What Have You Painted Today??
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Shadow Queen
Mongoose
just finishing my Cygnar Warjacks, my ironclad's paint job on the boiler seams to be cracking. :roll:
Wow, The Warmachine and GOMC1 minies look awesome!!! It makes me feel lazy because I havn't painted a humanoid mini for ages, just starships.
GW's foundation paints are good. But if you have the habit of licking your brush look out, they taste really, really, really bad.
GW's foundation paints are good. But if you have the habit of licking your brush look out, they taste really, really, really bad.
Silverback
Mongoose
Are you touting for a new product line of fruit flavoured acrylic paints?Banichi said:
Captain_Nemo
Mongoose
I've been licking my paint brushes to a point for 2 decades now. I don't a problem.
I was... Mongoose Adrian
Mongoose
There is another reason to lick brushes...
It became quite in vogue about over ten years ago but seems to have petered out (well I don't see it so often now).
I personally don't lick the brush I just touch the tip to my tongue, the saliva forms a slight buffer between the brush tip and the painted surface, this allows soft very immediate paint blends in small places.
When there used to be studio tours at GW (back before the move to Lenton) the store bods used to see all the 'Eavy Metal painters seemingly 'licking' their brushes, monkey see monkey do, as they say LOL. Years after I used to ask people I saw, quite innocently
, why were they licking their brush? Less than half would say to keep a point on the brush, the rest wouldn't know why they were doing it, they have just seen their local redshirt hero do it and it maybe makes them feel a better painter if they have Liche Purple all over their chops LOL.
Think the only time I lick the brush to form a point is when I'm cleaning up. Surely licking a loaded brush removes the paint?
It became quite in vogue about over ten years ago but seems to have petered out (well I don't see it so often now).
I personally don't lick the brush I just touch the tip to my tongue, the saliva forms a slight buffer between the brush tip and the painted surface, this allows soft very immediate paint blends in small places.
When there used to be studio tours at GW (back before the move to Lenton) the store bods used to see all the 'Eavy Metal painters seemingly 'licking' their brushes, monkey see monkey do, as they say LOL. Years after I used to ask people I saw, quite innocently
, why were they licking their brush? Less than half would say to keep a point on the brush, the rest wouldn't know why they were doing it, they have just seen their local redshirt hero do it and it maybe makes them feel a better painter if they have Liche Purple all over their chops LOL.Think the only time I lick the brush to form a point is when I'm cleaning up. Surely licking a loaded brush removes the paint?
Silverback
Mongoose
Licking brushes - I think I'm going to throw-up! :?
Shadow Queen
Mongoose
My brush (eather end) goes in the mouth
Shadow Queen
Mongoose
just done 5 Jacks's fire boxes
Licking the paint brush thing reminds me of a roomfull of monkeys...
Imagine you have a room full of monkeys. Hang a banana from the ceiling, and put some stairs under it. As soon as a monkey touches the stairs, spray all the monkeys with cold water. Pretty soon, the monkeys will learn not to climb the stairs, and that if any of them does try, they all get sprayed. If any of them try to climb up, the othes will prevent them. At this point you can turn off the water spray, it is no longer needed.
Now take one of the monkeys out, and put a fresh one in. He will see the banana, and try to get it... and to his horror, the other monkeys will pull him down and stop him! Pretty soon he will figure out that if he tries to climb the stairs, he gets attacked.
Now replace another monkey with a fresh one. He will get the same treatment, and the previous newcomer will join in, because thats the rules. Now replace another, and another... until eventually all of the original monkeys are gone. The new monkeys will still prevent anyone from climbing the stairs, even though none of them knows why.
Imagine you have a room full of monkeys. Hang a banana from the ceiling, and put some stairs under it. As soon as a monkey touches the stairs, spray all the monkeys with cold water. Pretty soon, the monkeys will learn not to climb the stairs, and that if any of them does try, they all get sprayed. If any of them try to climb up, the othes will prevent them. At this point you can turn off the water spray, it is no longer needed.
Now take one of the monkeys out, and put a fresh one in. He will see the banana, and try to get it... and to his horror, the other monkeys will pull him down and stop him! Pretty soon he will figure out that if he tries to climb the stairs, he gets attacked.
Now replace another monkey with a fresh one. He will get the same treatment, and the previous newcomer will join in, because thats the rules. Now replace another, and another... until eventually all of the original monkeys are gone. The new monkeys will still prevent anyone from climbing the stairs, even though none of them knows why.
Greg Smith
Mongoose
I too lick my brushes after I have cleaned them.
Interestingly and tragicly, the women who used to paint Radium onto flourescent watch faces used to lick their brushes.
Interestingly and tragicly, the women who used to paint Radium onto flourescent watch faces used to lick their brushes.
Silverback
Mongoose
I'm starting to realise why some of the old masters must have died early now! Lead, arsenic, etc. - wonderful paint additives!
No. 1 Bear
Mongoose
I base coated my entire Narn fleet.
Captain_Nemo
Mongoose
monster touch up work on my EA demo fleet. technically it's a re-paint
