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Post by rbhjr on May 11, 2019 23:42:56 GMT
I NEVER liked the act of painting the figures. It’s messy, I’m not very good at it, and I hate cleanup even more.
What drove me is how much I love the way they look when a whole unit is painted. One soldier is a task, a whole unit with a firing line, officers and flags is a passion.
However, until i finally bought a glass display cabinet for my painted battalions, Enjoying them was challenged by general dust and a couple of tipped shelves that resulted in chipped figures and a very unhappy collector/painter.
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Post by grumble on May 12, 2019 4:25:19 GMT
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bessiere
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Painting my way from Vienna to Moscow
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Post by bessiere on May 12, 2019 12:41:46 GMT
Grumble - I wouldn't worry about the unpainted VMI boys at New Market, hell half of them didn't even have shoes on.
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Post by grumble on May 13, 2019 0:07:52 GMT
Grumble - I wouldn't worry about the unpainted VMI boys at New Market, hell half of them didn't even have shoes on. Unfortunately, it was some of the other units that weren't painted. The VMI boys looked fine. ;-)
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Post by grumble on May 13, 2019 0:13:17 GMT
Happy to report that today I was able to finish painting about 11 German Askari and 13 King's African Rifles, as well as 20-30 Middle Eastern Arabs. (Obviously, these are for two different scenarios.)
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Post by davidmac on May 13, 2019 14:49:38 GMT
I find some YouTube videos to be encouraging and instructive. Tabletop Minions, for instance, has episodes on the topics of:
maintaining enthusiasm
getting figures painted--when to stop! and call it done.
painting techniques: drybrushing, airbrush painting, glazing.
"Uncle Adam" mostly paints fantasy figs, but many techniques carry over.
--David
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