Re: [GZG] Question for the painting gurus...

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it's resin, the baking is out.
 
Have you tried priming with spray paint rather than by brush?
 
And dry brushing is with a scant (very scant amount of paint) to "pick
out" detailing. 
 
I'd suggest:
 
A painting session at a convention.
 
A book on painting miniatures even from some non-FT source (e.g.,
Warhammer, D&D, etc.)
 
Some figures or even a couple of HO model railroad houses or other
scenary, etc., so you can practice on something other than a FT
miniature. A lot of what you lean for one will help in others.
 
As for stripping paint off of resin...what kind of paint is it? I've
used cleaners such as PineSol and oven cleaner on plastic
models--PineSol on water-based, oven cleaner on oil-based, but
experiment on something else first to see what the results are!

F.P. Kiesche III
"Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble,
scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented
with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at
The Lensman's Children and TexasBestGrok!

--- On Thu, 9/4/08, Mike Stanczyk <stanczyk@pcisys.net> wrote:

From: Mike Stanczyk <stanczyk@pcisys.net>
Subject: Re: [GZG] Question for the painting gurus...
To: gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 2:20 PM

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Fred Kiesche wrote:

> Not sure if this would help...but are you priming first?
Yeah, black.

I'm at wits end here gang.  How do I learn this when I'm ruining minis
hand over fist?   I only have a handfull resin ships, which I haven't
seen
a way to strip them when I totally botch the paint job.  The only other
ships
I have are a set of new NSL from Jon.  I'm not going near those again
until
I get something that works.  What do I practice on?

How I got into this mess:
I went to the respected local game store and was pointed to the local
painting guru.	He looked at what I wanted and what I had and suggested
drybrushing and said I should
prime in black then 3 drybrush layers: dark grey, medium grey, then
light
grey.

The dry brushing killed all the detail on the first mini.  Hand painting
isn't much better.

I just want a simple easy paint job that won't get me laughed at.

Mike

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