How to stop the grainy look
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airhead
Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
How are you lightening the paint up for each layer? Adding white can often cause chalkiness.
What brand of paints are you using. Each has its own nuances.
Add a bit of flow improver (a drop of dish soap can do) to your dilution water.
What are you using to dilute your paints with? Just water? Tap or Distilled bottle?
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Basicly, we need more information.
What brand of paints are you using. Each has its own nuances.
Add a bit of flow improver (a drop of dish soap can do) to your dilution water.
What are you using to dilute your paints with? Just water? Tap or Distilled bottle?
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Basicly, we need more information.
AllTerrainMonkey
New member
It would also help to know exactly how dilute you\'re making the paint, as some paint lines don\'t handle extreme thinning as well as others.
Shawn R. L.
New member
Are these new or old paints. Might need some filtering. An old tea bag or coffee filter may help if there is some grit in the paint.
Aliengod3
Active member
I am using desert yellow and graveyard earth. The paints are pretty new (within the last year). The problem is with shading not with highlighting. I am using only water, bottled, to dilute my paint, about 3:1 water
aint. I am being careful about adding small amounts of graveyard to the yellow so that there is not a great variance between each color progression but I am getting a bit of grain with my application.
I have flow improver so I will add a little bit to see of that helps.
Overall I do not think that these colors coat very well which is probably the main reason it happens but any suggestions are appreciated.
aint. I am being careful about adding small amounts of graveyard to the yellow so that there is not a great variance between each color progression but I am getting a bit of grain with my application.I have flow improver so I will add a little bit to see of that helps.
Overall I do not think that these colors coat very well which is probably the main reason it happens but any suggestions are appreciated.
airhead
Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
I never had a problem with GW paints (they are GW?). Reaper had some issues with the first releases of some of the Master Series colors, but they should be sorted out now.
3:1 (3 water to 1 paint?) is not a bad starting point for most acrylic model painting. Someone told me a long time ago that if you can cover in one coat, you need to thin your paints more.
Yellows of any brand are notorious for not covering. It has to do with the pigments involved. Just be prepared to put on lots of layers to get coverage.
Latex paints also have a certain period where they are set on the mini, but very tender. Applying another coat tends to actually tear the layer underneath and cause all sorts of bad things. Put the other layer sooner and you have wet blending, wait a bit longer and you are layering.
Hope I\'ve helped.
3:1 (3 water to 1 paint?) is not a bad starting point for most acrylic model painting. Someone told me a long time ago that if you can cover in one coat, you need to thin your paints more.
Yellows of any brand are notorious for not covering. It has to do with the pigments involved. Just be prepared to put on lots of layers to get coverage.
Latex paints also have a certain period where they are set on the mini, but very tender. Applying another coat tends to actually tear the layer underneath and cause all sorts of bad things. Put the other layer sooner and you have wet blending, wait a bit longer and you are layering.
Hope I\'ve helped.
Funny to just read this threat. Yesterday I had the same problem like you while shading down a brown part of a miniature. I was shading down Graveyard-earth with a dark brown and brown. First of everything went ok, but after about a dozend thin shades the dark areas became chalky and grainy. Because there are NO bright particles in the dark brown or black it has to be the graveyard-earth color. It was the first time I experienced someting like this while shading down an area, it usually happens with white or yellow highlights... ???
So I changed the paint and used another color and it worked OK. Try another paint, maybe its really a problem with very diluted graveyard-earth...
So I changed the paint and used another color and it worked OK. Try another paint, maybe its really a problem with very diluted graveyard-earth...
a have the same sort of problem with my orks (catachan green>camo green>bleached bone, finely layered)
until i decided to add some valejo slowdry to the mix, this worked great, although the paint takes a bit longer to dry (more water, less slowdry and thinner layers will counter his problem)
until i decided to add some valejo slowdry to the mix, this worked great, although the paint takes a bit longer to dry (more water, less slowdry and thinner layers will counter his problem)
