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Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Counter Notes The Colour Was Never Accurate to Begin With Weekly column · Lessons from the paint counter at WWH · June 2026 We have this conversation at the counter regularly, and it is never a simple one to answer. Someone comes in with a reference image on their phone, points to a colour on screen, and asks which pot matches it. Sometimes the reference is a painting guide. Sometimes it is a forum post. Quite often, for military modellers esp …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Counter Notes Three Glaze Myths Beginners Get Told (And What's Actually True) Weekly column · Lessons from the paint counter at WWH · May 2026 At its simplest, glazing means applying an extremely thin, translucent layer of paint over fully dried work to subtly shift colour without covering detail. That single sentence clears up most of the confusion — and yet it is somehow absent from most beginner introductions to the technique. When …