Hello!

[Daldnoa]

Hi everyone. I have been lurking this site for months untill I finally decided to start collecting at 10mm scale and join this forum.
I started in wargaming with Warhammer about twenty years ago. I have a dark elves warhammer army and some historical armies (Greek, Persian, Romans) based for Field of Glory. All of them in 28mm. I also have some 1/72 WW2 models that I used some years ago to play Rapid Fire.
I already ordered some fantasy models. I hope to evangelize some friends into 10mm too once I get my figures and start playing. The low volume consumption in addition to the mass-effect of 10mm figures sounds great. I also never painted 10mm so this place will be of great help for tips. Hope to contribute.

Regards,

Daldnoa

[d_Guy]

Welcome to the Forum daldnoa. You will find many great 10mm painters here and all very helpful.

[fsn]

Welcome.

I am not a great 10mm painter. There are some real talents on here, but not me. I'm less a "it's well painted" and more a "well, it's painted" type of chap.

Photos please, and I hope you will enter the painting competition.

[Ithoriel]

Welcome to the forum!

If you've been lurking for months I can forgo my usual "the forumites here have many fine qualities but are mad as a box of frogs" intro. You'll have discovered that for yourself

On the painting of 10mm I would say that slightly lighter shades of colour than you would use on a 28mm figures often work better on 10mm figures.

Other than that, there are far better painters on the forum than I so I will leave it to them to advise you further!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hello and welcome

[Steve J]

Welcome on board !

[pierre the shy]

Welcome aboard from me too.....if you have questions on anything 10mm you're in the right place 

[Leon]

Welcome to the Forum!

[FierceKitty]

There is rejoicing in Heaven at a new convert! Welcome aboard, and remember it's good luck to buy a round for anyone who posts in reply to one of your posts.

[paulr]

Welcome Daldnoa

[fsn]

.....if you have questions on anything 10mm you're in the right place 

I joined in 2013 with questions. Still waiting for answers.

[fred.]

Welcome on board Daldona, painting wise my main tip would be to remember you are painting armies, not individuals. Focus on the main colours of the figure, there are lots of details on many of the figures, but these can be approached in a simple single colour fashion.  

Unless of course you want to paint each figure like its a 28mm one - which can be done and there are some wonderful examples to see. 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Welcome to bedlam.

[fsn]

Probably spot on considering that one of the iterations of Bedlam is now the Imperial War Museum - this place is equal parts madness and military history.*




*No, I'm not equating madness** and fantasy.
** Apologies if anyone is offended by the word "madness". I use it for alliterative purposes.

[sultanbev]

Hello and welcome!
I find painting 10mm quite a joy, as the figures have plenty of detail but it's not fiddly in way that's hard to describe. Pendraken figures have been imbibed with some kind of magic metal that makes painting them easy. I can do 2x 10mm figures in the time it takes to do a 15mm figure.

I have negated that advantage by using 1:10 figure ratio for 10mm Napoleonics rather than 1:20 in 15mm    , but the mass effect is worth it.

A simple tip is to paint by units. So if you had an army of elves and orcs, paint a "battalion" of orc spears then a battalion of elf swords then a battalion of orc archers etc etc, or whatever your equivalent units are.

Another idea is to base them before you paint them, works for 6mm and 10mm but not 15mm and above.
If your figures are to be based in two ranks, which my Napoleonics are, and it's difficult to get into the front of the back rank to paint them if both are pre-based - I glue the front rank onto the base and paint them, then paint the second rank as loose figures, glue them on later.

Mark