Games Workshop just launched a major new paint range, and most of the coverage so far is written for Warhammer players. Warhammer Tone Pro is a range of 150 paints, and if you paint D&D minis you are probably wondering whether it is worth your money or just hobby noise. Here is a plain-English rundown,
Not a free-stuff week exactly, but it is the next best thing: a charity bundle with a deadline attached. Humble Bundle has collected 19 top-rated Dungeon Masters Guild books starting at $5, and it closes tomorrow. If you run a D&D table, or paint minis for one, this is worth five minutes of your Friday.
We featured this one back in Loot Drop #6, but it has added a lot since then, and with paint ranges getting renamed and reshuffled this year, it has earned a second look. Plus a fresh STL find for anyone with a 3D printer. Miniature Painting Forge: Free Paint Converter, Matcher, and Color Toolkit Miniature
Two finds this week, both with a short window — let’s not waste time. D&D Beyond Maps VTT — Free Starting Today As of today, D&D Beyond has opened its built-in virtual tabletop to all account holders at no cost. Host games, use any maps or modules you already own, move creature tokens, run fog
You come back to the hobby desk after a few days away, flip open your wet palette, and… there it is. Fuzzy green or black patches growing across the sponge and paper. It smells faintly like something you’d find behind a college refrigerator. Wet palette mold is the single most common complaint in miniature painting.
Most beginners underestimate clippers. They grab a cheap pair from a craft store, snap their first mini off the sprue, and end up with a little white stress mark right in the middle of the chest piece. Sandpaper time. Good miniature clippers solve that problem before it starts. A proper flush-cut blade shears through plastic
Finding something genuinely free from a major publisher usually comes with a catch buried somewhere in the fine print. This one is pretty clean. D&D Beyond Maps: Free Official Virtual Tabletop D&D Beyond Maps is Wizards of the Coast’s own virtual tabletop, built directly into D&D Beyond and free to use with any free account.
This week’s haul is all about learning. Whether you’ve got a pile of unpainted minis sitting on your desk or you’re just getting started, both of these are worth bookmarking. MINIAC: How to Paint a WHOLE Mini (Free YouTube Masterclass) If you’ve ever finished basecoating a mini and then had absolutely no idea what to
You spent three hours on that halfling’s face. The skin tones looked perfect at midnight – warm, natural, just the right amount of shadow under the cheekbones. You went to bed happy. Then you looked at it the next morning. Sickly orange. Flat. Wrong in ways that are hard to even explain. You didn’t suddenly
If you’ve ever stared at an unpainted mini wondering where to even start with colours, GW’s free paint app just became your best friend. Warhammer Colour App The official Citadel paint app (iOS and Android, completely free) holds thousands of step-by-step painting recipes searchable by subject – type in “skin,” “leather,” “fire,” or “rusty metal”
