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Today I sprayed some Tau with Army painter matt white. There seems to be some paint dust thats just sitting on the model. Any ideas how to get it off with out damaging the coat?

I had that happen to me with a cheap white can from Walmart, I wound up just dropping it in simple green and stripping the models.

This is because Army Painter works differently than regular spray paints. Most spray paints, you're supposed to hold it back about 12 inches and do even coats. Army Painter cans tell you to hold it about 6 inches from the model. This is because otherwise, when held farther back, the paint dries in midair, and so instead of paint on the model you have little paint balls. I would say strip and reprime, closer this time

Well, I tryed closer and it seems to work better. However Im having trouble painting aswell. How do you blackline without making the model a dirty shade? Can you water down black untill it rolls off the armor and only sets in the cracks? Im going fpr a clean white armor with bolder black lines in the recesses.

Either just very careful brush shading, or using a very very fine tip dark grey marker (can probably find it at michael's) would be your best bet.

 Midnightdeathblade wrote:
Well, I tryed closer and it seems to work better. However Im having trouble painting aswell. How do you blackline without making the model a dirty shade? Can you water down black untill it rolls off the armor and only sets in the cracks? Im going fpr a clean white armor with bolder black lines in the recesses.

Spray them grey, or wash the white spray with black wash. Then go back with white and a brush putting clean white onto each panel of armour.

You dont need to water down the black like that (although you can in a pinch when you really need some black wash -its just not as good as the real mc coy), you want a 'wash' type paint. Citadel call them 'shades' nowadays, but if you want to make your own you need acrylic matt medium, flow improver, distilled water and acrylic ink of a chosen colour. There is a thread on here with 'Les's Wash Recipe' it seems most popular.