Dipping

[Dark Lord (retired)]

Didn't taste any better.

I've also tasted Testors Brush Cleaner. GACK!

[juck101]

mental very cool for liz/alien figs.

I was looking a few weeks ago at how to paint a sprayed effect. Plan was black and white spray team but couldn't get my head round it. In the end just highlighted as normal.

Cheers for link - not sure if will try it but got brain working again

[boondog]

Hmmm:
"Then fling/flick/swing model at the end of your arm to remove as much stain as possible."
Forming a mental picture of this... it's a very messy one. Brown drips of paint covering walls, floor, ceiling... or weird looks from the neighbours when I spend an hour in the garden, flailing my arms like a windmill and accidentally chucking the odd 'slippery when wet' insectoid-killer-machine-mini over the fence.

[Nathaniel]

If you've already put an ink based wash on a figure, do not use the future floor wax. The ink will come off out of the figure and dilute into the acrylic liquid. Two simple work arounds would be to give the figure a quick shot of dullcoat/matte sealer first or apply that particular ink after the future is dry (instead of beforehand).

Not bad, provided all you want is greeny brown nids

Actually, Minwax Polyshades comes in a few different colours. Tudor is nearly black, and then there's a range of browns and even one that's nearly completely red. Also, they make a waterbased acrylic varnish called Polycrylic (or something like that) which you could add a variety of pigments to (basically you'd get a more viscous version of Future).

Here's a few more articles regarding dipping and/or pictures of different things that have been "dipped":

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beattie/dip.html

Nice before and after pics on 15mm colonials:
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~bryanb/painting15s.html

I believe this one has analogous products from around the world
http://www.fanaticus.org/DBA/guides/pai ... tains.html

http://www42.pair.com/fox/dip-comparison.jpg
http://www.landesfamily.com/MiracleDip.jpg

The "Dip" (I'd recommend brushing it on) works to upgrade C or D paintjob to a B or B+ but it won't get you to A or A+. My Bloodbowl figures are first and foremost gaming pieces, so I'm fine with a B/B+. Though I don't use the dip anymore-- the Future solution is so much easier, cheaper, more customizable, etc.

Nathaniel

[orcdom]

thanks for that first link on the bugs, now i might get my Hive done sometime this century.
also in a GW article they were using a wood stain to paint regiments of skeletons in no time with a dip method.

Steve