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Post by Spitzicles on Jan 31, 2019 3:10:13 GMT
Rob - I remember when you did metals by polishing the base white metal itself! Very shiny! I still do that for sword blades, bayonets (horse & musket era), and some spear points.
It looks OK to my eye and saves a bit of time! |
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Post by macbeth on Jan 31, 2019 3:48:36 GMT
My favourite brand is Derivan Minis - sadly Derivan no longer manufactures this range. They were supposedly designed specifically for miniature figures, and came in a 55ml plastic bottle with a twist/eye dropper style lid. It seems they were a victim of their own success. The lid sealed exceptionally well and I have a collection of them that I bought more than 7 years ago and only now am I running out of some.
Other than that I go to the art stores, craft shops and bargain stores to get tubes of acrylic. Kaiser Colours make up a fair range of my figures but I have a few other brands - sometimes it is good to have several shades of the same colour to mix it up a bit.
cheers
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Post by mark leslie on Feb 2, 2019 4:31:20 GMT
Sadly alright, no sooner than I found out they even existed they stopped the range.  I still have some bottles towering over the tiny containers put out by other manufacturers who seem intent on trying to out compete the ink cartridge industry for the most expensive fluid on earth. |
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Post by Cromwell on Feb 2, 2019 9:48:06 GMT
I use Reeves tubed acrylic paint which is really meant for artists. I use Humbrol enamels for Gold and silver,
I struggle with yellow and Red also. Enamel yellow and red seem to work for me.
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Post by craig on Feb 2, 2019 10:45:33 GMT
I have not used an enamel paints in many years. Do you have to use two different types primers? One for acrylic and one for the enamel? Is there a specific order of layering the paint too? I would think the acrylic would not well will enamel placed on top of it?
Sorry for the multiple questions, but I find this quite interesting.
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Post by wingman on Feb 2, 2019 15:15:53 GMT
I use mostly Vallejo and Coat de Arms these days, with some craft store paints.
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Post by paddy649 on Feb 7, 2019 22:14:42 GMT
I have not used an enamel paints in many years. Do you have to use two different types primers? One for acrylic and one for the enamel? Is there a specific order of layering the paint too? I would think the acrylic would not well will enamel placed on top of it? Sorry for the multiple questions, but I find this quite interesting. Craig - it may be just me but this “you can’t mix enamels and acrylics” is a myth. I’ve been painting one over the other for years with no ill effects. OK - don’t mix them when they are wet.....but overpainting dry has never been a problem for me. Paddy |
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Post by craig on Feb 9, 2019 3:40:23 GMT
Thanks Paddy. Your experience makes sense to me. It might be something I’ll have to experiment with at some point.
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Post by goragrad on Feb 9, 2019 5:59:26 GMT
I'll second paddy649 - I use both enamels and acrylics on the same figures. Usually with about a day to dry between the applications. In part at least due to the fact that I try to paint in an assembly fashion by doing one color on a number of figures at a time. As to results, here is a link to some elements i did for a Low Country army a while back - s858.photobucket.com/user/jamespirc/library/low_country?sort=3&page=1Most of the direct applications tend to be shields with one or the other type of paint as the field and the other as the device. |
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Post by daveh on Feb 26, 2019 17:24:37 GMT
I use Humbrol Enamel White 34 as an undercoat for acrylics and never have a problem with it.
Mainly use Vallejo Model Colour, but I have a few Game Colour and Coat d'Armes paints. I use mainly Vallejo washes, but do have some GW ones for odd colours and I use tube acrylics (Daler Rowney) for terrain and bases.
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Post by greedo on Feb 26, 2019 17:46:53 GMT
I've been Vallejo for all my historical stuff, and GW for my Sci Fi/Fantasy stuff. Especially the inks. Privateer Press for Warmachine (although it's a little watery)
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Post by larryr on Feb 26, 2019 20:02:08 GMT
Vallejo for miniatures ,cheep craft paint for most terrain
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Post by wyvern on Feb 27, 2019 3:41:11 GMT
I'm thinking about giving the Army Painter paints a go, I like their quickshade washes, which seem much better than the Vallejo washes I have.
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Post by Charles on Apr 19, 2019 9:13:33 GMT
As someone else said, choice of paint is a personal thing - like toilet paper! I use Humbrol and Revell enamels, and for metal colours their acrylics. I do not like acrylics generally as they dry too fast and are more fragile than enamels. I can get fine washes with thinned-down enamel, which seems impossible with acrylics unless a whole pile of inks are also bought. I have just emigrated to Spain and suspect that in the warmer weather even enamel paints wil dry so fast that painting at certain times of the day will be difficult. I find some of the acrylic colours far too bright for a medieval army - I am doing Holy Roman Empire based around the Battle of Worringen in 1288, and doubt whether really bright reds would be available, for example. Straying off the subject slightly, I also take pains to paint the shield in a darker, richer, colour than the cloth on a figure, rather than have everything in the identical shade - too me this just looks stupid.
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