Toy Soldiers ... --- Starting from scratch.. (2 Viewers)
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Thank you all for your friendly replies. The following pictures are not that impressive to most I am sure, but might be still of some use to somebody new to the hobby. I used a no-name white figureprimer sprycan. I do not like it really. Will have to try another brand next time.
Anyway happy to get started painting this weekend - have not done any serious painting for years - infact Toy soldiers only once some 15 or so years ago. Wonder how it will work out.
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Wolfgang
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Anyway happy to get started painting this weekend - have not done any serious painting for years - infact Toy soldiers only once some 15 or so years ago. Wonder how it will work out.
Best regards
Wolfgang
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Wolfgang
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I was hopeing for nice painting session - but suprise suprise the white primer I have used proofed to be a real disaster. At closer inspection it proofed to be much too grainy. So it was back to square 1! I had to remove it and start all over again with a standard grey primer. Having solved that I quickly found out that my painting skills lacked practise. I have been sculpting a lot over the last years but did not do any serious painting during that time. I was experimenting with various paints and had to realize that things do turn out different than I thought! Anyway I am using various waterbased paints right now. The are flowing nicely over the grey primed surface but require much more coats than I thought to get a nice equal coverage. In short - it is all taking much more time than I thought. I do love the looks of humbrol gloss paint jobs, but striving to get equal results with matt acryllics I still have to develope my own technique.
I keeep you updated soon. The figures turn out nicely but for the 5 castings (Piligrims) I am working on I will have to use more time since they are only about 70% done so far. Since it is all trial and error I will not bore you with a step by step photo report - at least not before I feel secure with what I am doing.
At least I kept the sculpting going in the meantime as well, put all the "lessons learned" into the new sculpts an hope to share with you soon.
regards
Wolfgang
I keeep you updated soon. The figures turn out nicely but for the 5 castings (Piligrims) I am working on I will have to use more time since they are only about 70% done so far. Since it is all trial and error I will not bore you with a step by step photo report - at least not before I feel secure with what I am doing.
At least I kept the sculpting going in the meantime as well, put all the "lessons learned" into the new sculpts an hope to share with you soon.
regards
Wolfgang
