RE: Painting ALIENS (TM)

This may irk some people but what about using an enamel rather than an
acrylic?  I'm assuming your talking acrylic.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark A. Siefert. [SMTP:cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 1998 12:10 AM
> To:	Full Thrust Mailing List
> Subject:	Painting ALIENS (TM)
> 
> Hello:
>	This afternoon, I decided to do a little shopping.  I stopped
> off at a
> local anime rental/model shop and found that they were selling Leading
> Edge ALIEN miniature box sets for 3 bucks a box!  I picked up the last
> 2
> Alien Warrior sets.  Now I am faced with the quadry of painting these
> bad boys.  I was thinking for qiving them a black base coat, followed
> by
> a dry brushing with dark gray, and finshing them off with a gloss
> clear
> coat.  Does anyone have a better idea?
> -- 
> Later,
> Mark A. Siefert
> 
>      "One quality of life I've pursued with absolute consistency is
> the
> liberty to do whatever the hell I want.  I was always willing to die
> for
> that liberty and now your saying that's what I've got to do?	Well I
> was
> prepared for it all along--now gimme back my goddamned cigar!"
> 
>				     --Emerson Ngu
>				     from "Pallas" by L. Neil Smith
> 
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