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So while I was working on the Umbers, I got the a shade part of natch painting and opening up a fresh pot of Agrax Earthshade I happily slapped it on and something went a bit wrong…

He is shiny. Very shiny. They all are, which is annoying. Not sure why, yet, but my two thoughts are that I didn’t shake the paint enough before applying it, or that it’s actually a mislabeled ‘Gloss’ pot. It’ll be annoying if it’s the latter, but I suspect it’s the former (remeber, kids, give your paint a good shake before applying!). I do have a solution that I thought I’d share, though; Lahmian Medium! I also use this to dull down the shine of decals in the same manner, but as a paint without pigment it dries with a nice matte finish that does not cover anything in any kind of colour. The only real downside is that I don’t have much Medium left in my collection. If it is an accidental Gloss pot, then I’ll need more Agrax, so I can get more Medium when that happens. Either way, a single coat is enough, and significantly dulls the shine.

A post about the actual painting stages should be coming up in the next little while, hopefully, so stay tuned!

A quick note: Rather than make a whole new post for about 2 sentences, I’m just adding this here. The rest of the project log will focus on the Champion and Standard Bearer simply due to a limit of Lahmian Medium (though I hope to fix that soon) and then a ‘finished’ product of the whole unit can been shown once I can have the paints in hand.