Monthly Magazine Hobby Japan 2025.09

The brush painting feature finally gets the attention it deserves, with step-by-step photos that actually show the layering technique clearly. It's been a year since they covered this topic, and the fresh sections on weathering made me flip back through the pages twice.

The deep-dive on brush painting is refreshingly thorough, with step-by-step photos that actually show the paint consistency. I've already improved my shading technique just by following the featured section. Worth picking up if you're tired of airbrush-only tutorials.

The brush painting guide is exactly what I've been hunting for, and the step-by-step photos make it easy to follow even if you're new to hand-painting. I flipped through it twice already and picked up a few mixing tricks I hadn’t seen in other mags, so this issue’s a keeper.