The Blacksmith's Desk

Get Down and Dirty: Adding Texture to Your 28mm Miniature Bases
Hey there, hobbyists!   Are you tired of boring, flat bases for your sci-fi miniatures? Ready to take your painting skills to the next level and create immersive, realistic landscapes for your favorite models? Then it's time to get down and dirty with texture! Adding texture to your miniature bases can bring a whole new level of depth and detail to your gaming experience. Whether you want to create a gritty urban battleground or a lush jungle paradise, this article will show you how to add texture to your 28mm... Read more...
New Plastic Options for our Miniature Bits
Attention all hobbyists and miniature enthusiasts! We have some exciting news to share with you. Our miniature bits vendor, shapeways.com, is now offering two new materials that are perfect for creating high-quality terrain and miniature accessories. The Gray Fine Detail Plastic and Clear Ultra Fine Detail Plastic are sure to take your creations to the next level. The Gray Fine Detail Plastic is an opaque material that provides exceptional contrast and detail. This makes it ideal for creating intricate and detailed terrain pieces that will look stunning on any tabletop.... Read more...
WIP: Samurai Crusader Combat Walker Sneak Peek
Hello everyone, Here's a sneak peek at something big coming out of the forge: a Samurai Crusader Combat Walker upgrade. Think a towering armored walker wearing a full kabuto helmet, layered sode shoulder plates and samurai trim, ready to stomp across the table as the heavy hitter of your samurai space knights army. In One Page Rules' Grimdark Future it's built to stand in as a Combat Walker or Attack Walker for your Battle Brothers or Prime Brothers list. While you wait, kit out the infantry walking beside it with... Read more...
Now Offering STL files
Hello there, For those of you that have 3d printers or feel our shapeways.com produced products are too expensive, we now offer stl format files of our most popular items, From our menu simply click the plus next to Bits > Bits By Type > Digital Files (STLs) This will bring you to our Digital Models page. We will be gradually adding our items in order of most sold. If there is an item you want and its not there, simply contact us at bwterrainforge@gmail.com and let us know which... Read more...
Homemade Snow Texture Paste
Snow Paste There are a lot of different snow texture pastes out there. Here is a chart of different solutions that you can purchase. Now you don't really need to spend money on these. You can make your own version with items you might have at home. This is a homemade texture paste recipe I found recently on the blog, Such a Pretty Mess. It is made from a combination of talcum powder, glue, white paint, and water, and can be stored. 1/4 cup baby powder or baking soda 1... Read more...
New Cyber Samurai V10K Posable Arms with Steel Claws
Fresh from the forge: Cyber Samurai V10K Posable Arms with Steel Claws. If you grew up on Saturday-morning cartoons, you know exactly which armored ninja-master villain inspired these bladed gauntlets, and now your sci-fi samurai can wear them. Each set gives you an upper arm, a forearm and a clawed hand in both left and right versions, with straight and bent variations so every knight in the squad can strike a different pose. They're sized for our V10K Knight armor pattern and fit 28mm and 32mm heroic-scale sci-fi infantry, perfect... Read more...
New Space Knights Konda Style Sword Bits
Newly added to our store. The Space Knights Konda Style Sword is designed for normal power armor. The swords are designed to look like swords from North-Western Congo and used by the Mongos. The set of swords comes with four right hands and four left hands and two without hands to ensure a unique look for each warrior. https://bwterrainforge.com/products/space-knights-konda-style-sword Read more...
Welcome To Our New and Improved Shop
Greetings all, It's 2019 and time for a new website. Our old website was bogged down by dozens of issues, and trying to tackle those issues while keeping up the day to day maintenance on the business, while also working a 9-5 day job, has just proven to be too much.  We have successfully moved our shop from our former host to a new shopify store. So what does that mean for you? Well better pricing. better products, and more of everything. So take a look around. Kick the tires, check... Read more...
Cold Porcelain
Cold porcelain is not actually made from porcelain, but it's cheap and easy to prepare. If you want to learn how to make cold porcelain, read this page. What is Cold Porcelain? How to Make Cold Porcelain What is Cold Porcelain? Cold porcelain is an inexpensive, non-toxic, easy-to-work-with material.Despite its name, it is not porcelain; its main components are cornstarch and white glue, but can also include low quantities of oils and glycerol which promote a porcelain-like, smooth texture. Because most of the constituents are biodegradable, lemon juice and sodium benzoate... Read more...
Citadel Paint Equivalents Chart: Vallejo, Army Painter, Reaper & More
Find the Vallejo, Army Painter, Reaper, Scale75, P3 and Two Thin Coats match for 115+ Citadel paints, with hex codes. Free paint conversion chart. Read more...
Hobby Scales
Understanding Hobby Scales in Tabletop Gaming The world of hobbies encompasses a vast array of sizes, known as scales. These scales are crucial for modelers, gamers, and collectors to ensure compatibility and realism in their projects. Below is a comprehensive table of popular scales and their applications. Comprehensive Hobby Scale Table Ratio Inches per Foot Millimetres per Foot Comments 1:20000 - 0.015 mm Arii produced injection-molded kits in this scale of the very large Zentradi spacecraft from the science fiction anime series Macross. 1:4800 - 0.064 mm Used for fictional... Read more...
Happy New 2018
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