Introduction

I used to paint miniature when I was younger (I would say from 12 to 18 years old), then I stopped mainly because of space and time constraints. I guess I started as pretty much every other teenage boy my age: painting Warhammer Battle minis.

I would not say my painting style was any good, but I liked it and it let me and my friends play together. I started with a Lizardmen army (as this was one of the two in the default starter box), but then went on to Wood Elves.

I had a hiatus for a few years, but every time I went back to my parents place and saw all those unpainted minis, I wanted to get back to painting. But I had no more friends around to play with, so it would be only painting for the sake of painting. One night, I browsed online and found various websites explaining how to do total conversions of minis: cutting plastic pieces here and there to create new ones.

This soundes like fun and I started creating a whole new Imperial army by using all the bits and pieces I had. I created a few terrain pieces as well, but my main motto was that it had to be cheap. I only re-used old minis I had laying around, or using bits from various cheap toys. I didn’t want to start buying expensive Games Workshops miniature again.

I did that for a few years, on and off, then finally stopped again. I kept buying minis in garage sales if they were really cheap, thinking that “one day” I would be able to get back to it.

Then, about one year ago I realized that if I ever wanted to get back to painting, I’ll had to find a way to do it. I could not just wait for an hypothetical future where I’ll magically have more time. So I started reading online about ways to paint quickly and for cheap.

This website is my place to write down every trick I found to generate a collection of hundred of minis with only a limited amount of money and time to invest in it. I don’t play wargames anymore, but I still do tabletop pen-and-paper roleplay, and those minis are used in this context.