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I've been seeing a lot of talk about the minitaire ghost tints and some nice tutorial videos using them. I'm wondering if I can achieve similar results by mixing my own candy colors using heavily thinned GW or VGC paints mixed with some glaze medium. say, something like 10 parts water, 1 part regal blue and 5 parts glaze medium (this is just a guess; the glaze bottle says it can be thinned up to 50% with water).

any thoughts on how well this would work and what a proper water/paint/medium ratio would be? I'm not keen on buying yet another line of paint when I already have 100+ colors and assorted mediums sitting on my desk

Aren't candy paints just translucent paints? Sort of like Tamiya Clear paints.

If so, using a glaze would work just as well, although it'd probably take a lot more of glaze. As for proper ratios, different paints would take different ratios, so I'd imagine you'd need to play around with something that works for you.

As a rough guide, if you make a glaze, swab it across some old newspaper. If you can read the words though underneath the paint, the glaze should be sufficiently strong.

Not my tip - I read it somewhere. You could also use this method to determine if paint is sufficiently thinned out for layering.

Materials Needed;

a bright gold based paint
base color of choice
Tamyia Clear Color of choice,comes in blue, red, green, orange, ect..
Tamyia Thinner
Future Floor Polish

Process

after surface prep, paint the base color on the area you want

Thin the Tamyia clear color about 50% down with Tamyia thinner. Spray(with an airbrush) a single coat of your clear color on top of your base color, let the coat fully dry, and repeat 2 to 3 times.

Once the clear coats dry you will want to apply between 7 and 10 coats of the Future Floor Polish

This will create a deep candy color and should produce the effect you are looking for.

Ashton

You can achieve a similar effect by alternating thin ink glazes with coats of gloss varnish by hand. Will take days due to drying times- each coat must be dry before the next. Ashton's method is much much better as the AB coats are nit so reliant on the previous being fully cured, and also dry faster as they're thinner.

wow. that sounds like way more work than I was imagining. maybe picking up some bits of the minitaire isn't crazy talk after all. cheers guys, and thanks for the info

I just decided screw it and ordered the whole minitaire set for ~$130 iirc for the 80 paints. Was christmas, it was my right! They haven't arrived yet though, looking forward to trying them all.

I'm just going with a few of the ghost tints for now. I've got too much other paint to justify buying the whole line, despite the 50% off holiday deal they have running. besides, I blew my christmas wad on 1500 pts of chaos goodness

when it comes time to replacing some of my GW colors, though, I may look into more of the minitaire line as an alternative to vallejo.