Re: [Epic] painting epic scale!

From: Brett Hollindale <agro_at_...>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 01:34:19 +0100 (MET)

At 04:47 PM 28/12/97 -0800, you wrote:
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>My basic problem is how do you paint epic scale figures, I'm new to epic
>but I have managed to do okay with painting the tanks but when I got to
>the space marines, I was kinda worried that I'd screw up the details.
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>Would anyone have some tips as to painting the figures?


I'm not a great painter, I just do my best and I'm usually happy with the
result. I have no problem comparing my minis to other better painters and
finding them not as good cause I haven't an artistic bone in my body...

I guess my best advice is DO UNDERCOAT the mini and DON'T put too much paint on.
Some undercoats are better than others, and some paints are better than others.
I'm in Australia so some of my paints aren't available to you, but Testors
grey primer (turpentine based) is an absolutely outstanding undercoat (far
better than any other I have encountered) although it is a fairly dark gray
and so light colours do not take too well over the top of it. The Citidel
(acrylic) paints are actually quite good, but I have found Ral Partha to be
better and some Tamiya paints to be exceptional.

Good luck!


Agro


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>One more point, I thought that space marine bike squads had to be arranged
>in 3's, but each box comes with 4 bikes only! does that mean I have to
>buy more boxes in order to make full squads?


Of course!


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>alaub_at_...
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>P.S. I see stuff on WD217, is this b/c there's a delay between the UK and
>Canadian versions?
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Received on Tue Dec 30 1997 - 00:34:19 UTC