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Well it has begun, after 6 years of not touching 40k ive strarted again, but ive run into a interesting snag.

back in the day i knew we needed to water down our paints to get a nice thin coat.

but with the foudation paints(khemri brown) over a choas black base, ive found that i can still see some black (yes it was a even coat)

now my question is.... is it a good idea to water down the foundation paint (1:3 ratio)

edit: after drying it does look totally different.. but i can still see a few slips. for now im going to remedy this by doing a thin coat over the first.

but my question still remains

I water my foundations around 1:1 or 1:2 and ti works fine, although it sometimes needs a few coats (my tallarn flesh for example is watered down slightly too much)

The Privateer Press modeling/painting DVD suggests a 1:8 ratio, and I've been trying to stick with that as much as I can with eyeballing. Seems to work well. Any less and it all just goes in the cracks, which isn't good for my fluorescent paint (the flat places barely have paint on them and the cracks are built up with blazing neon).

Also check to see if your shaking them properly, I give mine a vigorous shake before using them and have never had a problem.

pogo wrote:...is it a good idea to water down the foundation paint (1:3 ratio)

RayvenQ wrote:I water my foundations around 1:1 or 1:2 and ti works fine...

Hans Chung-Otterson wrote:The Privateer Press modeling/painting DVD suggests a 1:8 ratio...

Probably a really daft question, but are those ratios paint:water or water:paint?




Apart from the 1:1, obv.

afaik (at least how i did it) its 1(paint): 2(water)

I think the other ones are that way too.

I water mine down to about 1:2 and usually have to apply 1-2 coats. Whatever is still visible I blend with a drybrush of the foundaitons paint (no water added) , seems to work well for me.

Thanks guys i figured it out last night by the posts!

i was doing 1:1 for the foudation, but i relized that it was like a choas black in the bottle, so i gave it more of a shake it it became the shade i needed.

it did take 2 coats of it to smooth it all out, thank god i tested it on the pilot for my project and not the acual vehicle itself.

al least one good thing came from it (i found a colour i was looking for)

from now on though ill try a 1:2 ratio (water:paint) and see where that takes me.

also i am sorry about the noobish question but its been about 4-6 years since i painted my tau.

and this foundation paint is kinda new to me.. but seems like its just normal paint.

RayvenQ wrote:afaik (at least how i did it) its 1(paint): 2(water)

I think the other ones are that way too.

nope. 1(water):8(paint)