Breaking the Mold: Kitbashing Tips and Tricks

In this guide I provide a step-by-step overview of my kitbashing process, the tools I use and demonstrate simple yet fundamental techniques for upscaling, pinning parts, and fusing them together so you can create your own custom miniatures.

Breaking the Mold: Kitbashing Tips and Tricks

Introduction

In this first entry of my new kitbashing tutorial series, I will walk you through my simple yet effective process for creating custom miniatures. To keep it digestible, I will not cover the sourcing of bits and parts in this guide, which will be the topic of a future post. Rather, my aim is to demonstrate the various methods and tools that I use, to help you understand the fundamentals so you can adapt these techniques to your own projects and resources.

This guide is primarily aimed at beginners who want to learn about kitbashing and how to create unique miniatures like the one showcased below. We will cover various tips and tricks to help you move beyond the restrictions of assembly manuals. These include upscaling and pinning plastic parts, using putty for sculpting and gap-filling purposes, as well as customizing components to enhance the overall appearance of your models.