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Category: Hobby Shortcut

Short and easy to follow tips and tricks to enhance your wargaming hobby.

How to learn game rules

Hobby Shortcut: How to learn game rules

28/03/2025 Eric Hobby Shortcut, Tutorial

In this tutorial I’ll guide you through my personal method of how I learn war game rules, and how to wreck your rulebook in the process.

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Hobby Shortcut: Basic oil wash

31/01/2025 Eric Hobby Shortcut, Tutorial

A DIY oil wash is a cheap and easy to use alternative to your standard acrylic wash and another tool for your miniature painting arsenal.

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Free wash palettes

Hobby Shortcut: Free wash palettes

29/11/2024 Eric Hobby Shortcut, Tutorial

Free re-usable beer bottle lid wash palettes! Up-cycling at its best. The size is perfect for your mini painting needs.

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Hobby Shortcut: Experiments and Prototypes

11/10/2024 Eric Hobby Shortcut, Tutorial

Before committing to a major wargaming terrain or painting project, I tend to do experiments and develop prototypes first. My[…]

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Hobby Shortcut: Reposing miniatures

31/05/2024 Eric Hobby Shortcut, Tutorial

Reposing your awkward looking miniatures is easy and fun, and in this short tutorial I’ll show you how to I usually do it.

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Speed and Contrast Paints Test Dummies

Hobby Shortcut: Speed and Contrast Paint Test Dummies

19/01/2024 Eric Hobby Shortcut, Tutorial

How do you test your Speed and Contrast paints 2.0 before putting them on your precious primed miniatures?

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Hobby Shortcut: critters in a box

08/12/2023 David Hobby Shortcut, Tutorial

Just to be clear what we are talking about. Unlike your normal miniature collection with carefully painted warbands or large[…]

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Hobby Shortcut: Flock for Free

01/12/2023 Eric Hobby Shortcut, Tutorial

Don’t throw away your used coffee grounds and tea bags. You can up-cycle them into wargaming flock. It’s easy and free. Learn how it’s done!

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Hobby Shortcut: Hobby Journal

10/11/2023 Eric Hobby Shortcut, Tutorial

Keeping a journal for our miniature wargaming hobby to capture ideas, to set goals, and to record progress isn’t new. But very useful!

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Hobby Shortcut: hobby desk protection

26/07/2023 Eric Hobby Shortcut, Tutorial

Recently, I stumbled upon a handy product to protect your hobby desk on the cheap: MÅLA paper rolls from IKEA.[…]

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