Article: Cost effective painting

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theeo123

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Finding ways to save money is always great. Especialy if your not making money off your painting & do a lot more table-top jobs than "true artwork" type pieces.

During your experiments with black were you using it for colouring or as primer? I can think of a few colours that i go through a LOT but I tend to be picky about my paints. are they any techniques/jobs etc that yo would NOT recommend them for ?
 
stefanhws

stefanhws

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I can't think about reason to take such paints for my minis. I used nearly hundreds Vallejo colors for two years and had to replace maybe 10 bottles of them. Don't think that 20€ in two years is to expensive for a hobby. Your colors might be useful to paint the basecoat of a diorama. Therefore i used simple Acryl colors from the store around the corner as well.
 
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Auberoun

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It is quite smooth to paint with, and I used the black to cover my primer. Then, I found that there is not really any technique that I wouldn't recommend them for. (Although, I don't do much in the way of drybrushing, except for stone on HirstArts stuff. In which case it was fine.) They are made to paint onto paper without it wrinkling. I am working on putting together a list of equivalents to update this article with. (and when I do that, I will fix the links...sorry guys.) The other problem when I tried other craft paints is, the black came out almost charcoal as opposed to black, this brand does not do that. Like I said, their black is darker than GW's or Vallejo's. The only thing is they do not have metallic colors yet, but with the NMM craze, it isn't necessary. We'll just keep our fingers crossed.
 
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everwill

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I stopped buying game store paints years ago and I haven't looked back. Michael's and Pearl's have oodles and oodles of specialty acrylics that are absolutely marvelous.
 
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