I'm completely new to painting miniatures.
Also how do I completely paint my miniatures, behind the bolters.
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how do I paint miniatures
I'm completely new to painting miniatures.
Also how do I completely paint my miniatures, behind the bolters.
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dip them in the jar of paint and dry with a hair drier
How many layers should I have?
Can there be too many layers?
>Aussie pics
>Manlet marines
>Enamel paints
My lgs only had manlets, tau, or guard, the choice was obvious for a beginner. The store owner said that they had been sitting there for years.
when i went to hobby lobby i didnt know what the frick i was doing and didnt know the difference between enamel paint and acrylic, so im going to make do with just two paints
Nice
I'm just a lonely and bored NEET
Solid advice
You should work on improving how you approach to understanding and completing tasks. If your default approach to something is to buy stuff with zero information then ask Ganker what you're supposed to do afterwards, you're going to be a NEET forever.
>I'm just a lonely and bored NEET
Okay so your whole thread is just an attempt to get attention, and you're not actually interested in the miniatures hobby, which is evident from the fact you've made no attempt to learn about it.
I suggest suicide.
Oh, so why do people post their models on an anonymous website? Is that to get attention on the asscrack of the internet as well? What about the people discussing ttrpgs and card games? Are they also trying to get attention? By your logic everyone should just commit suicide, moron.
I wonder if there are existing threads where people post those things that contain resources for people looking for information or something? Eat shit and die Black person.
Need to tribute them first, lets the paint adhere to the models then
first you gotta go the hardware store and pick out your color swatches, pick your finish (eggshell is best for miniatures), then have the employee prepare your cans. set up the miniatures and pour the chosen colors directly from their respective cans in order (base, layer, highlight!!) onto your miniatures.
you definitely just brush testors enamel paint all over them, which is presumably the answer you were looking for with this thread
Is enamel paint bad? Is testors known for shitty products or something?
Thanks
Are enamel and acrylic oil based?
Isn't oil based paint acceptable?
The instructions in the box don't really tell shit
my dude you are completely clueless and I'm not spoonfeeding you take it to /wip/
>generals
frick off
Get acrylic paint from a reputable company like Army Painter, Pro Acryl, or Citadel. They are more pigmented than normal paint because they are meant to be thinned with water for smooth coats. You know the paint is thin enough if you paint some on back of thumb and it covers skin completely but doesn’t make the ridges in your skin disappear. Do two coats of that consistently for good coverage, may need to do more then 2 with very light paints like white and yellow.
Other then that watch a YouTube vid Squidmar has a good beginner vid
>reputable company like Army Painter
>Army Painter
>reputable
Granted their washes are okay for someone who wants to avoid Citadel but everything else is a risky investment.
I have bought I think maybe 8 products from Army Painter and of those 2 didn't turn out to be substandard or outright dogshit.
This is a bait post and a bait thread. If you have literally no idea what to do, why have you bought paint already and why is the only way you've attempted to find out what to do posting a thread on fricking Ganker, when a 30 second google search would give you dozens of reliable answers?
Frick off.
You need the miniatures the right way up like in your photo so that's a good start. They have to be like that hanging from the ceiling or the inside of your paint box so that when you put extra paint on the brush gravity will drag the paint down to cover the chest. If they're the other way up the paint just makes a puddle at the feet especially if the paint is too thin. Looks ugly.
Thin paint will drip too much so you need extra thick paint which you get by leaving the paint pottles open until you get a skin forming on the top after a week or two. Most people are too impatient to wait the full two weeks so you can hasten the skin process by squeezing half a tube of some cyanoacrylate aka superglue and mixing well. It only costs a few cents for tube of cheap superglue which is much better than waiting too weeks and some people here think the results are even better but you know how traditionalists are about doing things the "right" way. I prefer the wait method but even I can't tell the difference most of the time. I can afford to wait since I've got so many models to paint that I've always got extra paint being prepared.
You'd think they'd sell it like that--and they do but you know they charge extra. Sometimes I help out at the bunker by loosening some paint lids when the manager isn't looking just so some other people get the cured paint at regular price since it's already overpriced. If you do it, slip it down the back or at least put a few pottles in front of it so you can find it easier later since only a few of us grab the paint from the back of the rack.
Happy painting.
do not use oil-based paints you monster
Bought a starter set last week. Finished my first marine last night. I just watched a video on youtube and sone shorts on tiktok.
Looks good. Look into some micro-set and micro-sol for your transfers, helps them form to model better and helps thin the plastic so they look more painted on
Going to the hobby store again in few weeks will check if they have some there. Thanks for the tip.
If they don't have it, you can make micro set; it's basically distilled water & white vinegar (micro sol you likely won't need; it's for getting decals to conform into things like panel lines). Paint the area the decals going on to gloss, wet it with set, wt the decal as normal, float decal onto the set surface, pat dry.
>>Thin Your Paints
Never brush from pot to model always remove excess paint and thin with a minimal amount of water not to much though. That said YouTube has all the vids you need just dive in and have fun throughout a week learning and painting as you go!