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Title: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: Techno on 31 October 2011, 05:57:54 PM

Hi All.

My young Nephew....All right Great Nephew has decided to become embroiled in this great hobby...
Can anyone recommend the best online guide to painting 25/30mm figures.?.... For a complete beginner.

All the stuff I know is probably 20 years out of date !

Cheers - Phil. (Don't worry...I'll get him interested in the smaller stuff, as soon as humanly possible ! ;)

Title: Re: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: goat major on 31 October 2011, 06:02:15 PM

ok not online but i'd highly recommend the Citadel painting guide for a beginner and (if you can still get it) the Kevin Dallimore Foundry guide.

The best website for hints and tips is the Steve Dean forum http://www.steve-dean.co.uk/ (http://www.steve-dean.co.uk/)

Title: Re: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: Techno on 01 November 2011, 07:35:29 AM

Thanks GM..Much appreciated !
I'll pass those on to him.

Cheers - Phil

Title: Re: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: Jerrylee on 16 November 2011, 06:37:02 PM

Would definitely get him down to Games work shop, they do excellent painting guides:)

Title: Re: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: VonGottschall on 26 December 2011, 05:08:07 AM

Look up the painting clinic. Geared more to larger figures but a good place to start.

Brumbaer's Warmaster site is good for 10/12mm figures, I think.

This painting blog for 10mm Napoleonics: http://10mmnapoleonics.blogspot.com/

Title: Re: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: VonGottschall on 26 December 2011, 05:20:50 AM

Oh, and actually looking on this forum under the painting dairies:

http://nikharwood.pbworks.com/w/page/7825400/10mm%20Painting%20

Title: Re: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: Leman on 26 December 2011, 03:13:14 PM

It depends how quickly he wants to get figures up and running. There's a good 28mm painting guide in the last issue(57) of WSS for finishing armies quickly. Might well appeal to a young novice who wants to get stuck in.

Title: Re: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: stormrider on 07 January 2012, 11:01:43 PM

I'm really enjoying the PDF guides on http://www.artizandesigns.com (hoping it's okay to post the link here)

Title: Re: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: J.S. on 24 January 2012, 05:06:47 PM

Here are 2 great tutorials for painting 25mm Napoleonics (also work for 10mm btw):

http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=7620
http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=7678

Title: Re: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: Theo on 03 March 2012, 01:35:37 AM

A delayed response but I only just joined the forum so I am lodging a plea of not guilty! :-)

Here is a step by step I did on painting 28mm Renegade WW1 Germans. Not the highest quality of painting but a good standard for the table and easy to emulate.
http://wdlovesme.19.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=7885

Title: Re: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: nikharwood on 03 March 2012, 02:13:36 AM

That's very nice work Theo 8)

Title: Re: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: Theo on 03 March 2012, 04:33:44 AM

Cheers for the kind word Nik :)

Title: Re: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: Techno on 03 March 2012, 07:31:19 AM

Thanks for all those links guys....Little Great Nephew sent me some photos of some stuff he'd painted recently.
I was well impressed !....."How did you get them so neat for a first attempt James ?"
"I got Dad to paint them."..... :-<
Cheers - Phil.

Title: Re: Good Painting Guide ?
Post by: nikharwood on 03 March 2012, 09:52:54 AM

;D Good skills that lad - he'll go far :)

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