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If you find some good brushes, buy a few. It sucks when a brush dies and your half way through a project trying to work with brushes you have left. You'll know when a brush dies...

always THINK about how your going to paint before you paint. Also for me i try to keep it simple. i mod alot of my renegade space marines and they all look really good but i also keep it simple. simple and plan it out works wonders

what to do about the eyes?

Paint when you can be undisterbed and for listening to stuff you can goto listentoamovie.com and lesten to stuff there I found that watching tv or movies on my pc as I paint is to distracting but listening to them is not distracting at all.

* Have an area dedicated to painting. If you can't, get a box lid and put your current project in it. When you're ready to paint, you only have to bring it to the table and you are ready to go! Knowing that you can paint with 2 minute's notice is a great motivator!

Here's a few tips that few peoiple know about:

An acid treatment can help paint adhere to plastic. This is easier than it sounds- take your unpainted plastic mini and drop it into a small cup of lemon juice, then microwave it for 30 seconds or so. Voila! Less chipping problems.

It's common knowledge that ultravoilet light causes pigments to fade, so you should obviously keep your models out of direct sunlight (not a problem for you basement dwellers). However, if you have a model that will be displayed in direct natural light you can increase the colourfastness of your models easily enough- add a little sunscreen to your paint! Use the highest strength sunscreen you can find, and note that you can't add much as it inhibits paint adhesion and affects gloss properties (I've found a ratio of 1 sunscreen to 10 paint works fine). And one more note: use regular sunscreen, not the waterproof kind.

The pigments in metallic paint are typically made using ferromagnetic metals (i.e.: iron alloys). If you are are using rare earth magnets on your models (for weapon swaps or whatever), be sure that the model is painted first and that the paint is completely dry before inserting the magnets. Otherwise, the mA metallic pigments may "bleed through" and contaminate washes or other layers.

Use your jacked up brushes for terrain... I know, terrain is about all I can paint right now

Da key to painting terrain is doin da flat peise first, den when almost all da paint is off you messed up brush, you drybrush all da uvver stuf

I say Bah Humbug on all of this paint thinning nonsense. I've never thinned my paint and I see no need to start now. Just don't get too much on the brush and spread it out so that it doesn't leave brush marks.

Depends how thin your paint is to start with. A lot of the newer GW paints I've bought have been about as watery as...water. However I've got some older paints that definately need thinning to be used properly.

Finish painting a unit before you buy the next one...





(I just put this one in for laughs because we all know we should do it but no-one ever does!!!!)

Triggerbaby wrote:Here's a few tips that few peoiple know about:

An acid treatment can help paint adhere to plastic. This is easier than it sounds- take your unpainted plastic mini and drop it into a small cup of lemon juice, then microwave it for 30 seconds or so. Voila! Less chipping problems.

It's common knowledge that ultravoilet light causes pigments to fade, so you should obviously keep your models out of direct sunlight (not a problem for you basement dwellers). However, if you have a model that will be displayed in direct natural light you can increase the colourfastness of your models easily enough- add a little sunscreen to your paint! Use the highest strength sunscreen you can find, and note that you can't add much as it inhibits paint adhesion and affects gloss properties (I've found a ratio of 1 sunscreen to 10 paint works fine). And one more note: use regular sunscreen, not the waterproof kind.

The pigments in metallic paint are typically made using ferromagnetic metals (i.e.: iron alloys). If you are are using rare earth magnets on your models (for weapon swaps or whatever), be sure that the model is painted first and that the paint is completely dry before inserting the magnets. Otherwise, the mA metallic pigments may "bleed through" and contaminate washes or other layers.

you gota be shi*t**g me.

paint for a little while every day and listen to music and have someone to talk to. and if your like me you will find yourself painting your older brother because you got bored...... after painting him there where large amounts of hitting and name calling.