Foundry Miniatures Painting And Modelling Guide - Hardcover

Kevin Michael Dallimore

 
9781901543131: Foundry Miniatures Painting And Modelling Guide
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1901543137 ISBN 13: 9781901543131
Publisher: Foundry, 2009

Synopsis

Here it is at last; Kevin Dallimore's fully comprehensive guide to painting miniature models. If you're entirely new to painting then this guide will help to get you started, and if you have painted before you'll find it full of useful tips and new ideas. With the aid of numerous fully illustrated stage-by-stage examples Kevin describes every aspect of his celebrated painting style, from a quick and simple method designed to get you painting single models and armies to a high standard, to more advanced techniques that will help you get amazing results from your models. All areas of the miniature model painting hobby are examined in detail, with sections covering the equipment you'll need, the preparation of models, designing and painting shields, using transfers, painting horses using oils, varnishing and basing. There are also features on creating dioramas, converting models and painting vehicles and buildings plus hints and tips from some well-known guest painters. Illustrated throughout with a vast number of painted examples featuring Kevin's stunning work, this guide should inspire miniature model enthusiasts everywhere to pick up those paint brushes!

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About the Author

Here it is at last; Kevin Dallimore's fully comprehensive guide to painting miniature models! If you're entirely new to painting then this guide will help to get you started, and if you have painted before you'll find it full of useful tips and new ideas. With the aid of numerous fully illustrated stage-by-stage examples Kevin describes every aspect of his celebrated painting style, from a quick and simple method designed to get you painting single models and armies to a high standard, to more advanced techniques that will help you get amazing results from your models. All areas of the miniature model painting hobby are examined in detail, with sections covering the equipment you'll need, the preparation of models, designing and painting shields, using transfers, painting horses using oils, varnishing and basing. There are also features on creating dioramas, converting models and painting vehicles and buildings plus hints and tips from some well-known guest painters. Illustrated throughout with a vast number of painted examples featuring Kevin's stunning work, this guide should inspire miniature model enthusiasts everywhere to pick up those paint brushes!

From the Back Cover

A fully comprehensive guide to painting and constructing miniature models. This book should help to get you started if you're coming to painting with no experience, and encourage you to try out a few new or different methods if you have painted before. Each technique is described in detail along with pictures to illustrate every step as clearly as possible. There s also a vast array of 'beauty shots' to inspire you to pick up those paint brushes

From the Inside Flap

Here it is at last; Kevin Dallimore's fully comprehensive guide to painting miniature models! If you're entirely new to painting then this guide will help to get you started, and if you have painted before you'll find it full of useful tips and new ideas. With the aid of numerous fully illustrated stage-by-stage examples Kevin describes every aspect of his celebrated painting style, from a quick and simple method designed to get you painting single models and armies to a high standard, to more advanced techniques that will help you get amazing results from your models. All areas of the miniature model painting hobby are examined in detail, with sections covering the equipment you'll need, the preparation of models, designing and painting shields, using transfers, painting horses using oils, varnishing and basing. There are also features on creating dioramas, converting models and painting vehicles and buildings plus hints and tips from some well-known guest painters. Illustrated throughout with a vast number of painted examples featuring Kevin's stunning work, this guide should inspire miniature model enthusiasts everywhere to pick up those paint brushes!

Well, it's about time Kevin's book finally saw the light of day!

I first became aware of Kevin's painting techniques through the marvellous little booklet he produced for the South London Warlords' annual "Salute" wargames convention many years ago. I was struck by his innovative and systemised approach to painting toy soldiers and riveted by the gemlike results his methods produced. Eventually I got in touch, one thing led to another, and Kevin ended up working for Foundry; painting toy soldiers, taking photographs, writing painting articles, and producing adverts and catalogues, at the same time as building and running our web site.

That was about eight years ago, and the first version of this book was written way back then. As work progressed on the project though, it soon became apparent that what we really needed to do, before producing a painting guide, was to manufacture our own paints with the range of colours and density of pigment needed to take full advantage of Kevin's cunning techniques. So once it seemed likely that the book might well be delayed for quite some time, we put the early version up on our web site as a free download.

Producing the paints took us a year or four. In the interim our ambitions for the contents of a painting and modelling guide grew, and what with having to sort out all those web pages and cast all those toy soldiers and get them out into the world, it's taken a little longer to repeatedly rewrite and expand Kevin's book than was originally anticipated.

Unfortunately, however well printed and presented this book may be, there's no way that it can show quite how dramatic any model painted by Kevin can be when you see it for real. Kevin's models seem to glow from within; I've never seen anything to match them in 40 years of sculpting, painting and collecting toy soldiers. So be sure to make your way to the next "Salute" in London and see Kevin and his work in the flesh.

We're very pleased that you're finally able to hold this book in your hands and hopefully take it home and treasure it, all the more so because it was written by undoubtedly the most genuine and enthusiastic man in the small but strangely intense world of toy soldiers.

BRYAN ANSELL

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Publisher
Foundry
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1901543137
ISBN 13 
9781901543131
Binding
Hardcover
Illustrator
Martin Buck, Kevin Dallimore
Edition number
1
Number of pages
176
Editor
Martin Buck