aldoweeman_at_... wrote:
> The oainting advice is really bad in the rule books. Just try painting
> the Imperial fists as advised. The brown wash settles everywhere except
> where you want it too. I spoke to the guys in the local shop and thay
> said they had had this problem too (and no I couldn't get new figures
> free cos they screwed up) Apparently what the shops do is spray yellow
> and wash with yellow ink (its actually a yellowy, orangy, browish
> colour) Better still do space wolves.
I mostly use Ral Partha paints, but here's what I do, from a suggestion
I got off a newsgroup. My Marines are shamrock green, washed with
forest green. If I just water down the paint I use to wash, it gets all
over everything, just darkening the model and making it look smudgy.
The suggestion was to mix in some clear matte finish. The only paint-on
version I could find at the hobby store near me was (rats, I forget.
Maybe floquil.). Anyway, I mix in some of that and some water into the
paint I'll use for a wash, and it really does go into the detail much
better. Some of my vehicles seem to have a sharp dark line along a
detail like a hatch.
I start with a white spray, and my thinned shamrock green goes on pretty
lightly, since I know the wash will darken it, even with the above.
Seems pretty good to me, though I'm not a great painter. It's kinda
like doing a thick water-thinned wash to paint them (thick for a wash),
and then a thin wash thinned with matte and water to detail them. I
don't normally drybrush infantry.
andy
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Andy Skinner
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Received on Thu Feb 26 1998 - 21:23:15 UTC