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Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Counter Notes "I Want to Get Into Weathering, What Do I Buy?" Weekly column · Lessons from the paint counter at WWH · August 2026 This is one of the most common questions we get at the counter, and it is one of the hardest to answer cleanly. "I want to get into weathering, what do I buy?" There is no single bottle we can hand you, because weathering is not a product. It is a plan you execute, and the products only make sense once the plan exis …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Scale Model Build Feature Kyle Builds the 1/48 Hasegawa F-16 Hasegawa 1/48 F-16 · Aircraft · Full Build Feature ✈ 1/48 Aircraft Inspiration source: Kyle saw a photo on Instagram and thought "oh that looks cool." The result is this beautifully finished 1/48 Hasegawa F-16 in Pakistan Air Force markings - a two-tone USAF grey scheme built from reference photos, with scratch-built IFF antennas, Kaleido metallic engines, hand-cut masking for the w …

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 Bob Builds the Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter: Silver at Heritage Con 2026 Bandai 1/48 Star Wars N-1 Starfighter · Award winning build · May the 4th Be With You 2026  Silver — Heritage Con 2026 To celebrate May the 4th, we are featuring this exceptional build from our friend Bob_Builds_Models: Bandai's 1/48 Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter, which took Silver in the Star Wars Ground & Flight category at Herit …