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I've tried searching youtube and the fourms to find this and i can't so im bring it here. I have failed every attempt at painting small the crevices and such on my mini. I've tried watering my paints down and the pigments dont stay. Also buying a waash or ink isn't really a choice that the color i use is a pink brown mix almost like the rocks you find in a grill. Any help or tips would be really nice. I also use a airbrush so any tips with doing it by airbrush or brush would be fine

If you thin paint too much with water it will not stick. Thin the paint and add acrylic medium to restore the structure.

Do you prime your figures?

You could try thinning your paints with a neutral glaze of some kind, instead of water. What I tend to do is once I've finished the base colours, before washing, highlights or blending, I look over the miniature with an eagle eye and a very fine brush and just make sure that the base colours have covered absolutely everything that I want them to.

And also remember that a bit of natural shade never goes amiss. If a miniature is very dark in the crevasses then that is fine and dandy. That's the sole reason I undercoat all my minis black. It's a quick way of adding natural depth.

If it's Finecast yo umay need to wash the figure first to get rid of the release agent.
This stuff repels paint so needs to be removed.

My only experience with painting-before-assembling has been with the Dark Vengeance models -- I dry fit them, rattle-can prime, then pull them apart to paint, so there are still clean plastic-to-plastic spots for gluing.

I use Duplicolor Sandable Primer, so I'm not worried about it not holding, but when I paint before assembling (I'm already planning to on a Terminator I'm working on), should I sand down to bare plastic to glue, or will CA hold to paint okay?

CA will hold to the paint better than the paint will hold to the model. The paint/model joint fails not the CA/paint joint.

Yeah, exactly.

What you can do is paint the parts then use acetone on a Q-tip to polish the paint off the bits you want to join, and cement them with plastic weld.

Thanks.

its all the cracks and recesses on necron night scythes. I've tried medium and thinning and still it either runs everywhere or doesn't stick. I'm also trying to paint the grooves a different color then the base. I airbrush my base coat so getting in there isn't a problem with that

So you are trying to paint a sorta brick color into the cracks and crevices and you use airbrush? I see many people who use oil washes when they use airbrush. You can gloss varnish the whole miniature first for the wash to run straight to the crevices and leave other places intact, and then you can pinwash the oilwash, once it's dry you can mat varnish the miniature again to get rid of the shine. Also oil paints come in any color you can think of so really you can make any wash you want.

There's loads of examples on youtube about oilwashes from Awesomepaintjob, Schnauzerfaceminis and from Wargamersconsortium Look them up

Hope this helps

Alan

Thank you so much thats exactly what i needed to hear already looked up some videos on it and looks super easy just a little time consuming. Thanks again for the point in the right direction.