Hello
I'm using white paint ! :D
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 ! ;D
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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 !...
Quote from: ronan on 20 June 2013, 06:00:11 PM
Hello
I'm using white paint ! :D
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 ! ;D
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! :D :-bd
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. :(
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.
So I have to choose : white or black undercoat ? ;)
I'm lazy (and not a good painter), so I may keep my white.
I also use white undercoat.
White every time too
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!)
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
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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6d8eKvegLI)
;)
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.
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 ! :d
- we have an awful weather (from weeks now) :'(
http://smolensk.homelinux.org/?p=1514 (http://smolensk.homelinux.org/?p=1514)
Quote from: ronan on 23 June 2013, 11:09:07 AM
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 ! :d
- we have an awful weather (from weeks now) :'(
http://smolensk.homelinux.org/?p=1514 (http://smolensk.homelinux.org/?p=1514)
Us too! Your paratroopers survived then? Tough little devils! :)
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.
Quote from: cae5ar on 23 June 2013, 11:09:31 PM
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 !
Quote from: Hertsblue on 23 June 2013, 11:52:24 AM
(...) Your paratroopers survived then? Tough little devils! :)
Yes, I want them on the battlefield now ! you read this le Manchou ? :d :d
;)
Black undercoat can make the detail on small scale figures difficult to pick out. A technique I saw recommended was to undercoat in black and then apply a very, very light drybrush of light grey. This picks up the raised detail and makes it easier to see where it is when you need to paint around it. I've done this with 6mm figures and it does make the task easier on the eye.
Thank you, I will try this.