painting oh how you mock me

[mitchell]

im a noooob when it cmes to painting but i still wish to do it myself and im thinking of buying the how to paint citadel mintures book or having someone nice teach me. help me someone

[draconis]

Sorry to have to do the fellas out of a possible sale here, but that book is one of their least useful ones to date.

It has nothing in it that hasn't been in what seems like every edition of White Dwarf they bring out...

The (pretty) basic painting guides inside could be described and demonstrated by the more senior members of this board in less time than it takes to read that book.

What're ya paintin'? If you like Mitchel, I'll go through a few techniques with you next weekend (I'm workin' this weekend, dammit )

[alex]

yeah I'd agree, save your money for miniatures.
Have a look around online and you'd find lots of ideas for painting.

Good brushes are a must, as is treating them well.

[ThePup]

Yep, Good brushes seem expensive, but can make a huge difference - the're worth the money, and learn to look after them.

Also get good quality paints - Ash, what do you stock? I Know vallejo are EXCELLENT quality paints, I much preffer them to GW. If Ash only stocks GW, then it will do the job, plenty of other folks get excellent results with it, it's just not my preference.

Practice, practice, practice - get minis and start painting! Lots of tutorials on the net for various effects too.

[alex]

SOme of my friends who paint historical stuff like to use non-GW paints.
Personally I think the GW are good paints.

Some of the historical gamers don't like GW paints because of the colour selection being very bright abnd gaudy, which I think they started to fix recently with the new colours (Comando Khaki etc).
A mate uses lots of GW paints, and mixes equal parts Snakebite leather plus the colour of choice, it just tones down the brightness and colour saturation to a normal level.

When you are starting out and don't have many paints make sure you have a black and a white, then you can mix up your own highlights and shadows etc from the colour you choose for your army/team etc.

My painting method works in one of two ways:
1) Spray black, add dark colour to almost all of the appropriate surface (e.g. Scab red to marine armour), then paint slightly less of the area with a lighter colour (e.g. red gore), then go along all the most evident parts of the mini with another lighter colour (e.g. blood red) then do a little bit of highlighting in very thin lines along the highest parts of the model (e.g. blazing orange).

2) spray miniature white, add a wash, paint a few raised areas (like a zombies clothing remnants) in colour of choice. Then maybe add a black wash and some highlighting. This method makes for a mess earthy paint job that is great on zombies, skaven etc. If the undercoat is a little chalkie (not uncommon IMX) this method can look crap.

[ash]

We only stock GW paints at this time.
I have never had any problem with them except when i have let them get either other colors in them or air in them. Look after your paints well!
The foundation range is awesome, good coverage with a decent color selection. When painting start with foundations as a basecoat.

Im moving this thread to the painting forum....

[ash]

We will be running painting workshops soon but in the meantime ask just about any of the senior members. Just about all of them can paint and some to really good standards. Im sure they will be happy to help (including me)

[draconis]

Feb 22, 2008 13:50:38 GMT 9.5 @ash said:

We only stock GW paints at this time.
I have never had any problem with them except when i have let them get either other colors in them or air in them. quote]

Unfortunately, with the latter, that means simply opening the lid for the first time