Cult Of Games XLBS: Getting Started In Mini Painting; What Are Your Top Tips?
April 4, 2021 by brennon
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It’s the XLBS Show……….Happy Sunday fellow CoGs! @brennon Thanks for introducing me to ‘Ungrim Ironfist’ great mini and well painted. (I’ve got to find one of those) @avernos I love the story of ‘most epic beard goes first in SAGA’. I’m currently still rocking my Christmas time beard. Beards are COOL! 🙂 Well DONE to all the Golden Button Winners! Inspiring work for sure. My hobby this week has been limited to listening to Age of Sigmar novels as I rebuild the engine of one of my cars. Not the hobby that I was hoping to do this week but… Read more »
More Dwarfs to come over the next few weeks.
Didn’t Warhammer Age of Sigmar do the beard thing too when they first put out their four page “rulebook”?
I’ll have to look into that!
I was a little late to the ‘Age of Sigmar’ party, so I’m playing catch-up and trying to get up on the current stuff.
But I’m in it now. Four armies in various stages collecting, building, and painting.
they did as much crap as they could to get warhammer players to fuck off I remember that
I recommend taking the sprues and throwing them in the bin and buy lovely one piece castings instead. Maybe thats just me
Painting hints and tips I recommend the Sonic Sledgehammer painting videos on you tube if you need any hints and tips. Will show you the basics and how to get the mini painted and on the tabletop quickly and easily
Primer wise I recommend Halfords
@brennon being Easter is that Mr Cadbury parrot?
Thank you! I’ll be sure to check them out! ?
I suggest getting involved or creating a painting chat. This is not necessarily for tips as everyone has their own thoughts and opinions on what to use and how to do it but more to build a group to talk nonsense with whilst painting. The best way to find your methods of painting is a little bit of research and then paint a bunch of minis. You will soon see your skills improve through doing.
A bit of “lego talk” during painting goes a long way. It gets you through the batch painting!
Happy weekend everyone! Some properly nice dwarves on show there today, need to paint up my long drong as for shame I have no non pirate slayers. Regards to painting I’ve never painted on the sprue, all that touch up work as Gerry said would be a real pain. I think biggest tip would be dont be afraid of trying things out, you’ll soon learn what works and what doesnt, oh and dont spend too long trying to perfect a mini, as you soon get into diminishing returns, if your broadly happy with it move on. Cant wair to see… Read more »
Happy Easter Sunday!!
Painting tips:
1. Be eggstra careful not to paint thick layers – unless you have to!
2. If you have a number of similar models, paint an eggsample first, just don’t do a Lloyd and take forever on the prototype that you never finish the rest.
3. Be eggstremely careful with your brushes, buy the best you can afford, don’t overload the hares with paint.
Good pun work
eggsellent pun work …
Terrible yolks
Was cracking up over reading this. All yolks aside, thanks for the tips ?
I recommend the warcry rulebook and two warcry warbands instead of starting fresh with AoS. It’s like 8 minis and quick game. Then buy more and transfer to AoS.
I am very interested in giving Warcry ago as an entry point into AoS. I’m guessing it’s relatively cheap to get one of the Chaos warbands each and the core rulebook?
you’d miss out on the terrain that’s in the box, unless you’ve got plenty already.
OTOH … you do get to pick and choose your warbands.
Yeah a Warband and the rulebook is all you need to start. Then you can pick up a terrainset (that fit perfect into AoS also).
When I need a bit of motivation for painting, I usually put on a favourite sci-fi or fantasy video. For my current Spring Clean Challenge, to get over the hiatus of deciding what to do, I stuck on the original Conan the Barbarian and I was off preparing the bits of my FW Voss Pattern Lightning Strike Fighter and the creative juices started to flow and as the kit started to come to life (not literally ?!) that in itself keeps me motivated to carry on with the next phase… looking forward to seeing @FCostin Free’s progress. Go for it!… Read more »
Oh… happy Easter all! ?
@brennon Gerry Can’s videos are not ‘very good’ – they’re brilliant and so informative! ?? In another life @avernos could have been in the teaching profession… I’m sure he would have been such a cool art, design and tech professor…
Fantastic XLBS, I’m off to carry on with my Spring Clean Challenge now – suitably inspired! ?
Hope your spring clean challenge is coming along! ?
Hey I got more done to my Blenheims while watching this, they are masked up to do all the glass.
I’m not sure I’ve updated the project about them since they were primed.
Happy Sunday everyone! Very interested by Gerry’s journey into oils as I’m doing exactly the same thing – hoping to get some more paint down today in between eating Easter eggs. It’s a big ol’ learning curve but it’s got a lot of promise. Also when you screw up you can just channel Bob Ross and call them “happy accidents”! It is a bit weird though when words like “this happy little gun loves here” pop into your head whilst painting ?
What do you put on while you paint? Why, this very show! Or music.
@dignity the choice of which to go for should be with Mrs Justin. Your job is to get her hooked and start with giving her the faction she’s most enthused by.
Happy Easter Sunday! Time to dust off and update last year’s Spring cleaning projects. ?
Regarding spray painting outdoors. When I spray either Plastic or resin models (metal are usually heavy enough to ignore the wind), I use a 2 foot piece of 2 by 1 wood. I then place 1 foot of masking tape rolled over to make a tube, at one end. Then stick it to the wood; and the models will stick firm. As a added bonus it allows you to rotate the models giving a more even coating, and perhaps more importantly, avoids spraying you hands .
Thank you! This is a really good tip! I may have avoided the wind today, but my fingertips were grey by the end of it. I’ll be giving this a go. ?
@fcostin Do you think it will seem strange and take some adjusting going from dark to light colours when painting miniatures unlike watercolours which is of course the opposite?
That probably will come down to technique. I never go from dark to light if it can be avoided unless it’s small finishing details
I tried to not change any of my techniques to see how the miniature came out. Primed in a really light grey, and used a light brown mixed with white as a base colour and added less and less white as I went on. Even used my watercolours as a wash. I wouldn’t even know where to start if I primed with black! Hehe!
Happy XLBS egg day
Ooh Justin’s army’s deserting?
@free you can always consider doing a beginners video of things like painting,building,bassing an the like?
Oddly, I wanted to tackle miniatures painting and building from my own techniques! The more I spoke to people, I realised how many people had their own techniques along the way. So I decided to go where the paintbrush took me!
Watched quite a lot of the videos on OTT, around the techniques, mostly to see what tools they were using ?
small mini = small brush in my eyes, so I love seeing how others create different effects by changing the brush size!
a few test runs before the unveiling?
One mini down. ? Didn’t test, just see where the paintbrush took me! ?
nice.
Justin have you fed the hamsters?
Ooh predator cops?
They actually remind of the puppet thingy in the saw film’s.
https://www.collectiblesdirect.co.uk/saw-billy-puppet-prop-replica.html
Billy the Puppet – Saw franchise Kick him off his bike and …
probably the cheek bones, these predate the saw movies by almost 20 years, maybe Dave should sue ^^
You’d like SLA there are drug addled Scots in it
You could always paint one up with a white and red helmet Gerry?
Drug addled Scots never Lol
Happy Sunday! My tips for someone getting started in painting minies: 1. Get a proper painting handle. Painting is awkward enough for your hands, don’t make it any more than it has to. With a handle you’ll find it easier to orient the mini to make the brush strokes in the direction it works best. Tradition is to use corks, old paint pots etc. Least hassle way is to get the one from Citadel, they’re cheap and do their job better than old paint pots. 2. After getting used to blocking base colours in smooth layers (right primer, thinning paints),… Read more »
Happy Easter Sunday CoGs!
Fabulous work button winner’s.
Have a good day COGz.?
Happy Sunday !!
“…what tips and tricks you’d offer up to people just getting started?”
Buy just one mini.
Paint it up. When absolutely complete, buy another. Repeat.
That’s it.
Hahahahahahahaaaaa! Kidding, of course.
Ihadn’t even started painting and already had a backlog! Glad I’ve got started on it now, I felt like the pile of shame was judging me. Hah
Surely you mean a pillar of pride!!
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