Painting and miniature war gaming
posted on 27 January 2011 | posted in
Recreation and Hobbies
Miniature war gaming was originally created to allow people to reenact historical battles without the need for large amounts of people or for military exercise. Now there are many diffrent groups of miniature war gamers such as the historical gamers, sci fi gamers and the fantasy gamers. While historical gamers usually stick to war reenactments the scri fi gamers and fantasy gamers may reenact fictional battles but they usually use miniatures for gaming. Since the release of miniature war gaming games in the 20th century they have usually released miniatures unpainted. This has gave birth to miniature painting service, painting guides and video tutorials on how to paint your miniatures. The techniques used to paint a miniature to a high quality are always changing depending on whats popular in the community at the time. For instance green bases were deemed mandatory in the 90s but have now been replaced by brown and black bases which gained popularity in 2005. Also such techniques like dry brushing, highlighting and non-metallic metal have gained popularity lately leaving behind the painting styles of the 90's.
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