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 Prime Factor
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Oct. 23rd, 2006 @ 11:46 am 
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Sitting here over my coffee this morning, waiting for the sun to peek out a bit more and warm up for a afternoon of priming miniatures, I got to thinking about paint. Not so much brands, but mostly color of priming paint. So far I have used four colors to prime various pieces and each seems to have advantages and disadvantages.
- Flat black, probably the most used color for priming stuff. Works well over foam core, and on miniatures. Disadvantage seems to be that it takes more paints to cover later.
- Flat grey, useful again in all aspects. Doesn't take as much to cover later, but tends to not give the same depth of shading that black does.
- Flat "rust" red. This I have only used on miniatures. Gives interesting results especially if the miniatures is meant to have red hair. Again tho the depth of shading seems to be less than black
- Flat white. This I have used on some of the Combat Zone troopers I have. Depth of shading is less, but the paints seems to be more alive and bright, and seem to take less to cover.
Well looks like today will be a bit of flat black for horses, and flat white for a couple of the cowboys, part of my experiment and learning process.Current Mood:  hopeful |
One of the techniques I used to use when painting renaissance and ancients figures that required lots of bright colours was to do the usual black undercoat then for areas requiring Reds and yellows or other light less opaque colours I would do a subsequent basecoat of white or very pale grey/cream. If anything, I'd use a bone/off-white rather than a pure white as a base coat purely because there's less harshness to the opacity.
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