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Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Horus Heresy Iron Hands — Paint Guide Warhammer: The Horus Heresy · Iron Hands · Paint Guide Iron Hands A less popular chapter with a simple, polarising paint scheme - and one that gets less credit than it deserves. The Iron Hands are black on black, with their distinctive iron hands of course, and that is harder to depict than it sounds. Highlighting black requires working from as dark as possible with very …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Scale Model Build Feature Building the Tamiya Renault R35 with AK Interactive 3rd Gen Acrylics Tamiya 1/35 · Armour · Full Build Feature 1/35 Armour The Tamiya Renault R35 is a beautifully engineered little kit - a four-colour French camouflage scheme, clever tapered axle engineering on the running gear, and link-and-length tracks that represent the best compromise between detail and sanity. Finished here as a vehicle of the 23rd Combat Tank …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Captain in Terminator Armour — Armageddon Pre-Order Launch Warhammer 40,000 · Ultramarines · Paint Guide ⚔ Ultramarines To commemorate the pre-order launch of Warhammer 40,000 11th Edition Armageddon, we're showcasing one of the launch miniatures from the Leviathan 10th Edition box - the Ultramarine Captain in Terminator Armour. A model that rewards careful painting, from the crux terminatus on the shoulde …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Night Before Armageddon — Kyle's Horus Heresy Salamanders Warhammer: The Horus Heresy · Salamanders · Paint Guide Salamanders To get everyone fired up for launch night, we're covering a Salamanders scheme from Kyle - one of the chapters deeply involved in the Armageddon conflict. There's no better way to count down to a launch than painting the warriors who'll be on the table. This is a Mark VI Horus Heresy Space …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Crimson Fists — Ready for Armageddon Warhammer 40,000 · Crimson Fists · Paint Guide ⚔ Crimson Fists To prepare you for Warhammer 40,000 11th Edition, we're covering one of the chapters that doesn't get nearly enough attention - the Crimson Fists. With a confirmed role in the Armageddon conflict and their own decal sheet included in the upcoming Armageddon launch box, now is the perfect time to get them on …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Classic Ultramarine — A Blast from the Past Warhammer 40,000 · Ultramarines · Paint Guide ⚔ Ultramarines A blast from the past. Kyle's classic Ultramarine is painted in the style of the 1990s and early 2000s - that iconic blue, yellow, and red combination that greeted a generation of hobbyists walking into a Games Workshop for the first time. Just seeing this scheme brings it all back. This is a push-fit A …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Scale Model Build Feature Kyle Builds the 1/35 StuG III Figure — Living the StuG Life Dragon/Cyber Hobby 9119 · 1/35 Figure · Winter Scheme ⚙ 1/35 Figure The companion figure to Kyle's StuG III Ausf.C build — a 1/35 crewman from the same Dragon/Cyber Hobby kit 9119, painted in a matching winter scheme. The base uses the same Russian mud, splash mud, and snow products as the tank itself, tying the two pieces together without comm …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Scale Model Build Feature Kyle Builds the 1/35 StuG III Ausf.C — Winter Scheme Dragon/Cyber Hobby 9119 · 1/35 Armour · Full Build Feature ⚙ 1/35 Armour Kyle's Dragon/Cyber Hobby StuG III Ausf.C in a hand-applied winter whitewash scheme. The base Dunkelgrau is airbrushed first, then heavily thinned Off White is streaked over it by brush in successive passes - wet, crude, deliberate - to simulate the look of field-applied whitewash wear …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Grim Dark Blood Angels Heavy Intercessor Warhammer 40,000 · Blood Angels · Paint Guide ⚔ Blood Angels Kyle's goal for this build was a maximum grim dark look — little to no highlighting, no wash, and a deliberately hand-crafted transition from dark to light across each armour panel. Rather than relying on washes to do the work, the depth here comes from concentrating lighter colour toward the panel centres …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Lemon Imperial Fists — Heavy Intercessors Paint Guide Warhammer 40,000 · Imperial Fists · Full Paint Guide ⚔ Imperial Fists Kyle's take on the Imperial Fists in a clean, saturated yellow - Moon Yellow over white primer, desaturated with a Corax White mix on the edge highlights, and washed down with Tamiya black enamel panel liner. Red trim, freehand chapter symbol on the backpack, and Horus Heresy decals s …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle Builds a Space Marine 2 Heavy Las Intercessor Conversion Warhammer 40,000 · Custom Conversion · Full Build & Paint Guide ⚔ Custom Conversion Space Marine 2 was the inspiration for this one-off custom Heavy Las Intercessor. The las-gun is sourced from the Eliminators kit and heavily modified away from its sniper configuration - Kyle wanted the shorter, heavier rifle look from the game rather than a sniper barre …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle Builds the Necropolis Hawks Heavy Intercessors Warhammer 40,000 · Space Marines · Full Paint Guide ⚔ Space Marines Heretical, Kyle knows - but sometimes the same blue Space Marines can get a little boring. He grabbed some of his favourite Heavy Intercessors and finished them in the very striking colours of the Necropolis Hawks, gene-successors to the Raven Guard. The minis were sprayed white first, with the rest …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Scale Model Build Feature Kyle Builds the Monogram F-105G Wild Weasel: You Gotta Be $hittin' Me! Monogram 1/48 F-105G Thunderchief · MON5806 · Full Build Feature ✈ Wild Weasel As the story goes, "You Gotta Be $hittin' Me" were the words uttered by a member of the first group of Wild Weasels when told what their new role would entail. They were also Kyle's words when he found the single photograph that inspired this entire build. Kyle found …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Paint Reference Paint Types for Scale Modelling: Acrylic, Lacquer & Enamel Compared From a Toronto hobby retailer since 1986 · What the labels actually mean · Updated May 2026 There is a conversation we have at our counter several times a week, and it goes something like this: a customer tells us they use acrylic paints, picks up a bottle of Tamiya, and is surprised when we explain that you can thin it with lacquer thinner. "But it's an a …

AK Interactive Real Colors Civil Paint Guide For automotive & motorcycle scale modellers — Formula 1, sports cars, rally, road cars & motorcycles · 30 colours · All SKUs link to product pages About AK Real Colors Civil. The AK Interactive Real Colors Civil range (RC821–RC850) is a 30-colour set of subject-specific lacquers for automotive and motorcycle scale modelling — Formula 1, sports cars, rally cars, road cars, and motorcycles. Unlike generic hobby c …

AK Interactive Real Colors Military Paint Guide Complete reference for scale modellers — organised by theatre, nation, and era · 166 colours · All SKUs link to product pages About AK Real Colors. AK Interactive's Real Colors is a 180-colour lacquer range now in a new 17ml plastic dropper bottle — 70% more paint than the original 10ml glass bottle. The formula is unchanged: fast-drying, airbrush-optimised lacquer that flows cleanly and delivers opaque coverage in one or …