Don't let that bother you Ron. If theres one thing I know it doesn't matter how good you are, there is always someone better. You don't have to worry mate, your figures are really great and I have always been inspired by your work.
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I'll second that-nothing wrong with your figures Ron.
Can I recommend a CD Rom by Connie Schults, it contains over 500 oil paint mixes and is a real labour of love by Connie-the best £15 I ever spent
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Can I recommend a CD Rom by Connie Schults, it contains over 500 oil paint mixes and is a real labour of love by Connie-the best £15 I ever spent
Keith
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Who's connie schultz
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Edits a series of flats; owns a business (Germany) called Federicus Rex; produces a series of "how to" painting CDs.
See: http://www.fredericus-rex.de/index.php?language=en&&
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Hi Ron,have to agree what you said about Dave Mitchell and Brian Snaddon,I've always found their work inspirational and Eddy's of course,but having said that there are so many great painters on here who paint in oils and I envy all of them,I'm at a stage in my life now where I paint for my own enjoyment and if people like my work then it's a bonus,I have seen some of your work and it's great,I have to accept I'm never going to be a great painter but I'm happy with where I'm at,I loved your Cossack and your french hussar at euro in 2011 just to name 2,don't let it get you down mate,I think I'll pack up when I get to that stage,I feel as well as a good friend your are a talented painter and not forgetting your sculpting skills 
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Hi Ron,have to agree what you said about Dave Mitchell and Brian Snaddon,I've always found their work inspirational and Eddy's of course,but having said that there are so many great painters on here who paint in oils and I envy all of them,I'm at a stage in my life now where I paint for my own enjoyment and if people like my work then it's a bonus,I have seen some of your work and it's great,I have to accept I'm never going to be a great painter but I'm happy with where I'm at,I loved your Cossack and your french hussar at euro in 2011 just to name 2,don't let it get you down mate,I think I'll pack up when I get to that stage,I feel as well as a good friend your are a talented painter and not forgetting your sculpting skills
Its not getting me down Brian
it's just a big moan 
like all Scots I love a good girn .It would be nice to see some articles on oils from other painters in some sort of print especially for beginners in this medium as there is a lot of pitfalls to avoid for the novice painter.
Pre acrylic days you had to just blunder on learning by ones mistakes but that doesn't happen anymore ,the beginner in oils just freaks and hits the acrylics ,a bit like the bait angler trying to learn fly fishing ,takes two rods catches now't on the fly and reaches for the spinning rod "you must throw the bait rod away and rely on the fly " but thats another story
Ps I have thrown the Acrylics away
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Typical Scot this is nothing to do with oil painting techniques it's that Ron's in deep mourning for the £7.50
Man up
Get busy with that Spaniard.
I'll take some empty ginger bottles back to the shops, get the money and give you the £7.50
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You may have to translate what a ginger bottle is for our English and American friends Del
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You may have to explain this one as well. By the way is that 4pm at the gates, I will haud yer coat.
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I have been reading this thread with great interest as I have recently started a new e-magazine, Figure Painter Magazine or FPM. As has been said above Brain and Ron are both writing articles for it at the moment but I have found that it's hard to get articles from painters that use oils and I think it's simply down to being a numbers game. Less people use them now as opposed to acrylics and as a proportion less people who use them well are willing or able to write an article based around them.
I have dabbled with oils in the past but I wouldn't say it's been a major success when I have used them on a miniature but I really enjoyed the process and would love to get better with them. I feel for some aspects of miniature painting, especially with some of the things I want to achieve on a miniature, they are superior to acrylics and this is why I think it's important to keep the technique alive hence the two articles from Brain and Ron.
I don't want this post to be a plug for FPM but... Like I said above, it is hard to find good content so if anyone would like to write an article for FPM please don't hesitate to contact me. Since the new magazine is only a messily quid it does mean you won't be writing for nowt!
I have dabbled with oils in the past but I wouldn't say it's been a major success when I have used them on a miniature but I really enjoyed the process and would love to get better with them. I feel for some aspects of miniature painting, especially with some of the things I want to achieve on a miniature, they are superior to acrylics and this is why I think it's important to keep the technique alive hence the two articles from Brain and Ron.
I don't want this post to be a plug for FPM but... Like I said above, it is hard to find good content so if anyone would like to write an article for FPM please don't hesitate to contact me. Since the new magazine is only a messily quid it does mean you won't be writing for nowt!
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Ginger bottle. Ginger = any carbonated soft drink in Glasgow. A refund was given for all returned empties, wee boys used to make a fortune collecting them from Building sites when once upon a time things were being built.
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A Glaswegian statement of intent usually shouted across a classroom or public area where there is no immediate opportunity to take action.
Usually this is in response to a real or imagined slight or insult and takes the form of a 'square go' = one on one.
This can in extreme circumstances involve weapons like the aforementioned ginger bottle although ideally one would employ the increasingly hard to find 'Big Whitbread' pale ale bottle the street fighting mans bottle of choice.
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Nobody ever held the coats, if you were daft enough to start to take coat or jacket off your opponent simply waited 'til you got it to your elbows and 'pit the heid oan ye' = head butted you.
Ah! how I miss the days of Brigadoon and Roamin in the Gloamin.
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Or if the fight was really pish folk would start spitting into it. Tuff crowd out my way.
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Do you mean youwill haud the jackits
But I do have an edge
but unfortunately so has Del
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Or if the fight was really pish folk would start spitting into it. Tuff crowd out my way.
Given both our ages i think you would pissing and spitting on us pair
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Given both our ages i think you would pissing and spitting on us pair
Speak for yourself Methuselah.......I played in a veterans invitational Rugby match last week .......I still can't feel anything below my earlobes.
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Ron T,
Like yourself I also use oils! .. However, what I have recently noticed is the big difference between the , W/N, 'Winton' Range, (Just started using), and W/N, 'Artist range' ! especially with drying times! and coverage. Similar to Brian, and due to enforcement, I ended up working with wet on dry! for quite a while, and I was quite pleased with what I could achieve. (Given my limited skills),.. Blending is just as good, with smooth transitions. What oils do you use, just out of interest !
Regards,
Mark.
Like yourself I also use oils! .. However, what I have recently noticed is the big difference between the , W/N, 'Winton' Range, (Just started using), and W/N, 'Artist range' ! especially with drying times! and coverage. Similar to Brian, and due to enforcement, I ended up working with wet on dry! for quite a while, and I was quite pleased with what I could achieve. (Given my limited skills),.. Blending is just as good, with smooth transitions. What oils do you use, just out of interest !
Regards,
Mark.
