Hi Guys,
Even though I need to carefully hide the fact that my cloggies is far better than my English I would like to add some thoughts.
Pat has hit the mark on painting, and I must say that my experience has been the same so far. Becoming more adept at painting you keep loooking for ways to improve. However one day I played a wargame with figures that (dare I say) I would only tough with a tick woolen glove in fear of catching leadpoisoning (that way of painting if you know what I mean) but the fact was this did not minimize the fun in playing the wargame. At that moment I started reconsidering my painting.
So as already stated thats the part were you start on 2 paths, one of painting as good as possible for painting competitions which are then lost by a mile since some 20 year old who has just started painting 3 weeks gets much better results
And the other path which leads to finished armies.
At the moment I am even experimenting (again) with a style that is not nice to see in a picture BUT for some reason looks really good in real life especially when seen on the table.
The basis for this is a black undercoat, drybrushed with white
After that controled washes of Vallejo color in combo with the magic wash miracle. After adding all the colors you have in mind (including some dirt et al) and everything is truly dry you drybrush again with a VERY VERY DRY brush with some light paint (be it greyish, sandish or whatever) all over the figure. The last thing to do is take Humbrol Matt Varnish add a small amount of semigloss humbrol black (amount to taste) and varnish the figure. The black is more or less sucked into all the lower parts of the figure. BASE AS GOOD AS YOU CAN.
The result is truly stunning on a wargame army.
Oh and how about this for speed:
I painted my son (8) 10 Chaos Space Marines someone had laying about, 3 metals and 7 plastics in ONE afternoon, from - plastic/metal till finish (unbased). Now I dont know if any of you know how much detail theres is on these figures, but it took me ONE afternoon to complete a Chaos Marine painted in layers and above all not satisfied with the way the armour turned out.
The only problem now is starting new periods and armies since I have sold a lot of unpainted lead because I was getting no army results at all.
Oh how big are the problems of a wargamer compared to those of the real world
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