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Looks like I have to paint 7 IG tanks...

The thing is, my scheme involves a custom color I made by mixing codex grey and graveyard earth with some inks.

Can I make a batch and take it to home depot? If so, what exactly do I ask in terms of what kind of paint it is? Just acrylic? Something special?

Is this even effective?






My next question will involve airbrushing. Fair warning.

If your painting seven coats I would go to your home depot store and buy latex paint in fair brown light brown and for the ink you might just wanna add some colour and water to a tub of varnish. It works really well, Its how I painted my 2 Baneblades and 4 tanks and they turned out exelente'!

Also Just saying don't put your fingers on the latex it is really skin damaging and dont leave it out in the sun too long or it might start smoking if its really hot :L .

Well... personally I wouldn't use latex on minis. I'd be interested to see some photos of it used on tanks, and to know how durable it was?

I would avoid home depot all together for miniature painting. All of their paints will have a whole lot of extra junk in them as they are not meant for small detail painting.

I had a similar plan for my cityfight terrain... I wanted uniformity (and cheap).

This is what I would do: put some of your final mix, and each of the components on some white paper to use as reference. Head over to your local arts&crafts store (michaels, ac moore etc) and find the cheap Apple Barrel acrylic equivalents. They will likely also have Liquitex (not as cheap) acrylics, inks, airbrush medium, etc. Both will get you large quantities for cheaper than GW prices.

Buy some small plastic (empty) paint-pot-cups and a few _large_ empty paint dropper bottles (make sure they have caps that will seal).

At your local pharmacy buy some distilled water and some cheap Isopropyl alcohol (91-99%).

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Mix your paint/inks to get desired color. Once you get the right ratio extrapolate that to the large paint dropper bottle and add a little distilled water. Shake and your paint mix is ready to go.

In the second large dropper bottle add a mix of 7:1 distilled water: Isopropyl Alcohol. (this is for the airbrush)

Paint as normal with the first large dropper. When you are ready to Airbrush, in your plastic paint-pot-cups add some paint and then some of the Alcohol mix, shake/mix and try to achieve a 'milk-like' consistency (or skim if using a really small needle) then pour into airbrush cup - spray away.
Use the same alcohol mix to clean AB between colors, though I would recommend using a legit AB cleaner once you are finished.

This is what I would do / have done anyway.

I would look at using a can of Krylon Camo paint. They are not the cheapest but come in great military colors, prefectly flat coat and covers great the first time around. I used the Green for my IG vehicles and the brown as the base coat for my orks. I think they make two shades of brown that you could use. That will save you a whole butt load of time and money.

I've also had good luck with krylon spray paints. I used their ruddy brown primer as the base color for my guard and it coats thin and smooth. Also, their cheap when compared to GW or army painter products.

However, if you need a larger batch, even if you don't have an airbrush, using the craft store equialents of your GW colors is a great idea. Apple barrel, American, and other brands are all good options, but in particular, the Delta Ceramcoat brand is the smoothest I've found, and it's roughly 1/8 the price of GW paints.

As for hardware store paint. I've used on scenery and it work great, but I'm not convinced that it would cover thin enough for miniatures. Still, I've been wrong before...

A redshirt suggests for painting things such as lots of terrain to just take a batch to home depot like you said and they can make you a custom batch of that color with a lot. Save A LOT of money.

Mewiththeface wrote:A redshirt suggests for painting things such as lots of terrain to just take a batch to home depot like you said and they can make you a custom batch of that color with a lot. Save A LOT of money.

Painting terrain would be great for this, but as Gunzhard said:

"I would avoid home depot all together for miniature painting. All of their paints will have a whole lot of extra junk in them as they are not meant for small detail painting. "





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So it looks like this is the best answer to my question:

Apple Barrel acrylic equivalents. They will likely also have Liquitex (not as cheap) acrylics, inks, airbrush medium, etc. Both will get you large quantities for cheaper than GW prices.

Looks like I will just try to color match.. which is not exactly the same thing, but maybe they'll have a good selection of color options.