Buying new white paint
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DrEvilmonki
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I would go for GW. Of course I have only used GW and none of the others are available locally so that might be why (although really it is a great white paint)
Actually I have yet to find a white that is easy to use. I use Vallejo Game Colour white usually, just because I use Game Colour for everything else too, and I have also tried Model Colour white. The game colour white is hard to thin well without losing a lot of coverage, while I have the feeling that the model colour white has no coverage at all. I do have GW white too, but I have to admit that I have not used it in a long time. Maybe it\'s time to try it again...
Flightless
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I\'m using Vallejo game colour. Works pretty well i find, thinner than GW, and no lumps.
I couldn\'t find it in shops though. Forget where i got it now, but www.nugaming.com is meant to be good, depsite not the most professional site layout. And free shipping, who can argue with that?
I couldn\'t find it in shops though. Forget where i got it now, but www.nugaming.com is meant to be good, depsite not the most professional site layout. And free shipping, who can argue with that?
generulpoleaxe
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i agree that vellejo is the one for the job.
that and citadel paints will soon be £2.
chris.
that and citadel paints will soon be £2.
chris.
QuietiManes
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Reapers white covers really well. I use bleached bone from GW for mixing alot of the time.
Quite the contrary... the VMC White covers very well. It has a lot of pigment! One must be careful with it, though, since it has a tendency to produce a slightly grainy surface. For that reason I use VGC White for most highlighting purposes, while I use VMC when I need to cover large areas without getting a blotchy finish due to poor coverage. But then it\'s important to keep the paint thin and using retarder and flow aid is not a bad idea either.
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Coat D\'arms.
If you use a lot, you could always try Derivan Minis - £3 for 36ml pots.....
http://www.caliverbooks.com/HTML/calframe.htm
They\'re getting favourable reviews it seems. Might try some black and white myself.
If you use a lot, you could always try Derivan Minis - £3 for 36ml pots.....
http://www.caliverbooks.com/HTML/calframe.htm
They\'re getting favourable reviews it seems. Might try some black and white myself.
Yes, that is quite a nice theory there. I tried. I mean, I REALLY tried. But after 25 coats of thinned VMC white paint onto the Kimono of a japanese themed mini without any good result (I primed grey, thinned the white about 1:1 paint:water, then later 3:2 and then 3:1 - the kimono still looked mottled) I decided to just strip the bugger and paint something else. Maybe I should have just kept going with the coats, I don\'t know.
Sonnyslayer
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i havent had any problems with vmc white.. i dillute with water. I think its great..
well, I just use GW skull white.
in my oppinion the best thing you can do to make your whites look better...is get better light bulbs! I always thought my whites look mucky no matter what I did, until I got full spectrum pure white light to paint and photograph by. Even reveal bulbs don\'t work. But white is going to reflect whatever tint the light you look at it in, so you can have the best white ever invented by man, but have it look like crap in the wrong light.
in my oppinion the best thing you can do to make your whites look better...is get better light bulbs! I always thought my whites look mucky no matter what I did, until I got full spectrum pure white light to paint and photograph by. Even reveal bulbs don\'t work. But white is going to reflect whatever tint the light you look at it in, so you can have the best white ever invented by man, but have it look like crap in the wrong light.
