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Hey has anyone got a link to some good advice about painting small white details - like eyes, small skulls - or even just painting white.

Im really struggling to work with white over a black base - finding the white very thick, so i tried watering it down a tad, then it just means more coats and ends up a bit gungy...

help.

thanks

Depends what you're doing.

For eyes, you can usually put little points of white, which are small enough that they're just white, and don't need coats.

For skulls, you generally want to layer them in the frst place, so you're just doing what you would normally do. Basecoat some sort of mid brown or tan, layer on something lighter, then white for the final highlights.

Although with skulls, going all the way to white is usually a bit bright and chalky looking. Usually the highlights want to be a few steps shy of white.

I don't have a ton of experience with them yet, but the Foundation paints GW is putting out seem to be very good for basecoats of this sort.

Here's how I do whites:

greydeath has it. Layering from gray to white is the way to go. For painting eyes I would suggest checking out Dr. Faust's Painting clinic. It's a really nice site.

Also, you may want to switch whites. Try a different brand. A lot of folks swear by vallejo. Lower viscosity and higher pigment than GW.

ender502

yeh im currently using the vallejo bone white (vanilla parchmenty color) and the skull white (bright white) - going to practice a little with maybe a earth/terra & bone white mix 1:1:1h20 and then the bone & skull 1:1:1h20...

will look into dr faust.

thanks.