Do you wear gloves?

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**Horst**

I've taken to painting like michael jackson recently... I wear a rubber glove on my left hand. I generally hold models with that hand while painting, and i've noticed that an airbrushed finish shows fingerprints off noticably... so I've started wearing rubber gloves. I think my models end up looking smoother, because they are protected from fingerprints and oil...

Wondering if anyone else does the same?

**chromedog**

Only when stripping paint.

I have tools to hold my miniatures when I paint them so my fingers are not on them.

**Iur_tae_mont**

Only when I'm priming because the owner of my Store doesn't like it when I have Primer on my hands. I'm usually good about getting any paint off of my hands and most of the primer, but I never get enough of the primer off of my hands. It's just easier to pay the store to order an extra box of gloves every so often then scrub my hands with steel wool or stop painting.

**FrozenSoul80**

I blu-tac my minis to an old paint pot so I can just hold the pot.

**Bearitone**

For airbrushing I glue infantry to wine corks and use a glove to prevent painting my hand. For brush painting I don't, paint dries quickly and it is easy for me to avoid areas that I recently painted.

**Horst**

maybe my hands are dirty then. I don't know. I always seem to leave fingerprints on models as I'm painting them.

**warpcrafter**

I hold them by the base, and if I have to touch the actual miniature, I grasp it in the tips of my fingers by a part that did not just get painted. Works out fine. And I lay them out on a big flat box when spraying primer, so I don't have to touch them until it's dry. Done it like that for 25 years.

**Dunwich**

Will gloves stop fingerprints from getting on greenstuff when it's still malleable?

**IK-Painter**

Gloves are a must when airbrushing - A few days back I wish I wore gloves when trying to unblock a bottle of superglue - I miss having fingerprints...

**Azazelx**

warpcrafter wrote:I hold them by the base, and if I have to touch the actual miniature, I grasp it in the tips of my fingers by a part that did not just get painted. Works out fine. And I lay them out on a big flat box when spraying primer, so I don't have to touch them until it's dry. Done it like that for 25 years.

This. I also lay them flat on the table, on a bit of blister foam for some of the painting process.

**Aerethan**

I used to use them for airbrushing but I don't anymore, mostly out of laziness. As for hand brushing, I hold models by the base and don't have naturally oily hands to begin with, so no problem for me.

**Ashrag**

Same for me - gloves for Airbrushing and for Brushpainting, just hold them at the base. for smaller parts (e.g. arms that are painted seperately), I use a cork with a nail and Blue-Tac. This way I can paint everything from every angle without having to touch any freshly painted spot.

**Skippy**

i blutac my minis to a cork and just make sure my skin never touches them

**notprop**

With the availability of quite tactile kevlar gloves and the like there is a very good argument for wearing gloves for any activity where you use a knife, but have to confess despite more than a decade of on-site HEalth and Safety traing rarely do so.

That said I will wear goves (and eye protection!) when using my dremel (especially those bloody fragile cutting disks), chemicals and airbrushing/spraying.

I always have a pair of latex gloves with mu hobby stuff and being a normal chap I own a shed (as all real men should)and therefore have quite a collection of latex, general working, kevlar, rubberised and leather gloves ready at a pinch.

**MakeH**

I did buy some gloves and even went through a pair but eventually got lazy. I do still wear them when priming a large amount of models on one go, or a similar long session.

**Ouze**

I wear gloves when working with silicone or resin, and when I'm airbrushing.

Also, when I'm scrubbing bits that have soaked in greenstuff with a stiff brush. I discovered to my dismay that if it will strip paint, it will also scrape off skin if you scrub for long enough,

**oadie**

I tac infantry bases to handles (craft paint bottles) while painting the bulk of the model. Things like individual arms/heads/etc. being painted separately are stuck to toothpicks, either with poster tac or a tiny drop of superglue. Gloves would serve no purpose, beyond making my hand sweat.

That said, I'm painting infantry models 99% of the time. For vehicles, where handling the model itself is more or less necessary to the process, I'd toss a glove on my left hand, as I would if I were airbrushing (*whistful sigh* Someday...).

**Horst**

airbrush is SO WORTH IT...

painted 2 baals, a stormraven, and a furioso in the past week.

**Talore**

I REALLY should wear gloves when cutting models. Just from scraping off the sprues and mould lines from a Catachan Battleforce, my left index finger has more cuts than a butcher shop

**Aerethan**

Horst wrote:airbrush is SO WORTH IT...

painted 2 baals, a stormraven, and a furioso in the past week.

I agree. Makes painting 65 Dark Elves warriors armor a piece of cake. Plus my dragon, and my Hydra.

**zilegil**

notprop wrote:
That said I will wear goves (and eye protection!) when using my dremel (especially those bloody fragile cutting disks), chemicals and airbrushing/spraying.

Too true. I had a brilliant aluminium one before it bent, now I just use a razor saw.

OP: I use an old paintpot and blu tac for pretty much everything, short of painting hordes and simple table top standard like my orks. Though if I am actually spending any time on the mini then I use a paintpot. I must get an airbrush one of these days, they seem epic.