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[kellinator]

This weekend my love for shiny objects got the better of me and as I'd been considering, I took the plunge and bought miniatures, paints, brushes, and primer. Shiny figures!! Pretty colors!! Insert squeeing fangirliness here.

The only problem? My characters may have a high Dex, but I do not. I trip over my own feet on a regular basis. What made me think I could successfully paint tiny little details on tiny little pewter figurines without constantly getting paint where it's not supposed to go? Your guess is as good as mine. At least the figures I've been practicing on are smaller than the ones I really want to do a nice job on. I know, I know, gotta walk before you can run, but no one ever accused me of being patient...

Any more tips, or can people recommend some good painting guides (preferably online)?

Comments

[hooper-x.livejournal.com]

Your best bet is to buy like a bag of those plastic knights or cowboys or whatever and start painting those.

When you feel comfortable doing those, then think about moving down in size.

(I've painted everything from TINY (no bigger than my pinky knuckles) miniatures all the way up to full-sized transforming robots, so I think I'm kind of qualified to give advice.)

The most important things are your brushes and your paints, obviously. You need at least one fine brush to do detail work with, or you can cheap out and use a pin. Paint consistency is really important too. I like my paint... about the consistency paint SHOULD be. Not too watery, but not too gloppy, either. It should flow well. If you're using acrylics, and it glops up (as Games Workshop is REALLY bad about doing ever since they switched to the screw-top containers that suck) put a LITTLE water, like two drops, on the end of a mixing stick (I use a busted parts tree) and swoosh it up until it flows better.

That's my basic beginner advice.

Good luck, tho!

-HX