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Hi guys I'm looking to paint the pages of the book that the excelsior warpriest from Silver Tower has, how do people usually paint the words/images? As in what types of paints/colours do people usually go for?

People with more brush control do them by hand, I use a very small micra pen.



Not very high res, but it gets the illusion of text across.

You could try scratching detail into the page with a sharp hobby knife then washing the area.

I have two of these in my painting kit..

Staedtler
PIGMENT LINER 0,05MM STA 308 005-9

I usually use Wargaming's "Insane-Detail" brush (spoiler below to see an img) and, on the worst case, you can always use a wooden tooh-stick.

Seconding (thirding?) the micro pens. Plus you can actually get them in other colours if you want. Usually red is easily found.

 Guildenstern wrote:
Seconding (thirding?) the micro pens. Plus you can actually get them in other colours if you want. Usually red is easily found.

I've only seen the ultra fine sized pens in black. But that's just on the shelf at the local arts stores.

If you have a good quality brush and thin your paints appropriately you should be able to get finer detailed text with a brush than with micropens. I have a pen that's 0.03mm and realistically I can't actually produce lines that thin with it. It will also tend to skip on surfaces that are even slightly rough and it's hard to work on curved surfaces.

I can produce much better results with a brush. If you use oil paints or to a lesser extent, enamels, then you can quite easily erase mistakes or dampen a brush with thinner and selectively clean off areas to create shapes that are difficult to create with regular strokes.

Where I usually recommend just using a #1 brush for most work, painting text is one area where a small brush is actually useful because the margin for error is larger if you accidentally push too hard.

This guy was all done with brushes after failing to produce desirable results with pens...

 Nevelon wrote:

 Guildenstern wrote:
Seconding (thirding?) the micro pens. Plus you can actually get them in other colours if you want. Usually red is easily found.

I've only seen the ultra fine sized pens in black. But that's just on the shelf at the local arts stores.

I'm not sure what size "ultra fine" is, but I've found micron pens in a variety of colors at my local Dick Blick. I think I've got a blue and a red around here that I used for some Chicago Police Badges.

http://www.dickblick.com/products/sakura-pigma-micron-pen/