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While looking at people paint with water color , i cant help but wonder if they work the same way,

anyone have luck using water color on miniatures?

I think they'd be too thin - like tinted water

Tried it once, and it was horrible.

Inks and washes are far too good to pass up anyway. I certainly don't mind paying $6 for Devlan Godsend Miracle Holy Grail Mud.

You could experiment with getting the right consistency from the concentrate - but it would be way too much hassle, not be as effective and decent watercolours are pretty expensive too.

In theory... maybe.

Would have to be mixed relatively thick as far as pigments, then it would have to be clear-coated afterward to prevent it from washing off with the next layer of paint/ink/wash/etc. Even dry they are not waterproof.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Tried it once, and it was horrible.

Inks and washes are far too good to pass up anyway. I certainly don't mind paying $6 for Devlan Godsend Miracle Holy Grail Mud.

Woah... I get mine anywhere from $3-$3.50... where are you shopping o.O

And totally agree with the God Wash

I would probably use regular ink as a wash before using watercolors, I feel like watercolor is not the right medium for miniatures. It's great for going over micron pens though.

I'm actually doing a watercolour painting course at the moment. Haven't actually tried it on gaming miniatures, but from painting on paper I know the biggest problem will be watercolour's incredible fragility - it never sets permanently, and redissolves as soon as anything wet goes on top of it. I suspect most of the cool transparent effects possible with watercolour could be applied to miniatures better with our normal washes and inks.

Ramos Asura wrote:In theory... maybe.

Would have to be mixed relatively thick as far as pigments, then it would have to be clear-coated afterward to prevent it from washing off with the next layer of paint/ink/wash/etc. Even dry they are not waterproof.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Tried it once, and it was horrible.

Inks and washes are far too good to pass up anyway. I certainly don't mind paying $6 for Devlan Godsend Miracle Holy Grail Mud.

Woah... I get mine anywhere from $3-$3.50... where are you shopping o.O

And totally agree with the God Wash

He is in Australia

sonofruss wrote:

Ramos Asura wrote:In theory... maybe.

Would have to be mixed relatively thick as far as pigments, then it would have to be clear-coated afterward to prevent it from washing off with the next layer of paint/ink/wash/etc. Even dry they are not waterproof.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Tried it once, and it was horrible.

Inks and washes are far too good to pass up anyway. I certainly don't mind paying $6 for Devlan Godsend Miracle Holy Grail Mud.

Woah... I get mine anywhere from $3-$3.50... where are you shopping o.O

And totally agree with the God Wash

He is in Australia

Yes, we get reamed on prices here for no good reason.

For example, a pack of bloodletters has an MSRP of US$22 in the US and it is AU$35 here!

That means the retail price for a US$22 pack in Australia is US$29.45! (or a 33% increase).

An absolute joke.


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In pounds, the same product is £12 MSRP - compared to the equivelent cost of £17.78 for the Australian one! ie. a 48% price increase over the UK price....

Arrrggghhh!

D=
Holy crap...

Thats... like... not even funny T_T