Bad quality miniatures? or is it just me?

[feanorthenoldor]

Hey guys,

So I recently got an order of Elf warriors from Norba miniatures.
http://norbaminiatures.com/en/the-battle-of-the-ring/118-guerreros-elfos.html


Now this is not aimed directly at them, but I am going to assume by the "cheaper" price of getting these 10 miniatures, the quality is probably not the best.

The reason I say this is because of this. I properly cleaned the miniatures, filed the cape to get an appeared "smooth" finish, and then primed it appropriately. Note: I have done this w/ my many GW miniatures, and this problem has not happened.

Now, here's the issue. I basecoated the cape like I normally would, w/ many diluted layers (I use mainly vallejo model color). After getting a good amount of layers on, I noticed that the basecoat seemed "Shinier" than usual. More specifically, a basecoat will usually have a nice matte finish, but this did not. It was especially noticeable in the recesses. Continuing painting, adding the shadows made this "shiny" appearance even more evident.


I don't know if i'm going crazy, but I then did and used the same colors on a GW mini, and they all had that nice matte finish to it.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? Are they bad quality miniatures? Because this is kinda annoying me since I want my mini's to look as good as possible.


Thanks

 

[MAXXxxx]

sorry, but I don't think it's because of the minis / surface of the minis. After a priming a figure the material beneath should be irrelevant as you are adding the paint on top of the primer.

Normally I experienced this "adding more layers make it more and more shiny" thing, if the paint I used wasn't mixed enough(painting mostly with the binder-thinner and not the paint) or if it had too many additives (glaze medium) or using too many too diluted layers as it can make the surface too smooth and with that too glossy.

Now I don't think it's the last one, because then you'd have the same effect with the GW minis too.