![]() Other options include The Witcher and the Cyberpunk Red lines from Monster Fight Club, as well as the huge new range of plastic miniatures for Catalyst Game Labs’ BattleTech. Plenty of miniatures are sold preassembled these days - especially ones that come with hobby board games. While choosing your first small passion project, consider if you’d like to spend any time at all assembling those miniatures before you paint them - because you don’t actually need to. How to assemble your miniatures No assembly required Just a handful of minis is enough to get you where you’re going, so start small and build from there. Piling up too much plastic on your desk before you even have the basics under your belt is a surefire way to get discouraged. ![]() Wherever your interests lie, start with a game or a universe you really enjoy and that bit of passion you feel in your gut will help to get you across the finish line with your first batch of painted minis.īut don’t start off by plopping down hundreds or thousands of dollars on a big army for Warhammer 40,000, or any other large-scale miniatures wargame for that matter. Or maybe you’re curious about more freeform miniatures skirmish games, like Star Wars: Legion, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Necromunda, or Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team. Maybe you’re more into strategy games, like Scythe or Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition. Maybe you’re really into dungeon-crawling board games like HeroQuest, Zombicide, Gloomhaven, or Descent: Legends of the Dark. My recommendation is to start with one of your favorite games or subjects. There are so many different kinds of miniatures on the market that just narrowing things down to a handful of choices can be difficult work. ![]() Below you’ll find my personal recommendations, not just of the paints and other tools you’ll want to buy, but a handful of carefully curated teachers and artists I’ve come to trust over the last seven years of exploring. In this guide, my goal is to demystify those first few steps beginning painters need to take. But it can be daunting to build up the skills and tools you need to get started. Painting miniatures is an incredibly relaxing and rewarding hobby, one that can bring a bit of meditative joy to your free time while also adding beautiful bits to your favorite board games and role-playing games. Read his photo essay from the Golden Demon awards. In 2023, Games Workshop included his work in a roundup of the hobby’s top painters. He’s served as a judge for GAMA’s Origins Awards. After spending time as a writer and reporter, he became Polygon’s tabletop editor in 2021. You must make a Qtr selection in order to use the QtrQtr box.Charlie Hall is a journalist, photographer, and miniature painter with 10 years’ experience working at Polygon. The Qtr selection box divides the section into quarters and the QtrQtr selection box gives you a quarter of the quarter section specified in the Qtr box or, in other words, one-sixteenth of the entire section. These drop down boxes are used in conjunction with the Twn/Rng/Sec box to further divide the section into smaller pieces. You could put the same six digits in the parcel number field and click the parcel search button to get the same results. Township/Range/Section is simply the first 6 digits of a parcel number using 2 digits for each. You may further refine your search by using the Qtr/QtrQtr drop down boxes in conunction with the Twn/Rng/Sec box to divide the section into smaller pieces. Enter a number in this field and press the legal search button to retrieve a list of parcels in a particular Township/Range/Section. The last 4 characters are only used if the parcel needs further description. The next 6 digits are x-y map coordinates with 3 digits each. The first 6 digits describe the township/range/section for the parcel using 2 digits for each. The parcel number is a 16 digit number in 6-6-4 format. You may page through all parcels selected. A limited number of parcels are listed in parcel number order. If the number you are entering has all zeros on the end of it, you only need to key the number in up to the last non-zero digit. ![]() You will receive a list of parcels starting at the parcel number you entered. Enter a parcel number in this field and press the parcel search button if you are searching for a particular parcel.
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