Bretonnia
January 9th, 2008 by Missy
Well, being the fickle person that I am, I’m all about Bretonnia at the moment. My poor, poor Lizardmen. Guess they’ll just sit around unpainted for a while as I work on the soup du jour.
<— Work in progress Knight of the Realm. My first attempt with non-metallic metals. I’m not particularly happy with it, and the paint on the caparison is much too thick. Hopefully by the time I finish this unit of eight I’ll be a bit more adept. Then my next unit can look good and eventually these guys will get relegated to standby for when I don’t have enough nicely painted models to fill out the list that I’m playing.
If anyone has any suggestions on the non-metallic metal, I’d gladly take them. Or suggestions on getting my paint more even. I haven’t been thinning it (I know, I know, big mistake) and I started thinning it when I did the right side, but I don’t honestly notice much of a difference. The paint still looks.. globby.
February 6th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
WTB: blogs. Yes, hypocritical, but I ought to be posting more soon.
Also, I’ll likely create that weight tracking website so I can track my (fruitless) ‘progress.’
July 15th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
You know, I have been experimenting with using denatured alcohol to thin out my paints lately. I find that it breaks up the “globs” in older paint pots a little better. Also, it was recommended to me for use in thinning my airbrush paints down. My issue there was that I was thinning paints with water, but they would settle and glob up the gun. They don’t settle with the alcohol as a thinner, that’s for sure. After that I just started using it instead of water to thin paint for brushing as well.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Yeah, I’ve picked up some flow enhancer and drying retarder and found that they really help. Now I just need my stupid new paints ;-;