Ramrider wrote:Same paints you'd use for figs from other lines...
I've already stated my preferences, but I'll repeat 'em. I use Inscribe Hobby Acrylics for the most part, with a few others for specific colours. DecoArt are okay (I'm using their matt varnish quite a bit at the mo), but avoid Anita's like the plague (only one of their paints I use is the Titanium Gold). Tamiya are pretty good, though I mostly only use the clearcoats. And if you really want to pay through the nose, you could always go for GW paints, but as I've said before, they work out ten times as expensive as the Inscribe, and frankly I don't think they're that much better, if at all.
Ramrider wrote:Acrylics won't damage a thing. Tramp's always banging on about how enamels will eat your plastic, though.
Anita's you shouldn't use just 'cause they're crap, don't cover and won't stick properly.
Wes Crayon wrote:Thanks much, Ramrider -- going to head out tomorrow and pick some of those up. And you mention mixing *almost* any color -- you wouldn't happen to know of a way to mix clear colors and metallic variants, would you? Or is that where the almost part comes in?
Ramrider wrote:Wes Crayon wrote:Thanks much, Ramrider -- going to head out tomorrow and pick some of those up. And you mention mixing *almost* any color -- you wouldn't happen to know of a way to mix clear colors and metallic variants, would you? Or is that where the almost part comes in?
Sorry, I didn't spot this bit. Yeah, I'd say they're pretty much an almost. You'll have trouble mixing clearcoats (although again, once you have some basic colours you can mix others), but metallics are a bit more forgiving.
To be honest, if you've got a good silver or two, you can do a lot with it by varying how much you apply (the wonders of drybrushing), and what you put it between (that is, what colours you lay it over, and what you lay over it. A silver paint can be turned into almost any other colour with a layer or two of coloured ink or clearcoat.
Ramrider wrote:Back in the day, when I was still using the GW paints (many moons ago), I was really chuffed to discover that I could apply Flesh Wash over Mithril Silver to get a beautiful gold colour. That saved me buying a new pot of paint...
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Ramrider wrote:Seven layers?! Blimey. Is that a deliberate 'building up of highlights' thing, or is it simply because metallics can't cover for banana split?
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