RE: [OT]-ish : Figure painting question - Craft store Paints

Just a quick question about craft store paints.....  I often see paints
at
craft stores that have about 4 or so fluid ounces in them....  on sale
they
go for less than a buck a bottle.....  I think they're acrylics

How good are these paints for painting miniatures?  Or should I just get
the
'specialty' paints from the likes of GW, the armory, etc....

Mike Hudak
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cmorgan [mailto:cmorgan@sjc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 12:27 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: [OT]-ish : Figure painting question
> 
> 
> Try a chestnut ink, and not that Games Workshop stuff. Go to 
> an art store
> and get--I believe--Windsor's Chestnut (for a reddish shade) 
> or sepia (for
> purer brown). Dilute with Windex. Windex contains a good 
> surfactant for
> getting into the crevices, and the blue tint will not--and I 
> mean *will
> not*--tint the wash. Try a series dilution, and work from dilute to
> stronger. If the dilute solution doesn't work, try a stronger 
> one, until you
> get the result. I usually dry brush or tough up the 
> surrounding paint job
> afterwords. But for the sand this works really well for me.
> 
> > I've used a dirty brown wash on brown and tan
> > figures to good effect. I've used a black wash
> > on grey-black figures to good effect. But now,
> > having a base colour of sand/desert yellow
> > (with green and brown and wee black bits), I
> > have no bleedin' idea what to use as a wash.
> > I'm afraid brown or black will blech-ify (yes I just
> > invented the word) the yellow/sand based camo
> > but I can't see how else to get the highlighting.