You can paint the sand aside from the crystals, to give good contrast dry brush your sand by codex gray paint. Make sure to leave some of the natural color showing through. And finish it off by lightly dry brushing some skull white.


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Matthew Glanfield is the webmaster for MiniWarGaming.com, a site that strives to provide useful resources to players of the Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K, and Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.
You can visit his website at http://www.miniwargaming.com

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/how-to-make-warhammer-40k-barbed-wire.html http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/how-to-make-warhammer-40k-barbed-wire.html Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Plus wild animals will not easily get into your place if you have it because it will get their skin wounded or scratched.
In wargaming adding barbed wire to your warhammer 40k terrain is always good to have some extra protection. It’s a relatively simple and easy process and looks great. Now for this Article we are going to show you step by step how to make barbed wire for Warhammer.

Materials List
-ornaments hangers (or paper clips)
-a reel of garden wire
-scissors
-wire cutters
-pliers
-utility knife

Step 1 cut garden wires

The first step we gonna do is to make three equal sized lengths of garden wire. It is a wire used in gardening can be bought in any hardware store. We' re not just focusing on just garden wires, you can actually use electrical wires as well, or multi-strand wires. But for this project we'll be using garden wires.

Step 2 Strip wires
After cutting the garden wires into three equal sizes its time to get them strip. Strip the wires using a wire stripper or a utility knife.

Step 3 Twist wires
Its time to make it a real barbed wire by twisting the three wires together. Using a thick pair of pliers hold the three wires together on both ends and begin twisting.

Step 4 Add ornamental hangers
After you have twisted the wires its time to put some ornamental hangers to the twisted wires. Paper clips also work well in this step. To put the ornamental hangers simply wrap them around on the twisted wires.
After you place all the ornamental hangers its finish already and you can place it in base.


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Matthew Glanfield is the webmaster for MiniWarGaming.com, a site that strives to provide useful resources to players of the Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K, and Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.
You can visit his website at http://www.miniwargaming.com

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/how-to-make-windows-for-warhammer-buildings.html http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/how-to-make-windows-for-warhammer-buildings.html Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Materials List
utility knife
plastic packaging (the hard thin plastic from various products)
PVA glue (white glue)
foam board

Step 1 Cut Plastic

Instead of using a real glass for our windows, its better to use a hard thin plastic that come from various products to prevent us form getting wounded by the glass fragments. By using also plastic materials we can easily cut it according on what we wanted to. The best place to cut your hard thin plastic is on something that is hard such a piece of board or wood. That way you won't destroy the table the you' re working on. It just a matter of cutting and fitting pieces of plastic.

Step 2 Prepare walls

When you are using a foam board as your walls, you will need to prepare the wall for your windows. You will do this by slicing in behind the surface of your external wall. So that you will only insert the plastic you've just cut later. This will save you some precious time in doing this project. This method does not apply for foam board only but it also applies to any other material you use to be your wall.

Step 3 Insert windows

After you prepared the walls, its time to attach the windows. Simply place the windows inside the walls. There is a best way where in windows can use the walls as a support by making the windows a little bigger than the walls.
After you attach the windows you can glue the edges of the windows on the walls. But you may choose also not to glue them. For this project only we prefer not to glue because it allows for flexible changes in the future.
Now that your windows are already attached on the walls. Its time to add some variety into it, you can add bullet holes in your windows, do this by cutting out a small hole then slicing away from the hole. Actually you can add anything you want to add more spice on your terrain.

There you have it a better new look on windows on your warhammer building. Enjoy!!!



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Matthew Glanfield is the webmaster for MiniWarGaming.com, a site that strives to provide useful resources to players of the Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K, and Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.
You can visit his website at http://www.miniwargaming.com

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/basic-warhammer-terrain-materials-list.html http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/hobbies/basic-warhammer-terrain-materials-list.html Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Basic Materials
1.paint brushes
2.utility knife
3.hammer
4.pliers
5.sandpaper (or sanding block)
6.pen or pencil
7.wire (electrical or all purpose)
8.fine sand
9.modeling flock
10.PVA glue (white glue)
11.painting pallet
12.scissors
13.plastic straws
14.Popsicle sticks
15.polystyrene (insulation foam)
16.Styrofoam
17.metal bucket
18.hacksaw
19.Chaos black spray paint
20.hot wire cutter
21.can
22.tissues
23.newspaper

There are twenty three basic warhammer making materials that we always use in every project though we do not always all of them its better to have them for emergency purposes. Try to keep all this materials in one safe and large container so that it will be easy for you to access if you have something needed. Its better to have a table or a desk dedicated to painting/terrain so that you will have your own workplace. But if you do not have one there is still no problem to it as long as there is table.
For better understanding of the materials to be use we gonna simply list it again but this time with description.



1. Paint Brushes
Paint brushes and raw materials are important in terrain making or miniature painting. It is better to have a set of fine detail brushes with another set of medium sized brushes for terrain. There are so many techniques that you can learn with brushes which we'll go over in upcoming article.

2. Utility Knife

Another very important item for terrain making and you must have it in your box for terrain making. This little thing will become a huge thing and be your bestfriend as you'll most likely use it the most. Be sure to use it with extra careful for its blade can be quite sharp. Always cut away from your body to avoid wounds. And remember to cut things on top of a board or piece of wood so as to not damage the table underneath.

3. Hammer

A hammer is useful if you want to add weathered rock effects to polystyrene (insulation foam). This can also be useful when doing some construction around the base or table.

4. Pliers

These little tools are essential for cleaning up the edges of your miniatures. Those extra fragments around your miniatures can be cleaned up by using this. They’re also useful for holding small items that are drying.

5. Sandpaper/ Sanding Block

This next material is used to smooth the edges around your miniatures. Using sandpaper to smoothen out rocks and ridges is a good technique. I prefer using the sanding blocks as opposed to sandpaper. You have more control over what you’re doing. Sanding terrain pieces also ages them.

6. Pen or Pencil

Naturally a pen or pencil is useful for marking out things such as windows or doors in a building.

7.Wire (electrical or all purpose)

Wire can be used as rebar or barbed wire. As for the electrical purpose, wire will be use to have light on bunkers, buildings, and towers.

8. Fine sand

Fine sand is useful in so many ways. Adding sand to to the bases of your miniatures or as a gaming board surface are just a couple of things you can do.

9. Modeling flock

Adding flock to rocks, trees, hills and miniatures adds to the realism of your game.

10. PVA glue (white glue)
Another raw material when it comes to terrain building. This can be bought cheaply at a convenience store.
11. Painting pallet

These are important if you plan on painting a lot. We can use here a ceramic tile. These are good because the cleanup is easy. They’re also strong and durable. Other options for painting pallets are a Styrofoam plate or a piece of wood.

12. Scissors

Make sure to pick up a pair of good quality scissors. Believe me, you’re going to beat them up pretty good.

13. Plastic straws

Good for making pipes, railings or even barricades.

14. Popsicle sticks

These are extremely useful for making all sorts of things. Wood floors, barricades and stairs just to name a few.

15. Polystyrene (insulation foam)

You can make rocks and hills out of these. Tyranid spires are also a good project made from these.

16. Styrofoam

Similar to insulation foam, styrofoam is also good for making rocks and hills. Regular styrofoam is easier to come by however.

17. Metal bucket

One of these is good to have and is handy for many projects. Mixing paint and keeping sand are good uses for these. A water bucket is also a good idea.

18. Hacksaw

A must if you plan on having wood or masonite bases for your terrain. (Careful not to nick yourself)

19. Chaos black spray paint

These are a wonder if you have a large army to base coat. You get into hard to reach places a lot easier with spray paint.
20. Hot wire cutter

These are used for shaping styrofoam. They run on batteries and are a Godsend for hobbyists. Make sure to be in a well ventilated area while cutting. The fumes may give you a headache.
(WARNING: The hot wire cutter gets very hot and can burn you. Be careful not to touch the wire with your bare skin.)

21. Can

Useful for keeping small things in and for mixing paints. Also useful for cleaning brushes. If you’re adventurous you might even build a fuel tank with it.


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Matthew Glanfield is the webmaster for MiniWarGaming.com, a site that strives to provide useful resources to players of the Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K, and Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.
You can visit his website at http://www.miniwargaming.com

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