Come paint a mini and take it home when you're finished. Our resident painting expert will answer your questions and offer suggestions when you're stuck. VIG and VIG Companion only.
Hands-on class: Learn techniques to get better smoother blends, highlights, and shift colors. Miniatures from Dark Sword. Paints are RMS from Reaper Miniatures.
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This hands-on class teaches the advanced techniques of feathering and glazing to achieve smoother blends and shift colors for fun effects or correcting color. I supply all but the brush, so bring the pointiest brush you have and follow me step-by-step as I show you on my miniature, then guide you as you paint your class miniature. No need for notes, I also provide a handout with instructions and tips to guide you at home. Miniatures provided by Dark Sword Miniatures. Paints are RMS from Reaper Miniatures. As time allows, please feel free to bring in your current projects for critique, advice, or practice. Contact me via email if you have any questions or concerns.
Basic Highlighting and Shading (Yellow), The Next Step to Advanced Miniature Painting
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Join Golden Demon Winner, Dennis Smith, for this class which will focus on the techniques of shading and highlighting, hands-on efforts in yellow tones, but using techniques applicable to any color.
Focuses on battlefield scenery: craters, ruins & barricades. Also covers basic terrain making skills: grass, rocks, hills, & more. Build your own terrain piece.
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Enhance your gaming experience by making your own gaming terrain. Start by learning basic terrain making techniques, such as hills, trees, and roads. Then learn advanced techniques for battlefield scenery, such as craters, ruined buildings, rust effects, barricades and barbed wire. Build and take your own terrain piece using the tools and materials provided and applying the techniques taught in the workshop.
Lose the Fear: Introduction to Green Stuff Modeling
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The class will be taught by 14‐time Golden Demon winner and formally trained fine arts teacher. Students will utilize greenstuff for miniature modeling embellishment and basic sculpting.
Are you the fastest brush in the Midwest? Come prove those skills when you and your competition get 45 minutes to create the best painted Impact! miniature. Paints, brushes and supplies provided.
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Are you the fastest brush in the Midwest? Come prove those skills when you and your competition get 45 minutes to create the best painted Impact! miniature. Paints, brushes and supplies provided. Impact! Miniatures are a rapidly growing company specializing in fantasy sports miniatures. Compete for fun and prizes in any of our four sessions held throughout the convention. Each session is a different Impact! miniature that you get to keep!
Hands-on. Topics: highlights and shading, males vs. females, details (eyes, lips, fingernails), skin in color schemes. Includes free Dark Sword mini and 8 page color handout.
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Join award-winning painter Rhonda ‘Wren’ Bender in a hands-on study of painting skin. Topics include where to place highlights and shading, differences between male and female skin, detailing (eyes, lips, fingernails), and using skin tones as part of your overall colour scheme. Each attendee receives a free high-quality figure from Dark Sword Miniatures, and an 8-page colour hand-out. Paints and other supplies are provided, but you are encouraged to bring a good brush.
Learn to make scenery. Start with basics: grass, rocks & hills, then more advanced techniques: trees, buildings and water. Build & take your own terrain piece.
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Enhance your gaming experience by making your own gaming terrain. Start by learning basic terrain making techniques, such as grass and rocks, hills, trees, and roads. Then learn advanced techniques, such as making building and other structures, as well as rivers, ponds, and other water effects. Build your own terrain by using the tools and materials provided and applying the techniques taught in the workshop.
Glazing: A Versatile Technique for Miniature Painting
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Hands-on. Topics: smooth blends, shade NMM, shift colour, add depth, add weathering and dirt, underpainting, and more. Includes free Dark Sword mini and colour handout.
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Glazing is a simple yet versatile technique you can use in painting miniature figures. Attendees will practice the technique hands-on under the guidance of award-winning painter Rhonda ‘Wren’ Bender. She will outline and demonstrate additional uses for glazing including: improving blending transitions, shifting a colour, adding depth to skin, more realistic tattoos and fur patterns, shading non-metallic metal, weathering and dirt, and grisaille or underpainting. Each attendee receives a free high-quality figure from Dark Sword Miniatures, and a colour handout. Paints and other supplies for hands-on practice during class are provided, but you are encouraged to bring a good brush.