MiniWarPaint
Frankly speaking, I wasn’t going to write about this company. And not because there’s nothing to say about it, but quite the opposite. The company has a large assortment and well-deserved authority, and is known to most Russian modelers.
Nevertheless, having received a question about the published news, I consider it necessary to answer.
I invite the author of the question @Maki
The company has an English-language website and a store where not only its products are sold.
Apparently, the company owes its birth to COVID, in full accordance with the Russian proverb: “There would be no happiness, but misfortune would help.”
As it is written on their website: “The MiniWarPaint brand was created in 2016 as a studio accepting orders for painting military-historical and gaming miniatures. The creation of our own brand of products for large-scale modeling and art products was prompted by the development of a line of brushes for painting miniatures together with Roubloff specialists.”
And in this topic, they did a surprisingly simple and understandable thing, as it seems years later: they made brushes for modelists. It is very difficult, without graduating from art schools and academies, to understand what kind of brush you need: squirrel, beaver, sable, etc. I know most of these animals only from a TV-show about animals or from my wife’s wardrobe.
But here everything is simple. Are you planning to paint figurines? Here, the set is called: “For painting miniatures”.
And there the animals and sizes have already been selected. It is written what is for what – take and paint. And you don’t need to learn the secrets of painting or tassel knitting from the beginning.
Do you do scale modeling? Here is a set with the appropriate composition and name: “For scale modeling.”
Decided to dirty up freshly built and monotonously painted armored vehicles? The “Drips and Splashes” and
and “For oil and pigments” sets to help you.
Have all the models become dusty, standing on the shelves? There’s a “Dust and Sawdust” set for that.
However, if you know everything yourself, you can buy individual brushes and assemble them as you wish.
I have several pieces and yesterday two more arrived with the parcel.
The brushes were released for a reason, but were checked and tested. The company’s website lists the names, I will not repeat them, I will only show some of the works of some of them.
I think the level is clear.
Since they entered modeling from the humanitarian, not technical, direction, they were clearly not aware that there are quite specific and fixed scales: take the size of the original and divide it by this number under the fraction.
In short, they came up with their own sizes. Well, how did they come up with them, they copied them from the nearest shopping center.
Therefore they have:
Well, it’s logical: human clothing and human figures. And it must be said that they are not far from the figures.
And they produce everything in these sizes, usually one product in each size. Here the soldiers of different countries stomped their boots,
and here they walked naked.
Things are fine with the world of the living, but they also adhere to their own gradation of sizes for everything else.
They also have what others have in their assortment. Food, fences, tools, street poles and sewer manholes, etc.
They are obviously great experts in the field of weapons. There are very few companies that make rifles and boxes for them, cartridges and boxes for them. Actually, the question that was highlighted at the beginning is about the cartridges poured into the boxes.
They have quite a lot of goods in this category – you have to see for yourself.
What no one compares to them in is plants! Yes, some have palm, oak and other tree leaves. There are sunflowers and even dandelions. But tulips, orchids, lilacs, poppies and a bunch of other flowers – that’s a rarity.
And no one else will let you pick strawberries and raspberries.
You can feel that there is some botanist in their composition. So you knew that Rúbus idáeus is raspberries. No. And I don’t. But they know it!
Last fall they released their first build kit.
According to the feelings (products and posts on their website and elsewhere on the Internet), the comrades are not alien to humor, incl. and a little dark. Otherwise, they would not be able to present their next sets like that .
I was lucky to visit their stand at Moscow Hobby Expo 2022.
So we have the opportunity to see some of the products in the author’s execution.
I can’t show them all in detail – because there are so many of them!
PS I don’t know exactly whether you can buy the products on the company’s website, but they are sold in the already well-known Unomag store.
