What colour undercoat do you use

Started by Turk1964, 22 March 2013, 06:59:28 AM

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Turk1964

Gday all
            Ive been painting 28mm for about 5 years now and mainly use a black undercoat or grey. Ive just ordered my first 10mm Carthaginian army and should i use a light or dark undercoat? 10mm is a new thing to me and i will be using a basic block painting technique with washes and some drybrushing.

                          Cheers Turk

fred.

I use black undercoat when the figures have lots of armour. But use white with a brown wash, or just a mid brown a lot now for figures not in armour.
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Turk1964

Thanks for your reply. Thats a good idea ive used white when using army painter with good results.Not sure how army painter would go with such small figures so a brown wash sounds good.

Nellkyn

I use a whit undercoat with a brown wash. Thinned Newton and Windsor ink, usually Peat Brown.

Hertsblue

If, like me, you have a tendency to miss bits, I'd go for black every time. It just looks like you've shaded the places you haven't painted.  ;)
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Quote from: Nellkyn on 22 March 2013, 08:30:05 AM
I use a whit undercoat with a brown wash. Thinned Newton and Windsor ink, usually Peat Brown.

What ratio do you use to thin the W&N inks?

Nav

army painter strong and soft are very good on 10mm but if you use the dip you should apply with a brush.

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Hi Turk,

I undercoat black on everything apart from horses, I find (as Hertsblue said) it shades the parts you can't or won't reach.
If you block paint or only use one shade then it's less forgiving but were you to use two or more highlights then I'd say it's perfect and allows you to leave the deepest recesses untouched.

Of course when it comes to lighter uniforms - Austrian naps/bedouin/egyptian colonials then you may want to spray them white and use a brown ink as has been suggested.
With the Carthaginians, if you're following the white/blue trim pattern, then for me, black is a no-no.

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Ry


stormrider

Grey, with a black wash. It's black in the shadows and light enough to cover easily on the highlights.

petercooman

I just ondercoat with the most prominent colour on the models.

So most of the time this will be the uniform colour.

Fenton

I'm with Stormrider grey with a black wash
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Turk1964

Thankyou all for your suggestions and a lot to digest there :-\ Just got news my Carthaginians are on there way to OZ :-bd Great sevice guys and i can hardly wait to get my hands on these.
Ok so white undercoat with a brown wash may be the way.Grey sounds good aswell. I painted a heap of 28mm Japanese with a grey undercoat and they came out ace.Ive painted 28 mm Carthaginians with grey undercoat and liked the finish aswell.Never tried brown undercoat,not sure if i can get flat brown spray paint here though .

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Matt black for me these days. As the man says, it forgives a lot.
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Black for me. I think it works really well with small figures (on larger surface areas the black is more liable to show through). For best results be very subtle with the exposed black lining - as little as possible is best
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