HOWTO paint realistic miniatures and settings

This site has an incredible variety of tips and tricks for painting miniatures and setting them in complex, realistic dioramae. I used to love painting D&D miniatures — a lot more than I loved playing D&D, really — and this was my favorite part of it: setting up elaborate, miniature settings for them to frolic in:

The monument bases can be used as column bases for walls. The crosses and roof peaks can be used to decorate the tops of steeples and buttresses. The fence sections can also be used to span archways and put bars into windows.

The coffin was spray painted white, then brown paint was wiped on like a stain. The trim of the coffin was painted a dark brown. Looking back, I should have made the coffin a little more of a gray color.

The skeleton models are Warhammer(TM) miniatures from Games workshop.

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