What type of paint to use?

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:10 am

Juck101, what other brand ink do you use?

juck101 · Post by **juck101** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:16 am

rottring ink (not sure spelling) - very vibrant colour pigment for bright wash/ or glaze.
Ans windsor + newton ink for more darker shades/ like brown and blue. Windsor very basic drawing ink in uk and good range for most stuff.
via Kadu -C's very cool photos on the web

http://www.francebloodbowl.com/special/ ... CN1324.jpg
above link is viridian ink via windsor, note how bright one sinlge coat looks

Laxon Hrull · Post by **Laxon Hrull** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:44 am

I can't believe you haven't gone on about D&D colour, Juck. A very muted range of colours - not even sure if they stll make them.

Rotring are great. Very vibrant. Windsor and Newton good for armour washes. A lot of my old Slaanesh Champions have aW&N Viridian glaze.

juck101 · Post by **juck101** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:59 pm

Laxon get some pics of your chaos up...look at msn.groups.

Yeah d+d colours were very nice as the dry pigment was always cool for pastel shades.

Post by **Old Man Draco** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:07 pm

traveller wrote:http://www.acrylicosvallejo.com/ look for game colors range !

Being a painter noob with all dried out paint and looking for new stuff, is vallejo available in any store?

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:27 pm

I dont knew, how is the situation in the Netherlands...

(ask Dave

... but i´m lucky, that my local shop offers the full game range

Hm, Draco, as a small thanks for the sleeping place i could bring you some colors to the Bubble ?! I dont knew the price of each bottle now, but i can ask...

Traveller

Post by **Dave** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:09 pm

you can buy it in some store in Tiel .. but I think you can mail order it AND order it at 'Swaak' in Utrecht

Post by **Old Man Draco** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:23 pm

We'll dicsuss that in Utrecht on thirsday then!

@ Traveller. A very nice gesture. But you are a invitewd guest, so you need not bring anything!

Levinas · Post by **Levinas** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:09 pm

Another vote for Vallejo - 'better, cheaper, more' are three reasons (if cheaper and more can count as 2) than GW paints. But, I stick with GW metalics for drybrushing, the Vallejo paint seems to refuse to wipe off the brush to the extent that GW will meaning that my attempts at drybrushing with Vallejo tend to end up as painted on silver (etc).

Having voiced this paint preferance I'd say the biggest change to my painting came not with the shift in paint brands but in brushes. Having used the GW brushes for ages I recently shifted to Windsor and Newton Series 7 brushes and painting has become an altogether better experience. More expensive yes, but they last for ages and they hold a point... In the end they definately work out cheaper per figure than any other brush I've used.

Grasshopper · Post by **Grasshopper** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:20 am

Dave wrote:I am slooooowly turning to valejjo as well, but I've got a load of citadel paints still 'working' for me ..

What he said.

MadDog · Post by **MadDog** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:18 am

I have to say I have made the switch to Vallejo, and never looked back. I was using GW paints and I had quite a collection (I probably had one of each colour). They all dried up on me in no time at all.... Since I really didn't want to spend 150+ to have the same bad experience, I switched to Vallejo.

HTH

Mad Dog

Post by **Old Man Draco** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:11 pm

Yesterday I bought the base set of game colours for Vallejo. Now just to find time to start painting. First lets go and cook!

Post by **Dave** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:12 pm

where did you buy that ??

Post by **Old Man Draco** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:18 pm

Yesterday in Essen at the fair. Had to do quite a search and almost gave up when I stumbled across a guy who had loads of the stuff! (Just that I did not have loads of money to buy all!)