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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 · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle Builds the Tyranid Prime: The Velobsteraptor Warhammer 40,000 · Tyranid Prime with Lash Whip · Full Paint Guide Tyranids Once, when Kyle was trying to describe Tyranids to a non-Warhammer person, he compared them to an unholy amalgamation of a lobster and a velociraptor. Thus was born the Velobsteraptor. Wanting to do something other than the usual Tyranid colour schemes, Kyle ran with the lobster theme and built …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Vlad's Kravek Morne Full Paint Guide · Warhammer 40,000 · May 2026 ⚙ Warhammer 40,000 Vlad's full recipe for Kravek Morne, dark aluminium armour with elaborate bronze chain and trim, black panels with a cold blue highlight ramp, hazard stripe yellow panels, and a muddy industrial base. A striking scheme built around metallic contrasts and sharp edge highlighting. All products below are in stock at Wheels & Win …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Scale Modelling Guide How to Thin Tamiya Paints: A Canadian Modeller's Guide Acrylics, lacquers, and enamels · Updated for 2026 Canadian regulatory changes · Updated April 2026 Most online guides to thinning Tamiya paints will give you exact ratios and exact PSI numbers. We are not going to do that, because those numbers are wrong — or at least, they are not consistently right. Paint behavior varies by colour, by pigment, by bottle age, …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Painting Guide Speedpaint 2.0 vs Citadel Contrast: Which One-Coat Paint Should You Buy? One-coat paint comparison · Three years of retail sales data · Updated April 2026 Speedpaint 2.0 and Citadel Contrast are the two dominant one-coat paints in miniature painting. Both are designed to do the work of base coat, shade, and highlight in a single pass over a light primer. Both have devoted followings. We sell both in volume at Wheels & …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Painting Guide Vallejo vs Citadel (Warhammer Color): Which Paint Is Better? Miniature painting paint comparison · Prices, quality, and value for Canadian hobbyists · Updated April 2026 Vallejo and Citadel are the two most popular acrylic paint ranges for miniature painting. Both are water-based, both work on plastic and resin miniatures, and both are stocked at Wheels & Wings in Toronto. Choosing between them is one of the first …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Paint Reference Vallejo Model Color Complete colour listing · Water-based acrylics for brush painting The broadest brush-painting range in the Vallejo lineup Vallejo Model Color is the paint range most scale modellers reach for first — and with good reason. Formulated specifically for brush application, the thin, self-levelling consistency lays down flat, even coats straight from the dropper bottle with no dilution required on most surfaces. …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Paint Reference Vallejo Paint Guide by Vehicle, Theatre & Time Frame Scale modelling colour reference · Model Color · Model Air · Metal Color Find the right Vallejo paint for your kit — organised by subject, era, and theatre All Vallejo paints listed in this guide are stocked at Wheels & Wings Hobbies — browse the full range here. Every SKU links directly to the product page. We ship across Canada. This guide group …