I'm using white !

[ronan]

Hello
I'm using white paint ! 

I've received my first SYW minis (1) and I start painting them with a white undercoated.
I usually play with WW2, ACW and SCW figs (and some 1973 planes ). I painted some napos but many years ago.
It's unusual and funny to use white ! 
10
Thanks for those wonderful minis !




(1) I'd like to apologize Leon, I asked you for some trees from minibits, because I didn't see there were some on pendraken... Holidays are coming, I'm tired !...

[Leon]

Hello
I'm using white paint ! 

I've received my first SYW minis (1) and I start painting them with a white undercoated.
I usually play with WW2, ACW and SCW figs (and some 1973 planes ). I painted some napos but many years ago.
It's unusual and funny to use white ! 
10
Thanks for those wonderful minis !


(1) I'd like to apologize Leon, I asked you for some trees from minibits, because I didn't see there were some on pendraken... Holidays are coming, I'm tired !...

No worries, glad they arrived safely!  Good luck with the white!   

[Hertsblue]

The great advantage of white undercoat is that the top colours are so much more vivid. The downside is that if you miss a bit it shows up from a metre away. 

[Ithoriel]

Just getting back in to painting after a Real World (tm) enforced break.

I spray things with a black primer then lightly dry-brush with white before painting. Best of both worlds.

[ronan]

So I have to choose : white or black undercoat ? 

I'm lazy (and  not a good painter), so I may keep my white.

[Le Manchou]

I also use white undercoat.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

White every time too

[Last Hussar]

Grey.  I find white too bright to pick out detail, black eats the light (and hard to paint Union and Prussians - dark blue on black; you can't see what you've done!)

[seano1815]

I've always used white...tried black but never went back (ooooo er missus! just for any Frankie howard fans).
Have a great weekend
Sean

[ronan]

I'm painting with white, and I find it harder than black ! 
Hertsblue was right : every error is visible !

but at the end, I shall win !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6d8eKvegLI 
 

[howayman]

I normally use white as a base but have switched to a sand for some confederate butternut infantry. I have also used black in the past and for block painting i find it the best.

[ronan]

white undercoat is difficult for me ! 
may be i'll switch back to black..

A fun story : I took a photo of my (unfinished) prussians. I put some of them on my balcony (for a better light), then  a sudden gust of wind threw them away, down on the grass  one floor lower !
- they're turning to paratroopers ! 
- we have an awful weather (from weeks now) 

http://smolensk.homelinux.org/?p=1514

[Hertsblue]

white undercoat is difficult for me ! 
may be i'll switch back to black..

A fun story : I took a photo of my (unfinished) prussians. I put some of them on my balcony (for a better light), then  a sudden gust of wind threw them away, down on the grass  one floor lower !
- they're turning to paratroopers ! 
- we have an awful weather (from weeks now) 

http://smolensk.homelinux.org/?p=1514

Us too! Your paratroopers survived then? Tough little devils! 

[cae5ar]

I spray with mat black primer then brush on a coat of mat black to give the mini a really good undercoat. I treat every other colour I apply to the mini as a highlight so you can still see black between each block of colour. Looks great from a distance with ranked troops and is pretty fast and easy to do. I'm painting my French SYW army this way. Some colours need a bit of help on black, such as red, which I mix with a touch of white to brighten it up and avoid having to paint the same area twice.

[ronan]

I spray with mat black primer then brush on a coat of mat black to give the mini a really good undercoat. I treat every other colour I apply to the mini as a highlight so you can still see black between each block of colour. Looks great from a distance with ranked troops and is pretty fast and easy to do. I'm painting my French SYW army this way. Some colours need a bit of help on black, such as red, which I mix with a touch of white to brighten it up and avoid having to paint the same area twice.

thank you for the tip !

(...) Your paratroopers survived then? Tough little devils! 

Yes, I want them on the battlefield now !  you read this le Manchou ?