AWI Figures with Army Painter Dip (1 Viewer)

[NEVINSRIP]

I have tried the Army Painter DIP with little or no success. My 28 mm figures just end up looking dirty. Not the intended effect at all.
While moving some stuff from my basement I came across a bunch of 54 mm plastic figures that I had block painted years ago. I did a few conversions and gave the figures a pretty basic paint job. You can see what these looked like in the first photo. By the way, that garish greenish/yellowish color is really buckskin. The flash didn't do it any favors.

I decided to give the Army Painter a try to see if it would work on the larger scale figures. I did as the Master (that's you,Phil) instructed and brushed it on sparingly. I attempted to remove large pools from the figures by brushing in a downward motion, with a large, flat brush.
I can't tell you how pleased I am! I let everything dry overnight then sprayed Dulcote over the figures to kill the shine. For the first time, I actually got good results from the Dip or Magic Wash or any of the dozens of washes that I have tried.

This takes care of the Militia. I still have Hessians, British, Continentals and French, all block painted and ready to be dipped. I used the Soft Tones for these. Any advice on what to use on the rest?

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[Ragnar]

Figures look great Bill.....yes the soft tone is the better one and I brush it on myself also.
you can also get quickshade ink in a small Vallejo type bottle now......much easy clean up too with water!

 

[Markster]

I have tried the Army Painter DIP with little or no success. My 28 mm figures just end up looking dirty. Not the intended effect at all.
While moving some stuff from my basement I came across a bunch of 54 mm plastic figures that I had block painted years ago. I did a few conversions and gave the figures a pretty basic paint job. You can see what these looked like in the first photo. By the way, that garish greenish/yellowish color is really buckskin. The flash didn't do it any favors.

I decided to give the Army Painter a try to see if it would work on the larger scale figures. I did as the Master (that's you,Phil) instructed and brushed it on sparingly. I attempted to remove large pools from the figures by brushing in a downward motion, with a large, flat brush.
I can't tell you how pleased I am! I let everything dry overnight then sprayed Dulcote over the figures to kill the shine. For the first time, I actually got good results from the Dip or Magic Wash or any of the dozens of washes that I have tried.

This takes care of the Militia. I still have Hessians, British, Continentals and French, all block painted and ready to be dipped. I used the Soft Tones for these. Any advice on what to use on the rest?

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Nice Job NEVINSRIP ! I bet they look even better in person !

 

[BlakeWR85]

Wow, I usually don't paint because I wouldn't consider myself a good painter, but this might make me brave enough to try :wink2:

 

[theBaron]

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Prost!
Brad

 

[theBaron]

Oh, duh, sorry, I see that it did show, just that the HTML string was revealed. Sorry about that!

 

[Markster]

very nice, seems to work really good !

 

[kilted vampire]

Other people have been using various stains because the price of the army painter dip is expensive. Results were about the same. Using inks and washes from vallejo or citadel seem to be the way to go. I have seen army painter videos and they make the whole thing look easy but I am going to keep doing it my way.