Big Bog Roundup: Part Two

Here is the second part of my big blog roundup. A number of these are in french. France produces some of the best artwork in the world and this is true within miniature painting. Even if you need to pop things through a translator and stumble through some engrish there's some great information in all of them.

I am running out of platitudes to roll out about each painter. I'm only going to post good and useful sites and I feel shallow saying 'oh this painting is great and the tutorials are useful etc etc' every time. 

Miniature Fairy Tales

http://miniaturefairytales.blogspot.co.at/

This is another blog by a small group of people. The posts are not the most frequent but there's a good backlog and a number of tutorials written up. There is sculpting WIP on display as well as painting at a variety of (high) levels of proficiency.

They post updates about what's going on in the world of miniatures; new tutorials, inspiring paint work, new resources.

The Brush Brothers

http://www.thebrushbrothers.blogspot.co.uk/

Another group of great painters with tutorials, WIPs and display photos.

ScratchMod

http://www.scratchmod.com/

http://modelerssocialclub.proboards.com/forum

These ScratchMod sites follow the strange habit of people to be great technical painters and then produce websites that look like the 90's exploded on their HTML. Work through the unintuitive site design and see some realistic/historical WIPs. The forum has lots of different sections, including one user pulling apart a Tumbler vehicle and re-rendering it more accurately to the films and addind LEDs, etc.

5th Dimension

http://5-th-dimension.blogspot.co.uk/

Another collective of painters collaborating on a blog. I didn't realize this was so commonly done. Lots on it, including thoughts on miniature painting/hobbying in general which is always quite nice.

Look at this amazing base and now go read the amazing words of the people who make and paint things like this!

Mr Lee's Painting Emporium

http://mrleespaintingemporium.blogspot.de/

As well as contributing to the 5th dimension Mr Lee has his own dedicated blog that has been going for a couple of years, has a couple of hundred posts and is an informative and easy read.

Tale of Painters

http://taleofpainters.blogspot.co.uk/

Collaborative blog based on Games Workshop products. It's been running for a few years and updates regularly, covering everything from tutorials to building man caves.

I've never had this problem. As the woman of the house I have just spread my modelling and painting supplies over everything and threaten to leave my housemate to cook for himself if he complains.

They have a nifty format for doing their tutorials in. The blog design isn't the most ideal but viewable non the less.

 Ok I feel like like the undead at the moment but I really want to share the great blogs I've found. I will just list the rest for now. If you are the owner of a blog below please don't think I'm making a statement by not doing a little section - I am simply too tired for writing!

http://eurekaminiature.blogspot.com.es/

http://cursedmonkeys.com/

http://leskouzes.blogspot.fr/

http://mondedeptitsbonshommes.com/

http://www.jbadiorama.com/

This last link is highly recommended. Some of the most insane diorama scratch building I've seen.