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Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Counter Notes Zenithal Highlighting: The Cheapest Way to Add Depth Before You Add Colour Weekly column · Lessons from the paint counter at WWH · August 2026 Zenithal highlighting is one of the easiest, cheapest steps up you can take toward better-looking figures, and it is one we point people to constantly at the counter. The name sounds technical, but the idea is plain: you apply your highlight from directly above the model, the way the sun fa …

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 …