Re: painting - sponging (was: Re: [OT] a clarification of my comments to David (of DLD fame))

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:04:05 -0400, Indy <kochte@stsci.edu> wrote :

> Roger Books wrote:
> > 
> > On 11-Apr-02 at 17:16, laserlight@quixnet.net
(laserlight@quixnet.net) 
wrote:
> > 
> > > Stuart did green, brown, black --apparently he had a US or German
pattern
> > > in mind but I don't know what it was--and took it from from primer
to 
usable
> > in 5 minutes.
> > 
> > I would be afraid I would achieve that marble affect I have been
trying
> > so hard to achieve in other places.  I really don't want a marble
> > looking tank.
> 
> Wal-Mart I noticed last week has a line of GI Joe "matchbox"-like
> cars for cheap ($0.89 or something like that). Get some of those,
> prime 'em, and practice? It's what I'm doing right now. Work out the
> kinks of this technique (and find the right color combos ;-) before
> I take on my *real* stuff.  :-)

Truly -- I keep a bunch of really awful old figures around, so I can
practice 
new and different tecniques on them without the fear of "ruining" a
miniature 
that I really like.

Pine-Sol cures all wounds, but even so -- I've got some Reaper figures
that I'm 
almost afraid to paint, because they look So Damn Good just as bare
metal.

-- 
John Crimmins
johncrim@voicenet.com