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What Minis Are You Painting?
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They are kind of expensive ($14 a piece), but it looks like a signifanct time/effort savings.
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I also painted the WWE Showdown figures lately. I used the GW Ardcoat to protect them, but I can't rid of the tacky touch sensation they have. I even tried putting them in a refrigerator for a few weeks to remove any humidity to no effect.
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I just primed most of the Betrayal At Calth SMs using Army Painter spray primers- Ultramarine Blue and Dragon Red. WOW. 20 of those little bastards and five Terminators are primed and base coated. In like 20 minutes. They look good too - if you weren't interested in painting them fully, I think it would be reasonable just to use this to make them red and blue. The red is a little gloppy and there's a few spots on the Word Bearer Vexilla I slopped up, but the blue is fantastic overall. A little black, a little red, a little gold and a little silver and these guys will be done. I didn't do the "hero" minis with the spray, I may just do them in white and then give them more intensive attention.
Reaper paints, ugh. I hate to say it, but Citadel does seem like the best right now. Back 10 years ago when I had my last painting go-round, it was all about Vallejo. The Citadel stuff just works better. I haven't tried P3 yet.
Some pics...the first one is an Ice Spider my son did. He did it all by himself (after much "I can't do this!). I thought I had a picture of the zebra unicorn my daughter did, but I don't and she's lost the figure. Second is a Feral Troll from D&DAS. I think he turned out pretty good, ironically I spent less time on him than just about anything else I've done. The Reikland Fleshshade did really well on him, I never really used inks/shades so I'm getting used to using them. Sort of tricky. The rest are from Imperial Assault. Stormtroopers, I have no idea what to do with them. I've tried a couple of things and they just wind up looking murky. Luke is not looking so hot either. All of these need some clean up (god, the bases) but I feel like I'm making at least a little progress. My goal is to be taking commissions to paint F:ATties' miniatures by this time next year.
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By botching the Stormtroopers do you mean it made them look too messy?
With a mini that's very clean and bright (like Stormtrooper armor) the best approach is to base coat them, hit them with the generic wash, and then go back over them painting the original base coat color in on most of the surfaces. Just keep the brush/paint away from the edge/joints/folds. For best results do this for all figures as it provides a natural highlight (base paint, wash, highlight with base paint on raised areas).
If you hit C3PO with the Nuln Oil you'd need to do this so he still looks bright on the majority of his features.
That's the only way I paint now really and it works for pretty much everything.
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If you're really afraid messing them up, just use selective wash on the crevices.
I'm painting the Runewars heroes, just the base game. I've painted everything else in the box, and by far they are the worst things in the box. The minis are just bad. The artwork style actually doesn't help at all. The colors are boring (mostly reeeeeds). The orcs have several different hues, but they are so non-saturated it's difficult to decide the colors. And then the minis and the artworks have difference. Like one having shoulder pads and the other's not. Well, I just slap colors over them and be done with it. My Runewars base game is 99% complete now. Just need to finish the base on neutral and heroes (grey base with white lips).
BTW, for paints, I currently use Army Painter. They're on dropper bottles, nice bright colors, and finally they dont have a dozen shade of green (bright, normal, dark, army and puke). They're just easy to use. I still use GW base paints for difficult colors though (white and yellow). In fact the whole range is just like less than 40 colors... then they also have the 100% match guarantee thingy although this is useless for me since I cant buy aerosols from overseas by myself. Them being cheap is just an added bonus.
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One note: Look up ModelMates. They make these washes -oil, rust, grime...the best shit in the world. Like, literally, no comparable product exists.
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