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Hello,

How do you guys go about holding your models for priming and painting?

Currently I paint my models on their base for ease of painting. This results in difficult base painting. Is there a better way for holding your models during the paint phase?

Thanks!

I generally hold the base or a pin stuck in the bottom of a foot/location to be covered later with needle nose pliers so my fingers don't get in the way.

Common methods are double sided or poster putty to empty paint pots, corks or blocks of wood. Popcicle sticks were popular for a long time (attach 5 or so minis to be painted at once).

Although a bit of overkill...I like these:

http://www.amazon.com/Jewelers-Adjustable-Work-Holder-Vise/dp/B005LY5A14

For holding in hand and these:

http://www.amazon.com/Hands-Free-Universal-Work-Holder/dp/B0058EDVXQ/ref=pd_sbs_ac_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1QAY30B7X8234HX9YW74

For when I want both hands free. The bench ones get the most use.

You can pinch tabs in between the plates or hold most bases with the pins. You can even hold many vehicles and other objects (either inside or outside pressure).

 Sean_OBrien wrote:
Common methods are double sided or poster putty to empty paint pots, corks or blocks of wood. Popcicle sticks were popular for a long time (attach 5 or so minis to be painted at once).

Although a bit of overkill...I like these:

http://www.amazon.com/Jewelers-Adjustable-Work-Holder-Vise/dp/B005LY5A14

For holding in hand and these:

http://www.amazon.com/Hands-Free-Universal-Work-Holder/dp/B0058EDVXQ/ref=pd_sbs_ac_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1QAY30B7X8234HX9YW74

For when I want both hands free. The bench ones get the most use.

You can pinch tabs in between the plates or hold most bases with the pins. You can even hold many vehicles and other objects (either inside or outside pressure).

Very cool gear, just added to my Amazon wish list. Not bad on price at all either.

I generally use poster tack/putty, since I usually base my models fully before I start painting (most are rank and file troops, anyway). They get stuck to a sheet of cardboard for batch aerosol priming (serves as both base and backdrop to catch overspray) and craft paint bottles for individual airbrush priming and/or hand painting. Never had a problem painting the basing with the model already attached - just need to exercise a bit of control if you're drybrushing.

For models that will require pinning to the base, I leave it off and hold the pin in a pin vice, for both priming and painting, since it gives me freer access to the model's underside. I've used corks before, but found that the weight of metal models tended to make them spin when held at angles. The grip of a pin vice is a hell of a lot stronger than a friction fit in squishy cork, which avoids the issue.

I use both the "rank and file" painting stand from back 2 base-ix (with magnets) and pinning models through the foot into cork caps.

Cork pinning is easily my preferred way

Greenstuffworld sells big cork caps if you can't find any

It depends on what I'm painting. I typically paint and assemble (unless it's finecast.. assembly is such a pain and I end up using greenstuff on the model that I just assemble it first and then paint the whole thing). I discovered when putting magnets in a venomthrope greenstuff tends to pull all of the paint and primer off a section of finecast

Limbs, weapons, I typically lay down a paper towel sheet and paint on it that way. Sometimes I stick whatever limb/weapon it is into sticky tack on a cork to paint fine details better.

Otherwise I either hold it by the base, or use the base and sticky tack it to a cork.

Priming is usually done in a box. Usually we tape the models down to the box and prime away.

Large cork stoppers and some blu tac

works like a charm