I finished my #warriorsofathena scatter terrain from back in June! Glad I got all the painting done in one big batch, so I could keep the scheme and basing consistent. I was going for stuff I can rearrange as light obstacles, clear ground and places for objectives. ##wargaming #miniaturepainting

The Shockmaster@theshockmaster.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Currently on a quest to make "interesting open ground" terrain a thing, using these broken up flagstone plates from @fenrisgames.com & some additional bits. These will be cut up into blobs to lay down as stuff to move over & around in more melee focused wargames where cover isn't as necessary.

Another set of #oldhammer turn-ups I found in a craft/charity shop's eBay store. I found the chaos dwarf super cheap & decided to check their other listings. Boom! A necromancer, and a whole pack of grotesques and haemonculi for my retro Dark Eldar mislabelled as "crypt ghouls". Always check!

Eight Different Products, six different *kinds* of product, all labelled as "Snow Basing Materials" for #wargaming. And I've gone through them all, and some of the ways you can use them. We've got Citadel, WWScenics, Krautcover, Siege Scenics, Army Painter and Geek Gaming Scenics. Check it out!

Hobby Roundup: The Ultimate Snowdown

It's Christmas In July (kinda) here at The Finishing Touch , and I've got a big scenery project coming up that's going to need a  lot  of sn...

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Doing an article on modelling snow & finding a world of pain in trying to convey the differences in 6 kinds of white powder that all look almost identical to a camera but not to the naked eye. Pictured: a 2nd round of samples using different glue, which might look different to eye, camera or both.

New 📌 post time In my spare time I run a website about #wargaming basing - reviews of basing materials, and articles & guides on how to enhance your projects & make your models look their best. Because remember - your model isn't complete without the finishing touch!

The Finishing Touch

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This review has sat in the drafts for... no real reason?... while I worked on other stuff, but I finally sat down & polished it off. While Krautcover is still a little pricey compared to other brands, this time the extra materials are largely worth it, bar a few quirks. Check it out!

Krautcover Basecover "Soil of Sparta" Review

Pricepoint Krautcover's Basecover range comes in at £6 for a 140ml tub; this is at the medium point when it comes to their prices, owing to ...

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This weekend I finished my second #turnip28 army, the Ginseng Heavenly Kingdom. Inspired by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (the closest thing to an IRL Turnip army in history). The Sichuan Opera face colours and Chinese writing were maybe over-ambitious at 28mm, but I'm still happy I tried. #wargaming

While buying some Chaos champions for a little ##oldhammer project I'm working on, I found this guy - no idea what context he's from other than from '88-'89 per the tab and him being from that amorphous crossover period where guns & chainswords could turn up in WFB too. Pricey but lots of potential!

My copy of The Highlands Burn by @jkass99.bsky.social that I ordered at, like, 9pm on Tuesday was delivered the way I like my Chinese takeaway delivered: suspiciously quickly, and with 3x more content than I was expecting!

A late night painting session, this mini is a birthday present for a dear friend at work who's leaving at the end of the year, who's a superfan of the Queen, so I wanted to do something special. I even had to look up HRH's favourite flower & make tufts of it! Mini by @badsquiddogames.bsky.social

Back to the reviews on Finishing Touch, delayed partly due to the heatwave and partly from doing all those Greeks for the themed basing article! This time it's my first review of a Siege Scenics basing mix, Mangala Plateau: #wargaming

My first Hobby Corner article for my site, this time on how you can vary up your army by starting with a basic theme & then iterating on it in different ways while still using the same materials. Been awhile since I wrote a longer article like this, so please let me know what you think! #wargaming

Hobby Corner: Iterating on a Theme with your Bases

In this first non-review article for the site, I'm going to go over how you can easily add more variety and visual interest to your army tho...

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My birthday present to myself last year was 3 large job lots of #mesbg Uruk-Hai, which once I added a handful more models would be the basis for 3 Isengard armies. Well I got the last few minis recently, & it's so hot out that I put on a film & spent 2.5hrs sponging (1/2) #wargaming #lordoftherings

Currently on a quest to make "interesting open ground" terrain a thing, using these broken up flagstone plates from @fenrisgames.com & some additional bits. These will be cut up into blobs to lay down as stuff to move over & around in more melee focused wargames where cover isn't as necessary.

Another review has gone up on my website, this time of one of Geek Gaming Scenics' "Base Ready" mixtures. Featuring my first 54mm mini, some French monster hunters and... tiny flakes of brick? #wargaming

Geek Gaming Scenics Base Ready "Pine Forest Ground Cover" Review

Pricepoint Direct from Geek Gaming Scenics' website, a 250ml tub will set you back £6.99. As mentioned in our last review of a GGS product...

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My first review to break 100 views is now also the first to pass 500 in just 2 days 🥳 There's been a bunch of positive feedback on Reddit, too - I was prepared for this site to just be something I did as a hobby that maybe 10 people would see, but people seem to be really finding a lot of use in it.

The Shockmaster@theshockmaster.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's another review on my blog, The Finishing Touch, and both my first reviewing tufts and something from Gamers Grass. Check it out!

It's another review on my blog, The Finishing Touch, and both my first reviewing tufts and something from Gamers Grass. Check it out!

Gamers Grass "Dry" Tuft Starter Box

Pricepoint Direct from Gamers Grass (in my case bought at their stall at Salute 2026) this box will cost you £23, essentially the combined...

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Just finished these girls from Dragon Bait Miniatures. I don't usually go in for racier models like these but they had such a cool Leiji Matsumoto vibe that I wanted to use them in Stargrave. A moon princess & her handmaids looking for a new home planet maybe? #wargaming #miniaturepainting #scifi

Another review has just gone up on my blog, as Geek Gaming Scenics makes its first appearance with their small scale Mediterranean Soil mix. #wargaming #terrainmaking

Geek Gaming Scenics Base Ready (Small Scale) "Mediterranean Soil" Review

Pricepoint Directly from Geek Gaming Scenics

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I'm retiring my current #killteam and wanted a completely different playstyle, so I figured I'd take the opportunity to do a pretty out-there colour scheme. I figure these Raveners do a phosphorescent light flash when they burst out of their tunnels like deep sea fish. #wargaming #miniaturepainting

My second review has just gone up on my website, The Finishing Touch! This time, we're looking at Krautcover's Booty Beach basing mixture. #wargaming #miniaturepainting

Krautcover Signature Series "Booty Beach" Review

Pricepoint As with my previous review of Krautcover's Tale of Grimdark , this is a 140ml tub at £7.50 at the retailer I used; slightly more ...

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I had some (pretty bad) Warlord Games hoplites I got for free recently, and felt like experimenting, so I did them in a "Greek Pottery" style. Since they're so smol and wonky, I'm going to use them as Spartoi (summonable artificial soldiers) rather than humans. #wargaming #miniaturepainting

My first basing materials review has just gone up on my blog, The Finishing Touch, where I go over Krautcover's A Tale Of Grimdark signature series mix. #wargaming #miniaturepainting #terrainmaking

Krautcover Signature Series "A Tale of Grimdark" Review

Pricepoint I picked this up for £7.50; this is one of Krautcover’s two (at time of writing) Signature Series mixes, which are more expensive...

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So here's a project I've been planning since last year, but am finally taking the plunge on: starting a review website about basing materials for model wargaming! Weird, yes, but here's the first post where I explain why. The first couple of reviews are written and will be going up next week!

Possibly my least glamorous miniature project ever - even terrain sometimes has skulls or scifi doodads on it! - a couple of herds of livestock and some critters for hunting, for an upcoming campaign. #wargaming #miniaturepainting

Using a Warbases buffalo as a base, I sculpted an homage to a favourite illustration from one of my childhood myth books of the Sumerian Bull of Heaven for #warriorsofathena. This is the most freeform sculpting I've done on a single mini before, so it's still a bit rough! #wargaming #wargames

If you need a brawny, blonde, bare-chested hunk to accompany Xena Warrior Princess in your games of #warriorsofathena there's only one natural choice, right? That's right, Dar from 1982's The Beastmaster! Partly because I love the film, but also fuck Kevin Sorbo, AKA "Boy Xena" Hercules #wargaming

With days to go before #warriorsofathena releases, I made a push to finish the two main characters for my party, Xena and Gabrielle, and a bunch of NPCs for them to fight with and against! Minis from Crooked Dice, Lucid Eye, @badsquiddogames.bsky.social and @footsoreminiatures.bsky.social (1/5)

My first two heroines for Warriors of Athena, the left one from @badsquiddogames.bsky.social & the right from Lucid Eye. This project's taking me way out of my comfort zone, experimenting with bright colours like this. There'll be more to come soon! #warriorsofathena #wargaming ##miniaturepainting

So I bought a bag of Victrix Greek archers for #warriorsofathena which ended up having a sprue of two slingers in it. When I asked if they could send another sprue they just sent another bag! I'm sure this is WAY too many archers, but at least I have a lot to choose folloers from! #miniaturepainting