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@AustonT you make zero sense at all.

1) None of my models are exclusively painted with only ONE brand of paint.
Even if i like Vallejo , i still use the cheaper craft paints to lay out the base color. And this applies for every model.

2) The gallery of what i painted you can click anytime. Its rude if i just copy paste and spam my pics all over this thread.
When you can easily, see what i listed, go to my gallery, and find the pics yourself.

AustonT wrote:LunaHound how dare you use pictures to illustrate a point. I hate GW and my results are better than yours.

See here is your issue right here, aside from your obvious misreading + drama.
a) I can care less if you used picture, if you use it, i can too. Its as simple as that.

b) "I hate GW" If you think me liking or disliking GW has ANYTHING to do with what paint i use, i suggest double checking your reading comprehension and logic.

c) "My results are better than yours" This is not gloating, this is just my results with using such paints. It works for me, it doesn't work as well for you, that's all. Just like people have success using Minwax to dip, while mine looks like
it feel into a cup of coffee, should i get all dramatic over the people that had good dipping results? Nope.
If you want to take it as an insult and get dramatic over it, i suggest you stop been biased in taking what i typed out of context.

Finally, i had lots of patience dealing with you saying I cant read. You know, i could say just the same about you.
This whole accusation you have against me in what paints i use is really pathetic. Hence this will be my last time attempting to "reason with you".
If you wish to pursue this any further, i will do it with Mod's supervision. This is not a threat, I just want a 3rd party over seeing what exactly the issue is, which frankly i don't see any issues.

OP - The craft paints (found at Michael's or similar) are so cheap that you might as well buy a pot or two and judge for yourself. Barring that, Vallejo is a great choice and, for me at least, the dropper style pot is a must.

mgraham wrote:OP - The craft paints (found at Michael's or similar) are so cheap that you might as well buy a pot or two and judge for yourself. Barring that, Vallejo is a great choice and, for me at least, the dropper style pot is a must.

Second that, also at Michaels buy yourselves some craft beads.
They are cheap and none colored, throw 1 or 2 into your paint pots , easy to shake / mix paints with :3

Here's my take on paints - I just listen to everything the woman tells me.

The woman has been painting since she was 4. The woman worked at an FLGS during college, where among her duties was "paint miniatures for the boss to auction" during register downtime. My apartment is filled with beautiful paintings by... the woman. So I ceded to her long ago when I first started painting (after I'd already bought supplies at GW).

Her points to me:
GW paints are a ripoff and dry out too fast (which I have found to be true even when getting what I need for the palette and closing the lid right away).

Not enough people know about the multitude of uses for enamels.

Brand name is the least important factor in painting models.

(this one's not a point, just a fact) - she doesn't care one effing lick about the BRAND NAME of the paint she uses. She uses her craft paints. (and I still remember the gigantic eye-roll when we were down at GW after I'd bought supplies and she saw what citadel products cost now). Her models (which one of these days when I replace my broken camera I'll get posted) are beautiful. Best looking dwarfs I've ever seen. The metals were all transmuted into jade. Jade wielding dwarfs - effing amazing.

AND, despite claims that somel paint is more "chip resistant" than others, neither I nor her have ever found any evidence of this, between the 7 armies we and 2 of my friends play. (actually I have found chip resistance to be a factor of how long the painter let his separate coats of paint dry, but that's just me).


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I've heard good things about P3 and Vallejo. Maybe her amazing models are just a result of more than 2 decades of painting as a hobby, which allow her to use a bad paint-for-the-job and still get results. Like a gourmet chef turning nearly spoiled food into a feast.

Right now I use GW, testors, and craft paints. No exclusively craft-painted models for me, but all of hers are.

The cheaper paint gets the more things like grain size and pigment type get come into effect. Cheap paints tend to use synthetic pigment which can over time fade.

Catyrpelius wrote:The cheaper paint gets the more things like grain size and pigment type get come into effect. Cheap paints tend to use synthetic pigment which can over time fade.

Grain size in model paints is going to run somewhere between 50-1500 times the size of a water molecule. i.e. doesn't matter.

Synthetic pigments are more fade resistant than organic pigments, but that's not really a huge point since I don't know which model paints use organic, if any.

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Wow that came off as dickish. I didn't intend it that way, really; I just think you've been told some things that sound right but aren't.