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

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you are using spray paint and losing detail, then you are putting too
much on.

You can always add...it's hard to subtract. It's kind of like the
"measure twice, cut once" advice in carpentry. Spray from a consistent
distance, a consistent pressure. Keep the can moving forward. Spray
once, wait, spray a second time after looking. "A little dab will do
it!"

As for things to practice on, any local hobby shops with model
railroading stuff? Seriously, a couple of HO or N scale houses with
brickwork and the like will give you a lot of surfaces to practice dry
brushing on.

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 Fri, 9/5/08, 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: Friday, September 5, 2008, 4:40 PM

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Fred Kiesche wrote:

> Have you tried priming with spray paint rather than by brush?
sorry, the primer coat is a regular flat black spray paint by krylon

> I'd suggest:
> A painting session at a convention.

That was the painting class I took.   Great class if you're entering
your
work into the con painting contest.

> 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.

I've got a pack of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Plasma-Dragons-Battle-Realm-Booster/dp/B000VWAKG6
At less than $5 they should be good for practice work.	Haven't found 
anything else local worth practicing on.

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