"...[what] makes these books terrific is Singleton’s concerted and consistent efforts to generously share ways to achieve practical and doable results in a reasonable amount of time with fellow enthusiasts."

Toy Soldier Collector & Historical Figures

The painting advice is good and following Singleton’s suggestions will have the gamer producing either quick armies at Conscript level or very well painted forces at Elite level.

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Thomo's Hole

Andy has provided a very good painting guide for gamers and painters wanting to get involved with the Desert War. Indeed, for many, this book might be the only book they need on the subject of painting uniforms for this theatre. It’s quick to read, easy to follow and should give you good results.

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Meeples & Miniatures

"This book will no doubt be popular with Wargamers looking for guidance for painting World War II Armies that fought in the Western Desert."

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MAFVA, September 2019

This book is definitely something you should pick up if you’re looking to start playing in the Western Desert during World War Two, you could transfer these techniques to a more modern period as well.

Irregular Magazine | Winter Issue 2019 – reviewed by Jason Hubbard

A guide focused on wargames players.

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Miniaturas JM

Over all I found the book to be a great introduction to figure painting which as a novice to the genre will hopefully allow me to produce a good basic figure which I can then work on extra detailing, shading and other effects as my skill sets and confidence grow!

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KitsandBits Blog, Mark Dale

This is well-written and lavishly illustrated guide book that provides important tips for painting wargaming figures, but also for larger display figures – Highly Recommended

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Firetrench

A very enjoyable read - and I think a very sound approach to 28mm military miniature painting for one of the most engrossing theatres of WWII.

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GoodReads, Martin

This is one for all figure modellers not just the wargamer. It’s nicely organised into 3 levels of details which can be used as a guide for any scale.

Vintage Airfix

Singleton’s more than handy little book provides everything a prospective painter needs to paint figures for the WWII desert campaign. His book is divided into two parts; the first covers the tools you will need and the basic techniques required for using them. The second part takes you step-by-step through the painting process for all the major armies involved; the British and Commonwealth, Italians, Americans, and Germans. But this is not one of those guides that has you saying “if only…” Rather, Singleton provides guidance for three levels of competency – conscript, regular, and elite – each one building on the other thereby offering hope for us dabbers and dobbers. Singleton includes the paints he uses, which must have made Vallejo happy. He helpfully concludes with a section on basing, another one of my failings... this is a very useful addition to a wargamer’s library with obvious applications for painting just about any figures. My copy is already well-thumbed and no doubt yours will be too.

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Wargames Illustrated

A very good book

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Arrse, June 2019

This is an excellent beginners guide to painting figures for the Desert Campaign. It covers everything that someone just venturing into this area would need to get going with a new army.

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Iron Mammoth's Studio

This book is very useful not only for those who want to try their hand at reproducing realistic miniatures for their wargames focused on the war in North Africa, but also with the necessary adjustments for those who want to try their hand at diorama with other scales such as 1/72. The book is clear, and even those who are "in the trade" by now will be able to find elements of interest that will ensure that this book cannot be missing from any bookshelf of passionate modellers and wargamers.

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Old Barbed Wire Blog

The meat of the book is in the step-by-step painting guides. For each nationality, Singleton offers step-by-step instructions for producing figures at “conscript”, “regular” and “elite” levels. The ratings refer not the quality of the troops, but to the level of painting detail and skill required. Novice painters can start at the “conscript” level to quickly start fielding an army. As confidence and skill grows, a painter can step up to the higher levels.

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Miniature Wargaming

I am a Scale Model Builder, not a War Gammer but the two go hand in hand and painting figures, whether they be 1:35 scale or 1:285 scale is many modelers kryptonite. I find any reference to pulling off a believable figure worth my time. Andy provides a well-informed compilation of his skill in this book and shares with the reader, many tips, advice, and preference of materials. I find books such as this to be invaluable to all avenues of scale modeling.

Ray Stryker Ace, Scale Models & Dioramas of World War II (Facebook)

The text is very well laid out and easily followed and so guess work is not required. The paints used are clearly identified within the specific steps and so again an easily followed aspect of the author’s art. I will say that the image on the front of the book does not in my opinion show off Andy Singleton’s abilities at their best as I have seen how much better his methods can result in. I do like how the images in this title have been well placed with the text and so adding the visual element a title such as this requires.

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Armorama

If your aim is to reproduce this popular professional painting style on figures then Andy Singleton's book is a valuable and detailed guide, distilling the author's experience into a compact single volume.

Chris Kemp, Freelance

Each section is well illustrated throughout the book, which helps illustrate the work and the end results, plus plenty of tables which list the various colours (including the paint brand) to be used for each one.

There are lots of good tips in here and it makes this a very useful guide for painting small scale figures.

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Military Model Scene, Robin Buckland

There's a definite emphasis on simple practical advice, with a view to getting your miniatures painted and ready for action... there's an emphasis on 'achievable results', which should make this a very useful book for its target audience.

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A Question Of Scale, Seb Palmer

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Wargame News and Terrain

As a relative beginner to the art, I found this book very useful. It delivers clear instructions and information. The device of showing the different outcomes as ‘conscript’, ‘regular’ and ‘elite’ is really good in helping demonstrate what progress in developing painting skills looks like. It certainly helped this ‘conscript’ to improve!
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