Acrylic Paint - Help!
Elliott Cowton
I know this is slightly off topic but...
I've just been painting a war-gaming model my son was given for his
birthday, I'm using Citadel Miniatures Games Workshop paints. They
are acrylic and this is the first time I've used acrylic paints.
I'm finding it very difficult to get a decent coat on the model. At
best it comes out looking pre-weathered/pre-distressed/dry brushed.
I'm using the paint as I would for an enamel - its properly mixed and
I'm using a decent brush which normally delivers excellent results.
Am I doing something wrong?
Is this a function of Acrylic paints?
Or is it a function of war gamer's paint?
All help/advice gratefully received.
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Elliott Cowton
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Those paints are a bit strange, more like inks than paints really. The way they
work is to build up lots of thin coats, using a mixture of thin washes to
"fill" recesses and (very) drybrushes to highlight relief. You can't really use
them like normal paint - i.e. to apply a decent coat of a single colour.
If you're happier using enamels I would just use enamels - although the Citadel
paints do give good results (just look in the "Warhammer" magazine, some of
those models are works of art that we could probably all learn from) unless
you're planning to take the hobby up full time you'll probably be happier
sticking with a "known quantity".
NC
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<elliot...@newnet.co.uk> writes
>Hi Guys.
>
>I know this is slightly off topic but...
>
>I've just been painting a war-gaming model my son was given for his
>birthday, I'm using Citadel Miniatures Games Workshop paints. They
>are acrylic and this is the first time I've used acrylic paints.
>
>I'm finding it very difficult to get a decent coat on the model. At
>best it comes out looking pre-weathered/pre-distressed/dry brushed.
>I'm using the paint as I would for an enamel - its properly mixed and
>I'm using a decent brush which normally delivers excellent results.
>
>Am I doing something wrong?
>Is this a function of Acrylic paints?
>Or is it a function of war gamer's paint?
>
>All help/advice gratefully received.
>
problem and then only when painted onto a black base coat. Generally
yellow and red don't cover well on a black base coat. Most of the others
do. Paint areas that are to be red or yellow with a white or grey base
first. I often use a total white base coat for my figures if they have
no armour on them. Heavily armoured figures are better based black and
then drybrushed. If you're not using a base coat this may also be the
cause of the problem.
Cheers
Gauge, scale, it's all OO to me.
Churnet Valley Model Railway Dept.
past, brilliant paint. If you are painting anything red, try a yellow
undercoat. don't know why, but it really enhances the colour depth. You
sometimes have to shake the bottles a bit more than Humbrol enamels, and I
find Citadel much easier to thin with the water, so try thinning before
painting and then put two or maybe even three coats on. One word of advice,
don't use it in warm weather, and don't do large areas, cause it dries very
quick and doesn't drag like other paints.....
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Andy Sollis
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Elliott Cowton
The paint was mixed properly (Badger cocktail mixer), and I was using
a black sprayed basecoat with dark colours, and still it looked very
badly painted. However, after a couple of hours of fiddling with it
it has actually come out looking not too bad at all. Whoever it was
said to treat this paint more like an ink hit the nail on the head; I
treated it more like an ink and it seems to have worked.
Cheers.
Elliott.
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