Painting Big Trouble in Little China
Wing Kong Hatchet Men
These are another kind of minions for the game. While the Lords of Death are run of the mill bad guys and quite squishy, the Hatchet Men are more of a threat to you.
I decided to portray them wearing the traditional chinese shirt which is pitch black. Again no Black Templar to save my life and I was running out of P3 Thamar Black. Decided to try artist’s acrylics in the form of Liquitex Heavy Body Black. Experiment not successful. I don’t know how they make their paint, or maybe it’s P3’s that are simply excellent, but pigment separation was really bad. I had to put several coats of Liquitex to achieve the same coverage as P3 and you could see my brush strokes everywhere. I think that I tried all of Liquitex’s line of paint additives but to no avail. A complete waste of time and money, I don’t recommend that at all. Maybe you have some tip and tricks for me but I bought more P3 Thamar Black instead of pursuing this route.
Otherwise it was simply a question of highlighting the black. I think I did it on the heavy side because it ended up almost grey. Again, this is good enough for tabletop gaming.
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