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The only two techniques I've been doing so far have been the wet on wet blending and some wet on dry feathering. I just got a 40% off coupon for a local art store from their booth at a local figure/comic convention so I'll probably grab some liquin or another appropriate medium to help with the...

So I had some busy work days and didn't manage to paint with oils for the last couple of days. I did however, spend a few moments doing more test blending for the fire effect. I've basically discovered that I don't really need any red at all. The yellow I have has the slightest hint of orange...

So I spent a few hours painting since my afternoon plans got cancelled due to weather. I was right that the black was overpowering everything and that I was putting on too much of it. What I also discovered was that while I want a gradient from white hot to black, that doesn't mean that white...

So I spent about an hour and a half trying to blend a 28mm miniature's forearm and hand to look like it was molten lava. Like this, but tiny and blended with oils rather than dryingbrushed with acrylics: http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/1302-hot-lava-bases I found out that black goes a...

I ended up not having a painting session because I was waiting for oil colours I bought off of eBay to arrive. All I had was the titanium white and Payne's grey I bought to try oils out on that one cloak. I ended up getting an introductory set of Grumbacher's pre-tested oil colours (their...

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So I tried having the figure dry before moving on to my final shade and highlight. I'm glad I did. I'm still not sure what Marc's reasons are for doing it, but I was right that it might be a good form of protection for previous work that you're happy with. I put my last highlight on way, way...

Thanks for the post, Megroot! Acrylic Gesso has been used on white metal miniatures for a while. Vallejo has a brush on acrylic primer that is actually acrylic gesso, for example. Traditional Gesso is not appropriate whatsoever for the reasons Steve mentioned. I've never tried traditional...

The idea of gesso bring brittle baffled me enough that I googled it. Turns out there are two kinds, acrylic and traditional. I'm using acrylic gesso, not traditional gesso. Dries smooth and flexible. The traditional is thought of as better for oil paints to go over, but everything seems to...

So I finished up the cloth on the figure I've been painting. And I've noticed I've got my blue gray colour on some of the surrounding areas. Since I'm done with the blue gray, I'm not seeing any reason not to smooth the errant paint and remove as much as possible and put the figure in the...

Another day, another painting session. As for yesterday's issue with 'wet on dry,' I found the best way for me to deal with that is to pretend that it's 'wet on wet' and just make the same brush strokes. Then after that's done, I took a dry soft brush and feathered all the transitions with...

As I'm new to oils as a medium, I figured I'd start a thread where I post my thoughts and any questions that results from that day's painting session. Today, I had some paint on a cloak that was nicely blended and then dried. Then I needed to continue the same colour on the other side of the...

The crock pot worked perfectly for drying the oils. They also (as expected) ended up less shiney and the gradiation from the lightest to darkest looks a bit smoother (as does the finish in general). I also realized that I need to pay attention to what materials go into a miniature if i'm going...

I got a crock pot from some liquidation store last year. It's a tiny one for sauces and whatnot. I think I used it once for a black bean sauce. It has a very fine temperature control rather than just on/off/high/low. If I don't like the results, I'll probably give a lamp based solution a...

I'm definitely not abandoning acrylics. When I'm painting table top quality stuff specifically for gaming, acrylics will be my go to paints. Also on 1/72 and 1/35 scale soft plastics, as they remain flexible and won't come off when handled. When I need to paint a fifty or a hundred figures...

Hey, I'm a long time miniature painter for miniature wargaming miniatures. I just recently got it into my head to give oil paints a try instead of acrylics (I use a mixture of Vallejo, Reaper, Coat d'Arms, p3, etc.,.). Today was my first painting session with oils after reading all sorts of...