Trewets Spring clean challenge
Varnish to protect
Most of my figures are used as war game pieces or role play minis .
So they get a fair bit of handling.
There are several ways I protect my hobby darlings, depending on the speed and effect I need at any given time.
Bulk armies tend to get base colour primed then base colour details added and dipped in army painter dip or washed with ink for a shade layer.This is followed by one or 2 varnish layers.
If Army Painter dip was used it will be 1 layer of anti shine Matt varnish.This is almost indestructible on the table top.As Army painter is polyurethane based.
If it was washed with ink then 2 layers of Matt varnish
If I paint a hero figure using blending or other technics I will gloss 1 layer and 1 layer of Matt to knock back the shine.( gloss tends to be tougher than other varnish,so I use that layer as added protection.)
Here are the armies I have spring cleaned and varnished to date
In one photo you will see some shrooms that are going into my D&D dungeon when we get to play soon.I am also scratch building some blue tokens for the oozes that are also going to be there. These are made by mixing aquarium turquoise stones with a generous amount of PVA in a pot and spooning them onto an empty base.Job done .
Two different spiders one painted with colour shift paint and the other following a untuned tutorial on coconut crab camouflage . I am thinking of getting another and using white and blue camouflage for a phase spider.
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