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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2015 13:22:17 GMT
Hi everyone! So I am going to make a series of videos, kind of a lesson journal, as I work my way through painting all of the Reaper Kickstarter Bones miniatures. Since I am not a pro mini painter, hopefully this will be helpful to many other novice mini painters and we can all learn how to paint along the way.
LESSON ONE: Apply good paint, to clean miniatures.
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Post by AnarchyDice on Mar 6, 2015 17:28:23 GMT
Added to my watch later list. I just got my mini's too, so once life settles down a bit, I'm going to get into painting mine too.
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Post by tauster on Mar 6, 2015 19:01:24 GMT
I have 99% of the bones I and all of bones II minis sitting around, totally unpainted. You can bet I'll watch your videos!
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Post by DnDPaladin on Mar 6, 2015 21:01:29 GMT
to me it seems much more basic then washing the thing off. i've been reading a lot about washing the miniature first and the first thing i hear is that people use toothbrushes to clean it. i immediately make the analogy of thinking how my father use sand paper to make sure his paint on his boat hold still. seriously the sand paper is used for two purposes, remove whatever was there and make the surface harsh (wording?) instead of slick. i'd say its not because you washed it that the paint sticks well... its because you made the thing lose some detail by brushing it (sanding it) and thus now the paint or glue or whatever you want to stick to it, have more room to stick. because it will have more surfaces to stick to.
though as mentionned sanding also doubles as remover, so it still a good way to go, i didn't do this on miniatures and didn't really see the bleeding you are talking about. though i may simply have missed it, which is probably what hapenned. the black basecoat i spray painted ended up tacky, sticky and never really cured. its only after dipping that i solved that problem. so brushing your miniature is definitely a good first step.
Rousseau brings a good point, a point i wasn't too sure. im not an expert at it. but isn't washing with soap leaving anything behind ? i mean my father sanding is direct, he doesn't apply anything before to it. he just sands a bit and then clean any excess particles. so wouldn't just brushing the miniatures with a toothbrush be any better ? i'm thinking, toothbrush it, clean it with water and then let it dry. but im afraid even the water will leave something on the surface.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Mar 7, 2015 6:52:09 GMT
yeah sanding is going too far, it was only an exemple at much larger scales (aka my fathers boat, real boat) i like the toothbrush as a tool for it. thanks for explaining that. im quite new at painting minis, not too shabby what i ended up with. will definitely get more to do and im enjoying AJs vids about it. same with scotty , dmg and pretty much everyone else about acrylic painting on the net.
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