The Hobby That Dare's Not Speak Its Name Aka Wargaming

Highlighting is a chore. Have you tried drybrushing? Especially with a small make-up brush it's almost like cheating.

I've done a little dry brushing but I don't have enough paint colours yet for different tones so I've been trying to mix my own but the mixing along with watering down has been giving me problems with consistency.
I've just ordered a couple of new brushes, a Sable size 0 and size 1 as well as a wet palette. I'm trying not to spend too much money at once but it's really tempting to just buy everything.

Here we go, first mini I've painted in 15 years and I was never that good back then.
Loads of mistakes and lots of extra layers trying to cover them.

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Nice work! I'd be pleased with that

Is the paint scheme for these figures fixed or can you invent your own? (I expect the former.)

Looks great to me, but I think one reason why I never got into this (there are others) was because I didn't think I'd get anywhere near as good at painting figures as the examples exhibited in the shops, so I don't know what I'm talking about.

You could totally paint one in the rainbow jersey

Or perhaps climbers’

It can be either. The different factions of the same race can have slightly different rules so you generally stick to their colour scheme. However you can just make one up and say it's a sub-faction, the downside is there's no fluff for your army unless you make it up yourself

Cheers. By 'fluff', do you mean a backstory?

Yeah

Good to hear that their world allows for such freedom. I've also just seen that there's a Warhammer FRP system. Odd that GW don't make that themselves.

Pretty good. (Better than me)

Bolter maybe dry brushed to a high shine? 😊

Yeah I wanted to pick out some more highlights but I need a lighter silver colour. Also I reckon it should look pretty worn in.

That's pretty good!

I very much feel you about the "just buy everything at once" I have bought lots and lots of this stuff.

Also a wet palette is a great tool to have. :)

Also a wet palette is a great tool to have.

It should arrive soon, I can't actually do any more painting until my new brushes arrive as my girlfriend started painting one, got distracted and left open 2 paint pots and all 3 of my brushes with paint on. So now I've ordered some acetone to try and make them useable again and I need some new paint.

I’ve got some liquid mask coming - if you want to experiment with that I can apply a coat with an airbrush to a couple of figures if you leave them on my doorstep!

Ooh I've not considered liquid mask before. I think an airbrush may cover a bit too much but it may be good to brush on to some fine detail areas.

I think - but I've no experience with figures just polycarbonate car bodies - is that you apply a coat to the entire figure, then gradually remove the mask with a scalpel where you want to paint. Could get some crazy sharp edges that way.

Good grief. I hope they were cheap brushes.

Acetone will do the trick, but might solve the glue out of the brushes ferrule too. Isopropyl alcohol is probably safer, but try getting a hold of that in the current covid madness.

There are specialist brush cleaning products out there, too, maybe try some of them? Less chance of some hoarder buying it up along with the bog rolls...

They were cheap yeah, just synthetic brushes, the new ones are Sable though. I hadn't even thought of the glue holding the bristles, I'll have to be careful about that.

Who wants these?

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And...

Just pay postage

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Are those from 1995 or something?

Pfff.

Unless they have Thrud the Barbarian and The Travellers comic strips they far too 'new'.

The dwarfs book would be. The WDs are around 98 I'd say

Of course, I could actually check this..