http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net thing. But then I kind of get brainlock trying to figure out what color makes sense there. Is that a metallic knob? Is it a little light? Should it just remain a small square slab the same color as the surrounding base coat? How do I choose a color that provides enough contrast to pop out without being out of place? Does it even matter if that minor wedge of....whatever gets it's own color? There's certainly some elements of OCD there.

All this adds up to tons of stoppages and "oh, I'll get to that tomorrow"s.

How do you guys deal with this? Some painters (especially youtube pros) seem to just have a very natural eye for what color everything should be and putting the paint on is just a mechanical step in the middle. They see it all up front in their heads and everything else is just detail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaXQQbcgw0

I guess I'm kind of like Salieri, but I want to be more like Mozart, and at least some of that has to be learnable. Suggestions?

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Second, just do it.

Every good painter has test minis. Rare is the time that a color combination that I made my whole army out of was the first set of colors put to the mini. Once you have painted all the bits and bobs, take a moment and stand back away from the mini. Arms length, or place them on the table top and suddenly you will see that often those bits and bobs actually just get in the way and possibly should have stayed base colored. Maybe a highlight or shade applied to the edge, but the color probably shouldn't have changed.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562909/6245145.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562909/6245145.page GMT
In the end, there is no substitute for simply putting paintbrush to mini. Practice, practice, practice!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562909/6245806.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/562909/6245806.page GMT