To my mind you only really need a couple of different sizes - above are the ones I use pretty much exclusively - a no.1 and a 10/0 (very small and perfect for dots in eyes etc). But, at the end of the day, it's something you just need to try.
DARK ANGEL PAINTING SERIES
Incredibly good quality, half the price of the Series 7s and to my mind the best things out there. For the majority of the last few years I've used brushes by Rosemary & Co.
I've used them in the past and whilst they're fine, I never quite connected with them.
Loads of folk live on Winsor and Newton Series 7s - which are very, very nice and rather expensive. There are numerous ones out there, and you kind of have to try them out to see what works for you. They hold paint incredibly well, and will go up to a lovely point. Buy a brush which has KOLINSKY SABLE heads. No matter what lever you may think you are at, a decent brush will improve your efforts. Anyhoo.we'll let that dry and get on with more fun stuff.įor the love of god, get good brushes. I have a hard enough time with grey! The way I paint, you'll probably see more reasons why I choose a lighter undercoat too - namely the thinner coats I put on. The other reason is I have a bugger of a time spotting detail when I undercoat in black. It doesn't, and you'll see how quickly you can do things by using another colour. Of course, you can get exactly the same quality finish with whatever undercoat you use, but it is a false economy to think that by undercoating in black, it makes things quicker. I actively loathe painting from a black undercoat - primarily because the majority of black sprays on the market are NOT primers, but just spray versions of normal paint and paint never adheres as well on it. I always, always use grey these days (Halfords Grey Primer is brill). Get rid of the most prominent ones, and most of the time paint can sort a whole load of the others out too! Last thing you want is to get fed up at this early stage! It has to be done, but you really don't have to be completely anal about it - I know a fair few demon winners that aren't as thorough as they might have been, and it's never been too much of an issue for them.
Clean up the thing (probably best to do it slower than I've done it on this chap, but I'm on a tight schedule here!), drill out a hole in the gun (PLEASE do this, otherwise it just looks wierd) and you're good to go with priming.ĮDIT: I should point out that I find cleaning and prep of figures to be the spawn of the devil and one of the few things that bring me down when it comes to starting a new project. Most of the time I do try and avoid painting stuff that isn't in one piece, but the sad truth of the matter is that with Space Marines it makes much more sense to do it in sub-assemblies. I wasn't going to even start until tomorrow, but the clippers were there, the box of marines were there and I thought I'd start. Hopefully though, it might give someone out there some pearl of useful info.Īnd even if it doesn't, it helps me out no end in having some sort of log on how I do things! It's most definitely not a 'how to', more of a 'how I do'. Seeing as I've never done a DA before, I thought it might be fun to start one from scratch, do it in pretty quick time and go through how I work these things out. This is basically Cocky's fault for even mentioning that he wanted to paint up a Dark Angel marine.
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