Weekly Update (Catchup Edition)

Last Week at Wargaming Tradecraft

Last Week in the Community

Charity

Ron of FTW talks about why Charity is important over at Dave Taylor's http://davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com/2011/04/guest-post-by-ron-saikowski-from-warp_22.html

News

Tutorials

Zero's got a dipping tutorial up over at MWC http://miniaturewargameconversions.blogspot.com/2011/04/adept-zero-speed-painting-with-dipping.html

Ron shows off painting Deathwing white http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/04/painting-deathwing-bone-armour.html

Karitas has an excellent game board tutorial http://excommunicatetratoris.blogspot.com/2011/04/building-terrain-board-in-four-days.html

Dethtron continues his budget gaming gold http://www.houseofpaincakes.com/2011/04/gaming-on-budget-see-deez-craterz.html
and
http://www.houseofpaincakes.com/2011/05/gaming-on-budget-using-paint-pots.html
backed up by Lauby
http://www.houseofpaincakes.com/2011/04/gaming-on-budget-spending-money-to-save.html

Darksol has a nice Wych tutorial http://masterdarksol.blogspot.com/2011/05/step-by-step-dark-eldar-wyches.html

Karitas looks at some detailed weathering http://excommunicatetratoris.blogspot.com/2011/04/painting-vehicles-part-2-weathering.html

Ron goes into detail on magnetizing drop pods http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/05/definitive-guide-to-building-and.html
The LeadHead also goes into detail about magnets http://theleadheadblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/magnets-how-do-they-work.html

Tips

Here's a bunch of inspirational WIP shots from Massive Voodoo http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2011/04/captain-roberto-is-getting-serious.html

An example of area highlighting http://lukas-the-trickster.deviantart.com/art/Grey-Knights-Purifier-Maldok-206216872

Gallery

Les has an awesome looking scrap cannon http://awesomepaintjob.blogspot.com/2011/04/scrap-launcher-complete.html

Darksol has a nice gallery of some of the stuff he's been working on over the last while http://masterdarksol.blogspot.com/2011/04/while-i-was-gone.html

Old School shows off some incredible Grey Knights discovered on some forums http://darkfuturegaming.blogspot.com/2011/04/it-came-from-forums-amazing-grey_22.html

Iron Daemon Prince http://gardenninjastudios.blogspot.com/2011/05/iron-daemon-prince.html

A hilarious project from a GW store that got trashed by GW corporate http://galaxyinflames.blogspot.com/2011/05/games-workshop-in-ruins.html

Les has an incredible scrap launcher http://awesomepaintjob.blogspot.com/2011/04/scrap-launcher-complete.html

Painting Mom creates a wonder http://paintingmum.blogspot.com/2011/05/chaos-lord-of-tzeentch-on-flying-disc.html

Some verrry nice colouring http://studiogiraldez.blogspot.com/2011/04/doomseer-iyanar-duanna.html


And now, the Deviant Art round-up:

http://radojavor.deviantart.com/art/Titan-41909667
http://r7ll.deviantart.com/art/Paintchat-Space-Marine-133901662
http://yogh-art.deviantart.com/art/Berserk-of-Khorne-193159561
http://calfcut.deviantart.com/art/iron-within-170435441
http://psychoaccess.deviantart.com/art/Blasphemy-of-the-Fallen-202757107
http://stugmeister.deviantart.com/art/Epic-Nemesis-Cover-207467146
http://axcido.deviantart.com/art/The-Fury-of-the-Iron-Priestess-207046498
http://dartp.deviantart.com/art/Ultramarines-vs-Orcs-144599592
http://archibald-tk.deviantart.com/art/40K-Tyranids-Trygon-Prime-205497432
http://noldofinve.deviantart.com/art/The-Best-Armour-194707033
http://mkurtz666.deviantart.com/art/Slayer-200584894
http://devmarine.deviantart.com/art/Thousand-Sons-205196637

a selection of Eldar:

http://beckjann.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Eldar-Dracon-Alaktel-206542195
http://axcido.deviantart.com/art/Mandragora-Mandrake-40k-192400466
http://greyf0xuk.deviantart.com/art/Farseer-110091565
http://le-chin.deviantart.com/art/The-Farseer-145267106
http://jutami.deviantart.com/art/Eldar-Howling-Banshee-206293445
http://ironshrinemaiden.deviantart.com/art/Clouded-Future-64969117
http://c0mr4de.deviantart.com/art/Netan-el-203007040

Musing

Thor talks about how we can be our own enemies http://creativetwilight.com/2011/04/im-my-own-worst-enemy/

OST asks how we got into 40k http://darkfuturegaming.blogspot.com/2011/04/where-do-today-40k-players-come-from.html

The HoP posts some content from Capture and Control http://www.houseofpaincakes.com/2011/04/user-content-wednesday-for-love-of-game.html

Purgatus talks about Competitive Modelling http://bestoverall.blogspot.com/2011/04/competitive-modeling-discussion.html
and is followed up by TastyTaste http://bloodofkittens.com/blog/2011/04/21/hobby-for-nothing-its-not-the-size-that-matters-but-how-you-use-it/

Gimnir talks about the phases of the creative process http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://gimnir.blogspot.com/2011/04/las-fases-del-proceso-creativo.html

Auberoun talks about some Hobby ADD http://digital-waaagh.blogspot.com/2011/04/thoughtful-thursdays-hobby-add.html

Gaming