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say assemble first Mike. Take a few seconds to file off any sprue flash.
I find it easier to work with the whole mini and there may be directions
you
want to work your brush that the sprue would impeded.

Drybrushing reminds me a bit of the sport of curling. Those guys take
corn
brooms and whack them back and forth to clear the path for the stone. It
looks like there is a lot of brush movement for the small path they have
to
clear.

So a certain extent, this reminds me of the action of drybrushing. A
light
touch, many passes, very small changes. If you make one pass and see
fairly
noticeable amounts of change, you've got too much paint. It can take you
4-10 back and forths over an area to see the change you want. And if
you're
doing it in layers (drybrush dark grey, then light grey, then white),
you'll
want to be very careful to have a dry enough brush for subsequent layers
and
a lighter touch than the first layer/fewer repetitions. With this,
you'll
brush up with a little dark grey, less light grey, and even less white,
but
the end result should look just fine.

Then you can work on picking out details. Sometimes after that, another
final drybrushing pass is useful too.

Painting is an art. Two people can paint the same mini even aiming at
the
same sort of look and end up with different looks because of painting
techniques. As you practice, you try out different options (always keep
an
ear open for new things to try). Eventually, you find the techniques you
learn to do well and sometimes quickly and you find out the techniques
that
produce the look you like best.

Rome wasn't built in a day, neither was a good painter. Rome left lots
of
dead bodies in its path to glory and a good painter came from a mediocre
or
bad painter by way of a lot of less than perfect mini painting. Just
don't
get discouraged - given time and patience, you will improve.

TomB
-- 
"Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. It is a
terrible
responsibility but I have learned to live with it."
Londo, A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like
administering medicine to the dead." -- Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine