Miniatures Painting and Modelling

This page is a collection of useful stuff relating to the hobby of modelling and painting. I've always enjoyed miniatures, but have only seriously gotten into the hobby in the last few years. At the moment I am mostly preoccupied with building minis for my Warhammer 40K Ork army, and Battlefleet Gothic Ork fleet, but at other times in the past I have painted up various fantasy minis.

Warhammer 40K and Battlefleet Gothic

Blackstone Outpost: A BFG site with spiffy downloads and other info
The 40K Galaxy Starmap: Kewl reference map of the galaxy according to WH40K.
Games Workshop - Armored Company Rules: GW official rules for Imperial Guard Armored Companies (or Ork Armored Krumpanies).
Banners and Badges from Hangar 8: There are lots of lovely banners for download on this site. Even orky ones.
The Waaagh Forums: This is THE forum for Ork players. The number of talented people on this forum is absolutely frightening. The Mek's Garage is home to a number of projects that eventually ended up in issues of the White Dwarf.
The Soldiers of Misfortune: This is yahoo group for the Jersey Shore Hobby Center. Good groupd of ladz.
The Tactical Command Forums: Forums for BFG and Epic.
Scarpia's 40K stuff: Scarps is one of the denizens of the Waaagh. He does some amazing stuff.
Mike's Blog: Mike is another Waaagh member. This guy has great imagination and some serious building skills.
Warboss GargDregga's stuff: GargDregga, aka Darkfather, has some very cool stuff. And it's a family affair to boot.
Irondog Studios: Irondog does some very creative stuff and his painting skills are top-notch.
Big Shoota: Sukigod of the Waaagh's stuff. Serious painting skills.
The Waaagh's Gallery: Has links to some of the Waaagh's member pages, such as: Nightserpent and Gorfrag.
Orky Glyphs: Ork Glyphs and their meanings compiled by Gaf-naz of The Waaagh
Kr00zA's Gargant Size Chart and the Ueber-Mega-Version

Tutorials, Tips and Tricks

Games Workshop - Weathering Tanks, Modelling Fire Tutorial, Greenstuffing
Painting Fire
Modeling Flames
Painting: Terminator Stone Templar Scheme: Useful youtube video on basic troop painting techniques.
Weathered Metal: Particularly rusty looking scythe blade from a dude on coolminiornot.
Color Modulation by Adam Wilder: shading for vehicles.
Painting Figures with Model Color by Mario Fuentes: Words of wisdom from the experts at Vallejo.
Works on coolminiornot by Shawn R. L.: This guy has some amazing pieces and his stuff is great reference for OSL.
The Waaagh - Tibald's Cracked Earth Tutorial
Making Barbed Wire
Dysartes.com: Dipping: How-to dip miniatures for quick decent results on a large army.
Concept Art Forums: Smellybugs Maquette Tutorial: This is a wonderful tutorial on working with Sculpey and sculpting in general.
The Complete Future: This is the whole story on Future Floor Finish and its uses in modelling.
Resin Casting Tutorial at Ultrawerke: Good step-by-step guide to resin casting a simple model (tank hull).
Beginner's Guide to Putty: Article I wrote for The Waaagh Modeling FAQ.

General Hobby Info

Gamer's Realm: my FLGS.
Game Recording Tool: Interesting. Haven't given it a go yet.
Scratchbuilt Star Wars Star Destroyer: Four foot long scratchbuilt Star Destroyer and other projects
Magmatrax: Brilliant article of one man's journey to a Golden Demon Award.
Cool Mini or Not: Pictures of all sorts of miniatures from the sublime to the ridiculous
Fichtenfoo: Awesome modelling from a guy with a funny name.
The Shiflett Brothers: Some lovely super-hero sculpts
Villafane Studios: More super-hero sculpts, plus check out his pumpkins!.
NEOMODEL: Some insanely beautiful minis for inspiration.
Hirst Arts Fantasy Architecture Inc.: Nice commercial site with useful mold-making info.
Sculpting Tutorial: Interesting tutorial by a dude name of Jason Miller. Good basic tips. Sound advice.
Polykarbon: Good reference site. It's for anime, but what the heck, it's still good and useful stuff.
Animator vs Animation: Not modelling but cool anyway.