Model-making Tricks & Tips

Treasures & Trinkets
	Candles How to make effective candles.	Gold Bars Making gold bars from plastic sprue pieces.	Pots, Bottles & Urns How to make items using a hand-drill as a rudimentary lathe.	Coin Piles Making coin piles from casting plaster using a temporary mould.
	Treasure Piles How to make piles of treasure with hot glue and glitter.	Scrolls How to make simple scrolls.	Closed Books How to make closed books from stripwood and card.	Open Books Making open books from stripwood, card and paper.
	Bead Bottles How to make bottles from beads.	Bead Bottles 2 Adding corks to bead bottles using a cocktail stick.	Bead Bottles 3 Adding a metal cap made from a link of a clothing tag.	Metal Rings Making rings from solder for use as door handles or curtain rings.
	Goblets How to make goblets from a dolls house coffee set.	Weights Making a set of weights from a plastic sprue.	Brass Bowls How to make bowls from paper fasteners.	Weighing Scales How to make a set of weighing scales.
	Test Tubes How to make test tubes from bugle beads.	Test Tube Rack Making a simple rack to hold the test tubes.	Saucepans Making a saucepan from a superglue cap and a toothpick.	Saucepans #2 A different style of saucepan with wire handles.
	Simple Sacks How to make sacks from stones and wet wipes.

Flowers & Foliage
	Buddleia Trees Making effective trees from dried buddleia flower spikes.	Ivy Making thick patches of ivy.	Creepers Making creepers using dried plant stems.	Birch Catkin Leaves How to make small leaves from birch catkins.
	Simple Hedges How to make simple hedges from pan scourers.	Topiary Trees Making topiary trees from pan scourers.	Water Lilies How to make water lilies.	Bull-Rushes Making bull-rushes.
Fruit & Veg
	Pumpkins Making pumpkins with coloured clay.	Oranges Making oranges with textured skins.	Sweetcorn Making cobs of sweetcorn.	Cabbages Making cabbages from polymer clay.
	Onions Making onions from seed beads and raffia.	Beetroot How to make beetroot plants from beads, wire and paper.	Chives - Leaves How to make clumps of leaves for chives.	Chives - Flowers How to add flower spikes to clumps of chives.

Monsters & Minis
	Water Elemental Making a transparent model from a plastic bottle.	Gelatinous Cube How to make a gelatinous cube with a skeleton inside.	Slime Slugs Making slime slugs from plastic sheet and epoxy.	Tentacles How to make a set of tentacles.
Eggs & Nests
	Glue Gun Eggs How to make translucent eggs from hot glue.	More Eggs Making different types of eggs using a variety of materials.	Brush Nests How to make a nest using bristles from an old paint brush.	Scourer Nests How to make a birds nest from a scouring pad.
	Swallow Nests How to make swallows' nests from modelling clay and flock.	Scrape Nests How to make a scrape nest using sand and hot-glue.	Webs How to make spiders' webs from hemming tape.	Wolf Spider Nests How to make a wolf spider nest from a wet wipe.
	Spider Nests 1 How to make a cocoon-style nest from a cotton bud.	Spider Nests 2 How to make a spider nest from a wet wipe.	Beehives How to make a 'skep' beehive from string.	Wasps Nests How to make a wasps nest from modelling clay.
	Molehills How to make molehills from plaster.

Wagons
	Removable Hay Pile Making a hay pile which can be added to a wagon.
Landform Features
	Bare Earth Making patches of bare earth from casting plaster.	Failed Retaining Walls How to make collapsed earth patches from casting plaster.	Ploughed Fields Making ploughed soil from casting plaster.	Lava Flows How to make lava flows from casting plaster, and add paint effects.
Card Constructions
	Domes Templates and instructions for constructing domes.	Hipped Roofs Templates and instructions for hipped roofs.	Spires Making a plaster spire using a card mould with templates.

Perfecting Plaster
	Flat Floors How to keep floors flat when using plaster blocks.	Flat Walls How to keep walls straight using plaster blocks.	Round Walls How to make neat round towers using plaster blocks.
Hiding Flaws
	Battle Damage Disguising flaws as battle damage.	Laser Damage Disguising flaws as laser damage.	Bullet Holes Disguising flaws as bullet holes.	Monster Damage Disguising flaws as monster damage.
	Acid Damage Disguising flaws as acid damage.	Filling Holes Filling large air-bubbles in plaster casts.	Filling Joints Filling unwanted joints in models made from plaster blocks.
Additions
	Icicles Adding icicles to a model.	Signs How to make removable signs for buildings.	Tapestries Making tapestries to add to a model.	Plastering Walls Adding areas of plaster to model walls.
	Damaged Plaster How to make areas of damaged plasterwork.	Graves How to make a variety of graves.	Gravestones Using old plant labels to make gravestones.

Windows & Glass
	Printing Leaded Glass Print a variety of leaded glass panels in 16 styles.	Cracked Glass Making damaged window panes with cracks.	Fine Frosted Glass How to make windows with a fine frosted glass effect.	Clear Designs on Frosted Glass Adding clear designs to frosted glass windows.
	Antique Glass How to create the effect of antique glass on sheet plastic.	Rain Glass Producing an effect that resembles rain glass.	Leaded Glass from Packaging Simple leaded glass panes made from moulded packaging.	Milky Frosted Glass Milky glass panes from milk bottles. These also make great diffusers for back-lighting.
	Mirrored Glass How to make mirrored glass.	Mirrors with Foxing Creating an old mirror with foxing.
Arms & Armour
	Grinding Wheel Making a grinding wheel from a rotary tool grinding disc.	Weapon Racks Making a variety of racks to hold weapons and shields.	Kite Shields How to make kite shields from an empty plastic milk bottle.	Textured Shields Making textured shields from an empty plastic milk bottle.
	Shield Bosses How to make shield bosses from superglue caps.	Shield Handles Making handles for shields from an empty water bottle.	Shield Designs Adding designs to your shields using adhesive tape.	Maces Instructions for making a variety of maces from beads and cocktail sticks.
	Rapiers How to make simple rapiers from dressmakers' pins.	Swords How to make a variety of swords from plastic card and other cheap materials.	Shortswords & Daggers Making shortswords and daggers from a comb and a hairbrush.	Practice Swords Instructions for making two styles of practice sword from pop-rivets.
	Polearms How to make a variety of polearms from cocktail sticks and other cheap materials.	Spears Making spears from cocktail sticks and comb teeth.	Javelins How to make javelins from cocktail sticks and cocktail forks.	Boar Spears How to make boar spears from cocktail sticks and cocktail forks.
	Cloaks Making dragon-scale cloaks from an empty plastic milk bottle.	Greaves How to make pairs of greaves from an empty plastic milk bottle.	Breastplates How to make breastplates from an empty plastic milk bottle.
Warmachines
	Gabions Making gabions from cocktail sticks, string and hot glue.	Archery Target How to make a target from string.	Archery Target Stand Making a stand for the archery target.	Practice Dummy How to make a practice dummy.
Furniture
	Texturing Wood Adding texture to craft sticks, basswood or balsa.	Weapon Racks Making a variety of racks to hold weapons and shields.
Torches & Lighting
	Candles How to make effective candles.	Simple Torches Making simple torches.	Hot Glue Flames An easy way to make flaming torches with hot glue.	Spent Torch Adding a spent torch to your layout.
	Fancy Torches Making fancier torches using jeweller's pendant clasps.	Free-Standing Torches Taller torches designed to stand on the floor.	Cotton Bud Flames Adding flames made from the end of a cotton bud.	Sconces Making sconces for your torches.
	Chandeliers How to make chandeliers.
Animals & Beasts
	Hunting Trophies Making hunting trophies from plastic toys.	Animal Skin Rugs How to make animal skin rugs.	Carry Pole One way to make use of the headless body.	Animal Bench Making a bench using the legs from a plastic toy.
	Joints of Meat How to make joints of meat from the legs of a plastic toy.	Displacer Beast Making a displacer beast from a plastic toy.	Animal Cage How to make a cage to hold or transport an animal.
Materials Medley
	Prime Cuts from a Milk Bottle Creative uses for different parts of an empty plastic milk bottle.