Shadow Queen
Mongoose
Dont say in a blender.....
How do you blend?
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Sancho Panza
Mongoose
There are countless articles on the web about blending acrylic paint with relation to painting miniatures! Try googling: miniatures, painting, blending.
To fully explain would take many paragraphs and pictures, there is more than one way to skin a cat and the same applies to blending acrylic paint... But as so many excellent guides and sources already exist it's not worth the bother really! And if you can't Goggle it I can't be bother to for you.
Sorry but 'how do you blend?' is a bit like 'how do you draw?' or 'how do you make a television?'.
So in the context of the question 'how do you blend' it's probably best answered 'with paint, a brush and skill'...
To fully explain would take many paragraphs and pictures, there is more than one way to skin a cat and the same applies to blending acrylic paint... But as so many excellent guides and sources already exist it's not worth the bother really! And if you can't Goggle it I can't be bother to for you.
Sorry but 'how do you blend?' is a bit like 'how do you draw?' or 'how do you make a television?'.
So in the context of the question 'how do you blend' it's probably best answered 'with paint, a brush and skill'...
Shadow Queen
Mongoose
Ok that was one of the stupidest questions I have asked to date.
lastbesthope
Mongoose
Shadow Queen said:
Well, only since the last time you asked me if/when I was going to paint my minis :lol:
LBH
M1ndr1d3rs
Mongoose
Maybe I take this skill for granted, and I never actually asked my more experienced friends.
Here's how I do it though:
Find a small clean container (like an empty paint bottle)
Load with paints you want to blend (I'm rather touch and go with the proportions)
Put in a small bit of metal (usually from leftover sprues)
Screw shut and shake hard.
I might google it myself when I start to paint again. Hope that helps Dee, and thanks for the 'gift'.
Here's how I do it though:
Find a small clean container (like an empty paint bottle)
Load with paints you want to blend (I'm rather touch and go with the proportions)
Put in a small bit of metal (usually from leftover sprues)
Screw shut and shake hard.
I might google it myself when I start to paint again. Hope that helps Dee, and thanks for the 'gift'.
juggler69uk
Mongoose
M1ndr1d3rs said:
I have a feeling she meant blending two separate colours on a miniature so that there was no defined line separating them
Sancho Panza said:
If theres "excellent guides" I would have thought you would know which ones they are, Providing a link would have been good, if not then you did not need to be quite so belittling
@ Shadow
It was not a daft question
See if theres anything on the links below
http://www.kevindallimore.co.uk/
http://miniature-painting.net/links_painting.html
http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Miniatures/Painting/
Also Court jester is an excellent painter, try him
and look on his online mag http://www.thecourtjestersstudio.com/WPM/home.html
M1ndr1d3rs
Mongoose
juggler69uk said:
OK, so I posted a stupid answer for a not so stupid question. Sorry Dee
The aforementioned blender must have thrown me off >.<
1. Put the color you want showing underneath down first.
2. Wet your brush where it is slightly glistening with water.
3. Pick up a tiny amount of the color you want to paint on top with that brush.
4. Very carefully paint the thinned paint where you want it to go. Given how the paint tends to behave, I recommend painting where you want the color strongest first, and the fainter areas as the strength of the pigment fades.
Repeat steps 2-4 as needed.
2. Wet your brush where it is slightly glistening with water.
3. Pick up a tiny amount of the color you want to paint on top with that brush.
4. Very carefully paint the thinned paint where you want it to go. Given how the paint tends to behave, I recommend painting where you want the color strongest first, and the fainter areas as the strength of the pigment fades.
Repeat steps 2-4 as needed.
