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Here's a video about the Minitaire Ghost tints and a display of it's color palette. I touch base on how some of us have used them to make some great effect and using them as short cuts. I get into more detail about them and other videos on them on my blog at http://goo.gl/SdLAZ

This was a good vid for anyone thinking about picking up the candies from the new Minitaire line. Looking forward to my set arriving!

Might sound a stupid question, but could these be used as a brush on? or is this Minitaire range airbrush only?

Paint is paint.

I didn't have a chance to play with them before the holidays - but generally speaking, paints which are designed for airbrushing (like these) are thinner than paints which are designed for brush painting out of the bottle.

You can normally still paint with them just fine, many people in fact will thin their brush paints almost to the same point that people thin paints for airbrushing.

The only time when it can become problematic is with certain specialty paints that require a perfectly smooth application to look correctly. Normally this is limited to things like real metallic paints, candy finishes and high gloss. Even subtle brush marks can end up showing up with those paints because they are so reflective.

 High_Marshal_Helbrecht wrote:
Might sound a stupid question, but could these be used as a brush on? or is this Minitaire range airbrush only?

It's NOT a stupid question. You can brush it on but I couldn't do it successfully without leaving streaks and stuff but I didn't spend much time trying to figure it out.

I actually showed how it looks in one of my older videos on Ork Skin here:

I dont get it... its just superthin paint?

Any airbrush specific paint will be thinner by design But in aribrush or art terminology the ghost tints are 'candy' coats or translucents. Meaning they go on like really thin layers of colored glass- so you the original color is still present. But will be shaded differently depending on what tint is applied over the top of it. Like a red tint over white paint will make a pink- but you can make it more red/less pink by adding as many layers as you want.

Yeah, I understand that, I still don't see why its such a big deal, isn't this basically a glaze or an ink in airbrush form?

I just watched an interesting video on this, if you'd like to see it.




Disclaimer: I'm not this guy, not connected to this product, etc.

I'd like to try this but it's out of stock damn near everywhere I checked. Ok, I only checked Amazon really. But it's out of stock there.

It's sort of like a wash or ink, except it's meant to cover all surfaces, instead of settle into the recesses.

Without candies, people would need to mix metallic mediums into color paints to achieve colored metallics. It also allows higher standard shading for those that can't blend for crap (as shown as example in the video posted by Ouze (*raises hand*: Can't blend for anything.... ))

There are a lot of ways to be creative with it, causing different effects and such. Just have to think of them.