Ye Olde Inn

by **bruenor** » Wednesday January 30th, 2013 1:11pm

Yep agree it looks good for a first try.
If possible I would recommend trying to get a hold of one of the painting Citadel Miniatures books, the new one has a DVD with it, but also has a price tag of £30, so try ebay for one of the last ones.
They have loads of tips and walkthroughs, like highlighting, shading and even a bit on painting eyes.

Totally agree on the overkill on the base, try to tone it back a bit and leave it off the sides, or use fine sand and paint that instead of flock.

Again a good attempt, that can only get better

The paints I use are a cheap brand called Folkart, by a company called Plaid. They come in 2 fluid ounce (60 ml.) bottles worth about a dollar each, and are sold at Walmart. They are serviceable and comes in a good range of colors. They are a little thicker, but wetting the brush helps. They have no inks, the metallics are not as shinny, but they have weather-proof paints (same bottles, but cost a little more). I still have and use Citadel paints, but I have not bought them in years as the containers gets smaller, while the prices go higher.

I buy whatever grey spray primer is available.

My brushes are old, but are still good (I should get more). Art stores usually keep a good stock of fine-point brushes.

I use a hobby-drill and precision screwdrivers for drilling (I like to convert my plastic figures with interchangeable weapons).

For gravel (for grass and sand effects), I use kitty-litter (not used, of course). I can crush them down into different sizes, and even wet them down to blend them out a bit (if it clump).

I go through X-Acto blades like socks, as I am really abusive with them - using them to file, scrape, pry and even as a fine-point screwdriver. Hell, I use them in ways totally unrelated to hobbies!

I am always in desperate need of green-stuff!

There are no hobby shops in my area, and I cant make online purchases, so I have to work with whatever I have an hand.

by **washi** » Thursday January 31st, 2013 6:45am

I recently re-bought the game. In the past I had the brazilian edition, with paper miniatures, so no way to paint. Now, I'm with the UK version, unpainted, and have no idea of how start to paint. Some hint?

by **Sjeng** » Thursday January 31st, 2013 6:49am

washi wrote:I recently re-bought the game. In the past I had the brazilian edition, with paper miniatures, so no way to paint. Now, I'm with the UK version, unpainted, and have no idea of how start to paint. Some hint?

Read the painting topics

a lot of info is already posted on this forum. good luck!! and congrats on your purchase

by **washi** » Thursday January 31st, 2013 7:29am

Thank you for the info and congrats for understand my "very good" English, hehe.

by **Banemorth** » Thursday January 31st, 2013 1:25pm

Appreciate all of the kind words and support guys!

I recently re-bought the game. In the past I had the brazilian edition, with paper miniatures, so no way to paint. Now, I'm with the UK version, unpainted, and have no idea of how start to paint. Some hint?

There is some excellent advice on the first page of this thread that really helped me get started. Cleaning the mold lines is tedious but absolutely needed. Giving them a good wash in soapy water afterwards helps remove any grease before priming. I use P3 Black primer. I also use P3 paints. I spent a whole heck of a lot of money getting myself a really nice setup (when I do things I do them all the way!) and brought a myriad of brushes, paints, a work bench and more. YouTube is another EXCELLENT resource for knowledge. Just search "Painting miniatures"

by **knightkrawler** » Thursday January 31st, 2013 1:44pm

Yeah, youtube videos are good sometimes.
Though I'm not really into that German transvestite/transsexual/crossdresser (desperately trying to remain politically correct here) PaintingGirl trying to teach me painting technicques.
But really, it's hilarious. And a little spooky.